The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-03-16

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hanged for the murder OF Marshal r
y Clay abort year ago
' Tvs court at IndependeaOe, Kan,
Emmett Dalton, last of the Dalton
gang. pleaded guilty to murder and was
sentenced to the penitentiary for life.
AT Pullman, ILL.,. Mary Montgomery,
domestic in the employ of Thomas w.
Corner. was brutally outraged and
murdered by q burglar. 80
The death of William Gardner : aid
to have been the Oldest mason IN the
United StateS, occurred in Portland.
Ore. aged 81. -.
- A BILL prohibiting BARRIERS from
working on Sunday passed the Ken
lucky legislature.
IA h14. train on the Toledo, Ann
Arbor & North Michigan railroad was
ditched short distance out of .Anr
Arbor, Mich, by wreckers. but no one
was ic jured.
FLAMES at Danville, Tenn, destroyed
two business houses, the depot, express
and ticket Offices and large number
OF other buildings. The loss age~ egates
500, 900.
THE buildings on the extensive stock
farm of George o. Wilson at Locn Ra-
ven, Md, were burned and forty -iive
valuable horses persisted. The total
loss was 100000.
The death of Mai. B. W. Woodruff,
for thirty years prominent figure on
the American turf, occurred at his resi-
dence in Chicago, aged 50 years.
The managers of the twenty-three
railroads centering in Chicago an
nounced that they could not and would
not grant the increase in wages de-
manded by tho switchmen on their
lines. .-:..
AT Glenford, Ga, Mrs. Edgar Woods
and four children, who attempted to
cross Cedar creek. were drowned.
The Washington legislature after
taking 100 joint ballots adjourned sine
die without choosing successor to
United States Senator John b. Allen,
whose term expired March 4.
In Atlanta, ia, the grand jury in
dicted for murder Julia Force, who re-
Gently killed her two sisters.
MINISTER'S at San Antonio, Tex. have
inaugurated a crusade against the
opening of saloons there Sunday.
BY tho aid of kerosene Mrs j. D.
Kisler, of Omaha, started the kitchen
fire and an explosion probably fatally
burned herself, her husband and three
children, besides de stroying the house
and all it's contents.
In the celebrated tax title cases at
Redwood Falls, Mimi, Judge Weber
fled decisions by which title sharks
are recognized by the law and more
than thousand acres of land are
wrested from innocent settlers.
HENRY BINDER and Fl. Carlson, two
well-to-do farmers, were caught in the
ice and drowned while fording Little
Rock creek near Hinckley, Ill.
The Kansas legislature passed the
A stralian ballot law.
: JOHN b. ALLEN has been appointed
United States senator to succeed him.
self from the state of Washington.
The governor has signed the bill pro.
hibiting prize fights in California.
AT Center, Ala, Sherman Arp (col.
ored, was hanged for killing an old
white farmer named Hoque several
months ago.
The receipts Of the worlds fair thus
far are $1,000, AS, and the total ex'
penses $15, 584, 80.
SAMUEL DAVIS and d! 8. Starraw,
two well-to-do citizens and merchants
at Montgomery, Ala, fatally injured
each other in fight caused by an old
fcud.
ELIAS LoRN1Ne, an Indian. was shot
to death by Sheriff Philip Johnson at
Caddo, l. r.. in accordance with sen.
tence passed upon him by Judge Hamp.
ton for killing an aged Indian woman.
ABNER Lowe, William Gill and Gill
Sanders were fatally shot bv the acct
dentaf discharge of Thomas ellis gun
while en- route to party few miles
from Monticello, Ark.