The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-06-11
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
The New Orleans exposition has closed.
The taxable real estate in New York CITY has
Increased rs, 291 ,2sS during the past year
A train Of thirty one cars loaded with straw.
berries arrived in Chicago from the Centralia
fruit district
The Pennsylvania Steel company has 9, 100
men onits pay roll, the wages of whom in the
aggregate amount to ~, 600 per month.
The Hessian fly and chinch bugs are making
sad havoc in Kansas wheat, and it is not be-
lieved that the state will harvest over fifteen
to twenty million bushels.
At Detroit, Judge Chesman granted divorce
to Mrs. Permelia Hopkins, wife of Mark Hop
kins, the st. Clair millionaire, on the grounds
OF cruelty. Hopkins made no opposition.
The eleventh tier of stone has been put down
on the Bartholdi pedestal on Bedloe's Island.
may be completed in the last week Of July.
A telegram from c. F. Kindred announces
that he has boon successful in negotiating the
loan for the St Paul, Brainerd l. Northwest
ern. The amount is understood to be $7,OUO.-
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There is an organized effort in Vermont to
secure the defeat of Senator Edmunds at the
senatorial election of 1886 Ex-Gov Smvth ia
leading candidate of the opposition to Ed
munds.
Although Commodore Kittson's colt Iuka
failed to capture the two-year-old race al
Jerome Park, the commodore had his revenge
in the Metropolitan handicap, which his four
year old crack Rataplan won.
The legislature Of Massachusetts has grap-
pied with the telephone monopoly, and has re.
duced charges to % month. requiring the
telephone company to furnish instruments to
any one who will pay for them.
Within the next two weeks every window
glass factory west Of the Allegheny mountains
will close down for the summer A reduction
in WAGES of 25 per cent will be insisted upon
when the factories resume.
Gen Berry, H. R. Wells and H. s Hart
Minnesota delegates to the national conference
of charities arrived recently, and. we're in at
tendance, together with W. W. Campbell and
ex- Senator Wilkinson, on the opening session
of the conference
Thomas Dennison, Of Baltimore, was to mar.
~ Estelle De Hoven in that city The people
came to the church; the minister was ready.
Suddenly it was announced that the wedding
was of. Dennison eloped with Rose Whitney.
cousin OF Estelle Do Hoven, whose brothers
swear vengeance.
The old officers Of the Northwestern rail-
road were elected at the recent annual meeting.
The gross earnings for the fiscal year ending
May ii, l6&-those for the month of May
being subject to correction-were 90 547, 2i&
The total gross earnings for the preceding year
were ~, 1874, decrease Of ii, 173, 4O4
Representative Hewitt of New York, who is
large iron manufacturer, speaking Of the
strike Of the iron workers at Pittsbure, said
he did not believe tho strike would Affect any
interest in the vicinity of New York. He doe
not blame the striking workmen for opposing
reduction below the figures they believe
themselves entitled to, but they were i'll ad-
vised to strike during such condition Of trade
sufficient pains had not been taken to inform
them Of the true state Of their employers a.