The Worthington advance., 1880-09-30

mand, as the amonnt OF surplus far exceeds
the estimated old world deficiency. Arrivals
at ports Of Call have been small. There has
been considerable business in wheat both fol
Great Britain and the Continent. Prices
steadily advanced, red winter closing at Ii
% @1s I'd, and Australia Is dearer on the
week. Maize 10 in moderate request at about
ID advance. American red winter is gener.
ally held above buyers views, but there has
been an occasional advance of Is per qusr.
ter for special shipments. Barley quiet
WEEKLY CASUALTY RECORD.
There was a 100000 fire in Denver,
Colorado, September ~.
There was a $685. fire at Cincinnati,
O., on the night Of September %.
There was $25, 900 fire in Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the morning Of September 26.
There was a$25, 900 fire at Mt. Vernon,
Iowa, september 2bth, insurance $4,000.
The boiler in steam sawmill, near
Leadville, exploded Sept %, killing two men.
The Ninth street Presbyterian church
at Covlngton, KY, was destroyed by fire Sept.
81,
A fire on the morning OF Sept. q, gut
ted the upper stories of the city mills at Bur-
lington, Iowa.
The steamer Florence Meyer was sunk
Sept "a, by striking snag, twelve miles
above Matches.
Wood fires are destroying considerable
property in the vicinity Of. Kewaunee, Wis.
Everything is very dry.
The paper mills at Enox, near Spring.
field, D., were destroyed by fire September 26
Loss $4,000, insurance $4,000.
A tobacco factory in Brooklyn, N. T.,
was destroyed by fire sept. "a. Loas sl00, 600.
3OO persons are thrown out Of employment.
The bodies Of two Of the nine men
who persisted in the Hudson river tunnel,
have been recovered. The search for the
others continues
A Queenstown telegram of September
%, says the City of Chester is proceeding to
Liverpool in tow. The mails and some pass
engers were landed by tug.
Whalen's brick block, Medbury hotel,
the congregational church, and number Of
other buildings were destroyed by fire, at
sherburne N. Y, September ~. Loss $780,.
.U0O, insured $4,000
Ayoung man named Michael Hanber-
~, an employe Of the st. Paul iron works
was instantly killed at St Paul, Minn., early
on the morning Of Sept. ~ while attempting
to board moving train of cars.
A boiler explosion in a fruit drying
house in Monroe, Mich, Sept. "a, killed three
persons and wounded nine others. There
were so persons in and around the house
which was completely demolished.
Near Princeton, Calusa county, Cali
fornia, the boiler of steam thresher explod-
ed Sept. "a, on the rancho of II. G. Glenn, kill
ing the fireman and to Cinnamon, and seri-
ously scalding the engineer and six others.
The Nevada City, Colorado. hosting
works Of the Providence mining company,
were burned Sept. 81. During the burning
an explosion Of giant powder blew the burn
ing building in every direction. No lives lost.
Loss $4,000.
An Ottawa, Dominion, telegram of
September %, says gentleman, just returned
from Deserta says fully 100 deaths have oc-
Cured from smallpox. In camp OF sixteen
persons all but one boy died. The Tete Boutes
Indians are about extinct.
A Denver, COL, Times special from
Buena Vista, Of September Is, says: Tim
McCarty and Tom Kelley were burned to
death last night in saloon here. There are
strong suspicious that the Men were murder.
ed and the saloon set on fire to cover the deed
AJersey City Telegram of September
q, says the work at the tunnel was resumed
to-day with an extra gang of men. They
commenced cutting away the iron plates of
the iron tunnel which prevented lowering the
caisson. By this evening that was accom-.
plished and the caisson was lowered two feet.
when eight bodies were discovered and short
" afterwards taken out of the caisson and
from thence to the morgue. or the eight
four were identified as the remains of Byran
Sheridan, Jas. Creavy, Thos. Burns and
Michael Broderick. 1t was impossible to
identify the remainder.
A Des Mons, Iowa, telegram of Sep
tember % says Levi johnson of Norten
county, Kansas, is here soliciting aid for Phil
ips, Sherman, Decatur. Sheridan, Rapids and
other counties. In Norton county eighteen
hundred people are in absolute want of food.
The wheat crop in all the above counties
failed, and in June was Plowed up and planted
tocorn which was destroyed by the web worm.
johnson says one family lived eleven weeks
on wheat bran, and an other three weeks on
corn meal. He says the local State papers
suppress these facts as it will injure the State.
A public meeting is called this evening to
procure supplies fol- these people.
A hunter named Fitch, Sunday morn
ing September IS, about two miles north
east of North B anch, came across the body
of Andrew Tangler, swede, who disappear
ed from his home in 1santi county, about
three miles east from North Branch, on the q
tn of July. The old man was physically fee
bic and before his disappearance manifested
some weakness of mind in great longing
to return to the place OF his birth. The body
was very much decomposed, but was identiR
ed by a ten dollar bill found on it, which tht
old man had carried for a year or more. Ar
inquest was held yesterday by Coroner In
gals and verdict given that he came to hi
death from exposure. His SONS took char e
OF the remains
Personal AND POLITICAL.