The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-08-18

DIR. N. Webster, OF 1osco, member state
board Of education.
AT Oak Grove, Del, Mrs. Rustin, her
6-year-old daughter and her brother
we're fatally poisoned by arsenic placed
in the well. 1t wal. thought the di.
vorced husband of Mrs. Rustin put the
poison II the we'll. 9z:
AT the conclave in Denve-, Hugh Nc
Curdy. Of Corunna, Mich, was elected
grand master Of the knights templar
and Boston was chosen as the place for
the next meeting.
. CONGRESSIONAL nominations were
made as follows: Texas, Tenth district,
Walter Gresham (dem.); Thirteenth, j.
v. Cockerill (dem. }; Nebraska, Fourth
district, w. NJ. Doch lind, j; Sixth, James
Whitehead (rep.); Wisconsin, Third
district, John w. Babcock (rep.); Wash
ington, John L. Wilson and w. H. Doc
little, (reps. }; Indiana, Twelfth district,
A. J. Yew 5(rep.). +
REPUBLICANS of Washington in state
convention at Olympia nominated q
full state ticket with John H. McGraw,
of Seattle, for governor. The resolu-
tions oppose the free coinage of silver.
The peoples party of Iowa in con-
vention at Des Moines nominated e. H.
Gillette for secretary of state, Charles
Mckenzie for attorney general, Justice
Wells for treasurer, j. H. Barnett for
railroad commissioner and j. A.
Blakesly for auditor. Presidential
electors were also chosen.
BIZ the fall of stone wall in Hart
ford City, Ind, five men were killed and
two others injured.
FIRE destroyed the planning mill and
lumber yards of Bender Brothers at
Hamilton, O., causing loss of 500, 600,
and 700 men were thrown out of en-
ployment.
AT Grand Rapids, Mich, Flying Jib
paced mile in 2:Osk, the fastest time
ever made on Michigan track.
HENRY MCGHEE (colored) was hanged
at Houston, Tex, for the murder of Of
ficer George Fem. and James Dobson
(colored), who killed his mistress in St.
Francis county, in 1890, was hanged at
Devall's Bluffs, Ark.
ARTHUR KURT and Earl Price, each
aged about s years, were smothered to
death in an ice chest while playing at
the formers home in North Lansing.
Mich.
A DAUGHTER of Sitting Bull, the great
Indian war chief, was married at Rom
dout, N. Y, to Peter Markle, who
formerly served under Gen. Custer.
The bride once saved Markle's life
when he was attacked by Indians.
MISSISSIPPI democrats have renom-
mate for congress J. NJ. Allen in the
First district, J. C. Kyle in the Second
and T. c. Catchings in the Third. In the
Ninth Michigan district the repu blicans
nom mated John w. Moon, and in the
Second district of Kentucky J. F. Kim
berly is the prohibition nominee.
AT St. Charles, ILL.,, Mrs. Asenath
Miller celebrated her 1O5th birthday.
The Sons of Veterans in national en-
campment at Helena, Mont. elected
Marvin E. Hill, of Michigan, COM
mander in chief.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
In the governments of Saratoff and
Samara, Russia, the deaths from chol-
era numbered 5000 daily.
NEAR St. Alfonso's church in Rome.
Italy, mortar charged with dynamite
was exploded during a religious fete
and eleven persons were killed and a
number of others were injured.
In Warsaw governess named
Matuscka entered a cafe and fatally
shot two officers who had cast reflec-
tions on her character.
BR1GANDs near Culiacan, Mexico,
captured train of ten burros loaded
with $4,000 worth of silver, killed
three of the guards and escaped with
the money.
MORE than 100 persons were reported
missing from the coaster Ajax, which
was run down outside of Helsingfors,
Russia.
THE motion of mo confidence" in the
conservative government of Lord Sails
bury was carried by vote of $50 to 80
in the house of commons, thus bringing
on the change of administration and
placing Gladstone in power.
In the Crimea and Caucasus districts
cholera was decreasing, owing to cooler
weather, but in Moscow the plague
was on the increase.
AN WIG As'ShA'o cdndA d. MOACrcal d
tug sank and Alfred Beauchamp, AL
exander Ratelle and Henry Larose
were drowned.
In Africa twenty European agents
have been killed or captured by Arabs,
who have also burned many stations.
FERDINAND ALLARD, a poor black
smith at Quebec, is SAID to have discov-
cred the long lost art known to the
pyramid builders of Egypt of hardening
copper.
In Vienna Johann Singer, clerk, suf-
located his mistress and her three chill
dren and then took his own life. Pow
erty was the cause.
The latest revolution in Honduras is
reported to have b .en crushed and hum