The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-08-25

bition party of Nebraska nominated g
full state ticket headed by G. E. Bent
Hey for governor. # s.
THE worlds fair directory accepted
the resignation Of w. r. Baker as pres
ident and elected Vice President HiQ-
inbotham to the vacancy. :-s@ss
The democrats of Iowa in convention
al Davenport nominated j. H. Neon
logue for secretary of state, Charles
Ruegnitz for treasurer, Ezra Willard
for attorney general, S. p. Van Dyke
for auditor, w. &. Kent for railroad
commissioner and Nathaniel French
and w. w. Wilmer for presidential
electors at large. The platform in
dorses the national convention held at
Chicago and the nominations made,
| favors the election of United States
senator's by the people, tariff reform,
and fav0rs the movement for better
/ roads. $*-j@ as ~ \ %~5
! w. w. TRACY was reelected president
at the state convention in Springfield.
ILL.,, of the republican league clubs.
| Z NOMINATIONS for congress were made
+. L.. Wilson (rep.); Illinois, Tenth dis
trict, A. ID. Metcalf (pro.); Mississippi,
Sixth district, I. S. Stockdale (dem.)
Georgia, Eleventh district, Il. E. Rus
sell (dem.); Maryland, First district,
&. NJ. Russum (rep); Indiana, Fifth
district, John H. Worrell rep );Minne-
sofa, Fourth district, j. N Castle
(dem.); Tennessee, Third district, III.
Clay Evans (rep.}
| The peoples party of Tennessee in
convention at Nashville adopted reso-
luton indorsing Gov. John P. Buchanan
as an independent candidate and pledg.
ing him support.
| In Texas rival democratic state con-
nominating full tickets, one headed by
James S. Hogg for governor and the
other by George Clark for the same
office.
FLAMES swept away two-thirds, in
Guiding the business section. of the
town of Delta, O.
| HAL POINTER paced q mile at the
Washington park race course in Chi
cago in 2:o54, the fastest harness record
in the world either at the trotting or
pacing gait
DURING fight with soldiers and
miners on the 18th at Coal Creek,
Tenn, twelve of the latter were killed
and over fifty were wounded.
AT Memphis, Tenn, Carroll Ruther-
florida wealthy negro, killed his wife in
a fit of jealousy and then took his own
life
FREDERICK ZoRN was hanged at PEN
dletou, Ore, for the murder of his
wife and mother-in-law near Milton
last October.
THOMAS LEE and wife, Of St. Clair,
Tenn, were instantly killed by the
running away of their horse and over
turning of their carriage.
The entire business portion of Gene
va, O., was destroyed by fire. 1t was
estimated that the loss would reach
$3.50
The house OF an engineer named
Wright was destroyed and his wife and
3-year-old child were burned to death
by the explosion of a gasoline stove at
Chino, Cal.
CHARLES EVANS, who murdered Sher-
if w. H. Cook, of st. Tammc ny parish,
was hanged at Covington, La.
The iron manufacturers of Youngs-
town, O., aud the Amalgamated associ-
alton have agreed upon a scale of
wages and over 10, 900 men in the valley
would return to work at once.
The democratic national campaign
committee have decided to locate
branch headquarters in Chicago to look
after the states of Indiana, Michigan,
Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North
and South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska
and Iowa.
The miners at Coal Creek, Tenn,
surrendered to Gen. Carnes, after a
battle lasting two hours. Two men
were killed and several wounded
WARREN FISHER slapped his 13-year-
old sister for some petty misdemeanor
! at Hlllsboro, Tex, and she picked up
carving knife and fatally stabbed him.
She would not be arrested on account
of her tender age.
THE managers of the worlds fair
! have decided to issue over 12O, 900 invi-
tations for the dedicatory exercises in
October.
REPUBLICANS of Idaho in state con-
vention at Moscow nominated United
States Senator w. j. Mcconnell for
governor. l. n. Sullivan for supreme
court judge and Willis Sweet for con-
gress.