The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-09-27

(Rep); Fourteenth, Moses Whybark
(Rep.). NebraskA First district ". J.
Cornell (Rep.).
TIE total salmon pack in Alaska the
past season was seven thousand cases.
Tho winter was setting in ut Silver Bow
basin, and mining operations had been
suspended. A free gold deposit, fifteen
feet in width, had been developed at
Berner bay.
DA EDWARD g. DIER, Of Burlington,
Wis, father Of ex-United States District
Judge Charles E Dyer, departed this life
on the 2lst at the age Of eighty-two years.
He was prominent in the early political
history of tho Territory and State Of Wis
consin, and was . member Of the State
Legislature In 1857-5S
The President On the 2lst nominated
General Parkhurst, of Michigan, to be
Minister to Belgium to succeed Lambert
Tree. who had been transferred to st.
Petersburg.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge of the Inde-
pendent Order Of Odd Fellows, in annual
session at Los Angelica, Cal, on the 21st
decided to hold its next years session at
Columbus, o.
Two BALTIMORE & Ohio freight trains
collided near Belleville, O., on the 2lst,
through An operators carelessness, doing
damage to the amount Of $4,000
WHILE cutting corn with q mower on the
21st Henry Bauer, of Center, Wis, fell in
front Of the knife, was cut on the leg, and
bled to death.
MAMMOTH SPRINGS, Fulton County, Ark.
was visited by cyclone on the 21st which
did considerable damage to crops. Several
people were injured.
AT Kansas City, NO., Mrs.. William B.
Murphy was found dead on her husbands
grave on the 2lst, having committed sui
eide.
THERE were 11s new cases Of yellow
fever at Jacksonville, Fla, during the
twenty-four hours ended on the 2lst and
Il deaths. Total cases to date, 1923; total
deaths. 1856
LEWIS DAVIS, confined for six months in
Jail on the charge Of numbering David
Miller, at Cuba, NO., was taken from the
prison on the ed by q mob and hanged.
ALMOST every village In Mississippi had
on the I'D established shotgun quaran-
tine against yellow fever refugees.
FoR the week ended on the 22i the per-
centage Of the baseball clubs in the Ma
tional League was as follows: New
York, 800; Chicago. $50; Detroit, SIS;
Boston, .525; Philadelphia, .521; Pittsburgh,
.4s2; Indianapolis, 1866; Washington, 1854.
American Association: St Louis, .es6;
brOoKlyn, .6Sl Philadelphia, .6l2; Cincin-
natl, SOL; Cleveland, AS: Baltimore, .4O1;
Louisville, .s55; Kansas City, $780, West
ern Association: Des Moines, 1888; st.
Paul, .647; Kansas City, .591; Omaha, .57l;
milwaukee,, 1853; Sioux City, 800; Chicago.
1913: Davenport. .283
SEVEN whites and ten negroes were
whipped for various crimes in the Jail at
Wilmington, Del, on the ed. One man got
forty lashes, nine others ten, and three
others five lashes.
FIRE destroyed the stables of the Con-
solidated Street Car Company at Colum-
bus, O., on the 23d, and thirty-five horses
persisted in the flames
T. E. BURTON was nominated for Con-
gress ON the 22d by the Republicans of the
Twenty first district of Ohio.
UP to noon on the 23d the total number
of deaths from yellow fever at jackson
vile, Fla, was 212 and the total number
of cases ISIS. The city of Memphis, Tenn,
and the adjoining country was panic
stricken, and all who could get away were
leaving for the North.
AT st. Louis on the ed the switchmen's
convention adopted resolutions asking all
railways in the United States to observe
the Sabbath.
The National Labor party has postponed
its National convention until October 8, at
Chicago.
By the upsetting Of boat four sailors
were drowned on the 23d at Gibson's land
ing, Miss