The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-07-12
: TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending July =.

Fire destroyed the business portion OF
Wilbur Wash.
The business part Of Polo, No., was de-
strOyed by fire.
The town Of Versailles, O., was almost
entirely destroyed by fire.
John Burke died at his home at Lake
Chicott, Ind, aged 1O2 years.
The Illinois building at the Buffalo ex-
position was formally dedicated.
London reports that American tourists
are cverrunning the entire world
A Dowieite meeting at Waterloo, Ia, was
broken up by firecrackers and eggs.
Gen. Gomez declares Cuba will eventual
ly become part Of the United States
The keel of the battleship Colorado was
laid at Cramps yard in Philadelphia.
Prince Won Hohenlohe. former German
chancellor, died at Ragatz, Switzerland.
Pierre Lorillard. the millionaire tobac-
conist. died in New York, aged 6S years.
Six bags of gold amounting to 100000 have
been stolen from the San Francisco mint.
The Houston Oil company, with $30,oo0.~
900 capital. has been incorporated in Texas.
Peter Tledn1an. Of Springfield. Ill., killed
his wife and himself at San Bernardino'
Cal.
Prof. John Fiske, the historian. died at
East Gloucest ter, Mass, after short M
ness.
A tariff treaty with Cuba will be the
next serious problem for congress to con-
slider.
Rev. Dr. Franklin Woodbury. Fisk, four.
der of the Chicago Theological seminary
is dead.
In raidirg gambling place in Coahoma
county. Miss, officers shot and killed i''e
negroes.
Four Italian miners were suffocated by
fire damp in an abandoned mine at Ials-
burg. Pa.
Stamps worth $4,000 have been stolen
from the government exhibit al the Bu1alo
exposition.
A firm at Dayton. O.. sued the Metal Pol
ish4rs' union for 81, 600 amages on account
Of a strike.
Mortimer Nye lieutenant governor OF IN
diana in 1892, died at his home in Laporte'
aged IS years.
The United States cruiser Newark traE-
eled from Hong-KoEg to New York In 1T
days, 10 hours.
Intellectual efforts have been made to
have western piano manufacturers join
piano combine.
Ernest Reid {colored) was hanged AT
Carthage. Mo. for the murder OF MS VILE
January 10, 1900
Jose Sanchez who killed Catherine Al
mundares last December, was hanged at
Silver City, N. NJ.
The use of streets for Dowie meetings
at Waterloo, Ia. has been forbidden be-
cause of recent riots.
A NEE ting of labor leaders is to be held
in St. Louis on July - to form one o1S
union of steel employees.
Dr. J. William Stokes. congressman from
the Third South Carolina district. died at
his home in Orangeburg.
Residents of Evanston. ILL.,. attacked fol-
lowers of Dowie, who abandoned meet
ing and fled for their lives.
John Garner, farmer near Madeira
Cal. killed his wife and himself. Domes-
tic trouble was the cause.
Judge Thomps or. of Cincinnati. enjoired
striking machiEists from interfering IN any
way with employers business.
Bullfights at South Omaha degenerated
into farce No bulls were killed ard mono
of the "to7eaGors' was injured
Temperance leaders in England are WORK
ing for a total abstinence professorship IN
English and American universities
Commerce with Porto Rico showed big
increase during last year. the exports e1-
ceeding those of 1898 by 800 per cent.
A report on exports Of farm products IN
1900 shows that y nations expended over
SIC, 900, 600 each for American products.
The Irish World, New York publicati ton.
printed an offensive cartoon OF the Amer
lean flag and the Issue was suppressed.
The Sturges bank at Mansfield. o., failed,
together with the ManSHelu I4aSh'1'
works, which was controlled by the bank.
Edward Parker Deacon. the central hg"
ure in tragedy that wrecked three lives,
died in an insane asylum at WaVerly. MASS.
Edward Luty. bQokmaker. killed MS
vife in New York because she was late
in getting his dinner and then committed
suicide.
The European squadron is to be reestao-
lished, with Rear Admiral Cromwell IN
command The cruiser Chicago is to be the
flagship.
Mrs Carrie Nations threat to wreck a
sa loon in ST. Louis caused her arrest. but
she was released upon promise to leave
the city.
Samuel W. Allerton, of Chicago. Is to
build the largest stock yards In the world
on an island in the Allegheny river near
Pittsburgh.
Two men were killed and four wounded
in battle between union strikers and nom
union workers at the Smuggler mine near
Telluride, Col.
Postmaster General Smith is planning
reform in the syste m of carrying period1-
Gals in mails at pound rates TO shut out
spurious publications.
Great Britain Is willing that the Cnited
States shall build and control the Mica
raguun canal. only reserving equal COM
mercial rights for all nations.
Federal officers brought suit against Will
liam A. Clark, the Daily estate and large
mining companies Of Montana involving
millions said to have been lost through IL
f-l~, IL.