The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-04-30
DOMESTIC.

1gnace 6. Paderewskl, the pianist and
composer, gave to William Steinway, OF
New York, $4,000 as permanent en-.
dowment to encourage original compo-
sition in the United States.
The women in Massachusetts, outnum-
Der the men by 7O,7s1, according to the
figures from the state census just made
public.
Franklin county, died ut Greensburg,
Ind, from gangreen, caused by his foot
being chafed by a new shoe.
Miss Frances E. Willard sailed from
New York for Southampton. She goes
abroad to attend the annual convention
of the Worlds Women's Christian Tenn
perance union. of which she is presi-
dent.
Robert Chambers, negro, charged
with robbing and burning barn, was
tied to tree and shot to death ny = mob
at Cranberry, N. C.
Smith a. Nixon, piano dealers in Gin
cinnati, made an assignment with as
sets of 100000 and liabilities of
$4,000
The New York legislature passed the
greater New York bill over the veto
of the mayors of New York and Brook
lyn.
Three hundred distinguished men
met in Washington for a conference
to promote the propaganda for inter-
national arbitration.
The Mason e. Davis company, one of
the oldest and largest manufacturers of
stoves and ranges in Chicago, failed
for 100000.
In dispute over a portion of the Will
son tariff bill Congressman Hall, OF
Missouri. and Congressman Money, OF
Mississippi, fought with fists and ink
stands in Washington and both men
were injured.
Near Meadville Pa, Edward Karles.
kind shot his wife and then cut his own
throat. Both are dead. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
Ii. Gordon, lumber dealer at Hunting
ton, w. Va, failed for 100000.
James E. Joyce 4; Co., wholesale
procers at Little Rock, Ark, failed for
$525,OOO.
At the final session III Washington
bitration permanent organization was
effected. At d mass meeting in the even
ing President Eliot, of Harvard univer-
sity, severely arraigned the foreign
policy of President Cleveland and Sec
rotary Olney.
Edna Varney and Emma Cunning
ham, aged IL and Is years, respectively,
committed suicide by drowning in the
mill pond at townsville, Wis.
The wife OF Herman Scharnitzka, OF
Cleveland, o., and her two young chill
dren, were fatally burned by coal oil
explosion.
President Gompers, of the American
Federation of Labor, says that over 5OO,-
COO men will make a demand for a
shorter day OH May l.
The proposition to admit women as
lay delegates to the general confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal church
has been defeated.
Charles Pustolka and Louis p. Her.
man, wife murderers, were electrocutei
in the penitentiary at Sing Sing, N. Y.
Moses Lindheim, wholesale dealer
in leaf tobacco in New York, failed for
$l5O,OO0.
There were 23s business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the gath, against 223 the week
previous end ESQ in the corresponding
period of 1895.
Is The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended ON the gath aggregated
$,,O12, 49,, 200, against $7S4.33s,764 the
previous week. The increase, cop.-
pared with the corresponding week i'll
1895, was IL.
Dispatches from points in Iowa, Min
nesota and Ohio tell of the general OBJ
servance IF Arbor day throughout those
states.
Mrs. Joseph Cooking and Miss Daisy
Miller, her niece, were robbed and muir
;dercd at Top Hill, Nd, aud Mr.. Cooking
j. . fatally injured. YH%L
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