The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-10-23

arrest at Fond du Lac, Wis, charged with
olgamY. On the 9Th Of October Smith married
Miss Louise Foshay at Milwaukee, 1t was
atterward learned that he had wife and three
children living at Palatine, Ill.
In the space of two weeks the saving season
In the Chippewa valley will &c virtually ended.
In the fvc-mile dam ON the Eau Claire river
the Eau Claire Lumber company has 10000
GOO feet OF logs harbored. Only five mills are
now in operation On the Chippewa river
During severe thunder storm which passed
over Joliet, ILL.,, on the morning of the 10th,
Mrs. VIM. Grace and an unknown man were
killed by lightning. The former was killed
While waiting under large tree, and the
latter while out alone on piece of bareprairic.
The fifth annual convention Of the North
western Bce-kecpers association met in
Chicago on the 18th, about scventy-fv being
present, among whom were about a dozen la
dies. Remarks on bee culture were made by
Mr.. Thompson, OF Geneva, Heddie, Hutchinson
and others.
Carmi, ILL.,, dispatch of the 18th says: A
boiler in the saw mill at Tennessee Bend ex
plodcd, horribly mangling and killing Hosea
Long, Chas. Hendix and Theodore Sawyer, and
seriously injurinS another man. Tbs accident
was caused by low water in the boiler.
The family OF John Goumer, of Linton town.
ship, near Coshocton, Ohio, are dying from
poison, caused by drinking water from a
spring into which some unknown person had
thrown large quantity of poison. The family
! Nn:OhnrS Siy npI
pected to recover.
Hcrdweycr & Stcidlitz, wholesale dealers In
wooden goods, Chicago, were closed by the
sheriff on the 18th to satisfy judgment, BY
confession, OF $4,000 The liabilities Of the
firm will probably reach $4,000, with assets
not to exceed half that amount. The firm is
AL Old one in the trade and has good credit.
Sam Baldwin, a tcarstcr for the Daisy mine,
was found murdered in lonely gulch near
Leadville, and his belt, containing 81 100, gone
A rude mask was discovered near his BODY.
lie has awife and several children at Gales
! burg, iii. james G. Gillespie and man named
Minich have been arrested for the crime,
Lynchng is probable.
Mo'lie Young, colorcd woman, stolen from
her home in Louisville twenty years ago by
Dan Rcc's circus, was taken to Cuba and sold
as slave, where she was treated with horrible
! severity, made to draw pillow like horse,
with harness, and was whipped three times a
day and rubbed with salt and pepper. Her
food was horrible. She escaped by a British
steamer.
The following is the verdict in the case of
the quintuplc murder near Fullerton, Nance
county, in Nebraska: We believe that II. A.
q. Baird, Hugh Mair, Harry Pcrcival and Mrs.
Harry Percival and her 1-ycar-old child came
to their death fcloniously Sunday evening,
September 2S 1884, and October l, 1854, and
that they came to their death py wounds from
S. Henry, foreman.
At Aberdeen, D. T., on Friday F.. L. Spence
attacked Judge Blake, editor of the Dakota
Pioneer, Blake having referred to Spence in a
newspaper article. AS Judge Drake was stand
ing by the counter in the Sherman house lobby
Spence hurredly entered the room and, as he
approached Drake, drew a revolver and de-
manded an apology. Drake seeing his danger
wrcnchcd Spcncc's revolver from him and
struck him blow with it on the forehead, fell
ing him to the floor. Spcnce's injuries are but
slight, and the public idea seems to be that
Drake would have been perfectly justified in
shooting Spence.
Two men named ESpcririty and Miller es-
capped from the Crawford county Jail in In
diana and took refuge with the formers father,
who is also Miller's father-in-law. The sheriff
went there with posse twice last week to ar
rest them, but was repealed. Friday night the
escaped prisoners went on spree in Unionville
and tcrrorizcd the town. Saturday citizens
formed a vigilance committee and laid siege to
the house. The old man and his wife were
killed, and Nilcr's wife and 1S-ycar-old son
were mortally wounded. The prisoners escaped
in the darkness. at last accounts the mob
was pursuing them, and they would be certain
ly lynched if caught
The Swan & Boslcr Land and Cattle COM
pany has been organized in Warren county,
Iowa. OF which A. II. Swan, large Colorado
cattle man, is president, and John II. Bosler
treasurer. The capital is $500, 900, of which
sl300GO is already paid. The property pur-
chased by the company consists of 1915 acres
WI 1''''", 'ciUNu az etO,V+V, SdVtlC VNiuCO dG
S4.oGG; horses, 81, 100; hogs, sl,5o0; farming
implements, $500; grain and hay, 5000. To
this is added S150000 cash. The entire prop
erty will be devoted ostcnsibly to the breeding
of fine cattle.
The passenger train on the Mobile and Ohio
railroad, near Tupcio, Miss, narrowly escaped
a terrible accident on Saturday night. Every
coach was thrown from the track and badly
damaged. The, rails had been taken up by I'M
known persons with view to wrccking the
train. There were about fifteen passengers on
the train, all of whom were more or less injur-
ed but none killed. The following five were
seriously injured: Rev. j. B. Inlnan, Hcndcr-
son, Tenn; Mrs. Warner, Fort Henry, n Y;
Paul Krau>c st. Louis; Leo Graf, Springfield,
Ohio, aud u negro. None were fatally in
illrcd