The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-03-30

Missouri river below st Joseph, Mo-,
had been dissected in local medical
college and thrown into the stream by
man who was hired to bury them.
A QUARREL between whites and
negroes at Purvis, Miss. resulted in
the latter Turning the town, nearly
every store and residence being wiped
of the face of the earth.
The state board of agriculture Of
Missouri has adopted quarantine lines
in conformity with the lines adopted
by the national government
FIRE destroyed the Morgan, q FASH
ionable apartment house in Cleveland,
O., and Mrs. Mary E. Abbey. Mrs.
Jesse Hunt and her daughter, Mrs.
Emma Somers and Mrs. p. &. Somers
persisted in the flames. >
DOBBINs & DAILY, cotton dealers at
Nashville, Tenn, with branch houses
in Memphis, New Orleans, Little Rock,
Montgomery, Mobile and other cities,
failed for $500, OOQ
AT Sedalia. Mo-, j. c. Davis. a grocer,
who was in love with Miss Mary, the
17-year-old daughter of NJ. A. Miller, a
prominent real estate dealer, shot her
dead because she refused his attentions
and then killed himself.
TORNADO at Indianapolis wrecked
several buildings, causing q loss of
500. 600.
AT Mexico. No., the sale of a negro
was stopped by proceedings instituted
by George Robertson, leading attor-
ney, who will test the constitutionality
of the vagrant law of the state.
THE town of Kelly, Miss, was wiped
of the face of the earth by cyclone,
not sou being left to tell the tale.
Great damage was also done at Tunica
and Cleveland. in the same state, and
twenty-five persons were killed.
FLAMES swept away large portion
of the town of Pauhuska, Oklahoma,
and five lives were lost.
BY the issue of 200, 900 copies the
Chicago Inter Ocean celebrated the
twenty-frst anniversary of its birth.
Each copy o: the paper consists of
sixty pages.
THE tornado that passed over In
dianapolis wrecked fifty houses, caus-
ing a loss of over 100000, and several
persons were seriously injured.
In the register of deeds office at New
ton, Kan, the vault was broken open
and the county records destroyed The
loss cannot be made good for less than
800, 900.
BY the capsizing of skiff George
w. Selby and his brother Oscar were
drowned at Peoria, III.
ADvICEs say that the damage done
by the recent cyclone in the Mississippi
valley would reach 81, 200. 900. One-half
of the state penitentiary at Nashville,
which covers eighty acres of ground,
was torn to pieces, entahing an enor-
nous loss.
HUBERT and John Dix and Edward
Wescott were drowned by the upset.
ting of skitf in Bigbee river near
Mount Sterling, Ala.
AT Denver, COL, Anton Wood. the
l1-year-old murderer of Joseph, Smith,
was found guilty and sentenced to life
imprisonment.
AT the age OF IS years Rev. John
Souder, Methodist minister, died at
his home in Tittin, o. He had lived
there seventy years and had been in
the ministry for fifty-one years.
In an angry fit James Cosgrove shot
and killed his wife at Butte. Mont
and then committed suicide
For participating in the murder of
Robertson and his daughter in August,
1891, Louis Michael was hanged at St.
Martinsvil.e, La. It was the first legal
execution which had taken place there
in forty years.
IT is proposed by the Woodstock
guards military company at Annis-
ton, Ala, to cover the distance on
foot from their home to the worlds
! fair grounds in. Chicago, about 800
miles.
A FIRE destroyed the Weber building
in Chicago, causing loss of $3.50, 900 to
the various firms that occupied it.