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

an ecclesiastical trial. Cowley was convicted
OF practicing the most inhumanc crucltics
upon the little innocents left in his charge,
and served term of a year on Rlackwall's 3
island
THE WEST:
Holm, Knight & Co., hats, caps
and fnrs, st Paul, have failed. 1t is stated that
the assets of the firm will amount to about
$4,000, with about SAC, 900 liabilities.
The crazy man, James TOlen, who
Killed his wife and attempted the life OF his
business partner, at Marine, Mimi, last week,
hung himself at the asylum at st. Peter,
whittier he was sent few days ago
The collections for the German
saengerfeat, to be held in Chicago in June,
amounts, at the present time, to $50, 900, and
there is every indication that the occasion
will be noteworthy from ita magnitude and
success.
A vigilance committee, at Charles.
ton, ILL.,, whipped several bad citizens of Coles
county, and then notified twenty Of them to
leave the county, where they had been engaged
in the pastime Of destroying property and i'm.
periling life.
Sitting Bull, with about one hundred
lodges and five TO six hundred Indians, is still
at Woody Mountain, and says he has no inten-
tiou Of returning to the United States, but
Will 60 to farming there, or move on to the
Saskatchewan and 60 to farming.
The funeral Of Gen. Upton ut San
Francisco was the most imposing ceremonial
Of that character since the obsequies in honor
Of Gen. Candy. Three thousand men were In
line, including the regulars and the national
guard of California. The remains of the gal
liant general were taken east under guard Of
honor.
The tow boat Jay Gould left St.
Louis last week with fleet OF barges contain.
ing 231 900 bushels of bulk corn, and $4,000
bushels of bulk wheat, equal to $4,000 tons,
for New Orleans, to be transhipped there for
Europe. Others will follow, and the trans
portation problem in the Mississippi valley
seems, in measure, to have been solved.
Omaha social circles were in fever
of ferment few days since, caused by the
elopement OF Miss Ellen N. Stratton, promi.
nent teacher in the public schools, with one of
her pupils named Charles Duke. She is past
thirty-five years of age, while her lover is not
yet eighteen. It is stated that Miss Stratton
had succeeded in winning the tender love of
the boy, while protesting to aid him in his
! studies, at her room, Chicago is the haven of
the eloping couple.
Another blizzard: visited the lake
region of Milwaukee and Chicago, on March
10. Beginning as far South as Louisville, Ky.,
the storm extended west to Omaha, and trav-
eled northward, where the storm-centre was
reached at Milwaukee, and street and rail-
road traffic was entirely suspended. The snow
continued to fall necessarily for twenty -four
hours, and laid in a solid mass about eighteen
inches deep. and being wet, froze as it fell.
Telegraph lines were entirely prsstrated, owing
to the accumulation of snow and ice, looking
like two-inch ropes.
The latest and most reliable news
from White river appears to point to an out
break Of the utes early in the spring. Their
camp is located near the White river, about
twenty five miles from the military post. The
son Of Chief Douglas is reported as saying
that as soon as Douglas returns TO their camp
and the snow goes OF, the Utes, cheap fight. -
They are preparing all the guns and ammu-
milton possible, for which they exchange
horses or anything else. The military have
just completed substantial block-house for
the point.