The Worthington advance., 1886-09-02

The proposed suspension bridge across
the Hudson river at Poughkeepsie will cost
s1o,0oo,000.
Potter and Sully counties, d. T., have
been seriously devastated by prairie fires
TIRE OLD WORLD
Greece has again been visited by an
earthquake which has been most disaster
Gus in the Morea and in which the loss of
life, according to the best information,
reaches 800: The village Of Pyrgo and
western coast Of the Morea, were the chief
| sufferers, and these furnish, it is believed,
all that have rerished. In Pyrgo not q
house is left standing, while Philiatra is
almost swept rom the face of the globe,
swallowed up the convulstons Of the
earth. The - ,cks were experienced
| throughout Greece in a greater or less
degree.
On the 2lst Prince Alexander I. of Bull
garia abdicated and a provincial govern
ment was announced and the people as
sured Of the Cars friendship and support.
It is currently said that the Powers con-
preserve the European peace. Whether
this end can and will be achieved ia Dues
tion which will perhaps be satisfactorily
| answered by the development of sffairs
during the next few days. Prince Alexan-
der is distant relative Of the Russian
Prince Beatrice OF England.
Rev. DR.. Kane, the Belt st Protestant
| clergy man who declared that unless the
police were Immediately disarmed 100000
armed Orangemen would relieve them of
their io ana3,, NIT
t10n charging the magistrates Of Belfast
with terminal parleyiDg with lawless-
noeS.o
At Belfast on the 26th, thirty men, who
had been convicted of taking active part
In the recent riots. were sentenced to var
lous terms OF imprisonment, one Of them
to thirteen months. A number of other
men arrested on the tame charge v ere
| committed for trial.
The Dutch Chambers have passed the
bill increasing the duty on foreign raw
sugars and raising the allowance on Dutch
colonial waste sugars.
Mr.. Parnell's amendment to the Queens
speech was rejected by vote of 3c4 to 1Sl.
The Bank of England hes advanced it's
rate OF discount from ~ to 81 per cent
NORTHW ESTESN NEWS.
Sheriff Bogast Of Winora has jailed the
man who stole Donald McKinney's horse
from Hokab, Houston county. The thief's
name is William Hohi, brother of the
editor OF the Hokah Chief. He is well con-
nected, and was formerly brakeman on
! the WinOna & st. Peter railroad. The
sheriff caught him at the residence of his
brother, at aokah. They waited at the
hotel until nearly daylight when they
knocked at the door and asked if Will was
in; The brother said no, and the sheriff
told him he would like to look through the
house, when the door was opened. Will
| liam, who was sleeping on lounge, made
for the back door, but finding an officer
there. made break for the front 6oor and
was caught by the sheriff, who ct once put
if he had succeeded in getting out OF the
house they never would have taken him
| alive. he was armed with q loaded
revolver and plenty of extra cartridges.
The Sheriff of Crow Wing County, by an
act of strategy prevented Brainerd from
becoming the theater OF a lynchiug on the
24sh. Young Dolan, the bar tender shot
by the tramp Sanford, died on the after
noon of the 23rd, ard few hours later a
company of 200 men, mostly from Gull
river, broke iuto the Jail intending to
make short work with Sanford. At that
time the sheriff and prisoner were miles
away, having gone through the woods to a
point where carriage was taken to Fort
Ripley and from thence to st. Paul for
safety by train. It is tho intention of the
sheriff to secure to the criminal judicial
trial, for which exasperated friends OF
Dolan are unwilling to wait.
! The Democrats of the First congressional
district Of Minnesota met at Winona on
the Gath and nominated Judge Thomas
Wilson of that city for congress by accla-
nation against J. A. Lovely, the republi.
can nominee. Judge Wilson had declined
to be candidate but was finally persuaded
to accept.
| Mrs. Sarah Phillips died at Huron, OAK,
on the Gath. She was badly injured by the
explosion of a stove on the 18th of July.
| 1t is believed to have been loaded with
some explosive, during her absence by
parties who had an interest in getting rid
OF her so as to secure an available piecs of
| land that she claimed.
John Swanson, q farmer living in
Mankato township, Mimi, just outside the
city limits, was prostrated by the heat on
Thursday afternoon while pitching from
the top of a stack of wheat. He will
probably recover from the sunstroke, but
his extreme age eighty years) makes his
case q serious one.
l Elmer Fosbsrry, who killed railroad
contractor, Frank Finney, at Burlington,
OAK, August %, was put in jail at Mime
waukan on the 18th. The murder was the
result of sudden quarrel when both men
had hQoM HPin kin0 NJ Tinrox- k>l 1~-n> \
down and kicked Fosberry before the shot
was fired.
large number OF Indians are camped
near Beaver Falls, Renville Co., MINI.
and have committed minor depredations.
frightening the settlers. A large camp is
retorted in Redwood county on the
minnesota river bottoms. They refuse to
tell their Intentions.
The Indian commission has concluded a
treaty with the Indians at Rcd Lake Minn..
whereby their reservation will be sold and
tte proceeds invested in government bonds
l0nds for homes and sell the rest
ments Of buffalo bones from the
W growing larger, and from 20 to
q Cana ian Pacific cars loaded with this
class Of freight arrive at Fort Benton, Mon
tana. every week consigned to fertilizer
works in the East.
The Anaconda and St. Lawrence
Montana copper mines have shut down
because there is no profit in mining ut
present prices. Eight hundred men are
made idle. The Parrott mine will probably
follow suit.
The prisoners in the city prison at Red
Wing, MIMI, attempted to break oat dur
ing the storm Saturday evening by dig.
gtng through the roof. They were appre.
hended before they had escaped, and lodged
in cells.
The steeple and bell Of the Catholic
church at Belle Chester, Minn., were
blown down during the heavy storm
Saturday evening. The steeple Of the
church In Chester was also demolished.
Charles White. of tho town of Akron,
Big 6tone Co. MINI, lost his threshinR
machine by fire. Two wsgous and span
of hoIres belonging to Thomas Zimmer-
mann were also badly barned.
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