The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-12-04
General News items.

Cleveland's plurality in Indiana was 6,5le
A part of the original fund by which Williams
college was founded came from lottery.
Oregon's official vote: Blaine, 2e,S5e: Cleve.
Land, 24,50S; Butler, 7e,3; St John, 4sa
Lloyd Breezee, Of the Detroit Journal, has
just purchased the Times of that city, and win
change 1t into an evening paper.
George Calhoun Co., jewelers. of Nash.
vile, Tenn. have made an assignment Liza
bikties, "a. COO; assets, e, oo0
Charles Stewart l. Co., Cincinnati, pork
packers, have assigned to George s Gray. As.
sets, S2O, zoe; liabilities, $4,000
Chicago viii succeed Cardinal McCloskey,
whose early death Is expected.
The official announcement of the vote for
Massachusetts, is: Blaine, 148, 724; Cleveland,
123,35e; Butler, A,3S3: st. john, 9,G23
Blaine's plurality, PASTA
Mrs.. John Mnlliken, wealthy resident Of
Boston, sold peanuts at a booth on the common
for twelve hours, Tuesday. on an election bet,
and realized 800 for charity.
Further reductions Of wages and annouce.
ments OF intentions to shut down are reported
from industrial establishments in Psnnsylvania
aud other Eastern states
Texas has now 6,6l7 1924 cattle, according to
assessors returns, valued at over 81, OOO, 600.
The increase IN number this year has been ov
or half million, worth $a,5oo,0Oo
The bones of John e. Calhoun have lust
been removed to new stone sarcophagus ir
St. Philip churchyard, Charleston, s. c, Thi,
is the third time that Mr.. Calhoun's RENAME
have been removed since they w re first laid tc
rest in the soil Of the state he love 80 well.
Dec the wages of all employees of tho
Pittsburg, Cincinnati 4 st. Louis, the Par
Handle ronto, will be reduced 10 per cent,
Between PIttsburg and Columbus the savins
by the proposed cut will amount to $35, 600 per
annum.
Prof Richie Of Bridgeport, Conn.,, has in
vented poisonous air bomb which. when ex-
ploded, disseminates gas that lies close to the
ground, and quickly proves fatal to everybody
III range who doesn't run away from it. He
claims it to be step in the interests Of human
ity.
The body Of well dro ssed man was found
in Gawanuss canal, New York The body was
recognized as that OF Hugh Campbell, a broth.
or OF Chief Of Police Campbell of Brooklyn,
and also of Congressman Felix Campbell The
deceased was partner of Felix in tho steam
fitting business in New York city, and was mar
ried and lived in Brooklyn.
Davenport, Iowa, Spocial.-A mysterious
disease has appeared among the horses in the
upper end Of this county, and has been attend
cd so far with alarming fatality. The first in
dlcatlon Of the disease is loss of appetite on
the part of the animal attacked From this
the horse grows weak and finally dies Thore
is no apparent suffering until death occurs
The state veterinary surgeon has been notified
and will Investigate the disease.
There were 237 failures in the United States
reported to Bradstreets during last week,
against 25l in the preceding week dn,i 232 and
lo'j and lbs in the corresponding weeks in 1888
1882 and 1881, respectively, About s. per
cent were those of small traders whose capital
was less than $1,000 Among those reported
embarrassed 9na were Dix 4 Co., Importers OF
elers, New York city; Middletown National
bank; Snowden 4 Semmler carpets, Cincinnati;
and George R Calhoun & Co., jewellers, Nash
vile, Tenn.
Joliet, Ill, Special A. Keeler, for
merly prominent local politician of Southern
Minnesota and Grand Foreman of the A. O. U.
W. of that state, has been released from prison
He was sent to Joliet in October, 1881, for the
alleged crime Of tampering with the mails in
his charge, he being postal clerk on the Chi
caGo, Milwaukee 4 St Paul road His friends
have vehemelltly claimed that he was Innocent
of the charge and that the evidence on whicl,
he was arrested was of very thin sort and
wholly circumstantial, and that prejudice,
coupled with rank perjury, secured the YER
dict against him; and now all this appears to
be confirmed beyond the shadow of Il doubt
prominent detective met Mr.. Keller at Joliet
with abundant proof of his entire innocence
proofs which were not known to exist by the
defense until the last ninety days. Mr. Keller
is well educated man, bright and entertain.
ing newspaper writer and entitled to sympathy,
as that seems to DO all he can get He left fol
Minnesota where his famil y now lives