The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-10-30

by the Louisville baseball team, defeat
ing Brooklyn BY score o; s to 4.
In a crash on the Kansas City &
Memphis road near Birmingham. Ala,
two lives were lost and twenty-six pas
sengers hurt II
In a collision in a tunnel on tho
Cincinnati Southern railroad at Sloan's
Valley. KY, six trainmen were killed
and seven persons injured.
A ii, PASSENGER train approaching
Chickamauga, Ga, struck wagon and
killed James w. jenkins, his wife and
baby and Mrs James Bowman.
HARRY WILLIAMS. mulatto, was
hanged at Rolling Fork, Miss. for the
murder of a white man. ~
The death of .'Old Tom Starr" aged
80 years, one of the most remarkable
desperadOes in this country, occurred at
Muskogee. Ind. T. He was Cherokee
Indian, and during his life killed
seventy Indians to avenge his fathers
murder. &c.. g.. >..,1 ..-
In session at Nashville, Tenn, the
| American Humane Society elected Ed.
win Lee Brown, of Chicago, president
THE Indians of the Indian Territory
were reported to be growing discon-
tented over the occupancy Of their lands
by white men, and they were said to be
secretly plotting an outbreak under
the leadership of Messiah whom they
expected daily.
WILLIAM NICu's 16-year-old daughter
was frozen to death in blizzard near
Folsom, N. NJ. *-'
The population of the State of Florida
is given by the Census Bureau at $780,
S45; increase, 12O,945.
Two SHOCKS of earthquake occurred
| at Cape Girardeau, Mo-, and buildings,
| furniture, crockery, ETC., were visibly
affected by the movement of the earth.
A TRAIN was robbed near San An
| tonic, Tex, By three disguised men,
| who secured 81, 500 from passengers ard
| trainmen.
FLAMES destroyed the business por-
| ton of Leavenworth, Ind.
PEOPLE b. the hundreds were flocking
to the Arbuckle mountains in Okla
| bona, whore gold, as reported. had been
discovered in paying quantities.
ALLERroN broke the 4-year-old stall
lion record at Independence, Ia He
| trotted the mile in 2:14.
AN express train on the Santa Fe
| jumped the track two miles west of To-
| peka and thirty passengers and train
men were seriously injured.
| {. J. IIamlin's great team, Belle Ham,
lin and Justina, at Independence, Ia.,
smashed the double team one mile rec
ord of 2:l5 held by them, trotting the
mile in s:l34.
IN Terre Haute, Ind, Ann Sixbury
! Badly celebrated her lOlst birthday an
niversary at the Old Ladies' Home.
| She was born October "a, 1889, at Sara
toga, n. Y.
THE Ohio Legislature passed the bill
on the Oath giving the mayor of Cincin-
natl power to appoint non-partisan
board of public works and the extra
session came to an end.
! In the Mare Island navy yard at San
! Francisco a fire caused a loss of 500, 900.
JUDGE LEGGETT in his instructions to
the grand jury at Bloomfield, Ia, said
that it was violation of the laws of the
State to sell any liquor without a proper
permit, whether imported and in the orig
inal package or not. He declared that
the action of the courts in other States
on this subject was not binding on the
| courts Of Iowa.
A MOB at Miller, Ga, !ynched George
Williams, Il negro boy II years old, who
shot and killed the 5-year-old son of j.
! r. Robertson (white).
The ex-Sheriff of Lyon County, Kan,
w. r. Bancroft committed suicide. He
! had just taken Out two accident policies
on his life for So, 900, good for twenty
| four hours.
THE death of Patrick Hawley, aged
106 years, occurred at Davenport, la.