The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-02-11
DOMESTIC.

j. L. Rawlins (dem.) was elected
United States senator from Utah.
John Brown, in fit of jealousy. shot
and killed his sweetheart, Ellen Titi-
worth, in Wise county, Va, and then shot
himself.
In a railway collision at Arlington,
s. D., Conductor Arlington, Brakeman
Hosiac, John LOTUS and W. L. Harri-
son were killed. .-..
. It is announced that John Addison
Porter, editor of the Hartford (Conn.)
Post, will. be the private secretary of
President-elect Mckinley.
-~.Seeley Wakeley's house in Grovetown,
Mich, was destroyed by fire and his two
children, aged two and four years, were
burned to death. -
The schooner Biscayne foundercd ten
miles off Jupiter inlet, Florida, and
Charles Hinson, of New York, Archie
Lindsay, of Florida, and Roger Harris,
of Key West, were drowned.
The large general store of Newark G.
Zabokrtsky was burned to the ground
at Walford, H., and two men persisted
in the flames.
George Tschan, an employe of the
Fox steel works in Joliet, ILL.,, fatally
shot his wife after quarrel and then
fatally shot himself.
The directors of the Pennsylvania
Railroad company have elected Frank
Thomson, of Philadelphia, as president
of the company to succeed George +.
Roberts, deceased.
Johnson Harris and William Lifting,
both white men, fought a duel near
Arbeka, o. T., over the affections of
Wannetta, pretty half-breed Indian
girl, and were both killed.
The entire business portion of the
town. of Pleasureville, KY, was wiped
out by fire.
The house of representatives, by o
vote of ~ to AZ, passed bill prohibit
ing the playing OF baseball on Sunday
in Missouri.
A bill providing for the creation of q
cabinet position to be filed by q Sec
rotary of labor was discussed by the
house committee on labor in Washing
ton.
After years of hard work it is now
said that the post Office authorities in
New York have succeeded in running to
earth a band Of thieves which has been
robbing the government of stamps at
the rate of about 500, 900 a year for
many years back.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Brohnamann and
two sons, living near North Branch,
Mimi, were suffocated by carbon diox-
ide, due to fire in closed root house.
The Sac and Fox agency in Oklahoma
was raided by outlaws and three citi-
zens were killed and Agent Thomas
J badly wounded.
=. Five thousand Christian Endeavorers
celebrated the sixteenth anniversary
4 of the society at Boston.
Benjamin Henderson, a wealthy ranch
owner near Ukiah, CAL, was murdered
by q Mexican laborer.
Robert Morton (colored) was hanged
by mob near Rocktield, KY. for writ
/ ing an insulting note to Miss Tommic
I johnson. a popular white woman. = -
With the Chinese New Year the Six
Companies, the most powerful and rich
est Chinese organization in America,
went out of existence in San francisco.
William Ell. Crawford & Co., wholesale
I dealers in spices at Baltimore. Md, made
H an assignment with liabilities of $780,
900. 49,.
Investigation shows there are over so
families at the Belmont coal mines near
claire, O.. suffering for the necessities
Of life and some are almost actually
Y starving. h.. ::
las the result of the excessive use of
cigarettes, Harry Woods, a boy 13 years
OF age, was declared insane at Vim
& cennes, Ind. !.