The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-09-30
WEST AND SOUTH.

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Omaha and nominated James Wool
worth, of that city, for supreme court
judge.
Judge c. Buckley Kilgore, member
of the Fiftieth, Fifty7frst and Fifty
second congresses from Texas, died in
Ardmore, I. T., aged g. years.
Almost the entire business portion of
cambridge, o., was destroyed by fire,
and w. P. Beardsley and Thomas Hig-
gins were burned to death and seven
other persons were badly injured.
Three miles from Livermore, KY, the
sawmill boiler of E. D. Dex blew up and.
three men were killed and ten injured.
M. j. Sholey, Henry Feldshaw and w.
j. Grunsten testified in the Luetgert
murder trial in Chicago that they saw
Mrs. Luetgert alive in Kenosha, Wis,
May and 4.
Flames destroyed the major portion
of the John Gund Brewing company's
plant at La Crosse, Wis.,, entailing a loss
Of 100000.
David. Ridge, sheriff of the district;
Jesse Sunday, sheriff-elect (both~ Indi-
ans), and Thomas Baggot (white) were
killed in drunken row at Saline, I. T.,
by Samson Bait.
Rev. L. D. Morris, of Greencast1e, Ind,
was delivering an address to conven-
ton of Christian churches when he was
fatally stricken with paralysis.
In runaway near Coy, Ark, John
Trafford and his wife were fatally in
jured and their 14-year-old girl killed.
For assault Sylvanus johnson was
hanged at Key West, Fla.
In Kentucky and Tennessee frost
seriously damaged the tobacco crop.
The seasons of the Western league and
the Western association baseball clubs
closed, the indianapolis club winning
the pennant in the former and the
Cedar Rapids club in the latter.
There were 90 cases of yellow fever
in New Orleans and Is deaths, up to the
Gath; Al cases at Mobile, Ala, and 6
deaths; 1873 cases at Edwards, Miss, and
20 deaths, and IS cases at Biloxi, Miss,
and deaths.
Fire nearly wiped out the village of
Riverdale, Mich.
Archibald Blakely, of Pittsburgh,
was elected national commander at the
national encampment in Columbus, o.,
of the Union Veteran Legion.
An explosion of black damp in the
Williamson county coal mines at Johns
ton City, Ill.,, killed five men and sew
eral others were badly injured.
At Flat Rock, Ind, Wesley Nading, q
grain merchant, shot and killed his wife
and then attempted suicide. No cause
was known for the deed.
In the town of Alton, I. T., every bust
ness house was destroyed by fire.
The doors of the State Bank of Dav-
export, Neb., were closed because it
could not secure borrowers for its de-
posts. 1I}S9S .
The Society of the Army of the Cum
berland in session at Columbus, O.,
elected Gen.: w. s. Rosecrans as presi-
dent. - So.
On the Dyea trail in Alaska land
slide killed 1s persons. :
This season the rye crop will be 25s
100000 bushels, 100000 more than
last year and 2,OO0, 900 less than in 1895.
A mob of 500 men at Hawesville, KY,
lynched Raymond Bushrod, a negro,
accused of assaulting 14-year-old Mag
gle Roberts. -t-.s eEs.1s : e ~
At Whiteside, Mich, Victor Ander-
son, a well-to-do farmer, killed his aged
mother and himself. No cause for the
deed was known.
At Vincent, Ia, Mons Minson fatally
shot two brothers named Peterson be
cause they objected to his marrying
their sister-in-law, and then killed him
self. - {
In southern Kansas strange disease
is doing great damage to hogs and they
are dying by the hundreds.
As equalized the valuation Of the
state Of Michigan is 81 ,105, 100 900.
In Chicago five acres OF buildings
comprising the works Of the Chicago
{ Bridge and Iron company were burned.