The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-01-13
the NEWS IN BRIEF.

For the Week Enoln8 jan. ~
France and Morocco have settled
their recsnt misunderstanding. 4. "
German coSl miners to the number OF
200, 900 threaten to 60 on strike.
The Forty fourth general assembly
of Illinois convened at Springfield. Z
Gov.-elect John A, Johnson, Of Min
nesota, was inaugurated in st. Paul.
William l.. Douglas. of Brockton, was
inaugurated governor of Massachusetts,.
Eleven Swiss have been frozen to
death while making an ascension OF
Mount Saint Bernard.
Fire Quilted the plant of the Union
Meat company at Portland, Ore. Tho
loss will run upward of 100000.
The late Theodore Thomas hadl COM
pleted his autobiography at time OF
death and it will be published in the
spring.
Friends Of the pure food bill believe 1t
has been killed SO far as the present ses-
sion of congress is concerned by the
whisky rectifiers.
Railroads centering in Chicago will
apply to Judge Kohlsaat for a perma-
nent Injunction against their enemies.
the ticket scalpers.
The falling of bridge during u per-
Torrance of Carmen" in the Metropoli-
tan opera house, in New York, injured
so persons on the stage.
Ten Thousand skilled mechanics in the
building trades in New York, after a
strike of six months, find their places
filled and face starvation.
Henry v. Poor, widely known for
many years as railroad authority and
an expert on financial affairs. is dead at
his home in Brookline, Mass.
Former Gov. William Claflin, of Mas
! sachusetts, died Thursday evening at his
home in Newtonville, Mass. He was
! governor in 1872-1873 and 1874.
United States officials are arranging
for the transfer of 40 federal prisoners
! from the Ohio penitentiary to the gov
| eminent prison at Atlanta, Ga.
Canadians, led by 4 banker, are plan
ming to drive all United States currency
from the dominion in retaliation for
discrimination shown across the border.
Representative Adams, of Pennsyl-
vania, has introduced bill providing
for the establishment in the District of
Columbia of whipping post for wife
beaters.
The total anthracite production in
Pennsylvania for the year 1904 was al
most 100000 tons below the output Of
1908. being 57,492,522, as compared with
59.362 1871.
| H. O. Barber, vice president of the
wrecked Commercial bank. of Cam
bridge, O., was sentenced to three years
and one-half in the penitentiary for en-
bezzlement.
The Harroun grain elevator in Har-
lem, a suburb of Kansas City, Mo-, was
! destroyed by fire with 1900 bushels Of
wheat. Loss in the building, $15OOOO;
insurance. $l25,0O0.
J. R. Good and P. G. Ungerer, of Fort
Wayne, Ind, walked on the tracks at
Ada, o., while doing some work. and
were struck by passenger train. Both
were instantly killed.
An explosions of a tank of gasoline
caused a fire in the Hubbard laundry at
Greenland, Mich, killed one woman
! and probably fatally injured another.
and wrecked the building.
Christian Wolmdorff, aged 80 years,
living at Brighton, Jefferson county, Ia,
was found dead, as the result of a blow
on the temple, inflicted with an ak.
His murderer is unknown.
Joseph Villas, for years a prominent
democratic leader and cousin of former
Senator William F. Villas, committed
suicide in Manitowoc, Wis, while de-
spondent because of i'll health.
The network of tunnels beneath Lon
don threatens to wreck the principal
buildings. St. Paul's cathedral and
Westminster abbey are in such cond!-
tion that experts are alarmed.
The Cincinnati Realty company, of
Cincinnati, was incorporated with cap
ital stock of $1,50O,OOO. The company
will erect hotel On the site of the
burned Pike opera house, at Cincinnati,
to cost $1,OOO,0O0.
Herman H. Knippen berg, said to have
been the Oldest postmaster in point of
continuous service in the United States,
is dead at his home in Femme Usage,
St. Charles::ecounty, Mo. He was for
about SIS years postmaster and general
storekeeper at Femme Usage.