The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-07-11

the Same dirsputabte house at Terre
Haute, Ind. killed thsmselyes with poison
on me Cd Neither knew Of the other'a
purpose /,
sEvsRA1. blocks Of. streets, forty Or fifty
stores and cellars vore inundated on the
ID % Richmond, Va. by heavy rain, and
damage done to the amount of 80 UM One
negro was drowned S.
On the I'd Arley Morris, son Of Mrs Mag
gle Norris Of Decatur, Ill had both eyes
| put out md his faco horribly burned while
firing OF hre-oraokers near cup OF powder.
IN the vicinity Of Fort Worth, Tex, a flood
had on the 9Th done damage to the extent
OF el,0oo :Oo0, and several persons had been
drowned
FIRE destroyed the business portion Of
Jonesboro, Mo-, on the Sd
The execution of tho negroes Prince
Fleming and Richard Jordan, for the muir
der Of John Taylor tooiored), took place at
New Orleans. La, on the Sd
At the.race trscksin Oklahoma, Ind. r.,
the grand stand collapsed on the 4th, 1niur-
Ing more than one hundred persons, many
fatally and ono killed outright.
KlNTUCKY Republican, met IA State con-
vention at. Lexington on the 4th and nom
mated David G.. C0leton for State Treas
ureE s4ssz - e
AT St Louis on the Sd. four negroes were
arrested for the killing Of seven white men
In an election riot at Marion, Miss, In No
vember, 1881 u s. i.
TIE Mobile Insurance Company. at Mo-
bile, Ala, made an assignment on the I'd.
It was the last of eighteen life insurance
companies started in the South about 1870.
The North and South Dakota, Washington
and Montana constitutional conventions
met on the 4th to adopt State constitutions
On the Chesapeake Ohio railway train
was wrecked near Ona, W. Va, on the 4th,
on the road and hts fireman were killed
seriously poisoned on the 18th by eating Ice
not been properly cleaned Several would
die and all were suffering badly.
In Milwaukee the large Falk, Jung &
Borchert brewery, with fifty-two thousand
barrels of beer In stock, was burned on the
4th. Loss, $750, 600; insurance, $3.50, 600.
In the North Dakota Constitutional con-
ventton on the 5th at Bismarck J. B. Fam
cher (Rep. was elected permanent chair
man. In South Dakota, at Sioux Falls, A.
J. Edgerton (Rep) was made permanent
chairman. In Montana, at Helena, w. A.
Clark Dem was elected chairman, and il,
Washington, at Olympia, John .P Hoyt
(Rep.l was chosen as chairman. The Idaho
convention met at Boise City and chose
Judge Morgan tRep) as chairman.
FRANK BRED1sH killed his wife at Mem
phis, Tenn, on the 5th because she refused
to live with him, and then took his own
life
FLAMES destroyed the business district
and large part of the residence section
of Ellensburg, w. T., early ON the morning
of the 5th. One hundred families were home
less and penniless, and financial help was
asked. The city was practically wiped out.
SHERIFF BRANsoN attempted to arrest
William and James Mills on the 5th. at
K1rbyvtlle, Mo-, for carrying concealed
weapons The Mills brothers opened fire
on the sheriff and Ed Frenk, his deputy.
killing them both
FROM crop reports received on the tn
Secretary Mohler, of the Agricultural De-
partment of Kansas, estimated the total
yield of wheat at 8, OCO, coo bushels, lust
double that of last year:
The Ohio Union Labor party in State
convention at Lima on the '5th made the
following nominations: For Governor. J.
W. Rhodes; Lieutenant Governor, C. l.
Rice; Supreme Judge, H. A. futile;
Auditor, Martin Krumm; Treasurer, D. D.
Martin; Attorney General, William Baker:
Commissioner of Public Works, Oswald
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
DURING recent terrible destructive rain
storm at Hong Kong, China, fifteen lives
were lost by flood and lightning.
AT Brunn, Austria, fifteen thousand work.
n1k f7Y hirpho
GLIDING all the bakers in the city.
On the LIST the Massachusetts rifle team
contested with the Honorable Artillery
Company at rifle shooting at London and
the American team won by score of OILS
to 96l.
MICHAEL DAv1rr in his testimony before
the Parnell commission In London on tho
I'd said that the Clan-na-Gael included
some of the best Irishmen in America. and
was no more murder club than the Carl
ton Club of London.
On the I'd the Worlds Sunday-school con-
vention opened at Parker's Temple in Lon
don.
RUGG1ERE's fireworks factory In Auber.
vellieres, France, exploded on the I'd, kill
ing seven persons. r.
On the 18th Mr.. Hirsch the new United
States Minister to Constantinople, presented
his credentials to the Sultan and met with
cordial reception.
In coal-pit at St Etienne, France, an
explosion of fire-damp occurred on the Sd.
There were three hundred miners in the
pit, and two hundred were killed by the
explosion.
AT Winnipeg on the 5th Ex-Premier Nor
quay, of the Manitoba Government, died
suddenly, aged forty-eight years.
On the 9Th Miss Ida Phillips, lately mis-
sionary in India, was drowned at Winne-
bago City, MINI.
LONG and deep assures appeared in the
earth in the Matanzas district Of Cuba on
the 9Th, causing great alarm among the
people
IT was decided in the Worlds Sunday
school conventiaS in Lonion on the 9Th to
hold the next convention in America in
1898
On the docks in London fire Oh the
5th caused a loss OF $500, OOO
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