The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-07-21
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
HFTY.sEcoND CONGRESS,

BY TELEGRAPH AND NAIL.
F,Fry.sEcoND CONGRESS
TUESDAY. July 12..1he sunury civil
bill and the amendment
% close the fair on Sunday were dis
:uSsed in the senate. A resolution was
adopted favorinS arbitration in labor
troubles and to provide for labor
In the house the confer
,nce report on the District of Columbia
bill was agreed to.
WEDNESDAY,, July 1S.-The worlds
Fair bill appropriating SIS, 600, 900, with
The Sunday closing amendment and
The amendment prohibiting the sale of
liquor attached, was passed in the SEN
tie by u vote of 81 to IA. In the house
! resolution that the Stewart silver bill
be taken up was defeated by a vote OF
1876 yeas to 1874 nays.
THURSDAY, July IA. - The sundry
,ivil appropriation bill was passed in
The senate. The bill contains an ap-
of S., 200, 900 for the World s
Columbian exposition with Sunday
closing restriction, but the amendment
against the sale of intoxicants was re.
jected. A bill was introduced to au.
thorize retaliation for certain unjust
by the dominion of Can
ada against the United States. In the
house the conference reports on the
ana naval appropriation
bills were agreed to.
FRIDAY, July Is. - In the senate
The conference reports on the legis.
lative, the navy, the army and the
appropriation bills were
agreed to. In the house all the senate
amendments to the sundry civil appro.
priation bill were non-concurred in ex.
cept the one relative to the worlds fair,
action upon which was set for the 10Th.
a resolution was passed extending the
appropriations for the gov.
until July So
FROM WASHINGTON.
THE president by request of the gov.
ernor has ordered that federal troops
be sent to the scene of the miners
troubles in Idaho
The Canadian government has, in
of the rccen, proclamati
of President Harrison, adjusted the
canal tolls so that there is no discrim.
mat on in favor of Canadian as against
American vessels.
HE president has signed the pension
and river and harbor appropriation
bills.
Tie exchanges at the leading cl,ar.
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 18th aggre gated
81, l40, 1856, $50, against Sl.14O, sd, 767 the
previous week. The increase as com.
pared with the corresponding week OF
1891 was 1873
The business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the 18th numbered 100, against l76 the
preceding week and ga for the CORE.
spending week last year.
THE EAST.
AT the commencement in Saratora
Springs, n. v, of the annual conyen.
lion of the National Educational asso.
citation President Harrison delivered
an address, at the conclusion of which
he gave a public reception, lasting two
hours. He then took a train for Wash
ington.
The statement that William Waldorf
Astor, of New York, died in London
was untrue. Mr.. Astor is alive and or
the road to recovery.
AFTER long illness Cyrus w. Field
who laid the first Atlantic cable, dice
at his home at Andsley park, nca,
Dobbs Ferry, n. Y, aged nearly ::
years.
TIE first championship season of the
National baseball league has ended
the Bostons being the champions. The
cA"uo nulollcu III Tic 1UllUwlug uruer
Boston, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Gin.
cinnati, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Wash.
lngton, Chicago, st. Louis, New York,
Baltimore.
NEAR Middletown, n. Y, = train
struck wagon containing ten persons,
killing George Walsh, Miss Cassie Nc
Coy, Mr.. Frank and Mrs. Frank.
CYRUS W. FIELDS funeral took place
1t Dobbs Ferry, N. Y, and the remains
we're taken to Stockbridge, Mass, for
burial.
AT Pittsburgh the congressional in
resignation into the causes and facts o1
The Homestead riot was concluded and
'he committee would report to con
yress.
IN the upper and lower union mills
II the Carnegie company in PITTSBURGH
Pa., the employees quit work and the
gas was turned off in the furnaces. Al
Homestead all was quiet, the militia
being in control.
YOUNG man named Noble Kennedy,
II buffalo. committed suicide by lump.
ng over the American falls at Niagara
Fails lie left a card saying disappoint-
ment in love was the cause.
ITALIAN laborers digging a sewer al
leather factory in Westport, Conn.,,
were blown up by an explosion of a
tank OF naphtha and four were fatally
injured.
TIE Adams Express Company lost a
package containing $50, 900 in the tran.
sit somewhere between New York and
New Haven, Conn.
'rHE wife of John Harkins, a Phila.
de'phia mechanic, surpassed all previ
Gus records by giving birth to four girl
babies within few hours.
WEST AND SOUTH.
PETER MCDONALD, David Barnett and
Daniel Wallace. prospectors, were
blow" to atoms by an explosion OF
giant powder in their cabin near
Mont.
HE death of Mrs. Emeline w. Curtis.
Of Greencastle. Ind, occurred after a
last OF tifty-three days. caused by sick.
ness. Her case is the most wonderful