The Worthington advance., 1897-02-25

Was spent III OESCUk3SlOu OIL the general Ue-
hc1ency bill, which was not finished. A
favorable report was made on the SEN
ate bill for an international monetary con-
ference.
DOMESTIC.
The eleventh annual convention of
the American Newspaper Publishers
association opened in New York.
The supreme council of the National
Farmers Alliance and Industrial union
in session in Washington elected as
president Mann Page, of Virginia.
The greater New York commission
has adopted the charter prepared for
the consolidated municipality as
whole.
The New York senate has passed
bill providing that persons convicted
of placing distractions on railroad
tracks shall be guilty of murder in the
first degree.
Two negroes were lynched by mob
near Webb City, Miss, for attacking the
house of a white man and burning it
to the ground.
The national congress of mothers as
se1nbled at the Arlington hotel in
W tOA Will OOO uC1CRd HA CSSAI
from all parts of the United States.
The department of superintendent
of the National Educational association
in session in Indianapolis elected N. C.
shaeffer, of Pennsylvania, president.
Anton Shupe and wife were robbed
and murdered in their home on the
Yankton reservation in South Dakota.
Chun Sing, Chinese, was hanged at
San Quentin, CAL. for triple murder
committed at Lundy in September, 1895.
Three hundred picked men from,
Texas, Colorado and New Mexico left
Port Cavallo, Tex, to join the Cuban in
surgents.
At the National Congress of Mothers
in Washington resolutions were adopted
to boycott newspapers of an immoral
tone.
Nebraska is startled at the statement
made by Gov. Holcomb that ex-Treas-
urer BARLEY owes $537,7 1928 to the
state.
At the seventh annual convention in
Dallas, Tex, of the National Alliance
Aid association, A. Wardell, of Topeka,
Kan, was elected president.
Ben Colman (colored) was killed in
prize fight at Cincinnati with William
Rogers (colored).
At Anaconda, Mont, Mrs. Frank
Dressler and Sherman Ransom were
shot and killed by Frank Dressler, the
woman's husband, from whom she was
separated.
At the farmhouse of Rev. Thomas
Spicer near Winona, N. D., Mr.. Spicer
and his wife and Mrs. W. Waldron and
Mrs. w. Rouse and her twin baby boys
were found murdered. Indians were
charged with the crime.
Ewing r. Chaplin, receiving teller of
the Fourth national bank in Boston, has
disappeared, leaving a shortage of
$4,000.
During a trial before a justice at
Perkins, O. r., John Doherty, his son,
and John and Sam Larkins assaulted
Amos Atkinson and his two sons, jim
the two sons.
In freight wreck near BosI<y Dell,
ILL.,, the engineer, fireman and one
brakeman were killed.
Samuel Spencer, ST., aged IS, and Sam
uel Spencer, Jr., aged 40, father and son,
were killed by tho cars at Wyalusing,
Pa.
. The last evening reception of this ad-
ministration was given by the president
and Mrs. Cleveland at the white house.
It was held for the benefit of the public
r. The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
!. week ended on the 10Th aggregated
$500, ,014 ,465, against $1,O47, ,1O9,766 the
previous week. The decrease compared
] with the corresponding week of 1896
was 1876.
The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
railway elevator "A, :" with 325, 900 BUSH
d els Of wheat, was burned at Toledo. O.,
the loss being $355.000.
S& BY snowslide in Provost canyon.
& Utah, W. W. Ferguson and J. E. Bell
I, lost their lives.
There were 300 business failures in
/ the United States in the seven days
ended on the 10th, against 267 the week
~ previous and $50 In the corresponding
period of 1896. tI. -
Il The annual meeting of the Depart
ment of Superintendent Of the Nation
al Educational Association began in In
lianapo]is. .......
The total receipts of the 30 largest
post Offices in the United States for Jan
4 II uory, 1897, were $2,s3e, OH, and for Jan
So sl nary, 1896, $2,944,354, a net decrease of
55 $104,443 d 81 t...z.