The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-02-14
Miscellaneous News Motes.

Miscellaneous News Notes.
st. Paul's base ball association is finally
| organized.
The census of Boston shows 1s,303 more fe-
| males than males.
st. Paul officials say the Northwestern Traf-
| fic association is doomed.
Ex-Gov. Fairchild of Wisconsin saws Ameri-
| can farmers spread over too much ground
| Mrs. White of Macon, Ca, aged fifty wears.
has eloped with John Rodgers, aged twenty
one.
Perrine 4 Co., wooden firm, New York, have
! assigned Liabilities, $115, 000; actual assets,
There was an increase of go, OOO, 600 in insur-
ance written in Minnesota in 1888 over the pre-
vlOus year.
Anthony Kamm died in the Buffalo, N. Y,
poorhouse from too much sleep, claiming the
Lord ordered him to Sleep
The Aston library has fund 81 ,36O, 22SS, &C
cording to the annual report just made, and
2OS, 429 books exclusive of pamphlets.
Mr.. Edward Mcpherson has informed Chair
| man Hawley that he will accept tho secretary
ship Of the republican congressional committee
George F. Miles has brought suit to recover
$4,000 damages from the city of Winona for
damages received because of a defective side
walk.
The civil rights bill of the Ohio legislature
has become law. It is the same as declared
unconstitutional by the United States supreme
court
Charles Palmer, a baggageman on the Pitts
burg & Fort Wayne railway has received $25.-
600 for injuries resulting from a collision Of
two trains
Augustus Hall, sole surviving partner of the
firm of F. E. Jaeger Il Co., crockery dealers,
Chicago, has assigned. Liabilities Sos, eco:
assets, 1000.
Business failures of the past week reported
to r. G.. Dunn & Co. number in the United
States, 252, and Canada, 46. Total 27s; pre-
vious week, 81.
Paymaster WATSON, now in the Kansas peni-
tertiary, will be released by order of the prosi-
dent He will test the finding of the court
martial by which he was imprisoned
James A. Grinstead, of the late private bank
ing firm of Grinstead T. Bradbury, Louisville
KY, has assigned. Assets, $4,000 to SEC, 600:
liabilities, unknown, but supposed to exceed
the assets.
Mrs. Hardy of England, on the advice of q
clairvoyant, came to St. Paul in search of her
lost daughter, only to learn that she had COM
mitted suicide at home The mother is now
destitute at Milwaukee
~ Bradstreet's March book will show an increase
of $50 names in Minnesota for the three months
covered, and of these $50 are residents of St
Paul During tho time named fifteen new post
Offices have been opened in this state.
Sullivan was Kissed at San Francisco because
he did knock out Taylor, and showed his abili-
ity to knock out the kings English, as fol-
lows: s'Them that Misses is loafers. I am q
gentleman, will slap the jaw. of any loafer
who says he Kissed"
1t is probable that the remarkable Puotz-Mc-
Cullough trial in Milwaukee, which ended in a
verdict of guilty, will be supplemented by q
large number of prosecutions for perjury In
spite of the fact that the prisoners made con-
fession previous to trial, plenty of witnesses
swOre to an alibi 1t is now proposed to sue
these witnesses for perjury.
The new ticket for the workingmen, after
repeated conferences at the national headquar-
! ters, has finally been completed, and is: for
president, Gen. Benjamin F. Butler of Massa-
chusetts; for vice president, Carter H. Harri-
son of Illinois. It is understood that the
greenback paper there, Buffers organ, will
soon hoist this ticket. - :"