The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-10-30

of intoxicating drinks is Masonic offcnsc and
should disqualify any one from admission or
utilization with any Masonic lodge
fire at Dakota City, To-, on the Ped de-
stroycd the Northwestern hotel and carpenter
shop that stood In close proximity Loss about
$500; insurance. $780, Some effectual
work was done by the Humboldt fire company
with their new engine it being their first ex-
pcricnce with a live fire.
| The Illinois Central and the Michigan Cen.
trail roads have given up the fight for the pos
session of three blocks of ground on the lake
front in Chicago, for railroad purposes, and
will rebuild Oh the site of the old depot, foot
of Lake street, whose ruined walls have been
standing since the fire Of 1871.
In the case of the mysterious killing of Jacob
klink and the mysterious dream of Rice Urbn
at Connellsyillc, Ohio, the coroner's inquest
developed 10 new points except that Urbin was
at home at the hour Of the killing. The jury
rendered 4 verdict of accidental death and de-
clincd to fix the responsibility on any one.
On the 2lst there were ninety-three cases of
scarlet fever and five of dphtheria under treat
mcnt in Milwaukee. The health authorities,
i however, say that there is no need of fears of
scarctina becoming epidemic, as the cases arc
OF Il very mild type. No new cases are report
ed at the industrial school, and the children
affected are all doing well.
The Bank of California, will, it is stated, lose
S225 600 by the failure of A. W. Bowman. The
Oakland Savings bank is creditor for S45,-
900, but says it is fully secured. Henry l..
Breed, of Boston, had $3.50 900 in Bowman's
hands. How much he may lose is not known
Several OF the heaviest losers are persons who
are now travelling in Europe
Mr.. Strong, the cmbczz!ing Green Bay
banker, now in Canada, says when the bill was
introduced in the Legislature, two years ago,
to create the office Of examiner fer private
banks in the state, he, Strong, was assessed
with other private banks in the state to raise a
fund to be used in defeating the bill, and that
he paid his assessment The sum paid was a
good round one.
special from Jamestown, Dakota, dated
Oct. 23d, says the weather there is cold and
wintry. Reports show t!:at the last of the
enormous wheat crop Of that section will not
be harvested before the middle of November
Considerable damage is being done by prairie
fires. Many acres of wheat have been swept
away in different portions of the valley. Rains
have done little or no damage.
Omaha adviccs of the 22i state that Texas
fever has broken out in herd of 300 native
cattle which are being fed near Waterloo; twcn-
ty miles west of Omaha, and belonging to the
Ircwcns Thirteen have died and about thirty
are sick. The herd came from some point
near tho Dakota frontier about month ago.
and were driven across a trail near Valentine
which had been crossed by Texas cattle.
The permanent line of the Iowa, Sioux Falls
and Northern, from Sioux Falls to Rock Rap
ids, has been located. 1t crosses the Sioux
river at the mouth Of Sprngdalc creek, and
runs up Blood creek to within three miles of
hardwood. 1t is pretty much all prairie land
between hardwood and the Rapids From
there the line is likely to be continued to a
point fifteen miles beyond to junction with
the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern
On the 23d while a passenger train on the
Wabash railroad was returning from a Demo-
cratic barbecue at Peru, Ind, woman named
Cottrell, crazcd with liquor, drew a long knife
and began cutting and slashing among the oc.
cupants of the car. Henry Garner was cut in
the shoulder, d. Quinn dangerously stabbed in
the face and Conductor Prince stabbed in the
face. The woman was finally elected from the
! train.
The National Wool-Growcrs association and
National Tanners convention will meet in St.
Louis at the same time as the cattle convention
next month. 1t is stated the tanners especial
~ are interested in reforming the system of
branding cattle, as the one how in use greatly
;npairs the value of hides, and it is thought
that II the two interests can be brought togcth-
err some plan can be devised to protect hides
from the deep scars now made by branding
irons and tearing by barbcd wires.
On the 25th Mrs. johnson, Of Calhoun coun-
ty. West Virginia, while temporarily insane,
mixed some arsenic with sugar and gave it TO
her three stcp-children. One refused to cat,
but the other two partook of the fatal COM
pound and died in a few minutes. Mrs John
: son then swallowed poison herself and soon
died. She was a sistcr-in-law of ex-Postmaster
johnson, who recently Iefrauded the govern
mcnt OF 81, 600 and then clipped with woman.
lie was aftcrward arrested at Covington, Ky
The grand jury at Mitchell, Oak, have
brought in an indictment against H. n Lewis
for the murder of Capt. Pierce city marshal
last spring. The prisoners attorneys moved
for change Of venue, but after examining
about twenty witnesses as to the probability of
finding an impartial jury for the case, the
judge ovcrrulcd the motion, and ordered
special session term for hearing the case, about
the middle of December. A venirc of three
hundred jurors will be issued for hearing the
case.
The National Uniyersalist convention met in
Peoria. ILL.,, on the Cpd. The attendance was
large The convention organized as follows:
President, Rev. j. D. w. JOY, of Boston; sec
rotary, Rev. l.. W. Brigham, of EIgin Com
mittees were appointed on public service and
elections. An amendment to the constitution
was adopted fixing the election on the third
day Of the session at 1890. Communion SER
vice was administered by tho Rev. R. S. Ralph,
followed by an able, practical sermon by Rev.
D. D. Swctzer, D. D., of Pennsylvania
John II. Evins, representative in Congress.
died at spartanburg, S. c., on the GOTH He
has long been in delicate health, and declined
denomination. Mr.. Evins was born in Spart-
a1burg, s. c., July IS, 1880. He graduated
from South Carolina college in 1858, studied
law and was admitted to practice in 1856. He
was an officer in tho Confederate army, being
first lieutenant in the Fifth South Carolina
regiment, and afterwards captain in the Pal
motto Sharpshooters. Being disabled by a
wound from actiyc service in the field, he was
| appointed lieutenant colonel and assigned to
duty in his own state. He served the state
Legislature two terms, and was a delegate to
the Democratic national convention in 1876.
He was elected to the Forty fifth and three sue
cccding Congresses as a Democrat.
At the grand encampment of Iowa Odd Eel
lows at Council Bluffs on the 21st, the follow
officers were installed for the ensuing year:
D. w. Miller, Sioux City, grand patriarch.
William Musson, Des Moine:, grand high