The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-04-26
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week EnilinE April p,

MOUNT VeSuV!uS IS again III STATE u
eruption.
Augusta, a little town in Ohio, was al
most wiped out by fire.
Lucy LITER, 100 years old, died at her
home near Hicks Store, Ky.
American coal is making rapid Roadway
in the markets of the world.
Gov. Ross, Alaska's new executive, has
been inaugurated at Dawson.
Two hundred persons are reported to
have frozen to death in Alaska.
Niles, Mich, and vicinity is flooded with
counterfeit flve-dollar gold pieces.
Ex-Gov. Charles c. Stockley, of Della
ware, died in Georgetown, aged 81 years.
Richard p Rothwell, editor of the MINI
ing Journal, died at his home in New York.
Mrs. Rebecca May celebrated her one
hundred and first birthday In Newcastle,
Ind.
Census returns give Glasgow a popula-
ton Of 7G0,329, an increase of 1865 In ten
years.
Lake Michigan was swept by gale
which blew 50 miles an hour, keeping boats
in port.
Miss Sartcris, granddaughter of U. S.
London
Shamrock H., challenger for Americas
cup, was successfully launched at Lumbar
ton, Scotland.
A $4,000. 900 steel plant is to be built along
the Sault Ste. Marie canal, to employ TO-
600 workmen.
Commander Charles o. Al,ibone. of the
gunboat Wilmington, died OF heart disease
at Cavite. p. /.
ing Of the imperial palace at Picking was
not incendiary.
The republican state committee of Iowa
called the state convention for August I
at Cedar Rapids.
The International committee has ap-
proved plan for new system of teaching
in Sunday schools.
A new political party, 1.-The Greater New
York Democracy has been organized to
fight Tammany Hall.
The business interests of the Stats
Zeitung and the Freie Presse in Chicago
have been consolidated.
Postmaster General Smith has issued an
order permitting letter carriers to wear
shirt waists in summer.
The United Mine Workers society las:
year expended $4,000 for the relief Of
strikers and their families.
David II. Creech, an elderly capitalist at
Jackson, Mich, tried to kill his wife. who
had just secured a divorce.
Mrs. Hannah Kjoren, a widow, and her
two boys were burned to death In their
home near Galesburg, S. D.
The transport Rosecrans arrived at San
Francisco, after taking 43 Filipino generals
to Guam IS prisoners OF war.
The contamination of the project to con.
solidate all the Independent cereal plants
Of the country is now assured.
J. Pierpont Morgan, of New York. has
purchased in London the famous Gains
borough portrait, paying $4,000.
Prof. Georgeson, special agent of the
agricultural department, declares small
farms will be the rule in Alaska.
Harry Cain and Paul Baumgardner, II.
year-old boys were in Jail at Wilcox. Mo,
charged with trying to wreck train.
The Comsnche, kiowa, Apache, Wichita
and Caddo reservations In Oklahoma ter
ritory will soon be thrown open for settle
ment.
The Twenty-ninth and Thirty-second
regiments, United States volunteers, ar.
rived in San Francisco from the Philip.
pines.
DR.. Joseph Muir, American consul gen.
eral at Stockholm, lost $4,000 playing
poker with sharpers while crossing the
ocean.
Federal inspectors have discovered plates
from which bogus certificates are printed
admitting Chinese immigrants to the Unit
ed States.
The strike Of the coal-hoisting engineers
in the Massillon (O) district, which has
Kept 4,0OU miners lO1e 1oE Two weeks, Mas
| been settled.
John H. Gorham shot and killed George
B. Mccarthy at Copperopolis, CAL. and
then killed himself. Jealousy over a girl
was the cause.
Experts report winter wheat conditions
the best in 20 years. Cold, wet weather Is
delaying farm work. but is extremely IA
vorable to fruit.
A surgeon at St. Louis hospital sewed
up a wound in a mans heart, and the re-
markable operation promises to result In
complete success.
A Kansas City carpenter, threatened
with arrest for bigamy, made peace with
both wives. placating one by securing for
her another husband.
A Georgia inventor claims to have per-
fected the lopg-dstance telephone so that
conversations can be carried on between
persons 1900 miles apart.
Mrs. C. A. Bissell. Of Cleveland, is plan
ming to establish a home for discharged
murderers, where they can be reformed
and given a fresh start In life.
Col. Alfred Fl. Belo, proprietor Of the
Dallas News and Galveston News, and the
first man to take up arms for the confed'
eracy, is dead at Asheville. N. c.
Theresa Vaughn, the talented actress.
has been placed In an asylum for the insane
at Worcester, Mass. Grief over the death
of her husband has unsettled her mind.
Free trade between Porto Rico and the
United States will be established after
July l, the local assembly having passed a
tax law to meet the necessities Of the gov