The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-06-26

ONO Prohibitionists in convention
on the 10th at Columbus nominated
Rev. NJ. c. Lockwood, OF Hamilton
County. for Secretary Of State. Tho
platform asks for free coinage of silver,
service pensions, woman suffrage, a fair
ballot, restricted Immigration and lam.
tied ownership of land.
On the 10th the Tooth anniversary of
the settlement Of Kaukauna, Wis, was
celebrated.
SEVERAL buildings were destroyed
during storm on the 10th at Highland,
Wis. and nine-tenths of the bridges in
Vernon County were washed away and
the crops badly damaged. At SPRING
Vile number OF buildings were.
wrecked.
NEARLY 200 farmers, members of the
Alliance, Grange and other farmers or
CARNATIONS, met at Indianapolis on the
10th and organized an Indiana State
League for political purposes.
ADv1CEs of the 10th say that eleven
lives were lost in the recent cyclone
and cloud-burst near Appomattox, in
Potter county, S. D.
KATIE SHEHAN, Frank Scott, John
Gilbert and a man unknown were
drowned at Peoria, ILL.,, during the
twenty-four hours ended on the 10Th.
In Lawrence, Kan, the first original
package house was opened on the 10th.
The Women's Christian Temperance
Union declared they would tear the
houses to pieces should others be
! opened.
CHARLES A. HILL (Rep.) was renomi-
inois district on the 10th, and John
Heard (Dem.) was renominated in the
Sixth district of Missouri.
FLAMES destroyed the business part
of Harlem, No., on the 10th.
In the Seventh Illinois district the
| Republicans on the 20th renominated
| Thomas N. Henderson for Congress,
and a like honor was conferred upon ].
p. Dolliver (Rep) in the tenth Iowa
| district.
DISPATCHES of the 20th say that a
| flood at Atkinson, Kan, destroyed five
of the largest railroad bridges in the
city, six large wagon bridges, eighteen
| dwelling houses and other property, the
total loss being estimated at $500, ZOO.
NEAR Earlville, ILL.,, terrible cyclone
and cloud burst occurred about o'clock
on the afternoon of the goth, which re-
suited in a terrible loss of life and
property, no less than thirty persons
being killed and the whole country from
near Earlville to Paw Paw, in Lee Coun-
ty, being marked with ruin. At least
fifty farm houses and other buildings
were wrecked. Over one-half the viii
lage of Sublette was destroyed and over
hundred persons injured. Paw Paw
was ruined.
NEAR Moberly, Mo-, creeks overflow
ed their banks, bridges were swept
away, fences leveled and many small
buildings carried off on the goth.
| FLAMES swept the town of Milaca.
Mimi, on the Goth and it was almost
wholly destroyed.
! On the Baltimore b Ohio railroad a
train was wrecked near Childs, Ind,
on the Goth, and the engineer and fire.
man were killed and thirteen passen-
gers injured.
Iowa Democrats will hold their State
convention at Cedar Rapids August 6.
| h1 d uooeAuS Ou tuo 0UIu VI tue local
worlds fair directors in Chicago the
lake front was declared to be their
preference as the site for the fair.
THERE were heavy rains in Northern
Iowa on the Goth, and the small grain
was badly down and much of the corn
washed out. Many bridges were also
swept away.
IT was reported on the 2oth that the
village of Higbee, No., had been de-
stroyed by fire.
JOSIAH PORTS and Elizabeth his wife
were hanged on the Goth at Elko, New,
for the murder of Miles Fawcett in Jan
uary, 1888.
On the goth the Park National Bank
of Chicago suspended payment, with
liabilities estimated at $3.50. O00
AT Indian Springs, Ind, vein oil
gold was struck while drillinga we'll on
the Goth which is said to be 80 per cen :.