The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-09

country.
ADO 4 Louisville, KY, an Ice gorge
broke, wrecking seventy-dve coal
barges valued At S50, 200.
CHARLES c. RAPPy and Louis Frank
lin, two well-known citizens, were q.
rhyxiated by gas at Davenport, Ia
Ar Elkhart Ind>,>C. q. Conn. pro-
prietor of the Conn band instrument
factory, made his annual distribution
of dividends on the profit.sharing b.
sis. The workmen, received $t4, COO
THE contract Cor the construction of
the Chicago & st. Louis electric rail-
way roadbed has been let.
FLAMES destroyed the building in
Cincinnati occupied by the American
Book company. the loss being 500, 900.
+. B. PIERCE, editor of the Orville
(Cal) Mercury and member of the
legislature from Butte country, dropped
dead in the state house ut Sacramento.
ONE of the worst snowstorms for
many years swept over the nor, Invest,
the cold being intense. At Helena,
Mont. the Thermometer registered so
degrees below zero.
A~~0A W AO0AAANNS A"'s.s WAC ~ ot1A.O
son of Henry Lichtmark carelessly
pointed a gun at his elder brother and
pulled the trigger, fatally wounding
him.
THE official trials at Port Royal. 8. c.,
of the pneumatic guns Of the dynamite
cruiser Vesuvius were success.
In Chicago counterfeit silver dollars,
halves, quarters and dimes of the issue
Of 1899 were in circulation.
AT Aspen, COL. snowsl;des killed
three men, and at Carbondale one man
lost his life in the same manner.
The doors of the First national bank
of Little Rock, Ark, were closed
AT Richards, Va. four negroes who
murdered and robbed two white men
named Radcliffe and Shortridge were
lynched by a mob.
The death of Joseph William Bert
Howard, better known to the journal.
istic profession as Phoci on Howard, oc.
! Cured at his home in DAnville, ILL.,, of
heart failure, aged nearly 60 years.
A MOB captured Henry Smith, ne
gro who murdered 4-year-old Myrtle
Vance at Paris, Tex. tortured hin,
with red.hot brands ard finally satu-
rated him with coal oil and burned him
to death.
FLAMES almost wiped out the town
OF Gillette, Wyo., causing q loss OF
500. 900.
The remains of jefferson Davis will
be removed from New Orleans to Rich.
mond for interment on May so.
ADVANCE sheets of noffman's Catho.
lie directory, the official publication OF
the Catholic church in the United
States. gives the total Catholic popula.
ton in this country at 800. O95 The
total number of priests is 9, 1883; chill.
dreu attending parochial schools, 1885,.
269, and children in orphan asylums,
26.533. There are 1877 Catholic colleges,
CSC academies, 1857 parochial schools,
463 charitable institutions and SAT-
| churches.
NEAR Topeka, Kan, James Mitchell
and his wife and child were frozen to
death in their house.
FIRE destroyed five weekly news.
paper Offices in Topeka, Kan.
In fire in Alfred Burgerson's house
in Chicago Mrs. Burgerson aud he,
! baby were fatally burned:
In Oslsaloosa, Ia. Mrs. Gathering
Robinson died at the age of 100 years
and II months.
The failure Of the Chicago Milk
| Shippers association, with a member.
ship of 1900, for 100000, was an.
nounced.
The execution of Sam Smith, 10.
year-old negro, took place at Birmius-
ham, Ala, for the murder of Isaac
Burger nine months ago.