The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-06-13
The News Of the Week.

The News Of the Week.
r,~a BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
From WASHINGTON.
The President on the Sd appointed
CHARLES l. Knapp, of New York, to be Con-
shul- General OF the United States at Mon
streal, md Alexander Reed, of Wisconsin, to
be Consul at Dublin.
&aJUsT1CE GRAY, of the United States Su-
pre,ne Court, was married to Miss Jennie
Matthew'S daughter of the late Justice
Stanley Matthew's, on the afternoon of tho
:4t@ at the residences OF the bride In Wash-
: On the 5th Secretary Noble accepted tho
resignation pf John H. sOberlI. Commits
ssionax Of 1ne1aH Affairs, Is take effect Iuly1.
The Postmaster: General sent ont cfrcu-
lar to Tostnasters onSthe stu calling on
them to inform him rs to the extent of the
BUSINESS transacted at their offices on Sun
day. The tnfoanation was desired with q
Stsss to deoreaAny. AZ, possible, thu amount
OF Sabbath work performed NJ. b post-otfice
; i vas decidef By tho SECRETARY ct War
sonaAe 18th to purchase for the new site for
IOIV O11Uud u UIHCt VI C4O UCIO6 VI 40Uu
about eight miles from Omaha
T. NoyIcE was sent to Surgeon General Ham
ilton, at Washington, on the 9TH that there
We SERIOUS danger Of sickness at Johns
town, Pa, unless active sanitary meaSures
were taken He had given the necessary
orders, sni had had shipped q largo guam
tity If djslnfectants. A temporary depopu-
htion was urged. -
The President on the 7th appointed
Colonel John c. keIton as Adjutant- General
of the army to succeed General Drum, re-
tired
In the United States there were 225 bust
ness failures during the seven days ended
on the. 18th, against 2l5 the previous seven
days 81 - -.
THE EAST.
OFFICIALS of the Philadelphia 4 Reading
Railroad Company estimated their loss on
the Sd at O,0OO in bridges and washouts
on the Upper Susquehanna in the recent
freshetA ~
lower the terrible estimate put upon the
number of fatalities resulting from the re-
cent flood at Johnstown, Pa Through the
agency Of bureau of registration, embrac-
ing twenty eight different offices, a system
attic effort was being made to reach tho
most accurate figures possible regarding
the fatalities in Johnstown, Cambria,
Morrellville, Kernville, Conemaugh and
other places devastated by the flood
Mr.. McConnaghy, who had charge of
the work of registration, was OF the
opinion that the number OF people who
persisted was considerably over ten thou
sand, while Acknowledgement Hastings
maintained that the death list would not
exceed eight thousand Nearly two thou
sand men were employed in different parts
of the valley clearing away ruins and ex-
Treating the dead, and thus far thirty-two
hundred bodies had been found Money
and clothing for the destitute was flowing
in from all parts of the country.
On the 4th Mrs Peter Kelley, of Rosen-
, dale, N. Y, gave birth to three boys.
TRAIN which left Pittsburgh ON the 4th
for Johnstown, Pa, probably had no par
allel in the history of the world. It carried
| forty volunteer undertakers and two
thousand collins.
! Pm, reported to Governor Beaver that thou
sands of people in that city were homeless
and in want, the flood having carried away
their dwellings and property.
| On the 9Th the annual parade Of the Sun
day-school Union OF Brooklyn, N. Y, took
place, sixty thousand children being in line.
! The United States Brewers Association in
session on the 9Th at Niagara Falls, N. Y.
appropriated $4,000 for the benefit of the
sufferers OF the Johnstown disaster
! The New Hampshire Legislature in joint
session on the 5th took ballot for Gov
| ernor, there having been no choice by the
people, and David H. Goodell (Rep.) was
declared elected.
IT was st III believed ON the 5th that the
NUMBER vi people destroyed in the flood at
YOUNGSTOWN, Pa, would reach from L., 600 to
1900 Three thousand one hundred and
thirteen bodies had been recovered. TWAS
estimated that the number of orphans in
the Conemaugh valley would be about 5OO
IN new Beu1urtt,7 s1fssse, d s5i1ic5 - 51107;.
of earthquake was felt on the morning of
the It'll
A FIRE destroyed the Herlich piano works
at Paterson, N. j., on the eth.
AT YOUNGSTOWN, Pa, the weather on the
7th was warm and fears existed that out
breaks of disease would follow the flood
Five eases OF diphtheria were reported, and
dysentery had made its appearance in some
places The work OF recovering the bodies
was going on steadily.