The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-11-29
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MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
nor week Ended NovembeP ~
a good low Of natural gas has been
struck at Tonawanda, n Y.
The Georgia Legislature on Tuesday re-
elected Alfred II. Colquitt United States
Senator.
John e Dubois barn at Dubois, Pa, was
burned Friday night at loss Of $4,000;
uninsured
George W. Lesser, of Pottsville. Pa,
was sanabagged and robbed Of 1850 Oh
Tuesday at Cincinnati, O.
The first white woman settler of Kansas
City, Mo-, Mrs. Berenice Chouteau, died
on Tuesday, aged 81 years.
John Holiness (colored) was executed on
Friday at Marion, Ala, for the murder of
his paramour, Celia Johnston
Jerry Taylor (colored) was lynched on
Thursday in st. Helena Parish, La, for
criminal assault on young girl.
John Conger, Of Woodstield, O., drank
three pints of whisky on q wager on FRI
day and died few minutes later.
Seven counterfeiters who were operat
arrested by secret.service off1cers.
-
Cohen fatally wounded in quarrel over
poker game at Covington, Ga, on Thurs
day.
Henry Brotzman and family, in charge
of the Bee-Line station at Hartwell. O.,
were chloroformed on Tuesday and robbed
of $500
The house of Carl Woebbeking, near
Waterloo, Ia, was burned on Friday, and
two of his little children were suffocated
by smoke.
A heavy fall Of snow, the first of the
season, was reported on Monday from
points in Northern Illinois, Indiana and
Western Iowa.
Wilson Arnold (colored) was taken from
the jail at Yazoo City, Miss, on Monday
and lynched for the murder of Captain
Robert johnson.
Robert Hellesty, of Bivinsville. Todd
County, KY, who had bet his farm and
stock on Cleveland being election, COM
mitted suicide.
Adam Berkes, a man who was whipped
recently at Sardinia, O., by the White
Caps, went crazy on Thursday and was
raving maniac.
The mayor of Havana, Cuba, resigned
on Friday because of the clamor against
his recent decree imposing consumption
tax on eatables.
A man, his wife and three children who
arrived at Denver, COL, on Thursday
claimed to have been buncoed out of $lO,-
600 in New York.
At the meeting of the National Base
Ball League in New York on Wednesday
Cleveland was unanimously elected to take
the place of Detroit
August Seine der, who arrived in New
Vnr(x TvS1 n0i1 ho1 ,,l 1lr@l
all the way from Chicago, leaving there
September 26 last.
A satisfactory test was made Of the tenn
porary telephone line between Boston and
Chicago, prepared by the Long Distance
Telephone Company.
A state conspiracy was discovered in
Java, forty-two of the ringleaders were
arrested, and eleven who refused to SUR
render were shot dead.
At Bloomington, Ind, Wednesday Will
lam Norman, who was whipped by the
White Caps, brought suit for 10000,
naming eleven defendants.
The State Bank at Valparaiso, Neb.,
failed on Thursday for $500, 00O and it was
reported that the proprietors, F. Scoville
and G. A. Crafts. had fed.
Cashier Barker, of the Argentine (Kan.)
Bank, was robbed Of 81 600 on streetcar
in Kansas City on Friday. He had just
drawn the money from bank.
Henry Jones, of Petersburg, Va, while
drunk on Friday went to sleep on the
porch Of his residence, and when found by
friends was frozen to death.
Olaf Lunde, cashier of the New York
Daily NeWs, absconded Wednesday on
learning that his accounts were to be in
vestigated, taking at least S., 600.
The treasurer of Indiana filed his annual
report on Monday, showing that the total
domestic debt Of the State was $3.50, 7S3,
and the foreign debt was Sc, 770,66S
Mrs Mary Doran, OF Columbus, O., who
murdered her husband last July by pour
ing carbolic acid in his mouth, has been
acquitted on the ground of insanity:
The Jenney electric-light works at Fort
Wayne, Ind, were destroyed by fire early
Friday morning, entailing loss of $780,
600. The insurance aggregates $l4S, OOO
The Home Savings Bank of Norfolk, Va.
suspended Wednesday. The directors
state that the depositors, most of whom
are colored, will lose little if any thing.
Four Marion Qnd.) butchers bought the
same five beeves Of Charles Clark Thurs
day night, each paying in cash. Clark is
missing, and each butcher is claiming the
cattle.
O. F. Adams, city treasurer of Macon,
Ga, was reported $4,000 short in his &C
counts Wednesday and suspended from
Office. He could give no satisfactory ex-
PLANTATION.
A convention of boiler inspectors as
sembled at Pittsburgh, Pa, on Tuesday,
and formed q National organization, Will
lam Mcclellan, of st. Louis, being chosen
president.
Thirty converts in charge of q Mormon
elder passed through Montgomery, Ala,
on Monday en- route for Utah. All were
from that neighborhood. Most of them
were women.
Three men were convicted on Tuesday at
Freehold, N. j., Of malicious mischief in
trying to drive James J. Mcintyre, an aged
cOlored man, out of town. and were SEN
fenced to imprisonment.
Leonetto Ciprtani, son of an Italian
count but American born and heir to
fortune of $25, 0OO, 600 left by his father
was at Kalamazoo, Mich, Friday, on bust.
ness connected with the estate.
Spurgeon Perry, aged 50 years, at one
time possessed of fortune estimated at
$1,000, QUO, accumulated in the patent-medi
cine business, was on Thursday sent to the
Brooklyn IN. W poor-house at his own
request.
Switchmen Quit Work.
1NDIANAPoL1s, Ind, Nov A.-Three-
fourths of the switchmen here struck
Thursday night, the superintendent hav-
ing refused to concede their demands.
Three engineers on the Belt Line were
compelled to draw Their fires from their
engines, and fourth man, who refused,
was beaten and seriously injured.
The Oklahoma Movement.
WICHITA, Kan, Nov. 22-The Oklahoma
convention supplemented it's work of Tues
day by establishing bureau of informa-
ton with headquarters In this CITY, Maps