The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-10-31
WEST AND SOUTH.

MRS. Ida II. WA1DRoS, Of Madison, Wis,
died on the 22d, aged one hundred and
three years
TIE house of Mr.: Clark, twelve miles
southeast of Des Moines, Ia, was burned on
the 22d, and two children persisted In the
flames.
GOVERNOR WARREN. Of Wyoming, in his
annual report on the ed states that the
Territory covers arly 100000 square
miles, that the population has in
creased from less than 10000 in 1870 to
about 100, 900 now, and that the citizens are
anxious for Statehood. The assessed val
nation of taxable property is over SIS, ooO,-
GOO. and tho net indebtedness about $780,
0OO. Over so, GOO acres OF land were SET
tied upon this year. C2ttle-raising is the
principal industry, With agriculture second.
OWING to the continued: drought forest
fires were starting in every direction in
Northern Michigan on the I'D Farmers
were obliged to haul water for miles to
water their stock anil fall wheat was rot
ting III the ground :
An electric street-car was struck by a
locomotive on the 22d ut Wichita, kan.,
and hurled sixty feet and nearly twenty
passengers were injured
TIE mob who recently lyncned Robert
Berrisr in South Carolina prayed for and
sung psalms and hymns with him for three
hours before they strung him up.
At Srencer, Ind. George ". Shirley, pro-
prietor OF the Merchants Hotel, was hanged
in effigy to a tree on the public square on
the 22d. His offense was remarrying be-
fore his wife had been dead two weeks.
FREDERICK KSAvEL, aged sevcnty-seven
years, was MARI led at Lima, O., on tho 22d
to Mrs. Martha Eaton. scyenty-firc years OF
age.
Ex-MAYon BALLARD's residence at Lex
ingtou, No, was burned on tho ed, and
Mrs. Ballard persisted in the flames
The President will start the machinery of
the Southern Exposition at Montgomery.
Ala, November $, by electricity from Wash.
ington.
TIE l. G. Porter Company Touring mill
at Winona, Mimi, was burned on the Esd,
10 e, $4,000.
FLAMES on tho 23d at Columbus, O., al
most wiped out the Patton hollow ware
manufacturing works and damaged other
manufactures. Total loss. 100000
WILLIAM FousT, Of Columbus, Ind, was
taken with fit OF coughing on the 2Sd and
dropped dead.
ALONG the south Atlantic coast the worst
storm Of the year was raging on the gid,
and many vessels were ashore and several
lives were reported los....s~5
An engine Oh the Grand Trunk road ex-
ploded on the Esd at Wabash; Ind, Instant
~ killing Engineer Thomas Callahan and
Fireman John Maddox ,~>,..&.,.c:
The death OF Miss Annie f. Johns, of
Leaksviile, n. G.. occurred on the 9th.
During the war she spent much time III the
hospitals and was known as "the Angel of
Mercy"
/ SONS five hundred men employed by tho
firms composing the Chicago Diapers and
Tailors' Exchange quit work on the 9th
\ because a member of the exchange refused
| to discharge foreman whom his workmen
! didn't like. ~-- ee-'-s-~-"
| In Chicago on the 2ath the trial of five of
the men accused of the murder Of DR. Gro
min was formally begun, States Attorney
! Longenecker making the opening speech
for the prosecution. The men on trial are
Coughlin, Osullivan, Beggs, Burke and
/; Kunze Woodruff is to be tried separately.
| In the afternoon a dozen witnesses were
examined -
FLAMES swept away six business houses
at Fayetteville. Tenn. on the oath
| On the Data Mrs Ann Balda celebrated
her one hundredth birthday at Terre Haute,
Ind, ard was presented with silver dol.
lar BY each st one hundred ola rsstdsnts %
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