The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12
WEST AND SOUTH.

On the Virginia Midland railroad on the
I'D near Accotink, Va, r. A. Rainey and
Ashton Rainey, brothers, aud well-known
cattle drovers, OF Warrenton, Va, were
killed IN an accident and Conductor
Faulkner was seriously injured.
Snow fell on the I'd in the Elliston and
Ten Mile region in Montana to depth Of
six inches, materially aiding in quenching
tho forest fires which had been raging for
month.
SOPHIE LAwRENcE's one hundredth birth
day was made the occasion Of rSublic
observance ut Bethel, Ind, on the I'd The
old lady was in good health.
In blasting r the new Presbyterian
church foundation at Duluth, Mimi, q large
vein of copper was discovered on tho 3d.
Two YOUNG men, Abraham Likes and
Jude Springs, fought a duel at Malod City,
U. IT,. on the 3D. over a young woman, and
both were killed
WHITES and blacks in Bibb County, Ala,
were arming themselves on the Sd, and q
race war was imminent.
NEAR La Porte, Ind, ten ice-houses con-
t lining 1:O,N0 tons OF ice, the property of
the John Hill Ice Company, were DESTROYED
by fire on the 3D.
In a fit OF jealousy on the Sd William
johnson. OF Denver, Col, aged twenty
three years. shot and killed Jennie
Schroek, bis sweetheart, and then killed
himself
The post-office at Moline, ILL.,, was entered
by burglars early on the morning of the Sd
and about ~, 1OO In cash and stamps were
stolen
ON the Sd convention to frame consti-
tuition for New Mexico met at Santa Fe.
In the election on the Sd in the Third
Louisiana Congressional district Andrew
Price Dcm.) defeated Henry G. Minor
(Rep) for Congressman.
l.. L. JEFFERY resigned Oh the sd as gen
erat manager of the Illinois Central rail-
road owing to a difference with acting
President Hartman
GEORGE DILHoF, young man, died at
Cincinnati on the 4th while under the in
tuence OF chlol oform admins cred by
physicians for the purpose of making a
surgical operation.
PRESIDENT JAMES X Folks widow cele-
DRAFTED her eighty sixth birthday on the
4th at her home in Nashville, Tenn.
AT East Point, Ga, Warren Powers, a
negro, was lynched on the 9Th. He had as
saulted young white girl and was taken
from the Jail by a masked force.
TIE Republicans of w shington Terri
tory met in convention at Walla Wa la on
the 18th and nominated E. P. Ferry for Gov
ernOr.
The seventeenth season of the Chicago
exposition opened on the 9TH.
THE Iowa Union Labor party met at Des
Moines on the ith and nominated the fol-
lowing ticket: For Governo., s. B. Down.
Ing, of Davis County; observation-disclosures,
Ezra Rrownell, of Madison County; Super
intendent Of Schools, Mrs. Harriet Beilan.
gee. of Polk County; Railroad Commission
er, l. II. Griffith, of Cass County
In ball game on the 4th at Darlington.
C., the umpire, William T. Marshall, of
Wadesboro, was killed by Leon Dargan. the
seventeen-year- old son of Congressman
Dargan, in dispute over decision.
GOVERNOR HUMPHREY, of Kansas, on the
4th pardoned Mrs. Henrietta Cook, of o.
borne County, who had been confined inthe
penitentiary for thirteen years for the MUIR
der of her husband. She was found to have
been innocent
On the 18th the largest bar Of gold ever
cast in thu world was turned out ut the
Helena ~. IT. assay Office It weighed
iive J. hundred pounds and Wis worth
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