The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-05-14

sion % pension bills were passed.
The last paragraph of the river and har-
Dor bill for the deep water harbor at Santa
Monica bay, California, was not completed
by the senate on the 9Th, the entire session
being taken up in discussing the item.
1.-The house was not in session.
DOMESTIC.
An investigation of the trust funds
collected by the state department. in
Washington shows a shortage OF $780,
600.
Az the result of an explosion OF a
gasoline stove in Brooklyn IN. w.
tenement house Mrs. Rebecca Cohen
and her two children and Mrs. Pastern
were killed.
An additional'shortageo of about $780,
COO was said to have been found in the
accounts of ex-City Attorney William
G. Moreland, of Pittsburgh, Pa.
A vast labor organization of house.
maids was formed in New York, nearly
every kitchen in the city being rep
resented on the rolls of the union.
The American Medical association
met in 47th annual session at Atlanta,
Ga.
Crop reports from illinois. Indiana,
Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa were
favorable.
The American Trading society of
New York, with liabilities of s526. 900.
went into receivers hands.
The women of Liberty Center. o.. sent
notice to the saloonkeepers to close their
doors in ten days or their places would
be blown up with dynamite.
At Churchill Downs Ben Brush won
the twenty-second Kentucky derby,
completing the distance. ~ miles, in
2:O7A.
John Potulny and A. Purski, two we'll
known saloon keepers of South Chica-
20, were found dead in bed in hotel in
Chicago from asphyxiation.
New Lebanon, Conn.,, celebrated in an
elaborate manner her 250th anniversary.
Almost 10000 government employees
were brought under the protection of
the civil service by the issuance of an
order of the president making a general
revision of civil service rules.
! Three men were killed and five wound
cit in a fight between whites and negroes
near McAlpin, Fla.
DR.. Alberto Diaz, the Baptist mis-
sionary who was recently released from
. Havana prison, said in Atlanta, Ga.
that the patriots would never give AZ
until they had secured the islands in.
dependence.
All the stores and several residences
in the village of Modesto. ILL.,, were
burned.
Many well-known political reformers
engaged in an effort to improve the pres
ent method of governing municipalities
met in Baltimore and opened the an
nual conference of the National Nu'
nicipal league.
A fire among business houses at
Elyria. o.. caused loss Of 100000.
BY vote of 425 to % the Methodist
general conference at Cleveland de-
cided that the four women delegates
might retain their seats. -"
Herman w. Mudgett. alias H.. H.
Holmes, was hanged in Philadelphia
for the murder of Benjamin +. Pitzel
on September 2, 1894.
The derailment of a smoking car on
q train near Boston killed w. J. Down
and j. f. Long, business men. and i'll
jured several other persons. ~@
Charles Homes, a Choctow Indian,
was executed under the Indian law at
Antlers, l. T. He was blindfolded and
shot by the sheriff. az =
The roundhouses and IL locomotives
belonging to the Queen and Crescent
Railway company were destroyed by
Ere at Somerset, KY, the loss being
$780, 900.
=. 4. II. Brainertl, q cut stone contractor
in Chicago, failed for $500, 900, pulling
down with him the firm of Sherman,
Flavin e. Co., marble cutters, whose liza.
bilities were over 100000.
The Citizens bank of Union City
Ind, one of the oldest banking insti'
tutions in the country, closed its doors
with Liabilities of $4,000.
Charles Harrison, a young farmer liv'
81 ing near Williamsport, Ind, shot Ids
WEIGH and Harry Smith and then killed
himself. jealousy was the cause.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
4 houses in the United States during tn.
weak ended on the 9Th aggregated 81,
4 l3s, os3,4 against 1852, SIS, SIT the pre-
vious week. The decrease, compared
with the corresponding week in 1895
was 2.s. ....4
The business portion of'sebree, Ky.
vas wiped out BY fire. .>ss - -,