The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-10-24
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
FROM WA0HINoToN.

beef and hog exports from the United States
was 81, s04. 505 and OF dairy products 1884,
954
SECRETARY OF STATE BLAINE stated on
the 18th that the first thing the Republic
ans in Congress would undertake at the
coming session would be the passage of .
tariff bill z-.'s- -s-rfe-s--s-.-
In the United States the business failures
during tho seven days ended on the 18th
seven dayA
THE EAST.
On the 18th the officers and executive
boards of the Knights OF Labor and the
American Federation OF Labor convened at
Philadelphia to consider tho eight hour
question. ~ e. 81 e e
MRS. LUCY EDDY, aged twenty, Of New
York, quarreled on the 18th with her hus-
band, young carpenter. took carbolio
acid. and died In twenty minuteA In the
death, the black hair of tho victim turned
white
THE discovery was made on the 18th that
the grave of Ralph Waldo Emerson in
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery At Concord,
Mass, had been desecrated by unknown
persons who intended removing part Of the
remains, but were frightened away before
they could accomplish their purpose
GALLArz1N (Pa~) advices Of tho 14th were
to tho effect that many children were dy-
ing of diphthoria. Several parents had
been rendered chtldless.
ALL along the Massachusetts coast terrific
storms were raging on the 18th, and re-
ports from Chatham, Vineyard Haven, Nam
tucket and Boston gave accounts of loss of
life and vessels wrecked
AL
N. Deely, while drunk, threw his fve-year-
old boy into the river, the fall being forty
five feet The child was rescued, but could
not recover:
The passengers on the ocean steamship
Ems which arrived in New York on the 10th
encountered fearfully rough weather, hav-
Ing been two days In q hurricane Just be-
fore sighting Sandy Hook.
AT the session OF the Episcopal conven-
ton in New York on the 10Th it was decided
not to change tho name of tho church from
Protestant Episcopal" and it was de.
clared that there was no distinction Of color
recognized in the church
On Police Island, Lake Erie, smallpox
was epidemic on the 10th. about two hun
dred persons being afflicted with it. Can. dla
had quarantinel tho mainland against the
island, which had become vast pest house.
Ex- PRESIDENT HAYES was reelected
Commander in Chief at the annual meet
ing Of the Military Order Of tho Loval
Legion held in Philadelphia on the 18th.
/ AT the session in New York on the 18th of
tho Episcopal convention the resolution
presented by Rev. Dr. Huntington pro-
vtdtng for Joint committee to prepare q
standard prayer-book for 1892 was adopted
On the 18th the First Unitarian Church
of Quincy, Mass celebrated it's two hum
dred and fiftieth anniversary. John Han
cock, father Of the signer OF the declaration
| OF independence, was ordained it's first
pastor in 1726
On the 18th two men were killed ind
| three severely injured by an explosion of
| boiler at Rtverberg packing house, near
Crystal Lake, Pa
The death of General John F. Hartranft,
Ex-Governor of Pennsylvania, occurred at
Norristown on tho 18th. Deceased was
born in Montgomery County, Pa, and was
! fifty mine years of age.
PREFERRED stockholders of the Northern
Pacific on the 18th at New York voted on
and approved 1.-The Willard PLAN" authoriz-
ing the issue of $l6O, 0OO, 600 new five per
cent. bonds, payable ono hundred years
hence.
| IT was announced on tho 18th that Mag
| gle Mitchell had married in Boston Charles
! Abbott the leading man of her company.
On the 18th the first game of the eleven
for the worlds base ball championship be-
tween New York and Brooklyn was played
| at New York In the presence Of s, AS people.
Brooklyn won by scoro of IL to 10.
In the Episcopal convention a5 New York
on the 18th the committee on canons pre-
sented report that they deemed it mex
pcdient to establish missionary episcopate
for the colored people.
IN session at Pittsburgh, Pa, ON the 18th
barb-wire and w1re-nail manufacturers de-
cided to advance the price of barb-wire
five per cent and the price Of wtxe nails
from seven to eight per cent