The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-01-03

Dec !. tho Forty Eighth congress nst and J.
9. Car'isle OF Kentucky was elected speaker.
On The 18th tho Republican national oodnminoo
met at Washing on and elected Senator sabia
chairman. TO succeed HsrshaIl Jewell, de-
ceased, and c. icago was selected for the next
national convention.
In the State. several notable changes have
taken place. Jan A, CIV. Butler was in
augurated at Boston. James & Boynton was
Al xander H. Stephens, deceased. Ar,il II,
H d. Mcdaniel was nominated for governor,
aud on tue 24th was elected, to succeel Buyn-
ton May ~, Proctor Knott was nominatedfor
EoT 5udse aS:dy 20.
elected governor OF OHIO; Buren, r sber-
man, Republican. Of Iowa; George D Robin
con. Republican; Of Mareachuset .; Robert Nc
Lane, Democrat. Of Maryland: Leon A.
bard, Republican. OF Minnesota
In the dramatic world the year has been more
or less memorable. Mrs 1angtry made her
5.su.y aer an me erteeded a. tour
the country, in which she experienced
all the incidents attendant on =
theatrical scandal. she sailed home July "a.
Her earnings are said to have been neatly
irving aud Ellen Terry landed in New York
jig week in The Bells. seceivinx =
welcome from people and press such
,pg to H,aon re-
tober, and has played stes lilly at the Lycoum.
Mapleson aud Abbev have brought largo aud
high-priced operate performers from, Europe,
inc udipg Patti. Ger.ter and Sembrich, and
1 YORK ~n0 ''' %''A'e' " 4"0''' ~ 40"
SPORTING.
Jan. e, in q billiard match, cushion carrums,
-. ~ VY
sexton; average: DAILY. 4 s-23; Sexton, 4
RI IL. The wrestling match on the Is b.
ham and Clarence Whistler, best two
out of three falls, Gsaco- Roman and
the Greco Roman wrestling match. the 9th,
for $500 aud championship, at St Loui-, be-
tween Muldoon and Bauer, the former won.
Feb 4 Muldoon downed BiOby in q
23d Carver beat Boeardus at Louisville;
score, SO to So. March IL the National league
and American Base Ball associations made up
their differences. The Chicago billiard tour
1ement opened on n he 26'h with victory for
beats the be-t record at billiards.
at Chicago. May IA, Sullivan knocked oct
Mitchell in three rounds in New York. July
%, the Pullman regatta orened at Pullman, ILL.,
son Square Garden, New York city. knocked
out Herbert A. Sade in two and shalt
rounds. On the 18Th Will am Ryan. John
Morrissey's trainer iu his ca, ly days, died at
Fort Edward Boston won the league cham
pionShip; the Athletic, of Philadelphia. the
American and The Toledo nine the Northwest
ern championship.
NORTHWESTERN EVENTS.
The year has been especially eventful in the
Northwest In Minnesota Senator Window
was defeated for election, and d. NJ. Sabin
elected on the twenty ninth ballot, Feb. 2.
The capital of Dakota, after long
ana arduous struggle, was removed to
Bismarck by Gov. Ordway and the capital
ity: The Northern Pacific road was completed
and formally opened Sept. 8. st Paul and
Minneapolis, on Sept 3, celebrated this
event with q magui6cence and enthu-
slasm never before shown in the two
cities. President Willard. ACCOMPANIED by
numerous guests, among whom were Gen
Grant and ex-Secretaries Evars and Schurz,
was accorded grand ovation. ending with q
banquet given by the city of St. Paul at the
Iafsyette hotel. Lake Minne'onka The last
spike was driven Sept .. at q point sixty
miles west Of Helena. with appropriate and
elaborate ceremonies. The Yellowstone
park was this year opened to tho pnbiic by
railroad, and Rufus Hatch, with . special train
spent a fortnight there TIE Canadian Pacific
was pushed GU to the Rocky mountains. Rich
discoveries of gold in the Ceur d'A.ene
mines have stimulated crowded emigration
thither The crops throughout Minnesot2 and
Dakot' were generally good. Early frosrs
damaged wheat in some paris Of the Red River
valley. The improvement Of the mineral
region north of Duluth was be-u IN the
building or the Iron Rage railroad. which Is
to tap that hithereto unknown secuon of the
comple'ion Of the NJ lnltoba railroad vladuct at
Minneapolis, the first stone bridge across the
Mississippi
One Of the most blood curdling crimes of the
past year was the killing of Richard Pierce of
St Paul the night of Jan l. Great excitement
WAS caused By the affair, which Was only
alayed bv the discovery OF the supposed dead
man in the pineries and his return home. The
number of murders in the United States is
probably larger for 1883 than any preceding
year Only two celebrated crimes can
be mentioned. June Arm,stead Bark.da .
killed his cousin. Scott Clayton, at lawrence
burg, Va, and few days later COMMITTEE
the puugilist, was shot and killed in Chicago
by Jsre Dunn. notorious sporting man.
March 8. George onkling shot and killed w.
H. Haverstick, his sisters paramour in New
living in Nevada At Harrodsburg, Ky, April
~. Congress .man Phil Thompson 4hot and
killed instantly Waller H. Davis, whom no
charged with seducing his wife. Thompson
Lake killed the two Ward brothers A, Union
town, Pa, June 13, James Mutt billed Dukes
who murdered his father, Capt Nut, in an
alteration over Sian Ter against Miss
L zze Mutt Young Nuts trial Is pending in
littsburg. Sept 3, the body of Rose Amber
Clark was found at Stanford, Conn. The muir
dcrer escaped. On the 25th of tho same
month, Ada Atkinson was brutality murdered
by Melting at Oxford, lud Melting was eubse-
quently iynched.
Other notable crimes were the robbery Of
tie City bank, New York, Of $4S, OOO by
Cashier Shaw and Assis ant Cashier Beach;
the abduction of Zerelda Garrison ut ST. Louis:
the robbery at Panama of 81 5000 -ent bv tho,
government to the United States feet in the
Pacific; o. B. Owens ca ing 5000 900 from
the ST. Louis bank; the robbery of 500, OUO in
diamonds at Springfield. IL. the assault on
La y Fi0rende Dixie in he grounds at Wind
sor; robbery of the United States ex-
pre- 8. company of $4,000 at Des Moines;
murder OF two men in the posse that captured
the rber brothers in Iowa; tue defalcaton of
Treasurer Polk OF Tennessee to the amount OF
$4,000 the murder Of Brandy bv
hls wife and her paramour at Argyle,
Mimi; the embezz ement OF Phiupe'
the Philadelphia aims house keeper:
the robbery Of Secretary Teller's trunks, con-
tanning So, 900 Of diamonds, at Livingston.
Mont The murder Of seven negroes at Dam
vile, Va on election day. aud the shooting of
several persons at Yaz &c, Miss, Christmas re-
suting III the lvnchlns LAST night Of four
negroes at that place.
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