The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-02-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
The Empress of Austria has given
200 pounds for Irish relief
Specie in the Bank OF France increased
last week l2O,OO0,0 900 francs
The weavers in the Harris mill at
Woonsocket r. l., are on strike.
The Chicago landlords are pledged not
to raise their prices for the week of the Re-
publican National convention.
The total expenses and loss of resourc-
es to France from the Franco. German war
amounts to IL, ,93l 600, 600 francs
Experts estimate the losses to the
farmers or the United Kingdom of great Brit
ian during 1879, at 9l00,OO0,0O0.
Omaha sent $4,000 Feb. IL, to the
Irish relief fund, having sent $500 previously,
aHd promising more in few days.
Fifteen hundred dollars have been sub
scribed by the citizens of Memphis, Tenn, the
yellow fever stricken city, for Irish relief.
The Philadelphia, Pa, Commercial
Exchange is moving to send ship load OF
grain and flour to the starving people of Ire
land.
The Amoskeag, Manchester and Stark
corporations, New Hampshire, have increased
wages beginning March 1st, from 6 to 10 per
cent.
Advices from Mackinaw City state
that the ice the entire length of the straits
has been broken up by gale Of wind and is
moving down with great force.
The wife Of Adam Murray, living near
Glasgow. Nova Scotia, Feb Is. gave birth to
five children; three girls and two boys, all
finally developed, and all doing WELL
Pope Leo has issued an encyclical
against divorces insisting on the eminenty re-
ligious nature of marriage and exhorting the
Bishops to urge that upon their focks.
The Irish National land league at Lon
don, Eng. have passed resolution thanking
the United States congress for exstending the
privileges of the floor of tho House to Parnell
Serious labor troubles exist in Denver,
San Francico, and st. Louis In the first
named city there are recently formed twenty
one labor unions. involving all trades. This
is the first labor complication Denver has ever
known.
The police at St. Petersburg have
seized the printing press and material of
revolutionary pamphlet on redistribution of
land and great quantity of type and forged
passports. The occupants Of the houses were
arrested
At Denver, Feb. 9, at II 80 A. NJ. the
| last spike necessary to complete the branch
Of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad
to Santa Fe was driven by Gov. Wallace, Gen.
Hatch and staff, the legislature and other
notables attending. Much rejoicing at Santa
Fe.
Sergeant Glover, of Co. B, Second cav
airy, sent out from Fort Keogh on the 4th of
| February, with 10 soldiers and 10 Indians, to
capture hostile Indians, supposed 10 be from
| Sitting Bulls camp, killed two of the hostiles
and captured the other three. with one soldie
| killed and another wounded.
The London Times says the war YES
sells which the Ul1ited States naval depart
ment is to be asked by Congress to dispatch
with American contributions, will be received
| in British waters as freighted not only with
food for Ireland but with q messag of good
will from the Americans to the English nation.
| The coal miners at Destville, Pictou
county, Nova Scotia on strike the past three
| n
mond Colliery to quit their houses. Andrew
Smith of North Andover, Mass, defaultiug
| town treasurer, has acknowledged that yearly
since first elected in 1869 he had converted
money of the town to his own use. The
amount OF defalcation is S23.S22. The small
est irregular town note was $4O0 and the larg-
est $500.
The substance of the treaty between
the United States snd France signed at Wash.
ington on the 10Th Of January, for the settle.
ment Of claims of French citizens, resulting
from the war of secession, has been published
The treaty provides that q commission of three
members, one appointed by France, one by
the United States, and the third by the emper.
or of Brazil, shall meet six months after the
ratification and arbitrate definitively on the
claims of French subjects and on any counte,
claims of American citizens who sustained
losses under like circumstances The treaty
ann1ies solely to demands for indemnitv or,of