The Worthington advance., 1904-10-07
THE NEWS IN Brief.
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Frank Lswandowslki, wife murderer.
was hanged in the county jail. Chicago.
Theodore OFT OF Kingman. Ind. died
Of lockjaw as result Of stepping on =
rusty nail.
Fred Brewer was sentenced to two
years and halt In the lows state pom
,itentiary for horse stealing ct lows City.
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The main building of the American
Sheet Iron -company's plant ct Phil
lipsburg. N. j., was destroyed by hre;
loss, 100000. Sa
I A leak discovered in the battleship
Connecticut after launching is believed
to have been the result Of plot to
sink the vessel. .s
The wages of all Of the seamen em.9
ployed on the great lakes, numbering
upwards Of 10000. will be advanced
from 10 to Is per cent. .s
Three men were probably fatally in-5
jured and two hurt less seriously In
the collapse of an apartment building
being erected in Chicago. NJ ~
The czar is reported to be deter
mined to tax every resource of the em-
pire and continue the war until he can
dictate his own terms of peace.
| Judge e. B. Bundy is dead at Menom-
inee, Wis.,, of cancer. He had been on
the bench of the Eighth district court
for nearly 10 years prior to 1896.
| Alderman John Pound, chairman of
the London General Omnibus COM
pany, limited, was chosen lord mayor
Of London for the ensuing year.
The three children OF Charles N. Bird,
Ruth, Edith and Ernest, we're burned to
death in a fire which destroyed their
home, which is located near Robinson,
Ia.
Maj. Henry e. Alvord, chief of the
dairy division of the United States de-
partment of agriculture, dropped dead
at the worlds fair from an attack Of
apoplexy.
Col: D. G. Colson, former congressman
from the Eighteenth Kentucky district.
and colonel of the Fourth Kentucky
regiment during the Spanish-American
war. is dead.
Public bequests aggregating over
100000, the largest being gift OF
$3.50, 900 to the city of New Bedford, are
contained in the will of the late Mrs.
Sarah Potter of Boston.
Driven insane through grief at tho
death of Edward Hartman, whom he had
accidentally shot, George Brown of Chi
cago was picked up in the streets OF
Peoria, ILL.,, raving maniac.
The first convention Of the universal
congress of lawyers and jurists ended
In st. Louis, after three days of pres
entation and discussion of legal propo-
sitions Of worldwide interest.
D. w. H. Moreland, ex-commissioner
of public works of Detroit, Mich, was
acquitted of the charge of converting
to the use Of contractor 1,735 feet Of
curbstone belonging to the city.
The czar will bestow signal honors
on Alexieff on his return from the far
east, to show that he has not been dis
graced. The viceroy will have q voice
in the nations policy in the orient. "
Over 100000 loss was caused by
fire in the big block of meat packing
house and refrigerating plants in
Tenth avenue, between Thirteenth and
Fourteenth streets, New York city. 4,
President Roosevelt has reiterated to
Representative Cooper, of Wisconsin.
his expressed determination not to par
ticipate in any way in the factional
trouble now in progress in that state.
Twenty thousand dollars to estab-
lish a home for drunkards' wives in
Iowa is one Of the bequests of the late
James Callahan, the eccentric philan-
thropist millionaire of Des Moines, la.
James Oscar Webb and Samuel
Archer, negroes, were hanged in Phil.
adelphia. Webb was executed for tho
murder of his wife and her mother in
June, 1902, and Archer for killing q
policeman.
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows that at the close of business
September 30, 1904, the debt, less cash
i in the treasury, amounted to $685., ,382.-
937, which is decrease for the month
of 5,010, 400. ~
Miss Estelle Mortimer, an actress in
the BIRD Center" company playing in
Kansas City, Mo-, died suddenly Of ;
complication of Bright's disease and
diabetes. She was So years old, and DUR
ing her stage career had supported many
prominent actors.