The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-04-21
THE NEWS in BRIEF.
For the Week Ending April II.

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For the Week Ending April II.
Ambassador White has arrived in
Rome and reports Secretary Hay great
ly improved in health.
James Lewis colored, was stoned to
death by John Morton, also colored, in
fight at Lexington, KY.
DR.. Edward Anderson Alderman was
installed president Of the University of
Virginia at Charlottesville, Va.
Five elephants We're lost at sea from
steamer bringing cargo of animals
from Calcutta to the United States.
The paper mill Of the West Ware
Paper company at West Ware, Mass,
burned. The loss is estimated at
$4,000.
Members of the Russian Old Faith
have offered the car $500,000,OOO for
war expenses in return for religious
freedom.
The National Council of Women, in
session in Washington, elected Mrs.
Mary Wood Swift, of San Francisco,
president.
William Conway, aged 65 years,
choked to death on piece of ham taken
from free lunch in saloon at James
vile, Wis.
The next general session of the Ma
tional Educational association will be
held in Asbury Park and Ocean Grove,
N. j., next July.
Commissioner Garfield's real work in
the oil inquiry has begun. He is making
thorough Investigation in the southern
part of Kansas.
Col. James A. Buchanan, command
ing the Twenty-fourth infantry at
Fort Harrison, Mont, has been APP
pointed brigadier-general.
Mrs. S. w. Wider, the wife of news
paper man, shot and killed Mrs. H. G.
Douglass, of Colorado Springs, in the Ma
tional hotel in Cripple Creek, Col.
A Spanish dancer, discovered by the
German emperor, has the royalty and
nobility of Europe at her feet, and may
come to America to finish her conquest.
Claude Whistler was bound over to
the grand jury at Bloomfield, ILL.,, on a
charge of manslaughterfor the murder OF
Frank Ogden, his wifes former sweet
heart.
William Livsey, who served three
terms as state treasurer Of Pennsylva-
MIA, died in Detroit, Mich, from apo
plexy after six weeks illness, aged u
years.
Seven hundred democrats attended
the Jefferson day banquet of the Demo-
cratic club of New York at the Waldorf
Astoria. Alton B. Parker was the prin-
cipal speaker.
Despondent because she had recently
lost her eyesight, Mrs. Jennie Vincent.
of South Bend, Ind, committed suicide
by swallowing mixture of carbolic
acid and laudanum.
Earl McKinstry, 20 years of age, and
Fred Harrison, 10. of Fishers station,
were killed mile south of Nobles-
vile, Ind, by 4 northbound Pennsyl-
vania passenger train.
Chicago packers learn that federal Of
ficials are getting evidence by putting
stoclzyards employees on the government
AAAVsSS
dealers in the small towns. !.
The finding in Belgium of the body Of
Schlesinger, partner of Miller in the
1870 per cent" swindle in New York,
clears mystery and may lead to the re-
covery of $4,000 of plumber.
DR.. J. Lee Adams, chief of the claims
division of the United States internal
revenue bureau, died in Washington,
aged Sc years. He had been in the inter-
nal revenue Office for about 40 years.
Alexander and Wesley Miller,
brothers, aged IS and 60 years, were
instantly killed in Cincinnati by a
Big Four passenger train which
crashed into their wagon at a crossing.
The r. B. Grover company and its
agents were declared to be blameless for
the explosion which destroyed its shoe
factory at Brockton, Mass, on March 90,
and caused the death of 81 persons, by
the finding of Judge Fred M. Bixby.
The gold standard will go into effect
in Mexico without postponement May l..
The Virginia Park summer hotel, four
miles from Holland, Mich, owned by
Peter Mccarthy, of Chicago, burned to
the ground Thursday. Loss, 100000.
The extensive porcelain industry at
Limoges, France, is threatened with
serious interruption. The leading fac
tories, including the Haviland works,
have decided to shut down owing to
the demands of the workers. About
10000 WOrkmen are idle.
THE MARKETS.
New York. April II.