The Worthington advance., 1892-08-11

NEAR Tempe. A. T.. Tom Graham
Twas shot and killed BY Ed .Tewlksbury.
The shooting was the result Of : family
feud of i've years standing, during
which time twenty-seyen men. have
been killed on Graham's side and four.
teen on Tewksbury's.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were
made as follows: Illinois, Twelfth dis.
trict, T. A. Rogers (rep.): Missouri,
Fourteenth district, M. Arnold (dem. };
Georgia, First district, r.. E. Lester
(den1.) j; North Carolina, Fourth district,
B. H. Bum (dem.); Virginia, First dis.
trict, VA. Jones (dem.); Nebraska.
Third district, O. NJ. KEN (alliauce) re.
nominated. /
Miss ANNA BUsHINa and Miss Corr
Woodard, two popular young ladies,
were killed by q runaway horse at
Rockford, Ill.
1T was decided by the Minnesota state
executive committee of the farmers al.
lance to withdraw. its state electoral
ticket from the political contest.
REPUBLICANS of West Virginia in con.
vention at Huntington nominated
Thomas E. Davis for governor. The
platform indorses Harrison and Reid,
the republican, national PLATFORM, es.
pccially projections; favors the policy
that protects the laborer, and believes
the Mckinley act one of the best ever
passed by an American congress. j -.
AT Creston, Ia, Mrs. William Hoeft
attempted to quicken slow fire with
kerosene, and she and her little daugh.
ter were killed by the explosion that
followed.
convention at Kearney tho peoples
party of Nebraska nominated ex-
United States Senator C. Il. Van Wyck
for governor. .%t~- g.,
NELLIE ZoLLINGER, Blanche Simon.
sin and Grace Maxwell, young ladies,
were drowned at Port Byron, III :,
while wading IN the river. The last
named lost her life by trying to save
the other two.
The Frisco express, south bound. on
the Southern Pacific, was held up by
four highwaymen near Coils, CAL. and
the express car was robbed of a sum
estimated at from $50, 900 to $40, 600.
AT Burlington and other Wisconsin
towns an earthquake shock was SO
severe that houses were toppled over,
people were made ''seasick'' and bells
were tolled in the church steeples.
AT st. Joseph, Mo-, Julius Clemens
shot and killed Mrs. Philipena Morgen-
thrallen and then blew his own brains
ont. Trouble over an arrest was the
cause.
A MOB took Allen Carter (colored),
who was arrested on a charge of as
saulting his 14-year-old daughter, from
Jail at Wynne,. Ark, and lynched him.
SULTAN, the great trotting stallion,
valued at $4,000, dropped dead at Gym.
thiana. Ky, after being driven a mile
THE Nebraska republicans in convcn.
ton at Lincoln nominated Lorenzo
Crounse for governor. Mr.. Crounse is
assistant secretary of the United States
treasury department. Rev. j. Il. Tate
was chosen for lieutenant governor.
THE following nominations for con-
gress were made: Missouri, Fifth dis
trict, A. j. Powell (pro.); Florida, Sec
ond district, c. NJ. Cooper (dem.); Mich
igan, Eighth district, w. $. Linton
(rep); Mississippi, Second district, J.
c. Kyle (dem.) )renominated.
AT Benton. Mo-, four masked men
entered bank and made the cashier
hand over $1,000. They then took to
their horses and escaped.
The lumber mill at Saltwater, Minn.,
of the Schulenberg & BoecLeler Com
pany was destroyed by fire, the loss
being $l25,0O0
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
In Toungoo, Burmah, cholera has
broken out. Many shops have been
closed on account of the death of the
owners and business was almost at
standstil!.
AT Grenoble, France, storm did
damage to the extent of 5, ,O0O, 900 francs.
Hundreds of small firms and property
holders were utterly ruined.
THERE was a brilliant celebration at
Palos. Spain, in memory of Columbus
who set sail on his voyage of discovery
from that port August 8, 1892.
PANAMA canal directors are said to
have signed contract with a syndi-
cate for the completion of the great
inter-oceanic ditch.
The famine in Russia was officially
regarded as over, but there was still
much distress and ample use for any
contributions Of the charitable.
THE British parliament assembled
and Rt. Hon. Arthur Wellesley Peel,
speaker of the last parliament, was
elected speaker.
IN coal-pit near Dewsbury, Eng
land, six miners lost their lives.
On Rivers inlet near Victoria, B. c.,
eighteen Indians were drowned by the
wrecking Of their canoes while otter
hunting.
= ADvIcEs say that party of twenty
tourists that left Vandenong, Australia,
to hunt kangaroos, were captured by
the natives, who are cannibals, and
killed and eaten.
LATER NEWS.
A New TranscOntinental Railway