The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-06-13

twenty and twpnty -tye lives were lost ana,
about lh00400O worth 6 property do
s6oyedin tho reosnt Hood, and in Eastern
Ponnsylvania nearl 100 ives wore known
to have blen LORI and properly to the
amount Of NC, 0O0. 600 were swept away.
NEAR Girard, Kan, Karl Hahnmann,
farmer, strangled his wife to death on tho
9th and then went to tho barn and hanged
himself No cause was known for the
deed.
FLAMES swept away the business portion
Of Seattle, the largest city in Washington
Territory, ON the afternoon Of the 9th. Every
bank, hotel place of amusement, all the
leading business houses, all the newspaper
oftioes. the railroad depots, miles Of steam
boat wharves, the coal bunkers, the freight
warehouses and the telegraph Offices were
On the 9Th J. Il. Benjamin, editor st the
Deland fla News, shot and instantly
killed usptainl N. -Douglas 1t New smyr-
ma The aheotins was the result Of An old
feud sags& ay9 !E9ss
Iowa Prohibitionists INST in State conven-
ton atsGdAr Rapida on the 9Th and made,
the following inomina tions:sFor Governor
Malcolm Smith, Of Cedar Rapids; Lleuten-
ant Goyefno1I q Murphy Of Jasper
County, sop Jlldge' ". "a Maginnh,
of Jacl nlnpst1ntsnden 81 Pub.
lie Instruction Mrs c. A. Durham, of Bur
nngton; Railroad Commissioner - W.
Noble, Of Ringgold County. ess.ss,,, $3.50.
MRS. QU1GLEY, tho wife of well-to-d do
farmer living near Peotone, ILL.,, gave her
two children q dose Of Rough on Rats
and took some herself on the 9Th while in
sane ~. EaaE.sss ~. = II. r. >.y 80,
On the 9Th Lon Barrett. notorious horse
A3nH~ ~ b +o@ ~
Terre Hante, Ind. for passing counterfeit
money: 9'@a' ~ %sss - S@s5s's, s>sSsszE'
On the 7th the western part of Sedgwick
County and the eastern part of Kingman
County, IN Kansas, were swept over by =
cyclone, and all the buildings ina space
twenty miles long by five miles wide were
wrecked and the crops destroyed ! A
farmer named Rogers and all the members
of his family were killed.
DISPATCHES of the 7th say that the recent
fire in Seattle, W. T.. caused loss of $751;
600, GOO, with not more than one-third COW
cred by insurance. The entire business
portion Of the city and part of the resi-
dence neighborhood was destroyed, and
hundreds OF people were homeless. Anum-
Der of lives were reported lost The burned
district comprised sixty -four acres
FLAMES on tho eth at Livingston, Ala, de-
stroyed half of tho town
In the d.. Cronin inquest in Chicago on
the It'll, three important Witnesses were
missing. and could not be found by the
coroner's agents. Daniel Brown, police
man, admitted that he was the man who
cited DR.. Cronin to trialfor treason. Brown
was placed under restraint by the coroner,
! who intimated that he was the man who
drove Dr.. Cronin to his death on the night
! of May T. Luke Dillon denounced Alex
ander Sullivan as the insttgator OF the
crime. ; 9
| FLAMES swept away eleven business
houses and offices in Syracuse, Kan, on the
18th. - s =
The will of Mary J.. Kennedy was pro-
bated on the 7th at indianapolis, Ind, and
! it was found that the only heirs to her es
tate were two sons who are both serving
life sentences in prison for murder
CHARLES r. CALsCoN and John Feaster
were hanged on the 7th at Charlotte, s. c.,
for the murder of W. C. Abernethy, a mer-
chant, in January last