The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-11-05

boat, was burned and twenty live.
were lost M
TREASURES INaRAM, Of Mulberry
Grove township, Ill, was robbed 81
$500 school money. 5.=g.. @#...,,.s
THE death Of Judge r. A. Debolt, 4
member Of the Forty -fourth congress,
occurred ut T-ent ton. Mo. !
A NAN named Hartline, of Belknap,
ILL.,. killed a Miss Thurman, to whom
he had been paying attention, and then
committed suicide: 49, ,,.s.,ss.: .s<s
FLAMES destroyed large number OF
dwelling houses ut Kenton. O., the loss
being $150, 1000 :
A coIoRED man named Snowden was
lynched by mob ut West Monroe, La
for burning the residence of Squire
Emery.
The village of Newberry, Ind, was
almost wholly destroyed by fire.
For the murder of his wife, Lee
Hughes (colcred) was hanged at Bren.
ham, Tex. - IN :. -
NEAR Elizabethtown, Ind, James
Beggs, wellto-do farmer, was fatally
beaten by John and Frank Newly,
two colored toughs, and robbed of .
sum of money.
/ fGEoRaE WISE, q deputy United States
marshal and his friend, c. Garcia, were
killed at LAREDO, Tex, by Francisco
Flores, a Mexican smuggler.
FLAMES which started in the Advance
elevator at Peoria, ILL.,, caused loss Of
$4,000.
NEAR Independence, Mo-, prairie
fires destroyed sixty acres of corn ant
thirty tons of hay, besides several,
sheds. board fences, etc.
Ex-Gov. DAVID MERR1wErnER, borr
the day Washington died, and sue
cessor of Henry Clay in the senate oil
the United States, celebrated his 93%
birthday at Louisville.
& Co: at Cleveland, O., was burned.
causing a loss of $4,000.
AT Briceville, Tenn, $50 convicts
were released by 5000 miners, and an
immense stockade was burned.
AT Independence, a., Roy Wilkes
broke the pacing wagon record going a
mile in 2:13.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
The White Star line steamer Ten.
tonic arrived at Queenstown from New
York in five days, two hours and three
minutes, breaking all previous rec.
Ords.
In Russia anti-Jewish riots were talk
ing place. Fifty were killed and hun.
dreds were wounded in one city, and
thousands had fed to the forests, where
they were dying of starvation.
In the streets of Cork Parnellites and
McCarthyites had fight with clubs
and stones and many persons were bad
~ wounded.
HUNDREDS of persons in Mexico were
said to be on the verge of starvation
owing to the failure of crops.
In the Argentine republic Baron
Hirsh has paid $1,000, 90 for l,ooe
square miles of territory for the estab-
lishment of Jewish settlement.
AT Ottawa, Ont, Contractor Connolly
was arrested on the charge of having
swindled the Canadian government out
of about 81 ZOO, 900.
In Tunis a high wall fell aud crushed
an Arab house in which were two we'd
ding parties and thirty persons were
killed.
AT Osaka, in Japan, an earthquake
destroyed large amount of property
and killed 300 persons
FIRE at Virden, Man., DESTROYED
about dozen houses and twenty i'm
ported horses.
SANTIAGO advices say that the Chill
ian govern ment had refused to be re-
sponsible for the recent outrages on
American sailors of the steamer Balti.
more, and would allow no American
sailors on shore. Minister Egan, Com
mander .Schley and Consul McCreery
were consulting together and it was
thought that decisive action would be
taken soon.
In northern Hungary the potato crop
has been complete failure and fears
were entertained that famine would
result.
The Mccarthy candidate was elected
to parliament to succeed Sir John Pope
Hennessy.
DURING a conflict near Milopotamos
between Turkish troops and an armed
band under mand of Chiefs Zaulus
and Mauris thirty were killed, includ-
ing the two chiefs.
A, DUTY of twenty-five francs on
American salt pork imported into that
country has been fixed by the Frenct,
senate. This action removes the pro-
hibition.
AT Osaki and other cities in Japan
5000 persons lost their lives and much
property was destroyed in the recent
earthquake.
COMMENTS of the London papers on
the Gillian incident were generally
unfriendly to this country:
A PLOT was said to have been dis.
covered in Cork to assassinate William
OBrien, the McCarthyite candidate.