The Worthington advance., 1904-01-15
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Jan. II.

sN The legislature of New York met IN
.annual session at Albany.
James Garfield killed his wife and
himself at Minneapolis, MINI.
Nineteen buildings, including two
banks, were burned at Anson, Tex.
John Reed, a veteran of three wars,
died IN Decatur, Ind, aged 105 years.
Elijah J. Woodruff died at his home
In Toledo, O., at the age of 1O1 years.
p. H. Hartman has been elected
president of the Union Pacific railroad.
An explosion of dynamite at La Tesca,
Mexico, killed 20 men and injured 40
others.
President Palma has vetoed the ma
>tional lottery bill passed by the Cuban
congress.
Gov. John L. Bates, of Massachusetts,,
was 1naugurated at Boston for his Sec
ond term.
,,@ a negro was lynched at Buena Vista,
Ark, for attempted assault on a young
white girl.
Parke Goodwin, for many years editor
Of the Evening Post, died in New York.
aged SO years.
Gov. Taft, of the Philippine
Islands, sailed from Manila for the
United States.
Among the gifts to the Chinese en-
press on her siXty-ninth birthday were
7%automobiles.
Fifty-six strikers have been expelled
from San Miguel county, COL, by the
military authorities.
Frank H. Child, noted as a marine
photographer, died at Newport, r. l.,
after years illness.
Il One thousand cases of typhoid fever
were reported at Montreal, Que, and ad-
joining municipalities.
Students at the Wesleyan university
atzDelaware, O., will hereafter not be
allowed to use tobacco.
" J. H. Coutts, president of the First ma
tional bank of Upton, 1a., dropped dead
In hotel at Cedar Rapids.
After quarrel Frank Benedict fatal
ly shot his wife and then blew out his
own brains in Burlington, la.
~ Gus Gregory (colored) was hanged at
New Madrid, Mo-, for the murder OF
George Marshall July 19, 1902.
; J. E. MARCEL, cashier of the Highland
(Kan.) bank, was arrested on charge
of forgeries aggregating $160,000.
The. United States Steel company's
earnings for the last quarter of 1903
fell from $32,302.821 to $14,845,042.
Fire, which originated in the general
store of F. E. Macha, destroyed the en-
tire business section CT Pisek, N. D.
+ Government clerks are displeased
over new order of the cabinet which
will compel them to work seven hours
siay. -"
Warren Barnhart, Oldest member Of
the firm of Barnhart Bros. & Spindler.
type founders, died in Chicago, aged 81
years. .-.., ~
CT Mrs. Myra Jane Williams, of Brain
erd, MINI, was sentenced to the peni-
tentiary for life for the murder of her
little daughter.
DR.. Samuel G.. Tracy, of New York,
believes he has discovered in radium
cure for tuberculosis and other supposed
incurable diseases.
An estate of $10,00O,OOO is left by the
will Of Capt. Frederick Pabst, of Mil
waukee, to his widow, four children and
an adopted daughter.
Thescommissioner of internal revenue
says that state prisons can manufacture
tobacco or cigars for their own imates
without paying license.
Commissioner of Pensions Ware has
decided that all rights of pension are
barred by conviction of crime and SEN
tence to prison for life.
Benton L. Beebe, editor and pub
Usher of the Sign of the Times, a
Baptist publication, oied in Middle
town. N. y, aged SO years.
Russell Sage, who is 81 years old,
has. given up his daily visits to Wall
street in New York, and retired from
active participation in affairs.
President Roosevelt has been chosen
to deliver the principal oration at the
semi-centnnial jubilee in Madison next
June of the University of Wisconsin.
Forty thousand wage earners have
been given employment during the last
two weeks by the resumption Of iron
and steel mills in the Pittsburg dis