The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-10-11

Wicomtco river, near Mount Vernon, 1d.,
and Mrs. Kemmerman, Of DOrchestef
County, and three children were drowned.
CANDIDATES were nominated 40 follows
tor Congress- on the 4th: Wisconsin, First
district, J. B. Doe, Jr. (Rep.) Iowa, Third
Tenth district, l. B. Eaton (Rep); North
Caroline, Sixth district, C. p. Locky
(Rep); Louisiana, Second district, B. c.
Elliott dem. }.
DEFINITION was on the 18th said to pre-
vail among the residents Of Ramsey
County, D! T., owing to the destruction Of
crops by frosts, and appeals for aid were
made. -@
A FIRE des. royed J. B. Quinn's dry
goods house at Little Rock, Ark, on the
18th. The loss on stock and building was
Sl50, 900, and the insurance about 100000
CHARLES MORTON, of st. Louis, was
elected president Of the American Bank
ers' Association at it's meeting ut Cincin-
natl on the 18th.
The death at Pitts Point KY, of Mrs.
Sarah Crutcher, widow of James Crutcher,
q Revolutionary soldier, was announced on
the 4th. She was eighty-eight years old,
and had drawn pension since 1858.
THE drivers, conductors and gripmen of
the North Chicago Street Railroad Compa-
ny struck on the 5th for shorter hours and
increased pay.
The semi-annual Mormon conference
opened at Salt Lake Oh the 5th, Apostle
Lorenzo Snow presiding. In all their
speeches the apostles ami elders insisted
upon polygamy.
AN explosion Of accumulated gas &C.
Cured on the 5th in the new water-works
tunnel at Cleveland, O., and five men were
horribly burned and were taken out in a
dying condition.
ADv1cEs of the 5th say that there would
only be one-half q rice crop in South Caro-
lima this season.
JOHN DIETRICH shot and killed himself
on the 5th in Cincinnati because two young
women whom he had asked to marry him
had each refused him.
AT Boston, COL, man named Hickman
shot and killed J. P. Booth on the 5th in a
quarrel over woman, and was lynched
an hour afterward.
lGNAT1Us DoNNELLY withdrew on the 9Th
as q candidate for Governor of the Mime
sofa Labor party.
For the week ended on the 9th, the
percentage Of the baseball clubs in the
National League was as follows: New
York, $50; Chicago, $40; Detroit .524;
Boston, .524; Philadelphia, .523: Pittsburgh,
800; Indianapolis, 1856: Washington, 1853.
AAAoAAOon 1ASSOCAdtlOu 0h lOulSs .OSOS
Brooklyn, .624; Philadelphia, Cos; Cincin-
natl, .6Ol; Baltimore. .426; Cleveland. 4O1:
Louisville, .3443; Kansas City, 1874 West
ern Associations: Des Moines, .651; Kan
sas City, .637; st. Paul, .6lO: Omaha, 572;
Milwaukee, .4Sl; Chicago, 1851; Sioux City,
1855; Davenport .2295.
| On the 9th John Porter, q colored man
who resided at Howland's Station, near
| Indianapolis, Ind, died at the age Of one
hundred and seventeen years.
| NEAR Geneva, Neb., the house of farm
or named Richter was destroyed by fire
| on the 9th. and himself, wife and five chill
dren and tramp spending the night with
| them persisted in the flames.
The failure of II Zimmerman & Co.,
cloak manufacturers of Chicago, occurred
on the 9Th Tor $3.50, 600.
In North Carolina frosts had on the 9th
damaged the tobacco crop twenty five per
cent of the entire crop, and the damage by
rains to the cotton crop was placed at
twenty per cent
| THREE negroes working on railroad
near Norfolk, Va, were shot dead on the
9th by Section master Williams, whom
! they attacked.
JIM SCOTT, negro desperate and ex
convict of Lynchburg, Va, on the 9th shot
and probably fatally wounded three men
without provocation and escaped to the
woods.
| On the 9th the Western Kentucky tobac
co-growers resolved to refrain from plant
ing any tobacco next year.