The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25

Isaac JoA1 .ooloredJ Deoks nearly ever,
bone In the body Of his four-ysar-old chih
with IN iron bar and then beat his wife q
death on the 18th at Jacksonville. Fla H.
claimed to b subject 10 Ats, and that he had
ono ct tho time.
A TRAMP assaulted Nm Henry Bennehoff,
seventy-nvo years old, on the 18th nea1
T1han, O., and 90 badly injured her that she
died In short time.
On the 18th tho steamer Everett, . raft
boat belonging to the Burlington ia Lum-
Dor Company, was sunk Ut tho head of Otter
island. and five Of tho sixteen persons ON
board were drowned
AT Isabel. Kan, . wind storm on the 18th
destroyed I'VE houses and ruined crops
On the 18th . bag containing Oh, 600 in
gold Disappeared from the Northern Pa
ciac Express Office at Brainerd, Mimi. and
ofdcials and clerks were completely In tho
dark - to lts whoreabouta 3 #. zr-
CHARLIE HAYES. aged four years, and his
sister Mamie, aged two years. were fatally
playing near burning brush heap on tho
18th at Upton, Mo.
FLOODS had on the 18th ruined the pota-
70, pea and bean crops In portions Of Vir-
gtn1a
An incendiary fro destroyed the business
part Of Cheney, W. r., on the 18th.
NEAR nfe-savinR station No. q, near
Norfolk, Va, vessel went ashore on tho
18th, and all on board were drowned before
any assistance could reach them.
JAMES MILLS, . half Indian and half negro,
and Michael Allen, q one-armed negro, were
hanged on the 18th ut Fort Smith, Ark, for
murder.
AT V1ncennes, Ind, Sylvester Grubb was
hanged on the 18th for the murder of his
sweetheart Gertrude Downey, ct Prince
ton, Ind, September IS, 1885,
The town Of Hinckley. ILL.,, was struck by
cyclone on the 10th. blowing a path one
hundred feet wide through the village un-
roofing or blowing down every building In
it's course. No one was killed.
On the 10Th five Mormon missionaries
were whipped, taxred and feathered and
driven out Of Dale County, Ala
THE th1rty-n1nth regular session of the
Wisconsin Legislature terminated on the
18th.
A. G. SPALD1Na and his band of base ball
players arrived in Chicago on the 10Th and
were given hearty welcome after an alb
sence Of six months on q tour around the
world
In Waupaoa County, Wis.,, forest fires
wore doing great damage on the 2lst Near
Marion seven farm-houses had been de-
stroyed and cattle and swine had persisted
In the flameA
Ar Lebanon. O., Frank Lynn, a young
farmer boarding at MI. Wilborn Noah's, shot
and killed Mrs Noah on the 2lst and then
committed suicide. No cause was known.
FLAMES on the 21st at Atlanta, Ga, did
damage to the extent Of $500
n~y\ 1~ 80 =
Der entered the express Office at Patterson
vile, NO., robbed the safe of $4,000 and
made his escape.
MRS A. W. LUCAS, accompanied by her
two daughters and hired man, tried to
ford swollen stream in wagon at Car
thage, No., on the 20th and were swept aWav
and drowned
In the little village Of West Depere, Wis,
fifty buildings were destroyed by fire on the
10th.
A PRE- in Dennis Hotel at Detroit on tho
21st caused tho death Of three men from
suffocation.
SIMON HouT1, a well-digger at Attica,
Ind, in At Of jealousy on the 10Th shot and
killed his wife and then took his own life.
AN eighteen-hour bicycle contest closed
In Chicago on the 2Oth, Miss Cakes being tho
winner, she travelling 255 miles. Miss Woods
made 246 Miss Baldwin 241, Miss Brown 225
and Miss Lewis 224 miles.
FOREIGN iNTELLloENcE.
Mr.. PARNE1L instituted a suit against the
London Times for libel on the 10Th, claim
ing GlOO, 900 damagea
BY an explosion five persons were killed
on the 18th in the Rothsch1ld colliery at
Tiefblau, Austria, and six other workmen
were missing.
CHOLERA was raging on the 18th In the
Philippine Islands, where, out of fifteen
hundred persons attacked, one thousand
died
In Paris on tho 18th warrants were issued
for the arrest Of dxty more members of the
Boulangtst party.
ADv1cEs of the 18th brought details of tho
allow starvation of Thousands in the north
Chinese provinces In one town on the
banks OF the Yellow river women walked
the streets and publicly offered their chill
dren for sale to save them from famishins
Missionaries were feeding eighty thousand
persons, but this was not more than a If
tieth part of tho number that were starv-
ing.
On the 18th six thousand emigrants sailed
from Liverpool, few of whom were bound
for the Argentine Republic and the rest for
the United States.
AT Bicze, Waag and Bistritz, in Hungary,
famine was raging on the 18th, and hun
dreds of persons were starving and dying
FRENcH-CANAD1AN papers stated on the
10th that the volume of emigration from
Quebec to the United States this year
promised to exceed that of any previous
year in the history of the province. One
paper said it would reach one hundred
thousand
A N1H1L1sT1C plot to assassinate the Car
was discovered on the 10Th at St Peters
burg
EMIGRATION from the southwest of Ire
land was on the 10th causing ALARM as the
country was being rapidly depopulated
FIRE on the 18th nearly destroyed the
Indian village of Hoquois, in Canada, hav-
ing a population Of eleven hundred, all In
dianA
On the 10th BOulanger was ordered by the
authorities Of Belgium to leave that country.
LATER.
The Pres dent the ed appointed as a
commission to negotiate with the Sioux
Indians In Dakota, Gen. George Crook, U.
8. Army; Hon. Chas Foster, of Ohio and
Hon. William Warner Of Kansas City. No.
Irving Miller, son of Justice Miller was
appointed secretary of the commission.
TIE: Rtdeau canal, Canada opened the
s2d. the earliest opening for fifty years
JAMES SwARTz, Waterman at George
Lannon'S camp, near Mora, Mimi, was
shot and killed the 21st by August Ander-
son who was staying in camp with him.
1t IS claimed that the affair was accidental
but Anderson has departed for parts
unknown.
ONE OF the early freight trains near
" worcester, Mass, broke in two the morn.
Ing OF the ed. They then crashed togeth.
or again and the result was a wreck, Two
OIL cara and two grain cars were burned.
The people. of Massachusetts, on the ed
voted upon proposed amendment to the
state constitution prohibiting the manu-
facture and sale of intoxicating liquors.
A very large vote was polled and the
amendment was defeated by nearly Al, 600