The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-09-03
News Items Of General Interest.

twelve guns at Bar Harbor.
Thirty-two buildings were burned by light
ming i'll Stafford county, N. III.
The late Lyman Clark of Brockton,
Mass, left a fortune OF $780, 900.
Lieut.. James D. Mann, Seventh cavalry,
is granted leave during September.
Mr.. Blaine is living quietly at Bar Har-
Dor, attending yacht races every now and
then.
Rev. Father John T. Brazie, late vicar
general OF tho diocese OF Iowa, dies at Des
Moines.
The remains of s. L. Phelps, late minis
ter to Peru, arrive in Washington and are
buried.
Jesse Grant will leave New York to serve
as civil engineer OF railroad enterprise in
Turkey.
Cardinal Manning intimated that some
ccciesiastic in Boston would ere long DO
made a cardinal.
The president will deliver an address be-
fore the Virginia Agricultural society at
Richmond, Oct. 21.
away the water works reservoir and leaves
the city without water.
Respectable citizens of youngstown, Ohio,
have filed suits for recovery OF money lost
in bucket shop run by Cleveland parties.
Attorney General Garland has not been
out OF Washington this summer, and will
not take q vacation until the president re-
turns.
Senator John Sherman addressed q large
mass meeting in the grove at Mount Gilead,
making the opening speech OF the Ohio cam
paign.
Architect Bells latest trouble is in con-
nection with the Kansas City postoffice.
He is charged with spending $4,000 i'm
properly.
Under the recent navy department or.
ders over four hundred men are employed
in the construction department at the
Brooklyn navy yard.
Extensive forest fires are raging all along
the Northern Pacific between Horse Plains
and Huron Montana, destroying immense
quantities OF valuable timber.
At Cottage Grove, Or, DR.. Charles Hoard
wantonly kills James Laughlin OF Missouri,
whom he had never seen before. Hoard is
thought to have been crazed by drink.
Postal cards are reported to lie generally
scarce at the postotfices throughout the
country, the government being very tardy
in meeting acquisitions for the arcicle.
President McConnico, OF the American
exposition, at New Orleans, received dis
patch from Geo. NJ. Pullman increasing his
subscription from SIS 900 to s25, 900.
Mr.. Cannon, controller 81 the currency,
N. j., where he has been spending his vaca-
ton, because OF the illness OF his deputy.
Capt. John S. Wharton, of Gen. Han.
cocks staff, who has been ordered to duty
at Fort Ringgold, has never seen his regi-
ment. He has been on staff duty for seven
teen years.
At the Western Rifle association tourna-
ment at Western Union Junction, the short.
range match is won by Milwaukee, by a
score OF 235, to 23O for Minneapolis and
PA for Racine.
The Elmira, of the Cunard line, eclipsed
the records OF the Oregon and Alaska by
making her last run across the ocean in six
days, five hours and thirty-one minutes.
One day she ran AGA miles:
Prof. Wylie, territorial superintendent
OF instruction, and Peter Koch, assistant
cashier OF the Gallatin National bank,
were fined $50 each for leaving their camp
fire burning in the NATIONAL Park.
Lord Carnarvon will visit all the large
towns OF Ulster and the poorer districts OF
Donegal. He has issued a scathing rebuke
to Clifford Lloyd, with reference to the lat
ter's recent article on Ireland in the London
Times.
Mrs: Mary A. Stuart, wife OF the million
airc banker Joseph Stuart of New York,
was accidentally shot and killed ut her
summer home in Rye Beach. She was re-
moving a revolver from one place to an
other. when itexploded.
AtCookc City, Montana, two miners play
ed 100 games of cribbagc, the stakes being
100 feet OF the Snowslide lode against 100
feet OF the Elevator lode-both rich proper
ties. The Elevator man won, and received
his deeds Immediately, for which he refused.
$1,000.
The reports at the treasury department.
show Il remarkable falling off in the impor-
tation OF diamonds into this country dur
ing the past year as compared with the pre-
ceding year: The pressure OF hard times is
felt in this particulqr more quickly than in
any other.
The Conservatives are expressing great
satisfaction on the Zulfikar pass question.
Word has already gone out to make this a
campaign point, but the announcement
that Il joint commission will settle the de-
tails on the spot seems to leave everythin
where it was before:
The publicity given to the fact that the
United States treasurer has resumed the
transfer OF gold coin from San Francisco
to New York by registered mail has again
caused a suspension OF that mode of trans
pOrtatiOn. 1t is not expected that any
more gold will be sent through the mails
for SO me time.
A strange tale comes to light in the sus.
pension OF j. S. Garfield a clerk in the post
office Department., from Illinois. Five or
six years ago he was regarded as one of the
best clerks in thai department. For nearly
year past he has been absent from the
department and, it is claimed, has drawn
his pay regularly, his salary being 81 400
q year: # now appears that he has been
in an insane asylum near Providence, r. l.,
during that time, and he is regarded as JIM
curably insane.
The register OF treasury has issued the
following order: To avoid the troubles and
delays in the transfer OF United States bonds
by the successors or legal representatives
OF holders in nOminally or really fiduciary
capacity, this Office will hereafter refuse as
a condition precedent to issue to any trus-
tee, EXECUTOR, administrator guardian etc,
that the beneficiary or particular trust thus
represented shall be named on the applica-
ton and in the assignment of the bonds for
the purposes proposed.
Carter H. Harrison's attorney, Allen G.
Storey, submitted an answer to the bill filed
by citizens two months ago disputinc Mr.,
Harrison's title to the may orally ofChicago
by reason OF numerous miscounts stated to
have been made in the vote and innumer-
able frauds alleged to have been committed
at the polls in the interest of Harrison,
The answer is in the nature OF a demurrer
generally denying the allegations of tho bill
and giving fifteen reasons why, in tho opinion
OF the defendant, the case is not entitled to
a regular trial in court.
DR.. Loring has replied to the charge OF
Controller Durham that he mislaid the dis
allowed account in his letter ofJuly 81. He
says that he never intended to convey the
idea that purchases of machinery were in
cludcdin the disallowance, and that the con-
troller has inexperienced the meaning OF
his letter on this point. In reply to the
statement of the controller that the pur-
chase OF seeds formed no part OF the sugar
experiments, he claims that the purchase of
beet and sorghum seeds and the employ
ment Of labor for their distribution was as
much a part OF the experimental ex-
penditure as the purchase of machinery,
and EXPRESSES confidence that the con-
troller will not for Il moment suspect him
OF attempting to misstate the case either to
HIM or the public. >.>
The Star says: IA rumor to the effect
that John Dickcrson, former superintend-
ent of the new pension building. had com.