The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-01-29
I THE NEWS RI BRIEF.
FOR the Week E.Ai.s J.n. IS.

For the Week EAain1 Jan. %. "
At Brighton, Col. the Adams county
courthouse was burned to. the ground.
Mayor j. n. May, inventor of farm
machinery, died in Cedar Rapids, Ia,
aged 80 years.
The Kentucky legislature passed q
bill appropriating $1.OO0,OOo for new
state capitol. ts55. p
Mrs. Louisa Elton. 28 years of age,
New York city. -'&%
The st. Louis exposition buildings
and grounds will be in readiness for
opening May l..
William Sparrow and wife, old resi-
dents at Kassou, MINI, were asphyxi-
ated by coal gas. ssf1fs,
G. A. Tressler, of Springfield. O. has
been elected president of Midland college
at Atchison Kan. slsS "a
The will Of former Gov. Asa s. Bush
nell, of Ohio. distributes an estate esti-
mated at 81, O0O. 900. s&
BurglarsttookS 81 200 from the bank at
Jamestown, Miss, and $500 from the state
bank at Mclean, Neb.
The distillery plant of Mihalovitch,
Fletcher & Co. at Cincinnati was burned,
the loss being $250,000. T.
Frank Dijons, shoe dealer in Chica-
go, shot and killed one of two robbers
who sought to rob him.
Franklin Union No. 4 of Pressfeeders
in Chicago was placed in the hands Of
a receiver by Judge Brentano.
E. H. Hartman is said to have offered
to guarantee orders for 1000, 900 tons Of
rails IL the trust will reduce price.
| New coaches which, it is claimed, can
not be telescoped, are being tried by the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad
company.
The New York Central railroad will
try to break the worlds speed record
Of 120 miles an hour made at Prossen,
Germany.
Control of the copper supply and mar
kets of the world has passed to the hands
of the Standard Oil company, and the
.Rothchilds.
A. ]. McLaurin and H. D. Money have
been elected by the Mississippi legisla-
ture to succeed themselves In the United
States senate.
A Brooklyn IN. W wife beater was
sent to prison for eight years on his
eighth appearance before the courts on
the same charge.
Mrs. Linday Allison, who claimed to
be the oldest resident in the United
States, died at Pensacola, Fla, at the
age Of 1873 years.
! While handling gun he did not
know was loaded Charles Crabtree, a r.
year-old boy at Burlington. a., aeciden-
tally killed his mother.
Former Gov. Taft arrived in San Fran
cisco from the Philippines and hurried
at once to Washington to assume his
duties as secretary Of war.
The Olyphant breaker and washery of
the Delaware & Hudson company at Oily
plant, Pa, was destroyed by fire, throw
ing $500 persons out of work.
| A movement is under way to secure
Investigation by the national govern
ment into the causes of fires and to avert
the great loss of life and property
Cured of broken neck, James Dunn,
II years old, has been discharged from a
hospital in New York, where he had
spent five months in plaster cast.
! w. J. Bryan, in an address at Lin
coin (Neb.) banquet given in his honor,
opposed abandonment Of "bimetalism"
or change in party's tariff attitude.
Santa Fe railroad ofncials were elated
over life sentence given John Divine
for wrecking the Colorado express on
October 30, by which Is were injured.
A poll OF democrats in congress shows
| 62 opposed to Mr.. Bryan's view that the
Kansas City platform must be reaf-
ffrmed, four in it's favor and SO nom
committa1.
| The latest reports to the American
| board in Boston from the relief centers
! in Macedonia show that there are Tow
l00, 900 persons homeless and without
means of support.
| A battle at Puerto Plata between San
Domingo revolutionistsa and government
forces was practically refereed by the
United States naval commander, who
finally stopped it.
The New York Central Railroad COM
pany has settled for $4,000 the last of
| 20 suits for deaths in the Park avenue
tunnel disaster at New York. This
makes total of 81 ,249, 900 paid.
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