The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-04-28
THE NEWS in BRIEF.
For the Week Ending April az.

For the Week Ending April 20.
Display Of meats in front of butcher
shops is to lie stopped May in Chi
cago. E-.,, - y
M New York building trades employers
and workmen agree on closed shop and
arbitration. 20.
The price of bread has trebled in
Moscow as the result of the strike OF
$4,000 bakers.
The Chicago & Alton railroad has Or
dered six gasoline motor cars for serv-
ice on it's lines.
President Roosevelt will arrive in
Chicago at noon May II, and remain
until late at night.
The main building of Vanderbilt uni.
versity was Quilted by fire at Nashville,
Tenn. Loss, 100000. res"
M. Paul Lessar, Russian minister to
China, whose foot was recently am
putated, died at Picking.
Daughters of the American Revolu.
ton passed a resolution asking con.
gress to prohibit polygamy.
DR.. John Alexander Dowie and party
arrived at Zion City on it's return fcom
from a long visit to Mexico.
James H. Hyde is accused of draw
ing $4,000 from the Equitable to pay
servants and other expenses.
Hon. Henry G. Thayer, " years old, q
prominent Indiana republican and ma
son, is dead at his home in Plymouth,
Ind.
A movement has been inaugurated
in New York to erect a life-sized
statue in marble of the late actress,
Mrs. J. H. Gilbert.
Secretary Taft has concluded to visit
Toxic on the occasion Of his Philippine
trip, and pay his respects to the Japanese
foreign office officials.
The jury in the case of James Oliver,
who killed &c. Casey on March 10 last,
acquitted the defendant at Wichita
Kan, on the ground of insanity.
The health of the kaiser since his
Mediterranean trip is such as to alarm
his physicians, and friend of the en-
peror declares cancer is the trouble.
Gov. Pennypaclzer, of Pennsylvania
signed the Greater Pittsburg bill, which
provides for the consolidation Of the
cities of Pittsburg and Allegheny City
BY a vote of five to two the Pennsyl'
vania supreme court decided that Mrs
Catherine DAM must hang for the muir
der of her husband, William G. DAM
Secretary of the Navy Paul Morton
when he retires from his present posi-
ton. will become an official of great
financial institution in the city of New
York.
Imam attempt to escape three prisoners
fired the parish Jail at Pontchatoula, La,
48 miles from New Orleans, two of them
being cremated and a third fatally
burned.
Tyranny on the part of federal Off
Gals is alleged by the Chicago packers
who say the constitution of the United
States is being violated in the search
for evidence. r-....... -. 49, .csz
Carl, Konizal1, who was leader of thu
Austrian band at the st. Louis expo
sition last year, was accidentally killed
in trying to. board a. railway train a,
Baden, near Vienna.
Friends of the University Of Illinois
at the alumni banquet in Chicago, de-
cided to work for an appropriation by
the legislature of 100000 to make
the institution one of the greatest in
the country.
Andy Hurona, Polish laborer, and
Michael Menichiella, of Joliet. ILL.,, were
killed by the collapse of trestle %
which they were working on the Sec
ton of the drainage canal extension
near Lockport, Ill.
Right Rev. Alfred Augustin Watson
bishop of the Protestant Episcopal
church for the east Carolina diocese
died at his home in Wilmington, N. G..
after an illness of nearly two years
following a stroke of paralysis.
Jacob Stoffer, aged so, farmer liv'
ing two miles west of Athens, o., killed
himself by blowing off the top Of his
head. He secured shotgun and, plac-
ing the muzzle of the weapon in his
mouth, pulled the trigger with his
foot.
P. J. Potter's Sons, private bankers,
with a capital of $4,000 and $3.50, 900
deposits, filed a deed of assignment at
Bowling Green, KY. 1t was one OF
the oldest banks in southern Ken
lucky. It is announced that they will
pay dollar for dollar.