The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-11-05
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOM ESTlC.

time to the football team as captain.
Charles James fatally shot Jacob Gar
rison at Richmond, KY, because he OBJ
iected to Garrison's attentions to his
daughter.
Mrs. Jesse Winner and her three chill
dren, aged 8, 3 and ~ years, who lived
in small log cabin near Richmond,
No., were all murdered by some I'M
known assassin.
Advices received at New Bedford,
Mass, from the Arctic ocean whaling
feet state that the season has been
failure.
The entire business portion of Mil
ton, N. Y, was destroyed by fire.
A fight in New York between George
Lavigne, of Saginaw, Mich. and Jack
Everhardt, of New Orleans, to decide
the lightweight boxing championship
of the yorld. was won by Lavigne in the
Gath round.
Ronald's factory building in Brook
lyn was burned at a loss of $125,00O and
a number of the 200 girls employed were
injured in making their escape.
As the result of experiments the -four
mill at Castala, S. D., will this winter
use the Russian thistle for fuel in place
of coal.
At Nashville, Tenn. Jimmy Michael,
the Welshman, still further lowered the
ten-mile indoor paced bicycle record,
making the distance in 1888 3-5.
L. H. George, OF Brockport, N. Y,
lroke the century road record of Amer
ica by wheeling from Erie to Buffalo in
hours and rs minutes.
A car on the Pittston electric railway,
crowded with passengers, jumped the
track at Plainsville, Pa, and three wom
en- were fatally and 20 other persons
seriously injured
III the southern part of Pawnee coun
ty, O. T., Mart Crawford and Joseph
Jones, farmers, quarreled in a discus
sion on the money question and killed
each other.
Charles Kaiser, Jr., and his wife while
driving along road near Norrstown
Pa, were held up by highwaymen and
Mrs. Kaiser was slot and instantly
killed and Ler husband was wounded.
An Erie passenger train broke the
record for the run from Pittsburgh to
Cleveland, making the 1875 miles in 2
hours and 30 minutes.
Trying to save the life of her 5-year-
old grandchild. Alvin Studdt, Mrs. En-
ma Peterman was instantly killed by an
Erie railroad express train near her
home in Hawthorne, N. j., and the
child was fatally hurt.
The semi-annual meeting of the bish-
ops of the Methodist Episcopal church
began in Pittsburgh, Pa.
The Georgia legislature met at At
lanta.
A large number of trees were blown
down and houses were unroofed at New
Orleans during a storm and Albert
Trahina was killed by lightning.
A tornado near Pennington, Tex,
destroyed several houses and barns and
injured u number OF persons, some ia
tally.
young man named Palmer who
killed the child of Oscar Marshall,
farmer near North Bend. Wis.,, out Of
revenge, is said to have been lynched
by mob.
in his annual report to Secretary Fran
els says the people Of Arizona are unan,.
nous for statehood. The total mining
output Of the territory for the year was
$13,o7s,263. The value of taxable prop
erty is $oO,OoO,OOO.
At Medford, Mass, Joe Patchen low
cred all previous marks made my him
self by pacing mile in 2:O4A.
The states of Illinois, Wisconsin aud
111o hov hovooro1 H1,h -
their names given to three of the nncn-
ster battle ships now being built for
the United States navy.
Fire of an incendiary origin de-
stroyed the O'Brien hotel and three adj
Joining buildings in Pittsburgh. Pa.
The Mecosta county savings bank ut
Big Rapids, Mich, closed it's doors with
resources of 100000 and liabilities
about the same.
The Supreme Order of the Red cross,
in session in South Bend, Ind, elected
Sven Windrow, Of Illinois. supreme
commander.
A tornado passed through the cas-. ern
part of Lafayette county, Miss, de-
stroying farmhouses and uproot ing
trees of all sizes.
During quarrel at Butte, Mont,
James Kelley, well-known young man,
fatally shot Jessie Hill, his sweetheart,
end then killed himself.
A cyclone swept over stretch of
country about 20 miles east of Guthrie,
o. T., devastating district several
miles long and 100 yards wide and kill
ing ten persons.
Two small vessels carrying IS pas
sengers, besides a crew of five men,
were lost on the Alaskan coast in
storm.
i By an explosion of gas in one of the
mines Of the Lehigh q Wilkesbarre
Coal company at Wiikesbarre, Pa. six
men lost their lives. "a.