The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-01-03
WEST AND SOUTH.


A sA1L-BoAr upset on the 25th in San
Francisco bay and SIX Of the seven per-
sons on board were drowned.
A TRAIN on the Central Pacific road was
stopped near Clipper Gap, CAL, on the
25th by robbers who stole $500 from the
express car.
THERE was no truth in the report re-
Gently telegrarhed over the country that
the village Of Hermansville, Mich, had
been wiped out by fire.
SEVEN young boys were badly, If not
fatally, burned while firing toy cannon
on the 25th at Augusta, Ga.
WILLIAM THOMAS and George Oliver,
serving life sentences in the Ohio peniten
tiary, were pardoned on the 25th by Gov
ernor Foraker. Thomas is seventy years
old.
In saw-mill at Boulder, COL. q boiler
exploded on the oath, instantly killing four
men and fatally scalding another
A FIRE at Nashville, Tenn, destroyed
several buildings on the oath, causing .
loss Of $100. 600
DWELLINGS and factories covering three
acres Of ground in Cincinnati were de-
stroyed by fire on the 25th. Loss, $500, 0OO
On the 24th the steamer Lief Erickson
was burned at Alki Point, FIVE miles west
of Seattle, W. T., and seven lives were
lost.
The death Of Mrs. Margaret Carey. at
the age Of one hundred and eleven years,
occurred on the AT at Wheeling, W. Va.
EARLY on the morning Of the 25th the
steamer John 81. Hanna was burned to the
waters edge at Plaquemine, La, causing
the death of at least twenty five persons.
Some persisted on the boat, others were
drowned, and many in attempting to reach
thn h0r ctr, II is1< md
ally roasted alive The boat was valued
1T $4,000 and her cargo at $4,000
JOHN A. BAUEREIsEN was found guilty
at Geneva, ILL.,, on the 9th of conspiring
to destroy property Of the Chicago Bur.
lington & Quincy Railroad Company with
dynamite. and Was sentenced to two years
in the penitantiary.
JOHN CHRISTIAN and J. NJ. Meyer, prom
inent cattle men, were killed on the oath
at Harneyville. Chickasaw Nation, by
Dudley Luttrel The shooting was the
result Of an old feud.
GOVERNOR OeLEsBY, Of Illinois, on the
9th pardoned ]. W. Clark, serving q life
sentence tor murder, and John w. Max
we'll, serving thirty year sentence for
highway robbery.
In Iowa fierce snow storms ragged on the
Goth, many railways being blockaled, and
Vu0 Toh0 osoAO " 0A0Ao was IopOI toO
from Minnesota.
In riot on the 18th at Lamar, Miss,
two whites aud five negroes were killed.
THERE was on the 18th in MINI ssota and
Dakota elevators 17.9SaO00 bushels of
wheat, against "a, S5l. 900 bushels a year
ago
In q "tap. milla explosion at Wheeling,
w. Va, on the 18th three men were fatally
injured.
INSANE from grief over the death of his
wife, which occurred two months ago. ex-
Judge Robert A. Johnston, aged fifty i've
years, committed suicide by shooting in
his home at Avondale. O., on the 26th.
DR. JOHN PARKalLL, q leading physician
White Caps on the Goth. His chore boy
had got drunk on cider and the WI ite Caps
accused the doctor of drugging the lad.
On the 26th w. r. Morse's banking
house at Clarks Neb., closed its doors
with $50 900 liabilities and NO assets, and
the Sherman County Bank at Loupe City,
Neb.. also made an assignment.
Ar Denver, Col, four men were killed
and two fatally wounded on the 26th by
the dropping Of the cable-car track under
which they were excavating. ~
A FIRE almost wiped out the town of Au-
burn, D. T., on the 9th. ~
In aninterview In Chicago on the 9th,
Congressman Megluness, Of Naukato, n.
T., said that Is MostanAi il great big Ter.
ritory, rich In resources, with popula-
ton Of over two hundred thousand, and
! tho poop1e aso tired Of living uQder z