The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-02-20

Miners at Sand Run and Carbon Hill,
Ia, were said to be in very destitute
condition. II
Edwin F. Uhl qualified as ambassador
Of the United States to Germany and
vacated the Office Of assistant secretary
of state. a.tu4 TO e., - Nh3Fn}ER t3l
-, A. b. Williams, until recently CASH
Ter of the Traders. national bank ut
Scranton, Pa. was said to be short $3a,-
600 in his accounts. .>'r, .Hi%'t' i}&" 1it
A boat containing five, dead men and
six barely alive was found on Dog is
land beach near, Carrabelle, Fla, f.
The fight advertised to take place on
the 14th in Texas between Fitzsimmons
and. AIaher, was postponed, because of
the bad condition of the latter's eyes.
At Brown university in Providence.
r. l., several juniors were expelled for
the remainder Of the college year be-
cause of alleged dishonesty in rhetoric.
Jacob Vogel & Sons, pork packers in
Cincinnati, have made an assignment
with of 100000,
Dick Wilmington, who started from
San Francisco April S, 1895, to push q
wheelbarrow round the globe within
three years, on \ wager Of ST., GOO. ar
rived in Pittsburgh, Pa. ~ :
,Lucket & Co.'s tobacco factory and
stemmery in GAINESVILLE, renn., was de-
stroyed by fire. consuming 100000
pounds OF tobacco and causing q loss
of 100000.
The Exchange bank at Flemings-
burg, KY, assigned with liabilities OF
$40, 900 and assets of 100000.
The Baltimore Condensed Milk COM
pany and the York Canning com
pany at York, Pa, failed with total
liabilities of $4,000 y. ,
John, alias "Patsey," Harris, the muir
derer of Matthew Spruell on July last,
was hanged at Washington in the lis
trict of Columbia Jail.
There were 3s1 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 523 the
week previous and go in the CORE
spending period of 1895.
The exchanges a. the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the 14th ag-
gregated $9o5, 345,253, against 1895, 9O6,-
400 the previous week. The increase.
compared with the corresponding week
in 1895, was 9.8. II r.. >
Fire that broke out in C. G. Loaf dry
goods store at Sunfield, Mich, burned
four stores and hotel. the total loss
being 100000.
Three workmen were killed and three
fatally wounded by. a boiler explosion
in mill near Ashboro, NC.
p. A. Higgins and his wife and sou
and daughter all died with the measles
within few days of each other at
Rrights, Ala.
Gov. Morton signed the bill passed
by the New York legislature transfer
ring the Palisades to the national gov-
eminent for national park.
A negro, or white man with his face
blackeped, while robbing the residence
OF Jefferson Smith at Dallas, Tex,
fatally stabbed Smith and killed his
wife with an ak.
At Centerville, H., George Jones shot
and killed his sweetheart, Leah Mar
tin, her mother, Mrs ". j. Martin. and
then put bullet into his own head.
Mrs. Mastin's objections to the young
mans attentions to her daughter was
the cause.
The first annual show of the Ma
tional Poultry association opened in
Central Market hall III Washington.
A skip jumped the track in mine
at Republic, Mich, killing William Nc
Graw, James Dodge, AdoIph Roitel and
Matthias Tegelberg.
Robert Williams, the negro who
killed Police Officer Suggs, was lynched
by q mob near Montgomery, Ala.
Barbara Kossel, Il pretty German
girl 10 years old, shot and killed John
Rohlfing, her lover, at St. Louis, and
then fred bullet into her own brain
and died instantly. Jealousy was the
cause.
The Buckeye glass works of Martin 8
Ferry, w. Va, were destroyed by fire,
the loss being $15O,0O0.
Emile Davis was hanged Mt Linn,
Mo-, for the murder of Frank Hender-
son, his sisters sweetheart. whom lie
poisoned.
Eight ships will be added to Uncle
Sans navy and be ready fer commits
sion before the first of next July.
May Rankin, aged q, who had been on
exhibition as a fat woman with various
circuses and dirue museums through
out the country, died in Chicago. She
weighed $50 pounds.
Joe Donoghue, the champion skater,
broke the tivc-mile skating record n
Washington, making the distance in
IA minutes 45 seconds.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The republicans of the Sixth district
of Illinois rerominated f. ID. Cooke for
congress-.
Isaac Murphy, the celebrated coiored
jockey. dici at Lexington. Ky., Of heart
failure.
Pennsylvania democrats will meet at