The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-01-03
The New Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND NAIL.
Faoaa WARRINGTON.

value Of the imports for the same time was
&7l6. 81, 40 I
TIE remains Of General John A. Logan
were on the 26th taken from the vault 1T
Washington in which they were placed
two years ago and carried to the mortuary
chapel, erected by his widow In the ceme-
terry Of the SOLDIER Home, which will be
their final resting place.
A DECISION Of the Secretary of the Inte-
ricr on the 9th restores to the public do
main over thirty.four thousand acres Of
land in Oregon which had wrongfully been
cert fed Is swamp land.
A VESSEL no larger than . sailboat sr.
rived at Washington on the 9th after .
voyage Of nearly six Thousand miles. The
vessel was built by its commander, Cap
tain 6locum. In Rio Janeiro Brazil, to con-
vey himself, wife and two children to
America, ana left Rio Janeiro on July "A
last.
DURING the seven days ended on the
28th there were 200 business failures N
the United States, against 81 the previous
seven days
Ow1Na to business irregularities II. C.
Astwood, United States Consul at San
Domingo, was on the 18th dismissed in dis
grace from his position.
DURING the year ended June 30 the total
foreign commerce at all the ports Of the
United States was valued at 1859 s, 663, 79O.
against q, 5A, 81, 462 the previous year.
THE EAST.
On the oath Henry and John Van Wor-
mer ,brothers). aged fifty-five and fifty
eight years, were killed by train near
Oneonta, N Y.
WHILE skating on the 25th George B.
Ponos, HE xt,1o rH
were drowned at Lake Village, NJ II.
A FIRE burned over seven acres in the
business district OF Marblehead, Mass,
on the 25th, causing loss of $500 600.
Twelve years ago the same locality was
destroyed by fire.
MRS. PRlEsrLr and her little grand
daughter were burned to death on the Path
In their house at Forest City. Pa.
The steamer Silver Star, of Bar Harbor,
Me-. struck on a hidden wreck on the 18th
and sunk in twelve fathoms of water The
captain and crew of eight men escaped
with the clothes they wore
In conversation on the Goth Mayor Hew-
lit, OF New York. said that his expenses
In the recent election were $40, 600.
DURING al entertainment On the Goth
hull at York, Pa, collapsed, burying
three hundred persons in the ruins, and
large number were seriously injured
By the capsizing Of boat two ladies
named Smith were drowned on the 28th at
Hillsvillp, Pa.
COMPLAINT was made by iron manu-
facturers ut Philadelphia on the 18th til It
there was no money in their business, and
they feared that some of their number
would be obliged to shut down unless the
price Of iron was raised.
GEORGE and Peter Matcello (brothers),
during q drunken quarrel on the Goth at
Leisenring, Pa, threw their landlady,
Mrs. Dubosh, down stairs, breaking her
neck.
In New York the National Academy of
Theology was organ zel on the 9th, its
object being the prosecution of theology
Is science. Prof. James Strang, D. D.,
Of Drew Theological Seminary, was chosen
president.
The city OF Newton, one Of Boston's
suburbs. celebrated It's two hundredth an
niversary as town on the 9th.
ON the 9th National Scientific Asso-
citation was formed at Cornell University
In Ithaca, n. Y, Dr.. James Hall, State
Geologist OF New York, being elected
president.
JAMES GREEN, OF Wolcott, N. Y, cut his
wife's throat on the 9th and then gashed
his own, both dying within short per. 3d.
Family troubles led to the tragedy.
WILLIAM GREEN and Patrick Kenny, of
New York, and Timothy Cassidy, of Brook
Ign, were arrested on the 9th by United
States Ulcers while engaged in making
counterfeit silver dollars.
G. WE1NMANN & Co., of Philadelphia,
furniture dealers, faile on the 2Sth with
SIS, 600 assets and $40 600 liabilities.