The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-10-20

trooper in the Ninth cavalry, shot and
killed Private Manly Of the same Or
ganization at Junction City, Kan, as
| the result of a quarrel. Keeth has been
arrested
w. E. Brown, president OF the failed
First national bank of Storm Lake, la.'
was sentenced to five years in prison
for fraudulent banking.
The sum of $4,000 has been received
in Rome from J. Pierpont Morgan
! for the benefit of the sufferers from the
recent earthquakes in the province OF
Calabria.
The thirty-frst annual convention OF
! the American Bankers association In
session in Washington, John l. Ham,
ifton, of Hoopeston, ILL.,, was made
president.
After offering a donation of $l0,0VO
to North La Crosse, Wis.,, for public
library, Andrew Carnegie, after the city
had complied with the conditions, has
refused to give the money for the
library, on the ground that the city of
La Crosse has good library and that
it is the duty of the city to provide
library facilities for the suburbs.
AS a result of competition between
starch factories in Prescott and Ed
harrisburg, Ontario, a syndicate has
been formed to merge all the Canadian
factories.
BY reason of what appears to be dis
satisfaction with the situation in the
Philippines, Luke E. Wright, governor
general of the Philippines and president
Of the Philippine commission, will re-
tire from the position about the first OF
December.
The New York baseball team, cham
pions of the National league, defeated
the Philadelphia, American league
champions, in the third game OF the
worlds championship series by score
of to 0. The game was played in Phil
adelphia.
The American Association of Bankers
in session at Washington, put itself
squarely on record as favoring govern
ment subsidies for the upbuilding of the
American merchant marine.
William Mills WINS has accepted the
republican nomination for mayor Of
New York.
Harry A. Leonard, the young bank
clerk who took $4,000 worth of Sc
curities from the National City bank,
New York, has been indicted for larceny
in the first degree.
Prince Sergius Troubetskoy, long re-
garded as the foremost liberal in Rus
STA, was stricken with apoplexy in St.
Petersburg and died within two hours.
Gen. William T. Clark, of Washington,
D. c., died in St. Luke's hospital of can
Ger of the throat. He was the last sur
viving adjutant and chief of staff of
Gen. Grants army of the Tennessee.
The report of the bureau of immigra-
ton for August shows that 63,4O9 aliens
landed during the month, as compared
with 59,777 for August, 1904.
Just after giving his testimony In
legal case Of minor Importance before a
justice of the peace at Elkwood, Cum
berland county, Pa, Levi Brandt died of
heart failure before leaving the witness
chair.
The Mississippi river steamer Cor
win H. Spencer was burned to the
waters edge at Jefferson Barracks, near
St. Louis, Mo. Loss, $65, 900.
In a pitched battle at Middleport, o.,
Oscar and Arthur Myers, brothers, in
dispute over the division of corn, Will
liam Haag, a bystander, was killed and
John Myers shot and seriously injured.
According to the annual report Of the
Great Northern Railway company that
company has saved to shippers by rea-
charges since 1881 the enormous sum Of
$676,9s3,S
Armitage Mathews, secretary of the
republican committee in New York,
committed suicide rather than face trial
for fraud.
Fire in the town of Warren, Ark, de-
stroyed eight business houses valued at
$4,000.
DR.. Morris Wiener, a physician, play
wright and novelist of note, died at Bal
timore, Md. He was 81 years old.
Miss Cornelia M. Dow, well-known
worker in the fields of charity, philan-
thropy and reform, died in Portland,
Me-, aged GO. She was the daughter Of
the late Gen. Neal Dow.
The president directed the appoint
ment of Col. Henry G. Sharpe to be chief
commissary Of subsistence, with the
rank of Brigadier general, to succeed
Gen. John F. Weston, promoted to major
general.
Associate Justice Tucker, of the su-
preme court of Arizona, against whom
charges were made, has been asked to re-
sign.
One man was killed and another in
jured severely when a generator of ace
tylene gas for lighting automobiles blew
up at Lake Forest, III.
Five men, closely connected with the
administration of former Mayor Ash
bridge, of Philadelphia, were arrested
on building fraud charges at the in
stance of Mayor Weaver. 4
Admiral Dewey declares the United
States will meet disaster in the next war
unless Warships are commanded by