The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1874-09-26
victoria woodruff Returned.

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her return are believed to be that she
was summoned; but she says that she
did not mean to stay any longer. She
says she has read all Of Tilton's last
statement, and that his references to
herself arc contemptibly mean. She
said to a reporter to-day, 'Neither
Theodore Tilton nor any one else can
speak Of my blackened character. He
has acted the part of a cowardly fool
all through this matter, When I went
to Europe, to take little necessary
rest and recreation, after my hard work
and to prepare myself for lecturing by
trying to get little health, he and his
friends began to cast obloquy
on me, by saying that had been either
intimidated or bought up by the Beech
er party. He knows that when he says
that, he lies. He knows, and Mr..
Beecher knows, and Mr.. Moulton knows,
that all their money cannot buy me !;
and all their powerful influence cannot
intimidate me from going on in the
straight course which l have laid out
for myself in this matter. They know
that published the only true, ungar-
bled statement Of the case, and have al
ways been willing to take the conse-
quences Of that publication. Mr.. Til
ton is no more to me than Mr.. Beecher,
nor Mr.. Beecher than Tilton. Theo-
dore's story that his publishing my
''Lite, and doing so many favors for
me, was for the purpose of
bribing Inc to keep quiet, is deliberate
lie. His statement that he broke with
me in the spring of 1872, because l
threatened to attack several Of the lady
advocates of the woman's suffrage
cause, is another deliberate lie. He
came to me at that time-it was short
ly before Greeley's nomination for the
presidency-and told me that he had
been detailed by Mr.. Greeley to go to
the Cincinnati convention to report it.
l said to him, Theodore, you are going
there to nominate that poor old man
for the presidency, and it will kill him.
You know in your heart that it will be
the death of your benefactor. Do not
go; see, in my clarivoyant vision,
Greeley's coffin, and you standing along
side, driving him into it, But he
went, and that was the last of our init
macy. Did not tell the truth about
Mr.. Greeleye Was not that conven-
ton the cause Of his death !?
"And then, what right has Theodore
Tilton to speak Of Henry Ward
Beccher's adultery? By what right
does he accuse Mr.. Beechcr of impro-
prieties? ] am summing up the case.
Col. Blood and myself are preparing
statement which will throw lig ht on the
whole affair. I have kept an accurate
and complete record of everything per-
tanning to this business. I will sum up
the record and publish it in my own
paper, and then, and not till then, the
public will learn the TRUTH
Reporter-Did your sudden return to
this country have anything to do with
this matter!
Mrs. Notwithstanding at all. I
was worn out and needed rest. My
sister and myself were presented with
tickets for the round trip, and we were
very glad to get them.
Rcportcr-Will you inform me who
gave them to you?
Mrs. Woodruff do not think it at
all necessary to do so. Mr.. Tilton did
not expect me so soon. He published
his statement when he thought was in
Europe, and the public excitement
would have had time to elfervcsce and
cool off before I had an opportunity to
reply. But he was mistaken. My re-
ply will be forthcoming shortly, and it
will tear the mask off and let the pco-
pie see the naked truth of this whole
affair.
Terrible Calamity at Fall River,
About o'clock on the morning of
Saturday, Sept. 10th, fire broke out
in the Granite Cotton Mills, Fall River,
a five story building. The operators,
some seven hundred in number, had
just commenced their daily work, when
the flames burst forth and, spreading
with lightning rapidity, cue off some Of
the avenues Of escape. Under these
appalling surroundings, large major
ity Of the operators became terror
stricken, and made feeble efforts to cs-
cape, while still others, maddened by
the threatened danger, wildly
threw themselves from the
fourth and fifth story windows. The
firemen were promptly on the spot,
and in something like an hours time,
had tho fire fully under control, but
not before there had been an appalling
loss of life and great destruction of
property. The latest estimate of the
killed is forty, and twice that number
INJURED. Among these were several
firemcn, who lost their lives in trying
to save others. The scene while the
fire was in progress, and after, among
the relatives of the imprisoned victims
was truly heart-rending, and not soon
to be forgotten by those who witnessed
it. The loss Of property is estimated
at $s500,000, almost ifnot quite covered
by insurance in Eastern companies. A
coroncrs jury has been summoned to
Thoroughly investigate the sa / catas-
trophe.
A Grange Railway.
The narrow gauge railroad from Sa-
linas to Monterey, in California, is al
most completed. This is literally a
grangcr's railroad. The project was
first broached, discussed, and organized
in the grange. The stockholders are
nearly all grangers, the directors all
grangers but one, and it is nearly all
grangers' money that has built it, and
the grangers are going to patronize it
and send their wheat to Monterey, and
load it on board vessel chartered by
grangers, and get the returns through
the grangers' bank, of San Francisco.
! The Democrats of the third district