The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-03-06

Hot Springs, Ark, a. the xoJn, ana y
the region round shout 8 number q
farm houses. were destroyed.
AT Hamilton, @, the Big Miami river
was hood-high on the 96th, and many
houses were submerged. In Cincinnati
high water in the Ohio river was doing
great damage.
THE death OF d.. Martin b Anderson,
LID, for thirty-five years president
Of the University Of Rochester, N. Y,
occurred on the 18th at Lake Helen,
Fla, aged rs years.
AT Bowlder, Mont, the temperature
fell to IS degrees below zero on the
10Th. freezing to death herd Of 100
cattle In the stock-yards belonging 70
the Miner Cattle Company.
Bob PoPE and his 11-year-old son, Of
Hampton County, 8. c., were shot and
killed on the 26th by unknown parties.
On the 27th ult q tornado did great
amount Of damage at Torrance, Miss.
The loss Of life BY the recent bursting
OF the dam in the Hassayampa valley in
Arizona was on the 27th ult. placed ct
$50.
On the Norfolk 4 Western road = pas
senger coach was wrecked on the 27th
ult. 1T Roanoke, Va, and ten persons
were injured.
AT Lexington, Ky, Thomas o. Brien
was hanged on the 27th ult for the
murder of Bette Shea March 81. 1889.
The through mail for San Francisco
on the mail storage car of the west.
bound fast-mail train was destroyed by
fire on the 27th ult.
AT Des Moines, Ia, Governor Boies
and Lieutenant-Govern Poyneer were
duly sworn into Office on the 27th ult
An attempt to wreck the limited ex-
press on the Baltimore & Ohio road
near Independence, O., was made on tho
27th ult-. three ties wedged into cat
tle-guard being found and removed .
few minutes before it arrived. go
SEVERAL train-robbers and consider
able of their plumber were discovered
ON the 27th ult near Spencerville, O.
FIFTEEN lives were on the 27th ult
said to have been lost in the recent
blizzard in Southwestern Kansas, and
many persons were destitute of food and
fuel.
On the night Of the 9th ult an un-
successful attempt was made by an I'M
known man to assassinate DIR. Alexander
Neil at Columb bus, O.
ON tho 9th ult. the house of Daniel
Hebron (colored) was burned at Lynch
burg, Va, and his two children, aged 1s
months and 5 years, persisted in the
flames.
A MOB lynched Brown Washington
(colored) on the 2Sth ult at Madison,
Ga, for assaulting little girl.
On the 2Sth ult. Richard Halves was
hanged at Birmingham, Ala, for the
murder of his wife and two daughters
in December, 1883.
THE thermometer marked 20 degrees
below zero at Austin, Tex, on the 2sth
ult, and growing corn. oats, fruit and
vegetables were destroyed and hundreds
of fig trees were killed.
RESIDENTS of Enterprise and Scufle-
town, Ind, on the 25th ult. had been
driven to the hills by floods, and thou
sands of bushels of corn had been ruined.
S1Lcorr, the defaulting cashier of the
Sergeant-at-Arms of the House at
Washington, was reported captured on
the 28th ult. at Toledo, Wash.
A NAN named Holmes, his wife and
two children were found dead on the
2Sth ult. a few miles west of Shawnee.
Ind. T. Burglars were charged with
the crime.
IND1ANA's total Indebtedness was on
the 2sth ult. said to be- $9,O43, 14Q
BELOW Vicksburg, Miss, a private
levee broke on the 2sth ult- inundating
several plantations
The thermometer registered ~ degrees
below zero at Geneseo, Idaho, on the
2sth ult Heavy losses of stock were
reported.
A CYCLONE partially destroyed the
town of Carthage, Miss, on the 2Sth ult
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
HENRY lZURRIETA's tobacco ware
houses at Cardenas, Cuba, were burned
by incendiaries on the Gath. Loss, $780,