The Worthington advance., 1899-09-08


a. Van Guiider, carpenter in Salt
Lake City, insane from illness, killed his
daughter and boy and then committed
suicide. 81
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
By the flooding Of a copper mine at
Besshi, Japan, GOO lives were lost.
BY a collision between two river
steamers ON the North Sea canal one of
the vessels sunk and nine persons were
drowned.
Revolutionists in Santo Domingo have
formed a provisional government with
Horacio Vasquez as president.
Advices from Rennes, France, say
that Col. Du Patty de Clam has made the
most sensational revelation, exposing
all the crookedness of which he is guilty
in the Dreyfus case. 49,
In Pretoria President Kruger told
prominent Boer that war was practical
~ certain. -@ = "
Gen. Funston, of Kansas, said in an in
terview in. Manila the only solution of
the Philippine problem will be through
whipping the insurgents:
A Madrid dispatch says that 800 Span
ish monks are held as prisoners in the
Philippine islands.
The Indiana arrived at Manila with
ten officers and s07 soldiers.
Pope Sophronius, patriarch of all
Egypt, died in Alexandria, aged 1O3
years.
Admiral Dewey will remain at Glib
raltar until the middle of this month,
when he will sail for New York.
Advices from Manila say that Ar
gogula, the most impregnable stror e.
hold of the bands which have been de-
stroying plantations and levying trib-
ute on the people of Negros, was taken
by the Sixth infantry. The insurgents
made an unsuccessful attempt to drive
Col. Smiths command out of Angeles.
LATER NEWS.
The U. S. cruiser Olympia, with Ad-
lniral Dewey, arrived at Gibraltcr on
the 4th.
1t has been definitely decided to hold
a congress of agriculturalists in Chi
cago during the progress of the fall
festival next month. The affair will
be held under the auspices of the farm
ers' institute of Illinois, and farmers
from Illinois, Wisconcin, Iowa, Mis-
souri,, Michigan, Indiana, Minnesota
q I'D Ohio will be invited to attend.
The National Postoffice Clerks asso-
citation met in annual convention at
Memphis, Tenn. There were about Is
delegates present.
BY the explosion of a calcium light
tank filled with carbonic acid gas, in
the Chicago Calcium Light company's
machine room, Frank Hopkins was fa-
tally burned and Howard McClenethan
was severely injured. The first floor
of the building was wrecked. Several
persons who were passing were cut by
flying glass.
The foreign Office of China has Of
fered the Italians mining rights in the
Ning-Hai district, but the grant is en-.
tirely unsatisfactory to Italy and is
likely to cause complications.
All the wall paper manufacturers of
England, with the exception of four,
have agreed to form trust. The cap
ital will aggregate Sis, 100000.
President Loubet has issued decree
assembling the Senate of France on
Sept 1s as high court. It is under
stood that the trials will include
charges both of conspiracy and at
tempts against the international safe
ty of the state. The decree names
Procurer General Berard and NM.
Fournier and Herbeaux to represent
this stage before the high court.
About 4.500 troops are scheduled to
leave San Francisco for Manila be-
tween Sept. ~ to Is.
Glenn and Marcus Darnell, the out
laws who killed Marshal A. A.. Wilson
and wounded Sheriff O. G. Kister at
Sedan, Kan, have been captured. Glen
is in Jail at Winfield and Marcus was
brought to Independence, Kan, by
VIM. Hull, a county commissioner of
Chautauqua county.
Prominent tobacco merchants in
Havana say the enormous decrease of
81, 900, 600 in the tobacco output of Cuba
for 1898 was due principally to the
war.
At Greentown, Ind, James Ball, shot
his father-in-law Henry Murden, a well
known real estate and insurance man.
He will die. Ball then blew ont his
own brains.