The Worthington advance., 1900-07-06
WEST AND SOUTH.

In ST. Louis the FEDERAL court issued
an. injunction restraining the street
railway mems union from interfering
with the running of mail cars.
The death of Mrs. Sallie Shackleford
occurred at Elizabethtown, Ky., aged
1o1 years and eight months.
The supreme court of Tennessee de-
cided that women cannot practice law
before any of the courts of the state.
Advices from North Dakota and
northern Minnesota show wheat sad
fax are total failure, four days of hot
winds having burned up the crops.
In Chicago the Bricklayers' and
Stone Masons' union decided to desert
the Building Trades council, and this
action will probably end the long
strike.
The Illinois democrats met in Spring.
field aud nominated Samuel Alschuler,
of Aurora, for governor, reaffirmed the
national platform of 1896 and elected
delegates to the national convention
instructed for Bryan.
Prohibitionists of Illinois met in
Chicago and nominated Judge V. v.
Barnes. of Lake Bluff, for governor.
Arkansas democrats have nominated
jeff Davis for governor.
The supreme court of Ohio handed
down q decision adverse to the Toledo
centennial project.
The low stage of the Mississippi is
unparalleled in the history of the
river.
While waiting for street car in Chi
cago, Louis NJ. Stein, South Bend
(1nd.) merchant, was slugge6 and
robbed of $4,000.
In Mobile, Ala, every street was SUBJ
merged by cloudburst, in some places
to a depth of five feet.
In Chicago intense heat resulted in
five deaths and q number of prostra-
tions.
Near Oskaloosa, Ia., William and
Rose Ruby, aged 20 and 10, were killed
by lightning.
In Fort Wayne, Ind, William Nahr-
wald, barber, killed his wife and
himself. No cause is known for the
deed.
In Illinois the union reform party
nominated Lloyd G. Spencer, of Chi
cago, for governor.
The inventor OF the first machine
for the manufacture of paper bags,
Francis T. Wheeler, died in Chicago.
The president will be officially in
formed of his denomination for pres
ident of the United States at his
home in Canton, O., on July 12.
In Wisconsin, and Minnesota forest
fires were doing great damage.
In national convention in Chicago
the prohibitionists adopted "single
issue" platform and inoorsed woman
suffrage in separate resolution.
A mob hanged Bob Davis, q negro
desperate. at Mulberry, Fla, for muir
deB.. 80
Republicans of Maine have nomin-
ated John F. Hill, of Augusta, for gov
ernor. -y
In tho northwest wheat has been
seriously injured by drought. Min
'nesota will have half q crop, South
! Dakota and Montana even less, and
North Dakota practically none.
John G. Woolley, Of Chicago, has been
nominated Tor president and Henry B.
Metcalf, Of Pawtucket, r. l., for vice
president. *.s
J Republicans Of Michigan named
Aaron T. Bliss, Of Saginaw, for gov
ernor on the nineteenth ballot.
In Chicago the Baltimore & Ohio
road will establish automobile cab serv-
ice for passengers. 49,,
At Three Oaks, Mich, Miss Helen
Gould, of New York, unveiled a pedes-
tailed cannon captured in Manila from
the Spanish feet y,.Admiral Dewey.
Thousands were present.
In Honolulu Gov. Dole of Hawaii was
inaugurated.
!: The republicans OF Minnesota NOM
mated Samuel Vansant, of Winona, for
governor, ,- - Il t+vsa ,-v,- .s.
:" Coli D. B. Henderson, now speaker Of
the house; was renominated by ac-
,clamation by the republicans Of the
Third Iowa district for the tenth time
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