The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-12-23
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


The NEWS IN BRIEF.
Tor It's Wssk Ending Dec. 10.
Berlin has passed tho 1000. 900 mark in
The population Of the city proper. IN
{ Six river laborers were killed near
Ashland. KY, BY drinking wood alcohol.
The Mississippi river 10 frozen over.
and navigation IS closed at La Crosse.
Wis. ''as31 a&. 'a'-s a}%. ~
Will Jones. colored, was hanged at
Helena, Ark, for the murder Of A. w.
Robertson. r@ "-.@.$% M
The body of the late President Kru-
ger was inferred with impressive cere-
monies at Pretoria. 4 ~ n ~ s.t$t s..
James Connors, the murderer OF Dep
uty Sheriff Sweet, Of Blackfoot, was ex-
ecuted at Boise, Idaho. - .",
: a lone highwayman held up tho
bank of Chisholm. Mimi, during busi-
ness hours, snd secured 5000. @
John Alexander Dowie asserts he has
$21 ZOO, 900 in property at Zion City and
denies he Is In financial straits.
Plus X. Is in poor health, having been
overcome by his exertions in the jubilee,
and has been confined to his apartments
in the vatican.
Commissioner Garfield, of the bureau
of corporations, will press the issue Of
alleged violations of antitrust law on
Chicago packers. 49, - -
Subscriptions are being taken up
throughout England to care for the I'M
employed, The London fund, started by
royalty, has reached 100000.
Lumbermen of British Columbia will
make strong demand on the Canadian
parliament for q duty on lumber i'm
ports from the United States.
Firein Goshen, Ind, destroyed Hawks
hardware store, Hawks Electric COM
pany, Collins saloon and the Globe
Milling company. The loss may be
100000. : u - *
Acting presumably for the bondhold-
ers, Heary Jayne purchase the Musca-
tine North & South railroad at receiv-
er's sale at Muscatine, Ia. The price paid
was $104, 900. ~ ~, 3.
A Pennsylvania freight train crashed
through q bridge over Martindale's
creek, at East German, Ind. The con-
ductor was killed and brakeman IA
tally injured.
Mrs. Mary Andrews Clark, mother of
Senator William A. Clark and J. Ross
Clark, died at her home in Los Angeles.
CAL, after an illness of but seven days,
aged 90 years.
Philip Weinseimer, former president
of the New York Building Trades alli-
ance, who has been in the Tombs sinca
October Is last, under sentence to Sing
Sing for ,extortion, was released in 30. :
700 cash bail.
The council Of the American Breeders
association, in session In St. Paul, has
decided to hold the associations annual
meeting in Urbana, ILL.,, February l. q
and 3. The society includes plant and
animal breeders.
Alderman Hubert W. Butler was hailed
before the bar Of the city council Of Chi
cago and publicly censured as . SLAM
derer BY his colleagues for his re-
cent reckless charges rejecting on the
integrity of the aldermen.
The police and Cossacks dispersed a
demonstration of 5000 students who had
assembled, in the principal streets OF
Moscow and in front Of. the governors
palace. Three hundred Of the students
were arrested and go were injured. 81
Mr.. Davis, tho American consul al
Alexandretta, who recently got into
trouble with the Turkish authorities
because he lowered the flag from the
consulate during a celebration in hon
or of the sultan's birthday, will resign;
81 A fast mail train on the Chicago, Burl-
lngton & Quincy railway was wrecked
near Bristol, Ill. One person was killed
outright, two fatally injured. and a num-
Der of mail clerks bruised. The wreck
was caused by the spreading of,.~the
rails. :'"& =.
The engine of a Wisconsin Central
train became unmanageable at Chippe-
wa Falls, Wis.,, and George Rosine, the
fireman, and Walter Mohr, the brake
man, jumped from the cab. Rosine
was instantly killed and Mohr was IA
tally injured.
In a verdict rendered In Grand Rap
ids, Mich, by a coroner's jury, called
to place the responsibility for the Pere
Marquette wreck Of November is, at
Elmdale. in which five persons were
killed, the Pere Marquette Railroad
company was held responsible.
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