The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-07-11
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FRoAa WASHINGTON. S.
Ar twenty-six leading clearing houses In
tho United States tho exchanges during the
week ended on the 18th ult aggregated IL
124 500 294 against ia, 63l, 1877 the previous
week A. compared with the corresponds
ing week Of 1858 the increase amounted to
s6.a
The public debt statement issued on the
LIST showed the total debt to be q, 65l 4O1 :
@l cash II Treasury, ~ - OF; debt less
cash In Treasury, u ,076, GAG. 62l. Decrease
juno 50, 1883, @s8 SOS, 03a
THE death OF Mrs Thomas, tho widow Of
Gen eral Thomas, Commander of tho Army
of the Tennessee occurred In Georgetown,
| d. c., on the LIST
The President made the following ap-
pointments on the LIST: A. l. Snowden, Of
Pennsy lvania, Minister Resident and Con-
sui General to sRoumania Servia and
Greece; William H. Edwards, of Ohio, Con-
sui General to Berlin; Augustus q. Bourne,
Of Rhode Island, Consul General to Rome;
Eugene Schuyler Of New York, Consul Gem
eral to Cairo; William Harrison Bradley, of
! Illinois, Consul General to Nice; Arthur
Macarthur, Jr. of Warrington, Assistant
| Adjutant- General United States Army. 4
TIE Government receipts from all
sourcos during the fiscal year closed June
50 aggregated $88s. 59l ,675, against S379. 266,
| O4 for the preceding year. The ordinary
| expenses were $15S, 734, 1877, against $lS4,
&c, AZ during the preceding year. The
pension charge was $S7,977,6S3, or about
% 200 900 more than for the previous year.
| The surplus revenue for the year will
amount to @lO6, COO, ZOO, against $l19, 6l2, 118
the previous year. I
On the LIST Secretary Blaine left Washing
ton for Bar Harbor, Me-, where he will re-
main until September.
The annual statement ON the 1st of the
Comptroller of the Currency showed that
the National bank circulation had fallen
from 1852 OK, 600 a year ago to $215, OOO, QUO,
| or about seventeen per cent
IT was said that ut conference held at
| Washington on the I'd by the President, the
members of his Cabinet and several United
States Senators, a decision to call special
session of Congress to meet about Novem-
| Der was reached.
WARRANTS were Issued by the Secretary
| OF the Treasury on the I'd in payment OF
416, OOO, coo on account of pensions, being
| the first payment on this account for the
| new fiscal year
THROUGHOUT the country Independence
Day was generally celebrated on the 4th.
President Harrison passed the day as the
guest Of Henry G. Bowen at Woodstock,
Conn.
AT the United States minis the coinage
executed during June amounted to 1894
765 pieces, representing $4,77O, 41a4O in
value. There were IS, 49j gold pieces, of
81, $4,000 in value, and 3,5l4,4 40 silver
pieces, of SO, 2S9, 200. 80 in value.
In the United States there were 152 bust
ness failures during the seven days ended
on the 5th, against 1S4 the previous seven
days The total failures in the United
States to date from January l is 6C37,
against j, 4O1 in 1885,
On the 5th Hadje Hassein Ghooly Khan,
the Persian Minister to the United States.
resigned his post and said he should leave
this country, never to return. He gave as
his reason the articles published In Ameri-
can newspapers from time to time concern
ing the ways and doings of his royal mas
ter, the Shah.
THE EAST.
ON the LIST ex-President Woolsey, OF Yale
College, died at New Haven, Conn, aged
eighty EIGHT years.
LYDIA FERR1N celebrated at Charlestown.
Mass, on the lst her one hundredth birth.
day, in the home to which she went as a
bride when nineteen years old She was
we'll and active
The official majority given against proh1-
bition in Pennsylvania at the recent cleo
ton was 1891.
In the United States the total number of
failures during the past six months, as re-
ported by Bradstreet's, was 1913; assets
Hohi
ga failures in the first half of lSSS
On the I'd the Chautauqua Assembly be-
gan its sixteenth annual session at James,
town, N. Y.
AT his own request Colonel John G. Paine,
superintendent OF the Military Academy at
West Point having served forty years, was
retired on the I'd
AT Lockport, N. Y, on the 2d Lizzie
Hawkes., aged sixteen years, and Mary
Hawkes., aged eight years, were struck by
lightning and killed.
On the I'd a waterspout broke over Al
toona, Pa, do ng great damage.
NEAR Johnston's Station, Pa, an oil-tank
was struck by lightning on the I'd, and
twenty-six thousand barrels of oil were
burned
On the 4th the towns of Cushing and
Freeport, in Maine, celebrated the centen-
NAL of their incorporation.
ON the 4th four young people were
drowned by the upsetting of boat at the
picnic of the Arch Street Methodist Church
of Allegheny City at Forest Grove, Pa
AT Johnstown, Pa, cholera morbus in it's
worst form had made its appearance on the
4th Tn re were over one hundred cases
among the workmen, and General Hastings
and Colonel Douglass were sick in bed
AT Johnstown, Pa, six more bodies were
found on the 9Th, but they were unrecoe-
nfzable. Governor Beaver senta communi-
cation to Mayor Grant, of New York, saying
that they had expended :1,OOO,O GOO for the
relief of tho sufferers in food, clothing.
shelter and furniture. No distribution Of
money had been made. Every thing posi-
Bile was being done to give prompt relief.
CARRIAGE containing Mrs. Joseph Ward,
Mr. keating. o New York hat manufacturer
his daughter and her nurse, was struck by
an express train and smashed to pieces
near Long Branch, N. j., and all were
killed
The failure of the Goodyear Rubber Boot
and Shoe Company, of Providence, R. L,
for $7l6,O was announced on the 5th
On the 9Th one hundred Mormon disciples
| reached New York from Europe and were
| at once shipped to Salt Lake CITY.
On the 9Th Frank Hoyt, paying teller of
the First National Bank of Hoboken N. J.
was arrested on a charge OF embezzlin9
$4,000 of the banks funds
HENRI ANTOINE NoLLE, who stole 1Gs, 600
francs from the Paris banking house of
Belisaire, Journal h Co., while acting
| cashier, was arrested on the 9Th In New
York
u WEST AND SOUTH.
JOHN KUNzE, indicted by the grand jury
for the murder OF DR.. Cronin in Chicago,
was arrested on the 1st and placed in Jail.
On the farm OF Henry Daley, near
Marion, Ind, number of cattle and hogs
were attacked with hydrophobia on the 1st
and had to be killed. They were bitten by
| dog several days before es . 49,.
FLAMES destroyed the business district
of Durango, Col, also three churches and q
part OF the residence section causing a loss