The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-10-15
The. News Condensed

The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Para
&s DOMESTIC" 4 80 d =
AIichael's university was burned to
the ground at Logansport, Ind. entail
ing loss OF $4,000. The 200 students
escaped, but lost their clothing and con!
siderable money.
President Cleveland has closed up his
house at Buzzard's Bay, Mass. and re-
turned to Washington. -,
-Four, footpads in Chicago waylaid
Abraham Shepherd and William Van
Ornun. bookmakers from the 8. Ideal
park race track. andsrobbed them otS1-
446. w - - ~ ~ ~ 3
Mrs. r. Savage. her infant child and
two young sons were burned 70 death
in their home at Summit. Ore. Foul
play Is suspected.
Commercial street, a business
thoroughfare at Jellico, Tenn. was de-
stroyed by fire. &s d S%
The pler Car & Observation-Disclosures
Tyler. Tex, failed with liabilitie'Sot
$4,000 ny o. WI
B. L. Price &: Co., clothing manufac:
turers in New York. failed for $125, 600.
Albert Badloff. Gus Kruger andssa
man whose name is not given died at
Merrill, Wis.,, from the effects Of eating
poisoned fish and 4many other parsons
were i'll from the same cause .s@
In q battle between the full-breeds
and squaw men in the Cherokee couh'
try, on Horse creek. several squaws
and their white husbands. were Kiled
The stage running between Nonora
and Oakdale, Cat. was robbed ct the
mail and express matter by lone high
wayman.
w. T.. johnson, G. w. Parker and9J.
c. Miller, accused Of having robbed the
railroad companies running out OF Chi.
cago of thousands of dollars worth Of
merchandise, have been arrested in Chi:
cago. NJ
Two engines collided on the South
ern Pacific at Green's Station. Ore, kill
ing two personsaand injuring four
others. !" -
The police of New Haven, Conn.,, be-
lieves that brakemen of the Consolidated
railroad have been ruthlessly murder
ing tramps caught stealing rides on
cars of that line.
A statement issued by the agricul-
tural department shows that the total
commerce of the United States, includ-
ing imports and exports, for the ten
2o5,3ss. or a yearly average Of more
than 81 ,6oo, 0oo, 900.
Charles F. Nitz, a prominent, young
Chicago physician, stabbed his wife. to
death after . quarrel and then killed
himself. .~-.-..-. .. -.. ~,.,.,>
While returning to Warsaw, ILL.,, in
. skin from q political meeting the
boat upset and John Reed, Of Warsawi
John Simms, Of Burlington, Ia, and
George Wintrow,, OF Pennington. Ia.
were drowned. s'31fs ''S]f8 81 iSa ~. =.
The house of Henry Campbell at
Westford,s N. Y, was burned and Mr..
Campbell and his wife, both about 10
years of age, perished in the dames.,, :.
Five trains were wrecked in a fog
At Argentine, Mo-. but no:one waskilied.
The Harlem Casino company in New
York failed for 100000: j. ~ - y
The thirty-eighth anniversary Of the
famous debate between Abraham Lin
coin and Stephen A. Douglas -waa celc-
brated at Galesburg, Ill. A memorial
tablet was unveiled at Knox coullege
and addresses were made by Ghauncey
M. Depew, Robert T. Lincoln and Sena-
tor Palmer. 80 ; ~ ., II ~ 7
Two masked men walked into the
Sherburne (Minn.) bank and without
uttering q word shot down Assistant
Cashier Thornburn and ]. A. Oestern,
travelling agent, and carried Of got
least $1,000. 4 49, r w
A locomotive and IL freightscars:were
wrecked near Huntington, w. Va. and
Engineer $. P. Brown and Fireman w.
j. Gordon were fatally injured. # \ 4
The building at Peoria. ILL.,, occupied
by the Parsons Theological institute
and the Ide Manufacturing company,
was nearly destroyed by fire, the loss
heing 100000.
In Nebraska the bank at Shelby was
robbed by burglars of $1,000 and the
bank at Platon,a of s1.5O0.
The First national bank Of Ithaca.
Mich. closed it's doors. = X
Over 100000 persons in st. Louis wit
messed the eighteenth annual parade
of the Yelled Prophets.
A cyclone did great damage to prop
erty at Edmond, O. T., and several per-
sons were injured.
James Magee and William Lamont,
employees at the Carrie furnace near
Rankin, Pa, were burned to death by a
gas explosion.
A large tar still at the Standard oil
refinery in Lima, O., exploded. fatally
burning two worknen. William Pat
ricks and A. j. McElroy.
John 8. johnson broke the worlds
tw6-mile bicycle record. riding tie dis
tance in 1888 3-5 on the Garfield park
track in Chicago. ii.
George j. Marsh, treasurer of the
Cape Ann savings bank at Gloucester,
Mass, committed suicide, and II is said
that he was a dcfaulter to the extent of
$150, 900.
In the fourth and final game at Cleve-
land of the Temple cup National league
baseball series of 1896 between the Bal