The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-04-23
Connecticut democrats will select ma
t;onal delegates June 10 at Hartford.

t;onal delegates June 10 at Hartford.
In convention ut Louisville the Ken
lucky republicans elected national dele
| gates favorable to Gov. Bradley for pres
ident. The platform denounces the free
J and unlimited coinage of silver and fa-
vors protection.
| Maine republicans in convention at
Portland elected national delegates in
structed to support Reed for the presi-
dency and adopted platform declar-
| ing for protection and the gold stand
ard.
! Indiana republicans made the fol-
lowing congressional denominations:
George w. Faris, Fifth district: Henry
u. johnson, Sixth district, and Jesse
Overstreet in the Seventh district
| The republicans of New jersey in
convention at Trenton adopted q reso'
luton declaring for the gold standard
and against the free coinage Of silver
and elected uninstructed delegates to
the national convention.
cialist labor party has called national!
convention in New York city on July 4
to nominate candidates for president
and vice president. s1
Nebraska populists will hold their
state convention at Grand Island on
July IS.
Edwin Partridge, well-known board
of trade operator, died at his home in
Chicago, aged GO years. .s..~
John Stetson, proprietor OF the Park
theater and of the new Hotel Savoy,
banker, broker and merchant, died at
his home in Boston of pneumonia. aged
e. years.
The republicans renominated Seth L.
Milliken for congress in the Third dis
trict of Maine and Charles w. Stoue
| in the Twenty-seventh district of Penn
sylvania.
Willard Ives. member of congress
in 1852 and well-known banker and
philanthropist, died at his home in Wa
tertown, n. T., aged 90 years.
Massachusetts, prohibitionists in ses'
sion at Boston elected delegates to the
national convention who will support
Joshua Lowering, Il Baltimore %mer-
chant, for the presidential nomination..
Mrs. Apolonia Pecher died in Misha'
waka. Ind, aged 101 years.
Arthur 1. Foreman, the last ct the war
governors of West Virginia, died at his
hcme in Parkersburg, aged 70 years.
Forest fires were doing immense dam
age in the fine timber land near Chilli
cothe, o.
Gen. Levi Clarke Bodies. of the regu-
lar army. retired, died in Wilmington,
Del, aged 81 years.. He served in the
Mexican and civil wars with distinction.
! FOREIGN.
An immense landslide at Trubh.
Switzerland, devastated many farms,
whole woods were carried off and tho
Joss was immense.
Gold bonds of the provisional repub-
lie of Cuba to the amount of So ,00O, 100
are to be placed on the American mar
ket.
A dispatch from Havana says thai
the insurgents have hanged % Span
iards in the Sa9ua district. >
Three prisoners of war, Gregorio
Borges, Esteban Hernandez and jose
Bacallao, were executed at Havana.
They belonged to an insurgent band.
1t was said that Spain was on the
brink of a revolution, the recent cleo
ton frauds inaugurated in the govern
ment's favor having Increased the num-
Der of malcontents Immensely.
! Mrs. Bell, for cruelty to her two
grandchildren, was sentenced in Of
lava. Ont. 10 life imprisonment.
In the suburbs Of Havana IL unarmed
Cubans were shot and II were wounded
by Spanish soldiers.