The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-09-15

animal george, ana whose nome
was thought to be in Columbus, O., was
attacked by huge tiger in whose cage
he was riding and torn to pieces.
NANCY HANKS again broke the
worlds trotting record, going mile in
2:07 in st. Paul
FIRE destroyed about 8, OO0, 200 feet of
lumber in the yards of the Little Kama
wha Lumber Company at New Boston,
O.. the loss being s25o,0O,.
THE fight at New Orleans for the
worlds championship was won by
JamesJ. Corbett, who knocked out ohm
L. Sullivan in the twenty first round,
after q battle in which the ymng
Californian had decidedly the better of
it all the way through.
AT Lexington, KY. MIS-. William L.
Barclay, wife of a well-kncwn trotting
horse owner, and her child were fatally
burned with gasoline.
MASKED men held up an eastbound
Missouri Pacific train near Sheffield,
Kan, and the express car was robbed
of 1000.
The republicans of North Carolina
have nominated a full ticket with
David Nj. Furches for governor.
NEAR Bloomington. Ind, Richard
Wright was murdered by Dell Judah
his son-in-law, and Wright's daughter
killed Judah
Mrs. LlBBIE BENNETT and Mrs. r. w.
Cornwall while crossing railroad
track near Pine Island, MIMI, were
run over by train and fatally injured.
The Colorado republicans in state
convention at Pue bio nominated Joseph
c. Helm for governor.
In St. Paul Simon j. Ahern, a lawyer
and capitalist, OH trial for criminal
libel, was sentenced without the option
of fine to serve sixty days in the coun-
ty workhouse.
CHARLES CRAIG and Edward McCar-
thy, both colored, were executed in the
Ohio penitentiary at Columbus. Craig
killed Annie Thompson, his mistress,
in September 1890, and Mccarthy killed
Charles Netterman, drummer, in
August, 1890.
FIRE destroyed the old Academy of
Music at Cleveland, o.
Tie following congressional nomi-
nations were made: Illinois, Sec
ond district. Edward Connor (rep y;
Third, 4 c. MacM,l lan (rep.); Fourth,
William Woke (rep.); Wisconsin,. Sec
ond district, Charles Bonsjg (dem. y;
Sixth, C. Forward (pro.); Eighth, l.. E.
Barnes (dem.); Missouri, Thirteenth
district. r. w. Ryan (dem.): Louisiana,
Second district. j. w. White (iep.).
In session at San Francisco the Amer
lean Bankers association elected Will
liam II. Rhawn, of Philadelphia, as
president.
Ry the explosion of a boiler near Bes-
sener, Ala, four men were killed.
NORTH DAKOTA prohibtionists in
convention at Fargo named state
ticket headed by Roger Allen for gov.
ernor.
The worlds fair treasurer announces
that UP to the 9th the receipts were
$40, 400, SIS: disbursements, $4,000, SOS,
leaving a balance on hand of 81 ,4ol OO6
ADAM FOSTER and Andy .Jefferies,
two 20-year-old coiored men. were ex-
ecuted at Spartansburg, s. c., for muir
der, and William Davis (colored) was
hanged at Tazewell Court House, Va,
for killing policeman.
In Memphis, Tenn, Samuel Wright,
white railroad s,"itchman, fatally
shot Julia Childress, his colorcd mis-
tress and then killed himself. jealousy
was the cause.
THE rag warehouse of Joseph Joseph
at Cincinnati was burned, the loss
being Sl5o,o9o.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
AT a performance in Montreal of the
"White Squadron" patriotic Ameri-
Kissed and an American flag floating
with those of other nations in front of
the theater was torn down.
THE firm Of Alexander Fraser & Son,
steamboat owners and general mer-
chants at Quebec. has suspended,
with liabilities amounting to $500, 900.
The largest steamer in the world,
the Campania, bnilt for the Cunard
Steamship Company's New York and
Liverpool service, was successfully
launched at Glasgow.
CHOLERA is still raging in Hamburg,
and in Paris 112 new cases were report
ed on the sth and ffty-six deaths oc-
Cured.
WHILE Celas Martes. agent of the
State bank Of Durango, Mex. was on
his way with five guards to Mazatlan
with $4,000 in gold coin, they were
all killed by b:igands and the money
stolen.
AT Hendleyville village, suburb of
Que bee, fire destroyed 120 houses, leav-
ing 500 persons homeless.
SERIES of gigantic bank and build
ing society failures have occurred in
London, aggregating liabilities of
46, 900, 900, the last one announced being
fh "a Of tho H0,1co