The Worthington advance., 1897-02-25
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tuo dutnOr1Cy 10 pac11y ana aQml0lSCer
the affairs of the island of Crete pend-
ing the establishment of q constitu-
tional autunomy for the island.
The senate committee on appropria-
tions, the 22d, voted down Senator Pet
tigrew's amendment to reduce by one
fifth the compensation paid to railroad
companies for carrying the mails.
The residence and store of M. Marks.
at Hannibal, NO., was burned the 22d,
and before the flames were under con-
troll four persons perished. They were
Mr.. Marks, his two sons and VIM.
Reid. Mr.. Marks lost his life irving
to save the boys.
The Chic river at Cincinnati, O., the
22d, was 4s feet above low water mark
and was rising. 1t had rained in the
Ohio valley for 70 consecutive hours
The mail train on the Pennsylvania
railroad crashed into box car near
Cresson, Pa, the 22d. and was badly
wrecked. Five persons were badly
injured.
Lorenz Fobes, of Dubuque, Ia, was
choked to death, the 22d, by a small
piece of meat while eating supper.
Blondln, the celebrated rope walker,
died in London, England, the 22d.
Nine men, composing a bridge crew
on the Great Northern railroad, and
living in a car near Butte, Mont, were
held up and robbed the night of the
ED of 81, 900. The men were taken by
surprise by the robbers, who entered
the car and tied their hands behind
them.
The westbound train on the Che sa-
peake & Ohio road ran into a washout
near Portsmouth, O., the 22d. A. C.
Staut, roadmaster, was killed and a
number of others, mostly trainmen,
were injured.
wana, S. D., was destroyed by fire, the
ED. Mr.. and Mrs Noodle were badly
injured.
President Cleveland celebrated the
165th anniversary of the birth of George
Washington by issuing 13 proclama-
tions, establishing as many additional
forestry reservations containing an ag-
gregate area of 21,374.s40 acres.
Railway traffic throughout northern
Wisconsin was suspended, the 22d, on
account of snow.
Chairman Dingley, of the ways and
means committee, will not be able to
report to the house the new tariff bill,
which probably will bear his name, be-
fore the beginning of the extra session
of congress to be called for the 18th of
March.
| MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
According to the census just pub
lished 10000 widows get married every
year in France.
The school directors of Centre county,
Penn, have decreed that male teachers
must not smoke.
A vocal solo by a woman 80 years
of age was feature of a recent social
at Chester, N. II.
Cyrus A. Sulloway, of New Hamp-
shire, is the tallest man in congress. He
is six feet seven inches high.
The entire face of the highest hill
along the Ohio river for 200 miles below
Pittsburgh, two miles west of East Liy-
efpool, is slipping into the river.
A western court has decided THAT
tw'hen railroad stops running it ceases
to exist and the land condemned for rail-
road purposes reverts to it's original
owners.
George Harsh, of Warren, O., who died
supposedly intestate, left his entire es-
tate, worth $5o.000, to his housekeeper,
Mrs. Messersmith. He was a widower
and childless.
The authorities of the Dominion of
Canada have presented the Hawaiian
government with $4,000 young salmon,
to be placed in the rivers of the Ha-
waian islands.
Hulda Duestrow, of st. Louis, who is
the sister of the man who was hanged
and is the sole heir to the Duestrow mil
lions, is to embrace the Catholic faith
and bury herself in a convent.
BY decision of the secretary of the
interior the great tract of swamp land
in Florida known as the Everglades"
is conveyed to the state of Florida. The
tract comprises about 2,242, 800 acres.
The railroad across Siberia is in work.
king order from St. Petersburg to a,
point beyond Krasyonask. If the work
is carried on at the present rate of speed
it. is probab BILE that the entire line may be
completed in 1898, instead of 1905.
Karl Pappenheimer, German who
was naturalized in St. Louis in October,
has renounced his citizenship. After
enjoying his rights for two months
Ijust long enough to vote at the Novem-
ber election--he returned to Germany.
Joseph Martin, aged IS, who so years
|ago left his family and ever afterward
lived alone in the woods near Newark,
TO-, died leaving 40 acres, with no heirs
in sight. The hermit never wore shoes,
stockings, coat or vest, even in the
|ooldest weather, and lived in window
less hut, making living by selling
lherbs, game and wild fruits.