The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1902-03-28
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending March "a.

Peter Laverdure, aged III years, died at
Great Falls, Mont.
Cambridge defeated Oxford in the Nifty
ninth annual boat race on the Thames.
John Henry Peavy. negro. was hanged
at Vienna, Ca, for the murder Of Jesse
Ford.
Achilles l., known as king Of Patagonia.
died In Paris. leaving his throne to an UNI
known.
The state institution for the deaf and
dumb at Jackson. Miss, has been destroyed
by fire.
A London paper predicts civil war In Ire
land as a result of the United Irish league
agitation.
w. J. Bryan celebrated his forty-second
birthday by moving to his farm near Lin
coin, Neb.
The senate Philippine committee has de-
cided upon a distinct coinage system for
the islands.
A jury declared Stewart Fife not guilty
Of the murder of Banker Richardson at st.
Joseph. Mo.
The special session of the Colorado legis-
lature adjourned after the passage of the
revenue bill.
Republicans 'of the Ninth Indiana dis
trict have renominated Charles B. Lands
for congress.
James Hatfield of the famous Kentucky
family of feudists. was killed in a fight at
North Bend. o.
Green w. PritcharG was killed and John
Below, farmer, fatally wounded IN duel
at COrydon, Ky.
The Virginia constitutional convention
has practically agreed upon plan to dis
franchise negroes.
Two little children Of John Bergue, OF
Mound Lake, Mimi, fell through the ice
and were drowned.
Thomas Z. Burns, an old-time famous
ball player. died suddenly of heart disease
at Jersey City. N. J.
The civil tribunal at Paris has approved
the cession Of the Panama canal property
to the United States.
The Missouri supreme court rendered a
decision unfolding the right Of labor men
to enforce the boycott.
Thirty rioters were killed by Russian
troops in an attempt to release imprisoned
strike leaders at Batoum.
George Carter (colored) was hanged at
Moundsville. w. Va, for the murder of Vir-
ginia Whistler also co!ored.
An avalanche overwhelmed Japanese
refinery, crushing the building and start
ing fire. and POO lives were lost.
Four negroes were killed and one IA
tally beaten by white men at Madrid
Bend. Ky. for stealing chickens.
Santos Dumont will visit St. Louis to Sc
lect a fair site for balloon shed in con-
nection with the airship contests.
John Woodward, the negro murderer OF
Leonard Calvitt, a white planter. was
lynched by mob at Vdalia La
Mrs. Betsy Bailey, an aged woman OF
| Maquoketa, Ia, was burned to death, her
clothing catching fire from stove.
The barge Hamilton was wrecked OIL
Newport News and Capt. Shoemaker and
his crew Of four men were drowned.
Congressman Henry Gibson. of the Sec.
ond Tennessee district, was renominated
| for his fifth term by the republicans.
Judge Russell Smith Taft, aged g. years,
chief justice of the supreme cour. OF YER
mont, died at his home in Burlington.
Jerome Magee, of the University of Chi
cago track team, went II feet inches in
q pole vault. breaking the indoor record
Two persons were killed, ten hurt, and
much mail was lost III a wreck on the
Southern railway near Charlottesville. Va
German manufactures may be excluded
| from the United States in retalia ton for
| the exclusion of American meats by Ger
| many.
The worlds sugar production in 1900. &C.
| cording to a treasury bulletin, was $780,
| 900 tons Beets furnished 81 per cent of the
supply.
Justice Mayer of New York. set free
| Miss Florence Burns, saying there was no
evidence connecting her with the death OF
Walter Brooks.
Prince Adalbert, third son of Emperor
! William of Germany, is to visit the United
States In April as cadet aboard the train
| ing ship Charlotte.
Five hundred German, Austrian and Rus
sian emigrants. disappointed with condi-
lions in the United States, have returned to
| their former homes.
Navigation on the great lakes Will open
April /, upon which date insurance on hulls
and cargOes Is ObtainGble the earliest or
any season on record.
Stanislas. La Crox, who murdered his
wife and an old man named Thomps, VINO
was endeavoring to protect her, was
hanged at Hull, Quebec.
A strike of IS, 900 miners in Virginia and
West Virginia is expected If operators re-
fuse the request of the national officers OF
the miners for conference.
The weekly trade review notes numerous
evidences of further improvements In
markets, with vigorous domestic demand
and gain in foreign business.
The Hartman interests are said to have
secured control of the Rock Island rail-
road through purchase of the Moore and
the Leeds and Reid holdings.
Battle-scarred and depleted In ranks. the
first and third batallons of the Twentieth
regiment arrived at Fort Sheridan after
three years campaign in the Philippines.
Josie Mansfield who was the cause of the
famous Stokes Fisk tragedy in New York
30 years ago, has disappeared from her
home in Paris. She may be in this country.
Commodore Howell, of the navy. has
perfected a method of transforming soft
coal into smokeless product. The coal
is reduced to powder and made into bricks.
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