The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-05-03
General News 1tet1a.

The committee to select place for the
annual convention OF the German Baptists
OF the United States. has decided on Har.
rlsburg, Va. The convention will be held
the first Tuesday after Whit Sunday in
1850.
A jury in the city court ct Mobile re.
turned verdict giving .S25, 900 damages
tho Louisville & Nashville Railway Com
pany. Hall was knocked from freight
train by low bridge on the Mobile 4
Montgomery division of that road, and
had to have his foot amputated.
The Montana democratic territorial cou.
vention elected Martin Maginnis and Thorn.
as Marshall delegates to the St. Louis
convention. w. A. Clark was chairman of
the convention. Messrs. Davidson and
Savage were chosen as alternates. The
delegates were not instructed, but are pre-.
sumed to be for Cleveland. The admins.
tratlon was endorsed by the convention.
The committee OF five appointed by the
antiadministratjon Knights of Labor
convention held in Chicago last October,
have issued circular to the order declar-
ing that it had dwindled in numbers from
7O2, 900 to 24O, 600: that Powderly's spe-
cial call to get funds for lecturers was in
reality to get funds to keep the order out
bankruptcy till the next convention, and
calling on all true Knights to join the op:
position and help reorganize the order.
st. Paul and Central New York parties
have filed at Yakima, and Olympia. w. r.,
articles OF association with q capital of
$500, 900 for an irrigation ditch sixty
river. which will water over 200, 900 acres
OF valuable land in the valley. The sur.
veys are made and the work will begin this
season, and will be finished in time for
next seasons irrigation. Twenty.six
thousand acres are already entered under
the desert land act.
In 1886 the National Bank OF Albion,
N: Y, failed and was placed in the hands
OF A. Anderson, receiver. The president,
after having lost $685. OF the banks
money in stock speculations through kis-
sam, Whitney Il Co., stock brokers OF New
York. The receiver brought suit against
the firm. claiming that they had guilty
knowledge OF Warmers speculations and
knew that he was using the banks money
in specializing. The jury brought in a yer.
dict for the bank for s149,OOO.
The situation at the Edgar Thompson
Steel Works near Pittsburg is viewed with
much apprehension. A mob OF several
hundred Hungarlans and Poles gathered
at a place close to the cOmpany's proper.
ty and laid in wait for party ofHungari-
| an operatives that had refused to join the
strikers. The men had been engaged for
the night turn. As soon as the workmen
came near whore the strikers were gather.
ed, the latter assaulted them with clubs
stones and bricks. Tho workmen broke
| and fled in every direction. the strikers
| chasing them with the vilest imprecations
| and threats if they attempted to return to
work.
One OF the largest real estate transac-
lions that has ever taken place in St. Paul
has just been completed. The amount
| involved is not made public but it is I'm.
derstood that the sum is $4S5,OO The
property sold was portions of the David.
son estate, and includes II 5 feet on Fourth
street, between the new Pioneer Press
building and the First National bank, six
ty-hve feet on Robert street next the new
Pioneer Press building. 1876 feet on Fifth
street, between Robert and Jackson
streets, and 200 feet on the corner of
Sixth and Cedar streets. All the proper.
ty was sold to Henry Endicott, ofBoston,
relative OF Secretary Eudicott.