The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-07-21

IN state convention at st. Paul, Mimi,
the peoples party nominated Ignatius
| Donnelly for governor. Effort toward
fusion with the democrats failed.
In the Warrior and Tombigbee rivers
in Alabama floods swept away cult.
| waited fields and many houses, causing q
loss of millions to farmers and planters.
The sudden death of Newton Booth,
ex-governor of california and ex- United
| States senator, occurred at his homo il,
| Sacramento.
A TRAIN on the Missouri, Kansas 4
Texas road was held up by gang OF
masked robbers at Adair, l. T., and the
express car rifled of $4,000.
For numbering his wife Charles
Blackman was hanged at Greensboro,
| II. c..
WHILE insane John C. Quincy. law.
yer, shot his wife and himself fatally at
Grand Rapids, Mich.
CANDIDATES for congress were named
as follows: First Arkansas district, p.
ID. McCullock (dem.); First Indiana dis.
trlct, Arthur 7. Twineham {rep.); First
| West Virginia district, B. B. Dorener
(rep.); Tenth Georgia district, John c.
Black (dem.); Eighth Illinois district,
| Norman Kilburn (pro); Sixth Iowa
district, John +. Lacey (rep.); territory
OF Oklahoma. Dennis Flynn (rep.).
| A SEVERE rainstorm near Sedalia,
Mo-, accompanied by a high wind, ut,
terly destroyed thousands of acres OF
growing corn. Several small buildings
were also blown down.
A sAWMrLL boiler at Hague, Fla, ex.
ploded. killing two men and injurinn
five others, two of whom will probably
die.
A NOR lynched Julien Moseley (col.
oreO at HALEY, Ark, for assaultine
his 7-year-old stepdaughter.
In Idaho the miners war was
thought to be over, the strikers having
no desire to fight the federal troops.
AT Atlanta, Ga, Peter Daniels (col.
oreD was hanged for the murder OF
Silvia lyle, his mistress.
| LIGHTNING struck and killed James
Wills and Annie and Mary Conner al
Spencer, Ky.
FIRE destroyed Richard Beers livery
stable at Milwaukee, and sixty fine
carriage horses persisted in the flames
In Lac qui Parle county, Minn., dur
ing thunderstorm four men were
killed by lightning.
HUNDREDS of people were said to be
starving and would speedily perish in
Sumter and Marengo counties, Ala,
unless aid was soon given.
| A TORNADO at Cincinnati unroofed
many buildings and did other damage
! A w1NDsToRM passed over the north.
ern portion of Hamilton. O., causing
great destruction to property, and in
juring five persons, two fatally.
DEMOCRATS of the Third Tennessee
| district have nominated II. c. Snodgrass
for congress.
A NEGRO named Cal Parks was hanged
at Caldwell, Tex, for numbering Mrs.
Jessie McDonough and her 7-year-old
stepson.
AT Des Moines, Ia, windstorm
blew down the large amphitheatcr and
other buildings. on the state fair
grounds.
One HUNDRED union strikers were
arrested at Wardner, Idaho. by Gen
Carlin for acts of violence and placed
under guard.
| FLAMES swept away onc-half Of the
business portion of Huron, Cal.
IN Adrian, Mich, George Gazclle {col
oredj died at the home of his son at the
age of l16 years. He was born a slave
| in 1776.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
"A DECREE has been signed by Presi
dent Garnet for the holding of an in
ternatlonal exhibition at Paris in Nav
1000.
FIRE destroyed the government rail
way works at Breslau, Prussia, the los.
being 1000, 900 marks.
| IHE British elections show that the
Irish are masters of the situation, an;
IN their hands will be the destinies O;
the next parliament.
AT st. Gervais Les Bains, summer
resort IN Savoy, nearly $50 persons
were killed by an avalanche which de-
scended from Mont Blanc.
The Mount 1Etna eruption was ran
idly increasing in violence An earth
shock reduced to ruins the town OF
G1arre, with population of $4,000, on
the coast of Sicily, and it was feared
that many must have persisted. The
whole country suffered severely from
the shock.
WILLIAM GLADSTONE has been re-
turned to parliament from Midlothian
| BY landslide at Glamour, France,
twenty persons were killed.
FIRE destroyed school building al
Berkhamstead, England, and eight
children persisted in the flames.
In storm off the coast of Uruguay
the Argentine torpedo catcher Rosalis
toundcred and seventy of the crew were
missing.
AFTER six years retirement under a
cloud Sir Charles Dixie has been re.
turned to the British parliament by a
large majority.