The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-06-03
All the News of the Past Seven
- w.. Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
ut Home and Abroad.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

court to celoring and selling oleomar-
garine without labelling it as such and
was fined $1,000.
Shipbuilders told the congressional
commission that subsidy is necessary
to build up a merchant marine.
At Berkeley, CAL, Prof. Marcus ].
Spinello, instructor of French and 1tal-
ian at the University of California, was
thrown under the wheels OF moving
train and received injuries from which
he died soon afterward.
Myer S. Isaacs, president of the Baron
de Hirsch fund, and prominently identi-.
fed with many othSr local and national
organizations; dropped dead in New
York cafe. He was GO years of age.
G. c. Clark, q farmer near Wayne,
Neb., was killed by lightning and his
son severely injured. Three horses they
were driving were killed.
W.. Showers, editor of the Onalaska,
Wis. Record, was killed by lightning at
mis- desk.
Nine hundred heavy hardware han
dlers struck for higher wages in Chi
cago The strike will cripple for time
most, if not all, of the dealers in steel
and heavy hardware.
The First National bank, Of Cape
May, N. J., was closed by order of the
comptroller of the currency. 1t is said
that the depositors will be paid in full.
Financial difficulties of the former pres
ident, it is stated, caused the present
trouble.
All grades of refined sugar have been
advanced five cents per 100 pounds.
Shortage of traffic and consequent ne
cessity for reducing expenses on the
Pennsylvania railroad are the reasons
given for the closing to through tramc
of the new Portage branch.
Joseph Brush was found dead II
Cedar Rapids, Ia. He had been MUIR
dered and robbed. The murderer made
good his escape.
Willingness of the public to pay the
prices for coal and not the cost of pro-
duction is the basis of Quotations, said
George F. Baer before the interstate
commerce commission.
j. ]. Hill told congressional commits
sion that the best way to build up mer-
chant marine was by free ships and pay
ing an export bounty.
The body of George W. Pail, secretary
of the Elgin Watch company, missing
since November %, 1908, was found in
the Calumet river at South Chicago, I'll.
President Roosevelt, in an address at
Groton (Mass.) school, declared snobs
the most contemplate creatures in pub
lie or in private life.
A bulletin issued by the census
bureau gives the total number Of en-
ployes in the executive civil service
Of the United States as 15O,383. These
figures include only those employees
who are required to take an examina-
zion.
Stephen Herbert was arrested in
Providence, r. l., charged with steal
ing jewelry valued at $4,000 from J.
W. Kiser, of Chicago.
Ten miners were suffocated by gas
and sulphur fumes from small loco
motive drawing a train through long
tunnel at mine in Willian1stown, Pa.
Annie Piatt, aged IA years, and
Sadie Hardie, aged IL years, were
drowned at Hammondsville, o.
It is estimated that more than one
half Of the ripening cherry crop is de-
stroyed, and that from 100000 to
10000, 900 pounds of prunes are on the
ground as the result Of high wind in
the Santa Clara valley, California.
Thomas w. Brennan and Daniel
Tautis, farmers, have been killed by
lightning near Sioux City, Ia. The
two were killed by a single bolt.
The jury in the case of James N.
Tyner and Harrison J. Barrett, tried
in Washington On charge Of consplr-
acy in connection with their duties
of law office of the post Office depart
ment returned a verdict of not guilty.
Twenty persons were injured, some
seriously, in wreck ON the Cleveland
G. Pittsburg road near East Liver
pool, o.
Charles Penio, the oldest chief OF the
Ukiah tribe, is dead at Cox ranehero.
In California, and the Indians cele.-
brated a death feast. Pen1a was 107
years of age.
The National Piano Manufacturers
association, in session at Atlantic City.
N. J., elected George P. Bent, of Chi
cago, president, and William Bauer, Of
Chicago, secretary.
w. E. Brown, president of the failed
First National bank at Storm Lake,
a., was indicted on charges of emhez-
cling $4,000 and making false reports
to the comptroller OF the currency.
Lazard Freres engaged $2,250,O00
gold at the New York assay Office for
shipment to Paris, being practically al!
the gold bars obtainable.
Fire destroyed the Los Angeles
branch packing house of the Cudahy
Packing company, located near the Los
Angeles river bottoms. The loss is es-
timated t about 100000 and the insu7-
a9ce al z;j65,)o0.
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