The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-29

Clayton, Mo-, confessed that he was the
man who, about = year ago, made Presi-
dent Mohat, of the First National Bank
of Denver. give up $40, 600 at the point
of pistol
AT Cleveland, the casket containing
the remains Of ex-President Garfield
was opened on the 2lst in order to quiet
forever the rumors about the body not
being in the casket and the body was
found to 70 in good state Of preserve
ton.
AT Lima, D., new competitor for the
Standard Oil Company in the ''Manhat-
tan Oil Company" was formed on the
21st. The company owns several thou
sand acres Of territory and has con-
tracted for 500 tank-cars.
The sudden death of DR.. w. II. By
ford. one of the ablest and most popular
Of Chicago's physicians, occurred on the
21st, aged 70 years.
A PAPER in San Francisco reported on
the 21st an alleged scheme to capture
Lower California, interested capitalists
being at the bottom of the plot After
wrestling independence from Mexico it
was planned to secure annexation to the
United States.
The Montana Supreme Court decided
the Silver Bow County sheriff's contest
the Republican candidate.
NEVADA Republicans will meet in
State convention at Virginia City Sep
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JAMES HENDR1cKsoN, Of Chicago, ia
tally shot his wife and then killed him
self on the 21st while drunk. Nine
children were left orphans.
The death of Mrs. Lydia Brown
Smith, of Adrian, Mich, occurred on the
21st, aged 102 years.
In the Calumet and Hecla mine at
Calumet, Mich, five miners were killed
on the 2lst by falling rocks.
A wIND-sTORM struck Hammond, Ind,
on the 22d, shattering windows, unroof-
ing houses, tearing down awnings and
filling the streets with debris.
FIRE destroyed large portion of
Milford, Utah, on the 22d.
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows Of
the State of Missouri voted at St. Louis
on the 22d to expel all members Of the
order who are saloon-keepers.
On the 22d Elzo Allen, confidential
clerk at Kansas City of the Austin In
| vestment Company, fed to Canada with
$40, 900 of the concerns money.
The failure of the Bank Of Middle
on the 22d for $90,00O with assets Of
| SOS, 900.
In Chicago on the 22d Mrs. Sarah
Rothschild celebrated her 1O2d birth
day. She was in excellent health:
DEMOCRATS in Georgia will hold their
State convention upon August z at At
lanta.
EDWARD LANE (Dem.) was renomi-
| mated for Congress on the ED in the
| Seventeenth Illinois district.
GEORGE PATTERSON and his wife and
their two children were killed by light
ming on the Esd while standing under a
| tree at Salineville, o.
NEAR Green Isle, MIMI, T. J. Nc
| Mahon, farmer, fatally shot his wife
and then himself on the Esd. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
Iowa Indians on the Esd were willing
to sell their lands to the Government at
$1.25 per acre, retaining sixty acres for
! each member of the tribe.
In Chicago on the 23d the American
Baptist Missionary Union held its sixty
sixth annual convention in Emmanuel
Baptist Church. The treasurer's report
showed receipts of $3.50, 527, and iabili-
ties of 1867, 400. Rev. G. w. Northrup,
of Illinois, was reelected president.
THREE severe shocks of earthquake
we're felt on the Esd in the vicinity Of
Billings, Mont, houses being shaken
and some of them being cracked from
top to bottom.
PATRICK MALLoY, living nea<-Hamil=
ton, O., shot and killed his son George
and then took his own life on the Esd
during a quarrel.