The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-10-09
The NEWS IN BRIEF.
EAST.

recently.
vote will be taken next Monday in Con
aectlcut ON the proposed amendment making
the sessions Of the Legislature bicnnia: instead
of annual.
BY a fire in the storage sheds of Cornelius
White of Cambridgeport, Mass, $50 tons OF
rags were destroyed, and two valuable horses
were burned. Loss ss2, 600; insurance $4,000.
The parents of Miss Carpenter, in New York,
have received further news from Liverpool.
whichfully Identifies their daughter as the lady
who was lost from the steamer Bothnia on the
second day out.
The resignation of Rev. Charles F.. Raymond,
pastor of the German Lutheran Evangelical
church OF Syracuse, has been accepted because
he refused to sanction the sale OF lager beer at
church festivals.
William Whitehead, carpenter, has been
arrested at Jersey City, N. j. On charge of
bigamy, preferred bv John Bailey of Chicago,
brother of Whtchead's first wife. Bailey ia
held as witness.
The Merritt Wrecking company has suc-
ceeded in raising the Tailapoosa sufficiently to
remove her two miles toward Edgerstown har-
Dor. In few days she will be got to where
she can be temporarily repaired.
Kate Smulsey, the Fort Plain New York,
girl, who has tasted for about $50 DAYS. is
dying. She says everything appears black be-
lore Eec eyes, and her voice is becoming
weaker and more indistirct.
Roscoe Conhiny Il boy IS years old, and a
n1Oti nTf
killed on the Satfolk county fair grounds, at
Rlverhead, Long Island, by being struck on
the head with base ball bat
Miss Charlotte O'Brien's article entitled
''Ihe EmigraIts in America has excited un-
usual attention in New York. Sanitary In
spector Day maintains that her denunciation
OF New York as refuge for clniyrants is un-
justiiablc.
DR.. Charles p French. of South WEYMOUTH
Mass, formerly a prominent physician, has be-
come wreck from the use of OPIUM and was
IN Jail for stealing his fathers horse, but the
charge was changed to yagrancy, and he was
. sent to the workhousc
Pennsylvania Greenbackcrs on the 1st
adopted resolution to fuse with the Demo-
Dlhation be made for less number than half
the electors. committee was appointed to
carry out the purpose of the resolution
The New England association of survivors of
the southern military prisons held its sixth re-
union at Worcester, Mass, on the 1st. A re-
port was adopted to the effect that it was i'm
possible to join with the national association.
and it was voted to remain independent
"A gang OF men near Providence, r. l.. called
at Dennis McGrath's house Saturday night in
viting him to accompany them to the woods.
On Wednesday McGraths body was found in
the river with the skull broken and the indica-
lions are that he was murdered. Numerous
arrests have been made
Henry McCollum & Co., carpet dealers in
Pittsburg, confessed Judgment on the 10th.
and al execution was issued against them for
$4,000. The firm is the oldest and one of the
largest in the city. They have been carrying
heavy load of debt for Years. Tie liabilities
cgate over $4,000.
Bishop Gilmour of Cleveland prints card in
which he insists that Mr.. Cowlcs denied his
daughter freedom of conscience in the excr-
cscs OF her religion, and declares that while
Withdrawing the charge Of inhuman and brutal
treatment he rcatiirmcd that the freedom of
conscience was denied
Herbert Bcrmcth has store exactly on the
line between New York and Canada One
night all his goods were removed from the
Canada side Of the store to the American, leay-
Ing nothing but empty shelves for his Canadian
creditors to look to, but the Canadian court
stood up for the Canadian creditors
Near Binghamptou, N. Y, on the 4th, George
Turner, 16 years Of a5r, either by accident or
design, discharged musket into a crowd of
companions Kidding Ernest Gibson, ten wears
OF aye, with buckshot, killing him instantly,
and woundiny James Livingstone Bowlcs,
probably fatally. Turner was arrested
While the Independent Democrats were rails
ing Cleveland banner at Blssvillc, l.. l., on
the night OF the LIST, number of rOwGics, led
by cx-Poiccman Stafford, made an attack with
clubs and stones, injuring several Stafford
drew pistol once, but was dsarlned by the
police. The banner was cut down during the
night and carried off.
Efforts to compromise the business Of Shaw
4 Bros, Of Boston, the insolvent tanners and
leather dealers, Lavi,ig failed, Trustee Wyman
has offered the entire property for sale. This
will put upon the market probably the greatest
area of estate ever Offered for sale in this part
OF the country since colonial days. The prop
'rty includes C,O00 acres of timber land in
New York and Canada
The great event Of the October meeting of
the Narragansctt Driving Park association the
Both, was the beating Of the stallion record
2:13II, made by Phallas last summer. ,Isadore
Cohnfcld's WaXy Cobb was brought out, John
Murphy driving, and after a couple of warming
up heats, was sent for fast mile. The weather
was raw and unfavorable, but the track was in
excellent shupe. The stallion made the mile
without skip in the following time: Quarter,
Us; half, 1:G41.; three-quarters, 1:3S; mile,
2:l3i4, lowering the record half a second.
party OF forty-six emigrants sailed from
New York on Thursday for Liberia, with the
Rev William Fair, an Episcopal missionary, who
has been for some time engaged in missionary
work in. Washington Territory, but who has
given 1t up to go to Liberia. The cmigrants
will settle III Bowersyille, a town OF about one
thousand inhabitants. They come from Penn
sylvania, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska
Among them arc three teachers, graduates of
one OF the state normal schools of Pennsyl-
vania, and representatives Of all the leading
trades They 60 out under the auspices of the
African Colonization society.
The will Of John w. Garrett was filed in Bal
tmorc on the LIST. 1t is dated Deer Park, Aug
ust 8, 1884. lie gave to his sons Robert and
Thomas Harrison Garrett and his daughter,
Mary Elizabeth Garrett, all his estate, subject
to certain trusts One trust is to provide g., 600
ann ALLY for the relief of the poor Of Baltimore.
Another trust is that tout of the net income OF
my estate devote 5000 annually to such OBJ
1ects Of bcncvolence to educational purposes,
to aid v'~'"-- and struggling persons and to
such works Of public utility as arc calculated
tepromote happiness, usefulness and progress