The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-06-06

at Brooklyn.
ATERRIBLE catastrophe occurred at Johns-
town, Pa, a city of thirty-tive thousand in
habitants, on the 3lst ult. large reser-
voir gave way and inundated the entire
! town, and it was estimated that the loss of
! life would reach two thousand. Millions OF
dollars worth OF property had been de-
| stroyed.
|. FREDERICK Amy e. Co., dry-goods COM
: mission merchants of New York, failed on
tie 5lst ult. Liabilities, $35O,OOO; assets, Is
Dsr cent
WEST AND SOUTH.
THE death of Colonel w. H. Chiffon, for
A3teen years commercial editor of the
louisville Courier-Journal, occurred on the
27th.
NEAR Mt. Sterling, ILL, four men were
captured on the 9th while IN the act OF
nlolding silver dollars
CHARLES VELTE killed his mother at Grand
Rapids, Mich, on the 9th and then took
his own life No cause was known for tho
deed.
The barn Of Silas Jones, at Anderson, Ind :.
containing six head of horses, was burned
ON the 2Sth
On the 2sth the Right Worthy Grand
! Lodge of the Independent Order OF Good
Templars convened in Chicago The order
| comprises over one hundred grand lodges,
which have jurisdiction over as many sep
! arate countries, States and Territories
Under these grand lodges are an aggregate
Of lola local lodges, with sc, 600 adult
and juvenile members.
MRS. RANDOLPH BRADT became suddenly
insane Oh tho 2sth ut Bxenhas.,, Tex, and
Selling pistol killed two of her children.
One was four years old and the other six.
MoLLIE CoRw1N, whose marital experience
beats the record was granted divorce at
Shelbyville, Ind, on the 2Sth from Joseph
Corwin, her seventh husband All the men
are living.
DIR. CARLSON, druggist, Dr. Lathrop, a
prominent physician, and Nelson Howells,
a young man, committed suicide on the
2s'th at Denver, Col. No cause was known
In either case.
The ex-treasurer of Newport, Ky, Louis
Constants, was on the 2Sth indicted by the
grand jury for embezzlement, the amount
being fixed at $4,000.
On the 2Sth Albert Wilson, railroad man.
fatally shot his young wife at Evansville,
Ind, and then sent a bullet through his
own BRAIN Jealousy caused the crime
In Chicago on the 2Sth the grand Jury in
d1cted Detective Daniel Coughlin, Patrick
~ bSAAASoAAs oAO ACC HAll, IIduh y.
Black, alias Woodruff, for complicityin the
murder of DR.. Cronin
AT Clements, Kan , a cyclone on the 2sth
destroyed many houses and barns, and sew
en- persons were killed
On the 2Sth Dani-l Murphy, employed in
| cracker mandatory at Lima, O., was
| caught between two large rollers and
crushed to death
The Legislature of Illinois adjourned sine
| die on the 18th.
GREAT excitement prevailed on the Goth
| at Granite Falls, Mimi, over reported gold
| discoveries.
WHITE CAPS took Samuel Mayberry, of
Watson, Ind, from his home on the 18th
and severely beat him for cruelty to his
| mother
! One man went through a train on the
Milwaukee 4 Northern road on the goth
near Ellis junction, Wis, and stole about
81 500 from the passengers.
The Savannah MO- savings bank made
| an assignment on the Goth.
AT Loyal Oak, o., heavy beams fell and
killed three men and seriously injured q
dozen others at barn raising on the goth.
| JUDGE MORAN, of Chicago, decided ON the
a9th that no permit was required for street
parades. If they make too much noise or
create nuisance they can be proceeded
J against.
| JUST south of Mcpherson, Kan, a cy-
clone formed on the 18th which lifted
! houses bodily from their foundations. One
house was carried entirely away, not YES
tige of it having been seen since One
Maidstone was picked up which measured
| thirteen inches in circumference. No lives
were lost.
On the Goth Captain Porter, chief of the
| United States Secret Service, returned to
| Chicago after making very important
capture OF cOunterfeiters aad n1oonshiners
| who had flooded the southern part of ILL.,
nois with counterfeit dollars and dimes.
besides supplying saloon-keepers with their
whisky.
The death of Mrs Fanny Deweese &C.
CURED on the goth at Louisville, KY, at the
age of one hundred and fifteen years Her
Husband died twelve years ago, being then
one hundred and seven years old.
On the 10Th Centigrade, q four-year-old
trotter, the property of United States Treas
urer Huston, died at Cambridge City, Ind
! The animal was valued at 10000.
| The Grand Lodge Of Masons of Indiana
on the 29th revoked the charter of the
| Mount Vernon Lodge because it failed to
discipline members who pleaded guilty to
| the charge of selling intoxicated LIQUORS:
| THR death of H. Melville Fay, the we'll
known spirit medium and husband of Anna
Eva Fay, occurred on the 18th in a hospital
at Cleveland O., of cancer of the tongue,
he was forty-eight years old
ON the 18th Philip Flood, formerly a priv
ate In the Forty second Ohio Volunteers, was
allowed arrears of pension amounting
to- Sl5,2S9. This was the largest first pay
ment on record in the Pension Office.
| On the Goth William White was arrested
at haporte City. Ia, for passing counterfeit
money, and when searched 4222 50 in bogus
| gold coins were found in his possession.
DURING wtnd-storm at Danville. Va. on
the Both nlt a brick tobacco factory in
course of construction was blown down.
Five men were killed, six badly injured and
several buried In the ruins 5s}
On the 30th ult Miss Bridget Gallagher.
aged eighty years, who had lived alone for
th1rty-hve years, was found dead in her
cottage at Davenport, Ia, having been suf-
located by coal gas
The death Of Congressman Edward J.
Gay, the millionaire sugar-planter, GO.
CURED on the 90th ult. at Thibodeaux. Il