The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-03-03
THE NEWS in BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Feb. 27.


For the Week Ending Feb. 27.
An anti-combine bill passed the low
er house In Indiana. ,'
Floods III Italy swallowed whole fam.
lilies and rendered 1000 homeless.
Mrs. Roosevelt's inaugural ball gown
was made in New York at total cost
of $1,000.
Twenty Japanese torpedo boats and
q large warship are on their way to
Vladivostok.
The isthmian commission has signed
q report recommending the building of
a sea level canal.
Rear Admiral George F. Wilde,
U. S. NJ, has retired from active duty.
after 43 years service.
Mayor Davis, of Jacksonville, ILL.,,
has been indicted for embezzlement
and malfeasance in Office.
Canada will guard her own defenses
with militia, and the last British i'm
perial troops will quit the continent.
The Monroe county courthouse, at
Woodsville, O., burned, causing a loss
of $4,000, with insurance of $4,000.
President Roosevelt and Emperor
William received the degree Of doctor of
laws from the University of Pennsylva-
MIA.
Frederick A. Whittlesey, who was
Judge Of the slave court under Will
liam H. Seward, died at Rochester, N.
Y, aged u.
Tom Watson, former presidential
nominee, in his new magazine, pub
lished in New York, engages in bitter
filings at public men.
w. A. Lowell. on trial in Chicago for
wildcat insurance operations, was
found guilty and given prison term
with fine of $1,000.
John D. Rockefeller's statements be-
fore the industrial commission may he
taken as basis of legislation to place
pipe lines under federal control.
King Edward bitterly deplores his
failure to conciliate Ireland, and the
Orange faction in parliament now has
risen in arms against the cabinet.
The bursting of mill stones IN the flour
mill at the Trappist monastery at Okla,
Que, resulted in the death of two monks
and the severe woundlng of an assist
ant.
M. Thomson, Frances new minister
of marine, asks 500, 000,000 with which
to reorganize the navy, declaringi it to be
inferior to the fleets of any European
nation.
Chicago bowlers won national cham
pionships in the five-men and two-men
events at Milwaukee. G. M. Anderson,
of St. Paul, took the individual cham
'pionship. ."
The Indiana house of representa-
tives passed the Davis anti-pass bill,
which prohibits the issuance Of railroad
passes to any citizen of the state, by a
vote of IS too.
After being out % hours, the Jury in
the case of Print Cooley, charged with
killing James Smith in What Cheer
Ia, last October, returned verdict OF
'guilty" as charged.
Richard Croker in sailing from New
York announces that he never will live
in England again, but will make his
home in. Ireland: with occasional visits
to the United States.
Rev. Joshua Godbey, minister Of the
Southern Methodist church, is dead at
Bethel Ridge, KY, aged 80 years. He
had been preacher for 20 years, and
five of his sons are ministers.
Standard Oil stock fell to $500 q
share on the Broad street curb in New
York, representing a loss of 81, 900, 900
in value since the publication of the
presidents order for an investigation
Louis M. Hardy and wife, aged about
40 years, were found dead in bed at
Homer, Mich. Each had been shot III
the head and once under the heart
The police are working on theory OF
murder.
The petition for the pardon of Jesse
Pomeroy, now serving life sentence
in the Massachusetts, state prison for
the murder of two children in 1874, has
been placed on file by Gov. Douglas.
This means that the pardon will not
be granted.
A comparison between railway acct
dents in the United States and Prus-
STA, showing that derailnlents are three
times more frequent in the United
States, and collisions three-and-one-
half times, while the number of per-
sons killed or wounded is &c times
greater.
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