The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-05-03
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending April 20.

For the Week EnOtn8 Apfll ~O'
Paul Kruger Will visit America In June.
Two men, a woman and boy committed
suicide in Chicago on Sunday
Ohio republicans will hold their state
convention in Columbus June 20.
The police at Peru. Ind. have broken up
gang OF alleged counterfeiters.
The president has ordered Washinsto"
relics estored to the Lee family
Three men were burned to death ana
three injured In fire IN Chicago.
Arabs are reported to have massacred
900 inhabitants of an Algerian village.
The bank of G. ]. Bactke & Co. at
Brighton. Mich. was robbed OF $4,000
Consolidation Of all labor unions into one
big organization is the aim Of labor men.
One million feet of hemloch logs were
burned near Mellcn, Wis. In forest hre.
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 Nv
feet
The pope has ordered friars in the Phil"
ippines 10 emigrate to Venezuela ana Ecu
ador.
The famous battleship Maine WILL likely
be foated in Havana harbor In the au-
tumn.
Two men were killed and !? hurt IN
Cincinnati Hamilton e. Dayton wreck near
Dayton. o.
Thomas Cole was hanged at Clinton, KY,
for the murder Of Emma Cara Rice. 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 "il-
liam Lowdon.
Over 20 banks have suspended payment
at Osaka and in the southern and central
| provinces of Japan.
| Mrs. Richard Crater calcimined her hus"
band and the saloon keeper who SOLD MIN
| liquor In Cincinnati.
The state department has received salts"
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 at
Lebanon. aged u 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.
NJ NJ. for the murder OF a companion
whom he shot to obta In $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 $ol,"
900, 100000. largely due to wars.
| Rev. Lyman III. Sherwood. founder and
head Of the Lyons Musical academy. died
In Lyons. N. y, aged 73 years.
.Adebert Hay, son Of the secretary OF
state, has resigned his post as United
| States consul general at Pretoria.
| The Mechanics savings bank at Wester-
| 1x, 7 int 1ifni6 q with
Of sl,l00,O00 and liabilities of Sl,0oo,ooo.
| W. r. l.. Hadley. Of Edwardsville. ex-
| member of congress from the Eighteenth
Illinois district. died at Riverside. Cal
! Former Gov. Hogg, of Texas. is reported
to have cleared So, coo. 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 Is
already.
| To rid the road of the tramp nuisance.
| the Erie has purchased bloodhounds to be
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-
rlcultural villages are being depopula ted.
| the people flocking to manufacturing towns
and cities.
| Cen. Ludlow has been invaded home
| from the Philippines an attack OF grippe
! having developed into dangerous case OF
tuberculosis.
The secretary Of war made public the
names of 588 men selected for first and Sec
| ond lieutenants in the regular army or
ganization bill.
| The Building Trades league. new labor
body In Chicago organized on basis OF
arbitration of all disputes and opposition
| to sympathetic strikes.
Secretary Hay will prepare 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
telegram 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
& 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 1855
feet. The body has not been recovered.
Puma, the l2-year- old daughter and only
child Of S. c. NordQulst. leading mer-
chant OF Red Oak. ILL.,. was thrown from
her horse. her foot caught in stirrup. and
she was dragged half mile. the horse
kicking at her he ran. She died few
minutes after being rescued.
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