The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-04-15


the floods IN South Dakota, Iowa and
Nebraska. IS. E...s ..ss, .s......
There were 2a2 business failures in
the United States in tho seven days
ended on the 9th. against PIP the week
previous and 225 in the corresponding
period of 1896. 5:r
Mrs. Leland Stanford, OF San Fran
cisco, signed tile contract by which her
life is now insured for u ,ooo! 900. This
is the lurgest single policy ever issued.
Great damage was caused by the ex-
plosion Of q cart load Of fireworks in
>Buenos .Ayres and ten persons were
killed. Il =
+ A cyclone passed over a portion Of
Dale county. Ala, leaving wreck and
disaster in its path. Many houses were
demolished and q Mrs. Powers was
killed.
While lowering boat from the cruiser
Marblehead at Key West, Fla. the davits
broke and two sailors were thrown into
the sea and drowned.
A heavy snowstorm in central Indiana
did great damage to telegraph wires.
Later reports from the fire at Knox
vile, Tenn, indicate that II persons lost
their lives. (
The republican senators in Washing
ton who are acting as subcommittee
OF the senate committee of finance in
the preparation of the tariff bill say it
will be reported in about two weeks.
The Poughkeepsie IN. w. glass works
were completely destroyed by fire, tho
less being 100000.
Mayor Strong. of New York, has re-
turned the Greater New York charter
to Albany without his approval, and
this makes the passage Of the bill by the
legislature again necessary.
Encampments of the Union Veteran
legion throughout the country cele-
brated the thirty-second anniversary
of Lees surrender at Appomattox
Courthouse.
The Nebraska legislature adjourned
sine die.
The anti-pooling law in Wisconsin ha,
been officially published and is now in
effect. gambling on horse races being
therefore at an end in the state.
Gov. Bushnell has issued a proclama-
ton fixing April 20 as Arbor day in
Ohio.
Passenger trains on the Southern rail-
way collided at Harrisburg, N. c.. kill
ing three persons and wounding six.
Mrs. Myrtle Growers two children and
q daughter of William McFall were ia
tally poisoned at Howell, Mich, by eat
ing wild 'parsnips and Will Hughes, a
farmer. and his two: sons died at their
home near English. Ind, from the
same cause.
Texas was visited by q general rain
and windstorm and great damage was
done. Austin and Calvert suffered
most, three persons being killed at the
latter place.
The total area under water by floods
is 1890 square miles, of which 1900
square miles are in Mississippi, $500
square miles in Arkansas, 1850 square
miles in Missouri. 1900 in Tennessee
end $50 in Louisiana. The flooded dis
tricfs contain $4,000 farms. valued at
$e5, 100000.
Title Anderson won the six-day H.
hour women's bicycle race in Detroit,
making 264 miles.
The American barkentine Nellie
Smith was sunk in collision with the
steamship La Grande Ducbesse Off the
Jersey coast and Capt. Dodge, of Pea
body, Mass. and four sailors were
drowned.
The. Cooperative Town company Of
Elizabethton. Tenn, failed with liabili-
ties of ST 100000.
Hundreds of families in North Da-
kota were made homeless by a freshe:
in the Red river and in East Grand
Forks the principal business street
stores were flooded eight feet deep.
Dwight l.. Moody addressed 5000
women at an afternoon meeting in the
Auditorium in Chicago and as many
men at an evening meeting.
The Oldtown (Me.) Indians, whose
tribal name is the Tarrantines, have is
sued a decree banishing from their
reservation on an island in the Penob-
scot all white persons.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The state prohibition convention at
Columbus, O., nominated j. C. Holiday,
of Muskingum, for governor. The chief
feature of the platform is the indorse-
>ment of woman suffrage.
At the state election in Rhode Island
Elisha Dyer, of Providence, was elected