The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-02-24
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For tbs Week Ending Feb. 20.

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For tbs Week Ending Feb. 20.
Twelve buildings were destroyed by
fire at Bryant, 9. D. Loss is 100000; we'll
insured.
Panama commissioners declare that
President Roosevelt approved of their
acceptance of fees.
The three-months-old child OF Will
Kennedy, of Johnston, Wis.,, was smOth-
cred while it's parents were driving with
1t.
Four persons were found dead in
email house in Cleveland, o. The deaths
had been caused by escaping natural
gas.
Despondent because his invalid father
refused to speak to him for two years,
Max Walters committed suicide in Chi
cago.
Five men were killed and IL INJURED in
an accident on No. 2 slope of No. l cob
liery of the Lyle corporation at Potts.
Vile, Pa.
University of Chicago, fear he has cancer
and are doubtful as to the result of a sur
gical operation.
One woman was burned to death and
Is men and women narrowly escaped III
fire which damaged the Hotel Winton,
in New York city.
Mrs. Rebecca Snyder and her niece.
Ida Shade, of Liberty, O.. were killed
near West Carrollton, O., by being
struck by a train
The pope has sent letter of common
dalton to the head of the Daughters of
the Faith, an organization that stoutly
opposes the divorce evil.
The young king of Spain, sickened by
proposals, balks at matrimony, and de-
clares he will choose his own wife when
he attains his majority.
In a fit of insanity, Mrs. D. Groves,
wife of mail carrier at Kalamazoo.
Mich, cut her left arm off with Ratchet.
She died a few hours later.
Edinboro, Pa, the state normal
school town, was visited by one of the
most disastrous fires in it's history.
Loss estimated at $4,000.
DR.. John H. Grannis, said to have been
the first union soldier to enter the town
Of Gettysburg at the time of the battle.
died at Saybrook, Conn, aged 60.
Alexander Mead. colored man 116
years old, died at Toledo, o. Mead was
born in slavery October "a, 1889, near
the Big Sandy river, in Greenup county,
Ky.
The postmaster general of England
has reached an agreement whereby the
government will take control of the Ma
tional Telephone company December 81.
1911.
1t is economically announced that as
result of the disturbances at LODI IA
bodies have been buried. while 200
wounded persons are still in the hos
pitfalls.
Claude S. Snively, prominent at
torney, pitched headlong from the
ffth-story window in the Lonsdale
building, at Duluth, Mimi, and was
killed.
At Kansas City, Mo-, Charles BIGGER.
aged 81 years, fatally stabbed his in
valid wife, Emma BIGGER, aged AZ years,
after which he severed his own jugular
vein, dying instantly.
Fire insurance companies decided to
retire from Arkansas on March l, as vir-
tually none of them will be able to OPP
crate under the King antitrust law,
which becomes effective March %.
The United States government will be
urged to impress on the signatory pow
ers of the Berlin treaty of 1878 their OBJ
legation to obtain humane form of gov
eminent for the people of Macedonia.
Four men killed and IA injured, OF
whom three are in a critical condition.
was the result OF two explosions on
board the British suDmarine boat
"A-5" in the harbor at Queenstown.
Ireland.
John Shaw, residing on farm about
20 miles northeast of Quincy, ILL.,. shot
and killed his wife, and then ended his
own life with the same weapon. Legal
and domestic troubles extending over
several years are responsible for the
tragedy.
Funds with which to prosecute the in
quiry into the methods of the Standard
Oil company in Kansas were asked of
the house by Secretary Metcalf. OF the
department of commerce and labor. In
his communication the secretary says
that this inquiry cannot be completed
before July l next.