The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-05-23
WEST AND SOUTH.

VeSJ AND SOUTH
The Car, phenomenal three-year- old
colt, died of pneumonia on the 18th at
Council Bluffs, Ia. The Gear was the prop
erty of Theodore Winters, of Sacramento,
CAL. and was valued at $25,O OO
HE new California Theater at San Fran
cisco was opened on the 18th by Booth and
Barrett
In collision by runaway on the 18th
at Grafton, D. T., Miss Johanna Goodman
son was killed and four men were wounded
NAV building was wrecked by wind on
the 18th ut Tacoma, w. r., and of the twen-
ty men at work on the structure twelve
were killed by falling timbers
GEORGE LOOMS, of Osceola, Wis, killed
his wife by cutting her throat and then
killed himself on the 18TH He was insane.
AMOS TURLEY and Edward Hartshorn were
killed and four other men were badly hurt
by the explosion Of a boiler on the 18th at q
saw-,nill near Payne, O.
AT Memphis, Tenn, George Ward, an en-
gtneer, shot and killed his wife on the 18th
because she refused to live with him. and
then killed himself
WHILE drunk on the 18th Fred Medley.
proprietor of the Pueblo House at Denver,
COL. shot and killed his wife because she
refused to give him money to purchase
beer
On the 18th I. Cornwall, at SeLalia, Col.
was robbed of %, coo worth of jewelry BY
clerk named Strauss, who, in his en-
ploycr's absence, packed up the goods and
left town ss,.si. - 2 .y1@.-~ -r
The youngest son of E. Ellis of West.
port, Wis, was instantly killed on the 18th
by his older brother, aged thirteen years,
who shot the child's head off with shot.
gun with which he was playing. p.
Dick SlNEx, local tough at Richmond
Ind in . fight on the 14th with John ,Br1s.
tow, awandering soldier, bit the latter'e
nose on 1t was an unprovoked assault.
A HsAvY fall of snow in Minnesota and
Dakota occurred on the 14th. !. &
On the 18th the Supreme Lodge of the
Knights Of Honor met In sixteenth annual
session at Indianapolis The secretary's re-
port showed q total membership Of l27, co.
divided among 800 lodges, which paid %,
10000 death benefits last year. Isl. =.
AT Dayton, @, Walter Keller, nine Year,
! old, fell into a vat Of vinegar on the It'll
and was drowned. 49,. .1saf r." 80
JOG HOOKER, the famous trotting horse
killed himself at aParkorsbaIg,sW Va, on
the 18th by running away and cutting hi
head nearly off against barbed- wire fence
AT Lumberton, N. c., a gale on the 14th
| unroofed many small houses and utterly
i. obliterated the crops .,--,- ------~--
CYCLONE did great damage on the 14th
at Danville, Va. to roofing, fences, shade
and fruit trees. Three tobacco factories
were unroofed, the bridge over the Dan
river damagea, and q house IN course 81
! construction and the Colored Baptist
Church were blown down.
AT the annual conference of the Hote
l M M,1<r,
United States In Chicago on the 18th NJ. 8
Gibson, of Portland, Ore, was chosen pres
ident for the ensuing year .5se7 4, :
In the vicinity of Norfolk and Ports
mouth, Va. hail and lwind-storm on the
14th did great damage. The vineyards and
orchards suffered severely, vines and treel
being cut terribly and the fruit destroyed
A swath Of ave or six miles broad was cut
Through Norfolk and Naneamond countie,
by the storm. Barns were blown down b.
the wind and many horses and cattle were