The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-03

In football games in various places
on Thanksgiving day one person was
killed and ~ others were injured, some
seriously.
Inman, Poulson & Co.'s sawmill at
Portland, Ore, was burned, the loss be-
ing 100000.
Reports from North Dakota announce
the first great blizzard of the year.
Railroad trains were in hopeless
tangle from Fargo west to Mandan,
and most of the telegraph wires were
down. Business at jamestown, Valley
City, Larimore and DEVILS Lake was
suspended.
Contracts for over So ,ooo, 900 worth of
new vessels for the lakes have been
closed in Chicago since the election,
giving employment to $500 men.
The Naval Veterans association un-
yelled it's monument to the United States
navy at Loudon Park cemetery in Bal
timore, Md.
G. W. Nelson, leading tenor in the
choir at Thanksgiving services ut the
First Baptist church in Chattanooga,
Tenn, dropped dead in the choir.
Empey l. Woodard's grain elevator
at Pennington, Mimi, was burned with
100000 bushels of grain.
Thanksgiving day was universally
observed throughout the country.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the eth aggregated
Sea5,e53,113, against $1,235,7s2,141 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week in 1895
is Go.
There were 300 business failures in
the UntAeZ s:ates in the seven days
ended on the 27th, against 344 the week
previous and 279 in the corresponding
period of 1895.
r, G. Dun e. Co. in their weekly re-
view of trade say that reports from all
parts of the country show clearly the
enforcement of trade, not at all points
in the same branches, but everybody
helped by more confident feeling.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Reynolds, an old
couple living at Fredonia, N. Y, were
suffocated by coal gas.
Shoninger, Levy & Co., wholesale lace
dealers in Chicago, failed for 100000.
A cyclone near Waco, Tex, devastated
a strip one mile wide and eight miles in
length. A number of farmhouses were
demolished and one person was killed
and several others injured.
&C. Watts, cashier of the State bank
of Nicola, Ia, is said to be defaulter in
the sum of $4,000. he is supposed to be
somewhere in Colorado.
Domestic trouble in the home of Hen
ryL. Bowers at De Kalb, ILL.,, eliminated
in the murder of the wife and the sui
eide of the husband.
In various places in Decatur county,
Ind.. on Thanksgiving day two people
were killed, two fatally injured and
several others seriously hurt in acci-
dents.
While temporarily insane George Will
bur, 50 years of age, shot and killed his
nephew, a boy of II, and then COM
mitted suicide at his home near Angus
ia, la.
Two hundred thousand head of cattle
are perishing from cold and hunger on
the ranges west of the Missouri river in
South Dakota.
Three men were fatally shot and sew
cral others more or less seriously
wounded in a. drunken riot at Duryea,
Pa.
A severe blizzard prevailed through
out the northwest the thermometer in
portions of Mon tana, Wyoming and the
Dakotas ranging from 20 to 30 degrees
below zero.
A cyclone passed through the north
west corner of Tunica, Miss, wrecking
n church and several houses and killing
Sarah Clay and injuring several other
persons.
President Cleveland has purchased
the old Slidell property in Princeton,
n. j., with a view to making it his per-
manent home.
The elevator of the St. Paul Ware
was burned. the loss being 100000.
L. E. Irwin. chief Of the Kansas City
(Mo.) police department., died of blood
poisoning. aged So years.
Meyer Bros, cloak manufacturers in
New York, failed for 100000.
The total collections of internal rev.
enue for the month of October were $13, >
,205, a decrease as compared with Oc-
tober, 1895, of $575,O0s.
A cyclone struck the-town of Ralston,
o. r., and nearly wiped out the 200
houses in the place. Several persons
were injured.
The entire plant of the East Clayton
co., Brickmaking company was de-
stroyed by fire, the loss being 100000.
Jackson Young (colored) was hanged
at Scale, Ala, for numbering his sister
three months ago. He died protesting
his innocence.
Horace L. Stears, ex-mayor of Per-
rvsville, O., and very highly respected,
was murdered by Elias Keyster because
of trouble over note.
The great storm which swept over
Minnesota and the Dakotas resulted in
the loss of life to four persons and great
loss to.live stock.
Carl and Ernest Densaw (brothers)
were drowned at Ahnapee, Wis, while