The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-10-13
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the we.k Ending Oct. 9.

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Secretary Bonaparte will recommend
the construction Of more battleships.
= Ten buildings in the little town OF
Carlton, MINI, were burned. Loss,
$4,000.
I Dan Patch lowered his worlds rec
ord OF 1:56 to 1: 55A at Lexington, KY.
with wind shield. ,5. .@ 1885,,
. DR.. Oliver B. Hart, Of Rogers Park,
ILL.,, suspected of the murder of young
girl, was sent to jail. 1888 >..
Z John G. Sullivan has been appointed
assistant chief engineer Of the 18TH
mian canal commission. ..,
The plant % the Humboldt Brewing
company at Eureka, Cal, was de-
stroyed by fire.. LOSS, $4,000. w.:
Milwaukee citizens have started .
move to repudiate the work of the
grand jury, which recently adjourned.
Argentina will amend it's proposed
tariff on agricultural machinery In re-
Spouse to protests from the United
States. ~, ~ go, .
P. B. Stewart, of Denver, has been
offered the position Of ambassador to
Mexico. He was President Roosevelt's
hunting partner.
Mrs. Gustave Bigham, Sc years old.
and her son Edward, aged rs, were IA
tally burned at Cleveland by an ex-
4plosion A6f gasoline.
An English astronomer says the sun
is decreasing constantly in size as it
gives out heat, and that it will exist
24,00O,000 years longer.
: A portrait of former Chief Justice
Salmon P. Chase was unveiled with
imposing ceremonies in the district
court at Springfield, Ill.
DR.. Albert E. Warren, aged 36, Of
Youngstown, O., committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head
with a 32-caliber revolver.
The New York city republican con-
vention nominated Charles E. Hughes.
leading counsel for the state in the in
surance investigation, for mayor.
Horace 4. Connect, for so years a
prominent residen: of st. Joseph, Mo-.
fell from a dam into a pond of water
md was drowned. He was "a years
old. ''''
President Mitchell of the mine work.
ers, declared in an address at Pitts
burg that he never again will permit
q reduction Of wages paid the coal
miners.
Hall Game told New York inter-
viewer America is; menaced by the
growth Of classes through acquisition
of wealth, and says socialism is the
only remedy.
H. Because she refused to marry him,
Fred Feerer shot and mortally wound
ed Viola J. Lonsdale, telephone oper-
ator at st. Joseph, Mich, and then
killed himself.
Prof. Behring explained to the Paris
congress his new cure for tuberculosis
and said he is just as confident of sue
cess as when he discovered the diph-
liberia anti-toxin. 49, '....
Prof. Behring, the discoverer of the
anti-diphtheria serum, announces in
Paris that he has found cure for
tuberculosis. The nature of his cure
Prof. Behring says he will divulge next
August.
Private w. H. Smith, white soldier
whose company is stationed at Fort
Sill, was shot and killed at Anadarko,
Okla, by w. c. Mitchell, negro SOL
dier who is member of the Fort Reno
infantry.
R. E. L. Krumm, of Columbus, O.,
charges DR.. Fl. N. Allen, ex-minister
to Korea, with having used an Ameri-
can warship to extort money for
American contractors from the Korean
government.
Frank Waters, of Chicago, a con-
tractor engaged in widening railroad
bridge, was instantly killed, and a>sub-
contractor, R. F. Henry, perhaps fatal
ly injured by falling derrick at Will
berforce, O. .....
The directors of the Union and But.
falo cotton mills, at Union, s. c., are
considering the matter of liquidating
the liabilities of the two corporations,
which jointly amount to about $5,00O,-
900, with plants worth $4,000, 00O.
DR.. Joseph Huyett, said to be the
oldest physician in Illinois, having
practiced in Milan, ILL.,, for 81 years,
died at his home in that city, aged IS.
He was surgeon of the Ninety-third
illinois regiment in the civil war.