The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-12-26

Massillon, O., after having lived to the
age of 10s years.
FOREIGN.
The German ship Athena, from New
York for Bremen, was wrecked at sea
by an explosion and the captain and 10
men were drowned.
Phil Young, John Kirby and E., S.
Jlubley, all of Halifax, N. S., were
drowned While on a fishing excursion.
The Prussian landtag has been sum-
moned to assemble on January Is.
The mail steamer from the northern
const arrived in St. Johns, N. F :, and re.
ported frightful ravages by recent
gales. The schooner Victory and crew
of 90 were lost and four other vessels
were missing. ~,
A portion of the barracks at Bueno.
Ayres collapsed, and IL soldiers were
killed and 80 were injured. -
Miss Margaret Young, queen of the
Munua group of islands, died at the
age of % years. -
A dispatch from Constantinople says
that, the porte had ordered Mustapha
Remzi Pasha to attack, with 10000
troops and two batteries, the city of
Zeitoun, to lombard and destroy it,
and to massacre the $4,000 Armenians
in the city because they had killed 400
Turkish soldiers. =
Alvices from HAVANA stated that
Gen. Calnpos would make desperate ef-
forts Immediately to break the power
of the insurgents. He had determined
to force the fighting because of urgent
orders from Madrid.
Several sacks containing $4,000 in
gold and silver stolen from wagon
train 40 years ago were found in cave
ten miles south of Rincon, Mex. q
Richard F. Sickerton, associate JUS
tice of the supreme court of Hawaii, is
dead. William r. Castle, late minister
10 Washington, will succeed him.
LATER. -,
Speaker Reed announced his commit
tees the 21st. The Minnesota members
were assigned as follows: Fletcher
Commerce. ,Tawney-Ways and
means; reform in the civil service. Me-
Cleary-Banking; labor. Heatwole-
Foreign affairs. Kiefer-Public build
ings; alcoholic liquor traffic. Towne-
Rivers and harbors. Eddy-Indian af-
fairs; mines and mining. Mr.. johnson.
of North Dakota, secured a place on
ways and means.
Adviccs from every South American
republic the 21st except Chile applaud
President Cleveland. The republics
were feasting and cheering the United
States as the patersfamilias of the con-
tinent. Nj
The president signed the Venezuelan
commission resolution the 21st. It is.
therefore, now law. !
Barney Brown (colored) was lynched
at Wrightsville, Ark, the 21st, by =
crowd of negroes for living with an
other negro's wife. They stripped
Brown, and after whipping him, tied
weights to his feet and threw him into
a mill pond. >see
The Mississippi river at st. Louis was
% feet above low water mark the 2lst.
Settlers along the bank were compelled
to leave their homes. No business
could be ,transactcd At the levec.
George Morgan, who killed 10-year-
old Ida Gaskill at Omaha, Neb, was.
sentenced to be hung on April II. i.
The gold reserve in the United States
treasury the 2lst was SOS, 272,0 900.
The Central hotel at Blue field, w.
Va, was destroyed by fire the ED Eli
Stevens, servant. was burned to
death. -
The American steamship Berlin, from
Antwerp to New York, collided with
the English steamer Willow Bank,
sinking the latter vessel. The crew of
the Willow Bank was taken to South
ampton by the Berlin. The pilot of the
Willow Bank was drowned.