The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-06-19
road track on the 18th were struck by

ROAD track on the 18th were struck by q
train and instantly killed.
On the 18th the house of family
named Estler, located on Bull creek,
near Marysville, KY. was swept away
by flood, and Mrs. Esther and her three
daughters and two sons were drowned.
About dozen other persons living on the
banks of tho creek were also drowned.
ON April 10 ]. S. Hartman loft Wa
bash, Ind, on a walk of 5000 miles
across the continent for a wager OF
So, 600. He arrived in San Francisco on
the 18th, having finished the trip in
sixty-one days. four days less than the
time stipulated.
In the vicinity of Sibley, Ia, during
storm on the 18th, buildings were
wrecked, crops destroyed and numbers
of horses and cattle killed.
A CALL was issued by Governor Fifer
on the 18th for a special session of the
Illinois Legislature to convene at the
capitol in Springfield July % to con-
slider worlds fair matters.
The Republicans OF Missouri will
meet in State convention in St. Louis
on July 8.
AT Richmond, Va, census enumer-
ator found colored woman named
Martha Gray on the 18th who has had
thirty-seven children since 1868. She
has given birth to triplets six times, to
twins six times and to seven othcrs
singly.
On the 18th Homer E. Newton. one of
the most prominent farmers of Northern
Ohio, died at his home in West Rich
field from the effects of eating twenty
six hard boiled eggs on a wager.
For the week ended on the 14th ult.
the percentages of the baseball clubs in
the Players League were: Boston, 1928;
Brooklyn, .5G5;- New York. .535; Chica-
go. .512; Philadelphia, .513; Pittsburgh,
AGA; Cleveland, .421; Buffalo, .331.
The clubs in the National League stood:
Cincinnati, .G9l; Philadelphia, .G51;
Brooklyn, .595; Chicago, .5s9; Boston.
.465: New York, 432; Cleveland, 1888;
Pittsburgh, .225.
THIRrY-TIIREE houses were unroofed
and three persons were killed during a
wind and rain storm on the 18th in Gin
cinnati.
TIE d cath Of Nancy Warren occurred
in Centralia, ILL.,, on the 14th at the
age of nearly los years. The deceased
was born September 6, 1852, in North
Carolina, and remembered to have seen
Washington.
FLAMES on tho 14th at Menasha, Wis,
destroyed the sawmill and immense new
dry-house of the Woodenware COMPANY,
Loss, 500. 600.
AT Omaha, Neb., the Carter white
lead works were burned on the 18th.
Loss, $3.50, 900.
NEAR Knoxville, Tenn, a numbe of
persons were poisoned at picnic on
the 14th, by the ice-cream, which had
stood too long in the freezers. Sixteen
women and children were critically i'll.
REPUBLICANS of the First Illinois dis
trict on the 14th renominated Abner
Taylor for Congress- and in the Fourth
district George E. Adams was renomi-
mated.
ON the 14th three young men while
bathing in the river at St. Louis were
drowned.
PORTIONS of Illinois were swept by a
cyclone on the 18th, great damage being
done to property at Frederick, Bluff
Springs, Monmouth, Rock Island, Au-
rora, Elgin and Beardstown. At Rock
ford high water inundated the CITY,
causing a loss of 100000.
LIZZIE MURPHY, Nellie Mahonev and
the latter's 10-year-old brother were
drowned on the 18th at Anoka, Mimi
In Cleveland, O., 200 persons were
hurled from a broken foot bridge a
distance of sixty feet on the 18th, and
forty were injured, some fatally.