The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-07-05
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending July 1.

Many deaths from heat are reported from
all parts OF the country
The Pynchon national bank at. Spring.
field, Mass, closed its doors.
The Suez canal Is to be deepened to 81
feet and lighted by electricity.
Count Won Waldersee has decided to
visit the United States next May.
The Cripple Creek (Col.) gold output the
past fiscal year reached $23,Sl5.02
The law making kidnapping punishable by
death has gone into effect in Illinois.
Fred Lee and his wife, just married, were
killed by lightning at Meriden. Conn.
A marked increase in trade with the Phil
ippines was shown the past fiscal year.
Lee Setter, aged II, and Walter Evans,
aged 80, were drowned at Waterloo. Neb.
The first load of new Kansas wheat was
marketed at Winfield and sold for IS cents.
Mrs. Maria Hixon, of Clinton, Mich, cele-
brated her one hundred and first birthday.
Frank Miller ard Alonzo Villa ms, negro
murderers, were hanged at Birmingham,
Ala.
A Boston doctor will fast month to
prove that such treatment will cure all ILL
ness.
Two hundred employees Of the Illinois
Central railroad have been retired with
pension.
The United States training ship Hart
ford, Commander j. H. Hawley, arrived at
Copenhagen.
Jesse Vanscoy and his brother John. aged
respectively rs and II years, were drowned
near Ames, la.
Frauds more extensive than in Tweed's
time are said to have been discovered In
New York city.
Railroad construction this year promises
period since 1880.
Chinese rebels in the province of shen-
king burned severa! villages and killed hum
dreds of natives.
Cincinnati Is making elaborate plans for
the twentieth international Christian En-
deavor convention.
Commander Frederick r. Smith, United
States navy (retfred), died in Binghamton,
N. Y. aged 81 years.
Four Dowieites holding meetings in
Evanston, ILL.,, were egged, roughly jostled
and driven out of town.
AS result Of personal observations Arch->
bishop Keane asserts home rule is being
gradually given to Ireland.
Austria has resumed diplomatic relations
with Mexico, which were broken In 1867 by
the execution of Macmillan.
William Magruder (colored) was lynched
by mob near Georgetown. Ga, for trying
to enter a woman's bedroom.
Three thousand Beers made an attack
on Richmond. in Cape Colony, but were
repulsed after IL hours fight.
A late start and hot, dry weather is do
ing serious damage to the great corn belt.
Wheat was never in finer condition.
The boiler of a locomotive exploded at
Blue Cut, Mo-. killing Engineer George
Gerew and Fire Julius Crowley.
Lightning struck the tent of Wallace's
circus at Eau Claire, Wis, killing an ele.
plant and shocking several persons.
Peter Price, a negro charged with assault
on a white woman, killed two Of a lynchng
party at Panther, w. Va, and escaped.
Lightning killed the first baseman in a
ball game at Monroe Center, ILL.,, and
shocked several other players and specta-
tors.
Control Of the Lehigh Valley road has
passed into the hands of the Erie and other
competing companies by the purchase OF
stock.
Rev. DR.. Byron Sunderland for 4s years
pastor of the First Presbyterian church IN
Washington, died in Catskill, N. Y. aged
SO years.
Pastors Of churches in St. Louis, Mo-,
and Decatur, ILL.,, appeared in their pulpits
in shirt waists and addressed shirt waist
audiences.
David r. Paige, of Akron. o., member Of
the Forty-eighth congress and defeated for
reelection by President Mckinley, died in
New York.
Senator Patterson, of Ohio. one of the
states Pan-American commissioners says
that President Mckinley will visit the ex-
position July 49,
Denver's chief Of police has ordered po-
licemen to MAIN and If necessary kill ruff
fans who overrun the city, insulting wom-
en- at every opportunity.
Capt. j. F. Thayer. Of the Volunteers Of
America, who eloped from Lincoln, Neb.,
and was horsewhipped by his wife, COM
mitted suicide at Omaha.
The royal proclamation giving notice Of
the forthcoming coronation Of King Ed
ward was read in London with all the
pomp and ceremony of former ages.
Railways estimate that the grain crop Of
the northwest will be the largest ever
harvested. and they are confronted with
the problem how to move the prod uct.
Gen. Chaffee in a report to the war de-
partmant accuses American missionaries
in China of looting and says army aid for
their operations was secured by misrepre-
senta ton.
Government receipts exceed expenditures
by 81. 000, 900 for the fiscal year ending June
80. Balance OF foreign trade in favor Of the
United States amounts to $675, 600, 600, an in
crease Of $145, 00,0O0.