The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-04-07
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending April 3.

For the Week Ending April 3.
Conrad Myers, the first white settler
of Republic county, Kan, is dead. .,%
! The recent massacre at Baku, Rus
sian Caucasus, cost 1000 lives.
David Copenhaver,o OF Sloane, Ia, while
cutting down a big tree was crushed to
death. ..
Ralph Voorhees,, of New Jersey, mas
donated 100000 to the American Tract
| society.
| John Young (co!ored) was hanged at
Waxahachie, Tex, for the murder OF AL
burtis Moore.
Sixteen buildings were destroyed by
fire at Walters, Miss. The estimated
loss is $4,000.
| New Yorks records for the last week
show that 1913 persons died from the
mysterious epidemic of meningitis.
! Barney Science hall, at Dsnison uni
versity, at Granville, o., was burned to
the ground, entailing loss OF nearly
| $4,000
Rear Admiral Robley d. Evans, known
as "Fighting Bob" assumed command
| of the North Atlantic fleet at Pensa-
cola, FLA.
| Henry Wianand, of Sioux City. Ia,
who killed his wife in Denver January
II, was found guilty of murder in the
second degree.
! Oxford won the siIty-second annual
boat race between the universities of
| Oxford and Cambridge, defeating the
| Lott h1.t to frS,,,.
| Adrian lselin, the banker. died at his
home in New York, aged 90 years. Mr..
lselin was the founder OF the banking
firm of A. lselin & Co., New York.
Frank Byers, junior law student in
the University Of Michigan from Ear-
! Ian, Ia, was drowned at Ann Arbor
while canoeing on the Huron river.
A fire at Hanson, Ky, destroyed prop
erty valued at between $50. 900 and $780,
/ coo, including churches, tobacco fac
tories, business houses and residences.
| The greed Of steel rail makers in
sacrificing quality to speed is charged
by railway men with being fruitful
source of accidents on American roads.
Edward Hines, Of Chicago, has closed
a lumber deal with II. Ludington & Co..
OF Marinette. Wis, for ~ 900 900 feet OF
all grades. The consideration is $780,
900.
The home of W. J. Thompson, ten
miles south Of Charlottesville, Va, was
destroyed by fire. Mrs. Thompson
and her two children were burned 70
death.
Montague White. professor Of oratory
| at Beloit college. was accidentally
drowned in Rock river. at Beloit, Wis,
and student named Roy Andrews had
a narrow escape.
The fourteenth continental congress
of the Daughters Of the American Rev.
olution will be held in their new
| Memorial hall in Washington, D. c.,
beginning April II.
! In saloon brawl at Warrington.
Ky, Isaac Dunning shot and killed
young man named Kirby. 1t is said
Dunning acted in self-defense, Kirby
firing the first shot.
Attorneys for the packers give no.
torney in Chicago that they will de-
| mana trlal Tor INOmaS j. COnnOrS at
the present term of court.
| Charles Scott, aged 80 years, and Ray
| Scott, aged 10, of St. Charles, Mich,
were drowned in the marsh near that
place, while duck hunting. A storm
that came up suddenly capsized their
duck skiff.
Two men were killed in an accident
on the Wabeno branch of the Chi
cago & Northwestern railroad near
| Oconto, Wis, caused by the breaking
! down of a freight car in the middle
! of a train.
AlonZo ]. Whiteman was released from
| Jail at Buffalo. N. Y, on $4,000 bail.
Whiteman was recently acquitted on q
charge of grand larceny, but several
counts of the indictment still stand
| against him.
While taking tlashlight photograph
| in saloon at Omaha, Neb., Albert But
Ter was instantly killed, and William
Coffee, W. J. Murray ard NJ. Levy were
seriously injured by an explosion OF
powder used by the photographer.
John Alexander Dowie, it is report
ed, has agreed to purchase the Lopez
| ranch of 100000 acres near Victoria,
Mexico. 1t is his purpose to establish
great colony Of Zionlsts there and
devotion aSDhalt leDOSitS on the ranch