The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-06-25
WEST AND SOUTH.


were organized in accordance with IN
act of congress at st. Louis, Chicago,
Cincinnati and San Francisco, the OBJ
ject being to remove an immense
weight from the already crowded su-
preme court at Washington.
In Cincinnati J. E. Hanlon was ar
rested on the charge of having five liv-
ing wives. He is an ex-police officer.
The firm of r. w. Durham & Co.,
Chicago commission merchants, has
failed for 100000.
AT Newmanville, Tenn, a cloud
burst swept away many houses and
ruined crops ON the bottom lands.
The tobacco statistics of Indiana
show that the number of planters in
the state during the census year was
4, 457; the area devoted to tobacco, 9,373
acres; the product, 7,71O, s97 pounds, and
the value of the crop, 1884,, $40.
HENRY EMMETT and Will Ross were
drowned at Kansas City, NO., by the
upsetting of a boat.
On the Milwaukee line train from
Omaha to Chicago jumped the track
near Cedar Rapids, a., and rolled down
an embankment, killing three passen-
gers and injuring thirty Others
BROWN CUDNIFF and man named
Turner were struck by an engine at
East Hillsboro, ILL.,, and killed.
REPORTS that the Anaconda and ad-
jacent copper mines in Montana had
been sold to a foreign syndicate were
denied.
THERE was a light snowfall at Bon
ham, Tex, ON the 18th while the tenn
perature was 80 degrees.
THE republicans of Ohio in conven-
ton at Columbus nominated the fol-
lowing ticket: For governor, William
Mckinley; lieutenant governor, A. l..
Harris; state treasurer, w. T. Cope;
auditor, E. W. Poe; attorney general,
J. X. Richards; supreme judge, NJ. j.
Williams; school superintendent, o. T.
Carson.
CASEY, Ia, was inundated by heavy
rain and two girls were drowned
WHILE bathing in pond near Grant
City, Mo-, Charlie France and his
cousin, Myron Gardner, were drowned.
Owing to domestic trouble John
Duty, living near Benton, ILL.,, shot and
killed his mother.in-law, Mrs. Allen,
on the street and attempted to kill his
wife, but failed.
In Nebraska the heaviest rain known
for years fell on the 18th. The town
of Battle Creek was flooded and sew
eral houses wrecked. At Humphrey
bartholomew Bogus was killed by
lightning, and at Palmer the wife and
grandmother of V. Lauton met a like
fate.
RILEY SMITH and William Farley
killed each other at Little Rock, Ark.
in quarrel over women.
SIXTEEN survivors of the Biackhawk
war held reunion at Galena, Ill. ONLY
twenty-three of the pioneers who
fought the Indians in 1882 are still
alive.
THE death of ex-Gov. Harrison Lud-
ington occurred at his home in Madi-
son, Wis, in his SOth year. He was
governor of the state in 1875.
The bursting of mill-race DESTROYED
800 acres of celery at Kalamazoo, Mich,
involving a loss of $4,000.
SPACE has been given every state and
territory in the union at jackson park.
Chicago, for building at the worlds
fair.
On the mountains in which is situated
the Conception silver mine, in the state
of San Luis Potosi, Mex, waterspout
drowned twenty-tllrec persons.
w. NJ. Dow MURDERED Capt. Perkins
and his 14-year-old son, of GAINESVILLE,
Tex, as the result of an old fcud.
HE steamers Alert and MOhican
sailed from San Francisco for Behring
sea under special orders to prevent seal
catching.
AT Utica, ILL.,, cloudburst caused
damage exceeding 100000, and
throughout the entire Illinois river
valley heavy losses resulted from
floods, which washed out crops and
swept away houses and live stock.
AT Baltimore William X. Duval was
sentenced to nine years in the peniten-
tiary for obtaining christening and
Christmas gifts from United States SEN
ators and others under false pretenses,
alleging that he had named children in
their honor.