The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-05-03
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending April I'D.

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For the Week Ending April I'd.
Paul Kruger will visit America In June.
Two men, woman and boy committed
suicide In Chicago on Sunday.
Ohio republicans will hold their state
convention In Columbus June Is. 'G.$|
The police at Peru, Ind. have broken up
a gang OF alleged counterfeiters. NJ
The president has ordered washington
relics restored to the Lee family.
Three men were burned to death ana
three injured In q fire in Chicago
Arabs are reported to have massacred
900 inhabitants Of an Algerian village.
The bank of G. J. Baetke & Co. ae
Brighton. Mich, was robbed Of $4,000.
Consolid alton Of all a5or unions into one
big organization Is the aim of labor men.
One million feet of hemlock logs were
burned near Mellen, Wis. In forest nre'
American Pugilist Smith died from the
effects of his fight with Roberts In London.
The Rosebud mine at Aurora. Mo-. caVed
in and buried five men at depth OIL AAo
feet.
The pope has ordered friars In the Phil"
ippnes to emigrate to Venezuela ana ECU
ador. 8
The famous battleship Maine will likely
be fioated In Havana harbor In the au-
tumn.
Two men were killed and - hurt In q
Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton wreck near
Dayton, o.
Thomas Cole was hanged at Clinton, KY.
for the murder of Emma Cara Rlce. MS
| sweetheart.
George Morrison. is years old. shot and
killed three desperadoes at dance near
Watseka. III.
Mark Thomas Hayes was hanged at
Uniontown. Pa. for the murder OF WIZ
liam LoWdOn.
Over 20 banks have suspended payment
at Osaka and In the southern and centraA
provinces of Japan.
Mrs. Richard Crater calcimined her hus"
band and the saloon keeper VINO soio MIN
liquor in Cincinnati. ,s.
The state department has received satis-
factory reports of new gold discoveries In
| the Klondike region.
The largest beet sugar plant in the world
| is to be established in the Arkansas River
valley in Colorado.
Gen. o. A. Miller, one Of Indiana's IA
| NOUS heroes Of the civil war. died ut
| Lebanon. aged "A years.
The condition of labor In Porto RICO
| Is much improved since the island came
| under American control.
Toribio IIuerta was hanged at Las Cruces.
| N. M, for the murder OF companion
whom he shot to obtain $45.
Government Chemist Wiley says that
| small proportion of the food sold in Amer
lean markets is adulterated.
| National debts of the world at the close
| Of the nineteenth century aggregated $Sl,.
900 ,000 largely due to wars. J
Rev. Lyman II. Sherwood. founder and
head of the Lyons Musical academy died
In Lyons, N. Y, aged 70 years.
| .Adelbert Hay, son Of the secretary OF
| state, has resigned his post as United
States consul general at Pretoria.
The Mechanics savings bank at Wester-
| ly. r. l.. went into liquidation with assets
| Of 81, 100. 600 and liabilities of $1,00o.0o0.
w. r. l.. Hadley. Of Edwardsvlle. ex-
| member of congress from the Eighteenth
Illinois district. died at Riverside. Cal.
Former Gov. Hogg. of Texas. is reported
| to have cleared 50. 00o. 900 by recent specula-
ton in oil and timber lands at Beaumont.
The governor OF Kansas repents Of his
| offer of silver mugs to all triplets born
| during his second term. He has given 10
already.
| To rid the road of the tramp nuisance.
the Erie has purchased bloodhounds to be
J used on the line between New York and
Buffalo
The National Women's Christian Tenn
perance union will make an impartial In.
vestigation of the effects of the ant-can-
teen law. -.
The English census returns show that ag-
ricultural villages are being depopulated.
the people 1ocking to manufacturing towns
| and cities.
| Cen. Ludlow has been invaded homo
from the Philippines. an attack of grippe
having developed into dangerous case OF
| tuberculosis.
The secretary Of war made public tho
| names Of 688 men selected for first and Sec
| ond lieutenants In the regular army Or
| ganization BILL
The Building Trades league. anew labor
body In Chicago, organized on basis OF
arbitration of all disputes and opposition
| to sympathetic strikes.
Secretary Hay will prepare a new canal
treaty. which he thinks can be drawn SO
! that it will prove acceptable to Great Brit
| ain and the United States.
| The longest transmission Of electrical
power In the world was tested at Oakland.
Cal, where street cars were run with cur
rent generated on the Yuba river. 40 miles
! distant
The Cunard line will Install wireless
| telegraph system by which vessels may be
reported when within Is hours of their des-
tination. 1t Is the first transatlantic line
| to adopt the method
Hugh McAlry. a workman on the Chicago
| Il Northwestern bridge over the Des
| Moines river at Boone, Ia. the highest
bridge in America. fell from the top of the
structure to the water, distance Of ISIS
feet. The body has not been recovered.
Puma, the 12-year.old daughter and only
child OF s. c. Nordquist. leading mer-
chant OF Red Oak. ILL.,. was thrown from
her horse. her foot caught in stirrup. and
| she was dragged half a mile. the horse
| kicking at her as he ran. She died few
| minutes after being rescued.
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