The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-02

PROH1BITION1sTs in convention, at In
dianapolis nominated Rev. Aaron
Worth, of Jay county, for governor 81
Indiana; c. w. Culbertson. Of Shelby,
for lieutenant governor, and James Nc.
Cormack, of Princeton, for secretary OF
state
WHILE walking on the street F. A..
Bee, aged Is. for many years Chinese
vice consul ats6an Francisco, dropped
dead. -. p -
The twenty fifth anniversary of the
admission of Nebraska into the union
was celebrated at Lincoln.
The state treasurer estimates that
there are from 10000 to $4,000 persons
in Illinois who have suffered from
floods and need help.
OHIO prohibitionists in state conven.
ton at Columbus placed ticket in nom.
ination. George l.. Case, of Cleveland,
was named for secretaiyNf state.
THERE were 700, 600 acres Of land I'M
der water between Cairo and Memphis,
and the crops that were covered were
estimated as follows: Wheat, 125, 900
acres, $2,000,000; corn, 10O,OO acres,
81, 500, 600; cotton, 100, 900 acres, 81, OOO,-
0000; land washed away, 1880 acres,
$4,000; homes destroyed, $4,000; cattle
drowned, $4,000. Total, S6,66s, 900.
The execution of George Scott, con-
victed of assaulting his sister and then
numbering her, took place at Hender-
son, Tex. Edward Speers, who muir
dered S. C. Hunt near Camden July 1,
1891, was hanged at Magnolia, Ark.
The death of Gen. A. D. Streight,
who concocted the plan by which 10s
men escaped from Libby prison during
the civil war, occurred at his home near
Indianapolis, Ind, aged So years.
In state convention at Indianapolis
the peoples party of Indiana nominal
ed the following ticket: Governor, Le-
roy Templeton; lieutenant governor,
DIR. }. A. Houser; secretary of state.
Jesse L. Hobson; auditor of state, Lew
is kaston; treasurer, Townsend Coke:
attorney general, E. H. hernandez; SUI
perintendent of public instruction, j.
II. Allen; state statistician, C. Fl. Bliss:
reporter of supreme court, w. H.
Dewey; supreme court judges, Adam
Stockman, Silas NJ. Sheppard and N. j.
Boart.
The peoples party in the Twelfth H.
linois district nominated William Hess
for congress, and in the Second Indiana
district the republicans nominated L.
NJ. Willoughby.
NEAR Lone Tree, KY, widow named
Scott and her four daughters, Fanny,
Alice, Kate and Emma, aged Is, IS, %
and rs respectively, were found MUIR
dered in their home. A negro, who
probably committed the crime, was
found in the cellar with his throat cut.
In St. Joseph hospital at Joliet, ILL.,,
Mrs. Johanna Mertens died, aged IFS
years.
The courthouse and Jail at Hender-
son, KY, were burned by an incendiary.
The White and Arkansas rivers floods
in Arkansas entirely swept away the
towns of Hollendel, Chicot City, Red
Fork and Pendleton. All the big plan
tations for 40 miles in the Arkansas
valley were utterly ruined and many
persons were drowned.
News from regions affected more seri-
ously by floods point to an aggregate
loss Of property in five states of S32, 600, :
900. Illinois and Missouri suffered the
most.
FIFTY or more persons were killed
by a cyclone at Wellington, Kan, and
scores of others were injured. The
storm passed directly through the CEN
ter of the town, wrecking everything in
its path. Hundreds of dwellings were
either totally destroyed or more or less
ia m ra6 Tho 1ovoc fofi ~ ~
country was frightful.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
AT Windsor castle Queen Victoria
celebrated her 73d birthday. A month
hence the fifty-seventh year Of her
reign will commence.
In Mexico Mormon colony has been
granted tract of 100000 acres in the
state of chihuahua.
The steamship City of New York,
which sailed from New York May Is,
1925 a. M, was reported at Browhead
2 p. m. May "a. The days runs in nau-
teal miles were as follows: 45s, 4s7,
40, 472, 473, AS and 81 to Queenstown;
total distance, 1850 miles; average
speed for the trip, 20.o6 knots per hour.
Her actual time from Sandy Hook light
ship to Queenstown is six days, no hours,
twenty minutes, which would be equal
to five days, eighteen hours and twenty
minutes over the more northerly course
of 2,776 miles. Taking the distance into
consideration, this is; the fastest east
ward passage on record.
AT Serinagur, one of the capitals of
Cashmere, in India, cholera was caus-
ing the death of 500 persons daily.
LATER NEWS.
Cyclones.