The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-03-18
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE

In Minnesota this season.
Fred Sobek, of Hokah was badly
injured by q runaway. team.
The population Of the state re-
formatory at St. Cloud is 1914.
Wincna merchants will adopt the
Saturday half holiday April /.
Nearly a quarter of the inmates OF
the state soldiers home are sick.
Robert Schulska hangs himself in \
cell in the South St. Paul lookup.
The capitol commission has trou-
bles over the assignment of rooms.
John Gerry, of Brandon, Man.,
drops dead in St. Paul union depot.
w. H. Tinker, resident of St. Paul
during fifty-six years, dies of paraly-
Sis
The people of St. Paul spent $780,
44s.s1 for street Improvements last
year.
Minnesota and Iowa will hold
dual track meet at the university,
May IA.
More than 60 per cent of the ap-
plicants for state teachers certifi-
Gates fail.
Mrs. Harry Snyder, 1000 Common
wealth avenue, is burned almost to
death, in St. Paul.
A commercial club was organized
at Franklin and an effort will be
made to erect a new hotel.
king Solomon" is acquitted in
Minneapolis of the charge of at
tempting to kill his white wife.
The 500 Line is to erect an Office
building directly opposite the Guar
anty Loan building in Minneapolis.
Four families living in the town
of Lake Eunice, eight miles from
Detroit, are besieged with smallpox.
The Great Northern will conduct q
restaurant in the station at st. Cloud.
The restaurant was furnished five
years ago when the new station was
built, but has never been operated
until now.
Fifteen hundred miles from his
family and friends, with his mind
deranged by high fever, w. D. Ro-
main, travelling man living in New
| York, committed suicide at st. Bar
nabas hospital, Minneapolis, by send
ing bullet through his brain.
C. B. Pride of Rhinelander, Wis,
is planning to establish a pulp, sui
pbite and paper mill on the St. Louis
river, near Fond du Lac, to be operat-
ed by water power.
The Great Northern and the North
ern Pacific have decided to make low
rates for landseekers as we'll rs for
colonists.
The farmers Of the state are invest
ing heavily in prison Irvine, accord
ing to the February sales. Shipments
amounting to S1,739.02 were made
during the month.
The Tn-State Telephone and Tclc-
graph company has it's poles all plac-
led between Hastings and Wabasha
for the long distance line it is going
to build to Winona this year.
The Red River Valley Creamery as
ISOLATION has changed its name to
the Red River Valley Dairymen's as
ISOLATION. The question of incorpora>
ton came up at Crookston and after
a long debate was turned down.
The Crookston Hemp Fibre com.
pany has organized and will put in
mill this spring for the making OF
hemp Irvine.
Governor Van SAINT has appointed
George Erickson of Argyle and w. o.
Braggans of Warren as commission
ers to take testimony on the charges
preferred against Greeley Carr, coun-
ty attorney of Marshall county.
Senator Hiram F. Stevens, one OF
the best known lawyers in Mime
sofa, died in the hospital at St. Paul
after ten days illness. Intestinal
troubles was the cause of death.
Victor Lindburg's drug store at
Hamline was entered by robbers and
sos was secured from the cash draw
er.
AS a result of the winter teachers
examinations certificates will be
granted to 1922 applicants out of A.
811. The result of the reading of 3d.
81 papers submitted has been COM
piled, and a better showing is made
than last year, when only 29.5 per
cent passed. This year 39.95 per cent
were successful.
The January mortality report is
sued by the state board of health
yesterday shows that 1856 people
died in Minnesota during the month.
Knights of the Maccabees and La
dies of the Maccabees of Minnesota
will be entertained by their Minneap-
oils associates at the joint convention
of the societies scheduled for June
u and 16. It is expected that at least
500 delegates will attend the meet
ing.
Maj. William Gerlach has received
final instructions from the United
States war department concerning
the annual federal inspection of the
national guard, which he will begin
March Fl, continuing until April 20.
The mocking-bird is a rare visitor
in Minnesota, ev EN- in summer, but
one morning one was discovered
warbling, whistling, carroling and
+r;1Enu in the trees around Spring