The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-15

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MI. ana Mr.. Charles Rocker. Of
Boone, Ia, are In Jail under an indict'
ment for murder. and Mrs. Rocker has
confessed to Attorney G. A. Irwin that
her present husband murdered her for
mer husband, August Schroeder, June
80, 1900.
Jack Tennell, Charles Haskins and
Smiley Baxter, three saloonkeepers
were drowned in Lake Manawa near
Council Bluffs, Ia, while hunting
ducks.
Four children of William Burke were
burned to death at Sebastopol, suburb
OF Pittston, Pa, in fire which destroyed
their home.
Dun and Bradstreet agencies report
slight improvement in trade; prices less
inflated; weather conditions more IA
CRADLE; iron and steel looking up.
William c. Greene, the copper mag
nate, caused the arrest in New York of
IN Arizonian, who threatened to kill
him II he did not pay $500.000.-
A plan is under consideration in the
cabinet for the president to meet the
crisis in Chinese immigration ahairs
by issuing an executive order excluding
celestials until new treaty Is made.
In Washington the Daughters Of the
American Revolution will hold their
thirteenth continental congress In the
week beginning April 1S. The congress
will be interesting mainly because the
corner stone of the Memorial Continen-
tai hall will be placed in position.
One Of the Edison company's street
cars ran of the track in Santa Bar
bara, CAL, and was turned over. Five
people were killed and 1S injured.
The high school building at Gales
burg, Ill.,, burned. Loss, $100, 000 John
Slater, a fireman, was killed by fall
ing wall.
Charles L. Tucker has been formally
| accused of the mysterious murder OF
Miss Mabel Page, at Weston. Mass.
Eddie" Fay, arrested for robbery in
Wisconsin, is charged by the postal
inspector with taking part in a $4,000
stamp robbery in Chicago several years
ago.
| The steamer Panther, with 10000
seals, arrived at St. Johns. N. F., from
the ice fields and reported that the re-
mainder of the fleet has somewhat
larger catches than announced in pre-
vious reports.
Preventable diseases in New York
state cost over 1874, 900 600 yearly. accord
ing to the state health commissioner.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Indiana prohibitionists nominated
Felix T. McWhirter for COVER
nor and elected delegates and al
ternates to the national convention.
| The convention took no action regard
ing nominee for president
The republican convention for the
Thirtieth congressional district of New
York renominated Representative j..
| w. Dwight.
| Former Secretary Root will likely be
| temporary chairman and Speaker Can
| non permanent chairman of the repub-
lican national convention at Chicago:
The democrats of the Sixth Ohio dis
trict nominated Judge J. A. Runyan,
VI AcU0uOu, LUZ COQ61cSS.
The democratic state convention to
select delegates at large from Wiscon-
sin to the national convention will be
| held in Milwaukee, May II. Oshkosh
has been determined upon as the place
for the convention for choosing the
state ticket. The date has not been
fixed.
l4va0oNA%3n r$o<@ Nf
Kansas elected 20 uninstructed dele
gates to the national convention. The
delegation, according to personal pref
erences, will stand six for Hearst and
fourteen against him. it is said.
The republican state convention Of
Tennessee nominated Jesse Littleton,
| of Franklin county. for governor.
The managers of the Luse campaign
! in Wisconsin announce that they have
given up hope of electing their candi-
date to the supreme court justiceship
and acknowledge the election of James
| G. Kerwin, of Neenah. Almost com
| plete returns give Kerwin's majority
as $3.50.
The house of representatives on Sun
day conducted memorial services III
memory of the late Representatives
Foerderer and Burk, of Pennsylvania.
The Iowa senate by a vote of &c to
20, refused to pass resolutions favoring
the pardon of Mrs. Sarah Kuhn.
April % has been discussed in COM
mittee rooms and among senator's and
representatives as not at all an improb-
able date for the, termination Of the
present session of congress.
FOREIGN.
Swarms of locusts have devastated
the valleys of Usumbara, in German
East Africa
A violent anti-Jewish outbreak at
Lompalankay, Bulgaria, is reported.
Several Jews are said to have been cruci-
fed and their shops plundered.