The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-12-12

Frank G. Elliott. state organizer for
the populist organixat ton 81 Missouri.
was attacked by . robber in Kansas
City md fatally wounded. X. II.
The exchanges 1t the leading clear
ing houses In the United States during
the week ended on the 9th aggregated
$l,s47, 1o4, 900, against $s70, 4s4.1se the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was 10.
The bonded warehouse of Elliot F.
briggs was burned in New York, the
loss being $3.50, 900. Fl ~ n
Fire destroyed the stove works Of J.
Woodruff & Sons at Salem, O.. and
many valuable patterns were burned.
Mike Ford and William Senter were
arrested at Atlanta, Ga, with large
quantity of counterfeit ten dollar Sill
yer certificates on their persons.
The National Civil Service Reform
league will hold their annual meeting
in Washington December 12 and ID.
Mrs. Joseph Reimein died in Toledo.
o.. from the shock received by the
death Of her husband and daughter in
railway accident.
The hay crop of this year IN the mid
Ole states is reported to be II per cent.
less than last year. .E.
Prince Graham, jason Blake and Will
liam Fraser (all colored) were hanged
ut Hampton, s. c., for the murder of E.
X Mears; Jesse Jones WIS hanged at
Ozark, Ark, for numbering Charles and
Jesse Hibdon in February. 1894, and q
negro named Elliott was hanged Mt
Chester, S. c., for the murder of q white
man named WEIGH. E., 'A.
The annual report of Attorney Gen
eral Harmon shows that there has been
an increase in the number Of criminal
cases pending in the federal courts as
we'll us an increase in the expenses of
the courts from So, S64, 1903 in 1888 to S.
52S,223 in 1895. He says too much OF
the time of the supreme court is occu-
pied by criminal appeals, and suggests
that such appeals be disallowed save in
capital cases. He also calls attention
to what he regards rs the growing abuse
OF the writ of habeas corpus, and sug-
gests that the allowance of a stay by
the supreme court or one of its judges
he required ut least on all appeals after
the first. r.. ~
The bank Of Oronogo, Mo-, was robbed
by safe blowers of 81 800.
The close of the first century of COM
mercial liberty in America will be cele-
brated in New York on the 10th inst.
In San Francisco Judge Murphy de-
MED Theodore Durrant's motion for q
new trial and sentenced him to be
hanged for the murder of Blanche IA
mont. but fixed no date for the execu-
ton. ~
Washington dispatches announce
that this government will protesting
lorously against England prohibiting
the importation of American sheep
after January.
Rev. Hiram Hillar "a Baptist preacher
SO years of age, committed suicide at
his home near Golden, Mo-, while tenn
porarily insane. % z. :
r. Navieution-on the lakes for the sea-
son Of 1895. has closed : * 49, - Z: ~
Mrs. Bliss, Of Memphis. Tenn, now q
missionary IN Armenia, writes that
over ;. 100000 eArmenians, have been
butchered, mostly men. leaving the
women and children in awful poverty,
and says there is no doubt that all
these outrages were committed with
the sanction of hesuItan.@ : O.
I Three men were killed and two more
were injured in d railroad wreck onthe
New York u New Haven railway in
harlem, n. ". |, . u ~
!. w Holman L. Alexander, wholesale deal
5ers in mems furnishing goods in San
francisco, were burned out, the loss be-
ing $500, 900. ~. =, p
: The building il: Chicago occupied by
H. Wolf e, Co., dealers in general mer-
chandise, was destroyed by fire, the
loss being 100000. - e. i s.
Postmaster. General Wilson issued an
order prohibiting postal employees from
working for legislation in their interest,
the penalty being dismissal from serv-
ice. 4$ ar.Tf$ 8
A building in Chicago occupied by
piano, fur and shoe firms was burned,
the loss being 100000. ~
The secret service bureau in Wash
lington discovered new counterfeit
five-dollar bank note on the Fort Dear
born national bank of Chicago, series
Of 1882, portrait Of Garfield. The colors
are poorer than the gen uine.
81 News from the scene of the murders
ii Arizona committed by renegade
Apache Indians says that nine persons
were killed. II.
Near Dexter, Ia. Grant Hibbs, aged
80, shot his wife. probably fatally, and
then killed himself. He was insane.
4 new rule was put into effect at the
East Liberty (Pa.) stockyards prohib-
iting dealing in cattle on Sundays. 4
The gold product of Colorado the past
year was SIC 200, 900 and the silver prod
uct $50. O0O, 900. -:
During gale of Huron isle, about 40
miles from Marquette, Mich, the tug
Pearl B. Campbell was lost and her en-
tire crew, consisting of seven men, went
down with her.
The hue;noaa rorfiOn ~ Chiffon the