The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-06-19
THE EAST,

THE EAST.
TIE consolidation of the Pittsburgh,
Cincinnati g. st. Louis, the Chicago, St.
Louis s. Pittsburgh, the Cincinnati &
Richmond and the Jacksonville, Madi-
son & Indianapolis railways took place
on the 1th under the name of the Pitts
burgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & st. Louis
Railroad Company. The capital of the
new company is $75,Ooo,O00.
TIE Republicans on the 18th .enomi-
mated Nelson Dingley, Jr., for Congress
in the Second district OF Maine, and C.
A. Boutelle in the Fourth district
THE employees of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad were notified on the 12th
that hereafter no person who drank
liquor would be employed by the COM
pany, and employees would be dis
charged if intoxicated either on or off
duty.
AT Auburn, N. Y, during rain storm
on the 18th cellars in all parts of the
city were flooded and sewer pines were
burst in many places. The loss was es-
timated at 100000.
SETH l.. MILL1EEN was renominated
for Congress on the 18th by the Repub
licans of the third (Maine) district.
TIE death of Mrs. Henry Jaha, aged
Is years, and the last survivor of the
Nipuck tribe of Indians, occurred on
tn 18th at Webster, Mass.
MAINE Republicans in State conven-
ton at Augusta on the 18th renomi-
mated Governor Burleigh.
THE Republicans in the Twenty-sixth
district of Pennsylvania on the 18th
nominated Mathew Griswold, of Erie,
for Congress-.
THE steamer Columbia arrived in
New York on the 18th, having made the
run from Southampton in days 16
hours and % minutes, beating all pre-
vious records.
A NEW YoEK business agency in their
weekly trade review on the 18th says
the legitimate business of the country
continues unprecedented in volume for
the season and highly encouraging in
prospects.
In Central New York storm on the
18th flooded portions of Norwich, Oneida,
Solsyille and Rome, causing a loss of
over $4,000
In New York City the principal coat
manufacturers locked out their 10000
employees on the 18th.
ELLIS II. ROBERTS & Co., proprietors
of the Utica IN. W Morning Herald,
failed on the 14th for $4,000.
ON the 18th seven bodies of unknown
dead were taken out of the river along
the city front in New York.
WEST AND SOUTH
NORTH CAROLINA Democrats will hold
their State convention at Raleigh
August 20, and Florida Democrats will
meet at Ocalla on August 10.
AT WapellO. a., many buildings we're
destroyed on the 18th by a cyclone, and
several persons were injured.
TIE recentcyclone at Channahon. ILL.,,
moved buildings and leveled outhouses
and trees but no lives were lost.
WORTH DlCKERsoN was on the 18th
nominated to succeed John G. Carlisle
in the House of Represent atives from
the Sixth kentucky district
SOUSH DAKOTA Democrats in session
on the 18th at Aberdeen nominated the
following ticket: For Congress, Judge
G. NJ. Thomas and W. !. Quigley; Gov
ernor, Morris Taylor; Lieutenant-G Gov
ernor, Peter Couchman; Secretary of
State, G. H. Freeman; Auditor, A. H.
Wicks
TIE Wisconsin Grand Lodge of Ma
sons in session on the 18th at Miwau-
kce adopted a resolution which declares
that thereafter no person engaged in
10 ~ :-4
liquors to be used as beverage shall be
initiated into any lodge in the State"
In the Democratic State convention
at St. Joseph, Mo-, on the 18th Judge
Thomas A. CAN'T was nominated for
Supreme Court Judge
In the Sixth district of Alabama John
Fl. Bankhead Dem.) was renominated
for Congress on the 18th.
The National Young Peoples Society
OF Christian Endeavor commenced its
ninth annual convention a5 St. Louis
on the 18th. Delegates were present
from every State and Territory in the
United States, representing 5000 So
cleties, with an aggregate membership
of over 800, 600. a..
IN session on the 18th at Atlanta,
Ga, the International Typographical
Union reelected E. L. Plank as presi-
dent and w. s. McCleevy as secretary
and treasurer.
MRS. AUENSBAuGH shot and killed
her husband, Grant Aurnsbaugh, and
then blew her own brains out on the
18th, near Lebanon, Ore. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
AT Big Springs, Neb., John Tueston
and wife while driving across the rail.