The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-04-30

John 1--we, living 80 miles south Of
Huntington, W. Va, shot aid killed his
wife, fatally shot his father-iu-law'
Mazee, and then fatally shot himself.
No cause was known.
Martin Bernaud, a merchant OF Scott,
La, was murdered and robbed OF ST.
600. The autopsy showed that there
were So stiletto wounds about his neck
and breast.
Ezra Bearuon Newton, aged 1o1 years,
the oldest Shaker in the country, died at
Harvard, Mass. He deserted his wife
and children in 1s4s to embrace the
Shaker faith.
Alexander Rhimes. who has been dr.
vorced from seven wives, was seeking
divorce from the eighth at La Porte.
Ind.
A cyclone at Salem, Va, blew down
many houses and barns and killed Mrs.
Jane Harris and her little boy.
The Grand Forks national bank OF
Grand Forks, N. D., closed its doors
with liabilities of 1919, 900; assets, $685.
900.
Sam Foster, the negro who waylald
in St. Louis and murdered Bertram A.
Atwater, the Chicago artist, was found
guilty of murder.
At the third biennial council in WASH
ington of the National Society OF Co.
lonial Danes of America Mrs. Howard
Townsend, of New York, was elected
president.
Starfish have caused immense dam
age among the Connecticut oyster beds
this season.
William and Victor Hills were taken
from the Jail at Meanwhile, Tenn, by
mob and hanged for the murder OF
Carroll Martin in 1894.
Nine persons were killed outright,
three were fatally and II more or less
injured, and great destruction OF prop
erty was wrought by cyclone which
passed over Clay county, Kan.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 26th were as follows:
Philadelphia, .s57; Pittsburgh. .714;
Washington, .571; Cleveland, .571; Chi
2ago, $50; St. Louis, .566; Cincinnati,
$50; Baltimore, 500; Boston. 500;
Brooklyn, .429; New York. LAB; Louis
Vile, Ill.
MIR. and Mrs. Barney Cullen were
burned to death in their home near
Chester, n. Y.
The battle ship Massachusetts aver
aged 1915 knots on her trial and her
builders win bonus of $10O,0OO
Peter Egbert, q carpenter at Rockville,
Ind, % years old, without apparent
cause or provocation shot and instantly
killed Mrs. Herman Haschke and two
children and Sheriff w. NJ. Null and
Deputy Sheriff William Sweem and then
killed himself.
A bronze equestrian statue OF Gen.
Ulysses S. Grant, presented by the
Union League club of Brooklyn to that
city, was unveiled in the presence of
10000 people by Master Ulysses S.
Grant, grandson of the general.
The residence of A. S. Marehand was
burned at Delta, O., and his two sons
persisted in the flames.
A boiler exploded in a sawmill at
Flinton, Pa, killing Matthew McGough
a sawyer; S. S. Gates, il helper, and j. B.
Burgoon, proprietor OF the mill.
A fire that started in dancehouse at
Cripple Creek, COL, swept away ESQ
buildings and entailing loss Of upward
of $1,0Oo,Oo0. with only $250.0oO in
surance. The fire was the work of an
incendiary.
A shipping stable at Galloway. o.. be-
longing to Ed. Cartwright was de-
stroyed by fire and AZ horses. some OF
them quite valuable, were burned to
| death.
Washington advices say that the treas
ury deficit TO. the fiscal year ending
June 20, 1896. will be. approximately
| $25,OOO.OOO.
Walter Dygert, of Greenwood, II!
arrived at Tampa, Fla. from Cub !
where he had just been released froE
prison.