The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1902-01-03
THE NEWS, IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Dec. %.

For the Week Ending Dec. %.
Senator Clark bought 66 paintings In
Vienna for $4,000.
Illinois subscriptions to the Mckinley
monument fund amount to $a9l9.
Armored cruisers Of the navy are to bs
equipped for wireless telegraDhy.
Marconi will probably select Cape Breton
for permanent wireless telegraphy sta
tien
Jennie June Croly. a writer and or
Hanizer" Of women's clubs, died at New
York.
The steamer Sun was destroyed at Mem.
phis, Tenn, and four persons burned 10
death.
A monthly line of steamers between New
York and the Philippines is to be estao-
lished.
A prize of $500 10 offered for . symbol
sltion.
The National Civic Federation has
charged its headquarters from Chicago to
New York.
An Oklahoma farmer has been arrested
charged with the murder OF man at Arnos
MO-. % years ago.
A negro employe Of the St. Louis health
board confessed giving out infected serum
that caused Is deaths.
lected two lawyers to help fight agairs st
Hits railroad merger.
Wayne Demon, an lS-year-old boy, shot
three negroes to death who attacked MIN
in a saloon at Davy. w. Va.
Superintendent Collins, OF New YORK
state prisons, issued an order prohibiting
the clipping Of convicts' hair.
The peace protocol between Argentina
and Chill Is signed. but both countries con-
tlnue warklike preparations.
The production of iron in England during
1901 fell short Of that of the previous year.
The outlook is not encouraging
Grover Cleveland has accepted appoint.
ment as a member of the National CIVIC
Federation arbitration committee.
The Zionist congress opened at Easle'
and DR.. Herzl processes confidence IN the
success of the colonization of Palestine.
The pope honored John D. Crimmins. OF
New York, by making him knight com
mander of the Order of St. Gregory the
Great.
The American tobacco trusthas cornered
the Turkish tobacco crop. thu. principal
source Of supply for German cigarette man
ufacturers.
Secretary Root has decided to abandon
the Philippine transport service and substi-
tute a contract system with steamship
companies.
feated a force Of 100 revolutionsts In an
engagement lasting II hours. The killed
numbered 400.
WI Ting Fang, through the secretary
of state, has asked congress 10 investigate
the working of the Chinese exclusion law
before extending It,
1t Is alleged that James J. Hill will cut
freight rates throughout the northwest IN
order to win popular approval Of his fight
against Gov. Van SAINT.
Two prominent men In st. Louis leaped
from an automobile TO avoid collision with
locomotive and were ground to death un'
der the engines wheels.
A train burned in tunnel Of the over
head electric railway at Liverpool and
seven persons are known to have perlsneo'
The total may reach u.
Scientists at Ann Arbor. Mich. are SAID
to have discovered an absolute antiseptic
for all Intestinal diseases, such as cholera,
typhoid fever and dysentery.
Rural free delivery mail carriers are to
be placed under civil service on February
l. After that date political or religious at
fliation of applicants cannot be considered.
|. The one hundred and twenty-tifth ami
versary Of the battle ofsTrehton'was cele-
brated by sham battle and#reproduction
of the scenes of Washingtons famous VIC
tory. rs
Numerous Christmas fatalities are re-
ported, the most serious of which was
battle between negroes and whites IN Ala
bama. IN which two were killed and two
wounded.
Soldiers at the Preside in San Francisco
engaged in a riot growing out of a stabbing
and fought with the police who attempted
to make arrests. Six officers were injured
and IS soldiers arrested.
Henry Siegel, on his return to New York
from abroad. admits that he Is considering
the establishment in London of depart
ment store on American lines and that Sir
Thomas Upton may be associated with him
In the venture.
Illinois board Of equalization makes
net increase of s1S7 900. 900 over last year in
tax assessment for the state. Almost all
of the addition falls upon Cook county.
SIS 900 900 being valuation placed upon cap
ital stock of corporations.
The United States has decided to cut its
claim against China Of So, 900 to $780,
900, which represents the actual damage
and cost OF the military invasion. Euro
pean powers Will not be permitted to grab
the balance turned back to the helpless
country.