The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-01-09
DOMESTIC.

The loss of life by railroad disasters
of various kinds in the United States
in 1895 was 5000, against 3,64s in 1894.
The losses by fire in the United States
in 1895 aggregated $131, 57S, 2e6, as com
pared with Sis, 59O,s42 in 1894, an in.
crease of $685., 1854.
The number of legal executions in
the United States in 1895 was 1872, the
same as in 1894, as compared with 12o
in 1893 and 1O7 in 1892.
Scores of vessels were driven ashore
near Boston by gales and the damage to
shipping along the New England coast
would exceed 100000.
AS accurately as can be estimated
4,102 lives were lost in 1895 upon the
ocean, 14s upon inland waters, 5000 by
railroad accidents, 22,a64 by disasters
abroad and 1880 by disasters at home
Adding to these 1926 by battle and
79,461 by epidemics, the total sacrifice
Of life was 275.391.
Alfred Ely Beach, editor of the Scien'
tific American, died at his home in New
York of pneumonia, aged 70 years.
Earthquake shocks were felt at Me.
tropolis, ILL.,, and Cape Girardeau. Mo.
The Atlanta exposition came to an
end. The total attendance during the
"a days was 1,2OO, 900 and the receipts
amounted to nearly $4,000
To prevent strike the Illinois Steel
company closed their shops near Chi
cago, throwing 1000 men out of work
The legislatures of New York. Massa'
chusetts and Maryland convened in
their respective capitals.
Gideon Hauser, a tramp, shot four
men at Avilla, Ind, and then killed
himself.
Henry F. and David B. Quarrels,
cousins, and both aged about 10 years,
while crossing the railway tracks nea,
Ellyrons, Va, were struck by train
and killed.
Five men were burned, three Of them
fatally, by an explosion of gas in the
Girard mine at Shamokin. Pa.
Two baby boys of Thomas r. Bebb
were burned to death at Palmyra, O..
and the mother lost her reason in con.
sequence.
While asleep in their house near
Frontenac, Kan, Robert, John. William
and Archibald McFadden (brothers)
were burned to death.
Five villages, with population OF
10000 were annexed to Cincinnati, Civ
ing that city population OF $4,000.
For the first time in the history OF
Colorado the gold output for 1895 ex.
ceeded in value that OF silver. The fig
ures are: Gold, ST., 340,495; silver, $14,-
:5o.049.
Andrew Brown, q negro cattle thief
was hanged by mob near Westvilje
Miss.
The Philadelphia bou1se, the first
general exchange building erected in
this country, was formally Dedicated.
The public debt statement issued or
$1,179,349 during the month of Decem.
Der. The cash balance in the treasury
was $17s,0o7 200. The total debt, less
the cash balance in the treasury,
amounts to 947,29s,2e2.
Montana produced in metals about
$47,115, 900 during the year 1895.
Mrs. John Brumer and her two girls
went down an embank1nent in a wagon
near Akron, O., and were fatally in.
jured.
!: The monthly statement of the di.
rector of the mint shows coinage exc
cuted at the minis of the United States
during December, 1898, to have been as
follows: Gold. $s,O97, JAS; silver, $751;
se2; minor coins, S1o7,s 1896; total, S..
oSO.573.
Anthony Huber, William Penn and
John Strong were fatally crushed while
working in a box car near Cincinnati.
The flour output at minneapolis for
1895 was 10, 1881 900 barrels, the largest
ever made by 100000 barrels.
(: F. NJ. Vanden & Co., wholesale dealers
in liquors and tobacco at jackson,
Tenn, failed for 100000.
s.; Gov. Greenhalge.. Of Massachusetts,
was inaugurated at the capitol in Bos'
Ion.