The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-01-20
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
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For th3 Week Ending Jan. l6.

.... InS NEWS jim 0Nv6Vs
For ths Week Ending Jan. 10. NH
During . blizzard q man was frozen
to death in st. Louis. >& i2&4ls .4 @
Heavy rains have broken the long
drought in, Indian territory. ri, .>.....-.;a.
Alva Adams, democrat, OF Pueblo, has
been inaugurated governor of Colorado. :
Robert Swain Clifford, the landscape
painter, died in New York of agent pee
toris. 49,
Three men and q woman were killed
In q wreck on the Cotton Belt railroad
at Piggott, Ark. -"
Fire of supposed incendiary origin de-
stroyed the business section Of Arispe,
Ia. Loss, 100000.
Count Puechler, Germany's greatest
Jew batter, has been sentenced to jail
for melting class hatred.
st. Petersburg hears disturbing re-
ports as to the health Of the car, who Is
said to be in a state of terror.
Fire destroyed the new theater and
several other buildings at Neepawa,
Mimi, causing loss Of $4,000:
Ex-Gov. Silas CARRIER, the first gover-
nor of Nebraska under the new constitu-
ton, died at his home in Red Cloud, Neb.
Gems worth 5000 were stolen In day.
light from the Chicago store Of A. J.
Crawford & Co., by q thief who left no
clew.
H. E. Buckley, who had escaped during
the night from his home while delirious.
was found frozen to death in Oklahoma
City, Okla.
Customs officers in Cleveland are said
to have found jewels worth $125.OOO
brought into the country by Mrs. Cassie
L. Chadwick.
Fire totally destroyed the Laporte
Qnd.) sailing plant of H. J. Heinz Pickle
company, of Pittsburg, Pa, causing
loss of $4,000.
Deposits of Chicago banks exceed by
$10,00O,O00 any previous reports the to-
tai in IA national and % state concerns
being $602,000,0O0.
A train on the Norfolk & Western.
6ast of here, ran into a landslide at Ports
mouth, o. The engine was overturned.
One man was killed.
J. P. Morgan is the purchaser of tho
large interests of King Leopold in the
Canton Hankow railroad in China, ac-
cording to Paris advices.
Daniel Mahanna, at Batavia. ILL.,. died
after living life of poverty. and money
and deeds to land worth 100000 were
| found in his miserable shanty.
The comptroller of the currency has
issued a call for reports of the condi-
ton of national banks at the close OF
business on Wednesday. January II.
Senator Cockrell. of Missouri, has de-
cided to accept the position on the inter-
state commerce commission offered him
some time ago by President Roosevelt.
Henry Phipps, the former Pittsburg
for the erection in New York city OF
model tenement houses for the working
classes.
Gov. La Toilette in his message to the
Wisconsin legislature calls for state
supervision of rates. tax on life insur-
ance and action against the. trusts and
the lobby. -.
Gessler Rosseau, arrested In Philadel-
phia for carrying an internal machine.
has been identified as the man who tried
to destroy the statue of Frederick the
Great recently.
Alexander. C. Wilson, Chicago bank
clerk, administered dose of poison by
mistake to Miss Emma M. Schuele.
causing her death. He was exonerated
by coroner's jury.
Henry c. White, one of the best known
citizens of Cleveland, O., and probate
Judge of Cuyahoga county since 1887,
dropped dead of heart disease while maxi
ing call at the home of friend.
| Chief Wilkie, of the United States
secret service, announces the appear
ance of new and very deceptive coun-
terfeit two-dollar certificate. The note
is of the series of 1899, Lyons, register,
Roberts, treasurer.
Gen. Reuben Williams, editor of the
Northern Indianian and Daily Times, OF
| Warsaw, Ind, died as the result OF ex-
| posure while returning from the inaugu-
| ration of Gov. Hanly at indianapolis.
He was 70 years of age.
Mrs. Sarah E. Gallagher, once &C.
quilted of the charge of numbering her
husband, then convicted of perjuring
herself in the trial of Charles Halada.
who is serving life sentence for tho
Gallagher murder, has been acquitted
on a retrial ordered by the Iowa su.
preme court.