The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-06-27
SUMMARY OF WEEKS NEWS,

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SUMMARY OF WEEKS NEWS,
#y% wednesday. June N. i4L
A commercial treaty between Japan
and Russia has been signed. %
John Lamar, chief Of police Of Amer
icus, Ca, committed suicide by poison
ing. Cause unknown. 5s.%%@st ~
The new Italian parliament, was
opened Monday with great ceremony
by King Humbert in person. IL,
The forest fires lin the vicinity, Of
Kane, Pa, are under control and no
further trouble is anticipated. :. =
The 18th annual convention Of the
National Association of Master Plumb
srs is in session at Philadelphia
The striking weavers at the Wey.
bosset mills of Olneyville have all
voted to return to work in body. (
Henry Schneider. retired St. Louis
liquor dealer, committed suicide by
| shooting. Cause, financial troubles.
The Westinghouse Machine company
has voted to increase its bonded in
debtedness $3.50, 900 to pay for the new
works at Brinton, Pa. -
About 2,O00 workmen are idle IN
Pittsburg as result of the strike Of
about 1000 boilermakers. The latter
demand an increase Of 10 per cent in
wages.
Thursday, June 13.
Gold is said to have been found in
Of he 0f fk,o
ocean off the California coast.
More than 80 business houses and
dwellings were burned at Geneva,
Ills., making total loss Of So, 1000.
At New York Sigmund Schneider, sc
years Of age, shot his wife, inflicting
fatal injuries. He then blew out his
own brains. i,
Miss Dodge's condition is unchanged.
Representative Hit is about the same
and apparently is holding most of his
recent gain in strength.
Professor Charles Godfrey, at one
time one of the best known musicians
in the world, died at Fruitvale, Cal.
He died in comparative poverty and
obscurity. ~ti
Some remarkably rich gold fields
have been discovered at the head of
Doggy and Turkey creeks, about 40
miles southwest of Guthrie, o. T., and
people are focking there by the
hundreds.
Friday, June IA.
The London Daily News announces
that George Du Maurier has finished
new novel,
The statement of the condition of
the treasury shows: Available cash
balance, $lS3,31S,074; gold reserve,
500, 500, 446
The comptroller of the currency has
authorized the Standard National
bank of the city OF New York
to begin business, capital 5000, 900.
A comparison of the clearances on
the Erie canal during the first months
of navigation of '94 and '95 shows
decrease Of Is per cent in business.
Major Elijah w. Halford, paymaster,
has been relieved from duty at Omaha
and assigned to duty at Denver, head.
quarters of the department of the
Colorado
A dispatch from Constantinople says
that the sultan's health has suffered on
account of his anxiety on the Armenian
question and other difficulties and that
symptoms of paralysis have appeared.
Saturday, juno Is.
Fire in the Victoria warehouse, Ber-
lin, destroyed the buildings and their
contents, involving loss Of 1,4O0,0 900
marks.
The family residence of the Duke
and Duchess of Fife, Mar Lodge,
Braemar, was totally destroyed by Ere
Friday.
M. Sverderup, the leader Of the Nor
wegian Moderates, who was asked by
King Oscar to form new cabinet, has
declined the proposition.
The boss BARRIERS will comply with
the new state law which goes into ef-
feet in Missouri June %, and which
prohibits barber shops from keeping
open on Sunday.
A st. Petersburg correspondent of
the London Times telegraphs to that
paper it is almost certain that Russia
will take no action to compel reforms
by Turkey in Armenia. =
Commander F. R. Main, U. 8. n,
has been found incapable for further
service by medical board and has
been recommended for retirement. He
recently suffered paralytic stroke.
Monday, juno ~.
H. H. Dashiels, collector Of the port
at Crisfield, Nd, dropped dead in his
Office. -.
Mont McCulloch, in fit of jealousy,
shot and killed his wife at jackson
vile, Tex, and afterwards blew outhis
own brains. .,< a.. s
A boiler explosion at the Red Car
Iron works, near Guisborough,, Eng
resulted in the death Of six persons
and serious injury to eighteen others.
The Denver Wheel club has received
telegram from A. A. Zimmerman,
saying that he and John s. johnson
will race in Denver the latter part of
July. .>.5.,- =. g.
Bert Searight, an arc light trimmer