The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-05-27
All the News Of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News Of the Industrial Field, Personal
n and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
81. THE 30. NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.


\ ment for the fiscal year ending July
m next would be approximately $144.-
y 1O0, 900.
@ In 1899 200 rural free delivery routes
were in operation. At the close of the
present fiscal year there will be over
4 Is, 900 rural routes in operation, bring
ing daily mail service to more than
AZ. 100000 people residing in rural dis
tricts.
When driving to their home near
.Ariola, COL, Mrs. c. w. Herman and
her son, Frank Ingles, were shot and
killed by Marshal Humphreys. There
had been q feud between the two fam
lilies. E.
M. p. Griswold, lying in bed at St.
Elizabeth's hospital in Appleton, cut
his throat with razor. A few min
utes before he had received word that
Gov. LaFOllette had been renOminated
by the Wisconsin republicans. He was
the governors bitterest political enc
my.
Two Delaware & Hudson freight
trains collided head-on on the Penn
sylvania division of the Delaware &
Hudson at Lanesboro, Pa. One man
was killed and several badly injured.
Thomas Murdoch, a retired building
contractor, who was postmaster OF
Rock Island, ILL.,, for ten years and
mayor of that city for two terms, died
In Kansas City, aged SO years.
The commission on international
and industrial peace made a report to
the general conference Of the Methodist
Episcopal church denouncing trusts
and trust promoters in scathing terms.
Il Rev. Henry Spellmeyer, of Newark,
N. j.; DR.. ". F. Mcdowell, of New
York, and DR.. J. w. Bashford, Of Wes-
leyan university, were elected bishops
of the Methodist church in convention
, at Los Angeles.
. r. T.. Wall, wealthy banker and
merchant of Richards, Nc, was shot
and killed on the street by DR.. J. T.
Todd, equally prominent and former
member Of the Missouri legislature.
4 An old feud caused the murder.
Boundless, the American derby win
ner Of 1893. fell and broke his neck on
a farm near Lexington, KY.
The treasury department drew a
warrant for 100000 in favor of J.
P. Morgan & Co., as the fiscal agents
of the republic of Panama. The issue
of this warrant fully completes all
payments and transactions of every
character in connection with the pur-
chase and transfer of the canal prop
erty.
Hail that weighed more than three
ounces fell at Pueblo, COL, to depth
OF an inch. Much damage was done
. and several persons were slightly in
iured. Hundreds of windows we're bro
ken.
Thieves entered the Roberts, Ill.
post Office, blew the safe and secured
$275 in stamp and cash.
AL Giller. Peter Keyser and another
man named Jackson were drowned
!: while fishing in Owens lake near Boul-
der, Col.
Seven hundred carpenters of Des
Moines, Ia, shut out since May l, re-
turned to work, all differences having
been settled.
& The navy department has ordered a
United States fleet to Tangier to en-
force a demand that the sultan of Mo-
rocco ransom Ion Perdicaris, the
{ wealthy American resident of Tangier,
Morocco, and his step-son, a British
\ subject, who were captured by bril-
gands.
sE Tracy Nichols, a telegraph operator
Y from Ell Reno, Okla, was killed by a
train on the Rock Island bridge over the
\ drainage canal at Joliet, Ill.
E. "A cloudburst near Fort Collins, COL,
s caused flood of the Cache la Poudre
river, which partly destroyed several
u villages. Six lives were lost. Many
( head of live stock persisted and numer-
GUS houses destroyed by food along the
Crow river in Wyoming.
Y r. H. Plant, OF Macon, Ca, whose
{ two banks closed last week, committed
!, suicide in order, it is said, that his
life insurance could be used to pay his
L debts, amounting to 100000.
Terrell Thomas, local manager of a
a lumber company in Pasadena, CAL,
\ killed his eight-year-old son, para
s1ytic, by stabbing him in the back with
u q hunting knife. He then shot himself
/. to death. Thomas is supposed to have
y become suddenly demented.
The California Fruit agency, the big
u merger in control of the packing and
n shipping of large part of the orange
u n crop of southern California, will go out
$ssof business next September.
wv 5,rha hattleshiD Kentucky. under Rear
Admiral Evans, made a recocd-break-
a ing run from Hongkong to New York,
4 going 1853 miles in SO days.
81 while the nuns of st. Elizabeth
\; hospital in Chicago were in prayer, a
thief broke into the Office safe and got
3Ss, 500. n. a
Only two lives were lost in the food
which swept through west end south
Chevenne. -
VIA. 5. w., II sg> I'll. 80.