The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-11

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41A B1mo1r DooDY, Of Ninaral Point
Via, on the 9TH oelebrated her one hun.
dred and seventeenth birthday. She wal
born In Knookmahon, ireland, In l772, and
was still in good health.
UNITED STATES AARsHAls who attempted
on tho 18th to mako evictions from Dea
Aoines river lands near Fort Dodge, La,
were met with armed resistance and driven
from the field.
wiped out three towns in South Dakota, and
hundreds Of farm-houses had been dc.
stroyed, also barns, with all their eontents
and many persons were homeless and on.
tirely destitute. The losses were placed
at ~. 00O,0OO. Several lives were lost.
PRo1. HARRx LEROY, IN aeronaut, made
an ascension at Quincy, ILL.,, on the 18th, and
when at height of four thousand feet
dropped from the balloon and, with the aid
Of q parachute, landed safely. s.<
REPORTS ON the 5th to the Indiana Board
Of Agriculture from all over the State in
dicated that the growing wheat was in
splendid condition.
On the 5th Daniel Baugh, a pioneer of
Seymour, Ind, reached the age of one hum
dred years. He was in good health.
The discovery was announced on the 5th
Of rich placer diggings in the Bear Paw
fifty miles north of Fort Benton,
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AT Fordyce, Ark, on the 5th the sheriff
Of Titus County, Tex, arrested Frank Shulze,
q young man, on charge of having in De-
cember last murdered j. ". King, his wife
and six, children, and then burned their
dwelling: 1852,
WILLIAM PRAY shot and killed his wife at
Frankfort, Ind, on the 5th and then killed
himself Domestic troubles caused the
deed
On the 5th John Wolfinbarger, who muir
dered Sheriff Greenbe, was taken from Jail
at Rutledge, Tenn. by masked men and
hanged to tree.
>. CONGRESSMAN RYAN, of the Fourth district
of Kansas, resigned his seat on the 5th, hav.
ing been appointed Minister to Mexico.
FLAMES destroyed six business blocks at
Attica, O., on the 5th.
SIX Winamac lind men were on the 5th
sentenced to year each in the penitentiary
for robbing freight cars.
AT Lima, O., Bette German, a two-year-
old child, was scalded to death on the 5th
by her older sister, who accidentally upset
a pot of boiling water ON her face and
breast.
A RA1N-sToRM on the 9Th at Norfolk, Va,
the lower portion Of the city,
causing q loss of $500, 600 to business men.
FLAMES swept away the principal busl-
ness portion Of Clarksdale, Tenn, on the
9Th
HEAVY snow storm prevailed on the 9Th
at Charlottesville, Va, accompanied by
and lightning
Two HOTELS and several business houses
were burned on the 9th at Somerset, KY,
causing a loss Of $10O, 1000.
On the 9th W. H. McGinnis, of Ohio was
appointed superintendent of the Railway
Mail Service.
On the 9Th P. F. Pratt, cashier of the First
National Bank of Anoka, Mimi, was miss
ing, and SO was $780, 900 of the bank g
money.
In the business portion of Savannah, Ga.
q fire on the 9th destroyed property valued
at $3.50, OO0!
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
On the Sd the Board of Health of the CITY
of Mexico announced that 1t had been de-
cided to admit American lard subject to in
spectton.
In Paris on the 81 the trial Of the leaders
of the League of the Patriots was resumed,
Boulanger had fed to Belgium,
where he proposed to remain until he dis
covered what the Government intended to
do In his case
MAssowAH advices Of the Sd say that
King John of Abysstnia was defeated and
slain in a recent battle and that the whole
country was in state of anarchy.
THIRTY persons on the island of Tonga, in
the South Pacific, persisted in the same
hurricane that destroyed the American and
German fleets at Apia, Somoa
IT was voted in tho French Chamber of
Deputies on the 4th TO prosecute General
for treason.
NEWS from Stanley reached London on
the 18th to the effect that he was seen in
February marching through the wilds with
Emin Pasha in the direction of Zanzibar
He was at the head of two thousand men,
and Emin Pasha and he were said to be
bringing six thousand ivory tusks With
them.
TERRIBLE storm swept over large eec-
ton of Southern Hungary on the 5th Many
houses were demolished and In some cases
whole villages were set on fire by lightning
and destroyed.
On the 9Th over three thousand persons
on the line of the Panama canal were in o
condition.
CHINA advices of the 9th say that Wong
Kwang Pei, formerly of the Chinese EN-.
bassy at Washington, advocates the expul-
sion of every American in the service OF
China as reprisal for the exclusion OF
Cinnamon from America.
The death Of the Duchess Of Cambridge.
an aunt Of Queen Victoria occurred at Lon
don on the 9th. She was IN her ninety
second year.
By the capsizing of small schooner thir.
teen Indians were drowned at Victoria, B.
c., on the 9Th
INDIA advices of the 9Th say that hun.
dreds of houses had been destroyed BY fire
at Hurat, causing a loss Of 81, COX, 0OO
THE great famine in the northern prov.
inces of China was on the 9th said to be
worse than ever, as the Government was
doing nothing to relieve it, and five million
persons were starving.