The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-06-11
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Henry Mitchell Smith (colored) was
hanged at Lexington. KY. for assault
ing a white woman.
The national commercial tariff con-
vention convened in Detroit.
Moser & Friedman, dry goods MGR
chants, assigned at Maroa. ILL.,, and the
failure involved the bank of Maroa,
which closed its doors.
The School Field-Hanauer Crockery
company failed at Memphis. Tenn, for
100000.
The First national bank at Ell Reno,
o. T., which suspended payment May
13, 1896, has resumed business.
The treasury statement shows a do
crease of all kinds of money in circula
ton during May of SIS, 422,79e, and since
June /, 1895, of $s5,000,000. The per
capita circulation was stated at $21.35.
Andrew Nj. Henderson, one of the old
est and best-known members of the
Chicago board of trade, committed SUI
eide by shooting because of business
rcverses.
At Mohonk Lake, N. r., the interna-
tional arbitration conference opened
three days session with ex-senator Ed
munds, of Vermont, presiding.
The Rock Island road sent special
train from Chicago to Rock Island. a
distance of 1871 miles, in hours and 80
minutes, lowering the best record 20
far minutes.
The Farmers deposit bank at Creigh-
ton, Mo-. closed its doors.
George Herpo aud Frank San1uelson
will row across the atlantic from New
York to Havre in boat IS feet inches
long.
Ire national commercial tariff con-
vention in Detroit adopted resolutions
declaring in favor of taking the tariff
question out of partisan politics, the
placing OF the consular service in the
hands of men having knowledge of busi-
ness and international law, and the es
tablish1nent of department of COM
merce by the government.
Clarence Craig, a 15-year-old lad al
Shelbyville, Ind, was handling his fa-
Tiers shotgun when it was accidentally
DISCHARGED and his mother was instant
" killed.
H.
First street railroad at San Jose. Cal..
failed for 100000.
A hurricane near Pendoe, Neb..
wrecked many farmhouses and barns
and greatly damaged crops.
Austin Corbin, aged s. years, the mil
Iionaire banker and fnancier of New
York, and his coachman. John Stokes,
were killed as the result of a runaway
accident at Newport, N. H.
The Boylston brewery, owned by Hat
fenrefer 4 Co., at Jamaica Plains. Mass.
was totally destroyed by fire. the loss
being $5OO.0Oo-
The 23d ann ual session of the national
conference of corrections and charities
commenced at Grand Rapids. Mich.
- Affection, Wis.,, the town without a
woman, lost it's distinction by the mar
riage of +. II. Metcalf, the postmaster.
to Miss Laura Matthews. of Farming
ton.
The Nebraska supreme court declared
that employers were not liable for in
juries sustained by employees through
accident where ordinary care has been
exercised.
The American Bar association will
meet in Saratoga. N. Y. August 10.
At the nationalconvention of brewers
in Philadelphia C. NJ. Bergner, of that
city, was elected president for the en-.
suing year.
Edward Perry, who murdered the
Sawyer family in Ava, Mo-. has been
sentenced to hang July 81. The discov-
cry of the crime, arrest and conviction
occupied but ten days.
The equestrian statues erected by the
state Of Pennsylvania in honor of the
memory of Gems. George G. Meade and
Winfield Scott Hancock were unveiled
on the battle field at Gettysburg.
q The people Of Johnstown, Pa. OBJ
served the seventh anniversary Of the
great food in that city in which $500
Dersons persisted,