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

A CYCLONE did great damage in Lamar
County, Tex, on the 18th to crops, fences
houses and barns and a number of people
were injured The cyclone struck the
southern section of the county and moved
in an easterly direction, sweeping every
thing before it,
The new United States Court for the In
dian Territory began its first term on the
4th at Muskogee, with Judge James NJ.
Shackleford on the bench Nearly all tho
jurors were Indians.
EARLY on the morning Of the 4th A. T.
Rogers, Topeka KAN merchant, and his
wife were fatally shot by Lee Olphant,
burglar, who entered their house, and who
was captured and lynched in short time
IN the bottoms about Jetfersonville, Ind,
the corn was on the 4th being washed ont
by the overtiowiny river.
On the 18th Pat Collins, who murdered
Jesse Turner in January, lSSS, broke Jail at
Lincoln, Kan, but he was pursued and
captured by citizens, WHO took him to the
railroad bridge and hanged him.
The death of Joseph Labord, the Oldest
man in the Northwest, occurred at st. Paul
on the Ath at the age of one hundred and
six years. He was born at Point Lewis,
Que.
DURING services on the 18th in the Free
Methodist Church near Pomeroy, o., an at
tempt was made to blow up the building
with powder, but it missed fire. At least
one hundred persons would have been
killed had the powder been ignited.
"a VERY perceptible shock of earthquake
was felt ar Nashville, Tenn. r about nine
O'Clock on the night of the 5th
/ AN incendiary fire on the 5th at Biloxi,
Miss, destroyed twenty five buildings,
catning loss of $10O;OO0 - s 40!
The American Bankers Association will
hold their annual convention at Kansas
City. Mo-, September 1921 ~ @.sst s,ss$%
In the DR.. Cronin inquest in Chicago all
the evidence on the 5th was directed to-
ward establishing the. fact that the de-
ceased was firmly impressed with the idea
that his life was endangered through the
machinations of Alexander Sullivan, the.
wel!-knOwn ex-president of the Irish Land
League. =n. ,
EARLY on the morning of the 9Th fire at
jacksonville. Fla, destroyed about sixty
wooden buildings, for the most part occu-
pied by colored people. The loss was esti-
mated ut S9oO.ON
The doors of the Bank of Omaha. Neb.,
incorporated about a year ago, were closed
on the :,th. Liabilities between $4,000 and
SO OOO; assets nominal.
ON tue 0Vu tue enumeration OF INDIANA
school children showed that there was
10, 10 in the State, which indicated total
population Of 56ss ,G66 The apportionment
q school funds is $l.35 per capita-an in
crease OF four cents over last year. fszs
A FIRE destroyed the St. james Hotel ut
Stevens Peint,f Wis, on thsssh, andta young
man and two girls persisted in the tiamea
~PRoH1BIT1oN1sTs OF Nebraska met at Lin
coin ON the 5th and organized State
league, and also arran&edsto establish local
leagues in every county In the State. &
y HE school census of Nebraska showed
on the 5th school population of SIG, sO5,
which gives total population to the State
Of about 600. OOI s.
ION the 9th five thousand men were en-
gagged in the work of clearing away debris
and searching for bodies at Johnstown, Pa.
The indications We're that the estimate of
$4,000 to j, COO would not exceed the actual
number of lives lost when all was known.
The militia was in possession of the town
aud It's approaches, and sight-seers and
curiosity seekers were debarred from enter
Ing. Good order prevailed and the home
less and destitute were being cared for as
amply as possible -
At JOhnstOwn, Pa. Eddie Fisher, aged
thirteen, whose mother and five sisters and
brothers persisted In the food, committed
suicide on the 9th by jumping from the top.
Of q building
REPoRrs OF the 9th say that in Steuben
County, n. Y, and adjacent to 1t between