The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-11-19


over the previous year.
At meeting in Chicago of the board
of directors of the Western Baseball
league President johnson was reelected.
The championship season will begin
April % and will consist of 40 games.
Admiral Ramsey, chief of the bureau
of navigation, in his annual report says
that more than - per cent. OF the en-
listed men Of our navy are now Amer
lean citizens, and more than 50 per
cent. of the apprentice boys are Ameri-
can born.
Richard v. D. Wood, for many years
assistant cashier of the Metropolitan
national bank in New York, is said to
have embezzled 100000.
Mrs. Abner Cox shot her husband
fatally at Elsberry, Mo-, and then COM
mitted suicide. She was partially de-
mented.
The committee on appropriations Of
the house will meet in Washington No.
vember 30 to begin the preparation Of
the appropriation bills for the coming
session.
John A. Bolin, at one time a repre-
sentative in the state legislature, was
swindled out of $500 at Duquoin, ILL.,,
by the gold brick scheme.
The eNchangesat the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 18th aggregated
81, 91,117,147, against 1891, 552,065 the
previous week. The increase com pared
with the corresponding week in 1895
is IL.
There were 25S business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 23O the week
previous and 2s3 in the corresponding
period of 1895.
A train on the Louisville & Nashville
Ala, by train robbers and three persons
were badly injured and the damage to
the train was $4,000. The wreckers
secured nothing.
The twenty-third annual convention
of the National Women's Christian
Temperance union opened in St. Louis
with the greatest attendance of any
one vet held. Miss Frances Willard pre-
sided.
The battle ship Iowa made 1927 knots
an hour on her builders trial trip off
Philadelphia. Her guaranteed speed
was 16 knots an hour.
A train struck Il wagon at a crossing
near Golden. N. Y, and killed a man
named Wingate and his daughter.
Henry Dawson (colored} was hanged
at Tuskegec. Ala, for wife murder.
E,oa fro,,, ~ ha TIpifod
States and from England were present
in Chicago at the opening of the annual
congress of the American Secular Union
and Free Thought Federation.
The steamer Wallula, ore laden from
Ashland, Wis, to Conneaut, O., and
valued at $9O.OOJ, went ashore while try
ing to make the latter port. Two sail
ors were drowned.
Henry Weyler, aged three years, and
Mary Weyler, aged six months, were
burned to death in their home at Buff
falo, N. Y. during the absence of their
parents.
Herbert r. Ash, a well-to-do farmer,
shot his wife and then hanged himself
at Lyman, N. H. No cause is known.
The exports of domestic merchan-
disc during the ten months ended Octo-
Der 81 amounted to $762,S6S.11 3, against
$G31, 1885 for the same period in 1895.
The imports during the ten months
amounted to 1872, 461 sos, as compared
with SOTO, 123,4s3 for the same period
last year.
The racing stable of Mrs. W. E. D.
O. locfr0voI
by fire near Lexington, Ky, and Josie
B., worlds record pacing mare, and six
other valuable horses were burned.
The gold exports for October amount
ed to $343,16s, against 81 1913, S97 for Oc-
tober, 1895. The imports were $27, 96l,-
o3s, against 81, 7o7, o4o for October, 1895.
The exports of silver amounted to $4,-
794,339. For October, 1895, the amount
was $4.594,+47. The imports aggrc-
gated $sSS, 422; for October, 1895, they
were 1891, s31.
The pulpits of 6s churches in St.
Louis were occupied on the 18th by dele
gates to the w. C. T. U. convention.
The electric power of Niagara falls
was for the first time sent out beyond
the confines of the city of Niagara Falls
and direct to Buffalo, distance of some
90 miles, where it will be used to propel
street cars.
The commissioner general of immigra-
tion in his annual report shows that dur
ing the last fiscal year the arrivals of
immigrants in this country aggregated
343,267, of whom 2,799 were sent back.
The arrivals for the fiscal year of 1884,
1895 aggregated 25s,536.
The Jennings state bank at Daven-
port, Neb., was robbed by burglars of
s2,7OO in cash and about 5000 worth of
jewelry.
The rivers of western Washington
were overfowing, washing out bridges,
:;wceping away farmhouses and causing
great damage.
Charles Allen, negro, was shot to
death by band of armed men near Nc
Kenzie, Tenn, for assaulting Bette
Seals, a white girl. aged IA.
At Glenwood Springs. COL. James B.
Spurrier, a printer, shot and fatally
wounded Miss Nina Cornell and wounded
James E. Wilson, her escort, and then