The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-04-14
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending April 10.


For the Week Ending April 10.
Jacques Faure made successful pas.
sage over English channel in bal.
loon.
Fire at Akron, O., burned out six
business firms. The loss is $4,000; in
surance, $4,000.
Men from several states gathered
in Chicago and Endorsed legislation for
the protection of game and fish.
Dowie has mortgaged the lace fac
tory at Zion City, ILL.,, for 100000 in
order to get money to pay taxes.
Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick was granted
stay Of execution by the United States
circuit court of appeals at Cincinnati.
Elias Powell (colored) was hanged at
Texarkana, Ark, for the murder Of J.
G. Gardner, a white farmer, five years
ago.
The New York collector has been
compelled to pay back $311 ,681 levied
as war tax on Corenlius Vanderbilt's
estate.
James Moore and James Roach. who
robbed the post Office at Reinback, Ia,
last December, were sentenced to five
years in prison. -
The original Indictment against Max.
i'm Gorky shows that he wrote docu-
ment accusing the car and his support
ers of the murders of January %.
The cry in Mississippi is for better
schools, the people seemingly willing to
welcome heavier taxation if a better
educational system can be assured.
The government needs Japanese
laborers for the isthmian canal, but
cannot import them on account of the
law. Congress may be asked to pass
permit.
Ira Stewart, convicted at Chippewa
Falls, Wis, four years ago of numbering
his son-in-law, Fred Miller, has been
granted new trial by the Wisconsin SUI
preme court
George Coffey, who fatally stabbed
his cousin, George st. Pierre, at Sioux
City, Ia, few weeks ago, has been &C.
quilted of murder. Self-defense was the
successful plea.
l. DespOndent because she had recently
lost her eyesight, Mrs. Jennie Vincent,
of South Bend, Ind, committed suicide
by swallowing mixture of carbo1ic
acid and laudanum.
Automobiles must now pay toll
of one cent a mile for machines holding
two persons and two cents q mile for
throo oil fo1 10
in the state of New Jersey.
Secretary Shaw has announced that he
will make call on national bank de-
posts for about $27,000,0OO in two in
stallments the first falling due on May
Is and the second on July /, 1905.
{. A prairie fire in southwest Greer coun-
ty, Okla, has resulted in the destruction
Of several thousand dollrs worth of
foodstuff, many outbuildings, some live
stock and several acres of growing
crops.
The big boiler of the Union ice works
in Los Angeles, CAL, blew up, serious
ly injuring two employees and setting
fire to the plant, which was destroyed.
The fire caused damage estimated at
100000.
/. Frank J. Bell, a prominent attorney Of
Dallas, Tex, and grand chancellor of the
Knights of Pythias Of Texas, was shot
and fatally injured during a quarrel by
r. r. Parker, chief deputy district clerk.
Bell died at local hospital.
George Goodall, SO years old, and an
intimate friend of President Lincoln, is
dead in Washington. He rendered valu-
able service during the war as personal
scout for President Lincoln in the coun-
try surrounding Washington.
The coroner's jury which has been
investigating the Virginia mine dis
aster in Alabama, in which Ill per-
sons lost their lives, returned ver-
dict which charges four mine opera
tors with wilful and criminal negli-
gence.
James Fl. Hayes, negro lawyer of
Richmond, Va. has been selected as
consul at Guadalupe, French West In
dies. Since Prof. Greene has been
retired as consul at Vladivostok Hayes
will be the only negro consul in the
service.
Commercial failures for the week
ending April in the United States are
232 against PA last week, 255 the pre-
ceding week and 235 the corresponding
week last year. Failures in Canada
number % against 80 last week, 16 the
preceding week and 20 last year.