The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-08-25
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the week Ending Aug. 21.

For the Week Ending Aug. 81.
The Mississippi congress urged
that the consular service be removed
from control of politics.
Oyama's army is ready to strike as
soon as the roads dry. Manchuria q
now Z sea of mud from heavy rains.
Rev. G. Lindell, pastor Of the.
Swedish Lutheran church at Vasa.
Mimi, fell dead in q drug store.
Scared by escaping steam on boat
on river in Alaska, six Indians
jumped overheard and were drowned.
F.V. Rockafellow, pioneer banker and
the first city treasurer of Wilkesbarre,
Pa, died from complication of dis
eases, agei II years. =.
King Edward refused to allow Pa
tricia of Conanught to wed Alfonso Of
Spain because Of medical experts re-
ports that he is insane. ~$ ~
A Romanian Jew aged 107 arrived
in London after trip to Canada, and
will start soon on a journey to Jerusalem,
being active and vigorous.
John Jebeles, in jealous fit, fatally
shot Miss Leila Mcbride, aged %, at Aus
ton, Ala, and then fired bullet into his
own brain, dying instantly. 81.
James Hazen Hyde has sold his
famous country place on Long Island.
preparatory, it is believed, to making
his permanent home in France. os
Henry D. Davis, of Cleveland, o.. was
elected grand worthy president of the
Fraternal Order of Eagles by the grand
aerie at its session In Denver. Col.
John Alexander Dowie commands
each Zion family to produce baby
each year, and has put an embargo on
kisses and hugs until after marriage.
France has made sharp demand
that Morocco regard Algerians as
French citizens. A naval demonstra-
ton of Tangier is regarded as posi-
BILE. -
Confirmation of the report that the
Marshall islands we're visited by . hur-
ricane and tidal wave on June 30 has
been received. One hundred lives
were lost I'll
An appeal to congress for protection
of postmasters in the conduct of post
Offices has been resolved upon by the
Wisconsin Postmasters' associations
convention. #
A telegram received from Batavia,
Dutch East Indies, reports an ugly
outbreak of Achinese rebels, who at
tackled the Dutch post at Rambong,
killing two officers and % men.
The navy department has been ad-
vised that James E. Smith, seaman
gunner under instruction at the tor
pedo station, was drowned while
diving without diving suit for a tor
pedo.
The Chicago men, who went to Ply
mouth, Mass, TO see George L. Marsh.
failed to identify him as the man want
ed in Chicago in connection with tho
murder of William Bate in November
last. -t'' "a
The Madrid newspapers declare that
| 10000 laborers in Andalusia are with
out the necessities Of life. Several dis
tricts are at the mercy of the rioters
and many landlords are seeking safety
in flight.
Frank Ward, foreman of yard gang
at the Pueblo, COL, steel works, caused
the death of his daughter Frances, aged
16, by forcing her to swallow a quantity
of poison, and then committed suicide
by the same drug.
Mrs. Anne Woodall, who has just died
at Newport, KY, aged IS years, was q ma
tive of England, where, soon after her
marriage, she and her husband rode on
the first steam railroad and witnessed
the coronation of Qeuen Victoria.
Walter Simpson, well-known ath-
letic authority and expert on rowing
matters, died at Cambridge, Mass,
after long illness. For IA years he
was president of the New England
Association of Amateur Oarsmen.
A passenger train on the Rome, Wa
tertown & Ogdensburg railroad at Phil
adelphia, Jefferson county, N. Y.
struck and killed Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
H. Cross, of that village, and their
daughter, Mrs. Chauncey WEIGH, of
Chicago
Leon Jacerwitz, formerly noted
Russian musician, died in the Dayton,
O., state hospital, aged 66 years. While
touring the United States with an
opera company 30 years ago, Jacerwitz
lost his mind. and with It went all