The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-08-22
WEST AND SOUTH.

"6T2y NlV0 oOO
LEADING Ch1cagOanS on the 18th incOr-
porated company with capital of $5,-
OOO, 600 at Springfield, I'LL, for the purpose
of securing the Worlds Fair in 1892.
AN old negro was inoculated with DR..
Brown-Sequard's elixir of life' on the 18th
at Paris, KY, and soon after died in ter
rible agony. 1t was thought he died of
blood poisoning: The neighbors were so
incensed that the doctor was obliged to
leave town.
On the 18th Governor Foraker declined
to issue q warrant for the extradition of
Richard Carroll, general SUPERINTENDENT of
the Queen & Crescent road, wanted by Gov
ernor Lowry, OF Mississippi. as an alder in
| the Sullivan Kilrain prize-fght, on the
ground that he was in Ohio when the fight
took place.
Iowa G. A. r. veterans decided on the
18th that they would attend In a body the
i:*:en soe 81 ts e. acsss IN n" hed RI"
Two THOUSAND people were rendered
homeless and over FIVE hundred houses
submerged at Lincoln, Neb., on the 18Th
by flood. and the Burlington l. Missouri
River railroad was washed out In many
places. Several persons were reported
missing.
In Brown County, Ind rich deposits OF
collaborating sand have been found along
BeanblOssom creek, and Oh the 18th a
mining expert visited the place to make
arrangements for testing the quality of the
ore.
FOREST fires at Portland, Ore, on the 18th
! were rapidly consuming forests all around
that section. Smoke was so thick in that
city that the sun was completely obscured
Tramps suspected of starting fires were
caught, strung up by the neck, let down
and soundly thrashed.
The reports OF the damage done by floods
at Lincoln, Neb, was on the l4th said to be
greatly exaggerated. The railroads had
not suffered much, except the Burlington 4
Missouri, near Tccumseh, where nearly
twenty miles of track must be rebuilt. No
houses were washed away.
A FALLING wall in Chicago on the 18th
killed one man and seriously injured two
others.
A OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES boilefexp'oded on
| the l4th eighteen miles southwest OF Aber-
deem, D. T., causing the instant death OF
| three men and severely 1njuring several
others.
| vocate, Rev. DR.. Bay ISIS, died at Bay View,
Mich. on the 14th, aged ffty-four yeara
On the 14th ex-Judge David s. Terry was
shot and killed by Deputy United States
Marshal David Nagle at Lathrop, CAL
Justice Stephen J. Field, OF the United
! States Supreme Court, and Deputy United
States Marshal Nagle were sitting in the
depot diniEg-room at breakfast when
| Judge Terry came in. walked over and
slapped Justice Field in the face. Marshal
Nagle fired two shots at Terry, one of the
bullets going through his heart and the
other through the floor. He never spoke
after being shot. The assault on Justice
Field was provoked by Judge Terry being
committed to Jail for contempt of court in
tho celebrated Sharon Hill divorce cas-.
Justice Field presiding over the court at
| the time.
MANY thousand acres were on the 18th
ablaze in Montana The timber north an6
south of Miles City, it was thought, was
struck by lightning, starting the fire.
SERIOUS accident was caused on the 18th
by the breaking through a trestle of pas
senger train on the Evansville l. Terre
Haute railway twelve miles north of Mount
Vernon Ind. Twelve persons were serious
| ly injured
The Monon route on the l4th granted a
one cent a mile rate to veterans desiring to
attend the G.. A. II. encampment at Mil
waukee, that being the first railroad to
make that reduction.
| THERE were twenty persons reported
killed ON the 14th in the district adjacent to
Kansas City, Mo-, by the storm which passed
over that section on the night of the 18TH
| REPUBLICANS in State convention at Des
MOines, Ia, on the 14th passed resolution
favoring Chicago for the Worlds Fair in
1852
CLEVELAND, O., bridge builders contem-
plated on the 18th investing $6,OOO,OOo in
rolling mills for the manufacture of iron
beams, as foundrymen charged such ex-
, orbitant prices.
AT the inquest over the remains of Judge
Terry, who was shot by Deputy United
States Marshal Magic while in tho act OF
committing an assault on Chief Justice
Field, of the United States Supreme Court
at Stockton, Cal, on the 18th, the jury
found that Judge Terry came to his death
from wound inflicted py David Nagle
and recommended that he be held in Gus
tody and tried for murder A warrant wa
sworn out by Mrs Terry for the arrest OF
Justice Field for completely.
In State convention at Des Moines on the
10th Iowa Republicans nominated Captain
j. g. Hutchinson, of Mahaska, for Governo,
on the twenty fifth ballot platform was
adopted indorsing the administration OF
President Harrison, q liberal construction
;of the pension laws, and demanding of Con-
gress the protection of American industry
when it does not foster trusts or trade CON
spfracies The convention then adjourned
NORTH DAKoTA's Constitutional conven
ton on the 18th unanimously adopted .
resolution favoring the holding Of tn
/ E.,&> L. 49, ouAS i --.l