The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-10-04

C0N6130010OAb0 00110o8ao09 were maze
on the 2eth o followrs, A. T. 6wope BY
Seventh Kentucky district Republicans;
g. o. Fisher BY Tenth Michigan district
linois district ProhibitionistA
It was said on the 18th that Z. clerk In
the American National Bank Of Chicago
had stolen q, 00Q
On the aeth Hugh u. Kinds, . capitalist
Of South Bend, Ind, was gored to death by
. bull on his farm noar there.
OK the 2Sth the general council Of the
Sioux Commissioners with the Indians at
Lower Brule Agency, D. T., dissolved, and
tho commissioners left for the East, their,
efforts to make treaty being unsucoess-
full.
FIRE swept away the village Of Romeo,
Wis, on the 26th, only four houses being
left standing.
+. g. Wilkins q Co.'S furniture house
in Chicago was destroyed by fire on the
2Sth. Total loss about 90, 900 One man
perished in the flames.
In Northern Minnesota freezing weat,.e
was reported on the 18th, killing frosts
from the southern portions of Michigan
and Wisconsin, and light frosts in tho
Northwest a. far south a. Southern Mis-
souri,.
A GREAT secret league was on the 2Sth
said to have been formed In Indiana, the
sole object of which was to prevent the
casting Of illegal and fraudulent ballots.
It was alleged to be non. partisan.
FIRE on the 2Sth destroyed the Ohio
Falls oak leather tannery at Louisville,
KY. Loss, &125, 600
On the 3Oth uit. Peter Straubb, Chica-
60 machfhist, gouged out both his eyes at
Nation, ILL.,, in obedience to tie command
OF spirits with whom he was communing.
JAMES Smith and william Eastman,
while drunk on the 3Oth ,ult attempted to
tear down . shanty at Magnolia, Tenn, be
longing to James Conley (colored), and
were shot dead by the negro.
Ar Wheeling, W. Va, Louis Hildebrand
went home drunk on the 90th ult., and
when his wife told him there was nothing
to eat in the house he shot her lead.
WESLEY WILLIAMS (colored), aged
sixty years, was hanged on the 18th ult
at Morton, Tex, for wife murder.
BARBARA RECHNUrER, and John Tester,
at Wapakonita, O., were on the Goth ult
found guilty of poisoning the husband Il
the woman and sentenced to fifteen years
JOHN PEARcE and John D. apert N were
drowned in the Ohio river near Louisville,
KY, on the 9Oth ult. by the capsizing Of q
boat.
DEMOCRATS Of the Fifth Illinois district
on the 10th ult nominated James Her
rington for Congress; the Democrats of
the Fourth Wisconsin district nominated
Henry Smith; in the First Ohio district
Thomas L. johnson Dem was nom,nat-
ed, and IN the First South Carolina dis
trict the Republicans nominated 8. W. Nc
Kinley.
A WEALTHY German farmer named Adam
Lake, living near Evansville, Ind, was
shot and killed on the 18th ult. by q neigh
Dor who mistook him for burglar
|. In some portions Of Indian Territory SET
tiers were on the Goth ult. said to be in q
starving condition owing to the depreda-
tions of thieves, who have driven of their
stock.
II: C. COOLEY after eight years wander.
ing returned to Bevier, Mo-, to find his
wife married to another man. He made
love to her again ana they eloped from hus-
band No. 2 on the Goth ult.
FIRE on the 30th ult at Toledo, O.. de-
stroyed the Armeda Touring mills. Loss,
100000
On the Goth ult. = little son Of Robert
Kirkman. of Springville, U. T., while play
ing with . gun accidentally discharged the
weapon, killing his little sister and q
daughter Of Charles Bradford, aged three
years,