The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-04-03

on tho crevasss Sc Arkansas City haa
boon suspended. which meant deyastar
ton for that section.
JACK the old chestnut horse that
carried Brigadier-G General Geddes
through several campaigns during the
war, died ct Des Moines, Ia, on the goth,
Ut the advanced age Of SO years.
In Indiana on the 96th the young wife
Of John Werlich, Of Shipshewana, COM
mitted suicide on account of domes-
tic troubles, and Mrs Hattie Norris
committed suicide 1T La Grange be-
cause she had been deserted by her hus-
band.
IN front Of Skipwith. Miss, the levee
broke on the Goth and the crevasse was
more than 400 feet wide, tho water
reaching to the caves of houses in Skip
with. A large section Of. country was
flooded.
On the 26th Justice James W. Camp
bell, Of the Michigan Supreme Court,
died suddenly at his home In Detroit
aged 81 years. @
On Lake Superior navigation opened
on the 26th. s.
WILLIAM SHARP, aged 90 years, the
oldest veteran in Indiana, was found
dead in his bed on the 9th at La Porte.
In . mill-dust explosion at the Chi
cago sugar refinery eleven mon were
killed and seventeen wounded on the
27th. srr So. l
THROUGHOUT. the entire Northwest
the worst blizzard Of the season pre-
vailed on To 9th.
On the 27th: counterfeit ten-dollar
bills on the Germania Bank Of New
Orleans were in circulation in Cincin-
natl. Louisville and St. Louis. &" r..
A TORNADO swept over the western
portion of Louisville, KY, about 9
o'clock on the evening Of the 27th,
wrecking 200 or 800 houses, and killing
200 or more people and injuring many
others. The path of the cyclone was
about a square and half in width.
AT the Farmers convention at Column
bia, 8. c.. on the 18th B. B. Tilman was
nominated for Governor and c. Colt for
Lieutenant-Governor. .
AT Jacksonville, Ind, hundreds OF
houses were wrecked by cyclone on
the 27th, and the loss of life was esti-
mated at from $50 to 200.
In Maumee bay, near Toledo, O., the
tug May French was wrecked on the
27th, and Captain Tom Cary, Engineer
George Reynolds and two deck hands
were drowned.
AT Birds Point, Mo-, tornado on the
9th blew down several houses.
On the 9th James Hubbartt, living
near Maple, Ind. was los years old.
He was in good health.
ADvICEs of the 9th say that Metrop
oils, small village in Illinois, had beer
destroyed by cyclone and that several
hundred people were killed and injured
Many buildings at Olny and Nashville
ILL.,. were also wrecked.
ALASKA advices of the 28th say tha'
four whisky-smugglers- Muzzy
John Ackerson, William Bennett and :
man named Mitchell-were drowned
near Douglass island.
LATER advices of the 2Sth say tina
the number of lives lost in the recen
cyclone at Louisville, KY, was prett,
definitely known to be seventy-five
The property loss would be about So,
100000. The wrecked portion of tn,
city lies between Eighteenth, Broad
way, Seventeenth and Main streets
The storm passed diagonally across tn
section, which is probably mile square
Some $500 buildings were wrecked.
In the recent cyclone twenty-five pei
sous were killed in Jackson County, III.
over 100 were killed and injured il
Fosey County, Ind, and many live
were lost in Metropolis, Ill. The tow
of Bowling Green, KY, was wiped out
and many buildings were wrecked an
several lives lost at Evansville, Ind.
ON the 2sth the first Legislature of tn
In session 145 days. adjourned sinae die.
PORT ROYAL KY, was entirely swer
away in the recent cyclone.
! A HEAVY wind-storm on the 2sth 4
Stanton, Va, unroofed houses, uproote
trees and blew down fences.
! FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE;
On the oath J. s. Murphy & Co., lum
Der merchants at Quebec, Can, failed 70
$3.50, 1000.
CHINA advices of the 25th .ay that il
a recent fire in Toxic 2,625 houses wer
burned.
AT Townsville, Australia, a hurrI
cane on the Goth flooded the town an
caused much damage. Several person
were drowned.
On the 18th the annual race on tn
Thames course between the crews of tn
Oxford and Cam bridge universities wa
won by length by the former. Time
% minutes seconds.
On the 2Sth naphtha train of thirty
eight cars took fire near Brelogory, Rus
STA, and an explosion took place in whic
twenty train-hands were killed.
In Brussels on the 2Sth the Englis]
delegates to the anti-slavery conference
adopted a resolution for the prohibition
of the sale of alcohol in the interior q
| Africa.
LATER.
| Fire In q Convent.
MILWAUKEE, March 31.-Fire broke
tonight in St. Joseph's Catholic conven
on Greenfield avenue and the entire
building and it's contents were burned
the seventy-two occupants of the build