The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-07-02
The News Of the Week,
BY TErEcRAPIIs AND NAIL.
FROM WASHINGTON.

BY TErEoRAP1sx AND NAIL.
FROM WASHINGTON.
IT LAS been decided by Assistant Sec.
rotary Nettleton that q carpenter can.
not come from Canada, engage work,
and upon his return with his tools en-
ter upon such work without violating
the contract labor law.
EXPERIMENTS will be made by the
agricultural department to produce
rainfall by means of explosives. Sew
eral large ballons will be sent up and
exploded with great violence among
the clouds. -, -:
DURING thos twelve months ended
May 81, 1891, the total value Of the ex-
ports of merchandise from the United
States was Se79, 964, 1914. The value of
the imports during the same time was
SS46, 81, 032. s'esfF% :: : f1=f
THE business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the 25th numbered 2*4, against 253 the
preceding week and 207 for the CORE
spending week last year. 2,$ 81
1T was decided" at a meeting Of the
cabinet to discontinue for the present
the coinage of silver dollars owing to
the great demand for small coins, prin-
eipally dimes, which the mints had not
been able to supply.
GOLD shipments from this country to
Europe during the six days ended on
the Goth reached a total of S., $50, 900.
THE, EAST. s.
THE limited Chicago express on the
New York Central made the run from
New York to Buffalo, 400 miles, In
eight hours and fifty six minutes.
THE firm of Alley Bros. & Place,
leather dealers of Boston, have: as
signed with liabilities of $500. 900.
AT Wilmington, Del, the remains Of
Count Lewenhaupt son-.n-law of ex-
Secretary of State Bayard, who died
April IS, were disinterred, to be taken
to Sweden, his native land.
FLAMES in q stable in Philadelp hia
caused the death of 100 horses.
AT Elberon, n. j., Frederick Brokaw
was drowned while trying to save the
life of Miss Doyle, who was being car
ried out to sea while bathing. The
girl was also drowned. Young Brokaw
was the heir to s. ZOO, 900.
AT Vailsburg, N. j., fire DESTROYED
the post Office, town hall, nine houses
and six barns.
A STATUE of the late Henry Ward
Beecher was unveiled in the city hall
square at Brooklyn on the Gath.
FRANCIS II. BROWN, the celebrated
composer and author, died at Stamford,
Conn.
In New York Chauncey NJ. Depew
and ten other directors of tho New
York, New haven & Hartford railroad
were acquitted of responsibility for the
accident in a tunnel by which eight
lives were lost.
HE eight-oared race at New London,
Conn.,. between the freshmen crews of
Columbia, Yale and Harvard colleges
was won by Columbia by three lengths;
time, GAL.
The sudden death was announced of
Lieut.. Gov. Alsop, of Connecticut. at
his summer home, "Fenwick"
IN Boston Emile Marquese & Co.,
leather dealers, failed for $3.50, 900. -.
HERMAN HoRNLEIN and Josie Gibbons.
OF Midd1etown, N. Y, took poison
with fatal result because of a lovers
quarrel.
On the 25th Julia Adams, of Read
field, Me-, had taken no food whatso-
ever and only one swallow of water for
twenty days and suffered no incon-
venience.
The sudden death of Col. Thomas
Fitzgerald, founder of the Philadelphia
Item in 1S47, occurred in London from
an attack of the grip. He was y years
of age and was the oldest newspaper
man in Philadelphia.
CORNELL won the eight-oared 8.
mile race at New London, Conn, in
14:27]5, Pennsylvania second by four
lengths and Columbia bad third
Cornell's time beats the record.
The supreme court of Connecticut
has handed down an opinion in the suit
of Gov. Bulkeley's secretary, recogniz-
ing Bulkeley as governor, and that his
acts stand.
!, A BREAKER of the Patterson Coal
Company at Natalie, Pa, was destroyed
by cyclone and six men were killed
k1MBALL Bros, manufacturers and
dealers in carriages at Boston, failed
for 500, 900.
The famous steeple climber, Jane.
Ferguson, known all over the country
Tor his daring ascents, was killed BY
falling IS feet at Albany, N. Y.
THE annual four-mile race between
Yale and Harvard at New London
Conn.,, was won by the former by
eleven lengths. Time, 81 minutes q
seconds.