The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-05-02
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| ~ ~ "AneA CvSe OVeI $l,VVU,UVU q lew years
ago, was sold to secondhand dealer on
tho Ath for $4,000
ON the 24th it was ru,rored that plug
tobacco trust which will embrace ali the
leading manufactories in the country wa,
being formed
| AN explosion of natural gas in the cellar
OF the Landmark Hotel at McKeesport, Pa.
on the 24th destroyed the hotel and four
| adjoining residences Loss, $4,000; in
surance, $4,000.
AT Philadelphia fire on the 9th de-
stroyed the saddlery hardware establish
ment Of Conrad B. Day T. Co., causing loss
of S33, 600
The season of the National Base Ball
League opened on the 9th, the games re-
sulting: At Pittsburgh-Pittsbu 8; Chi
cago, ). At New lork-Boston, S; New
York, Z. At indianapolis indianapolis 10:
Cleveland, g. At Washington - Philadel-
ph1a, 8; Washington, 4.
HE Harlem electric light works in New
YORK were damaged by fire on the evening
OF the 18th to the extent OF sl25 OOO
HE death Of Edmund Lowell Dana, a dis
tlnguished veteran of the Mexican and civil
wars, occurred on the 25th at Wilkesbarre.
"a, aged seventytw two years.
Ow1NG to financial losses and illness An
grew W. Bogart, real-estate dealer utNew
YORK. committed suicide Oh the 18th.
AT Legronville, Pa, on the 25th a
'gusher'' oil-well was struck. The oil
spurted one hundred and fifteen feet in the
ali, and commenced flowing at the rate of
seven hundred barrels day, to the intense
excitement Of the Inhabitants
OLIVER PERRY LEWIS, of New York, fixed
the day and hour of his funeral on the 25th,
sent Invitations % his friends asking them
TO attend, and tn en-, arrayed in full dress
suit, ne went to Central Park and drowned
himself in resel voir.
1HE big woma ~ of Dover, N H., Mrs. D.
y. M. Plerce, was buried on the 18th 1t re-
qulled eight perst ms to put the body in the
''"sheG ana all the trim mings had to be re-
NJ. "ed TO allow the casket to pass between
a INV at New Y ork m the 25th declared
Io,a,1,1 DIN, lie .ell-known billiard
,laye. TO be irsan.s.
The L. legislature of Co. nnecticut voted on
;he 18th !, submit prof. ibitory amendment
20 the zee tie.
FnE1GHr Taas on the Pennsylvania rail =
.oad came in collision II. Ear Trenton, N. j.,
IN the Goth, al d an>.pkn own man riding in
the caboose of ne of tl-el was killed
By the explosi On Of dynamite and en-
mensite at the ia Glory the Emmenste
Gun Explosive and AmmI 'nlctan Company
lear Harrison, N j., on the arll, Charles
anderson, the fireman, was fatally injured
md the building, val, led at $4,000, was
otally destroyed
The failure of Warren Mo nsur, man
lfacturer ct crackers md biscuits at
Boston. was announced on tn , 2oth His
1ebts amount to S2,5G0, 1t. I assets OF
s12,6o4
THE 'ex-city clerk OF New Braaa H., conn,
Charles E. Woodruff, confessed on the Soth
hat in the past six years forg Ell notes
for $500. COZ. but has managed to m axe all
good save about $4,000. He was rested
and placed in Jail.
BY collision of trains on the Bait more
Z Ohio road on the :6th the ives OF '1ce-
President Morton and other C'ovefnh leuo
officials were endangered, and Sc '"efaA 'elll
ployes of tho road were injured.
The Governor of Pennsylvania on th> ,
Goth signed the bill making September -
knD:n as Labor Day-a legal holiday IN
th;sy State
PRoF. BARNARD one OF the most accom-
plished of American scientists and late
president of Columbia College, died at his
home in New York on the eth, at the ago Of
eighty years.
FLAMES on the eth in the Lowell Manu-
featuring Company's mills at Lowell, Mass
caused loss OF $500 00O
On the sSth the First Baptist Church So
ciety of Providence, r. l., celebrated it's two
hundredth anniversary: The present church
building is over one hundred years old.