The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-07-09
THE EAST.

"A SuflSCldu cnurCn SOCl1 Ole 1T
Brushton, N. Y, forty thee persons
were poisoned by ice cream and Rev.
Mr.. Braun, rector of the Episcopal
church, and two ladies died and all the
others were in a critical condition.
!. JEALOUSY caused John Rausch to
kill his sweetheart, Maria Burckett,
and then himself at Lawrence, Mass.
The boiler of an engine near White
Haven, Pa, exploded, killing Engineer
Thomas Trip, Fireman ]. Pope and
Brakemen Gallagher and Smith.
THE firm of Mcbride Bros; tea mer-
chants in New York city, made an as
signment with liabilities of $s11, 5s1
and assets of $1SS,S49
ALEXANDER WISE shot and mortally
wounded Maria Hodig and then COM
mitted suicide in New Y DIRK. . ..
JUDGE WILSON sentenced John
Bardsley, the. defaulting. treasurer of
Philadelphia, to fifteen years solitary
confinement in the pcnitentiary and to
pay a fine equal to the amount of his
embezzlement, which may reach $3.50,
OOO
LETTER carriers unveiled in New
York a statue of the late ''Sunset'' Cox.
THE death of Hannibal Hamlin, who
was vice president of the United States
from 1860 to 1865, occurred suddenly at
6:l5 p. IN. on the 4th at Bangor, Me-, OF
heart disease, aged 81 years. He was
a United States senator from 1S47 to
1856. In January, 1857, he was elected
governor of Maine, and q week after
his Inauguration he was again chosen
senator; in 1860 he became vice presi-
dent, and in 1869 he again took his seat
N the senate and remained until 1881,
when he retired from public life.
WEST AND SOUTH.
THE national bank at Newton, Kan,
which failed November 80, 1890, has re-
opened its doors with $1OO, 900 new cap.
ital.
IT was claimed by the Minneapolis
harvest machine makers that the crop
was so heavy in the northwest that
they could not fill their orders. ,
GEORGE SIMMONS reached Chicago
from Galveston, Tex, winning a wager
of $1,000 on condition that he walk
the distance between the two cities
in sixty days. He had seven hours to
spare.
Rn1SEHAEr PETERS and Max ellis,
of La Crosse, Wis, were thrown from
freight car at Dubuque, Ia, by 3 low
bridge and fatally injured.
JOHN BAKER (colored) shot and killed
his wife at Huntsville, Ala, and then
killed himself - -, -
At Goshen, Ind, 80 feet OF the
bank of the canal went out, entailing a
heavy loss and necessitating, shut.
down of the factories. >, 50 -
A HAr.sToRM in Ransom and Sargent
counties, N. d. completely ruined
thousands of acres of growing crops.
AN engine and thirty eight cars were
burned in a wreck on the Omaha line
near Mendoza, MINI. -,
WIND aud rainstorm DESTROYED
many houses and totally destroyed the
crops in Madison, Audubon and Shelby
counties, Ia. Corn fields were as bar.
rcn as the road and hay was pounded
into the ground. Not green blade OF
any sort was left. In some localities
the hail was from to 10 inches deep.
+ IT was said that Sheriff: Warfeld, OF
Arkansas City, Ark, was q ,defaulter
to the extent.o $4,000:
CHARLES NEwroN, John Byron and
Chalmer Shaffer were ~sealded fatally
at Newcastle, Pa, by a traction engine
going through bridge vr-ox~ g.
HENRY .BRABuAM, a, negro, was
hanged at Charlotte, N. c., for the
murder OF an Italian named Mecca on
April II last. He confessed the crime.
AT Keokuk, Ia, James NJ. Love, one
OF the oldest United States district