The Worthington advance., 1888-07-19


Leon II. Vincent gave a lecture on the "I1ife
Of Hawthorne" After tho singing school a
small delegation of Knights Templar in uni
form marched into the tpbarnacle, lead by
Commander Backman. Miss Darlington
sang solo and DR.. Charles Griswold Of St.
Paul delivered an address in behalf of the
Knights: He gave some very excellent COM
ment lie said ne never knew ofa person being
askedto becomea Knight. They never prose-
lyte. tie made some very keen comments on
theanti-secret society cranks. He showed the
grand work tho knights are doing in reliev-
ing suffering and sickness, Leon II. Vincent
guve the G, l.. 5. G. round-table class a talk
on book reading and the books We should
read by all means, which are as follows:
Chaucers, Shakespeares, Millions, Addison's,
Gulliver's Travels. Dr. Johnson's, some of
Elliot's, Reade's, Dickens, Meredith's,
Wordsworth's Tennyson's and Browning's
Frank f. Newton pleaded guilty of forgery
in the district court at Watertown, D. T. His
sentence was three years in tine penitcntiary.
This is the young man who was arrested a
few hours before his marriage some months
ago.
A terrible accident occurred on the Virginia
Midland railroad. The through Southern
train from Alexandria went through a trestlo
between Orange Court House and Barbours-
ing upwards OF twenty y-five. The trestie,
Which was forty-eight feet high, was known
to be weak and the railroad company was
engaged i'll filling it in. The train was NOV
ing: speed of six miles IN hour. The engine
had passed safely over most of the trcstle,
when the smoker. mail, baggage aad express
ears went down, dragging: the engine and
two passenger coaches. Two sleepers re-
manned on the trestle.
1t is stated that Judge John '. Wright, of
Tennessee; Rev. w. n Cleveland, brother of
the President, and Capt. r. II. Pratt, super
;ntendent Of the Carlisle Indian school, will
constitute the commission to negotiate with
the Sioux Indians for division oftheir resor-
walton in Dakota and surrender of q part
to the United States.
The German police have ordered Queen Ma
talie Of Servia to leave Germany within twen-
ty-four hours. An officer attended by twenty
policemen, entered Queen Natalie's villa at
Welshaden, and shortly after reappeared
| with the young prince Alexander and Il lady
ci honor of the queens suite. The two were
driven to the railway station, where the
prince was handed over to NJ. Protics, the
Servlan police who left with him for Belgrade
When the queen received notice from the po-
lice that she must part with her son. she tele-
| graphcd to King Milan imploring him to
| allow the boy to remain with her another
| month. The king however, was incensed at
| the abrupt manner with which the queen had
refused his conciliotory proposal for medita-
princes tutor that the boy must not remain
| with the queen day longer.
Parne'l will accept the governments offer
| and introaucea a bill providing for the ap-
| point ment Of q committee of judges to inves-
| tigate the Times charges against the mem
bers of the Irish parliamentary party. His
| acceptance of the proposal, however, will be
| subject to rigid conditions regarding the
| judges to be appointed and the scope Of in
| vcstgation.
Vcrres ". Smith, son-in-law of tho late
Horace Greely, was prisoner in the York
| vile court New York, charged by John Allen,
proprietor of the Hotel Hamilton, with de-
frauding him out Of 1915, the amount OF
! Mr.. Smiths bill for board and lodgings.
,, Ebonezer Stanyard the Youngstown, Ohio,
| murderer, who killed his sweetheart, Alice
Hancock, early in 1887, was hanged in the
| pententiary annex. lie played his ACCORDION
be at his e;,sc. The crimeior which hesuffered
was a brutal one, the pretty young girl he
| ing shot from behind, and all ON account OF
| jealousy.
| DR.. 1ngersoll, dean of the dental faculty, at
| Iowa City, appeared before the Investigating
| committee in the ''boodle'' case against DR..
Hunt. He ceusured Hunt severely IA secre-
| tary and treasurer. Hunt had kept no rec.
| ords no proper accounts. He had concealed
| original bills and vouchers for the purpose OF
making way with the state money. Hunt
was on the stand explaining his books and
| was subjected to q sharb cross-examinatiOn
1t appeared that Hunt had used $500 70,
lobbying expenses at Des Moines.
Gen. Boulanger was wounded in the arm
and neck. NJ. Floquet's hand was simply
scratched by Gen. Boulanger's sword in the
ri, Slk, fN<
NJ. Floquets colleagues in the ministry were
oveljoyed to zee the prime minister return
safely. He was given an ovation. A small
| crowd Of Gen. Bouiangers followers were in
front Of his house when he reached home Re
| garding the details of the duel it is said that
after the sword encounter which had resulted
| in a slight wound on the hand of NJ. Floquet
they both renewed the fighting and Gen
Bou!angcr made a lunge at NJ. F]oquets left
breast, only slightly touching the mark
Gen. Boulanger then received a wound in the
throat, which put an end to the encounter
The duel lasted only four minutes.
Gustave johnson, OF Price county, Wis
consin, tied his little son to post with 6
chain and beat him nearly to death. In
left him to suffer from his wounds till tho
next night, when the little fellow succeeded
in making his escape to the woods. where ht
remained for two days without food or shell
ter. He was discovered by Wisconsin
Central section crew nearly exhausted with
hunger. He reported his parents cruelty tc
! the men, and the latter, with other citizens
visited Johnson, and with rope proceeded
to elevate him to a tree limb. He heggol for
his life and, promising never to whip the boy
again, was lowered, and after receiving &
tiogging, was marched to a railroad water
tank and given bath. The boy is now il
the care Of the people Of the settlement.
George Wright, colored, who killed riva
named Charley Dorsey, in u house of ques
tionable rcpute at Milwaukee. was given
lie sentence. The Schuefer homicide case re-
suited in a verdict sentencing Schaefer to two
years hard labor in the house Of correction
Word hos reached Frenchburg, KY, from
Red river of q tragedy that occurred there
Harvey Pikewas to marry Mira Haskins
! For some weeks young man named Ever
hard from Philadelphia has been about thi
place, and boarded at Haskins,. He ont
Miss Haskins became great friends. Pike be
came exceedingly jealous Of the stranger
One night he found them out walking. Wha
passed between them will meyer be known
They were found dead, Eyerhard with shot
in tho head, Miss Haskins with the hack Q
her head crushed by bludgeon and Pix
with a bullet hole in tho roof Of his mouth
whence he had sent q bullet into his brain:
Sanford Ballard, son OF f. NJ ballard
of Chippewa Falls Wis, is suffering from
peculiar cause. Three weeks ago young Bal
lard had tooth extracted in St. Paul an<
nearly bed to death. Hewas brought home
and in spite Of all that doctors can do he il
still losing BLOOD as much rs q cupful day
He has had nine similar attacks of bleedin;
during his life. Every slight cut he receives
nearly results in death. He is very low q
present
Chairman Hoge has mysteriously disap
pearcd. He left his hotel at Chicago giving
ur his room which he had occupied for sev
eral months. The hotel people profess en-
tire ignorance of his movements. Inquiry
among the prominent. brotherhood mel
failed to give a clue as to his whereabouts
Inspector Bonfield solemnly declared that h,
had not the slichtest iiea what had hecom