The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-08-25
WEST AND SOUTH.

WEST AND SOUTH.
NEAR aIt. Sterling, KY, Logan
Murphy, desperate and murderer, was
hanged by an armed mob of 800 men,
who took him from Jail by force.
THE following nominations for con-
gress were made: Michigan, Third dis
trict, L. E. Lockwood (people's),
Seventh, j. R. Whiting (dem.); Wiscon-
sin, Ninth district, II. II. McCord
(rep.); Arkansas, Fourth district, w.
l.. Terry (dem.); Texas, First district,
J. C. Hutchinson (dem); Kansas,
Seventh district, Jerry Simpson (dem).
The democrats in convention at Raj
eigh, N. c., nominated full state tick
ct with w. p Exum for governor.
FIRE destroyed Conover's opera house
and four other buildings at Piqua, O.,
causing (. loss of 100000.
JOHN HoUK shot and killed his wife
at Baldwin, Mich, and fatally wounded
Frank Gray, her paramount.
IT was reported that the schooner
Snowflake with fifteen persons on
board was lost on the Texas coast near
HouD1a.
SIX persons were crushed to death
and fifteen others were seriously in
jured in railway accident near
Coshocton. o.
The peoples party candidate for gov
ernor of West Virginia, A. Hunter, de-
clined to run, and the executive COM
mittee has substituted James Russell,
of Lewis county.
In Akron, O., forty milkmen were
arrested on the charge of adulterating
milk, from the effects of which several
children had died.
V1G!LANrEs hanged three highway
men who held up and beheaded man
at Ellensburg, Wash.
DEMOCRATS in convention at Grand
Rapids. Mich. nominated the follow
ing ticket: For governor, Allen G.
Morse; lieutenant governor, Joseph P.
Edwards; secretary Of state, Charles
f. Marsl1ey; state treasurer, Frederick
Marvin; auditor general, James A.
Vannier; attorney general, Adolphus
A. Ellis; superintendent of public in
struction, Ferris $. Fitch. The plat
form denounces the Mckinley law,
favors making silver on par with
gold as the coin of the nation, and de-
mands that the issuing of all circulate
ing medium be made under acts of con-
gress as the business wants of the
country may require.
The Wisconsin republicans in con-
vention at Milwaukee nominated John
c. Spooner for governor, John C. Koch
Tor lieutenant governor, r. w. jackson
for secretary of state, A. Peterson for
treasurer, James O'Neil for attorney
general and w. H. Chandler for super
intendent of public instruction. The
platform indorses President Harrison's
administration and reaffirms the declar-
alton of the republican convention held
in May last upon the educational cues
ton.
In Chicago Nancy Hanks, the trotting
mare. lowered her own record and
broke the trotting record at Washing
ton park, making the mile in 2:O7A.
HE peoples party of Ohio met at
Massillon and nominated the following
ticket: Secretary of state, S. C.
Thayer; judges of supreme court, E.
u. Stark and j. d. Payne; clerk of the
supreme court, w. r. Bodies. Presi-
Dental electors were also chosen. The
platform indorses the Omaha platform
and the national candidates, opposes
convict labor, favors the furnishing of
free school books to public school
pupils, and protests against Senator
Brice holding his seat on the ground of
non-residence.
THE house of Nathan Ellis was
burned at Griffin, Ga and five children
persisted in the flames The little cues
were locked in during the absence of
their pareuts.
NOMINATIONS for congress were made
as follows: Illinois, Eleventh district,
b. +. Marsh (rep.); Michigan, Fourth
district, H. F. Thomas (rep.); Georgia,
Fifth district, l.. T. Livingston (alli-
ance); Michigan, Fourth district, G. L..
Yaple (people's), Seventh u R. Whit
ing (deln.), Seventh, A. Podgett (peo-
ple's), Eleventh. w. N. Ferris (peo-
ple's); Kentucky, First district, w. j.
Defoe (rep.). -
Gov. BUCHANAN has ordered the en-
tire national guard of Tennessee and
the massing of nearly 5000 deputy
sheriffs at Coal Creek to mid in restor.
Ing order among the miners sngne4d In
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