The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-02-13

NEAR St Cloud, Mimi. three section
men were killed by . train on the 4th.
Ar Louisville, Ky., the Baptist Book
Concern was organized on tho 4th on Q
plan simtlar to the Methodist Book Con-
corn, and would soon begin the publica-
ton Of UNCONVENTIONAL books.
IN West Virginia the Gubernatoria.
contest was settled for the present on
the 4th by the Legislature seating
Fleming (Dem.) who received 43 votes
to 40 for General Golf.
THE clerk of the Pacific Express Office
at Dallas, Tex, F. A. Walton, absconded
on the 5th with $35, 900 belonging to the
company. 50
In Hamilton County, Mo-. destruction
was on the 5th said to prevail owing to
the failure Of crops, and aid was asked
for the suffering people.
The town Of Burke, Idaho, was on the
18th nearly destroyed by avalanches.
Half the business houses were In ruins
and three men were killed.
MISSOURI Prohibi tionists in State con-
vention on the 5th at Sedalia adopted q
platform denouncing the maintenance
Of the liquor traffic, the high license
laws of Missouri and the local option
law, State and National 1850 -
The river front and several streets in
Portland, Ore, were under water on the
5th, caused by the swollen condition of
the Willamette, and merchants were
compelled to suspend business. Through
out the Willamette valley and in
Southern Oregon heavy losses were re-
ported, bridges, houses, fences, mills,
etc, having been swept away.
The Virginia Legislature defeated .
bill on the 5th to revive the old whip
ping-post law: $50.
LYON CITY, a mining camp in Mon
tana, was completely buried by snow
slide on the 5th, and two miners were
killed and q large amount Of property
destroyed.
The secretary of the agricultural de-
partment Of Kansas stated on the 9th
that the value of crops in the State for
1889 was $104, 572, 49s The value of live
stock for the same year was $l16, 128, 1885,
A WRIT of error was granted by Chief
Justice Shope, of the Illinois Supreme
Court on the 9Th in the case of Fielden
and Schwab, the imprisoned Chicago
Anarchists, in order that the question
of the right of the condemned men to be
personally present in court when the de-
cision of the State Supreme Court was
rendered may be determined.
AT Charlestown A. b. Fleming was on
the 9Th inaugurated Governor of West
Virginia.
OREGON advices of the 9th say that
the floods had washed away fifty houses
in Oregon City, fifteen buildings at
Salem, aud caused considerable damage
at other places. The waters were sub
siding.
THE death of Joshua Sexton, founder
of the Urbana Citizen and the Oldest
editor in Ohio, occurred at Urbana on
the 9TH, aged SO years. He had been in
the publishing business since 1921.
NEARLY fifty women, representing the
best families in Lathrop, NO., visited
two gambling dens on the 7th and COM
pletely Quilted them, emptying out near
| ~ 81, 600 worth of liquor into the street.
MURDERERs were hanged as follows
on the 9TH: Sam Dill (colored) at Jack.
sonville, Ala; Lige Moore at Greens.
boro, N. c.; John Wilson in Yancy
County, N. c., and Malen Hankey in
! Montgomery County, N. C.
FLAMES destroyed the courthouse at
Dallas, Tex, on the 18th, and most OF
the records were destroyed. Loss, $780,.
600.
! ALL over the Northwest a terrible
blizzard prevailed on the 7th, and the
storm was said to be the worst since
1882.
GEORGE LUMM1s, aged % years, OF
Hamilton, O., on the 7th made an un.
successful effort to murder Effie Long.
necker. aged 16 years, because she re.
jected his suit, and then killed himself
| FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
! CHINA advices of the 4th say that a
waterspout lear Marking caused the
loss of one hundred lives.
The sum of $4,000 in specie and
bonds were stolen from the steamer La
Plata on her recent voyage from Buenos
Ayres to Antwerp.
OWNERS Of docks, wharves anu ware
houses in London on the 4th formed q
union to combat the tyranny of the la
bOrers' unions.
On the 9th Catherine Henry, aged 10t
years, died in Kingston, Ont, of In
fluenza.
BY an explosion in colliery at Mon
mouthshire, Eng, 800 miners were bur
led on the 9Th, and $50 of them lost theil
lives.
On the evening of the 9Th Genera
Salamanca, CaptainGeneral of Cuba
died at Havana, and Minister of Wa
Chinchilla was on the 9TH appointed hi.
successor.
ADv1CEs of the 7th say that IL
bodies had been taken from the Goa
mine in Moumouthshire, Eng, in which
an explosion occurred recently, and i
was feared that there were twenty NOR,
dead still in the pit.