The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-07-09
The News Condensed.
important intelligence From All Parts

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important intelligence From All Parts
DOMESTIC.
Tho body Of Cecil Wayland was found
hanging in the woods near Hannibal,
Mo. He assaulted highly respectable
woman, and it was thought her friends
could explain the hanging.
Indians rode into Neol, small town
In Missouri. and robbed the place.
The government receipts from all
sources, except the postal service. for
the fiscal year just ended footup about
$3.50, SOC, 900 and the expenditures were
$3.50, 500, 900, the deficit for the year be-
ing about s25,5o0,ooo.
President Cleveland left Washington
for Buzzard's Bay, Mass, and all execu-
tive business will be transacted at Gray
Gables during the summer.
Michael Barbaras and Louie Deristi
were killed in q coal mine explosion at
Fayette City, Pa.
John D. Rockefeller, the founder of
the University Of Chicago, visited that
institution for the first time.
The reports as to the condition Of the
crops throughout the country were
favorable.
Over 10000 veterans who followed the
fortunes of Lee, Longstreet and Jack
son met in Richmond, Va, in sixth an
nual reunion and to witness the laying
of the cornerstone of the Jefferson
Davis monument.
John Connolly, a spinner at Fall River,
Mass, cut his two-year-old child throat
and then killed himself. he was out of
work and Respondent.
The scores of glass factories through
out New Jersey have closed down for
the summer, giving 5000 workmen q
two months vacation.
Mr.. Preston. the director of the mint,
has adjusted the values at which for
eign coins are to be received by United
States customs officers during the next
quarter. The values are increased on
basis of sO.6s769 per ounce Of silver.
az against s0.6s2O7 on April 1, 1896.
The American Society of Civil En-
gineers held it's 2eth annual convention
In San Francisco.
Manufacturers representing 100000
spindles in the vicinity of Boston have
agreed to curtail production during
four weeks in the next two months.
Pending q settlement on the wages
scale every iron mill in the Mahoning
valley in Ohio has closed, throwing
$500 men temporarily out Of work.
Work is soon to be begun on fortifi-
cations for the defense of New York, to
cost $50, 100000.
On a wager of 500 Lee Palmer walked
from Waterloo, a., to Dubuque. dis
tance of 100 miles. in 40 hours.
The syndicate which was formed at
Youngstown, O., two years ago to es-
tablish newspapers from New York to
San Francisco has failed.
The assistant encouragement of nli-
nois, Mr.. Newall, has rendered de-
cision in which he holds that green.
backs are taxable property.
Benjamin Huff, of Boot Jack, Ind,
an old man, while temporarily insane
shot and fatally wounded his daughter
in-law and then killed himself.
The public debt statement issued on
the 1st showed that the debt increased
s1,s2o,s53 during the month of June.
The cash balance in the treasury was
$3.50, 905, 635. The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to $36s, 5s4,S2s.
Rufus Buck, Louie Davis. Lucky Da-
Wis, Naoma July and Sam Sampson,
comprising what is known as the Buck
gang, were executed at Fort Smith,
Ark, for assaulting and numbering the
wife of Henry Hassan. a farmer.
]. E. Hardy, high-wire performer
from Toronto. made two trips across
the gorge at Niagara Falls on three
quarter-inch wire rope which was 100
feet above the water.
It was said that William, Kruse, for
more than 80 years a trusted employee
OF the importing firm of C. A. Auffmordt
& Co., of New York, had sailed for Glas-
gov with 100000 belonging to his en-
ployers.
Troops were called for to suppress
labor riots at Cleveland,
The national bank circulation out
standing on the LIST aggregated $685.
912,9 900, an increase since June 80, 1898,
of S14,312.262.
Four choir boys and the choirmastcr
of St. Johns Episcopal church at
Charlestown. Mass, were drowned by
the upsetting of boat.
W. T. Foster, weather prophet at St.
Joseph. Mo-. has challenged the officers
of the weather bureau in Washington to
forecasting contest.
G. Augustus Page, cashier of the
Equitable Life Insurance company, was
arrested in Pittsburgh at the funeral of
his wife on the charge Of causing her
death.
It was said that q Cuban filibuster
barkentine, F. F. Cassen, Capt. F. A.
Cassen commanding, left Boston, sue
cessfully eluding the government au-
thorities.
William Turner and r. w. Dunlop,
who confessed to having robbed their