The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-10-24
WEST ANO SOUTH.


railroad precinct in Silver Bow County,
Mont, on the 14th, which would result in
giving the Legislature to the Republicans,
but would not affect Tooles plurality for
Governor. The Democrats would appeal
to the courts.
REPUBLICANS Of Nebraska met in con-
vention at Hastings on the 18th and NOM
mated Secretary of State G. L. Laws to sue
coed the late Congressman Laird
AT Chicago on the 14th the regular grand
jury returned four additional indictments
in the Jury brib!ng case, three against men
formerly indicted, and the fourth against
John Graham, clerk in Lawyer A. g.
Trudc's Office, who was arrested on the
night OF the 14th-
THREE women and nine men (all coIored)
were arrested on the 14th at Charlotte, N.
c.. charged with robberies extending over
several months. Losses traccable to the
gang amounted to nearly $1oo, oo0 Burglary
in North Carolina is capital .ffense.
The season Of the American Baseball
Association closed on the 18th, the clubs
| standing as follows: Brooklyn, .67s per
cent; St Louis, .G66; Athletic, 563; Cincin-
natl, SAG; Baltimore, .525; Columbus, .4N:
Kansas City, .40l; Louisville, .l9c
The death of Ex-Governor Perry, of Ffori-
da, occurred on the 18th at kerrville. Tex.
On the evening of the 18th the wheels of
train at Elninence, KY, cut four toes
from the LETT foot of Secretary Of State G.
w. Adams, who narrowly escaped being
crushed to death
AT Kansas City, Mo-, H. D. Gregg was
sentenced on the 18th to five years tor
horse stealing. He was at one time private
secretary to General Sheridan.
AT Omaha, Neb., the Mercer Electric
Street railway was purchased on the 18th
by the Consolidated Street Railway Com
pany for $,OO0.C00 Tho purchase gives
the Consolidated company monopoly Of
all streescar lines in the city, aggregatinR
seventy-tw miles
THOMAS Brooks was found guilty at
Council bluffs, Ia, on the 18th of murder
ing Frank Dc Goode last March The Jury
recommended imprisonment for life.
UNITED STATES officers on the 18th seized
the distillcry of Freiburg Workum at
Lynchburg. O., on n charge of defrauding
the Government The amount of whisky
seized is mere than million gallons
In riotat Dothen, Henry County, Ala on
the 18th over the rrest OF o member of the
Farmers Alliance, brother Of the man ar
rested drew knife and attacked the mars
hal. Several persons then drew revolv-
ers, and two men were instantly killed
and six wounded, three of them fatally
CAR Oh the Mount Auburn Inclined
Plane road at Cincinnati dashed down the
bill on the 18th owing to the disarrange-
ment of the machinery and was totally
wrecked by striking the ''bumpers' at the
bottom. or the nine passengers on board
four were killed instantly, another died In
few minutes and five others were injured.
some fatally.
On the 10th an east-bOund train on the
Indiana Midland road was wrecked at Leb-
anon, Ind. and Sherman Moon, of Chica-
go. was killed, and several persons were
wounded
The National Board of Trade convened
In twenty-tirst annual session at Louisville
KY, on the 10th.
J. W. HARDY and $. H. Lamson auarreled
near Lebanon, Mo-, ON the 10th over the at
tenttons OF Lamson to Hardy's daughter,
and both slashed each other fatally with
knives
JUDGE IRWIN rendered decision at In.
dianapolis on the 10th declaring the dressed
beef act passed by the last Legislature to
be unconstitutional.
In the South Dakota Legislature at Pierre
on the 10Th H. F. Pettigrew and G. c. Moody
were elected United States Senators bv tho
Republicans.
The street railway presidents In session
at Minneapolis, MINI, on The 10th do
nounced the Knights of Labor for their al
legged atte to dominate street-car lines
and the crime and bloodshed committed in
its name.
On the 18th Charles Heidenreich, aged
twenty.one years, shot his wife dead and
then killed himself In CorEyv1lls, y!