The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-03-24

cR1ME AND cRzH1NALR ALR1coRD.
The trial of Mrs. Frank Smith Crock

cR1xr and CRIMINAL xicoeD.
The trial of Mrs. Frank Smith Crock
n, for the attempted murder Of her mother In
Milwaukee last June. has resulted in a verdict
Of acquittal.
At an execution at Marion, S. c., a
few days since, of negro for the murder of q
man last spring, the rope broke and the cul-
prit fell heavily to the ground, splitting blood
and calling for water. The condemned was
afterwards placed on the scafiold and success
fully launched into the future.
The tow boat John Means, of the
New Orleans Transportation company, cxplod-
I'd her boilers at Osceolo, Ark, on March IS,
and Immediately sunk out Of sight. She car.
ried crew of twenty-sfx men, four of whom
were killed, and several Others badly injured.
The body Of one ct the tircmen was found in a
field six hundred feet from the place of cxplo-
sion.
A dual murder occurred at Monroe
Oaichita parish, Louisiana, on March II, one
Of the victims being the son Of Hon. John
T. Lrideling, late chief justice of the state,
and the other Frank Dinkgrave, a near rela-
tive OF the judge. The cause assigned is o
political one: Judge Ludeling IL . Republic
IN, and there has existed an i'll feeling against
him by a large cotton planter named Stubbs,
who, while the judge was absent from home.
look occasion to pay of the score. In this
parish have occurred since 1876, over one hum
1red murders, with not single arrest or pro-
secution of the perpetrators.
Information of a most sensational
tragedy occurring on the North fork Of the
Red River, which brought vengeance for a
crime committed fifteen years ago, states that
4 man named Peter Cook, formerly from
with three drunken associates
visited the house of Tony Pine, disguised as
United States cavalrymen in 1896, robbed him
Of 81 600, ravished lady relative and fed.
Pine saw neither Of the party again until last
Friday, when he and two herders came upon
Cook among some freighters. Calling him
by name and with terrible oaths, Pine fired
four balls into Cooks body, killing him
before he could draw his pistol. The parties
present arrested Pine, but as he satisfied them
that his statement regarding Cooks conduct
afteen years ago was true, and he being able
to produce newspaper accounts to verify it,
they released him.
FORELdN.
The new emperor of Russia has
expelled his late fathers mistress from his
domains.
Austria also wheels into line with
an order prohibiting the importation OF swine
pork, bacon or sausagas from the United
States.
The last fire in Toxic passed over
ten streets, and consumed 1,G63 houses aad %
godowns. The population rendered home
BY the calamity was 49, ,s22
The Pope's encyolical letter has
been issued, proclaiming Jubilee from March
10 to November for Europe, and to the end
Of the year for the rest of the world.
The ten-day international shooting
match in England, between Carver, of Califor-
MIA, and Scott, of England, resulted in the
close score of 9,737 for Carver and 9,735 for
Scott
The funeral of the late Russian En-
oeror, occurred at St. Petersburg, March 16
There is apparently no doubt regarding the
ate of the assassin, as the erection of scat
odd on Smolenski plain has been commenced
An attempt was recently made to
blow up the official residence Of the Lord
Mayor OF London, by placing considerable
quantity Of gunpowder and other explosives
under the private apartments of that officer
The fuse leading to the explosives was burn
ing when discovered.
Minister Noyes cables that the
French government has agreed that all pork
loaded upon ships before the passage of the
French decree concerning pork imported from
The United States shall be admitted into Franco
subject only to such inspection and with as
little delay as snch examination permits.
The Car Of Russia is lineal de.
scendant OF the Princess Sophia, mother Of
George I. Therefore, under the settlement,
with reservation as to religion, he is en-.
titled, the latter'S heirs failing, to succeed to
the throne Of Great Britain. 1t ia announced
that the policy Of the Gar will be of the
reforms in the civil statutes are promised.
Berlin is excited over the elore.
ment Of the wife Of Prince Charles, of Coro,
with Count Herbert Bismarck,
eldest son Of the German Chancellor, both
parties having arrived together at Messina,
q few days ago. The faithless woman is the
wife of a member of one of the first families
Of Prussia, and hereditary member of the
upper house, and step-sister to the Princess
Hermann, OF Hatzfeat- -Trachenburg, head of
a Catholic family bearing the title since 1741,
md daughter of the Countess of Reichenbach.
She has daughter, Princess Sybilla, now
fourteen years Of age, Prince Corolath, who
is thirty-six, has left parliament and retired to
his estates in silesia. Hc will commence
a divorce suit. Count Herbert Bismarck,
whose age is thirty-two, was recently secre-
tary to his father, who had destined him as his
chief assistant and eventually successor. It is
said this domestic calamity is the chief cause
Of Bismarck's recent irrltability and bad
humor
WEEKLY CASUALTT RECORD.
\ boiler explosion near Frankfort,
KY, killed three men and wounded six others.
A tornado passed over a consider
able part of Southwestern Missouri, ac-
by rain and hail. At Galena, RAM,
It demolished some fifteen buildings, MORALLY
wounded two persons, and severely injured
six others. The large tabernacle was COM
p1etely destroyed. Several buildings are
blown down at Joplin.
IISCELLANEOUY NEWS.
A large number Of Germans from
San Francisco are purchasing lands in the
neighborhood of Acapulco, Mexico, at forty
cents per acre, on ten years. time.
Gen. Abe Butord, the famous horse
breeder, Of Louisville, Ky., has sold his breed
ing farm to D. A, Thomas. The stock on the
for hoe Ieor