The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-03-28
THE EAST.

NEAR DAYS Mills, Mass, house was
burned on the 10th, and Mrs Russell, aged
seventy nine years. and two daughters of
a neighbor named Truehart, aged five and
nineteen years. persisted in the flames.
EARLY on the morning of the Goth the car
and paint shops Of the Central railroad of
New Jersey at Ashley, Pa, were destroyed
by fire. Loss, $1,000
ELEVEN collieries operated by the Le-
high Wilkesbarre Company near Wilkes
barre, Pa, which had been idle since Feb
ruary %, resumed work on the 10th, Civ
ing employment to nearly six thousand
persons.
ABRAM S. HEWITT and Edward Cooper,
proprietors of the New Jersey Steel and
Iron Works at Trenton, N j., would, it was
said on the GOTH move their works to Chat
tanooga, Tenn. They employ thirteen hun
dred men, paying them 81 ,OUO, 600 yearly in
wages.
Two BOYS and three women were arrested
on the 2lst at York, Pa, charged with the
responsibility of recent series OF fires in
that locality.
AT Atlantic City, N. j., four houses were
wrecked on the q st by high water, and other
damage to property was DONE
On the 2lst Robert Craven, of Philadel-
phia, treasurer of the Philadelphia, Will
mington e. Baltimore Railroad Company,
was said to be SIC, 900 short in his accounts.
CHARLES N1ER, of Scranton, Pa, ran a
needle into his foot a week ago, and
surgeons sought In vain for it. On the 2lst
Nier was taken to the plant of an electric
railway, his foot held near one of the
dynamos, and in fifteen minutes the needle
was drawn out
RHODE ISLAND Republicans on the Dist
nominated Herbert w. Laid, of Provi-
dence, for Governor, and Daniel G. Little
field for Lieutenant Governor.
JUDGE BENEDICT on the 2lst sentenced
Robert Sigel, son of General Franz Sigel,
who pleaded guilty to forging pension
checks in New York to six years. imprison-
ment at hard labor in the Erie County
penitentiary.
The two thousand miners of the Pennsyl-
vania Coal Company were informed as they
were leaving work near Scranton on the ed
that shut down" had been decided upon.
to take place at once.
UNUs UALLY high tides and heavy seas had,
on the 22d wrought sad havoc along the
New Jersey coast, and the damage to prop
erty would amount to hundreds Of thou
sands of dollars.
FIRE de troyed the courthouse and CITY
HERR Won BULow, the great musician, ar
rived at New York from Europe on the 23d.
On the oath Albert Eindstrom shot Emily
Schenckle and killed himself at Worcester.
Mass. The woman had refused to marry
him.
FOUR steamships landed $50 immigrants
at Castle Garden, New York, on the Ath.
The failure of the Billiard Art Publishing
Company of Worcester, Mass, occurred on
the Esd for sl50,000.
The house and barn of Henry Wesson,
near Grafton, Mass, were burned on the
24th and $1,000 in money In the house, and
eleven head of cattle in the barn, were de-
stroyed by the flames
WEST AND SOUTH.
The fifth daughter of Chief-Justice Fuller.
Miss Pauline, aged nineteen years, was
married in Milwaukee on the 18th by a ius-
tice of the peace. The groom was J. Matt
Aubury, Jr, of Chicago, and it was runa-
way match.
The statement was made on the 10th by q
buyer for one OF the largest Kansas City,
mo dressed-beef houses that any hostile
legislation to that industry would be re-
sented by boycotting the State enacting
such a law
a oooN1Iac ELL uOIAt1, IAduc VI UTGSS WIFI
thin coating of silver electro plate, made
It's appearance in Chicago on the GOTH and
very inferior counterfeit half and quarter
dollars were also discovered in circulation.
GUST WERNER, q merchant tailor at To.
peka, Kan, in a quarrel over rent on the
10Th, shot and killed John Spendlove and
then killed himself.
A BOY named David Barkey, of Milton
township, O., who had a severe attack OF
hydrophobia, was recovering on the 10th.
Physicians and scientists were writing to
know what treatment the boy received
HE Governor of Colorado signed live
stock and meat inspection bill on the 2lst
which practically prohibits the importation
OF meats from Chicago and other Eastern
packing houses.
UNITED STATES troops drove nearly three
hundred boomers out of Oklahoma ON the
2lst
Four masked men robbed passenger
train on the Atlantic l. Pacific railroad on
the 2lst at Canyon Diablo, A. T.. The Wells
Fargo express-car was rif1ed, but the
amount secured was not known.
The stable of Pohlman Brothers, in St.
Louis, was destroyed by fire on the 2lst and