The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-07-09
The Criminal Calender.

The Criminal Calendar.
8. II. Russell, Presbyterian minister q
Wood Haven, L. l., commits suicide.
A riot occurred in the Polish Catholi.
church at Toledo, in which two men wer,
killed and several injured.
Andrew Anderson, for twenty five year.
town treasurer OF West Hoboken, N. j., il
said TO be short over $25 900.
w. w. Agent was arrested at Chicago
charged with committing an outrage on
girl in Columbus, who is thought to be ia
tally injured.
Lods Davis, while drunk, drew revolve,
on his wife. at Wilmington, Del. Police
man Peterson interierred, and Davis shot
and killed him.
The lynching OF five horse thieves hav.
been reported in Texas in addition to q re
cent report that fifteen men had beer
hanged in two weeks.
James D. Fish, president OF the deiunct
Marine bank, New York, convicted OF mis-
appropriation Of funds, was sentenced tc
ten years in state prison.
aged twelve years, is convicted Of murder
ing baby she was nursing, by soaking itiu
apot OF concentrated lye.
c. H. Northrup, compositor on the New
Haven Morning News, left his wife and chill
dren recently and eloped with Miss Lizzie
McCaffrey. Lizzie was q compositor in thu
same Office.
John Martin, one OF the two escaped ne
groes implicated in the outrage and muir
der OF Mrs. Hazel at Elkhart, Tex, was
taken out of the calaboose at Beels, recent
~ and lynched.
A gentleman has just returned from thu
mountains OF eastern Kentucky, says q
most alarming condition OF affairs exista
there. Four armed bands are hunting
each other like wild beasts over the mount
ain.
The trial OF ex-Chamberlain Church o,
Troy, N. Y, accused OF grand larceny in
taking the city's money, ended in acquittal
proper. His embezzlement amounted te
over $4,000
State Senator E. F. Hall and Capt. Jos
Shelly, late Of the state rangers, had a
quarrel at Laredo, Tex. They exchanged
several shots, and Shelly was disabled by
wound in the rightshoulder. Hall strong.
~ advocated the reduction of the force oi
rangers, which resulted in Sheeleys com
pany being mustered out Of the service.
Foreign Gossip.
King Ludwig OF Bavaria being nearly
bankrupt, his relatives are considering his
deposition.
Sir Hardinge Clifford, the lord high chan.
cellor of the new cabinet, takes the title o
Halsbury.
The rage Of sporadic cholera in Madrid is
steadily decreasing, and no more fear 10 en-.
tertained OF its spreading.
The kinu ~ Siou, hoo throo <honoo 4
wives, four or five hundred children, and il
only thirty-two years old.
Prof. Nicoli of Lausanne claims to have
genuine Madonna and child by Raphael,
dated 1910, and painted on panel.
The ravages of disease among the French
troops in Tonquin are simply appalling.
Three thousand invalid soldiers have beer
sent home.
The American steamer City of Toxic
from San Francisco, which is ashore neal
Yokohama, Japan, will probably prove .
total loss.
The Canadian 4 per cent loan of "a 900,
900 opened recently was subscribed fol
three times over, and it has been takel
up at about 1919.
At Gananaque, Ont, the wife of DR.. Fra
leigh, prominent physician, threw herseE
in the river with her babe in her arms, and
both were drowned.
Right Hon. William Henry Smith, secre
tary for war, has been reelected to parlia
ment for Westminster. The Liberals did
not contest the seat.
The Berlin Post, in an article supposed
to have been inspired by Prince Bismarck,
hints at desire on the part OF Germany
for an alliance with England.
Sir Richard Asheton Cross, secretary for
the home department, has ordered fifty de.
tectives from Ireland, who have for some
time been on duty in London, to return to
Dublin.
London court talk says: The queen g regret
over the marriage OF Princess Beatrice deep.
ems. The departure of the princess from the
maternal home will certainly prove incon-
venient to her ma jesty in many material
ways. The princess saved her mother
much state work, and mastered for her all
the state documents whose contents it was
necessary for tho queen to be personally
made acquainted with.
The London Standard says: It is credit
ably informed as to the state ofboth wheat
| and -four throughout the kingdom, and
that it will be as discouraging during the
coming quarter as we'll as it can be to the
distressed American holders, since they
promise to be much larger than was the
case three months ago. There is also 600.
900 quarters more Of wheat on passage to
Great Britain than last year, notwithstand'
English markets the Americans are il
| chance for supplying England at prices
which, though low, are still much better
than il America had been in full competition