The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-10-31
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH MAIL
From WASfON 0TON.

BY TELEGRAPH AND NAIL. g
-.,-~-.as From WASHINGTON. 81
GENERAL CREENsB RAUsf assumed control
of the PENSION Odco onthe Art IL
:sssTnE Secretary osN ar Aaid$bn the ed that
the Government was experimenting with
the smokeiess lowdcr.
In September last 1854 immigrants
came to this country, against 80, S65 In Sep
tember. 1855. :, s's~''
EXPORTS OF merchandise from The United
States during September aggregated in
value &65,u74, 371; against s41 49,, 5S4 In Sep
tember, 1850 Imports for last month were
valued at SIS, GLE, TAO, against ga, 1875 sl5 In
September 16ee -'-
POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER on the.
oath awarded the contract for furnishing
leah Bank Note Company of New York.
I In tho United statea tho business failures
during the seven days ended on the 18th
numbered 1Sa and for Canada 81. For the
corresponding week last year the figures
wore 22 failures ~ the United States and
81 In Canada. Va. f. ,>5 81 ~ y a
THE EAST.
Only one out of sixteen bodies reinforced
on the 22d at Johnseown, Pa, was identi-
fed
On the 2od the third game Of the worlds
series for the base. ball championship be-
tween the New Yorks and Brooklyns took
place at New York on the 22d and resulted
in a victory for the Brooklyns by = score of
StOz 1er.,.
tON tho 23l an old gentleman named Fort
Finger committed suicide in the town of
Cone Pa, He WAS Respondent over
his great losses by tho Hood.
On the Esd bicycle road-race from Buff.
falo to Rochester. n Y, seventy -four miles,
was won by the West End Club of Roches-
ter. The best time was by c. J. Ives, five
hours and thirty mine minutes.
AT Pottsville, Pa Pietro Baranovski was
hanged on the :"SSd for numbering the wife
of Anthony Putlavitch, afellow-mjner, and
their maid-servant, and robbing and burn
ing their house on May l2, lSSS
The death OF John G. X. 1ruair, for thirty
years publisher Of the Syracuse IN. w.
Journal, occurred on the 2Sd, aged seventy
two years.
IN Brooklyn on the 2sd the fourth game
Of the worlds series for the base ball cham
pionship between the New. Yorks and
Brooklyns took place and resulted in a
victory for the Brooklyns by score Of 10
to7.
Ixa quarrel at Boston on the ed over ono
dollar bet on horse race Roderick McKin-
non, aged twenty-eight years, was stabbed
and killed by IN unknown man
ABOUT two hundred Cinnamon left New
York on the esd for China to return no
more.
LYMAN DAVIS, aged one hundred and
fourteen years, died In the town of Sails
bury. n. Y, on tho esd He was q farmer
and had lived in Salisbury for nearly a
century. f.
On the cath Rev. DR.. Cyrus A. Barthol, for
fifty years pastor of tho Old West Church in
Boston. resigned on account of poor health
AT Milton. N. Y, Mrs Robert D. Dickey
and her mother, Mrs Murray, were thrown
from carriage and fatally injured on the
24th
The loss of the steamer Brooklyn, en-
route from Darlen, Ga, to Brooklyn, with
her captain and crew OF thirteen men, was
verified on the Nth
o. the 9th the fifth game OF the worlds
! series for the baseball championship BE-
tween the New Yorks and Brooklyns took
J place at Brooklyn and resulted in q victory
, for the New Yorks by a score of ii to g.
FIRE destroyed the business portion of
| the village OF Felt's Mills, N. Y, on the
24th.
ONE HUNDRED acres of the White Oak
colliery near Archibald, Pm, caved in on
the 18th, and the mine was lractically
ruined.
FLAMES on the 25th at Port Leyden, N. Y,
wiped out the opera-house, Douglass House,
eight stores, the post-otfice and several
dwellings, many persons having narrow
| escapes Fifteen families were rendered
homeless
\ NUMBER of school-children near Frank
lin, Pa, on the 25th found dynamite
bomb which they exploded in attempting
to open it with knife, and two boys we're
fatally hurt and eight others were in a
i, critical condition.
THE sixth game Of the series for the base
ball championship OF the world between
the New Yorks and Brooklyns took place at
New York on the 9th and resulted in a
victory for the New Yorks by score of to l.
On the 25th the schooner Forest Fairy,
which sailed from Boston for the Azores
August %, was given up as lost. She had
thirty seven people on board, mostly Por-
tuguese, returning home.
CHARLES McILvA1NE, a nineteen-year-old
murderer, was on the 25th sentenced to
death by electricity in Sing Sing prison.
New York, some time during the first week
in December.