The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-12-05


FIRE nearly Destroyed the town %
Wesley, Ia, on the 97th.
Tm death OF Peyton Wilkes, aged one
hundred years. occurred at Greenville.
Orc. on the 97th.
On the, ssth the National Silver con.
vention closed its sessions st st. Louis.
1t adopted . platform calling for the
free and unlimited coinage Of standard
silver dollars 20 be legal tender for ali
debts
OFFICERS on the 2eth arrested nine
men at Berwin and Ardmore, Ind. T.,
for the recent Santa Fe train robbery. 3
On the 2sth Rev. Erdman Delorme, q
minister of the German Reformed
church. committed suicide at Hunting.
ton, Ind, while insane by shooting him
self.
Ar Cleveland, O., the National Dairy
and Food Commissioners Association Of
the United States was organized on tho
Eth, Its object being to promote purity
In articles Of human food and drink.
|. THRTY Mexican, Aerdars and five
SAsASA ASOA w" OVyS HS0E4SuCU IA tno TO-
cent Colorado blizzard. .........-. .
In his annual message to the Legisla.
ture on the 9th the Governor of South
Carolina recommended separate accom-.
modations on railroads for whites and
blacks. f. :.
Ar Caredo, GA train ran into wash
out on the 2Sth and three men were
killed. g.
j. DoBsoN was murdered on the 2sth
at 0sgood, Ind, by A. Bishop, his IA
ther.in-law, for mistreating his wife and
following her to her fathers house,
where she had been induced to return.
In Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and
West Virginia terrific storms prevailed
on the 37th. All the low ground was
under water and the swollen streams,
aided by phenomenally high tides, had
done an enormous amount of damage to
buildings, bridges, roads and orchards.
THE State at the Crohin murder trial
in Chicago on the goth ult. introduced a
witness to break down the alibi for
Martin Burke, produced the knives Of
DR.. Cronin which were found on Dan
Coughlin, the defense finished its sur
rebuttal testimony, and States Attorney
Longenecker began his argument for
the prosecution.
FOUR little girls, children OF Hugh
Dunn, wealthy mine owner at Elliotts-
vile, w. Va, were blown to atoms on
the Goth ult. by the explosion OF kee
Of powder.
THE barge David L. Bows was wrecked
in storm on Lake Michigan on the Goth
ult. twenty miles southeast of Chicago.
Loss, 100000. The crew had q narrow
escape, and all were badly frozen.
A CYCLONE in Buford County, n. c.,
On the 10th ult. blew down houses and
trees were torn up by tho roots. The
residence OF q farmer near Washington
was wrecked and the entire family, con-
sisting of father, mother and four chill
dren, WAS killed. A factory near Wash
ington was also destroyed and two peo-
pie killed, while dozen others received
bad injuries.
NEAR New Amsterdam, Ind, White
Caps severely beat a young man on the
99th ult who was found with dissolute
woman, and the woman was warned to
mend her ways.
FoNelGN INTELLIGENCE.
E1GHrY women were placed on trial
at Crosse Beeskerck, Hungary, on the
25th for poisoning their husbands.
CoNsTANrINoPLE advioes of the 25th
say that the steamship India, with five
hundred Mohammedan pilgrims on
hoard, had been sunk in the Egean Sea,
and that Of all on board only the captain
and two passengers survived.
AT Rome on the 25th the Italian Par
lament was opened by King. Humbert,
who made o speech expressing CONT
lence in the continued peace of Europe.
THE death of Hon. George II. Pendle-
ton. OF Ohio, ex-Minister to Germany.
occurred at Brussels on the night Of the
cath, at the age of fifty-four years.
SEVERAL Golfers containing about $780,
900 in gold and silver in Spanish pieces
dated 1885 were on the Goth taken out
of the sea near the Island Of Andres, in
Greece.
A STEAMER from Port-au- Prince ar
rived at New York on the 26th and re-
ported that five thousand Haytians had
risen in revolt against President Hip
polyte.
MEssRs. KEUDLEn, the famous bankers
of Vienna, failed on the Goth, with liza
bilities of 2, 500, 600 forms.
In a colliery at Bocham. Germany,
an explosion on the 2sth killed fourteen
persons and injured four fatally.
AT Aldershot, Eng, Whites drapery
establishment was burned on the 2sth.
Loss, $500, 1000.
BHAzn. on the Goth ult. readopted the
old flag, and France recognized the re.
public.
NEAR Quebec, Can, q storm on the
29th u1t wrecked several houses and
barns. and in Quebec houses were un-
rooted and the electric-light works de.
stroyed, leaving the city in darkness.
On the Goth ult. w. H. Harvey, who
shot his wife and two daughters last
March, was hanged at Guelph, Ont
ConErdhs Opens.
WAsn1XeToN. d. e., Dec, 2-Bosh
houses OF the fifty.4irst congress began
work to-day. In the lower house all Of
the nominees Of tho republican caucus e.
cept Chaplain we're elected. For the lat.