The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-03-22
LATE NEWS.

Thirteen persons have died OF d1ph-
liberia within week at Carbon, Ind.
Charles Thompson and his wife were
killed by lightning at Damascus, Ala.
Farmers in Oklahoma and Texas are
said to have finished their seeding of oats.
A syndica te of eastern men has secured
the natural and artificial gas plants OF
Lafayette, Ind.
In the Iowa house the mulct tax bill
was restored to its original form after a
prolonged debate.
P. 81. Geetan, postmaster at Big
Springs, Kan, was shot and instantly
killed by Fred Hill.
West Boothe, negro boy, was shot fif-
teen times during quarrel at Longoven,
Tex. Boothe will die.
Trouble in the German Presbyterian
Church at Dubuque, Iowa, has led to the
seeding OF 100 members.
Major General Howard is said to con-
template becoming candidate for con-
gress on leaving the army.
Many Indian skeletons and implements
of various kinds have been discovered in
mounds near Monticello, III.
At Atchison, Kan, the Missouri River
is cutting new channel, endangering
property valued at 81, 500, 600.
Iowa legislators are anxious to settle
the liquor question in time to take up
their spring work on the farm.
The American man-of-war Marion, un-
der repair at Yokohama, was nearly
wrecked by typhoon in China sea.
Mrs. Lease told Boston audience the
women would solve the business depres-
sion If the men will mind the babies.
tits said that opium smugglers of VIC
toria, B. c., are raising a fund to secure
favorable legislation at Washington.
Seventy-fv feet of the intake tunnel
at Milwaukee caved in. The workmen
escaped. Future accidents are feared.
Steel works covering 500 acres of land
and employing 5000 men will be removed
from Johnstown, Pa. to Cleveland, Ohio.
It is said that Hunt ington has secured
an option on the Panama Railroad, the
price being between s., O0O, 900 and &, 0OO,-
600.
Walter Wellman and the American
members of his arctic expedition sailed
from New York on the Britannia Wednes-
day.
Bodies of the thirteen men entombed
in the Gaylord mine Feb. ID were reached
by rescuers, but were beyond identifica-
ton.
California recruits to Coxey's good
roads army threaten to seize Santa Fe
train if free transportion to Ohio is de-
MED.
In an address to his party Premier
Rosebery said the battle for Irish home
rule would go forward with unabated
vigor.
Indicted Michigan state officials are
fighting for time. Applications for con-
tinuances were made in a number Of
cases.
Mrs. James Van Norman, of Orange
county, California, is the mother of a
child which weighed seventeen pounds at
birth.
The directors of the Travellers Pro-
tective Association have decided to hold
the next convention, June 10, at Milwau-
kee, Wis.
Seven men were injured by jumping
from the windows of a West Superior,
Wis, factory which had been fred by an
explosion.
Rhode Island republicans have nomi-
mated D. Russell Brown as their candi-
date for governor. The selection was
unanimous.
John Hart, who murdered his two sis
tiers, was hanged at Rockford, ILL.,, Fri
day. He refused to confess motive for
the crime.
Recent assays prove that the great
sand hills in the vicinity of Duvan, Colo,
contain from one to twenty dollars worth
of gold per ton. .-.
q Indiana prohibitionists met at Indian
apolis Thursday and nominated a full
state ticket. There was disagreement
on the platform.
The Arizona Territorial Stock Sanitary
Commission finds CHAMBERS epidemic.
Blooded stock valued at $4,000 was
killed on one farm. IN
Rev. William M. Grubbs, methodist
minister for over fifty years, much of the
time in Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky,
IS dead at the age Of 70.