The Worthington advance., 1881-08-18

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b G. G. Smith of La Crosse. -
A correspondent asks sundry questions re-
gardinH cheap rates from Boston, the answers
to whi4 kofe - follows: The cheap-rate tickets
from Boston hold good only for . few hours
after the passenger arrives in Chicago No
trip tickets: Tho roads do not touch st Mag
ara. No stop over tickets are issued.
| RECORD OF CRIME.
II is reported that Parker, the Adirondack
gEride' who was ahot while resisting arrest, Is
Charles W. Curry killed Nathan prettyman
% St Louis because he would not lot Curry
have his daughter.
is under bonds for attempting to blackmail
Mns. Frank Crosby. niece Of Alexander
Mitchell
The New York grand jury have indicted
Elizabeth Coleman for murder in the first de-
gree, for shooting George Coles, At Harry Min
At Fredont., Kansas, party attacked tho
or, but was driven of with the loss Of one Of
| their number.
Samuel Miller Of Willianneport, Pa. has
! been arrested charged with the murder OF his
! father by poison, for the purpose Of obtaining
the amount for whice his life was insured.
! At Martinique, on the 18th Of July, mob OF
several Thousand negroes attacked the house Of
| the Leading physicion, and severely wounded
him, robbed the mayor and committed other
depredatioEs. -,
Parker Adirondac, the guide who committed
an assault on Mrs Ball, was captured on the
| bank Of Long lake, N. Y, SATURDAY. He resist
ed arrest, and tho oonstables shot him through
the breast His recovery is doubtful
The little town Of scituate, r. l., is all tore
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belonging to DR.. William Bowen, temperance
agi'ator Of that section, through the agency Of
| an internal machine.
Mrs: frankie Smith Crocker, the slick talker
from Milwaukee, who supported the fraudu-
| lent claim Of Mrs. Harris to the authorship
OF kutlege in St Paul. is in the tolls of the red
eyed law in the Cream City on . charge of
blackmail.
Two gendarmes from Italy, who have arrived
in New York for tho purpose Of identifying the
bandit Esposito, went to Ludlow street Jail
| and without hesitation picked out, the
prisoner from line Of twenty four others in
which he was placed.
| arrested At New Ulm on the ignoble charge Of
stealing set of harnesses, proves to he one
s. !. King, hard citizen whose resemblance
| to the hunted outlaws was largely in the fevered
Imagination of the public mind.
Edward Northrnp, . prominent attorney,
shot and killed Joseph O'Donneli, clerk for q
lumber firm, in the Crawford house at Elliot
vile, N. Y. Northrup surrendered himself to
the authorities after the shooting. The affair
has created great excitementin in the village ow
ing to the high standing OF both parties.
SUNDAY morning last tho firm OF J. ". Wal
colt Il Co., brokers Of New York. informed the
police that one OF their clerks who had been
seconded with $40, 900 worth Of stocks and &C.
curities, and 81 s, 900 of checks The abscond
ing clerk is A. d. Wheelock, age twenty-five,
unmarried. He took steamer and has gone
abroad.
g. H. Long and G. A. Howard, president and
Boston. were arrested and admitted in IS, 900
bai! each on The charge Of embezzlement. The
Alliance company, after euspendiug operations
about two years sgo, reorganized and proceed
Ell to relnsure former risks and bid for new
business. The insurance commissioner aD-
piled for an Injunction to restrain the COMPANY
from transactirg business on the ground Of in
solvency. An investigation OF the books bv an
expert showed q deficiency of ST. 900 within
Elk months Hence the arrests.
FIRES AND OTHER CASUALTIES.
The Parry house at Beach Haven, N. J..
burned and the guests lost all their property
The loss on the building will reach SGD, 900.
The loss Of $50 boarders is considerable
IroAgar, Indiana, had bad fire. Fourteen
business honses burned, leaving only three in
fire. Loss $50, 900. Insurance small.
Mr.: T. G. Smith. farmer living near Ches-
ter, Pa, told bis grandson, little fellow of ton
years, to so and get some green corn for the
horse. After some little time, not seeing or
hearing anything Of him, they commenced look
him hung to = pole by = bride rein, his toes
Just touching tho ground. They suppose he
was playing and got fast and could not help
CURRENT EVENTS.
G. J. Frey has given the Wesleyan Female
college Of Macon, Ga, $50, 600, making in all
Mr.. Hay, = leading merchant Of Waterloo.
Iowa, has failed; also A. J.. Msloy and G. P.
Cometock Of Chicago.
The Now Hampshire house, by vote Of 1863
to 8. has indefinitely postponed the bill to es.
tablish general railroad law.
Philadelphia has disposed of her white ele
phant, the exposition building, for $57 600.
The structure originally cost 81 ,6OO,OO0.
Miss Anna Dickinson exploded bomb in
critisisising the efforts OF the temperance peo-
pie to save fallen men and allowing fallen wo-
men to take care Of themselves
The widow of ex-Preeident Millard Fillmore
is lying ut her home in Buffalo dangerously i'll
from . stroke Of apoplexy suffered Sunday
evening She is wholly unconscious, and her
physicians give up ali hopes Of her recovery.
Express company, left residence and grounds
and IN annuity OF 81 ,O0O to his widow. Ills
two daughters, Georgiana and Helen, each re-
ceive one-third of the remainder. The other
third is divided among grandchildren.
During = race at Norwich, Conn. Trotting
Park, between the horses Of Joseph McCann,
Of Newark, N. J., and John McNamara, Nc.
Cams horse won the first heat. When he
passed the wire he bolted and threw McCann
on the fence, breaking his right arm and sever
al ribs, tho ends oe the broken ribs piercing
the unss. .-.-.
Elder James White, founder of the Seventh
Dsy Adventist church. md president Of their
Battle Creek, Mich, died recently, At Battle
Creek Of fever. aged eixty years. He was .
direct descendant Of Peregrine White, the first
white child born to the Pilgrim fathers,
The Brooklyn socialists in mass meeting
protested against the e1tradition Of Leo Hart
man, such course they believe having been
contemplated by the authorities, and adopted
resolution to the effect that it would be dis
glace to the country il the government should
deliver up the revolutionary hero to certain
death while ho found refuge as political exile
even In British monarchy.
VAuOuS 1s0puOuCAu: nov. j. r. COlI0f, CT
WinOna, was elected president Of the National
Catholic Total Abstinence Union, at their ses-
sion recently held in Boston. This il = d.
served tribute to one Of the most earneet and
able men in the Temperance work-a man
whose quiet devotion 10 the good Of his fellow
men, 30 long recognized by his co-workers in
Minnesota, finds also fitting recognition at the
hands Of the National Union.
# NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.
1t is understood in Warrington that the pres
ident will be of Of bis sick bed by the middle of
september, and that he will be able to re-
sumo executive business BY the time congress
conveneo.
Col. Hugo Won Ulrich, who recently arrived
here from Mexico, claims that he has been
swindled out Of 81, 900 worth Of opals by IN
unregenerate real estate dealer Of Anoka coun-
y, who decided 40 acres of poor land and
$3.50 mortgage for the opalA
Mr.. Geo. Riggs, one OF the we lthiest and
most prominent residents Of the national capi-
til, has been lying at the point Of death, and
was expected to die almost momentsrily by his
physicians. He ie reported to be Z little easier,
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