The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-04-05
LATE NEWS.

Kentucky women are signing a petition
asking congress to impeach Col. Breckin-
ridge.
Mrs. Jane G. Austin, the novelist, died
in Boston Friday, aged IS, after a linger-
ing illness.
Many people in Texas are reported to
be starving. Eleven hundred persons are
now receiving aid.
At indianapolis seven members of
family were poisoned by eating sausage
containing trichin8.
St. Louis clergymen are organizing to
fight the social evil, violation of the Sun
day law and the saloons.
At Roncador Reef the wrecking steamer
Orion found the hull of the ,Kearsarge
had been destroyed by fire.
; Notwithstanding the prevailing depres-
sion of business, the annual report of the
Burlington shows a surplus.
: Judge Caldwell has made ruling in
favor of the Union Pacific employees in
the wage scale hearing at Omaha.
New York republicans have nominated
Rev. Father Malone, Catholic priest,
for regent of the state university.
+ Engineers, firemen, conductors and
;trainmen on the Chicago & Eastern ILL.,
nois may strike against a reduction.
Gen. Experience Estebrook, a pioneer
of Milwaukee, died at his Omaha resi-
dence Monday. He was 81 years old.
Celebrated Indiana tax cases involving
the rights of railroads have been reached
by the United States supreme court.
Members of the Union League club of
Chicago feel that Col. Breckenridge
should resign to avoid being expelled.
John Kendrick Bangs, the funny man
of Harper's Monthly, was defeated for
mayor of Yonkers, N. Y, by 207 votes.
Lazarus Silverman, the Chicago banker
who failed for s1.7sO,OO0, is again in
charge of his estate. He will pay in full.
81, Seven hundred recruits for Coxey's
army have seized and tied up several
Southern Pacific trains at Findlay, Tex.
Mrs. Sawyer was found frozen to death
on the prairie in South Dakota. Her
starving dog had eaten one of her arms.
Cinnamon in indianapolis nearly pre-
cipitated riot because one of their num-
Der was about to be deprived of his queue.
Democrats of California have adopted
resolutions protesting against the adopt
ion of the proposed new treaty with
China.
Major Randle, of Dallas, Texas. after
expanding $4,000 to avoid punishment
for a murder, was sentenced to twenty
years.
Judge Dallas has filed an opinion in the
United States court at Philadelphia
holding that Cinnamon cannot be natur-
allied.
In the Omaha wage scale conference
Judge Caldwell accused Union Pacific
officials of dealing unfairly with en-
ployes.
Reports from Wyoming indicate that
the blizzard lasting seventy hours has
caused great loss of live stock on the
ranges.
Americans at Bluetields Nicaragua, de-
mand a provisional government in which
the United States colony shall be repre-
sented.
Official announcement has been made
of the marriage of Lord Francis Hope
and May Yohe, the American burlesQue
actress.
Eight small children and a servant
girl were burned to death in fire which
destroyed the home of John Witt, at..Mc-
Kendree, w. Va.
Cherokee, Iowa, has been selected as
the location for a new insane asylum to
accommodate 1000 pa tents and cost more
than million dollars.
All except two of the forty men carried
out to sea on the ice in the Harbor of st.
Johns, N. F., were rescued. The two
were frozen to death.
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad
employees are in a dilemma. They are
afraid to accept the new wage schedule
and are orbidden to strike.
A revival has reached such a stage in
Bloomington, ILL.,, that business houses
and saloons closed during the day APP
pointed for general prayer.
4 Alex. Ross has pleaded guilty at Pierre,
s. D., to an Indictment charging him
with embezzling $4,000 from the First
National Bank of Leadville.
Charles Hardin, accused of stealing
$4,000 from the Wells-Fsrgo Express
Company, has been arrested at Alma,
Ark. He had s19, 600 when captured.