The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-07-30
THE NEWS.

by digging out the bricks in his cell, with
piece Of an iron wash basin. Letters tcund il
his cell to his family ingeniously described hi
plans. The Governor had not yet fixed th
date Of bis execution.
A family feud in Alabama, resulted in
pitched battle between two fathers, with tw
sons on each side. The result was the killin
OF five Of them and fatally wounding tn
sixth.
Another negro brute met his just reward q
ropes end. in Memphis, ON the 21st. ,
The jury for the trial Of Lee, the Mountain
Meadow murderer, consists Of two mormons t,
each gentle, and the mormons swear to livinl
in the vicinity from ten to twenty years. An.
never hearing of the murder.
Two engineers at Auburn, Ind, named Kel
Ian and Graves, became involved in quarrel
which resulted in the latter burying hatche
in the head of the former.
A captain OF an English steamer refused t
surrender a sailor charged with theft to tn
authorities Of New Orleans, and sailed TO
England with him. On the return of tn
steamer to that port the captain will be arrest
eds accessory to the crime.
Further evidence in the prosecution of tn
Mountain Meadow murderers tends to impli
cate Brigham Young as an accessory before ant
after the massacre.
James Noble "a highly respected farmer,
Of Milburg, Ohio, beat his wife to death with
club, and then cut her throat because he was
al0us.
DR.. James Arnold, of Kansas City, was
kr ocked down and robbed Oh one Of the prin.
cipal streets Of that city, on Sunday evening
the 25th.
Mary Conn was shot dead by her husband
in Philadelphia, few days ago, he not know.
ing that the gun he pointed at her was loaded
They don't call it murder.
Casualties.
A terrible accident occurred at Newark
Ohio, on the 22d, resulting in the serious and
perhaps fatal burning Of a number Of persons
A building had been erected for the purpose o.
testing fire extinguisher: and it was thor
oughly saturated with kerosene. It prem
aturely took fire during the preparations and
an explosion followed, sadly burning D. c.
Winegarden, mayor Hon. J. B. Jones, Chas
Hamilton, street commissioner; bridge con-
tractor from Toledo, and some fifteen others
Some are thought to be fatally burned.
cooking tank in paper mill at Iowa City
exploded on the 23d, causing the explosion o
three others. Six men were instantly killed
three Of them were blown FIVE hundred tee
and over houses. The wife of one of the unfor-
tunate men and tile mother OF another were
reported dying with grief:
Forty mine persons were burned in the New
ark, Ohio, disaster. One Of the victims soon
died.
The flood from the Ohio river has caused
some damage to cotton on low lands in the low.
er Mississippi valley.
A late fire at Charleston, s. c., destroyed
some S200,O0O worth Of property.
Information has been received of the wreck
Of the ship Stuart Harmon, in her voyage
from Bombay. Five Of her crew are safe
thirty-eight were drowned.
The yellow fever is raging fearfully at Pensa
cola. The military commanders wife is on.
the victims, and nearly every woman anG
child were sick at last accounts.
Miscellaneous.
At meeting Of bankers at Saratoga resolu
tions were adopted favorng an immediate re
turn to spicie payments.
The Liberal Republicans of New York hav'
determined, it is said, to reunite with the Re
publican party.
A swimming match took place at Chester
Pa, on the 22d, for the championship of tn
world" The match WIS between the presen
champion, Johnson, and man named Coyle
Coyle gave out at the end of nine-and "a hal
m les, with Johnson half mile in his rear
johnson swan ten-and-a-half miles. ant
danced jig after emerging from the water
was thought Coyle would die from over ex
ertion.
The Democratic convention OF Maryland
which met on the 2lst, had a stormy session
At O'Clock in the night they selected chair
man, and at 4.3O in the morning an adjourn
ment was had until 10 o'clock, without max
ing single nomination. At p. ~, Joh1
Lee Carroll was nominated for Governor, an,
the convention adjourned.
Armed steamers are being fitted out to patro
the Rio Grande and prevent Mexican robber
from crossing into Texas
Secretary Fish has informed the Mayor O
New York that an association of counterfeiter
are preparing to issue in that city twelve mil
lion dollars in counterfeit notes on the Ban]
Of England and Bank Of France
Eight hundred entries have been made 70
German art exhibitors at the Philadelphia Cen
tenDial
The President has selected Senator Morrill,
OF Maine, Senator Howe, Of Wisconsin, an,
Hon. Wayne McVeigh, of Pennsylvania, as ad
ditional commissioners to investigate India1
frauds:
The latest news from the Black Hills d high
ly encouraging. Prof. Jenney has discovere
good prospects on Spring and Rapid creeks
where there is fall of so feet to the mile
Miners are going 10 the Hills at the rate c
twenty day, and it Is estimated that fror
1000 to 1900 miners are already there. tn
gold is ola coarser quality, and greater i
quantity than that discovered along Frenc
creek
The census of New York city will show
population Of about 200, 900 inhabitants.
Owing to the failure Of the fruit crop Of tn
West, the Baltimore and Ohio railroad will
run special fast trains for supplying the north
west with eastern fruit.
The number of Federal ofice-holder
amounts TO S6, 900.
The war of races seems likely to break on
again in Louisiana. In Feliciana parish ne
groes and whites are reported arming.
49,, i,.a 49,; From Abroad.
A Turkish rebellion, of considerable proper
ened to withdraw from the city on the LIST 9
August. '.+-
Il Aspcial from Vienna says Prussia an
Russia will grant military furloughs on ]ara
scale next year, and Austria ia urged to folloy