The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-26

heart on the 10th ct Windsor. Ont. and then
sent bullet through his own brain
MES EDwA1D ZAPr, Of Freeport, ILL.,, q
wealthy widow aged hfty-four years, COM
mitted suicide on tbs 18th by hanging
Her husband killed himself In the Same
manner several year ago
JOHN ALLEN and e II Pratt arrived at
Sacramento. Cal, on tho 10Th They loft
New York on May II and made tho entire
distance on horseback
y. REV. f. K. LONE, Of Savannah. Ga. said
ut tho close Of the National Colored Baptist
convention at Indianapolis on tho 10th that
out OF 8 5O0, O0O Baptists In the United States
/, :62, 273 wero colored; and that when tho
emancipation proclamation was issued
there were but 800 oolored Baptists in the
country.
GENERAL RosEcRANs was reelected
president Of the Society OF the Army of
the Cumberland ut tho meeting in Chat
tanooga, Tenn, on the 10Th
The residence of MrA A. Senbower, near
Oakland, Nd, was burned on the 10th, and
her two little children lost their lives In
the flames
On the 10th Fort Hays, Kan. was aban-
doned AZ . military post, and would be
turned into soldiers cottage home.
On the 10th tho new Government dry
dock at Portsmouth, Va, the largest on the
Atlantic coast. was formally opened
On the AOth an accident to the electric
railway up Mission Ridge. near Chatta-
noOga, Tenn. resulted in serious injuries to
twenty-one persons from Illinois and In
diana who were attending the reunion Of
Wildor's Brigade.
AN express car of the Pacific Express
Company was entered by robbers at Bolton,
Tex. on tho aOth, who opened the safe and
stole $4,000
FLAMES ON tho Goth burned Blackman
Broa sash factory at Snohomish, Ore,
causing a loss Of &125, OOO
AT four o'clock on the morning of the
10th Thomas Brown was hanged at Moor
head, Mimi, for the murder of policeman
named PouH on October II OF last year
NEGROES of Cobb County, Ga, held q
meeting on the auth to advocate co1oniza-
ton in some of the Northwestern States.
J. G. MATr1NG1Y l. Sons, distillers at
Louisville, KY, assigned Gu the 10th. Their
assets were $625, 600 and their liabilities
about $4OO,OOO.
K1NoswoBTH & BUTTONS livery barn at
Sioux City, Ia, took fire on the 2Oth and
was burned, together with sixty-eight
horses, thirty eight of which belonged to
citizenA
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
Ar q news agency in London a letter
signed Jack the Ripper was received on
the 18th in W, ich the writer stated that in
about week another murder would be
added to the list of Whitechapel horrors.
FINE destroyed the Bontin sugar refinery
at Bordeaux. France, on the 18th, causing q
loss of $25O,UOO
in Central America on the 18th labor agt-
tators organized society similar to the
Knights OF Labor
ACCOUNTS of starvation among the In
dams in Manitoba were reported on the
18th. large number had died. and near
and ate the body In order to keep herself
alive
CHOLERA made its appearance In Bagdad
in Western Persia.
The Italian Government in consequences
of the success Of the smokeless powder on
the 18th suspended the manufacture of all
other kinds of gunpowder.
DISPATCHES of the 18th say that the
province Xii, in the southwestern part of
Japan, had been visited by one of the
greatest disasters in the history of the
country. Probably moro than fifteen
thousand people were killed, several towns
were wiped completely of the face of the
earth and others were nearly demolishe l.
The catastrophe was occasioned by floods
in the western part Of the province and
by the crumbling of a mountain which
buried six villages under huge mass of
rocks and earth in the eastern districts
Over twenty thousand persons were re-
ceiving relief.
CHINA advices of the 10th state that the
boiler of launch burst in the river at
Shanghai and twenty persons were killed
SEVERAL thousand tons OF rock slid at
Quebec, Can, on the 10Th from Cape
Diamond at the enc of the Dufferin terrace
to Champlain street, three hundred feet
below, demolishing in it's course seven
dwellings, Thirteen dead bodies had been
recovered from the ruins, and fifty more
were supposed to be buried in the debris,
The property loss would exceed $1OO, 600.
A WATERFRONT burst over the city of
Cerro Gordo, Mex on the 10Th, drowning
several persons and sweeping away horses
and cattle.
On the 18th eight cotton mills in Preston
and fourteen In Blackburn, Eng, shut down
owing to poor business, and as result
thirty Thousand looms and ten million spin-
dies were idle.
THROUGHOUT Austria there was heavy
fall Of snow on the 10Th and hundreds OF
peasants cottages in the vicinity of Vienna
were completely showed under. Much
damage was done to crops.
On the 10th the steamer Florence found
cred in the Irish sea while en- route from
Carston to Belfast, and nine persons were
drowned
FROM the Rhine wine-growing district re-
ports of the 10th indicated that this years
vintage would be the best of the century
RIO GRANDE advices of the 2Oth state that
Mexican citizens had desperate battle
with Mexican officers and soldiers in Mex
leo, In which four hundred participated,
and many were reported killed
The British war-ship Lily struck rock
off Point Armor and sank on the Goth, and
seven OF her crew were lost and the vessel
was total wreck. Considerable money
and valuables went down with her.