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

Charles Towne, q farmer, and hin
young wife were probably fatally shoi
while eating supper by some persor
unknown who fired through window.
No motive was known for the crime.
In Denver the American Baptist Pub.
location society held its. sixty-ninth an.
nual session. The reports showed that
more than 81, ooD, 900 ac6pies Of books,
-traets, pamphlets antl-periicdiesls-haJ
been printed during the year
THE commissioners representing all
thef European nations and Brazil hava
withdrawn their exhibits at the worlds
fair from competition for awards undo,
tRe sihgle jpdge.system.
were killed by the cars while walking
on high trestle near Bluefeld, w. va.
EVAN OWEN and GriR Harris, EN-.
[ployes of The steel works Dat Pueblo,
Co. .sdurinR 8 drunken fight fell ID
front of an electric car and were in.
stantly killed:
AMONG Kansas farmers a new secret
political society hassb formed.
On the Missouri Pacific an express
train was held up and robbed of 81, 600
by four unmasked men just beyond the
suburbs of st. Louis.
IN Chicago Hugh Etter, a colored
man, shot and killed another colored
man named Dewitt Sherren in quar-
rel over woman, and Etter was fatally
shot while resisting arrest. = ~'!'3.E
Because she was seeking q divorce
John Marto,t of Green Bay, !1vis., killed
his wife and then took his own life.
At Lamar, Mo-, Amos Avery was
hanged for the murder of James A.
Miles on September:as, 1924, He made
a speech on the gallows proclaiming his
innocence.
A VILLAGE in Cherokee county, Tex,
was almost; wiped out by fire and DR.. J.
E. Roberts was burned to death in his
Office. .... 49,.
AT Arcola, ILL.,, ex-Mayor Dimond
was shot and killed by David z. Miller,
his partner.
AT the Carson (Ney.) mint coinage is
to be suspended after the present
month.
In the Arab camp In Chicago three
camels and seven Arabian horses, one
valued at $4,000, persisted during a fire.
In three days thirty convicts died in
the Pratt mines hear Birmingham, Ala.
from pneumonia.
AN indianapolis servant girl, Anna
Wagner, is charged with the death by
poison of five members of the Koesters
family where she was employed.
The doors Of the Farmers state bank
OF Brooklyn, Mich, were closed with
liabilities amounting to about $40, 1000.
The death of Gen. Ralph w. Kirk
ham, a hero of the Mexican and civil
wars and millionaire, occurred at
Oakland, Cal, aged y years,
AT Moberly, Mo-, Effie Poison, a 49,
year-old girl, poisoned herself with
strychnine because her father told her
to perform household duties while her
sweetheart was in the parlor.
A BILL passed the Michigan legisla-
ture. giving women the right to vote
at municipal and school elections. ::
~ central Missouri = cyclone did i'm
meuse damage The town of Ladonia,
with 1900 inhabitants, was entirely de-
stroyed and twenty personswere killed,
At Moberly, Sedalia, Brookfeld and
other places property was destroyed.
Two-TH1RDs Of the business portion
of Rocklin, Cal, was destroyed by fire.
Two MASKED men held up west
bound passenger train at Coleman,
Tex., and robbed the express car Of all
its contents. .>8[es IL
AT the age of Is PROT. Moses G. Farm.
er, of Boston, one Of the pioneers Of
modern application of electricity to in,
dustrial uses, died in Chicago of pneu'
moaia. :.