The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-05

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attack on any stage coach or railway train
having the malls In transit.
In his report to tho State Department Ut
Washington on the SOth ult Consul Stevens,
of Victoria D. G., said thor. were over
twenty vessels, valued ut about $l25, zoo and
employing 40 men, engaged in hunting
fur seal.
THE EAST. ~
FIRE destroyed the lumber mill and bob
bin factory of J. E. Smith Il Co., at Black
Falls, vt, ON the 9th, causing heavy loss.
JOHN & HclNTosH. . wool dealer Mt Nil
ton, Mass, failed on the 9th for ;1O0,0O0
The steamer Wyoming landed 125 Nor
mons at Castle Garden, New York, on the
9th
The Conemaugh .Pa) valley school
boards appealed on the 9th to the charita-
bic people and friends Of education
throughout the country for aid to buy
books, AZ the general flood relief fund can
not be applied to that purpose.
In q nail factory at TOwanda, Pa. q
boiler exploded ON the 9th killing Richard
Ackley, Sanford Smith, John Bostwick,
Isaac Brantford and Guy Reman, and fatally
injuring two other men,
The marc Belle Hamlin was sent a
Rochester, N. Y. on the 9th to break he1
record of 1854, and she made the mile
Without a skip In 2:12s.
A. CoBURN, Son 4 Co. g shoe factory ut
Kapkinton, Mass, was burned on tho 9th,
and over three hundred wcrkmen were
thrown out of employment
The ocean race was won by the steamer
City of New York on the eth, making the
trip from New York to Queenstown in six
days, two hours aud fifty minutes
On the 2Sth J. B. Johnston, of Pittsburgh,
was nominated for s: ate Treasurer by the
Pennsylvanta Prohibition convention At
Harrisburg.
The steamer City Of Paris reached New
York on the 2Sth, her time for the voyage
being five days, nineteen hours and eight.
cen minutes.
The Honton pig iron works, located few
miles north Of Buffalo, n. Y, wera started
up on tho 2sth, after being shut down for
sixteen years. -:
ductng companies met in New York on the
38th and decided to restrict the GOAL pro-
duction for September to three million
tons, decrease of one million tons from
tho corresponding month last year.
II. H. WARNER, OF Rochester, N Y, agreed
on the 10Th to sell his immense business for
FL ,O0O, 0OO to British syndicate. The sale
includes the Warner proprietary medi-
cines, yeast business and a safe manufac-
tory.
FLAMES swept away the business portion
Of the historic village of Sacketts Harbor.
n. Y, on the Goth.
In Boston ON the 9th Oliver Wendell
Holmes, the genial poet and "autocrat, ~
celebrated his eightieth birthday.
WOMAN suffragists OF New York will hold
State convention at Saratoga October 2
and s.
AT the New Hampshire State fair on tho
10Th at Manchester Mr. James F. Boyd and
Miss Adilie Brooks were married in bal
loon and took a wedding trip among the
clouds
THE death of Miss Ann Jones, a resident
OF Jay Bridge, Me-, occurred on the 18th,
aged eighty seven years She had been an
Invalid for seventy years, during the last
sixty years OF W hich she had been confined
to her bed.
On the 30th ult. William J. Fry, young
man sent to the Jail at Pittsburgh, Pa, for
drunkenness committed suicide in his cell
by stabbing himself In the heart with lead
pencil
/ AN explosion OF hot metal on the 30th
ult in the Homestead steel works at Pitts
burgh, Pa. resulted in the killing of two
men and the serious burning of seven 9TH
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