The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-10-06

In a wreck on tho Vandalia line
! near Greenville, ILL.,, three men were
killed and thIee seriously injured.
THE house Of Samuel Atkinson al
Telcup, Kan, wasstruck by lightning
| and Mr.. and Mrs. Atkinson and their
two children were killed.
f. THlRrY-oNE small cottages in New
Orleans were burned.
The peoples party of Michigan In
state convention at Lansing nominated
William Newton, of Flint, for associate
justice Of the supreme court.
In Chicago grand jury voted to in
dict Michael G. Mcdonald for attempt
ing to bride Justice Woodman.
FIRE destroyed the car works al
Lima, o.. and 30 cars were consumed.
Loss, 100000. 80
JOHN u. WILSON. of La Crosse, Wis.
was elected grand chief in place of
Frank Sweeney at the annual meeting
in Dallas, Tex, of the Switchmen's
Mutual Aid association.
THE peoples party in Wisconsin has
nominated Marcellus Audier for con-
gress in the Fifth district.
To SETTLE an old grudge Mrs. James
Pike shot and killed the and 1O-year-
old daughters of Charles Bil,ups near
huntington, w. Va.
MASCOT lowered the worlds pacing
record to 2:04 in the free-for-all pace at
Terre Haute, Ind.
BY a cave-in in shaft in the Norrie
mine at lronwood, Mich, eleven miners
was working, but with little prospect
of success before the men suffocated or
starved.
On the Cherokee strip in Oklahoma
boomers set fire to the grass and thou
sands of acres were burned over, caus.
ing the loss of many cattle.
AT Mrs.~gAnna Vorpahl's boarding
house in Kansas City seven persons
were poisoned. Maggie Moore, vim.
dictive dining-room girl, has fed and
she was suspected.
In Michigan over $4,000 acres of gov
eminent land were sold at prices rang
ing from S. to $l2.5O per acre.
AT Brandon, Miss, James Scott, a
negro, was hanged for the murder of
his wife,
FIRE destroyed thirteen buildings,
including the opera house, the bank,
post office and Star office at North
Bend. Neb. =.
The whaling steamer Mary G. Hume
arrived in San Francisco after cruise
of over two years and six months. Her
catch for the cruise was thirty eight
whales, whose bone and oil repre-
sented value of $500, 900.
AT Redding. Cal, j. w. Smith killed
his wife and child and was soon after
lynched by mob.
: FLAMES destroyed fifty freight cars
and the transfer sheds Of the New York,
Chicago & st. Louis railway in Chi
cago, the loss being 100000
PETER HEIDT's six children all died
of diphtheria within two weeks at RAJ
cine, Wis.
In Kansas the democrats opposed to
fusion will hold a state convention at
Topeka on the 7th inst.
FIRE ruined the famous signal sta
ton building at the summit of Pixies
Peak in Colorado
AT the Union stock yards in South
Omaha, Neb., fire destroyed $4,000
worth of sheds and burned or smoth-
cred 993 head of sheep.
THE noted English forger Lord Wal
ter s. Heresford, alas Sidney Lascelles.
was sentenced at Rome. Ca, to six
years hard labor in the penitentiary In
that state.
a FORTUNE Of 81. 600, 600 has fallen to
Anton Pilger, farmer living near Co.
lunbus, o.
MICHIGAN prohibitionists have nnmi-
mated p. I. Butler for congress in the
Third district.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
AT the Pan-Presbyte terrain council in
Toronto speeches denouncing the
American government for excluding
the Chinese were made.
IN the Russian empire the number Of
deaths from cholera from the begin
ming Of the epidemic up to the Goth is
officially reported at 1860.
WILLIAM CORLETT, of Galveston,
Tex. and Henry Gesford, of st. Paul,
Mimi. mining prospectors, were at
tackled and devoured by mountain lions
in British Columbia.
: AT Angonleme, France. twelve per-
sons died from the effects of eating
what they supposed to be mushrooms.
EMPEROR WILLIAM. Of Germany, in
honor of the birth of his daughter, will
pardon all female prisoners serving
terms for first offenses committed while
in distress or in fits of anger.
'THr S,.h0onQr r W Dam T<~o
Scotia boat, with crew of fourteen
men. was reported lost.
LATER reports from the typhoon in
Japan show that $500 houses were
wrecked in the prefecture of Toku-
shima and 400 persons were killed.
The last surviving German officer