The Worthington advance., 1886-09-02
HISTORY OF THEwEEK.

vicinity, and the shock cave1 in several o.
these, but none exploded: A number o
houses in the eneighborhood were reduced K
feur others ia tally Injured and twenty .fiv,
more left with broken legs, arms aut
other mutilations. The damage to prop
erty is 75,OCO. The shock was felt ovel
the greater part OF Cook County, and al
the Palmer House. seven miles away
lights were put out by tie concusstor, and
pictures on the walls Of the Board o.
Trade building thrown down.
The Republicans of tho Fourth Mime
sofa Congressional district met at Mime
apolis on the 25sh and renominated J. B
Gil6llan for Congress by acclamation
Loren Fletcher presided and ex-Gov. PILLS
bury was chairman Of the committee or
Democratic party for violating tho civi
service law and for various other things
denouncing anarchism and favored Labor
organizations.
The Michigan Republican State Conven
ton nominated the following ticket on th'
26sh. Cyrus g. Luce, governor; James 81
Mcdonald, lieutenant governor; r. os
mum, secretary of state; George l.. Mal,x
treasurer; Henry II. Aplin, auditor gener
al; Moses TaRgart, attorney general; Ros
Joseph &. EsterbroolG superintendent. O.
public instruction; s. 5. Babcock, membel
of the state board of education.
1t is unofficially announced that Presi
dent Cleveland has selected Thomas E
Benedict, at present deputy state control
ler at Albany, N. Y, for the place OF public
printer, aud that he will enter upon tn
ohtce about Sept. 18th. Many changes ar,
anticipated IL Mr.. Benedict is the man, ant
his selection is not popular in the govern
'nent printing Office.
The Ohio Republican State Couvcntio,
was held at Columbus on the 25th. Gov
Foraker, presiding. The following ticket
8: Robinson; supreme judge. Marshall ]
Williams; clerk of supreme court, U. II
Hester; school commissioner, Eli 4. Tap
pan: member board of public works, w
II. Hahn.
At Los Angelos, in the California Re
publican state convention John s. Swif
was nominated for governor. Mr. bwif
was one of the three special ENJOYS sem
the United States and China, and is one o
the best newspaper writers on the Pacific
coast.
Tho demands of tho nail feeders q
Youngstown, Niles, Ohio, Newcastle ant
flfths instead of one-half that each ma
chine earns, was refused. 1t is possibl,
that the result will be to place self-ieeder
in all the factories.
Sixteen Of the twenty-five members O
the National butterine and Oieomargarin,
association met on the oath and denounced
the oleomargarino law. 1t was decided t,
test the validity of the law should it be at
tempted to be enforced.
The first anti-slavery man sent to tn,
United States senate on that issue is still
living. Joseph Cilley is the man, and b.
remains on bis old family homestead a
Nottingham. N. Il. He is ninety six year
old.
Sister Eulalie, lady Superior Of the Inn
maculate academy at Newport, KY, burn
ed to death by the mosquito bars of he
bed taking fire as she was endeavoriug t,
take some medicine in the night, she bein(
i'll with typhoid fever.
Abraham Hinchlifre was fatally, William
Farrell seriously, and Charles Leonart
slightly burned by the explosion of kettle
ct varnish in E. s. Ward & Co.'s pauen
leather factory Newark, N. j., yesterday.
The sugar refining company of Halifax
whose works are the largest in the worlt
is reported in an embarrassed condition
The capital is Si,GGO,0O0. Business ha
l At Bradford, Pa, Jacob Duncan shot an,
killed his brother-in-law, jeremiah Plecker
because the latter jestingly turned tn
hands Of the clock forward two hours
Duncan has been arrested.
l Another shock of earthquake was felt a
Charleston, N. c., Aug 2S, at 4:4S O'Clock
It extended as far north as Summerville
twenty five miles. Two slight shocks wer
also felt At Augusta, Ga.
. The robbery of $2,455 in Vincent ]
Scott's bank, Detroit, Mich.. on May :, 1855
has just been cleared up by the confessio,
OF John Koewenstein, who was janitor il
the bank at the time.
The imported men who took the place o
the striking Lake Shore switch men in Ch;
cago will, it is said, strike because tn
company will no longer allow them extr,
money tor meals.
Earnest Schmiedecke, a Grand Rapid
(Micb.) bookkeeper, committed suicid
With carbolic acid. The sight drove hi
wife'insane. No cause is assigned b,
drunkenness.
Mrs. Davis was murdered at Vicksbure
Miss, with hoe by a negro boy, age,
eighteen years, employed by her husband
Neighbors caught the murderer and sho
him to Ceath.
The lasters at John E. brakes sho
factory at Qaincy, Mass, have strucl
owing to the introduction of lastin,
machine and employment OF non-unioi
men on it.
Michael Vellek of Chicago hanged his ter
year-old boy, nearly killisg him, because
he went out to play in diso5 edience of or
ders. The boy will recover and the father
Is in Jail.
The agent Of the Shoshones denies tn,
stories that they are starving, and claim.
that the laziness, wastefulness and improv
idence of the Indians make all the trouble
James Kiser, Jackson county Nv. va.)
school teacher, reprimanded one of his
pupils, John Griffith, aged fifteen years
Griffith afterward fatally stabbed Ktser.
MIR. johnson of Kentucky, who succeeds
Maj. Hunter a. chief of the division of &C.
counts in the general land offl;e has enter
ed upon the discharge Of his duties.
Oscar Hambick, aged seventeen years,
shot and killed an eighteen-year-olds son of
Simon Carney without provocation at An
ma, Ill. Lynching is feared.
The money and the accounts at the Phil.
adelphia suotreasury balance to penny
The experts counted about $4,000, 900. ol
which e15, ,OcO, 600 was in silver.
At Kansas City, John J. Campbell, ex
city attorney. in ft OF despondency com
mitted suicide shooting himself with a re
volver. He was unmarried.
Buffalo is to have the largest clock in the
world. The dial will be twenty-five feet in
diameter, and the center of the dial will bf
361 feet above the street.
A large number of counterfeit bills on
the Bank Of British North America and
Bank of Commerce, Ontario, have beer
put in circulation.
c. P. Huntington, the millionaire. !,
having built at the horne of his childhood
Litchfie!d, Conn, Gothic chapel for the