The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-08-29
WEST AND SOUTH.

AT Grantsburg, Wis, aud vicinity vuar r
spout on the Goth swept away many b11d9 IS,
culverts and DAMS
On the 10th Mrs. w. A. Cochran, OF Shell
byville, ILL.,, sold the right to her recently
patented dish-washing machine to De-
catur (Ill) firm for several thousand dol
lars cash and the promise of royalty on
all machines sold.
AFTER fast of sixty seven days, the long
est on record, Robert Marvel, aged eighty
five years, died at h!s homo in Indianapolis.
Ind, on the Goth.
ALARGE quantity of bogus silver dollars
were in circulation on the goth at Grand
Forks. d. T. ..-> -. -
THE victims of the recent disastrous floods
in Tucker, Tygart and other creek valleys
in West Virginia were houseless and home
less on the Goth, and but for the charity Of
their neighbors. the hill farmers, their suf-
ferings would be TERRIBLE There were
miles of desolate territory with scarcely a
house left standing and not vestige of
crops
NEAR Rome City, Ind, an attempt was
made ON the 2Oth to week a passenger
tra1n on the Grand Rapids l. Indiana road.
On the Goth it was announced that the
wife of IKE Mcdonald, the noted Chicago
politician, had eloped with Catholic priest
named Joseph Moysant. The guilty pair
We're supposed to have gone to Europe.
A DAM at the top of the hill above Duluth,
Mimi, burst on the Goth in consequence Of
heavy rain, and the business portion of
the town was flooded. "a
AT Louisville, KY, the largest sale Of
tobacco ever made at auction in one day in
the United States and probably In the world
was made on the 2lst. The total number
of hogsheads sold was 1,OO2 This amounts
to about ,5OO, GOO pounds, worth in the
hogsheads over 410O,O
NEAR Rush City, Mimi, twelve freight
cars were dttched on the 21st by washout
on the Duluth railroad, and three men were
killed.
On the 21st Adolph Brandt, one of the
most prominent Hebrew lawyers in the
South, dropped dead while attending .
meeting of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
at Rome, Ga.
A FIRE destroyed nearly the whole bust
ness portion of Samoa, Cal, on the 2lst.
AT Minneapolis the fourth annual exposi-
ton was opened on the Fist with an i'm
posing street parade and formal ceremonies
at the exposition building.
On the 2lst the Governor, Attorney-Gen
eral and Chief Justice of Kansas said that
woman suffrage at municipal elections in
Kansas had proved such great public ben
eft that they advised other States to adopt
it
The President arrived at his home in In
dianapolis on the evening OF the 2lst to as
sist In laying the cornerstone of the State
soldiers monument. He was warmly wsl-
coined by thousands Of persons.
The death of DR.. E. Parsons, said to be
the Oldest practicing dentist in the United
States, occurred at his home In Savannah,
Go, on the 2lst He was born in North.
anpton, Mass. in 1906 :
The Alabama Greenback party will hold
= state convention at Birmingham on tho
9Th of September.
On the ed ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS H. C.
Davis of Nevada, fell dead in his garden at
Carson from heart disease
The Republicans of rginia in session
on the I'D at Norfolk nominated the fol-
lowing State ticket: For Governor, Gem
eral William Malone; Lieutenant Gov
ernor, Colonel Campbell G. Slemp; Attor-
ney- General, Captain Warren S. Lurty.
The Creston ia. bluegrass palace was
formally opened and dedicated by Gov
ernor Larrabee on the ed.
PHE North Dakota Republicans nomi-
mated the following State ticket at Fargo
on the @ed: For Governor, John Miller;
Lieutenant Governor, Alfred Dickey; Sec
Rotary of State. John Flittie; Supreme
Judges, G G. H. .Corliss, Alfred Watkin,
Judge Bartholomew; Auditor, John o.
Bray; member Of Congress, L G. Hans-
brough