The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-07-02

Sioux and floyd Valleys. ESevcnty
miles of Illinois Central track was SUB.
merged by water, cau1lng q loss Of.
100000. Not coentr3 bridge remains.
in Plymouth and Cherokee countieas
In Cherokee county, N. G., q cloud
burst flooded farms for miles, and Har-
vey Agnew and Jack Newton were
drowned. -.
The inventor of the first ico msnu-}
featuring machinery, David Boyle, died
at Mobile, Ala, Of heart disease. eyed
81 years. 81
In Mower COUNT, Mimi, { cyclone
destroyed houses and burns, and at
Marshall Mrs. John Fordahl end her
daughter were fatally injured.
:. JoE ZINs and his slater Edith, Tholnas
Thurman Miss sCatharina Cox aud
Miss Kate Riddle werc drowned in the
river at Cincinnati b7 their boat being
run down by q barge. AL wero prom;-
nent people $t~assvs -
A DANGEROUS gang Of counterfeiters
was captured in Bollinger county, Mo.
=. A TRAIN plunged into swollen
creek near York, Neh,&and Engineer
Delaney, Fireman Dean and = brake
man were killed. sssse:s$S
NEAR Lewisville, Tenn, I'M old fam
lily feuds sresulted in fight, and James
Taylor, John Taylor, Bine Taylor,
Mrs. Annie Nix and Miss Nora Alexan.
der were fatally wounded:
! ADv1cEs from the: interior of Ne
braska indicate great damage to the
wheat crop from a heavy storm. The
Platte basin suffered the greatest dam :,
age.
In Iowa the foods left many people
destitute, and at Cherokee, where over
fifty houses were destroyed, 800 persons
were being fed by the relief committee.
From Storm Lake to Cherokee the
country had the appearance of one vast
lake, and not q bridge on any of the
country roads could be seen. The
counties which suffered the worst by
the floods are Clay. O'Brien. Buena
Vista, Cherokee, Plymouth, Woodbury.,
Ida and Monona. 49, ;.
NEAR Rosebud, Mont, a sleeping car
was derailed and sixteen persons were
injured, among the number being Fran
els Murphy, the temperance lecturer.
whose nose was broken. @;'.~
Tie streets in the lower portion of
the city Of Omaha, Neb., were flooded
to . depth Of feet by heavy rains
which had also done great damage and
entirely suspended railway traffic in
the state.
In Chicago Mrs Sylvis Hartactt,
aged los years, started to walk to hc..:
old home in Cumberland, Md, but was
found sitting on curbstone by the po-
lice and taken to the home of her son.
MISS ELIZABETH McVEY, the wonder
full faster of Rose Hill. Ind. died afte..
going forty-three days without cny
food whatever.
Mrs. A. NJ. TArRo and Mrs. G.. f.
Haney. while crossing trestle ct Graf
ton Neb., were struck b. G train end
killed. T.. -.
MRS. PH1lo, arrested il Chicago for
forgery committed in Denver, Co..,
jumped from rapidly movin; train
near Ashton. ILL.,, and escaped.
WHILE playing football Stephen
Stakenberg, a student at Normal co..
lege at Marion, Ind, dropped dead.
In the Nelson lumber yards at Clo-
quet, Mimi, flames burned over 10000
600 feet Of lumber, the loss being $780,
OO0
WHITE SEWARD and Sidney Smith
were fatally shot in q quarrel over q
girl at Pleasure Ridge Park, Ky.
AT Shreveport, La, Thomas Harris
(colored) was hanged for the murder of
Ella Franklin on May IL last.
In powder houses at Galveston, Tex,
an explosion wrecked several buildings
and killed one man and fourteen head
of cattle.