The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-07-14
THE EAST.

HANLAN beat 11osmer about 10 feet
in smile race on the Connecticut
river at Hartford. III ne: IS minutes s.
seconds.
AT Bethlehem, Pa, and vicinity
cyclone did damage to the extent of
$3.50,
DURING the fiscal year Just closed
there were issued 3O5, 1872 pension GER
tlhcates of all classes, as against $50, 365
in 1891.
AT kirkwood, Del, Belle Hamlin and
Globe broke the double team record,
going mile in 2:12. The best previous
double team record was o:13
FIRE ruined the storehouse of B. 4.
& R. Knight at River Point, R. the
loss being $5oo,ooo.
In Boston Prof. G. A. Rogers, a vet
eran aeronaut, and Thomas Fenton, his
assistant, were killed while making an
ascension.
PRlcnETr g. RouGu's tannery at
Mann's Choice, Pa, was burned, the
loss being $4,000.
IN Maine cyclone passed over the
towns of Paris, Buckfield, Sumner and
Hartford, wrecking many buildings, in
]uring several persons and killing live
stock.
In riots between workmen and Pink
erton men at the Homestead pa
mills of Carnegie & Co. nine Pinkerton
guards and eleven workmcn were
killed and eighteen worl1lnen and
twtnty-one Pinl<erton men were in
jured. In addition to this at least 100
guards who had surrendered and laid
down their arms were seriously in
jured by the strikers while on their wav
to place of safety.
ROOF fell in a mine at Wilkesbarre,
Pa, and John Williams, John McCaffery
and Thomas Jones were killed.
In a fire in New York Mrs. Annie
Frederick and her three children were
suffocated.
A LIST of those killed and injured in
the riot at Homestead Pa, shows six
workmen and five Pinkcrton men
killed, and thirty-six of the former and
l4:' of the latter wounded. The death
OF those most seriously injured may
swell the number of fatalities to twenty.
The United Society of Christian En-
dcavor opened its eleventh international
convention in Madison Square garden,
New York. over 10000 delegates being
in attendance. The report of the Sec
total mem bership of 1,37o,20O
IN Boston nine long-term prisoners
escaped from the state prison in Boston
through the sewer in the middle of the
yard.
IN the bay just off Bedloe's island.
New York, five persons were drowned.
They were in a small rowboat and were
struck by the steamer Ccphus
WEST AND SOUTH.
TIE death of Mrs. Ruth Woo3worth
occurred at Berlin, Wis, aged 1o4 years.
LIE peoples party has chosen Her.
man Taubeneck, of Illinois, as chair
man OF the executive committee.
HENRY, Joseph and Zacharia Martin,
three brothers, aged 20, II and Is years,
respectively, were drowned at Huron,
CAL, while bathing.
On account of private business,
William j. Campbell. of Illinois, has
declined the craftsmanship of the repub-
]ican national committee.
IN Dubuque, Ia, Anthony r. Craig
killed his wife and then took his own
life. No cause known.
FIRE destroyed forty-one buildings at
Rockland, Mich, the loss being $780,
600.
Mrs. EMIL CHlFFLEr and her d.
months-old infant were burned to
death by the explosion of a gasoline
stove at Catalina Island, Ca.
Mrs. JESSIE GARRETT while ATTEMPT
ing balloon ascension and parachute
descent at Bluffton, O., was killed by
the failure of the parachute to work.
JOHN l.. ADAMS and Smith Toolev
(coloreD were hanged by a mob at
Vickstsrg, Miss, for killing a mer-
chant named Blake,