The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-01-25
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH"
OUT THE STATE.

The Southern Minnesota Horticul'
tural society met last week at Austin.
Aaron Hill, q veteran Of the Civil
war and pioneer resident Of Olmsted
county, Is dead.
John Wilkinson. aged sixty-four. Sec
rotary of Tibbs, Hutchings & Co., Is
dead at st. Paul.
Fire at the state training school at
Red Wing destroyed the cold storage
room. The loss amounts to $4,000.
Governor Johnson has announced
the reappointment of Adjutant Gen.
eral Fred r. Wood of Austin for a
two years term.
The annual meeting of the board Of
managers of the state fair was held
in St. Paul last week. All the old Off
GERS were reelected.
Judge Ozro B. Gould of Winona, a
member of the state board Of control
and for many years prominently iden-
titled with Republican state politics.
is dead at a Minneapolis hospital
A full blooded Winnebago Indian,
believed to be James Hall, who was
tenting near Minnesota City, was run
down by an eastbound Milwaukee
train west of Winona and instantly
killed.
The jury in the Towers murder case
at Brainerd brought In verdict Of
murder in the third degree. Towers
took the verdict coolly, slight tremor
and twitching of the face alone be-
ing noticeable.
Charles A. J. Marsh, seventy-six
years of age and a resident of Mime
apolis for many years, died at Asbury
hospital Friday while his wife's fu'
neral was taking place at their home,
215 Fifth avenue southeast.
The Mankato Commercial club can
vassing committees have thus far
raised about $4,000 toward building
street railway and have only begun
their labors. No trouble is anticipated
in raising a sufficient amount.
The farmers of the town of Wheel
ing and merchants of the village OF
Nerstrand, Rice county, will build
farmers elevator at that place in the
coming season. An organization has
been perfected and officers elected.
P. NJ. Ringdahl of Crookston has
been appointed member of the state
board of control. Mr.. Ringdahl fills
out the unexpired term of o. B. Gould.
who died recently, and he will be re-
appointed for the six-year period in
April.
Miss Lydia Fielder of Los Angeles,
CAL, recently married to Verne Fuller
at Blue Earth, this state, committed
suicide by taking morphine. She was
of respondent nature and 1t Is
thought inconsistencies brought on In
sanity.
Seventy square miles of valuable
bfhee timber lands have been acquired
by Chicago and Duluth capitalists in
deal which has just been closed. The
tract Is located on the Canadian North
ern road about sixty miles east Of In
ternational Falls.
Mrs. Erland Peterson, one of the
very earliest pioneer settlers Of North
ern Washington county, Is dead at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Charles
:, Grandstrand, at Otisville, aged ninety
three years. Mrs. Peterson came to
Minnesota in 1854.
Eric Johnson, a North Mankato res
ident who stumbled and broke the
lamp that he was carrying down cellar
one evening recently, is dead of the
frightful burns that he received, his
clothing having ignited. He was about
forty-five years old.
Ernest Dunlop of Brainerd, eighteen
years old, was accidentally shot at
Tamarack He was hunting and set
the gun down against log. It went
of, the charge entering his abdomen
and causing death In about three
quarters of an hour.
Sakri Sandberg, eighty years old
and helpless, was burned to death at
his home, near Hitterdal. During the
absence of his aged wife Sandberg,
who was bedridden, attempted to light
his pipe and in doing so set fire to his
beard and the bed clothing.
The city council of Fergus Falls has
adopted a resolution urging congress
to pass a postal savings bank law.
The resolution was adopted by unani.
nous vote following the presentation
of a petition by a number Of citizens
asking that such action be taken.
Alexander Anderson was sentenced
at Moorhead to the penitentiary for
life by Judge Baxter for the murder
Of Thomas Crume. bartender of that
city, last June. The jury was out
forty.eight hours and returned a ver-
dict Of murder in the second degree.
The indications are that the Great
Northern will soon begin work on the
extension of its road from Greenbush
: to Warroad. Thousands of ties have
been purchased and are being deliv.
] cred along the right of way of the ex.
tension, 80 that active construction
work can begin within short time.
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