The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-03-21
The EAST.

AT GQe el0CG1On IN new hampshire on tho
18th the prohibition amendment to the
constitution was defeated by about 600
majority.
On the 18th the Catholic Total Abstinence
News, issued at Philadelphia, came out
that it would open the flood-g gates of illegal
sale and take us back to the anti-high IL
cense period
IT was decided by the Paradise Club of
Anglers Of Ne~ York on the 18th to pur-
chase seven hundred acres of forest and
fifty trout lakes in various parts of the coun-
try. This would make the largest fish and
game preserve in the world
NINE freight-main robbers were captured
on the 18th near Philipsburg, Pa
The death Of D. R. Jerauld, proprietor of
the Cataract House at Niagara Falls, N. Y,
occurred on the 18th. He had been hotel
keeper at the Falls fifty years and was
widely known.
The Connecticut Legislature passed bill |
on the 14th prohibiting the use of tobacco
for smoking by minors under sixteen years
of age. The bill makes the delivery of to-
baccO to q minor a crime, as Well as the sale
of it.
SIX miners were imprisoned in the Black
Diamond colliery at Mount Carmel, Pa, on
the 18th by fall of rock
By the explosion of a boiler on the 18th
the West Point boiler works of Monroe l.
Sons at Pittsburgh, Pa, five men were
killed and eleven injured
AT Utica N. Y, Virgil Jackson was hanged
on the 18th for the murder of Norton Met
calf on the 10Th of January, 1883.
The six miners entombed the other day in
the Black Diamond colliery near Mount Car
mel Pa were rescued alive and well on the
18th.
DONALD KENNEDY, the famous patent
medicine man, who made fortune by the
sale of DIR. Kennedy's Medical Discovery
died on the 18th in Boston
GREAT excitement was caused on the 18th
by the discovery Of new oil wells at East
Titusv1lle, Pa, the home of the famous
''grasshopper wells " of old, and every foot
of land within mile of the little settle
ment had been gobbled up by Spectators.
SEVERAL counterfeiters in New York City
who for several weeks past had been sue
cessfully putting spurious silver dollars in
circulation were arrested on the 18th.
CONFESSION was made by George s
Reese, foreman of the squib factory at Ply.
mouth, Pa, which exploded recently, kill
ing ten girls and wounding many others
before dying on the 10Th that it was he and
llOV hiCle Jones VINO caused the EXPLOSION
He was smoking and spark from his pipe
ignited key of powder.
On the 18th Mrs. Anastasia Parsells, OF
Bayonne, N. j., celebrated her one hundred
and third birthday. She was in good health,
| and always prided herself on the fact that
| when twelve years of age she was kissed by
George Washington.
! The steamer Caroline Miller arrived in
New York on the 10th from Cape Haytien
, and the captain said that twelve of Leg1t.
ines soldiers who had been taken prison
ers by Hippolyte were shot in the public
square at Cape Haytien.
| MARY ANDERSON was seriously i'll in Phil
adelphia on the 18th and her theatrical en-
gagements for the rest of the season had
| been cancelled.
A STORM did damage to the extent OF
$5O, 600 to property in the vicinity of Asbur,
Park, N. j., on the 10Th.
The bark E. l. Pettingill, with her Grew
of thirteen men, was reported on the 18th
as lost in Chesapeake bay. The BARI
hailed from Portland, Me.
! The discovery was made on the 10Th that
Edward Swan, paying teller of the Natio,
City Bank of Lynn, Mass, was a defaulte
to the extent OF $6S, 600.