The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-27
THE EAST.

THE EAST.
REPUBLICANS of Pennsylvania in con-
vention at Harrisburg adopted plat
form which Endorses President Har-
rison's administration, the Mckinley
bill, favors liberal pensions to soldiers,
approves the ballot-rcform law. recoP-
nizes the rights of labor, and eulogizes
the course taken by Mr.. Blaine as Sec
rotary of state. David NJ. Gregg, of
Berks county, was nominated for state
auditor, and John w. Morrison, of AL
legheny county. for state treasurer.
On the 10th President Harrison was
present at the dedication of the monu-
ment erected at Bennington, VT, to
commemorate the victory of the Yer
mont and New Hampshire militia
under Gen. Stark over deta chment of
Burgoyne's army. 1t was also the CEN
tennial anniversary of the admission of
Vermont as a state into the federal
union.
In. the Jail at Buffalo, N. Y, Anna
Gorosowski and Catherine Schmidt
hanged themselves with pieces of bed
clothing.
H. G. MULL1eAN, John Lawtou and
J. +. Hickey vere killed by the cars at
Utica, N. Y.
The failure of the Frederick Homer
Brewing Company of Brooklyn for
$500, 900 was reported.
w. j. ARKELL rendered President
Harrison banquet at Mount McGreg-
or, N. Y, on the Goth in honor of his
5sth birthday.
LEMON ELLSWORTH shot and killed
Mrs. Amanda Either, a widow aged 43,
at Lancaster, Pa, and then committed
suicide.
In New York flames destroyed the
buildings of l.. II. Mace & Co., manu-
facturers of refrigerators, toys and
woodward of various descriptions.
Loss, $3.50. 600.
Two SISTERS. Mary and Kate Walton,
10 and % years old, were drowned by
the upsetting of boat at Dorchester,
Mass.
AT Mcdonald Station, Pa, an oil tank
caught fire aud burst, the fire Destroy
ing many wells and buildings and H.
900 barrels of oil.
UPON arriving in New York Capt.
Baker. of the steamship OLDHAM, re-
ported that on his last trip out of New
York the stokers mutinied and that he
shot the ringleader, a socialist named
Duzen. dead.
Two BRICK buildings in Park place,
New York, collapsed, over eighty lives
were lost and over seventy other per-
sons were missing. An explosion
caused the accident.
AT Pottsville, Pa, a cloudburst food
ed many buildings, causing loss of
over 100000.
WEST AND SOUTH.
In Birmingham, Ala, Willie Arm
itage and his two little sisters were
drowned in a creek. The little girls
were trying to save their brother.
AT Carbon, Wyo., J. Crompton, a
railway agent, while drunk set fire to
the depot and persisted in the flames.
All the records of the Union Pacific
Company and a large amount of money
in the safe, the doors of which were
left ope by Crompton, were burned.
Mrs. DICKINSON drowned her H.
year-old child and herself near New
Auburn, Mimi, on account of domestic
troubles
IT was discovered that Edward lam
bert, Jr., bookkeeper of the San Juan
Smelling & Mining Company and
mayor of Durango, Col, was de-
faulter in the sum of $4,000.
! In the kiowa and Comanche country
in Oklahoma gold and silver have been
found in paying quantities.
GEORGE A. G1LPATRlCK and Henry C.
Dahncke, the bicyclists who left Hell
ena, Mont, July l, reached Chicago on
the 10th, having travelled $3.50 miles on
! their wheels.
In the eastern portion of the city of
Indianapolis houses were flooded by
the rising of Pogue's run and three
boys were drowned
INDEPENDENTS of Nebraska in state
convention at Hastings nominated J.
w. Edgerton, of South Omaha, for SUI
preme judge, and w. A. Jones, of
Hastings, for regent of the state uni
versity.
AT Lima, o., over 500 pieces of skin
have been grated to the body of Will
liam Shaw, who was scalded in the
Standard oil refinery July 4. This
eclipses all previous skin-grafting oper-
atoms.
AT Hanover, N. H., Frank Almy,
| who most brutally murdered Miss
Christie Warden, a beautiful young
lady, several weeks ago, was captured
in haymow on the Warden home
! stead.
AT Dallas, Tex, fire originating in q
telegraph office destroyed business
property to the value of 1912, 200.
| In Chicago the American Wheel Com
pany failed for 81, 500, 900.
In Minnesota and North Dakota the
Red River valley was the last to gather
its wheat crop, but the returns are said
to discount any previous year. OF
wheat alone there is crop of over 40,
600, 900 bushels not to speak of millions
of bushels of other grains, besides other
crops and live stock, resulting in a per
capita income to its people greater than
that received by the population of any
equal agricultural area of America.
ANIL WILLIS died at Terre Haute,
Ind. at the age of 81 years. He was
the oldest veteran of the rebellion in
Indiana and one of the first members
of the &. A. r.
In the penitentiary at Columbus, O.,
Edward Blair was hanged for the muir.
der of Arthur Henry at Harrisburg
March II, 1887.
Four men-William JAM, G. A. Nc
Neil, Robert Blackburn and Alexander
Barron-were killed at the Black Bear
mine in Idaho by falling earth.
Nor1cE has been issued by the Great
Northern railway to its agents in
Minnesota, the Dakotas and Montana
to not only observe the game law
! themselves, but report any violation OF
the same coming to their notice..
! AT Milwaukee Cardinal Gibbons con-
ferred the pallium ON Archbishop Kat
ger.
THREE masked men robbed an ex.
press car in charge of J. r. Byne near
Collins station, Ca, of $4,000!
The largest carrier of wheat from