The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-07-16

On the 0tl, :!,o tenth international
lconvention of the Young Peoples So
.Eciety Of Christiah Endeavor opened ut
j Minneapolis with 1900 dclegates in
attendance. The sccretary's report
showed that there were in tho country
! 1924 societies with a total member
ship of l,0oS, $50 Among the dcnomi-
nations the Presbyterians have 4,o19
societies, Congregationalists 3,745, Bap-
fists 1851, M::hodiscs zoos. Christians
sol. During the year $3.50 members
of the societies became church men,
bers. >s.y trr
A MOB lynched Jim Bailey, o. negro
who assaulted Mrs. Folsom at Beebe,
Ark.
NEAR Olncy, ILL.,. Mrs. Raymond and
! her 4-year-old son were struck by a
passenger train On tho Ohio & Missis-
Esippi road and instantly killed. 49,
NEAR Olmsted, ILL.,, Pat Moss and
Eddy Davis, both colored, and & white
boy, aged Is years, named Harry Odel,
were beaten to death with club by
Daniel Welsh, an insane negro.
! FLAMES which started i'm Mitchell
Bros. lumber yard at jennings, Mich. i,
destroyed 16,o0o,o 900 feet of lumber, a
planning mill, engine house and four
dwellings. Total loss, S25O,000.
REPUBLICANS of Nebraska win meet
in, state convention at Lincoln on Thurs
day, September p.
UPON her dying bed Mrs. Grisley, of
Lancaster, Wis, confessed that she had
murdered her sons wife in 1882 whose
dead body was found in field perforat-
ed with bullets the second day after
the murder.
The dead bodies of John Fl. Puter-
baugh, a farmer living near Ellis, Neb.,
and his wife and four children were
found in their homo with bullet holes
in their heads. 1t was supposed the
horrible deed was committed by the IA
ther, who was temporarily insane.
REV. JOHN SPACHMANN, Belle Hen
derson, Ella Henderson and Millie
Chenowyth were drowned in Lake Erie
near Oak Point O., by the upsetting Of
boat.
| J. 3. RYAN, ex-state treasurer of
Indiana, and q prominent politician of
the state, died at Indianapolis
J. r. D1LwoRrH, president of the Dill
worth Cattle Company of Billings,
Mont, was shot and instantly killed in
a quarrel over land claim by I; young
Frenchman.
| A DowNpoUR of rain for three hours
at Sioux City, Ia, flooded the city, caus-
ing an aggregate loss of 100000.
| FIFTY white families charged with
being intruders were arrested by the
Chickasaw militia and sent across the
Red river into Texas.
THE wooded portion of Chippewa
county, Mich, and the Canadian terri
tory north of it were on fire on the
10th. Settlers were being burned out
and everybody was fighting the flames.
| THOMAS ROCHE, wealthy railroad
contractor, committed suicide at Fort
Worth, Tex, by shooting himself in the
mouth.
AN investigation has resulted in the
discovery that the state of North Caro-
lima is entitled to $26,21S more than
was originally allowed it OH account of
the direct tax act.
The total population of Wisconsin,
according to a census bulletin, is 1885,
$50, an increase of 1888 over the popu-
| latiOn in 1880
FLEM1NG's livery stable and twenty.
five head of valuable horses were
burned at Emporia. Kan.
THOMAS GOODRICH, farmer living
near Princeton, Ind, died of hydrophc-
bia. He was bitten by y pet dog last
April.
SOUTHERN Illinois farmers report
that chinch bugs were leaving the
wheat and attacking the corn. aud I'M
less rain comes soon the crop would be
seriously damaged.
! T. HExN1He EFT, postmaster at Coffeen,
ILL.,, fell from a cherry tree and was ia
| tallv hurt,