The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-15

IN the Ohio river Of Wheeling, w.
Va, . yacht containing twenty peeps
1capsi1ed on the 7ths and only ten Of
/ them were rescued.
/ In the Fifth district Of Ohio on the
18th the Democrats nominated Fernando
6 Layton, Of Wapakonetta, for Con-
| gresham.
G. +. RICH. . man who has been stir
ring up strife among laborers at Lau-
I rens, 5. G., was given twenty-five lashes
on the 7th by crowd Of men, white and
black. and driven from the town.
WISCONSIN, Prohibitionists will hold
their State convention ct Madison on
! July ~. ~....,..........,s
ARKANSAS Republicans will mcat in
State convention at Little Koek on July
i SAMUEL ELK1Ss, who had served
Itwenty-four years in the penitentiary
on = charge of child-murder, was par
doned by Governor. Fifer, Of Hires, on
the 7th, it having been discovered that
the child was now living in kentucky.
AT Mddlesborough, KY, names on
the 7th burned the livery stable of c. F.
/ Clay. and twenty-six fine horses were
cremated.
THE villages Of McRea. Camilla and
iTy-Ty, in Georgia, were badly damaged
by a. cyclone on tho 7th, and several
| persons we're injured. ~ - ~ y
| The diocesan convention of the Epis-
copal church at Charleston, s. c., on
the 9Th adopted an amendment exclud-
ing colored members from seats on the
floor. E&&.. ,.*f
In nine months Nathan Williams. of
Staunton, Ind, spent in dissipation 800,
600 left him by his father, and he was
taken to the poor-house on the sth.
On the 9Th the boiler of an engine
drawing q freight train exploded near
Wellington, Kan, killing the engineer
and fireman and 1873 cattle.
| The levee near Benton, La, broke on
| the 9Th, and the water swept over a
large area of country, involving heavy
losses to hundreds of planters.
RESOLUTIONS were adopted at the ses-
sion in St.. Louis on the sth of the gem
eral conference of the M. E. church
South edenouncing dancing, card-play-
ing and theater-going and in favor Of
prohibiting members from signing
dram-shop petitions.
| On the 9Th the town Of Columbia,
Tex, with the exception of one street,
| was under water and railroad traffic was
suspended.
In the vicinity of Wabash, Ind. frosts
on the Sth did great damage to vegeta-
ton.
49, At Ouray, COL, John NJ. Winsted shot
his wife and himself through the. heart
on the 9th in an alteration over money.
THE following executions took place
on the 9th: William Davis (colored) at
Union, S. c., for the murder of Susie
Fernandez; Sandy Jones (colored) at Bir-
mingham, Ala, for the murder of Po-
liceman John Manning, and Robert Hill
(colored) at Warrentown, Ga, for the
murder of A. S. Rogers.
A TORNADO passed north of Blythe
dale. Mo-, on the 9th completely wreck
ing a dozen houses and as many barns
and outbuildings. The family of Henry
Young were all injured, Mrs. Young
fatally.
| THE Supreme Court of Iowa decid ed on
the 9th that the sale of original liquor
packages in the State was legal.
On the 9th Constantine Schaeffer, a
farmer living near Chester, Mimi,
murdered his wife and child and then
killed himself. The cause of the trag-
edy was unknown.
! On the 9th w. Fl. Pope. the abscond
ing bank teller of Louisville, Ky, who
| got away with $50, 600, was cartured
near Duluth, Mimi, while on his way to
Canada. g.
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was destroyed by an incendiary fire on
the 9th, the loss being 100000.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE
! The insane asylum at Tongue Pointe,
nine miles from Montreal, was de-
stroyed by fire on the 9th, and of the
1870 lunatics in the building fifty were
! burned to death.
| EMPEROR WILLIAM opened the German
Reichstag on the 9th. In. his speech he
declared himself in favor of peace.
FURTHER advices of the 7th say that
$50 persons persisted in the recrnt FIRE
that DESTROYED the lunatic asylum at
Tongue Pointe, Can.
On the 7th frauds involving the sum
OF about $50, 000, 900 annually were said
to have been discovered in the customs
department at Buenos Ayres.
TIE death of James Nasmyth, the
celebrated mechanical engineer an
! inventor of the steam hammer occurred
in London on the 7th, aged 80 years.
AT Havana. Cuba, severe drought
prevailed on the 9Th, and many cattle
were dying and fires were doing great
damage. -
In Paris. on the 9th the Eiffel tower
was, struck by lightning six times dur
ing aastorm, but no damage was done.
| :: In the Italian Parliament the ques-
ton of taking the control of charitable
institut ions from the priests and placing
1T in the hands of the civil power was
arousing bitter controversy on the 9th.
| ~ lATER.
! 49, Glatlstone's Opinion.
| LONDON May 12.-Mr.: Gladstone
spoke at the Golden club to-day. He
said that free traders must recognize
with great disappointment how much
ground had been lost by their doctrine
within the last twenty-five years. Pro-
lection was applied now in America,
uoI oh1y 10 kOOuS out 10 persons, as was
instanced by the treatment of the Chi
nese. The great republic had never
accepted the doctrines of free trade. At
one time there had been kind of quail
ified progress toward them, but this
being checked, opinion became actually
retrogressive.
! Silver in the Senate.
! WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE feature
of to-day's senate proceedings was a