The Worthington advance., 1878-12-12
THE NEWS CONDENSED
TO BE HUNG.
BURNED TO DEATH.

TO BE HUNG.
BURNED TO DEATH.
An Indian girl employed as . servant,
perished in burning house, near Dixon, 60
lans county, California.
Chin Vow, chinaman, was hanged at
Bridgeport, CAL, the other day, for the muir.
der Of All Pow in Benton, CAL, last May.
SERIOUSLY ILL.
A Darmstadt dispatch says the Grand
Duchess of Hcsse, Princess Alice, is seriously
| ill of diphtheria. The Princess Alice is second
daughter Of Queen Victoria.
A Walla Walla, Oregon, dispatch says
two Umatilla Indians, convicted of numbering
| settlers in the late Indian war, have been con
victed and sentenced to be hanged January Q
LYNcHED.
At Franklin, La, negro, who attempt.
cd at different places the violation of two
white women, was lynched. The jail wae
broken open, his throat cut and his bod,
| thrown into the river.
POTTER COMMITTEE.
A member of the Potter Investigation
committee states that it is the intention tt
send sub, committee to New Orleans to con
tinue the investigation there, which was te-
minated by the yellow fever epidemic.
| KILLED BY THE CARS.
Henry W. Calcroft, superintendent d
the car department of the Missouri Pacific
railroad at Sedalia, Missouri, was killed lately
while coupling cars at Ottervllle. He had
been in the employment of the company fol
fifteen years.
H1GHWAYMEN.
A Texan, San Antonio special says
! the Austin stage was halted near Marion b,
two masked highwaymen. VIC. Parsons
and J. L. Chandler, both St. Louis CONNER
| eial travellers, were robbed of about $50. The
mail was rided but nothing distracted.
DROWNED.
William Lewis, brother Of ex-senator
Lewis, was drowned while fording the shenan
doah river, at Port Republic, Va. His color
! I'd driver and a pair of horses were also
| drowned. Ex-senator Lewis was himself
| crossing the river il skiff at the time of the
| accident.
FOUND OUT.
A Springfield ILL.,, dispatch says, John
3. Snyder, deputy sheriff, from Pottsville, Pa
arrived in that city with requistion for
Michael Merrick and Michael Gaffagan, two
well-known citizens of Springfield, for the
murder of Mike Durken, at Pottsville, on Jan
uary 18th, 1865.
INDICTED.
A Yankton dispatch says the grand
jury have found forty-four indictments
against Livingstone and other Indian agents,
government employees, and timber thieves.
Livingstone, LeClaire, Richardson and Russell
have been arraingned on,the joint indictment
and will plead on the 23d.
FATAL sTABB1NG.
At party at the house of Mr.. Yilly, of
Notch Lick, Carroll county, Ohio, an alterca-
ton occurred between two sons of Aaron
Neal and young man named Steffin, during
which one of the Meals received a stab in the
neck, severng an artery and causing death in
few moments. Stefiin escaped.
NOMINATIONS RY THE PRESIDENT.
On the 14th inst, the President sent to
he Sen ate large number of nominations,
most Of them being for confirmation, and
among them the following: Albert E. Paine,
Wisconsin, commissioner of patents; Lewis
Wallace, Indiane Governor of New Mexico,
and Algernon {. Battinger, postmaster of
New Orleans.
NOMINATIONS
The President has made the following
appointments: Eugene J. Ball, Indians, to be
counsul at Pesth; Dayld H. Bailey, Ohio,
consul general at Shanghai; Andrew McCor-
mick, United States attorney for the eastern
district of Texas. Postmasters: James Gal
iup, Grand Rapids, Mich; James W. Mack,
Holden, Mo-; Ansel D. Brown, Burlington,
Kansas.
SHOT.
Geo. Schaffer, an old resident of Germ
antown, near Dayton, O., was shot in his own
house III thattown by Geo. Leighty. Schaffer
WIS intemperate in his habits. and had become
incensed over family difficulty. Leightly
was engaged to Schaffer's daughter, and was
| attacked by the other in his cage, and claims
that he fired the shot in selfdefense. The
parties are in good standing in Germantown.
PRAIRIE FIRE.
An extensive and destructive prairie
fire below Crook City, D. T., has swept in an
| eastcrly direction, burning up hay which had
] been cut and stacked for the military posts
| at Bear Butte. The military quarters narrow.
ly escaped destruction. Many ranches were
burned to the ground. Sturgis City, which
lay in the path of the flames, was saved by q
slight rainfall, which stopped the fires prog.
| ress.
COLLISION.
The regular passenger train, bound
west, on the Winona Il St. Peter railroad, col.
| lided with freight at o'clock Wednesday
| morning, the 4th inst. two miles west of Clare
mont, Minnesota. Both locomotives were
badly wrecked and three head of cattle were
killed, but the train men escaped injury. The
conductor Of the freight claims his watch
was twenty-six minutes slow, and thus threw
him out Of time.
TWO MEN BURNED TO DEATH.
AT st Louis, No., while two men were
working inside Of large iron tank, with coal
tar, In the Belcher sugar refinery, the coal tar
took fire in some mysterious way, and, before
the men conld be rescued, they were burned
to death. The names OF the burned men were
John LEIGH and Henry Weis, both men OF
family. The accident is supposed to have
been caused by the breaking of a lantern they
were using igniting the coal tar.
SUPPLEMENTAL RETURNS.
The board of canvassers, in session at
Madison, Wis, have adjourned in order to
give time for the receipt of supplemental re-
turns from Richland county. 1t appears that
there was mistake made by the county can.
vassers in footing up the Congressional vote,
the difference being ten in favor of King. The
State board determined to allow Richland to
hle supplemental returns, although the re.
quest to do so was not handed in until past
the time fixed by law.
RAILROAD CONSOLIDATION.
1t is announced that the negotiations
| for the consolidation Of the Chicago & Alton
and St. Louis, Kansas City & Chicago rail.