The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-18
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on the 8th at her home in Ltch6eld, Conn,
in her one hundred and first year. During
more than q century of life she had lived in
one house. That house her grandfather
built in 17S5, and there she was born and
there she died
The death OF Mrs Theodore Thomas, wife
Of the celebrated orchestra leader, occurred
at New York on the 9Th. -..q.>- -
NEARLY the entire town Of smithfield, n.
j., was consumed by fire on the Sth.
E. LAUDERN1LCH, whose house was re-
comfy destroyed by fire at Lebanon, Pa.
recovered the gold and silver ON tho 9Th
which he had in the dwelling Ut the TINA
The coin amounted to $8.75O
The freight houses of the Boston l.
Lowell division Of the Boston Maine road
ct Boston were burned ON tho 9th with
forty loaded freight cars, large quantities
of flour and grain and other merchandise.
Loss, $5OO, 600. e..
THE Monongahela river coal works near
Pittsburgh, Pa, resumed work on the 9th
after shut. down Of q weeks duration,
giving employment to six thousand men.
In Albany on the 9Th memorial exercises
In honor of the late General 2. H. Sheridan
were held by the New York Legislature.
ON the 9th two strangers visited Daniel
r A..
robbed him of 81, 100.
cultu1o of Massachusetts on tho 9th noted
the great growth of the butter business in
the State, and spoke particularly Of the de-
velopnent of the cooperative system.
twenty six such institutions having made
during the year two million pounds
The elections held In Rhode Island on the
9th assured the Legislature to the Republic
ans. w4o would elect the State officers.
MAsfED men entered the house of Lewis
Patterson, a wealthy farmer living near
CenteFville, Pa, on the 9th and demanded
his god. On being told that he had none
they tortured him by holding his feet and
his face to the stove, and after securing $43
and a gold watch they left
AT the National convention of tho Sons Of
Veterans In Albany, N. Y. on the 10th, it wa
decided to consolidate the "post'' and
camp" system.
W1114LAN J. IRVING, JR., was arrested on
the 10th at HarG ord, Conn, for embezzle-
ment Of $2O, 600 from tho Hammond Dressed
Beef Company, for which he was local man
ager.
On the 10th Jerry Sullivan, aged seventeen
years, was steamed to death In large keir
at the print works at Dover, N. H.
NATHAN F. DIXON (Rep.) was elected
United States Senator on the 10th by the
Rhode Island Legislature.
On the 10th the propeller Oswego left
Buffalo for Chicago. This was the first de-
parture of the season from that port
The American schooner Bucknam arrived
in New York on the 10th, and Captain
Stubbs reported that he was chased and
fired upcn by Dominican man-of-war on
9 for Ax}v
the schooner's peak at the time. The
Buchanan soon distanced the steamer and
the latter gave up the chase
MANY acres of fine pine timber land be-
tween pittston and Wilkesbarre, Pa, had
on the 18th been destroyed by forest fires.
The erm OF Billings 4 Eaton, wholesale
leather dealers at Boston, failed on the 18th
for $7OO, 600!
FIRE destroyed the storehouse and con-
tents Of the Chelsea Cordage Company at
Boston on the 18th, causing q loss Of
$l5O,OOO
On the 18th Edgar Swan, ex-cashier of the
First National Bank of Lynn, Mass, was
sentenced to five years in Jail for tho en-
hezzlement of $33, 600.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th license
was issued for the marriage of Samuel R.
Weleer. aged seventy-two years. to Edith
Wilson, girl fifteen years old
TNE jute mills Of Buchanan l. Lyeu at
Brooklyn, N. Y, were burned on the 11th
the loss reaching $4OO, 900.
The death of Mrs. Lydia Watson, Of Lei
cester, Mass occurred on the 18th at the
age of one hundred and two years and
three months She had been remarkably
we'll and vigorous up to her final illness.
ELECTIONS for members of the Rhode Isl
and Legislature were ended on the 18th,
and the complexion Of that body stands on
joint ballot: Republicans, 50; Democrats, 49.