The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1902-01-24
THE ]. NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Jan. 20.


The schools in Wisconsin will observe
January - as Mckinley day.
The Mckinley memorial fund In Illinois
has up to date reached $25, 139.O.
The town Of Woodford, I. r., has been
almost totally destroyed by fire.
King Oscar opened the Swedish parlia-
nent In person and forecasted legislation.
John Yellow Wolf, q Sioux Indian, was
lynched for horse stealing near Deadwood'
s. ID.
Boer leaders at The Hague deny that
any negotiations for peace are IN prog
ress.
A. w. Patton, the multi-milll aire paper
manufacturer, died at his home IN Apple
ton, Wis.
Over 100 persons were injured, some fatal
ma, Austria.
The Commercial bank at Albany, Ca,
closed it's doors with liabilities of $l23,0OO;
assets, $191, 900.
Ore valued at 81, ooo,oS was stolen during
the year from the independence mine at
Cripple Creek.
The volcano Of Colima in Mexico Is again
active as a result Of the recent earthquake
In that country.
Prices of all staples are lower, according
tn the weekly review Of business, but gen.
A cyclone swept over the Canary Is
lands, doing much damage to property and
causing a shipwreck.
H. H, Kohlsaat has retired from the
editorship and active management OF lhe
Chicago Record-Herald.
John Rinkard, convicted Of the murder OF
his wife at Marion, Ind, in June, lS0O' was
hanged at Michigan City.
Robbers at Glendive, Mont, stole unset
diamonds valued at $4,000 from the TRUNKS
of O Minneapolis salesman.
Parliament was opened by King Edward
in the presence of the royal Fanny ai'o
great dignitaries of the nation.
Iowa editors have organized the iowa
State Editorial association with Z. M. jun
kin. of Fairfield, as president.
Employees of the Mormon church a. Salt
Lake City have been notified that they
must marry or lose their JOBS
The house committee on election OF pres
ident will report favorably on resolution
to elect senators by popular vote.
The Illinois Central road is to equip us
entire system with telephones, supp1ant-
ing the telegraph key and sounder.
Diamonds that are said by Ilffany 10 DC
of first water are reported to nave peeh
discovered in Fergus county. Mont.
The United States is preparing to de-
mand Indemnity from Bulgaria and Iur-
kew for the abduction of Miss Stone.
The director of the census says mat
the large cities are growing nearly t"1ce
as rapidly as the rest of the country
Cashier Philip S. Adams, of the CONNER
cial bank of Fulton, Mo-, has disappeared
with 81, 500 and the bank has been closed
Gen, Tung Fuh Slang, who led IN tne
attacks on the Picking legations mas peen
executed by order Of the doWager empress
Ito Il
Morgan and British shipowners are ABOUT
tn form a great combine of ocean steam
ers.
The explosion of a boiler on the Denver
limited of the Rock Island road at VICTOR
Col. wrecked the train and Killed TWO
men.
James Mather, Of Elkhart Ind, has been
made insane by remorse over the Killing Oh
a man in 1875, whose death was lad 10
tramps.
The total of 11e fatalities in the Swiss
Alps constitutes the record Tor me year
1901. and is double the number of fatal1-
ties in 1900
The transport Fitzpatrick has sailed from
San Francisco for Manila with 700 recruits
for the army and marine corps detacn-
ment of 100 men.
At Newcastle, KY, Judge Carroll ordered
a negro shot who attacked witness IN the
courtroom, but the coroner saved his lie oy
overpowering him.
A farmer and wife living near New YORK
received a legacy of 5000 from a man
whom, as a hungry Wanoerer, tAey pe-
friended 16 years ago.
The London Pail Mall Gazette congrat-
ulates America on the fact that Mrs. anu
Miss Roosevelt are "ladies by birth rather
than by act of congress-
James Lane, aged 60. who killed his wife
at Alden, Ia, because she forbade the drug
gists selling him whisky, has pleaded guilty
to murder in the second degree
John l.. Sullivan, while playing Simon
Legree in an Uncle Toms Cabin company
ct Chelsea, Mass, whipped Uncle Tom SO
severely that the latter tainted.
Rev. Mr.. Gliding stabbed to death MS
stepson, Harry Hig'lield, and was himself
perhaps fatally injured at shipman' Ill.
A family feud caused the crime.
DR.. G. D. Barney, of Brooklyn. completed
an experiment which he declares disproves
Prof. Koch's theory that d human being
cannot get tuberculosis from cattle.
Engineer Sible, of the Wabash limited.
jumped from the locomotive near Attica,
Ind, under the hallucinatiOn that switch
had been turned. and was fatally hurt.
Mrs. William Aston and other rich New
Workers have filed application for papers
of citizenship in Newport. R. L., desiring
to change residence from New York to
escape taxation.
Thirty-rine persons were rescued with
a breeches buoy from Pere Marquette
steamer No. 8, which struck a bar at the
mouth of Ludington harbor and was scut-
tied to prevent her being pounded to
pieces.
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