The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-09-03
WEST AND SOUTH

LIE crews OF Two WhalerS in Alaska,
sixty in number, were said to have
been massacred by the natives of that
region.
THREE Indiana bankers, Malott,
Decker and 'Dougherty, of Indianapo-
lis. Evansville and Button, respective
~, were fined $500 each and ordered
committed until the amounts were paid
for refusing to disclose the accounts OF
depOsitors to the board of tax commits
sionerA
A MOB lynched Andy Ford, q noted
criminal, at Gainesville, Ca
, MRS. MARY RICHARDSON and her two
girls, aged and 6years, were knocked
from a railroad bridge near Nicholas.
vile, Ky, to the rocks go feet below by
an engine and instantly killed.
A MILITARY post is to be established
at point $50 miles northwest of Du.
luth, Mimi, to prevent Canadian thefts
| of American timber
| AN old trunk which belonged to Ed.
ward Baker, who died recently near
st. Louis, was found, and $4,000 in
money discovered. Baker left widow
and three children, none of whom sus.
pected his having the money.
GEORGE DECKER, of Williamson, O..
while handling gun supposed to be
unloaded, shot and instantly killed his
15-year-old sister.
! ABOUT one-half the village of Charles
ton, Ark, was swept away by fire, in
GLIDING the courthouse and all the
| records.
AT Tacoma, WASH, Edward Albert,
son, secretary and teller of the Fidelity
Trust Company bank, took $1,000 from
the safe and fed.
WILL LEWIS (colored), aged IS years,
was taken from Jail at Tullehoma,
! Tenn, by eight masked men and
hanged. Lewis was drunken rowdy,
but had been guilty of no great crime.
AN old soldier named Saltzgaber,
while preparing papers at Marion, Ind.
on which to secure a pension, walked
in front of moving train on the Clover
| Leaf railroad and was instantly killed.
! FLAMES destroyed the business por.
ton of Grand Mound, la.
A BARN belonging to Mrs. DR..
RICHTER, near Columbus, Ind, was
burned and nine horses persisted in the
flames.
In Detroit the Morton Rackus Lum-
Der Company failed for $1,000
A TRAIN was wrecked near Grants
burgh, Mimi, and twenty persons were
badly injured.
AL MORGAN and Walter Lomax.
prominent business men and politicians
OF North Arkansas, fought a duel at
Little Rock with revolvers and both
were fatally wounded.
A. II. WHITNEY. of Quincy, ILL.,, and
A. II. Whitney, of Toronto, Ont, both
Gled suddenly in the Russell house at
Detroit within a few hours of each
| other. These brothers in death were
| neither relatives nor known to each
other.
The death of Dr. Lyman G Draper,
the noted historian, occurred at his
home in Madison, Wis, of paralysis.
aged 76 years.
AT the national encampment at
Cleveland, O., S. s. Yoder was elected
president of the Union Veterans union.
}. b. MoRR1soN's two daughters,
aged II and Is respectively, were
drowned near Birmingham, Ala, while
bathing.
NEAR Pomona, CAL, eastern capital
lists have bought $40 acres of land and
will set out $4,000 fig trees
FIRE destroyed the business portion
of Fonda, la
AT Independence, Ia, Faustino won
the s., 900 stake for 3-year-olds, making
tne last three heats in PISA, PIT and
s:ls1s, the best three heats ever trotted
by a3-year-old.. u =. I'LL.
3 SOME 800 San Francisco employers
have ls formed an association: to fight
trades unions. n S S*,s.. -.sz ,,,. E 81
IN the northwest frosts greatly dam
aged wheat and other crops In por-
tions of Minnesota and the Dakotas ice
formed, the thermo ineter marking four
degrees below the freezing point 4.