The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-01
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND NAIL.
FROM WASHINGTON.

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In the United States the visible sup
ply of grain on the 21st was: Wheat,
"a, 543, 614 bushels; corn. 9,249, S35 BUSH
els: oats, 4. $50. 9l6 bushels. o-
MRS. HARRISON and the wives of all
the cabinet ministers signed q petition
for the pardon of Mrs. May brick, who
is serving life sentence in England
for poisoning her husband, and for
warded 1t to Minister Lincoln to pres
ent to Queen Victoria.
THE president has issued a full par.
don for Robert Sigel, son of Gen.. Sigel,
convicted of forgery.
IT was shown by the annual report
of Commissioner Raum, of the pension
bureau, that on June 80, 1891, there
were 676, 100 pensioners upon the rolls,
an increase Of 1ss,,2l0 over the previous
year. The total amount disbursed dur
ing the year was $l1s, 54s, $50. II,
against $1O6, 493, 500. 10 the preceding
year. During the last year 20, 5.5 PEN
sioners were dropped from the rolls,
IS, 229 by reason Of death. There were
about 1907, 2O3 soldiers of the union
now living.
THE business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the :5th numbered $40. against 2s9
the preceding week and 2l9 for the cor
responding week last year.
SECRETARY aRUsk says that it has
been found by experts that women are
better meat inspectors than men. !
The reports from the large centers of
trade throughout the country show
business was constantly on the in
creas".
COMMISSIONER CARrER's report on the
operations of the general land office
during the fiscal year ended June 80,
1891, shows that the number of acres
of public lands disposed of during the
year was 10.325,1 III. Total cash re-
ceipts during the year, s., 429, go. The
vacant public lands in the public land
states and territories was 1861, 1913.
THE EAST.
Ina lecture to the colored people of
Boston Bishop Turner, of the African
Methodist Episcopal church, strongly
urged migration of his race to Africa
NEAR Newburg, N. Y, Andrew
Potosnok, his wife and child aud two
men were drowned by the upsetting OF
boat in the river.
At Salisbury, VT, Mrs. Isaac VIM
cite and her l2-year-old boy were car
ried into the river by a frightened
horse attached to their carriage and
drowned.
THE firm of s. v. White & Co., one OF
the most widely known in Wal street.
N. Y, failed for $780, 200.
In Boston trade schools are to lie es.
tablished and opened evenings All
regular indentured apprentices are tc
! be given instruction therein.
JOSEPH CRowELL died at his resi-
| dence in Railway, N. j., aged ~ years
lie published the first pictorial paper
in the United States, Crowell's Pic,
torial.
A BOMB burst at an Italian celebra.
ton in Newark, N. j.. and four per
sons were killed and eighteen injured.
AT Mckim's siding. Pa, a freight
train ran into a work train, killing En-
gineer HoughtOn and eight Italian
| workmen.
WILLIAM A., Daniel A. and Matthew
, A. Grant, triplets, Celebrated their 7Otf
birthday at Torrington, Conn. 1t wa.
| sa d to be tue only case on record O.
triplets living to such an advanced age
In a sawmill near Tionesta, Pa, the
boiler exploded, killing j. Elva Berlin
James Conger and Charles B. Grove, al
| well-known lum bermen.
! The death of Rev. DIR. S. D. Hurch,
ard, of New York, who figured con
spicuously in the presidential campaign
of 1884, occurred at Saratoga after 9
short illness, aged 70 years.
In Silver Lake township, Susque
hanna county. Pa, a paying vein Of
gold was discovered on the farm Of
Thomas HEAVIER, Jr.