The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-01-02
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND NAIL.



BY TELEGRAPH AND NAIL.
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THROUGHOUT the country Christmas
Day was generally observed on the 2bths
and spring's ethereal mildness was res
ported prevalent all over the United
States. ~
MORE patents have been issued from
the Patent Office this year than ever be-
fore: .-Fhe total number up. to the 94th
was %, $50 against 1855 last year.
MERCHANDISE exports from the United
States during November were valued at
@9S, $50, $50, against sc, 900 in No.
vember, 1888. Imports were $59, 0O7, lis,
against $50, $40. $50 in November, 1883.
ABOUT five thousand miles of main
track railways were built in the United
States during the past year, being the
smallest construction recorded sinoe
1885: Il p s. . = :.
e The twenty-second annual oonven-
ton Of the Woman Suffrage Associa-
ton will meet in Washington February
10 to 81. ~,
On the 27th the Secretary of the Navy
adopted new design for the flag Of the
navy, to take. effect July 1, 1891. 1t will
be applied to both the flag and the union
jack of the navy, and consists Of a rec
tangular arrangement of the forty-two
THERE were 2ss business failures in
the United States during the seven days
ended on the 97th, against s42 the previ.
Gus week. For the corresponding week
in 1888 the number was 3S4. The total
failures in the United States January 1
to date is 10.590, against 10, 416 in 1883.
THE East.
ANOTHER body, that of man, was
found in the Conemaugh 1T YOUNGSTOWN,
Pa, on the 2Sd. One of the bodies
found on the 21st had been identified
as that of Mrs. Lucinda H. Roberts, the
first white child born in Johnstown,
that event occurring in 1907.
MRS. KATE HoUsToN and her two
year-old daughter, of New York, were
fatally burned by the explosion of a kerr
osene lamp on the 2sd.
On the 23d Emma Cole, aged thirty
years, was arrested in Bradford, Pa,
for making and circulating counterfeit
money.
In the Monongahela (Pa.) valley
nearly five thousand miners who had
been on a strike for two months re-
sumed work on the 2Sd.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, twelve contestants
started on the 23d in a seventy-two-hour
go-as-you-please, twelve hours day,
walking match.
AT Tarentum, Pa, Mrs. Ruttert, the
wife of Paul Ruttert, jeweler, was
murdered on the 23d by burglars who
broke into her husbands store, and with
whom she grappled.
On the 25th Prof. Brooks, director of
Smith Observatory at Geneva, N. Y, dis
covered new comet.
MISS MAMIE CAMPBELL and her escort,
Benjamin Lovett, both of Williamsburg,
Pa, were struck by train and killed
while returning from Christmas eve
dance early on the morning of the 25th.
FIVE THOUSAND coal miners in the vi
cinity of Scranton, Pa, were thrown out
of work on the 25th by the shutting
down of mines.
In the Mexican and Allegheny (Pa.)
oil fields wind-storm on the Goth lev
eled hundreds of derricks and two
houses at Bradford were wrecked.
In November 29,097 immigrants came
to this country, against rs, 419 in No.
vember, 1888. Germany furnished 6, 1852,
England and Wales 3,7s3, Italy 4,147,
Austria $3.50, Hungary 2,201, Russia
2,319,' Sweden and Norway 1868 and
Ireland 1909.
ON the 26th Sarah Demerett, aged
eighty years, and Charlotte Thompson,
aged seventy years, were. suffocated by
coal gas at Dewitt, N. Y.
In the western portion of New York
State wind-storm on the Goth did great
damage to property and caused the loss
of five lives. y. -
, JOHN BAssErTE, mill-hand at Lud-
low, Mass, killed his wife with an axe
on the Goth and then killed himself.
WILLIAM II. PALMER and John p.
Jones, of Bangor, Pa, blew out, the gas
on the Goth in hotel at Bethlehem,
Pa, and were suffocated.
In Boston on the 27th $4,000 persons
were said to be suffering with influenza,
and in New York and Brooklyn the
! number was also large.
AT Fall River, Mass, wind-stornq
on the 9th unroofed several houses ana
| tore down church steeples.