The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-05-22

not give up without great loss. From time I'M
memorial army officers have always done
the plains. Take Dodge City, Kan. That is
built on town cite purchased by an army
surgeon from squstter for few hundred dol
lars, and afterward sold by the army surgeon
for more than $4,000! That's one of numer-
bus cases: Most Of thdse officers who have
been long In the West, where they have any
shrewdness at all, have some money laid MP
against retirement day."
Epitome of Late kilograms.
Macpherson is said to have resigned from tho
dominion cabinet:
Germany will subsidize steamship lines to
the east and Australia.
Controller Cannon orders a general e1amin-
alton Of national banks.
The emperor Of Germany has accepted the
resignation Of Bismarck from the presidency Of
the cabinet. His successor is Boetelicher,
Prusian minister of state.
The Conservative peers Of England have re-
solved unanimously to reject the franchise bill.
Lord Randolph Churchill was unanimously re-
elected chairman of the National Conservative
union;
Queen Victoria is negotiating for the purchase
Of the Villa Nevada at Cannes, in which Prince
Leopold died The intention is to convert it
into 4 convent and chapel in memory Of the
Prince
Charles OConors fine estate on North Shore,
including his fire. proof library building, will
pass by Request into the hands of the Roman
Catholics of Nantucket Mr. OConor paid of
the entire debt of the town of Nantucket.
The Tageblatt of Berlin positively asserts that
Richard Muckle of the Philadelphia Ledger,
will succeed Sargent as United States minister
to Berlin. Muckle, the paper says, is All Alsatian
by birth, but personally grateful to Bismarck.
The German bundesrath has adopted bill
to subsidies transoceanic steamship lines
The government is authorized to grant private
companies concessions to organize and MAIN
tain regular mail steamer services between Ger
many and ports of Eastern Asia and Australia.
Queen Victoria has cabled the governor gen.
eral Of Canada expressing the wish that the
celebration of her birthday in the united en-
pire be delayed until the % of June, owing to
the death of Prince Leopold. The govern
ment proclamation will be issued to that effect
The Irish landlords are in serious trouble
over their unproductive property. Notwith-
standing the recent reductions of rent, which
have been very general and LIBERAL they can
not collect even the reduced rents with any de-
gree of certainty, and they are almost without
exception anxious to sell.
The Siamese Princes have packed up their
golden mantels, embroidered silk and velvet
garments, and gone to New York, where they
will stay for some time before making tour
of the country. They have been shown great
deal of atteatl on in Washington and are very
much pleased with their visit
Senator Jonas of Louisiana was very much
astonished man on the 10TH He thought he
read his title clear to reelection to the United
States senate, &nd had been congratulated up
OH his prospects, but, to his surprise,
the Democratic caucus of the Louisiana legis-
lature nominated ex-senator Eustis.
The Grand Duke Louis of Hesse- Darmstadt
has informed Madame Kalemine of his inten-
ton to apply for divorce upon the ground
that the morganatic marriage was informal.
The Baron de Starck, premier of the grand
duchy of Hesse, has announced his intention
to resign unless the grand duke keeps his mar
riage contract
The steamship 1lyrian, from Liverpool for
Boston, was wrecked Thursday night, the
18th, near Cape Clear Light island All the
people were saved. The Illyrian went ashore
during thick fog She struck rock with
great force, knocking large hole in her bow
under the water mark. The forecompart-
ment began to fill During the night the sea
increased and the vessel rolled on her side and
sunk.
The failure of Charles Searing's Exchange
bank at Laporte. Iowa, was caused by the sus-
pension of Donnel Lawson l. Simpson in New
York, who had between $1,000 and $500 of
Searing's money, they having been his CORES
pondent His capital was 81, 100 and it is re-
ported he has been doing good business. He
some depositors having as much as 81, COO with
him
Active steps are taking to secure Minnesota
q creditable showing at the New Orleans expo
sition. Oliver Gibbs, Jr., has been appointed
commissioner for the state, and will have at
his disposal 5000 of the congressional appro-
priation to defray expenses of exhibits. The
people of the state will doubtless not be slack
tvnity to show to the world the advance that
has been made since the Philadelphia exhibi-
ton
The senate is discussing plan to appropri-
ately celebrate the 3OOth anniversary Of the
landing of Sir Walter Raleigh's exploring ex-
petition on Roanoke island on the 9th of July
next Senator Vance of North Carolina is urg-
ing the matter, and wants congress to appro-
pirate $50, 900 to commemorate the landing of
this, the first Anglo American colony upon the
American shores, and to erect monument on
the spot where Sir Walters feet first touched
on virgin soil.
An outrageous scene occurred at the Catho-
lie cemetery in Rockford, Ill. The burial of
Mike Connors was in progress, when his bro
Their Thomas, rather the worst for whisky,
pulled out q knife and commenced prying of
the silver plate, saying he had furnished it and
proposed to keep it. Mrs Connors shouted at
him to let up. Her brother, Norris Sisten,
dead, and 4 genuine row seemed inevitable,
when outsiders interfered and the burial pro-
ceeded
The gates of the Iowa penitentiary at Fort
Madison opened on Wednesday, the 14th, for
the exit, after eight years of penitentiary life,
of Edward Bruce, who was sentenced for life
for the murder of his friend and neighbor,
p Mcnamara, in the summer of 1876, at Keo-
kuk, in this county. 1t is supposed that Bruce
and his wife have gone to Dakota, where the
father of Bruce resides. The whole affair has
been kept very secret, and no one outside of
tho prison officials there is yet aware of tho
pardon of Bruce. The citizens of keokuk, o.
pecially, will be surprised
Sir William Harcourt, English home secre-
tary, has again been nervous over information
which the police claim to have discovered Of
Fenian plots to assassinate himself Mr.. Glad
stone, Mr. Trevelyan, Chief Secretary for Ire
land, and other members Of the government
1t is said that these threats are the cause of the
proposed cabinet meeting on Irish Affairs on
which Earl Spencer, lord lieutenant for Ireland,
has been summoned from Dublin. Lord Spen-
Ger will be guarded by two special officers
throughout ms Journey ana extrsSsdln.ry
y of members Of the government Recently
no less then twelve Scotland yard detectives,
il plain clothes. were counted in the lobby OF
different ministers p thas ho@ee