The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-30
the NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Sept. 26.

For the Week Ending Sept. 60
The reported outbreak Of cholera at
Port Arthur causes great anxiety o.
st. Petersburg. +@#
The next session of the sovereign
grand lodge, I. o. o. F., will be held
in Philadelphia.
The plant of the Pacific Starch COM
pany was destroyed by fire at Jackson,
Mich. Loss about $4,000. Il
w. H. Carpenter, prominent ranch
man, shot and killed his wife and then
committed suicide near Globe, Ariz.
Recent floods in Chihuahua, Mex.
| completely destroyed the town of Cust-
huriachio, in the interior of the state.
Prince Alert made q new worlds rec
ord on a half-mile track, at Allentown,
Pa, by pacing mile without wind
shields in 2:O3h.
While George Cooper and wife, COLI
ored, were at church at Winchester,
KY, their home was burned. their four
children perishing.
Thomas e. Watson, populist candi-
date for president, will open his cam
paign in Illinois October 10, with
speech in Chicago.
| Two men, one woman and baby were
killed at Braddock, Pa, by the Pennsyl-
vania fast express. The accident hap
pened at street crossing.
| Prof. Niels r. Finsen, discoverer CT
the light ray cure for lupus, died in
Copenhagen as the result of overwork
due to devotion to his patients.
Rear Admiral Fernando P. Gilmore
died in New York of Brights disease.
which he contracted during active
campaigning in the Philippines.
Gen. Harrison Allen, deputy auditor
for the post Office department, died sud-
denly at his residence in Washington,
aged 60 years. Death was due to heart
failure.
Admiral George Dewey, on Friday, re-
ceiyed the congratulations of his fellow
officers and friends upon the fiftieth an
niversary of his entry into the naval
service.
For the sixth term Cyrus A. Sullo-
way was unanimously renominated
for congress by the republicans of the
First New Hampshire congressional
district.
In the municipal court at Milwaukee,
Wis, a jury found ex-Alderman A. c.
Weissenbom guilty as charged of solicit
ing bride of 500 from Attorney F. ].
Brochard.
Justice D. Cady Herrick, democratic
candidate for governor, of New York,
will resign from the supreme court
bench as soon as he can finish ths
legal work now before him.
Estimates based on conservative re-
ports from all the leading corn states
place the total yield at 2,246,000,000
bushels, figure which has been cx-
ceeded in only two previous years.
The Society of the Army of the Cum
berland, at it's session in indianapolis.
elected Gen. H. V. Boynton, of WASH
lngton, president. Chattanooga, Tenn.
was selected as the society's permanent
meeting place.
The democratic campaign textbook
has been completed and is about to be
issued. 1t makes volume of 314
pages, discusses the issues of the two
parties and reprints q number Of
speeches by leading democrats.
! The soldiers bounty bill, providing
for the payment of $125 to every civil
war veteran, passed by the last Massa-
chusetts legislature over the COVER
nor's veto, has been declared unconsti-
| tutional by the state supreme court.
Count Tisza, the Hungarian minister
| of the interior, has rendered a de-
cision prohibiting Mormon propagan-
da within Hungary, upon the ground
| that such a movement is undesirable
| both from the standpoints of state
| policy and religion.
A heavy frost was reported from all
sections of Lancaster county, Pa, the
thermometer dropping in some Sec
tons to 80 degrees. A large quantity
Of tobacco which was still uncut is
ruined and the loss will run into
| many thousands of dollars.
The international peace congress
will be held in Boston during the week
of October 3. Many men prominent
in various countries in the peace
movement will attend. Ways and
means looking to the cessation of hos
tilities between Russia and Japan will