The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-17

Miss Mae Kelly, q prominent young
society woman, fell dead at Catholic
fair in Duluth, Mimi. just Ms she had
begun singing "1le Giveth His Beloved
Sleep"
The annual meeting of the National
Civil Service Reform league was begun
in Philadelphia.
The two children of William Bledsoe.
living near Sasakwa, O. r.. were burned
to death by a prairie fire.
The banking house of Jonathan Es-
terly & Co. at Columbiana, O., closed it's
doors with liabilities of S165.0OO.
The Harlan state bank at Harlan.
Ia, closed its doors, owing depositors
| $751;
Attorney-General Harmon in his an
nual report to congress expresses sat
isfaction ut the results of the new salary
system which displaced the old fee sys-
tenn July of the present year. Alargc
reduction is shown in every one of the
items which would naturally be affected
by the fee system. During the year the
court considered 374 cases. A new
crimes net is one of the things the at
torney-general thinks is needed.
The interstate commerce commission
has issued preliminary report of the
income and expenditures of the rail-
ways in the United States for the year
ending June 30, 1896, which shows that
the net earnings on 1850 miles were
$26S. 675.047.
$1p
mason contractor at Rochester, N. y,
failed for $4,000.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 18th aggregated ST.
O65, 63s, 1861, against 81 1885, 4s5.S04 the
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week in 1895
was SO.
There were $50 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 379 the week
previous and 1893 in the corresponding
period of 1895.
Mustapha Bey, the Turkish minister,
has received perenptory instructions
from his government to secure retrac-
ton of the injurious statements made
by President Cleveland in his message
to congress. and rupture of the dip
lomatic relations between the United
States and Turkey is threatened.
The corn crop in Illinois this year is
cSs, 500, 900 bushels. which is the largest
yield in the history of the state.
Marshall J. Miller was hanged at San
Quentin. CAL, for the murder of Jo-
seph Pierre, of Marysville, last May.
The Georgia legislature has passed a
bill making women eligible for state Ii
brarian.
The International hypothecate bank
was incorporated at Dubuque. a.. with
a capital of $1O.OOo.00O.
Walter F. Slade and Francis II.
Clough, operating the Clear River WOOL
en- mills at Burrellville. r. l.. failed for
100000.
The National bank of commerce at
Duluth, Mimi. closed it's doors with liza
bi!ities of $135.OO0.
The First national bank of Niagara
Falls, N. Y, suspended with liabilities
Of 81 sc, 900.
Mrs. Sarah B. 1ngersoll Cooper AMI
her daughter, Harriet Cooper, both
widely known as workers in the cause
of temperance, Christianity and phi
lanthropy. committed suicide together
in their home Mt San Francisco because
o. church scandal in which they sided
with the pastor and were snubbcd by
former friends.
The Commercial Travellers Life as
socia ton of Syracuse, n. Y, went into
receivers hands with liabilities of $780,
OOO
phia of the National Civil Service Re
form league Carl Schurz, of New York.
was reelected president.
Print paper manufacturers at meet
ing in New York agreed to form a ma
tional association to control the product
of all mills and fix prices.
An Iowa organization of friends of
Cuba has been effected, with hcadquar-
ters in Des Moines.
Miss Helen Beers, of Bridgeport,
Conn.,, born blind 40 years ago. has had
her sight restored by the removal of
cataract from each eye.
AN exceedingly welI-executed coun-
terfeit of United States five-dollar gold
coins is in circulation in St. Louis.
Mrs. Catherine Corbett. aged 20. and
her daughter Mary. aged 40, were suf-
located by gas at their home in Indian
apolis.
The railway earnings in Iowa the past
year were S+1.0OO.0OO a gain of $5,O0O,-
OGO over the previous year.
The three young children of Edward
larnsworth were drowned at Brook
line. n. H.. while playing on thin ice.
A denial is made of the report that
the sultan Of Turkey has entered pro-
test against the language of the pres;-
dents message to congress in its treat
ment Of the Turkish question.
Samuel y. Putnam. aged Sc. of Chi
cago. president of the free thought con-
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