The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-06

Episcopal church, Rev. DIR. Daniel p.
Kidder, died at his home in Evanston.
ILL.,, at the age of u years.
AT indianapolis the peoples party of
indiana was organized.
FLAMES destroyed q large part of the
business portion of Crookston, MINI.
A SOLDIERS home for union veterans
, near Louisville, KY, has been opened.
In convention at Baltimore Frank
Brown was nominated for governor by
the Maryland democrats and Arthur p.
German was renominated for United
States senator.
A VERY sharp shock of earthquake,
lasting several seconds, was felt
throughout San Diego, Cal.
SOME 200 people were assembled at
Lower High Tower church, near Os-
burn, Ca, when q stroke of lightning
entered the church and nearly every
one was burned or marked in some
manner, but no one was killed.
THE arrest of Cashier. Kirby, who
embezzled 500, 600 from q Marshall
(Mich.) bank, was made at Sedalia,
Mo.
ROBERT TANKERsLEY, aged 10 years,
who was bitten by mad dog two
months ago, died in terrible agony at
Wichita, Kan.
FIFTY kegs of powder exploded in the
Alabama Great Southern depot at
Birmingham, Ala, wrecking the build.
ing and injuring several people.
GEORGE WILLIAMS. a butcher, was
cremated and a negro cook and his
wife sustained fatal injuries in fire at
Seattle. Wash.
1T was said that William Keplxe, a
farmer residing at Melke, Mich, had
| confessed that seventeen years ago he,
with other citizens of Pressure Isle
| county, formed an oath bound compact
to assassinate Albert Mollter, who was
murdered at that time. His clerk,
named Sullivan, was also slain.
A TRAIN ON the Bellaire, GAINESVILLE
& Cincinnati Narrow-gauge railroad
left the track near Bellaire, O., and two
cars filed with passengers overturned
and dragged some distance, injuring
fourteen persons, one fatally.
CATTLE in the vicinity of Hillsboro,
ILL.,, were said to be suffering from a
fatal disease. The mouth gets sore,
the legs become swollen and stiff, and
the animals die of starvation.
The 5-year-old son of Mrs. Whitner,
living at Creston, O., caught his foot in
cattle-guard while walking on the
track, and his mother, while attempt
ing to rescue him, was run down by an
express train and killed.
F. L. PRATT, a somnambulist of Fort
Smith, Ark, sat down on the railway
track while asleep and was killed by a
freight train.
RECENT rains throughout Arkansas
have swollen the streams to such an
| extent that thousands of acres of corn
and cotton land were inundated.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
ADvICEs from Colon, on the isthmus
of Panama, announce the death of
William F. Sims, of Virginia, United
States consul at that port
By the capsizing of a boat fourteen
employees of the waterwcrks were
drowned at Essen, Germany, while
crossing the Ruhr.
| ADv1CEs from Mecca, Egypt, state
| that the death rate from cholera was
40 per day ut that place and thirty
daily at Djeddah.
In Canada the house of commons re-
| fused to consider resolution for imme-
date reduction of the tariff on necessi-
ties.
O'BR1EN and Dillon were released
from Jail at Galway, Ireland, after
serving six months, and were cnthu-
siastically received by the people on ar
rival at Dublin.
DISPATCHES from China report an
other Christian mission burned; also
the sinking of a steamer by collision.
with the loss of 26o lives.
BY the forgeries of clerk the
Dcutsche bank of Berlin lost S295, ZOO.
THE Jamaica census just completed
shows an increase in population of
58,6S7 in a total of $50, SO3.
In the interior of Japan sixteen viii
lagos were swept away by floods and
many lives were lost.
In the province of Gujerat, India, a
, heavy rain flooded the country and over
! 800 persons were drowned.
In England company was organized
with capital of s., 500. 900 to operate a
line of -four and grain-carrying steam
ers from Lake Erie ports to Liverpool.
THOUSANDS of bales of cotton were
destroyed by a fire which broke out in
London, and it was estimated that the
damage done would am cunt to $3.50, 900.
| THE closing of the lobster-canning
factories on the west coast of New
foundland was said to have created a
! panic among thousands of workmen
formerly employed in them, and they
! were actually starving.
1T was said that Mount Vesuvius wa:
| again in a state of eruption, and tbst
the lava had reached the village of Ria
! del CaYallo