The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-11-25
THE NEWS IN BRlEF.


He NEWS in 0H1et.
Ter the Week Endine Nov. a..
The Lsestto academy Is Cair0. M,
burned. Loss, $4,000.
William Partridge, Of Bel0it, Wiz.
was gored to death BY = COW.
The plant Of the Foster Furniture
company, at Lafayette, Ind, burned;
loss, Sc, 900. II, n.
Socialist party officials announce .
gain in the vote from 9717S0 in 1900 70
100000 in 1904.
A run on the Berlin national bank ct
Berlin, Wis.,, caused the institution to
close its doors .s54
Fire in the Arcade department store
md the Decatur hotel at Decatur, III,
caused q total loss Of $126, 900.
Turkey has ordered 100 new batteries
If artillery from German, French and
English factories at cost Of I'll. 900 .OOO.
Minnesota defeated Northwestern ct
football ON Marshall field, in Chicago, BY
a score of II to 0 in q hard-fought con-
test. ~
1t is officially announced that Italy has
agreed to take part in the new peace con-
ference at The Hague, as proposed BY
the United States.
Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New York
Tribune, will be appointed, it is said.
ambassador to the court of St James to
succeed Joseph H. Ch0ate. -~ 7
State Representative Henry Buzz
baum was held for the grand Jury by
the municipal court in Boston on
charge of embezzling. $4,000.
A dispatch from Constantinople
says that negotiations have been re-
sumed for raising the American Legal
ton to the rank OF an embassy.
Landon Armstrong. farmer, who has
lived alone near Ashland, ILL. since
the death of his wife. 20 years ago, was
found dead in bed and partially eaten by
rats.
The entire business district Of tho
town of Dublin, Miss, with the exception
of one building, was wiped out by fire
Wednesday. The Loss is estimated at
$4,000.
Three hundred cottages on the Ur-
bana Chatauqua camp grounds, IL miles
north Of Springfield. o., we're destroyed
BY fire. Loss, over 500, 900, and no in
,urance.
President Roosevelt, according to his
present intentions, will visit Fort Worth.
Tex, in the spring on the occasion of the
reunion of the First volunteer cavalry
Trough Riders).
w. c. Rugh was arrested at Musko.
gee, I. T., charged with embezzlement
Of $4,000 four years ago from pub
fishing firm for which he was NAM
ager at St. Louis.
The monument erected by the state Of
Maine in memory of it's soldiers whodie&
during the civil war in prison at Ander-
pirate ceremonies.
Ella Gesterling. "a years old, commit
ted suicide with morphine in Chicago in
grief over the death of Charles A.
Parker, railway magnate, whom it is said
she expected to marry.
John G. Hecksher, -father-in-law Of
Mayor Mcclellan, Of New York, was
huOCheO OOwA 0uO ii oAupAcu uPOA ~ q
team of horses during the New York
aorse show. He was badly hurt.
The naval estimates for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1906, aggregate $114..
530,63s, an increase of $17.372, 448 over
the last appropriation. The estimatefor
thenayy department proper is $76S, $40. .
The executive committee of the Ma
uonal Civic Federation will meet in New
York December Is to choose q successor
to the late Senator Hanna and further
plans for an international organization.
With a capital stock of $4,000, 900 a
company has been incorporated for
the purpose of building model ORR
entail city on the bay shore at South
San Francisco, CAL, and moving tho
Chinese quarters to that place. =.
John A. Fagg. former clerk IN the
registry division Of the post Office at
Kansas City, Mo-, found guilty Of
stealing a package containing $1,000,
was sentenced to four years at hard
labor in the state penitentiary.
An automobile plunged over q high
bank at Los Angeles, CAL, and Hum \.
phrey Praed, assistant general manager
Of the San Jacinto Land company, OF
Riverside, CAL, was instantly killed and
Miss Nina Rudolph, leading lady of the
San Toy" opera company, and e. s.
Fry, chauffeur, seriously hurt g..