The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-12-06
THE EAST.

The steamer Allentown went to pieces
In the recent storm on the coast near Co.
hassetts, Mass, and eighteen lives were
lost. The losses caused by the storm at
Atlantic City, N. j., were greater than had
been experienced since the incorporation
of that city.
In jealous rage Jewet Dargenton, pro.
prietor Of boarding house at Amesbury,
Mass, shot his wife on the 9th and then
killed himself
Tar Reading Pa.) City Council on the
9th passed an ordinance making it unlaw-
ful for contractors to employ any but citi.
zens Of the United States on municipal
work.
In Brooklyn, N. Y, on the 9th John
Woods, aged sixty-ave years, and his bed.
ridden sister Mary, aged sixty-o years,
were burned to death by the destruction OF
their house by fire.
ON the 9th the official canvass Of the
vote of New Jersey gave Cleveland Isl, 1913
Harrison 144.344 and Fisk 1904 The
plurality for Cleveland is 7,149
THREE men were killed by boiler ex-
plosion on the 9th at Ralston's saw-mil]
at Adams Corners, Pa.
The Vermont Legislature adjourned
sine die on the 28th
ALFRED WILDER, young man, was ar.
rested on the 28th at Clean, N Y, fol
making and passing counterfeit nickels.
The death Of the wife Of General w. T.
Sherman occurred In New York City or
the 2Sth. The cause of her death was
heart trouble. Mrs. Sherman was sixty
four years of age, and was the daughter Of
General Thomas Ewing, Ex-Governor Of
Ohio
RUSSIAN and italian miners fought OF
the 18th in the streets Of Mount Carmel
Pa. anumber on both sides being stabbed
three fatally.
HENRY SToDDARn purchased the New
York Graphic on the 2Sth in behalf of ;
syndicate. 1t would be made Republican
On the 2Sth a lodge OF Good Templars
was formed at the Tuscarora Reservation
near Lockport, N. Y, with thirty six char
ter membera This was the first time thai
temperance lodge Of this character hac
been formed among the Indians.
The vote Of Maine officially counted or
the 30th ult gives Harrison e. 734; Cleve
land, SO, 1872; Fisk, 1850; Streeter. 1.345
Harrison's plurality. q, $50.
The death of William II. Foster, cashier
OF the Asiatic Bank of Salem, Mass, from
1928 to 1884, and probably the oldest banl
omcial in the country, occurred on thu
3Oth ult., at the age Of ninety-one years.
The coal mines on the Monongahela pa
river shut down on the 30th ult. for an in
definite period The cause was overpro
duction. Over six thousand miners wer,
thrown out of employment.
E1GHTY-THREB new wells were opened
in the Titusville (Pa.) oil district durinf
November.
On the evening of the 1st the six days
walking match in New York ended as fol
lows: Littlewood, 623 miles (beating all
previous records); Herty, COS; Moore, $50;
Cartwright, 546; Noremac SO; Hart, $780,
Howarth, 596; Conner, 5s6; Golden, 5s4
Mason, 52s; Taylor, $50; Campana, $50; Ell
son. 42l; Peach, 262; c. Smith, 201
ISAIAH V. WILLIAMSON, of Philadelphia
gave to board of seven trustees on thu
LIST property valued at s., 0OO, 900 to be
spent by them in giving the poor boys OF
Philadelphia free education in mechanical
trades.
GALLINaER B Co., of New York, dealers
In glass, failed on the LIST for soc, GOO!