The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-06-17
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$9a The government has nolle pressed
7 the two remaining indictments against
Harrison J. Barrett, former law clerk
ssof the post Office department, grow
! ing put of the postal investigation.
Ben Garrett, Is years DID, was ar
rested at East st. Louis, Ill, on the
charge of having killed Mrs. Maria
a Cantatecos, at Boiden, I. T., on May
2S He confessed, but claims self-de-
u tense.
Mrs Hannah Elias, of New York,
has issued q statement to the public
in which she said that she had never
blackmailed John r. Plat or anyone
in her life.
4 Commencement exercises we're held
at the University of Illinois, the Uni
versity of Wisconsin and other insti-
tutions.
Y: Fire destroyed the Crescent Coal
company's yards in Chicago, causing
a total loss estimated at $250.000.
% Thomas F. Kennedy, alias William
H. Warren, has been arrested in New
York, charged with having raised a
draft for SO to 10000.
# Levi z. Letter, Of Chicago, died of
heart failure at the Vanderbilt cottage
In Bar Harbor, Me. Mr.. Letter was
long identified with the growth of
Chicago. His fortune is estimated a:
from $1O,OO0,0OO to $15,0OO.000. He
held an executive power in many finan-
cial institutions. He was 70 years of
age.
q julius Meinshock, who shot AMI
killed Mary Dowdney in Cincinnati,
died at the city hospital from the ef-
fects of morphine which it is said he
swallowed shortly after killing the
woman.
Members Of the honorary board Of
Filipino commissioners to the Louisi-
\ ana Purchase exposition reached
Washington, and from that point will
begin their tour of the United States as
the guests of the government.
Mrs. Miller, an aged negro woman,
confessed on her deathbed in Keok1k,
Ia, that she had Drained Pleasant
Cousins, an old colored man, with a
piece Of gaspipe in Burlington in 1901.
The woman killed Cousins for his NOM
ey and afterward rifled the body.
AZ Cardinal Satolli was passenger on
the steamer Princess Irene, which ar
rived in New York from Genoa, Naples
and Gibraltar.
= >Twenty-seven people, including sew
eral prominent Iowa politicians, and a
number of old soldiers were injured In
an accident on the Mason City & Clear
Lake Electric line as they were re-
turning to Mason City, Ia, from the
last camp fire of the state G. A. r. en-
campment.
+ The Rensselaer, Polytechnic 1nsti-
tute main building was totally de-
stroyed by fire at Troy, N. Y. The loss
will exceed 100000.
The jubilee at the University OF
Wisconsin closed with comforting de-
grees on 361 students and honorary de-
grees of LID. on 40 distinguished
! guests.
The Citizens Alliance at Cripple
Creek issued an order barring all mem
bers of labor unions from the mining
district, declaring that members must
quit their organizations or suffer de-
portation. The Portland mine, en-
ploying union men, was closed by the
military and test case in the federal
court will result.
/ q Cowboys in Colorado killed in battle
one of the trio of bandits that held up
a Rio Grande train near Parachute.
! ~ The cost of the various strikes in Co..
! orado during the past Is months is es-
timated at $23, 036, 900. OF this amount
the state has had to pay 100000 for
maintaining troops in the field, and the
loss to strikers and others directly at
fected in wages, etc., and to employers
in loss of business is placed at $22 ,400,-
600.
The executive board of the Western
Federation of Miners has decided to ap-
peal to President Roosevelt to investi-
q gate the conditions in Colorado.
.ss Fire in the village of Nahma, Mich.
X burned 10 buildings. Loss, $4,000.
u Laurence Hutton, the well-known au-
4 thor and literary critic and lecturer in
I English literature in Princeton uni
\ versity, died Suddenly at Princeton, N.
J., aged 81 years.
q The high water has caused the death
4 Of nine persons In the Indian Territory
5 5tits William H. Colby, judge of the pro-
D bate court of Sapgamon county, ILL.,,
dropped dead in his Office at Springfield
The cause was heart disease
Kokichi Hiraka was hanged at Fol-
n som. Cal, for the murder of Mr. and Mrs.
r. Yoshimoto and another Japanese in
Il Sacramento q year and half ago.
h "a train load of union miners has been
deported from the Cripple, Creek region.
Mrs. Hannah Elias, charged with hav-
\ ing extorted $685. 900 from aged John r.
Plat, was freed by q New York magis-
h trate,swho scored her accusers for pre-
3fsenting no evidence. The woman was
srearrested on a civil action.
5: Four men were killed and several in
jured by an explosion Of gas in the
@sThirty-ninth street intercepting sewer