The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-02-06

Verne ". Jaynes, one of the pro-
rrietors of the Daily Capitol at Pierre,
S. d., committed suicide by swallowing
morphine.
Madeline Messner, of glastonbury,
O., a patient at the insane asylum iii
Toledo, O., committed suicide by hang
ing herself with her hair.
The South Carolina legislature re-
elected Associate Justice Pope to the
supreme bench for eight years.
Gus Thomas, the notorious Hardin
county moonshiner and murderer, was
captured and placed in Jail ut Savanna,
Tenn. Thomas has murdered three
revenue officers.
Six persons were killed and nearly
a score injured, some of them fatally,
by the explosion of a boiler at the works
OF the Hollidaysburg (Pa.) Iron and
Nail company.
George Krout, the Wells-Fargo cx-
press agent at Colorado Springs. COL,
confessed that he stole the express
packages containing $4,000, and said
his father was innocent.
The stables on the Narragansett park
grounds at Providence, r. l., were
burned and IA valuable trotting horses
persisted in, the flames. -
Two sbrothers, Charles and Edward
Shepard, aged 10 and II years, respect
lively, broke through the ice at Chester,
Pa, and were drowned.
DR.. w. H. Furness, aged 90, the oldest
and most prominent Unitarian divine
in the country, died at his home In
Philadelphia.
Harvey Page, his wife md two young
sons, aged three years and three
months. were burned to death in their
home in Marengo township, near Mar
shall, Mich. ...~., .. ~,~... =. ::
The exchanges ut the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the 31st ult. ag'
gregated s9O,9sO,97O, against 979, 96?,-
AT the previous week. The decrease,
compared with the corresponding week
in 1895, was SO.
Charles Asimus, a hunchback. was
hanged at Knlama, WASH, for the muir
Ger of James Greenwood last SepteE:-
Der.
(Nev) Secretary Olney said that the
United States government was doing
all that could be done to protect the il,
forests of Hammond and other Ameli-
Guns in the Transvaal.
The monthly statement of the gov
eminent receipts and expenditures for
January show the aggregate receipts
to be $29, 1897 $40 and the expenditures
49,, COG, $50, leaving the deficit for the
month about $3,459, 160 and for the
seven months of the present fiscal year
about $ls,S53,s67.
Cashier George Barnard, of the Fort
Stanwix national bank at Rome, N. Y,
killed himself, and the bank was closed
pending an examination of its affairs.
The boiler in the stave-mill on Will
liam Morrison's farm near Freepcrt,
o.. exploded, killing William Lapo1te,
William kiefer and Roy Vesey.
There were ,:04 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 31st ult., against 373 the
week previous aud 1854 in the correspond
ing period of 1895. 49,. ....- r.
Lloyd B. Montgomery, who murdered
his parents and Daniel McKercher, a
neighbor, on November 10 last. was
hanged at Albany, Ore.
The committee of the New York club
appointed to investigate. the charges #
improper handling of the Defender in
the race with the Valkyrie for she
Americas cup found that Lord Dun
ravens chorges of fraud were IN.
founded.
The recent cour. order disbarring
Nelva A. Lockwood from practiciny as
an attorney before the pension bu:cau
in Washington was suspended.
IS The Union Shoe company at Chilli
cothe. O., failed. for 100000.
Gov. Morton granted Bat Shea. who
is under sentence Of death for the nur-
DER of Robert Ross during an election in
Troy, n. Y, further respite to Feb
ruary II.
The public debt statement issued on
the list showed that the debt increased
$5,747,o75 during the month of Janu-
ary. The cash balance in the treasury
was $117,591,7Ts. The total debt, less
CQo CASH UdIduCc III TIC IACaSuAys
amounts to 1888 ,O46,237.
Theodore S. Dick, aged 80, a men,
Der Of the January grand jury, died
of heart disease in the private chambers
of Judge Ball in Chicago e,
Rhode Island officials discovered that
there has not been a legal marriage
in that state for so years because a law
requiring all persons performing the
marriage ceremony to register yearly
had not been complied with.
The monthly report of the director
of the mint shows the total coinage dur
ing January to have been $1,000, $50,
classified as follows: Gold, $12, ola 600;
silver, 5000; minor coin, $4,000.
The Evans, Belle & Clark company,
shoe manufacturers at Waldoboro, Me-,
failed for 100000.
The plant of the Wayne Electric
Light company ut Wayne, Pa, was de-
stroyed by fire, entailing loss of
100000.
DR.. Arthur Deustrow, the millionaire
who murdered his wife and child in S..
Louis two years ago, was found guilty
by jury ut Union, NO., and must suf-