The Worthington advance., 1882-08-17
.NeaVs Of the R<zil2't1<f<lS.

At Winona lively bit OF track laying was
done By the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
railroad on Sunday A force of thirty men
began work shortly after midnight on Satur.
day, and by half past 3 o'clock on Sunday
afternoon they had extended the track dis
lance Of 800 feet down Third street to
Olmstead street, which is just within the
precincts Of the lumber yard ofMessrs. You
mans Bros. & Hodgins, who are thus afford
ed shipping facilities over both the St. Paul
and the Northwestern lines.
Last Friday the last rail was laid that COM
pleted the Northern Pacific railroad between
st. Pau! and the crossing of the Yellowstone
river opposite Billings, Montana. Inas-
much as the bridge is not finished, trains
cannot enter the town yet, and will not be
able until next Thursday. There was great
rejoicing among the citizens over the arri
val ofthe construction train, and the event
was duly celebrated.
1t is announced that IS, 50O, eco Of the
$4,000, 900 Canadian Pacific railway bonds
have been taken up The duke Of Man
chester company took 5000, ,OOO $3.50, coo
were taken up in Toronto. The remaining
81, 0OO, 600 We're disposed Of in Canada
The receipts of the Milwaukee 4 st. Paul
railway for the first week in August were
$341 600; decrease of $4,000
Record Of Fires anil CtlsMtslties.
A United States officer at Colon reports
the population of 600 dying at the rate Of
i0V u month. Natives as we'll as the unac-
.'Iimated are attacked by fever. Ola total
of ESQ Chilian soldiers in the garrison at
Cheylago, Peru, 800 died from yellow fever
At Maysviile, Ky, a young man connect
Mi with the United States circus made bal
:oon ascension seated on trapeze bar. The
balloon alighted in the Ohio river and the
balloonist was drowned. He was q native
ut England. Name not given.
Alvices from Brownsville, Tex, state
that there are about fifty cases of yellow fe-
yer there, and the epidemic Is developing.
The people are organized and prepared for
the worst, thoug b no aid is required from
the government Mt present.
Grimes and Criminals.
Paul TOllner, a machinist on Division
street, Chicago who has frequently quar-
relied with his young wife, took an heroic
method of ending their troubles Thursday
afternoon. Taking her one side in their
,ioInicile, ne said: will you obey Inc after
a thirty.two caliber revolver and fired two
shots into her breast, killing her instantly.
Stepping into an adjoining room, he put a
bullet through his own heart. They had
been married two years and had one child.
The police Of Milwaukee were notified by
the authorities of Prague, Bohemia, that
Hermann Abeles, forty-five years old, own
er Of large milling establishment in that
nst 1,oS Io1 ho1~
10 his creditors. The dispatch claims that
the defanlter is in either Chicago, St. Paul,
Minneapolis or Milwaukee
F. Howe an employe OF the Troy e.
Greenfield railway, in Mass, has been ar
rested on a charge of being train robber.
He confessed his guilt, and duplicates H. E..
Eastman. formerly night yardman Of the
Troy & Greenfield road, and Geo. Warner,
also an employe of the road. They have al
50 been arrested.
At a colored camp-nleeting at Eastman,
Ga, deputy marshal shet fleeing prisoner
named Jake Tarropv, killing him. This in
furiated mob who ran the deputy into a
house where an innocent white man was
shot and beaten horribly, resulting in death.
The negroes mistook him for deputy.
Edward H. c. Brown, of Brooklyn, n. y,
while suffering temporary alteration caused
by inordinate use ofpatent medicines, cut
the throat Of his six. year-old child and then
leaped from second story window, ffactur-
ing his skull and receiving other serious in
iuries
Col. James Sewcll of Roseville, Ark, offers
SO, 900 for the arrest Of the person who
murdered his son last week. The murder
was committed in broad daylight, but the
assailant made good his escape.
A young man named Dickenson, living 1t
sunrise, elop<d with Efae Warner, daugh-
ter of I. H. Warner. He had about SO in
money, stole small boat and both went
down the St. Croix river.
Mrs. Miller of South Bend, Ind, fed a
tramp who attempted to rob her house, and
then captured and lodged him In jail.