The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-11-03
THE NEWS IN BRIEF 4 I J

un6 N6WS ~ Il ".
For the Week Ending Oct 80.
The Chicago post once has moved !
into the new federal building. Il
Secretary Hitchcock is hot on the
trail of land grabbers throughout the
country. IN I, " sa vi
Ainsworth, Ia, was swept by ire. All
the business district was destroyed. The
loss is $4,000. .3' @.
Gen. Dragemiroff, q member Of the
council of state, and a hero of the Turk
lsh war, is dead.
The corner stone Of the Methodist
hospital, to cost 100000, was laid at
Indianapolis, Ind.
Booker T.. Washington declares 4
President Roosevelt's southern trip has
relieved the race issue. ..-s.s
A passenger train on the Southern
railway went through q bridge at Ty-
rome, KY. Twelve persons were In
jured.
The evacuation of Manchuria by the
Japanese is being actively carried on
and troops are arriving daily at various
ports. + Yc.a.... .nts4. ..s -. 4-
King Oscar has definitely and formal
ly declined the offer of the Norwegian
throne to a prince Of the house Of Berna-
dotte. ~=s' g " 5-ss,3a ~ ~;
Mrs. Frances Klaczynski was burned
to death after an explosion of kerosene
oil used in starting fire in her home In
Chicago. .,#E*l u
Ellsworth Hacker, q life prisoner In
the penitentiary at Lansing, KY, died
from the effects of wounds inflicted with
knives by two insane convicts. u
Edward Lamb, white, who shot ana
killed Christopher D. Kennedy, also
white, two years ago, was hanged at the
county jail at Braidentown, Fla.
Definite arrangements have been
made whereby Prince Charles of Den
mark will accept the throne of Norway,
following plebiscite on November IL.
A statue of Field Marshal Won Moltke.
the gift of the army to the German peo-
pie, was unveiled in Berlin on the one
hundred and fifth anniversary Of his
birth. g.,
The rich lands of the Imperial VAL
ley of California are disappearing I'M
Ter lake being formed by the chan
ging Of the course Of the Colorado
river.
Two men were killed and others are
buried under the wreckage caused by =
head-on collision on the Shenandoah
division of the Norfolk & Western rail-
road near Mace, Va.
Edward G. Cunliffe, the Adams ex-
press robber, went into court at Pitts
burg, Pa, and pleaded guilty to two
charges of larceny, representing theft
of 100000. Sentence was suspended.
The pension bureau reports loss Of
2.O03 civil war pensioners by death
during September. The net decrease of
pensioners was 941, leaving total OF
996, 270 on the pension roll September
80.
The Russian transport Lena, which
has been interned at Mare Island since
last spring, sailed from that navy yard
for San Francisco. She has been re-
leased and will return to Russian
port. @f$71' q" s' - 4 ~
Forty-five damage suits growing out
Of the eviction of miners last winter
have been filed against the leading coal
companies in the bituminous fields in
West Virginia. The total amount of
damages asked for is $4,000.
Adolph PERFORMER, president of tho
Equitable Real Estate and Loan society,
Chicago, to escape arrest wrested him
self from the grasp Of detective,
plunged from q window of his Office on
the fifth floor and was dashed to death.
The private bank of Harvey Hoag, at
Barker, Niagara county, N. T., was
robbed by three men, who cut all the
telephone wires entering the village
and blew open the safe Of the bank.
They got away with about $4,000 in
gold.
Three persons were seriously injured,
one of whom has since died, and dozen
others had narrow escape from tho
flames in fire that destroyed the
priests house at Nazareth orphanage,
q Catholic boys institution, near
Raleigh, N. c.
At Cannelton, Ind, Lutte Fishback,
aged II years, shot her 13-year-old sis
ter Maggie Wednesday night with a
shotgun, blowing of the entire top OF
the head. The, children had been play
ing with the gun, thinking it was not
loaded.