The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-11-07
WEST hN0 eouTh,

SEVERAL witnesses from camp ~ were
on the stand on the goth in the Cronin
murder case and testified unwillingly.
Mrs. Oman corroborated her husband s
story about the white horse.
AT Topeka, Kan, Nick Schaeffer was
convicted on the 29th under the prohib-
itory law of selling hard cider. This
was the first conviction for that offense
found in the State.
AT Denver, COL, over seven inches OF
damp snow fell on the 29th, and several
roofs were crushed by It's weight.
A PASSENGER and freight train COL
lided on the Goth at Glendale, a., and
Engineer Pullen and Ansel elliott we're
killed and fourteen persons were injured.
Part of the passenger train and most OF
the freight train was burned.
G. c. EAsTERDAY's house at Massena,
Ia, was burned on the Goth, and his
three small children persisted in the
flames.
ARMOUR & Co. g fertilizer building at
Kansas City was destroyed by fire on
the goth. Loss, $4,000. A negro per
ished in the flames.
/ In St. Paul On the 29th Mr.. Marvin,
chairman of the relief committee for
the Dakota sufferers, stated that he felt
convinced from information received
that there were nearly twenty thousand
families, representing total of upwards
OF one hundred thousand people, who
were destitute in the Dakotas.
HARRY NORMAN and John Childers
fought duel with pistols on the 18th
at Helena, Ark, and both were killed.
EDWARD S. EBERT, aged ninety years,
fell into fire at Shinnston, w. Va, on
the goth and was fatally burned. Mr..
Ebert claimed that in 1918 he built the
first house ever erected by white men on
the site of the city of Chicago.
The death of Ex-Governor John Man.
ming occurred at Camden, s. c., on the
29th at the age of seventy-three years.
He was Governor of South Carolina in
1852.
On the Goth team of horses which
John Wood was driving backed off a
bridge near Shelbyville, Ind, and Wood
and his wife were fatally injured.
The sale at Minneapolis of the Pills
bury and Washburn mills to an English
syndicate for ESQ, 600 was definitely an.
nounced on the Goth.
AT Somerset, Ind, the Jumbo gas we'll
which supplied the town with fuel gave
out on the Goth, leaving the citizens fire.
less.
IT was stated on the Goth that the Chi
cago & Alton railway had been absorbed
by the Union Pacific.
In the Cronin murder case in Chica0o
on the 30th ult. tho chief witness was
Captain Thomas F. VConnor, member
OF Camp 20, who described in detail the
appointment of the secret committee by
Senior Guardian Beggs to investigate
the charges that the executive commit
tee Tor triangle) had squandered the
funds and that there were British spies
in the camp.
On the 30th ult. William Trofford, q
rich old farmer of Grafton, Ind, was
swindled out of $1,000 on the gold brick
trick.
THE Indiana Supreme Court rendered
q decision on the 9Oth ult. upholdinq
the law passed by the last Legislature
fixing the liquor license in towns and
cities at $27O. = :.
KANSAS officers left Niles, Mich, on
the 30th ult. with q woman calling her
sell Mrs. Monroe and her daughter, Mrs.
Davis. 1t was said that the aged dame
was the infamous Mrs. Bender, whose
family years ago committed many MUIR
ders In sLabette County, Kan. Mrs.
Davis, the daughter, was also thought to
be the notorious Kate Bender.
The strike Of the journeyman tailors
in Chicago ended on the 30tb ult. in a
victory for the employers
The vice-president of the Chicago &
Alton railway denied on the 30th ult.
the reported consolidation OF his road
with the Union Pacific.
A BOILER in the Bella!re blast fur.
maze at Bsllstrs, O.. sxplodsd % ths