The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-11-07
both ult., causing damage TO the extent

both ult., causing damage TO the extent
of s200, 1000.
Mrs. WILLIAM FELroN, while insane,
locked herself in barn on the S0th ult.
at La Porte, Ind, and fired the build.
ing. She was fatally burned.
AT Bessemer on the S1st ult. "Black
Bart" the Michigan highwayman, plead
ed insanity on the s1st ult. as his de-
tense.
ADv1cEs of the S1st ult. from Harlan
Courthouse, Ky, stated that Judge
Lewis and his party had overtaken the
Howard gang and killed six of them.
Judge Lewis was determined to break
up the gang, which had been terror to
Eastern Kentucky for twenty-five years.
In the territory tributary to Memphis,
Tenn, the cotton crop, which usually
produces one.flfth OF the. total crop Of
the South, was on the 31st ult. said to be
short twenty-seven per cent.
On the S1st ult. the Pam American ex-
scursionists visited the tomb Of Abraham
Lincoln at Springfield, ILL.,, and General
Peraza, of Venezuela, paid a glowing
tribute to the memory of the martyred
President. 49,. %
On the S1st ult. w. P. Hatfield, a fur
niture salesman in Chicago, testified in
the Cronin trial. He described the pur-
chase of q trunk and various articles of
furniture from him by man giving his
name as J.. B. Simonds, and afterwards
identified the goods taken from the Carl
son cottage and the bloody trunk found
on Evanston avenue, after the murder
OF DIR. Cronin, as the ones ''Simonds" had
bought. -
On the 31st ult. L. A. Russell, prom
inent Democrat of Cleveland, announced
himself as candidate for the Governor
ship of Ohio.
The death of James Edward Calhoun,
of Ab5eville, 8. c., cousin of John C.
Calhoun, the nullifier, occurred on the
S1st ult., at the age of ninety-three
years. He was the richest landowner
in South Carolina and for fifty years had
led hermit's life.
ADoLPH RICE and Louis Heck while
working on the dome of the new court
house at Evansville, Ind, on the S1st
ult. were thrown to the ground, dis
lance of seventy feet, by the breaking of
bracket, and killed.
JUDGE PARKER passed sentence of
death, at Fort Smith, Ark, on the LIST
upon nine murderers, setting the date of
hanging for January is, 1890. Two are
negroes and six are full-blooded Indians.
A sNow-sroRM had on the LIST been rag
ing for three days in various parts of
Colorado and Nebraska, and trains on
the mountain roads were delayed.
THROUGHOUT Northern Iowa a heavy
snow-storm prevailed on the 1st.
HE corn crop of Kansas the past sea-
son was 276, 541 1888 bushels.
In Southern Colorado thousands of
horses and cattle were on the 1st driven
from their ranges by q blizzard and
hundreds of the weaker animals had
persisted.
NEAR Easton, COL, passenger train,
snow-bound, was run into by a freight
train on the list, and o fireman, an en-
gineer and passenger were killed.
On the LIST States Attorney Longe-
necker said the story told by Gillette,
fellow prisoner of Burke in Winnipeg,
that Burke made confession to him of
the murder of DR.. Cronin, was without
foundation.
ONE of the most important witnesses
at the Cronin trial in Chicago on the LIST
was Jonas Carlson, the owner of the cot
tage where DR.. Cronin was murdered. He
detailed the renting of the cottage BY
"Frank Williams" and then pointed out
Martin Burke as the man who had passed
under that name.