The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-11-21
18th, and sevcnty-hve inmates lost all
their clothing. Two men persisted in

18th, and sevcnty-hve inmates lost all
their clothing. Two men persisted in
the flames.
In session on the 18th at Denver, Col,
the silver convention adopted resolu-
ton recommending that Congress pro-
vide for the coinage Of at least 81, 0OO,-
600 Of silver each month.
In the Cronin murder trial in Chicago
the prosecution rested its case on the
18th, and an adjournment was taken un-
til the 10Th.
IT was said on the 18th that the Hoke
family, of st. Louis, had fallen heir to
$45, 000, 900 by the death Of relative at
Birmingham, Eng.
On the 14th the bones OF Svenska
Torgeson and his wife were found in the
smoldering embers of their home near
St. Potter, MINI. There was strong
suspicion of robbery and murder.
AN explosion in a pyrotechnic factory
at Petersburg, Va, on the 14th destroyed
six thousand pieces of fireworks and
killed three Italian workmen.
Lock & SM1rH's stock barn near
Louisville, KY, was burned on the 14th,
and seventeen brood mares and sixteen
yearling colts persisted in the flames.
NEAR White Rock, Col, William
Richardson, Ralph Shaffer and Lou
Waltham were killed by the premature
explosion of giant powder on the 18th.
By the falling of mass Of coal at
Middle Creek colliery, near fremont,
Pa, Francis Klein, John Jones. Henry
Knauber and Thomas Jones were killed
on the 14th.
A BLAST on the 14th killed six men
who were at work on the Northern Pa-
oific road in Jefferson County, Mont.
and two others had their eyes blown out.
On the 14th an organization to be
known as tho National Reform party
was perfected in Chicago.
In Salt Lake City applicants for
naturalization swore on the 14th that
they had to go through the endowment
house in order to be married, and that
they were sworn to hostility to Uncle
Sam and to avenge Joe Smiths blood.
They also told of murders done by the
Mormons.
SEvENrY-F1vE families in Rolette
County, N. D., were on the 18th said to
be in a starving condition.
FIRE destroyed James +. ellis livery
stable at GAINESVILLE, Tenn, on the 18th
and fifteen fine horses were burned.
THOMAS HARB1NsoS and wife were
fatally and their two children danger.
ously injured by the explosion of can
of powder on the 18th in their dwelling
near Winslow, Ind.
THE investigation into the character
of the oaths administered in the Nor
house at Salt Lake City was continued
on the 18th, Levi Axtell and others
swearing that the penalty for divulging
secrets was death.
A MOB hanged George Washington
(colored) on the 18th at Magnolia,
Miss, for assaulting white lady.
On the 18th John Dawson, of Terre
Haute, Ind. celebrated tho one hun.
dredth anniversary of his birth.
THE death of Samuel Clemens occurred
at Manchester, ILL.,, on the 18TH, at the
age of ninety-six years.
OK the 18th DR.. Il. A. Gerard, q prac-
ticing physician, was placed in Jail at
Chattanooga, Tenn, for bigamy, he hav.
ing ten wives.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
CHINA advices of the nth say that
the Yangtsze river had overflowed Its
banks, and ten thousand families were
homeless around Ming Pc, and five
hundred families were drowned at Wen.
chow.
AT Belfast, Ireland, . branch Of the
Knights of Labor was formed On the
18th by the rope workers.
On the 18th General Corona, ex-Min.
lister to Spain and Governor of the State
of Jalisco, Mex, while on his way to q
theater in Guadalajara was killed by a
madman. who afterwards killed himself
On the 18th the British Minister al
Zanzibar received q letter from Stanley
in which the explorer said he hoped tc
reach Zanzibar about the middle of Jan
uary next.
THE death of Ambrose u. Mann, Sec
rotary of State under President Pierce
occurred on the 18th in Paris, at the age
of eighty-nine years.
NEAR Alton, Ont, dam gave way or
the 18th, wrecking six mills and severa
dwellings, and an old man named Harri.
and his wife were drowned.
A PIT caved in on the 18th in Goa
mine at Ratibor, Prussian Silesia, ant
twenty miners lost their lives.
TIE firm of a. w. Morris s. Bro, pro
prietors of plaster and cordage works a
| Montreal, Can, failed on the 18th fo
81, 100. 900.
In the royal powder factory at Hanau
| Germany, an explosion on the 14th killed
eight persons and injured twenty-eigh
! others.
DISPATCHES Of tho 18th say that rev
olution had broken out in Brazil, an,
that the movement aimed at the over
throw Of the Government and the proc
lamation of q republic, and was sup
ported by the army.
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