The Worthington advance., 1896-05-28

O., exploded. killing Alexander Moore
and his son. Charles, prcprietors OF the
mill, and ten employees were injured.
Secretary Olney instructed Minister
Taylor to make vigorous protests to the
Spanish government relative to recent
edicts prohibiting expectation of to-
tacco from the island of Cuba on the
grounds that it amounts to practical
confiscation of goods in Cuba owned by
Americans.
The government internal revenue re-
CENTS for the past ten months nggre'
gated $l21, ,66O, $40, an increase over the
like period Of 1895 of 81 .oos, 1876.
Joseph Holt, q paper mill operative
nt Mechanics Falls. Me-, killed his one
xear-old child and then cut his own
throat.
Northern Minnesota was under water'
There had been nothing like it for many
wears. The prairie was lake, anu
farms were transferred into archipela'
goes.
The wreckers who for the last two
wears and q half have been busy clear
ing up the worlds fair grounds in Chi
cago have completed their work.
The Thirty sixth general assembly
of the Presbyterian church south in the
I7nited States convened at Memphis,
Tenn. !.
Minister Terrell said in Washington
that no American missionaries were
killed in Armenia during the massacres'
At the Methodist general conference
in Cleveland it was decided that the
church should not recognize in any mat
ter of legislation the Christian En-
fieavor societies or sanction in any man
ner the atfiliation of these societies with
the Epworth League.
Alva E. Sheppard. San Francisco
ieveler. murdered his cousin, Mrs. l.. T.
Aweny, while insane. and then cut MS
own throat. .,
The steamship Laurada. which lett
New York on May 0. landed OH Cubar
soil all the men and ammunition she
carried for the insurgents.
At the Presbyterian general Assembly
il Saratoga, N. Y, resolutions were pre-"
scnted denouncing Sunday excursions;
Sunday baseball games; Sunday thea
ters; Sunday bicycle-pleasure riding
and the greed of gain, which compeis
thousands against their will to work on
the Lords day.
The firm CT Wood, Ricknall & Potter.
wholesale and retail dealers i'll crockerJ
and glassware in Providence, X. l., fallec
for 100000.
A national conference of silver men
will be held at Columbus, o.. on June :.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on he 22d aggregated $3o1.-
33o, ,0o9, against S1,O1o,M9,27S the pre-
yious week. The decrease, compared
with the corresponding week in 1896
was 1913.
Messrs. Abbey, schoeffel & Grau, con-
trolling the Metropolitan opera house
and Abbey's theater in New York and
the fremont theater in Boston, failed
for $500, 900; assets, $20O,00O.
The will of Edward Fl. Kennedy, OF
Philadelphia, bequeathed his entire for
tune of 100000 to the woman's branch
of the Pennsylvania Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals.
The official statistics of the produc-
ton of salt in the United States during
the year 1895 show the total production
was 1865, ,649 barrels, valued ut $4,223,-
6s6, an increase of 100000 barrels over
the previous year, but a decline of $780,
900 in value.
At Asbury Park. N. j.. the election of
officers of the American Baptist Mis-
sionary Union resulted in the selection
of Rev. Henry F. Colby, D. D., of Ohio
as president.
Finishing touches were put upon the
republican convention hall in st. Louis
It will seat 1860 persons.
In. Oklahoma, territory a cyclone
wrecked 20 houses ut Edmond. IL at
White Eagle and several Mt other places
killing ten persons.
There were 227 business failures In
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 22d, ngainst 224 the week
previous and 2O7 in the corresponding
period of 1898.
a cloudburst between La Noble and
State Center, Ia. destroyed crops
drowned live stock and did other dam
age.
The schooner Mary Spragne collided
near Boston with an unknown schooner
and sank her and nine men and one
woman were drowned.
Theodore Clinket. John Goldman AMI
John Fox were drowned in the Della
ware river by the capsizing of boat
All were residents of Philadelphia.
The percentage of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the gath were as follows
Cleveland, .6G7; Cincinnati, GAS; Bos
ton, .621: Pittsburg. .593; Baltimore
.552; Chicago, .54s; Philadelphia. SIT;
Washington, ASH: brooklyn, .414: New
York. .379; st. Louis, 1857; Louisville
.c33.
At Chico, Cal, Richard Little, aged
56, shot and killed his wife, aged 10
and then killed himself. The murderer
was insane. 80
Hugh Conroy and Steve Jansen and
his wife were drowned in the lake neal
Oak Harbor, o.. by the upsetting of g
boat.