The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-01

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The Nebraska republicans IN safe
convention ct Lincoln nominated A. NJ.
Post for associate Justice Of the SUI
preme court and Charles MARBLE and ii.
F. Shumway for regents Of the state
university. The platform approves Of
President Harrison's administration. In
dorses reciprocity, demands protection
OF American industry, denounces trusts
and the free coinage of silver and ar
raigns the democratic party as the
enemy of labor. u
WHEN }. X. Cumberland was arrest
ed in St. Joseph, Mo-, he confessed
that he murdered James Robertson and
his son Jasper at Harlan, H., two years
ago.
/ A NATIONAL Women's Alliance was
organized at Topeka, Kan. The object
of the association is to establish bu-
reau for the better education of the
women in economic, social and polit-
ical questions.
THE forest and prairie fires In Mil
nesota, Wisconsin and the %Dakotas
were burning more fercely than ever,
and several towns seemed to be doomed
to destruction. Loss of life was reported
from several places. Many farmers
had lost their all.
In the town of Chandler, just plated
in the land opened in Oklahoma terri
tory, two lots were offered for sale for
ham sandwich, but no buyers were
found.
GREAT suffering was reported among
the settlers in the newly-opened Okla
homa lands owing to the lack Of the
nccessaries of life. Water was twenty
five cents q glass, bread fifty cents q
loaf, lemons twenty-five cents each.
ham and bacon one dollar a pound aud
other things in proportion.
FLAMES destroyed a railroad elevator
md other buildings at Minneapolis,
| causing loss of $500, 900. Nine fire.
| men were injured, some probably ia
tally.
AT Topeka, Kan, Elijah Watt shot
Miss Kate Halloran because she re-
fused to marry him and then killed
himself.
ROBBERS cleaned out every store and
the post office in San Antonio, Mo-
FLAMES destroyed $. Guckenheimer
& Sons wholesale grocery and liquor
building at Savannah, Ca, causing a
loss of $3.50, 600.
ALLERToN started at Independence,
Ia. to beat the stallion record to wagon
of 3:2O, and beat all records ty going
without a skip in 2:]5. 1t was the first
time the king of stations was ever
hitched to a wagon and the perform
ance was almost phenomenal
In Minneapolis Jacob Brown con-
fessed to committing murder in Cen
tralia, ILL.,, eight years ago, for which
Thomas Gray is serving life sentence
in the Chester penitentiary.
In quarrel with a negro named
Rankin Fred Tyler was killed near
Asheville. n. G. Friends of Tyler
soon after hanged the colored man to
a tree.
AT Charleston, S. c., ten negroes
were sentenced to be hanged October
23 for the murder of another negro.
IT is claimed by Peter johnson, OF
Dassel, Mimi, that he has rediscovered
the lost art of temperlng copper.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
In the city of Consuegra, Spain, a
hurricane demolished many houses re-
Gently devasted by food.
REPORTS of the assassination of Louis
Bogran, president of Honduras, were
false
IN England the valley of the Dee was
inundated SO that only the hedge tops
were visible.
NATIVES attacked a French mission
station in Portuguese Guinea and.killed
ten Portuguese.
On the Russian frontier passenger
trains collided between Golacsoury and
Wolbrom and the cars were shattered
to splinters and ten persons were killed
and many injured.
In the townships of Tadousac, Berg.
eronnes and Escoumins, in Canada, four
rich mica mines were found.
THROUGHOUT Turkey Asiatic cholera
was spreading and hundreds were dy.
ing daily.
TIE whole population of villages in
the government of Astrakahn, Russia
was dying of want, and the parents
were said to be eating their dead chill.
dren.
IN Spain an express train running
between Burgos and San Sebastian col
'ided with mixed passenger train and
twenty -four persons were killed and
many Others were injured. Several
entire families persisted, including the
judge of Victoria and his wife and
daughter.
On the coast of Cape Breton the sh;r
Camelia was lost and Capt Harvey
his wife and child and nine sailors we've
lost.
PERU advices report the murder Of
four American explorers on the rive,
Marathon. They were Californians pros.
pecting for gold.
In Russian Poland twenty-ei light
farms with all the cattle and stores
were destroyed by an incendiary fire.
| LATER.
IN Emmons county, n. d., hundreds
LOT families were homeless from prairie
fires and six persons were burned to
|death. In Wisconsin whole villages
were destroyed, and in Minnesota a
vast area was burned over and several
|1ivoc xuo,.o Lost