The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-11-19
The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

the Venezuela dispute, the British yield
ing everything the United States asked
for. Not only is the controversy TO be
submitted to arbitration. but all of the
territory in dispute comes within the
jurisdiction of the tribunal of five ar
bitrators-
The Iowa savings bank at Sioux City
closed it's doors with liabilities of near
ly 100000.
A Northern Pacific passenger train
was wrecked at Paradise Bluffs, Mont,
und the engineer, George Fairchild. was
killed and six other persons were badly
injured.
Jack Francis and Rodericlz Baker
were killed and nine others injured,
three of them seriously, by boiler ex-
plosion in sawmiil near Lexington,
Ky.
The twentieth annual general assem-
bly, of the Knights Of Labor began in
Washington.
In his annual report to the secretary
of war Maj. Gen. Miles, commanding the
army, renews his former recommenda-
tons for an increase of the army and
for increased coast defense.
William P. Hazen, chief of the secret
service, treasury department, in his an
nual report says the total number of
arrests made during the last year was
7so. The amount of altered or counter
felt notes captured was $757,531.
Fourteen buildings in the business
portion of Traverse City, Mich, were
destroyed by fire and Ed Newberry.
porter in the Front Street hotel, was
burned to death.
Samuel Welch shot and killed his wife
at KNOXVILLE, Mich, and then killed
himself. Domestic trouble was the
cause.
Frank Hamilton, for 20 years men,
Der of the banking firm OF Raymond &
Co., committed suicide in Austin, Tex.
Dependency over fnalcial losses was
the cause.
The Alabama legislature met at Mont
gomery.
Boutelle ". Frazier, aged AZ, prorrie-
tor of the Wellington hotel in Washing
ton, committed suicide by shooting
himself. Illness was the cause.
Thomas Williamson, Fred e. Bulma-
han and John Williamson were killed
by an explosion of gas in Worcester.
Mass.
Clapp e. Co., doing brokerage busi-
ness in New York. failed for $4,000.
Capt. Albert S. Merriam. wealthy
lumberman, shot himself dead in Min
neapolis. No cause is known for the
deed.
The National Association of Mer-
chants and Travellers, which has for its
purpose the education of the business
men of the country, met in annual ses-
sion in Chicago.
Elizabeth. wife of Rev. Samuel Book.
of the Darwin Dunkard church, fell
dead in koLomo. Ind. aged SO years.
Thieves blew open the safe in the Star
brewery at Cleveland. O.. and secured
$4,000.
At the Farmers National congress in
session at indianapolis resolutions were
offered favoring woman suffrage, re-
stricting inmgra ton, denouncing class
Legislation and disconraging sectional
ism. and favoring the unlimited coinage
of gold and silver as equally money of
ultimate redemption with the concur
renee of other nations.
A fight occurred in saloon at Lead
vile, COL, in which five men were
STABBED, two fatally.
Ice closed the Missouri river at Cham
berlain, S. D. This is the earliest the
river has closed there for 20 years.
Capt. John Maxson Brown. the vet
eran life saver, died in New York, aged
So years. He probably helped save more
lives than any other man living.
Louis Doerfel, aged CT, and his wife
and Bertha Miller, aged four years.
were asphyxiated by gas in Philadel-
phia.
Every world bicycle record, from the
two-mile to the ten-rnile. inclusive, was
lowered by Jimmie Michael, the Welsh
man, at New Orleans. The ten miles
were made in 1888 is.
The estimates for the entire Indian
service for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1898. call for an appropriation if ST.
100000. This is 100000 more than the
appropriations for the current fiscal
year.
The Cincinnati sawmill and the Salz-
burg brewery in West Bay City, Mich,
were destroyed by fire, the total loss
being $4,000.
James Fagin, who threw lighted
cigar into the face of Secretary of the
Treasury Carlisle at political meet
ing in Covington. KY. has been fined
$40.
n A large number of lumber camps are
being started in the upper peninsula
In Michigan with an increase of 50 per
cent. more men than were employed
last year.
The annual report of Gen. C. e. Saw
! tell, quartermaster general of the army,
shows that $l03,5A was expended for
the movement of troops during the past
fiscal year.