The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-03-15
LATEST i /. NEWS.

year. S
Kansas is preparing to send delegates
4 to join Gen. CoXey's army to march on
y Washington.
Publishers and printers of St. Paul are
In the midst of an animated dispute over
the scale of wages. r. '.5%
A decision of the pope is expected TAX
ing the ban from the order of Odd Fell
lows and Pythians. ts.> II. Va
Nine hundred persons have been con-
yerted as the result of a Methodist re-
vival at Danville, III. s,>E
AS result of the thaw and heavy rain
in the Lake Superior country the logging
roads have been ruined.
The point was made in the roster case
at Madison, Wis, that the celebrated
contract was not good.
The reichstag committee upon the
ure by vote OF 16 to IL.
Thus far in 1894 eighty lives and eight
cen vessels have been lost from the fish
ing fleet of Gloucester, Mass.
A syndicate has purchased 1,5OO, OOO, 900
feet of northern Minnesota pine timber
for s6,O0O,O0 in round figures.
Minnesota's new gold field is said to be
no place for men with pick and shovel,
owing to the quartz formation.
Negotiations are pendidg for the re-
moval of the Louisville, New Albany and
Chicago shops to Lafayette, Ind.
Gov. Lewelling summarily removed
John F. Willis from the Kansas board
of pardons for alleged disloyalty.
Gov. Foster, of Louisiana, appointed
Newton B. Blanchard as United States
senator to succeed Judge White.
Richard Croker threatens Congress-
man Dunphy with arrest and the power
of the Tammany Hall organization.
James Montgomery Bailey, famous as
the Danbury News funny man, died at
his Connecticut home of pneumonia.
Ed. N. Williamson, famous as third
baseman and short stop in the Chicago
Ball Club several years ago, is dead.
Nebraska homesteaders dispossessed
by recent decision will lose all but their
improvements and government fees.
Refused aid in it's fight with Southern
Pacific, the Santa Fe will withdraw from
the Western Passenger Association.
Cedar Rapids residents are angry at
the Iowa legislators for suggesting the
adjustment of their special charter.
Opening of the Cherokee strip has
driven cattlemen to the grass lands of
New Mexico or the Wyoming ranges.
Farmers in Kansas are turning their
old enemy, the wind, to account by utiliz-
jng it through windmills for irrigating.
Trial of the new battle ship Indiana,
at Delaware breakwater, was successful
beyond the eXpecta lions of the builders.
Iowa A. P. AS recently met in annual
convention at Dubuque, and delega ties
representing s., 600 members were pres
ent.
Plans are on foot to reclaim the i'm
mense swamp tract along the Kankakee
River, near the Indiana Illinois state
line
Governor Altgeld, of Illinois, has de-
clared quarantine, by proclamation,
against sections where Texas fever ex-
lists.
Minneapolis -four mills increased thei1
output last week. The quantity ground
was II, 800 barrels, an average of %, 799
daily.
Minnesota democrats have petitioned
the President to appoint George L. Beck
er to the vacant interstate commissioner
ship.
The new fast mail service from Chicago
to Ashland, Wis, was successfully in
The run was made in fifteen
hours.
Columbiana county, Ohio, is bankrupt
and courts have adjourned in conse-
quence. Land depreciation caused the
trouble.
The Union Pacific is suspected of secret |
rate cutting from Chicago. The Santa |
Fe may make open reductions in conse-
quence.
Believing they tend to discredit the |
business. Ohio liquor dealers decided !
against allowing slot machines in their |
saloons.
Catholic archbishops are issuing d. !
plomas to institutions that contributed |
to the success of the world fair educa-
kional exhibit.
Mrs. 81. F. Whitcomb, Milwaukee So
:iety leader, was sued for $4,000 by
servant who alleges she was falsely &C.
:used of theft.
Charles P. Chateau's title to 100000
acres of land in Dunkin county, Mis-
,ouri, has been affirmed after thirty
years. litigation.
Over 100000 acres of the Round Valley
indian reservation in Mendocino county,
Cal, will be sold at the San Francisco
Land Office April 10.
Miss Jennie Lander of Mansfield, O.,
las been installed at the white house as
,overness of little Ruth Cleveland. She
s said to be good linguist.
Advices from Rio de Janeiro say the
tate of siege in Brazil has been extended
Until May. The vessels of the insurgent
quadron are at present inactive.
County commissioners at Lafayette,
elected the petition of 2,17O taxpayers
skiing them to appropriate $50 1000 to re-
3uild the engineering laboratory at Pur-
|ue University.
Iowa business men have recently Or
,anized the Mutual Insurance Club, at
)es Moines, in order to do away with the
Ugh rate of interest charged by the in
urance combine.
Because of proposed 10 per cent cut
q wages, over fifty of the American Glu-
ose company's employees in Peoria, ILL.,,