The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-04-22
DOMESTIC.

JOuEuSO 10 Tie [1SC.
DOMESTIC.
Seven incendiary fires were started
in Kansas City, Mo-, the total loss being
100000.
The river continued to rise slowly at
Vicksburg and all points south and the
situation along the Louisiana system of
leyees was acute.
Sylvester Sanders and his wife and
five children were drowned near Helena,
Pc Ark, by the upsetting of boat.
Joseph Bloodworth, Jock Gooden and
Sarah Evanson, children who were bit
ten by a mad dog in Gordon, Ca, died of
hydrophobia.
John Fermella shot and instantly
killed his stepson, Matthias Dostert, in
Chicago while in rage and then killed
himself.
Jesse Evans, a negro charged with &C.
costingtwolittle white girls, was riddled
with bullets at Edwards, Miss, by
mob.
Two-thirds of the winter wheat crop
Of Illinois is said to have been winter
killed.
South of Council Bluffs, Ia, the water
has inundated farms for distance of
three or four miles and much stock
has been drowned.
Edward Reynolds and his wife and
daughter were murdered near Sweet
hill, r. L, and the house set on fire,
presumably to cover the crime. Mar
tin Mowry, the hired man, was under
arrest.
A snowslide near Ketcham, Idaho,
buried man named White, Fred Tul-
ford and his six-year-old stepson so feet
deep.
The Long Mead Iron company and
the Conshohocken Tube company at
Conshohoc1sen. Pa, failed for $500, 900.
A passenger train on the Wabash rail-
road struck q buggy near West Point,
Ind, and James Holton, Plymouth
Field and Miss Nan Wilson (all col
ored) were killed.
len thousand acres of the best land
in the Quincy (Ill) district were sub
merged under from four to ten feet OF.
water.
Near Dekoven, Ky, James Green and
William Green, a deputy constable,
were shot dead, and Constable William
Beset fatally wounded by William Cody
i and Thomas Hite, post office thieves.
John Donallen & Son, one of the
largest firms Of morocco manufacturers
at Lynn, Mass, failed for $15o,ooo
The Moresque building in New Or
leans, occupied by business firms, was
burned, the loss being 100000.
The funeral of ex-senator Daniel w.
Voorhees, took place from St. Stephens
Episcopal church in Terre Haute, Ind,
Rev. John z. Sulger, the rector, of
fciating.
Fire destroyed the business portion
Z OF the village of Lindsey, O.
s. The new laws passed by the last legis-
: 1ature went into force in Indiana by
the governors proclamation.
Y Army officers detailed to distribute
supplies in the flooded districts in the
south say that oyer nine-tenths of Wash
i ington, fssaquena, Sharl<ey, Sunfower
and considerable of Yazoo and Warren
counties in Mississippi are overhowed
y. and that 10000 persons need food.
1T Judge James !. Storrow, aged 60, a
u well-known Boston lawyer, dropped
dead while at the congressional library
I. in Washington.
Services commemorative of the death
y of Abraham Lincoln. 80 years ago, were
held in Representatives hall in Spring.
field, III.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
4 houses in the United States during the
4 week ended on the 10th aggregated
z $o56,264.17o. against $1,o1G.o93.321 the
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week of 1896
was 80.
Mrs. WILDER Crouch, divorced wom-
b an, and Miss May Daily were killed at
1 Sackct's Harbor, N. Y. and George
q Allen 7,vns fatally wounded. The bus
band of Mrs. Crouch was in Jail charged
with the crime. 3
.s The National Bank Of the Republic
in st. Louis has been absorbed by the
Merchants Laclede national bank.
M President Mckinley announced the
n appointment Of Senator Wolcott, Of Col
orado; G.. j. Paine, of Boston, and ex-
Vice President Stevenson, of Illinois,
sgns commissioners to an international
Y monetary conference. rs~@ #
Thew ofunsealing the steel caslet
in the temporary tomb Of Gen. Grant
was finished in New York and every,
Il thing is in readiness for the removal Of
the body to the crypt Of the new tomb
Ion the 27th inst. " Nj VS. 55.