The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-02-05
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS

News Of the Industrial Fisj1, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
ut Home and Abroad.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
CONGRESS AIT WORK.
Dai1y Fr0ceeiIin9s '0l the Senate AID
House briefly Told.
The senate proceedings on the 9th
included speech by Senator Simmons
IN. c. in support of the Panama canal
treaty and the passage of bill granting
$4,000 acres of public land each in the
states of Idaho and Wyoming for the
maintenance cof soldiers homes. In the
house general debate on the urgent de-
ficiency bill depressed to discussion OF
political topics, the race question and
aerial navigation. A bill was introduced
allowing eight dollars to each soldier
who served 80 days and is now 81 years
old, SO a month il 66 years old and $12
q month if 70 years old.
The time of the-senate on the 28th was
devoted to debate on the attitude Of the
UNITED States toward the Panama revo-
luton. A bill to prevent the desecra-
tion of the American flag was favorably
reported. In the house the urgent def
cheney bill was further discussed. Bills
were introduced appropriating 100000
for statue of Abraham Lincoln in the
city of Washington: prohibiting the in
corporation by states of corporations to
engage in business outside of the state;
extending the thanks of congress to the
people of Wisconsin for the statue Of
Marquette in statuary hall in the cap
itol. -
: A resolution was adopted in the
senate on the Goth calling on the
president to state whether the senate
has been supplied all facts bearing on
the controversy of Panama and res
;olution looking to the adjustment Of
our differences with Colombia by arbi-
tration was considered. Adjourned to
February 1. In the house a carnation
adorned the lapel of the coat of nearly
every member in commemoration Of
the late President McKinley's BIRTH
day. Bills were introduced for the
distribution of $25, 100000 annually of
the surplus in the treasury among the
states and territories for the recon-
.struction and maintenance of post
roads; granting to each soldier who
enlisted prior to July %, 1861, and
who served until the regiment was
mustered out a bounty of $3.50.
The senate was not in session on the
Both ult. In the house the urgent def
cheney appropriation bill was passed
after an amendment had been adopted
striking out the double mileage clause.
DOMESTIC.
The number of bodies thus far res
eued from the Allegheny Coal company's
mines at Cheswick. Pa, total 1OS, and
so are still in the mine.
Atlanta, Ca, had the heaviest snowfall
ever known.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt gave a
dinner at the white house to the justices
of the United States supreme court.
Fire destroyed three lumber yards
at North Tonawanda, N. Y, causing a
total loss of $225.000.
The automobile championship Of
America was won by Barney Oldfield at
Ormond, Fla, the time being 46 3-5.
The three children Of Louis Cohen
were suffocated at New York in fire in
a six-story tenement.
A panic broke out in Havlin's thea
ter in St Louis, caused by cry of fire,
but cool action on the part of the en-
ployes prevented anyone being BADLY in
jured.
try to bring more than 30Ocigarettes and
SO cigars into American ports without
paying duty On them.
A circular temple costing $3.50, 900 will
be erected by Illinois in Vicksburg
(Miss.) military park in memory of Illi-
nois troops at the siege there.
Six more leaders of Chicago unions
have been indicted on riot charges.
The night Of the 9th was the coolest
in the history of the upper peninsula of
Michigan, the thermometer registering
46 degrees below zero. Cattle were
found frozen stiff in the barns.
-Four men were crushed to death in a
new air shaft of the Briar Hill Coal COM
! pany near Brownsville, Pa.
III Four supervisors and three other per-
sons were arrested at Milwaukee, Wis,
for alleged boodling.
s The New York city health department
will supply antftoxin to other cities
needing it, because of the trust
At Bellingham, WASH, Frank A..
5Goteh, of Humboldt. Ia, won the wrest-
4 ling I.atch for the championship Of the
world With Tom Jenkins, CT Cleve-
jsad. O.