The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-10-14

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The new battleship Nebraska 49,
launched at Seattle. Wash.
The price of anthracite coal was ad-
vanced Is cents 3 ton by all the re-
tail dealers OF Boston N
Gov. Bates was renominated BY ac-S
clamation at the republican state con-
vention held in Boston.
Harry Marks, formerly q New York
newspaper man, has been elected TO-
the British parliament. .s4
The government warns shipyards TO-
guard against q plot to wreck war
ships under construction.
The republicans of the Twelfth Mis-
souri, district have nominated Harry
M. Coudrey, of st. Louis, for congress.
Burglars entered the residence Of
Mr.. John A. Stewart, at Asheville, N.
c., and secured $4,000 worth Of dia-
monds.
David w. Matthews, of Rock Island
county, was nominated for congress by
the democrats of the Fourteenth nli-
| nois district.
William v. Artman, of Chicago.
killed his wife during quarrel, and
wounded himself, afterward confessing
to the police. /
Berean college, in Kentucky, IL to
receive SIS. 900 by the terms Of the will
of Miss Mary A. Terry, of Hartford.
Conn, who died in Venice.
Fire wrecked the private office Of
George J. Gould in the Western Union
building, New York, and many valua-
BILE papers were destroyed.
Five men were drowned in Pensa-
cola bay by the capsizing Of sailboat
in which they were returning from
Pensacola, Fla, to the navy yard.
The republican national committee
has extended formal recognition to the
La Toilette faction in Wisconsin as
representing the republican party
there. -
A Pendleton, Ore, -four mill has re-
ceived an order from Hongkong for 80.-
900 sacks (2,00O tons) of flour, which
is said to be for the Japanese govern
ment.
The Benson and St. John elevators
have been destroyed by fire at Heron
Lake, MINI. Sixteen freight cars were
also consumed. The loss is placed at
| $4,000. =.
The will of Daniel Willard Fiske,
who died at Frankfort on the Main,
Germany, September II, bequeaths 70
Cornell university an aggregate of half
a million dollars.
Matthew Whitaker Ransom, former
United States senator from North Caro-
lima and once American minister to
Mexico, died suddenly at his residence
in Northampton, N. G.
John Moore, aged IS, balloonist of
Charleston, w. Va, fell from a para
chute at Frankfort, KY, breaking both
ankles and an arm ana sustaining in
ternal injuries which may cause his
death. ..@
William L. Douglas, of Brocton, for
governor, and John G. Crosby, ct
Pittsfeld, for lieutenat governor, were
nominated by reclamation by tho
Massachusetts democratic state COM
vention.
Fire burned out the two upper stories
of the five-story building in North
High street, Columbus, O., occupied by
the Columbus Dry Goods company, en-
failing an aggregate loss estimated at
100000. %.:&
The democratic convention Of New
York county was held in Tammany
hall, New York city, and Victor ].
Bowling was nominated for justice Of
the supreme court, to succeed Justice
Freedman. ~
| Grief because she shot her husband,
was the cause assigned by physicians
for the death of Mrs. Peter Lewis, at
Leon, Ia She recently shot and
killed her husband, whom she mistook
for a chicken thief.
J. Isaac Bickel, aged 66, and his son.
Charles l. Bicke aged %, we're struck
by train on the Pennsylvania rail-
way near Reading, Pa. The son was
killed and the father sustained injuries
from which he died.
Mrs. Ema Ewing Palmer, the last Of
the two "ossifed" sisters, died at
sherburne, N. Y, aged so. Mrs. Pa.-
mer had lain motionless upon her
back, totally blind and with every
muscle rigid for the last n years. Her
sister, Miss Stella Ewing, who died
here two years ago, was afflicted In the
same way.