The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-12-19

Ar Madison, Wis, General David At
wood, editor and proprietor Of the Wis
consin State Journal. died suddenly on
the 18th, aged seventy-four years. He
was one q the most widely-known jour
nslists ii the Northwest
t. JEFFERSON DAVIS was buried at New
Orleans on the nth with elaborate cere-
monies. Public buildings and residences
were draped in black, and there WAS .
large parade of military and civic bodies.
THE settlers of Big Horn Basin, John
son County, Wy. r, attacked Kettle
Jacks gang of thieves and cut-throats
on the 18th, lynched eleven Of them and
drove the rest out Of the country.
HUNDREDS Of families in North and
South Dakota were ON the 18th said to
be suffering for want of food.
Ar Perry's Mills, CAL, . oloud-burst
on the 18th washed away ave houses,
and Joseph E. Eastman was drowned,
and 1T Colusa, CAL, the levee gave way,
flooding thousands of acres and drown
ing c. 7. Jones' y
In the vicinity Of Cambridge City,
Ind, cyclone on the 18th wrecked
several houses and destroyed other prop
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Iowa Prohibitionists will hold State
convention at Des Moines on the 9th of
January next.
SEVERAL opium smugglers, with $32,-
QUO worth Of the article in their posses
sion. were captured on the 18th near Ia
coma, Wash.
JOHN ZIMMERMAN's farm barn near
Wooster, O.. was burned on the 18th,
and twenty-five head Of blooded cattle
persisted.
SOME two hundred and fifty families
In Norton County, Kan, were on the
18th reported to be in destitute condi-
ton.
DIR. REILLY, of Detroit, treasurer Of
the Irish National League, on the 18th
| cabled $4,000 to DR.. Kenny, treasurer
of the Irish League, for use of the ten
ants defense fund.
TWELVE thieves were captured on the
18th near Cairo, ILL.,, and much valuable
plumber recovered.
In the vicinity of Elkhorn, Wis,
farmers were blowing on the 18th, the
weather being warm and no frost an
pearing.
NEAR Kent City, Mich, James Gil
more, . farm hand, killed Mrs. James
Mcdonald on the 18th and then took his
own life. The refusal of the woman to
elope with him caused the deed.
The Office of the Huron mine at Han
cock, Mich, was burned on the 18th.
The second story was used as boarding
house and two Finnish women and six
weeks'-old child persisted in the. flames.
THE damage by the recent floods in
the vicinity of Colusa, Cal. was on the
18th stated at $780, 900, mostly to
crops.
! JOHN GILMAN, tho murderer Of Mrs,
Eisenhower and her child, was executed
at Empire City, Ore, on the 18th, and
Carter Williamson was hanged at
Plaquemine, La, for the murder of his
wife at Dorseyville.
In Madison County, Ind, much excite
ment prevailed on the 18th, because of
the discovery of silver in paying quanti-
ties.
| On the Wabash railway, near Graham,
! Mo-, three men were killed and four
badly injured in a railway wreck on the
18th.
A DOMESTIC in family at Madison,
| Wis.,, apparently died q month ago of
diphtheria and was hastily buried. On
the 18th her parents prepared to remove
the body to the country, and upon open
ing the casket they discovered that the
body was lying on its face, the hair
'wrenched from the head and the flesh
literally torn from the face and hands.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
liz death of Henry E. Searle, the
champion oarsman of the world, occurred
on the 9th at Melbourne, Australia, of
typhoid fever.
| ADvICEs of the 10th from Zanzibar saw
that the German troops attacked party
of Bushiris, headed by that chief, and
routed them, killing twenty-eight and
wounding a large number.
| ALL the jewels of the ex-Empress of
Brazil were on the 18th reported to have
been stolen. The collection EN- hraced
the finest diamonds in the world.
ROBERT BROWNING, the poet, aged
seventy-seven years, died in London at
ten o'clock on the evening of the 18th.
He had been i'll for some time with bron-
| chitis.
DESPITE the amnesty declared in Crete
twenty Christians were brought before
the authorities there in chains recently
and beaten with canes.
THE death of Edward Bradley, more
commonly known as Cuthbert Bede, &C.
CURED in London on the 18th. He was a
contributor to nearly all the English
periodicals.
SEVERAL officers Of the artillery and
navy at St Petersburg were on the 18th
arrested on a charge of completely in q
plot to kill the Car of Russia.
The leading French Canadian politi-
cal organization of Montreal on the 18th
! declared for annexation to the United
States.