The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-05-16
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The Paris exposition was opened on the
afternoon of the 9TH.
By the capsizing of sloop on the 9TH
near St John, N. B., six men were drowned.
THE death of Jose Riva Galban, Span
lard occurred on the eth at Bordeaux
France, at the age of ono hundred and
eighteen years.
On the It'll eleven unidentified victims of
the recent Grand Trunk wreck were given
public burial at Hamilton, Ont An i'm
manse; crowd was in attendance.
|. 1N:the State of Chiapa, near the City of
Mexico. enormous deposits of copper were
found on the 6th.
l. IN conflict between striking miners and
the military on the Sth at Essen, Germany,
the soldiers fired upon the strikers, killing
three men and wounding five others.
ID, DISPATCHES of the 9Th announce the death
of Father Damien, the celebrated leper
priest, at Molokai, Sandwich Islands For
the last sixteen years he had been laboring
In the leper settlements
ADv1CEs from Rome say that in . recent
battle between Abyssinians and dervishes
thirty thousand soldiers were !ssttt.. BEAD on
the field
ADv1cEs OF the 18th say that the recent
storms throughout.E Eastern Ohio and West
ern Pennsylvania did immense damage to
farm property. Near Allegheny small
settlement was almost, entirely destroyed.
barns and fences being swept away
|. len THOUSAND weavers employed in tho
cotton factories at Thizy, France, struck on
the 18th for higher wages.
The house of Mrs William McNally. at
Ridgeway, Pa. was struck by lightning on
the 18th, and Mrs Mentally and three chill
dren were killed An inf ant in the mothers
arms was untnjured and the tragedy was
discovered by its cries
A SIX days walking match for women
was begun at Baltimore, Nd, at midnight
on the 18th. There were seven contest
ants -:
FIVE negroes and seven whites were
whipped at Newcastle. Del; on the 18th
for larceny, highway robbery and horse
stealing. 49,
The six-days' walking match in New York
closed on the 18th with She following scoross
Herty, $50 miles; Cartwright, SIP; Noremao,
526; Hegelman, $780,. Hughes, SIS; Golden,
sos; Smith, 5OO: ~
A FIRE on the 18th at Fort Atkinson, Wis,
destroyed Cornish, Curtis Il Green's dairy
manufacturing establishment. Loss, $l2j,-
co., 49,
FouR Hungarian workmen were Instant
ly killed on the 18th by an explosion of
fire. damp I'm coal mine near Charters, Pa
GEORGE Francis TRAIN broke his fast of
;twenty-one days on the 18th by eating an
orange at children's tea party in New
York.
Hon. HENRY 4 FOSTER died at his home
In Rome, N. ": ON the 18th in his ninetieth
year: Judge Foster was the senior ex-
United States sena tor, having been appoint
ed In 1874, one year before Simon Cameron,
Of Pennsylvania
AN earthquake shock: vibrating from
northwest to southwest was felt at >Annapo-
Lis, Md, on the 11th r.
Ar Cincinnati on the 18th Moritz Blanc. q
workman In Dahrs fireworks manufactory,
shot and killed his wife and seven year-oid
daughter and then killed himself. jealousy
was supposed to have been the cause.
/ "A STABLE belonging to Fred Hampke, at
Mount Oliver, Pa, was struck by lightning
on the 18th and consumed, and fourteen
horses and two COWS were cremated.-
JAMES D. FISH, ex-president Of the Marine
Bank of New York, was released from
prison at Auburn, N. Y, on tho 18th.
BELOW will be found tho percentage Of
the baseball clubs IN: the National League
for the week ended on the 18th: Philadel-
phia, .6l5; Boston, .615;: New. York, 81;
Chicago, .533; Cleveland, $50; Pittsburgh,
500; indianapolis 438; Warrington, .166.
American Association: st Louis, 80; Bal
timore, 800; Brooklyn, $50; Kansas City,
as; Athletic, .52e; Cincinnati, ATS; Column
bus, .S16; Louisville, .l9a Western Asso-
citation: St. Paul $40; Omaha, .7oo; Sioux
City, .5SS; st Joseph, :455; Denver, ass;
Minneapolis, At; Des Moines. 3s5; Mlwau.
kee 100.