The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-07-16
The News of.the Week.
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puDllc schools IN the country for 1880
was 8, 951, COS, and for 1890 II, 522, I'll. q
gain of 1854 per cent.
In the United States the visible sup
ply of grain on the 9Th was: Wheat,
IL, 5S3, 60l bushels; corn, 1920, 221 bush.
els; oats 4,5S3,3lo.
THE membership Of tho, Catholic
church in the United States numbers
1856, 600 communicates over Is years 81
age. x..,x.> .,us a
+ The Chiliang%teamer hats will hs
helds2on three charges, viz: Violating
neutrality laws, contempt in leaving
while under arrest, and violation OF
navigation laws.
! Npr1eF was given Funk. Examiner
Brew, Of Philadelphia; chat on account
of his connection with the keystone
bank. affair his services were no longer
required by the government.
THE business failures in the Omitted
States during the seven days ented on
the 10Th numbered PAT, against 2:7 the
preceding week and 197 for the CORE
spending week last year -, II S'>''
THE EAST.
JAMES J. SLoCUM, Joseph Wood, Har-
ris "A. Smiler and Shibuyo Jugigo were
executed by electricity in Sing Sing
prison for murder, Although there was
reflex muscular action after the !. first
contact, the physicians present had no
doubt that death was instantaneous.
|, THE death of ;eN-Cougressman John
i. Packer occurred at his home in Sun.
bury, Pa.
FIRE destroyed the Empire print
works in New York, causing a loss of
$500, 1000.
USDER the amended Immigration law,
sixty-seven paupers who reached New
York from foreign shores were returned
to the country from whence they came
during the past three months.
MISS IRENE w. Co1r, of Norwich,
Conn.,, has received the first certificate
of admission which Yale university has
ever granted to a woman.
FUNERAL services of the late Hanni-
bal Hamlin occurred at Bangor, Me-, on
the sth. The body lay in state from II
a: tn. till 2 p. IN. and was viewed by
thousands of people.
AT the Green Ridge colliery near
Mount Carmel. Pa, an explosion of gas
fatally burned John Dorsey and John
Pickmonti.
|: PENNSYLVANIA democrats will hold
their state convention in Harrisburg
on Thursday, September 3.
Gov. HILL has pardoned James c.
King, of New York, who had served
eighteen years of life sentence fo1
murder at Auburn prison.
IMMIGRArIoN statistics for the yea,
ended June, 80, 1891, show. that the
total number of cmigrants landed in
New York during that period was 405,
604. Germany sent the largest mum.
her, 1882. Italy was next with TO-.
776. Ireland came third, with IS, 424,
| and Russia fourth, with 33,5l4, most Of
! whom We're Hebrews. OF those who
| arrived $40 were returned.
The company stores of the Cambria
Iron Company at JOhnStOwn, Pa, al
! which thousands of their workmeu
traded, has been sold to party of cap
italists for nearly s1,ooo,0oO. The law
| against company stores in that state
goes into effect August l.
JACK THE RIPPER" of New York,
''Frenchy No. l." charged with the
murder of a dissolute woman, was sen.
fenced to life Imprisonment.
WEST AND SOUTH.
NEAR Boone, Ia, a heavy rain and
windstorm lodged much of the grain
which was ready to harvest and many
fields of oats were completely ruined.
THE cyclone at Baton Rouge, La,
which did great damage, took an air
line north through the state, and three
negroes and several animals were
killed. Hundreds of houses and barns
| were demolished and acres of cotton
and corn destroyed.
ABOUT Cheyenne, Wyo., myriads OF
grasshoppers were devastating the
country. A strip about 10 miles wide
! and 40 miles long was completely hid
den from view by the pests.
SEVERAL houses were destroyed. q
negro woman and her child were killed
| and several other persons wounded in
a cyclone near Gloster, Miss.
TIE failure of the Bank of Commerce
of Sheffield, Ala, was reported.
Ill.,, fatally wounded his wife with q
Ratchet and then stabbed himself to the
heart.
THE Banner tobacco warehouse al
Clarksyille,~ Tenn., owned by Merri
| wether & Co., with 1900 hogsheads OF
tobacco, and Draper Bros stable and
twenty-five mules were destroyed by
fire. Total loss, S1s5, 200.
AT Newport, ILL.,. j. H. Phillipston
and his son were killed by passenger
train while crossing the tracks Of the
Big Four road
| DELEGATES to the number of over
1000 from the young peoples societies
of the Baptist churches in all the states
of the union met in Chicago and organ.
lied the Baptist Young Peoples union
CAPT. JOHNSON, his wife and chile
were drowned by the capsizing of the
schooner Silver Cloud in Lake Mich,
gan off Fort Washington, Wis.
ABE DOWNING. the noted trotter
| with a record Of 1904, died at Waiver
~, Ia The animal was valued at $40,
900.
CARL NJ. Rolf was killed by light
| nlD9 at PASSPORT, Ind. His wife anG
child beside him in bed were un
harmed.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
railway directors say that the grea
fight of that corporation against the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineer.
cost $4,000, 200.
AMONG papers belonging to the lat,
c. w. Perry, of Lamar, Mo-, lette,
was found written by himself a shor
time before his death, acknowledging
that he killed j. P. Cash, near Paris
ILL.,, twenty-four y@ars ago. He hat
been tried and acquitted of the crime
In gale at Galveston: Tex, Rober
Frankovich, Frank Miltovich, PETE
Straugle and J. Speech were drowned
In western Washington the whea
crop was being greatly damaged b,
gophers and squirrels.
A. f. BURKuARDr> & Co., in Cincin
natl, largest fur dealers in the country
suffered a loss of $3.50, 600 by fire, ant
| the clothing firm of Geiershofer (. O.