The Worthington advance., 1879-01-30
THE NEWS CONDENSED
LOGAN ELECTED SENATOR

THE NEWS CONDENSED
LOGAN ELECTED SENATOR
At Springfield, Ill.,, Jan. 2lst, the Leg
islature voted TO- United States Senator with
the following result: In the Senate Loga1
: received 26, Black, Democrat. ~, McAuliffe
Socialist, l. In the House Logan received
W, Black 60, Campbell 10, McAuliGe 3.
CONKLING REFLECTED
An Albany. N. Y, telegram of Jan. 21
says: The legislature nominated Roscoe
Conkling for United States Senator The
vote stood: Senate, Conkling, 20; VIM. Dor
'sheimer, u. Assembly, Conkling, 95; Dor
sheimer, %; Peter Cooper, 2.
DEAD.
Alexander Frankenburgh, who was shot
at Lead CITY, D T. few days ago in the diff.
Guilty between the California Mining ane Pride
OF the West companies Is dead. Three men arc
jailed charged with the crime. Excitement is
running high and more violence is expected.
A PIRATE ON THE SEA.
A London dispatch says that Capt.
Adams, at Cork, reports sighting about fifty
mile vest of Fastnett, q ship on fire and" q
steamer well manned in the neighborhood.
On going to the assistance of the vessel he
was warned by the steamer to keep on his
coruse or he would burn, too, and not re.
port what he had seen, else he had bstter look
out for himself on the next voyage.
ELECTION PROSECUTIONS.
In the United States circuit court in
Jacksonville, Florida, January 23d, Judge
Settler sentenced the Breyard county can
vassing board, convicted Of making false re-
turns Of the election. The Lee county clerk
was sentenced to three years, and Wright and
Johns, sheriff and justice respectively, to one
year each in the Albany penitentiary. lee is
also State Senator from brevard county. All
the other election cases have been continued
until the May term OF court.
VOORHEES, ELECTED SENATOR.
AT Indianapolis, Ind, Jan. 2lst, both
Houses of the Indiana legislature voted for
United States Senator with the following re.
suit: In the House, for the long term, Voor.
hees, 81; Harrison, 80; Buchanan, 2. Senate
Voorhees,, 26; Harrison, p; Buchanan, l.
Three absentees in the House, and one in the
Senate. For the short term, Voorhees, re-
ceived the same vote in both Houses, and Hon.
Godlove s. Orth received 81 votes in the
House, and % in the Senate, and Gen Hackle-
ford in the House.
ROUGHS PUNISHED.
Tine Young Peoples Literary society
at Deeracld, near Lebanon, Ohio, has been
troubled by q lot of roughs congregating in
the vacinity for some weeks past. A few
nights since the society stationed guard al
the door. The roughs attempted to force an
entrance, when the guard promptly drew
knives and commenced work in earnest One
Fairchid was cut seven times on the head
and shoulders and was carried away on
shutter, thought to be nortally wounded
The rest of the gang fled. No arrests
EXPELLED.
A Goth of January. Nashville, Tenn. tele.
gram: says A. O. II. P. schorr, past grand
master of the Independent Order of Odd Eel
lows, who, with D. G. Howell, swindled the
Odd Fellows Benevolent society, OF Chicago
out of $4,000, and the L. 8. & NJ. 8. railroad
company out of the same amount, by swear.
ing to the death OF Il fictitious parsonage, has
been expelled from Stragus Refuge lodge and
Wild Eye encampment OF Odd Fellows al
Murfresboro, for obtaining money under false
pretenscs and perjury.
BROKE HIS NECK.
An Owatonna, Mimi, telegram of Jan
81, has the following; John Wanons, OF the
town ef Somerset, Steele comfy. be- anne %
convinced that he could get away with an
unlimited amount of tangle foot, that Saturday
loo 1,1Ao to fr,yuv Al k
But, as is usually the case. tangle foot got
away with him to such an extent that at
about clock p. NJ. he was loaded on his
sleigh, which was loaded with bran, and
started homeward. When but short dis.
tancc on his road he in some way fell from
his load, dslocating his neck and causing
death Immediately.
BRIBEs.
A telegram from New Haven, c., ol
January Goth, says: Receiver Russell, of the
National Capital Life Insurance company, in
replcvyiag provcrty, said the company in
Washington came into possession of B. Noyc's
check-book. The stubs show that thirty tc
forty thousand dollars we're used for legisla
tive expenses in influencing the Connecticut
legislature in 1875 to prevent the repeal o
the charter asked for by the insurance com
missioner Receiver Russell refused to make
the names public, but it is known that sew
eral members Of the legislature of that yeal
received n portion Of the money
KILLED.
A special from Jefferson City, Mo.
says, Horace L. Hyde, brother of William
Hyde, managing editor of the St. Louis Repub
Ncan, was run over by railroad train on tn
Missouri Il Pacific road near Benefits mills
about seventeen miles east OF Jefferson City
Jan. 23d, and instantly killed. Mr.. Hyde wa
we'll known newspaper reporter, and ha'
been connected with most journals of thi
city at different times during several year
past. He was the only regular newspaper col
respondent with the yellow fever commission
on the steamer Chambers down the Mississip
pi river last summer, and wrote very inter
esting account OF the trip.
TIMBER THIEVES.
A Milwaukee telegram OF January. 90
says, David Fuller and Reuben Munger, citi
zcns OF Brown county, are under arrest, ol
warrants issued by Commissioner Bloodgood
charging them with assisting in the remova
OF timber cut on lands belonging to the Unit
cd States, aud occupied by the Oneida Indians
1t is said that the authorities will proceed i
this manner AGAINST a large number OF pei
Cons. in.addition to civil suits, for recovery {
the value Of the timber, the interior depar
ment having ordered a rigid enforcement
the statutes, both civil and penal, against a
the trespassers, including purchasers OF III,
terial.
ARMY MOVEMENTS.
A Leavenworth dispatch says tbrc
companies of the Twenty-thrd infantry, u,
der the immediate command OF Gen. jeff. I
Davis, will leave Fort Lcavenworth Mopda
morning January 9th, for the new post a
signed to the regiment on the border. II
reglmcntal officers and band will accompau
the detachment Tho Egtecth infantry no
in the South under command of Gen. Ruge
Is assigned to duty at Fort Leavenwort
Corporal Adams, Of Company g, twent
third Infantry, died suddenly of heart dlseas
He will he hurled with fill military hooor