The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-04-29
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

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The Wisconsin legislature adjourned
t., August II. %-....sts. ~.
The New York legislature has al
journed sine die. --
The paper mills at Ellsworth, Ind.
were burned, the loss being 100000.
Fire at Whitney's Point, N. Y, de-
stroyed property valued at $25o,000.
At Clay City, ILL.,, j. R. Burns, aged 50
years, committed suicide by shooting.
Frank Cole, an alleged horse thief,
was shot to death by vigilantes near
O'Neill, Neb.
In a radius of so miles around Jack
sen, Tenn, there are in cultivation 5000
acres in Strawberries.
Farmer Jones died in Browning, Mo-,
aged 90 years. He served through the
MeNican and civil wars.
A Queenstown dispatch says that the:
rush OF Irish emigrants to the United
States has commenced
frank kloss was hanged at San Quen-
tin, CAL. for the murder of William
Deadly over two years ago.
Col. Leon Trousdale, for wears editor
in chief of the Memphis Appeal, died IL
Nashville, Tenn, aged Is years.
Pet Camp, aged IL years, and sallie
slmons, aged II, eloped from Corbin,
KY, and were married at Jellico, Tenn.
John r. McKelvy and Mrs. Christian
Wachter and her baby were killed by
the cars at crossings in Pittsburgh. Pa
The Troy IN. W conference has de-
cided by vote of III to so against the
admission of women as delegates to the
general conference.
On Friday Arbor day was appropri-
ately observed in Iowa, Ohio and Penn
sJJvania. A large number of trees were
planted in each state.
Maj. Thomas E. Breckenridge, the
noted western pioneer who crossed the
plains with Fremont, died IN Hannibal,
Mo-, aged u years.
The reception accorded to Col. John
Hay, the new United States ambassador
! cordial on all sides.
Jose S. Guitteriz was legally shot at
Guadalajara, Mex, for the murder of
his brother-in-law, Jose Bobadilla, a
| millionaire merchant.
The embarrassment of the Rowland,
Roth & Bedford company mills at New
Bedford, Mass, is announced. The to-
tai liabilities are $4,521.62s.
President Mckinley nominated and
the senate confirmed Harold NJ. Sewall.
| of Maine, to be envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary to Hawaii.
Maj. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, command
er of the army, has been authorized by
the president to go to Europe to witness
the war between Greece and Turkey.
William II. Davis, farmer of Ram
sey, ILL.,, on his way to town stopped on
the road to talk to a neighbor and fell
dead. He was sufferer from heart dis
ease.
Judge Showalter, of the federal
! court, has decided that the law estab-
fishing a three-cent fare on street rail
ways in Indianapolis is unconstitu-
tional.
Nancy Allison Mckinley, mother of
the nations president, celebrated her
cighty-eighth birthday at her home in
Canton, o., Thursday. She is in ex-
ccllent health. barring slight attacks of
rheumatism.
The overdue ship Samaria. bound
from Seattle to San Francisco, has been
given up, after dilligent search by the
revenue cutter Rush. All on board, 2l
persons, are undoubtedly at he bottom
of the ocean.
by the direction of the president, the
military post rear the city of Little
Rock, Ark. will hereafter be known as
Fort Logan II. Roots in honor of the late
brevet lieutenant colonel of volunteers
of that name.
/ An attempt has been made to assas-
sinate the president of Uruguay, Sem
hor Idiarte Borda. He was shot at by
the would-be assassin, but the bullet
missed it's mark. The presidents as
| sailant was arrested.