The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-12

In st. Louis dangerous two-dollar
counterfeit bills We're in circulation.
THE death was announced of Charles
81. Branscombe, the founder of Law
renee, Kan, and prominent in the early
struggles of that State. -
FIRE ruined Robert McElroy's retail
dry-goods store in Detroit, Mich, caus-
ing loss of $175, 900; insurance, $3.50, 600.
AT Greenville, ILL.,, fire destroyed
all the business houses on the east side
of the square.
IT cost the Government in the In.
dian war in the Dakotas $4,000, ZOO.
In snow-slide near Ouray, Col, four
miners persisted.
GOVERNMENT officials captured ten of
the most desperate outlaws in the In
dian Territory.
THE First Arkansas Valley Bank of
Wichita failed with liabilities of $780,
900. =
AT Amboy, ILL.,, Miss Grace Gridlcy,
who has been in a comatose condition
for the past year, is now recovering.
FIRE destroyed large barn near
Geneva, ILL.,, and eleven horses and fifty
seven head of choice cattle and great
amount of hay and grain were con-
Sumed
RETURNS from the recent elections
in Oklahoma showed that the Demo
cratic and Alliance tickets were sue
cessful.
PATSY DEv1NE, of Alton, ILL.,, who
was hanged several years ago for the
murder of Aaron Goodfellow, of Bloom
ington, was discovered to be innocent
of the crime. On the scaffold Devine,
declared that he was not guilty.
A MOB lynched Green jackson (col-
ored), the slayer of N. w. Ward, at
Greenville, Miss.
FLAMES destroyed the Pullman car
shops and a row of dwellings at St.
Louis, involving loss of $250,OOO.
The richest body of tin ore in the
world was discovered forty-five miles
southwest of Durango, Mex, by John
Pershbaker, of San Francisco.
BY the overflow of small streams In
Alabama many farms were under water,
and much loss had been sustained by
the drowning of live stock and the de-
struction of farm-houses and fencing.
NEAR Shelby, Ala, a bridge gave
way over the Coosa river, and four men
were killed by falling timbers.
WILLIAM YOU'VE and John Anderson
were blown to atoms by an explosion
Of giant powder in a mine near Kolzo-
mo, COL, and John johnson, John Nc
Leod and Will Crane were fatally hurt.
In California over 5000 cases of the
grip were reported.
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of the village of Ellisville, ILL.,, was de-
stroyed by fire.
MRS. AMOS ROBERTS died at Grand
Rapids, Mich, aged 100 years.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
IN Paris Michael Eyraud, the muir
derer of Notary Gouffe, was guillotined.
PIRATES attacked two war junks by
mistake near Ningpo. China, and six
were captured and beheaded.
The Canadian Governor General has
dissolved the House of Commons. The
new Parliament will assemble March 5
next
In Vienna 10000 shoemakers went on
strike for an increase in wages.
NEAR Schrieber, Ont, sleeping-car
was thrown from the track and fell
distance of sixty feet, severely ipjuring
the nine passengers inside the car.
DURING January 1,225 italian emil
grants left Trieste for America.
AT fire in Moscow (Russia) orphan
asylum nine children were brrnedCo
death and several fatally injured.
TWENTY-FIVE wood-cutters working
on mountain side in the province of
Glarus, Switzerland, were buried by
an avalanche.
MITCHELL & SHEPARD, manufacturers
of woolens at Bradford, Eng, failed for
$415, 600.
The death of T. H. Morse, United
States Consul General to London under
President Lincoln, occurred at Surrey,
Eng, where he had lived since his re-
tirement, aged "a years.
LATER
In the United States Senate on the
9TH it was decided to hold evening ses-
sions hereafter. The House bill for
the adjustment of accounts of work.
! men, laborers and mechanics under the
eight-hour law was discussed. The
death of Mr.. Phelan, of Tennessee,
was announced, and as mark of re-
spect the Senate adjourned. In the
House the amendment to the worlds
fair clause of the sundry civil appro-
priation bill was passed. It makes the
salary OF the director general, $500;
president, IS, 600; vice-president of the
executive committee, 81, 1000; secretary,
S., 600; clerks, etc., $4,000.
The McLaren lumber mills at o.
tawa, Ont, were burned, causing less
of $500
PRESIDENT HARRISON has approved
the act granting a pension to Major
General Franz Sigel, and the act maxi
ing an apportionment of Representa-
tives in Congress among the several
States under the new census.
GOVERNOR PECK, of Wisconsin, has
signed the bill passed by the Legisla-
ture repeating the Bennett school law.
BY an explosion of gas in the new
shaft at Simpson & Watkins mine at
Wyoming, Pa, two men were instantly
killed and two fatally injured.
MRS. RosANNA HUGHES, aged 1O2,
died at Louisville, Ky. She was tho
Oldest woman in the State.
11DWAhD IAHh, VINO nau Dccn an IN
mate of the Westchester IN. W poor
house for thirty-six years, died at the
age of 102 years.
GEORGE SLAYBACK, of Cincinnati,
shot his wife, who had left him because
of abuse, and then killed himself
THE fruit steamer Simon Dumois,
valued at 100000, from Matanzas,
Cuba, foundered near New York, and
her crew of sixteen men were lost.
The explosion of boiler in Giles
steam saw-mill near Reidsville, Co.,
killed six men.
TREADwAY's livery stable at Huron,
s. D., was destroyed by fire, and
twenty-four horses persisted in the
flames.
TN THOUSAND DOLLARS, half of
which was in bills and half in Govern
ment bonds, was found in Pullman
car in Chicago by Henry Prentice. an