The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-02-04

The Wautauga bank Of JOHNSON CITY,
Tenn, closed it's doors with liabilities
of $4,000. a@ E: T.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 29th aggregated
s9e1, ,22s, against 42.412,1sO the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1896
was rs. ,'':
The senate of the legislature of Okla
homa passed bill to prohibit the max
ing of gold contracts in the territory. ;
There were 331 business failures In
the United States in the seven days
ended on the Goth, against 400 the week,
previous and 404 in the corresponding
period of 1896.
Bartholomew Race, OF Goshen, Utah,
shot and killed his wife and then put
a bullet through his own head. No
cause is known for the deed.
A north-bound train was held up at
Shady Point, Ore, by three men. and
the express car was robbed.
Gov. Sadler has signed the glove con-
test bill, thus insuring the Fitzsimmons-
Corbett fight for Nevada
Henry Snyder, conductor, and
George Craston, q brakeman, were
killed in wreck near Leroy, N. Y. 81
In the Texas houses, bill was intro
duced prohibiting the manufacture or
sale OF pistols in the state, and provid-
ing fine of $1,000.
At the celebration of the semicenten-
NAL Of the New York academy of medi.
cine ut Carnegie hall President Clevland
was the principal speaker.
Two thousand pounds Of dynamite
exploded at the Crystal Ridge colliery
near Hazelton, Pa, killing Waterman
Rickert and Engineer Youger.
The National Woman Suffrage asso-
citation closed it's annualsession in ,Des
Moines, Ia. after adopting resolutions
urging congress to submit a proposition
for suffrage amendment to the consti-
tuition; urging legislaturest to submit the
matter to their states, and declaring in
favor OF international arbitration Of all
disputes.
While: crossing the Baltimore & Ohio
railway at Eastwood. Ind, Katie and
Dottie Miller, aged Is and II years, the
daughters of a farmer. were struck and
killed by train.
Thomas Jackson (colored). found
guilty in Judge Ewing's court in Chi
cago Of five burglaries, was sentenced
to 100 years in the penitentiary.
Willard Cotton, q travelling salesman,
killed his wife IN q quarrel. in Cleve-
land, O., andsthen took his own life.
The business portion of Caledonia,
O. was destroyed by fire.
"A tenement house in Hoboken, N. J.,
was destroyed by fire and Mrs. Nellie
Schroeder and her five children and
Mabel Mangles persisted in the flames.
During the recent blizzard on the
Cheyenne agency several Indians froze
t. death in their tents and thousands of
head Of cattle prished.
In Missouri Edward w. Perry, muir
derer Of the Sawyer family-father,
mother and son-was hanged at Ava,
and James B. Inks, the murderer OF
John Patterson, was executed at Ore
gon.
Fred c. Riebe. aged As years, fugitive
from justice, shot and MORALLY wound
ed his wife and then killed himself in
Denver, COL e ~: +. =
The United States cruiser Brooklyn
ran upon a rock in the Delaware river
above Marcus Hook, Pa, and *stove a
hole in her hull.
The government receipts during jan
Larry were $24.316, 994.o5: expenditures
$50, 239, IT'S; deficit, $500, 1895.
The weather bureau at Washington
in special bulletin says the recent
cold wave was remarkable in it's inten-
sity, duration and wide distribution,
covering the whole United States east
of the Rockysmountains. Is.
Taylor, the noted Missouri outlaw and
murderer, was captured on a ranch near
Hanford. Cal.
A syndicate of New York business
men is being formed for the purpose of
creating gigantic fish trust.
Last year Michigan produced $780,
252.es2 feet Of lumber, a decrease Of
565. O0O,00 over the year 1895. ~
The Standard Eagle Box and Lumber
company in ST. Louis failed for $780,
600.
The Dime savings bank in Chicago
closed its doors with liabilities of $780,
900.
Mrs. Marie Sprinznik. the wife Of
Franz Sprinznik, a San Francisco tailor,
was shot and killed by Franz Wolf, who
alsc killed himself.
The business portion of Stryker, O.,
was almost destroyed by fire. 49,.
A. United States mail pouch contain
ine large number of registered let
tiers was stolen from the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton depot in Lima. o.
Secretary Olney and the British am
bassador have signed papers calling for
n treaty to define the Alaskan boun-
dairy. 49,.
DIR. II. H. Holbroek, a leading physi-
clan at Defiance, o.. cut his throat. No
cause is known. ...~. =: :
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. =.
At the annual meeting IN Des Moines.
Ia. of the National Woman Suffrage as
ISOLATION Susan b. Anthony was re-.
elected president. " ss. ~~.s u
+, Henry. 11eitfield (pop.). was elected
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