The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-06-25
The News Condensed.

The News Condensed.
Important intelligence From All Part$'
DOMESTIC.
By q fall of lumber in the Knapp
Stout lumber yard in st. Louis Philip
Slushman and William Stou were killed
and four other persons were badly In
jured.
Earl H. Silver, aged 2 years; Thorn
as L. Melville, aged IL years, and
Eugene Reynolds, aged about 26. were
drowned at Kenosha, Wis.
The First national bank and the Bank
of Cheney suspended payment at
Cheney, Wash.
Mrs.oLevi Mcknight, of Shelbyville.
Ind, was dragged to her death by
horse which took fright at bicyclist.
A reservoir near Baker City, Ore, col
lapsed and the home of r. French was
swept away and the entire family. con-
sisting of the parents and five children,
was drow ned.
Great restitution was reported among
the striking miners in the bituminous
coal districts in Indiana.
Two daughters of Frank p Hipp, .
farmer living near Grinnell, L., commit
ted suicide by taking strychnine. No
cause was known.
During a thunderstorm at Browns
vile, O., lightning struck and killed
nine steers owned by Joseph Phillips.
Milton r. Wells. a widower about so
wears old, shot Miss Jennie Walters,
need s. years. at Elkhart, Ind, and then
set her clothing on fire and she was
burned to death. No cause for the crime
was known.
A movement was started in Boston
bv the colored churches for the pur-
pose Of erecting 100000 monument
at Harper's Ferry to John Brown.
Seven companies of state troops left
Portland, Ore, for Astoria to suppress
lawless acts of fishermen on the Colam-
bia river.
John Corners shot and killed Mamie
Muligan at Peoria, Ill.,, because she re-
fused to marry him and then shot him
self fatally.
Theodore Ascher & Co., one OF the
Oldest wholesale millinery firms in Chi
cago, failed for 100000.
Charles Emmrer, a Chicago gasoline
peddler, fatally shot his wife while he
was drunk and then killed himself.
The Middlesex wooden mill at Lowell,
Mass, employing 1000 hands, closed in
definitely.
Henry Rosenthal and Miss Stella Pit
kin were killed by the cars at Balls
Crossing, O.
At the seventh annual convention In
Boston of the Medal of Honor Legion
Gen, Nelson A. Miles was elected presi-
dent.
A destructive windstorm swept over
southern Kansas, wrecking buildings
at Kingman, Penalosa, Anthony and
Attica.
Wilson L. Slayback was killed by
lightning at Dayton, Ind, and his death
SO affected his father, aged 70, that the
old man dropped dead from heart dis
ease.
The two sons of Thomas Holderheld.
aged is and 10 years, were killed by
lightning at Marion, Ill.
The international missionary conven-
ton at Clifton Springs, N. Y, adopted
resolutions asking the United States
government to protect the lives and
property of American citizens in the
Turkish empire.
In Newport, Ky, the trial of Alonzo
NJ. Walling, jointly indicted with Scott
jackson for the murder of Pearl Bryan,
ended with conviction and penalty fixed
at death.
The final payment on account OF the
per cent. loan of February last was
made at the treasury department in
Washington.
A hurricane at Guthrie, o. T. wrecked
the Central high school building and
state capitol grounds and badly dam.
aged many private residences.
The boiler of the steamer Titus Sheard
exploded on the canal at Little Falls,
N. Y, while an excursion party was on
board and II persons were killed and
three were fatally and six seriously in
jured.
Cornell university at 1thoca, N. Y
graduated class of 400.
The printers strike in Minneapolis
and St Paul was settled by an agreement
between the typographical union and
the publishers association to arbitrate
oil differences as to wages and hours.
Fire destroyed block of business
buildings in Bradford, Pa, the loss be-
ing 100000.
At New Haven. Conn, the boat race
between the freshman crew of Yale
and the University of Wisconsin crew
resulted in a victory for the latter crew
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
= week ended on the 10th aggregated
.$1,03s, 57o,sos, against 1881, $50, 1913 the
previous week. The decrease compared
!. with the corresponding week in 1895
was ,3.5.
There were 276 business failures In
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 10th, against 234 the week
previous and 22s in the corresponding
period of 1895.
David D. O'Brieu, one of the foremost
lawyers in Cook county, committed sui
eide by asphyxiation in his Office in Chi
20. Liquor was the cause.
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