The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-12-13


the Cairo Short Line near Coulterville
III. three stockmen were killed
SHIPMENTS Of iron ore from the Lakl
Superior region during 1883 exceeded al|
previous annual shipments from that dis
trict
HENRr BLAcKMAN, convicted Of the muir
der of Stonewall Fondee, In Schley Coun
ty, Ga, has been prepared for execution
four times, the date each time being put Of
| by new trials. He was to have been hanged
on the 9th, but on account Of new evidence
the Governor respited him until mex
March.
Mrs. BARBARA SHELL was burned I,
death on the 9th at Lima, O.
BURGLARS attempted to rob the Knob
noster (Mo) Bank on the 9th, but only
succeeded in getting away with $4OO aftel
| doing 81. 500 worth of damage.
JOHN, William and Joseph Payne. moon
| sinners, were captured on the 9TH at Cedar
Greek, w. Va, by large posse of revenue
officers and deputies.
| Of miners developed into the Nations;
Progressive Union of Miners and Nine
Laborers ON the 9TH, and officers were
elected, with John Mcbride, of Ohio, q.
president
AT the session of the American Forostry
Congress on the eth at Atlanta, Ca, Gov:
ernor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, was elected
president.
ADoLPHUs WHEELER and Sam Phifer
colored murderers, were executed on the
7th at Yorkville, & C.. Both confessed
their crimes on the gallows and acknowl.
edged the justice Of the sentence.
The official vote of Colorado was de
clared on the eth as follows: Harrison.
80, 766; Cleveland, 81, $40; Prohibition, 2, 100:
Labor, !, 256 This shows an increase ovei
the vote Of 1884 Of over S25, 600
SUITs were entered on the 7th by the
United States Government against variou:
corporations and individuals Of Eureka,
New, for amounts aggregating t13, OOO, OO0
for cutting wood from unsurveyed Gov
eminent lands
ABOUT seventy Kansas sportsmen were
arrested on the 9TH in the Indian Territory
by I'm ted States scouts for trespassing.
In and near Tifan, O., typhoid fever was
epidemic on the 9TH. One man had lost his
wife. mother and two daughters, and an:
other da lighter was dying.
JAMES LEMONS, a farmer of Cozad. Neb..
and his wife became insane on the Sth be.
cause of gossip among the neighbors con,
Meeting them with murder committed {
month ago.
The private bank of Isaac Lauferty in
Fort Wayne, Ind, was robbed of 81, OO0
while the proprietor was at lunch on the
the Sth.
FIRE in the shipyard and buildings Of
the Globe Iron works at Cleveland, O.,
consumed $20O, 600 worth OF property on thu
Sth, and one thousand workmen were
thrown out of work.
On the Sth Chief-of Police Hubbard an
nounced very emphatically that no more
Anarchist meetings would be permitted II
Chicago. either indoors or outdoors.
On the Sth an incendiary fire at Bevier
Mo-, destroyed ten buildings
Tom WHITE, alias T. W. Watson, one OF
the most notorious hotel thieves in the
country, was arrested on the Sth at In
dianapolis, Ind.
A MOB bent upon lynching Halves,
charged with the murder of his wife and
child, attacked the Jail at Birmingham
Ala, on the night of the Sth. The sheriff
and his officers fired upon the mob, killina
nine men, some of them prominent citi
zens, and wounding thirty others, some
fatally
On the 8th Clark Ours was killed in try:
ing to escape from the Ohio penitentiary
at Columbus He slipped from the ROOT
and fell four stories.
NEAR Edmonton, KY, the eleven-year
old son of James Demumbrum attacked
two men on the 8th who had fatally
wounded his father and drove them of a,
the point Of revolver