The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-29
WEST AND SOUTH.

FIRE OF lncendiary origin destroyed
the business portion of Tillamook, Ore. :,
leaving many parties destitute. Loss
yer 100000.
Bishop MERRILL says the general
commission of the Methodist denomina-
ton will issue a manifesto withdraw
ing the Methodist exhibits from the
worlds fair within two weeks on &C.
count of Sunday opening and will ask
the 5000, 900 members of the church to
keep away from the exposition on week
days as we'll as Sundays.
A PLAN has been conceived by the
committee in Chicago in charge of the
Columbian liberty bell whereby on
July 4 all the bells in schoolhouses and
churches of the land will ring simulta-
neously at noon.
FIRE wiped out the village of Jeffer-
sontown, XIV.
FAILURES of banks were reported at
Lebanon and Albany in Oregon, at New
Hanover, N. c., at Chattanooga, Tenn,
and at Plainville, Kan.
A MOB which was supposed to have
lynched Lee Bennett at Gleason, Tenn,
hung Jim Harris, an innocent man, in
stead. Bennett was in Jail at Dresden,
heavily guarded.
BUSINESS has been resumed by the
Capital national bank at Indianapo-
lis, Ind, which suspended one month
ago.
The law permitting the sale of va
grants in Missouri has been declared
unconstitutional by the state supreme
court.
Iowa republicans will hold their
state convention at Des Moines August
Is. =
In the state of Washington ten gov
eminent inspectors were detected in
aiding in smuggling in Chinese by
means of fraudulent certificates and in
permitting opium smuggling either by
connivance or otherwise.
In Chicago the American Railway
union, new society to embrace every
branch of the service, was organized
with Eugene v. Debbs, Of Terre Haute,
Ind, as preaident.==,,~s~a - .. -
BURGLARS murdered Thomas Cord
way and his sister 1t their home near
Loeansport, La :. = I a .,
FoUR negroes were killed and many
others wounded in row at an emanci-
patton day celebration at Flat Prairie,
Tex. y - -.
The West Virginia building on the
worlds fair grounds was dedicated,
the day being the thirtieth anniversary
of the birth of the state.
AT the Cheyenne agency in Montana
enlisted Indians had q fight with other
Indians and five of the latter were
killed. *
THROUGHOUT North and South Caro-
lima and Georgia IN earthquake shock
was felt. ~'
An edict issued by the school COM
missioners dismissed all married teach
ers in the public schools in st. Louis.
The doors Of the University bank and
City savings bank at Los Angeles, Cal,
were closed.
AT Janesville, Wis, Charles P. Whalen
was sentenced to twenty-five years i'm
prisonment for the murder of Gerald
Spaulding. -. lEv. Il:
A CIRCUS tent was struck by lightning
ct River Falls, Wis, and seven persons
were killed and thirty injured.
SEVERAL exhibitors at the worlds
tair met and recorded themselves as
being unalterably opposed to the OPEN
ing OF the gates on Sunday, not only on
moral grounds but from . financial
standpoint as we'll, and decided to enter
suit for an injunction to have the gates
closed on Sunday. e =@=:
AT railway crossing near Lima, O.,
Charles Keller and his wife and John
Steinbaugh were killed by the cars.
Ar his home in Menlo Park Leland
Stanford, United States senator from
Californis, died suddenly il his roth
year. Heart disease was the cause. He
leaves = wife and property valued 1T
$780, 00. COO.