The Worthington advance., 1888-09-06
News in General.

A singular character has just been placed
IN the insane asylum at Tuscaloosa, Ala bama.
Ihe wild man. was captured in the woods
near Coosa mountain, Shelby county. He is
about fifty years old and his hair and beard
have grown to q great length.
A New York telegram says that Pat Kelly
OF Minnesota and several others have con-
paign fund i'll addition to President Cleve-
lands: Chairman Brice signed his name to a
check for SIC, 900 as his donation.
Another pocket of quartz was blasted at
the Michigan mine at Ishpeming, Mich.
Twenty pounds or more of the rock contain
ing gold at the rate of $4,000 to $4,000
uncovered. gold company to operate the
adjoining property is being organized. The
excitement runs very high.
It is stated that William Scully, alias
Lord Scully, the alien Illinoisl andlord,
will offer his farm for sale and dispose of ali
OF his property in that state. BY the enforce
ment of the alien land law Scully's system
of track hunting" has been broken up, his
tenants refusing to pay rent.
Many residents of CALDWELL Ohio, have fed
from that place to avoid an epidemic of NAL
arial or typhoid fever, which has been running
for some time at Caldwell. More than a hum. ~
dred cases have been reported, with twenty
five deaths, 1t is now believed to be under
control, and no new cases are reported,
Bismarck, Dakota, will be made weather
headquarters on a large scale. 1t has been
discovered that the weather originates in
that vicinity, and in order to give the world
the full benefit of this fact, two additional
observers will be located in Bismarck Gen.
Greedy lived in Bismarck while he built the
military telegraph lines west of the Missouri
It is reported here tlat cholera is raging
In Presque Isle county, Michigan and that
the people ore dying like sheep, with no doc
have died in one day. While the report may
be exaggerated, it is known that a short
time ago people were suffering with bowel
trouble. Officials of that county will investi-
gate the matter.
George Burgett of Baraboo, Wis.,, called at
the armory in Chicago and there found his
runaway son. Little Clark Burgett is eleven
years old and has played truant number of
times. Once he went rs far as Denver, 10Th
or time to Minneapolis, and a week ago he
left his home in Baraboo and caught ride
to Chicago on a freight train His father
says the boy is usually we'll behaved when at
home, but cannot be kept there.
The first shipment of bullion was lately
made from Livingston, Montana. The bull
ion comes from the new smelter at the Castle
mines, which has been running aboat a week,
09.
billed to the Aurora Smelling company at
Aurora, Ill: The smelter is now turning out
about twelve tons per day, which averages
net nearly 800 per ton. Developments on
other mines beside the Cumberland, from
which this ore Is taken, are being rapidly
pushed forward and new enterprises ore on
foot which will boom Castle this fall.
All trains have been stopped on the Mack
ey's system Of railroads, owing to a strike
declared against the roads therein embraced
by Chiefs Arthur and Sargent. The system
includes the Peoria, Decatur L Evansville.
the Evansville & indianapolis and the Evans
vile 4 Terre Haute roads, having a total
length of 700 miles. The trouble began
some weeks ago out of the determinations
Smith against brotherhood men. Chiefs
Arthur and Sargent came to the scene of &C.
tion and temporarily settled the matter.
but repeated snubs, it is alleged, have precip.
itated the strike, which includes all the en-.
gineers, firemen2 and switchmen.
One hundred armed Sioux, travelling rapid.
", toward the Shoshope reservation, crossed
the Union Pacific tracks goo miles west of
Cheyenne. They have been visiting the Utes
in Colorado. The Indians, will reach the
reservation in four days if that place is their
objective point. There was nothing new
from the reservation, but tho Indians are un-
easy and trouble can scarcely be averted.
Two white men were found dead near the
Rattlesnake mountains on the reservation,
where they were doubtless1y. murdered by the
Sioux, who donned war paint after being
ordered off the Shoshone reservation. Half
breed hunters report the presence of band of
$50 hostile Indians within seventy miles of
the reservation. They are fully armed, have
plenty OF ammunition, extra ponies and
no women and children along. Five Sioux
9n tho reservation were arrested by the
Indian agent: