The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-09-16
NEWS AND NOTES.

NEWS AND NOTES.
Mr.. Blaine thinks Mr.. Manning is
the ablest man in the cabinet.
The RAILROADS in the United States ex-
pend e15, 600, 600 . year for ties.
Gen. Booth Is coming over from
London to wake up the Salvation
Army.
Washington Critic: As between
Congress and an earthquake, give us
Congress.
Carroll D. Wright, Of Boston has been
elected President Of the Social Science
Association.
Germany has abandoned her right to
establish naval station in the Caro-
line Islands.
Mrs. Frank Leslie, in telegram
from Paris, says che is not married
and is not going to be married.
William r. Morrison has been re-
nominated by the Democrats of the
Eighteenth Illinois District.
"A Nihilist den has been raided at
Odessa and thirty persons captured,
among them several Government Off
Gals. 60
1t is stated that an uprising is in pro-
gress in Northeastern India against
British rule and in favor of q Russian
invasion.
Fish Commissioner Bartlett of ILL.,
inois has proved that fish are peculiar
~ sensitive to the musical tones of the
human voice.
Oscar Wilde objected to this country
because it has no ruins. We hear it
intimated that he might be satisfied
with Charleston now.
James Gordon Bennett has bought
an estate near Lake Geneva, Switzer-
land, aud will build castle there.
Leopold Isaacs, tobacco merchant
of Montreal, absconded, with 81 90
liabilities and practically no cts
aad is in Philadelphia.
The municipal officers of Paris order
ed that books wherin the name of God
is mentioned must be excluded from
the public schools.
The heaviest rain storm ever known
in Scotland has fallen at Glasgow and
the western portion of the country. 1t
did much damage to the crops.
Mr.. George Casey of Re chester, N.
Y, in the towner of a century plant,
now in bloom, which is twenty-eight
feet high and bears 5000 flowers.
The number of agnostics has so in
creased in Ontario thatitha been found
necessary to make legal provision for
special form of judicial oath for them.
A hail storm, accompanied by high
winds, which prevailed in and around
Paris, destroyed trees, fruit. and vege-
tables, causing loss of 81, 000, 900.
Miss Lolita Darrell of Cambridge,
Mass, has been elected President of a
Greek college society-the first intro
duction Of the barrel into college poll
tics.
The daughter of ex-Gov. Thomas L.
Young, of Ohio, has just been married
at her fathers home in Cincinnati to
Mr.. A. X. Niles, of Willsboro, Pa. MIR.
Niles is the son of the Attorney-Gen-
eral of Pennsylvania.
Senator Wilkinson Call, of Florida,
had tremendous reception ut Jack
sonville when he arrived there recently.
The people seemed to regard him as the
only representative of Florida in the
upper branch of Congress-, and they
were about right.
Secretary Lamar, who lives on the
top floor of the Portland Flats, one
highest buildings in Washington, felt
the earthquake severely. His sons
parrot became desperate and 1ried to
tear the cage to pieces.
Although search has been made for
the will OF Able List, none has been
found. He composed altogether 647
pieces. and his copy rights are of con-
siderable value.
Senator Sherman's house at Mans
field, O.. is 1900 feet above the sea
level-the highest point in the state,
and exactly on the divide between
Lake Erie and the Ohio River.
1t is thought that Secretary Manning
will not reconsider his determination
to retire permanently from the Treas
ury Department Oct. l. and that pos
slbly there will be &C mplete reorgan-
ization of the Presidents Cabinet.
Mrs. Betsy HART died at Troy, N. Y,
the other day, in her tifty-first year.
She was worth about s., 900, 900. Jonas
Hartr, her father. virtually established
the iron business at Troy. beginning as
early as 1898.
William K. Vanderbilt possesses the
unique distinction of being the only
one of William H. Vanderbilt's sons
who is able to spend tho income of his
Inheritance.
The rice harvesters in Louisiana
receive $3.50 day This season, an ad-
vance of 20 per cent over the wages
paid last. The rice planters are not
satisfied, and talk of a general reduc-
ton.
An inquest on one of the victims OF
the recent explosion in the Town OF
Lake resulted in censure of the COM
pany for storing dynamite contrary to
law, and possibly makes the founda.
ton for damage suits.
The lion of Partisan society just now
is Prince Karamoke. third son of King
Samory, of Senegal. He is seventeen
years old. and the third of sixty sons.
That he ''cuts up like sixty" goes with.
out saying, seeing he is young and in
Paris.
f8The widow of John B. Cough has re
ceived at her home in Boylston letter
of coincidence from the Grand Lodge OF
the Independent Order of Good Temp.
lars of New South Wales. This order
comprises 1900 persons.
| Mrs. Ahram French Of Pittsfield. N
H., was SO on the 7th, when twelve
ladies whose united ages were 852
years took tea with her. Mrs. French
returned unattended from a trip tc
San Francisco.
d. o. Mills and Whltelaw Reid have
gone into Ovens River Valley with the
intention of founding a wine and
grape-growing colony. They expect
to take up at least 10000 acres of land
available for the purpose.
Miss Genevieve Ward is visiting Mrs.
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