The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-08-08
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND NAIL.
FRoM WARRINGTON.

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BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
FROM WARRINGTON.
TEE fear Of . general war In Europe was
on the 10Th given Is tho reason why 90
much foreign capital was Mt the present
time seeking Investment In this country.
ON tho 18th Major Alexander Sharp, pay
master in tho United states army, was
placed on tho retired list
IT was decided by Acting Secretary Batch
eller on tho LIST that the Chinese servants
on tho United States steamship Alert, now
on route for San Francisco from Honolulu,
are laborers within the meaning of the
Chinese Exclusion act and they will not be
allowed to land In the United statea
The public debt statement issued on tho
LIT showed tho total debt to be u ,64R IT,
300; cash in Treasury, 465, 81, 600; debt less
cash in Treasury, u, or 66S, $50. Increase
during July, &l,0l7S11. Increase sinoe
June 50, 1883, @l,017,311.
MARION D. NEWMAN, in tho penttentiary
at Warrington for obtaining money under
false pretenses, received telegram on the
LIST that he had fallen heir to @5O0, 900 by
the death of an uncle in San Francisco.
DURING the seven days ended on the I'd
there were 19l business failures In the
United States, against 1877 the previous seven
dayk Total failures in the United States
since January to date Is {. $50, against6, 091
in 1888
THE East.
In New Jersey rain storm ON tho 90th
ult did great damage In the city Of New
ark In South Orange several buildings,
including the. post-ottice, were carried
away. In Orange valley the water was up
to the second-story windows and much
damage was done to tho numerous hat
factories there. Bloomfield and Montclair
also reported great destruction of property.
In Plainfield the loss was very great, two
or three square miles of th1ckly- settled tor
ritory being submerged.
The statement was made on tho 3Oth ult
that the Standard OIL Company had bought
all the whitehead companies in tho United
StateS tho estimated sum paid being 100,
0OO, Od0
DURING a rain-storm and high wind at
Concord, N. H., on the 3Oth ult the arsenal
and five houses were unroofed and several
others destroyed An elm tree one hundred
and twenty five years old was torn up by
the roots and blown across Main street
A CYCLONE on the 30th ult at Ellis
Corners, Ulster County, N. Y, destroyed
large amount of property and injured .
number Of persons.
On the 30th ult Dr.. w. b Roberts, the
originator of nitro glycerine torpedoes for
blasting In oil wells, died at Titusville, Pa
He left an estate valued at @S, 000. 600.
In session at B: ooklyn. N. Y, on the 3lst
ult the journeymen plumbers and gas and
steam-dtters' unions of the United States
and Canada voted to leave the Knights of
Labor and establish an independent organt-
zation- This will take thirty Thousand
members from the Knights of Labor;
The death of ex Senator E. H. Rollins, of
New Hampshire, occurred at the Appledore
House, Isle of Shoals, on the 3lst ult. He
passed away without recovering conscious
ness from q paralytic stroke he suffered
four days before He was sixty -four years
of age.
The failure of the Connecticut Rubber
Company of Norwich, Conn, occurred on
the 3lst ult for 100000
REPUBLICANS of Massachusetts, will hold
their State convention in Boston on the
25th of September.
TIE relief commission met in Johnstown,
Pa, on the 31st uIt and statement of the
moneys in the hands of the Governor was
rendered, showing that Governor Beaver
had received total Of. q, 39944, 41446, and
that Of this $S4O, 1896 50 had been paid out
leaving in his hands 81, 50, Ol7.sG.
Francis L. CAPEN, noted as q weather
prophet, died In Boston on the 9lst ult :,
aged seventy-two years.
IN New York on the 3lst ult John I. Sui
Ivan was arrested on a requisition from
Governor Lowry, of Mississippi for par
ticipating in the fight with Kilrain, and
locked up at police headquarters
AT Plymouth, Mass. National monu-
ment In honor of the Pilgrim Fathers was
dedicated on the 1st The one of
the monument was laid August l, 1850
Completed, it has cost over $500, co.,, COL
lected from all parts of the country. 1t is
of solid granite throughout
JOHN L. SULLIVAN, the pr1ze-ighter, said
before Judge O'Brien in New York on the
LIST that he was willing to 80 South, and the
Judge ordered that he be turned over to
the Mississippi officers who caused his ar
rest He LETT for the South in the evening.
In the Connellsville (Pa.) district four
thousand coke workers. went on a strike on
the LIST.
FRED PARR, an engineer at Carthage, n
T., on tho LIST shot his wife and himself, both
dying instantly. Domestic trouble was the
cause.
W. F. JOHNSON & Co., of Boston, leather
dealers. failed on the LIST for $25O,OOO
AT Watkins Glen, near Watkins, N Y, a
c!oud-burst on the LIST nearly made a COM
plete wreck of that hmous locality The
town was flooded and bridges were carried
away.
TIE death of Nathaniel Chase. better
known as Father Chase,' the Millerite,
occurred at his homo in Andover, Mass, on
the I'd, aged eighty nine years.
HERMAN PETERSON and his wife, an aged
couple, penniless, ragged and hungry, ar
rived at New York from Pittsburgh, Pa,
having walked the entire distance in
twenty-seven days. They would be sent
to their home In Denmark.