The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-05-02

The death Or Lester H. Thompson, ex
Senior Vice Commander of the New Yorl
i Department G. A. R., occurred at Denver
Col, on the 9th, aged fortyeeiyht years.
HENRY AND JeHS H1ht, OF Somerset, Ky.
were arr sted on the 25th, charged with tn
nufder of two peddlers, which occurred
about a year ago
A TANK of petroleum exploded in Chica
60 on the 18th, doing great damage TO sur
rounding property and injuring severa
people.
., II was said on the 18th that Andrew J
Culver, an evangelical preacher of Shannon
Ill.,, had been arrested at Dixon, ILL.,, OF
the 18th for forgery. His practice wa; tx
| borrow money giving prominent farmers q
security.
On the 25th during a heavy storm a
Washburn, Wis, q boom containing 10000
GOO feet OF logs was broken and the timber
sent adrift
-. MEMORIAL DAY was observed througheu
the Southern States on the 2Gbh.
| MRS. WOODS and Curtis Taylor, of Lin
coin, Neb., charged with numbering OLE
man Woods, were taken to the peniten
! tiary on the night Of the sGth FOR SAT,
keeping. mob Surrounded the count,
jail all day and threatened to lynch thu
THIEVES entered the store of D. snithutst
of Seneca, Wis, on the tiisht of the sstl
and took from the safe about SO $50 in casl
belonging to the town of Seneca. of which
Mr. Slnithurst was treasurer
| In fit of dependency over financial diff
| ficulties Farmer Mcleod, of High Bluff
Man., on the 26th killed his etpht-year.olt
daughter and fatally weunde Liz son with
l.
cutting his throat.
hanged at Charleston, s. c., on the goth fo1
tho murder of Hel.ehbtlfg, February 9.
The new mill OF Brooks, Joslyn & Co., al
Port Huron, Mich, was burned on the GOTH
Loss, &c, 600; Insurance. $780,
JOSEPH NENSEwUscH, a farmer eighty
years old, suicided at Caledonia, Wis, on
the Goth by hanging himself in his barn
| NINE mon were on the 9th said to have
been killed in a fight between cowboys and
settlers in the old soldiers colony in the
western part of Oklahoma.
HE mountains near Greenbrier W. Va
We're mass OF fire on the :,Sth, and millions
OF feet OF valuable hard timber had been
consumed, with tens OF thousands of rails
and other property.
STRANGE and fatal disease prevailed OF,
the 9th at Paulina, Ark, and the citizens
OF the town were terror-stric,en.
ON the 9Th the Grain Gambling bill
passed both branches OF the Missouri Lagis-
lature. The bill makes all option business
unlawful.
Tom AVERY, a well-known local prize
fighter, fell dead in the ring during a SPAR
ring exhibition on the 9th at San Francisco.
JAMES HANN1sAs house near Hooker.
vile, ". Va, was burned on the 9th and
his wife and two children were burned to
death. Hannish was away from homo.
A BRIDGE across an artificial lake at
Chelsea Park, summer resort near
Kansas City, gave way ON the 2Sth and
precipitated about seventy-ti persons
into seven feet OF water. All were rescued,
but several were badly injured
OVER forty houses were destroyed by a
fire on the eth at Jcnesboro Ark, causing
a loss Of s15o,cO0.
COUNTERFEIT ten-dollar bills, United
States note of the series of 1885,, letter G..
were in circulation in St. Louis on the 9th.
CONSIDERABLE excitement prevailed in
Saline County, Mo, on the 9th over the dis
covery OF gold near Arrow Rock, a Cali
fornia expert having pronounced it rich
find.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
TELEGhAPH1C advices from West Africa
on the 9th say that a British expedition
had destroyed the chief town of the
Wendell tribe, on the Slllymah river, and
released three thousand slaves
MEssRs. BATES, Kasson and Phelps, the
Samoan Commissioners from this country
arrived in London on the Gath
A FIRE ut Stanbridge, Que, on the 18th,
Just across the line, burned the Canadian
Pacific road station, engine and freight
house, one engine, two passenger cars and
eight freight cars most OF which were
loaded.
A STEAMSHIP which arrived at San Fran
cisco on the Goth brought news of the ter
rible famine in China. Thousands were
dying despite the relief afforded by foreign
missionaries.
On the 26th the municipal authorities of
Newcastle -under-Lyme, Eng, voted spc-
cial address OF congratulations TO President
Harrison, whose ancestors were natives OF
that place.
TELEGRAPu1C adyices of the Goth say that
terrible disease which resembles typhus
fever had broken out in Anagawa Ken
Japan. OF siXty-four cases forty ended
fatally within twenty -four hours after the
uISG illilck.
The Canadian Extradition bill was passed
Wy Parliament on the 2Gtil. It was re-
Ported that the bill would be submitted to
the English Government for approval be-
Tore IL becomes Il law.
Twelve men riding on hand-car on the
AleAlcah NaC1ohsll railroad on the 9th were
run over at Tolnca, Mex. by a. train and
terribly mutilated
On the Grand Trunk railway, ,,ose.,,o.or
train was thrown from the track hv .
broken rail on the 2Sth two niles vesH ot
Hamilton, Ont, and Il score O. Persons ,,oro
Killed and as many more received injuries
more or less severe. Nearly all those killed
were burned beyond possibility of recogni.
ton.
RIO JANE1Ro advices Of the 9th said that
the inhabitants were leaving the city in
thousands In consequence of the spread of
yellow yever Between three and four
b. >usand deaths had already taken place.
LATER.
A pAA :ENGEE train on the Grand Trunk
eilway \ as thrown from the track by a
,roke1i raj. on the 2Sth two miles west OF
hamilton On t., and a score of persons were
killed and as many more received injuries
more or less sew. ere. Nearly all those killed
v re burned hey ond possibility OF recog-
lition.
GENERAL GR ANTS sixty-seventh birthday
vas celebrated on the 18th in various cities
throughout tho country
TWELVE men DO were riding on hand
car on the Mexican National railroad Oh the
eth were run over az Tcluca, Mex, by a
train and terribly mutisated.
POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER issued
On order on the eth taat the buildings
Of his department should a'e closed Sunday
in future and there should he no Sunday
work performed.
FIRE Oh the 9th in the Lowell Manu-
featuring Company's mills ct Lowell, Mass. :,
caused loss OF $20O, 900.
THE dwelling of James Ha'anis!,, near
W. Va, was burned on the
2.th and Hannish's wife and two children
u,o,o b,,r,, ri IN Iooth HaoniSh ,vas nwav