The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-05-23
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THE East.
The death of Washington Irving Bishop,
the mind-reader, occurred in New York on
the 18th
ROYAL B. STuRTEvANT, of Springfield,
Mas. mistook his brother in-law, James b.
Smith, for burglar, and shot him dead on
the 18TH
The death of Edward NJ. Biddle, secretary
and treasurer of the Cumberland Valley
railroad, and the oldest railway official in
the United States occurred on the 18th ut
his home in Carlisle, Pa, aged eighty one
years.
MONUMENT in city hall square, New York,
to the memory of Horace Greeley, is to be
erected.
AT the annual meeting in Boston on tho
18th of the Woman's Baptist Home Mission
ary Society Mrs j. N Grouse, of Chicago,
was elected president
DIN Wayne County, Pa, valuable copper
ore was discovered on the 14th.
On the 14th E. H. Platt and John Allen,
the former riding instructor and the lat
ter hotel-keeper, started from New York
to ride to San Francisco on horseback.
The New York Legislature on the 18th re-
jected the bill prohibiting the importation
of dressed beef from other States.
The death OF William H. Harding, for
twenty years publisher Of the Philadelphia
Enquirer, occurred in that city on the 18th.
On the 18th Mrs. Catherine Storey, aged
eighty years, was burned to death ut Lynn,
Mass -"
MINISTER LINCOLN, with his family, sailed
from New York for England on the 18th on
the steamer city of Paris
The seventy fifth anniversary of the
American Baptist Missionary Union was
celebrated in Boston on the 18TH The
union has a constituency of nearly nc, eco
church members, and is the largest mis-
sionary society in the world.
In a Philadelphia hotel on the 18th Gen.
eral Adna Anderson, of Sing Sing, H. Y,
aged sixty years, and one of the best
known railway men in the country, COM
nitted suicide by shooting himself in his
room. The cause for the deed was un-
known.
The newly appointed United States Min
lister to Russia Allen Thorndike Rice, died
suddenly at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New
York on the 10Th from throat trouble. Mr.
Rice was thirty-six years of age, was a
bachelor, and was very wealthy.
The Legislature of New York adjourned
sine di, on the 18th. 50
The general assembly Of the Presbyterian
UcSd 1GS Ouc uunUIcu anu uTSG
nual session In New York City on the 10Th.
On the 9Th James Doran, of .Maltby, Pa,
killed his wife with an axe and then took
his own life. Domestic trouble was the
cause.
STAR-F1sH were on the 10Th said to DO
making heavy depredations on the oyster
beds in Long Island sound.
JOHN HENGLE in a fit of jealousy on the
18th at Newark, N. j., fatally stabbed Mrs.
ScherZer and then cut his own throat
AT a festival in st. Luke's Episcopal
Church on the 18th at South Glastonbury.
Conn, over one hundred persons were
made sick by eating ice-cream, and thirty
four were reported to be beyond recovery.
The failure of the Almy Wooden Manu-
featuring Company of Philadelphia occurred
on the 18th for $35O,OCO!
In Boston experiments were being made
on the eth with magnetic car with which
it was proposed to transport mail matter,
and probably passengers, long distances at
the rate of about four miles a minute.
AT Erie, Pa, Miss Jennie Engstrom, q
young lady, was shot by her brother on the
18th with revolver that he Ibid not know
was loaded"
The strike at the National tube works at
McKeesport, Pa, which involved two thou
sand men, came to an end on the 18th.