The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-11-17
RECORD OF CRIME.


nbarrelling over the result Of the election.
Montrose escaped.
At Fort Will, 8. c., James Sutton, young
planter, shot dead Nat Gibson, constable
The tragedy took place in the post Office. and
originated in the execution OF an attachment
bss Gibson on the property Of brother in law
0f Sutton.
John Finney was found dead in his bed At .
farm house four miles north of Waverly, Iowa
He was shot through the head and a revolver
was found lying oy the side of the bed Sui
citieor murder? that is what the coroner's iury
is trying to lind out
At Kaneas City, John T. Smorr, member of
the firm f. @. Roberts Il c., grocers, was shot
and killed at the It James Hotel by j. H. Rus
sell, recently Of Quincy. The affair gre, out
. I remark made in courtroom by Smorr.
hind pillar in the hotel Office. Russell fire..
three shots, the last entering Smorr's abdomen,
killing him almost instantly.
Orders have ben received to ship immediate
lv all the iron, ties and other construction ma
t. rial from the G"and Forks yards Of the St
Paul, Minneapolis Il Manitoba railroad to the
from, on the Crookston and Grand Forks ex-
may be completed to Larimoro thir
fall. 1t may be pus'ed through ia
that point regardless of weather or other
obstacles.
A serious ARRAY occurred 1t the Fourth ward
polls in Winoa on Tuesday evening A Pole
named Moje-ki assaulted Charley Hamilton,
brother Of the democrat candidate for treasurer
With knife, cutting him on the ear. MIR. An.
drew Hamil on went to the rescue Of bis son
and Mojeski made thrust At him, cutting
through his hat inficting a deep scalp wound,
though not dangerous. Mojeski was arrestei
and hound over to the district court in the sum
Of $780,
At St Louis, the jury in the case of John
Brady, Jr, who was tried in the criminal
court on charge Of false acknowledgment OF
deeds; returned verdictof guilty, and assessed
Brady is one of the men concerned in the great
land swindle scheme which was unearthed in
the land Office at lronton, Missouri, last spring.
and in whion Robert l. Lindsay, Of st. Louis,
burns, Of P,t.sburg, aud others we're inpli-
Gated, and will b. brought to trial. Lindsay is
next month.
At st. Paul on Tuesday last, IN inmate of .
house of ill-fame, giving her name as Florence
Fuller, committed suicide by shooting several
balls into her head. The deceased was mar
ried about two years ago to E. A. McGregor,
known as Ed. McGregor, who va at
one time clerk 1t Upham's hotel, on the cor
was clerk at Lindeke, Warner l. Schurmeier's
store: The union was m unfortunate one.
He mistreated and neglected her, and finally
separated from her. She took in washing. went
ont At days. labor and struggled more than any
one knew to keep from life Of prostitution
The police know something Of her efforts. y 9
dreaded the life she led. and at last chose death
instead. Her parents are said to live in Chica-
go.
FIRES AND OTHER GAS ALTIEs.
At Danville. KY, the training stable of
Warren A. Russell was destroyed by fire
and Il number of valuable horses burned.
At Cincinnati fire destroyed MCGUIRE l.
CO. = Ohio and Mississippi elevator, with 1885,
600 bushels Of grain, with loss Of 5000, 900.
At Orchard Beach, Maine the old Blanch-
ard, the lawrence, the Aldene, the St Cloud,
the Belmont and the Fiske hotels burned Loss,
$92, ,OOo!
A disastrous oonhagration reported from
Woodstock, N. B. At last accounts the entire
north part Of the Town has been burned, aud
the fiery element was still rampant.
Martin G. Hesler, a married man. thirty
years old, q resident Of lola, Waupaca county.
Wis, went out hunting Sunday and not return
ing il due time search was Instituted result
ing in the finding Of his d. ad body, shot CON-
p!etely through and his rifle lying empty by his
side: The suppssiton is that death resulted
accidentally.
James Fee, conductor on freight train of
the Milwaukee st. Paul, was killed at Shell
don, Iowa, on Tuesday :vening. He tried to
step from the depot platform to the steps Of
The cabooso and fell unuer the car wheels He
was cut all to pieces. Fee was Z single man
aged about "a, and had been on tho road three
years.
Three railroad accidents were reported Fri
day, one on the International Il Great Northern
by which twenty three Texan conv,cts are re-
ported killed; ono on the Hannibal Il St 10 in
which the fireman was killed and two coll,dng
freight trains we're demolished. and tho third
near Centralia, TO-, wherein Engineer Dayton
md Fireman Purdy were scalded.
Bedford lind. } special: train Of four cars
the engine, tender aud caboose, On
The B., t., O., l. B. narrow gauge road, broke
through the White river bridge, twenty-five
miles from this place, killing brakeman named
Gardner, and slightly injuring eight or ten
more persons. The train fell shout thirty
feet and Is q complete wreck. This bridge has
been considered unsafe for some time.
The opera house at Joplin. No., was burned
. fow days ago. The building was IN entire
loss. Severa, merchants occupying the ground
floor we're heavy losers, the principal being
Gibbon & Co.. D. A. Loose l. Co., clothing and
dry goods. The Big -Four minstrel troupe
which played in the house last night lost nine
teen trunks aud their musical instruments
The loss will reach $5O,OOO. The building
was insured for SO, 500.