The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-12-29

Charles e. Curtis (rop.); Ohio, Fourth
district, -. G. Layton (dem. j.
The Missouri democrats ii conven
ton at sedalia elected delegates TO Chi
cago favorable to the nomination 81
Cleveland for president.
WILLIAM COOKS wife and child, Twins
near Prescott, Ia, were murdered dur
ing the absence of Mr.. Coon. A nephew
named James Doolcy, who had llisap
peared, was thought to be the criminal
In lumber mill at Midland, Mich.
four boilers exploded, killing John AL
len, Eugene Valkenburg and Dick
Stears. Several other men were in
jured z
In the Second indiana district the
democrats have nominated John T..
Bretz for congress. 49,
AT Ravenna, O., Robert and Thomas
Stansbury attempted to cross the river
in small boat, but were run down by
passing steamer and drowned.
In Duluth, Mimi, r. A. Schofield, Of
Ewing, Mich, shot and killed his wife
and then took his own life Mrs. Scho-
field had left her husband because OF
his drinking. a>
AT Memphis. Tenn, the new steel
bridge across the Mississippi river was
opened for traffic with imposing cere.
monies. The structure is nearly miles
long and cost 50, 10000
JACK POWERS, JR, j. C. Hall and L.
F: Hall were killed by the caving in OF
the walls of mine at Cherokee, Cal.
FLAMES ruined the territorial capitol
at Santa Fe, N. NJ. Loss, $3.50, 600; no
insurance. The records were saved.
AT Colorado Springs, COL, the Childs-
Drexel national home for INDECENT
printers was dedicated. The building
cost 100000
EVERY tent and house in the new
town of Cheyenne, in Oklahoma, were
blown down by cyclone. No one was
killed but several were badly hurt.
T. THE national convention of the peo-
pies party will be held at Omaha, Neb.,
July 4.
FIRE destroyed twenty-seven houses
in one of the best residence portions of
Savannah. Ga. Loss about 500, 900.
A STATEMENT for April shows that the
total receipts for the worlds fair from
all sources to April 80 were So, 1885,
717.22 The disbursements were S..
277,ss322 leaving a balance of 49,.
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SENATOR MORGAN, of Alabama, and
Justice Harlan have been selected az
Behring sea arbitrators by President
Harrison.
In session in Chicago the Federation
of Women's Clubs reelected Mrs. Char
lotte Emerson Brown, of New Jersey,
as president.
In Milwaukee Sandelin Harter, fire.
man at the Pabst building, shot himself
because Of domestic trouble, and his
wife killed herself by taking poison.
EXECUTIONS took place as follows:
Etienne Deschamps at New Orleans for
the murder of 13-year-old Juliet Deitsch;
Elijah Cheavers in Ware county, Ga. ,
for the murder of Sheriff Culpepper,
and Coleman Wilson, who murdered D..
F. Adkins, in McDuffy county, Ga.
In Maryland during the season just
closed 1854 $40 bushels of oysters were
measured.
The bodies of all the victims of the
recent gas explosion in the mine at
Roslyn, WASH, have been recovered.
The total number is forty-three. About
$50 children are left fatherless.
AT Eden, ILL.,, Charles Jones, aged "a,
shot and killed Anna Devan, aged IS,
because she refused to marry him, and
then took his own life.
UPON the arrest of James Doolev for
numbering his aunt, Mrs. Coons, and
his cousin, at Prescott, Ia, he confessed
his crime. Dooley's aunt had scolded
him for getting drunk, and this caused
the deed.
WALTER F1TCH's dwelling house at
Spades, Ind, was burned and Mrs.
Leah Fitch and Mrs. Knapp, the house
keeper, were burned to death.
A CYCLONE tore fifteen residences to
kindling wood and scattered them far
and wide at Augusta, Kan. No lives
were lost.
In the Eighth Indiana district the
prohibitionists have nominated John l..
Shields for congress.