The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-12-15
At Faulkton and Miller, s. d., earthssii
quake shocks were felt.
FOREIGN INTELL1GENcn.

quake shocks were felt.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENcE.
At Vigan the American garrison Of
200 repulsed an attack Of 800 Filipinos,
killing 35. The Americans lost eight
killed. Aguinaldo is said to be willing
to surrender to Consul General Wild
man, Gen. Hughes occupies 20 towns
in Panay.
Advices received in London say that
the Boer artillery commanding Lady
smith continues to lombard the city
daily. A number of the British guns
have been silenced. Gen. Cronje's force
continues, to shell Mafeking at inter
walls and expects soon to reduce the
town. The Boer forces south Of Kim
berley are making the advance of
Gen. Methuen very difficult.
Expectation of catching Aguinaldo in
the north has been practically aban-
doned, and the probability now is that
he will turn southwark, if he is not al
ready there, with his destination Cavite
province, his home, where the insur-
rection began and where it still has it's
greatest strength. Gen. Young has ar
rived at Vigan, after hard but success
tui fight with a greatly superior force
of Filipinos, in which the Americans
had one killed and IL wounded. The.
enemy's loss was heavy.
Advices from South Africa say that
with Gen. Butler not far from Colenso,
Gen. Methuen again in the saddle and
President Steyn, of the Orange Free
State, at the head of the Modder river
commando, there seems to be sufficient
promise of exciting events. Serious
battles are looked for in the vicinity of
berley.
In severe storm on the English
coast five life-savers were drowned.
LATER NEWS.
Gen. Young put Gen. Tino, with a
much superior force, to fight. Gen.
Tino made stand in the mountain
pass between Narbacan and San Quin-
to. The natural strength of the'posi.
ton was augmented by trenches and
pitfalls. The fight lasted five hours.
It is reported that serious dissen-
sions have bro ken out in the Boer camp
between the Transvaalers and the Free
Skaters. Gen. Cronje insists upon put
ting Transvaal officers in command of
the Free State forces, and says that
the latter will not fight.
The Canadian steamer Niagara is
missing, and she is believed to have
fOundered in Lake Erie and all on
board lost.
President Robert T. Lincoln, of the
merged Pullman and Wagner Palace
Car companies, will remain at the
head of the new corporation.
In heavy fog suburban train on
the Burlington road at st. Louis ran
down handcar bearing five men, near
Alton, ILL.,, killing two men outright
and fatally injuring two. The fifth
man escaped injury by jumping before
the collision came.
Rear admiral Kautz has transferred
his flag from the Iowa to the Phila-
delphia, which has been entirely over
hauled and fitted with rapid-fre guns.
The steamer Umbria, sailing for
Europe from New York, took out 1885,
900 ounces of silver.
The Kentucky state board of cleo
tions gave out their official findings
that w. s. Taylor, for governor, and
the rest of the Republican ticket have
been elected on the face of returns.
Harris Hamburger, the 2O-year-old
youth arrested at Detroit, Mich, on
suspicion of being the slayer of John
M. Reindel, confessed the crime. He
said he beat Reindel's head with
piece of pipe. His motive was robbery.
A fall of slate in Collins Bros, coal
mine, Coalville, Iowa., entombed alive
j. B. Jaques. The heroic work of
other miners resulted in his rescue
while alive. Jaques has several ribs
broken and shoulder mashed.
Lucy Carbon and her child in arms
were killed at Adairsville, Ga, by Jim
Mayfeld. Frank Bird was also wound
ed. The men were at the woman's
house and quarreled Mayfeld es-
capped.
The M. c. Wetmore Tobacco comany,
with capital of 1,25O,OO has been
formed to run independent of the to-
bacco trust. An extensive plant has
been fitted up at St. Louis.
An explosion of fire damp in the Car
bonado, WASH, coal mine entombed so
miners, for whom there is slight hope
of escape.
Charles P. Howell, who was chief
engineer of the batleship Maine when
that vessel was blown up at Havana,
died the 9th at his home in New York;
VIM. S. Taylor, the republican can
didate for governor of Kentucky, was
given a certificate of election by the
commissioners of election. On the
face of the returns his plurality is
2,3s3.
Secretary Root has made an order
appropriating $4,000 from the reve-
nues of the island of Cuba to defray
the expense of an exhibit of the pro-
ducts, manufactures and industries of
that island in the Paris exposition.
The Green Tree hotel and Clifton
house at Gloucester, Pa, were de-
stroyed by fire. David Young and his
wife were burned to death.
A solid block in the business portion
of Augusta, Ga, was burned, causing
loss of 81, 100000.
Ralph and Henry Hendricks, broth
ers, aged IS and II, and Albert Scail-
ling, aged Il, while skating at Gallit-
Yin, Pa, broke through the ice and
were drowned.
Gen. Gregorio Del Pillar, command
ing Aguinaldo's body guard, was killed
by Maj. Priton s. March, of the United
States battalion of the 33d infantry, in
fight 10 miles northwest of Cervantes,