The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-11-03
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Lord Williams of Tucson, A. T., astonished
the sout1Meet yesterday BY fling IN assignment
Vt Mtn a namnaes Of $30O. 900 or $4oO, 900
department Of their business up to the hour Of
their acknowledged failure, and the feeling
against tllem is intensified in consequences. One
OF the members Of the firm was postmaster at
Tucson. and their bank was the United States
depoettotZ, but they both claim that their &C.
counts with Uncle Sam are regular.
!. A co%pe..tive statement Of the condition Of
that there has been . healthy growth in the
banking business during tho past year: There
has been an increase Of nearly SO, 500. 600 IN
loans and discounts, and nearly $500, 900 in
cash: Inc capital stock shows IN increase Of
$1OO, ,OOO. while in the circulation there has
deposits has BEEN over 81, 500. 900.
A decidedly fresh and impudent young man
visited the state Offices ct St Paul endeavoring
to obtain subscriptions to 4 biography Of the
late Pre1dent Garfield ana irritated and an
noyed every one with whom he came in con-
tact by hie insolent and arbitrary manners. He
demanded that every person employed in the
the book and whenever anyone failed to COM
ply with his demand he threatened to publish
bis name in what he was pleased to term q
black. list. To tho credit of the state officers.
they resisted his threats and opportunities.
Mrs. Mary Bradford, eister Of JEFF Davis,
president Of the southern co0federacy, who
died at the residence Of her daughter, Mrs. E.
l. Miles. Of NeM Hope, Ky., on the 22nd inst,
Inferred At New Haven, Ky:, in the cemetary
at Gethsemane abbey, where no living woman
ia allowed to enter except the wife of the ruler
Of nation. This is the third secular person
inferred there The Baron De Hodment, a
Belgian Who lived in the abbey for several years
who, like Mrs. Bradford, was greet benefac-
tress Of the institution, were the foxmer two.
From this cause their burial was allowed in the
enclosure. Mrs. Bradford was well known
throughout the south.
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.
:. The selection Of Folger and James. both Of
New York, for the new cabinet will have the
natural effect Of injuring Hiscock's strength AZ
. candidate for the speakership.
Frank Hatton has received his commission as
first assistant postmaster general He goes to
Burlington to settle affairs there before as
suming the duties Of his new Office.
Ex-senator Plat was in Washington last
week on business connected with the transfer
Of Secretary Windcm's residence on Vermont
wife The residence becomes hers on the 10th
Of November.
". T. Crump, steward at the White House,
has received from Hauselmann commandery,
Of Cincinnati, handsome gold and silver NAL
tesecross pendant from ribbon and gold cross
bars. as testimonial Of their appreciation of
his kindly and christianlike service rendered
their lamented frater, Sir James A. Garfield
s At the navy yard in Washington recently, q
terrible explosion occurred in the Illuminating
building, resulting in the instantaneous death
Of ono Of the employees, George Lawrence,
whose head was blown entirely of, and seven
or eight men we're severely wounded. The
Illuminating building ia q small structure IL
xl4 feet, built in the ordinance department Of
the navy yard and contains large quantities Of
Illuminating material, which was ignited in
some unknown manner.
Attorney General MacVeagh has rendered
an opinion that the appropriation of $175, 900
for artificial limbs should legally be expended
under the authority Of the war department in
stead Of the department Of the interior, as
claimed by the first controller Of the treasury;
treasury a. to the legality Of warrants and re-
QUESTIONS is binding on the first controller.
The decision, which has been adopted by the
department completely upsets the recent opin-
ions of First Controller Lawrence on those
points
MIR. MacVeagh, in alluding to the assertion
that he was deserving the star route cases be-
cause he finds them to be weak and likely to
fail, said that the cases might fail, but it would
not be from lack of great rascality. There
would be evidence enough to send dozen men to
the penitentiary, but it would require the whole
weight Of the administration to be thrown in IA
vor Of conviction, if it was expected to overcome
the influence brought to bear by the accused
to secure acquittal. II merely left to take their
course, if the administration failed to take an
interest and STOOD inactive, the chances were in
favor of the failure of justice