The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-04-21

was unable to find employment in the iron
works in that region. His life was insured
for 100000.
A desperate attempt to escape from
the Michigan state prison was made by -four
convicts, who knocked down and held the
keeper, tied threela together, and rushed
for the wall. An alarm being raised, guard
shot Lynch, the leader, dead and the Others
were soon locked up.
Five convicts at Hillsboro, ILL.,, who
were about to be transferred to Joliet, armed
themselves with bits Of iron from their bed
steads and refused to 60 to their cells. Judge
Philips was sent for, and told them he should
order the sheriff to shoot them nules IS they
surrendered, when they weak ened.
THE WEST:
A second attempt to destroy the
Ncwhall House (Milwaukee) by fire was made
few days since but discovered just in time to
prevent disaster.
The famous Millet Ranch at
Weatherford, Texas, has recently been pur.
chased by Messrs. Hughes, of St. Louis, the
consideration being 100000. =.
Scout Allison telegraphsthat Sitting
Bull may be expected to register at Fort B,l,
ford by May 20.
Riley who has been on trial at
Austin, Minn., for attempted assassination OF
Judge Page, has been acquitted.
Miss Hattie DEUEL., of Iowa City,
Iowa, the starving suicide, finished her work
April II, after forty seven days Of fasting.
Cadet Buck, of Texas, has been ac.
quilted Of the charge of shooting Jonn G.
Thompson, Jr., of Ohio, at West Point
A corner in pork has been en-.
gineered by Milwaukee parties, the effect
being an advance of S2X cents in the Chicago
market
Alexander Furst, superintendent of
the Peoria house of correction, dropped dead
of heart disease, while some prisoners were at
tempting to escape.
Miss Addie NJ. Goodrich, of Nor
NAL, ILL.,, who has been an invalid for six years,
reports herself cured by earnest prayers for a
restoration to health.
A passenger train on the Oregon
abroad went over a trestle near Redding, Cal.
by which the engineer and fireman were killed
and several Others badly bruised.
Advices from the winter wheat
fields in southern Wisconsin are to the effect
that the crop will suffer diminution of one
fourth to one-half by the storms.
At the closing meeting Of Moody
and Sankey, in San Francisco, 1000 was
raised to cancel the debt on the building Of the
Young Mems Christian Association.
In presence of Bishops Dwenger,
Ryan, and Baltes and over one hundred priests
of the diocese of Chicago, Archbishop Feehan
was formerally invested with the pallium.
News received at military head.
quarters at St. Paul, April II, states that
arrangements are being made lor the snrren.
der Of Sitting Bull and the remainder of his
band at Fort Buford. Lieut.. Robinson, of the
Seventh Cavalry, arrived at Fort Buford April
10, with eighteen lodges Of Uncpapas under
the noted Low Dog, who has been Sitting
Bulls chief advisor, and who reports that the
old warrior is now willing to surrender.
The municipal officers of Dodge
City, Kan., having refused to surrender to
their successors, body Of seventy armed
men proceeded to break the locks from the
Jail doors, and have issued a notice to all thugs
to leave within twenty-four hours.
THE EAST.
The authorities of the almshouse
near Reading, Pa, are now dealing with sixty
five eases OF small poX, but the epidemic has
not appeared in the city.
The conductor Of Matchmaking
scheme against Louis Strasburger, New York
jeweler, was shot dead by a policeman in the
attempt to arrest him.
In rifle contest at Cincinnati, O.,
". NJ. Faro, the champion shot Of the world
scored seventy, while Joseph Weston made
sixtyeight, and two Others sixty-four each.
There is said to be thirty cases OF
smallpox in the almshonse near Reading, Pa.
and four deaths have occurred. Workmen
were busy on Sunday erecting frame hos
pital. A strict quarantine of the institution
has been ordered.
Among the failures reported are
those of Merlcy, Eunson & Co., shirt manu-
facturers, Of New York, for $100, 600; the
New Jersey Refining Company, for a like
amount, and the Badger State Manufacturing
Company, of Two Rivers, Wis.
Stockmen in the vicinity of the
Black Hills, estimate their loss by the storm:
at twenty per cent. In the yellow stone valley
the only loss of any account was that Of tho
Anglo-Americrn Company, who miss fifty
per cent. of their herd Of 5000 unacclimatizei
Texan steers.
At the almshouse near Allentown
Pa, John Gyumber, Hungarian, slept fol
ffty-seven days, it not being possible to wake
him by an electric shock or the firing Of re
volver, and he having to be fed with spoon
Suddenly he recovered his respiration and
opened his eyes, and is in fair way to re
cover
The recovered remains of the late
A. T. Stewart, were recently deposited in the
Stone masons were employed to lay the stones
bolted them, poured lead around the bolts ir
the eyeholes, and sealed the masonry with
cement. Electricians skillfully laid wires
from various parts of the masonry and of the
crypt upward to the chime of the bells in the
stceple in such manner that if any person
should attempt an entranc every bell in the
steeple would ring.
FOREl0N.
Charles Bradlaugh has been re.
elected to the British House of Commons BY
a vote of 12s
Under the coercion act, two broth.
ers named Nally, have been arrested at Clare
Morris, Ireland.
Another Englishman has been cap.
turcd near Salonica by brigands, who demand