The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-02-21
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Stovemaking fell of IA per cent last year in
| this country.
A Bay City, Mich, factory makes 400 ws5h
boards daily:
DR.. Marshall, Mary Anderson's blackmailer
was acquitted
The Ohio legislature appropriated saoo.oQ
for food relief.
cost 50 cents each.
The first state election of the year will k
that of Oregon June
Boston man has portraits Of his family
painted on his china
N. T. Bullock, Dallas, Ga, has lost three
daughters by elopement this winter.
The house in which Gen Grant was born, a
Point Pleasant, Ohio, was taken OF in the food
AtNew York, George Parsons, toy dealer
has assigned Liabilities, So, coo; assets, $2O
Solomon Isaacs and Jacob Samuels, clothing
New York, give liabilities as ~, 600; actual as
Edward Pilsbury"s Sons, cotton commission
merchants, New Orleans, have failed Labili
Gen 10 Shelby of Missouri the noted ex-con
federate, has just been fined so for carryins
| concealed weapons
Seventeen hundred Chinese on the Greer
River road, near Seattle, struck because
of reduction from 81 to 80 cents day.
a.. John Hadleys Albany, N. Y, left 100000 t.
roy Hadeys dVorce aio %fe ." ob eess
The amount Of relief funds thus far forward
ed from Philadelphia is S., 80. The Pennsyl
vania railroad company transports ell good,
free.
James E: Scripps, the publisher of the De.
trolt Evening News, has paid to DR.. Donald
Mclean Sa),OCO, Judgment awarded Mclean IL
| libel suit
A Hartford, Conn, drum major can toss hi.
baton over an electric lamp wire forty feet up
and catch it again without breaking step in tie
| procession.
| Two handsome negroes attended fashion.
able white folks masquerade in Stamford
Conn, and two pretty white girls tainted wheI
| they unmasked
In Atlanta there are s., 600, 900 worth of new
buildings in the hands of contractors and arch
! fleets, besides the new capitol, which will bt
started during the spring.
: In Savannah, 81 Co., GOO has been expended
during the past year in improvements much
of which has gone into the river front and
much into private residences.
Treasurer Wyman received from an Ohio
| bank two packages purporting to contaiI
81 900 each. One was found $3.50 short, and
the other contained two pieces of flannel
The Etna Life and Travellers Insurance
| companies of Hartford have each subscribed
$500 for the relief of the flood sufferers MAKING
total of about 81 $50 subscribed there.
| Executor Townsend finds difficulty in set
thing the affairs Of Rev. Dr.. Mercer, the mil.
llonnaire clergyman Of Newport, r. L, because
he cannot supply a S500,OOO bondsman.
l. D. MowIy l. Son, cotton factors, Charles.
ton, S. G.. have suspended. Liabilities, $780,
GOO; nominal assets, $4,000 The suspcn.
sion Is due to bad crops and investments.
Schedules in the assignment Of John Paret 4
Co., clothing dealers, New. York, show iabil-
tiles of s2ll ,0oO; actual assets, $4,000. Two
cd 1yy oh Do o1o
signed.
The will Of Col Hunt, millionaire Tuner
man of Roscommon county, Mich, contains be-
| quests of So, Go to Caroline Brown mother OF
Artemus Ward, and similar amounts to Eli Per
klns and Josh Billings
The committee of citizens in Philadelphia
raising fund for the sufferers has decided to
make Gallipolis the distributing point for sup
plies. The chairman announced Contributions
to date amounting to s5,64s.
Louis J. Jennings is engaged in writing life
OF John Wilson Crocker, prominent politician
the duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel
written during the early reform agitation.
Judge Dickey, of the supreme court of Hi
nols, has granted a super sadcas in the case
OF Frederick NJ ker. sent to the penittnt;ar,
Tor ten years for stealing SIS, 600 from Preston:
, tates new trial
In case before the Michigan supreme court
where the point in controversy was whethe,
| the elopement of a wife from her husband
with another man, bars her from claim te
her rights in her deserted husbands estate. the
court claimed that it did
Ex-Gov. Butler has profound disregard fOl
petitions: ''lou could get in Massachusetts To-
0oO men to sign petition to have me hanged
he says, 'Sand half the number would sign
petition to have themselves hanged without
knowing what they were doing"
who hos
district as special agent OF the treasury de
partment for some time past, will hereafter
nave his headquarters at St Paul, MINI His
district now includes Minnesota, Dakota, Mon
lana and Idaho and the port Of La Crosse.
The Virginia senate and house. by a stric;
party vote, passed fill redistricti4s the state
for representatives in congress-. The bill was
Immediately enrolled signed by the presiding
officers, and sent to the governor. The redis.
tricting shows eight districts democratic and
two coalition.
Mayor King, of Philadelphia, has forbidden
the collection of political assessments from
members of the police department, and de-
clares that he will discharge any policeman
wne pays said have sa ed as
sessed for political purposes"
4: Buffalo Mrs. Prcndersrast has sued Mrs.
Anna ii: Fargo, the former wife of W. G. Far
go, and now Of T. I. Fargo, to compel her to
surrender the possession of the twin children
OF W e. Fargo Jr;, and wife, both deceased
The twins are both bright children, and arc
said to be equally fond of both grandmothers.
At Kansas City. Giessner & Ross, cracke,
and candy factory, was closed by the sheriff
on all attachment suit of s:2!S.ctN, for money
loaned by Nathan HILL The firm has not YET
assigned. The liabilities are supposed to be
s4o,up: assets unknown \ receiver has been
appointed. The liabilities are S35UOD, and as
sets about $50, 60
Ice, Which went out on the 18th gorged lust
pciow the city OF Albany. A rapid rise of the
river Was checked by cold weather. Many OF
the lower streets are flooded and much incon-
venIence is caused the railroads, merchants
and others. Many business houses are flooded
but the damage is not hcayy. The lumber dis
trict is completely under water:
Dr. George Marshall, charged with attempt
ing to blackInail Mary Anderson. was acquitted
in the United States district court at Pittsburg
recently. The court ruled that the offense did
not come within the provisions of the law pro-
vldlng penalties for using the mails for the
purpose to dafraud, and, under instructions of
the court, verdict of not guilty was rendered
George ". Cable recently told friend, who
warned him that he travelled too much, that he
would rather be in the cars than at hotel
His reason was that in the former case he
wasn't bothered by visitors. All sorts of peo-
pie, he said, hunted him outlook agents
people with pet hobbies which they wanted
him to take up and advocate and other varie-
ties of genus bore
Mrs. Marion Laverrc of New York, offers
part of a mansolcum which she possesses at
Eastport, L. l., as a resting place for the body
of Commander De Long Mrs. De Long re-
piled that she understood that arrangements
were pending to bury her husband in Wood
lawn cemetery and that steps would be taken
to erect monument over his grave. Other
wise she would gratefully accept Mrs Laverfea
offer.
Advice from Hampstead Tex, give meager
details of a fearful encounter, in which one
man was killed and two others MORALLY wound
ed. For some reason or other, Will Wheeler
and John Ellison, late city marshal, commenced
shooting at each other in Hewes' bar-room
Friday night, the 18th Capt James T. Brown
ing interfered and tried to make peace. When
the firing ceased it was discovered that Brown
ing was shot dead and Wheeler and Ellison
were in such condition that they will prob
ably die.
There was an exciting scene at circus at
Cairo Egypt An Italian acrobat unfurled an
Italian flag, whereupon an English officer
walked into the arena and seized it amid great
excitement The acrobat soon rocovoroI Tho