The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-02

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John Mitchell ~ ths scarcity e.
strikes Il Great Britain = due 81
boards Of Cancellation.
Edward Thornton. the British mink
ter to Nicaragua, II dead, following A5
severe attack Of asthma. , i,{3 8:.s
One hundred thousand w0rkmen q
the United States are idle O. the e. 4
suit of union labor troubles.
Chicago physicians are in want be-
cause Of the practical banishing Of
germ diseases from the city.
Philippine trade has increased ST.
000. 900 and, excepting rice. America
leads in imports for the first time.
Eighty millions Of dollars were
given to philanthropic and charitable
work in the United States last year.
Germany will oppose Americas
proposition for q triple two-cent post
age agreement. including Great Brit.
ain. .|' "a t'''' s15''w j#
Miss Everett, of Exmoor. defeated
Miss Carpenter, of Westward Ho, for
the women's western golf champions
ship.
An Italian murderer fed from pur-
suers in swamp in Newark, N. j.,
and is believed to have sunk in tho
mud.
Mrs. William Patterson, of Chicago,
insane over domestic troubles.
drowned herself in the lake at Jackson
park. 80.
Rear Admiral John G. Watson has
been placed ON the retired list Of the
navy, having reached the age of g.
years.
A Northwestern University professor
shows that higher education lessons
the probability of young woman
marrying.
A New York railroad will spend
100000 in providing a new rapid
ransit system, part of the road to be
equipped electrically.
The name Of the first person drawn
at the Devils Lake Fort Totten land
lottery was Bruce G. Warren, Forest
River, N. d., aged %.
The post Office at Piru City, CAL, was
totally destroyed by fire, and Deputy
Postmaster Burnham was caught in
the flames and burned to death. g
An elevator carrying four men and
nearly q ton Of acid fell at Rabbits
soap factory, in New York city. Two
persons were killed and two fatally
hurt.
The Harvard club, Of San Francisco,
has awarded to Yasunoske Fukukita, Z
Japanese graduate of Stanford univer-
sity, scholarship at Harvard univer-
sity.
Alexander Agassiz, the celebrated
scientist of Cambridge, Mass, was elect
ed president of the International Zoo
logical congress in session at Beme,
Switzerland.
Frank and Fred Eberhardt. of Sa-
lima, Kan, won the tennis champion
ship Of the middle west by defeating
H. M. Holland and F. r. Sanderson, Of
Galesburg, I'LL, at Omaha.
Japan, in a formal statement. asks
for fair play in Chinese neutrality.
pleading justification of the seizure Of
q Russian torpedo boat at Chefoo and
charging the car with bad faith.
DR.. Charles F. H. Wilgohs, aged 100
years and eight months. is dead at
Akron, o. He was Of remarkable men.
tai and physical vitality until week
ago and was able to walk for miles.
Mrs. Rosina Watkins, a retired come
dienne and great favorite in the stock
company days Of generation ago, is
dead at the Edwin Forrest home at
Philadelphia. She was rs years old.
The Japanese minister has asked
the Korean emperor to disband his
army, abolish his minis and replace
his cabinet with pro-Japanese. This
points to Japanese absorption Of
Korea. &C.: ne.
Attorney George w. Sicard. former
law partner Of Grover Cleveland,
Charles w. Goodyear and the late Post
master General Wilson 8. Bissell, and
for years one Of the most distinguished
lawyers Of the Erie county, N. Y, bar,
is dead, aged 66 years.
A cave-in occurred on the Knoxville
& Augusta branch of the Southern rail-
road Wednesday afternoon at a point
where workmen were excavating for
the foundation of a bridge pier at Lit
tie River, Tenn. Six men were buried,
of whom two were killed and four in
jured.