The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-10-09
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FIRE destroyed ten business blocks at
1lion, n. Y, and seven others were
severely damaged by fire.
JOHN Q. Nichols in quarrel over
money matters at Lowell, Mass, fatal
~ shot his sister, Mrs. Ida Cunningham,
and then sent two fatal bullets into his
own head.
The American committee has issued
an appeal for the relief of famine suf-
ferers in Ireland.
Mrs. ANNIE G1LRoY died at her home
in New York on the 3Oth ult., aged 107
years.
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY Mormons
arrived in New York on the steamer
Wyoming, forty of whom were young
girls. There were also four Mormon
elders.
On the 1st the first training school
in this country for deaconesses of the
Episcopal church was opened in New
York.
THE Congressional nominations on
the LIST were: Massachusetts,, Fourth
district, Joseph H. O'Neil (Dem.) re-
nominated; Sixth, Henry Cabot Lodge
(Rep.) renominated; Eighth, F. T.
Greenhalge (Rep) renominated; Tenth.
G. Il. Pratt (Dem.); Twelfth, John C.
Crosby (Dem.); John Bascom PRO J.
New York, Twenty-fourth district,
Frank Il. Arnold (Rep.); Thirty-sec-
ond, b. H. Williams. (Rep.). Rhode
Island, First district, O. Lapham
Dcm.); H. H. Richardson (Pro.); Sec
ond, Charles II. Page (Dem.); John s.
Tupp (Pro.).
AN Iron and Steel institute was
opened at New York on the 1st with an
address of welcome by Mr.. Andrew Car
negie. Delegates were present from all
over the world.
The total population OF the State of
New Hampshire is reported by the
Census Bureau to be 375, 1927; increase,
1886.
HERE was an English woman among
the Mormon immigrants who recently
arrived in New York who had deserted
her husband to become the sixteenth
wife of saint
OPEN war against the Knights of La
Dor has been declared by the New York
Central railway.
The Congressional nominations made
on the I'd were as follows: Massacbu-
sets. Eleventh district. Il. G. Spauld.
ing (Rep.). New York, Fifteenth dis
trict, Henry Bacon (Dem.); Twenty
sixth, George w. Ray (Rep.). Pennsyl-
vania, Eighth district, William Mulch
Ter (Dem.) renominated.
j. K. GARDNER, lumber dealer of
Ridgeway, Pa, was robbed of a pocket
book containing $4,000 on train near
Pittsburgh.
CHARLES WILLIAMS, of Bridgeport
Conn.,, a colored boot-black, has fallen
heir to fortune of over $50, 600.
AFTER search of eighteen years d.ca-
ton, Mrs. Ellis Jollie, of Chicago, found
her daughter in Providence, r. I.
LOCAL United States authorities at
Boston, Mass, have begun stringent
enforcement of the new lottery law.
AT his home in Newport, K l., George
Bancroft, the historian, celebrated his
10th anniversary ON the Sd. T..
In Lancaster County, Pa, thirteen
colts broke out of an Enclosure, ran
down railroad track and all were
killed.
The three little children of Samuel
Eek were fatally burned At Topton, Pa.
They were locked In the house during
their mothers absence, and the build.
ing took fire. 5s, rs = y-s4s
Two CHILDREN of Nelson Dion, aged
z and 4 years respectively, were burned
to death by the explosion Of a lamp at
Marlboro, Mass. ii ! ~ > .sss.sa.s IL --.,s:s
The death of Mrs. James Galley 90:
CURED at her home at Easton, Conn. 1t
the age of ITO years
The Democrats nominated Thomas w.
Pierce for Congress in the Sixth dis
trict OF Pennsylvania and c. w. Garfield
in the Fifteenth.