The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-19
FROM WASHINGTON.

FROM WASHINGTON.
In the United States the visible sup
ply of grain on the 9th was: Wheat,
%, 1858, 100 bushels; corn, 1851 1851; oats,
3,21s,092 bushels
On the 18th Admiral David Porter
the hero of many naval battle, died
suddenly in Washington of fatty degen.
Grafton of the heart. He was 10 years
of age.
The business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the 18th numbered 297, against 3O6 the
preceding week and 3O2 the correspond
ing week last year:
THE EAST.
THREE miners intom bed in the Susuue-
hanna coal colliery at Grand Tunnel, Pa.
were rescued after going five days with
out food.
In Boston Rev. Edward Everett Hale,
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, Rev. Minot
j. Savage and others have signed an
agreement to form society for the in
| vestigation of spiritualism.
THE New Jersey Legislature passed
bill exempting foreign insurance COM
panies from taxation and imposing an
additional rate on domestic companies.
In collision at Elmira, N. Y, four
railway employees were killed.
The death of James Redpath, the
Irish Nationalist, journalist and lee
turer, occurred in New York from the
effects of injuries received by being run
down by a horse car. He was So years
of age.
The North Middlesex Savings Bank
and the First National Bank, at Aver,
Mass, closed their DOORS
The steamer Bruce and two tugs
eighteen lives were reported lost
THE death of Samuel Morey, who
came into prominence during the Pres
idential campaign of 1880, and who was
arrested in connection with the ''Morey
Chinese letter." occurred at Nashua, N.
H., aged 6S years.
AT the age of 105 years Mrs. Theo-
dore French died at Syracuse, N. Y.
In New York 100 certificates for 100
shares each of the American Sugar
Trust, aggregate face value 81 ,OUO, 900,
were pronounced to be counterfeit.
In New York new counterfeit SIS
Treasury notes were found in circula-
ton. The bill is signed by W. s. Rose
Grams as Register, and j. N. Huston
as Treasurer, and the work is poorly
done.
AT Dover, Del, Jesse H. Proctor and
Frederick Young were hanged for
murder
WEST AND SOUTH.
JOSEPH FREEMAN, editor of the Daily
Progress of Independence, Mo-, was
found frozen to death in a corn-feld
| near his home.
The Legislature of Indiana passed a
law making it felony to conduct a
bucket-shop, deal in margins or rent a
building for the purpose.
LOUIS P. HoLsEY, of Arizona, shot his
wife, who had instituted proceedings
for divorce, and then committed suicide
in a hotel at Columbus, Kan.
JAMES GAFFNEY placed 81, 800, thu
savings of years, in stove at St. Louis
for safe keeping. Some time after hi
started a fire in the stove and the
money was consumed.
AT Appomattox, Va, the old mansion
in which Lee surrendered to Grant has
been purchased by Niagara Falls IN
W company and will be made museum
for war relics.
ADv1CEs from the recent cyclone il
Alabama say that in Tuscaloosa, Shell
by and Talladego counties stores ant
dwellings were unroofed, stables blown
down, and great many horses and cat
tie were killed.
AT st. Louis the San Miguel Consoli
dated Gold Mining Company wa
formed with a capital of SIS, 1000, 600
General B. F. Butler is at the head. ant
the object is to buy up and control al
the free gold claims of the San Migue
mining district.
shot dead by William Cisso, neighbor
while stealing corn from the latter
barn. Weber leaves widow and tel
children.
The notion store of Joseph A. Bige
& Co. at Cincinnati was robbed of $50,
600 worth of silks and velvets.
The North Dakota Legislature passe.
bill to resubmit the question of a pro
hibition amendment to the constitu
ton.
The population of Michigan is 2,O93,
$50.
A FARMER named Allan M. Murphy
of Baraga, Mich, was feeced out o
$500 by New York ''green-goods'
men.
The steamer Thanemore, which left
Baltimore for London on November q
last, was given up as lost. There wer'
forty-six persons on board.
BILL passed the Missouri Legisla
ture prohibiting pool-selling in thu
State on horse races and elections
The Legislature of Idaho met in join
convention and elected w. H. Claggett
United States Senator. He will contes
the seat of Senator-elect Dubois.
JOHN BENTON and Hale Cooper wer,
fatally injured in a quarrel over CIR
at dance at Palmyra, Kan.
AT Indianapolis fifty of the Indian,
survivors of the Mexican war held q re
union.
The death of Daniel Looper, an ez
soldier aged 101 years, occurred at hi
} home near Carrollton, I'LL
THROUGHOUT Hale and Swisher coun
ties in Texas prairie fires had destroye
J Thousands Of acres Of range.