The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-08-19
HISTORY OF THEwEEK.

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Paso del Norte. Mexico. Cutting took his
Texas paperover the liue to Paso del Norte
and circulated few copies for which he
was arrested by the Mexican authorities
and put in jail. He has now been tried
and convicted and sentenced to one year
imprisonment in tho penitentiary and
Of an American citizen by a foreign
country for an 0ffense committed in tho
United States is arousing q great deal of
feeling, particularly in Texas and there is
loud war talk in that region. 1t is under.
stood that Secretary Bay ard will demand
serious results may follow.
Tho Chief of the Bureau of Statistics re
ports that the total values of the exports
of domestic breadstufRs from the United
States during the rsonth Of July, 1886, and
d 9snn the seven months ended July 81,
during the corresponding periods OF the
preceding year, were es follows: July,
1886, I'll ,5iO,6 $40; July, 1855, SS,721,8l1; sev.
en- months ended July 81, 1885, eSl, 432, 2l5;
1885, &S5,47S,135.
The president has reappointed Mathews
the Albany colored man who was selected
to succeed Fred Douglas as register Of
the District of Columbia, and rejected by
the senate. He has also reappointed But
ton, the Lynchburg Va, postmaster who
was rejected by the senate. This is thought
to Indicate that all of the rejected will be
reappointed.
The Democrats of Indiana, in state con-
vention at Indianapolis, nominated the
following ticket: John G. Nelson of Cass
county, for lieutenant governor: Supreme
court judge, John F. Goffroth; r. W.
Myer, secretary of state; G. A. Munson,
auditor of state; treasurer, Thomas B.
Bryne; clerk OF supreme court, Martin
Kruger.
An arrangement has been made between
the g. p. II. and N. & N. W. telegraph
lines by which dispatch of ten words can
be sent to any point in Manitoba reached
by either line for 25 cents. The charge
heretofore was 20 cents VIXEN the two lines
had to be employed.
The Hon. Mr.. Chapleau, secretary of
state of the dominion, is accused of receiv-
ing $4,000 as a bride from Contractors
Smith & Ripley, OF New York, who built
the Georgian branch Of the Canadian Pa
cif1c Railroad.
Many Cinnamon are being struggled in
to the United States via Mexico. The So
licitor Of the treasury states the only way
to enforce the law is for the custom in
spec:ors to use greater vigilance along the
border.
Mrs. Clarisso Peck, Of Chicago, died IS
months ago leaving 5000 Now George
c. Peck, founding, tarns up claiming it,
He charges that parties have drugged him
and conspired to get him to renounce his
claim.
The Pope has issued an edict condemn
ing the Knights of Labor as a secret or
gauization. 1t was sent to Canada and it
seems to be uncertain whether the order
applies to the United States or not.
There is likely to DO big lockout of
plumbers in New York. They complain of
the apprenticeship system that brings half
grown boys and incompetent workmen
into competitor.
Extensive forest fires in the vicinity of
Green Lake, Wexford county, Mich, have
burned over moro than thousand acres of
land, and totally destroyed the camps of
s. K. Northam.
Gen. Sickles in reply to the criticisms
of Gen. Meade regarding his conduct at
he Battle of Getty sburg, says that Meade's
official reports were inaccurate and not to
be relied on.
The drowning Of Mrs. Evenden, at Han
nibal, Mo-, has revealed the scandal that
she and another married woman went in
bathing with two male friends entirely
naked.
The general land Office explains the
reduction in the force at Mitchell, OAK,
alleging it to be due to the failure of con-
gress to make the necessary appropria-
ton.
Secretary Bayard has sent a lawyer to
Mexico to investigate the legal status of
the Cutting case. and ascertain whether
Cutting is amendable to Mexican laws.
Mrs. George Deakonhart aud her eight
year-old daughter, died at their home at
Bakerstown, Pa. from eating toad.stools,
which they thought were mushrooms.
The street cars of Kansas City with the
exception of the cable line, have been
stopped from running by the city author
tiles for the non-payment of license.
Josiah Richards, aged Al years, and Grit
fifth r. Thomas, aged II years, miners,
were killed by a fall of rock and coal in the
Boston mine at Plymouth, Pa.
Imprisoned Editor Cutting denies tho
jurisdiction also of the Mexican court of
appeals, and leaves his case in tho hands
of the American government.
Mrs. Sarah Jane Robinson, of Boston,
has been arrested. Eleven of her relatives,
insured for her benefit, have died under
suspicious circumstances.
United States Minister Cox has protested
to the porte against the action of the Sy-
rian authorities in closing the American
mission schools in Syria.
Patrick Egan. president of the Irish
American National League, who is now in
Chicago, expects but little trouble at the
forthcoming convention.
Advices from the City of Mexico say the
resignation Of General Jackson, United
States minister, is positive. General re-
greet is expressed.
Sioux Indian Shawopee was shipped
from New York to the Sioux reservation at
Standing Rock agency, Dakota, Saturday
by Buffalo Bill.
The venerable DR.. John Mclean, former
ly president of the College of New
Jersey, died on the 10th in his eighty
seventh year.
Mrs. Jameson of Detroit was last week
relieved Of q green water snake over two
feet long which had been in her stomach
ten years.
The Alabama election on the End.
resulted in Democratic majority of
$1,000. Thomas Sesy was elected
governor.
Ex-Gov. John ". Stevenson of Kentucky
died at his home in Covington, KY, on the
10th, after brief illness, aged seventy
four.
It is said that Mr.. Jackson, United
States minister to Mexico, has resigned,
not on account of the Cutting trouble, how
ever.
The New Hampshire Prohibitionists have
employed one hundred persons to make
ten spec :hes each during the campaign.
The receipts Of the Government since