The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-01-25

The business OF the GOeIuuc6 AuuoIS0A
Piano Company, Of Rockford, III, was
purchased BY the Century Piano Company
Of Minneapolis, who will employ fifty men
at once. H,s5 .f /.
J. w. Girvin, Hawaiian consul 10 san \
Diego, CAL, for some years past, has been
nppointed by the provisional government
to the head Of the Postal Savings Bank OF
Hawaii. @a@
The plant OF the Columbus, Ind., Repub-
lican mas been sold by Isaac i. Brown who
founded it twenty twenty-one years ago,
ia Sidney Haigh and Nose Cochran, OF
Madison, for $4,000. @
The operators Of the fifteen coal mines
in the Dos Moines district, have announced
a reduction Of 25 per cont in wages.
Miners say the cut will not be accepted
and that /, 500 men will strike.
The return of conditions of national
banks in Kansas shows thai the reserve
was 96.2l per cent loans and discounts
So. 149, 900, individual deposits sig, 40 ooo,
and lawful money reserve ~, 407,95o.
Frank j. Scrannapieco. of Philadelphia,
and Chevalier Pint, now in Havana, the
two great masters Of fencing, are engaged
to fight a duel to the death az soon as they
can mako the necessary arrangements.
G.. w. Gibbs, arrived in New Orleans
from Honduras, says Maj. A. f. Burke
had told him he would return to the
United States to staud trial on tho charge
of cmbezzing IS, 600, OOO from the funds OF
Louisiana. e
The Michigan Supreme court granted an
order requiring the St.,e treasurer to pay
death Claims proved against the defunct
Imperial Life Ins urance Company OF De-,
troit for securities belonging to the COM
pany in the treas urer's hands.
The senate in executive session adopted
the adverse report of tho committee on
commerce and rejected the nomination OF
J. Scott Harrison, brother of the ex-presi-
dent, nominated to be surveyor OF customs
for tho ort of Kansas City, Mo.
., The secretary Of the treasury has In
formed Secretary Dickinson Of the Worlds
Columbian commission that its items OF
expense do not require the approval OF the
auditing committee Of the commission be.
fore being presented for payment.
The burning of temple at Ningpo,
Japan, when crowded for theatrical per-
Torrance, involved the loss OF 300 lives.
many of whom were trampled to death.
A boy smoking cigarette Is said to have
been the cause Of the confagration.
By unanimous vote of the aldermen Of
Boston, at a special meeting, the notorious
'muscle" or "kouta-kouta dance, per-
formed by dancers from the Midway plais-
ance OF the Worlds Fair, has been official
ly declared immoral and banished from
Boston.
Beerbohm estimates the requirements Of
wheat for Europe to Sept at 1854, 100000
bu. It claims that the exporting countries
can furnish $685. 560,0 600 blu, but in the lat
ter calculation the exports of Russia and
the United Suites, are based on extreme
estimates of the crop-the latter at AGO.
OO0, 600 bu.
Creditors Of the late Archbishop Purcell
of Cincinnati, are informed by letter from
Mgr. Satolli that the propaganda at Rome
has fin ally refused to take action in the
matter of paying the claims. The de-
ceased Archbishop owed them some ~
600, 900 in savings deposits, and the appeal
to Rome was their last hope.
United States Deputy Marshal Siddiard
has returned from the Pine Ridge agency
He reports the weather there as frightful-
degrees below zero, and that there is a
great deal of suffering. Iie says the grip
is playing havoc on the reservation and
the Indians are dying like sheep.
An entire reorganization in the affairs of
the Lake Superior Consolidated Iron
Mines has been decided upon and is now
being brought about. The plans Of the
trust are to wipe out the bounded indebt-
edness, which is secured by u trust mort
gage for S1o, 900, 900 to the Farmers Loan
and Trust Com oany, of New York.
The Adams Express Company has been
shut out of Wisconsin by the action of the
United States Express Company in Sc
curing an exclusive contract with the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul R'r. During
the fight between the American. Adams and
United States companies for the franchise
no one dreamed OF tho United States Com
pany as !. possible winner.
The formal vote for United States sena-
tor occurred in Goth houses Of the general
assembly Of Iowa, Tuesday. The vote in
the senate resulted: J. H. Gear, SO; Hor-
ace Boics, II. In the house II votes were
cast for Gear, II for Boies and l for ex-
Congressman Walter H. Butler. We'd
nesday Mr.. Gear was formally elected SEN
ator by both houses in joiut session.
The apprasemont of the Stanford es tate
has been filed. The total valuation of the
San Francisco property is 81, .3l9. a.
It IS as follows: Stocks amounting to $11,-
752, 1856; bonds, 1888. 100; house and eff
fects, s131, 900; notes and accounts. $780,
SOC. o.; real estate, s9,s9s. SO. This does
not include the Palo Alto, VIVA and Grid
ley properties which were decided to the
university.
b. Dispatches received from South Africa
convey the information that fighting of the
severest kind is going on. Commander
Siucan beat the Umzizi back into Natal by
a series of skillful attacks. There the Um-
zizi plucked up their courage and returned
to the encounter In the battle which fol-
lowed Commander Sincan was defeated
and driven back with loss of $50 in killed
and wounded.
Leading Montana sporting men, believ-
ing the Corbett- Mitchell fight cannot be
pulled off in Florida, are out with bid.