The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-08-09
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There was no trace Of the other bodies.
News In General.


The public debt was decreased during the
month Of July, -, 1928.
John L. Sullivan's circus has come to an
unpaid employees. A detachment of police
guarded what was left of the property at
Boston, and prevented an angry crowd of
men from wreaking their vengeance upon it,
A stone weighing about l ZOO pounds fell
from the third story of the court house at
Chicago, making the fourth or fifth one which
has fallen from this building within a few
years. A few hours previous to tho accident
huge rock fell from the fifth story of a house
on Clark street, grazing the head Of John
Burgess. who was on the sidewalk.
John Kannike Of Belle Plaine, in custody of
an officer en- route for the Vinton. Iowa, jail,
charged with theft, escaped by jumping hand.
caf'd of the Burlington cannon-ball train
near Polo. The train was running fifty miles
per hour, but the culprit suffered no injury
save a slight sprain in one of his shoulders.
He was recaptured at noon the next day nea1
Polo.
The visible supply of grain July %, COM
pared with the previous week, is reported by
Chicago board Of trade as follows: Wheat.
$50, sol bushels; increase, 51O,18 bu-
shells. Corn, 1914, 1873 bushels; decrease,
2O,419 bushels. Oats, 1885 ,494 bushels;
decrease, 341,575 bushels. Rye, 1873, 343
IA. 271 bushels; decrease, 1917 bushels.
the past two weeks III 900 cattle from Tex
as. Of this number 1O7 900 will be put in
Eastern Montana ranges. Montana stock
men are much pleased over the prices their
beef is bringing in Chicago, recent sales being
ut from $3.50 TO $3.50. Wool prices are al
per pound since the clip commenced to come
in.
While excavating for new brick block of
buildings in East Dubuque the workmen un-
earthed the Skeletons of five men. A bullet
hole was found in one of the skulls. Thirty
five or forty years ago the site was occupied
by boarding house and saloon. This was
an evil resort, and several mysterious disap-
pearances arc called to mind in connection
with it's history. Tho skeletons we.e found
six feet below the present surface. or three
feet below the bottom of the cellar The
ground under the sidewalk will now be excav-
ated, and it is thought other remains will be
found.
The discovery of several human skeletons
in East Dubuque, Iowa, has created great
sensation in that town. Additional bones
esting "reminiscences which may throw light
upon the mystery. One old settler relates
that during the gold excitement in California
a farmer named Dixon, who had sold q vol:
liable farm in Vermont, came to East Du-
buque on his way West with several thousand
dollars. This man suddenly disappeared.
His travelling companion, q boy of sixteen,
declared that he had been murdered for his
money Another instance is that of a butch
or named Baron, from Grant county, Wis.,,
who came to East Dubuque twenty-five years
ago with a large sum of money and boarded
at the house located near this ghostly find.
He also mysteriously disappeared, and his
friends could find no trace of him.
Gen. Howard has notified all post COM
manders in the division of the Pacific to
promptly intercept oil Indian rading partie.
in case of q serious outbreak near San Car
los. The adjutant general received a dis
patch from Lieut.. Col. Snyder of San Carlos
stating that Capt. Lee reports that the
trouble was the result of q quarrel among
the Indians themselves; that the Indians
were advised to ret~rn to their grazing
grounds, and had done SO. Capt Lee has
returned to San Carlos, and believes that the
Indians wanted can be arruRted in O few
days. The cattle herd is on the grazing
ground undisturbed. Tho Indians have
been stealing cattle and preparing O supply
ofdried meat preparatory, it is assumed,
to an outbreak of hostli:ties. When the
party went to arrest the hostiles, they
opened fire and killed three Indian scouts
The posse returned the fire, wounding sew
eral of the band, which Immediately left the
reservation: followed afterward by others.
all going for the mountains.