The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-12-04

most extensive cotton commission con-
Germs in the South, failed for $751;. e9a
TnE death of James Milton Smith,
ex-Govornor OF Gcorgia.and Judge Of
the State Supreme Court occurred At
his home in Columbus on tho :5th.
THE Legislature Of South Carolina
convened at Columbia on tho 25th.
A RECEIVER took charge of tho Oregon
Improvement Company Of Portland.
Ore. Its Indebtedness was said to b
81. 000, 900 and its assets $4,000. 600.
The Powers .Dry-Goods Company's
building at st. Paul. Mimi. was burned,
causing loss of $3.50. 600. s4s@.s5.sy 4s.s,.ss.
FLAMES destroyed tho steamboat
Thomas p, Lcathers, tho fastest stern
wheel boat on the Mississippi rive.,
with her cargo at Fort Adams, Miss.
and five sailors and tho chambormaid
were lost $. as s.
SENATOR WADE HAMPTON, whilo
hunting in Washington County, Miss,
was accidentally shot by his son. It
was feared that he would lose the sight
of his left eye.
ton, Ind, shot and killed his wife and
then killed himself No cause was
known for the deed.
In a steam saw-mill ut Scotland, Ga,
the boiler exploded. killing three men
and injuring four others. ~ sSs~@ ..
Fl. q. BELLS bank at Duluth, Minn.,
suspended. with liabilities Of $3.50, 900
and assets of 81. 600, 600.
/ FIFE swept away the Greensboro
(Ky.) street-car stables. and nineteen
mules and the entire equipment of cars
were burned. ~.,s.,e .
NEAR bayfield,, Wis i've men were
drowned by the wrecking OF their boat
FLAMES DESTROYED the Moth Pacific
Hotel and buildings OF the Oregon Pot
terry Company at Portland, causing q
loss of S15o,0O0. - !: fG7% -
TIE bark Ocean arrived at San Fran
cisco and reported the loss OF one of Its
whaling boats and six men.
WILLARD and Fred Tally: (brothers),
and Fred Hawley, all little boys, were
buried under sand-slido at Atlantic,
Ia. and suffocated..
Mrs. CHRIS REIMENscnNE1nEn's barn
near State Center, a., was burned to
the ground, together with twenty-five
head of horses
In Chicaro the health Officer discov.
cred and closed a place where horses
were slaughtered for food.
JuDaE ISAAC BERGMAN, who had been
imprisoned for contempt, shot himself
at Cheyenne, Wyo. II he recovered he
: would be blind, the bullet having de-
stro:ed both eyes.
THE Alabama Legislature reelected
United States Senator Pugh. :.
Mrs. JOHN PATTERSON (colored), of
Brazil, Ind, while laughing ruptured
! Physicians said it was the only case Of
the kind known.
AT Lebanon, Ind, DR.. Williamson,
aged so years. a practicing physician
! for thirty-f1ve years, was run over by q
buggy and fatally injured.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
i A BOAT containing Captain Snow, his
wife and son and a sailor was wrecked
; at St. Francis, N. s., and all on board
persisted except the son.
AT Tschansch, Austria, the Anna pit
of the Breux Mining Company COL
| lapsed, owing to the mine being flooded,
and twenty men were drowned.
IN the south and west of England
heavy gales prevailed and great dam
age has been done to shipping and
eleven sailors were drowned.
| TIE Supreme Court OF Nova Scotia
nullifed the Newfoundland bait law.
and declared that all fees collected
from American and Canadian vessels
must be refunded.
By boiler explosion at St. Johns,
n. F., six men wore killed and others
; fatally injured
On the 25ti. the British Parliament
assembled and the Queens speech was
read. Before the opening of the ses-
sion tho Irish members met in caucus
and formally acknowledged Mr.. Parnell
as their leader.
BY the wrecking of the British
steamer Westbourne in the Black sea
six of her crew were drowned and
: twelve died from exposure.
In collision the British ship Sud-
bourn. Captain McGie, from Hamburg
for Rangoon. was sunk off Dungeness,
and eleven Ct her crew were drowned.
ORE Often, Norway, forty boats of a
fishing fleet were sunk in gale and 1870
damaged and twenty-eight fishermen
lost their lives.
TIE banking firm of Oostendorp at
Antwerp, failed, with liabilities of ST..
500. OOO
| CASAD>'s trade report shows that its
exports to the United States for the
fiscal year were 4O,522. $40. and its i'm
ports from the same country $50, 291. 973
A MANIFESTO was issued by Mr.. Par
nell declining to voluntarily withdraw
from the leadership Of the Irish Par.
liamentary party, and appealing to tn,
people OF Ireland to sustain him in the
attitude he had taken.
| LATER
The annual report of John ". Noble,
Secretary of the Interior, shows that
the Government still had $50, ZIG, SG1
acres of vacant lands. During the wear
$4,000. 0OO acres OF agricultural land was
transferred to actual settlers and $685.
1862 acres were patented to railways.