The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-01-03

COLONIAL form Of governunent They want
Statehood. regardless q IT. politlcsn
TEE sir prisoners who recently broke.
jail g Lafaysttss Ind, were recaptured On
Tan wnso, 81 Richmond. Va. and the
Duly Commssetas. OF Chattanooea Tenn.
suspended publication o.. tho a7th.
On the 9th clearing house association,
with capital Of q, 100 90. was organised
at Sioux City. 10. Nine banks are members
OF the organization.
SAMUEL HEDaE, Jenersonville Qnd.)
stock dealer, was robbed Of $500 on the
27th by burglsra
OK the 18th Le Ong Sing. Chinaman,
was hanged IN San Francisco for the muir
der OF his uncle two years ago.
REV. JANIS B. BoYck, d. D., president Of
the Southern Baptist Theological Semi
nary at Louisville, KY, died on the 2Sth at
Pau, France.
DuR1Na . quarrel Benjamin Ferguson
was shot and killed near Mentor, Ind, on
the 18th by Francis Palmer. ,th men
were prominent farmers and lived but
short distance apart. -:
OK the 18th. Charlotte Morgan (colored),
died at Xenia. O., aged one hundred aud
seven years. r.
ON the 2sth Elijah Haskell, Of strawn,
Ind, on being refused by Miss Delilah
Allison. shot her through the head, killing
her instantly. He then shot himself and
diei in two hours.
The deaths of Elsea Browning, aged
eighty-eight years, and his wife, aged
etghty-two years, pioneer citizens of Co.
lumbus, Ind, occurred on the 28th of old
age, within two hours Of each other. The
couple had been married for over sixty
years.
PRor. PAUL CoxBs, member Of the facul.
ty Of the Maryland Agricultural College,
was drowned while duck shooting on the
2Sth near Leonardtown, Md.
"PET" OvERToN was hanged on the 18th
at Bastrap, La, for the murder Of Frank
Hearsey on April 18th last.
In Liberty township, O., an epidemic of
whooping cough had on the 2Sth closed all
the public scho; Is and brought great dis.
tress upon the community.
MRs. EPPs, Of Fort Wayne Ind, com.
mitted suicide on the 2Sth to avoid appear
ing in court to answer to q charge Of dis
orderly conduct.
The Commissioner of the General Land
Office of Texas In his report on the 2Sth
showed that during the past two We ars the
State had issued patents for I. OOO, SIS acres
Of land, and that Texas no longer had any
public domain.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
BIZ request of the Emperor Of Germ>hy
no more horse-racing will take place in
that country on Sunday.
FIRE destroyed the Abbaw flour mile at
Waltham, England, on the 25th. LESS,
$4,000
The famous Russian officer, General
Louis Melikoh, died on the Goth ut N: ice,
aged SixtY-fOur years.
The Storm Queen, q British steamer,
fouudered on the 18th in the Bay of Biscay,
and her captain and five other persons
were drowned.
In the eastern and southeastern parts
Of Spain several shocks of earthquake
were folt on the 9th
On the 9th exploring schooners reported
at Victoria, B. c., that there is great
abundance Of fl h on b lack Coal Banks. OF
Queen Charlotte's Is and, and that :he
coasts are dotted with natural harbors, in
! which the anchorage is excellent
Four THOUSAND bondholders Of the Fan
anna Canal Company unanimously adorted
| o resolution at a meeting in Paris on the
9th expressing confidence in M. De @.es-
seps and volunteering to forego the inter-
until the canal is opene for tr, ftic.
FIRE swept aw y the village of De;or-
aine, Man., on the 2Sth.
A FIRE destroyed the Sharbot Hote; at
Kingston, Ont, on the 2Slh, and Sc "
John Fraser. well-known author, aud
the hotel porter and bell boy persisted in
| the flames.
On the 18th Prado, the murderer of
Marie Aguetant, was beheaded in Paris
A SHELL burst on the 2Sth in one of che
fortresses Of Messina, Sicily, exploded q
powder magazine and killed sixteen SOL
diers and injured many others.
| WEBB BRANDON was HANGED at Winnl.
peg, Man., on the 2sth for ;Ae murder Of
his wife.