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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-05-24
ATerrible Story,

The Danbury News has a strange
story from southbury,a rural place in
the North part of New Haven county.
Mrs. Maria Yucat, who lived in q
handsome residence was found dead
one morning about a year ago at the
loot OF the celler stairs.
Mrs. Yucat was reputea to be quit g
wealthy and lived a. very retired and
secluded life. When her body was
found at the foot of the stairs Medical
Examiner Burritt was su mmoned.
DR.. Burritt was an old gentleman not
very careful in his Investigations, and
when he saw the position in which the
body lay he made little or no examin.
alton, and returned finding of acct
dental death from falling down stairs.
Since that time the people OF South.
bury have done a great deal OF think
ing about the case, and many theories
were evolved. Facts have come out
showing that the body could not have
been where it was found by any acct.
dental fall. A Southbury man claims
to have a solution OF the affair.
Mrs. Yucat had nephew, q wild,
reckless spendthrift. He bothered her
continually with demands for money.
The nephew visited her home the
night before she was found dead.
When there began to be q good deal
of talk of murder, the nephew, it is
said, suddenly left. Before he LETT he
and another person visited the ceme-
terry, which is situated in an isolated
spot, one dark night. and dug up Mrs.
Yucat's remains. The coffin was
opened, and the neck of tho corpse
broken: Then the coffin was replaced
and the grave placed in as good order
as before.
It is said there was an eye. witness
to this ghoulish proceeding who did
not dare speak OF what he had seen at
the time.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-05-24
Saved bv a Bluff.

General Mike Ryan, in talking of the
Metropolitan Bank failure, recently
told Cincinnati Telegram reporter a
good story Illustrating the power OF
bluff. 1t was in connection with his
assertion that with little further aid
from the other banks in the city the
Metropolitan might have been saved.
He said:
II have q brother connected with q
bank i'll Leavenworth, Kan. There
are two banks there, and the rival to
that OF my brother was in a shaky
condition. The president came to
Matt and told him the circumst ances,
and that II there was a run the bank
would be unable to stand it. Matt
told him to keep stiff upper lip, for
he knew that the failure vi the other
bank meant the failure of his own.
tie jumped on the train. went to
Kansas City, got $4,000 in COIN
gold and silver-in barrels, ran
back to 11eavenworth with the
specie. and got half dozen
drays to the depot to take the
barrels to the bank. Meantime the
the crowd of depositors had begun to
gether at the bank, demanding their
money, and the old man was talking
to them to gain time. All at once
they saw the drays coming
up. loaded down with these barrels.
Matt was with the treasure, and
shouted to the crowd to wait about
five minutes and they'd act their
money, as it was there in the barrels.
'ln unloading the barrels, one of
them dropped and broke, so that,
through q crack, the anxious de,osit-
ors could see the shining gold, and, as
it rolled up the steps OF the bank, So
gold pieces kept dropping out, and
we're picked up by the janitor. When
the coin was all rolled in, Matt came
out and told us all who had money
there to go in and get it. as the bank
proposed to pay them all off and start
fresh, and didn't want such acoward-
~ lot OF depositors any way. All the
time he vas pillng on the Indignation
he didn't want to be taken at his
word. as the bank had only $4,000
cash on hand, against 800, 900 of de.
Posits made. He had brought $780,
900, but there was still shortage Of
O,OOO. However, the game worked.
The people were treasured by the
sight OF the barrels of coin and went
away satisfied. The run was averted
and the bank pulled through all
right"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-05-24
Crimes and Criminals.

George Benson. the Patti ticket swindlcr
awaiting cXtradition to Mexico, killed
himself in Ludlow street Jail Now York, by
throwing himself over the staircase rail to
the stone floor below.
The sheriff from Miner county, Dakot
arrived in Superior, Wis. and arrest ed
Jacob jacobson, who left that county
three weeks ago with mortgagcd property.
The officer returned with the prisoner.
Policemen Thomas Donnellan and VIII
liam Pennington were shot by Jack Rich
ardson, at Lexington, Ky. Richardson
was resisting arrest. charged with insult.
ing lady. Donnellan has died, but
Pennington is not seriously injured.
Richardson has been arrested and lodged
in Jail.
I. A. Andrews, aged fifty, and mailing
from Cleveland, Ohio, attempted to com.
NIT suicide ut st. Cloud. Mimi, while sui.
fering from insanity. He gave his name,
and his brother, A. [. Andrews, came from
Fargo and took him homo to Ohio. lie
had stabbed himself in the side and cut q
cash in his throat
The body of J. H. Kiel, prominent
citizen OF OSHKOSH Wis.,, was found in
Cedar river at Menominee. He had been
inspecting bridge. and at first it was
thought he was drowned. but examina.
ton revealed the fact that he was murder.
ed and robbed and the body thrown into
the river. No clue to the murderer.
The jury in the case of the State against
+. w. Potts were out seven minutes Mt
Des Moines during which time they agreed
upon verdict OF guilty. Potts is one OF
the notorious constables who are indicted
Tor receiving brides from liquor dealers to
secure dismi ssal OF asses pending, and to
grant immunity to viola tors vi the liquor
law.
The bondsmen OF Latimcro Jones, the
young flnancier who is awaiting trial
charged with forgerics amounting between
$500. 900 and $500, 600, were notified by
the New York district attorneys Office to
produce him in general sessions. They
failed to do so, and his bond, $l5,.
900 was declared forfeited. and Judge
Gilterseeve issued a. bench warrant for
his arrest.
While Marshal Winkerman and Night
Policeman Loesch were attempting to ar
rest Wenzel Martinka. OF New UIm, Mimi,
who had been quarreling with his wife.
Martinka .broke away, and refusing to
stop when commanded to halt, five pis.
toll shots were fired by the marshal and
night police. One OF them went through
Martinka's right lung. He was not cap.
tured until he had ran several blocks. He
was taken to the hospital. There are but
slight chances OF has recovering.
The horrible and unjustifiable murder OF
little Maggie Gaughan was avenged at Chi
;ago by the hanging of the colored murder.
:r, Zeph Davis. The execution took place
in the Jail and on the same gallows from
which the anarchists were swung off few
months ago. Davis was restless during
the early part OF the night. but shortly
after l o'clock he dropped into heavy
sumber and did not awaken until o'clock
in the morning A minister administered
spiritual consolation, and he breakfasted
quite heartily. Davis expressed penitence
Tor his crime, and met his end With forti.
tude.
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The Language of Amin ais.

They all utter, or at least they all
seem to utter, the same sounds to ex-
press the same emotions. The love
cry of the nightingale, the low by
which cow recalls a straying calf,
the grunt OF a pig when it sees food,
the NEW OF a cat who wants the door
opened-that is, wants to attract at
tention-the bark of a domesticated
dog to testify recognition, and the
howl OF an unclvilized dog as the
moon rises, or of a civilized dog when
the church bells begin, are all, to hui
man ears at least, unchanging sounds,
sounds with one meaning and no 9TH
er, and containing always the same
notes. The creatures, in these in.
stances at least, utter definite sounds,
and it is hard to believe that they do
not do the same on other occasions.
The little parrots called minas, when
angry with one another, swear at each
other perceptibly-that is, scream
with note wholly distinct from the
one they use on any other OCCASION
and crows. when settin.. their sentries
or warning their comrades of danger,
utter n sound more like n bark than u
cav. Oxen employed in field work lis.
ten to one another's lows and raise
their heads to attend to the sounds,
which, when they are collecting to 90
home, are so regularly the same that
even human beings can understand
their meaning. The creatures, in fact,
':speak" in a limited way; and as q
few of them-doss and horses, for ex-
ample-understand the words of men,
some words even when not addressed
to them, they probably understand
one another. But if they utter sounds
with meaning and always the same
meaning, they use language, in howev-
er q limited degree, and by what a
prlori reason is it shown to be impos-
sible to learn that language? Why,for
example, is it ludicrously absurd to
suppose that u man studying the jab-
Der of an ape for twenty years AS
some of the missionaries have studied
the "clicks" OF the clicking races,
should learn to know with much &C.
curacy what that jabbering meant? If
it were impossible for men to learn an
unknown tongue without an interpre.
ter the answer would be easy, but We
know that this is not the case, for un.
educated men cast among savages.
have in repeated instances learned to
speak their language. Cortez's Mexi-
can mistress, too, learned how to
speak and comprehend Spanish,
though neither Cortez nor any other
Spaniard knew, or by possibility could
know at first, g. word of Mexican
The Spectator.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-05-24
Items About People,

Mrs. NJ. ID. Manning. q charitable and
benevolent lady OF Wilmar, Mimi, died
recently.
A veteran OF the late war named Michael
Walters died recently at Black River
Falls, Wis.,, and was buried with military
honors by the G.. A. Il.
Eugene Hay died very suddenly at Aus.
tin, Mimi, recently while hitching his
team. Only two weeks ago he took out q
$4,000 life insurance policy.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-05-24
PITn OF THE NEWS.
News from WASHINGTON,

The house committee on Indian affairs
have ordered a favorable report on Se.a.
tor Spooner's bill granting the Milwaukee,
Lake Shore & Western right OF way
through the Lac dc Flambeau Indian ro-
servation in Wisconsin.
Senator Sherman introduced q bill 10
appropriate $50, 900 for the erection in
Washington OF a monument to the mem.
DRY OF George Rogers Clark, in recognition
OF his eminent services in the occupation
and conquest OF the Northwestern terri.
tory,
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MINNESOTA
Not a Dahovney Man.
Century.

NIneteeuCn century,.
The victims sacrificed at the death
of a King in Dahomey are often cap
tives or criminals, and are supposed
to become his servants in another
world. Those killed at intervals, are
supposed to be messengers to him
from this world. Their dispatch is
considered by each successive King of
Dahomey to. be incumbent upon him
as matter Of duty, alike to his fa-
Their, to the State and to the gods.
Hewalks about among the messengers,
delivers to them his messages and
talks amicably to each OF them upon
the subject, rs an authentic anecd ote,
lnimitable in its humors, told me by
Iettch AgamazOng will show.
One day, in going the rounds, the
King came to a remarkably fine.look.
in. man, q native OF the Yoruba
Country, and said to him: "Well.
you have got to go; tell my father
am getting along pretty well, and am
governing the people as he would
W w.
"Yes," said the man, II have got to
20, but want to tell you one thing
first"
What is that?" asked the King.
IL wanted to tell you," replied the
man, "that | will not deliver your
message
"Not deliver my messagc!" exclaim.
ed the King"
"No, will not"
"Why not?" asked his Majesty.
"First," replied the victim, "be.
cause don't want to 90, and l don't
see why l should deliver it for you;
and, secondly, because an a Yoruba
man, and he is of Dahomey, and the
Yoruba people do not see or talk to
the Dahomey people here nor do they
up there; therefore, neither can nor
will deliver your message"
The King looked astonished, and,
turning to the executioner, who was
ready to begin his bloody work and
dispatch the messenger, if not the
message, simply said: "He is a bad
messenger-don't send him." And the
man was let 90 scot-free. Rather a
dangerous precedent, one would think,
under such circumstances, for the fu-
tLrc.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-05-24

A party OF Burlington surveyors has
gone to work in the vicinity OF Hill City, q
few miles northeast OF Custer, Oak ota,
ard are busily at work locating q line as
rapidly as possible. No definite inior-
nation can be gained from members OF
the party, but this move is taken as indi.
eating the purpose OF the road to carry
out its purpose OF building into tho Black
Hills ct tho earliest practicable opportani
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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-05-24

All the camp equipment and Office iurni.
ture OF the Duluth Huron & Denver rail.
road have been sold at auction under
sheriff's execution at Sank Center, Mimi.
to satisfy the claim OF How Bros. for hard.
ware sold the company on credit. Most
Of tho people believe that this is tho Last
that will DO heard 81 tbs D., \, 4, D."
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-05-24
Potts Found GuiItv.

DIES MONIES, Special Telegram, Nay IT,
In the case of the state VA g W. Potts, one
OF the constables indicted for receiv-
ing bibles. the arguments of counsel
wero concluded to-day. The jury
was out only nine minutes, ON the first bal.
lot returning verdict of guilty. The maxi.
mum penalty for the o1fenso 10 ak months in
jail or 6ne Of $500, or 10th tine and i'm
prisonment. at the discretion of tho court
Sentence will bs pronounced Monday morn
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-05-24
ms AND OUTS.

Italian Strikers Endeavorine to Drive
Away Those Who Took Their Places
"A Fight Results in Which Several
Are Seriously Injured.
NEWCASTLE, Pa, Special Telegram, Nav
ia riot took place to-day among the
employees of the Newcastle l. Shenango road.
The men had difficultywith Contractor Low
ell yesterday after returning to work from
the strike and struck again. To-day few
of the American and Italian workmen
started to work again. aud tho Italian NAL
contents went in body to drive them away.
Mr. Lowell stood in front of the WORKING
men with revolver and ordered the crowd
back, but they flung stones at him and still
continued to advance. He flied, hitting ono
Italian in the leg. when the whole crowd
made a charge and a general fight resulted.
during which Mr.. Lowell and h,s son were
both badly beaten. Some ten men were
seriously injured and are under medical care,
The Italians say they will not allow them to
proceed unless all get employment, but
Sheriff Warnock and posse will repress any
further attempt at riot
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-05-24
Decision on Tree cjalma.

The secretary OF the interior has estab.
!ished new principle in the matter OF con.
tests against timber culture entries.
Amelia Waite had made timber culture
entry for eighty acres OF land in the
Tracy district, MINI. James Linderman
initiated a contest against tho al.
legged entry. charging noncompliance
with the law in the matter
OF planting and cultivatins trees,
and with his affidavit of contest
filed his application for entry OF the land.
The testimony at the hearing established
the TACT thas Mrs. Waite had planted and
had in good growing condition one. half
the quantity OF timber required by law.
The secretary claims that she may amend
her entry DO relinquishing one half the
land she had entered, and on sub
hitting final proofs showing full
compliance with legal requirements receive
patents for the remaindsr-iorty acres.
The practice heretofore has been to con.
slider timber culture entry as an entirety
and upon evidence by contestant show.
ing failure to make a full compliance with
law, to cancel the whole entry, allowing
the contestant Il preference to enter tn I
land in controversy.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-05-24

The house has set aside for week or 10
days the tariff bill, so rs to give consider.
alton to the appropriation bills. OF which
there are four on the calendar, IN this or.
dor: Diplomatic, District of Columbia,
postoffice and legislative executive and iu~
dicial. The legislative bill is to come up
first, as it generally requires week for de-
bate in the House, and sometimes 1Odays or
two weeks are given it. There will be u eau.
Gus OF the majority members in a few days
and their action may change the turn OF
office. Should an agreement be reached
whereby the Mills proposition to vote
directly on the republican and then on the
democratic tariff bill without debate be
accepted, the tariff may come up and be
disposed OF in day at any date.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-05-30
SPRINGFIELD CORRESPONDENCE.

~
Mrs. Birkemeyer, who was very
sick last week, is up and well again.
Mrs. NJ. Lehrer and little daughter
were visiting at j ohm Schmidt's in New
| Ulm last week.
! John Albert and Jos. Schno brich
purchased q large stock of buggies last
week at 2. Madison, and will sell them
at greatly reduced prices.
The dedicatory services of the new
bell at the Lutheran Church last Sun.
day, were to great degree impeded
by the constant rain and extremely bad
roads. Had the weather been little
more favorable large concourse OF
people would have been present.
F. NJ. Baker, our veterinarian, thor
oughly equipped with all necessary in-
struments to wade in equinal gore start.
ed last Wednesday on a professional
trip through Dakota.
Another real estate transfer. Last
Friday j. Albert sold lot On Redwood
St. to Oscar Erickson. Consideration
500.
IL. Katzenburger will build beau
tlful residence on Cass St. this summer.
M. Huiras spent several days in
Mankato, on business, last week.
Under the auspices of the Congre-
gational Aid Society an orange sociable
will be held at CANDLES Hall Friday
evening. Come all and have good
time.
The decision of the State Supreme
Court several weeks ago confirming the
decision of the district court, concern
ing the legality of tax land situated in
this county and owned by the w. &.
st. 2. Land Co., was received by the
Springfield people with good deal Of
approval Not only thai the county
will be greatly benefited by the annuity
to be derived from the land in question
plus the delinquent taxes thereon, but
still more, we cherish the hope that it
will soon compel the company to put
the land on the market accessible to
settlers and cultivation.
There is no town in the county that
suffers to that degree from this unjust
and predatory state of affairs like
Springfield. Every other section in
this part of the county is virtually ~
ing idle and is not allowed to be settled.
Ii all this land were put on the market
for sale at reasonable figures, the popu-
lation Of this place would double within
a very few years. People want the
land if they could but buy it, for it is
as fertile and easy of cultivation as
there is in the state.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-05-30
Don't Expri INIT.

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Because he can make more profit he
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good, or just the same Don't be de-
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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-05-30
A Sound LEGAL Oninion.

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This great remedy will ward off, as
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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-05-30

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liver, Blood, and Lul1us.
PROBATE NOTICE.

PROBATE NOTICE.
State of Minnesota, County of Brown Sss. In
Probate Court. Regular Term, May 18th 1888.
In the matter ofthe estate of Johann Hahn de-
ceased.
Whereas, An Instrumental writing, purporting
to be the last will ard testament of Johann Hahn
deceased, late of said County, has been delivered
to this Court;
And whereas, Elisabeth Hahn has filed there
with her petition representing among other things
that said Johann Hahn died in said County on
the 10th day of March 1888, testate, and that
said petitioner is the sole executrix named in said
last will and testament, and praying that the said
instrument may be admitted to probate, and that
letters testamentary be to her issued thereon;
1t is ordered, That the proofs of said instru.
ment, and the said petition, be heard before this
Court, at theProbate Office in said County, on
Friday the sth day of June A. D..A1sss, at 10
o'clock in the forenoon, when all concerned may
appear and contest the probate of said instrument;
And it is further ordered, That public notice of
the time and place of said hearing be given to all
persons interested by publication of these orders
for three weeks successfully previous to said day
of hearing, in the New Ulm Review newspaper
printed and published at the City of New Ulm in
said County.
By the Court,
ERNST BRANDT.
JUL (L.S.) Judge Of Probate.
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New ULM MARKETS. Wheat, No.
"a; oats, 80; corn, So; bar
ley, so potatoes, go c. onions
1.25; butter, 10-i255, eggs, 10; live hogs
per 10 5; pork, per lb 81. Flour per
C t.$2. 5O-$.3.OO