The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-02-04

BABY MChEB, Leland. StAnford'S
brown colt, was sold IN San Francieco
for &a5, 900. 6sssi.sssss-s..
FLAMES ruined the entire central part
Of Beverly, w. Va. including the court.
house. Over 500 persons were made
homeless ...sr~ =. =. -s..@.-
A VICIOUS. stallion kicked to death
Frank Brown and his wife at South
Boston, Ind. : = go. s', "T
Four laborers were killed near Cum
berland Gap. KY. by an explosion Of
some blasting cartridges they were
throwing out. - !. Ss:Ss E.
RICHARD CHRISTIAN, aged 20. muir
dered his father at Wheeling, w. Va,
because he called him UP to build
fire. The murdered man was the ia
Their Of eighteen children. : / :
GEORGE STILLwELL and wife, of Will
mington. ILL.,. died of the grip within
an hour of each other. They were 70
years old.
ROBBERS made . raid on the Union
bank of Wilton, Ia. and secured $4,000.
AT the age of 90 years Solomon Hanks,
a cousin of Abraham Lincoln, died near
Wapakoneta, o.
FLAMES destroyed the Queen &
Crescent railway shops at Birmingham,
Ala. Loss, $3.50. ZOO!
INDIANA democrats have changed the
April IA to April 81.
In Oklahoma territory large numb ers
of the Pawnee, Otoe and Missouri In
dams were dying daily Of la grippe.
WILLIAM MYERS and his uncle, John
Owen, were burned to death at Ken
dal]ville. Ind.
AN Indian named William Tyndall,
living near Bancroft, Neb, will file an
application for pension. He served
in the civil war.
The tenth attempt within the past
year was made to set fire to Burling-
ton, Ia.
A MOB took Lee Gibson (colored)
from Jail at Owenton, KY, and hanged
him for the murder of Frank Leggerns
In North Dakota the wheat crop for
1891 is estimated at 81, 7l3,S2S bushels.
or %. 5S bushels to the acre.
THE Farmers National Alliance in
session in Chicago reelected D. F.
Ravens, of Washington, president for
the ensuing year.
AT Charlestown, Md. Thomas Thomp-
| son (colored) was hanged for the MUIR
der on August %. 1891, of William
Adams, also colored.
TANDY YOUNG and his two children,
aged 3 and 6 years, were burned to
death by the burning of house at
| Greenville, Ga Mrs. Young escaped.
| GEORGE CRAMER's home near Brain
l ord
absence, and Mrs. Cramer and three
children persisted in the flames.
AT Thompsons, Tex, four men cap
tured and hung Joe Shields to a tree
| No cause was known.
| LEE DAVIS and Bob Jones, members
of the Parton faction, were waylaid
and killed by Perry Turner and his
men near Pineville, KY.
| In Oklahoma a man named Burdette
and his wife and two children froze to
death.
THE business portion of Milan, NO.,
was swept away by flames.
| The Ohio republican association in
Washington gave a reception to Sen.
ator John Sherman in honor of his
sixth election to the United States
senate.
| AT Terre Haute, Ind, Il. Il. Mus.
! grave, who attempted to swindle in
surance companies by burning log
cabin containing a skeleton, was con-
victed and sentenced to pay a fine of
$500 and to be confined in the pcuitcn-
tiary ten years.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
! THE North and South American Con-
struction Company, of which Francis
| w. Egan, son of the United States
minister, is representative, was said
to have bill for IS, $50, 900 against the
Gillian government
! The Grand Duke Constantine, uncle
of the car and father of the queen of
Greece, died at St. Petersburg, aged IS
years.
| In Paris influenza has increased the
death rate 100 daily.
AN earthquake shock throughout
Tasmania, Victoria and the south coast
of New South Wales damaged many
! houses.
The death of Baron Louis Won Har-
Der, the founder of many banks and
one of the best known financiers in
Austria, occurred in Vienna, aged SO.
In the department of Voronzeh, Rus
STA, peasants, exasperated by their sui.
ferings from hunger and sickness, have
turned their resentment against the
doctors for their failure to effect cures
and the physicians were fleeing in ter.
| rOr.
NATIVES murdered five American
missionaries at Bona, in the Congo Free
State. Seven native converts met q
like fate, and the mission buildings
were burned.
In London, Succi, the faster,
abandoned his attempt to 60 without
food for fifty-two days. He had tasted
forty-four days.