The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-06-20
WEST AND SOurn.


On the 18th Ross Schoonover. q wealthy
farmer living near kewanee, Ill. was
swindled out OF 600 by two men who pre-
tended that they wanted to buy farm
IHE drowning of Cole Younger, a notort-
GUS outlaw of Western Wyoming. while at
tempting to ford river, was reported on
the nth
ON the 18th an unsuccessful attempt was
| made to wreck and rob q passenger train
on the Louisville l. Nashville road near
Falkville, Ala
IN Indiana high water was doing great
Damage on the 18th. In Owen County two
Thousand five hundred acres of crops were
under water, and in Morgan, Bartholomew.
Clay and Greene counties it was estimated
that over ten thousand acres more were in
undated
s. f. FIELDS, State Senator, was shot and
killed at Dalton, Ga, OH the 18th by his
stepson, Dennis Taylor, whom he attempted
to chastise
On the 18th j. D. Haggerty, witness in
the Cronin inquest in Chicago, swore that
Alexander Sullivan told him in 1885 that DR..
Cronin was traitor to the Irish cause and
should be exterminated. The jury found
! that Daniel Coughlin, Patrick OSul]ivan.
Woodruff and Alexander Sullivan were
either principals or accessories to the muir
oer Alexander Sullivan was arrested in the
| evening and placed in Jail.
The statement was made on the 18th
that in October, 1883, Miss Emma Bond.
victim of the outrage at Taylorville. Ill.
IN 1852, was married to c. Z. Justus,
young wood merchant of Hepler Kan, and
that the wedding was kept secret until re-
Gently
| The death of Mrs. Esther Rhoads the old.
est resident OF Bartholomew County, Ind.
occurred at Huntsville on the 18th. at the
! age OF one hundred and one years
FOREST nres were raging near Superior,
WIS, on the 18th, and up to date over $500.
OOO worth of pine had been destroyed.
! ON the 18th the Michigan monuments OF
the battle field at Gettysburg. Pa. were
dedicated.
AT Corydon, Ind, James Deay1n and
CHARLES Tennyson were lynched on the 18th
by two hundred masked men, for robbinp
the residence of James LIE May and serious
ly shooting him.
MOB attacked the jail at Huntsville
Tenn, on the 18th and secured E. r. Rev.
nolds and Thomas J. Lloyd and haNred
them. Their crime was the killing of Mrs
}. Harness and her son.
ON the 18th the special grand Jury impan-
eled in Chicago to act upon the verdict of
the coroners jury in the Cronin murder case
began taking testimony.
COLE YOUNGER, the desperate, was in the
State prison at saltwater Mimi; on the
18th with his two brothers. and not
drowned, as reported, in Wyoming.
The Millers' National Association at their
meeting in Milwaukee on the 18th elected
r. L. Greenleaf, of Minneapois president.
WILLIAM W. SIMPSON, aged eighty six
years, postmaster at Silver Springs. Nd.
was married ON the 18th to Miss Winnie H.
Willis, who Is but nineteen years of age
IHE death OF Charles Williamson. a
survivor OF the war of 1872 occurred in
Winona, Mimi, on the 18th, at the ace Of
ninety mine years
NEWS was brought by the steamer City Ut
Pek1n which arrived in San Francisco On
the 18th from Hong Kong of the burning Of
the city or Luchow, and ten Thousand no
pie were said to have lost their lives in tho
fire.
W. B. ROBERTS, who was sent to Brszil
Ind. by Governor Hovey to investigate the
condition of the Clay County miners, saia on
the 18th that there were thousands OF
people in the mining district who Mere
destitute and near the verge OF starvation.
and many of the families had eaten nothing
but bread and water for weeks
NEAR Vincennes, Ind, Seth Murray. ,
farmer aged ffty-five years. and having
i've or six children, became Jealous of hil
wife on the 18th and shot her and then killed
himself.
i AT Louisville, O., on the 18th Lawrence
and Edward Streb, business men, and two
Catnonc orphans named Seifert, whom the
strebs haa adopted, were sta ack by an ex.
press train while crossing the track and ali
instantly killed.
FLAMES on the 18th at Grinnell. Ia. de.
stroyed forty-one buildings, causing a los.
OF from $4,000 to $500. OtO, partly insured
FOREST fires were doing much damage IL
minnesota on the 18th At Ely from twelve
TO hfteen buildings had been destroyed
HE Iowa Republicans will meet in STATE
convention at Des Moines on August IA t.
nominate State officers
On the 18th Bonafacio Martinez. one 81
the most noted desperadoes on the Mexican
border and . Mexican revolutionist leader
was arrested at Rio Grande City, Tex.
MAJOR WYMAN w. STALEY, of the FRS
Regiment Michigan National Guards. wa
killed by q train on the 18th three mile
west OF his home in Lansing.