The Worthington advance., 1905-03-31
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

OF Lie 1OoA GAUAAH x10AVA 90
Maxim Gorky is to be tried for incit-
ing revolution in Russia. u, s...
$, A total of 346, ,899 deaths from bubonic
plague in India are reported from jan
uary / to March II.
President Roosevelt warns the coun-
try that war will find the military
surgical service inadequate.
Conrad Schwartz, aged 20, was hanged
at Cuero, Tex, for the murder Of VII
liam =. Earle, telegraph operator
Andrew Carnegie has given 10000 for
a library to be erected on grounds owned
by Pomona college at. Claremont, Cal.
President Roosevelt has appointed A.
S. Van 1Valkenburgh United States dis
trict attorney for the Western district
of Missouri
A committee of the national educa-
tional body will recommend agricul-
tural studies in lower graaes of coun-
try schools.
The Inheritance tax on the estate of
Abram Brokaw. who was millionaire
of Bloomington, Ill.,, will net the state
of Illinois $4,000.
The plant of the Virginia Carolina
Chemical company at East Rome, Ca,
was destroyed by fire. Loss, $3.50, 900;
insurance, about half.
At Paris, Ill.,. Peter Bassett pleaded
guilty to criminal assault on Mrs. Ebert
Wright. A life sentence was imposed.
He was taken to prison.
Wages of about 1000 miners and
other employees near Morristown, N. j.,
are, it is announced, to be increased
ten to rs per cent. April 1.
Mrs. Rebecca Tylee, aged 96 years, one
of the five original Daughters of the
American Revolution, died at the home
of her daughter in Superior, Wis.
The .battleship Kansas will be chris
tened by breaking a bottle Of Kansas
crude oil over it's Prov in the place
of bottle of champagne, as is the usual
custom.
Rear Admiral Chester. superinten-
tendent OF the naval observatory, has
completed arrangements for the Obser-
vation of the total solar eclipse of August
29-30 OF this year.
The German press has launched q
crusade against President Roosevelt
his enforcement of the monroe doc
trine, declaring it is a cloak for i'm
perialistic plans.
Johnny Condor, Is years old, was
found guilty at Janesville. Wis, Of man
slaughter in the fourth degree. He
killed a 13-year-old companion, George
Griffith, a year ago.
President Castro declares the action
taken against Venezuela by the United
States "untimely, unjust and rash" He
contends that his country has treated
the asphalt company fairly.
A soldiers monument is to be un-
veiled and dedicated at Decatur, Ill.,,
ON April 6, the ceremonies to be under
the auspices of the Macon County SOL
diers' Monument association.
The Santo Domingo government sug-
gests that an American commissioner
take charge of it's customs dues, As
per cent to go to the government and
the balance to be held for creditors.
r-- One, OF the elevators of the @Spark9
Milling company burned at Alton, ILL.,.
and the greater part Of 81, 900 bushels Of
wheat in the elevator was ruined, either
by fire or water. The loss will be about
$6O,000.
Former Representative Gen. Charles
Tracey died at his home in Albany, N.
V. at the age of 81, after an illness Of
some ronths. Gen. Tracey served as .
member Of congress from this district
from 1887 to 1895.
A spark from locomotive set fire
to the Taylor Compress company's
plant at Corinth, Miss, destroying the
building, 1,5O0 bales of cotton, two cot
tonseed oil mills. and Is small dwell
ing houses. Loss, 100000; insurance,
$100,tv0.
Acting under authority of special
act Of congress. Gen. Ainsworth at
Washington has begun the delivery to
the governors of all the southern
states affected the confederate battle
flags captured by the union forces dur
ing the war of the rebellion.
Dean e. Richmond and John Thom-
as, of Watonga. o. T.; Charles r.
Schoonover, of Weatherford, and Or
vile Pemberton, of Kaw City, were
killed in storms which swept over Ok
lahoma Territory. injuring many other
persons and doing much damage to
property.