The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-09-01
WEST AND SOUTH.

10y oil expulsion OI dynamite AT the
Margaret Mining company's mill near
Carterville, Mo-. five miners were killed.
Joseph and Harry Becker, % and 20
years of age respectively, brothers, of
St. Louis, were drowned in the river Just
above Grafton, Ill.
At the age of 70 Dwight H. Baldwin,
founder of the piano firm of Baldwin &
Co., died at his residence in Cincinnati.
The independent campaign of Mayor
Jones, of Toledo, for governor of Ohio
was opened, by sending out great guam
titles of literature.
Rev. William r. Wi]5orne, of Flat
Hollow, Ky. was fatally wounded in a
quarrel with his divorced wife.
In Topeka, Kan, farmers and bust
ness men have organized the Farmers
Federation of the Mississippi. Valley
with a capital stock of $2O,OOO,0OO, to
control the prices of farm products.
Gen. Brooke and Gen. Wood have de-
MED to the war department reports of
riots and disturbances in Santiago.
In Darien, Ca, troops were called for
to put stop to race troubles.
The National Association of Mexican
War Veterans will hold it's annual con-
vention in indianapolis September 10
and IA.
Judge William N. Grover, prominent
lawyer, dropped dead on the street at
Warsaw, ILL.,, from heart failure.
In an official report from Porto Rico
it is stated that there have been asia
burials of victims of the recent hurri-
cane. One thousand families are miss
ing, together with their houses, and the
number of destitute persons is 100000.
In Des Moines the Iowa state fair
opened with the largest number of Wis
itors and exhibitors in it's history.
Matthews Craig and Cyrus A. Brown
were executed at Muskogee for murder.
It was the first legal hanging of white
men ever held in Indian territory.
A new cable between Miami, Fla, and
Havana, Cuba. has been completed.
The receipts in Cuba from January
l last to August unGer the manage
ment of the United States government
were $S,321 1884; disbursements, sc. $751;
S65.
Fire destroyed the historic old Clay
mansion near Paris, Ky.
In Marshield, Wis.,, William Moran,
railway fireman, shot and killed his
wife and afterward killed himself.
Family troubles were the cause.
In Laramie county, Wyo., forest fires
have destroyed large quantity of
valuable timber.
a fire in the village of Reading, Mich,
burned % buildings, causing loss of
$4,000.
Advices from Mormon missions show
that 551 elders are laboring in the south.
During an electric storm at Little
Rock, Ark, millions of English SPAR
rows were killed.
George Tanner, a saloon keeper in
San Francisco, murdered Deputy Sher-
if James r. Brown and Fannie Barnes.
Jealousy was the cause. .,
From Manila the United States
cruiser Boston arrived in San Fran
cisco.
The subject of Abraham Lincoln's
last official act as president of the
United States, George S. E. Vaughan,
died in Maryville, Mo. He was con-
victed as spy and Lincoln pardoned
him. 81 "a ,%s.54.
A roundup of riotous negroes in Nc
Intosh county, Ca, by the military re-
suited in the surrender of several of the
leaders.
In Upper Sandusky, O., Peter STAINS
ley, aged 102, and his wife, aged "a, both
colored, celebrated their eighty-first
marriage anniversary.