The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-08-15

days Total failures In the United States
since January to date 1s7, 0s2 against6, 2e7
in 1888 ss - =
A WAsH1NGToN dispatch on tho 9th stated
that the Legitime Government at Port au
Prince had paid to the United States Min
lister u, 800 compensation for the seizure Of
the steamer Ozama
: #s tine EAST. s
THE New York Produce Exchange reports
the visible supply of grain on August at:
Wheat, 1861, 967 bushels, an increase of
5S,OSs bushels; corn, 6,9s8, 351 bushels. a
decrease of 164, 100 bushels; oats S,7l9, 754
bushels, a decrease of 53s, OO9 bushels.
New" York State reports on the 9th that
the hop crops had been almost, ii not quite,
ruined by blight In many localities the
crops would not pay for the picking.
PENNSYLVANIA Republicans met in State
convention at Harrisburg on the 7th and
nominated Henry X. Boyer, of Philadel-
phja, for State Treasurer. Tho platform
adopted rejoices in the victory of 1883, in
dorses the Administration of President Har-
rison and Governor Beaver, and expresses
regret at the death of General Simon Cam
erOn.
The president of tie Forty-seoond
Street Car Company of New York, Eben 8
certificates of stock representing seven
with the company for twenty-five years.
On the 18th President Harrison arrived at
Boston on his way to Bar Harbor and was
banqueted by the citizens
ONE man and three children persisted on
the 9TH at Buffalo, N. Y, by the explosion
of a boiler on yacht owned by l. B
Croker, superintendent of the Now York
Central stock yards.
PRESIDENT HARRISON was met by Secre-
tary of State Blaine at Mount Desert ferry
on the Sth on his way to Bar Harbor, and
together they proceeded to Mr.. Blaine's
cottage, where they were welcomed by
Mrs. Blaine. Immense crowds of people
greeted the President all along the line.
BELLE HAML1N beat Harry Wilkes at
Buffalo, N. Y, on the Sth in two straight
heats Time, 2:15 and 3:17A.
The head of the gunpowder-,mak firm
of Dupont, de Nemourse l. Co., of Whining
ton, Del, General Henry Dupont, died on
the Sth, aged seventy-seven years. His
fortune is computed at $15, 100000.
EXCAVATION among the ruins at Johns
town, Pa, resulted in the finding of three
more bodies. one little girl.
STRIKING coke-workers in the region of
EVerSOn, IA, scored decided victory on
the Sth. The strike was settled on the
ninety-fve cents per hundred-bushel rate,
which is an advance of not less than an
average of from fifteen to twenty cents in
some instances and fifty per cent. in others
AT the Tombs police court, New York
City, Eben S. Allen. the president of the
Forty-second and Grand Street Ferry Rail-
way Company, was arraigned on the Sth
and held in dc 'aalt Of $101, 600 bail for trial.
Ferdinand W. Hoetle, a partner of Allen,
was arrested on the same day.
The American Dental Association in ses-
sion at Saratoga N. Y, on the 9th elected
W. NJ. Foster, Of Baltimore, Nd, president,
and decided to hold the next meeting at
Excelsior Springs NO., in $780,
An explosion of a natural-gas main of the
Monongahela Natural-Gas Company at
Pittsburgh on the night OF the 9Th caused
the death of two men, two were fatally
injured and about twenty were seriously
hurt
NEAR Edenburg, Pa, on the afternoon of
the 9th a train on tho Pittsburgh l. Western
railroad left the track and the cars all
turned over. The passengers were all more
or less injured but none seriously.