The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-12-26
DOMESTIC.

0ne-half the business portion of Vi
emma, ILL.,, was destroyed by fire. the
loss being 100000.
The message of President Cleveland
to congress transmitting the cores
pondence between Secretary Olney and
Lord Salisbury relative to the Vene-
zuela boundary dispute insists upon the
validity of the Monroe doctrine, and
upon its application to present condi-
tions, and clearly indicates a deter
animation for its enforcement, as the
English government has refused to ar
bitrate the question in dispute.
The Federation of Labor in session in
New York adopted resolution that
party politics should not have any place
in the organization, selected Cincinnati
rs the next place of meeting anu adj
journed sine die.
The business portion Of Richmond,
Mo-, was burned, the loss being over
100000.
Hans Il. Koehler, a wine dealer in
San Francisco, failed for 1915, 600. as
sets, one suit of clothes.
The Merchants Elevator company at
St. Louis made an assignment with lia-
bilities Of over $15O.OO0.
Squire Jones, a negro charged with
burning barn, was shot to death by a
mob at Moulton, Ala.
Riot and destruction marked the open
ing day of the great strike of the street
car employees in Philadelphia. Over 300
cars were wrecked and other damage
was done.
Alex Houston, Frederick Fisher and
Louis Bechtold were drowned in the
Hudson river at Yonkers, N. y, by the
capsizing of skiff.
At G;ddings, Tex, Oscar Hennegan
was publicly hanged for the murder OF
Martha Bradley last September.
Agreat number of vessels due in Phil
udelphia were unaccounted for and
there was q general belief that many
had foundered in the recent terrific gale
on the ocean.
Nine of the crew of the new Ameri-
can line steamship st. Paul were killed
by the bursting of steampipe in the
starboard engine-room in New York.
In the schools of Buffalo, n. y, the
import explained to the children.
President Mayer, of the Baltimore &:
Ohio Railroad company, rendered his
resignation and it was accepted.
All the z 900 coal miners in the Indian
territory went on q strike.
In the United States circuit court ut
New Orleans Judge Pardee declared
that the sugar bounty law was consti-
tutional.
John Hunter made 90 balls in contin.
uous pool at the Plaza club in Chicago.
This beats the worlds record by eight
points. ::
John E. Kitzminer, one Of the best
known horsemen in eastern Ohio,
failed at Canton for 100000.
"A bicycle that goes mile minute
is the invention of J. a. Ferguson. a
Cincinnati machinist.
Experimental Duluth, Mimi, demon
strated that potatoes could be treated
and preserved in much the same manner
as apples.
The IegisIature of Virginia refused to
give the governor enlarged powers to
order out troops to prevent lynching.
Rensselaer, Trip, aged 70, a farmer
living near Cortland, n. Y, shot ana
killed his neighbor. George Calpin, aged
IS, and then shot himself.
High water did great damage in Fo:t
Scott and other portions of Kansas,
where rain had been falling for ~
hours.
Fire in New York caused n loss of
$25O, 900 to clothing, art and plate glass
manufacturers.
"a cyclone swept over the country
four miles north of Sherman. Tex,
doing Immense damage.
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