The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-09-01
WEST AND SOUTH.

1A"i>c oaNl DGhL' d SOclcty young
lady at St. Joseph, Mo-, was burned to
death by the explosion of gasoline
stove.
SLAs STEELE, 16 years of age, took a
dose Of poison and died at Germ antown,
N. G., because his mother severely
whipped him.
AT Denver, COL, Gutlief Meyers was
struck and killed by lightning during a
thunderstorm. He was standing on
the street corner at the time, and Just
before the fatal stroke exclaimed:
''Fhere is no God. This fear is all
folly"
ROANOKE, Va, was visited by a
cloudburst. doing an immense amount
of damage. Stores were flooded in the
business portion of the city, which is
on low land, the damage being esti-
mated at 100000.
REV. j. 3. JACOBS, pastor of the First
Methodist church at Webb CITY, NO.,
was drowned while SEEMING in the river
there.
THE death of E. A. Warren, veteran
journalist, and for several terms presi-
dent of the Arkansas Press association,
occurred at Texarkana,, Ark, aged 50
years.
NINE cars of California pears and
peaches were wrecked on the Santa
Fe road near Medill, Mo. The fruit
was carried away by wagon loads by
the farmers.
"A TERRIBLE rain and windstorm oc-
CURED at Center Rosalla, Lower Cali
fornia, the seat of the great French
copper mines (the "Boleo' mines), de-
stroying $1co, 600 worth of property.
NOMINATIONS for congress were made
as follows: Iowa, Sixth district, Fred
erlck White (dem.); Illinois, Ninth dis
trict, n: S. Scrivens (people's); Mime
sofa, First district, William II. Harris
(dem.); Tennessee, Seventh district, N.
n. Cox (dem.).
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were
made as follows: Iowa, Fourth district,
I. Updegraff (rep); Seventh district,
p. A.. OFT (people's); Tenth district,
James Ryan (dem.); Eleventh district,
Don Campbell (people's) Fourth dis
trict, Walter II. Butler (dem). Ohio,
First district, Bellamy Streeter (rep) };
Second district, John A. Caldwell (rep. J.
Georgia, Seventh district, John w.
Maddox (dem.); Eighth district. Thorn
as G. Lawson (dem.). PENNSYLVANIA.
Twent;;-eishth district, George F..
Kribbs (dem.). Michigan, Fourth dis
trict. George L. Taple (dem-peo). Wis
consin. Tenth district, Nils P. Haueen
(rep.).
The death of Enoch Nav, Sr., the
Oldest printer in the west, occurred in
Burlington, Ia, aged 81 years. He was
born in Boston and was connected with
early journalism in that city.
NEAR Denver. COL, Thomas Smith
shot and killed his wife and himself at
the home of a friend, jealousy being as
signed as the cause.
The death of Col. T.. c. Smeed. of
Omaha, Neb., chief engineer of the
Union Pacific Railway Company, &C.
CURED in Philadelphia.
THREE of the members of the Brock
gang OF thieves were killed near Grand
Junction, Col, by Deputy Sheriff w. E..
Davis.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were
! made as follows: Missouri, Fourth dis
trlct, ID. ID. Burns DENY; Michigan,
Eighth district, Fl. NJ. Youmans (dem J:
Arkansas, Third district, G. @. Brush
(people's); Washington, Thomas Carroll
(at large dem.); Illinois, Fifth district.
Samuel Alshuler (dem.); Mississippi,
Fourth district, Frank Buskitt (peo-
ple's); Texas, Third district, C. r. Kill.
gore (dem.); Georgia, Seventh district,
John w. Maddox (dem.); Eighth dis
trict, Thomas G. Lawson (dcm. }; Iowa,
Ninth district, F. w. Myers (people's)
Eleventh district, David Campbell
(dem.); Eleventh district Don Camp.
bell (people's); Eighth district, Thomas
| L. Maxwell (dem.). 8. -.