The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-07-16
Epitomo of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.

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INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.
The National Educational association
In session at Buffalo, N. Y, elected DR..
B. A. Hinsdale, of the University OF
Michigan, as president.
The examination Of the books of ex-
City Attorney Moreland, of Pittsburgh,
Pa, and his assistant, House, show
$2a7, 900 unsccounted for.
The weekly report as to the condition
of the crops throughout the country is
favorable.
MFR. and Mrs. William Dorney, old set
tiers in Chicago, were asphyxiated by
gas at their residence.
A locomotive exploded at Tromblcy.
Mich, and John Stonehouse, the engi-
peer, was instantly killed and Frank
Bell, the fireman, and C. Joergenoon.
the brakeman. were fatally injured.
ROME Cotell, aged II, was convicted
at Akron, O., of killing Mr.. and Mrs.
Alvin Stone and Ira Stillson March 20.
His motive was to assault Flora Stone,
their daughter.
The National Amateur Press associa-
ton in session at Washington elected
James E. Morton, of Boston, president,
and named San Francisco as the place
of the 22d annual convention next July.
The property of the St. Johns Manu-
featuring company at st. Johns, Mich,
passed into the hands of q receiver with
liabilities of 100000.
Jennings Bros. & Co., operating the
West Pennsylvania steel works at Allc-
eheny, Pa, failed for 100000.
Crazed with hatred and jealousy Will
liam johnson, 80 years old. resident
of Chicago, fatally shot William Sutton
in New York and then killed himself.
The Methodist church and nearly
every business house at Mobile. Ala,
were unroofed by tornado and the
streets were made impossible by fallen
trees. The damage is fully s25o,ooo.
BY the capsizing of q skiff at Wells
burg, w. Va, Miss Kate Roberts, Miss
Alice Baxter aud James Lloyd were
drowned.
A cyclone visited portions Of Dinwid
die and Prince George counties, Va,
leaving destruction and ruin in its wake
and killing four men.
At the 10th annual conclave in Elk
hart, Ind, of the supreme temple, Patri-
archal Circle of America, C. H. Love-
we'll, of Chicago, was elected supreme
councillor.
The city OF Des Moines, Ia, celebrated
its b0th anniversary.
The newly-arranged flag containing
the 45th star, representing Utah, came
into existence on the Fourth.
Near Adairville, KY, II. H. Harmon.
the town marshal, and Dick Younger,
an outlaw. killed each other in duel.
The town of Marengo, O.. was almost
completely wiped out by fire.
The 18th annual international Chris
tan Endeavor convention convened in
Washington. President Clark IN his
address said that each year of the IS
years had been noted for some advance
step. The report of Secretary Baer
showed a total membership of z. 70i', 900.
1t was decided to hold the next convcn-
ton in San Francisco.
H.F. Allen and his sister, Mrs. Charles
w. Grant, among the heaviest property
owners in jamestown. N. Y, made an
assignment with liabilities of 500, 900.
In Philadelphia the Robert Smith
India Pale Ale Brewing company, or
ganized in 1878, went into q receivers
hands with liabilities of $1s0,O00.
BY the caving in of trench at Kan
SAG City. Mo-, Frank Scantfile, D. Holton
and Charles jackson were killed.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 10th aggregated
$685., ,O72, against $1,103, 1888 the
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week in 1895
wak 40.
There were PIC business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 10th, against PIT the week
previous and 1875 in the corresponding
period of 1895.
The Security Warehouse company's
warehouse B in Minneapolis was de-
stroyed by fire, the loss being 100000.
James d. GAVIN, an architect, was
convicted at Elyria, O., OF burning
schoolhouse in order to get contract
for drafting new plans.
"Oflahoma" Harry Hill, a well-known
frontiersman whose life has been a ro-
nance interviewer with the early his
tory of Kansas and Oklahoma, died in
Wichita from the effects of being
thrown from a buggy in a runaway.
The Retail Clerks Nationa! Protective
association in session at Denver elected
H. J. Conway. of St. Louis, Us president.
Robert NJ. Steel, of ST. Johns, Mich,
reputed to be the wealthiest man in
that section of the state, made an as
signmert with liabilities of 100000.
J. L. klecknor, cashier of the broken
Citizens bank at Edwardsville, Mich.
who confessed to shortage of $4,000
in his accounts, has left his bondsmen
in the lurch.
For the first time since February, 1896,
the government net gold reserve held in
the treasury to protect the issue of
United States notes was on the 10th be-
low S10O,Oo0,o0o.
The government report makes the