The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05
FROM WASHINGTON.

1u5 -AOuScS III CAe " ulCoU OIdCcS curing
the week ended on the gath aggregated
$1,067, $50, against Sl,240. OS6,C q the
previous week. As compared with the
corresponding week of 1890 the decrease
amounted TO 81.
A CANVASS conducted by two farmers
papers shows that Cleveland was the
choice of Democratic farmers by vote
of 71,7s7 to 17.l1S for Hill. Republicans
were for Blaine by $4,000 to 81, 013 for
Harrison and 20, 746 for Rusk.
THE largest county in the United
States according to a Census Office
bulletin is Yavapai County in Arizona,
and the smallest is Alexander County
in Virginia
TIE business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the 30th ult. numbered 800, against $50
the preceding week and 291 the CORE
spending week last year.
THE EAST.
AN explosion in the H. C.. Fricke
Coke Company's mine ten miles from
Mount Pleasant, Pa, caused the death
of 10 men.
The death of DIR. Sullivan Whitney,
the first man to manufacture homeo-
pathic medicine in America, occurred at
Newton, Mass, aged 50 years.
CARL STEVENS, aged Is, of Buffalo,
n. Y, was. the man who committed
suicide by jumping over the falls at
Niagara
THE Rhode Island Legislature de-
clared Oscar Lapham (Dem.) elected to
Congress from the First district. There
| was no election in the Second district
and new election would be ordered.
ADv1cEs of the 2sth say that ISL men
lost their lives by the recent explosion
Mount Pleasant, Pa.
THE loss to the telegraph and tele-
phone companies by the late storm in
New York was estimated at $4,000, 600.
AT Catasuqua, Pa, the Crane iron
works, next to the largest pig-iron pro-
ducing establishment in Eastern Penn
sylvania, were sold to an English syndi-
cate for So, 100000.
The failure of the Winona Paper Com
pany of Holyoke, Mass, for $500, ooo
| was reported.
The death of William A. Window,
Secretary of the Treasury of the United
States, occurred shortly after 10 o'clock
on the evening of the goth in the ban
quet hall at Delmonico's in New York
just as he had concluded his speech al
the Board of Trade dinner. Heart dis
ease was the cause. Mr.. Window was
81 years of age. He was member OF
Congress twenty years, ten in the House
and ten in the Senate, and was Presi.
| dent Garfeld's Secretary of the Treas.
ury as we'll as President Harrison's.
In the Duquesne (Pa.) steel works a
large ladle of molten steel was acct
, dentally upset and the contents poured
out upon four men, burning them to
! death.
In their weekly review of trade New
York commercial agency says business
/ continues unprecedented in volume and
satisfactory in character. Measured by
clearinghouse returns, trade exceeded
that of a year ago by ~ per cent. in
amount, and that meant a volume Of
! business larger than in any other yea,
at this season. The tone in commercial
l. circles throughout the country was
hopeful, and the money markets were
comparatively easy at nearly all points
In the Mahoning and Shenandoah
valleys owners of twenty-one furnaces
and rollingmills, representing a capital
of over So, 600, 900 and employing 20, Oo0
men, formed combination.
In New Jersey 800 building and loan
associations formed a State league.