The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-04-09
DOMESTIC.

A cloudburst laid waste q strip of
country about five miles wide along
Little Sexton creek in Clay county, KY.
and the wife and child of Wade MarderS
were drowned.
Floods in the streams Of central and
western New York did immense dam
age.
Manuel Mendoza, a Spaniard, swim
died the Belmont bank in New York
out of $4,000 by means OF q forged
check.
Mrs. Olga Deuss killed herself and
three children in San Francisco, the
eldest being eight years old. by gas
ssphyxiation. She was jealous of her
husband. -''
The Cutter SILK Manufacturing COM
pany of West. Bethlehem, Pa, made an
assignment with liabilities of 100000.
The Omaha city council passed the
curfew ordinance over the mayor veto
and the law went into effect.
Dayton, O., celebrated the 109th an
niversary of the foundation of the city.
All traffic at Duluth, M,nn., and Su-
perior, Wis.,, was blockaded by a snow
storm, and in St. Paul street car lines
were tied up.
The president sent to the senate the
nomination of William A. Little, Of
Georgia, to be assistant attorney-gen-
eral, vice John Hall, resigned.
The public debt statement issued OH
the LIST showed that the debt. increased
$5,274, $50 during the month of March.
The cash balance in the treasury
was $S74,969.947. The total debt, less
the cash balance in the treasury,
amounts to $942, 342.253.
A train on the St. Louis & San Fran
cisco railroad was held up three miles
east of Lebanon, Mo-, by three masked
men and the express safe blown open
and robbed of S1.277.
Over eight inches of snow fell
throughout the greater part Of COL
orado.
Easter and Allie Anderson and their
three children. together with two
horses, were drowned by freshe, in
Powell's river IN Lee county, Va.
From smelter returns for the first
quarter it was predicted that the gold
production of Colorado for 1896 would
reach $3O.00O,O0O.
Tie two boilers of the Planters oil
mill at Greenville, Miss, exploded,
wrecking the mill property and killing
five men.
The president has signed the act re-
pealing the statute prohibiting the ap-
pointment to the army and navy of per-
!, sons W no held confederate commissions.
B. The wcst-bound express train OH the
baltimore e. Ohio railroad fell into the
! lands of a gang of train robbers just
east of Garrett, Ind, but they were
driven away without securing much
booty.
The monthly statement of the comp
troller OF the currency shows the total
circulation Of national bank notes to be
1921 ,227, sos, an increase for the year of
s&l3.777.661.
Reports from every county in Ohio
indicate the smallest wheat crop ever
produced in the state.
During February 1882 immigrants
arrived in New York, an increase Of
shout 65 per cent. over the arrivals dur
Ing February, 1895. /:
Ten persons persisted by suffocation
ia q Brooklyn IN. ~ tenement house
Ere. - 1850
Reports from northern Wisconsin
told of complete snow blockade on
many railroads. The drifts were from
ten to twenty feet deep.
jose Ramon Del Vale, prominent
E1aniarrl who resided in Matanzas,
Cuba, arrived with his family in Key
West, Fla, and said it was impossible
to longer endure the outrages commit
ted BY the Spanish troops. He told of
MANY brutal deeds, and declared that
peaceful, unarmed people were ruth
lessly slaughtered and the murders
we're called victories.