The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-11-18
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Tor tho week 1nding rev. -
-Four ,tramps swsru burned To dsa4A
In . barn which was destroyed By hre g.
Altoona. Pa. s
Negotiations for . treaty d arbitra.
between tho United States and Denmark
have been opened. 5s5 I'll
Michigan defeated Chicago ct Ann
Arbor ina stubbosuly fought football
game by the score Of ~ to IL. 3
Gen. Mackenzie reports that seacoast
forts need rebuilding, and he asks for
an appropriation Of @2s. 900. 900.
The October grand jury, ut st. Louis
returned IL indictments against men
charged with registration frauds.
Railroad agents and tranic managers
assert that there IL no shortage of
freight cars on the trunk lines.
The Danish government will accept
President Roosevelt's invitation to par.
ticipate in a second peace conference.
James H. Foote and Alfred Gaines,
electricians, were drowned while duck
hunting at the st. Clair Flats, near De-
troit, Mich. 49,.
The total strength of the United
States army at the close of the last fiscal
year was 1871 officers and 6S, GAG en-
listed men. .,>f''G' 3t
A grand fury In Chicago recon-
mends that capital punishment, II
need be. be the punishment for armed
hold-up men. ,r+. 04}@-r Il III
Frank Grosvenor, a nephew of Gen.
Charles H. Grosvenor, was instantly
killed in runaway accident in Rome
township, near Athens, o.
BY an explosion Friday in the mine
Of the Peabody Coal company, at Sher-
man, ILL.,, two miners, James MCGEE and
Anton Neruscha. were killed.
Fifteen horses from the stables OF
King Leopold Of Belgium are on the
way to Chicago to be exhibited at the
international live stock show.
Douglas Neare. q well-known insur-
ance man, was killed near Coney Island,
east Of Cincinnati, by going over an en-
bankment in his automobile.
One outlaw is dead and another Is in
Jail MORALLY wounded as the result Of q
desperate battle between cattle thieves
and officers near Deeth, New.
fractional warfare in the prohibition
party leads to charges of misappropria-
ton of campaign funds against Chair.
man o. w. Stewart, which he denies.
Camden, N. j., is planning double
celebration for Washington's birthday,
when the president will be present al
the launching of the cruiser Washing
ton.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland performed
ceremony of laying the corner stone OF
the new building of the Hebrew technical
school for girls, now being erected in New
York.
Mrs. Annette Moran, widow of the
late Edword Moran, q distinguished ma
rine painter, is dead at her home in New
York from pneumonia. She was about
80 years old. 80
Secretary Of State Hay has received q
dispatch. announcing the death of his
brother. Maj. Leonard Hay, U. s. A.. re-
tired, In the 10Th year Of his age. He
died at the Hay homestead in Warsaw,
Ill. -.
Ray Boron, who was arrested in Spo.
kane, WASH, and brought to Decatur, Ill,
charged with killing Richard L. Roberts
in April last, was found guilty and sem
fenced to 40 years in the peniten-
tiary.
Three persons lost their lives, 20 were
injured, nearly half a hundred were
overcome by smoke and an equal number
are temporarily homeless as result OF
q series of fires in various parts of Great
er New York. = 49,.
Mrs. Henry H. Donaldson, wife of tho
head professor of neurology at the Unit
versity of Chicago, committed suicide
by hanging. 1t is supposed dependency
over her i'll health caused her to become
temporarily insane.
The grand jury in Athens, O., has,
indicted nine members of the Four
teenth United States artillery for their
alleged part in the killing Of Corporal
Clark of the Ohio militia in a soldiers
riot there last summer.
Alexander Sutherland, said to have
been the last survivor of the famous
Balakalava six Hundred" is dead at his
home in Denver, COL. where he had re-
sided for 40 years. He was the trumpet
er who sounded the bugle call for tho
memorable charge immortalized in verse
by Tennyson. -
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