The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-01-07
The News Condensed.

The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.
Gov. r. NJ. Harris, of Indian territory,
has called the legislature to meet in
extraordinary session at Tishmingo jan
uary s.
At the annual meeting in Chicago Of
the Northwestern Travelling Mems as
ISOLATION William 81. Cribben was elect
ed president. The death payments for
the year amounted to $780, 400.
Lane county, Kan, has formally been
declared insolvent by the county COM
missioners.
a new counterfeit ten dollar national
bank note on the Union national bank
Of Detroit, Mich, is in circulation. One
distinguishable feature is that the back
Of the note is upside down.
1t is announced that Gov. Bradley in
lends to resign the Office of governor of
Kentucky at an early date because Of
failing health.
The wedding Of Count Adam de
Moltke Huitfeldt, of Denmark, and Miss
Louise Eugene Bonaparte, daughter
of the widow Of the late Jerome Bona
parte, took place in Washington.
The Peoples Electric Light & Power
company's plant at Newark, N. j., was
burned, the loss being $175,OO0.
The Columbia national bank in Min
neapolis closed it's doors with liabili-
ties of $247,000, and the Washington
bank, state institution in the same
city, also suspended.
The Commercial national bank of
Roanoke, Va, closed it's doors with liza
bilities of 100000.
William W. Whaley and wife, living
near Seaviersville, Tenn, were MUIR
dered in their home by unknown per-
sons.
Henry F. Strauss, aged u, county
clerk of Langlade county, Wis, commit
ted suicide at Amigo. He was de-
faulter to the amount of $3,77O.
It is officially denied at the state de-
partment in Washington that Spain has
consented to grant home rule to Cuba.
Edward Rosa shot and killed his
sweetheart, Miss Mary :Brehl, at the
home of her sister, Mrs. Stewart. in
Forest City, S. D., and then killed him
self. Jealousy was the cause.
For the first time since the present
struggle in Cuba began this govern
ment has given permission to customs
official to clear for Cuba a vessel 1.-THE
Dauntless) loaded, according to it's
manifest, with munitions of war, and
presumably intended for the insurgent
army.
At Holdredge. Neb., Mrs. D. M. Con-
rad, a teacher in the public schools, was
shot by her husband, who then shot
himself. Domestic trouble was the
cause.
The Farmers Trust company at
Sioux City, Ia, failed with liabilities of
$4,000.
Thefactory Of the Jacksonville co., Sew
err Pipe company was burned, the loss
being 100000.
Mrs. Elias Tucker, aged 81 years, and
her step-daughter, Mrs. William Siebel,
aged 30, were killed by an explosion of
dynamite at Reading, Pa.
Stories are again told by passengers
arriving in Key West, Fla, from Cuba
that Antonio Maceo is not dead, but
that he is in hospital recuperating
from his wounds.
Levi P. Wyman, aged 81, a famous
restaurateur and the founder of "Wy-
mans sandwich depots," died in Boston
from exhaustion produced by three
weeks violent hiccoughing.
Willia". Lie henbcrg, q months old,
and his ten-weeks-old brother Jacob,
were suffocated by coal gas at their
home III New York.
The Bankers exchange bank at Min
neapolis, Mimi, has suspended pay
ment.
The Commercial state bank of Selma,
Ala, closed it's doors with liabilities of
100000.
At the annual meeting in St. Louis OF
the Western Commercial Travellers as
ISOLATION Robert B. Dula, of st. Louis,
was elected president.
The Farmers & Merchants state bank
at Beatrice, Neb., went into voluntary
liquidation. ..
Comptroller of the Currency EckeIs
says that he feels no apprehension over
the bank failures which have occurred
OF late throughout the country.
Joseph b. McCullagh, aged 81, editor
of the Globe-Democrat. threw himself
from window in the third story of
i his residence in St. Louis and was
killed. He had been in poor health for
q long time. -. :
After a short absence the wife of
George fDuttera returned to her home
near York, Pa, and found her three
children burned to death. sse2 ~s5y@.# e
Moses Dent and Arthur Clement were
drowned at Faribault, Mimi, while skat-
ing on thin ice. = ~ ri WV .s4g2 !
The total number OF persons who
committed suicide in the United States
during 1896 Is $3.50, az compared with
s,T5s in 1926. ri ~ .qa5 :
The EolliDsville Qll.) zinc works.
owned by Mesker Brosi.s,s 81 st. Louis,
swere dan,aged BY Are u the extent II
100000. Id, :. 80