The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1902-04-25
THE. NEWS IN BRIEF.
For tho Week Ending April Il

For the Week Ending April Fl.
Archibald A. Mcleod. railroad magnate
and 1inancier, is dead at New York.
Marshall Field e. Co., of Chicago. filed
a personally tax schedule of $5.9GO.0OO.
The National Baseball league opened its
twenty-seventh successive championship
season.
Gen. Miles will probably remain at the
head of the army until the age limit Is
reached.
A Russian officer and four privates were
killed by Chinese bandits near New
Chwang.
Queen Wilhelmiras illness is declared
to be typhoid fever, and regency may be
necessary.
Sam Moy. king of Chicago Chinatown.
died in Milwaukee. The colony Is In
mourning.
More than 1000 persons attended big
memorial meeting to John P. Altgeld at the
Auditorium
William Waldorf Astor has given 100000
to endow four profess orships in the Cniver-
sity of London.
A review of trade says weather condi-
lions are encouraging heavy orders and as
sisting collections.
A court decision in Missouri permits
teachers to whip pupils whenever 1t Is
deemed necessary.
Francisco G'Asusco, husband Of Queen
Isabella II. and former king Of Spain, died
at Erinay. France.
There is growing belief in London that
the prince OF Wales will visit the United
States in September.
The Grand Duchess Helena Of Russia,
cousin Of the czar, is reported to have
elOped with a student.
Admiral Dewey has declined the invita-
ton to attend the banquet in honor of Gen.
Funston at Denver May l.
Andrew Carnegie, addressing New York
students, told them wealth does not bring
happiness or satisfaction.
Maj. Octavus L. Pruden, one of the as
sistant secretaries to the president, died In
Washington, aged 60 years.
Lewis G. Toombs was found guilty at
Chicago OF the murder of Carrie Larson and
punishment is fixed at death.
Nearly 1000 coal miners have quit work
along the West Pennsylvania railroad be-
cause Of trouble over the scale.
In a freight train wreck at Riverside.
Ky, Conductor Clarence Turner and Fire.
man John McGann were killed.
The American Federation of Labor
will hold workingmen's mass meetings
throughout the United States.
M. Santos-Dumort conferred with st.
Louis exposition authorities and predicts
some interesting balloon races.
Is. d. Anguish, Chicago commission
merchant, cornered the supply Of old cab
bage and forced the price to $40 ton.
Four fires at Dallas. Tex, at the same
time and supposed to have been started
by incendiaries, caused loss Of 100000.
The total enrolment for the year at the
University of Michigan is 3,709, just three
short Of the number for the preceding
year.
Abraham Fisher, originator of many OF
the present forms of the valentine is deao
at his home in Germantown, Pa, aged %
years.
Archbishop Falconio, Of Canada, has been
selected by the pope to succeed Cardinal
Martinelli as papal delegate to the United
States.
United States shipments to Porto Rico
for eight months ended with February
were Sc, .C52, or 81 per cent. of the total
imports.
NJ E. ingalls,, president of the Big Four
railroad, said in Chicago interview that
the safety limit of railway mergers has
been reached.
At Lexington, KY, William McCarty, q
railroad brakeman, shot and killed his wife
on hea ring she had sworn out peace war
rant against him.
The New York presbytery refused to
license Vincent Noll, a Union seminary
graduate, because he did not believe Adam
historical person.
Four children of Alfred Boudrau, who
recently arrived in Tacoma, WASH, win
his family from New Hampshire, died OF
ptomaine poisoning.
Secretary Wilson, in an interview. at
tributed the high price Of beef to short
ness of corn crop. and predicted drop IN
price In two months.
Forty-six horses were cremated In hre
that destroyed the building occupied by
the Depot Carriage and Buggy company
in Kansas City, Mo.
The National Association of Manufacture
ers elected D. NJ. Parry, of Indianapolis,
president, and petitloned congress not 20
pass the anti-injunction bill.
Chicago fire insurance managers are dis
pleased at Illinois two per cent. tax laW re-
peal. They must now pay In each county
at varying rates, instead of In lump.
Burton, Willis and Frederick Van Worm
er (brothers) were found guilty In Hudson,
NJ Y, Of numbering Peter A. FIallenbeck,
their uncle, and sentenced to death.
Four hundred thousand acres of the
Rosebud Indian agency will be opened to
settlement this summer. The land To-
Gated in Nebraska and South Dakota.
To make sure his family would get IS 600
insurance on his life, John Harberg. a car
penter in Chicago. killed himself when ne
learned that the mutual aid society of
which he was a member proposed scaling
down policies.
National league leaders in Chicago look
for a reign of terror in Ireland to fol-
low the working Of the coercion act Ma
tionalists in America expect to send Pc
cuniary aid. William Redmond says the
Irish people, were they armed, would
fight