The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-01-16

Gen. Francis Claiming Barlow, tho
former attorney general of New York
and widely known lawyer, died ct his
home in New York city in his 61st year.
FOREIGN. l.
The Kurds butchered 1900 Armen.
ians in Gurun, Turkey, and all tho
Protestant and several of the Catholic
houses were looted. @4y[
James Leggatt, the hest-krow boot,
shoe and rubber jobl'er in Canada,
made m assignment ut Montreal with
liabilities of $150.000.
1t was announced that the Beers de-
mandcd from England an indemnity
of $4,000 for DR.. Jameson's iuva-
sion. -.
The insurgents in Cuba were said to
have been defeated in three battles near
Havana by the Spanish troops.
A meeting of German and Dutch So
cialists in London to congratulate
President Kruger was attacked by q
crowd of Londoners and broken up.
The authorities at Pretoria held doc
umentary evidence showing that the
whole affair of tho Jameson raid and
the uprising in johannesburg was
plot to annex the Transvaal to British
South Africa.
Portugal, it was announced, would
remain neutral in the dispute between
Great Britain and Germany regarding
the Transvaal and will not permit the
Germans or the British to land troops
at Delagoa bay or to traverse the Portu-
guesc territory in South Africa
The boiler of torpedo boat on Lake
Maggiorc, near Milan, Italy, Exploded,
sinking the vessel and drowning ~ per-
sons.
A dispatch from Berlin says that
Russia's cooperation with Germany in
the Transvaal matter has been assured
and that France will act with Russia.
The towns of Janjabed and Col, in
Persia were destroyed by earthquake
shocks and 100 persons were killed.
The Berlin and Vienna newspapers
regard the warlike preparations OF
Great Britain as being of little impcr-
lance, and as being more in the nature
of political move.
Nine persons lost their lives in the
wreck of the steamer Ealings off Hall
fax. N. S.
The Bank of the People at Montreal,
Can, went into voluntary liquidation
with liabilities of 100000.
A telegram from Progresso, Mexico.
announced the wreck of the steamer
Oxford on Alerans and the loss of ~ of
the crew.
In diplomatic circles at Berlin it was
believed that an amicable solution OF
the Transvaal question was only mat
ter of days. The warlike preparations
made by England were regarded as u
ridiculous demonstration to cover the
inevitable check to her policy.
The movement in favor of arbitrating
the Venezuelan question with the
United States was said to, be growing
daily in England. T.. .a$s,-
After an engagement in which 1000
men were killed or wounded eCuban
insurgents. captured Guira, n1city OF
5000 inhabitants and the third in i'm"
portance in the province of Havana.
The English ship Jeanette Cownn was
wrecked on Vancouver island and seven
sailors were drowned.
A dispatch from Rome says that TO-
600 Abyssinians were killed or wounded
in an attack made upon Makale.
Later advices from Armenia say thnt
in the provinces of Iarpoot and Diar-
hekir 17G towns and villages were de-
stroyed by the Turks and 1s,s4s Ar
menians were killed.
It was announced that the car OF
Russia had assured the emperor of
Germany that he would support him
in his trouble with England over the
1ransvaal and Egyptian questions.
LATER.
The total deposits of gold in the U.
6. treasury at New York the 18th