The Worthington advance., 1905-07-07
THE NEWS IN BRIEF

L E IN Il @.ty'
For tho Week Ending July 1. @
Three persons perished in the burning
of the Collier hotel at Licking, Mo.
Thomas A.. Edison's eyes and stom-
ach are affected by experiments with
radium. T.. + .,, '.,..s4a -
Field Marshal Oyama's right has be-
gun an aggressive movement against
Hailungchen. --
Railway accidents in Kansas, Ohio
and Pennsylvania on Thursday caused
loss of seven lives. r..
William J. Fielding, an actor we'll
known about the country, is dead at his
home In Richmond Hill, L. I.
Joseph Rebstock, convicted in San
Francisco of completely in primary cleo
tion frauds, was sentenced to three years
imprisonment in states prison.
Phillip Hill, Henry Martin and q lit
tie daughter, OF Martin, have been
drowned while attempting to cross
swollen stream near ScollsbOrO, Ala.
Ten million dollars as an endow7
ment for higher education in the Unit
ed States has been given the general
education board by John D. Rockefel-
ler.
George H. Mode, of Negaunee, and
David Grant, of Chicago, fell from
scaffolding at the top of a chimney 120
feet high and were instantly killed in
Negaunee, Mich.
Paul Morton has relinquished the
duties of secretary of the navy.
Charles J. Bonaparte, of Baltimore.
has taken the oath of Office as Br. Nor
toms successor. )
Degrees were awarded to 669 candi-
dates at Yale in connection with the
formal exercises which annually mark
the closing day of the commencement
week in New Haven, Conn.
A dispatch from Batavia says the
Russian cruiser Terek has been dis
armed and interned because of her
inability to take on sufficient coal
within the prescribed time.
Standing on the loftiest beam of the
unfinished Harrison street "jack-knife"
bridge, in Chicago, Thomas J. Meehan,
of Clayton, a., deliberately leaped to
his death in the river. so feet below. ,
Adolph Frederick, an officer of La
Crosse, Wis, lumber company, and a
former member of the Minnesota legis-
ature, committed suicide by shooting.
Disappointment in love is the alleged
cause.
One life was lost and two firemen re-
ceived serious hurts in small South
Brooklyn IN. W fire. William Gar
dam was suffocated while trying to
reach the STREET.-THE obtain aid for his
wife and servant girl.
"Big Frank" Mccoy, the famous old
time bank burglar and partner of the
late Jimmy" Hope, of Manhattan bank
fame, died at the Metropolitan hospital
on Blackwell's island, New York, of
complication of diseases. 80,
Imports of merchandise through the
port of New York for the year ending
Thursday night were valued at $685.
497,O42, as compared with 5000, 10, ,033
last year. They exceed those of any
previous year by $66,OO0,O00.
The Norwegian war department says
there is positively no truth in the re-
port that Norway is arming for a con-
Aict with Sweden. The Norwegian
troops, it is explained, are merely un-
dergoing their usual training.
A large meeting of the leading Chi
nese merchants at Penang, Straits Set
tlement, decided to cooperate with the
Chinese of Singapore and Shanghai in
boycotting American products, pending
the withdrawal of the Chinese exclusion
act.
While climbing a steep grade into
Castle Rock, COL, heavily laden freight
train, going south, broke in two Sec
tions, and 33 cars, rushing down tue hill,
crashed into the head of q passenger
train. One man was killed and several
injured.
In the annual boat races between
Harvard and Yale crews at New London,
Conn.,, the former were successful in the
four-oared and freshman eight events,
while Yale won the four-mile race in an
exciting finish, coming in only one and
one-half seconds ahead.
Frank Tice a young musician who lay
at his home in St. Louis, suffering from
q broken ankle, seized pair of scissors
and drove one Of the blades ipto his
heart, dying instantly, as band, head
ing q picnic, marched past his home