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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-11-01
From Over the Ocean.


Berlin cable: Reports received here from
Paris state that measures intended to aid
the Orleanist movement are taking an ex-
tremely active form, and that money is
likely to be used with great freedom, should
it become apparent that it will ans er the
purposes of the royalist faction. One report
says that the wealthy followers of the our
bons have raised special fund of 100000
OOO frarcs, which it is proposed to distrib-
ute among the deputies of the French
chamber for the purpose OF securing their
influence and obtaining their votes. The
Orleanists are seeking sympathy here as
we'll as ut Vienna.
Order has been completely restored
at Portau-Prince. Fifteen hundred lives
were lost and damage to the extent o. 49,
600, 600 done during the recent massacre.
arrived under the American flag. On the
attack on Miragoane the government
troops were repulsed with severe loss. Gen.
Piquent was MORALLY wounded.
Many inhabitants of Smyrna are fleeing
from the city on account of fear Of further
earthquakes. The Turkish government has
cent sufficient quantity of lumber to con-
struct 5000 sheds to shelter the homeless.
EulIOTS VI COuSt8ut1nOple newspapers H8Ve
formed committee for aid of the sufferers.
Slight shocks still occur at long intervals,
but do 20 damage.
:: London Cable: The Canadian military
officers, Coils. Otter and Turnbull. have
been studying the working Of the English
military system for the purpose of apply
Ing the system for the defence of Canada en-
returning to America. They have had sew
eral conferences at the war Office on the
defences of Canada.
Owing to jealousy of foreign enterprise
st. Petersburg newspapers are dercely At.
lacking the establishment, favored by the
government, of mixed company of Amer.
lean. French and Russian capitalists, with q
capital of 25 DOC, 600 roubles for the erection
of grain elevators throughout the empire
Both Germany and Russia are largely
increasing their forces on the frontiers.
The Russian villages are crowded with
Cossacks, while the German garrisons
and Notifications are being strength
enej.
There are great disorders in the penal
colonies of Siberia, owing to official cor.
ruption. A large number of exiles at
tempted to escape aud three succeeded.
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bursed $40, 07e. CO since June 4. fhe bal.
snce on hand is over SIC, 900.
or1nterest to sttnncaota Teacher.

OrInterest to Minnesota Teachers.
D. L. Kiehle, state superinten lent of
pablo instruction, has issued 4 call for
meeting ofcounty saperintendsnts Of schools
to be held on Friday evening, Dec. %. The
meeting Will Immediately follow that Of
the State E EDUCATIONAL association at Mime.
apolis. The following questions will be as
signed for special discussions:
How may We Improve in met. od and el-
cvate in standard the grade of our teach
ers?
How may We secure greater petit,anency
of teachers in the common schools?
How shall schools be inspected with q
view to best resultkq
f,; General deb debate, will be made upon the
First-Our institutes-What we have &C.
complished and how we may improve.
Seconc-Teachers observation-disclosures
aud plan.
Tnird-progress in grading country
schools,
President OF the meeting, P. B. German,
Stearns county; superintendent, G. W. Law
ems, Freeborn county.
The Ssuleys, husband and wife, have co.,
fessed to the murder of Steinbach in Todd
county.
saulley mot schle) and his wife, the muir
derers of Steimbach in Northern Todd
co,nty, have both been arrested, and have
mace full confession. They both attacked
passing on the highway, the husband strik.
ing him on the head with . club, breaking
his skull, and the wife thrustin pitch
fork into his body until life was extinct.
The body of Steimbach was then placed
upon one of his own horses and carried by
MS murderers halt a mile in the swamp Al d
left there, they intending to return at night
and bury it:
Alta meeting ofthe State Baptist Associa-
ti-n at Owatonna, Rev r. r. Riddell of st..
Paul and Hon. M. III. Dunnell made an
eloquent appeal to the convention IN behalf
Ofthe academy. A boom was started in the
shape Of asubscripti IN paper, and in a few
moments 81, 0t 0 was subs cribed, making the
endowm INT Of the academy now $40, eco, the
attendance of pastors ard delegates was large
The committee on admission of new
churches reported in favor of admitting to
the association the Congregational churcnes
located in the places named below, and the
report was adopted: Grove]and. on Lake
Minuetonka; Etna, in Pipastone county;
county; Saltwater, Como avenue in Mime
apolis, and Atlantic and Park churches in
st. Paul.
The old settlers OF Ramsey county-those
who settled Lere prior to the admission of
the state, May II, 1853, and were of age at
that time-held their annual meeting.
The annual election OF officers was proceed
ed with, and resulted as follows: Presi cent,
D. W. Ingersoll; vice presidents, II. S.
Fairchild, T. Reardon Edwin Belle; secre-
rotary J. Fletcher Williams; treasurer,
William T. Donaldson; executive commit
tee, W. A. Van SIyke, A. q. Merrick,
Mark Costello, d. r amaley, M. Lyon.
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The sorghum sugar factories estab-
llshed at Rio Grande, in New Jersey,
with capital Of 100000 will produce
this year not less than two million
pounds of sugar, all. of which finds a
ready market at GIL cents per pound.
They will also produce a million gallons
of moIasses, which commands AZ cents
per gallon in the New York market.
The company can produce finer grade
OF white sugar, worth in the market s l-2
cents per pound, but as the state pays a
bounty Of cent per pound without ref.
erence to grade, it is more profitable to
the company to manufacture the cheap
er article. Last year something over q
thousand acres were planted with sor-
ghum. and q much larger area will be
cultivated next year. While the cane
produces sugar and molasses the seed is
used for feeding hogs, of which the Jer-
sey company have several hundred.
The success attending this enterprise is
beginning to attract attention, and 9TH
ers Of Il similar kind will soon be put in
operation. When once this industry
Z, IS a firm foothold in the country it
will be reckoned among the best and
tom profitable.
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Cholera Revived at Alexandria,

Alexandria Spscisl: The dreadful cpl
demic of cholera, which ragged here through
out the summer, tut which was thought to
have subsidized, has broken out again with
great vlrulence, and renewal OF the hor-
rors of the past few months is feared. There
were nine deaths from the disease the
oath, the victims being mostly Europeans,
and it is feared that the rate of mortality
will increase to the figures of the worst days
of the plague during the past season. The
precautions taken in this country may &C.
count for the fresh outbreak of the scourge
Tue new foothold it has obtained has greatly
discouraged the authorities in their attempts
to stamp out the disease The inhabitants
are watching each days development with
the utmost anxiety, and are already almost
panic-stricken.
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THE HABITS OF TORNADOES,
The Results or Prof William II. Trow-
bridges Observations.

From the N. Y. Times, Oct. 9th.
Tcrnadoes furnished the subject last
evening ofan interesting paper by Prof
William P. TrowAridge, read before the
New York Academy of Sciences, in the
new building Of Columbia College. Prof.
Newbe:ry presided. Professor Grow
bridge said there was seldom day or a
week in June or July in which lorna
10 did not occur, with its consequent
loss of life and property The center of
great frequency was in Kansas, Nebrls.
ka and Missouri, tut tornadoes were ex-
perlenced in every state and every part
OF the globe with more or less frequen-
cy. The roar Of their approach had been
compared to the coming Of 600 railroad
trains.
Prof. Trowbridge exhibited number
OF pictures of famous tornadoes and de-
Ecr'bed their characteristics in detail.
The Lee Summit tornado, in Missouri,
on August, 80, 1875, extended sixty miles,
and was funnel shaped, appearing like a
great serpent with its tail curling and
lashlng. The funnel careeneI according
to one observer, like balloon ,and the roar
could be heard seventeen miles. In O ,e,
AAs "SSb WV AlSI VI lLS dppTOHCil
was violent rain storm, and the family
fled to the cellar. The house was soon
whipped to pieces, even the bed cloth
ing being torn into shreds. A lumt or
wagon was carried 1850 feet across the
ravinc and a tree was borne five miles
away. The Irving TORNADO in Kansas,
drew maay houses into its vortex as it
passed over tho country. Tomatoes
were most frequent in June and usually
occurred in the afternoon. The width
oftheir path varied from 40 feet to two
miles, the average being goo fest. Out
OF 4 large number Of tornadoes observed,
their coming was heraided by tie sud-
den appearance of dark and por'cntious
clouds, which rushed to common cen
ter. In a century Kansas had exper-
fenced 81 tornadoes, New York As In
diana q, Massachusetts IL. Ohio g,
and Georgia 43. Prof. Newberry re-
marked that observations carried over
hundreds Of years would probably give a
more even distribution. The professor
bad seen tornadoes OF various sizes in the
West, and on one occasion chickens
were stripped of their feathers.
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The Latest Western Patents.

The fo''owingis list of persons to whom
patents were issued the oath:
Wesley Cole, Menomonie. Wis.,, sand
band for vehicles; John J. Coyle, Honey
Greek, Iowa, stalk cutter; Charles W. Crane,
Batavia, Iowa, slstting shears; John s. Kali,
Boone, Iowa, bran compressor; George
kroulik and L. Bilan, Iowa City, Iowa, corn
planter; William R, Long, Stahapolis. Iowa,
wagon brake; David D: Luse and J. w. Bell,
]ineton, Iowa, grain separator and cleaner:
John Smith, Caldwell Prairie, Wis, crank
plate for bolster springs: Albert J. Spald.
ing, Alma City, Mimi. vehicle spring: g..
B. st. John, Cedar Rapids, lows. rolling
land side Golfer: Theo Ihom, Richland'
MINI, lifting jack.
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Nevada, with less than 63 900 popular
ton, has voice i'll ona house of con-
gress equal to New York with over s..
100000. Not a law can be enacted, not
treaty can be ratified, not an execu-
tive nomination can be confirmed, but
Nevada he's voice, positive or negative
equal to that of New York.
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New Story Of Artemus Ward.

A correspondent of the New York
Sun gives pretty picture of the little
village of Waterford, in Maine, where
Artemus Ward was born, and then tells
the following stories of the humorlst as
q youth;
Artemus's father died when the boy
was about fourteen years old, and as the
family circumstances were somewhat
limited thereby he was apprenticed to
J. NJ. Rix, who published the Coos Dem
ocrat at Lancaster. N. H. The stage line
to Lancaster ran by the Brown home
stead, and the drivers were not unfamil-
lar with the ability of the future 'seenial
Snowman" in the way of practical jokes.
They knew how he organized shows,
wherein his fathers red COW, with a
coat sleeve stuffed full OF hay hang
ing from her nose. served as the ele-
plant, upon which jnnocc~t country
youth were invited to ride, with start
ling results. They knew, too, how old
Deacon lIa!e's white horse had been in
duced to wander away for miles follow.
ing tempting bit of hay, hung just be-
yond reach by means of lath strapped
10 the horses neck. There was an end
less series of pranks gotten up by the boy
to mystily the villagers in general and his
mother in particular, and all these were
we'll known to the stage drivers. So
when the young humorist started for
Lancaster, eager to know AS much as
possible about his future residence, the
veteran driver, Steve Seary, having
previously conspired with the boys in
Rix's office to give young Brown a fit
ting reception, assured him that Mr..
Rix was pious man, and that his hands
were, 1t anything, more pious than he,
and that the sooner the would-be-ap-
prentice crammed on the catechism tho
Better. Charles listened dolefully. It
was late at night when The train reached
!! Lancaster, and in the morning young
Brown hied himself to the office. rae
force" consisted of a journeyman and
an apprentice ramed Smith. They re-
ceiyed him solemnly. The journeyman
handed him bibl. and made him read
chapter. after which he was examined
on the catechism. His ignorance was
severely commented upon, but he was
permitted to 90 to work. At noon a
similar performance was enacted, while
intense gloom rested on the Office dur :
| ing the day. The next morning Charles
went to the Office resolved to run 8wav
| at the end of the week, but, on looking
about failed to find his fellow craftsmen.
Further search revealed them under
| the garnet stairs too intoxicated to walk.
Young Brown was so angry over the sell
that lie wrote q note 20 the driv er threat
| enins vengeance, which was never car
ried out.
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Casualties of the Week.


J. A. Robertson, who with party Of five
went to Mazalan in August, has just re-
turned. He says the entire party had yell
low fever, one dying. Up to the time he
left, October Is, 5000, or one-third of
the population, had died. The first
week of September the death roll was 900.
The day he left eleven bodies were thrown
overheard from the Mexican gunb ats lying
in the harbor. OF the large American col
0ny, only two escaped an attack of the
fever. He believed the fever wss a, an end,
1t having nothing more to feed on. The
virulence of the plague was such that in
some cases persons died thirty minutes
after being attacked.
At Belpes, Ohio, a boiler exploded in a
pump factory and nine persons were woun-
ded, four of whom will probably die. O.
Jpmes Hutchison, George Gurlosh, Frank
Brookhart and Will Howell were severely
burned. George Miller had leg broken in
two places.
DR.. A. J. Leitch dropped lighted news
paper into gas well of a depth of fifty.
nine feet at Mineral Ridge, Ohio. An ex.
plosion followed, fatally injuring DR.. Leitch,
demolishing the Derrick. and ipjuring sew
eral persons standing near.
A fire at 121 franklin street, New York,
caused $50, 600 damage. Strasburger & Co.,
cloaks and suits. $4,000; Thomas Ball &
Co., linen, $50, 600; Edward Griboen & Sons,
importers OF lace, So, 600; building damaged
So, OCO.
At st. Louis the immense medicine fac
tory, packing house aud Offices OF DR.. J. II.
Mclean, corner of Broadway and Bidule
streets. caught fire. and was pretty nearly
destroyed.
A fire on West Seventh street, Kansas
City. caused loss to the Evening Star of
$1,000; c. E. Thornton, tobacco. $40, 900.
Minor losses were 81 600, fully insured.
James Barry's daughter at Germantown,
is dying of hydrophobia. She was bitten BY
a dog last January.
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Personal Mention.

The marquis of Lansdown was sworn in
to office as governor general of Canada at
Quebec with great pomP, and circumstance
and without disturbance from any quarter.
AS Lansdown subscribed allegiance the
Marquis of Lorne vacated. and the new
governor general assembled the throne. He
to clerk and Bible to chief Justice. and
the formal ceremony ended. L:rsdown re.
ceived the Princess Louise, and later in
Music hall gave public reception. Lans-
down, after delivering his address in Eng
lish, repeated it in French, and was enthu-
siast1cally cheered again and again, The
vice-regal party then drove to the railway
station, and as the train moved away, 1or
Ottawa, the marquis of Lorne proposed
three cheers for the new governor general.
The richest man in Boston is Frederick
L. Ames, whose wealth is estimated at
SIS, 600, 600. Next to him comes John NJ
Forbes, with $12, O0o, 900, and the third in
rank is Oliver Ames, who is said to be
worth IS, 00O, 900.
The republicans have nominated Judge
Charles c. Pool for congress in the
First North Carolina district, in place of
Walter F. Pool, deceased. Judge Pool is a
brother of the deceased congressman, and
collector of the port OF Elizabeth City.
Maj. Coppinger, of the United States ar.
my succeeds to the lieutenant colonelcv
vacated by the dismissal of Ilges. Mai.
Coppenger is Mr.. Blaine's son-1n-law, and
his promotion in the army has been rapid
Rev. Isaac w. H. Pembroke, the oldeat
Congregational minister in New mpshire,
died recently, aged 80.
Willard Cal penter, who founded the pub
lie library at Evansville, Ind, is stricken
with paralysis.
Benton papers are authority for the state
ment that Col. Guido 1lges will p.actice
law in that city.
Sir John Corrigan died recently at st.
Boniface hospital Winnipeg, of typhoid
fever.
George Philip stanhore. eighth earl OF
Chesterfield, is dead, agesl sixty-two years.
Congressman Murphy of Iowa is pushing
the proposed Hennepin canal.
Ella Wheeler has made 81, 600 out of her
Poems of Passion.
Commodore Kittson has finished buying
Johnston.
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Thousands Of persons are annually
swindled out Of small sums by sending
money to persons who advertise to send
IN return some valuable thing for a
price that is ridiculous}y low. The post
office officers are now seeking one Gard
ner alias Gordon, who sent circulars all
over the western states Offering to send
combination barometer and thermom-
eter to any part OF the country for twen-
ty-eight cents. He received mail bags
full Of letters daily at his Headquarters
in indianapolis, his receipts averaging
about 5000 yer day. After he had
pocketed several thousand dollars he
departed for new fields, and no trace is
yet known Of his whereabouts. Gard
rer's prize was q combination thermom-
eter AMI barometer, for an insignificant
sum. People should recollect that
standard articles of value have fixed
price, and when offered mitch lower.
are nearly shams and counterfeits.
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Settlers Claims I'm Southern Mime
aOtA

Washington, Special: W. g. Keller,
of Albert lea, Nina, is in the city,
as the representative of about $50 claimants
who have made filings within the limits of
the grants to the Southern Minnesota Rail.
way company. The claims of these parties
involve about $1,000 acres, chiefly in Free.
bern and Martin counties. Most of these
filings we're made in June last, and all of
them taken subsequent to the certifcation
of the lands to the state for the benefit Of
the railway company. But it is claimed
that the lands embraced in the claims were
never pateated from the government and
were certified enormously. Mr.. Kellar saws
the claims he is interested in are not IT.
fected by the recent decision of the secretary
OF the interior, which applied to an original
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miscellaneous Matters.

Lieut.. E, A. Darlington, in letter of re-
cent date to an srmv officer stationed In
the department of Dakota, says that the
only qualification he has thus far been able
to get out of his attempt to rescue Lieut..
Greedy and his party from their perilous
situation in the Arctic regions Is the knowl-
edge that those people for whose opinion
he cares the most are disposed 10 reserve
their judgment until they know something
of the case, which is all he asks under the
circumstances. After stating most emphat-
ically that he received no supplemental
sc;ous OF having done my best; could do
more, and while I deplore more than any
other person the unfortunate termir alton
of the affair, have that feeling of conscious
performance of duty to rely Upon"
A series of questions have been PROFOUND
ed to the national banks of tAe country by
the secret service of the treasury depart
ment, regarding counterfeit money. with a
view to approximating the amount ofcoun-
terfeit money in regulation. It is also re.
quested that old counterfeit money in the
possession of the banks be transmitted to
and ultimate destruction. The banks are
almost q unit in cordially responding to
the queries and the request of the chief of
the division.
Robert Morrison filed papers on libel
srit against the Pittsburg Commercial Ga
zette, claiming 500, QUO damages. Morrison
is an international claim agent and during
his absence from Pittsburx some weeks ago,
an article was published III the Commercial
Gazette and other papers here to the effect
thot h, bod loft f0e orkn ,1vb md hat
at the time of his departure he had I'M
earned fees and valuable papers of numer-
Gus clients in his possession.
An assignment for the benefit of creditors
was filed in the county clerks Office. in
New York city, by Stephen L. Merchant
and Anderson Merchant, cement and tile
dealers, No. Is, State street. to F. G. Brown,
giving preferences for $35, 74l.
The E. NJ. Boynton Saw and File com.
pany Of New York have become emb srrased
and are endeavoring to obtain an extension
Of five years. Liabilities, $137, 900; assets,
$184, 900.
Two thousand converts to Mormonism
have been secured in the south this year.
The Patriarchal Circle has separated from
the Odd Fellows and will go it alone.
Oakland, Me-, made q, 600 dozen scythes
and II, 600 dozen axes this year.
The registration in Boston this year is
1900, the largest ever known.
'Obey" Is now left out of the Methodist
marriage service in Canada.
The wife of Gen. Arson Stagar died in
Chicago on the 22d.
W. A. Kits, an Oswego lumber broker,
fails for $4,000.
SaOw storm in Vermont on the 18th inst.
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Another Todd County. Mimi, MUIR
der.

Orssn Gould of Stowe Prairie, Todd
county, Minnesota, six miles south of Wade
nsswas found dead en- the highway, having
been brutality and cowardiy murdered on
the night of the 18th on his way home
from q neighbours. He was riding horse
back through the woods, when some one
shot him in the back with shotgun loaded
with buckshot, the entire charge strlklne
his body, many of them passing through.
Gould was one Of the oldest settlers in this
vicinity, and had many enemies, and was
terror in the neighborhood where he lived.
No arrests We been made nor are tneIe
likely to be, as Gould has but few friends
in bis locality. There are no euspicions
az to the party who committed the
deed
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Thanksgiving Day Fixed.

The president on the 9Th inst, issued
the following Thanksgiving proclamation:
By the president of the United states Of
America-A proclamation: In furtherance
of the custom of this people ut the close of
each year to engage upon day set apart
for that purpose in special festival OF
praise to the giver of all good, I, Chester
A. Arthur, president OF the United States,
do hereby designate Thursday, the 29th
day Of November next, as day of national
thanksgiving. The year which is drawing
to an end has been replete with evidence Of
divine goodness. The prevalence of health, ,
iullness of harvests, stability, peace
and the growth of fraternal feelings, the
spread of intelligence and learning, the
continued enjoyment of civil and religious
!iberty-all these and countless other bless.
ings are Cause for reverent rejoicing. 1 do
therefore recommend that on this day
above appointed the people rest from their
accustomed labors, and meeting in
their several places of worship ex.
press their devout gratitude to God that he
hath dealt so bountiful]y with this nation,
and pray that his grace and favor abioe
with US forever.
(Signed1 CHESTER A. ARTHUR
By the Frssi1ent:
FREDERICK T. FERLINGHUYsEN.
Secretary OF State.