The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-12-20
FROM WARRINGTON.

18th.
DURING the seven days ended on the
18th there were sos business failures in
the United States, against sos the previous
seven days
FoR the eleven months of the year ended
November 80 last the exports Of the princi-
pal articles Of provisions from the United
States were 81, IA, 400, against $79, 273, 262
during the corresponding eleven months
Of 1887.
THE President pardoned one hundred
and thirty-siX convicts during the fiscal
year ended June 81 last and granted
amnesty under the Edmunds law In three
cases.
ADv1oEs Of the 18th report general i'm
provement In business throughout the
country with q confident feeling for the
future.
AT twenty-six leading clearing houses
In the United States the exchanges during
the week ended on the 18th aggregated
q. Os7, 7S 408, against 81, 81, 278 $50 the pre-
vious week. As compared with the CORE.
spending week OF 1887 the increase amount
ed to &c per cent
THE EAST.
OK the 18th Francis Asbury HAWKING
who murdered his mother q year ago be-
cause she objected to his marrying. was
hanged at r verhead. n r
On the 18th the American war ships Ca
lena and Yantic sailed from New York for
Hayti.
NEARLY one hundred Consuls in Europe
had up to the 18th answered the questions
sent out by the Ford immigration Commit
tee, the replies agreeing that the United
States was getting the scum of the popu-
lation Of Europa
ELLIOTT F. SHEPARD, Of New York, was
elected president at the session in Wash
ington on the 18th Of the National Sabbath
Union. The constitution which was adopt-
ed says that the object of the organization
is to preserve the American Sabbath as q
day OF rest and worship. The members
shall consist Of all persons who will sieni-
~, In writing, their approval of the con-
stituton.
E. s. NEv1xs, Of Orange, N. J., student
at 1thica, N. T., and Maggie Sullivan, q
teacher, broke through the ice while skat-
ing on the 18th and were drowned.
THREE soldiers Of the Eleventh United
states Infantry were drowned on the 18th
IN Lake Ontario near Sackett's Harbor. N.
Y, by the upsetttng of their boat.
WHILE insane Mra Caroline Schmidt.
aged twenty.three years, threw herself
; from fourth-story window In New York
on the 18th with her two children in her
arms. and all were fatally injured.
The death Of General James G. Lane
occurred in New York City on the 18th.
General Lane served with distinction
throughout the civil war, taking part in
sixteen battles. He was born in New
York in 1893
In fire which destroyed q mattress
factory at Providenca IN thu 1a+h
three men, William Sweeney, Henry Carr
and Walter Macomber, lost their lives.
OFFICERS captured band of Italian
counterfeiters on the 18th at Wilkesbarre,
Pa They had been doing big business
in spurious coin for months.
On the 14th David Stewart, aged Aftv-
five years, one Of Pittsburgh's millionaire
iron men and partner of Andrew Car
negie, dropped dead at his home from heart
disease
WHILE temporarily insane John Fer
guson shot and killed his wife Mary and
himself ON the 10th at Toddtown, Pa
In Brooklyn, N. Y, Alexander DAVIS
one OF the millionaire mine owners OF Cal
ifornia twenty years ago, died on the 18th
in poverty.
MRS. ALBERT KAUFMAN and daughter
were burned to death while rendering tai
low on the 18th near Reading, Pa.
TIE bar-rooms Of the hotels and saloons
In Syracuse, N. Y, were closed on the
10Th by an order issued by Mayor William
B. Kirk.
On the evening of the 18th Rev. joseph
Light. pastor OF lions United Brethren
Church at Reading, Pa, dropped dead
after preaching revival sermon in his
church. He was about fifty years of age.