The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-06-10
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4 For $the week I'm ing June 7.Es55
The Fortieth egislat ure OF Illinois
sine die.
Mrs Maria Pruett (colored died at
Chillico the, o. aged l04 years. .ssSsS
The Hubbard Mining company at
Mankato, MINI. failed for $500, 900.
u Vice President Carrot A. Hobart cele-
brated his ffty-third birthday Thurs
day. He's
Ri The town Of Foyil !, Is 7. r, was de-.
stroyed by q cyclone and one person was
killed. S& I 4.
Mai j. Miller Ropes, q. S. A. (retired)
dropped dead at Salem, Mass. He was
81 years Of age. . .35 !,
James B. Ireland celebrated the huns
sdreth anniversary of his birth at his
home in Skillman, KY. $
# John Anderson and Andrew j ohnson
were downed in the lake near Gothen-
burg, N eb., while fishing. .z
The stone firm Of Dolese & Shepard!
in Chicago went into receivers hands
with liabilities Of $73O, 1000. IS .gts. II
At Arlington and other portions of
Texas many houses were destroyed and
crops ruined by a tornado. j.. J-s$
John Walters, an aeronaut, fell from
his balloon at Centerville, Ia, dis
lance Of 40 feet and was killed. q
William NJ. Boggs, paying teller of the
First national bank at Dover, Del, con-
fessed that he was $35, 900 short.
r.. B. Mcconnell, the defaulting presi-
dent of the defunct Merchants national
bank at Ocala. Fla. committed suicide.
The French Trawlcr Liberto, recently
engaged in the Iceland fisheries, has
been lost, with % members of her crew.
An earthquake shock was distinctly
felt in DEBORAH, Ia, shortly after day
light Sunday. No damage is reported
Three men named Bottcher, Black
stone and Holinque were killed while
trying to cross a glacier near Prince
William sound. 49,
The greatest fire that ever visited AL
exandria, Va, broke out in Bryan's fer
tilizing mill and did damage to the ex-
tent of $450,0OO.
During the past week wolves and
coyotes have slain hundreds of head of
calvesyand sheep in southwestern Kan
sas and Oklahoma. -
William Fl. Crawford, one of the most
widely known breeders and owners of
trotting horses in the country, died in
Chicago, aged So years.
J. H. Maybury, of the University of
Wisconsin,, broke the worlds running
record for 220 yards, going the distance
in Chicago in 81 rs seconds. =.
Violent earthquake shocks rocked
buildings at Butte, Mont, and miners
report that the shock was distinctly
felt 500 feet down in the earth.
A cablegram from London states that
Lady Henry Somerset has been reelected
president of the British Woman's Tenn
perance association for the eighth
time. 49,
At Morristown, N. j.. David Wilson
(coloredD was hanged for killing his
wife. The murder of Mrs. Wilson was
the first to occur in Morristown for 60
years. -, ~. 49,. -.
At Galveston, Tex, Fl. S. ,Towne, wife
and sister went bathing shortly after
squat. Mr.. and Mrs. Towne were
drowned, while the sister narrowly es-
capped. .'-.
Rear Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee, U.
S. N, retired, the last of the command
ers of great squadrons during the civil
war, died at his home at Silver Springs,
near Washington. 49,
William P. Clark, ST., died in Indian
apolis at the age of 81. He is supposed
to have been the oldest newspaper man
in the country, having seen continuous
service for IS years.
A cyclone swept over a territory 20
miles long and half mile wide in
tennessee county, N. Y, doing great
damage to property and killing Mrs.
Charles Cook and her little boy.
T The state central committee of the
populist party of the state of Washing
ton have issued manifesto to the eff
feet that hereafter the party will stand
by itself and fight it's own battles.
A cloudburst in the hill country of the
province of Isere, France, caused the
overflow of the river Norge and the de-
struction of number of paper mills 4
and silk factories. Loss, 100000
froncs 49, ..,-+ .y-