The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-10-28
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The total number Of admissions since
the opening of the Louisiana Purchase
exposition Is IL, 1S3.927. .ssl s55ss
The Tyler Mercantile company's
building at Chetek, Wis, was destroyed
by fire. causing loss of $1,000.
The total number of students enrolled
at Yale university is 1896, this being the
largest number in the history of the uni.
versity. *'v+75s
M. Lebaudy's dirigible balloon has had
another successful ascent at Paris. max
ing many evolutions and obeying the
helm perfectly. 3l
The United States Steel corporation
has resumed operations at its Section 1s
mine at Ishpeming, Mich. The property
has been idle for year.
Panama seeks May concessions in q
new commercial treaty with the United
States following the visit Of Secretary
of War Taft to the isthEus.
A. G. Case, president of the First ma
tional bank, Of Charles City. Ia, died Of
pneumonia, aged 76. He was the most
prominent banker of northern Iowa.
At Memphis, Tenn, The Monk and
Equity trotted mile to pole in 2:07 3D..
The worlds record made by them on the
Memphis track last year was 2:0S.
James S. Cochran, widely known in
Illinois legal and political circles, died
at Freeport, ILL.,, aged II. He was q
former member Of the Illinois state sem
ate.
Fire in Milwaukee, Wis, destroyed
elevator B of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul railroad, which contained II, 900
bushels of wheat. LOSS estimated at
$4,000.
After taking drink Of icewater Isaiah
E. Aultman, So years old, of Bryan, O..
dropped dead in the United States gov
eminent building at the worlds fair
grounds.
The French chamber OF deputies by
vote of 1926 to 237 sustained Premier
Combes' fight on the vatican. The pre-
mier declared separation of church and
state is inevitable.
| The Ohio Mothers congress, in Day.
ton, elected Mrs. M. Streibinger. Of
Cleveland, president. and adopted reso-
lutions against polygamy, divorce and
politics in the schools.
The shops of the Coal and Coke Rail-
road company, at Bellington, w. Va,
owned by ex-senator Henry G. Davis,
were completely destroyed by fire Sat-
urday. The loss is $4,000.
Frank Krubinger ended feud when
he met Guy Powell, of Wheatland, Mo-,
on the public road between Wheatland
and Hermitage, firing at Powell with q
shotgun and killing him instantly.
| Hector Mareau, who gave himself up
to the Chicago police as an embezzler,
died in Jail hospital, and it was after
wards discovered he was insane through
the loss of $4,000 in speculation.
Dragging his wife from the carriage
in which they were riding, Frank Loos,
a teamster, of Elgin, ILL.,, shot and in
stantly killed the woman and then shot
himself through the head. He will re-
cover.
Edgar Mckenzie, young man, con-
fessed that he had shot John Smithers.
farmer, on the latter's place near Fay
cite, Mo-, and declared that he had been
Influenced by Smither's wife to commit
the deed.
Three men were killed and two severe
ly hurt in head-on collision between
a passenger and freight train on tho
Naturalization branch of the Yazoo
& Mississippi Valley railroad, near
| Natchez.
| Tripping on a stair landing by the
French heel Of her slipper, Mrs. Emma
Latassa fell over fifth story balustrade
in an apartment house in East Fifty
:ourth street, New York, and was instant
ly killed.
The Illinois federation of womaa's
clubs, in session at Danville, elected
Mrs. James Frake, of Chicago, presi-
dent, over Mrs. w. e. Fithian, of DAN
vile, by 100 to 70. The next session
will be held in Joliet.
William Schwarting, president of the
Farmers bank at Walcott, Ia, commit
ted suicide by hanging. He is said to
have been respondent over the loss of
money in connection with the failure of 4
bank at New Liberty, Ia.
| The powers signatory of The Hague
peace convention are to be ask ed to
form q fund of 100000 for the main
tenance of Andrew Carnegie's palace of
peace. The cost Of the building is esti-
mated at about 100000.
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