The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-07-02

Charley and Richard Golden. sons OF
Harry Golden, q well-to-do farmer liv-
ing near Kingston, KY. killed each
other In q quarrel.
Mrs. Irene Williamson Leonard. con-
victed of the murder of her husband.
was sentenced at Wichita, Kan. to 80
years in the penitentiary.
In a cloudburst near Edwardsvillc,
Ill.,, two young ladies. Mary and Rose
thurman, of Marine, while driving
along a country road were drowned In
their buggy.
Fire destroyed the two lumber mills
of Carson & Weidler in North Portland.
Ore. the loss being 100000.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the Goth aggregated
$685., 553,s32. against $1.o3s. SO, s0s tho
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week In 1898
was ITO.
S. r. Dawson, who shot and killed
Walter Scott, his son-in-law of one hour,
last December, was sentenced In Dies
Moines, Ia, to ten years in the penl-
Tertiary.
There were c17 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the goth, against 276 the week
previous and 256 in the corresponding
period of 1898.
Fire at Point Pleasant, W. Va, de-
stroyed Hoof's opera house and several
stores, shops and dwellings,. causing q
loss - e1nn On0
The secretary Of the interior issued
his requisition for $13.325,000 to be
used in the quarterly payment OF PEN
sions.
The wool clip of Montana this year
was estimated at 100000 pounds.
which is several million more than ever
before.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 2sth were as follows:
Baltimore, .64s; Cleveland, .647; Gin
cinnati, .633; Boston, Oil; Washing
ton, .sa9; Chicago, .525; Philadelphia,
500; Pittsburgh, 500; Brooklyn, 500;
New York, .41s; st. Louis, 1868; Louis
vile, .2O7.
It was discovered that Stephen Leg
eza, who had served half of ten-year
sentence for a murder committed in
Jefferson county, Pa, in 1890, was an
innocent man.
The Braddock (Pa.) wire works were
closed down by the wire nail trust and
1000 men were thrown out of work:
Many buildings were wrecked eby> a
cyclone at West Louisville, Ky, and
Pearl Hicks, aged 16, was killed.
Andrew Cole, an aeronaut, fell from his
balloon at Grand Rapids, Mich, and was
killed.
Rev. James Williams, pastor at Brad
lev, S. D., and Abraham Jones, q hard
ware merchant of Butler, S. D., were
drowned near the Simpson Park camp
grounds in Big Stone lake, Minnesota.
by the upset.ing of boat.
Joseph Cooking, of Hilltop, awaiting
trial on a charge of numbering his wife
and her sister, Miss Daisy Miller, on
April %, was taken from Jail at Port
Tobacco, Md, and lynched by party OF
men.
The mineral products Of the United
States for the calendar year 1898 were
valued at $611, 795, 200, against $527, $685.
1914 for 1894, an increase of $50 100000
At New London, Conn.,, James Rom
key, aged A, shot and killed his wife
and then committed suicide. Unfaith-
fulness on the part of the wife was given
as the cause.
Two boys, sons of Nicholas Min
ninger and Patrick Buckley, farmers,
were drowned in the mill pond at Low
ell, Ind, while in swimming.
A large force of miners was at work
in the Twin Shaft mine at Pittston, Pa,
when the roof of the slope caved in and
it was believed that 100 persons per-
ished.
Lewis Gokey and wife, Mrs. o. A.
Risum, Mrs. Herman Drackrey, Miss
Emma Garbrecht and Miss Margaret
Grove were drowned in the lake at
Shawano, Wis.,, by the capsizing of a
yacht.
The Todd silk mill at Paterson, n.
j., was destroyed by fire, the loss being
$4,000
Patrick McKeown, nominated at the
Ohio democratic convention for state
food and dairy commissioner. died at
his home in Cincinnati of cholera NOR
bus.
The syndicate which was formed at
Youngstown, o., two years ago to es-
tablish newspapers from New York to
San Francisco has failed.
At Red Oak, Ia, John r. Gentry
broke the worlds record for stations,
going a mile in 2:03A.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
In convention in Milwaukee the Wis
consin democrats elected w. F. Villas, E.
S. Bragg, J. G. Flanders and j. j. Hogan
as delegates at large to the national con-
vention and adopted platform that in
dorses President Cleveland's admins
tration, favors tariff for revenue only,
and declares against the free and I'M
limited coinage Of silver and in favor Of
gold, the highest none ary standard of
the world"
The Second district republican con-
vention at Morgantown, w. Va, re-
nominated Congressman Aston G. Day.
ton by reclamation,