The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-05-24
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending May &c

For the Week Ending May 20.
,stroyed by fire.
Andrew Carnegie gave $5OO.0OO for dis
trict libraries at Glasgow.
j. D. Rockefeller will give Oberlin college
500, 600 IL others contribute $500. OOO
Nearly the entire business portion or
Lily Lake, ILL.,. was destroyed by fire.
The customs authorities have prohibited
the entry Of typewriters into Turkey.
"A government line of transports between
New York and Manila is to be established.
James Hillman and John Fletcher. rival
lovers, killed each other In SpringvliIe'
KY.
The PENNSYLVANIA road has acquired con-
troll of the Baltimore & Ohio by purchase or
stock.
The proposed Root Garter prize fight at
Oshkosh, Wis, was prevented by the gov
ernor
The Ohio prohibitionists have nomi-
mated E. J. Pinney, Of Cleveland. LOT gov
ernor.
The Shaw Piano company at Erie. Pa.
went into bankruptcy with liabilities or
$3.50. 1000.
Fire destroyed 652 houses and shops in
Brest, Russia, causing a loss of 11.O0oooo
| roubles.
Robbers entered the Hart county deposit
bank in Munfordville KY, and stole $S.Voo
in money.
Every gambling house in Montana has
been closed by an order of Attorney Gener-
al Donovan.
Four railway workmen were killed ana
one fatally injured in tunnel near
Roanoke. Va.
Robert D. Wagstaff marine editor of the
Free Press for IL years, died In Detroit
| aged "a years.
The Wisconsin legislature. after the long
est session en- record, l26 days, mas ao-
journed sine die.
Joseph Bizkowski 102 years old, died IN
Chicago from injuries received from a
horse in a street.
Two men were killed and three fatally
injured in an accident at the steel WORKS
in Youngstown, o.
Howard Gould is to build a mansion on
Long Island to cost $1,000, 900 and be known
as castle Gould"
At Wills Point. Tex. T. c. Ellzey, of Ma
comb City, Miss, shot woman companion
and then killed himself.
The encampment of the Illinois veterans
at Peoria elected Capt. N. B. Thistlewood'
of Cairo, commander
Capt Milton Garrigus. of kokomo. was
elected commander of the Indiana depart
ment of the G. A. F..
Weston Rowland, the discoverer of the
| method Of refining petroleum, died at FAIR
haven, Mass, aged sc years.
The Alaskan, the largest merchant
steamship ever built on the Pacific coast,
was launched at San Francisco
The Mexican government Is breaking up
| communities Of monks and nuns MAIN
tanned in violation of reform laws.
The war department is seeking to have
| the national guard reorgaNized to permit
their use by the national government.
D~@r ;Icp IT,
| Kinley for sending the cruiser Brooklyn
| to Australia to help welcome him there.
Judge Baker, of Chicago, virtually up
held blacklisting by deciding employers
may agree to refuse to hire certain per-
sons.
The country home of Thomas B. Wanna
maker at Meadow Brook, Pa, was struck
| by lightning and burned. the loss being
| $5OO,0U0.
Incoming steamers report dangerous der
| elicts in the path Of ocean liners The gov
| errment is asked to send gunboat TO re"
| move them.
The recent purchase of a Mexican Gen.
trail railroad Is part Of scheme to estaD-
lish a new route from Mississippi valley
| points to Asiatic ports
sneculators ard investors have rallied
| from the recent furry in Wall street and
| are quietly buying railroad and other
| stocks al current levels.
Thomas Lawson's yacht independence
| has been barred by the New York Yacht
| club from competing in the trial races to
select the defender for the Americas cup.
Explorer Baldwin has returned to New
York from Europe, where he made final ar
rangemerts for his arctic trip and soon
will leave with the last of his party for the
| north.
A Kentucky judge issued an injunction
| forbidding collection Of union funds to aid
strikers, the distribution Of food to them
| and forbiddng the asking OF others 10
strike.
Samuel r. Galloway resigned the presi-
| dency of the New York Central to take the
management of the American Locomotive
company, the new $50. 900 consolidation
of big concerns.
The Kate Shelley bridge, which spans the
Des MONIES river near Boone. Ia. has been
formally opened 1t was named after a
young woman whose heroic act several
years ago saved a passenger train.
Secret service men discovered counter
| feiting plant in the Moyamensing peniten-
tiary, in Pennsylvania, where spurious $40
bills were being printed and passed out to
confederates who put them into c1rcula-
ton.
Great Britain is likely to demand full ex-
PLANTATION of the Ewo accident at Ptking.
where Germans fired upon a British tug,
killing two men and afterward logged
| members of the crew for colliding with a
bridge.
Edwin H. Conger. minister to China.
| speaking at a New York banquet. dilated
UPON the tremendous opportunities for
American commerce in the orient. and
urged congressional aid for ships and
cable service.