The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1906-12-07
NEWS IN MINNESOT
EVENTS or "a WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE. NJ

residents o. Mankato. y dead, aged
Iinety-one.
The ticket sales at. the last Mime
Dota state fair amounted to. $152,541.72.
IS against $134.736.S5 in 1906. gain
81 }l7,774S7.. f''f
The deposits in Minnesota state
banks have increased, from approx
nately So. 0O0,0 900 In 1904 to over $7O,-I.
100000 in 1906.
\ Twelve valuable horses were burned
to death in a fire which DESTROYED the
stable OF the minneapolis Omnibus and
Transfer company E,8
Robert c. Hine, former Judge Of the
municipal court lat st. Paul, is dead at
Charleston, S. G.. after an intermit-s
tent illness Of long duration.
Agitation for the division of Polk
county has again been started by Foss-
ton men and petition is being cir
culated asking for the creation OF Mel
son county. .5
Is S. johnson of Iosco township,
Waseca county, claims to have seen
IN antelope On his farm and to have
chased it with 81 gun, but was not able
TO get close enough to shoot. '
Representative McCleary of Man
kato is being talked of as possible
applicant for the position of commits
sioner of the general land Office in the
place Of Commissioners Richards.
william Olson, q lad nine years of
age, was almost instantly killed at
Duluth while coasting. He ran into
street car at crossing and sustained
injuries that resulted in death in a
few minutes.
Miss Anna Thompson, one Of the
most beautiful and popular young
ladies' of Moorhead, was struck by
Northern Pacific train in front of the
Northern Pacific depot in that city and
Instantly killed. 7#E - = z. -.
After taking a quantity Of carbolic
acid John johnson Lang hanged him
self from one of the Orders of the VIA
duct on Nicollet island, Minneapolis.
Dependency over his wife's illness
was the cause of the suicide.
Judge 'Searle of st. Cloud has ten
dered his resignation to Governor
johnson because of i'll health. His
term expires next January and Gov
ernor johnson has appointed M. D.
Taylor Of st. Cloud, judge-elect, to I'LL
out the unexpired term.
Hector Mclean. farmland, was
found dead in the stable on the farm
belonging to John Rae near Glyndon.
1t is thought that he was killed by q
kick from a COW. The cow was stand
ing over him in the stall and the mans
body was severely bruised.
Tom McGinnis and his sister, In
dams. were drowned in the Rainy
river near Laurel while fishing. Their
birch bark canoe was struck by an ice
foe and sank. The floating ice in
the river prevented them from reach
ing shore and both persisted. -. 49,
Frank Veigel, one of the earliest
residents of Blue Earth county, Is
dead at his home in West Mankato.
z He was eighty years old. He located
on farm in Blue Earth county In
1852, residing there until three years
ago, when he moved into the city.
!: Rev. J. N. Henry of Champlin, a
Civil war veteran and prominent TN
G. A. r. circles, is dead, aged eighty
Eve. DR.. Henry came to Minnesota In
1872 and settled In Chan1pltn I'VE
years later. He filed the pulpit IN the
Methodist, church and practtoed medi-
cine for twenty-pine years. f'% =" ~
Charlie Jtms. a Chinese laundryman
of SPRING, Valley, faces the danger OF
deportation at rany time on account Of
the loss OF his passport. This and
other valuable papers were stolen from
Ills laumndry l}one. flight last &ash, All
Of them were in his pocketheok, which
also contained, $3.50 in money. Z
81 Little Albert Bower, whose father Is
a farmer hear like George, is lying al
st. ANTHONY hospital Bemidji, 10 a
critical condition as the result Of swal;
lowing q short lead pencil, including
tho sbrass tip and rubber! The: pencil
is lodged In the right bronchial tube
Of the lungs and the possibility OF Its
abstraction is remote. 80 ..as
Mrs. August Niebel, convicted al
Mankato of having assaulted Paul
Kintze with heavy caster used fol
moving stoves, was sentenced to pay
fine of $50 and COSTS When she
handed over the amount she remarked
that Kintze had the punishment com.
Ing and that It was worth all it cost
to her to give It to him.
Mrs, Anna Qoodnow Of Akeley was
wounded in the arms and legs with
ftne gunshot,' the result Of putting 9
loaded stick Of wood into the stove.
Some one had been stealing fuel and
BY accident one of the loaded sticks
was thrown into the fire. Mrs. Good.
now was before the stove when the
gunpowder or; cartridge exploded and
how her life was spared Is miracle. y
E The, Mankato Commercial club, by
= Unanimous vote, has "most earnestly
requested" the senator and three rep.
rresentatives from Blue Earth county
to refuse to accept passes from the
railroads. This action was taken after
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