The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-09-01


who has been making ascensions at the
Detroit exposition grounds, was killed
by falling from agreatheight.
The National letter Carriers asso-
citation in session at Indianapolis, Ind. !,
elected Frank e. Smith, of San Fran
cisco. president, and Kansas City was
selected as the next place of meeting.
GEN. BIDwELI., prohibition nominee
for president, has issued his letter Of
acceptance. He declares the liquor
traffic to be the cause of about alf the
evils of the land. I = IF ~ 5a@.
NEAR. East - Liverpool, G.. MAJ
named Unger shot and killed his BROTH
er-in-law and then killed himself. Fam
lily trouble was the cause.
e FIRE totally destroyed the Hotel Bel
mont at Sulphur Springs, N. C. Loss,
800, 900.
w. w. BLACKWELL, Of Kentucky, was
elected supreme chancellor at the ,bien-
NAL session of the supreme lodge,
Knights of Pythias, at Kansas City, Mo.
The ladies' auxiliary, Pythian Sisters
Of the World, chose as supreme chief
Mrs. Hattie A. Robinson. 4 :
by pet dog thirteen years ago, died in
great agony of hydrophobia at her home
near Brazil, Ind. ...,.- =. g e..
DEMOCRATS in state convention at
Boise, Idaho, nominated John NJ. Burke,
of Shoshone county, for governor.
THREE workmen lost their lives bv
the caving in of sewer at Huntington,
w. Va.
AT Muncie, Ind, fire destroyed the
IA mill, resulting in a loss of 500, O0o
R. +. GRAVES, of Seattle, was nomi-
mated by the prohibitionists of WASH
ington for governor. ,!t-
Conversational nominations were
made as follows: Arkansas, First dis
trict, Hugh Sinsmore (dem.); Third dis.
trict, j. O. Bush (people's); Illinois,
Nineteenth district, ]. D. Hooker
(pro.); Fifth district, Henry Wood
(pro.); Georgia, Fo, nth district, Charles
L. Moses (dem.); Louisiana, Seventh
district, T. j. Guice (people's); Iowa,
Ninth district, A. F. Myers (people's);
Kentucky, Seventh district, w. C. P.
Breckenridge (dem.); Texas, Fourth
district, David B. Culbertson (dem.)
Alabama, Fourth district, CASTOR A.
Robins (dem.).
w. F. CowAN, carriage manufacturer
| of jackson, Mich, made an assignment
with lia bilities estimated ut 500, 900.
Four children in the family of man
named Wilson were fatally bitten by
| rattlesnakes near Athens, Ga.
H. j. SNIvELY, of Yakima, was nomi-
n Al Tod hyy In lo,roovofc ~ yE,e
for governor.
DURING storm on Georgian bay the
steam yacht Wahpita was wrecked and
Hiram Sibley, the New York million
aire, his wife, son and daughter, Isaac
Bearinger, a millionaire lam herman of
East Saginaw. Mich, and Miss NJ b.
Pond and Miss +. w. D1rbin, both of
Rochester, N. Y, were drowned. Five
members of the crew were also drowned.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
A FIRE which swept through the
town of Sontra, short distance from
Cassel, Germany, destroyed 40 build
ings.
THERE fell at the City of Mexico dur
ing Il hurricane shower of fishes 5
inches long and number of small pei
leans, but no rain, while at Mazatlan
the ground was covered with dead
winged ants.
The master tailors of England have
ordered Il lockout of journeymen ow-
ing to the threats of strike. The
number Of men affected is $4,000.
BRITISH steamer was wrecked near
Algoa bay and all on board were
thought to have been drowned.
AT Berne, Switzerland, the interna-
tional peace congress opened, with over
300 delegates present.
MARSHAL DEODORE DA FoNsECA, first
president of the republic of Brazil, is
dead, aged 81 years.
OFFICERS of high rank in the French
army have been punished by retirement
for exposing soldiers needlessly to the
danger of fatal sunstroke
THE members of the new British min
istry have been elected without oppo-
sition except Sir William Vernon Har-
court and John Morley.
LOUISIANA Lottery Company agents
now in Honolulu offer an immense sum
of money in the event that a charter is
granted the company by the Hawaii
legislature.
A BRITISH steamer from Calcutta for
England capsized in the Hooghly river
and fifteen of the crew were drowned
PARIS experts declared that the chol-
era which is epidemic at Havre was not
Asiatic and much different from that at
| Hamburg and Antwerp.
Two FATAL cases of cholera were re.
ported ct the Gravesend hospital, near
| London. The disease had also made
| its appearance in Berlin and other
German cities.
By an explosion in colliery in Wales
$50 miners were caught in the shafts
and it was feared that many, perhaps
all IF than xvaro l-;llol