The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-26


the three months ended on tho 31st Of
August $1,000 head of cattle, 40,OOO, coo
pounds of fresh beef and g., OK, 600 pounds
Of canned beef. =.
THE EAST.
On the 18th the Nicely brothers, con-
demned murderers who recently escaped
from the Somerset (Pa) jail, were recapt-
ured.
convention in New York on the 18th for the
purpose OF forming protective associa-
ton.
On the 18th Hungarian living near
Wilkesbarre, Pa, awoke from fourteen
days sleep.
The Kennobeo Ice Company's dam at
Hibernia, Pa, gave way on the 18th, and q
large amount Of water rushed down the
Brandywine, causing it to overflow its
banks, carrying away one bridge and sew
eral buildings
The New Jersey Republicans met In State
convention at Trenton on the 18th and
nominated General E. B. Grubb for Gov
ernor. The platform indorses the National
Republican platform of 1888, expresses con-
fdence In General Harrison, and practical
~ declares in favor of local option
On the 18th Pat Brady, convict at Au-
burn, n. y, was pardoned by Governor
Hill. He is forty-seven years old and had
been in prison since he was sixteen
FLAMES destroyed the business portion
18th.
The bursting of dam on tho 18th at
sprtngton Forge, near Coatsville, Pa,
Hooded the district and caused farmers to
fee to the hills for safety:
MRS ELIZABETH S. MCCLELLAN, aged nine
ty years. mother of General George B. Nc
Clellan, died on tho 18th at PHILADELPHIA
The house Of Martin Freeman, farmer.
near Napoli, N Y, was entered by burglars
on the 18th and robbed of $1,000 that had
been hidden in various places in the house.
FIRE at Seaford, DEL, on the 18th de-
stroyed the town hall, Masonic and Odd
Fellow halls, ten stores and several dwell
1nga
In the vicinity Of Orange, N j., great
damage was done on the 18th by floods
The death o: DIR. Louis Mas, a famous
pianist and composer, occurred on the 18th
in his residence at Jamaica Plain, near
Boston, OF peritonitis
JESSE w. PAYsoN, the weli-known author
and publisher of school copy books, died
on the 18th at his home at Hyde Park,
Mass, aged seventy four years.
The recent wet weather has done meal
culable damage to the peach crop in New
Jersey.
On the 10th Eva, the alleged wife of Rob-
ert Ray Hamilton, was convicted at Mays
Landing, N j., ofstabbing Nurse Donnelly,
and sentenced to two years in States prison.
JOSEPH DE BARRON, an eight-year-
boy stabbed and killed Herrick Lopez
| aged thirt years. during quarrel on
the 10Th at Warehan1, Mass
SPEAKING of newspaper advertising the
Buffalo IN. W Courier says: 1.-THE charac-
ter and quality of the advertising material
| which the New York Central has been put
ting out this season Is much superior to any
thing the company has offered it's patrons
! in some time. 1t Is an evidence of the pro-
gressive, enterpr1sing and liberal policy
| which has marked the administration OF
! the passenger department since George H
Daniels was appointed General Passenger
Agent Mr.. Daniels is a man of ideas and
knows how to give them practicable shape"
NEAE Danbury, Conn. a heavy bridge
fell on the Nth, carrying down a wagon,
two horses and ten men adistonce of TWEEN
! ty feet. One man was killed and four
fatally hurt
MAGGIE ToB1N aged ten years, of Phila-
delphia, on tho 10th shot and killed her six
| year-old sister Ellen while playing with q
revolver that had been carelessly left in
her reach.
NEAR 1rvington, N. j., the discovery of
gold in rocky ledge caused a sensation in
that village on tho 9th
The death of Mrs. Catharine Burbank.
aged ninety one years, a pensioner of the
war OF 1912, occurred on the 10Th at Cont
cooke, n. H.
FIRE damaged Leonard l. Ellis oil rein.
cry at Shady Side, n. j., on the Goth to the
extent of s50O,00o
On tho Goth Sam" King and Mary Vein
er, two of the most notorious shoplifters in
the country, were arrested in New York.
WEST AND SOUTH.
In San Francisco on the 18th Mrs. Annie
Gaba and her baby were burned to death
and her two other children were burned
fatally by the explosion Of lamp which
the baby had upset
| FoUR Cinnamon were killed BY an OK
plosion Of dynamite cartridge at Lake
Chabol, Col, on the 17th
AN earthquake shook Santa Anna, CAL.
on the 18th.
PARTY of men lynched Martin Griffin
(colored). q highway robber, on the 18th
near St Louis.
NEAR Cloverport, KY, Henry Beal, with
his wife and infant child, were murdered
in their homa on the 18th for a small sum
of money.