The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-06-16
FIRES AND OTHER CASUALTIES.

FIRES AND OTHER CASUALTIES.
John Dillon was instantly killed at Moriden.
Ontario, by the falling of barn.
A man named Briggs was killed at Peyton 4
Kimball's mill Duluth, while loading d lumber
scow. heavy piece of timber fell upon him.
crushing him fatally,
The following scalded by the boiler explo-
sion Of the steamboat Hanna, at Now Orleans,
recently, have died: John Logan, Henry Davis,
Henry Wallace, Geo. johnson and Jack Bates
Deadwood was visited by terrific cyclone,
accompanied by hail, thunder and lightning.
Hailstones twelve inches in circumference fell.
great whirlwind swept across the southern
portion of the city, laying waste everything in
it's track, q width of 800 feet. Many houses
were entirely demolished and carried away.
~rs. John Wolcott was killed while attempting
to escape from falling house. Mrs Charles
Thomas had = leg broken. Her TIVE children
were saved. Mrs. P. Arnold was severely in
jured about the head and one side of her body
was paralyzed.
CURRENT EVENTS.
The Methodist camp-meeting at Red Rock, a
few miles below st. Paul, will begin on Wednes-
day June %.
A sugar refinery, twelve stories high. was
begun 1t the foot of Polk street Chicago Five
hundred workmen are employed, and it will be
16O feet square.
The announcement is authorized that st.
Johns college, Collegeville, Stearns county,
MINI. will hold its annual exhibition on Wcdnes-
day, June %. A hearty greeting awaits friends
their presence A feast Of music and oloquence
is prepared.
The leading prizes at the great German turn
fest at st. Louis awarded were: The first in
dividual prize for general excellence in turning
was taken by H: Koehler of Milwaukee,; tho
second by Charles Moeller of Chicago, the third
By F Bnehi Of New York. the fourth by A.
Of Milwaukee, tho sixth wv. Gro.t Of Newark.
N. j., the seventh by E. Schaefer Of Militant
kee, the eighth by W. Hoeller, New York. The
first prize for class turning went to New York
the second to Milwaukee, the third to St Louis
the fourth to Newark, fifth to Philadelphia,
sixth to Chicago.
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON,
Hon. W. A. Campbell Of West Vireinia In
talked Of for miuister to Berlin.
Tho bankers are to hold convention 1t Nj
agsra Falls on the 10th Of August
Il il again reported that Secretary Blaine IL
afflicted with Bright's dissase, almost always
The first car Of new wheat At st. Louis came
per busheL
The president has abandoned his proposed
trip to Hartford to attend the reunion Of the
Army Of the Potomac, and also to West Point.
1t is stated at the Office of the commissioner
of public lands, that there has been a iarga in
crease Of settlers of public lands in the south
ern states A large proportion Of the new set-
tier have been in Arkansas.
Capitalists Of Boston have subscribed
$5, 600, 600 toward the construction Of the pro-
jected. Duluth l. Winnipeg railway. The char
ter stipulates that tho road shall terminate at
some point on the international boundary-line.
between the Lake of the. Woods aud the Red
river, and it j. intended to form O. connection
with the Canadian Pacific 4A Emerson. Twen-
ty-fve miles Of the road westward from Duluth
will be built this year, % heretofore reported,
FOREIGN NEWS NOTES.