The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-12-17

TA1 Cleveland theAtor, at Cleveland,
O., was destroyed By IRE, entailing :
loss Of 500. 0oo. Is 1. Z.
| In Michigan the average condition
Of wheat was reported ct 81 per cent, ,,
against 102 per cont one year ago.
During the month Of November 1,oSS,-
EOS bushels of wheat were marketed.
TALroN HALL, who claimed that dur
ing his life he had killed ninety-nine
men, was arrested at Memphis, Tenn.
FIVE girls and one boy and Ave fire.
men lost their lives in two fires at
Louisville, Ky. -. ~. .,.,s d
FLAMES destroyed tho American
house at Waukesha, Wis. the guests
escaping in their night-clothes
EVERY building but two In the VIII
lsge Of Pinos Altos, N. NJ, was de-
stroyed by fire.
FIRE destroyed Rudersdorrs hotel
and the Offices Of the Chronicle, the
Sun. the Eagle and the Star at Madi-
son, Wis. 81
NEAR La Junta, COL, Kit Carson, q
son of the famous scout of the same
name, murdered his mother-in.law and
father-in.law and escaped. Family
trouble was the cause.
FLAMES destroyed the entire business
portion of Red Key, Ind
JOHN Brown and George Starkey
were convicted at Alton, Ill.,, of the
murder of ex-State Senator Gillian and
sentenced to thirty years each in the
penitentiary.
MILLS in the Duluth Mimi district
cut 253, SOC, 600 feet during the lumber
season lately closed, against 215. 000, 900
feet last year.
FIRE at Ardmore, 1. T., destroyed the
greater part of the business section
and about twenty-five dwellings,.
AT Seattle, WASH, the Mechanic
Mills Company's factory was burned,
causing loss Of $40, 600; insurance,
$26, O00
AT Erskine, Ind. Robert Ruston and
his wife, an aged couple, were killed
by train at crossing.
MRS. MARY ~GoTsCHALK, her little
daughter Lettie and Mrs. Mary Witt
were killed by the cars at Homewooa,
Ill.
By the wrecking of the steamer Mag
gle Ross near Yaquina, CAL, the crew
of sixteen men were lost.
In q gale near Cape Arago, Ore, the
bark Gen. Butler foundered and nine
sailors were drowned.
ENGINEER G. s. FLIPP1N and two la
borers, Simeon Oleson and James Mil
Ter, were killed and eight others were
injured. some fatally, in q collision on
the Mobile & Ohio road near Jones'
boro, Ill.
TEN colored men under sentence of
death have been released at Columbia,
$. c., Henry Suber having confessed
that he alone committed the murder of
which they were convicted.
The Texas supreme court has de-
clared the law prohibiting aliens own
ing land in the state unconstitutional
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
The Russian treasury at Vladivstock
was robbed of $3.50, 900.
THE statement of President Har-
rison in his message on Gillian affairs
was regarded by Chilians at Valparaiso
as meaning a rupture between the two
countries, as it was not believed that
the Gillian government would consent
either to apologize or make any mate
rial indemnity.
A STORM did enormous damage in
Cork and all over the south of Ireland.
AT Buda Pesth q blacksmith killed
his wife and three children. He then
committed suicide after setting fire to
the house.
BY the wrecking of the French bark
Leonore, Capt Barnard, off Numble's
Head, Eng, twelve of the crew were
drowned.
THROUGHOUT Bavaria storms of great
severity ragged and scores of lives were
lost and an immense amount of prop
erty was destroyed.
AT Garlitz, in Prussian Silesia,
Adolph Albert, prominent banker,
embezzled 2,O00, 900 marks and fed
In response to President Harrison's
message President Mont, of Chill. de-
clares that the sentiment of his coun-
try is friendly to the United States,
and that he thinks the result of the
Baltimore inquiry will be satisfactory
to America.
MANY Chinese vessels were DESTROYED
during gale at Hong Kong and hun
dreds of Chinese sailors and laborers
engaged about the harbor were
drowned.
VICTORIES of the Chinese imperial
troops sent against the rebels in Mon
golia have brought the instruction to
an end. Forty-two insurgents who had
hand in the killing of Christians were
beheaded at Pakou.
NJ. DE CossAeNAc during debate in
the French chamber of deputies called
M. Floquet, president of the chamber,
a liar. Upon his refusal to retract NJ.
Floquet challenged him to a duel and
the challenge was accepted
HUNGARY will celebrate the one thou
sandth anniversary of the establish
ment of the kingdom with national
exhibition in 1895.
LATER.
Field In Jail.
NEW YORK, Dec. 14.-Edwa1d NJ.
Field, the senior partner of the defunct
firm of Field, Lindley, Wiechers & Co.,
was arrested to-day by three of 1nspec-