The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-28
FOREIGN INTELL1GENcH.

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In hurricane on the coast OF Queens
land, Australia, 400 persons lost their
lives and sc vessels were wrecked.
The late Baroness De Hirsch, Of Wen
ma, left an estate of $125,0O0, 600, Of
which 500, OOO, 900 goes to charity.
In a telegram to the war department
Gen. Otis expresses the opinion that
but little more fighting will be neces-
sary to bring the insurgents to terms,
as they are already seeking terms, and
the communications between the Amer
lean commissioners and the leading Fill.
ipinos promise good results.
Orders were given the German pro-
tected cruiser Gefion to proceed to Apia,
Samoa. -. .,E:ys.~ -, -
The revolution in Bolivia is reported
to have been ended there. - 49, d.
Advices from Manila say that 500 Fill
pinos made stand north of Bocave and
were driven three miles, suffering heavy
loss. The army tugs shelled the river
hanks, where the insurgents had been
throwing up intrenchments. Gen. Otis
reports the health of our troops good.
An earthquake destroyed the city of
San Vicente, West Indies, but no lives
were lost.
In an engagement at Quengua, four
men of the First Nebraska regiment,
including Col. Stotsenberg and Lieut..
Sisson, and three men of the Fourth
cavalry were killed and A wounded.
The Filipinos retreated with a loss of
10 killed and many wounded. ~
LATER NEWS.
Lige Strickland, negro minister,
who was implicated by Sam Hose in
the killing of Alfred Crawford, was
taken by mob and lynched at Palmet-
to, Ga. 81, -
Ex-Gov. Richard J. Oglesby died. at
his home at Elkhart, ILL.,, the 24th, at
the age of Is years.
The snow blockade which has pre-
vented trains from entering Brecken-
ridge, Colo, for 76 days, was broken
the Gath.
Kid Lavelle, the colored pugilist who
was knocked out by John Cavanaugh
in boxing match, died at Pittsburg,
Pa. =,
One hundred and twenty sailors from
the United States cruiser Raleigh, clad
in their naval uniforms, were given a
banquet in the Astor gallery of the
Walderf-Astoria hotel, New York.
Signor Marconi, the electrician, has
successfully telegraphed without wires
from the South Foreland, England, to
the French dispatch boat Ibis, while
sailing in the English channel.
There was big storm in Kusaie,
South Sea Islands, on Jan. IS, which
tore off about rs miles of the coral reef
breakwater in the harbor. The water
rose eight feet, destroyed cocoanut and
bread fruit trees, and swamped the
missionary dwellings,.
Bud Cook, negro, was stripped to
the waist by a crowd at Rico, Ga, and
one hundred lashes were administered.
His offense was a remark that the ne
groes should pay no attention to no.
tees to leave the country.
Gen. MacArthur's division left Malo.
los the Oath, apparently intending tc
besiege Calumpit. Gen. Hale at 4
o'clock in the afternoon had crossed
the Bag-Bag and had :reaehed a posi-.
ton quarter of a mile from Galumpit,
thus commanding the. ford. The
prisoners captured by Gen. Hale's
troops say that Aguinaldo, Gen. Luna
and the Filipino staff are at Calumpit
with great force of Filipino troops:
Major Francis S. Dodge, of the pay
department, recently relieved from
duty at Denver, has been selected fol-
the payment of the troops of the Cuban
army as a condition of it's disband
ment.
The situation in the coal mining
strike in the western part of Arkansas
is becoming serious. At some places
small riots have already occurred.
The commissary department of the
army has been authorized to issue te
such soldiers as desire it an equal val.
ue in fish in lieu of the beef ration