The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-05-30
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! Tbs accountants ON the 21st completed
an estimate of the cash value of the cur
rency, coin and securities turned over to
Treasurer Huston by ex-TfeaDuror Hyatt
and found tho total amount to he $722, zoo, :
600.
OK the 2lst the Secretary OF tho Treasury
received q conscience contribution from q
resident of Washington In the form of four
teen two cent stamps
The President: on the s4th appointed B. F.
Gilkerson, of Pennsylvania, to be Second
Comptroller of the Treasury.
DURING the seven days ended on the 34th
tAero were 40 business failures I'm tho
United states, agailst 100 TIA previous ssven
dayA Total failures In the United States
from January to date is 4, 500, against 3SS
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% On the 10th Waham n Derby, cashier of
the Mutual District Messenger Company Of
Boston, wds arrested fot defrauding the
company out Of $4,000.
'SrEvE'" BRoDIE, Axho achieved notoriety
by leaping from Brooklyn bridge, jumped
over the falls at Passaic, N. j., on the 9Oth,
distance of los feet, and sustained no in
jury 49, -
The American Baptist Publication socie-
ty began its sixty fifty annual meeting on
tho 2Oth at Boston.
In Girard College at Philadelphia appro-
pirate ceremonies were held on the 10th by
the Alumni Association, the occasion being
the one hundred and thirty ninth anniver-
sary Of the birth of Stephen Girard
The news was received in New York on
the auth of the murder of Rev. Mr. Hobbs, q
Baptist minister from the United States
and his wife and little daughter, who had
been living at Florus bay, in the West In
dies. A sailor named Burrell had been Ar
rested for the triple murder.
A CYCLONE on the 2Oth swept through the
Lackawanna valley in Pennsylvania, and
many houses were wrecked, fences blown
down, barns demolished and whole or
chards ruined No loss of life was reported.
The report that John D. Rockefeller had
offered to endow the proposed Baptist
University ut Chicago to the amount of
S6OO, GOO was confirmed at the Office of that
gentleman in New York on the 10Th.
On the 10th the Neversink, smaller
Boston for Paris by way Of Havre with
three men on beard
The coal companies at Scranton, Pa,
ordered resumption of work in their
collieries on the 9Oth The order gave work
to nearly eight thousand persons who had
been idle seven months
AMBROSE VAN TAssE1, of Elizabeth, N. J.,
fell dead on the 21st while funeral services
were being conducted over the remains IF
his wife.
BY an explosion of gas in the basement
of the Van Ness House at Boston on the
,22d, five men were fatally burned.
The annual examination took place on
the ed ut the Government Indian Training
School at Carlisle, Pa The graduating class
consisted Of fourteen Indian pupils
ON the 23d John Humphreys, miner at
Plymouth, Pa, was notified that he had
fallen heir to $50, 1000 by the death of his
aunt in Australia
FIRE destroyed the Ripley marble mills
at Center Rutland, vt, on the Esd. LOSS,
100000.
NUMEROUS vessels were wrecked on the
ed at Lewes, Del, by gale.
FLAMES swept away the passenger sta
ton, frelght-houses and wharves of the
Housatonic railroad at Wilson's Point,
Conn, causing a loss of 100000.
FRANK COMPTON, a gardener at West
Pittston, Pa, on the ed cut his wife'e
throat and his own. Jealousy caused the
crime.
The death Of Charles Clendenning, the
Oldest resident of Allegheny County, Pa,
occurred on the 23d at Pittsburgh, at the age
of one hundred and one years. The de-
ceased never used whisky or tobacco in any
70 ~.
death was remarkably healthy:
On the oath John c. Bradley, cashier of
the Merchants National Bank of e New
Haven, Conn, was said to be 900, 900 short
i'm his accounts -
THREE ncn were suffocated on the 24th
in = collfery at Branchdale, Pa, by the
sudden Outburst of gas 49,: =.
The trustees of the Theological Seminary
at Hartford, Conn, voted on the 24th to open
all courses of the institution to women on
the same terms as to men. It is the first
institution of the kind in the country to
undertake the theological training OF
women.
The death of Laura Bridgeman, deaf,
dumb and blind from two years of age,
made famous by Charles Dickens in his
american Notes. also by many public
references to her wonderful intelligence &C.
CURED in Boston on the oath at the age of
sixty years. ..:.
ON the oath Colonel Samuel Shoch died at
his home in Columbus, Pa, aged ninety two
years. He was "A .pensioner Of the war of
1872
WHILE q bucket Of broken rocks weighing
over ton was being hoisted to the surface
On the 224th in: a mine near Kingston, Pa.
the wire rope broke, letting the bucket fall
nearly one thousand feet upon ten men, six
of whom were killed: