The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-05-09
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND NAIL.
FROM WASHINGTON.

BY TELEGRAPH AND NAIL,
FROM WASHINGTON.
AT twenty-six leading clearing houses in
the United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 9th aggregated $685.,
359,3l6 against 81 ,OO8. 7s6, 27S the previous
week. As compared with the corresponding
week of 1883 the increase amounted to "a
In various cities throughout the country
General Grants sixty. seventh birthday was
celebrated on the 9th.
On the 3Oth ult the centennial of the in
auguration of George Washington as the
first President Of the United States was fit
tingly observed throughout the entire
country
The public debt statement issued on the
LIST showed the total debt to be 81 ,672, O51, :
6c7; cash in Treasury, S., CT, $50; debt less
cash in Treasury, ,l,1o1 Cos, 42a Decrease
during April, $l3,O78.964 Decrease since
June 80, 1883, SOS, 979, 22S
The Commissioner of the Pension Office
stated on the Sd that the number of ex-
soldiers who were drawing pensions for
total blindness at the rate of ST. per month
was S!S
Their were Isl business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the 3d., against Isl the previous seven
days The total of failures in the United
States January to date was A. 500, against
3S92 in 1885,
On the Sd Sir Julian Pauncefote, the new
British Minister, was formally presented to
the President by Secretary of State Blaine.
The President issued u proclamation on
the Sd throwing open the Fort Sisscton
military reservation in Dakota for settle
ment
THE EAST.
The managers of the Boston l. Maine
railroad ON the 18th ult. ordered heads of
departments to allow no work on Sunday
except to run regular trains.
In New York City the centennial celebra-
ton on the 30th ult was grand and impos-
ing one. This continent had never seen it's
like before. In the great parade nearly
every State and Territory was represented.
In the evening the Metropolitan Opera
House was the scene of probably the great
est banquet ever held within the recollec-
ton of man. On the evening of the Goth
the great ball took place.
The death Of Hon. William H. Barnum,
chairman of the National Democratic Com
mittee, occurred at Lime Rock, Conn.,, on
the morning of the 30th ult. at the age
OF seventy one years. Mr.. Barnum had
been confined to his bed but two or three
days, but for several months had been in
poor health.
0THE formal opening of the Erie canal
took place on the LIST.
In the Hyde Park colliery near Wilkes
barre, Pa, Patrick Ritchford, Michael Finn
and Patrick Reagan (miners) were crushed
to death on the lst by the falling OF por-
ton of the mine roof.
The schooner Shiloh with crew of four
teen men, which left Gloucester, Mass,
March ., on fishing trip was on the LIST
given up as lost.
In Boston on the LIST the twenty-seventh
anniversary of General Buffers cccupa-
ton of New Orleans was observed by the
Butler Club.
On the LIST Senator John Sherman, John
c. New, Consul-General at London; W. w.
Thomas, Minister to Sweden and Norway,
and Lincoln Valentine, Consul to the Hon
duras, sailed for Europe on the steamer
City of New York.
On the third and last day of the New York
centennial celebration the feature was a
mammoth civic and Industrial parade on
the LIST. President Harrison reviewed the
procession from stand in Madison square.
He left for Washington in the afternoon
L
ing five thousand men, was inaugurated on
the 1st for an advance OF twenty-five cents
a day.
BARTHOLOMEW CURRY and Joseph Evans,
of Lowell, Mass, were fatally injured on
the 1st by having barn which they were
moving fall on them.
ANDREW LAWSON and Joseph Luton, both
farmers, accidentally drove into a deep
creek on the 1st near Manchester, Conn,
and were drowned
AT Germantown, Pa, building attached
to Catholic college was burned on the I'd,
and Ignatius and Michael lillian (students)
were killed
On the I'd the Meriden Comm MaIleable
Iron Company failed for $50, 600.
BURGLARS entered the savings bank at
Portersville, Pa, early on the morning of
the I'd, and carried off $500 in cash and ST.
200 worth OF jewelry
On the I'd Jacob Blessing committed sui
eide by jumping over Niagara falls Disap-
pointment in love was the cause.
In the public schools of New York State
the first general observance of Arbor Day
took place on the Sd.
S1xTY-oNE strikes. involving 1888
strikers, were reported to Bradstreet's dur
ing April last against 1913 strikes with 81, GEO
sGr1kerS IN April, 1855. Since January l,
1889, there were reported 22l strikes and
4S 924 strikers, against 3lS strikes and 81, $50
strikers during the same four months of
1855, and 1913 strikes and 153,G3S strikers in
1887.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN in New York on
the Sd passed his fourteenth day OF total alb
stinence from food and drink-excepting
water and a little weak lemonade He SAYS
great pestilence is soon coming and he
will be able to meet it better by reducing
his weight.
In Leroy, N. Y, a fire on the Sd destroyed
W. D. Matthews & Go. 8 malt-house and con-
tents Loss, $2oO,OO0.