The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-19

Jasper County, Miss. Tho negroes wefs
charged with conspiracy against tha
AZ the county fair in springfield, III. on
the 12th palace built entirely Of coal
taken from Sangamon County veins, ind
unique In architecture. was dedicated
THREE-CA1D monto-mon sWindled Fred
Flotm. farmer living near Ottawa, III.
out Of q, 900 on the 18th.
TEE miners families ut Spring Valley
Ill, were In state OF starvation on the
18th
DURING . quarrel on the 18th Willard
Jones, druggist Of Clayton, Ind, fatally
stabbed Rev Smith, Of the Baptist church
Of Danvtlle, Ind.
DRuNkEN miners fought with knives At
Bramwell, W. Va. on the 18th, and Dan
Lambert and Tom Kadle were literally cut
to pieces and three Of their companion
were fatally injured
FOREST fires destroyed tho Central Pacific
railroad bridge at Upper Cascades In the
Sierra Nevada Mountains ON the 18TH and
one mile OF snow-sheds were also do
stroyed.
On the 18th Dr. Griffin, wealthy ply.
stefan of Cleveland, Tenn, was sentenced
to ten years in the penitentiary for assault
Ing twelvo-year- old child.
The United Brethren conference at Ar
rowsmith, Ill, licensed two ladies to preach
on tho l3th, the frst In tho history of the
church
TIE death Of John II. Jones, q pioneer In
the iron business, who secured many pat
ents and built ten rolling mills, occurred
ON the 18th at Youngstown, o., aged seven
ty-sdten years.
A NEGRO named "Aunt' Dinah Young
(colored) died on the 18th 1T Louisville,
KY, aged ono hundred and thirteen years
FoR tho week ended on the 18th tho per-
centage OF tho baseball clubs in the Ma
tional League was Us follows: Boston,
$50; New York. .6s6; Philadelphia, .5Sl ;
Chicago, 800; Cleveland, .44; 1ndianap-
oils, .4S5; Pittsburgh. .422; Washington,
1854. American Associations: Brooklyn, $50:
81 Louis 1884: Baltimore, 81; Athletic,
.562; Cincinnati, sos; Kansas City, AL;
Columbus, .416; Louisville. .206. Western
Association: Omaha, .723: st. Paul, 6l3;
Minneapolis. .51s; Sioux City, ass; Denver
.4S3; Milwaukee, .430; St Joseph, .42S; Dea
Moines. 1886.
THE store OF Bamberger, Bloom h Co,
one of tho three largest wholesale dry
goods and notion firms in Louisville Ky.,
was burned on tho 18th, the loss being ST.
O0O, Goa. During the fire wall fell, killing
six men.
In Colorado and Wyoming Territory
heavy snow-storms occurred on the 18th
ON the 18th Isaac Friend, q well known
Milwaukee merchant fell down the ele.
vator shaft in his store and was killed
A STATUE of General Grant was unvailed
with appropriate ceremonies at Fort Leav-
enworth, Kan, on tho 18th.
ADv1cEs of the 18th report thu loss Of the
bark Caterina r., from Pensacola 70,
Swansea, and tho captain and 1ive Of the
crew were drowned.
The Exposition building at St joseph.
No.. with its contents were burned on the
18th, causing loss OF $50, 1000
NEAR Columbia City, Ind. lightning
struck a church on the 18th, damaging Il
considerably and instantly killing two
children, Ella Freyer and Aggie Hacke-
meyer.
In the Exposition building in Chicago q
fire on the evening OF the 18th caused q
loss of 100000 and panic among the
thousands present but no one was serious
~ injured
PROF. J. W1ss. who recently left Tex
from the Savings Bank, OF which he was
president.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,
THE death of Ira Paine, tho celebrated
American marksman, unequaled with shot
gun. rifle, pistol or revolver, occurred in
Paris on the 10th from inflammation of the
bowels
In the Whitechapel district of London the
mutilated remains of another fallen woman
were found by the police on the 10th. All
the circumstances attending it proved tina,
the murder was tho work Of the same mys.
FERROUS assassin by whose hand SO many
victims have falen
canal between Edinburg and Glasgow was
reported on the 18th. The capital was
placed at $1,000. CO.,
FIRE destroyed the town of Shoat Lake.
Man.. on the 1lth
DISPATCHES of the 18th say that Henry NJ.
Stanley was marching toward Mombassa,
after fighting his way through the hostile
country OF the Umjoro and Uganda tribes
and conquering the natives He had es.
tablished the authority OF the British East
Africa Company over the country from the
upper Nile to the east coast
A wH1RLw1ND devastated Lulu Island. in
British Columbia, on the 18th, and whole
forests weresuprooted, but no lives were
lost.
THE death of william Gooderham. q
millionaire philanthropist and temperance
advocate OF Toronto, Ont, occurred sad.
denly on the 18th of heart disease while at
tending prayer-meettng. He had just fin
ished prayer.
The Government report on the 18th
allowed that the wheat crop of France
would be Ill, AGO, 2ls hectoliters, against 81.
74O, 729 hectoliters in 1881
The strike of dock laborers in London
| was ended on the 18th, the men securing
an increase in wages
TWELVE persons died from trichiuasis In
the town of Eisleben, Prussian Saxony, dur
Ing the three days ended on the 18th and
eighteen others were reported dying from
the same disease.
FIRE destroyed George l. Georges Fed
eral emporium and adjacent buildings al
Melbourne, Australia, on the 18th, causing
loss of t1,OOU, 0O0. Three firemen were
killed
lATEa.
A Frlghtlul Collision,
T1oGA JUNCTION, PI., Sept 16-About
1908 p m. the train from Elmira south,
carrying seven coaches, ran into Fall
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