The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-06-27
WEST AND SQurA.

NEAR OIDAua, 1uu, I'LL aCCemp6 was made
on the 18th to wreck the cyclone express on
the Cincinnati, Wabash 4 Michigan railway.
A pile of ties and other matter was placed
on the track, and the engine struck the
mass but did not leave the track.
A BILL was signed by Governor Francis,
of Missouri, on the 18th that was opposed
by all the salOOn-keepers in the State. 1t
prohibits the use of pianos organs or any
musical instruments in saloons The bill
also prohibits the use of cards. dice, bill
iard-tables, pooa-tables, bowling alleys and
boxing gloves.
A DESTRUCTIVE storm passed through Pc
ru, Ind, on the 18th, doing many thousands
OF dollars worth of damage throughout the
city and country.
ON the 18th the Chicago, Milwaukee Il st.
Paul Railroad Company recorded q mort
gage in Chicago for $15O,OOO,OOO to the
United States Trust Company of New York.
The mortgage was executed for the pur-
pose of taking up all indebtedness of the
ROAD and for improvements to be made.
A TRAIN run by the Tennessee Coal, Iron
& Railroad Company for the accommoda-
ton of it's workmen was thrown from the
track on the 18th near Birmingham. Ala.
and two men were killed and nearly one
hundred others were injured.
On the Raleigh l. CASTOR railroad a test
was made on the 18th of process invented
for telegraphing from a moving train.
Messages were received while the train was
running at the rate of thirty miles an
hour
On the 18th the remains of John Sewer.
the first Governor of Tennessee, were ex-,
humed from near Montgomery, Ala, and
were reinterred at Knoxville, Tenn They
had been buried seventy-four years.
A DESTRUCTIVE bug about the size of a
PIN head made its appearance on grain in
Indiana on the 18th, and farmers feared
they would lose most of their crops
AT Elkhart; Ind, Nettie Colburn, a thir-
teen-year-Old girl, committed suicide on
the 18th by taking morphine. Sensitiveness
about her personal appearance caused tho
act
HARDY HAMILTON was executed ON the
10Th at Rome, Ga, for numbering o China
man.
The death of Colonel o. H. P. Cary, vet
eran OF the Mexican war and of the civil.
war, and one of the Oldest citizens of
Marion, Ind, occurred on the 10TH
On the 10th Mrs. Charlotte Allen. aged
seventy years. living Lear Washington, Ind
confessed that In November, 1883, she muir
Edered her husband whose body was found
tied to tree with his throat cut from ear
to ear quarrel over property caused tho
deed.
FIRE destroyed the Narrow Gauge rail-
road shops at Osceola, Ia, on the 10Th, to-
gether with several locomotives.
A MAIL train on the Pan Handle road
was wrecked on the 10Th near Steubenville..
D., and two postal clerks were killed, the
conductor and q brakeman were fatally
hurt and half dozen other persons wero
injured
EARLY on the morning of the 10Th thieves
broke into the post Office at Waycross, Ga,
and robbed the safe of 81 100 and number
OF registered mail pouches.
On the 10Th Martin Burke, arrested re-
Gently In Winnipeg as an accomplice in the
murder of DR.. Cronin, was indicted for
willful murder by the grand jury In Chi
cago.
TUBA and Jumping Frog, two Choctaw In
dams, who had several hundred dollars in
their possession, were found murdered on
the 10Th In the woods of Sugar Loaf Mount
ain In Indian Territory. -:~
The checker tournament between Reed.
Of Chicago, and Barker, of Boston, for the
championship of America and 500 stake
money, closed In Chicago on the 10Th with =.
victory for Reed, the score standing: Reed.
y games; Barker, &; drawn, a.
AT Nashville, Ark, twenty buildings were
destroyed by IRE on the 10th. :.