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


hotels, residences and big manufac-
tories were extinguished by the waters.
The ante-mortem statement of Harry
r. Hayward, hanged recently in Minno-
apolis for the murder of Catherine
Cling, says that he took the lives of four
other persons before that of Miss Cling.
and that he never got into trouble until
he began to gamble.
Theodore Lambert (coloredD was
hanged in the Jail ut Camden, Pa, for
the murder of William g. Xavier on De-
cember 4. 1893.
Erastus Wiman, of New York, serv.
ing a term of five years in prison on the
charge made by r. G. Dun & Co. of
forgery, was liberated by the court OF
appeals.
Mrs. Gen. Grant celebrated the open
ing of her new home recently pur-
chased in Washington.
Arrests made by secret service Off
GERS in Kansas City, St. Louis and Paola,
Kan, resulted in the seizure of sol 900
in counterfeit $40 silver certificates and
the breaking up of gang of counter
letters.
A tire-damp. explosion in a coal mine
near Raleigh, N. c., killed 43 men.
American commerce celebrated the
centennial of its liberty in New York
by banquet at Delmonico's.
Collections of internal revenue for
the five months of the current fiscal
year aggregate $64, 423, AIS, d decrease
of $s,124,2S7 as compared with the cor
responding period of 1894.
In Washington Mgr. Satolli, apos-
tolic delegate to the United States, be-
came Cardinal Satolli, q member of the
sacred college of cardinals and prince
of the Roman Catholic church.
William P. Harrison, of Chicago, ar
rived in San Francisco from an extend
ed trip of the antipodes. During his
stay on the Samoan islands he states
that Is individuals were devoured by
the cannibals and that he narrowly es-
capped q like fate.
Secretary Carlisle estimates that it
will cost $41s, 091 ,073.17 to run this gov
eminent during the next fiscal year.
The appropriations for the present
year made by the last congress amount
to 412,753,264.s1.
While playing ON the ice at 1ndianap-
oils John Horhamer, aged ten, and Otto
Greenwaldt, aged seven, cousins, were
drowned.
Al Stinson and William Davis, white
cap leaders at Anderson, Ind, were SEN
fenced to six years in the penitentiary.
At Syracuse, N. Y, Clearwater won
the pool championship of the world, ue-
feating Keogh, of Binghamton.
The principal business portion of
Bethel, N. c., was destroyed by fire.
Figures on tho racing season of 1895
in the United States show that s., $780,
749 was earned by horses placed in the
1862 events decided during the year.
James b. Pace, president of tie Plant
ers' national bank at Richmond. Va.
failed for 81, 000,00
The police at Buffalo, N. T., arrested
n gang of six of the most notorious poo
tessional car burglars in the country.
A heavy rainfall was reported
throughout Illinois, Iowa, Michigan.
Wisconsin, Missouri and Kansas.
William Supleben, 20 years old,
blind soap peddler in New York, in
Jealous rage killed his only child, q girl
four years cid. and then shot himself
dead.
The Bennett national bank at New
Whatcom, Wash, forced to close by 4
run November 5, has reopened for bust
ness.
The probated will Of the late Senator
Thurman, of Columbus, O., shows he
was worth $17O,0O0, all of which was
left to his heirs.
Mrs. Mary Grossman, wife Of promi-
nent business man at Ann Arbor, Mich,
drowned herself and three-year-old
child in a cistern. No cause was known
for the act.
The manufacturers of plumbers
brass goods of the country formed a
national organization ut Pittsburgh,
Pa.
Az result of the decline in stocks
the failure of the following firms was
announced on the New, York stock
exchange: Nichols, rockingham &
Co., Samuel S. Sands Il Co., DE Ncuf-
ton.
During freshet near Old Monroe,
Mo-, John Hoffman, August Longneck-
or, Henry Longnecker, w. Meadows
and wife, and u stepson of James Blank
inship, named Martin, were drowned.
Two youths, aged respectively Is and
20 years, the youngest named Blount
and the older Fourche, engaged in q
duel with pistols near Pontotoc, Mss.
and both were killed.
a. b. Payne, postmaster at Long,
view, Ala, was murdered by Jasper
Majors, his nephew.
The Union Traction company, owner
of the street car lines involved in the
great strike in Philadelphia, consented
to arbitrate the differences with its
employees, and the strike was declared
off. =:
Albert Neeland, photographer of
St. Louis, who already has three wives,
was arrested in st. Joseph. Mo-. when
al,ort to marry the fourth.