The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-08-01
WEST AND SOUTH.

JIM AvER11L and Kate Maxwell, known as
the Cattle Queen" who lived with him as
his wife, were hanged on the ed near
Sweetwater, Wy. r.. by ranchmen, who &C
cused their victims of cattle stealing.
AT Topeka, Kan, 8. s. Cartwright, aged
sixty years, who had been living in garnet
for years and dining at lunch-counters,
died on the I'D, leaving to his relatives q
fortune of $250,OO
In Luke Winnebago, Wis, a sea-lion
eleven feet in length was captured on the
ed 1t escaped from a circus two years
ago and had frightened many people since
that time
The report that Mra Heron, formerly of
Jonesboro, Tenn, wife of an American
missionary. had been sentenced to death in
Corea for preaching Christianity was de-
MED on the 23d.
THERE were nearly six thousand destitute
miners at Brazil, Ind, and vicinity on the
sd
In the trial of George Muth before the
Cincinnati (O.) police court on the 23d for
selling ice cream on Sunday he pleaded
guilty, and the court accepted the plea az q
demurrer and discharged the prisoner.
stating that the sale of ice-cream was not
regarded as luxury, but as a necessity.
LAST January E. T. Brown, banker, dis
appeared from Wichita, Kan, and was
supposed to have been murdered. but he re-
turned home insane on the 23d. He could
give no account of himself
GREAT damage was done to- crops in Colo
RADIO on the sd by a heavy rains
SEVEN out of the ten stores in the village
OF Little York, I'LL, were burned on the 23d.
ON the 24th the owners Of the schooner
Kate WinslOw were fined $3495O by the
custom officer ut Cleveland, O.. for employ
ing two Canadian mates.
THE celebrated horse Long Chance
stumbled and fell at a hurdle at the West
Side Driving Park in Chicago on the 24th,
breaking his neck.
The cotton crop of Texas this year was
| OH the Ath estimated at two million bales
| and the corn crop would be enormous
GEORGE LEWIS (colored), living near Bel
den, Tex, was lynched on the oath for poi.
soning the we'll of William Shaw.
JESS COLEMAN, aged twenty-five years. Of
Aenia, Ind, shot Miss Madge Smith, aged
eighteen years, on the 18th, killing her in
stantly, and then killed himself.
ON the gath the twentieth anniversary OF
the formation of the Prohibition party in
Ohio was celebrated at GAINESVILLE.
On the oath the body of Jacob Alkire, q
victim of the recent flood in the Kanawha
Nv. Va( valley, was recovered. raising the
number of lost to twenty-five, of whom
fourteen had been recovered.
By an overflow of Shuganinga creek hun,
dreds of houses in Topeka, Kan, were on
the oath under water as far as the first
story, while the suburbs known as Walnut
Grove, Parkdalc and Oakland, tl,ickly pop.
! ulated by the laboring classes, were ali un.
der water
FLAMES destroyed Chinatown, suburb OF
Sacramento, Cal, on the Oath
The directory of Minneapolis, issued on
the oath, contained $1,000 names, from
which 1t was estimated that the population
of the city was 235,OOO.
MONTH ago dog bit Willie Thyme, Of
| kansas City, and on the gath he died OF
hydrophobia In its most virulent form
HE most terrific thunder and rain-storm
for years occurred on the 18th at Anoka
MINI. Three wooden buildings wore
washed into the river. Much damage wat
reported from the country by the wind,
! which appeared in the form of q cyclone,
EXPLORERS on the 18th unearthed q mum
| Der OF human skeletons buried In Chall
! BLUM, ten miles east of Yankton. D. T.. or
the Nebraska side. Fifty skulls and two
hundred headless skeletons were found
which local physicians pronounced to be the
remains Of white people, children and
adults Indications were that they had
been buried forty or fifty years.