The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-01-08
All the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News Of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
ct Home and Abroad.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC,

50 years old, were burned 10 oeatn IN
3edalia, Mo.
Secretary Hay will go to Thomasville.
Ca, to recuperate hie health as soon as
he has recovered sufficiently to endure
the fatigue Of the Journey.
]. Ed. Grillo, of Cincinnati, has been
elected president OF the American Base
ball association.
WA The corn crop tor 1908 is announced
ct Washington ~ 2.244,176,9 25 bushels,
\ valued 1t 3s51, s6s, s01; winter wheat,
399 So, ESQ bushels, worth $2S6,242. S49.
S The United States trust and savings
baak. with 81 ,00o, 900 capital and $780,
90 swplus, will be started in Chicago
The lynchfng of George Williams and
Nicely Zimmerman, negroes accused
OF assault, was attempted at Council
Bluffs, la. The jail door was broken In,
u. It was the sentiment of the cabinet at
meeting in Washington that the
Colombian question could not be sub
mitted to The Hague, as this was an
issue which no other nation could set
tie for the United States.
Another warship at San Domingo
has been granted Minister Powell, as
three revolutions are in progress there.
Jerome Sykes, star comedian Of '"The
Millionaire died of pneumonia con-
tracted during Christmas party given
Tor his company in Chicago.
It is said that the control of the steel
trust is now in the hands of John D.
Rockefeller and H. C. Frick.
I'll Two little girls burned to death in
Chicago when their mother, Mrs. Mich
3. Rel Kondas, left them locked in the
honse to play with their Christmas toys.
Frederick Lindstrom, trusted en-
ploye Of 4 Chicago wholesale house, con-
fessed to embezzling $4,000, which he
tost in the poolrooms.
The car barn bandits trial will begin
In Chicago on January 8.
Girl students at Rosemary hall,
Y Greenwich, Conn.,, handled stone for
new chapel which they have resolved
to construct with their own hands.
]. A. McBeth, his wife and five-year-
old daughter, and his brother-in-law,
IRE at Ballinger, Tex.
Young Corbett" defeated Eddie Han
I lon in the sixteenth round in fight ir
San Francisco for the featherweight
championship of the world.
Chicago liverymen rejected proposal
Z to arbitrate made by the livery drivers
4 and declared they would fight to the end.
It is believed the United States will
seek the Cancellation of Colombia and
the restoration of peace on the isthmus.
The United States may withdraw its
ambassador from St. Petersburg on &C.
I. count of Russia's cruelty to the Jews.
Moses T. Clough and William Shaw,
prominent lawyers, lost their lives in
IRE in Troy IN. W club house.
Alice Pitcher, 81 years old, daughter
s.of Louisville (Ky.) organ manufac-
turer, masqueraded as boy for three
years in Montana with her fathers con-
sent.
In a railway wreck near Denrock, ILL.,,
Fireman H. c. Badger and Brakeman
Nv, j. Long, Of Galesburg, were killed.
"A railway company has been formed at
tGuthrie, Okla, to build line from Port
Nelson ON Hudson Bay in British
America to the Argentine Republic, a
distance of 10000 miles.
: Safe blowers at San Jose, ILL.,, cracked
\ and looted the safe in the post Office OF
! $1,000.
During 1903 a total of $3.50 immi-
grants, :steerage passengers, arrived at
New York, against SAT 1877 in 1902.
Il AT Missoula, Mor+., Judge Webster
sentenced John 'Tully, a soldier, to hang
Il February '26 for the murder of Thomas
h Kennedy at Fort Missoula.
AL the livery establishments In Chi
cago are open, the employers agreeing
to reinstate the striking drivers.
n TheStandardO Oil company has reduced
Z the price of oil five cents in the east and
4 two cents in the west.
. Three additional warships left San
Francisco to join the fleetalnder Admiral
Glass at Panama.
I'm the United States circuit court in
Pfttsburg Judge M. w. Acheson held
! that railroads are responsible for the
fuN value of goods lost in transit.
4 Between 500 and 600 men, women and
( children met fearful death at the new
froquois theater in Chicago-burned, suf-
focAted or hrampled under foot-follow-
/ ing fire which was caused by the ex-
plosion OF a calcium light. The gas
tanks also exploded and the flames
~spread so rapidly that occupants of the
gallery and balcony were cut OF from
4 escape This IL the most appalling