The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-11-22
THE EAST.

JOHN McK1NLAY, Of Albany, N. Y,
wholesale -four and grocery dealer, failed
on the 18th for 100000.
FIRE destroyed Pullman sleeper on a
New York express train near Conemaugh,
Pa on the 18th, and some Of the passen-
gers had q narrow escape.
AT Trenton, N. j., Charles Ruggabere,
aged sixteen years, clerk earning four
dollars week in a carpet store, eloped on
the 18th with Lulu Holz, aged thirteen
years, daughter Of Anton Holz wealthy
German.
FIRE swept away Watson's stores at
Brooklyn, N. Y, occupied by the Fulton
Grain Milling Company, on the 18th, caus-
ing a loss Of S55O. 600.
WORKING girls Of New York City on the
18th organized society for their mental
and moral i'm rovement.
A FIRE in the Wheeler elevator at Buff
falo, N. Y, damaged property on the 18th
to the extent of $4,000
OVER 81, OOO 600 was lost and won on the
result of the National election by members
Of the New York Stock and Produce ex-
changes.
A LAMP explosion on the 18th at Plym-
outh, Pa, resulted in a fire which de-
stroyed the home of Frank Knecht, and
his son, aged four years, and his daughter,
fourteen months old, persisted in the
flames.
The execution Of William Showers took
place on the 18th at Lebanon, Pa, for the
murder Of his two grandchildren at Ann
vile in May, 1857.
MARY FITZGERALD, the oldest female
professional thief IN the country was a
prisoner in the Tombs police court in New
York on the 14th. She is eighty years of
on1 hoa ho o,fo
the last sixty years doing service for the
State.
TWELVE charred bodies were on the 18th
taken from the ruins of the recent great
fire at Rochester, N. Y, making forty-two
thus far recovered.
CHARLES JOHNSON was executed at
Waterloo, N. Y, on the 18th for the MUIR
der OF John Walters, guard of the coun-
ty jail in which he Was awaiting trial for
horse-stealing.
On the 18th a bill granting the right of
suffrage to women was defeated in the
Vermont House Of Representatives by a
vote of 1872 to 81.
On the 18th the General Missionary Com
mittee of the Methodist Episcopal church
in session in New York resolved that
81, 100, 600 be raised for distribution for for
eign and home missions.
LIE 1uCer-OtaGo ITuSG company, WllC0
was organized at Philadelphia about a year
ago with an alleged capital Of 81, 900, 0O0,
closed its doors on the 18th.
The Columbia College New York; trus-
tees on the 10Th sanctioned the request
for an annex to the college, which shall
be for women.
Ok the 10th Perry Belmont, of New
York, recently appointed Minister to
SnaiN accanfeA0 the nnSitiOn
W. A. Corr, the Saugus (Mass.) Col.
lectcr who disappeared recently, was on
| the 18th said to be short Sc, OOO
RHODE ISLAND adopted a constitutional
| amendment at the recent election abolish.
| ing the property qualification for voting.
! A SNOW STORM on the 10th swept ten.
mile belt of country south Of Erie, Pa,
and the Oldest inhabitant said that it bea,
the record. Snow filled the roads and shut
off travel, and cattle in the fields almost
persisted.
The death of Mrs. Henry Jones occurred
on the 10th at Bridgeport, Conn, at the
age of ninety years. She was the daugh
ter Of Noah Webster, of dictionary fame