The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-08-29


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In the "a United States there were 100
business failures during the seven days
ended on the 23d, against 1871 the previous
seven days
THE EAST.
A FIRE destroyed q tenement-house on
West Seventh street, New York City, on the
10Th, and nine people lost their lives and
three were seriously injured
In tho lumber yard of B. l. j. Godkin,
near Tonawanda, N. Y, a FRO on tho 10th
destroyed about Z, 25O, 900 feet of lumber. :
CITIZENS Of Ntusville, Pa, on the 10th
celebrated tho thirtieth anniversary of tho
discovery OF the first oil we'll in that State
The New York Democrats will hold their
State convention at Syracuse October /.
SAMUEL. AYERS, of Worcester, Mass, an
Adventist predicted on the 2lst tho end of
the world on the night Of October Z, 1882
The suspension of the Wa,lregan Wooden
Company OF Providence, R. l., operating
several mills, was announced on the 2lst
with liabilities of $1,000, COO: assets,
100000
A CYCLONE passed over Winthrop, Me-, on
the 21st, doing great damage to crops and
leveling trees and fences
AN explosion 1gnited $4,000 barrels of oil
at the oil refinery Of A. D. Miller Il Son at
Allegheny, Pa, on the 21st, and the entire
plant was burned Loss, $225, 0V0 Two men
were consumed in the flames.
The death Of Horace Seaver, editor of the
Boston Investigator for the past fitty-one
years, occurred in that city on the 2lst, d
the ago of seventy-nine years.
On the 2lst tho $500, Ooo appropriated t.
~ In
Pa, was exhausted, and unless there wa
more money forthcoming the work would
have to be suspended Dr.. Lee was of the
still buried in the cellars of house,.
On the 2lst the British bark Onaway
which sailed from Philadelphia June 5 TO,
Bilboa with crew of fifteen men and 1A,
234 gallons of crude petroleum, was giver
up as lost
A CROWD gathered ut the dock in New
York on the 2lst to witness the big racers
Teutonic, City of New York, Saale and CITY
of Rome set out on their trip to Queens
town.
In q wreck on the 22d in the Lake shore
yard at Erie, Pa, an oil tank exploded, and
property valued at 45O,OW was DESTROYED
and two men were fatally burned
NEW HAMPSHIRE was on tho ed pro.
nounced out of debt
AT q gathering of American publicists in
Saratoga, N. Y, on the 22d National league
was organized for the protection of Amer.
lean institutions, with John Jay, of New
York, as president
JIMMY HOPE, the famous bank robber
was discharged from prison at Auburn, N
Y, on the 23d, his term having expired
but he was rearrested while on his way to
New York on another charge OF rObbing q
bank.
In New York Oh the 23d twenty-eigh1
vagrant Arabs were denied the privilege OF
landing, and the steamship which brought
them over was ordered to take them back
Four murderers, Patrick Packenham,
Jack Lewis (colored), James Nolan ard
Ferdinand Carolin, were hanged in the yard
of the Tombs in New York City on the morn
ing of the 23d. Packenham and Carolin
killed their wives and the other two their
mistresses. : ].
On the 23d the animal train OF Fo.e-
paugh's circus was wrecked near Potsdam.
n. T., ON the way to Montreal, and twenty
four trick horses, valued at many thousand
dollars, were killed, and seven chariot
horses and other animals