The Worthington advance., 1896-12-10
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

be The monthly statement of the comp
I troller of the currency shows that on
= November 80 the amount OF national
! bank notes in circulation was $685., 312, ;
s 1O3. an increase for the month of $414.-
( 446, and for the last IL months Of $2l,-
! 440.907.
The Cincinnati chamber of commerce
. passeda resolution petitioning congress
to create q new cabinet position, that
of commerce and manufactures, to be
presided over by q secretary.
Tens of thousands of acres of land
along the Chippewa river in Wisconsin
we're under from one to five feet OF
water and hundreds of people had been
driven from their homes.
The Bank of Westport, NO., closed its
doors with liabilities of $4,000.
During the month of November the
total coinage at the mints of the United
States was $7,45S, ,722, Of which $5.064,-
200 was gold, $2,3O5 ,O22 silver and $780,
900 minor coins. The coinage of stand
ard silver dollars was S1.914.0O0.
The wife of ex-Mayor Joseph S.
Brown, of Somerville, Mass, was burned
t. death in fire which destroyed the
family residence.
At the annual convention in Sacra-
mento of the California Fruit Growers
association the president said that the
annual loss by insect pests in the
United States was over So 100000.
The residence of William Lewis
(colored) was burned at Alton. ILL.,, and
two children under ten years were
roasted to death.
At preliminary currency reform
meeting in Indianapolis, Ind, ut which
many states were represented, it was
lecided to hold national convention
In Indianapolis in Jan nuary, 1897, to dis
euss the financial question.
Engineer Bennett and Driver WAL
ter Stevens. Of the fire department of
Everett, Mass. were killed by a rail-
way engine while responding to an
alarm of fire.
Six business firms lost their goods at
Italy, Tex, by an incendiary fire, the
total loss being 100000.
Gage & FELTON,. bankers and brokers
In Boston. failed for 100000.
The post Office at Mason City. Ia, and
all the mails and contents were de.
ttroyed by fire.
Earthquake shocks of sufficient force
to rattle dishes and furniture and sway
buildings perceptibly were felt at Cairo
and Anna, III.
In q prize fight at San Francisco be.
tween Tom Sharkey and Bob Fitzsim-
mons the former won in the eighth
round.
The Arena Magazine Publishing COM
pany in Boston went into the hands of
q receiver.
William Doherty and Thomas Lennig
met death while fighting flames in a
church at Atlantic City, NJ.
A gang of burglars robbed every gore
In the village of Moline, Mich.
The home of Paul Bartcovitch in Chi
cago was burned during the absence of
himself and wife and their four little
children perished in the flames.
Expert cracksmen blew the safe of
the jewelry store of n. Hirchburg in
Omaha and got away with $4,000 in
cash.
II. NJ. Scott, aged IS, of Bickville, ILL.,.
killed himself because his wife chided
him for being intoxicated.
The circulation statement issued
from the treasury department shows
that all kinds of money in circulation
in the United States on December l ag-
gregated S1,6A6.444.746.
William E. Counts, late postmaster
and keeper of general store at Reels
vile, Ind, was shot and killed by rob-
bers.
All the factories under the control
of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass company
in the country have resumed operations
after long idleness-
Sheriff w. E. Hinton, Of Plymouth
rill and was SO badly injured that he
could not move and froze to death be-
fore help came.
The clerk of the house of representa-
tives has issued list of members of
the house of the Fifty-ffth congress,
showing that it will be composed of
204 republicans, 124 democrats, 13 fu-
Eionists, IL populists and silverites,
and that there is one vacancy, from the
first Missouri district.
A Russian family consisting of a man,
IL
1. blizzard at Williamsport, N. D.
Z The Third Avenue Methodist Episco-
pal church in Columbus, O.. was de-
stroyed by fire, the loss being $5o,OO0.
Three distinct earthquake shocks
were felt at Pittsfeld, ILL.,, and many
people ran from their houses.
~ Casper Hartlein was hanged at Wetl-
erstield, Conn, for the murder of Louise
Marie Treble at South Manchester Feb
ruary 20 last.
The New Jersey court of appeals has
declared the divorce law of the state un-
constitutional.
A heavy snowfall in Virginia and
North Carolina blocked all railway
trains.
@ The submarine cable between New
York city and Hayti is completed, and
has been opened to the public for the
transmission Of messages to Hayti and
other places in the West indies.
81 The National Council OF Women of
the United States met in Boston in an
nual convention. Mrs. Mary Low Dick
finson, the president, occupied the chair.