The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-11-11

At tRup City, Nebraska, Frank Norton.
| son Of r. g. s. Norton OF Madison, Wis.,,
shot himself In the lott breast with suicidal
intent. He was not discovered until
morning, whom no was found in q dyin1
condition.
The Secretary Of Interior has ordered a
nearing in tho case Of tho dismissed con-
test OF Ferguson against Neil & Fletcher,
! involving tho northeast quarter of section
6, township 113. range g.. Huron land
district, to determine whether Ferguson
Mcrwin another chance to secure Tho south,
cast quarter OF section 4, township l29;
| range 80, Wateftown land district. Lot.
tie made proof July l, 1884, on pre.emp.
ton entry, but failed to tender her 5000
| until Feb. "a. 1885-nearly eight months
after proof. One OF tho rules 81 pracliE3
in Sparks esta blishthent being Cash with
the order" otherwise no proof can be &C.
repted without pay. Lottis's claim was
held Tor cancellation. The secretary says
the commissioner did right under the rules,
and that It is all Lottie's fault az she was
| not compelled to prove up under. thirty:
three months. She Ii, however, given a.,
opportunity to make proof again: tottie's
! excuse IL that she spent all her money and
could not get enough to pay TOR 1t Until
eight months later:
The president has appointed George W.
Baxter OF Cheyenne, Wyo., to be governor
ofWyomnig territory, vice Francis E. Wat.
rem, suspended.
Andrew D. White, cx-presideht Of Cor.
nell university, has y library Of over thirty
leave TO Cornell.
Father Joseph died at Gethsemane alb.
hey. New Hope, KY, aged seventy.eight.
In the world he was Cordia Collier, an OPP
ora singer, music teacher apd composer,
we'll known in Eufope md America. H5
was q member Of the Order OF frappists:
Dr.: James P. Kimball the director of
the mint, has submitted to the SECRETARY
OF tho treasury his annual report. Willis
the volume Of work executed At the minis
that OF the previous year, the total cxpen.
ditures were less by $l97,0s3:
President Cleveland has contributed
$25 for the purchase 81 seed wheat for the
Impoverished farmers OF Northwestern
Texas.
President Cleveland has communicated
to the authorities of Harvard college his
desire that the degree OF ILL., D. should not
be conferred upon him. and consequently
It will not be. The presidents reasons
Tor declining the proposed honor are not
stated, but it is known that his action has
saved the Harvard authorities from the
alternative OF appearing to .light the pres.
tdent or departing from the rule not to
confer degrees uposi public nteii which was
inaugurated when Gen. B. F. Butler VS.
elected governor 81 Massachusetts.
:. The board oi Missions OF The Methodist
Episcopal church, in session in New York,
has appropriated $560,447 fof foreign
missions this year, against $44O, 536 last
year:
III PURSUANCE to teiegraphic Instructions
from Gov. Oglesby an order was issued by
Gen. Fitzsimmons: commanding the First
brigade Of Illinois. state troops, directing
the assembling OF two OF tho infranty regi.
ments OF his command at their armories
in Chicago, to put down riotous strik.
erS.
W. H. Eddy. Chicago commercial trav-
eler, is now thought to have been among
the lost by the accident at Rio. Wis. His
house has heard nothing from him for two
weeks, and he 10 overdue a week in that
city, his headquarters.
Andrew Evenson, the eleven 5ear-old son
Of Ole Evenson OF Wilson, Wis.,. was fatal
~ shot by the accidental discharge OF q
gun in the hands Of Rudolph Paul, aged
fifteen years:
1Ao AtSu OSc, OtsI., dV u IttCe klOur III ulknL
Owen A. Leggett, an artist and son of
wealthy parents in England, was shot and
instantly killed by John Clark, twenty.
year-old lad.
The violent gale which has been sweeping
Lake Michigan, has, it is feared, caused
more damage to the shipping interests. and
resulted in more fatalities than those of
the rest at the navigation season put to-
gcther. Vessel men hero estimate the loss,
which is just beginning to become known,
into the hundreds OF thousands.
Ex.Minister Lowell is going to marry
the Dowager Lady tyttleton, widow of the
late and aunt by marriage to the pres ent
Lord Lyttleton. The lady has twice been
made q widow and has three daughters.
Mr.: Alexander Johnston, London ar;
list, has painted 4 portrait oil Nathaniel
Hawthorne Tor Bowdoin college. It was
taken from what is known as the Francis
Bennoch photograph.
Theodore Roosevelt sailed for Europe
He will while abroad marry Miss Edith
Caron of New York: Mr.: Roosevelt has
been = widower two years.
r. R: Hughes and his son Thomas died
from injuries received in q premature ex-
plosion in the Polk County mine in Iowa.
A plasterer named Shules, who contom.
plated leaving Winnipeg Tor the old country,
recently sold his wife and five children to q
man named Williams for $40: A regular
agreement was drawn up between the two
men, and the property was formally trans
1erred. The police are investigating the
matter.
Mr.. Gladstone replies to a letter from q
prominent Liberal, who proposed the pre-
sentation to him OF national testimonial:
Il -.
presentation OF any national testimonial,
even il the desire sprang from feeling wide
~ spread, which feeling do not think ex-
lists"
Miss Winnie Davis. daughter of Jeffer.
son Davis. passed Friday night the 5th in
New York, and left for her home, Beauvoir,
Miss, in the morning.
Congressman Smalle, colored, of South
Carolina has had his daughters educated
in Massachusetts seminaries.
The National Prison Reform associat ton
assembled at Atlanta, Ga, with good
attendance, and chcered enthusiastically
while the band played q medley of yankee
Doodle" and "Dixie."
The duke de la Rochefoucauld, who paid
much attention to the daughter of Sena.
tor Mitchell OF Oregon, while she was in
Paris, is expected to spend the coming win.
ter in Washington. Miss Mitchell was edu-
catel in Europe.
The returns issued by the London Board
OF Trade show that the imports during tho
month OF October decreased 1920, 900 and
the exports 945Q, 600, compared with
October, 1885.
Henry George was given a large recep.
ton at Cooper Union, New York. George
made an address in which no predicted
that the movement inaugurated there
would spread throughout the country
James Briarel, an American painter.
while journeying on 4 train from Monaco
to Cannes was attacked and robbed of TOO
francs by three men, who struck aud stun
ned him with weapon known as a ''life
preserver," and stabbed him three times
with stiletto. One OF bis wounds are
likely to prove fatal.
Judments by confession for $50, 900
were filed by Frost's Veneer Seating Com
pany Of Sheboygan, Wis.,, and A. l.. Bobo
OF New York against the American Desk
and Seat company, Chicago.
J. w. Allen and Thomas H. McLain.
respectively ticket agent and auditor and
cashier of the Toledo, Columbus l. South
ern railway, have skipped from Toledo to
Cam ada, their accounts being short some.