The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-02-16
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,

American forces made combined at
tack upon Caloocan and reduced it in
short order. The Filipinos suffered
very slight.
In Spain forest fires destroyed sew
eral villages and hamlets. \
Don Carlos has instructed his agents
to stop the agitation on his behalf in
Spain.
In Toronto, Ont, Gowans, Kent &
Co., crockery and glassware dealers,
suffered a loss of 100000 by fire.
The British steamer Arno foundered
in gale off Nab lightship and 10 men
were drowned.
American troops captured Malabon,
one of the insurgent strongholds in the
Philippines, after hard fight, in which
the American loss was two killed and
nine wounded. The insurgent loss was
heavy.
The death of Julius Kossak, recog-
nized as the greatest Austrian painter
in water colOrs, occurred in Cracow at
the age of "a.
In a speech in the reichstag in Ber-
lin Minister of Foreign Affairs Won
Buelow declared that Germany and
America were the best of friends, de-
spite articles in German and American
papers.
LATER NEWS.
A bli: 7arl prevailed all along the
Atlantic Goa st the 18th. A number of
deaths were reported. At New York
the North and East rivers were blocked
with ice, the former being frozen solid
ly across at the upper part of the city.
The harbor was full of masses of ice
and miniature icebergs, which serious
ly interfered with shipping. The Har-
lem river was frozen solid north from
the Harlem bridge.
The United States hotel, an old land
mark in Chicago, was totally destroyed
by fire.
John Gerbrandt, night fireman at the
Hunt stamping works, Cleveland, O.,
wAs found dead in. the boiler room,
having been stabbed through the heart.
The southbound express train on the
Pittsburg & Lake Erie railroad was
wrecked near Fleming Park, O., by a
broken rail. w. A. Campbell, fireman,
was killed and a number of others in
jured.
The United States forces under Brig.
Gen. Miller captured Iloilo, capital of
the island of Panay, and seat of the
so-called government of the Visayas
federation, on the 18th, after lombard
ment. The rebels set the town on fire
before evacuating it; but the American
troops extinguished the flames. There
were no casualties on the American
side.
Terrific gales have again prevailed
on the coasts of the British Isles.
Many ports have suffered serious dam
age from the waves, esplanades being
washed away in many cases. Shipping
has been battered severely, and several
minor wrecks with some loss of life
are reported.
The senate has passed a bill creating
the Office of admiral of the navy. Rear
Admiral Dewey, it is understood, will
be named, for the office.
The proposed combine of the sewer
pipe manufacturers is likely to come to
naught. The reason is the price asked
for the plants by some of the manu-
facturers.
The gold reserve in the U. S. treas
the 18th was 1927, 634, IT'S.
The steamer William Lawrence. run
ming between Baltimore and Savannah,
Ca, is wreck end probably total loss
off Port Royal, S. G. The crew escaped
in boats.
Three menwere killed and an officer
wounded in a sensational street duel at
DeLalb, Ark.
Almos Palmer, wealthy young man
Edgewood, R. l., shot and killed his
wife and was placed in prison.