The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-11-08
WEST AND SOUTH,


observatory in San Francisco, announced
the discovery Of another comet-the second
discovered by him within two months.
WILLIAM HARRISON, Of Hinesville, Ca ,
in fit Of jealousy on the 31st ult., killed
his niece and fatally wounded his sister,
On the 31st ult. Joseph Dickenhof, aged
seventy years, was assaulted by high way.
men ut Akron, O., and robbed of 81, 800
which he carried in q valise.
A GANG Of negroes In Mercer County, W.
Va, waylaid four white travellers recently
and shot and killed two of them and robbed
them Of 5000. The other two escaped
UNOPENED registered packages were
stolen from the post-off1ce at Topeka, Kan
on the 31st ult All the clerks were de-
coyed from the building by fire alarm.
Ar Wichita, Kan, Mrs. Striebel was ia
tally burned on the 31st ult. and her FIVE
year-old child was burned to death by their
clothing catching fire from q burning
brush-pile
On the 31st ult. the fourth crop of straw
berries for this year was being gathered in
the Walla Walla valley, w. T.. pear trees
had yielded three crops, apple trees their
second crop, and the second crop Of nu-
merous other fruits was reported.
A REToRr containing $40, 1000 in gold was
placed in bank for safe keeping at Ceu-
trail City, COL, on the 31st ult. The gold
was all produced in q single day by one
mine. The amount was the greatest ever
taken from any mine In the same length of
time.
A BUILDING In San Francisco occupied
by several lumber companies was burned
on the 8lst ult-, causing less of 500, 600.
ROBBERS on the 31st ult. held up Mexl-
(y0ntrQ1 train oirfx, r,oi10. ho
low Ell Paso, Tex, forcing the engineer
and fireman to leave the engine and un-
couple the passenger cars, and then So
cured about $4,000 from the express car
ALADY descended at Lexington, Mo-, ON
the 3lst ult. into twenty-foot cistern and
rescued child who had fallen into the
pit. A number Of men, who had refused to
attempt to aid the little one, watched the
heroic exploit.
JAMES LoNGoNErTI, of Denver, COL, a
bartender who shot and killed A. o. Case
and was imprisoned, died in commissions
on the LIST, thinking his victim was tor
turing him.
THE firm Of Jenkins, Hutchison & Co.,
dealers In notions and white goods ut
Baltimore, Nd, failed on the LIST for
500, O0O -
FIRE destroyed the works Of the
Columbus Bridge Company at Columbus,
o., on the LIST, causing heavy loss.
On the LIST the Northwestern Military
Academy and the private residence of 81.
G. Sampson at Highland Park, Chicago
suburb, were destroyed by fire, the total
loss reaching 10000.
FIRE on the LIST at Bowling Green, O.,
destroyed q hotel, two printing Offices and
twenty other buildings.
ANDREW JOHNSON, living near Red Hill,
Ky, while digging in the ground on the
LIST unearthed copper kettle filed with
gold and silver coin worth over S2,OO0
A CYCLONE at Laporte, Ia, destroyed
several buildings and unroofed many
others on the LIST, causing q loss Of over
$75, OO0 In the surrounding country great
damage was also DONE No lives were
lost
THOMAS SAVERS (colored), who murdered
and robbed two peddlers in Mercer Coun-
ty, W. Va, was caught and lynched on the
In quarrel on the I'd over settlement
Of accounts at Yoakum, Tex, Fuyette
Berry and John Hawks shot and killed
each other.
In prairie fires in jackson township,
Mimi, five persons lost their lives on
the I'd.
BEN RUSSELL, James Bell and George
W. Griffin, all colored, were killed in Van
Zandt County. Tex, on the I'd in q political
quarrel.
ADv1cEs Of the I'd say that in the recent
cyclone in Iowa the NJ. E. Church and B.,
G. r. & n. depot at Mt, Auburn were
blown down and an elevator unroofed, and
man was killed by flying timbers
JUDGE BREWER decided at Topeka, Kan,
on the I'd that land in Allen County be-
longed to railroad, and over i've chou
sand settlers, many Of whom had occupied
the land for ten or fifteen years and had
made extensive improvements, would be
compelled to give up possession
ESTIMATES Of this years Southern cotton
crop placed the aggregate yield on the I'd
ct about three per cent less than that Of
last year: i