The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-09-18

county, was blown mp Lost night BY gum
powder, aud, although tho building was occu-
pied BY number Of people, no one but Cosbin
was injured, and he not fatally. II 10 not
| but Corbln aaserts it was done by some OF tho
| villagers, aud il tho outonns Of his refusal to
cease selling liquor in the village. -Four ysars
| ago building he occupied a. . saloon was de-
molishsd by gun powder, md Oozbin left tho
| town, only returning short time ago. All
failure. Tho damage done to tho hotel and
numerous adjoining buildings vii, bs e6.0o0.
The oitizsns Of Wssterville insist, that while
| they favored resoEtinS 20 stringent measures to
prevent liquor selling In the town, that they
| would never favor such measures ~ these 70
sorted to last night.
OCEAN STEAMSHIP MISSING.
BALTIMORE, Sept. l6.-The steamship Lo-
raine, Capt. heCauley, which sailed August
18th for Tyne, England, with IS. .S94 bushels Of
wheat and twenty head OF live beet cattle. has
not been heaId from since. Tho cargo Was
valued At e1oo, 600, aud tho grain Was insured
| in . New York vhice. It 10 stated that the
Underwater objected to the manner in which
| tho grain waa loaded. The steamer must have
been caught in the terrible storm of the 18th.
1t disabled, she might have put intu Bermuda,
| with which there il no cable communication.
Dead cattle were seen in tho gulf stream after
! the cyclone.
TO HANG TO-DAY.
OARo. Ills, Sept. 15-0ov. Cullom declines
to interfere in the case of Ohas. Glass, under
sentence of death for tho murder of Carter
Newman. Execution Tomorrow.
GLOVE FACTORY BURNED.
ALBANY, Sept. 15.-The glove factory of
John Hale 4 Co., Gloversville. burned to-day.
Loss, 90, ,0O0: insurance, $4,000.
MINING rnE.
DENVER, COL, Sept. 15.-Fire destroyed the
shaft houses of tho Carbon, 1daho and Moni-
tor mines IT Carbon, last night; also several
small houses occupied by miners and their fam
lilies. Damages about $4,000. Tho fire origi-
mated in the timber.
OIL MILL EXPLOSION.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. l5.-An explosion oc-
curreti at the Quaker City Oil works. Cooper
vile, whereby Geo. Emery, son of the propsie-
and James Stanger, maohinist, were 20 badly
| injured their lives arc despaired Of. The works
had Just been erected and were started ND for
the first time on tho refining of oil by = new
process. Tho main still was blown to atoms
and the burning oil scattered in every direc-
| tion.
UNFArTHFUL OFFICIAL.
|
investigation of the charges against tho pust-
master at Erie, Pa, 1t il understood that official
will be removed and his successor appointed
without delay.
SILVER CERTIFICATES.
The silver certificate bids fair to take the
place of the standard silver dollar to = great
extent. In paying out 10 per cent. of checks
in silver dollars the treasurer 10 generally
aaked for certificates in their stead. This ia
| especially the case with the banks. The banks
- greenbacks. In this way large amount of
silver certificates have gotten into circulation
in this city.
CROP REPORTS.
The following il tho monthly report Of the
department of agriculture, showing tho condi-
tion of the cotton, corn and tobacco crops:
Cotton: Returns to the department., septem-
Der lat. show = heavy decline during August.
The general average il IS against 81 for the
month previous. Corn: Tho average condi-
tion for the whole country, September lat. WA
IS against 03 in August. Tobacco: Tho average
condition of this crop for the whole country,
cent. from the condition August lst. and an
advance of pr cent. over tho condition for
| the same time last year.
BAII. REFusED.
LITTLE Rock, Sept. 15.-The folloTing il
from Fort Smith to-day: In tho United Slater
court to-day Judge Parker refused bail to o
n. Cooper, indicts for numbering, in tho In.
dian country, Robert A. Donnelly, former
deputy United States mazshal of this district.
| CRUSHED IN CIDER MILL.
ERIE, Pa. Sept. l5.-This morning Leste,
Chase, = young man employed in = cider mill,
bad both lega caught in the cog wheels of the
mill. and his left leg and foot horribly man.
gled. It has since been amputated. The right
leg may be saved. His body would undoubt.
edly have been drawn in and crushed but fol
the heels of bis boots, which stopped the wheel.
TORN 10 PIECES DY An EXPLOSION.
NASHVILLE, Sept. l5.-The boiler in o. C.
Powers' slaughter house exploded this after.
noon, tearing Frank Duffy to pieces and killing
him instantly, and fatally wounding Fell,
Chatham, colored.