The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-01-07
The News Of the Week.
3Y TELEGRAPH AND MAIL
FROM WAsEiNorota.

FROM WASHINGTON.
THE director of the mint has com.
pleted arrangements for issuing the
new silver subsidiary coins, dimes,
quarters and half dollars early in 1891.
THE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 2Sth was: Wheat,
A, 620,317 bushels; corn, S. S64, 253 BUSH
els; oats, 8, 40, 647 bushels. -
1T was said that it had been de-
cided that Chill must express her re-
grets for the assault upon the sailors
of the Baltimore and pay to the fam
lilies of the murdered seamen q snug
Indemnity, and that she must do this
! within two weeks Her refusal would
mean war with the United States.
The president has refused to pardon
Harper, the wrecker of the Fidelity
savings bank at Cincinnati, who has
been in the Ohio penitentiary since
1887 on t. i years sentence.
AN arrangement for reciprocity has
been entered into between Secretary
Blaine and the British minister to en-
brace the British West Indian colonies
of Jamaica, Barbados, the Leeward
and the Windward islands, Trinidad
and the colony of British Guiana.
SECRETARY BLAINE signed reciproc-
ity arrangements with the ministers of
Guatemala and Salvador for their re-
spective countries.
STOCKS of wool unsold in the princi-
pal markets of the United States ag-
gregate a total supply of 100, Ala, 2s3
r,0l,v1S o~oiock IL y
year ago
In 1891 the number of persons who
committed suicide in the United States
was 1881, as compared with 2,64O in
1890 and ,334 in 1889.
In this country the loss of life by
railroad disasters during 1891 was 3, 26l,
as compared with 1920 in 1890 The
number of seriously injured was 2,7o7,
against 2, 746 in 1897.
The number of murders committed
in this country during 1891 was 5000.
in 1889. The number of legal execu-
tions in 1891 was 1:3, against lO2 in
1890. During the last year 1s9 men and
women were lynched, against total
of 1877 in 1890.
THE total amount of embellishments
in the United States in 1891 was $19,-
720,2 against SIS, 622, $50 in 1890.
TOTAL fire losses in the United States
in 1891 amounted TO S166, c47, 900,
against sos, 412 SOL in 1890, $I43, 1902, 670
in 1859, 500, 0OO, 600 in 1883, $50, 0O0, 900
in 1887 and Sl15, 900, 900 in 1886.
In 1891 the deaths of ia centenarians
were reported.
The death of John NJ Finnerty, the
inventor of the cotton picker, occurred
in Washington, aged ~ years.
In the United States the total num-
Der of business failures during 1891
was 12,97s, against 1o,907 in 1890. The
total amount of liabilities was $780,
s6s, 63s, against $3.50, $50, 964 in 1890.
THE EAST.
IT was shown by the annual cloth
statement published at Fall River,
Mass, that during the past year the
production was 9,9S5, 900 pieces, against
1887, 600 pieces the preceding year.
AT crossing in Brooklyn of the
Long Island railroad a coach contain
ing four persons was penned in on the
track by an error of gateman and all
the occupants were struck by a in
and fatally injured.
The destruction of the dies used for
making coins during 1891 was begun at
the United States mint in Philad elphia~
A COMPANY in Philadelphia has COM
pleted arrangements in tk:t city for
the erection of the largest tin-plate fac
tory in the United States.
BY the will of w. l.. Scott, of Erie,
Pa, who died last Septe Der, property
valued at $l5, 900 was left to the
family.
A BUILDING in the course of erection
at Brooklyn, N. Y, fell, injuring nine
teen workmen, three fatally.
In Milton, Pa, William Marsh, a
young man, committed suicide because
his parents reproved him for having
married a girl who worked OUT
Mrs. NORMAN THOMAS, aged 21, was
fatally shot at Stamford. Conn.,. by her
husband, aged 81, who then killed him.
self. Domestic trouble was the cause
THERE were coined at the Philadel-
phia mint during the year 1891 over
%, o0o,0 pieces, with a valuation of
over $13, 600, 600.
THE firm of NOVEL; & Presby, dry
goods dealers in New York, failed for
$3.50, 900; assets, $780,
For the murder of his wife Stephen
Bell was hanged at Fairfax, Vt
WEST AND SOUTH.
THE sale of liquor at the worlds fair
will, it is said, be allowed, the expo.
sition company to receive for the priv
ilege of the sale percentage of the
gross receipts.
EDWARD j. TRACY has been ap-
pointed state treasurer of Florida, vice
Francis j. Pond, deceased.
AT Olive Springs, Tenn, Lem Jones