The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-06-16
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

several other buildings In Brooklyn.
LOSS, $500 900. 5e~ ],
The st. Paul railroad plans to stop
all Sunday excursions and to give crews
the day for rest. = <ys.
Railway and financial men in New
York expect mild rate legislation at the
next session of congress.
Hon. George E. Seney, congressman
from the THIN, O., district from 1883 to
1891, died Of heart failure.
Shippers have asked President Roose-
welt to proceed against Southern roads,
charging rate combinations. r.. IS
The government crop report indl-
Gates loss in spring wheat, due large
ly to damage in four important states.
The Canadian government is desir-
GUS OF friendly conference with the
United States on fisheries and labor
laws.
Troops and Jews were in collision at
Minsk, Poland, 900 miles northeast of
Warsaw. Two persons were killed and
10 injured.
The heirs of Mrs. Mary ]. Winthrop's
estate have finally come to an agree
ment by which Princeton theological
seminary will receive $1,75O,OOO.
A member of the Australian parlia-
ment warns British merchants that
the United States and Germany are
flooding England's home markets.
A test train on the Pennsylvania
railroad made a record run from Chi
cago to Fort Wayne, Ind. The 149
miles was covered in 1923 minutes.
All records for shooting with FIVE
inch guns were broken on the Ken
lucky off New York when only three
misses were recorded out of SO shots.
Germany's statesmen are completing
the draft of proposed commercial
treaty with the United States, asking
concessions from present tariff rates.
The forty-third session of the Michi-
gan legislature has virtually ended,
though it will be in session again June
Is and II before formal adjournment
sine die.
The United States fish commission,
with the assistance of the Chicago. Indi-
annapolis & Louisville Railway company,
has established fish hatchery at Cedar
Lake, Ind.
Ben Holt, aged Ill, born in North
Carolina, and the Oldest man in Ken
lucky, is dead at Webb's Cross Roads
Russell county, KY. His progeny num-
bered over 600.
William Jukes was shot to death by
Joseph Brown in the latter's home al
Chenille, o. The cause of the crime
it is said, was the attempt of Jukes to
gain entrance to the Brown home.
The monument erected by the Bethel
Monument association to mark the
place of the first conflict between fed
eral and confederate troops in the
civil war was unveiled at Bethel, Va.
Jasper Gawronsky died in a Chicago
hospital, the victim of three bullet:
| fired by Benjamin Miller. who told tn,
police that he was jealous because
Gawronsky paid attentions to Mrs
Miller.
| A race riot has occurred at Turner
s. c., in which it is said a white maj
named Mclean was killed, his Sol
wounded and three negroes killed. On1!
meager information has been re-
ceived.
Agnes Myers, of Kansas City. Mo.
charged with the murder of her husband
Clarence Myers, has been found guilty
of murder in the first degree. This YER
dict means that the death penalty is tc
be inflicted.
Arthur L. Gibbon, the clerk in thu
Merchants national bank of st. Paul
Mimi, who pleaded guilty some day:
ago to misrepresentation of the banks
funds, was sentenced to two years ii
the state prison.
Louis Browning, known Is years age
under the familiar name of pete
Browning, as one Of the greatest bal
players in America, was committed tt
the asylum for the insane at Lakeland
suburb of Louisville, KY.
Patrick S. Kelleher, who was en-
gineer of Detroit express No. on thu
Pere Marquette railroad the night il
collided with Saginaw train at Elm
dale. the collision killing several PEG
ple, and who has been on trial in Crane
Rapids, Mich, charged with crimina
negligence, was found not guilty o.
manslaughter.