The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-10-09

seventh. William E Haynes (Dem.)
renominated. Michigan. First district,
John l. Chapman (Dcm.). Arkansas,
Second district, Isha,n p. Langley
Union Labor) Endorsed BY the Repub.
tcans. s-sar Z
In the past nine months upward OF
y. 900 new manufacturing enterprises OF
oil kinds have been started In the South.
The 3-year-old stallion Alcyon, owned
by DR.. John Wilbur, of Palmer, Mass,
and valued at $4,000, was burned to
death in barn near Iowa City, Ia.
s TIE Minnesota Supreme Court has
decided that upper berthg OF slice ping
cars unsold to occupants must remain
closed
~ AT the election in Georgia ON the list
the Democrats elected their entire
ticket, headed by William j. Northern,
for Governor, without opposition. The
constitution was also amended, author
izing the Legislature to pension the
widows OF Confederate veterans pro-
vided they have remained unmarried.
The death of man known as T. j.
Henderson occurred at the house of a
Mrs. Pannell, near Birmingham, Ala.
On his death-bed he confessed to her
that he was Charles William Quantrell,
the famous Missouri outlaw, who was
supposed to have been killed in fight
with Federal soldiers in Kentucky near
the close of the war.
TEEMEn defeated Hanlan in a one
mile scnlling race at East Liverpool O.,
for a purse of 81. 900.
C0NGREssMEN were nominated as fol-
lows on the I'd: Indiana, Third district,
w. j. Durham (Rep). Kentucky. Tenth
district, R. c. Hill (Rep). Louisiana,
Second district, Matthew d. Logan
(Dem.); Fourth, T. j. Guice Farmers
Alliance). California, Fourth district,
John T. Cutting (Rcp). Ohio, Eighth
district, w. N. Liken Farmers AL
liance).
WHILE in a tree near Guthrie, O. r.,
J. j. Mitchell .mistook his brother for a
catamount and shot him dead.
Two YOUNG mon, Louis Griggs and
John Carroll, stabbed each other to
death over slight quarrel at New AL
bany. Ind.
On the Cincinnati, Sandusky & Cleve-
land railway two men entered an ex-
press car near Urbana, O., tied the mes
senger, took eleven money packages
and escaped.
MANY acres of timber, grain and
buildings have been destroyed by prairie
fires in the vicinity of the Black Hills
in South Dakota.
THE death is announced at Portland
OF George w. Ebberts, aged 80 years, the
great trapper and scout who was the
first to bring Oregon into notice.
The Legislature of Oklahoma has
passed bill locating the permanent
capital at Oklahoma City.
THE caterpillars have eaten every
leaf ON twenty-five acres of oak trees
near Kalamazoo, Mich. The worms
were moving westward.
In the Illinois and Iowa League, the
Ottumwa Qa.) Baseball Club has won
the pennant
IN Northern Michigan the potato
crop was said to be the largest on
record.
FIVE men were instantly killed at
Chewalla, Tenn, by the explosion of
saw-mill boiler.
FoR the murder of his wife w. I. Mar
tin, aged 80 years, was hanged at Ra-
leigh Courthouse. Md.
IN the First Kentucky district on tho
Sd the Republicans nominated Edgar
I. Franks for Congress-, and in the
Eleventh John r. Wilson was the Re-
publican nominee.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
The town of Druja, place of 1000 in
habitants, in Russia, has been destroyed
by fire and several persons persisted in
the flames.
THE sergeant and corporal who were
sentenced to death in the City of Mex
leo for numbering the commander of the
custom-house guard were shot in view
of the whole garrison.
FLAMES at Sydney, N. S. w., de.
stsoved the buildings of the City Bank,