The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-07-03

mated. Ohio, Ninth district, Joseph b
Cultivate dem. renominated; Seven
teenth. Joseph E Taylor (Rep.) renomt
mated. Indiana, Eighth district, Olive,
M. Curry, nominated BY farmers and
workingmen.
A PISTOL in the pocket Of street-cal
driver at Indianapolis was accidental,
discharged on the 10th, killing Thoma.
Liddy, passenger.
THREE Italian quarrymen named
John Stancher, Jos phi Stancher and
Michael Milausky were drowned on the
26th while bathing at Joliet, Ill.
The first meeting of the National
Worlds Fair Commission occurred In
Chicago on the 26th. Temporary OH.
GERS were chosen, and in the evening .
banquet was given the commission u
the Palmer house.
On the 26th the eighth annual con.
vention of the Travellers Protective
Association in session at Denver elected
I. s McGreat, of st. Louis, as presi.
dent.
=. RAIN-IN-THE-FACE, the noted Sioux
chief, ranking next to Sitting Bull in
renown, was fatally stabbed by his wife
on the Goth at Standing Rock, N. d.
jealousy was the cause. 49,
CHARLES DECKER, wealthy farmer,
and his aged mother, we're fatally beaten
by burglars on the night of the 28th at
their home in Morris, ILL., ~,....s =.
HARRY BoUGHToN, farmer of Catlin,
ILL.,, on the Goth received notice that he
had fallen heir to $500, 600 worth of prop
erty in New York City.
IT was said by grain merchants at
Louisville on the Goth that the oats
crop of Kentucky was total failrre.
L. r. MEYERS in q drunken fury at
Kansas City on the 26sh fatally wounded
his uncle, b. Van Horn and the latter's
daughter.
A LARGE amount of property WAS de-.
stroyed on the 9th by a tornado near
Loves, KY, and one person was killed.
FIRE destroyed the business portion
of Carbon, Wy. T., on the 9th. Loss
100000, with small insurance.
The eastern end of Washington Coun.
ty, Wis, was swept by a Cyclone on the
9th, great damage being done to
houses, barns and trees, and growing
crops were leveled for miles.
In St. Louis there were eleven deaths
from the heat on the 9th, and in Chica.
gotwenty-seven persons were Frustrated
and three died. In Galesburg, La Sale,
Monticello and other towns in Illinois
the thermometer registered 1O3 in the
shade and number of people were
fatally sun-struck. In Iowa the heat
was also intense and numerous fatalities
were reported. The heat was general
throughout the country.
On the 9th w. H. Hammel and wife,
of Hutchinson, Kan, were burned tc
death by the explosion of a gasoline
stove.
In Chicago on the 9th Senate,
Thomas w. Palmer, of Michigan. was
elected president of the Worlds Col
umbian Exposition. and j. T. Dlckin.
son, of Texas, was chosen as secretary.
On the, 9th the National Association
of Daug hters of Veterans concluded its
first annual convention at Quincy, ILL.,,
Miss Estella Mcmillan, of Massillon.
O., being elected president
On April Is Harrison Warner, aged 81
years, left McConnellsville, O., to tramr
to Baltimore, his native city, pushing
wheelbarrow all the way, distance o,
507 miles, and he arrived at his destina.
ton on the 27th.
FROM all the wheat-growing regions o.
Kansas reports on the 27th were to the
effect that the yield would be Is pc,
cent. above the average for the last 81,
years.
In Baltimore, Md, all the brewers
and distillers were on the 9th indicted
for violations of the high-license law.
THE Illinois Central railroad strike
was settled on the 27th, the men hav
ing come to terms with the company
The loss to the railroad by the Ave days
strike was $SOO,OOO