The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-02-10
THE NEWS IN brief.
For tho Week Ending Feb. 8.

England and Germany deny they are
! attempting to effect peace between Rus
STA and Japan.
Chicago dealers have advanced egg
prices and declare no relief from tho
famine Is in sight.
The Interstate commerce commits
sion will investigate violations of the
rate law by terminal lines.
Great Britain strengthened her chan
mel squadron, 1t Is claimed, because Of
fear of clash with Germany.
Annie Stenni shot and killed her lover,
John Davis, at Vaughn, W. Va. Jealousy
is said to have been the cause.
Frank Barrett, aged rs years, the old
est printer in active service in central
Illinois, died at Peoria, ILL.,, from heart
trouble.
Rev. James Henry Darlington, D. d.,
rector of Christ church, Brooklyn, was
elected bishop of the diocese of Har-
risburg, Pa.
Nine. Rejane, the French actress, Is
declared to have danced the can can at
J. H. Hyde's 100000 dinner at Sherry's,
in New York.
The sanitary authorities of the Pana-
ma canal zone government have under
taken the sanitation of the cities of Pa
mama and Colon.
Reports from Moscow say that the
cry for the end of the war and the in
auguration of reforms is stronger and is
being made more openly.
Evangelists Torrey and Alexander,
of Chicago, have opened a great revival
in London, the meetings to continue
with great fervor two months.
The attorney general has rendered an
opinion in which he holds that draw
backs may be allowed on exported flour
made in part from imported wheat.
James Sebery, one of four men caught
in the act of robbing the Brooklyn navy
yard, was shot and instantly killed by
Private Laurence T. Milton, a sentry.
The Lancet, of London, estimates
there are 100000, 000, 900 tons of gold in
the sea, and urges big steamship COM
panies to experiment with electricity.
Two children were burned to death.
and William McCarrer sustained burns
which will prove fatal in a fire which de-
stroyed his home at Parkersburg, w.
Va.
The GascOnade county courthouse, ono
of the finest county buildings in the state,
was burned at Herman, Mo-, causing A.
loss of $4,000. All the county records
were saved.
Robert E. Armstrong, assistant secre-
tary of the treasury, has rendered his
resignation to President Roosevelt, to
take effect on March next, and it has
been accepted.
In the presence of a number of promi-
nent members of the bar, Hon. Robert
w. Tayler was installed at Cleveland, o.,
as judge of the federal court for the dis
trict of northern Ohio.
Leo Ososkie, aged two years, and his
baby brother James, aged two months,
children Of shipyard laborer, were
suffocated to death by smoke in their
home at Wyandotte, Mich.
Representative w. l. Nolan, of Mime.
apolis, introduced in the lower house Of
the Minnesota legislature law estab-
fishing the whipping post as means OF
punishment for wifebeaters.
Eight little children hitching be-
hind a sleigh on hand sheds, on their way
home from parochial school in Detroit,
Mich, were struck by street car. One
was killed and three injured.
DR.. Augusta Smith one of the most
1, In In h1>
United States, died at her home in St.
Louis, Mo-, as the result OF being struck
by street car. DR.. Smith was 70 years
old.
Announcement of the gift of $1,1O0,-
600 to Union theological seminary was
made in New York by DR.. Charles Cutl1-
bert Hall, president of the faculty, who
declined to reveal the name of tho
donor.
Mrs. Walter McCasland and infant
child were burned at Mount Vernon, Ind,
by the mothers clothing catching fire
from an open CRATE. In her struggles
the clothes OF the child were set afire.
Each lived but few hours.
While party of eight boys was coast
ing down hill at Battle Creek, Mich,
their bob-sled crashed into a rapidly
moving Michigan Central train.
George Lundy, aged IL, was instantly
killed, and Leo Sharkey, aged ten, had
his left leg severed by the car wheels. :
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