The Worthington advance., 1900-07-06
LATER NEWS.

LATER NEWS.
Nome city expects to have a popula-
tion of SO, 900 before the close of the
year.
Ex-Gov. Merriam, director of the
census will not order a new enumera-
ton for Philadelphia, but has sent
several special agents over there TO
straighten matters out.
The president and Mrs Mckinley
have gone to Canton, O., for the sum-
mer.
When Edward Robinson of Lone
Tree, Iowa, was taken sick he was four
feet five inches high. Two weeks later
he appeared on the street measuring
five feet four inches and still growing.
He is ten years old.
Henry w. Rogers who recently re-
signed the presidency of. the North
western university at Chicago will not
allow his name to be used as a candi-
date for congress.
An imperial decree published in
Shanghai asserts that the imperial
palace in Peking was burned June 16,
and that the attack on the palace was
made by revolving Chinese troops.
Zone fireman was killed and others
injured, and nearly $4,000 worth of
property was destroyed in fire that
broke out in the machine shop of the
Best Manufacturing Co., in Pittsburg.
A passenger tram on the Gardner
branch of the Fitchburg railroad ran
into an excursion train at Barber,s s
Station, Mass. Two train men were
killed and seven or eight passengers
injured.
An uprising of Indians on Rainy
river, Ontario, is threatened. One
thousand Indians are gathered near
the mouth of Rainy river. Leech Lake
Indians are said to be among them,
melting them to murder and pillage.
The settlers are sending out women
and children. One hundred and fifty
reached Keenora.
The non-sectarian college of prima-
ry and secondary education was open.
ed in Manila in the presence of Judge
Taft, president of the civil commission
and his colleagues.
Benjamin Hill Smell, "a years old
formerly clerk in the pension office,
was hanged at the district Jail, at
Washington, D. c., for the murder of
1S-year-old Lizzie Wiesenberger with
whom he was infatuated.
Amid the distractions of the war in
South Africa and the upheaval in Chi
na surprising little notice has been
taken in England of the remarkable
energy displayed by the French naval
authorities.
-Four persons of fishing party of
eight were drowned in Boston harbor
by the overturning of their boat. q
Geo. B. Cox, of Ohio. resigns as men,
Der of the national republican com-
mittee. -
Ice formed in many places in North
ern Wisconsin the 30th.
The U. S. battleship Oregon went
aground ON Pinacle rock off the Chi.
nese coast. A dense fog existed at the
time.
The four-mile university boat race
at Poughkeepsie. N. Y. was won BY
Pennsylvania with Wisconsin second.
Fire at Hoboken, ~: burned the
transatlantic steamers Bremen. Main
and Saale. The Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse was badly damaged. The boats
all belonged to the North German
Lloyd company. Al least 200 persons
were killed.
The imports of dry goods and mer-
chandise at the port of New York last
week were SO, 100000. -.
Fire destroyed the business portion
Of Oneida. III. Loss about Sac, 1000.
A weeks scouting in northern Luzon
resulted in 50 rebels being killed and
40 wouned. One American was killed:
Troops operating IN north llocos have
burned six of the barracks belonging
TO Gen. Tino's forces and captured
Tinos' correspondence. Gen. Tinos
with 200 of his men armed with rifles,
succeeded in escaping.
Fire destroyed the fertilizer factory
and warehouse Of Griffith, Boyd 4 Co.,.
and the factory and shops Of the
Elliott Machinery company in Canton,
suburb of Baltimore. Md. Loss,
5000, 600. ......j
Dispatches from the scene of the
threatened Indian uprising in the vi.
cinity of Rainy Lake, Minn., indicate
that the situation is serious. Gov.
Lind was appealed to take action look:
ing towards protection. ="