The Worthington advance., 1896-03-19


week ended on the 18th aggregated
$o43,oes, s,024, against $1.o61. .s46,eo7 the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1898, was so.
The governor of Ohio signed bill
prohibiting the sale of cigarettes. cigars
and tobacco to minors under 16 years OF
age.
A prairie fire ragged for three days
near Hardesty, o. T.. doing many tho"-
sands of dollars damage to ranges,
stock and buildings.
Eleven persons were hurt by an ex-
plosion of natural gas ut the distillery
of Rheinstrom Bros. in Cincinnati.
Herman Bentert, the "Nebrasl1a
giant" Cd 6mmitted suicide near Hast
ings while insane. He was young,
wealthy and nearly seven feet tall.
Near Greenville, Tex, q train wns
boarded by a masked and armed man
who entered the sleeper and went
through the passengers. The amount
secured was small.
j. NJ. Hall was seriously burned and
his mother, aged so, was cremated in a
fire which destroyed his residence at
Harrisville, w. Va
At Bantam, O., the residence of VAL
entine Mushbacker was burned and his
daughter, aged IS, and Il veteran SOL
dier named Isler, who lived with the
family, were burned to death.
Miss Katie Wrinkle, q prominent
young lady of Feck. Kan, and Mrs.
Meyers, q lady who tried to save her,
were burned to death by the explosion
of an oil can.
Fire at Louisville, Ky., destroyed the
retail dry goods store of +. b. Nugent.
the loss being $4,000.
To escape arrest for emhezzlelnent OF
$500 government funds Frank Mapes,
postmaster ut Kansas City, Kan, COM
mitted suicide.
Patrick H. Kelly, one of the foremost
men of Minnesota and for quarter OF
century leading wholesale merchant
in St. Paul, made an assignment. with
liabilities of $4,000 assets, $780,
900.
Four men were killed and two fatally
injured by an explosion of giant powder
in the Center Star mine at Rossland,
BIC.
Goods American Volunteers is the
title by which Ballington Booths new
Salvation Army will be known.
Gov. Bradley, of Kentucky, fearing
bloodshed in the Legislature, placed
troops in the ktatehouse and declared
the city Of Frankfort under martial
law.
South Chicago's post Office was burned
and the mails ready for delivery, to-
gether with all the Office fixtures and
stamps, were destroyed.
Albert Wallace, who murdered his
sister, Mrs. Belle Bowlby, on February
10. 1895, was hanged at Pekin, Ill.
Poolroom keepers all over the United
States were swindled to the extent Of
$4,000 by false reports sent out Of the
result Of horse race at New Orleans.
Alexander Nemettly, n butcher at
Yonkers, N. Y, murdered his stepdaugh-
ter, aged Is years, with whom he was in
love, and then killed himself.
Father Dominick O'Grady, the Roman
Catholic priest who pursued Mary Gil
martin from Ireland and murdered her
in Cincinnati, has been adjudged in
sane, and will not be tried for his
crime.
Thomas Pelkilton, q coachman, shot
Miss Minnie Mansell, a domestic, at the
residence of Edward Mynderz in Seneca
Falls, N. Y, because she refused to
marry him, and then killed himsslf.
Two Italians named Taddeo, father
and son. section hands on the Lake
Shore railroad, were burned to death in
their home at Geneva, o.
The international chess match in New
York between the United Kingdom OF
Great Britain and Ireland against an
American team was won by the Amer
leans.