The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-09-01
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND NAIL.
FROM WASHINGTON.

FROM WASHINGTON. =.
In the United States the visible
supply of grain on the 22d was: Wheat,
81, 779, 900 bushels; corn, Z. 149. 900 bush
els; oats, 5,0l6, 900 bushels; rye, $50, 600
bushels; barley, 1856, 600 bushels.
The treasury department has issued
circular requiring consular certif.
Gates of disinfection with all importa.
tions of foreign rags from foreign
ports, and absolutely prohibiting the
importation of rags from districts
known to be infected with the cholera.
In the United States the exchanges ut
the leading clearing houses during thu
week ended on the 10th aggregated
S1,0os, G1o,ss7, against s., OO9, 774,ss3 the
previous week. The increase as com
pared with the corresponding week OF
1891 was g..
The business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the Goth numbered 165, against 172 the
preceding week and 226 for the CORE.
spending week last year.
THE EAST. ..
THE four-masted schooner Roanoke,
the largest wooden vessel ever built,
was launched at Bath, Me. 1t is 81
feet in length and 40 feet in breadth,
and has a gross tonnage Of 5, 500. os tons.
DAVID Mason and Adam Haas. two
we]l-known residents of Erie, Pa. were
killed by an express train while at
tempting to drive across the track.
THE death of ex-Gov. NJ. II. Clark, OF
New York, occurred at his home in
Canandaigua. He was elected governor
of the state in 1855.
E. L. LOWE, ex-governor of MARYLAND,
died at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y,
aged II years.
The miners strike in the Upper Mon
ongahela coke region has come to an
end. The companies refused to recog-
nize the united mine workers organi-
cation and the men were returning to
work.
FIERCE forest fires were raging in
the South mountains, near Carlisle,
Pa. and large tracts of valuable tim.
Der land had been burned over.
THE switchmen's strike at Buffalo
was officially declared off by Mr..
Sweeney after an unsuccessful effort
to involve other railroad organizations
in the trouble.
PRECAUTIONARY measures would be
put in operation at New York, Boston,
Philadelphia and other Atlantic ports
to keep cholera out of the country.
AT Springfield, Mass, p. j. Berlo
rode bicycle 9 miles in four minutes
and forty weight seconds, breaking the
worlds record four minutes forty-eight
and four-ifths seconds made by lay
lor last fall.
Two HUNDRED men from the Twenty
ninth street Pittsburgh mill of the Car
negie Company quit work in sympathy
with the locked out men.
AT meeting of western and eastern
anthracite coal agents in New York it
was decided to again advance the price
OF coal twenty-five cents September /.
Nor satisfied with the stoppage OF
the strike by Grand Master Switch,nan
Sweeney, and with alleged grievances
Of their own, the switchmen on the
Lackawanna and Nickel-Plate roads at
Buffalo quit work again.
In an opinion in the Reading coal
combine Chancellor McGill says that SO
far as it relates to New Jersey the trust
is illegal.
AT Camden, n. j., James r. Morton
was hanged in the county Jail for the
murder of Mrs. Lydia Ann Newly, an
old colored woman
J. r. TUCKER, of Virginia, was elect.
ed president of the American Bar asso-
citation in session at Saratoga, N. Y.