The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-09-29
A. J. Earling, 81 Chicago, has been
elected president Of the Chicago, Mil
waukee 8 st. Paul railway, to succeed
Roswell Miller, resigned.
FOREIGN INTELL1GENCE.

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The Orange Free State has resolved
ia assist the Transvaal against British
aggression. President Kruger says
that while things are serious and will
become graver, peaceful settlement
will be attained.
Mexico's congress voted 100000 ia
pay the expenses of the trip Of Presi.
dent Diaz to Chicago.
A dispatch from Manila says that
Gen. Otis sought to initiate the. policy
employed in Cuba of buying the Filipino
arms, but his efforts were unsuccessful.
In London over $4,000 persons assem-
bled in Trafalgar square and cheered
for war with the Beers. p Il
For the first time since his arrest in
1894 Capt. Dreyfus met his children at
Carpentras. ~
The Senator sailed from Manila for
San Francisco with the Iowa volun-
teers.
In Asia Minor the district of Adm
was visited by an earthquake and over
200 persons persisted.
AT Olangapo, in Subig bay, American
gunboats destroyed the Filipinos'
works and the town caught fire and was
burned. The gunboat Urdaneta, en-
gagged in bombarding the town of Orani,
was captured by the rebels and sunk
and the crew made prisoners.
The Filipinos have not made good
their offer to surrender the American
prisoners and they have not sent an
officer to meet Maj. Gen. Otis as prom
Used.
Two engagements took place between
Mexican soldiers and Yaqui Indians in
Mexico; both sides lost heavily.
LATER NEWS.
The new battleship Kearsage made
her trial trip off Rockport, Mass. She
made a run of four hours and 20 min
utes and exceeded II knots by frac-
ton.
The steamer Adula from Kingston
to Baltimore foundered off the south
coast of Jamaica. Five lives were lost,
including Mr.. Percy, the first officer.
Advices received from Caracas de-
scribe the situation in Venezuela as
critical. The revolutionists are ap-
preaching Victorio, where the next
battle will be fought. People desir-
ing to proceed to Puerto Cabello, on
the gulf of Trieste. are not allowed to
depart. The government is very IN
popular and very suspicious.
Rev. James Hill, who throughout
the civil war was known as ''the fight
ing chaplain" of the Twenty-frst Iowa,
died at Cascade, 10.
While laboring under temporary
fit of insanity, DR.. McBeth jumped
through car window of a moving
train near Logan, Mont. He was bad
~ bruised, but will recover.
Phil Carr, desperate who has fig
ured in several shady deals over the
west, was killed on a ranch near Di-
vide, Mont, by Sheriff Pyle, of Beaver
head county.
DR.. Herman Dadsworth, IS years of
age, instructor of Latin in Wesleyan
university, and a member of the facul-
ty, was found dead in his room at Bos-
ton, with his throat cut. He had COM
mitted suicide, from a fear of losing
his mind.
On account of the serious illness of
Nine. Diaz, President Diaz, of Mexico
has decided not visit Chicago as he had
planned.
The U. S. treasury the 25th had q
gold reserve of 1854, 057, 1853.
The insurgents have captured the
United States gunboat Urdaneta in
the Orani river, on the northwest
side of Manila bay where she was pa
trolling. One officer and nine of her
crew are missing.
Before the Athletic club of Louis
Vile. KY, Joe Choynski of California
knocked out Jim Hall of Australia in
the third round.
Jailer A. L. Maxwell of the Polk
county Jail was assaulted by two ex-
convlcts at Des Moines, a., and probab-
ly fatally injured. The prisoners
then relieved Maxwell of the keys to
the outer gate of the Jail and made
good their escape.
Twelve druggists were indicted at
Kansas City for illegal liquor selling.