The Worthington advance., 1901-03-29
WEST AND SOUTH.

"A DIAl AdS UccH pdSScU Dy inc N1l0-
nesota legislature prohibiting the
manufacture, sale or giving away of
cigarettes in the state.
Former President Harrison left
$4,000 in life insurance.
A one-cent rate to the G. A. r. en-
campment at Cleveland, O., has been
granted by the Central Passenger as
sociation.
A contract has been signed by Mrs.
Carrie Nation for six lectures in Gin
cinnati at 500 for each lecture.
At her home in Coldwater, Mich,
Mrs. Kate Green celebrated her one
hundred and eleventh birthday.
At Kennett, NO., Milo Gregory, aged
26 years, was hanged for the murder of
his employer, Joseph Covert, February
20. 1899.
The position of general business IL
satisfactory and is marked by in
creased retail activity in the west.
The assembly of Wisconsin passed a
primary election bill which provides
for nominations by direct vote of the
people.
Flames in Milwaukee DESTROYED
Rohlfng & Sons music house and
other property, entailing a loss of
$24O,0OO.
{ At Kosciusko, Miss. George Kelly
(colored) was hanged for the murder
of his wife last August.
Without damage the warship Massa-
shusetts has been floated at Pensa.
cola. -. o.;
The Omaha police say the confession
Of man in'Dallas, Tex, to the Cudahy
kidnapping lisa trick to get the reward.
.-' "A bill passed the Minnesota senate
prohibiting the marriage of insane,
epileptie and idiotic persons, and re-
quiring4a a medical certificate. of all ap-
plicants' for marriage licenses. ~
A mob shot to death an unknown
negro on his way to trial in. Halifax
county, Va, on the charge of ineen-
diarism. 70: ::
z "A furious blizzard swept across Kan
sas, Nebraska and Colorado, blocking
trains and doing other damage. :. J. :.
< Because of grief over the downfall
of Cashier johnson, w. J.. Gilbert, at
torney Of the defunct First national
bank at Niles, Mich, shot and killed
himself.
In Colorado Springs, COL, B. s.
Phelps celebrated his one hundred and
first birthday. -,
b.. In Cincinnati F. B. Wright, a news
paperpnblisher, and his wife both died
at9the same time. j.: :, 49,.
Mrs. Mary Williams and John n.
Reynolds, brother and sister, long sep
arated, died of consumption 1on the
same day: in a Chicago hospital,
/ neither knowing the other was near.
$50 Joseph M. Bartholomew, for ten
years Justice, of the. .supremescourt% Of
North Dakota, dropped. dead in ffont
Of his sresidence in Bismarck. ! "; ss;:Gst- ST
The largest steam vessel ever built
in America, the Korea, was launched
at Newport News, Va. \ ~.
+ Near Cass City, Mich, Mrs. Nathan
fTownsendskilled herself and two chill.
drens with poison. Family trouble waa
tho couse. HsFa t>& :$%f'*% %'5%
At Arkadelphia, Ark, John Wesley;
snegrp whoacri,ninslly assaulted Misa
Josie Cleveland 70 lsai1ing.young hvomr
IN, was hanged. ... -$sS s.
Ins 1burg, W. VI, George ".
Anderson. aged ss years, contested
thatshe had ~ .vvives4eattered oter ten
states. a<5=%sS5s , = y u 1 stt.A.s'
At Webb City, Mo-, Henry Oxendine,
- I.~<>.naan- 1.:p1. 3 A.. Hf.xA:. rinl.n1.
and himself. ..r S 5 s
Rudolph K)os and Albert Langen.
bach. young men, were drowneh "a
kenosha, Wis. by the sinking Of {
boat. s@-s.- Ssstzss S .= -;.s8 ..1 s.