The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-08-17

hOOerLS celebrated neF lUS0 DIE Cn08y. 81
81 Aria Grange, Ind, Deputy Sheriff
Samuel Erb was ambushed aud killed
by party of tramps suspected Of bur
glary.
THE sutton county bank of Sonora,
Tex, the Bank of Colfax, Wash. the
Commercial bank Of Minneapolis,
Mimi. the Union national bank Of
Rochester, Mimi. and the First nation
al bank of Nashville, Tenn, closed
their doors. -
IT was decided at the statehood con-
vention held in Ell Reno to work for tho
admission of Oklahoma and Indian ter
ritories as one state. .-'.
THE 4-year-old daughter of David De
Witt was cremated and her mother ia
tally burned in fire at Ada. O.
The Oldest paper in central Missouri,
the Sedalia Evening Bazoo, published
by J. West Goodwin. went to the wall.
FRED GRorEFEND. cashier of the Bank
of Shasta county at Redding, CAL, is
defaulter for over 500. 900.
BANK failures were reported ss fol-
lows: The American national at Nash
vile, Tenn, the Hamilton county state
bank at Webster City, Ia, the Caldwell
county exchange bank at Kingston,
NO., and the Exchange bank at Polo,
Mo.
CHARLES j. EDDY, aged So, one of the
oldest railroad men in The west, COM
mitted suicide in Washington park,
Chicago, by shooting himself. No cause
was known.
JACK CHAMBERS, Dan Lewis and Jim
Taylor, all colored, charged with an
assault on Mrs. George Warren at Ho-
bol<en, Ca, last spring, were caught
and lynched within miles of Way
Cross, Ga.
A SOLDIER named William Laugherty
was murdered by miners at Coal Creek,
Tenn. and his death was avenged by
lynching Dick Drummond.
In convention at Cincinnati the Ohio
democrats nominated Lawrence r,
Neal, of Chillicothe, for governor; w
A. Taylor for lieutenant governor; Il
c. Blackburn for treasurer, and j. w.
Safer for supreme judge. The plat
form approves the Chicago platform,
especially its reference to tariff and
currency legislation; indorses the presi-
dents message to congress; protests
! against abuse of the pension laws, and
| calls upon the democrats in congress to
| extricate the great commercial interests
of this country from their present dis
tressed condition.
THE fight was reported of Lee But
Ter, cashier of G. NJ. Wright & Co. S
bank at Altamont, ILL.,, with 81, 900,
the entire assets of the bank,
In Milwaukee fire among warehouses
and factories caused loss of $3.50, 600.
FREE silver men hanged President
Cleveland in ef1igy at Ogden, Col.
! The loss of the sealing schooner
Helen Blum, of San Francisco, was re-
ported, with her crew of twenty five
| men.
HENRY BROWN (colored), who was
hanged for the murder of peddler in
East st. Louis, ILL.,, in December, 1880,
while an accessory has been discovered
not to have been the principal, the
murderer being J. c. jackson, an.
other negro, who was ACQUITTED of the
| charge.
In a battle with citizens of Clark
county, Ala, thirteen of the Meachim
gang were killed The affair is the out
growth OF feud of some years stand
ing.
BEATTY's bank at Mansfield, Ill and
the National bank at Waxahachie,
Tex, closed their doors.
The tobacco crop in five counties in
Kentucky was ruined by hail.
HERNsHE1M's cigar factory, Maginnis'
cotton mills and Fishers sawm1lls in
New Orleans, employing in the aggre.
gate over z, 600 hands, were closed.
HENRY HALL was hanged at Pike
vile, KY, for the murder of his brother
AN explosion at the Girard furnace in
youngstown, o., injured SIX employees,
five fatally.
FLAMES wiped out the business por-
ton of Milford Center. O.