The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-07-12
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Fire destroyed the business portion q
Wilbur, Wash, "a. 4 u n 81 Il 4 ! jS6sF u n
The business part Of Polo, NO., was de- G
stroyed by fire. ,.yGr
The town Of Versailles, O., was almost
entirely destroyed by fire. 49,
John Burke died at his home at Lake
Chicott, Ind, aged 102 years.
The Illinois building at the Buffalo ex-
position was formally dedicated.
London reports that American tourists
are overrunning the entire world.
A Dowielte meeting at Waterloo, Ia, was
broken up by firecrackers and eggs.
Gen. Gomez declares Cuba will eventual
ly become part Of the United States.
The keel Of the battleship Colorado was
laid at Cramps yard in Philadelphia.
Prince Won Hohenlohe, former German
chancellor, died at Ragatz. Switzerland.
Pierre Lorillard. the millionaire tobac-
conist died In New York. aged 6S years.
Six bags Of gold amounting to SEQ 900 have
been stolen from the San Francisco mint.
The Houston OIL company. with O,ooo.-
600 capital, has been incorporated in Texas.
Peter Tledman. Of Springfield. ILL.,, killed
his wife and himself at San Bernardino,
Cal.
Prof. John Fiske. the historian. died at
East Gloucester, Mass, after short ILL
ness.
A tariff treaty with Cuba will be the
next serious problem for congress to con-
slider.
Rev. Dr. Franklin Woodbury. Fisk. four.
der of the Chicago The illogical seminary.
is dead.
In raiding gambling place in Coahoma
county, Miss, officers shot and killed five
negroes.
Four Italian miners were suffocated BY
fire damp in an abandoned mine at Cats
burg, Pa.
Stamps worth $4,000 have been stolen
from the government exhibit at the Buffalo
exposition.
A firm at Dayton. O., sued the Metal Pol
ishers' union for SIS, 900 damages on account
Of a strike.
Mortimer Nye. lieutenant governor of In
diana in 1892, died at his home in Laporte.
aged 6S years.
The United States cruiser Newark trav-
eled from Hong-Kong to New York In 10
days. 10 hours.
Intellectual efforts have been made to
have western piano manufacturers join a
piano combine.
Ernest Reid (colored) was hanged at
Carthage. Mo-. for the murder OF MS VIE
January 10, 1900
Jose Sanchez, who killed Catherine AL
mundares last December was hanged at
Silver City. N. NJ
The use Of streets for Dowie meetings
at Waterloo, Ia, has been forbidden be-
cause of recent riots.
A meeting of labor leaders is to be held
in St. Louis on July % to form one big
union of steel employees.
DR.. J. William Stokes. congressman from
the Third South Carolina district, died at
his home in Orangeburg.
Residents of Evanston, ILL.,. attacked fol-
lowers of Dowie. who abandoned a meet
ing and fled for their lives.
John Garner, farmer near Madeira,
Cal, killed his wife and himself. Domes-
tic trouble was the cause.
Judge Thompson on, of Cincinnati. enjoined
striking machinists from interfering in any
way with employers business.
Bullhghts at South Omaha degenerated
into a farce. No bulls were killed ard none
Of the "to7eadors' was injured.
Temperance leaders in England are work.
ing for a total abstinence professorshlp IN
English and American universities.
Commerce with Porto Rico showed big
increase during last year. the exports ex-
ceeding those of 1898 by 800 per cent.
A report on exports Of farm products In
1900 shows that IL nations expended over
SIC, OOO, 600 each for American products.
The Irish World, New York publication.
printed an offensive cartoon of the Amer
lean nag and the issue was suppressed.
The Sturges bank at Mansfield, O., failedt
together with the Mansfield machine
works. which was controlled by the bank.
Edward Parker Deacon, the central fig
ure in a tragedy that wrecked three lives.
died in an insane asylum at Waverly, Mass.
Edward Luty. a bQokmaker. killed his
wife in New York because she was late
in getting his dinner and then committed
suicide.
The European squadron Is to be reestab-
lished, with Rear Admiral Cromwell In
command The cruiser Chicago is to be the
flagship.
Mrs. Carrie Nations threat to wreck
saloon In ST. Louis caused her arrest. but
she was released upon promise to leave
the city.
Samuel w. Allerton. of Chicago. is to
build the largest stock yards in the world
on an island in the Allegheny river near
Pittsburgh.
Two men were killed and four wounded
in battle between union strikers and nom
union workers at the Smuggler mine near
Telluride, Col.
Postmaster General Smith is planning a
reform in the system of carrying periodi-
Gals in mails at pound rates to shut out
spurious publications.
Great Britain is willing that the United
States shall build and control the Mica
raguan canal, only reserving equal COM
mercial rights for all nations.
Federal officers brought suit against Will
liam A. Clark, the Daily estate and large
mining companies of Montana involving
millions said to have been lost through Ir-
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