The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-08-06
The Delta Veneer and Box company
plant was burned at Friar's Point, Miss,

Chairman Jones has sent out call
for meeting of the national democratic
committee at the Fifth avenue hotel.
New York city, on August II.
The Columbus Buggy company atCo-
lumbus, O., failed for 100000.
The Emerson & Fisher company, man
ufacturers of buggies and carriages in
Cincinnati, failed for $450,o00.
Henry Hendrickson, Anna Amsrud
and Lizzie Oldstad, three young people,
were drowned in the Mississippi river
near La Crosse, Wis.,, by the capsizing
of boat.
Trains collided at Birkbeck, Ill.,, and
William Baker and Charles Birchnaugh
were killed and ten other persons were
injured.
Forty strikers at the Brown hosting
works in Cleveland have organized a
military company and armed them
selves with revolvers and say they will
fight the police and militia. and shoot
non-union employees of the company.
At Galveston, Tex, Will Gruber, a
fisherman, shot and killed his wife and
then killed himself. No cause is known.
The percentage of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the I'd is as follows: Cincin-
natl, .6s1; Baltimore, .675; Cleveland,
.644; Chicago, $40; Pittsburgh. .541;
Boston, $3.50; Philadelphia, 459; Brook
lyn, 459; Washington 420; New York,
.405; st. Louis. .31s; Louisville, .265.
The public debt statement issued on
the LIST showed that the debt increased
$1O,e57,35s during the month of July.
The cash balance in the treasury was
$3.50, 16s,472. The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, a1nounts
to 1866. 154,512.
At Edinburgh, Ind, bolt Of lightning
killed 10 head of horses belonging to j.
A. Bradley.
The large canning factory of J. I.
Polk, at Greenwood, Ind, failed for
100000.
Willard Mastick and his wife and
granddaughter were killed by the cars
at crossing near Plattsburg, N. Y.
All records of kite flying were broken
ut the Blue Hill observatory in Boston,
a kite being sent 1888 feet into the air.
Frank Davis killed Robert Pickett
and May Rivers at Cripple Creek, COL,
nd then cut his own throat. Jealousy
was the cause.
David II. Ramey, colored Pullman
porter, shot and instantly killed Matte
Clark, also colored, at Denver, COL, and
then killed himself. No cauee is known.
The two negroes who attempted to
assassinate Col. C. D. Hunter near Sell
ma, Ala, were lynched by q mob.
Mr.. Macgrane Coke, Of New York, has
been appointed by the president to he
United States minister to Guatemala
and Honduras.
Samuel G. NJ. Gates, lunbcrman ut
Bay City, Mich, failed for $e44.oo0.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The Indiana populists met OF 1ndi-
annapolis and nominated the following
ticket: For governor, Thomas A. Wads-
worth; lieutenant governor, A. F. Han
ra; secretary of state, silas M. Hoa-
comb; auditor, N. NJ. Jennings; treas
urer, F. ]. S. Robinson: attorney-gen-
cral, D. H. Fernandez; appellate judges,
A. ]. Padgett, Adam Stockinger, I. N.
Pierce, J. n. Thornburg, N. J. Bosard;
superintendent of instruction, j. b.
freeman. The platform adopted fol-
lows closely the St. Louis declaration OF
principles and declares that the popu-
list organization, national. state and
local, shall be maintained at all haz-
ards"
The gold standard democrats of Mis-
souri, will hold their state convention
at St. Louis on August 10.
J.P. Deliver was renoninated by the
republicans for congressman in the
Tenth Iowa district for the fifth
time, the republicans of the Third
Missouri district nominated h. G..
Morton. the democrats Of tho
Eleventh Illinois district nominal
ed C.. NJ. Golden and in the Fifth In
diana district John C. Ridpath was NOM
mated.
The 'sound money" democrats Of
Kentucky will hold convention in
Louisville on August 20 to nominate
state officers.
Maine democrats have decided to hold
another convention at Waterville Au-
gust 6 to choose gubernatorial NOM
inee in the place of Mr.. Winslow, de-
clined.
Judge Harrison II. Wheeler, pension
agent for Michigan and a member Of
the Fifty-second congress, died At
Farmers Creek, aged 81 years.
The prohibition state convention at
Dallas, Tex, put out full electoral
ticket, headed by Randolph Clarke, Of
Waco. for governor.
Robert Garrett, ex-president Of the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad and a mem
Der of the prominent Garrett family Of
Baltimore, died at Deer Park, Nd. aged
SO years.
The following congressional nomi-
nations were made: Ohio, Thirteenth
district, j. A. Norton (dem.); Indiana,
Ninth district, j. B. Cheadle (deln.) re-
nominated; Wisconsin, Third district,
Joseph w. Babcock (rep.) renominated;
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