The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-27

THE death 81 Henry Worthiaxton
Beckwith, United States consul at Ber-
muda, occurred at his mothers homo
near Hinsdale, Ill. aged Is years.
Mrs. BANHOWsER, of Alexandria,
Va, during 8 at Of temporary insanity
drowned her 18-months-old baby, then
Drained her .s-year-old boy with I
Ratchet and attempted to take her own
life. She would recover.
In Brown county, Ind, peaches and
other growing crops were seriously
damaged by wind and hailstorms. Fiji
ty acres Of corn in one locality were
destroyed. ~ 81 -. 70, . :
Ar Cumberland. Wis, George Fus-
sell, an old resident, and his grandson
were drowned by the upsettin': of q
boat. ,..-..-.
THREE little children Of George Ham
ilton. of 1rontcn, O., were suffocated
in tool chest during the absence Of
their parents. A stick fastened in the
staple of the chest indicated murder.
In Macon county, NO., crops were
washed away and hundreds of live
stock drowned by an overflow Of the
Charlton river.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
In the National league for the week
ended on the 2sd were: Chicago, GA;
Boston, .sss; New York, ::57:; Phila-
delphia, $50; Brooklyn, .479; Cleveland,
.456; Cincinnati, 800; Pittsburgh,
1884 The percentages in clubs of the
American association were: Boston,
$685. St. Louis. 1855; Baltimore, $50;
Athletic, .514; Colum bus, 1896; Milwau-
kee, AL; Louisville, .S48; Washington,
.S46. y =,
THROUGHOUT the northwest hard
frosts were reported on the 22d. In
portions of South Dakota ice formed
on shallow water, and in Colorado
snow fell.
A MOB lsnched Charles Hawkins, j
desperate, at Shelbyville, Ind, for ia
tally shooting Dan Bruce, the city
marshal
A FREIGHT train went through a
trestle near lula, Miss, killing two
men and fatally injuring three others.
AN unknown man robbed James Cor
man, bachelor, who lived with his
sister near Middleton, Wis, of $40, 900,
the savings of lifetime.
AT New Ulm, Mimi, q monument in
memory of the massacre by the Sioux
in 1869, by which 1000 people lost their
lives, was dedicated.
AT Wheeling, w. Va, a fraudulent CO.
operative company collapsed after
swindling $4,000 persons out of over
$500, 600.
NEAR Clanton, Ala, Ray Porter
(colored) was lynched by a mob for the
murder of Henry Parr, young white
man.
The death of Chester D. Hubbard,
who from 1865 to 1869 represented the
Wheeling wv. Va.) district in congress
as a republican, occurred at Wheeling,
aged II years.
A SCHEME was perfected by the Kan
sas Farmers Alliance to establish a
system of cooperative stores in every
county in the state.
JOHN Stafford and Thomas Steven
son, two farmers of Ottawa county,
Kan, took refuge during storm in a
barn and the building was cru shed by
the wind nd both were killed.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
PASSENGER trains collided near o.
trowo. Prussia, and ten persons were
killed and many injured.
In Austria the village of Kollmann
was flooded by cloudburst and forty
persons were drowned and half the
houses in the town destroyed.
WHILE bathing Bella Nichol, aged 9
years, and her brother Willie, aged +,
were drowned at Brockville. Ont.
A sCAFFoLD at Nordenhamm, Ger
many, upon which a large number of
men were working collapsed, killing
fourteen men and seriously injuring
forty others.
THE Canada crop of wheat this year
exceeds anything in the history of the
dominion, it being estimated ut 63, OO0,-
600 bushels, of which 3S, 600, 900 bushels
will be for export
THE Anglo-Australian bank at Mel
bourne suspended with liabilities of
100000
A RANCH owner named Marciano Me-
dina, living in the United States of
Colombia, has confessed to numbering
his thirteen children. He objected to
the expense of bringing them up.
NINE. PATTI will make an operate
tour of the United States in the late
autumn and winter.
CASUALTIES in the recent hurricane
on the island of Martinique grow with
each additional report. Two hundred
and eighteen persons were killed in
the coast towns alone, and many lives
were lost in the interior villages.
NEAR Valparaiso, Chilli, terrible
battle was raging on the I'D between
President Balmaceda's forces and the
insurgents, and over 5000 soldiers had
been slain.
STORIES of misery received from Eas-
STA are almost incredible. In Bessara-
bia peasants were selling their chill lren
in order to buy food.