The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-07-19
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lSS FOf the Week EAdlnG July I'D.
Fire destroyed the business portion ~
Cooks Mills. Ill., .9s . ~ j4 sT,Ss.. f, Il
EesForty mules were ,cremated in pre- IN
q stable In st. Louis. =,
Robert Prange killed his wife and htnar
self hear st: Joseph. NO., *.
|. Fire at the West India docks In London
caused loss or sl.ooo.0 900. - ''...'r
Foreign trade of the United States IN
creased 90. SSS. 81. last year. ~ y
Cuban tax collections during the" first
six months of 1901 were $4,000. -
Andrew Carnegie has offered Leadvnle'
Col, 900 for a, public library.
trfteen business houses were destroyed
by Are at Mountain View, Okla. :;
| Fire at Springfield. ILL.,, destroyed busi-
ness property Valued at 100000 .,
l. A Porto Rican regiment probably VIII be-
come q part Of the regular army
The Massachusetts republican .conven'
ton will meet at Boston OctobeF4.
Former Judge D. "A. Russell, Of Pomeroy.
O., committed suicide at Cincinnati.
Paul Hague, an aeronaut. was fatally
injured at Springfield. o.. falling 200 feet.
A large part of the business portion OF
Clear Lake. Ia. was swept away py nre.
The -thirty-fifth annual meeting Of the
Unive rsal Peace union began IN buHalo'
N. Y.
Revenue war tax collections from June
Is, 1898, to May 81, 1901, amounted to $S1V'-
O6s. o63.
Solomon Haas, Of Wilburton. Pa. fren.
zied Nv jealousy, fatally shot his wife and
himself.
The town of Port La Vaca. Tex. was
swept away by a tornado, but no lives
were lost.
A. H. Davis, who split rails with Lin.
coin and snapped horses with Grant, died
at st. Louis.
A score of Dowieites were arrested IN
Evanston, ILL.,, after riot partlclpaIeo IA
by the Zion guards.
The Columbia defeated the Constitution
and the Independence in the last race OF
the Newport series.
The wife of Justice H. B. Brown. OF the
United States supreme court, died In n'Va'
Italy, aged IS years.
A pastor at New Brunswick, N. j.. Of
fered free medals as an inducement 10 at
tend Sunday services.
Bryanites in Ohio have bolted the reg
ular democratic state ticket and Will put
up other candidates.
A. F. seeberger. Of Chicago, former treas
urer Of the Worlds Columbian exposition
died at Des Moines, la.
Frank McCroy, of HaMstead. Pa, DE-
clared he had discovered the lost Egyptian
art of hardening copper
The king Of Italy was forced to adopt
socialistic plan Of rule to prevent grave
danger to the monarchy.
Ex-Congressman A. N. Martin died IN
the hospital at the soldiers nome at Ma
rion, Ind, aged 60 years.
Heidelberg university. Germany, has con"
ferred the degree of doctor OF philosophy
upon an American woman.
Chicago servant girls have formed the
Working Women's Protective association
backed by organized labor:
Edward Payne, negro, was hanged at
Pulaski, Va, for attempted assault upon
Miss Duncan. a white woman.
A monument to commemorate Commo-
dore Perry's visit to Yokohama in 1853 was
| on Sunday unveiled in that city.
Settlement Of remaining problems OF the
Chinese indemnity Is likely to be LETT to
The Hague tribunal for decision.
An Epworth league party of 20 on the
way to San Francisco was robbed OF money
and tickets at Colorado Springs.
session at Detroit elected as president WILL
| liam M. Beardshear, Of Ames. la.
The sugar product Of the Hawaiian
islands has Increased 1900 pr cent. since it,
free admission to the United States
President Francis, Of the Louisiana Pur.
| chase exposition, says 1t will be an EXPOSE
ton Of processes rather than products.
Spanish merchants IN Havana prefer
annexation to the United States rather
than experiments under the Platt law.
4 large portion of the business section
of Colebrook, N. H., prosperous lumber
and trading town, was destroyed by hre'
A child was killed bya explosion at AL.
bany. No., caused by a tool chest falling
upon a pet frog which had swallowed dyna'
mite.
The will of Pierre Lorillard disposes Of an
estate valued at about $4,000, 900. Twenty
wears ago his wealth was estimated at
! SO, 10000
Horace Peters. who murdered Peter
Smith near Dowagiac. Mich, committed
suicide on the spot where the crime was
committed.
II. H. Newell, who obtained fame during
the war by writing over the non de plume
OF Orpheus c. Kerr, died at his home In
New York.
The supreme lodge knights of Pythias
reorganized the insurance branch of tine
order In Chicago and increased the rates
Of insurance 81 per cent.
M. santos-Dumont, French aeronaut,
he drove at will In every direction during
trial lasting two hours in Paris.
Chicago's city directory of 1901 will con.
tain 227o0 more names than Its predeces'
sor. This, according to the publishers. in
dicates that Chicagos population Is 1885, :
900.
The executor of the John T. Blair will,
which provides for the distribution of
SIS. O0O, 900, discovered that the estate
amounts to so. ,00o and has appealed to
F1n o1r, {v@f In