The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1906-01-12

NEWS

petitive line of road into that city.
Samuel Levy, dealer in general
merchandise at Fairmont has been
adjudged bankrupt and receiver
is in charge of his store.
The two banks at Amboy have
consolidated. Formed a financial
trust for that village.
The boiler of an engine hauling a
logging train near Virginia explod-
ed last Thursday and killed Benja-
min Adams. conductor of the train
two others we're seriously injured.
August Ekman walked into the
home OF his divorced wife at St.
Paul, with his throat cut, last Fri
day, and before dying alleged that
his wounds we're received at the
hands Of two men who assaulted
him The coroner's jury decided
however that he killed himself.
At the installation of officers of
the Degree of Honor in st. Paul last
Thursday evening Mrs. 7. Klein
became jealous of Mrs. Sophia Name
and instituted rough house, which
landed both in police court.
An epidemic of diptheria at
Alexandria,
Near Lamberton last Thursday
Arthur Trap, aged II, was acct
dentally shot and killed by his Is
wear old brother, while hunting.
Joseph Vogel, farmer near lnver
Grove was fatally injured while
gruboing last Thursday.
St. Peter is to have a militia COM
pany.
A steam heating plant in the
home Of Geo. Watson, St. Paul, ex-
ploded last Saturday morning, doing
damage to tho amount of IS, 900, and
seriously injured Mrs. Watson.
vmond Gale dropped dead on
the streets of Brainard, an hour
after his arrival home from a visit
with his father at Motley. An
autopsy revealed symptoms of
poison and foul play is suspected.
An American travelling under the
name of Anton, collecting funds for
an orphan school in Turkey has
been denounced az a fraud. He has
been representing himself as a
protestant and also as q Catholic
priest, and has been accumulating a
good living from the charita BILE peo-
pie of this and other states.
Seven murders, 40 suicides and
80 deaths from accident was the st.
Paul record for 1905.
St. Paul's Evangelical congrega-
ton at Henderson will dedicate a
new $4,000 church on Sunday.
Eddie Ewing, aged, is dead at
Two -Harbors, from the effects of
eating highly colored candy hearts
from Christmas tree.
Winnebago Methodists are to erect
a $4,000 church edictie in the spring.
A Pure Food convention, attend
ed by $50 travelling grocery sales
man, was held at St. Paul last Sat-
urday.
Matt Styer, the Caledonia
murderer, died from his self in fiict-
ed wounds, and Miss Ruth Wheaton,
whom he seriously wounded at the
time be killed her sister Pearl, died
on Friday last. The mother will
recover from her wounds.
A little girl named johnson was
seriously burned and narrowly
escaped death at Window last week.
She was playing with lighted
candle and placed it in her waist to
keep it from playmate.
Over in Cottonwood county the
official printing was awarded to tho
Mountain Lake View, which bid 70
per cent of the legal rate. Three
lower bids we're rejected, and the
defeated papers threaten vengeance.
Jeremiah Miller, of Estherville,
Iowa, died of delirium tremens in
the Martin county Jail at Fairmont
where he was confined on a charge
of forgery.
Saltwater horsemen are planning
a series of races on the ice.