The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-10-03

NEfhESENIAIISES Ol VdI1Oub WOMoub OI.
CARNATIONS met in Washington on the 9th
and took preliminary steps toward erecting
monument to tho memory of Mrs. Lucy
Webb Hayes. the deceased wife of ex-Pres-
ident Hayes
THE EAST.
In Fritz Bros saw-mill near Berlin, Pa.
the boiler burst On the 9th, killing John
Fritz, Edward Fritz, Oliver Ross and David
Baker, all young men of that vicinity. Two
men named Brandt were badly hurt.
The suspension of the New York
Graphic, daily pictorial paper, occurred
on the 24th
The death of ex-Surgeon-General Joseph
Beale, with relative rank of Commodore
in the United States navy, occurred on the
24th in Philadelphia, aged seventy-tve
years
EDWARD WAIMUTH, an aerOnaut, made an
ascent at Cooperstown, N. Y, ON the Gath,
and when a mile high, and over Usage lake,
dropped into the water. His body had not
been recovered
A NEW directory of the city of Johns
town, Pa. issued on the Oath, showed that
the number of deaths by the flood was
$500
STATUES are to be erected in Boston of
Grant, Sheridan and Farragut, 500, 600
having been provided for that purpose,
one-half by the city and the rest by the
State.
The Republicans of New York met in State
convention on the 25th at Saratoga and NOM
mated ticket headed by John L Gilbert of
Malone, for Secretary OF State The reso-
lutions affirm faith in the tariff, congratu-
late President Harrison upon the success of
his Administration, and arraign Governor
Hill for his various yetOes
FIRE destroyed the Columbia Hotel at
Cape May, n j., on the 18th. Loss $l0O,OOO
1t was new building.
On the 18th six men who had served five
years in prison at Scottsdale, Pa, were
discharged, their innocence of the crime
having been established.
ALL the Pennsylvania railroad divisions
east Of the Pittsburgh and Erie showed on
the 25th an increase in net earnings for tho
past eight months over the same period in
iSSS of $45S, COS The divisions west of
Pittsburgh and Erie showed a gain of 1921
S25 over the corresponding time last year
In the Ives case at New York the Jury
failed to agree and were discharged on tho
18th. They stood ten for conviction and
two for acquittal.
REPUBLICANS of Massac husetts met in
State convention at Boston on the 25th, aid
J. Q. A. Bracket was nominated for Gov
crnor.
A FARMER named Hcrnberger, of Mohrs-
vile, Pa, went to New York and paid $500
! for queer greenbacks. He expressed the
bundle to his address at home, and on
| opening it on the Goth found sawdust and
clay.
MISS ANITA Mccormick, of Chicago,
daughter Of the late Cyrus Mccormick, in
ventOr OF the reaping machine, was mar
Ri 1f To NJ p10;,@ -
Secretary of State, at Richfeld Springs N.
| Y, on the :6th
By an explosion at Latin l. Rand's pow
| der mill at Cressona, Pa., on the Goth, three
men were killed AMI several others in
| jurcd.
! The firm OF Pagensticker 4 Co.. of New
| York, the largest exporters of petroleu UNI in
the country. failed on the Goth for $500, OOO
On the 18th seven men were horribly
burned by molten metal at the Edgar
Thomson steel works in Braddock, Pa
One had died and three others were fatal
| ly injured
NEAR Palatine Bridge, N Y, the rear
sleepers of an express train OH the New
York Central railroad were telescoped by
another train on the night Of the 9th,
and the number of killed was placed at
twenty-five and many others were injured
JOHN H. QUINN, who recently murdered
his wife at Alton, Pa, committed suicide
in Jail on the 9Th by hanging himself with
a sheet
LOUIS DUBOIS, aged fifty three years;
Nathalie Dubois. his niece, aged thirty
cight years; Mrs. George Michaud, her
daughter Leah Michaud, aged seven, and
Rosanna Levitere, aged eight years, were
all drowned on the 27th near Fall River,
Mass, by the capsizing of boat.
On the 9th the Cold Springs Presbyterian
church, the Oldest in New Jersey, cele-
brated its one hundred and seventy fifth
anniversary. 1t was founded in l714
AT Johnstown, Pa, two more bodies were
taken from the debris Oh the 9th
FIRE damaged the building of the West
inghouse Electric Light Company at Pitts
burgh, Pa, to the extent OF 100000 on the
9th.
WEST AND SOUTH.
FIVE men held up train on the Santa Fe