The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-03-15

PRESIDENT MAXIM
Nearly dOztn of our Republican
exchanges have recently come out for
~0res'.nM Tnr President: fzet- the tOOm
swell. 1t is made of good stuff. ff.-Mar-
tin Go. Sentinel.
Don't boom him ut all Let his friends
work quietly until the time comes and
then when the other candidates
have opposed = 'ch other until none Of
them can he nominated. let Gresham
step in. lie would make an admirable
''dark horse" To-day We bell. We he is
the most available candidate that has
b+en mentioned. His anti cedents and
lnake.up are similar to Lincoln's, and
with Blaine, LincOln's boy Rob, Gen.
Sheriden and all that kind of men
positively declining, Gresham ought to
have walk over as against such meu
as Sherman, Allison, ct al.
Monday nights dispatches brought
news Of terrific snow storm, Il regu
lar blizzard. III New York. 1t is the
worst ION record" All travel by ele-
waited railroads, street cars, etc., was
suspended, and business came to
stand still. The streets were filled
with drifts, and woman fr0Ze to
death at the corner of Broadway and
Fulton. Just think of that, will You?
Freezing to death on the open prairie
or in thinly settled country has been
u common experience always, but to
freeze to death right in the midst of
million and u half of people and hun
Ireds of thousands of blazing fires, is
'mething to excite comment. The
dispatches say, "frozen ears and feet
were numerous, and the drug stores
have been filled with patients all day
and evening" Also grown persons
here never saw the like" The repor-
ters could get returns from "down
town" only. where they picked up over
Il hundred cases of injured limbs and
contusioms Of the skull"
Weswould advise our readers to think
twice before they emigrate to the lati.
tudr and longitude Of New York.
The storm extended as far south as
Georgia. and the reports say that there
have been tremendous gales and snow
storms in Europe also.
The facts are, that the pot must
quit calling the kettle black. For
months eastern papers have dwelt on
the Dakota and Minnesota billiards,
while they have had still more violent
storms.
The winter has been a phenomenal
one nea, ly every where. At Cape Cod
it was reported the coldest in 20 years,
and men froze to death in the ''balmy
gulf state" of Texas.
1.ater-Ypsterdays dispatches report
New York still practically cut off from
communication with the surround
ing country. Travel and business
practically suspended. Storm the
worst ever known along tie Hudson.
The East River froze over and men
cross d from Brooklyn to Ntw York.
Geo. Barryman was found frozen stiff
in snow drift on 7th av. Annie
Fisher was found frozen stiff III a hall
way on West 39th.st. The suffering
has been fearful. The Dakota biz
zard is outdone.
The Wortl,ington Advance and Pipe
stone Star build more railroads every
week than all the Jim Hills etc., ever
dreamed Of. To read the papers named
a stranger would imagine that frank
line traversed every street of WOrthing-
ton and PipestOne-St. James Journal
That only shows that the W. A. and
P.S. are the two most enterprising and
wide awake papers in Southwestern
Minnesota. And that is just about
thu size of it. II the people would Sec
ond their efforts promptly, Worthing-
ton and PipestOne would he the two
railroad centres of this corner of the
state. And that, too, is about the
size oft. Pipestone will have the Will
mar & Sioux Falls this year, which
means a connection with Duluth.
Sioux City and the whole Manitoba
system. Worthington will have the
Minnesota i, Northern next year and
probably the Milwaukee also.
Comesessman Lind is loading down
his constituency with valuable" pub
lie documents, the Congressional Re-
cords, and the like. CONGRESSMAN Nc
Donald is doing likewise. All new
congressman do it.. The stuff they
send out is it only for building fires,
or for newspaper wrappers, and the
country editor is always on the list
when there are ''yaluable pub. docs. -
to throw arOund.-St. James Journal.
Congressman Lind has never sent US
bnt one ''pub. doc" and that was a
Congressional Record containing his
maiden speech. II John Lind has a
''constituency" down this way he
doesn't know it. If we have u Con-
gresham, people down this way do not
know it. Lind represents the counties
on line with New Ulm.
Congressman Mcdonald of this state,
is likely to succeed IN securing the
passage of his bill to amend the pen
sion laws. 1t is to repeal the provision
requiring that claimant shall pro-
duce the evidence of two comrades OF
his company or regiment before his
claim will be allowed.
VILLAGE election neYt Tuesdav.