The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-01
WEST AND SOUTH.

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Ar Dayton, O., AL Weidner shot and
killed his wife and then took his own
life. Domestic trouble was the cause
AT Mimin. O., Mrs. Gottleib Fox,
weighing over 800 pounds, dropped dead
in the Methodist church during COM
munion.
The worlds congress of journalists,
the second of the series of conventions
known as the auxiliary congresses of
the Columbian exposition, commenced
in Chicago.
AT Columbus, O., Mrs. Annie Peter
son was sentenced to the state prison
for two years for Smuggling small
saw to her husband in Jail, by which he
made his escape. ...p
In St. Paul and vicinity heavy wind,
accompanied by a heavy rain, did great
damage to property and injured
large number of persons.
A TERRIFIC windstorm in Ohio killed
four men at Cleveland, destroyed prop
erty valued at $1,000, 900 in Lima and
vicinity and did great damage at Find
lay. Fremont and other places.
The plant of the Beatty glass work
fire to the extent Of 100000.
BERNARD GooDE, of Detroit, Mich,
has been appointed superintendent of
the dead letter Office in Washington
vice D. P. Leibhardt, resigned.
The worlds fair national commits
sioners, by vote of 81 to q, decided to
sustain the local directory in it's decision
to- open the exposition on Sunday, and
Funless legal process restraining the d.
rectors from aeting otherwise is resorted
to the gates,of the fair will be thrown
open Sundays to visitors.
y FIRE destroyed the eastern portion of
the town of Carbondala. COL, the loss
being over 100000.
A FIRE in the new city of Belden,
Mich, wiped out full third of the
business houses Of the town. Loss,
s175, 600. William Young, John Porter
and three other men who worked at the
fire drank some liquor and died soon
otter. Some kind of poison was thought
to have been in the whisky. 80
SToCKMES in South Dakota have suf-
fered great losses by recent storms in
that state. -
Ex-TREAsURER VINCENT, of Alabama,
who was sentenced six years ago to
twenty years for embezzling 800, 600 has
been pardoned.
EPHRAIM MUCHLER, who murdered ].
j" Brown, y prominent business man at
Nichols. Ca. and another negro who
was quarreling with Brown when he
was killed were lynched by mob.
Agw1NDsroRM5 in Michigan did .grea9
damage in Detroit and at many points in
Wayne, Monroe and Lenawee counties.
WILLIAM SULLIVAN, the farmland
who brutally murdered his employer,
Layton Leech, and murderously as
saulted the latter's wife near Durand,
Mich, last January, was taken from,
Jail by an immense mob and lynched.
Sullivan was captured in Detroit re-
Gently. 80. -. l.. ~
Two MAD dogs bit twenty persons in
Chicago in the neighborhood 81 Forty,
eighth and West Lake streets. ~
MAYOR s. ULMAN. wholesale grocers
at brunswick, Ca, failed for $3.50, 900. :
HEAVY frosts were reported along
the line of the Central Branch railway
in Kansas, and it. was thought the
Igrowing crops were greatly DAMAGED.
b. BYsthe Breaking Of leveein Louisi-
ma the greater part Of East Carroll,
Madison and Concordia parishes were
overlooked. causing the destruction at
growing crops.
The newly appointed consul to Vera
Cruz, Charles Schaeffer, of Sedgwick,
Kan; was made cohsul before he was q
citizen If the Tinted States =,
"A HEAVY windstorm blew down or
unroofed twenty-five houses in tho
eastern part of Louisville, Ky. -
FIRE destroyed the Latterer pump
and. box factory. st. Aiddletown, O., the
loss being 800, 900. - - ~
THE management of the Pennsyl-
vaniA railroad system and the Lake
Shore &, Michigan Southern railroad
have informed their, employees that be.
tween now and October 80 every EN-.
ploye, irrespective of his or her depart
ment, will be given two weeks vaca-
ton tp,see the 4air:
FLAMES among tobacco factories 1t
Winston. N, c., caused 3 loss. of $780,
600. ,...,.
STUDENTS at Grant university, Chat.
tanooga, Tenn. hauled. down the stars
ann sl. stSipss and spbstatatsd flag of the
fVBr. 1 decision II tho courts at Oman.
the Union Pacific company will be com
PEELED to build fine railway station at
Omaha, as it agreed to do more than
ten years ago u fsg st...=
! A TRAIN on the Wabash road made
the run from Kansas City to Centralia,
Mo-, 1853 miles, in IDS mi1ites, breaking
| the record west of the Mississippi for
laag.distance running.
| AroRHApo In Indiana wrecked houses
and did other damage ut Jeffersonville,
Elwood, Marion and Columbus,