The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-01-10

600 an increase Of 80 1900 over 1857.
A CONFERENCE In Chicago between the
General Grievance Committee Of the
Brotherhood Of Engineers and representa-
tives Of the Brotherhood ofdremen and of.
ficials Of the Chicago, Burlington 4 Quin-
cy railway, resulted on the 4th in the set-
Element Of tho strike on that road.
- On tho 18th James J. West, principal ed.
itor Of the Chicago Times, and Joseph r.
Dunlop, it, city editor, were arrested for
publishing accusations Of crookedness
cago. Both were locked up, but after
wards released in bonds Of q, 600 each.
L On the 4th Miss Stella Sims, ofHAnnibal,
Mo-, killed herself because her parents OPP
posed her marrying the man of her choice.
A FIRE on the 4th destroyed the barn of
John Craig, wealthy farmer living near
Schuyler, Neb., together with forty three
horses, seventy cattle, twenty hogs,
largo amount of farm machinery, oats and
hay.
In the Michigan woods lack Of snow had
on the 4th thrown hundreds Of men out of
employment and many of the lumber
camps had shut down.
DlsPArcHEs of the 4th say that forty-two
persons were lost instead Of fourteen by
the recent burning Of the steamer Kate
The death of David Irwin, who was &C
quainted with President Washington, and
served in the war Of 1872 occurred on the
4th at Waseca, MIMI, ut the age of one
hundred and fifteen years - E
A HORSE belonging to Edward Tucker, .
farmer living near Columbus, Ind, was
bitten by mad dog few days ago, and
the horse died on the 4th Of hydrophobia.
The British steamer Montana sailed
from Baltimore for London on the 5th with
an assorted cargo and 314 head Of CATTLE
and collided with the steamer Nam of
North Point and sunk. Nearly all the cat
tie were drowned. The Montana was val
ued at $500, 900 and the cargo at &25O,OO
On the 9Th the steamer Paris G. Brown
sunk near Bayou Sara, La, and five Of the
cabin crew, two fremen and one passen-
ger were drowned.
PROCLAMATION was issued by Governor
Martin. of Kansas, on the 9Th organizing
Wallace County. This made one hundred
| and six counties in the State and the
twenty fourth organized under Governor
| Martins administration.
| On the 5th James Robinson, young
farmer living near Columbus, Ind. killed
! himself with poison on account of unre-
| Quilted love.
In gristmill at Newhope, W. Va, a
| boiler exploded on the 5th, killing Joseph
| E. French, Eli Shields, Thomas Carver,
Levi Shields and John Winner. Three
men were also fatally injured.
The death Of Matthew w. Burchard &C.
Cured at his home in Detroit on the 5th at
the age Of one hundred and nine years and
six months.
In battle between cattlemen and sheep
men on the 9Th over grazing grounds at
Bonita, A. T., five of the latter were killed
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
| A FARMER named Brown, near Balltnas-
loe, Ireland, who had taken q place from
which the tenants had been evicted, was
set upon by the evicted men on the I'd and
murdered.
RUSSIAN advices of the Sd say that at
Sabunstschi train became blocked in an
immense snowdrift, and before aid could
be sent fourteen passengers persisted from
the cold. A relief party which started
out to rescue the imperiled passengers
lost their way and died in the snow.
IT was announced On the Sd that many
persons had been killed and q large mum.
Der of buildings destroyed by an earth.
quake in Russian Turkestan, extending
from Khojend to Kastakos.
A FIRE destroyed the British steamer
Stephen D. Horton at Pernambuco on the
81. Loss, $500. 600. Two lives were lost.
AN explosion on the Sd in the Oller col.
liery, province of Austrias, France, killed
twenty-seven men.
done immense damage to property, and
thousands Of people were homeless and
destitute.
The election Of Hippolyte as provisional
President Of Hayti was announced on the
4th.
| EMIGRATION from Germany during the
year 1888 numbered Sc, 600, against 81, 600 in
1887 The bulk of the emigration was tc
| America.
SEVEN persons were drowned in the
canal at Neurimburg, Bavaria, by the
breaking of the ice upon which they were
skating on the 4th.
ADv1cEs of the 4th from China say that
q terrible famine and drouth were prevail
ing in the interior. In the province Of
Shatung the crops had been entirely dc
river.
1T was believed in Cairo on the 4th that
the mysterious white Pasha is Henry NJ
Stanley and not Emin Pasha.
COCHIN, on the Malabar coast In British
India, was recently almost entirely
destroyed by fire. Loss, 81, SOC, 900.
A FIRE swept away the greater part Of
the village Of Brancon, Switzerland, or
the 5th, and many cattle were burned tc
death. The fire was ignited by mailman
OK the 5th an attempt was made to blow
up the building occupied by the Ministry
of the Interior at Madrid.
DURING q storm passenger train was
blown from the rails on the 5th near
Fiumi, Hungary, and three persons were
killed and many injured.
LATER.