The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-05-12
The effort Of Great Britain to secure

friendship and commerce from which
favored nation clause offered by Great
Britain, had been expunged.
Judge Foster, in the New York court
of general sessions quashed the indict-
ments charging conspiracy against J.
Morgan Smith and his wife, Julia Pat
terson Smith in the Nan Patterson case.
The post Office at Viborg, S. D., was
raided by craftsmen who secured about
$4,000 in stamps, cash and notes.
Orlin Kalderwit was found guilty OF
second degree murder, charged with
killing Freddie King, seven-year-old
boy, in a saloon at Columbia Heights,
Mimi, on the night Of November %.
Prof. Ed. H. Boone, of Paris, KY.
known all over the United States as a
hypnotist, is dead. Heart failure.
caused by the strain on his nerves,
caused his death.
Secretary OF State Hay, now in Eu-
rope, will sail for the United States
early in June.
Great Britain rendered a magnificent
state banquet as farewell to Ambas-
SadOr Joseph ChOate.
Attorney General Moody, in formal
opinion, holds that congress has full
power to regulate railroad rates and
may delegate it to commission.
The Zemstvo congress in Moscow
plans to make itself a constitutional
convention and outlines popular as
sembly similar to the American law
making body.
The appellate court ordered the Chi
cage brickmakers' combine to pay
George Hinchcliff $4,000 for running
his business.
Germany will conclude treaty with
China upholding policy of the open
door and territorial integrity.
Adjournment of The legislature at AL
bany, N. Y, brings to a close a riot
of corruption such as never before has
been seen in the state.
Secret investigation of the American
Tobacco company and its subsidiary
companies is being made by the federal
grand jury at New York.
A prospective heir to the Shepherd
millions in Battle Creek, Mich, has
been found, after being lost for ~
years.
Gov. La Follette's rate bill will pass
the Wisconsin assembly, and he Will
accept seat in the senate.
Union Pacific shareholders by vote
approved Harriman's plan to issue
$1OO, 100000 new preferred stock.
James Britt Knocked out Jabez
White in the twentieth round of their
fight in San Francisco, the referee STOP
ping the contest at the orders OF the
police.
Isaac N. Perry, former Chicago
bank president, was acquitted OF the
charge Of setting fire to the Chicago
Car and Locomotive plant at Hege-
wische last October.
Tiflis, Caucasia, reports a strike OF
10000 domestics and walters.
At Grand Rapids, Mich, the jury in
the conspiracy case against E. D. Con-
ger, publisher of the Grand RapIGs Her
aid, returned a verdict of not guilty.
Mr.. Conger was indicted on the charge
of conspiracy in the Lake Michigan wa
ter deal.
The Fifth Avenue hotel, in the whole
sale district of Duluth, Mimi, was de-
stroyed by fire. Three lives were lost.
James Gentry, said to be the last sur
yiving playmate of Abraham Lincoln, is
dead at his home in Rockport, Ind. He
was Sc years old.
The new county building for the poor
burned near Burlington, la. All In
mates were rescued. Loss, 100000.
A typhoon which swept over the
coast of South China is said to have
damaged the Russian second Pacific
squadron considerably.
Wilhelm Deitz, who killed Russell M.
Lindsay, a brother-in-law Of William
Allen White, the authorization, near
Kansas City, Kan, on April 20, 1897, has
been given an absolute pardon by Gov.
Hoch, of Kansas.
Filipe Alore, a wealthy ranchman,
shot and killed Mr.. and Mrs. Francisco
Montorio, at Bingham, IS miles south
of Clayton, N. NJ, and killed himself.
Alore is said to have been deeply infatu-
ated with the woman and jealousy Is
supposed to have prompted the murder.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Degraw has made public report on tina
rural free delivery service in the United
States, showing a total of 30,982 routes
in operation May l.
Fire at Home City, Kan, destroyed
Is business buildings, leaving only the
depot and two elevators standing. Sew
eral families lost all they possessed.
Loss, 100000.
Gov. La Toilette of Wisconsin, signed
the bill regulating the size and charac.
ter of f1recrackers. The bill prohibits
the sale of cannon and dynamite crack
ers It will become effective January 1,
1906.
Hon. Milton Isaiah Southland, 20
years ago a prominent lawyer in Ohio,
and in later years a leader in Tamnaany
hall, in New York, died at the home OF
his brother in GAINESVILLE, o., of COM
plication of diseases, aged 68.
Four men were killed by lightning