The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-10-24

MAS ETT1E I scuo1l, 81 Santa Ana, Cal !,
was found with her throat cut on the 18th,
and her two children, . boy agod Ave and =
girl aged three years were found dead boz
side her with their Threats also cut Mrs
6choll had killed the children and at
tempted suicide.
JOHN Olson and William Drager were
hanged ut Placerville. Col. on the 18th for
the murder in March, 1885, Of John Lowell
AT Denver, Col, tho Brotherhood Of Lo-
connective Engineers commenced their
twenty-sixth annual convention on the
10th. Chief Arthur addressed tho delegates
present
On the evening of tho 18th two passen-
ger trains ON tho Burlington l. Missouri
road crashed together near Gibson, Neb,
the two engines, a chair car and q COM
binAtion car being completely wrecked
One passenger was killed and two OF
three othsrs were In dying condition
In all, over nifty persons were wounded
AT tho session OF the National Board OF
Trade Ut Louisville. Ky, ON the 18th tho
Iorrey Bankruptcy bill was indorsed
Henry Wattorson addressed the meeting
and tho convention then adjourned.
The South Dakota Leg stature on tho
18th declared NessrA Moody and Pettigrew
(too Republican Scnators) elected The
body then adjourned to meet In January.
oN tho 18th pr iirte hres were doing vast
damage In tho low-iands near Fort Wayne,
Ind, and many land owners would be
ruined
OK the night Of The 7th so-oalled respec.
table citizens Of Murray City, O., burned
the house OF George Warrington, . colored
man, because no moro blacks were wanted
in the town.
GEORGE HAzLEToN, formerly Republican
member OF Cong, ess FROM Wisconsin, was
on the 18th appointed attorney for tho Dis
trlct OF Columbia -
WILLIAM WATERMAN died on tho 18th at
Grand Rapids. Wis, aged one hundred and
fourteen years Ho was married twice.
His first wife lived to IN age Of seventy
i've yearA He married his second wife
when he was In his ono hundredth year..
In Southern Minnesota o drought was on
tho 18th seriously inconveniencing farmers,
many OF whom, should rain not speedily
fall, would DO forced to soil their stock.
COLORADO advloes Of the 18th stated that
the Tito Indians were off their reservation
and were committing many depredationa
In the Cronin murder case in Chicago
important testimony Was gwen on tho 18th
Charles lander testified that he heard
Coughltn and O'Sullivan discussing the
best means Of how to dispose OF the body.
1t was also stated that plot arranged fox
tho escape OF the suspects had been foiled
Ton Jurors have thus far been secured
Ar Milwaukee on tho 18th falling vail
killed Frod 6ummerfield and Fritz Seepcr.
The latter leaves wife and seven children.
A TRAIN on the Santa Fe road was
wrecked on tho 18th near Howell. Kan
two Pullman coaches two sleopers and the
baggage-car being dttched- No person was
killed and mono had broken limbs, but
twenty or thirty persons were moro OF less
injured. A broken rail caused the disaster.
MRS JONATHAN DRAKE died on the 18th at
Rockford, I'LL, aged ninety She
was tho mother OF fourteen children, had
forty-eight grandchildren, seven great
greatrgraudchildren, and had living lin
cage OF one hundred and forty-eight per-
sons
On tho 18th resolutions favoring Chicago
Tor the World Fair were unanimously
adopted by the New Orleans Board of
Trade.
WILLIAM GAINES on the 18th cut the
knife and stabbed him seven times. Both
were employed on the farm of George
Shields, near Bristol Wis.
PRAIRIE fires within q few miles of
Bismarck, N. D., were raging on the 18th.
Eforts OF farmers to check the flames
were unavailing, and q large number of
farms were already destroyed
FOREST fires between Princeton and
Bridgeman, Mimi, were destroying thou
sands of dollars worth of property on the
18th. At Greenbush Mrs. Hiram Whittier
whilc helping to fight the fire, fell ex-
hausted and was burned to death.
ADv1cEs of the 18th from Purvis Nisa
stated that forest fires had been raging in
that section FOX two days and that great
damage had been DONE
The death OF Dr. Ira Hawley BarthoIo-
NEW. ex-mayor OF Lansing, Mich, and well
known in the medical world as a promi-
nent writer for leading medical journals.
occurred at his home in that city on the
18th