The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-03-24
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending March 20.

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% for Naples and Constantinople.
Names new prohibition law results
in all liquor being sent out Of the
state.
Col. M. J. Burke, United States consul
at st. Thomas. Ont. since 1897, died OF
pneumonia.
Fire destroyed a large part of the bus
mess district of Sidney, III. The loss is
estimated at $4,000.
An alarming increase in meningitis
is a serious problem for the health
authorities in New York.
Burglars blew safe in the clothing
store of Louis Katz. at Mattoon. ILL.,,
secured $500 and escaped.
The peasant rising is spreading
rapidly in Russia The car fears to
enforce. the laws of the country.
Vice President Fairbanks, in an adj
dress in New York. urged arbitration
as a means OF International peace.
Miss Mary Mahoney. aged 100. a pio-
neer of Wisconsin and resident of La
Crosse since territorial days, is dead.
Former President Cleveland cele-
brated his sixty-eighth birthday quiet
ly at his home. "Westland,' in Prince
ton, N. J.
Edward Leonard and James Craig,
two employees of the Fabrikoid company
of Newburg. N. v. were killed by all ex-
plOsiOn of soluble cotton.
The vatican authorities are making
preparations for the visits next month
Of Emperor William of Germany. and
King Edward Of England.
James w. Linkous, Sc years of age.
was hanged at Radford, Va, for the
murder of his wife and their adopted
son on last Christmas morning.
Chicago banks report total deposits
of nearly $G4O,O0O,OOo. which is larger
by $37 500, 900 than on January II, when
the previous high mark was set.
A tornado struck Porch. small town
in Oklahoma. killing one man. Two
were fatally injured and lG others hurt.
Sixteen houses were demolished.
Two negroes were hanged at Rich
mond, Va. Edwin Austin. for criminal
assault on ten-year-old negro girl, and
Peter Danch for murder OF a negro
woman.
The lower house of the Minnesota
legislature passed bill which appro-
pirates $4,000 for Minnesota exhibit
at the Lewis and Clark exposition at
Portland.
A dispatch from Palm Beach, Fla,
reports the death of Meyer Guggenheim,
of New York, the copper capitalist.
Death was caused by pneumonia. He
was IS years old.
The entire business section OF Shan
non City, Ia, was burned. entailing a
loss of over 100000. partially insured.
Two business blocks and number Of
smaller houses were burned.
Mrs. w. II. Mosby, of Eldorado. Ill.,,
saturated her clothing with oil and
burned herself to death. She was the
wife of prominent farmer and had only
recently returned from an asylum.
Henry NJ Rogers, of the Standard
Oil company, presented a high school
building to Fairhaven. Mass, the
town of his birth. This makes total Of
100000 given to Fair Heven by Mr..
Rogers.
Four buildings of five and six stories
in course of construction in New York,
collapsed. and although many lives were
placed in danger. no fatalities were re-
ported. Bad construction is alleged to
the cause
Brig. Gen. Thomas H. Barber. first
military governor OF Hawaii, who served
many years in the regular army. is dead
at his home in New York from heart dis
Point in 1867.
Sasoneff, the assassin of Minister Won
Plehve, in statement Of the crime and
causes leading to 1t. declares that the
Russian socialists are for peaceful re-
forms, but that the government has
forced them to adopt terrorism.
While going past Bolivar station. Pa,
on the Pennsylvania railroad, large
locomotive hauling long train of emp
ty steel hopper cars blew up, killing
George Ribblett, of Altoona, the en-
gineer, and injuring several others.
Five bullets were fired into the back
of Antonio Santon, who was connected
with the worlds fair Argentine commits
sion, during an alteration in st. Louis
with Antonio Cimento. and within an
hour Santon was dead. Cimento was
placed under arrest.
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