The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-07-02
The News Condensed.
important intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
As the result of an old feud George
Dean and David Bldridge were killed
near Harlan Courthouse, KY.
The private bank known as the Bank
of Salt Lake, with James 81. Bacon as
principal owner, failed in Salt Lake
City for s25o,ooo.
W. B. Hulett and Paul Hulett (broth'
ers) eloped from Rocheport, Mo-, the
former with Miss George Drake and
the latter with Miss Irene Mckinney
Both women were engaged to othe,
men.
The four-round glove contest in San
Francisco between James j. Corbett
and Tom Sharkcy ended in a draw.
At all the collieries of the Lehigh
and Wilkesbarre Coal company in the
vicinity of Wilkesbarre, Pa, work was
discontinued, rendering 5000 men and
boys idle.
Sheriff Rogers. of Mcleod county,
Mimi, was killed by tramps near Glen
COe.
A cyclone in Texas swept across the
country from Wills Point to Wacco, a
distance of 200 miles, doing immense
damage.
Mrs. Adelaide C. Mitchell, wife OF
Henry w. Mitchell, of Brooklyn, N. T.,
and famous authoress, died at the age
of AZ years. She wrote under the nom
de plume of ''Violet Etynge."
Reports from 80 wheat counties in
Minnesota and the Dakotas show that
the crop will not exceed 190,000,00O
bushels, or considerably less than the
estimate.
George Stutz, q marine engineer, shot
and killed Mrs. Cora Borden in San
Francisco and then killed himself. No
cause was known.
A waterspout at Sisterville, w. Va,
and vicinity caused loss of 500, 900.
A cloudburst did great damage in
Marshal, Wetzel and Tyler counties in
West Virginia.
The Collins Manufacturing company,
makers Of all sorts of road vehicles at
Jackson, Mich. failed for $4,000.
Rebecca Sutton, housekeeper at Hits
hotel at Hampton. N. j., after quarrel
shot and killed Martin Reed, her para
mour. and then shot herself.
In the four-oared freshman boat race
at Poughkeepsie, N. Y, Cornell won,
Harvard second, Pennsylvania third,
Columbia last. Time, 10:Os.
The Security savings bank at Win
chester, N. H., and the Hinsdale savings
bank at Hinsdale closed their doors.
Miss Anna Putnam, Miss Bessie New
hall and John U. Putnam, all of Mime
apols, and young man named Sher.
man, of st. Paul, were drowned at An
Mandate by the upsetting of a sailb6at.
The Falls Rivet and Machine COM
pany, the largest and one of the Oldest
manufactures at Cuyahoga Falls, o.,
failed for $375.O00.
James j. Corbett and Thomas Sharkey
have agreed to meet in finish fight fol
$4,000 side within six months.
A windstorm at Atlantic, Ia, blew
down the amphitheater and floral hal
on the Cass county fair grounds and did
great damage to crops in the vicinity.
During a cloudburst near Marietta
O., houses were swept away, stock of all
kinds drowned. and crops were ruined
on the Little Muskingum for 20 miles,
causing a loss of hundreds of thousands
of dollars.
Mrs. Bierner, wife of farmer near
San Antonio, Tex, drowned herself
and her three children, aged two, four
and six years. No cause for the act
was known.
Six thousand Sioux, the remnant OF
the most powerful fighters of the Amer.
lean Indians, celebrated at the scene OF
the massacre the great event in their
war history-the goth anniversary OF
the destruction of Clusters command
on the Little Big Horn, June IS, 1876.
At Creston, Ia, fences chimneys
dead walls and outbuildings all over the
city were leveled to the ground by q
tornado.
The general crop outlook throughout
the west and northwest was said to be
never better or more promising than al
the present time.
H. During the first six months of this
year 7ss miles of new railroad have been
built in 20 states and territories on 5:
lines, an increase of about 20 per cent
over the first six months of 1895.
JO1n fhlups ana JACOB WleruJe
miners at Belt, Mont, were Killed and
their bodies blown to atoms by pre-.
mature explosion.
The following executions took place
: At Canyon City, COL, Thomas Colt. Ell
bert Noble and Dominica Romero, wht
killed Policeman John Solomon in Trim
idad; at Washington, Irving L. Forc
slcolored), for killing Elsie Kreglo; al
Marshfield, Ore, Carl Albrecht, for tn.
murder of his wife; at Elkton, Md.
James 81. Truss, for killing Thoma!
Camp; at Mariana, Ark, Arthur Taylor
(colored), for the murder of his wife.
The Harvard Cornell-C Columbia Penn
eylvania four-mile straightaway boa
race on the Hudson at Poughkeepsie
N. Y, was won by Cornell's eight in thu
record-breaking time of 10 minutes 2:
seconds, Harvard second, Pennsylvani:
third and Columbia fourth.
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