The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-04

In the Huron ID. IT, district prairie
fires were raging on the 10th ult, and
many farmers had lost every thing. The
wind was blowing forty miles an hour.
On the 29th ult F. F. Baker, q capitalist
was arrested at Spokane Falls, w. T., on
the charge of having seven living wives.
E. w. BLArCHFoRD's warehouse, in Chica-
60, was destroyed by fire on the 18th ult,
causing loss of $780,
THE death'of Prof @. r. Mitchell, of Mari.
etta, O., distinguished mathematician and
astronomer, occurred on the 20th ult Of
pneumonia
AT Danv1lle, Va, Jed Prttchett (colored)
was hanged on the Goth ult for an assault
upon little white girl The prisoner
fought like a tiger and refused to stand or
the trap. The trap was finally sprung and
Pritchett was pushed off the scaffold to his
doom The services Of four deputies were
required to execute him
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
IT was decided by the Holland Ministry
on the 26th that King William was no longe,
in q condition to reign and announced tina,
regent would be appointed.
THE steamer Ocotlan, having O large ex.
cursion party on board, foundered recently
on Lake Gaudalajara, Mexico, and over tftJ
lives were lost.
On the Goth King Charles nephew, Prince
Ferdinand, was proclaimed Crown Prince
of Roumania
IT was stated by the Governor Of Lowe,
California on the Goth that the discoverie.
at the Santa Clara plaoers had been exag
gerated, and only practical miners were
finding gold
OFF Manila ON the 18th the Spanish mai
steamer Mindanic was sunk by q collision
with another steamer, and thirty Of he,
crew and passengers were drowned.
On the 9th the United States Consul q
Colon reported that work along the Panam,
canal had entirely ceased
IT was said on the 9th that the population
Of the province of Quebec, exclusive of Mon
real, had decreased $50 $40 in five years.
THE death Of John Bright, the eminen
English statesman, occurred in London O,
the morning of the 9th, at the age o
seventy-eigh years In August 1857, MI
Bright was elected to Parliament from
Birmingham, which borough he had sine,
continued to represent He was especial,
distinguished as speaker of remarkable
eloquenoe and power. He was during tn,
civil war in this country warm ant
avowed friend of the Union cause
The Marquis of Salisbury, speaking in til,
House Of Lords on the 2Sth of the lat.
John Bright, said: He had special quail
ties for which he will be admired and notet
in history. He was the greatest master O
English oratory in the present generation
He possessed singular rectitude Of char
acte1: He was inspired by pure patriot
ism from the beginning OF his career to it
close"
ZANZIBAR advices of the 18th say that
party landed from the German man-of- wa
Schwalbe and burned Kondutchi after
conflict with the natives Opposition to tn
Germans was everywhere decreasing.
The discovery of the illicit manufactur,
of bombs at Zurich on the 28th furnished
clew to a gigantic plot existing throughou
Russia for new series of attempts upo1
the life of the Gar. Numerous arrests ha,
been made.
PRESIDENT D1Az, of Mexico, said on tn
10Th ult that the dispatch about the allege,
error in the boundary line between tn
United States and Lower California was
"canard unworthy of attention"
At Clongorey, Ireland, thirteen tenant
wero evicted from their holdings on tn
18th ult and after the tenants had bee1
driven from the houses twelve of th
buildings were destroyed by the agent
ON the 29th ult the French Cabinet de
cided by unanimous vote of its member
to prosecute General Boulanger.
ADv1CEs Of the 20th ult from Samoa ga,
that the American men-of-war Trenton
Vandalia and Nipsic. and the German men
of.war Adler, Olga and Eber were driven OF
reef during a violent storm and totall,
wrecked OF the American crews four Off
GERS and forty-six men were drowned, an,
OF the German crews nine officers IN,
eighty seven men lost their lives
LATER.
The news from Samoa dated the 3Gth
confirm the previous reports Of the disas
ter to the American and German Guuboats
except thatthe U. 8 boat Nipsic is beachec
and can probably be saved.
HERMAN MANL1 and Peter jacobson two
Finish miners were killed in shaft OF tho
Copper Falls mines, Houghton. Mich, the
3Oth by an explosion OF dynamite. II
drilling they struck steel drill on top o.
cartridge in a hole.
TIE q: s. Senate, the 30th, confirmed
the nominations Of Robert Lincoln as
minister to England; Allied Thorndyke
Rice TO Russia and Patrick Egan to Chilli
ADMIRAL KIMBERLY's dispatch from
Samoa via Aucklan to the United States
announcing the loss Of German and Amer
lean Gunboats cost 1900.
TIE highest price ever paid in Chicag,
FOR real estate was paid on the 3Oth by The
Chicago Inter Ocean for the northwes
corner of Madison and Dearborn streets
The price was e, 800 per front foot.
A arr ofi1 of thu rvo~;ro n;l "opl>.
Long Island City, N. Y. exploded the Both
killing James Nolan, burning over NOR.
than an acre OF ground and causing a los.
The steamer Countess Of Flanders was
mail boat Princess Henrietta, the 29th
Nine OF her crew and three Of the passen
gers were drowned. Prince Jerome Bon
aparte was among the rescued.
TIE o. s. Senate the 30th refused to
confirm the nomination of Murat Halstead
as minister planipotentiary to Germany.
The rejection was made on account Of Ger.
tain editorials that had appeared in thu
Cincinnati Commercial rejecting on some
OF tho Senator'S action in the matter of the
election Of Senator Payne
The Wisconsin legislature the 30th
H~oSA % a." ss>VVeAA& Ouo
system Of election.
A HACKDR1vBR at Eau Claire, Wis.
named McLane shot a woodsman named
Carr the 90th. Cause, Carr insulted Nc
Lanes wife in saloon.
JOSEPH SCHWARTZ, q laborer on thu
Wabasha street bridge st. Paul, on the
90th fell from ono Of the spans, q shee1
fall Of forty feet He sustained fracture
Of the right thigh and serious interna
injuries.
WILLIE WOODS. . son Of q teamster in
Minneapolis the 31st. killed boy named
Gus Peterson. The Woods boy had an old
army musket and thinking it was no,
loaded put on q cap, pointed the gun a
tho Peterson boy and pulled tho trigger
The whole upper part Of Peterson's head
was blown Of.
JAMES G. CA1HouN,a prominent bushes.
man Of Chattanooga, Tenu., while labor
ing under an attack Of temporary iusanit,
attempted the S1st, to kill his family an(
himself BE attacked his wife and ohil
dren with q Ratchet and then swallowed
muristic acid 40 and his wife will die
His daughter win recover. The littl,
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