The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-22
WEST AND SOUTH.

CAsk OF giant powder exploded
near Ensley City, Ala, and six negroes
were fatally hurt
AT Wabash, Ind, Sylvester Fills died
of starvation, resulting from a partial
paralysis of the muscles of the throat
AT Fountaintown, Ind Stephen
ridden, aged IS. q well-known farmer,
ended his troubles by hanging himself
with. q clothes line. This was. the tenth
suicide in Shelby county this year.
ALL over North Dakota snow was
falling, and it was estimated that
at, least two-thirds of the splendid
wheat crop would be ruined.
In A. r. Dolman's barrel-headinp
factory at Upton, Ind, fifty employees
were injured by = boiler explosion,
two fatally. =
SEVERAL business houses at Shaw
neetown, ILL.,, were burned. the, loss
being 100000. "a !
The crop report Of Michigan for Co.
tober gives the total wheat crop as 3d.
4l1,730 bushels 8 sHs S S H. .sss,.p, N
DHs in use at the New; Orleans mint
for making silver dimes are 50 imper-
fect that work has been ordered
AT Washington, Ind, J James H. La
vel1e, auditor Of Daviess county, and /.
B. Hawes' well-known citizen, were
charged with setting the courthouse
on fire to destroy the county records
and prevent the uncoverinR of their
dishonesty.
IN Bath county. KY, Georg &c Cupps
shot and instantly killed George and
James Howard, brothers. A woman
was the cause of the crime. t.y
A RAILWAY engine boiler exploded
near st. Paul. injuring eleven men,
three fatally.
On the Baltimore {; Ohio road four
coaches were thrown rom the track at
Hicksville, o., by the rails spreading,
and two men were killed and fifty
other persons were injured, ten prob
ably fatally. .s,' z' ''' ~ -
AT Omaha sixteen men have thus far
been arrested. charged with murder in
the SSlynching of the negro Coe. &: s.
= THE Tooth anniversary Of Gen. st.
Clair's battle with the Indians at Port
land, Ind, was cole brated. o,.&:,. .| 6
/ The Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Company was fined at Frankfort, Ky..
for repairing its trucks on Sunday, 81
HE Pullman's Palace Car Ccmpany's
annual report shows that during the
past year 5,310,Sl3 passengers were.
carried, against 5,O23,O57 for the
preceding year. The total number
OF persons in the employ Of the com
pany In its manufacturing and operat-
ing department was 1885 and ) the
wages paid during the year amounted
to $7,303, los. - ~
THOMAS STEWART and Patrick Ad-
ans, two of the oldest miners in Mon
tana, were instantly killed by an i'm
mense fall Of rock at Red Lodge.
& NANCY HAKKs. the mare withsa rec
ord ofe:O9, was sold BY Hart Boswell,
of Lexington, Ky. to j. NJ. Forbes, of
Boston, for S45, GOO. ~ T g ~ t
r. On the Chicago and Eastern Illinois
railway fast train ran from IN open
switch into q roundhouse at Crete, i'll,
and James Clark, the. engineer, and
Leonard Wash burne.s Frederick wv.
Henry and Frank McCafferty. reporters
ON the Chicago Inter Ocean, were In.
stantly killed. .szs s5ss 1 -. -
The death Of Gen. w. III. f. Zee, Sec sec.
ond son Of Gen. r.. E. Lee, occurred It
his home In Ravensworth, Va, aged 81
years He represented that district Tor
two terms in congress and was asmem-
sber-elect Of the next house.
IS FoR the murder 81 Moses; sLufkinl.
[sWtlliann Ross WAS hanged - Redwood
!. calls, u Inn. Rose protested his inno-