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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-10-02
Drawing the Arctic Long Bow.

CHICAGO, special telegram, Sept. 3O.-The
members of the Greedy relief expedition now
posing before the public in this city at certain
dime museum are in autter of excitement
over the report that the United States authori-
ties are contemplating the recall of the trio.
They arc charged with telling some lively tales
regarding the alleged cannbaism of the Greedy
party during their terrible experience in the
lrlgld zone. They have been attracting enor-
nous crowds.
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The Cholera Record.

NEW YORK, special telegram, Sept. 3d.
Times London cable: Up to midnight on
Thursday the total number of deaths in Europe
from cholera was 1872. OF these Italy had
1874, France $685. and Spain 800. The
province of Naples has now furnished more
deaths than the whole of France. The disease
has now got "a firm grip upon the city of Genoa,
despite the ridiculous Gordon kept around
Spezia to save the Marble City.
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ANNALS OF CRIME.

In Cleveland, o., on the 24th, Darwin N.
Gardner, for years police clerk of that city,
shot his wife and then himself He will die.
She is not fatally wounded. No one knows
the motive for the crime
Near Carthage, Ala, a negro named Short
seized a well-known lady and dragging her
into clump OF bushes ravishcd her. She gave
the alarm and posse of 100 men hunted down
the negro and riddlcd him with bullets.
In Vincennes, Ind, Mary Weinstcrn, a jew
ish widow Of high social standing, attempted
suicide BY morphine. Her case is hopeless.
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Another Railroad forDakota

HURON, Oak, special telegram, Sept. o.
Engineers Of the Sioux Falls, Fairbank and
Western railroad are now surveying line
from Huron through Hand and Hyde counties
toward the southeast corner of Potter county,
At this point the lines diverge, one going west
to the Missouri river, and the other northwest
to Bismarck. 1t is said that surveyors are Sc
curing right of way from farmers as they CO.
The treasurer of the road, C. F. Freeman is
president of the Milwaukee board of trade
W. w. Walker, of Cedar Rapids, is chief en-
ginecr and superintendent, and is the man who
is putting up the money for the surveying
The line is to extend southcasterly to Sheldon,
Iowa.
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The Labor is worthy Of His H,r.

NEW YORK, special telegram, Sept. 3o-The
regular meeting of the Central Labor union
was held Sunday afternoon. A delegate from
the butchers union reported they had a new
boycotting scheme ready to put into effect
which they would reveal next Sunday. The
union also intended to advertise in all the pa
pers the fact that they are forgetting Chicago
beef, and the results.
Much interest was.felt in the report of Typo
G f5aI Union No. The delegate stated
with the Tribune, and that agreerncnts-satis-
factory with the exception of a certain clause
which the union wished to have obliteratcd.
but which Whitelaw Reid wanted in-werr
drawn: No terms could be come to, and the
union therefore reported that boycotting would
90 on with renewed vigor.
PITTsBURG, Sept. 3O-Thc stove moulders
VINO sH1 nave o.en on strike for several months
neld amecting l'st-night to appoint committee
to make terms with the employers.
DUNBAR, Pa, Sept. 30.-The employees of the
Dunbar ful mace company will not accept 10
per cent reduction of wages and the furnace
will shut down.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-10-02
A Dead Sportsman.

Fort MCKINNEY, Wyo., Sept. 23.-The
mangled and lifcless body of Gillic Leigh, a
member of the British Parliament, was found
Horn mountains. Leigh was out here with
small English pleasure party. He left the
camp on the 18th inst. for stroll and was not
heard of afterwards till an eight days search
revealed his dead body. The remains will be
shipped to England
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-10-02
ABrave Man Kin. Himself.

NEW YORK, Sept. 27.-1saac Newton, chief
engineer of the Croton water department. COM
mitted suicide by cutting his throat He ha
been drinking hard Of late. The coroner's Jury
decided that Newton took his life while insane
Financial trouble caused the act The estate
left by the elder Newton, who was Commodore
Vanderbilt's associate in North river naviga-
ton enterprises, has been diminished lately bv
failures of debtors. Newton was chief cngi-
neer OF the aqueduct and forty-five years old
tie was John Ericsson's favorite pupil and
planned the new aque'luct. He managed the
engine of the Monitor in her fight with the
Mcrrimac, having to be brought to the deck
three times because Of fanting in the close at
mosphcre of the engine room. He was ignor-
ant which way the battle was going till the vic
tory was won. When assistant engineer of
frigate in the war he was publicly thanked by
the secretary of the navy for his heroic con
duct during fire on the ship. When the crew
was inclined to abandon her he threatened to
brain any man who attempted to pass him on
the gangway where he stationed himself.
Newton feared the depletion of his fathers es-
tate would leave his mother and sister in want
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Resignation of Gen. Gresham.

WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, Sept o.
The resignation of Gresham, postmaster-gen-
pointed as successor of Judge Folger, deceased,
late secretary of the treasury. First Assistant
Postmastcr-Genefal Hatton will act as post
mastergeneral until Gresham's successor is
appointed.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-10-02
A Fanatic Badly Scared.

PARIS Sept. A.-The Solie] publishes an ar
ticle by Maine Hcrve, the we'll known Orlean-
list, which says that the relations between Eng
land and France are so strained that rup-
ture is feared, but hopes the disaster may be
averted.
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A Mississippi man whose time hung
heavy on his hands, counted the num-
Der of grains in a bushel. He found
2,13O of corn, 132, 900 of wheat, 109,-
900 of peas, and 1854, 166 of cotton seed.
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Indignant WOrkingmen.

WASHINGTON, special telegram, Sept. Co.
The laboring people Of this city are in a state
of great agitation over the importation of some
$50 Italian and Hungarian laborcrs by sewer
contractor. They are paid Is cents per day,
the ruling price for such labor being about
S1.25. The workingmcn Of the District of
Columbia white and black, consider that the
work upon all public improvements should be
given them and that they arc being defrauded
OF means which they should be permitted TO
earn. They are holding meetings, making in
temperate speeches, passing resolutions, and
their grievances. but the chcap foreign Iaborers
keep right on doing their work. Violence is
freely threatened and serious trouble is feared.
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A just Turf Decision.

CLEVELAND, O., special telegram, Sept. 25.-
Considering the weather, the races were fairly
attended this afternoon. In the 2 :35 Glass; the
judges became satisfied that Baby Mine was not
driven to win, and therefore put another driver
behind her yesterday. The race was protested
by the owner of Lena Swallow, who claimed
that Baby Mine is ringer. After investigation
the judges expelled the mare from all tracks of
the national association and withheld first
money, rescrviny decision in cases of owner
and driver. Baby Mine won III the 2: 35 class.
Time, 1884: 2:5A, ,2:33h, 2:27L, 2:2S344,
2:3215. In the 2:27 trot Elvira won. Time,
2:G$44, 2:3O, 2:3O, 2:3O. The last two heats
were trottcd in driving rain and furious gale
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most enthusiastic cheering, entered carriage
and was driven rapidly to the depot and left
New York at 9:35 on special train.
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A Hint for Neighboring States.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Sept. 25-Thc Illinois
highway commissioners in convention adopted
resolutions favoring thorough drainage for
good roads; all bitches and drains continuous
to natural water way; all grading uniform;
all highway commissioners should keep rec
ords of their roads and drains; appeals from
decisions of commissioners should be confined
to property owners; counties should pay two
thirds instead of onc-half, as now as county
aid; iron or tube bridges, with stone arches,
were favored; the present levy of road and
bridge tax is sufficient, but recommend petit
ton to the legislature to make all funds sub
iect to the road and bridge fund.
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robbery.
At Cincinnati Mr.. Blaine will stop at the Bur
net house and will occupy the suite of rooms.
Nos. 81 and 62, which have been occupied bv
every President of the past twenty years lex
! ccpt Arthur) -Lincoln, johnson, Garfield and
Hayes. grand reception will be given Mr..
Blaine in the pariors of the Burnet house on
Thursday evening.
meeting of the Illinois Liquor Dealers and
Manufacturers State Protective association was
| held in Chicago on the 9th. Resolutions
were adopted in favor Of general license sys-
tenn which will efficiently guard against all the
| abuses that may be connected with the saloon
business, and at the same time recognize and
protect it like any other legitimate business
occupation.
| At Ottawa, Kansas, on Monday last Carrie
and Bessie Waterman, II and II years, tied a
rope around the neck of a half brothsr, G wears
Old, dragged him about aud beat him with
sticks till dead. The head of the child was
nearly severed from the cutting of the rope
The girls stated at the coroner's inquest that
they hated their brother and wanted him dead
Both were held for murder.
|
The Saloonkeepers' association has prepared
$4,000 circulars to be mailed to liquor and
cigar dealers in Ohio advising them to oppose
johnson, the Republican candidate for Judge of
the supreme court, because he favors the Scott
law. The circular does not declare on any of
the other candidates. The Democratic men,
bers of the committee, who are in the minority.
aftcrward replevined all the circulars.
Three men at Albert Lea, Mimi, Thos. H.
Safely and Geo. A. jackson, of Cedar Rapids.
TO-, and John A. Gregg, of Burlington, TO-,
took ride in small-sized sailboat on Foun-
tail. Lake, when it capsized. The occupants
attempted to swim ashore, but Safely was
drowned. safely's father lives at Burlington,
and is yardmaster for the Burlington. Cedar
Rapids and Northern railroad in that CITY.
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roof and 300 feet from the building. The
brewery Immediately took fire and was con-
sumed, together with its contents. /. W.
Baucr's grocery store, adjoining, was also de-
stroycd, with the stock. Loss, $4,000: insur-
ance about $4,000. Two men arc reported
killed.
On the 26th in the court of sessions at Brook
Ign, N. Y, Ella Larabee pleaded guilty to muir
der in the third degree, and was sentenced to
the penitcntiary for three years and six months.
She is 20 years old and this is her third term in
prison. Daniel Schuglee, having read of her,
presented the prosecuting judge and district
attorney with petitions to permit him to marry
her and take her home. She was willing to
marry him if permitted.
barrels OF oil took fire at the works Of the Stand
ard Oil company's works, in Jersey City, on
the 10Th. The fire department prevented the
spread of the flames to property beyond the
tank. The greater portion of the oil was saved
BY being pumped out. Three employees we're
severely burned about the legs, being caught
by the rapidly flowing and blazing oil as it es-
capped from the burning tank
Gen. Butler, Thos. F. Grady and COL Blan-
ton Duncan, of New York, addressed labor
meeting on the night of the goth, at the Hud-
son avenue tent. An organized mob of en-
ployes on the new capital took possession and
endeavored to break up the meeting. They
procured eggs and hurled them at Grady dur
Ing bis address. The eggs not forcing Grady
to retire he was then allowed to continue his
address. The demonstration was evidently
only for Grady.
The board of managers of the National Tenn
pcrance society in New York City on the 23d,
unanimously adopted a resolution congratu-
lating the citizens Of Maine upon the adoption
oy their magnificent popular majority of n, $50
OF the prohibitory constitutional amendment
forever prohibiting the manufacture and sale
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Twenty-one persons have been arrested in
Vienna, charged with completely in Buchanan's
anarchist schemes. Gunpowdcr and dynamite
stores at Weiper, Nenstadt, and Meunkirchen
were entered and the contents stolen. A mine
was exploded under the steeple Nenstadt.
An explosion of dynamite on the 23d, in the
town hall caused considerable damage The
mayor has received menacing letters from Nib
lists stating that reprisals will be levied for the
execution Of anarchists, Schumacher and KAN
merrer.
A Shanghai dispatch of the Esd, to the Lon.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-09-25
TIE NEW ORLEANS EXPOSE
TIOR

The preparations which are now and
have been for some time being actively
made tor the Worlds Industrial and
Cotton exposition 70 open at New Or
leans. December /, may VIII attract at
tentlon TO an event which, in the IRdus-
trial history of America, finds parallel
In importance probably only in the
Philadelphia Centennial celebration of
1875. The magnificent system of indus
trial fairs and expeditions which have
grown up in this country has come to be
recognized as an essential factor IN the
development Of American industries,
and the value of those of a national
character has been broader than
merely awakening an interest
in industrial development, in that they
have promoted kinder relations between
all the people and stimulated the pride
and interest of all citizens in the nation
al welfare.
1t was wise thought, then, that In
seeking to commemorate the centennial
Of cotton txportatIon from this country
AH4PCANoAL 6LIp Wv dldo AACElC6u
commercial grestness-there should be
planned aud munifcent national proyis-
ion made for an exposition OF this char
ter at the worlds cotton metropolis; the
more especially as this joining If hands
OF all the sIaies 10 welcome the repre-
sentatives Of other nations to our shores
at the Mississippi gate, cannot fail to
haYe large and benefcent Influence in
allaying that sectional bitter
ness which the heat of po-
lItical strife tends only to foster
and Infiame. The true solution of the
southern problem must ultimately be
found in the diffusion of popular knowl-
edge and the union of the north and
south in their industrial interests.
That the New Orleans Exposition Is
undor efficient management, and that it
will attain results commensurate with
the extent of the opportunity thus offer
ed, seems to be evident from the prepar-
atoms being made. The exposition
building, though said to be the largest
ever erected, is yet proving in
adequate to meet the demands
for space. The rate of trans
portation secured on nearly two hundred
railroads-one cent q mile for passen-
gers-will attract an attendance from all
parts of the Union. The efficient coop
Grafton OF the interior department. al
ready noted in these columns, in pre-
pairing u display in educational and
other lines that will fiily represent the
n alton as such, will also add marked IN
terest to the occasion. The whole people
may we'll unite in at least echoIng the
wish expressed in a recent report by d.
rector General Burke, who has the expo
sItiOn in charge, that we may ere long
through such occasions, celebrate the
end of sectional acerbity and proclaim a
new era of fraternal feeling and indus
trial progress"
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a DuLL sr0nK ExnHANGE.

The Railway Register suggests the
hopeful idea that the speculative period
in American finance has eLded, and that
the near future will mark happy de-
cadence in the enterprises of stock gamb-
ling and dealings in margins. The nu-
merous defalcations, failures and
breaches of trust, the exposures OF I'm.
scrupulOus dealings, the financial furry
of last spring, whose grinding pressure
has been so severely felt, the Grant &
Ward, the Marine bank and the Emo col
lspses all of which may be traced directly
or indirectly to this speculative tendency,
have certainly done much to awaken
public opinion; and public opinion once
aroused to frown upon that which has
heretofore worn the garb of respecta-
bilIty, may be remorseless in its pres
sure and irresistible in Its Influence.
Perhaps this picture. certainly drawn
by clearheaded and shrewd observer,
is too hopeful, because the ''wish is
father to the thought" but one thing Is
net to be doubted, that the present de-
cline of business in the stock exchange
will not be felt with any overwhelming
sense of regret by the representatives of
agriculture, mechanic industries and
legitimate commerce, who alone give to
the country its substantial basis of pros
perity. The segregation of largo wealth
in the hands Of few when that Is gain
ed by reason of power given through
fictitious fluctuations of value, and the
consequent helplessness often of legiti-
mate business interests, Is rightiully a
matter for careful though earnest and
emphatic expression of public opinion.
That the Stock Exchange is feeling such
pressure there is evidence In the fol-
lowing from a recent editorial in the
financial department of the New York
Sun:
"The Stock Exchange nowadays re.
minds one of that French country Gene
terry over the gate of which was painted
the classicslly stupid notice: None
but the dead living in the parish are
buried here The dead living in other
parishes have evidently read the notice,
and they don't apply any longer for
burial at the Stock Exchange. The bust
ness remains strictly confined to the
professional spectators, and no out
sider's face is seen in any of the brokers'
offices. If people lose their money they
must be losing somewhere else-in the
robbed banks, in their legitimate trade,
at cards or the races; but certainly not
in Wall street. The sly, long pursed in
vestigators who bought SOME stocks at
the time OF the May panic took
away themselves quite as fast as did the
petty holders who are frightened out.
Since then the Stock Exchange dealings
have become thoroughly professional,
and there is yet no Indication whateYer
of a change in the situation.
This is certainly not an appalling pic
ture-for the people. SO mote 1t be.
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A Peculiar Situation

DENVER, Sept. 23.-Yesterdsy morn
ing the cashier of the first national bank
at Las Vegas, N. M, became convinced
that robbers were tunneIling from an
adjoining building to the vault of the
bank. Guards were Immediately placed
IN and around the bank. Those inside
observed the masonry of the vault
gradually sinking. The robbers be-
low worked. ignorant of their danger.
At O'Clock q Mexican volunteered to
go down into the cellar and investigate
He had taken but 9 few steps on the
stairs when he saw some one coming MP,
The Mexican fred without q word and
the man fell dead. The body was
brought out. The Watchman began
tearing up the floor of the bank and ad-
joining building with the evident inten-
ton OF shooting the robbers on sight.
The work Is slow, the men fearing 20
get in range Of those below, who at
times seemed rushing from one shadow
to another. Up to this time nothing
more than this hide and seek game has
been done The dead robber is recog-
nized Is one Of the masons who built the
vault The excitement Is intense.
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CHINESE IDENTIFICATION.

Eugene Lawrence. IN q recent tren-
chant article in Harper's Weekly on
"Cbins in It's Decay" points out the fact
that the Celestial Empire from its CEN
turtles OF conservative isolation Is not
only at an intellectual stand-still, but
has reached q stage of almost absolute
social, political and material decay. Its
recent years OF contact with western civ
ilizatIon, 1t is true. have been introduc
tory to transitional phase in Chinese
civilization, but just what form its tu-
ture development will take, or
under what political auspices
seems now pertinent prob
lem The Chinese empire seems now
in just that state of political disIntegra-
ton in which national organisms In past
history have fallen to pieces by their
own weight, and China is therefore
at this time peculiarly susceptible to the
effects of the outside influences that may
be brought to bear upon her.
With England pressing her upon the
one side, and Russia upon the other
with France already fighting for slice
of her Commons, and the other great
European powers taking an ominous in
terC st in her welfare, it Is by no means
improbable that the condition of China
will be as truly the important and vital
question in European International
politics for the next decade as was that of
the carving of Turkey decade or two
since. It is likely that the mutual jeal-
ousy of the rival powers, and the strength
of China herself-for her mate
rial resources, vast extent, and
the Intellectual possibilities of her
people Certainly guarantee her
no mean future-will be sufficient to
secure the preservation of her autonomy
and TO preclude gigantic partition such
as might have been possible a century
ago. But this much iS clear, that the
Asiatic question now means SIMPLY the
adjustment of rival European interests
on the great continent, and the real, if
not the nominal, entire control OF all
Asia by the Western powers as soon as
that result can be effected.
China Is held back from progress now
by political despotism; II the assertion
of western control over her interests
shall prove an aid to her development,
it may not be matter to be regretted
though the American instinct would be
to look with dIsapproYal upon any
thing like foreign interference
with the affairs of an independent ma
ton; and the conception of The future
China, itself great and progressive
power, would be more in accordance
with the ideas of our libertY-loving peo-
pie. OF course speculation as TO the in
tricacies of European diplomacy, or the
outcome of such significant events as
the recent visit of the three emperors, is
but an idle Sand protitless occupation,
since only events will determine the true
logic of the situation, but this much is
certain that the map of Asia may in the
next few years, and the Chinese empire
in particular, as show astounding chang
es as the map of Europe did In the years
from 1866 to 1875.