The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-04-17

murder OF Jennie MOsley.
ALLEN THOMAS (colored) shot and
killed his wife and then killed himself
in fit Of jealousy on the eth ct Cairo.
Ill.
On the 9th = cyclone swept over Sum
NIT County, O., quitting path twelve
miles long and q quarter Of . mile wide.
The devastated district was in Sharon,
Copley, Akron and Springfield town
ships. Houses were wrecked and four
persons were killed and several others
injured.
4 Al. Pine Village Ind, lightning
struck John Eberley on the 9th and tore
out both Of his eyes.
- CYCLONE on tho 9th wrecked nearly
100 dwellings at Roanoke. Va, and four
men were killed. In Richmond several
houses were destroyed and q number Of
persons badly injured. -
In Colorado storm of sand on the 9th
all railway traffic was stopped.
In the Iowa Senate bill providing
for the execution of condemned Grim
mails by electricity was defeated on the
9th.
Two LITTLE children of John McCloy,
living at Jersey, Ark, were burned to
death in their home on the 9th in the
absence of their parents. z@ + !
AT Webb City, Mo-, four boys-Ed
Severn, A. D. Cannon, a son of Mrs.
Stoner and Joe Wright-were killed On
the 9th by the falling of slab Of rock
ON them. TIs 80 d&: NJ
In Chicago on tho 9th Harry p. Ly-
ons, aged IL years, was found guilty of
murder by Chicago jury and sentenced
to the penitentiary for life. -
ARBoR DAY was observed throughout
Kansas on the 10th.
HIGHWAY robbers captured in jack
son County, w. Va, on the 10th proved
to be two women. -.
On the 10th Emma Stark, under ar
rest for poisoning the Newland family
in Chicago. admitted that she put poison
in the food ''just to see how strong it
was"
WHITE caps brutally beat Isaac
White, an old veteran living near
Leavenworth, on the 10th for no known
cause.
CONGRESSMAN HoUK and Taylor we're
renominated in Tennessee on the 10th.
Mr.. Taylor's nomination was bolted by
faction which nominated ex-Congress-
man Butler. sasx
CALIFORNIA Prohibitionists in session
on the 10th at San Francisco nominated
General John Bidwell,. of Chico, for
Governor.
AT Helvington, KY, flames on the 10th
destroyed seventeen buildings and 9
large tobacco factory.
A COUNTERFEIT $40 bill on the Ger
mania National Bank of New Orleans
was in circulation in Chicago on the 10th.
The street-car stables at Arkansas
City. Ark, were destroyed by fire on the
10th, and twenty-three horses and foul
cars were burned.
THIRTY hogs slew and devoured q
heifer and calf near Columbus, Ind,
on the 18th. A drove of cattle in a
neighboring pasture, Infatuated by the
smell of blood, broke an intervening
fence down and charged upon the
swine, eighteen being killed and ten
wounded.
A FREIGHT collision on tho nth al
Mansfield, O., on the Baltimore g. Ohio
! road, smashed seventeen cars and loss
of $50, 900 was caused.
In the Missouri river bottoms five
miles below Liberty, Mo-, forest fires
were raging on the 18th.
AT Frederick town, O., Mrs. C. Lever
| ing and Miss Hill were thrown from ;
wagon by runaway on the 18th, the
| latter being killed and the former fatal
! ly injured.
The Governor of Wisconsin on thu
| 18th sent magnificent floral anchor t.
Springfield, ILL.,, to be placed on the
tomb Of Lincoln on the 18th inst.
On the 18th Charles Simmons (col.
ored) was hanged At Mount Pleasant, S
| c., for the murder of Otto Fishans
| (white) October 1G. lie confessed hi.
| guilt.