The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-08-01
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL,
FROM WASHINGTON.

BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
FROM WASHINGTON.
| In the Un ted States the total production
Of pig iron In the first six month. of 1881
amounted to 4. 167, 500 net tons Of 2,OO(
pounds, against 8, S86,6A net tons the Pre-
vious six months
AN order was issued by Secretary Noble
on the ed directing DR.. George Ewing and
H L. Bruce, OF the Board of Pension
Appeals, and Judge Frank l. Campbell, Of
the Assistant Attorney Generals office, Z
| committee to investigate all reratings OF
pensions made during the last twelve
| months
The death of Rev. Father Curley, director
OF Georgetown observatory, occurred IN
Washington on the oath, aged ninety-three
years He was the Oldest priest in the
United States, and, a. far a. known. in the
world
ADyICEs Of the 18th from tho European
Union of Astronomers announced the dis
covery Of a bright comet in tho southern
heavens by Prof. Davidson. of Queensland
In the United States there were 1877 bust.
ness failures during the seven days ended
on tho 10th, against 1873 the previous seven
DAYS.
W. c. ELAN, Of Virgins, was on the goth
appointed Chief of the Division of Rail-
roads in the General Land Office, Woo Gen.
eral y. N. Wilcox, relieved.
the EAST.
MASSACHUSETTS, Prohibitionists will meet
In State convention at Worcester Septem-
bert
The death of Rev. Edward E. Randkin
D. D., one of the best known Presbyterian
ministers In the country, occurred on the
ed at Newark, N. j., aged seventy years.
The steamer Lorenzo d. Baker waf
burned recently while on her way from
Jamaica to Boston. The passengers and
crew numbered twenty-seven, of whom all
but two were saved
The death of John Murphy occurred In
New York on the 23d of consumption. He
was probably the best known and most
popular driver and trainer Of trotttnP
horses that this country had ever seen
BEFORE the referee in the Kemmler cleo
trio execution case in New York on the
23d Inventor Edison testified that an alter
mating current of electricity would kill q
man instantly and painlessly.
On the 23d John l. Sullivan came into
possession of $3O.OOO in New York It was
the stake money In the recent fight
The Vanderbilts secured control Of the
Chesapeake l. Ohio railway on the 23d.
On the Esd Mrs. Mary Brady, who enjoys
the distinction Of being the only woman in
New Jersey ever convicted Of being a CON-
mon scold, was fined twenty-five dollars
and warned to keep civil tongue in her
head
The latest statistics, carefully compiled
by the board of inquiry, showed on the
oath that the number of lives lost in the
devastated district of Johnstown, Pa, was
six thousand
The four tinsmtths who arrived at New
York from Germany under contract to work
for Milwaukee timer were sent back on
the Ath
BALL Bros. glass factory and works 1T
Buffalo, N. Y, were burned on the 9th and
several adjacent cottages were badly dam
aged. Loss. 100000.
ATPhiladelph1a Charles Orbann, fifteen
year-old newsboy, received q check for
@so, 6aa 80 from the Traction Company for
injuries received by one OF their cable cars
CHAuSCEY KN1FF1N, of Lake Mahopac, N.
Y, fatally shot his wife on the oath and
then killed himself. Domestic troubles
were the cause
In Boston on the 18th J. Fitzpatrick broke
the worlds record in a running high jump
by three-Quarters of an inch, He iumDed
6 feet AZ inches.
FIVE of the six brewertes in Paterson, N
j., had on the 18th been purchased by an
English syndicate for an aggregate of g.
3SO, OGO, the owners to retain a one-third in
terest In the concerns.
The well-known dry-g goods firm of Lewis
Brothers l. Co., OF Philadelphia, failed on
the 18th for s4,c00,00o. 1t was thought the
assignment would only be temporary
AT the homo of Peter Rollins (colored,.
near Summit, Mass, barrel of whisky ex-
ploded on the 18th, causing the death OF hia
daughter and mortally wounding his son.
The failure of the Richmond Paper Com
pany of Providence, R. L, for $66S, GOO, was
announced on the 18th.
The death of Mary Jackson (colored) o.
CURED on the 26th at Ithaca, N. Y, at the
age of one hundred and five years
In New York on the Goth Citizen George
Franco Train completed what he desig-
na7ed his lone hundred days. fast" Ac-
cording to his story he has subsisted upon
half pound Of chocolate and milk daily
during this time, and never felt better in
his life. He has dropped the title "Cit
lien" and assumed that of Rev"