The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-08-06

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W. o. Avery, late chief clerk of the treasury
department, has been arrested. charged with
eoanpiicity in the whisky frauds.
Pour ooantertsfters have, been arreaaed in
New York, who have been for some tins dir
cnlatius opuntsrtsit trade dolla.s, eold Ave
dollar pieees, half dollars, e.. AZ
The edsfSnse In the Mountain Meadow txtal
was opeied by a lengthy sps~eh to the Jury.
They "lopose to prove that LIZ held no
church g military ofioe, but was farmer %
the Indians; that he wept when the massacre:
va propoeed; that b did not 80 to the corral
with nag Of tuee, but Afterwards went
and stayed tvo~a1 1sass, +, snlpestng the
treaty to - bona dds; that tho emie,ants, By
misconduct, 20 enraged the Indians that they
gathered In the Meadow to the number Of 500.
and the whites engaged in the nasssc1e did %
through oompulsion from the Indians.
Judge Barrett has refused to ,vaoate the
order Of arrest on the six million suit aesinat
Tweed, Or tosreduoe his bail.
Judge Mozrb, counsel for Theodore Tilton.
has SERVED notice On Sherman l. Sterling. It.
torneys for Henry Ward Beecher, to Be pre.
pared 70 answer in new trial Oh the 6rst Mon
day in September. X
a gang OF counteafeiters were arrested in St.
Paul on the 3lst ult. Their names are Geo.
W. Woolsey. alias Clark, alias Carl, Mary
Clark. his wife. and man named Pi,er. Thev
occupied small house In the suburbs. and
had prosecuted the business tor three months.
4 fnl! outfit Of counterfeites' implements were
found. embracing plates, press, eperavers'
tools, and chemicals. Over ten thousand ten
dollar bills on the First National Pank of Ps-
duca, N. T., wero found, none Of which were
complete, but oil we'll executed 10 far ~ work
had progressed. This is portion OF the ssne
captured at Boscobel, Wis, last year, and arc
amongthe most expert in their profession. The
men are held in &c, ,0o0 bail. and the woman.
who ts. rather progressing in appearance.
and very loyal to her husband, Is held in &, 500.
Caslsalrle~.
In southern Indiana rain has lately fallen n
such an amount that great damage has been
done to crops. Grain in stacks has also been
damaged.
More heavy rain storms in Missouri and
Ohio were reported on the 29th ult.
Four men were run down in skiff by tow
boat, on the Ohio river, on the s0th nit. All
were drowned.
Five miners have perished by the oavipa In
OF the Eureka mines In California.
A dispatch from Memphis, on the 3Oth.
says the situation there is gloomy. The riv-
er was but little lower than at the time Of the
flood of 1867, and still rising.
he body Of the boy 0ronwald, who was
drowned near st. Paul on the gath Of July was
found at Grey Cloud July 3,st.
F. W. Koplbrand, Harry Bullmar, Fred B.
Darnsnint and VIM. Ock, OF Cincinnati. were
drowned near Huntington, West Virginia, the
18th. They had been to the Falls of the Kama
wha on hunting and fishing excursion, and
were returning down the river in a skiff.
which was run into and sunk by tow boat as
cending the river.
Miss Murton Of Hamilton, Ont, and Miss
Hamilton, the adopted daughter Of o. H. Wa.
trous of Brantford, Ont, were drowned on
the 3Oth in the river, near the residence Of
Mr.. Watur0s
A destructive Ore occurred on July 3Oth at
kennebunk Fort, Maine, burning the steam
mill and shops At the Ward ship yard also a
bark nearly ready to launch, belonging to
Perkins Il Crawford
A man named Donahue, proprietor Of a
boarding house at Carondalet, No., was
drowned In privy vault. on the afternoon Of
Friday, the 30th, and Charles Pranty, James
Henry and Joseph schlectly, who sucoessively
descended into the vault to recover his BODY.
were overcome by tho foul air and died before
they could be rescued.
BY arrival at San Francisco, on the I'd of the
schooner Sky Lark, the loss Of the bark Clara
r. Suite is reported. She left there the 2eth
for Coos Bay. On the 26th heavy sea start.
ed the stern-post and she sunk at half past 10
Pm. The crew were in a boat four days and
rights without food or water, and then picked
mp by the Sky Lark.
The houring mill at Dorr, seventeen miles
south Of Grand Rapids, Mich, was burned on
the I'd Of August The building was owned
by r. w. Helmer, who sustains a loss of
el2, 900; insurance 5000. The mill operator.
Fred Newman, lost his hooks and consider.
able quantity Of grain and flour.
The Bear Ridge colliery At Manoney City,
Pa, was badly burned August 2.
An accident to an excursion steamer on
the Potomac river, as reported At Washing.
ton, lacks confirmation.
Wheeling bridge, West Va, on the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad, has been badly dam.
aged by the food. The abutments moved ovel
= foot. The town Of Pennington is almost en-.
tirely submerged, the water being onsthe fin,
door of all the houses.
Miscellaneous.
A slight shock Of earthquake was telt in
Connecticut on the 26th ult.
A German teachers national convention mel
In Toledo on the 2a*h ult. Two hundred
teochess were present,
9c The great publishing house of J. B. Ford 4
Co. have been compelled TO ask for meeting
OF their. creditors. Thy announce that thei1
embarrassment has nothing to do with tn:
Christian Union, Of which they are publish.
ers.
The Trenton Banking Company, OF Trenton
N. J., lost . hundred and sixty thousand dol
q laxn by the Jaw Cook failure. has now lost