The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-05-13
All the News of the Past Seven
T. Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of tho Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
THR NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

Rev. Father Edward Geary, assistant
pastor of Holy Family Catholic church,
at Omaha, Neb., died as the result OF in
juries inflicted on him by highwaymen.
A powder mill owned by the North
western Powder company, three miles
from Newport, Ind, was blown up. Four
men were killed outright and two were
injured.
On account of the small demand for
their products all of the flour mills in
Minneapolis have closed until trade in
creases to warrant resumption of bust
ness.
The thirty-first general conference of
the Methodist Episcopal church opened
at Hazards pavilion, in Los Angeles,
Cal. Bishop Merrill presided. Rev.
James B. Hingley, of Minnesota, was
elected secretary.
The United States canal commission
has taken formal possession of the canal
route and of the property Of the Panama
Canal company. From now on the canal
works will be under the direction of
Lieut. Mark Brooke, of the engineer
corps of the United States army.
Mrs. Paulina L. Stearns died at Lud-
ington, Mich. She was 81 years old
aud the wife of Justus S. Stearns. a
prominent lumberman and politician
who has been one of the prominent
candidates for the republican nomina-
ton for governor.
The steel freighter r. w. England
was launched at the Great Lakes En-
cheering works, situated on the De-
troit river just below Detroit. The
new boat is 376 feet long, has so feet
beam and % feet depth.
The first suicide from the new Will
liamsburg bridge which spans the
East river a mile above the old Brook
lyn bridge, was recorded when an
unknown woman leaped to her death
in the river 1876 feet below.
The liberty bell will be taken from
Philadelphia to st. Louis. 1t will re-
main there throughout the exposition
under a constant guard of Philadel'
phia policemen.
Three men we're hanged at Winches-
ter, Tenn, and two others at Pitts
burg, Pa. All had been convicted OF
murder.
A compromise on the amusement
question is proposed by Bishop Foss
in an address to the Methodist general
conference at Los Angeles.
Fire loss in the United States ana
Canada for April is estimated at $751;
$4,000.
Senator M. 8. Quay, of Pennsylvania,
who is seriously i'll, is deliberately
making preparations for death, which
he feels is not far away.
A lockout of Chicago stone. lime and
cement teamsters has made 10000 men
in other unions idle and threatens to
stop all building operations.
Michael Trutcius, aged 81, boosted
that he would climb 150-foot tower at
Stegar, ILL.,, or break his neck. He fell
while the crowd was cheering and was
killed.
Caleb Marrette, aged SIS, of Dennison,
Tex, who, in company with his sister,
80 years old, was on his way to Pitts
burg to visit relatives, fell under the
wheels of a train at Vincennes, Ind,
and was killed.
Five miners are entombed and be-
lieved to be dead as result of a fierce
fire which is burning in the Locust
Gap colliery of the Philadelphia &
Reading Coal & Iron company.
The bite of pickerel resulted in
the death of John E. Beckman, OF
Amery, Wis. AS he was landing 1t the
pickerel clamped his jaws down upon
Beckman's fingers, decorating one of
them. Complications set in which
caused his death.
Senior Bishop Stephen Merrill of the
M. E. church, rendered his resignation
to the general conference at Los An
geles. Bishop Merrill is in his seventy
ninth year, and his ministry has ex-
tended over a period of SO years.
Extensive damage is being done
throughout the upper peninsula OF
Michigan by forest fires. Many home
steaders have been burned out of their
homes with loss of all their posses
sions.
James J. Hill. the railroad president,
and his wife, have given $1,50O,000 to
the Roman Catholic church toward
the construction of q 100000 ca
thedral at st. Paul.
Mayor Crolius, of Joliet, ILL.,, two po-
licemen and former city employe have
been indicted on the charge of criminal
conspiracy at the recent election.
Andrew Mentally, head of Rand, Nc
Naliy & Co., the well-known Chicago
publishers, died in California of pneu-
monia after two days fitness.
Jubilee exercises Of the University of
Wisconsin to be held during the week
beginning Sunday, June S, include the
celebration OF the fiftieth anniversary of
the graduation of the first class in 1854.
w. A. J: Sparks, former congressman,
who Tor many years was prominent in
Missouri and Illinois politics, died in St.
Louis. During President Cleveland s
administration Mr.. Sparks wac commits
,sioner of the general land Office.
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