The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-08-08
SUMMARY OF WEEKS NEWS.
We'd neSilay, July 81:

SUMMARY OF WEEKS NEWS.
- Wednesday, July 81.
fudge John d: Cation, ex-judge OF the
Illinois supreme court, is dead, aged q.
Taking of testimony has begun in
tho Duestrow murder case at Union,
Mo. s.5 H &, .: sS .#.s
srhe first national convention Of the
SColored Women's. League Of America
iain session in Boston. # e
Henry Simmons, aged u, an old res
ident Of Dodge county, Mimi, was
killed in runaway. rs
Army worms have made their ap-
pearance in some places in Oklahoma
and are doing great damage to alfalfa
and corn. .<. .z :
Rt. Hon. A. B. Forwood, Conserva-
tive member Of parliament for tho
Ormskirk division of Southwest Lanca.
shire, has been made a baron. y,
David J. Welsh, Chicago printer,
was horsewhipped on one Of the prin-
scipal Chicago streets by Miss Ella
Bradley, who said Welsh's wife had
slapdered her. = =. =,
Thursday, Aug. I. -.
The treasury statement shows avail
able cash balance, $l93, 573.624; gold
reserve, $107, ,298, ,879. @
The Rt. Rev. M. A. De Wolfe Howe,
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Central
Pennsylvania, is dead.
The Dollar Savings bank at Kansas
City has gone into voluntary liquida.
tinn for the purpose Of retiring from
business. ,, 4s,, ~ -.
William Pickler, who was awaiting
trial for implication in the mint bul.
lion shortage, was found dead in bed
at Carson, New. E. sr,y =.
The strike of the journeymen bakers
Ia the City of Mexico is increasing in
proportions and in many quarters of
+ the city families are without bread.
E Fire at Wells, MINI, Wednesday de-
slt0yed number of ildings, includ.
lii. livery stable, in which rs horses
WORE burned 70 death, The total loss
( is $50; ~. Ss.s sssss
4 Friday, Aug. 2. ..ss NJ
Ex-Mayor Hugh O'Brien of Boston
is dead. T. y, =4ss.~s ...s4
At Redding, CAL, Frank Miller, a
pioneer merchant, was killed in his
store by his wife, who attacked him
with an axe. She is insane. y -.
The Big -Four railroad is surveying
line from Black River, O., to Lorraine
to get the Southwest trade of the big
steel mills at the latter place.
The Standard Wagon company Of
Cincinnati has assigned to Edward
Ritchie Assets, $500, 600; liabilities,
$780, ~ .... -; = . s
Secretary and Mrs. Carlisle have
gone to Chicago. They will cruise
around the lakes on the cutter Amar-;
anth for q month.
Senator n. D. Heller, who operates
the Heller Town blast furnace and
stone qurries at Bethlehem, Pa, has
advanced the wages of its employees 10
per cent. s.. &4
Young Mr.. Bancroft, member of q
we'll known English family, has, it is
understood, proposed to and been 40.
cepted by Miss Margaret Grimston,
elder daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs Kendall. .
Saturday, Aug. 8.
Joseph Thompson, the African trav-
eler, is dead in London. 4.t
The frontier dispute between Argen-
tine and Chill has been settled.
Six jurors have been secured in the
Durrant case at San Francisco.
At Dangerfeld, Tex, whitecaps shot
and killed James Mason, negro, and
fatally wounded his wife. ...% @55
The dean of Westminster has offered
a place in the abbey for slab or me-
dallipn portrait of Professor Huxley.
WE'D. Stokes of New York has
received two yearling stations, worth
$15, ,OOO each, as present from the
Grand Duke IDENTITY, uncle Of the czar
of Russia. a
The Rev. Father Sherman son Of the |
late General Sherman, will engage in
mission work in the Northwest, under |
The direction of the Jesuit order, Of |
which he is a,member. SEs
Lord Rosebery has resolved never
again to sit for his portrait. He has
found his previous experiences in this
direction very wearisome and the result
not altogether satisfactory.
Monday, Aug. 8.
lC IS S3lO al0 Is mahluS aTIduBo'
nents to row Hartford or Cambridge
crews next year. VI n I'd
The three European steamers which
sailed Saturday carried with them
;otal Of 81, 536, 400 in gold:
Joseph v. Wheeler, bookkeeper for
Field, Mahler & Co., St. Paul was &C.
drowned at Forest Lake.
The Cornell University boat crew
.rrived at New York by the American
inc steamer St Louis from. Southamp,
on. sg55s =
The Woodrough and Hanchett COM !
,any Of Chicago, wholesale dealers in
hardware, has failed for $24O, 900,
In a horseshoe making contest in
Pugilist Bob Fitzsim.
mons broke the record by forging 80
lorseshoes in ~ minutes.