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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-07-26
PERSONAL NEWS NOTES.

II ~
At Winona Cadet Henry E. Waterman
was sworn in a. second lieutenant Of the
United States army engineer corps before
United States Court Commissioner G. H
Berry, with whom Mr.. Waterman's father
was law partner from the time he com
menced the practice of law until his cleo.
ton as judge in this district. Lieutenant
Waterman will be stationed at Willett's
Point, Brooklyn. with three months vaca.
ton before going on duty.
A remarkable instance of longevity is
that OF Ephriam Sheffield, who died recent.
~ in Arkansas at the age of 1O2 years, seven
months and eighteen days. Heresded neal
Oak Bluff, Clay county He was born in
1871 in North Carolina, and belonged to a
long lived race, his father and two brothers
having lived beyond ninety.
Rev. J. G. Mobiles, of Atlantic Highlands,
N. j., sent his obituary to the New York
Tribune from the Merchants Exchange
hotel, saying be was going to commit sui
eide and asking Whitelaw Reid to take care
of his wife. He left the hotel shortly after.
No traces of him since.
Gen. Charles P. Stone, chief engineer OF
the Florida ship canal, arrived at Jackson.
vile recently from New York. He will
personally examine the routes on which
his surveyors have pronounced the con-
strnction of ship canal feasible, and will
report in the board of directors at meeting
in August.
Mr.. Balch, who, when a reporter in Bos-
ton detected Chastine Cox, the mulatto
murderer, is now managing editor of the
Philadelphia Record, and has married Mr.
Singerly's daughter. Singerly s income from
the Record is $3.50, 600 year.
Lieut.. Chance of the Seventeenth infan.
try, stationed at Fort Lincoln, held two
fifths Of the ticket that drew SIS, 600 in the
New Orleans lottery, Lieut.. Chance is a
brother-in.law of Stanley Huntley the devil
may care journalist.
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The following is pleasant incident
n the life of distinguished Boston mer-
chant, lately deceased. At one period
of his useful life, requiring much ready
capital, he could not meet all his en-.
gagements with his usual promptness.
Some of his creditors proposed making
liberal discount and giving him full
discharge. He finally consented to their
wishes. Two or three years thereafter
the creditors were invited to a convivial
meeting, and before their separation,
every man unexpectedly found place
where it could not be mistaken, the full
amount Of his former due, together with
compound interest. It is greatly to be
feared that the sentiment or principle
that inspired this act does not generally
prevail in Boston or anywhere else, and
yet it is admirable in every respect. II
may be added that the Boston merch INT
was subsequently very prosperous and
died Il millionaire.
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Another Gale in Iowa

Des Mones was visited by a terrible wind
storm last Sunday night that surpasses any
thing Of the kind ever seen in that city. At
no time has the velocity of the wind been
SO great. It commenced blowing a gale OF
fifty miles an hour at 2 O'Clock, and kept
steadily INCREASING until O'Clock, when it
swept over the city at forty miles an honr
and for Eve minutes The wind registering
instrument at the signal Office recorded
forty light miles. Heavy rain accompanied
the gale, and considerable damage was
done throughout the city. Chestnut
row-a fine row of resi-
duences-was unroufed. The trestle block
was unroofed, as were also several houses
Grea' destruction was done to shade trees
and shrubbery in all parts OF the town. No
damage to persons has been reported.
At Mitchellville a large Touring mill,
which had just been completed was com plete.
]y wrecked and will be total loss: Corn and
small grain are badly down at Newton. 1t
IS reported that large building On the col
lege farm was blown down at Chester Gen.
ter. A few miles north of Grinnell Con-
gregationalist church was blown down and
completely wrecked, together with three
dwelling houses. number of barns, etc.
Corn and wheat were levelled to the ground.
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CASUALTIES OF THE WEEK.

At Neenah, Wis.,, fire broke out in the
steam mill OF the Burch Lumber company
and contents. The mill was capable of
cutting from rs, 600 to 100, 600 feet per dav
and employed about fifty men. It was i'm.
proved one year ago at an expense of $780,
OoO, having gang of thirty-eight saws,
and shingle mill in connection. The cost
Of the mill was about SAC, 900, land the loss
to the owners and the public is several
thousand dollars in excess OF that sum. at
this season of the year in particular. It
was insured for $4,000.
AT Reading, Pa. the eight boilers on the
anthracite furnaces owned by the Phila.
delphia & Reading railway company and
operated by William NJ. Kaufman, ex.
R'oded early Tuesday morning, reducing
Mailman, aged nineteen, of Topton. was
instantly killed. Solomon Mailman. bis
father, was injured internally, aud will die.
Morris Good was severely scalded by escap.
ing steam. Engineer Marsteller was also
badly injured, and a number of other en-.
ployes slightly hurt.
A large steam boiler of the Glen's Falls
paper company of South Glen's Falls. N
Y, exploded on the 10Th inst, killing
Christopher Yataw and Charles Miller and
wounding many others. The loss is est.
mated at between SIS. 900 and $16O, 900; in
sured one.half. A small brick building 10.
Gated forty feet from the boiler room was
destroyed by the concrlssion.
The black measles has broken out in a
Catholic reformatory at Baltimore. So far
there bave been ten deaths, the victims dv
ing in eight or ten hours alter exposure
Tremendous forest fires are raging south
OF kalama Oregon. Six miles of railroad
and two loco:: otlves have been de.
stroyed.
-Four dwellings and stores at Shenandoah.
Pa, was burned recently $25, 900.
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Mistakes About Birds, Frogs,
Snakes and Whales.

''As was standing by the bird case"
said a museum attendant, "a fine looking
man came along and told me he wanted
to see the swallows that burrowed in
the mud. Never heard of such a case,"
said. els that SOP" he replied. "It's
very common where I live up near
Glen's Falls. Every fall the swallows of
certain kinds dive down into the water,
force themselves through and bury
themselves in the mud, where they lie
till spring." "Ain't you mistaken"
said 1; "that notion has been exploded
among naturalists for fifty years." Then
he became indignant, and took me over
and pointed out the bird. saw it was
idle to talk with him, and when he told
me he was school teacher that settled
"I'll guarantee" continued the
speaker, that three ont OF every five
persons that com: in here believe the
story of toatis and frogs being found iu
solid rock. Ihave- heen told 50 by mauy.
especially laboring men, and ashley had
seen it, they could not be convinced.
The most rigid experiments were made
You'd doubt that the thing is lmposs-
bic. You can find some old fellows that
believe in the jewel in the toad's head.
Eight ont of ten persons imagine that
toads are poisonous, and nine out Of ten
think that handling them produces
warts-an outrageous fable. I've han
died hundreds Of them, and would eat
one if necessary.
"Then there's the hoop snake. Not a
few people have seen it, and when it
| comes to the milk snake, why, all the
farmers believe in it. There's one over
there in the case, and only last week al
| old chap from Orange county came up
to me and led me over to it and said: :
| One o them snakes caused me loss
of $50 last year. How SOP asked.
| It's what We call milk snake he
replied; 'and last spring I noticed that
two Of my COWS, past:lred in rock lot
didn't give more than third the milk
they ought to. I couldn't account for it,
until one day l went ont, and there,
coiled right up between them was one
of these ere milk snakes. They suck a
COW dry in half an hour
"Did You catch it in the operation?' /
asked.
"'No,' he replied, as soon as hove
in sight it dropped from the COW. Any
way, after killed the snake, the cows
gave as much milk as the others
| "A schOo! book having wide circula-
ton states that whales spout water. |
wonder if the author ever thought he
could spout water that he
| took in his mouth out
through his nose. Whales don't spout
water, but heated air from the lungs.
! This, as soon as it strikes the outside
air, condenses and appears like water
New York Sun.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-07-26

The attack of Charles Francis Adams,
Jr., upon the study of Greek and Latin
as taught in the colleges of this country
has created considerable excitement
among graduates of colleges, but they
are not all of one mind. The sentiment
OF the best teachers is that the Latin and
Greek are Injuries Of education which
can be enjoyed by men Of Independent
fortunes or exceptional brains, but
which ara usually not worth the time
spent in acquiring them.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-07-26

Fifteen thousand people were at White
Bear Lake, near St. Paul, on Sunday 22d ia
see the soldiers in camp.
William Bradley, VINO lives in Haverlock,
Minn., reports that the crops in his vicinity
were badly damaged by the hail storm re-
Gently. He is gong to Plow up his barley
field.
G. F. Johnson of Richmond has in his
possession $1OO, 600 OF confederate bills.
The Post Dispatch of St. Louis es imates
there are 100000 steady drinkers in that
city.
Gum, Curds &C.,, of Boston, reported sus-
PENDED with $40, 900 liabilities, have been
granted an extension by their creditors, and
their label works are running as usual.
Mills Smith of Greene county, Virginia
dropped dead Just as he was raising his
hand to swear that his tax list was cor
rect.
The Northern Pacific has. addressed Cir
cu]ar to all connecting lines, directing
them to prepare and place on SALE in antic-
ipation of the opening of the road Sept /,
coupon tickets reading from St. Paul, Mill
neapolis and Duluth to all points on the
Northern Pacific, Oregon Railway & Nsvi-
CATION cOmpany's lines Oregon & Califor-
mia, aud the Olympia 4 Ckenaiis Valley
railroads.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-07-26
New Presidential Appointments.

Presiden Arthur has appointed T. P.
Freeman register of the land office at Red
wood Falls, Mimi. vice WilIiem D. Dun
nington, suspended. T.. P. Freeman is at
present the county attorney of Blue Earth
county and resides at Mankato. He was
register of the land Office at Blue Earth
City, when the member of congress elect OF
that district, J. b. Wakefield, was receiver.
He was subsequently state senator from
Faribanlt county.
The president has also appointed Henry
G. Stafford collector of customs of Erie, Pa,
vice Mathew r. Barr, resigned. The aame
Of Barr was sent to the president
recently, by the secretary OF the interior for
appointment as Indian inspector, vice
Chapman, resigned. The president has also
appointed Benjamin W. Thompson OF West
Virginia agent at the Sisseton Indian agen.
cy, Oak.
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A Dinner of Death,

A special cable from Paris says: Las.
evening about o'clock the attention of
crowds of promenadors in the Quarter
des Pyramides was attracted by suicide
accomplished in manner very eccen-
trio: even for great city like Paris. A
gentleman neatly and respectfully
dressed entered the restaurant of ] h,a
Bull, at the corner of the Rue des Pr,a-
mides and the place Jeanne dare, and
ordered an elaborate dinner lie con-
sumed the delicacies set before him
with evident relish, and after each dish
or glass of wine he jotted down a few
observations in note book. He COM
pleted his repast very leisurely with the
satisfaction OF man::who had achieveda
thoroughly first-rate dinner He then
called for glass OF fine champagne ana
an excellent Havanna cigar. He slipped
the former and lighted the latter, and
finally told the waiter to bring his bill.
The waiter turned his back, and the gen.
tleman who had dined so asreeably re-
moved the ciga: from his lips and inser-
ted in his mouth the muzzIe of a revol-
yer. He fred tour bullets through his
brain. doctor YVES called and the
dead man was searched. They found
absolutely nothing in his pockets, ex-
cept the note book. On the first page of
this were written in large bold charac.
tiers the words: "A Dinner of Death.
My Last Impressions" Then followed
critlque on each dish, conceived in the
style and unity IF idea of q cOEnoiseur.
In the end he expressed his regret thai
he an ex-otficer of the French army,
AMI decorated ut that, should die as
disgra ced man, after having ST. lven dur
;ug the war to fall by Prussian bullet
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MINNESOTA NEWS.

Minnesota Editorial Convention.
The sixteenth annual convention of tie
Minnesota Editorial association was held in
the state capitol ct st. Paul on the 18th inrt.
There was an unusually large attendance.
The president, Mr.. B. b. Herbert, called
the convention to order apd under the ex-
isting order OF business, after b. @. Sanborn
was appointed secretary pro tem., delivered
his annual address, which was very care
full review of the organization from ITS
inception through the various phases OF
the existence up to the present date.
Gov. Hubbsrd then delivered an address OF
welcome In which he claimed to be a men,
Der of the fraternity as he was an editor
and proprietor of . newspaper twenty years
ago. Liberty Hall of the Glencoe Register
responded to the remarks of the governor.
Papers were read upon a variety OF topics
aud the following officers elected for the
ensuing year:
President-B. B. Herbert, Red Wing.
Vice Presidents-Liberty Hall, Glencoe;
s. Listoe, Fergus Falls; G. J. Ceghland, Lac
qri Parle.
S,cretary-T. T. Bachelor, Minneapolis.
Treasurer-David Ramaley, st. Paul.
Executive C0mmittee-H. P. Hall, st.
Paul; H. A. Castle, st. Paul; Fl. A. Nimocks,
Minneapolis.
The formal business of the association
having been concluded the members scat.
tered about the city, and occupied the spare
time in viewing the improvements until
7:3O o'clock, at which hour the members
with their ladies assembled at the Union
Depot hotel % partake of banquet provid.
ed for them by the Northwestern Newspa-
per union.
At the conclusion of the feast, President
Herbert arose and stated that owing to the
sholtness OF time, saying grace had been
dispensed with, but he thought there vas
sufficient time to return thanks. II. A.
Castle then introduced resolutions, which
were unanimously adopted by reclamation,
extending thanks to the Northwestern News
paper Union for the banquet; and affirming
that ready print paper is one of modem ad:
vancements of the present printing age, and
that furnished by the Union has no superb
or III the west. After very brie
response by Mr.. McAffee who represented
the Northwestern Newspaper Union, the edi
tors and publishers, and their ladies were
all on the cars steamins northward and
westward to take look at the fertile valley
of the Red River of the North aud pay theil
respects to her majesty's dominion at Win.
nipeg. The party occupied three Pullman
sleepeTs.
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The London Lancet has made the dis
covery that there is "no more powerful
apparatus for the conveyance of disease
than a book" 1t mentions measles,
scarlet fever, diphtheria and other ills
to which the Juvenile community are es-
pecially prone as being easy to catch
from books. The germs of disease may
lie for months, or even years, between
the leaves of books that are.-seldom han
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SATURDAYS CYCLONE.

Tho Storm Passed Through 6evorss
Counties I'm Minnesota, Dakota ana
Wisc0nsin-Dcstru TO Life ana
Property from Huron, Dak., Near
~ to tho Mississippi River.
WIDESPREAD DISASTER.
The hurricane on Saturday morning seems
to have originated In the vicinity Of Hitch
cock, on the northern boundry of Beadle
county, OAK, reaching from that point
north ~ far q Rsd6eld. Numerous build
ings were torn down and several persons
wounded, some fatally. Passing east the
storm is next heard of in Codington county,
where much damage was done. particularly
to the crops. So far a. can be heard from
the dispatches, it was next learned Of ut
Sleepy Eye, Brown county, where it was
accompanied with terrific hail. From
there it went to New Ulm, and
crossing the Minnesota river, passed on
through Nicollet county to st. Peter, lay
ing waste the crops in its oourse. From st.
Peter it seems to have followed the general
course If the Winona & st. Peter road
through Kasota, Janesville. Waseca, Meri-
dan, Owatonna. Dodge Center, and Mantor-
vile to Rochester, where it made . sharp
turn to the northeast to the village of e.
gin, Wabasha county, which it almost COM
pletely demolished. Beyond this point the
force of the storm seems to have
been broken, little damage be-
ing reported from the eastward.
The list of Casualties is long one, and
the damage to property is very large. Thus
tar eight are reported killed and about sixty
more or less seriously injured. The blow
ing of . passenger train from the track near
Owatonna resulted in the injury of some
forty people. The town of Elgin suffered
most severely. being almost completely
wiped out, and several being killed. A
complete account of this disaster, however.
is unattainable owing to the Geographic
trouble and the fact that the town is some
distance from the railroad. The loss to
property cannot as yet be estimated, but is
very great.
Dodge county, was the scene of disaster
and general wreck, both to buildings and
the crops. Owatonna and Waseca are also
heavy sufferers, the buildings on tae State
fair grounds at the former place being en-
tirely destroyed. As yet returns are so in
complete that no estimate ia attempted of
the loss either to the crops or to other pro-
perty, but as the path of the storm was
through productive agricultural country,
the aggregate amount will undoubtedly be
very large.
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Darlington, Dak., Wrecked by Wind

Darlington, Oak, Wrecked by Wind.
A frightful hurricane passed over Caring
ton on the 10th inst, that in fierceness and
deatructiveness has not been equalled in
this section. The storm commenced at
about O'Clock in the evening, its approach
being first noticed by the appearance of a
black clond in the Northwest. Darlington
is practically q total wreck, fourteen Of its
principal buildings being totally destroyed.
The Storm was terribly destructive almost
leaving the entire community without q
home. The new Sheridan house, which
was almost completed, and was an orna-
ment to the town and this region, is de-
moiished. Strange to say, the casualties
from the falling houses and flying debris
are not numerous, only one man being sc.
rjously injured. 1t is feared the in ured
man will die. The storm was accompanied
by heavy rain. It ia not thought tn at the
crops have suffered any considerable dam
age. The victims of the hurricane already
talk of rebuilding.
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The boasting of the Crock and Rvo,,
meolclne proprietors has reacted tn
their own discontinue and cost. Thew
alleged that 5,O00,OoO bottles were sol9
IN one year. The internal revenue de-
pa'tment suspects that this unprecedep-
ted sale of patent medicine ia dna 70
something besides its curative Qualities,
A 1',;'e hereafter Rock and RIVE"
w"l pe taxed ninety cents gallon. in
common with other liquors. THIS NAV
,eno 10 reduce the sales, if not its popn-
'arlty: Other patent medicines, COM
posed mainly of liquor. will hereafter ha
T't':seu Us llquor' AMI taxed accordingly.
lnls seems to be very unhealthy sea-
son for the alleged tones ''"
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The Great Telegraph Strike.

Last March meeting was held at Chicago
of representatives of several thousand oper-
ators of the Western Union telegraph lines,
at which request was made for shortening
the hours Of labor from nine to eight
hours, and for advance In wages. The
officers of the Western Unien declined
to accede to the request asd q general strike
was determined upon. At given signal
Thursday noon, several thousand opera
tors, all over the country, left their instru-
ments. The immediate fleets of the move.
ment are not 20 palpable as might have
been expected. The strike extended only to
the employees of the Western Union COM
pany, and does not effect the railroads nor
the larger newspapers, which have their
Own wires and employ their own operators.
In New York, Frank Phillips, of the
cable department., By prec0ncerted agree
ment jumped on an operating table and
blew a shrill, loud blast upon large ivory
whistle. Nearly 500 operators in the room,
with the exception of comparatively few,
jumped to their feet simultaneously, and
mounting chairs and tables, gave three deaf
The grabbing of hats, coats and walking
sticks was next in order, and 400 ope rators,
in uignified squads and patches filed down
the steps.
The effect of the strike on the EXCHANGES
was electric. Within five minutes all the
Offices in the vicinity of the cotton, pro-
duce, petroleum, stock, and metal exchanges
were thronged with persons, vainly trying 10
transmit messages. The messages were take,,
till the operators rose from their places.
The signal was given by the chief operator
in each office who used the sounding
board. In each case he led the operators
out of the office. When the men left the
man in charge of the office an
nOunced that no messages would
be received. Similar scenes
were witnessed in all the larger Offices of
the country. Immediately before the strike
arumor was sent all over the country that
| Gen. Grant had dropped dead in Wall
street and as no contradiction came for
| some time, this was considered as tho pre-
! concerted signal for the strike, but
| such YVES not the fact.
1t is said that 1OOOO operators were en-
gagged in the strike, most of them the most
skilful of this profession. But sufficient
number remain to transmit the most I'M
portant business, and it is probable that a
compromise of some sort will soon solve
the difficulty. The railroad lines employ
ing their own operators were not seriously
affected Ivy the strike.
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Mortality in New York CITY.

The mortality in New York this season is
friehtfully on the increase, either owing to
the great heat, the dirty condition of the
streets. or the death rate sustaining natu-
raj rati" to largely increased population.
Certain 1t is, that there never were 80 mauv
funerals in SO short time as there have
been during the past two weeks. The un-
dertaking establishmentscl claim to be worked
to their FULLEST capacity. The mortality is
greatest among children, who constitute
fully two-ffths OF the whole number, of
deaths.
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The cool wave, which it was thought
might injure some of the crops, has been
extremely favorable to the fields over
which it flowed, as it has served to con-
dense the vapor in the atmosphere, and
thus to refresh the earth with needed