The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-02-18


ness part Of the town. The loss is up
ward Of 100000. -.
There were PCT business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 81 the week
previous and 321 in the corresponding
period of 1896.
Paul Wagner, aged IS, and his wife
Frederick, aged Ga, were suffocated by
coal gas at their residence in Mil
waukee.
The eighty-eighth anniversary Of
Lincoln's birth was appropriately cele-
brated on the 18th throughout the coun-
try. ..., + -.
At Epping, N. H.. Frank belmont, of
London, made a mile on roller skates in
::49, breaking the worlds record Of
$3.50.
The American Federation of Labor is
making arrangements to begin the agi-
tation for q general eight-hour work
day.
The entire village of Mars, Pa, was
reported destroyed by fire.
The League of American Wheelmen in
annual convention in Albany, N. Y,
decided against Sunday racing.
A census of Springfield, ILL.,, by the
city authorities shows the population
to be 31,003.
The town of Malvern, Ark, which was
almost wiped out by fire last July, was
visited by another fire which destroyed
the rebuilt portion.
The eleventh annual report Of the de-
partment of labor, just transmitted to
congress by Commissioner Wright, re-
lates to the work and wages of men,
women and children.
In the case of Scott jackson and
Alonzo Walling, sentenced to be hanged
for the murder of Pearl Bryan, the court
of appeals in Frankfort, KY, overruled
the petition for rehearing.
The Lancaster co., medical institute
was destroyed by fire and DIR. Simon. Of
Jackson, ". Va, patient, persisted.
The Office of the Post in Pittsburgh,
Pa, was almost totally destroyed by
fire, causing loss to the paper of about
100000.
The Freeman mine at Gouverneur, n.
Y, caved in and William Dawley, Fred
Mccoy, NJ. Louchlan, Charles Larock
and John Matthews were killed.
At West Superior, Wis.,, the State
trust and savings bank closed it's doors
with liabilities of $4,000.
At Lexington, KY, John w. Mars,
ex-city treasurer, killed his six-year-
old son and shot his daughter and Sis
ter, but they will recover, and then
killed himself. he was insane.
The Commercial savings bank of
Leeds, a., was placed in the hands of a
receiver.
Miss Morgan and Miss Evans were
drowned in the presence of a number
of spectators while skating on the canal
at Sharon. Pa.
The Merchants national bank at
Helena, Mont, closed its doors owing
depositors nearly a million dollars.
Frank Waller, 1.-The flying Dutchman,"
won the six-day bicycle race in Pitts
burgh, Pa, scoring 1921 miles and 3
laps.
Alderman Thomas j. O'Malley and
John Santry were acquitted in Chicago
of the charge of having murdered Gus
tav Colliander in November. 1894.
At the annual meeting in Chicago of
the National Dairy union W. D. Hoard,
of Wisconsin, was reelected president.
Mrs. James Nuby, aged 1o4 years,
was found frozen to death at her home
in Arlington, Mich.
J. R. Sovereign, master workman OF
the Knights of Labor, has written let
ter in which he says secret revolution
ary societies are being organized in
every part of the. country to resort to
civil war as a means of obtaining "rem-
edies for the populace" which they can
! not secure by the ballot.