The Worthington advance., 1879-01-02
THE NEWS CONDENSED

III N T. i" . \jONDEN0E1J
ICE BREAK.
At Port Newt, Quebec, Christmas day,
the ice in the river broke, carrying away q
cabins and the men. y ~~1e| = Z
DROWNED. Vi; 4
A Paris telegram of Dec. 25th, says, 46
children were drowned 'byoreslduB efeae Ice
on tho pond OF Chapelle, MocAe, =
COLLEGE BURNED.
The female college at MiIlersburg, KY
has been destroyed, by fire. The students lost
their wardrobes. II. tai loss, 4l2Q. Q.0Ds J /
SINGULAR DEATH.
Peter McNamara, Of Washington city
well known citizen, died the other day, his
death being the result Of poison, In the sys-
tenn from the bite OF a man named Donaher,
With whom lie had an ..ltercation over two
months age. }.- IT,,
The assistant treasurers of the United
States have been Instructed to ma Ee no dis
tinction between coin and legal'tender after
the first Of January. Checks for payment OF
interest on per cent. loans due that day are
being prepared.
INDIANS CAPTURED.
a Portland, Oregon dispatch says
Moses with ten OF his principal men have
been captured, Moses and three are here in
confinement Scattering bands are Fastening
on to the reservation, they say for protection.
Not gun has been fred.
FROZEN TO DEATH.
Ex-Congressman Owen Jones. started
from his residence at Winnewood, Christmas
night, to visit neighbor, and was- found
before midnight frozen to death by the road.
side. Deceased represented the Fifth Pennsyl
vania district in the forty NTH Congress.
1NCENDIARy.
A supposed incendiary fire at Cleve-
land, o., in the two large barrel factories OF
5000, and no insurance. The factory EN-.
ploy d 1000 men, and pr 'duced $500 barrels
per day. 1t is believed to have been the work
of an incendary.
IScENDlARY.
A supposed incendiary fire, at Cleve.
lard, O., in the two large barrel factories Of
the Standard Oil Cos works, involved d loss
OF 100000, erd no insurance. The factory
employed 1000 men, and produced $500 bar
rels per day. It is believed to have been the
work Of an incendiary.
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS HEIRS.
The suit against the government
brought by the heirs Of Stephen A. Douglas,
far certain cotton captured by the United
States government in Mississippi during the
war and sold as abandoned property, has been
settled finally in the court OF claims, by a
Judgment in favor Of the claimant.
COIN ON HAND.
Washington special: When business
closed at the treasury department Dec 80, The
available coin balance was 1926 100000, OF
which $1,000 o,00o is gold. The currency
balance is ST., 100000. There were $3o6, ,2sg
paid out on that day in currency to persons
preferring legal ter der notes to gold.
CLERK MURDERED.
Stephen Ashton, clerk in 8 country
Store Of Jefferson county, Ga, was found
dead on the 23l inst, with his head nearly
severed from his body and a bloody razor ly-
ing near. He was awakened in the night by
a pretended customer, who murdered him
The postottice in the same building was rob.
bed. - ~.s,
SELF ROBBERY.
Charles L. Otto, jeweler at Peoria, ILL.,,
reported to the police that he bad been
robbed of s2,Soo cash and $4,000 in goods
Investigation indicated Otto himself as the
thief and he was arrested, his brother ing
held as an accomplice. Otto is young
German who moved in the best German
society there.
FETAL SHOOTING. 49,. -;
Nea' Chem's Landlug~, III, Stanislaus
county, California, John Reynolds, black ksmith
about 50 years old and Of slightly unsound
mind, shot q young man named Ch&a Book out
killing lin. Reynolds inturn was shot while
attempting to escape by W,ll.km Gam and
probably morta]y wounded There is 10
4nown cause for Reynolds action.
BODY sSATcInSG.
In Chicsgo great excitement has beeH
produced among the B" hemians by the di.
coyery that their cemetery has been violated
and the remains tf a l., year old girl, named
Matilda Stubn, taken from the vault. The
police, discovered the corpse in the rooms OF
the Chicago medical college, but nothing is
known as % the perpetrators OF the outrage.
MEXICO INDrAs.
Gen. Ord received an San Antonio,
Texas, official information 81 the capture OF
forty Mascala and Apache Indians at San
Carlos, Mexico, by Gen. Ortls, Of hhc regular
Mexican army, and jEthe killing Of a mum.
ber in the fight. These nnmbe, all told
about 800, and have been a tarror to Austin,
Texas, trontiermen, and.-Afoxicans livingln
northern Coahu]!a and Chihauhau. =
NITRO GLYcERlNE EXPLOSION.
The J. s. Rand. Rend Rock works in
Passaic, N. j., about seven mil 3 from Patter-
son were destroyed by an explosion. :, The
building in which it occurred was, swept EN-.
tirely away and where the building; stood
there was left in the solid rock where it had
stood hole fifteen feet deep. Theshock was
felt eight miles. Three men in the bu,lipg ut
the time II the explosion were blown to atoms.
SHIP PWRECKs. -. 80.
The steamship darlington, from Gal
weston for Reval, With 400 bales OF cotton,
went ashore at Bermuda while trying to.make
harbor to repair leak. One thousand
bales we're saved dry. The steamship Kate,
from Galveston TO Havre, with a cargo of
cotton. ashore at Bermuda. has broken :np.
One hundred and eighty bales OF damaged
cotton were recovered up to Christmas,
INDIANS.
A Portland, Oregon. dispatch rays the
Indian excitement to Ill appearances has sub.
sided. The Yokona volunteers have return.
ed from Priests Rapids. Four OF Perkins mur.
derers are in JAIL Moses is Etil In JAIL and it is
hinted he wiilnever be allowed to leave Yoko.
ma. Some OF the Indians say all the, Moses
and Sinohalla Indians are coming to the res
crvation to live. einohalla himself cannot he
found.
MOB.
Some time ago the Chic ago & North.
western railroad built q side track to the ice
houses in Watertown, Wis. Residents along
the line commenced suit for o large amount
OF damages, so the company resolved to tear