The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-08-13
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

f.. =. 3 : NEWS PARAGRAPHS.
+ Continuous rains threaten portions of
France with another disastrous inunda.
tion. ~
The way for desolate old bachelor to
secure better quarters is to take ''better
half"
9. MIR. ;schoez, an American, won the
silver @ eup in the rife shooting b at stutt.
gard the 7th. I. a,,4i,u :, .:::..ls !,
Grasshoppers have again appeared at
points along the Union Pacific in Ncbras-
ka, and are destroying the crops: = al
A dispatch from Gartrean, Ottawa.
says three children, while in the woods
picking berries, were eaten by bear.
>: George Porter, Of Jersey Landing, M,
is in Jail at Jerseyville for attempting to
commit rape on his cousin, Miss Emma
Porter.
NJ. Hogan, a shoemaker of Cheyenne,
W. T., while standing in his doorway,
Saturday, the 7th, was struck by light
ming and killed.
John Garrell, a railroad laborer at
Grand Haven, Mich, has fallen heir to
$4,000 by the death of brother in
Pennsylvania.
The cholera is raging in the principal
towns of Asia Minor with terribly fatal
result, the deaths at Damascus being re.
ported at 400 daily.
At Red Jacket. Mich, on the 9th, a
Finlander outraged andmurdered q girl
named Anna Switzer, only eight years
old. If he can be found the peoule will
hang him.
John NJ. Holden was arrested at Bos.
ton on the 9th for embezzling $4,000 of
property Of the Oneida Community, and
it is charged he has, altogether, embez-
zled $4,000.
DR.. Davis and wife have been commit
ted for trial at Montreal on charge of
abortion and murder, the police having
all they could do to protect them from
being lynchcd.
At Peoria, ILL.,, young man named
Henry Hoffner is under arrest for at
tempting on the 9th to outrage six year
old girl named Annie Fuger. He was
caught III the act.
The jury in the case Of John D. Lee,
charged with being the leader of the
Mountain Meadow Massacre, reported
Saturday that they could not agree and
were discharged.
Ex-Congressman Isaac G. Parker, Of the
St. Joseph, Mo-. district, is accused Of
selling an appointment at the naval acad-
emy for $3.50 and having sold promotion
i'll the railway postal service for $500.
About 1000 Chinese, under the direc-
rection Of the San Francisco Christian
mission, held picnic near that city re-
Gently. The principal amusements of the
picknickers were kite-fying and gym
nastics.
Isaac Allen Of Jacksonville, ILL.,, was
shot and dangerously wounded On the 9th
by his son Ben, boy of Is. The father
was drunk and assaulting his wife with a
carving knife. when the boy shot him to
save his mother.
The body of Anna Pendia, woman
missing from Troy, Kansas, fer several
weeks, has been recovered from the Mis-
souri,, opposite Kansas City land furnishes
evidence that she was outraged and then
thrown in the river.
Owen McKeyver, laborer at Provi.
dence, R. l., in an attack of insanity on
the night Of the 5th, fatally shot clerk
named Edward Hudson and seriously
wounded one of party of men who ar
rested him.
G. B. Wilkinson, revenue collector and
editor of the II raid at St. Joseph, Mo-,
ana his partner, revenue gauger, have
been held for trial on charge Of detrauding
the government by drawing pay for der-
uties not employed.
In the race at Poughkeepsie, N. Y,
Saturday, the 7th, between Goldsmith
Maid, American Girl and Huntress, the
Maid won, American Girl getting the
first; heat, and the Maid the next three.
Time 2:27 34, 2:18, 2.lo 1-2 and 2:20.
Three men, Theodore W. Brown, com.
monty known as Pelcg Brown, William
Hartman and Ben. B. Halleck, have been
arrested for being concerned in the rob-
}bery Of the United States treasury Of the
package of $4,000. Halleck is a
TREASURY clerk. &C..
1t is reported that Francis D. Moulton
and Ben. Butler have had consultation,
at which plan was partly perfected for
bringing suit against Mr.. Beecher in
Coos county. N. H., where Mr.. Beecher is
now stopping, for perjury in swearing to
his reply to the Tilton suit last year.
At Athens, Tenn, on the night of the
5th, a negro named Zack Gordon, who
was in jail for an assault upon Mrs. How.
ard, white woman, was taken out by q
mob Of thirty men. Next morning his
body was found, riddled with bullets, a
short distance ont from the village.
! a tornado, the track of which vas from
20 to 80 rods wide, ragged through parts
of Knox, Oglc, Henry and Whiteside
counties, in Illinois, on the evening of the
5ths inst. 1t destroyed q number o:
houses and standing crops in its line. Sew
eral persons were killed byit and large
number wounded.
P. H. Britain, young and talented
minister of the Methodist denomination
has been expelled from conference anG
has fed from. Titusville, Pa, where h.
was stationed, to avoid punishment fol
criminal intimacy with two young wome1
lof his church. The criminality appear!
to be indisputable, and Brittain's wife, .
beautiful and accomplished lady, has ap
piled for divorce.
Edward Morris, commercial traveller
son of Congregational clergyman 0
fisherman, Texas, made a desperate. at
tempt at suicide on the 9th, in q retire,