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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-07-19
Foreign Paupers Coming THROUGH
Canada,

. Special Agent Howell, now at Plattsbu,e.
N. T.. has called the attention of tho tre.s.
ury department to the large number of i'm.
migrants arriving At Quebec and Montreal
and says that many of them are almost des.
ttute, having neither money nor friends.
and are too feeble by reason of age or in.
trinity to support themselves. he says that
most Of this clsss ore paupers, who have
neen assisted In procuring passage and are
t1cketed to points in the western part of the
United States. The special agent is in
formed that twenty eight persons who had
!en Ireland only twenty days before were
Buffalo, and were committed to the Erie
county almshouse. All of these people
came into the United States via Canada.
Canadian steamers engaged in importing
cattle from Great Britain make very low
rates tor this class Of Immigrants from Ire
land to Canada. He says be is also in.
ormed that large number of state aided''
Immigrants are to leave Ireland on the
next Allan steamer, and be sent at onoe
from Causds into the United States. It IN
sta ted al the treasury department that there
u nc Law 70 prevent pauper immigration
through Canada.
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The Rich Man Dies Also.

At Davenport, Iowa, Thursday, at his
residence in the Western part Of the city,
died Lorenzo Schrlcker, the well-known
lumber man capitalist. His sickness had
been Of long duration. He was forty-eight
years of age and native of Germany, coin.
ing to this couhtry in 1848. He has been
for many years the head of the sawmill firm
of Schrieker & Miller; was at one time presi-
dent of the Mississippi Logging company,
and had large lumber interests ut Beef
Slough and elsewhere in Wisconsin. Few
men were better known among the pineries.
He was the richest man in Davenport.
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Chicago's High Episcopal Hitch.

The vestry otthe Church of Ascension in
Chicago, extreme High Episcopal, of which
Rev. Father Richie is rector. has adopted a
letter prepared by committee, addressed
to Bishop McIaren, upon the misunder-
standing existing between the bishop and
the pastor; very courteous, but firm in tone.
It processes fealty to the church and bishop
but at the same time it asserts the ritual OF
the Church of Ascension in accordance with
the laws Of the church and chides the bish-
OPP, if he thinks otherwise, for failing to In
struct the parish AS to its wrong adminstra-
ton of the rite of confirmation, etc. 1t il
believed this letter is enc step toward an
open rupture between the parish and the
diocese, ike that in which Charles E. Che.
Episcopal church, except that it is upon
the side OF ritualism instead of non. ritual.
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CASUALTIES or THE WEEK.

A tornado struck Soldier City, Kansas, {
town of 200 inhabitants on the K. c. rail
road, on the 10th. 1t completely demol
ished sixteen buildings and injured a num-
Der of Others. Among the buildings blown
down we're two general stores, the dr. If
store. one livery stable and several resi-.
dences. Three women and one child were
killed outright and some fifteen injured
several seriously.
Near Natchez, Miss, an engine and ei ebt
cars, jumped the track and went into fifty.
foot abyss. Conductor Jennings was instant.
~ killed; Brooks, brakeman, was fatally
injured, the following were seriously injured
nearly al! having limbs broken: Misses
Susie and Jennie Hale, Mr.. and Mrs. w. s.
Cannon and daughter Johannesburg Miss.
James 9rillo and F. Monnoncio OF Natchez.
A special mail and express train on the
New York Central railroad coilided with a
derailed car at Schenectady recently,
The engine was wrecked. Edward Wampie,
the engineer, had his head crushed, and it
is thought he will die. Wample was one
OF the oldest engineers on the road.
The New York Bulletin finds that the to
tai loss from fire in the six months from
Jan. 10 July IN the United States and
Canada amounted to $44 800, 600, being
500, 600 ]ess~than the fire waste OF the cor.
responding time in 1882.
The total loss by FIRE in St. Louis the first
six months of this year was $500, so5; loss to
insurance companies, 1922 800. This is on.
~ about half "a great as IL . loss for the cor
responding time last year.
Daniel Hayes of Boston went on the roof
of his house to cool off on the 9TH. He was
sunstruck and rolled off the roof to the
street, distance of three stories, dying soon
afterward.
Tremendous forest fires are raging south
OF Kalama Oregon. Six miles of railroad
and two i"coa otlves have been de-
stroyed.
During the sealing season on Barclay
sound, Pacific coast, forty eight Indians
were drowned by capsizing canoes.
In wrestling match at Kansas City, with
Donald DinneI, Clarence Whistler had his
shoulder and knee dislocated.
A hailstorm destroyed &, 900 acres of grow
ing crops in Bon Homme and Hutchinson
counties, Dakota.
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FOREIGN .NEUrS GOSSIP.

M. Challemel I.acour, French minister O
foreign, affairs informed Lord Lyons, British
ambassador in Paris, that quarantine regu-
lations will be enforced at French ports
against vessels from England unless the
British government takes precautions to
avoid the spreading of the cholera from
Egypt.
Aavices, June g, from Habocn, capital of
the French colony of that name, ON the west
coast of Africa, state that the French com.
mandant there arbitrarily searched English
merchants, and fined those having arms in
their possession, and interfered with Amer
lean missionaries, refusing to permit the
teaching of any language but ,he French.
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Railroad Trouble at DEVILS Lake

A Grand Rapids Herald Bartlette speci al
says: On Saturday last Mr.. 'aaghman re-
ceived letter from Mr.. Hill that the sta.
ton switches and side-track at Bartlett
wou Id be taken away and trains not per-
mitted to stop nearer there than ut Lacots,
four miles east. Monday morning Attorney
Standish of Bartlett started with this let.
ter and the necessary legal papers for Far
Hudson. This evening he returned with
an Order that has been served, prohibiting
the company from carrying out any por-
ton OF their threat, and further requiring
the company to stop its trains each way,
both passenger and freight, once day, and
to grant to said station all the facilities and
accommodations that have heretofore been
granted to It without any increase in rates
or other discrimination. The order is I'D.
dressed TO said defendant, every officer or
agent, or employee thereof and to every
other person whosoeyer. and requires the
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-07-19
Northwestern Patents.

northwestern Patents.
Patents were issued an the 10th inst, as
follows:
William F. Baily, st. Paul, sash fastener;
Charles Beebe, Racine, tanning mill ~;
I'orin D. Carpenter, Bush Creek, Iowa,
tread power; John A. Chapma, Milwaukee,
two-wheeled vehicle; Eugene G. Dawson
Maquoketa, Iowa, snow pillow; Henry c..
Hicks, Minneapolis, stock car; D. r. Hoop
er, Oskaloesa, Iowa, grinding mill; John r.
Howe, Cherokee, Iowa, combined cultiva-
tor and harrow; Drew H. Land, Mortified,
Minn., eccentric bearing; Samuel N. Me-
Guernv, Minneapolis, combined cane and
camp chair; P. F Pfanabaker, Coon Rapids
Iowa, car coupnng;-Wausau, Wis, fire
escape; John M. Rumble, Palmyra, Wis,
hay elevator and carrier; G. E. Stevenson,
Quincy, MINI, draft equalizer; John A
hog cholera.
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PERSONAL NEJTS NOTES.

Hon. Lewis Smith died in Helena, Mont.
recently, aged sixty-eight years. Mr.. Smith
was bora In Windham, Conn.,, and wa,
graduated ct Dartmouth college. He was
resident of Hastings, Mimi, from is5 6 to
1870, at y hitch time he moved to st. Joseph
Mo-, where he resided until 1880; when he
removed to Montana, in search of heal tn
M. smith filled many prominent public
positions during life For two sessions he
was clerk of the New HAMPSHIRE house al
representatives, and was also at one time q
director OF the New Hampshire Central
railroad. He was secretary of Minnesota
last territorial council, and was afterward
elected as member of the house. At sew.
eral of the democratic state conventions OF
Minnesota he acted as presiding officer.
For a number of years he was member NJ
one OF the leading law firms of Hastings.
that of Smith, Smith Il Crosby. He was
for long time citizen of Nahua, N. II.
Congressman Bedford Indignantly and
empbatica1ly denies that he was retained
by ex-senator Tabor to represent his in
terests in selection of the site of a govern
ment building in Denver, aud saws he knows
Architect Hill was never offered, and never
received, cent to locate the building on
Tabor's property.
John D. Van Buren,, Jr., son of the most
brilliant attorney general New York ever
had, has written letter to Gov. Cleveland
declining the appointment As commission
er of the state survey. He believes the work
done by the State survey should be under
the din ecti0n Of the State engineer and
surve, or, and favors the adjustment of the
board.
1t appears that Charles Francis Adams.
Jr, spoke by the card in his Phi Beta kan
pa Grafton against Greek in the college
course. President Eliot and the corpora-
tion unanimously are with him, after a
long and careful discussion.
Gov. Crittenden of Missouri declares it is
his intention to enforce all the provisions
of the recently enacted Downing law. the
principal of which is the closing of saloons
on Sunday.
Capt. J. ]. Clsgue, United States COM
missary of subsistence, stationed at Helena.
Mont, is visiting friends and looking after
his real estate interest in Minneapolis.
Mackenzie is the youngest brigadier in
service. He is fOrty-four.
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Great Fire It Cokato, Wright Ooua
~ MRnnesOta

Great Fire 1t COkato, Wright Coull.
~. Minnesota.
s On the 14th inst, Ookato, Wright County,
MIMI, sixty-one miles west Of st. Paul, on
the Breckinridge division of tie Manitoba
road, met with almost total destruction
from fire. The fire seems to have started in
. hotel occupied by section men, early Oh
the previous morning. About twenty me,,
were in the building, three OF
whom were burned to death and
several others badly scorched.
The section men who persisted were as
follows:
Richard Kelly of Waverly.
James Willigman of Montrose.
William Shepherd of Howard Lake.
Kelly aud Shepherd were siagle men,
out wE hs esvss :, WIDOW I'D ~: and five
to es~ snd the we're
forwarded to the friends of the dead this
A wind blowing from different directions
cattsed the fife to spread with great rapidity,
and iii shoft tiHie almost the entire tow,
was in flames. The sceiies IF suffering and
despair we're horrible. A large part OF the
population were driven into the open air
ha)f-haked and remained in this condition
until late the following forenoon, when
kind hearted people from the country took
them in and provided them with food and
timation, but 1t is Thought will reach $50, 900,
with probably halftsat amount OF insur-
ance Out of twenty. three stores but two
were saved.
the leases and insurance are set down ax
follows
A. w. L. Almquist, hardware and inple-
III ents, worth 5000 or $4,000; carries :,
stock Of about $1,000.
Bodin & Johnsoi;. general store, carries
stock of s., 600; insured for $500.
Dull, Edmunds, Coulson & Co.'S elevator;
the firm is worth about $50, 900; the eleva,
tor cost s., 500 in 1881.
Hans England's saloon; he is worth
about S. 600.
a.. F. Girhcch 8, Co., general store; he
lives IN Minneapolis.
Pete. zanbsrg, agricultural implements;
o. HendricksoE, saloon; worth 81 500 or
$4,000
Q. 81. johnson, jeweler, worth from
King ( Bradshaw paid $1,000 for their
hotel and furniture short time ago.
A. A. Snlder, general store, carried a
small stoct-$5,OOO to 5000; insured
for So 600.
p. E. Nelson, boot and shoes; stock worth
81. 600 to 5000.
In the store of Hans England. Otto OLE
son, lumber dealer, did small business,
worth 1000.
Guy Perkins kept hotel of small size.
Peterson Broj general store, had q socl
of Sc, 600 or $1,000.
A. p. Peterson carried stock of about
s. 600 and owned the store and building.
James Rnnnion lumber aud furniture car
ried stock worth $1,000; the store was
worth about $500.
P. Stevenson, general store carried one OF
the beat stocks in town.
Peter Swenson, Aasoh-maker, worth $500.
John Tracy, saloon-keeper, carried ont q
small stock.
DR.. Joe Trow, drugs, carried stock Of
5000.
P. L. Weberg, furniture; stock of $500.
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A Wfsconsin H0mlcide.

A correspondent at Beetown, Wis, re-
lates the particulars of . probably fatal &C
currence which took place in that village
st week. Four years ago resident of the
town nam ed f. E. Evans was shot and
nearly killed by John Sturlner. The latter
was tried and sent to the penitentiary tor
four years. His time having recently ex-
pired, he returned to Beetown aud at once
recommended bis quarrel with Evans. on
he afternoon of the 7th he attempt ID to
force his way into Evans house, whom the
latter seizing . shot gun emptied its con-
tents in 4turmer's head, inaicting wounds
from which the latter, at Last accounts,
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NEWS CONDENSED.
EVENTS IN WASHINGTON.

EVENTS IN WASHlN4TON.
The commissioner Of the general land
Office is making up statement of the work
OF the special sgents appointed to HINT up
fraudulent entries in the Vest. The office
is so for behind that many cases are still
pending, and the general result of the ex-
pertinent cannot vet be determined. The
cancellation so far are about 600 entries of
quarter sections, very small proportion OF
the IA, OO0, 600 acres taken up 4, ring the
fiscal year. A large number of the cases In
vestigated showed the complaints to be of .
frivolous or malicious character.
TO 4 friend, General Raum, speaking of
the abolition of the stamp tax, is quoted as
having sail day or two ago .Ett the reve.
nue. to ba derived et5tn whisky and beer
alone would tsobably amount to 500, 600, :
600, AID that the rer cal OF all other internal
revenue laws can be made with safety. Its
the purpose Of certain republican members
Of congress to introduce at the next session
bill abolishing all internal revenue taxes
except those on malt and spirituous liquors.
The secretary of the treasury has decided
to r,ntinue the present system of fastening
cars employed in the transportation OF i'm
ported merchandise with lead seals, and
has awarded the contracts tot supplying
them for the present fiscal year. They will
cost about g per thousand, q reduction of
$3.50 per thousand.
Q Miss Anna Smith of Washington, daugh-
ter of the Rear Admiral. Joseph Smith,
United States navy. has given to the House
of the Good Shepherd the family residence
in Washington Of the late admiral tor a re-
formatory for women. The property COM
prises a large house situated on a lot zoo
feet deep by 100 feet wide, in a central part
of Washington, and IS VALUED at $25, 900.
A private letter from ex-senator Window
to Mr.. w. s. Drew of Winona, states that
the ex-Senator's Washington residence has
been rented to Senator Pal..,er OF Michigan
for one year, the consideration being 81 =
500.
Chief Moses has gone. He left inl bad
humor. Although he had signed the agree.
| ment to take 81, 900 agar and $1,000 to
| build him house at his new place of resi-
dence, he said he wanted $15O,OOO IN silver
pieces and he expected to get it.
Capt. John P. Walker, Third cavalry, re.
Gently adjudged insane at Jefferson barracks,
Mo-, has been brought to Washington and
committed to the government insane nsy lum
for treatment
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B&rnine of indiana University.
The Colored Race in Politics.

The National Convention of colored ed
itors, recently held at It,. totis, adopted
resolutions, favoring the improvement of
the navigation of the Mississippi river and
protection to its banks from overflow; de-
claring it detrimental TO the best interests
of the negro race and rebugnent to the idea
of political Hanhoed to lie middle the tool of
any existing political party, or be tied to
any political kite, aud pledges the Colored
Press association to henceforward influence,
under all circumstances. the colored voters
Of the country to exercise their right of suf
frage untrammeled b, party: claims, to sup
port measures and principles As they con-
ceive them 70 be to the best interests OF the
country and the race; to demand recognition
commensurate with the strength of the COL
ored voter of the country of that party to
which they may see lit to become allies,
aud benceforth to occupy the same indie
pendent position as is occupied by the
Swedes, Germans and other citizens. A
resolution was also adopted stating that
the convention was in sympathy with the
republican party on the tariff question, sna
that the word negro be written and printed
With 4 Cabital IN"
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GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

Chief Nose. and other Indians, from Col
uat.a and Colvil!e reservations, on the 9th
inst. signed an agreement which. with a
few notifications, is identical with the one
virtually offered on the 9TH inst. At the
conference Chief Tomaakat complained that
Slmms, aga,t nt the ColSille reservation,
never visited The indians personally, and
was entirely ignorant of their wants; that
his quarters are forty miles from the reserv-
alton; thus obligiDg the Indians TO travel
that distance in order to confer with, min
when anything is needed. It is bald at the
department that hgent Silnms will be
promptly sehioved, vnless henceforth he
sisen the Indians under ;his charge more
personal attention, sE.
The total amount of lumber manufac-
tured by the twelve mills in Duluth. in the
season of 1882 was "a, 9ls,ls5 feet; shingles
by 6ge of them, 81, S63, 600; lath by the sa,n e
namber, 10, 55e5, 900. There was an increase
Id the manufactures of 1882 over 1881 OF a
little less than 200 per cent. in lumber,
about 100 per cent. in shingles, and over
800 per Cent. in lath.
The PACIFIC board of underwriters report
destrrttion of property by fire on the coast
the past six months at 81 900, 900. This ia
an enormous increase the yearly averages
of insurance loss the last twelve years hay
ing been under 81 100000:
r. D. Jones of durham, N. c., has in his
possession a long, black whisky bottle out
of which Gems. Johnston and Sherman took
| their last drink after signing the articles OF
surrender on the Goth of April, 1865.
The superintendent OF the New York as
| say office says trade dollars are on the foot
ing of fine and atan{iafd silver bars; and are
worth at the present price Of silver from 85
to 86 cents each.
-Four apartment buildings, eleven stories
high, are to be erected at Sixth avenue and
Fifty.niDth street, New York, at a cost OF
50, ACC, 600.
Robert Hoskins, an American received
| one of the two medals presented for the
best wood engraving exhibited at the Paris
salon.
Four dozen plain gold rings were found
and held in mail from England recently,
| in New York.
The New Hampshire legislature has
passed a bill prohibiting the sale OF toy pis-
tolls.
The Minneapolis stove and furnace COM
pany starts with a capital of $15O,OOO.
Louisville has 26, 10s voters registered, of
whom 4, 1871 are colored.
Senator Sherman thinks Ohio il sure ia
| 20 republican.
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Death OF the Famous ''Tom Thumb. ,


Charles Haywood atratton, better known
as Gen. Tom Thumb, died at lis residence
at Middletown, Mass, on the 10Th inst, of
apop'exy. He had been slightly indisposed
for d few days, but nothing serio Is was
anticipated. The ren,eips were taken
to Bridgeport, Conn; for ihterment
For more than quarter of y century Tom
Thumb has occupied position in The eye
Of the public in immerse proportion to his
size. While by no means the smallest
dwarf ever exhibited, he is by far the most
notable. He was born at Bridgeport, Conn.,,
the age OF iorty-five years and six months
when he died. His parents were ordinary
sized people, and until the age of four or
five Charles was not noticeahy small,
AboNt that time he ceased growing, how
ever. and when at the age Of fourteen he
was engaged by P. T. Barnum as an at
traction for the New York museum of the
great Snowman, he was about the size of a
boy of six. He broadened consid. rably in
later years, but gained little in stature. He
has been before the public ever since 1852
people than any other human. Macy
S was married V to a comeiy female " d1apf
named minnie Wares" Their wedding
was celebrated with great pomp a ID cere-
nony, in Trinity church, New York, q sis
ter OF the bride acting as bridesmaid, and
Commodore Mutt, midget considerably
smaller than the groom, and since dead,
serving as best man for the latter. About
two years after his marriage Mr.. and Mrs.
stratton became happy parents, but their
offspring, much to the regret of the curious
lived but . short time. About two years
ago, the pair, having amassed very con-
siderable fortune retired from the stage aud
made their home in the handsome resi-.
dence in the outskirts of Middleb0ro which
was bHilt under Tom Thumbs personal or.
ders. Mrs. stratton, who is several years her
husbands junior survives him.
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NEWS OF THE RAILROADS

Upon tina completion of the Northern
Pacific in September next, several {mpot'
tant changes are to be made in the Opera
tive departmental that TOAD. At present
General Manager Haupt has charge of the
Eastern division only. but when the exist
irg gap between Helena and Missoula has
been constructed, he is to be given thc
management of the whole road from St.
Paul to Portland. In Buckley. located
has charge of the Western division. is to
continue as assistant general manager of
that division, and J. T. O'Dell, superiRten-
dent of transportation, is to be made assis-
tant general manager of the. Eastern divis.
ion. As regards the SUPPLEMENTARY OF
transportation, 1t is generally expected that
that Office will be abolished, or at least
emerge into some other department, pro-
badly that OF the new assistant general
manager.
The directors of the Wadena h Park
Rapids road met in St. Paul the 18th and
elected the following officers: President
Col. William Crooks ofSt. Paul; vice presi-
dent, franklin G. Rice of Park Rapids; Sec
retaIy, J, A. Wolverton OF Minneapolis;
treasurer, E. s. Case of Wadena, and the
following executive COMMITTEES: Hon. Char
les A. GlIman OF st. Cloud, +. =. Rice of
Park Rapids, and E. s. Case of Wadena. 1t
is the intention of the officers OF the road to
commence surveys ut an early date, and to
begin the work of construction as soon as
surveys shall have been completed.
The st. Paul and Omaha company has
decided not to run spur track on the Chip
pewa Falls, but will retain the deps
grounds and yards on the east side of the
Chippewa river, and will soon erect its de
pots. The Wisconsin Central company is
about to close the contracts for bridges
across the river, and will Immediately be.
gin the construction through Chippewa
Falls and the erection of depots there.
During the pas: week "a miles $50 yards
ofItrack have been added to the main line OF
the Canadian Pacific west; on Tuesday
July 8, 4 miles 1,1sO miles were laid; and
on Saturday, the 9th, 6 miles and forty
yards.
The earnings of the St. Paul system fol-
the first week in July aggregate sac, 900,
against 1891 900 for the same week last year,
an increase of $94, 600.
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Phinney &:.Jaclson, merchants, Of Port
land, Me-, have suspended with liabilities
Of over $500 600. They claim sssets are due
from Cuba sufficient to meet their engage
ments,