The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-08-01

NEws reoslysa on the x5sn from tho ~
cant Hood n the Kanawhs (W. Va valley
gave sad story Of wreck and ruin. Every
store from tho head to tho mouth of the
forks was gone or ruined Houses, fences
and crops were washed away and several
lives were lost Couriers from Tygart re-
porteda long list Of houses and property,
bridges and oulverts gone. Tho loss in Lee,
Tygart, Slate and Steele counties would
reach e5O0, 600
On the 18th tho troubles of the Times
Newspaper Company in Chicago eliminated
In tho retirement Of Mr.. James j. West He
not only resigned from the editorship of
the paper but surrendered also his entire
interest In tho property.
OHIO Prohbitionists in State convention
on the 18th ut GAINESVILLE made tho follow.
Ing nominations: For Governor. Rev. J. b
Helwig, of Springfield; Lieutenant Gov
ernor, L B. Logan, Of Stark County; Su-
prone Judge, Gideon T. Stewart, Of Nor
walk; Treasurer. d. n. Trowbridge, of To-
ledo; Attorney General E. Jay Pinney, Of
Ashtabula
On board the Atlanta on the 18th c. g.
Talcott, assistant engineer Of the United
himself with pistol
Ar meeting Of tho Saloon Keepers As
ISOLATION Of Cincinnati on the 18th limited
number OF them agreed to defy the law by
keeping open ON Sunday, the association
agreeing to stand by them financially In the
courtA
ON the 25th tornado two hundred feet
wide passed half mile west of Prague,
MIMI, and one house was dashed to pieces,
i've railroad cars, wheat laden, were thrown
twenty feet from the track, and crops In
the path OF the storm were utterly demol-
iahed No lives were lost
The Toledo l. Western, the Detroit l.
State Line, the Wabash, the Wabash l. East
ern of Indiana, the Wabash l. Eastern of
Illinois nd tho Wabash Western were con-
solidated on the s6th under the name of the
Wabash Railway Company.
E. BAUGH l. Sons fertilizing works at
Indi annapolis were destroyed by fire on the
Goth. Loss estimated at 500, 0OO.
On the 18th Volney Fullerton, a young
farmer living near Carthage, No., died Of
hydrophobia Agar ago he was bitten by
rabid dog, but felt no evil effects until
day or two before his death.
On tho 18th Wesley Elkins, aged eleven
years, confessed that he was the murder
or of his father and stepmother in Elk
township, la, whose bodies were recently
found frighttully mangled He said a quar-
rel with his father caused him to commit
the crime.
AT Rayville, La, Charles Sellers was
hanged on the goth for the murder of Bun
yam Adams, and at Baton Rouge, La, Tom
Bowling (colored) was executed for the
murder of Philip Walsh (whits).
ACICLoNE passed through Lebanon Ind.
on the 96th. The Witt block, Lanes drug
store, Moody 4 Graves block and the Pho
neer printing Office were all unroofed and
deluged with water: Trees, fences, crops,
etc, were Frustrated, with much loss.
JAMES KELLY tcolored), who made an as
sault on the wife of Peter Grow, WAS taken
from the Jail at Paris, KY, on the 26th BY
mob and hanged
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
COWBOYS overpowered tho guard and
hanged two Mexican horse-thieves near
Kelly, N. NJ, on the 2ad
ADv1cEs of the ed from Hayti state that
General Hippolyte had made several at
tempts to capture Port au Prince, but was
repulsed with loss
The Government decided on the 23d to
issue an order depriv1ng General Boulanger.
Count Dillon and Henri Rochefort of ali
civil and political rights This action
would render them ineligible to any Office
in France and would also make any prop
erty they may own in France liable to seiz
ure.
IT was agreed in the English House of
Commons on the 23d to grant lump sum
of f6oO, GOO, or, as an alternate, 10000 an-
nually, to build railroads in Ireland.
In Newfoundland annexation to the
United States had on the 23d become 90
popular as to cause anxiety in London.
CHINA advtces of the I'D say that recent
fire at Lu Chow burned twenty-three hours,
destroying eighty-seven Thousand dwell
ings. Over twelve hundred persons per-
ished in the flames and four hundred others
were killed.
NEWS on the Oath from Ounaaska con.
6rmed recent reports of the loss of three
whaling schooners the James A. Hamilton.
the Otter and the Annie. The vessels car
ried about sixty officers and ,nen.--~,-- -,..--
In the highest circles of society in Copen-
hagen q great sensation was caused on the
Oath by the suicide of Count Spare, men,
Der of prominent Swiss family, after he
had killed his mistress.
The cargo of the bark Midway, which was
wrecked in 1853 off Cape Henlopen while
bound from London to Philadelphia with
tin, lead and spelter, was recovered on the
Gath by wrecking company. The metals
were valued at $3.50, 600.
On the 18th tho Government of Switzer-
land expelled all the Russian Nihilist..
French Anarchists and German Socialists
resident there who were not provided with
regular papers from their own countries
Mr. AND MRS. WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE
celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of thei1
wedding on the 18th in London. The
Queen telegraphed her congratulations to
the ex-Premier and his aged wife.
CHINA advices of the 18th say that the
Yellow river had again burst its banks in
Shangtung, 1nundating an immense extont
of country: There was twelve feet Of water
throughout ten large governmental dis
tricts. The loss of life and property was
incalculable.
By the burning Of warehouses on the 26th
at Liverpool, seven thousand bales of Amer.
lean cotton were destroyed
LATER.