The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-11-24

county. Ill. Over eighty buildings were
blown down, q hog. Willie Kopp, was
killed outright sand scoreaaof others
were injured, many of them perhaps
fatally. Tho damage will exceed $780,
900. s.s:* ~ ..s
FREIGHT trains collided on the Wa.
bash road at Monticello, Ill, and thirty.
one head of cattle were killed and
many cars were destroyed.
NEAR blackberry, A. T., broken
wheel caused o wreck on the Atlantic
& Pacific road and one man was killed
and thirteen badly wounded, q few OF
whom will die. = | - Il
MRS. ELLEN ]. PHNNEr was reflect
ed president for the fourth time ut the
Non-Partisan w. G. L. U. convention
in Cleveland. o. 4"
AT Mountain View, Ark. two kegs
of gunpowder that were being used in
connection with democratic jollifica-
ton meeting exploded. destroying con.
siderable property and killing five men
and more or less severely injuring four
teen others j..
OFFICIAL election returns from Ohio
show that the republicans elected
twenty-one of the twenty-five presi.
Dental electors.
In Alabama the official vote for gov
ernor at the recent election was:
Jones (dem.), 126,o59; Kolb (people's).
1854.
In Memphis the Association for the
Advancement of Women closed its
twentieth congress-. Julia Ward Howe
Was unanimously reelected president.
FLAMES wiped out the east half OF
the business portion of Clyde, Mo.
DURING q storm large tree was
blown down upon the house of Hartman
Otseng ut New Palestine, ILL.,. and
crushed it, killing his wife and two
children.
The village of Durham, Ark, was
totally destroyed by a cyclone, every
house in the town except the school.
house being demolished.
HENRY BucH and 7. j. Wendell, ex-
pressmen. drove over high cliff near
Wheeling, W. Va, and both horses
were killed and the men fatally in.
jured.
GEN. T. NJ. DODGE, Of Iowa, was
elected president at the annual session
in st. Louis of the Army of the Ten
nessee.
FLAMES in the National brewery at
Baltimore caused loss of $500, 600.
THROUGHOUT Kansas last season the
total yield of corn was 1873, 65s. 621 bush.
els, or 24.74 bushels to the acre.
ON the Missouri river bottom south
OF Sioux City, Ia, prairie fire burned
over tract miles wide and 20 miles
long, and over 400 stacks of hay, con.
tanning at least $4,000 tons. were de.
stroyed, involving a loss of $1,000. Be.
sides these, many gran stacks, miles
OF fencing and numerous bridges were
destroyed.
AT Kewaunee, Wis. Mrs. Cheney,
who confessed the poisoning of hel
husband, was sentenced to eighteen
years in state prison.
AT Visalia, CAL, David Schaff, a fish
dealer, shot his wife fatally and then
blew his own brains ont. Domestic
trouble caused the tragedy. The couple
leave four small children.
In Wheeling. w. Va, William Mailer,
tho young baker who murdered his
bride of six months, was Hanged.
In session at Memphis, Tenn, the
Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union elected H. D. Loucks, of NORTH
Dakota, as president
NEXT year baseball will not be
play in divided championship series
by the national league. The season
will open the last Thursday in Apri
and close the last Saturday in Septem
Der.
In the Georgia legislature bill was
introduced to allow state banks to is
she bills