The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-07-02


murder Of John w. Cherry, an old farmer.
M Lawrence and Charley Barry, actors
in Coles circus, settled a dispute at Hough
ton, Mich, by shooting each other. Law
renee is dead and Barry cannot recover.
Christopher Wachtler a St. Paulitinerant
peddler, driven to despair by a long-con-
tinued opium habit, shot himself through
the heart in q Robert street lodging house.
Tom JONES' drunkard OF Spring Place,
Ga, who has persistently refused to pro-
vide for his family, was taken from his home
and terribly logged by twenty masked men.
Representative Thomas James OF Ran
dolph county, Ill.,, aged sixty-four years,
was arrested, at Springfield charged with
assault with intent to rape Mamie James,
IL twelve-year-old girl, page in the state
house.
Maggie Morgan, aged twenty, was alone
at home at Grindstone City, Mich, when ~
strange man entered the house, stopped
horribly about the face, neck and breast,
and left her for dead. Her condition is
very critical.
The trial Of J. 8. Berg alias J. o. Brock,
indicted at Clinton, Iowa, for bigamy, has
endedin q conviction. The prisoner claimed
that the husband OF the woman from Wis
consin who was the complainant was his
twin brother, and said it was case OF
mistaken identity.
The celebrated case OF Edward Bean for
the murder Of Stevans, has concluded at
Marshall, Tex. Bean pleaded guilty as an
accomplish to the murder and was sentenced
to the penitentiary for life. The wife OF the
murdered man appeared in court before the
sentence and pleaded that Beams life be
spared.
Foreign Gossip.
8. L. Phelps, ex-United States minister
to Peru, dies at Lima.
It 10 reported in London that Miss Marie
Van Zandt is engaged to be married to a
Russian grand duke, who met her in St.
Petersburg and followed her to London.
A dispatch from Rome states that Rev.
DR.. Walsh, president OF Maynooth college,
has been appointed by the pope archbishop
of Dublin to succeed the late Cardinal Arch
bishop McCabe.
The London Standard in an editorial on
Gen. Gordon's diary, says: 1t is such t.
crushing Indictment of Mr.. Gladstone's pol
icy that there is hardly room to feel regret
Tor the few expurgations made.
Berlin has q serious strike OF stone
masons. The efforts of the strikers to pre-
vent other masOns from working on build
ings in process of erection have led to riots,
and many arrests have been made.
Mr.. Goshen, in an address before the Man.
chester (Eng.) chamber OF commerce, said
there would be no hope OF removing the in
security OF trade with silver using countries,
until we know what the United States will
do regarding the Bland bill.
Private advices from Berlin state that
the Emperor William is worse. He cannot
talk or listen to the reading of reports, or
do the least work without fits OF somno-
lency, Which are most frequent during the
day, while at night he is restless.
The reception given United States Misis-
ter Pendleton by Emperor Wilhelm was of
very cordial character. They converscd for
a short time in very friendly terms. The
emperor expressed the best feeling toward
both America and the American people.
The Vienna municipal authorities failing
to obtain an offer from the government to
buy the town hall for use as Il public office,
have decided to demolish that structure.
1t was erected in 1888, and the press con-
dennis its destruction as an act OF Vandla-
ism.
At Funflairchen, Hungary, Her Lisch the
inventor OF new dynamite patents, which
have been sold in America and elsewhere,
was killed by dreadful explosion which
boxes. His mother was also killed. The
roof OF the house was blown off.
Charles Warren Adams and Miss Mildred
Coleridge, daughter OF the lord chief justice
of England, were married recently. ma
ternal uncle was the officiating clergyman.
Lord Coleridge was asked by his daughter
to attend her wedding. He refused, and in
consequence no other members Of the
family OF Lord Coleridge were invited.
The following appointments have been
made: Sir Henry Holland, secretary to the
treasury; Right Hon. Robert Dourke, under
foreign secretary; Charles Dalrymple, under
secretary OF the home department.; the
earl OF Mount Edgecombe, lord steward; the
OF Bradford, master OF the horse; the mar
auis OF Waterford, master OF the buck
HOUNDS; Msssrs. Dalrymple, Herbert and
Walroud, mamIefs Of parliament, junior
lords OF the treasury and Rowland Winn,
patronage secretary.
In reply to the manifesto by Cardinal
Pftra supporting the intransigent Catholic
press in stating that the church is going to
wreck and ruin under the present pope's
direction as compared with that OF the
former pope, Leo has written to Cardinal
Guilbert strongly asserting his right to en-
force uncompromisng obedience to the
reigning pontiff. The letter has created a
gensatiop. Cardinal Pitra has written to
| the pope humble, submissive apology.
The Liberal press receives the pone's letter
most favorabiy.
The queen has conferred the order of the
garter upon Earl Reinbcrly, and the grand
cross OF the order OF the Bath upon Wis
counts Eversley and Sherbrook. Her ma.
estv also made E. W. Hamilton, Gladstones
pr tie secretary, companion Of ,he order
OF the Bath. Sir Reginald Welby, assistant
! financial secretary, will succeed Sir r. Il. w.
Luigon, as permanent secretary in the
treasury, the latter having been raised to
! the peerage. Sir Harry Verney and Sir Ar
thur Othway, members efparliament, have
been appointed members OF the privy coun'
Gil.