The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-13


| the 7th numbered 23l, against 247
the preceding week and POS for the cor
responding week last year.
SECRETARY OF THE UNITED STA TIES
TREASURY FOSTER was advised that an
| attempt was to be made during the
present month to rob the treasury by
an organized band of men.
THE EAST.
THE New York city grand jury in.
dicted the editors and publishers of all
New Yo:k city morning newspapers
except the Tribune, charging them
with misde meanor in publishing details
of the execution of the four murderers
recently killed at Sing Sing.
THE steamer Majestic of the White
Star line which reached New York
made the trip across the Atlantic in five
days, eighteen hours and eight minutes,
the fastest time on record.
JOHN HUMPHREY died in an elect ric
car at Atlantic City, N. j., William An
derson dropped dead at the breakfast
table in Passaic, n. j., and George Nc
Allister died in bath house at Cape
May, N. J.
JOHN and Isabella Beecher Hooker
celebrated their golden wedding at
Hartford, Conn.
NEAR Harrisburg, Pa, cloudburst
inundated factories and flooded the
surrounding country, doing great dam
age.
The mail train on the Ogdensburg
& Lake Champlain railroad collided
with returning Sunday-school excur-
sion train at Champlain station, n. ",
killing five persons and fatally injur-
ing ten or fifteen.
A PASSENGER train on the West
Shore railroad ran into some freight
cars that had become detached from
the train ahead near Port Byron, N.
Y, killing the fireman and ten Italian
passengers and injuring score of 9TH
ers some of whom would die.
THE death of Ex-Gov. Samuel r.
Axte1l occurred at MorristOwn, n. j.,
aged - wears.
j. +. ROCHE, of Boston, was elected
national commander of the Regular
Army and Navy union at their annual
meeting held at Boston.
AT the annual convention of the
Beta Theta Phi fraternity at Lake
Chautauqua, Prof. j. C. Gordon, of
Washington, was chosen president.
JAMES THoROUGHGOOD, colored
man, was hanged at Dover, Del, for
assaulting child of = years
HE American Dental association in
session at Saratoga, N. Y. elected DIR.
w. w. Walker, of New York, presi-
dent.
THEODORE DENNIS, of Massachusetts,,
was elected president of the National
Association of Letter Carriers:
WEST AND SOUTH.
CoMMANDER-lN-CnIE VEAzEY was
presented with a &. A. r. diamond
badge at Detroit, Mich, valued at
$1,000, the presentation speech being
made by ex-President Hayes.
THIEVES who broke into the safety
deposit vault in the bank at Kinsman,
O., carried away sixty private deposit
boxes, IS, ZOO in silver plate anil large
amount Of other property.
The death was announced :f George
X. Anderson, register of the United
State land office at Folsom, Col. He
was once wealthy operator in oil in
Pennsylvania.
STOCKMEN in the Indian territory, on
the Cheyenne and Arapahoe noun
tains, were fined one dollar per head
for all cattle now within the lines. The
trespassing cattle number between 200, :
600 and 100000.
J. q. HOWELL, prominent politician
of Oakland, Cal, killed K. J. Colvin, a
young stenographer who was an aspi-
rant for the hand of his daughter.
1T was said that nine men were killed
and sixteen wounded in battle be-
tween cattlemen and outlaws near
West Lake, La.
MAIL CARRIER HENRY E. BARLOW
was arrested in Chicago after robbing
the mails for over a year, during which
hisSstealings must have amounted to
several thousand dollars.
SAMUEL FREEMAN, merchant at
Lawrence. Kan, killed his wife and 1.
year-old child, and then fred a bullet
with fatal effect into his own brain.
Domestic trouble was supposed to have
been the cause.
COMMANDER IN CHIEF VEAzEY in his
annual address at the second days ses.
sion of the Grand Army of the Republic
encampment at Detroit, recommended
the establishment of separate depart.
ments for colored camps. Washington
was decided upon as the place for hold
ing the next annual meeting.
Fl MIDDAY ,x,ho xr,oo rooork1,v ,.1
leased from the Jacksonville lind
penitentiary, was arrested at Louis.
vile, KY, charged with the murder Of
a sister of charity who had nursed him
during an illness, and who refused to
marry him.
LATE election returns from Ken.
lucky indicate that the Farmers AL
lance party had elected a majority OF
the members to the legislature.
JOHN WITT and his son, John Witt,
'Ir.. were fatally injured near Worth.
ington, MIMI. by being thrown under
reaper by runaway team.
SEVERE hailstorn in tue vicinity oil
Howard, s. D., did great damage to the
wheat crop. 1t was estimated that
from 40, 600 to SO, 900 bushels of whea,
were destroyed.
NELLIE BOISE, daughter of the cir.
cult judge of Salem, Ore, and William
Steel, son of Postmaster Steel, of Port
! land, were drowned while bathing al
Long Beach, Wash.
JOHN GRAYsoN, who died at La
Grange, Ark. confessed on his death
bed to having murdered three men dur
! ing his lifctime-a detective. farmer
and a book agent
The wife of o. w. Cass. a merchant
of Aurora, Neb., in a fit of temporary
insanity saturated her dress with kero
sene and then set fire to it and wa:
burned to death.
| THE peoples party in state conven
ton at Springfield, o., nominated Johr
Seitz, of Seneca county, for governor
The platform demands the abolition O.
national banks as banks of issue, gov
eminent control of railroads, liberia
pensions for soldiers and election O.
United States senator's by popular vote
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