The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-09

colored, 11,43s; Chinese, 71.6Sl; Jap.
anese. 1,O99; Indians, 1855; total,
l,2OS, 13O
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
native Indian infantry in the province
of Assam, killing 40 soldiers and seven
British officers.
In the Pacific ocean on the west
coast of Tahati the missionary schooner
Chapman was lost and her crew of
nineteen were drowned.
NATIVES have assassinated 800 people
of the island of Anjouan, one of the
Comoro group.
The death of Earl Granville, the dis
tinguished English statesman, occurred
in London. He was born in 1915.
THE Mexican congress convened, and
for the first time in the history of the
republic the budget showed no deficit.
In London it was reported that
prominent Italian had warned Ameri-
cans against the danger of touring in
Italy this year in view of the excite
ment and feeling caused in that coun-
try by the New Orleans affair and
Baron Fava's recall.
The total number of lives lost by the
wrecking of the steamer Utopia in
Gibraltar bay was said to be 1922
chill dispatches report several bloody
battles between the Balmaceda govern
ment and the insurgents The latter
had gained control of all the northern
provinces of the country, and had taken
the cities of Iquique and Tarapaca after
the most desperate fighting Both
towns were entirely destroyed, and
thousands of women, children and de-
fenseless men were shot down by the
successful soldiery.
The Parnellites admitted they were
beaten in the election at Sligo, in Ire
land, the nationalist claiming a ma
jority of 1000.
THE death of Thomas c. Barring, head
of the great firm of London bankers,
occurred in Rome from the effects of a
surgical operation.
ADvIcEs from Rome say that Marquis
di Rudini, the Italian premier, had
transmitted to Marquis Imperiali
charge d'affairs at Washington, his re-
ply to Secretary Blainc's letter on the
subject of Baron Fava's withdrawal
The reply was a concession to
the position taken by Mr.. Blaine. The
Italian government says that it does
not ask that the New Orleans rioters
be summarily punished without the
usual form of legal prosecution and
conviction, but that it wants assurances
that justice will be done in accordance
with the usual forms of law
The English newspapers, in COM
menting on Australia's action in declar-
ing that colony commonwealth. said
that it was the first step toward
declaration of independence.
BY an explosion in coal mine at
Stattordshire, Eng, ten persons were
killed and others injured.
EXPORTS from Hamburg to America
for the first quarter of 1891 have in
creased 81. 900, 900 over the same period
in 1890.
LAST year the amount of silver en-
ported from Mexico was rs. 600, 900, and
the amount coined $2s, 600, 900.
LATER.
AT the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 4th aggregated
1896, S19,9S1, against $S7O.O55, 1863 1.-THE
previous week. AS compared with the
corresponding week of 1890 the decrease
amounted to 1853.
JOSEPH COIN & Co., wholesale
clothiers at Kansas City. Mo-, have as
signed with liabilities of 100000
THE tug Tempest went to the bottom
of Lake Erie near Cleveland and How
ard Loomis engineer; William Hughes,
fireman, and Harry Hershey, raftsman,
We're drowned.
Mrs. EMMA HosHoUR, of Indianapolis,
Ind, shot herself on being told that
she would die of pneumonia.
DR.. p. BIRD, of Owensville. Ind, had
both his eyes destroyed by the explo.
sion of a bottle of medicine he was
shaking up.
The village of Shiocton, Wis, was
almost totally destroyed by fire.
FRED BARTLETT, of Bowermont, N.
d., avenged his sisters seduction by
fatally shooting three men and then
killed himself
BUSINESS property valued at S15O,0OO
was destroyed by fire at Memphis,
Tenn.
FRANK and William Fitswater, prom
inent in business and social circles at
Batavia, o., have been discovered to be
forgers to an amount exceeding $15, 900.
GEORGE JUSTICE, Choctaw, the last
Indian in southern Indiana, died at
Jeffersonville, Ind, aged 20 years.
Snow fell all over northern Alabama
on the 5th. 1t was the first April snow
in that vicinity in over forty years.
A FRAME building in Rochester, Pa,
was destroyed by fire, and four persons
of an Italian family persisted in the
flames.
The steamer Heckla reached New
York with 500 Scandinavian immigrants
bound for Chicago.
SIXTEEN horses persisted in fire in a
livery stable in New York.
A BREAK in a levee in Mississippi
flooded portions of the counties of
1ssaqueena, Sharkey and South Wash
ington, doing great damage.
FIRE at Lowell, Mass, started bv
careless boys, caused loss of 500 600,
THREE men named Shoup, Wood and
Peterson, were arrested at Miner, ILL.,.
on a charge of counterfeiting nickels.
ITALIAN quarry laborers near Kings
ton, N. Y, after adopting denunciatory
resolutions concerning the New Orleans
lynching, hoisted an American flag and
then riddled it with bullets. The
qnarry owners discharged the for
eigners. :y@