The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-08-18
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For the Week Ending Aug II.
The Servian cabinet rendered its res
ignation to King Peter. n IS
"A bomb was thrown in Sourayskaia
street at Biliostok, Russia, many per-
sons being killed.
Lightning struck a street car in New
York, causing a panic in which IA per-
sons were injured.
The British parliament was prorogued
after session checquered with strife
with the premier.
American manufacturers exports
showed large increase in value during
the last fiscal year. ~
A severe hailstorm did much damage
to- growing tobacco in Dane and Rock
counties, Wisconsin. ~
The total commercial value of all the
railroads in the United States is placed
at over $11, O0O,OOo,0OO.
Senator w. B. Allison and Congress-
man Robert G. Cousins, of Iowa, ar
| rived in New York from Europe. 49,
Secretary Taft, with Miss Alice Roose-
welt and party sailed for Iloilo, accom-
panied by the insular commissioners.
Three children, eech three years old.
met death in Chicago by falling from
open windows In different parts of the
| city. j;
Thousands of pilgrims celebrated the
Feast of Assumption at the shrine of
Our Lady of Lourdes at Notre Dame,
Ind. s... -
Five box cars were smashed to pieces
and Henry Crawford, Of Chicago, was
probably fatally injured in a wreck at
Sterling, Ill. @@ ~
The national referendum on the dis
solution of the union between Norway
and Sweden, held at Christiana, was
unanimous for dissolution.
/ Relations between the president and
Senators Depew and Plat are strained
over the refusal of the executive to
make a certain appointment.
Bishop Fallows, in sermon at the
Princeton (Ill.) Chautauqua, said that
John D. Rockefeller is insane on money
and sets an example for grafters.
kilograms made public in st. Peters,
burg show that Viceroy Alexieff urged
the car to make war on Japan, but
that the emperor hesitated to do SO.
| Former Senator Thurston, one of the
attorneys for Senator Mitchell, says he
has completed bill of exceptions and
will appeal the case to the supreme
| court.
Claims against the United States
arising out of the war with Spain have
been approved by the auditor of the
war department in The amount of 81
50O,O
Thomas Watkins, miner and two
Hungarian laborers were killed and
John Lovett, another miner, was badly
crushed by a fall of coal in a colliery
at Wilkesbarre, Pa. &
A lamp exploded at the home of Will
Elliott (colored) at Paducah, KY, and
three children aged four and two, two
being twins, were burned to death and
the parents badly burned.
William Curtis, negro, was shot
and Killed by policeman at Saratoga
while resisting arrest, after having
made a murderous assault on Rev. Mr..
Schultz and wife at Balston, N. Y.
Henry Chandler Egan, Of the Elk
moor Country club, Chicago, won the
amateur golf championship for the sec
ond time, defeating D. e. Sawyer on
the links of the Chicago Golf club.
The steamship Eastland, Of Chicago.
collided with launch at South Haven.
Mich, and men and women on the
smaller craft were hurled into the wa
| ter as the little boat sank but all were
saved. NJ
A story told by convict in the Joliet
un.) penitentiary is believed to ex-
plain the murder OF Policemen Pennell
and Devine, of Chicago, three years
ago and led to the arrest of man sus-
pected of being implicated.
President Shea, of the Transfers
brotherhood, admitted before the ma
tional convention at Philadelphia that
he ordered alteration of records Of joint
council at Chicago to destroy evidence
l against himself and, other indicted
strikers.
Going at the rate of mile minute,
and in view of 5000 people, Earl Kiser,
driving his automobile, dashed into the
fence at the Chenille driving park at
Cleveland, O., and was so badly in
iured that his left leg had to be ampu-
tated at the knee