The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-01-11
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH
OUT THE STATE.

minneapolis mas Ava saloons, a Oc'
crease OF thirteen in two years.
Erik Paulson, pioneer resident of
Cokato. is dead, aged eighty-seven
years.
Mrs. Ellen Taylor, mother of Mayor
Charles 4. Taylor of Mankato, is dead
an that city, aged seventy-eight years.
The state dairy and food commits
sion will ask the legislature for an
appropriation of $4,000 year, an in.
crease of $4,000.
George B. Palmer of Minneapolis
was crushed between two freight cars
at the Minnesota Transfer yards and
probably fatally injured.
The coal chutes of the Great North
ern railway, located near the shops at
St. Paul, were destroyed by fire last
week, causing loss estimated at $751;
900.
The National Refining company Of
Dubuque, Ia, has purchased land in
Mankato for the location of large
oil plant, which is to be erected at
once.
John M. Storrs, formerly we'll known
in Minneapolis, was killed in freight
wreck at Coal Spur, station on the
Northern Pacific twelve miles west OF
Livingston, Mont.
Alexander Saari slipped and fell
from the top of the trestle of the coal
dock of the Zenith Furnace company
at Duluth and met almost instant
death on the dock, thirty-five feet be-
low.
Some veteran Indian fighters who
defended Hutchinson from Little
| Crows band met at Mankato last week
| to formulate plans in regard to the
state pension law, which they believe
unfair.
William Rantz, a brakeman on the
Duluth, Rainy Lake and Winnipeg
road, is dead as result of injuries
received in making his first trip on
the road. He was thrown from the
bumpers Of car.
H. C. Griggs, pioneer Of Murray
county AID one of the leading attor-
neys of Southwestern Minnesota, Is
dead at Slayton, aged fifty-three years.
He was for several times a member
of the legislature.
DR.. c. L. Francis, pioneer phys1-
clan of Blue Earth county, is dead in
Oklahoma City, Okla, where he moved
two years ago from Mapleton for the
benefit of his health. He was eighty
three years of age.
The building improvements at AL
bert Lea for 1906 footed up $257, 165
and mark one of the best years for a
decade or more. Over $4,000 was
paid out for cement and brick side
walks and crossings.
John B. Anderson, one of the early
settlers of Cokato, aged about sixty
five years. while feeding his stock,
fell dead and was found by his wife
shortly afterwards. The cause OF his
death was heart failure.
John Markell. a we'll known young
man of Butterfield, committed suicide
by hanging himself. Markell was a
butcher by trade and was twenty-five
years of age The reason for taking
! his life cannot be accounted for.
! Oscar Elstan, the nineteen-year-old
son of o. c. Elstan, a prominent farm
er living two miles south of Sand
| stone, committed suicide by shooting
himself through the head with rifle.
There is no cause known for the act.
F. E. Hoffman, the state labor in
spector who also acted as truant off,
IN, RI orf <,f
Der, has returned there to see that the
truants 20 back to school after the
holiday vacation and to attend to any
new cases that may come up.
Governor johnson has reappointed
Captain w. H. Harries of Caledonia
and Captain George A. Whitney of
Wadena as members OF the Soldiers
home board and has named former
Governor L. F. Hubbard as a member
to succeed former Mayor F. B. Doran
of St. Paul, whose term expired on
Jan. /.
George S. Mabey, we'll known resi-
dent of Lake City, committed suicide
by shooting himself in the head with
revolver. He committed the act in
his home, within sight of his wife and
three children. He was thirty-seven
years old. Dependency over money
matters is ascribed as the cause of
his deed.
The bankers from the towns along
the Minneapolis and st. Louis railroad
met at Madison last week and organ A
lied an association for the purpose Of
encouraging. immigration from the
older states and especially the devel-
opnaent Of manufacturing institutions
at the. towns and villages along this
railroad. ..,..t, Il
John Entgelmeier Of South Park, a
suburb Of st. Paul, is dead Of con-
sumption, aged forty-six years. New
Years day the twelve-year-o daugh-
ter, Ethel, died Of typhoid fever and
there are three other children seri.
ously i'll at the hospital at present.
Mrs. Entgelmeier has been blind for
fwo wars