The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-05-26
The British Woman's Temperance as
'ociation has reelected Lady Henry

The British Woman's Temperance as
ISOLATION has reelected Lady Henry
Somerset president.
The expedition of Prof. Nathorst,
which will seek to find or learn the fate
of Andree, sailed from Stockholm for
northern Greenland.
Cholera has become epidemic in
northwest provinces of British India.
The. Finnish diet hereafter will only
meet every four years.
4 BY the loss of the schooner Werfa,
which left Dunedin, New Zealand, on
an interisland expedition, 1s persons
persisted. ~ : 2>5 s3&.s
On board the Olympia Admiral Dew
ey left Manila for Hong-Kong on his
way home to New York. i.E ;59"
Off Falmouth, England, the Ameri-
can line steamer Paris struck on the
rocks, but her 1856 passengers were
landed in safety. &s$a,~ ttpT .5'& Es.,.~:
In hurricane on the north coast of
Queensland S6 vessels were wrecked
and 1856 people lost their lives. .@ "a
r TO the extent of agreeing to an armis-
tice Maj. Gen. Otis has declined to rec
ognize the Filipinos, but he has mott
fled the American commanders to re-
frain temporarily from aggressive ac-
ton. Thus he is in a position to resume
hostilities at any time. The insurgent
commissioners say that they are
without power to bind the so-called Fill
ipino government in any particular,
and can only refer any results of the
present negotiations to Aguinaldo.
Admiral Dewey said before leaving
Manila for home: 81 believe that we
are near the end. The insurgents are
fast going to pieces. The sending of a
third commission shows that they have
had enough
Fire DESTROYED the town of Porosow.
Russia, and 12 lives were lost and 5000
people were made homeless.
LATER NEWS.
Snow fell the 22d at Lead, S. D., to
the depth of eight inches.
Tom Linton, a negro living near Fay
etteville, Ga, was shot and killed by a
crowd of masked men. Several ne.
groes were whipped by whitecappers
in that vicinity, and it is believed they
intended dealing likewise with Linton
but that he opened fire on them and
they returned the same with the re-
suit given. Linton was an inoffensive
negro.
The grain shovelers' strike at Buff
falO has been settled. The agreement
signed by a subcommittee represent
ing the strikers, of which President
keefe, of the Longshoremen's associ-
alton, was member, and Contractor
Corners, has been approved by the full
committee of the. Grain Shovelers'
union.
The Oxford hotel at Philadelphia
was destroyed by fire.. Loss, 500, 900.
One-half of the business portion OF
kenmare, N. D., was burned. The fire
was clearly of incendiary origin, re-
sulting from bitter prohibition fight.
j. R. Garrison, of Washington, D. c.,
has been appointed auditor for the
island of Porto Rico under the war de-
partment.
Mile. Rhea, the we'll known actress,
died at Mont Morenci, France.
A tank of nitro-glycerine exploded
at the works of the Aetna Qnd.) pow
der company, killing Frank Ebler, Sam
Errick and Charles Morris. Not a
vestige of the building remains.
The New York legislature met in a
special session the 22d.
The United States transport Sheri-
dan arrived at San Francisco from Ma
Mia with a number of officers and 81
discharged soldiers.
At Mount Pleasant, Texas, a tornado
struch church, just as the noon
services closed. The building was
blown to pieces, William Kaufman
was instantly killed and Is other per-
sons were injured, some fatally. A
woman with babe in her arms was
struck by lightning but miraculously
escaped death.
The dead body of J. J. Travis was
found in a room at the Hotel Pine,
St. Louis. The room was full of gas
from an open jet and the windows
were tightly closed.
All the patent and enamel leather
concerns of Newark, N. j., will prob
ably be consolidated within a month.
and the new company will be capital
lied at sum estimated at from SIS, OOO,-