The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-03-07

neello. II. 0OO0nAl0 gave his Qau&nto1
4900, 600 Tor . wedding present
"BEN Hue" General Wallace's celebrated
novel, WIS placed on the stage at Crawfords
Vile, Ind, on the evening Of the 28th ultI
RoBERT WATKINS, arrested for election
frauds In Conway County, Ark, was dis
charged on the 28th ult No clew had been
obtained to the assassins Of John n. Clay
ton.
FhAMEs swept over the business portion
of tho village Of Lostant, Ill, on the 18th ult.
In dro ut Milwaukee on the 28th ult one
fireman was killed and ten badly injured;
property loss. 4150.O0O.
ALBM HEAvY lost both arms and one eve
and Edward Rudder had both OF his eyes
blown out by premature explosion on the
18th ult In the Norway mine near Mar
quette, Mich.
THE Governor of West Virginia on the
2Sth ult. issued certificates of election to J.
D. Anderson DENY from the Third Con-
gressional district, and to J. n. Jackson
(Dem) from the Fourth Congressional dis
tr1ct. -,
THE Democrats in State convention on the
2Sth ult at Grand Rapids, Mich, renomi.
mated T. R. Sherwood, of Kalamazoo, 70,
Justice of the Supreme Court, and w. J.
Daily and John s Lawrence for Regents Of
the State University. 80. ..-+
The failure of George Morley, q wholesale
lumber dealer of Detroit, Mich, occurred
on the LIST for 41O0, OO0
The Arizona Legislature passed bill on
the LIST making train robbery a capital crime
HoG-PAcK1N0 In Cincinnati as compared
with last season fell off during the past
winter 9, sos head
FIRE destroyed Gibson, Parish l. Co. g fur
niture trimming establishment in Chicago
on the lst Loss, $4,000 Three fremen
were injured, one fatally.
On the LIST two veterans of the National
Soldiers Home at Dayton, o., We're asphyxi-
ated at the Union Hotel They became in
toxicated and before going to bed blew out
the gas
MRS JOSEPH LEDBETrER and her two little
sons were drowned near Republic, NO., on
the LIST while attempting to cross swollen
stream.
On the LIST Bert White, the seventeen-year.
old boy who shot and killed Willie Ellis
worth at Lafayette, Ind, last August, was
sentenced to imprisonment for life.
AT the session in Baltimore on the LIST OF
the National League of Republican clubs
John N. ThurstOn, of Nebraska was elected
president, E. B. Humphreys, of New York,
was reelected secretary, and P. C. Louns-
berry, of Connectict, treasurer
The doors of the Farmers and Mechanics
Bank at Carleton, Neb., were closed on the
LIST on account of inability to collect what
was due. The assets and liabilities were
each about ~, GOO.
ERNST HUDSON and his family, consisting
of his wife and seven children, were
drowned on the LIST while fording q creek
near New Earl, Tenn
In quarrel over q girl at Indianapolis
Ind, on the I'd Jack Daglish killed Thomas
Downey.
THEODORE GRuBB, sentenced to be hanged
at Vincennes, Ind, April 10, ESCAPED from
Jail on the I'd by drilling his way through the
top of his cage.
A YOUNG Seminole Indian named Jim
living near Okeechobee, Fla, became crazy
on the I'd, and killed seven persons before
he was shot himself
THE death of Ex-Congressman Henry s
Magoon occurred on the Sd at Darlington
Wis. He represented the Third district in
Congress from 1872 to 1874
The wife of Samuel Luture, farmer nv.
ing near Columbus, Ind, was burned tc
death on the I'd, her clothing catching fire
from the CRATE.
SILVER counterfeit dollars were on the 20
the metal was the only test that would de.
tect them, and it required Government
expert to do that.
The Merchants National Bank of Des
Moines, la, was closed on the I'd, it not hav.
ing sufficient money to meet it's obligations
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
GERMAN missionaries at Zanzibar held
captive by the Arabs were liberated on the
9th.
On the 9th the London Times withdrew
it's pamphlets, "Parnellism and Crime anG
"ODonneu versus Walter" from ctrcula
ton, and expressed regrets for having pub
nshed the forged letters
On the evening of the 9th three cars o.
the St Louis express train fell through
bridge one hundred feet in height near St
George, Ont, and eight persons were killed
and twenty six wounded, some fatally.
ADv1cEs of the 9th from London say that
during q gale on the North Sea seventy
lives were lost.
In Vienna printers boy was on the 27tl
sentenced to six months imprisonment al
hard labor for repeating stories about the
late Crown Prince Rudolph.
On the 28th ult Steinitz the champion
chess player, played simultaneously agains
nineteen persons at Havana, Cuba and wo1
all the games.
The execution of Mrs. Collins, murder
ess, took place on the 18th at Sidney, N. s. w
RICHARD P1GoTT, the forger of the Par
nell letters, committed suicide In hotel il
Madrid on the 1st.,
The statement that Sir Julian Pauncefot.
had been appointed British Minister to tn
United States was officially confirmed OF
| the 1st
On the I'd thirteen shocks of earthquake
some of them very severe, occurred a
Guayaquil, Ecuador.
The small arms stores of the Government
at Weldon, Eng, were burned on the I'd
causing loss of $5OO,OOO.
| TIE Cabinet of Peru resigned on the I'd
The reason was not given.
The Pope celebrated his seventy-nint]
birthday on the I'd at Rome.