The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-10-06
The NEWS IN BRIEF.
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For the week Ending oct. 2. .ss
Farmers Of the northwest are enjoy
Ing astidal wave Of prosperity.
Fully 100000 people are yet homeless
as q result Of the recent earthquake -
southern Italy. IA III
American women in London are
planning ? $4,000, 900 fund to educate
American girls in England.
New Orleans is rapidly overcoming
yellow fever and expects to be able 70
lift the quarantine by October is.
Mr.. White arrived at st. Petersburg,
and was accorded a very hearty recep-
ton by large crowd of officials and 9th.
ers. tsa N.
Fire at Roff, in the Chickasaw Ma.
ton, destroyed business block II
Main street. Loss estimated at more
than $4,000. 5r3.l D. 5 NV
a tornado struck Malmsbury, Cape
Colony town of 5000 Inhabitants, and
reduced It to ruins. A number OF per-
sons were killed. tai y.
Mrs. Elizabeth Wood died at her home
two miles from Niles, Mich, aged 1Ol
years. Mrs. Wood health was remark
able up to the last. 4 5.
Two boys, Percy Dudley, aged ten
years, and George Dudley, 16 years old,
brothers, were drowned in the Potomac
river at Washington. +"
President Roosevelt has signed aG
executive order creating the Dixie for
est reserve in Utah. The new reserve
embraces 465,900 acres. g. -. : :
Miss Flora Cliff Stevenson, LII. D.,
chairman of the Edinburgh, Scotland,
school board since 1900 and q we'll
known educator, Is dead.
Fire in Pittsburg, Pa, damaged the
Macintosh Hemphill company or Fort
Pitt foundry, as it is better known, to
the extent of about $780, 900.
Jacob Lift, the well-known theatre.
cal manager and owner of.theaters in
New York. Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul, died at Yonkers, N. Y,
iZSs Alderman Walter Vaughan Morgan
was elected lord mayor of London for
the ensuing year. Mr.. Morgan is a sep
tuagenarian, banker and bachelor.
Ole Hagen. farmer, and Andrew
Giibertson were instantly killed by the
explosion of threshing- engine boiler
ron highway near Newmarket, MINI.
Russia has new party pledged to
work for constitutions, which was or
ganized at the recent congress Of the
zemstvos and municipalities in Mos
COW. ssss55 ss$5.ff "a III,
Enraged by jealousy, James G. Clay
ton, a negro, shot and instantly killed
his wife, Lucy, and James Harmon, also
q negro, who boarded with the Clayton
family In New York. III ~ ~
Attorney General Wade H. Ellis is CO.
ing to Investigate the harvester trust
in Ohio, and If he finds that the trust Is
violating the Ohio antitrust law he will
Gust 1t from the state, IA. .s5,.stz9. ss
y Announcement Ia made that Rev.
DR.. William Bayard Hale, Of this
city has been decorated by the king
Of the Belgians, being made knight
of the Order Of Leopold. sss:s
"A, H. Linneke has been appointed
receiver OF the business Of Johnson 8
Sloan. retail drygoods merchants OF
Minneapolis, MINI. The liabilities, It
Is said, will be about 100000.
Z John Alexander Dowie, founder, up
builder and chief Of perhaps the great
est Independent religious movement in
recent times, has been stricken with
paralysis, and has gone to: Mexico.
A disastrous fire broke out in the
heart of the wholesale and shipping
section Of Seattle, Wash, which COM
pletely Quilted three brick buildings.
The total fire loss will approximate
goo, 900. s... .4a,s.:. ~. ,5, -
IN The German government is watching
with keen interest the Investigation now
being conducted by q committee of the
New York legislature into: the affairs
and conduct of American insurance
companies. s@sr F%s9y .sss
4 Capt. James Russell selfridge, ord
nance officer at the Charlestown, Mass,
navy yard, died of apop1exy. Capt. Sell
fridge was q member Of a family we'll
known in the United States navy for
many years. H.
# Dr.. Arthur Weir tombstone, a leading
specialist in abdominal surgery, died in
Cincinnati, O., after a weeks illness
from appendicitis. DR.. tombstone was
widely known In his profession in this
country and in Europe.