The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-05-30

Judson on September %
TACOMA N IT, advices Of the a3d say
one Robert Shields had secured Judgment
from the United States Supreme Court for
"a, 200, 900 for his rights to land partly occu.
pied by the city of Omaha, Neb, and which
was acquired BY him twenty or thirty years
ago and ':jumped' by the Omaha Town Site
Company .S
THz house Of Rev. F. C. Clarke, = Baptist
ninister, near Virginia Beach, Va, was
burned carly on the morning of the 23d,
and he, his two daughters and q son and q
nice yaaatangs him were. consumed by the
flamoG His vile and two children escaped.
The fire was Of inoendiary origin.
1411Y Jons of Seymour, Ind, was II
the circus With his family On the. Esd when
his house VIZ entered BY thieves, who
stSles1oOO worth of money and jewelry.
NEAR Nprdeck, Ill, George Cutler and
tho team He va driving were instantls
killed by hghtning on the a8d. Not an
abrasion so4s the sldn could be found on
either man oc horses. .s7S r. -.
On the 28d three brothers named Read
and their wives celebrated their golden
wedding at the old homestead near SCOTS
Vile, Ky. It was probably the most re-
markablo event of the kind i'm the history
Of the world. H. a5sst' ~--:.- z:Hs>-..--S
NEAR Plaquemine, La, forest fires were
doing great damage on the Esd
DANIEL Co1.LDs, OF Alliance, O., aged
seventy five years, made desperate by cruel
acts of his wife and her brother, hanged
himself in an orchard on the 23d =.
Tn death u Judge H. j. Abbott, said to
be the oldest Odd-Fellow In the United
States, occurred on the 33d at Warsaw, Ky,
at the age Of seventy mine years.
FIRE destroyed nine business houses 1t
Elkhart, I'LL, on the 24th.
ON the 24th the monument to the Confed-
crate dead at Alexandria, Va, was unvailed
by Governor Lee.
On the st. Louis l. Gan Francisco railroad
q passenger train was derailed on the Ath
at Sullivan, No. by wreckers, and forty five
persons were injured.
A TENANTLEss cottage ut 1872 North Ash
land avenue, Chicago, was searched on the
oath and found to be smeared with blood in
many places. The police thought it was
the spot to which DR.. Cronin was decoyed
and murdered on the night of May last.
The cottage was occupied at that time by
two men who had since disappeared.
On the oath William White, an eighteen
year-old colored boy of Evansville, Ind,
was sentenced to ten years in prison fol
kl4u0g Alexander MCf afl8nO.
AT Cincinnati the police commissioners
decided on the 24th to enforce the Sunday
closing law, since the mayor had refused tc
do 80.
FIFTEEN tramps, located in the southern
part Of Hammond, Ind. were raided on the
oath. They had for some time been helping
themselves to every thing they wanted
and terrorizing property owners.
YxnI> -,
thing in the British Northwest possessions,
the hierarchy of the church having pur.
chased several thousand acres of land from
the Alberta Railway l. Coal Company.
AT Nashville, Ind, . cloud-burst on the
oath flooded the first floors of business
hoases and residences and did much dam.
age.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
The House of Lords on the Goth, by q
vote of 1O8 to g rejected proposal made
by the Earl of Meath to allow women to sit
In county councils.
In Austria the number Of persons drowned
In the recent floods was on the 10Th placed
at one hundred
CoAIrMINERs who were on strike in the
Dortmund, Bochum and Essen districts in
Germany resumed work on the 2lst
FoRTY-F1vE persons lost their lives
through the recent floods In Bohemia
On the 2lst the City of Paris arrived al
Queenstown, having made the run from
New York in five days and twenty-five
hours, thus beating all previous ocean REQ
Ords.
The steamer German Emperor, from Lon
don for Bilboa, ran into the steamer Beres
ford on the 21st, and the Emperor was sunl
rf h0r d.
British vessels.
=. The Ella and Quatre Freres, two fishing
vessels, which left France some time age
for the Newfoundland fisheries with one
hundred and seventy-tive men on board
were on the I'D given up as lost and nj
hands drowned
On the 22d post of the Grand Army Of
the Republic was established at Ottawa
Can, and branches would be formed IL
other cities There was said to be three
thousand veterans in Canada
CHINESE advices of the 22d say that clever
Chinese were decapitated In the province
of Hupel for numbering a man who was
attempting to arrest one of them
The steamships Polynesian and Cynthis
collided opposite Tongue Point, twelve
miles east OF Montreal, on the 22d, and thu
latter sank and nine lives were lost.
On the 2ed Robert r. Lincoln, American
Minister to England, reached London.
!. In Vera Cruz, Mex, the spread of yellow
fever wasvery alarming On the ed:
In the LauteEbach district Of. Germany
|: nine persons were drowned or killed by
lightning during a,storm on the Esd.
I In the Pressburg district Of Hungary the
crops had on the Gath been wholly de-
stroyed by floods. Many buildings Were
Submerged aud a large number of house.
had been undermined and wrecked.
+ SEVERAL Frenchmen were arrested on the
9th BY the German authorities at saltzmatt
:Alsace, on a charge Of treason. y: -.
|: QUEEN VERONA celebrated her seventeen
birthday on the 9th. 49,. 49,.
~ LATEa
|. The exchanges at twenty-six leading
houses In the United States during
tho week ended on the 18th aeerepated
7i@s sec, $50, against u, o1 ,627, 1855, the pre-.
'vaods week =: AS. compared with: tbs cor
responding week Of 1855. the increase
amounted to a. -
S1yERAL warehouses at Lubbock, Germany,
were burned on the 26th, and tlO0, 700 worth
OF property was destroyed
1T was discovered on the 25th at Erie, Pa.
mat car thieves had robbed twenty-one
freight cars of the Pennsylvania Company,
anu t9at large amount Of valuable prop
erty had been stolen.
ROBERT T. LINCOLN. the American Minis,
ger, proceeded from London to Windsor on
the Queen
sion at Mile Roches, Ont, on the 18th.
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