The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-12-16
Z THE NEWS I'M BRIEF.
For tho Week Ending Dec. 10

For tho Week Ending Dec. 10.
Great Britain has swelled her navH
with 26 new cruisers. 5..g.. r%|
Fire in the business district of st.
Joseph, Mich, caused damage estimat-
ed at $150,000.
The last grainboats have left Chicago,
closing one of the poorest lake seasons
ever known to vessel owners.
Charles H. Slack & Co., prominent
Chicago grocers, failed with liabilities
Of $4,000 and assets Of 100000.
Former Ambassador Andrew d.
White says President Roosevelt shows
too much leniency toward criminals.
The sentiment is growing in the sem
ate that legislation is necessary to pro-
tect shippers from rate discrimination.
The government crop report shows
that less winter wheat and rye have been
sown than in 1903, but an increased yield
Is predicted.
Orson E. Woodbury., author Of the
campaign song of 1910, "Tippecanoe and
Tyler Too" died at Madison, Wis, at
the age of 80.
The Roby building, Main street, West
and Elizabeth street, Rochester, N. Y.
was destroyed by fire. entailing loss OF
about 100000.
Catholics all over the world cele-
brated the fftieth anniversary of the
proclamation of the dogma of the I'm
maculate Conception.
The car stands so closely to liberal
lister Muraviefr resigned because of fall
ure to block the zemstvo programme.
Baron Won Busche, with % men.
proceeding to Warmbad German
southwest Africa, was attacked by
rebels and II of the mesl were killed.
Ralph Adams, aged l6; Frank Bayless.
aged 16, and Burdett Bleet, aged IL,
were drowned while skating on the
Lake of the Woods near Decatur, Mich.
Myra Delaroc, an actress, unable to pay
her room rent, tried to escape from a
fifth-story window of the Revere house,
in Chicago by a rope, fell and was killed.
The Independent Pickle company was
incorporated in Missouri. The concern
is capitalized at 100000 and aims to
control the pickle business Of the ccun-
try.
The jury which heard the evidence in
the bribery trial of ex-Mayor George B.
Perry, of Grand Rapids, Mich, was dis
charged, being unable to agree on YER
dict.
Elias Johnson, a farmer living near
Orearville, NO., shot and killed his
wife, believing some one was stealing
his chickens. A coroner's jury is in
vestigating.
year-old jockey, whose whereabouts are
unknown, state that he is the sole heir
to an estate of 100000 left him by his
grandmother.
The president expects all the mem
bers of mis- cabinet and all ambassa-
doris and ministers to send in their
designations between now and the
fourth of March next.
Representative Bartholdt, as presi-
dent of the Interparliamentary union.
called on Secretary Hay and urged that
President Roosevelt take the initiative
In moving for peace in the far east.
Four election officers were convicted
in Denver of permitting fraudulent vot-
ing, and were given sentences ranging
from three months imprisonment to
nine months Imprisonment and $500
fine.
Eleven fishermen were drowned in
an attempt to assist the Norwegian
steamer Anglia from Hamburg for
Sunderland, which was wrecked ON
the rocks near Newbiggin, Northum-
berland.
Syveton, the nationalist deputy
whose action in striking War Minister
Andre in the French chamber of depu-
ties November led to the minister's
resignation, was found dead in Paris.
having been asphyxiated by gas.
Rev. e. P. Dorset, pioneer Episcopal
minister of the northwest, died in La
Crosse, Wis, aged 70 years. He was or
dained so years ago. and has been rec
tor of various Episcopal churches in
Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
While in a delirium. John Delaney,
a sailor from Binghamton, N. Y.
jumped from the third story window
of the marine hospital at Cleveland,
O., and received such severe injuries
that he died within a few minutes.