The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-05-21
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS OF NEWS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS OF NEWS.
Charles Holden was hanged at Petersburg,
ILL.,, for the murder Of his wife.
Bradstreet reports q continued dullness in
the movement Of merchandise
The striking quarrymen at Lemont, Ill, re-
turned to work, and the trouble il believed to
be over.
At Locust Gap, Pa, Miss Julia Kramer,
eighteen years old, was shot and fatally in
jured by Peter knobanch, . rejected lover.
The court at saltwater affirmed the sale of
the assets Of the lumber firm of Walker, l.
Veazie to certain Of the creditors for $4,000
Editor Houston of New Orleans gives Sen.
ator Gibson and Representative King lively
raking and gently intimates that they dare not
take it up.
The governors of the Metropolitan club,
Washington, in response to 4 largely signed
petition from its members, have abolished
poker playing in the club.
Gen. Butler is tho principal owner of tho
Great Falls or rapids water power of the Poto-
mac, fourteen miles from the city, which de-
seconds about one hundred feet in mile, and
which, it is claimed, is worth 81, 100000
The managementof the Chicago, Rock Island
u J. SSAAC AdAAOou ua6 OC0lEsu6tcU LII. n.
Sutherland of Iowa City as veterinary surgeon
to inspect cattle which may be offered for
shipment into or through the state by that line
from quarantined states
The vote taken in the eastern part of Kidder,
Dakota, and the western part of Stutsman in
regard to forming new county and calling it
Tappen will probably be the seat of the new
county.
The contract for erecting the main exposition
building on the state fair grounds has been
awarded to Charles Hamilton of st. Paul.
amount of the successful bid was, or to give
out any particulars. The contract for build
ing the barns has not yet been let
The Mccormick reaper company at Chicago
has reaceived answers Of 400 correspondents
if the ratio thus far is maintained reports will
show falling off of 10 per cent, in the condi-
ton Of winter wheat compared with the est
mate of April, which put the crop At 65 per
cent, of full yield, with decrease Of 20 per
cent in acreage sown.
Miss Jane Holmes Of Pittsburg in her will
left $270,000 to fourteen existing institutions
and $4,000 each is left for an institution for
the blind, and hospital for children; also
$4,000 for Protestant home for boys, pro-
viding that all three institutions are organized
within two years. Tho residuary estate il to
be divided pro rata between all except three Of
the seventeen institutions named. The estate
amounts to over 81 COX, 600
Henry Clews, banker and broker, has ad-
dressed letter to the chairman of tho com.
mittee on admission of securities of the stock
exchange, protesting against listing tho new
issue of Georgia bonds Clews saws he has
! suffered to the extent of several million dollars
by Georga's bad faith in unwarrantably repu-
dating bonds which have a. full right to equal
! standing a. representing the credit of the state
as the new bonds, and protests against the I'D
mission of any new securities until Georgia's
repudiated bonds are recognized and provided
for.
The sixty ninth annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Bible society was held recently At New
York. The issues during tho year of Bibles,
Teetaments. and portions we're 1,54s,175 of
which sos, no wero circulated in foreign lands
The total issues were 45, AC, 2O6 Forty Eight
new auxiliaries were recognized The receipts
for the year were $751;, 9l4 81, and the expenGl
lures 46l9, So25 For the foreign work of the
society to be expended the coming year, $172, :
$50 has been appropriated Ron +. T. Freling-
huysen was elected president and William
Gammell, LII D., and Hon John Jay vis
president