The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-11-26

The experimental test made by But-
falo IN. W street railway company on
two of it's lines of the electric power
from the Niagara Power company has
proved success.
The whaling steamer Beluga arrived
in San Francisco with the largest catch
of the season. She had % whales, $4,000
pounds of bone and 100 barrels of oil.
United States Deputy Marshal Nc
Glinchy had fight with Black Jacks
bandits near Separ, N. NJ, killing the
notorious Bob Hayes and fatally wound
ing George Musgrave.
The Alabama legislature has been
asked to call convention Of the peo-
pie of the state to remedy the election
laws so us to require an educational
qualification for voters.
Rev. DR.. Thomas ]. Conaty, of Wor-
cester, Mass, has been appointed by the
pope as rector of the Catholic university
Mt Washington, to succeed Bishop John
j. Keane, resigned.
A train on the Chesapeake & Ohio
railroad caught u buggy at street
crossing in Concord, Ky, and instantly
killed Al Pollok, young lawyer, and
Misses Lulu and Lizzie Lind, daughters
of the proprietor of the Lind hotel.
Continued improvement in CONNER
cial and industrial circles was reported
throughout the country.
Wild animals are more numerous in
northern Wisconsin than they have ever
Leen before.
A violent earthquake shock was felt
at Wilmington, Del, Woodbury., N. j.,
and ut other places in Delaware and
New Jersey.
RIB Armour, postmaster at Memphis.
Tenn, is said to be $4,000 short in his
accounts.
TirS in the building at Cleveland, O.,
occupied by H. w. Luetkemeyer s. Co.,
wholesale and retail hardware and
paint dealers, caused loss of $35O,O00.
There were 344 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the Goth, against 25S the week
previous and 800 in the corresponding
period of 1895.
Earl a. Moore was taken to the peni-
Tertiary from Springfield, O.. to serve
one year for prize fighting.
Aman and n woman who registered ut
a hotel in Valley City, N. D., rs Thomas
Owens and wife, were found dead,
clasped in each others arms. Prussic
acid had been taken.
Corbett has accepted IN offer made
by the New York Athletic club of Il
purse of $4,000 for u glove contest with
Fitzsimmons in that city on January IA.
The exchanges at the leading clear.
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the goth aggregated
1926. 7s2,141, against 1,191 ,l17,147 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week in 1896
IS 9.3.
J. j. Crowley. supervising special
agent of the treasury, in his annual re.
port states that the number of arrests
made during the year for violations Of
the customs laws was So; number OF
seizures. 1856. The receipts for the
year exceeded those of the preceding
year by $S.O5S.1 1873.
Secretary of Agriculture Morton. in
his fourth annual report says that y
per cent. of the farms in the United
States occupied by their owners are alb.
solutely free from mortgages or other
incum brances, and he refutes the idea
prevailing that the farmers are almost
universally in debt. Respondent and suf'
fering. During the last fiscal year the
exported products Of American farms
aggregated S57o, 100000. an increase OF
sl7.ooo.ooo over the preceding year.
Willis L. Moore, chief of the weather
bureau, says in his annual report that
timely warnings of all severe storms
likely to cause injury to shipping were
sent to all maritime stations and re-
suited in almost incalcula BILE benefit
The average percentage Of veri6cation
Of the bureaus forecasts during the
year was S2.4 per cent, an improvement
of PA per cent. over that of last year.
In a riot during a dance at the home
of Charles Johnson. east of Lebanon
Ind. Jack" Dowt1en and Jeffrey Gull
don were fatally hurt.
The collier steamer San Benito. bound
from Tacoma to San Francisco, went
ashore seven miles north of Point Arena
Cal. and six Of the crew were drowned
An electric locomotive that will rur
200 miles an hour has just been com
pleted at the Baldwin locomotive works
in Philadelphia.
A caboose attached to a work train
on the Licking Valley railroad jumped
the track and rolled down a 4O-foot EN-
banllment near Ashland. KY, and 30 per
sons were injured. some fatally.
An unknown man and woman who
registered as George Wilson and wife
were found dead in their bed in a room
at the Standard hotel in New York,
having been suffocated by illuminating
gas.
As a result of the flood in the Skagitt
river the town of Hamilton, WASH, is
a complete wreck.
Willy Haas, who cut the throat of Mrs.
Emma Brader, his employers wife, at
Covedale, o.. was convicted of MUIR
der and will be the first victim of the
electric chair in Ohio.
On Manhattan neld in New York the
contest for the American chamDiOn-