The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-01-16
THE EAST.


FIRE destroyed the city building at
Lewiston, Me-, on the 7th. Loss, $500, 900.
On the 18th the Glamorgan Iron Com
pany of Philadelphia failed for $3.50, 900.
LAST year 1886 men we're convicted
in New York State of various crimes
and 1884 women.
THE Legislature of New York con-
vened at Albany on the 18th.
No FREIGHT trains, except those
transporting perishable freight, will
hereafter be run on the Pittsburgh e.
Lake Erie railroad on Sunday.
On the 7th Mrs. Hannah 3. South
worth, who shot and killed Stephen l..
Pettus last November, died in her cell
in the Tombs prison in New York
AT Pawtucket, r. L., Mrs. Elizabeth
Eaton Larned celebrated her one hun
dredth birthday on the 7th.
THE death of Elbridge G. Lapham,
who in 1881 was elected United States
Senator to succeed Roscoe Conkling, &C.
CURED in Canandaigua. N. Y, on the
Sth, aged seventy-six years.
IN Brooklyn, n. Y, the wall of
church was blown down during a gale
on the 9th, and it crushed small house
adjoining, killing David Purdy and his
sister Mary, and badly injuring four
other persons.
AFTER a lovers quarrel on the 9th
William Torrens, of Philadelphia, IA
tally shot Belle Carter and then shot
himself.
E. w. NICHOLS died on the 10th at
Springfield, Mass. He was sheriff of
the Union prisoners at Andersonville,
and helped to hang the ten men con-
victed by the prisoners court-martial
of stealing their scanty supply of
rations.
building materials at Boston, failed on
the 10th for $500
The coke operators of Connellsville,
Pa, during 1889 marketed $685., 900 tons
| of coke, valued at 50, $50: 900.
FIFTEEN horses shipped from Penn
| sylvania to Newark, n. j., were found
! suffocated on the 10th when they arrived
at their destination.
TIE remains of two men and that of
woman-victims of the great flood
were found at Johnstown, Pa, on the
10th.
WEST AND SOUTH.
TIE death of Mrs. Antonte Osmand-
son occurred in Chamberlain, S. D., on
the 18th, at the age of one hundred and
six years.
DEMOCRATS in the Montana Legis-
lature IN the 7th elected w. A. Clark
and Martin Maginnis as United States
Senators.
| AT Jacksonville, HI, Miss Fsunis
Keener was shot and mortally wounded
on tho 18th on the street by Nathan
| Pasten, her colored coachman, who also
was fatally shot by Miss Keener.
The secretary Of the State Board of
Charities said ON the 7th that there were
2, III insane persons in Indiana.
| On the 7th the South Dakota Legisla-
ture met at Pierre.
A HEAVY snow-storm prevailed
throughout Northern Michigan on the
9Th.
On the 7th Oslak johnson and wife,
an old couple of Nashota, Wis, were
struck by the engine of passenger
train and both were killed.
| On the 9Th the National jackson Club
was organized at Nashville, Tenn, with
A. D. Mcclure, of Pennsylvania, as
president.
AT Elko, New, spirit thermometers
registered so degrees below zero on the
9Th. -eus . ..'=.tt. ~
On the sth George L.. Woods, who was
Governor of Utah in 1s7t,F died at Port.
land, Ore. .-...,zz .,,>>
FLAMES destroyed the Western Union
Telegraph Company's building at St.
Louis on the sth. Loss, 100000.
For participating in the Sullivan.
Kilrain fight William Muldoon, w. E.
Harding, Mike Cleary and Mike Dono.
van were arrested at New York on; the
9Th and held for extradition to. Missis.
i,sippi. ,er.,r-
In Indiana the Patoka river had over
flowed its banks on the 9th, and a track
of country twenty miles long by three
to four miles wide in the vicinity Of
Jasper was Inundated. <'>1-t
In Oklahoma and at Fort Worth,
Tex, labor agents were on the sth said
to be DESTROYS of obtaining colored men
from South Carolina, and were offering
facilities for the organization of colo
MES. sz f-7 80
i The fourteen-months'-old child o.
Peter Martin and the fve-year:old
daughter OF Mrs. O'Brien were burned
to death on the 9Th in Kansas City.