The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-06-09
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s# For ~ Week Ending June ).
Reports Of the hurricane in Natal
show 1t killed $50 persons. '2s
Anthracite coal men in Wales plan
to form a combine with 1000 900 cap
ital. a$s& H. -
The Albright art gallery was dedl-
Gated at Buffalo, N. Y. in the presence
of 10000 people.
A bill appropriating $3.50, 900 for new
capitol building at Madison passed the
Wisconsin senate. 9. -.
Warmer weather is needed to restore
normal conditions both In trade circles
and on the farms. r@ rs
Paris bankers are trying to influence
Russia to make peace, saying no more
loans will be granted. ~ ~
Russia is planning to, send a2OO,0 OO
more soldiers to Manchuria Ii and to
construct great navy. at once. .
King Edward has ordered extraordt-
nary precautions to safeguard King Al
fonso during his visit to London.
Brig. Gen. George B. Davis has been
reappointed judge advocate general OF
the army for term of four years.
Whitelaw Reid. the new ambassa-
dor from the United States, arrived
in England and was well received.
Fire at Pittsburg, Pa, completely de-
;stroyed the Avenue theater and partial
ly wrecked the Grand opera house, adj
joining. Loss, 100000.
Lawrence Owens and Jettis CARING
ton, both 11-year-old boys, were
drowned in a pond near the filtration
plant in Washington, D. C.
John Thoroughbred, a prominent
manufacturer and politician, dropped
dead in his Office at GAINESVILLE, Wis.
Death was due to apoplexy: y
w. H. Andruss, farmer living four
miles south of Centerview, Mo-, cut his
wife's head with hedge knife, ana
then shot his own head of.
Japan has decided to increase her
army to 1000, 900. men if the war con-
tinues. The killed up to the end of the
Port Arthur siege were 28,999 men.
Samuel w. Moulton, aged 81, for
mer congressman, died at his home in
Shelbyville, Ill. For seven years he
was a member of the Illinois legisla-
ture.
The Wisconsin assembly adopted a
resolution for a constitutional conven-
ton and passed q bill taxing telegraph
and telephone companies on an ad va
loren basis.
William Rosenbrook and John Boldt
were instantly killed and William Cool
fatally injured at barn raising on
the farm of Mrs. Jacob Heisler, north
of Albion, Mich.
Indictments against 80 men are be-
ing drawn, it is said, as result of the
evidence secured by the federal grand
jury in Chicago in connection with the
packing industries.
Because he threatened the lives of his
fellow townsmen> with gun, George
Workman. the town sergeant OF Charles
ton, W. Va. shot and instantly killed
John Jones, a miner.
Five robbers blew the safe in the
Centilevere brewery, at Fort Wayne
Ind, and escaped, after struggle with
watchmen.s taking with them valuable
papers and $500 in cash. g.. "
The board of trustees of the EN-
poria college, at Emporia, Kan, an
nounces that a Kansas banker, who
declines to allow his name to be used
has given the college $25,000.
Fire destroyed the Diamond elevator
at Kansas City, Mo-, causing a loss OF
$4,000. The elevator, which had ca
pacity of 100000 bushels, belonged to
the Beall Grain company. 1t was fully
insured.
"A. r. Hall, aged Ga, years, died at
Knapp, Wis, from a paralytic stroke
which he sustained on May "a. Mr.. Hall
was a prominent lawyer and was well
known in political circles in Minnesota
and Wisconsin. -
Under the supervision Of the United
States bureau of forestry forest Of
81, 900 trees has been planted on the
slopes of San Gabriel mountains Of
California, to conserve the water Of
the mountain streams for irrigation
purposes, at total cost OF but 81, 4S5
without a dissenting vote both
branches of the Philadelphia city coun'
Gil withdrew the ordinance authorizing
the extension of the city gas works lease
to the United Gas Improvement com
pany for a period of rs years, for which
privilege the company was to pay the
city $25, 100000.