The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-05-12
CURRENT TOPICS.

eEvENrY-E1GHT new labor organizes
tions were formed in New York state
In 1898.
The Federal Steel Co. is to build two
modern blast furnaces at South Chi
cago, Ill. .
The Roane Iron Co., of Chattanooga,
Tenn, is to build a new blast furnace
at lockwood, Tenn.
THE immigration laws of the United
States have been extended to Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippines.
LoNDoN's record of deaths by violence
was 1914 last year. being 1874 above the
average of the prec ding II. years.
Work began t!.s other day on the
foundation for the new buildings for
the naval academy, Annapolis, Md.
QUEEN VICTORIA has ordered Sir John
Lubbock's 100 best books. They were
sent by special messenger to Osborne.
TWENTY-FIVE MILLION bottles of cham
payne are drunk annually in the world.
A Rheims dealer keeps 9,OOO,0 900 in re-
serve.
A LIVE lizard was found comfortably
settled in a cash register which had
been shipped from the United States to
London.
FRAU EMBDEN HE1NE, sister of the
poet, was some time ago offered 5000
for one OF her brothers unpu blished
manuscripts.
MARY DICKENS granddaughter Of
the great novelist, will shortly pro-
duce a new book, which will deal with
theatrical life. - t5%ss7.s,.. T.. 49,
CLOTH is now being made successfully
from wood, and is said to be as flexible,
soft, durable and susceptible to dyes
as other fabrics.
HAVANA municipal taxes are to here
after be collected in American currency
or its legal equivalent in Spanish or
foreign gold coin.
A SYNDICATE, headed by Warner
Miller, has obtained an option at ST.
600, 600 on the famous Cande1arra mine
at San Dimas, Mex.
The fierce crusade against tobacco
cigarettes in London has developed the
tea cigarette, which is particularly pat
ronized by woman.
A FIRM of glass dealers at Cincinnati
brought suit under the antitrust law
against the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.
for $50. 600 damages
NINE tons of pennies are taken from
the London slot machines each week,
the firm which runs the ''mutoscope"
averaging So, 500 alone.
PAR1To, believed to be the last Yaqui
| Indian in California, is dead. He was
10s years of age, according to the rec
ord kept in pioneer days.
| Col. FUSION, who recently distin-
guished himself with the 18th Kansas,
is one of the lightest men in the army.
| He weighs but SO pounds.
OLIVER P. HUBBARD, of New York,
who has celebrated his Goth birthday,
graduated at Yale in 1928, and is the
sole survivor of his class.
SENATOR BUTLER, of North Carolina,
is to enter the law school of the North
Carolina university. He was graduted
from the university in 1884.
RI. ADM. JOHN c. WATSON has made
formal application for command OF
the Asiatic SO uadron in case Adm.
Dewey decides to return home.
RELA K1TTR1DGE, of Belfast, Me-,
holds the worlds record for fine writ
ing, having succeeded in placing 46, 00o
words on an ordinary postal card.
The United States Worsted Co., with
a capital of SO, 000, 600. has incorporat,
ed at Trenton, N. ]. Will seek to com.
bine all the New England interests.
The heart of a vegetarian beats, on
an average, So to the minute; that Of
the meat eater 70. This represents 4
difference of 90, 900 beats in "a hours.
| q. S. GRANT, JR., of California, re-
sembles, his famous father not only in
face and figure, but in voice and in Z
thousand little mannerisms and traits
Rio DE JANE1Ro is, next to Buenos
Ayres, the largest cit of South Amer
lea. It has 700, 600 Inhabitants, and
Buenos Ayres claims about 100, 00t
more. ,,...
| SENATOR HANNA is said to employ
five stenographers merely to answe,
the letters of persons who think they
ought to have an Office and that he
ought to get it for them.
II man is as timid as hare, he oup1t
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