The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-11-26
The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Capt. Alfred T. Mahan, of Washington,
n The well-known writer on naval topics,
" na:: been placed on the retired list OF
the navy at his own request.
Star Pointer, the Tennessee pacing
wonder, 2:02h, won new laurels in Phil
4 adelphia by defeating Joe Patchen, an
n other king Of the turf, in three straight
B heats in a match race for 81 900 side.
The best time was 2:o+H.
Thomas A. Edison, the wizard of cleo
tricity, makes the startling announce
ulent as the result of some experiments
!: made in his West Orange (N.J.) labora-
4 tory that within three years the blind
shall sce-that the only prerequisite is
that the optic nerve shall he intact
The one hundred and twenty-eighth
annual banquet Of the chamber of COM
ruerce of New York was held at Del
/. monico's and a letter was read from
President Cleveland which congratu-
Iates the country over the result of the
recent election.
The town of Mercer, Pa, county seat
OF the county of the same name, was
nearly destroyed by fire.
John Lawson, the "rerrible Swede,"
rode 50 miles unpaced on bicycle at
Memphis in 2:16:03.
Edward w. Curry, aged 4s, chairman
of the Iowa democratic state central
committee, died in Des Moines from in
iuries received during his initiation into
The United Brotherhood of Elks lodge.
The twenty-eighth annual reunion of
the Society OF the Army of the Tennes-
see convened in the parlors OF the South
ern hotel in St. Louis.
Mrs. Foley, widow IS years old, and
her daughter Fannie. aged 40, were muir
dered IN their home near Liberty. Mo-.
by burglars, who secured $50.
President and Mrs. Cleveland enter
tanned at lunch DIR. John Watson, OF
Scotland, known in the literary world
as Ian Maclaren, and Mrs. Watson.
The Lucas county children's home
at Toledo, O., where 200 children are
cared for, was partially destroyed by
fire.
The national fraternal congress in
session at Louisville, Ky, elected J. G..
Johnson, of Kansas, president.
The twenty-third ann ual convention
of the w. C. l.. U. came to an end in St.
Louis with appropriate exercises.
The Norwegian Plow company James
Beach, president, made general as-
signment at Dubuque, la, with liabili-
ties of $4,000.
Boards of trade in western cities will
hold a conference in indianapolis on De-
cember to consider the currency ques-
ton.
Five hundred feet Of platform fell
at Macon, Ca, and 80 people and 5000
some of the persons being fatally in
jured.
e. All the tollgates in Woodford county.
Ky, were cut down and destroyed by a
mob. Similar depredations have been
committed in Franklin. Owen. Andcr-
son and Washington counties.
John II. Gentry, 2:00E. the king Of
harness race stations, was sold in New
, York for $50, 500 to Lewis j . Tewksbury,
owner of Robert j., 2:O1H.
The business portion of Centre Point,
Ind, was destroyed by fire.
at Sioux City. Ia, the First national
S537,o9s and the Sioux City bank fol-
lowed suit with liabilities of 100000.
Frank +. Arbuckle, a wealthy resi-
dent of Denver, COL, and chairman of
the democratic state central committee.
died suddenly in New York.
Frank Waller lowered the American
1co-mile bicycle record at Memphis.
Tenn. his time being 1852: Ia.
While Warden McCrae, of Erie, Pa.
was en- route to Riverside penitentiary
with % prisoners one of them jumped
from the train and the warden jumped
after him and broke his neck.
Seldom Bloomquist, farmer living
near Dawson. Mimi, shot his sister-in-
law, Mrs. John Bloomquist, and then
shot himself No cause is known for
the crime.
At the twenty-eighth annual meet
ing in St. Louis of the Army Of the Ten
nessee Granville NJ. Dodge, of Iowa, was
reelected.
Rev. James C. Hull, a Methodist min
lister in St. Paul, Mimi, charged with
attempting to poison his wife, plead
guilty and was sentenced to six years
in the penitentiary.
The annual report of Commodore
Melville. chief engineer Of the navy,
shows that all the modern ships are in
good condition. The bureau has ex-
pended $675,O95 during the past year.
At the annual meeting in Washington
of the National Grange, Patrons of Hus-
T bandry resolutions were adopted rec
ommending a stable currency; that
United States senators be elected by the
people; equal protection for the farm
er; pure food legislation and rural
mail delivery.
81 John Lawson, known as the Ter
/ rible Swede," lowered the worlds So
\ mile unpaced bicycle record of hours
4 70 minutes 30 seconds at Memphis, Tenn.
J and James Michael lowered the indoor
Il tive-mile record to 9:36 3-5.
James Il. Sovereign was reelected
general master workman by the gen.
\ eral assembly of the Knights of Labor
Z in session ut Rochester. N. Y.
0 Isaac G. Parker, the famous chang
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