The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-15

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George 3. Duncan were burned Cd
death y Detroit 81 tho explosion Of oil
in 9. stove they wore repairing.
Ex-TREAsURER GEORGE w. MORGAN,
lof Baltimore county, Nd, was found
to be $24. 500. - short in his accounts
WoRKMEN struck vein Of OH while
drilling for water near Mcdaryville,
Ind. that was flowing % tho rate 81
300 barrels day. g.. $500 q .5 : ss re. Z 5.
A FIRE II Lima, o.. caused Z loss 81
$780, 0o The Times office and several
mercantile houses were destroyed. r
+ In Minnesota the recent cyclone in
1tasca and Beltrami counties destroyed
the timber on 1000 square miles. / 4s
In the Fifth Michigan district J. s.
Lawrence, Of Grand Rapids, was nomi.
mated for oongress by the democrats
to succeed NJ. III. Ford, deceased. s2
FLAAEs at Montgomery, Ala, de-
sstroyed Hunter 4 Co. - compress and
2.5oo bales Of cotton, causing . loss 81
$l25, ZOO. -
PETER CUsICK and John Williams, in.
mates Of the Soldi. is home at LeavenL
worth, Kan, were killed by the cars.
Six acres Of ground were burned
over ut Maydeld, Ky The loss was
placed at 800, 600, with but little insur-
ance.
THE packing house of Parker, Webb
& Co. in Detroit was damaged BY fire
to the extent Of 500, 900 One man was
burned to death and about q dozen
others were more or less seriously
| burned.
FIRE destroyed the Olympic theater
at st. Paul. the loss being 500, 600. -
JUDGE JOHNSON, in the circuit court
at Topeka, Kan. decided that an ar.
rest made on letter or telegram was
not due process of law.
AJ.LERToN defeated Nelson in the
stallion trot at Grand Rapids, Mich,
for purse of $4,000 taking the sec.
ond, third and fourth heats.
In New Orleans the case against Pri-
vate Detective D. C. O'Malley, who was
charged with bribing the Hennessy
jury, was dismissed.
THE Army Of the Tennessee, in ses.
sion in Chicago, elected Gen. q. NJ.
Dodge, of Iowa, president of the society.
The marriage of A. b. Froman and
Miss Emma j. McHale, of Colorado
Springs, COL, took place on the top of
Pixies Peak. This was the highest mar
riage on record.
AT Greenup. ILL.,, William Kisser, an
| aeronaut of Louisville, KY, was killed
by falling $50 feet while making an
| ascent.
A MOB took Joe Coe, a negro, from
the Jail at Omaha and lynched him for
assaulting Lizzie Yates, years of age.
THREE men robbed the National
bank at Enterprise, Ore, in broad day.
light of $500.
JOHN and Wade Fielder wero ex.
ecuted at Rush, Tex, for numbering
Vance Thompson, August II, 1890, and
| Ed. Neal was hanged at Omaha, Neb.,
for the murder of Allan and Dorothy
| Jones. He confessed his crime on the
scaffold.
WILLIAM EVANS, secretary of the
Morse Wool Securing Company of St.
Louis, was said to be short So, 00o in
his accounts
A FREIGHT elevator fell in the works
of the Shelby Cabinet Company at
Shelbyville, Ind, killing Joseph Schott,
Clinton Neeley and H. Thayer,. work
| men.
The Kansas crop report shows the
yield of wheat to be $500. $40 bushels;
oats, S9,65s, 045 bushels, and corn 145,.
485,91s bushels
AT Brennan, Tex, Aunt Ann Gala
han died at the age of lis years.
FIRE destroyed the storage ware
house of Hunter & Co.'s compress at
Montgomery, Ala, with $500 bales OF
cotton. Loss, 1925, 600.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
THE death of RI Hon. William Hen
ry Smith, first lord of the British treas
| ury and leader of the conservatives in
the house OF commons, occurred in
London, aged 66 years.
ITALY has decided not to take part in
the worlds fair at Chicago.
KING KARL l., of Wurtem burg, died at
| Stuttgart He was born in 1928, and
assembled the throne in 1864.
THE death of Charles Stewart Par
nell, the distinguished Irish parlia-
mentary leader, occurred at his home
in Brighton. Eng, at the age of Is
years. His death was said to have
been caused by chill
The new Mexico tariff will make
our beer cost seventy-fivc cents pin:
in that country.
AT Fierra Mojado, Mex, a river over
flowed its banks and flooded manv
buildings, causing loss of $500, 900.
THE question of separation from
Sweden was being strongly agitated in
Norway.
PRICES of food were rapidly rising
throughout the Russian empire. Re-
ports from Warsaw say that the cost of
provisions had of late been doubled.
INFLUENZA was increasing in Eng
land. Three thousand people had been
stricken with it and fatal cases were
very numerous.