The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-06-04
RAKINGS, AND SCRAPINGS.

RAKlNGs, AND sCRAPINGs.
st. Louis has . Mayor, the Council
having decided to delare Britton elected
Further details Of the earthquake i,
Asia Minor show that several village
were destroyed and 1000 persons los
their lives 4
VIM. Cunning ham, of Newark, N. j.
on second trial for conspiracy to mur
der his wife, has been found guilty.
Major General Selby Smith, tho Ottaw'
Citizen says, will visit Manitoba ant
probably British Columbia during tn,
larterspart of the summer.
Stirred thereto by the newspapers til;
police of Chicago are endeavoring to rit
the city Of that class of confidence sharp
ers known as bunko operators.
A memoir Of Gen. Burgoyne is soon t
appear in England. 1t will contain man,
hitherto unpublished letters of the mos,
eminent English and American Statesmen
of the time.
While the Ristori troupe were going re-
Gently from indianapolis to St. Louis they
were robbed of So, 900 worth of diamonds
The porter of the sleeping car was ar
rested and the missing gems recovered.
At Kankakee, ILL.,, one night recently
the head Of household heard a burglar
operating in the kitchen and went in
asking, SIS it you?" supposing it to be 8
member of the family. t'You bet it's
me!' loquac;ously remarked the thief as
he dashed past the inquisitor and out o.
the door.
The appropriation for the current yea,
having run short, officers and soldiers q
the army will receive only Is days pay
for June, but the delay will be only tenn
'porary. as the new appropriatio nwill be
available July lst.
Oshkosh was again in danger of a gen.
eral conaagration on the 28th, but by
hard work the flames were confined Il
the saw mill of Chapman & Danforth. in
which they originated, from steamboat
spark. Loss $4,000; no insurance.
S. S. L'Hommedien Of Cincinnati, for
merlJ printer and one of the proprie
tors of the Gazette, but for the last TWEEN
ty.two years President of the Cincinnati
Hamilton & Dayton railroad, died recent.
~ at his home in his Goth year.
Mr.. Tennyson's drama, which he has
been at work on for so long time, is now
ir press and will seon be published. II
IS entitled "Queen Mary" and embraces
the life Of Mary Tudor from her accession
to her death, together with the CHIEF
scenes in her reign.
Prof Jenkins. Rev. Bartlett, and Others
at Olathe. Kan, have tested the qualities
of grasshoppers as an article of food, and
pronounce them, after being boiled in
water to clean them, and fried in butter
to be quite palatable, AMI even good eat.
ing, tasting like small fish.
At Dubuque. Iowa, on the 22d, a voune
Russian named Warbeauter, wanting te
kill himself. shot pistol ball through his
head and then walked five blocks to OBJ
tain surgical assistance. But the bill hao
lodged in the spinal column and his
wound was pronounced fatal.
Mrs. Marshall, an aged widow o.
Bethel, near indianapolis, Ind, is accused
ofpoisoning her husband and Nancy E.
Boyce, her provacation being that they
had given evidence in criminal prosecu'
tion against a young man engaged to he1
daughter. The old woman is known ia
be vindi,tive, and the evidence, circum.
stantia', is str ong against her.
In New York on the evening Of the
26th, Henry Rex, private watchman,
being very drunk, was followed and ridi.
culed by number of boys. whereupon be
emptied his revolver at them and killed
one John McKenna, IA years old, whose
widowed mother was unable to bury him,
so he lad to be buried by the city
There is possibility Of the murderer
being punished, as he is under arrest.
The sheriff Of Greene county, ILL.,, has
been cited for contempt before Judge
Drummond of the United States Court.
His offense is in having on the 9th
seized locomotive and train of cars at
Whitchel], on the Rockford, Rock Island
& St. Louis railroad, for State and county
taxes, claiming the train and stopping ali
business Of the road, after being notified
that the road was in hands of q rcceivei
appointed by Judge Drummond.
A man named McCune, living at Den
mark, Gig hit miles from Fort Madison
Iowa, enticed nine.year old girl into his
room, and after coaxing the child some
time to comply with his villianous desires
and finding he could not accomplish his
purpose by that means tried by force tc
ravish the poor girl. Her screams
brought assistance, and he was foiled
The next day the child father beat Nc
Cune severely, and forced him to leave
town under penalty of being shot.
St, Joseph, NO., according to the Lea
venworth Times, is in bad fix. For thu
past year or two the current Of the Mis-
souri,, assisted by frequent floods, has beer
slowly but surely cutting way around tn.
bridge. and it is extremely probable thai
in short time the town Of St. Joe viii
be high and dry alongside of slough
some three miles from the new bed of th'
river. 1t would cost million dollars tt
hold the channel where it is, and that il
more than the city can raise either BY
taxation or credit.
A strange and interesting case is tks
of Col. Anthony of Leavenworth, the edi
tor shot by another. His physicians ad
here to the opinion that he cannot recov
er, their theory being that an artery wa!
ruptured by the ball, but has been tenn
porarily closed by clot Of blood, which
will finally slough off, when the paticn
will die. The books, they assert, recort
instances in which persons thus wounded
have fingered much longer than Anthon,
has, only to die at last. Meanwhile Col
Anthony is apparently getting better, ant