The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-11-12
The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
II The receipts of the United States
for the month of October were
v ST., 2s2, 1929 and the expenditures were
z sss.e7s,e77, showing deficit for Oc-
tober of $7,G55,45s. The total deficit
since July /. 1896, is $32.Sso.s
+. The wholesale clothing firm of Refs,
Z ICONS & Co. in Philadelphia failed for
100000.
About 2,1Oo employees have been added
70 the classified service by the issuance
Of an order by President Cleveland di-
recting that the rules of the navy de-
partment regulating the employment
Of labor Mt the navy yards shall not be
changed without the approval OF the
civil service commission.
The United States Carriage company's
works ut Columbus. O.. were burned.
Mrs. Annie Schrieber. aged %, and her
nephew. a lad of II, eloped from their
homes in Chicago and committed sui
eide in Elgin. Ill.
Three vast waterspouts connecting
clouds and sea was the rare phenomena
witnessed by residents of Cottage City,
Muss.
jeff Jackson, John Adams, Will
liam Taylor and Robert Allison. negro
laborers, were murdered by white caps
near Wild Fork. Ala.
The Emerson Piano company that
failed recently in Boston has resumed
business.
At Merlens, Tex, Peter Hansen split
his wife's head open with an AK and
then committed suicide by shooting
himself. He charged his wife with in
fidelity.
A telegram fron, Lick observatory
in California announces the discovery
of a faint comet by Perrine, an assistant
ut Lick.
Consul General Fitzhugh Lee ar
rived in New York from Havana.
Half an hour after Harrison Bacon.
,ged 70, a pioneer of Courtlan o., had
cast his vote he dropped dead in the
street of heart disease.
Capt. Hatfield, of Hatfield-McCoy
fame. killed Henderson Chambers and
John and Elliott rutherford ut Mate
wan, w. Va, during quarrel over pol
tics. Hatfield escaped.
Constable Francis De Long, one Of
The oldest residents of Joliet. Ill.,. was
shot and instantly killed by Lyman
Hall, young man "a years old. whom
De Long was trying to arrest.
The following officials have been re-
moved from the treasury department
~ Secretary Carlisle for offensive par
tisanship: Judge w. +. Fleming, of
Kentucky; Thomas F.. Brantley, of
South Carolina. and Burton T. Doyle.
In battle at Winchester, ky., be-
tween posse of policemen and i squad
If negroes six colored men and three
whites were shot, three OF the negroes
being fatally wounded.
President Cleveland issued procla-
nation naming Thursday, November
p6, as THANKSGIVING day.
The Gem theater in st. Louis was
destroyed by fire and William Gray. the
stage manager, was fatally injured by
jumping from tbird-story window.
The Carter-Crume company's wood
IN dish factory in Saginaw. Mich. was
destroyed by fire.
w. White G. Co.. one of the largest and
nldest cotton-buying firms in Texas,
failed in Dallas for 100000.
The Chicago stock exchange opened
for business after being closed for six
months.
During a storm on Lake Erie several
sailboats were capsized and Henry Mayo
and Jacob and George Vergt were
drowned.
John H. 1nman, head of the cotton
house of lnman. Swan & Co., md bust
ness man of national reputation, died
in New York of heart failure, aged 50
gears.
William Mann (white) and Abe Goss
(coloredD were killed by the explosion
of locomotive boiler at Atlanta, Ga.
Arthur L. Shook, a brakeman. shot and
killed his wife in Kansas City, Mo-. an.
then killed himself. No cause is know, Z
a receiver was asked for for the
Marine national bank of Duluth, Mimi.
The liabilities are $27O,0OO.
Stanley Barrows achieved the feat in
Denver of riding the fastest mile ever
made on a wheel, and that is without
any pacing, his time being SO seconds.
All the pork butchers ut the packing
houses in Chicago struck because of the
failure to advance their wages.
Rev. F.. S. Nicholson, of Kokomo, Ind.
father of the temperance law. has been
reelected to the legislature, with 800
votes to spare.
The Golden Scepter Mining company
at Quigley, Mont, has assigned with
debts of $2s5,OO0.
Conrad Eichhorn deliberately put his
13-year-old son to death in Toledo, o.,
and then committed suicide. Domestic
trOuhle was the ca,1So
The Manhattan Clothing e. Shoe COM
pany at Dayton, o., assigned with liza
bilities of 100000.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 9Th aggregated
1901, 552,o65, against $o6s,7s1,55s the
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week in 1895
is 1876.
Gaines Murphy, who was put on the
ticket as joke, was elected sheriff of
Gibson county, Ind.
Mrs r McCarthv Of Scranton Pa