The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-03-03

FREE milling ore, running $50 In gold
to the ton, was discovered near Mon.
terey, Mex. z - ..ss ..sS -. +.
In St. Louis James Hit (colored)
| murdered his brother and then de-
ceived an officer into carrying the
body away with the statement that his
brother had fit; meanwhile the MUIR
derer made his escape.
Two WEALTHY brothers. John and vii.
| liam Ayley, were murdered near Kings
vile. Mo. Both were killed with an
ak and their bodies chopped to pieces
Robbery was the motive.
In the mails between Minneapolis
and West Superior, Wis. mortgages
and notes worth $500, 900 belonging to
w. w. Townsend, of Minneapolis, have
been lost.
AT fire in the refinery Of the Stand
ard Oil Company in Whiting, Ind. =
twenty-five valuable horses persisted.
FLAMES in Lowman & Berger's cloth
ing house at Baltimore caused loss Of
1925, 600. A fireman named Talbot
burned to death.
In southern California severe earth
quake shock was felt, and near San
Diego a church and schoolhouse were
| wrecked.
AT the industrial convention in St
Louis a new political com bination was
formed and a presidential ticket will
be nominated July 4.
MRS. HARTMAN and her daughter,
Mrs Helen tombstone, of Englewood,
ILL.,, were fatally injured in a runaway
at Minneapolis, MINI.
ROBERT DUFFY, a conductor on the
Omaha road, died at West Superior,
Wis, as the result of injuries received.
His father dropped dead when told the
news.
The joint committee of the recent in
dustrial conference at St. Louis and
the peoples party met in St Louis and
! called a national convention to meet in
Omaha, Neb.. July 4, to nominate can.
didates for president and vice president.
AT Alton, ILL.,, Prof William Nc.
Adams dug up bundle of fossilized
vegetation which he estimates had
been buried nearly 1000 years.
THE jury at San Francisco in the
case against Actor Curtis for the kill.
! ing of Officer Grant reported that they
| were unable to agree AID were dis
charged. They stood ten for convic-
ton and two for acquittal.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER has given the
University of Chicago another million
dollars, making his total gift to this
institution $s,60o,OO
The Maverick building at San An
tonic, Tex, containing many offices
aud stores, was burned, the loss being
$500. 1000
The governor of California has de.
c;ded to declare Labor day, which is
the first Monday in Septemb Der, legal
holiday.
AT Cincinnati suburban trains col
lided in a tunnel and Engineer George
Collins was instantly killed and five
other persons were wounded, two
fatally.
On sidetrack near Lawrenceville,
Ind, Frank Orleans, farm hand, was
found in box car almost dead. He
had by some blunder been imprisoned
in the car for eight days.
AT Ashtabula, O., the knights of
Pythias have undertaken to raise a
fund for the erection of monument in
memory of the unrecognized dead who
persisted in the terrible railway disas-
ter in 1876 at that place. All contribu-
tions should be sent to Lucien Sey-
mour, Ashtabula, o.
MRS. SWEARINGEN was shot at New
port, Ark, few hours after her mar
riage by an unknown member of a
charivari party.
JOHN MALEY, after serving twenty
years of life sentence in the peaiten-
tiary at Wheeling, w. Va, for the MUIR
der of his young wife, has been found
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