The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-08-26

out ~ luA AOICo 10 WolA 0S Ot0er CIVIC so
cieties and military in large numbers Sec.
rotary Bayard received the statute ofllcially
and made short, appropriate speech. A
poem, Grafton, music and fire works closed
the festivities.
The business failures occurring during
the seven days ending on the 20th through.
cut the country as reported to r. g. Dun
and for Canada, Is, or q total of 1s6, az
compared With total of 157 last week and
14 the week previous to the last. The in
crease observable this week arises in the
Middle and Pacific states, and in Canada.
The American Bar Association met at
Saratoga on the Goth and elected the fol-
lowing officers for tho ensuing year. Pres.
ident, Thomas J. Semmes, OF Louisiana
secretary, Edward Otis Hincklev. oil
Maryland, treasurer, Francis R1wle, of
philadelphia; executive committee, Luke
z. Poland, of Vermont; e. G.. Bonney, Of
Chicago, Simon. Baldwin, of New Haven.
A bond call for 100000 per cents
was made on the 10th. This is tho third call
during the present fiscal year. The first
was for 4,CO0, 900, the second $4,000, 600
aud the third for 81, 900. 900, making 80,
600, 900 in all. To comply With the require
ments Of the siuking fund act, the sscreta.
~ OF the treasury must call $45, OOO, OOJ
before the first of next July.
Ebert p. Cook, the embeszline president
of bank at Havana, N. Y, who disnp-
peared some time ago, has, with his daugh-
ter been shot and killed at Buenos Ayres,
South America, by . young man named
G!uck Of Indianapolis, who was insane.
Gluck also shot and severely wounded Mrs.
Cook and committed suicide.
An old man by the name of Frank
Edwards Of Huron county, Mich, was
taken from his house Saturday night,
stripped, taTred, put aboard Of q rail and
a whip applied to his naked back, and
given three days to leave the country.
girls.
Travel to the Yellowstone National
Park is the heaviest in its history, the av-
erage number of tourists arriving each dav
being about 100. The hotel aucommods-
lions ct tho park are taxed to the utmost
capacity. Some are returning because
every carriage is employed.
Senator EdIaunds has accepted the in
vttation of the managers of the Vermont
State Fair to deliver tho annual address ut
the joint exhibition of the Vermont State
Agricultural Society and the Champlain
v4liey Association TO be held at Howard
Park In September.
Mrs. Mary Scott, wife of Lieut.. Scott,
United States army, now in Dakota, died
Saturday at Charlottesville, N. c., of con-
gestion Of the lungs. Three little children
survive her, the last born, twins, not being
seven hours old at the time of her death.
The Central Pacific Railroad COMPANY
are experimenting In raising cereals on the
sidehills in Washoe and other counties in
Nevada without irrigation, and have sue
ceeded in raising fifteen bushels to the
acre.
On the 10th at Pittsburg, Pa, the ma.
chine shop and one of the hammer DEPART
ments at Black Diamond Steel works of
Park Bros. & Co. were DESTROYED nv fire.
Loss from $75, 600 to 500, goo; fully insured.
President Cleveland has appointed John
T. Doyle of New York, sec rotary Of the civil
service commission and Henry Ehninper NJ
New York. United States consul at Glen
Fuegos, vice William P. Pierce, suspended
The operatives of tho great wholesale
clothing manufacturing houses in Boston
arc preparing a fight against the introduce
tlon OF Q new bastiDg machine, each of
of employment. o 80 0"'
Henry O'ReilIy, the first editor of the
first daily newspaper at Rochester, N. Y.
died there Tuesday. He was instrumenta tai
In organizing the New York, Alban- Il
Buffalo Telegraph company.
The New Hampshire Prohibitionists have
employed ono hundred persons to make
ten bpee ,hes each during the campaign.
Miss Stauf7er of New Orleans. tn who,,
Mr.. Tilden bequeathed @1cO. 0O0. is in En-.
wears = 5000 bracelet Tilden e.y U,1 hs ana
few years ago.
An Albany epeculator is said to DO max
Ing q good deal of money by purchasing
Canadian silver in New York at % per cent
discount aud circulating it at homo at par.
The big, costly Rockaway Beach Hotel,
near New York, In which Vanderbilt, A.
tor and Mackay are interested is q COM
plete failure. It IL tenantless this season.
Gov. Stoneman has adjourned the Cali
fornia legislature until Sept. z, owing to
a. to the time of adjourn
mens between the senate and assembly.
BY an ordinance from tho postmaster
general tho postal division of Nebraska
and Wyoming has been abolished, to take
effect Sep. l. The now division will con-
sist Colorado, Wyoming, Now Mexico. Da-
kota and Nebraska.
Later reports from Newark, d. T., show
that the town was substantially destroyed
by tho storm on the 18th. Five person.
were killed, Mortimer Kennedy proprietor
OF the town being among the number.
Ars. Cleveland Is to touch tho electric
telegraph button that viii set tho maobin.
ery in motion at the Ninneapolios Exno.
sttton at the conclusion Of Gov. Davfs'
address.
1t has been decided to alter the plans Of
tho Garfield monument at Cleveland. and
make 1t $50 feet in height instead Of rs "A
originally designed.
Georgia fruit distillers are grinding mn
apples and peaches and propose to make
and :ell brandy - usual, in spite of the
prohibition law.
First Assistant Postm aster General Stew.
enson 10 detained ct his homo in Spring.
held, Ill.,, BY the serious illness Of his daueh.
At Findlay, Ohio, there are now eleven
natural kas wells. The Cos has . greater
heating power than that Of Pittsburx.
The amount or bonds hald "a aacnr> M.