The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-10-01
THE NEWS.
CF1BueA.

AT Permont, N. H., = man named CottinQ
was awakeded by burglar who held pist,l
to his head aud demanded money. Cottino
directed the rob5er to bureau which con-
ta'ned $70O: and when he had laid down the
r's:ol &c search the bureau, g. ICED the veal on
and shot the burglar dead.
man At Bennington, w., the other day,
stepped IN front Of q railroad train ana was in
stant'y killed. Poverty and ;ll-health was the
cause OF the act.
quarrel has been in progress for some
weeks between the children of a Protestant
and German Catholic scho j at Fort Wayne.
IND. The quarre! eliminated 20 tar A. the
children were concerned,- by the killing OF
A"rIbnrt Hartman, protestant boy Is years
ol age, by thu Catholic scholars. The Door
boy was kicked, stoned and bpaten IN Z l,orri !.
ble manner, so that his skull was crushed in
and his death caused thereby.
Miss Laughlin, ot Beliontaine, Ohio. WAS
bruta'iy murdered, on the 2ad. She went
after wild p'ums with a man and wife named
Schell. Mrs. Scllell became tired and sat down
20 rest ana the others wand red away from her
ochell returned to his wife without the girl,
saying she had strayed from him Her BODY
was afterwards found in nude and horribly
mutilated condition, and Schell was arrested
for her murder.
A man named R. K. Turner, has been ar-
res ted for forging deed to s2'' 900 worth of
land at California, Mo-, two years ago.
Adler & Co., whisky retiners at St. Joseph.
mo nave been arrested for illegal handling ol
liquors.. They emp.ied barrels without cam
ceiling the revenue stamps, then returnei the
barrels to the dsti'lery where they were again
filled and sent to the refneres In this wav
the revenue fund was detrauded of Soma
ts,0s0. ''''
Ihe robber wounded at Farm Hill, Kentucky,
py a man named Dillon, died without reveal
ing his name, but is supposed to be Jesse
James, though letter is since published pur-
porting to be written by James from st. Louis.
Inc man at Pine Hill received calmly the AL
nonncemrnt that he was dying, and being ask
ca 1t he had ANYTHING to say, anss sered that he
had 10 friends, and it made no diff renee 10
anybody who lie was.
Ihe 'ulI particulars Of revolving ca,e OF
lnhuma"ity have been discovered in Cleveland
Ohlo man named Kannan had an idiot
o"y, IA years ofage, whom he had KEEP. con-
nheo III 'arn Oh his premises for eiphteeen
months When discovered by the authorities
the hoy was lying on a lot of damp straw. al
most naked, aud reduced to u mere skeleton
by starvation, living but a little while af,er
Delng found. The unnatural iather and mother
were arrested
Wash McNear, charged with the murder of
peterson last winter, was convicted, aid will
oe hung at Bismarck Tuesday, November 9th.
his confession that loving The wife lie killed
her husband, and detailing all the circum-
stances, but afterwards repudiatrd, was 1uily
sustained by circu'nstantial evidence. It does
not appear that the vile was party to the
crime, but she appears to have been intimate
with Men AZ, tollowing tie murder and after
he was Oh 'rged with it. Her sister married
negro, and she had lived with her sister and
husband following the marriage, and does not
seem to have had any aversion to the uegro's
attentions.
John Wright who was herding cattle on Isurnt
creek, few miles north OF Bismarck, b. r.,
'or N. Clark, is missing with eleven head Of
cattle. 1t is believed th,t he was killed by
Indians and the cattle run off: Wright being
man that can be depended ur on under all cir
cumstances his abseuce tor two days cannot he
otherwise explained.
The story wa< brougI,tto Bismarck the 9th.
by "reditab!e party that Jack Duffy, in
whisky ro% near Agard shot and killed Hunt
er Nick, probably Nick Morgan, and shot
man named Snow, late scout at Fort Lincoln.
through the leg. The authorities are iny,sti.
eating the matter The affair occurred nine
miles below Bismarck.
Tom Fortune, night watchman. ut Bis
marck, D. T., was shot at on the oath inst. bv
John Mcmahon, a brother of Mike McMahon
OF Brsinerd, familiar to St. Paul in the United
States courts. Noc'use is assigned 10 the
shooting, unless it be that Fortune had mr.
rested him some days le'ore.
Caroline Pells, the young German woman
who attempted to swindle the Nassau Rink
out ol SIS, 400 on the forge check of Warder
Mitchell Il Co., OF Springfield. Ohio, has ,een
convicted and sentenced to two and half
years in the penitentiary.
Gen. Jno. d. Grafton, ex.Adjutant General
Of the State, vas arrested at his home in CLAW
county Sept. 25th, charged with forging in
connection with the war claims examined
while he was in Office. His son, who WAS his
clerk, was also arrested for completely in the
oAense.
Judge Miller, Of the U. S circuit court. has
given his decision on the demurrer to the
indictments gainst General Mcdonald. Colon
el Joyce and other United States officials and
whisky men. All the points in defendants
demurrer were overruled, but the question OF
merger. or whether the lesser oiense was
merged in the greater, was laid over for fur.
ther consideration.
THONGS and Magdalen Stark, residing on
Green island, nerr Troy, N. Y. took ,audanum
September 23d intending to commit suicide
Thomas partly recovered yesterday and re.
peated the dose, making two ounces and
ha!fin all, ut even that failed to kill him.
His wife died last evening, and he eays he
will end his own life At the
hrst opportunity. He has he~n out Of his
work TOR eighteen months and, having spent
all the money h- had saved, he, with bis wife.
preferred death t" subsisting on the bounty Of
friends. Both were Germans she sixty and
he fifty years old.
Shell, the brutal murderer Of M;ss
La"g''lin, was lvnched on the night following
the discovery 9th body.
A tire at Kansasi Cty, No., DESTROYED thr,e
hotels and the union depot (>nlv one lif-
was lost. The estimated loss of property in
50 1900.
Dispatches Of ,ept. 24th place the numler
drowned at 1n9i,nnla, 'exas, At 400. Snn-