The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-20
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND NAIL,

lie news M the week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND NAIL.
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Supreme Court Of the United
States decided that the sales Of intoxi-
eating liquors BY the glass could be abb
solutely prohibited.
In his annual report Chief Signal Or
ficer Greedy says there has been de.
cided improvement in the condition
and efficiency of the army as regards
signal practice. At the end Of the year
!, 1897 miles of military telegraph lines
and 621 miles of seacoast lines were in
operation. There were only fourteen
occasions during the year on which
severe cold waves were not predicted.
sS per cent Of all the important cold
waves being noted in advance. In
speaking of tornadoes General Greedy
said that thcy were not so destructive to
life as thunder-storms. #s
An opinion given by Attorney-Gen-
era1 Miller says. that the anti-lottery
law does not prohibit the guessing con-
tests" now much in vogue among news
papers as . means OF advertising.
GENERAL GEORGE CROOKS remains
were taken from Oakland, Nd, on the
12th and inferred in the National Gene
terry 1T Arlington with military honors.
In the United States Treasury the
amoant Of gold coin and bullion on the
12th was sl57, $50, 1851.
In his annual report Commodore
GoNRpoE nnu,0n~ &~R 80 ~
bureau Of equipment says that during
the year sixty-five vessels were either
wholly or partially equipped at an ex-
penditure of S593, $50:
In his report to the Secretary Of War
Major-General Schofield, commanding
the army, recommends the increase Of
the military force of the army to 80, 600
men.
BUSINESS failures in the United
States during the seven days ended ON
the 18th numbered 800. against 215
the preceding week and PCS the CORE
spending week last year.
THE EAST.
In Wall street, New York, the panic
| in stocks caused the failures of the fol-
lowing brokers': Decker. Howell & Co.,
for SIC. DOC, 000;C NJ Whitney & Co., for
$500, 900, and Daniel Richmond for $780,.
600
/ On the 18th Mrs. Wachter, the White
hall (Pa.) faster, had gone 221 days
without tasting food.
THE firm of John T. Walker, Son &
Co. of New York, silk importers, failed
for 5000, 600.
On the evening Of the 18th Henry NJ.
Stanley, the African explorer, was
greeted by an immense audience at the
Metropolitan Opera-House in New
York, it being his first lecture in this
country.
A TRAIN on the Reading road jumped
the track near Annville, Pa, was thrown
down an embankment, and seven per-
sons were badly injured.
| THE Knickerbocker Fire Insurance
Company of New York announced it's
intention Of going into voluntary liquid
alton. 1t was founded in 1857 and had
just completed the l03d year of its exist
ence.
IT was decided by the board of man.
ayers Of the Adams Express Company
at meeting in New York to boycott
lotteries.
In Wall street, New York, the flnan.
cial crisis came to an end on the 18th,
the prompt action of the clearing house
in assisting the banks restoring conf
dence.
The Pennsylvania Congressional dele
CATION will stand eighteen Republicans
and ton Democrats.
AT Hartford, Conn.,, Mary and Ann
Meyers, two old maids, were found
dead. Neglect and old age were the prob
able cause Of their deaths.
| FIRE destroyed meat market at Mid
dleport, N. Y, and Joseph Spalding,
who lived on an upper floor, persisted in
the flames.
The death of Daniel 8. Appleton,
head of the publishing firm Of d. Apple
ton & Co., occurred at his home in New
York. aged 66 years.
| S. Benson and James b. McSloy were
killed by an engine at Erie, Pa, and
Henry Suffer, on learning OF the death
OF McSloy. who had been warm friend,
shot himself fatally.
| OFFICIAL returns show that Pattison
(Dem.) was elected Governor of Penn
sylvania by 1864 plurality. The Re-
publicans elected the remainder of the
State ticket by pluralities ranging from
%, 365 to IS, 491.
ROBERT KERR aged IS. years, of
Orange, n. j., shot and fatally wounded
Mrs. Knoble, aged 80, because she re-
fused to marry him, and then blew out
his own brains
On the 18th Henry NJ. Stanley left
New York for his lecture tour through
out the country, which will end on April
6, 1891.
JOHN LANAHAN's little child at Wes-
1eyville, Pa, was burned to death, and
the mother was so severely burned as to
be crippled for life
! A NEW YORK commercial agency re-
ported that the legitimate business of
the country was the largest ever known
and that trade had net been affected by
the furry in Wall street. They said
that the demand for money was largely
due to the unprecedented volume of
business thus far.
| GRAVEL trains collided on the Lack
awanna & Western road at East Buffalo,
N. Y, and John mbosky was in
stantlY Killed and nine others were in
jured, three of them fatally.
On the Pennsylvania road at New
Florence, Pa, trains co!lided and the
wreck took fire and one Pullman car
was burned, Two persons were killed
and eighteen injured.
WEST AND SOUTH.
AT the session Of the general assem-
bly, OF the Knights of Labor at Denver,
COL. Grand Master Powderly in his re-
port said the late New York Central
strike had almost brought the orRaniza-
ton to financial ruin. and it developed
the fact that the press Of the country
was not friendly to the knights.
AT Noble Lake, Ark, Jack Buoking-
ham (colored) committed suicide BY
taking morphine. This was the first
negro suicide that ever occurred in
Arkansas.
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