The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-07-30
The News Condensed.
Important intelligence From All Parts
DOMESTIC.

life.
MAYORS opera house and other build
lnRs were burned at Te1re Haute, Ind.
the total loss being 100000.
A strike of the various organizations
constituting the Brotherhood OF Tailors
was declared in New York, involving
$4,000 workmen.
The Monona Lake Assembly opened
its seventeenth annual encampment at
Lakeside. near Madison, Wis.
Prof. A. L. Miller, prominent Ger
man musician of Pana, ILL.,, drowned
himself at Pekin, Ill.
In wreck on the Chicago & Texas
railroad one mile south Of MurPhys-
boro. ILL.,, II persons were injured, two
of them fatally.
Fifteen hundred persons gathered ut
the John Brown farm In Saranac Lake.
N. Y, to witness the unwilling of q
John Brown monument.
Miss Bessie Engle, a prominentyou
society girl of Philadelphia, was
drowned At Ocean Grove, N. j.. while
bathing.
The national convention of Methodist
deaconnesses began at Asbury Park,
NJ.
The will Of Austin Corbin was pro-
bated in New York. It leaves S10.0 100000
to his wife and children.
In tho United States court the Iowa
anti-cipa1ette law was declared uncon-
stitutional.
John D. Rockefeller presented the
CITY of Cleveland, O., with $500, 600 as
centennial gift.
A sudden food in Benson creek, near
Frankfort, Ky, drowned ten persons.
swept away many bridges and buildings
and ruined hundreds of acres of corn
and other crops.
William Wiley, a tailor. aged 81, shot
and killed his wife in Cincinnati and
then committed suicide. -Four children
survive them.
Three miles from Royston, Ca, Dave
Bergman, while in . drunken fury,
killed his wife and three children and
then committed suicide.
The Central Labor union Of Cleve-
land, in discussion of the Brown Hoist
ing company's strike, decided to boy
colt every firm In Cleveland which fur
:nishes employment to members OF the
state militia.
Henry Schwant and his wife died at
their home near Fremont, O., from eat
ing toadstools for mushrooms.
, In q celebration of the thirty eighth
anniversary of the birth of the queen
regent Of Spain, Capt. Gen. Weyler,
of Cuba, liberated 102 political pris-
oners.
Alfred and Edward Kasserman, aged
"a and Fl years respectively, and two
horses which they were driving. were
killed by lightning at Newton. III.
u. L. Grimes and John Hall were
killed by lightning at Derby, la. Grimes
had lust insured his life for $1,000.
Heavy rains throughout West Vir-
ginia caused great damage.
James T. Hurst, millionaire lum-
herman at Wyandotte, Mich, made an
assignment with liabilities OF 100000.
Mai. Mckinley took part in the cele-
bration of the fitch anniversary of
Mount Union college at Alliance, O., OF
which he IS one Of the trustees.
James Armstrong & Co., manufac-
more, failed for 100000.
William T. Wiley, tailor and fur
rier in Cincinnati, shot and killed his
wife and then shot himself, but not
fatally. Domestic trouble was the
cause.
The feature of the centennial celebra-
ton at Cleveland on the 23d was big
New England dinner, at which ad-
dresses were made by Senators Hawlcy
and Sherman. Maj. Mckinley and others.
Chillicothe, O., celebrated the Tooth
anniversary Of its existence land the
grafton was delivered by Postmaster
General Wilson.
Diamonds valued at 100000 were
stolen at Narragansett Pier, R. l.. from
Mrs. J. J. Coogan, wife of New York
real estate agent.
John Pryde, who murdered Andrew
Peterson five months ago and robbed
him of $42, was hanged in the county
fail at Brainerd, MINI.
The new one-dollar silver certificate
designed by Mr.. Low, of New York,
made its first public appearance in
Washington.
The German savings bank at Omaha.
Neb., went into the hands of q receiver
with liabilities of $4,000.
The Commercial Law League of
America in annual session at Omaha,
Neb., elected E. M. Bartlett of that
city, as president.
The exchanges at the leading clear
inc houses in the United States during
the week ended on the oath aggregated
$685., 300, 404, against $954,74c,363 the
previous week. The increase compared
with tbs corresponding week In 1895
in Sc.
Henry L. Edison, Charles Morris, Miss
Laura Guard and Miss Emma Young
were drowned near Vancouver, Wash,
by the upsetting Of boat.
There were eco business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the oath, against 21e the week
previous and 23e in the corresponding
period of 1895.
William Hosking, aged 2e, and John
Psscoe, aged II, residents of Iron Noun
tain, Mich, were drowned in Spread
Eagle lake by the capsizing of boat.