The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-11-25
LATER NEWS.

LATER NEWS.
Heavy rains, snow and chinook
winds caused washouts that blocked
all railway traffic in western Montana
for over week.
An engine explosion in the saw mill
OF John Woodward, at Alderman,
Miss, killed Frank Woodward, jim
Hempill and Fayette Norloin.
Football games the goth resulted as
follows: Yale 6, Princeton 0; Pennsyl-
vania Is, Harvard 6.
New counterfeit ten-dollar bills on
the National bank of Los Angeles, CAL,
have been discovered.
The steamer Victoria, sent out by
the Norwegian government to search
for Prof. Andree, has returned without
finding any trace of him or his balloon.
The floor of the Cory Methodist
church at Cleveland, o., collapsed, pre-
cipitating 500 colored' 'worshipers to
the ground, distance of seven feet.
A panic ensued, but only three persons
were hurt, and they not seriously
Forty-eight men were arrested in the
swamps of Mississippi by United States
inspectors on the charge of violating
the alien labor contract laws.
Patrick Conway went to sleep in a
foundry oven at Trenton, n. j. A fire
was started soon after, and he was
nearly roasted to death before rescued.
Fire among the warehouses of Mel
bourne, Australia, caused a loss of
SIS, O0O, 900.
Two very distinct shocks of earth
quake were felt at Randsburg. CAL,
but no damage was done.
Angel Paz. the Cuban insurgent, who
betrayed General Adulfo Castillo into
the hands of the Spanish troops, was
hung by the insurgents.
The powers, threaten to make dem
onstration in the Dardanelles.
The will of the late Henry George,
filed for probate in New York leayes
his entire estate consisting of the
home at Fort Hamilton, worth about
$4,000, and the copyright of his books
to his widow.
A masked negro attempted to hold
up a street car in Kansas City, Mo.
The gripman, E. O. Prowett, threw a
grip hook at the highwayman, who
instantly shot the gripman in the groin.
Conductor G. w. Church came to his
comrades assistance and was shot in
the breast being seriously wounded.
The negro. escaped.
All the British prisoners held in Cuba
have been released and all the Ameri-
cans and French prisoners will be set
at liberty in few days.
Motorman Theodore r. Merrick was
was killed and Motorman w. E. Hor-
ner so badly injured that he died in a
head end collision on the Baltimore &
Northern railroad at Baltimore, Md.
The officials say Merrick disobeyed
orders.
E. ]. G. D'Albani, clerk in the gen.
eral Offices of the Northern Pacific
railway, committed suicide by jump
ing off the high bridge at St. Paul,
MIMI, into the Mississippi river.
Rev. A. E. Morrison, Methodist min
lister at Pan Handle, Texas, was ar
rested by the police of Topeka, Kas.,
upon the charge of wife murder.
Luke Usher, president of the Nation
al bank of Pottsdam, N. Y, which
failed last January. has been indicted
upon eleven charges. The allegations
charge Usher with misappropriating
$500, 600.
The large department store of D.
Heenan & Co.. Streater, ILL.,, was de.
! stroyed by fire. Loss, $3.50. The
fire was caused by a lamp explosion.
The presentation of handsome sill.
| yer service on behalf and in the name
of the citizens of Nashville. Tenn, was
made to the gunboat Nashville. at the
| Norfolk (Va.) navy yard.
Mrs. VIM. H. Mason was burned to
death at Baltimore, Md.
/ The steamer Saratoga, from Havana.
having on board the released members
of the Competitors flibustering expe-
dition, arrived at New York. ~
A party of insurgents attracked the
Spanish outposts Of Havana and sharp
engagement followed The sounds OF
firing caused great excitement in Ha-
| vana, as it is known that large rebel
forces are CHARTERED near the city.
The large steamer LacKawanna,
loaded with -four and merchandise,
struck on Billiards. reef. near Am.
herstburg. Ont, and just as she got
her lines out she sank forward in Is
! feet of water.
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