The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-10-01
The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts
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DOMESTIC.
Edison Keith, aged 63 years, the mill
lionaire banker and merchant prince OF
Chicago and head of the firm OF Edison
Keith & Co., committed suicide while
temporarily insane by drowning HIM
self in Lake Michigan.
The Brotherhood Of Locomotive En-
gineers in annual session at Peoria. Ill.,.
reelected Frank p. Sargent, of that city,
grand master.
The twenty-second annual conven-
ton of the American Bankers associa-
ton commenced at st. Louis.
The Pawnee bank at Pawnee, ILL.,.
closed it's doors with liabilities of $751;.
900; assets, $4,000
Charles Pfeifer killed his wife and
child at Brightwood, Ind. while insane.
and then hanged himself.
The sovereign lodge, Independent Or
der of Odd Fellows, in session at Dallas.
Tex, elected Fred Carlton, of Austin,
Tex, grand sire.
Delegates from 10 states were in at
tendance when the twenty-seventh an
uual national convention of insurance
commissioners began in Philadelphia.
Gen. Brooks. in command OF the Col
orado national guard. declared martial
law in Leadville because of information
that at IN opportune moment the str'k-
ing miners intended to wipe out the en-
tire national guard and burn the town.
Frank II. johnson, aged 4S. a broker.
and one of the oldest and most popular
members of the Chicago board of trade,
committed suicide by shooting himself.
j. E. & G. II. Brown, proprietors OF
the MapIeton bank Mt MapIeton, Mum.
madean assignment with assets OF $l41,-
600 and liabilities of 100000.
James J. Corbett, the pugilist. was mr.
rested in Asbury Park, N. j.. on the
charge of agreeing to engage in prize
fight, and liberated on 81 900 bail.
The weat crop in three northwestern
states is estimated at los, 100000 BUSH
els.
The assets of the Philadelphia &
Reading Railroad and Coal & Iron conf
panies were sold in Philadelphia to C.
il. Coster. of New York. for 10000. 900.
Three members of the Cotton family,
living near Tiefaw, La, we5e murdered
Oy UoR-O uuu duOluCI ucJuOCI VI IAS
family was seriously wounded.
DR.. Lewis Swift. of the Mount Lowe
observatory at Pasadena, CAL, has dis
covered two new comets close together.
both being about one degree FROM the
sun.
The twenty-sixth reunion Of the So
cety Of the Army of the Cum berland
wns held a. Rockford, Ill.
The Cascade Lumber compary's milt,
office and lumber yard at Burlington.
Ia, were destroyed by fire, the loss being
SlO5,O0O.
All the prisoners in the Jail at Belle
tontaine, o.. were released for want OF
money to pay the sheriff for their keep
ing and the entire police force was dis
charged for the same reason.
Elbridge &. Blunt, who was intimate
w associated with John Brown in con-
Quoting the underground railway in
Kansas, and who was also an active
scout in the civil war, died in Chicago,
aged IS years.
Owing to the high price of hard coal
q great many people in Cherokee. Ia.
and vicinity will burn corn this winter.
DR.. John C. Sackville, aged 80 years.
once skilled and eminent phi ysician.
was struck by train ut Washington,
Pa, and instantly killed.
In New Mexica four murderers were
hanged, Dionicio Saldoval ut Albu-
querque, Perfecto Podilla and Rosario
Ring at Tiorra Amarillo and Antonio
Gonzales at Roswell.
I'M II I,
assault and battery on little white boy.
was lynched by mob at Gretna. La.
The Missouri military academy at
Mexico was burned to the ground. caus-
ing a loss of 100000.
In a fit Of jealousy Grace Clark. aged
IS years, shot and killed Harry NJ. Con-
way, her lover. and then took l,er own
life in Chicago.
The new clubhouse of the Marion
Cricket club at Haverford. suburb of
Philadelphia, was burned, the loss being
100000.
H. Dumois 4 Co., shipping and COM
mission merchants in New York. made
an assignment with liabilities OF $780,
500.
At the twenty-sixth annual reunion
in Rockford. ILL.,, of the Army of the
Cumberland Gen. w. S. Rosecrans was
elected president.
The failure of the firm of Darlington.
Quick e. Boyden. commission men at the
stock yards in Chicago. caused Fred
rrick Boyden. a member of the firm, to
"ommit suicide.
At the annual meeting y st. Louis
of the American Bankers association
Robert H. Lowry. of Atlanta. Ga. was
elected president.
A firebug destroyed the handsome
bathing pavilion at NarraPanse It Pier.
II. l.. the loss being $25O,oO0.
At Portland. Me-, John X. Gentry
paced the fastest mile ever made in har-
ness and placed the worlds record at
c:ook.
Burpee, Rnmsey & Co.. shoe manu-
sacturers at Lynn, Mass. failed for
100000.
A monument on South mountain. a
few miles from Boonsboro. Nd. erected
to the memory of George Washington
in 1927, was struck by lightning and
badly damaged.