The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-06-11
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.

CURRENT PARAGRAPHS:
So far in 1875 the Governor of Illinois
has pardoned sixty.fivs convicts, of whom
seven were sentenced, for life. ! .>.> :,
Pembcrton, the man who murdered Mrs.
Bingham of East Boston. in the cellar OF
her residence, has been convicted and will
probably suffer the death penalty.
The building Of the large lock for the
sault St. Marie canal, which will bo the
largest lock in the world, has been. let; to
Boyle & Roach, Of Cincinnati, for 1885,.
750.
Postmaster General Jewell is about to
take trip through the West and North.
west for the purpose Of, looking into
affairs connected with the management of
his department..
Harry Borden of Ohio, who was clerk
in the division of seizures and distilleries
of the internal revenue bureau, has been
discharged upon satisfactory evidence
that he has in times past furnished illicit
information to ''crooked" distillers.
The late Jesse D. Bright left all of his
property to his wife, with power to dis.
pose of it as she chooses, with the excep.
tion of $4,000 to each of his two daugh.
ters and his son. He is said to have
owned valuable property in Western
Maryland, Indiana and Louisville.
The Catholics of San Francisco have
been swindled by fellow falsely pre-
tending to be priest and calling himself
the Rev. Saviour William Maria Corri.
gan, o. S. F. G. He operated three
years ago in New York the same way
collecting money as for church-but
was quickly exposed.
Commencing with the first of mex,
month the fees for the issue of domestic
postal money.orders will be as follows:
Not exceeding $l5, ten cents; over $15
and not exceeding $50, fifteen cents over
$50, and not exceeding $40, twenty cents
over $40, and not exceeding $50, twenty
five cents.
Gen. Van Vliet, Of Fort Leavenworth
chief quartermaster OF the department oi
the Missouri, and ane Of tho guests al
Sheridan's wedding, was cleaned out o1
$3.50 by "bunko steerer" of Chicago
aud has more fun poked at him in conse.
quence than he can patiently endure.
John Power, the keeper at Wards Isl
and lunatic asylum Of New York, wht
killed one Of the lunatics in his charge BY
repeated blows with a bludgeon. wa:
deemed by New York jury to have com
mitted manslaughter in the fourth degree
and so escaped with a sentence for only
two years Imprisonment.
1.-The internal revenue receipts for tn
fiscal year ending July lst, $l0l, ,245, 900
with yet months returns to be heart
from: The estimates for the year wer,
$l07 100000. At the way the revenue.
are now coming in, the Commissioner es
Inmates that there will be an excess o
some $0,000,000 above the estimates, tt
which must be added the amounts re
ceived from the sale Of the raided distill
cries, which, it is believed will materially
swell the income Of the government.
Capt. Charles N. Bracket, Specia
Agent Of the Treasury Department. ha
captured in Washington white lace dres!
valued at $4,000, white lace shawl val
ued at $4,000, and other laces worth $500(
at pawnshop, where they had beer
pawned for 1886. The dress and lace
formerly belonged to the Empress Eugene
and were among the richest in the world
They were sold at the time of the sale o
her jewelry in England, and were SNUG
gled into this country by Joseph Hoar
achx, in October, 1873.
In September, 1856, Jacob Sieberd,
drayman, killed another drayman named
Bernard Callahan, in Cincinnati, by
breaking his skull with dray pin. Leav
ing the dray standing in the street, Sic
berd escaped. A few days ago a mar
was arrested at Dayton and brought tt
Cincinnati who was said to be distinctly
recognized by several persons as Sieberd
But at Cincinnati he is recognized as ont
Isaac Long, former resident Of that city
as he claimed to be when arrested. It il
apparently case ofmistaken identity.