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

For the Week Ending April "a.
Mount Vesuvlus is again In state OF
eruption.
Augusta, 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 five-dollar gold pieces.
Ex-Gov. Charles C. stockley, of Della
ware, died in Georgetown. aged 81 years.
Richard P. Rothwell, editor of the Min
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 760,329, 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.
Grant, is engaged to Archibald Balfour. OF
London.
Shamrock H., challenger for Americas
cup, was successfully launched at Lumbar
ton, Scotland.
A $50 0oo, 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. I.
Gen. Won Waldersee cables that the burn.
ing Of the imperial palace at Picking was
not incendiary.
The republican state committee of Iowa
called the state convention for August
at Cedar Rapids.
The International committee has APP
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 Hail.
The business interests Of the Stats
Zeftung 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 $153,0o0 for the relief OF
| strikers and their families.
David H. Creech, an elderly capitalist at
Jackson. Mich, tried to Kill his wife, who
had just secured a divorce.
Mrs. Hannah Kjoren, 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 as 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 $150.000.
Prof. Georgeson. special agent OF the
agricultural department., declares small!
farms will be the rule in Alaska.
Harry Cain and Paul Baumgardner, IL
year-old boys, were in jail at Wilcox, Mo-.
charged with trying to wreck train.
The Comanche, kiowa, Apache, Wichita
and Caddo reservations in Oklahoma ter
ritory will soon be thrown open for settle
| ment.
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 CO., district. which has
kept 1000 miners idle for two weeks, has
been settled.
! John H. Gorham shot and killed George
B. Mccarthy at Copperopolis, CAL, and
then killed himself. Jealousy over 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 tor
her another husband.
| A Georgia inventor claims to have per-
fected the lopg-distance telephone so that
conversations can be carried on between
persons 1900 miles apart.
! Mrs. C. A. Bissell, Of Cleveland, Is plan-
ming to establish home for discharged
| murderers, where they can be reformed
and given q 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 /, the local assembly having passed a
tax law to meet the necessities OF the gov
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THE MARKETS.