The Worthington advance., 1901-01-04
LATER NEWS.

ers' demands.
LATER NEWS.
Howard Valentine, boy at Mason
City, Iowa, while acting as Santa
Claus, narrowly escaped burning to
death.
A lone highwayman held up the
stage near Hot Springs Junction, Ariz,
securing about $50 from the passengers
and the express box.
According to advices from Sydney,
N. 8. W., fire broke out in the British
ship Melville Island, Oct. %, and for
days the crew was fighting but sue
ceeded in extinguishing the fire.
Charles May, an ex-oonvict, shot and
fatally wounded Robert Martin and
John McGee at a dance near De Kalb,
Mo. Martin is dead and McGee can
not live.
Lieutenant Gordon Freeman, who
served with the First Nevada cavalry
in the Philippines, committed suicide
while suffering from temporary men,
tai alteration. :%.7'<
In a duel between two gamblers in a
Harlem cafe in New York, one of the
combatants was hit in the leg and
two bystanders were fatally wounded:
The duelists were Myles Mcdonald
and Thomas Kennedy. Kennedy re-
ceived a bullet in his leg. The mortal
ly wounded men are Edward Courte-
ney and George Price.
The steamer Primrose was wrecked
off the British coast and all but one of
her crew of thirty-fve men were
drowned.
A mail pouch containing 800, 900 in
negotiable paper was stolen from the
station of the Grand Central railroad
at Wyandotte, Mich: --<.>-...:> =
George Fuller. a negro, was lynched
near Marion, Ala. He was charged
with burning the barn of Dennis Cum
Minis, of whom he had been atenant
Johnnie Tonhose, the 9-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Lew Tonhose, of Judd,
Iowa, who was supposed to have been
kidnapped 10 days ago, was found hid
ing in hay loft. The boy had lived
on vegetables which he had taken
from the cellar. His feet and legs
were frost bitten.
William Westlake, the we'll known
inventor, died in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Vester Griffin, colored, was hanged
at Danville, Va, for the murder of
George King on the night of July 80,
last. -,
An explosion of dynamite in rail-
way camp near Elkins, w. Va, killed
six men and fatally injured a number
of Others The men were eating din
ner at the time, and the dynamite had
been placed about the stove to thaw.
T., E.. Wales, editor of the Ava GILL;
Advertiser, was horsewhipped in pub
lie by Mrs. John Connor.
A blizzard tied up the street car lines
and blockaded the streets of Omaha,
Neb., the 30th.
Eddie, a 5-year-old son of Raymond
Thiery, resident of Dollar Bay, Mich,
was kidnapped by William Sullivan.
The crime is supposed to have been
lcommitted out of revenge. =
The Beers captured the British post
at Helvitia, killing so and taking zoo
prisoners. The Beers then retreated
and the place was reoccupied by the
British. p,
A constitution for the new republic
Of Cuba will be adopted by the consti.
tutional convention within four weeks.
Senor Sagasta declares that change
oftheI Spanish ministry is inevitable.
The Chinese government has con
sented TO- the demands of the powers.
Rev. A. L. sMotine, pastor Of the
Scandinavian Free church at West Su
perior, Wis, dropped dead in the pull
pit. =: :: = -
E. A. Cudahy, the Omaha packer re.
ceived letter stating that unless he
withdrew his offer of S25 600 reward
for the arrest of the kidnappers of biz
boy they will kidnap another of his
children.
THE United States has been invited,
through the German ambassador a,
Washington, to take part in the inter.
national exhibition of fire preventing
and fire saving arrangements, to be
held in Berlin during the months OF
/ June and July next, in commemora.
| tion of5the anniversary of the Berlir
fire brigade.
In Egerton. suburb of Kansas City,
Kan.,. 9 woman CARRIED in black threw
carbolic acid. in 14-year-old Eleano,
Bare's face, severely burning he,
cheeks and forehead. No cause 70,
the assault isf apparent and no clue te
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