The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-03-06

Joseph .Duffreo of Cleveland, Ohio, has
brought suit against syndicate of West Virgin
ia men, headed by ex- Gov. Farnsworth, to re-,
|. cover $4,000, the value Of some land whose
title proves defective.
"A Venstreforening has been organized at Eau
| Claire for the purpose of collecting 81 600 as
| gift to Johan Sverdrup, the untiring leader OF
the Liberal party in Norway The plan is meet.
| ing with general fovor, and one man has sub
| Frank Young who was sentenced to be hanged
at Helena Mon, for the murder Dan Nc
Carly last July, has been respited by President
arthur Al unit j!Dec n, inorder that his attorneys
| Vivian and Mayhem, can take his case to the
United States supreme court
Samuel McElroy, the ell-known engineer
has let out the fact that the big Brooklyn bridge
! is not entirly perfect He saws: s"That the
| cables Of the East river bridge have very con
slderably heightened is shown by the fact tina
the susponder bands have been slipped neare,
the towers by several inches
Further advices from the Ceur d'Alene dis
trict confirm the opinions already expressed at
to the advisability of waiting for better weathe,
| before giving way to an attack of the gold fe
yer: At present the cost of living is excessively
high, accommodations are extremely bad, and
| the cold weather and deep snow preclude any
| efforts in the search for gold.
| At San Francisco, two women horsewhippe6
ID. l. Regenberger, a prominent attorney Re.
| genberger was walking Oh Kearney street when
the pair sprang out of q carriage, performed
the decd, re-entered and drove away The
| cause is said to be expressions of the attorney
resentinS the intrusion of the women in his So
! ciety at Mardi Gras ball the night before
Two weeks ago Virgins, the weather pro-
phet, advised Canadian and United States pa
pers along the seaboard of two he,vy storms,
dangerous to shipping, that would happen in
| the near future, one beginning the 9th of Feb
ruary, and the second and greater of the two
on the 18th Of March The first was true, and
Friday, the 20th, a blizzard almost unprcce-
denied took place, and is now blowing
Col. Goodwin of Milwaukee has returned from,
Washington, where he went to take steps to-
ward securing pardon for George Daubcr,
convicted of securing a United States pension
by fraud and sentenced to five years imDrison-
ment He reports that the matter is we'll under
way and promises to result successfully. Dub
ner has served six months of his term at Ches-
ter. Ill. His friends assert that his health is
failing, and, that he can not long survive Life
Of confinement
Great excitement prevails over the discovery
of a gold mine at Erin, East Tenn While out
hunting A. H. Bernathy found a cave and evi-
dences OF gold He took a lease of the land
and is selling lots at big profits. Over $50
Worth OF nuggets are on exhibition in a store
Miners and railroad men are 1loching ill., AL
ready there are over 200 strangers in town.
Picks and shoyels are in demand. The hotels:
are crowded. Erin is small place On the
Louisville Nashville road, near the Tennessee
river.
George Booth, superintendent of j. Fame
chon's oil factory at Prairie du Chen, died
Tuesday night from the effects of dose OF
morphine. He had been out the night before
at ball and was considerably under the in
tluence of liquor. Tuesday he went to his bus
mess as usual, but shortly after commencing
work a sudden dizziness seized him, after
which he went into a stupor and thus re-
manned till he died. No cause has been as
signed except that he had been of melan-
choly disposition for some time, which is said
to have been caused by unrequited love.
The case of Robert Bailey, colored, was tried
at Toledo, O., for marrying white girl, COP
trary to tho law Of 1910, which imposes fine
Of 500 and three months Imprisonment for a
white person marrying ono Of negro blood, OF
vice versa. A demurrer was filed by the de-
tense that the law was unconstitutional under
the fourteenth amendment The judge dis
missed the demurrer, holding that the law did
not discriminate in favor of the white race, I'M
Po'iiS tllo oaio pehdA'y oA We person VI eltnel
race marrying woman of the opposite race
Bailey was found guilty and given the full pom
atty of the law.
Mrs. Jane 4. Brooks, widow said to be
worth half a million, was arrested at the Pal
mer house Chicago, Thursday night on a war
rent sworn out on the allegation that she was
about to leave for parts unknown A number
of years ago her husband went on the bond of
one Henry NJ. Curtis as administrator of the es-
tate, in which Stanley B. Sexton, then meno1
heir, but now a we'll known amateur athlete,
was interested Subsequently a suit was
brought against the Brooks estate, Brooks hay
ing died, as surity for Curtis, it being alleged
day rendereda verdict for s62, OO0 against the
estate. Mrs. Brooks was arrested, as stated,
on the allegation that she was about to leave
the city for the purpose of escaping the penal
ty of the verdict: The lady went into Mysteries,
from which she has not rallied, and it is feared
that she will die