The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-12-06

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Ar lanin, q, three men hitched 8 hand
cor 70 . freight train. and the car Mas
wrecked and III the men wero killed.
TIM 1sgislAture 81 Alabama On the 28th
reelected John 7. Morgan United states
Senator for the term beginning In March,
1859.
N1AH Nevada, No, George Cobb. :
chool.tsacher, outraged and mure sred
Ella Wray, aged twenty-one years, on the
28th. and after being arrested Cobb COM
mitted suicide with poison to escape lynch
ing
W. J. WLLIA1s, mail carrier, was shot
dead from ambush near Noulton, Ala, on
the 00th ult and registered packages CON
tanning about t4O0 were taken from the
mail bag.
THE SPHINX County ID. T. ) treasurer was
on the 90th uIt. said to be short in his ac-
counts to the extent Of 800, 600 His where
abouts were unknown.
Ok the 9Oth ult. q fire was discovered in
No. Sshaft Of the Calumet and Hecla COP
per mine ct Calumet Mich. All but eight
OF the miners escaped, and these, mostly
Cornishmen, persisted Indications pointed
to the fact that the fire was Of incendiarv
origin.
AT Minneapolis (Minn.) mills the log cut
for the season ended on the 9Oth ult. was
3ss, 000. COO -<ss :.
The omcial canvass on the 9Oth ult. Of
the vote Of Oregon showed the total vote
to have been 81, 91S; the vote for Harrison,
&,2s: Cleveland, 1884; Fisk, 1877;
streeter, 86S; scattering, 81. Harrison's
plurality, a76a
A SEVERE storm Of snow extended over
the entire western and southern portion OF
Kansas on the 3Oth ult
CALIFORNIA; electoral vote, Officially
announced on the 8Oth ult, was: Har-
risou, 124, 500; Cleveland, 117,729; Fisk,
s, ISL; Curtis, 1,59l Harrison's plurality,
1850. :
WILL SCHR1EBER, teller of the First Ma.
tional Bank Of Columbus. Ind, fed to
Canada on the SOth ult, with &, 500 Of the
banks funds.
On the farm Of John +. Davis, near
Chamberlain, D. T., q large vein Of coal
was discovered on the 9Oth ult.
Mrs. EMMA Jackson, aged twenty years,
OF Glasgow, No., attempted to whip her
brother, aged fourteen years, on the 3Oth
ult. because he refused to bring her a
bucket of water. The youth Immediately
procured gun and shot her dead
A DYNAMITE explosion on the 3Oth ult. on
the Kentucky Midland railway near Lex
ington killed four men and dangerously
injured several othera
JOHN HENRY MYERS was hange on the
3Oth ult. at Placerville, CAL, for the MUIR
der Of John Lowell, ranchman, last
March, and James Wood (colored) was
hanged at Aiken, 6. c., for the murder Of
another negro.
AT Sardinia, O.. White Caps on the night
OF the 3Oth ult. whipped Mrs. Annie Jester
and her grown daughter.
A MuLATTo named Van Canady was taken
from Jail at Shelby, N. c., on the 1st by
q crowd Of masked men and lynched for
numbering James Philbeck, an old farmer.
The Official canvass shows the following
Congressman elected in North Carolina:
Skinner. McClammy, Bum, Rowland,
Henderson and Cowles, Democrats; Cheat
ham (colored). Brewer and Ewart, Repub-
licans.
MRS. SARAH lister, aged one hundred
years three months and twenty days, died
at Louisville, Ky, on the 1st and John
Crawford, aged one hundred and two years,
died at Wilmington, Del.
On the lst counterfeit ten-dollar notes
on the Third National Bank of Cincinnati
were in circulation in Chicago.
The failure of the Peoples Bank of Fair
mount, Neb., occurred on the LIST. Liza
bilitles. CSC, COO
The alleged Chicago dynamiter, John
Hronek, was found guilty on the list and
sentenced to twelve years. imprisonment
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
NJ nf
Of Switzerland, occurred on the 9th at
Berne.
Twelve persons were drowned by the
upsetting of life boat at Whitby, Eng,
| on the 9th.
A FIRE destroyed the village of Vaube-
| court, France, on the 9th and thousands
| of persons were rendered homeless and
| absolutely without shelter.
A BOAT race on the 9th on the Paramat-
| ia river in Australia between Hanlan and
Beach for 95O0 a side resulted in favor of
| Beach.
A FIRE destroyed many houses on the
9th at Yesbela de Sagua, Cuba, and one
hundred families were rendered homeless
The bill granting the suffrage to all cit
liens OF twenty-five years of age who
| have resided two years in their districts
was approved by the Spanish Cabinet on
the 29tn ult.
TIE Dominion Parliament will meet on
Thursday, January 81.
On the 18th eleven persons were killed
| and us injured by the explosion of q
boiler at Kneshma, Central Russia.
A HEAVY mail robbery at Ottawa, Ont,
| was reported on the 18th ult., including
registered letters from the United States.
| On the 18TH parcel post convention was
signed between San Salvador and the
| United States. Its terms are similar to
| the convention with Mexico. The rate of
postage will be sixteen cents pound.
| On the LIST President Diaz, OF Mexico,
took the oath of Office. This Is President
| Diaz's third term.
PERU advices of the 1st say that riot
occurred at La Pea, and in the indiscrim.
| mate firing by Government troops one
hundred and thirty seven men, women
and children were killed and sixty
wounded.
On the I'd the fortieth anniversary of
Emperor Francis Joseph's succession to
the throne was celebrated throughout
Austria.
LATER
LEOPOLD HuBERTs, an old German STOP
ping at the Washington hotel. Minneapolis,
was robbed OF 5000 in cash and $500 in
good notes, on the night of the I'd
IT was announced on the Ord that tho
Burlington l. Northern road had made
arrangements to enter Dubuque To-, by
running on the iron of the Illinois Central
A SETTLER on the Iowa river land brought
Information to Fort Dodge on the 3rd that
the settlers he d q meeting on the End, at
which they organized for the purpose of
| shooting the United States Marshals il any
| more evictions are attempted
Two freight trains on the jersey Central
| railroad collided with great force at Solo
mans Gap, N. j., on the morning of the
3rd. Both firemen were killed, one engi-
| neer fatally scalded and the other seriously