The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-04-09

"a me ei,sl We're infused. three Of them
fatally, by the falling of lift 1t mine
near ttsville. Pa. 49,
= "a saAaputhse has been, sfixedeas the date
for Arbor day in Ohio. 49,.
INA fire iMsRrunswick. Ga, destroyed
Jsharves rehouses and business
Mocksssslltl nt $500. 900. q .f,sl&a
President Cleveland has approved
the joint tasolution authorizing Benja-
1rin HnrriSon to accept medals fron
Spain md rnzil. "
sRudolpha Spreckles. president of the
iansEommerciul and Sugar COM
panyssahzkk annual report states that
the tNalld product of sugar this year
will Erthalhy be 1000, 900 tons short Of
The s. HfNspf several years past. s2's
The Legislature defeated q bill
to legsaf tie manufacture OF liquor in
the state
Maxey Cobb, treasurer of Lancaster
county, Neb., charged with embezzling
$40, 900, committed suicide at Lincoln.
Continued restriction of distribution
of staple merchandise, and unsatisfac-
tory mercantile collections continued
to be the Lending characteristics OF gen
erai trade in the United States.
Thomas Wharton, Sunday editor OF
the Philadelphia. Times, fell from a
fourth-story window of the house in
which he lived and was instantly
killed.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended Oh the Sd aggregated
1881, 976,7SS, against $S96,S59,1 53 the
previous week, The decrease, COM
pared with the corresponding week IN
1895, was so.
Edward Pollen, an Illinois Central
cmployc at Clinton, ILL.,, shot and in
stantly killed his wife, Myrtle Pollen,
and his wife's mother, Mrs. William
McMulien, and then jumped in front OF
4 moving train but was not fatally in
jured. Family troubles were the cause.
The quarterly statement of business
failures in the United States shows
4,031, with liabilities of $57,425,135,
against $500 last year, with liabilities
Of S47,S13,6S3.
No. mill of the Lawrence Manufac-
turing company at Lowell, Mass, shut
down, throwing over 1000 operatives
out of work.
The statement that President Cleve-
land had written IL letter declining to
Lc again a candidate for the presidency
was said to be false.
\ young negro about is years old
was taken from Jail 1T Tupelo, Miss.
by mob and lynched for attempting
10 assault prominent white woman.
Richard Ringer, a merchant at
Friend, Neb., committed suicide when
informed by doctors that he was at
flicted with hydrophobia.
Wade, Davis & Co., of Plainville,
Mass, manufacturing jewelers., failed
for $1,000
The cloudburst on Little Sexton and
Buffalo creeks in kentucky did more
damage than at first reported. Instead
of four there were IS persons who lost
their lives. -.
In Montcalm county, Mich, an en-
tire family of eight persons died from
using the milk of COWS afflicted with
tuberculosis.
The money order transactions
throughout the United States during
the last quarter of 1895 beat all pre-
vious records in volume, the receipts
aggregating sos, 755,o71.
The Farmers bank, a private insti-
tuition started at Decatur, ILL.,, three
years ago by Lewis r. Cassner, failed
with liabilities of $12s, 900; assets, $685.
600.
Arthur Bradley and Richard Ingram,
two factory hands at Haverhill, Mass,
engaged in prize fight, and as result
the latter received blow that killed
him.
Fire in the spring department of the
Washburn & Moen Manufacturing COM
pany's plant at Quinsigamond, Mass.
caused loss of $15O,OOO.
At St. Augustine, Fla, thieves raidcd
several hotels during the closing days
of the season, securing gems valued in
the aggregate at nearly $4,000.
At Fort Wayne, Ind, James Mahoney,
IL young man who was hypnotized by
the hypnotist Santanelil, was awalt-
ened after a sleep of five days by the
typnotist.
"A Sy A0IC0IC u CuASJ AS0AEU NOhA
owners have made a successful expert
ment of shipping coal to Germany.
John Selman, who is credited with
having killed 20 men, was fatally skot
at Ell Faso, Tex, by United States
Deputy Marshal George Scarborough.
William and Alice johnson were
burned to death in a prairie fire near
Richfield, Kan.
The stables of the Buffalo IN. W
Driving park were burned and 20 horses
persisted. among them being several
valuable animals, especially Ellen S..
2:1ls1, who was valued at $4,000.
At Union Springs, Ala, Charley Bur-
ton and Jordan Brown were hanged
for murder.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Walter l.. Weaver, of Springfield, o.,
was nominated for congress on the 123d
hollof NJ tho Sevanth dist riot rennhlican