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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-11-01
IN HONOR OF GEORGE WASHINGTON.

A Grand Celebration Proposed for the
Centennial Anniversary of His 1nausu-
ration.
NEW YORK, Oct. 25.-Without much ap-
parent display the Committee on the Cen.
tennial celebration of the Inauguration Of
George Washington have been laying out
plan and making preliminary arrange
ments for one of the grandest military,
naval and civic displays ever seen in
this country. It will be the last
of the centennial celebrations and
will be held in and about the harbor
Of New York City April 80 The President
and Cabinet and Congressional delega-
ton, the Governors OF all the States and
Territories, delegations from State Legis.
latures, the United States Supreme Court,
Justices Of the Supreme Courts of the
States, army and navy Commanders and
citizens of distinction are to be invited to
take part in the exercises and to attend
the banquet and ball in the evening
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-11-01
Where Log Cabins Flourish.


y party Of American gentlemen, who
mad been camping out on an island in the
great Lake Niplssing, Canada, last sum-
mer, were returning in sail. boat and
were yet seven miles from port when the
sun went down, and with it the sailing
breeze.
A discouraging situation, truly.
"Never mind, can row you there inside
of two hours" said the guide who had
charge Of the party, as their murmurs
arose.
"Why, man, it is seven miles, there arc
four of US in this heavy boat-it's big job
you undertake." said one.
mo matter, I have done the likes before
and can do it again." cheerfully replied the
broad shouldered Irishman, as he slowed
away the sail and bent to the oars. He was
splendid oarsman and the boat was soon
under Roadway again.
''What would I not give to enjoy your
health and strength remarked the Pro
lessor.
eyes, I am pretty healthy, and though /
am past sixty feel as strong as ever" re-
piled the guide. "But only three years ago
stood at deaths door, and never thought
to pull an oar again. You see, I was in the
woods all winter, logging, aud got into the
"0eSA VAO uosy 0AO S0u6Ao NVAA. ~ oCvV1CA
on my lungs and l had q bad cough which
hung on till ran down almost to skele-
ton."
"Call in q physicang'
yves, went twenty miles through the
bush to see doctor; he gave me some
medicine, but it didn't help me much.''
"How was the cure effected2"
IAN old Scotch lady, who had come over
from the States, gave me q preparation of
balsams and herbs, which she said the
early settlers in America used, and it soon
: stopped my cough and put me ON my feet
again.
:. One has but to travel along the frontier
to learn how easy it Is to get along without
doctors, and how effective are the natural
remedies which the old grandmothers know
how to prepare. They often cure where the
best physicians fail. ..s-
Every mother of family knows how
coughs and colds are quickly and radically
cured with syrups and teas made from bal
sans and herbs which grandmother taught
US how to make"
Warmers Log Cabin cough and consump.
ton remedy was, after long investigation
into the merits and comparison with other
old time preparations, selected from them
because proved to be the very best Of then,
al. It has brought back the roses to many
o pallid cheek-there Is no known remedy
it, equal g . cure for coughs and so1ds.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-11-01
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.
HoLcoMB.s GIG STEAL.

a Simple Device by Which He Rakod II.
$50, 600 Worth Of Wheat.
One Of the directors Of the Union Ele.s
vator Company at Minneapolis recently
explained how BY Holcomb engineered the
gigantic wheat steal, involving some six.
ty thousand bushels. Holcomb had bin
Of his own in the elevator. It 10 located
below the other bins and noar the railway
trackA The cars are loaded through
chutes connected with the wheat bins.
Holcomb took OF q board from:.one Of these
chutes and put on another in its stead that
had an auger hole in 1t, and during the
loading process wheat continued to pour
down into his bin through the auger hole.
When he had enough 80 obtained he load.
ed it into Car and it was hauled to
market. he had to divide up with confed-
crates In the deal, but his individual rake
of amounted to about $500
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-11-01
SENATOR STANFORD, Just returned

SENATOR STANFORD, just returned
from Europe, says he thinks that he has
picked up abroad art treasures that will
make his new university museum the
finest in the country. 1T was my in
tention," says the Senator, Ito have
the university opened next May on the
twenty-frst anniversary of my sons
birth. AS this seems impossible, 1 can
not say when it will be opened. The
more I see of life abroad, the moro
am convinced that such a seat of learn
ing as l hope to establish in Cali
fornia will prove great blessing to
this free country"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-11-01

T1s Brotherhood Of Railroad Brakemeu'
IN session at Columbus, O., on the 25th
elected W. g. Edens, Of Bucyrus, O., first
vice-grand master.
DAVID YATEs. barkeeper at Colfax, W.
T., on the 26th killed his wife, Of whom he
was jealous, and committed suicide.
MRS. Martha Beckett aged sixty-h
years, and Mrs Henrietta Spiel aged
seventy.hve years, inmates of the German
Home for the Aged ct Baltimore. Nd,
were suffocated by gas on the 28th.
TIE following executions took place on
the 26th: Benjamin Carter ut Rawlins,
Wy. T., for the murder Of John JefRry Oc-
tober 4, 1885; Ephraim Mayes ct Edge
field, 8. c.. for the murder Of deaf mute
. year ago, aud Hugh Blackman (colored)
at Toledo, Ark, for killing . negro.
The death Of William T. Hamilton,
formerly Governor and United States SEN
ator, occurred on the 98th at his home in
HaRerstown, Md.
OK the 26th the peanut trust, with head
quarters at Norfolk, Va, and controlling
ninety per cent Of the country's product,
was dissolved. ..-s
WHILE driving across the track Mrs.
James Ditworth and Henry Pond were
killed and Mr.. Larkep fatally injured by
train at West Liberty, Ia, on the Goth.
THE house of David Sellers, wealthy
farmer near Mount Gilead. O., was fired
by robbers on the 26th after they had MUIR
dered Sellers and his wife.
DAN BoLIN was instantly killed and
County Judge John Goodin received
wounds from which he died in row at
circus at Barbourville, KY, on the 26th.
On the 9th the tenth and last Of the
worlds baseball championship games be-
tween New York and the st. Louis Browns
was played in St. Louis and was won by
the st. Louis club. After the game the
worlds championship pennant was pre-
sented to the New York club.
WILLIAM SHORT on the 9th shot and
fatally wounded Mrs. Alma Barnes, q
widow nineteen years Of age, at Litch-
field, Kan, because she refused his atten-
tions.
AN inceIdiary fire destroyed several
28th.
NEAR Pana, Tex, q stage coach was held
up and robbed on the 9th.
On the Iron Mountain road four men
stopped tram on the 2Sth near Diaz,
Ark. and robbed the express car of g, 600.
JUDGE w. K. MCALL1srER, who was for
years one of the most noted men on the
bench of Illinois, died suddenly at his
home in Ravenswo0d, q Chicago suburb,
on the 2sth, aged seventy years.
A VESSEL which arrived on the 9th at
San Francisco reported that thirteen
! whalers and five hundred men were fast
in the ice and in danger of starving.
A MOB lynched Henry Jones, a negro, on
the 9th at Woodland Mills, Tenn. Jones
had murdered white man.
OVER $4,000 had up to the 9th been
| expended at Jacksonville, Fla, for the re-
lief Of the fever sufferers.
JAMES WARD, trapeze performer, while
performing at the London Theater in st.
Louis on the 2Sth, fell distance Of fifty
| feet, receiving fatal in iuries.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-11-01

PHEBE W1NsLow, of Westport, Me-,
'rowed a small dory fifteen miles to
Bath, collared a mild hammered wild
ower, marched him to the clerks Of
flee, and had their intention of mar
lriage published in the clerks book.
This done, the gentle Phebe-who of
course is q widow-entered her dory
and rowed back home, quite we'll sat-
listed with her days work.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-11-01

AMOS ROBBINS, of Brooklyn, N. Y,
is dead. His claim to fame rests on the
fact that he made an immense fortune
in the poultry business, and that dur
ing the war he sent the Union soldiers
$1,000 in money and $4,000 turkeys to
celebrate one Thanksgiving Day with.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-11-01

Mn. AND Mrs ACTON, six children,
the Oldest twelve and the youngest one
year old in a perambulator, and two
maids, recently finished pleasure
walk from London to Glasgow Give
hundred miles), where they go regu-
larly every year. They carried no
umbrellas, only mackintoshes The
daily distance covered was from twelve
to twenty miles, with no journey on
Sundays. the whole trip being done
in five weeks and two days. The party
enjoyed the best of health through it
all, one nurse having wheeled the
pcealnbulator the entire distance.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-11-01

! AT the congress Of the advocates of
cremation, recently held in Vienna, the
statement was brought out that there
exist at present throughout the world
nifty crematories, most of which are in
the United States. twenty in Italy, and
one each in Germany, England, France
and Switzerland.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-11-01
THE GREEN.EYeD MONSTER,

jealousy Causes Wife Murder and Suicide
In Cincinnati.
CINCINNATI, Oct. 25-John Smaller, fire.
man at Cohens printing works on Long
worth street, quit work early last evening
I'D went to his home at I'll Carlisle ave.
nue. and cut his wife's throat from ear to
ear with razor. He then drew the In
strument across his own throat severing
the jugular vein. The couple had been
married about SIX years, and it is supposed
that jealousy prompted the terrible deed.
They had two children, the youngest one
being the only witness to the murder and
suicide. the other child is with friends in
Delaware O.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-11-01

MARGARET LLOYD and Maggie Gal
win, domestics at Greensburg, Pa,
agreed the other night to commit sui
eide the following night, because
neither of them could procure fashion
liable clothes. They secured forty live
cents worth of laudanum and separted.
Miss Lloyd was found dead in bed the
next morning, having anticipated the
compact by twenty-four hours; Miss
Calvin repented, and has decided not
to follow the example of her COM
tpaniOn.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-11-01
The News Condensed,
important intelligence From All Paris
FROM WAsHlNdToN..

RUN U0A0k11 s5sat
TIE annual report of the Commissioner
Of Labor, issued on tho ed, was devoted
mainly to statistics In regard to the social,
sanitary and economic condition Of women
employed In sh0pe and factories.
AT the Treasury Department the esti-
mate on tho 24th Of appropriations for the
fiscal year ending June 50. 1880, aggre.
gated ~. 290. $50. Those for the current
year aggregated so4, 788, 1850
+ DURING the nine months ended 8eptem-
Der 50 last the total number Of immigrants
arrived at the ports OF the United States
from the principal foreign countries, ex-
cept from the Dominion Of Canada and
Mexico, was 49, 6Oa against Al, 283 during
the same period last year.
TIE exports from the United States for
the year ended September So 1883, were
e679, 6s7, COZ, against Sis, 2O4, 5S1. The Inn
Der 80 were e544 sol, 906 against t5S5, SA,-
664 during the same period last year.
1T was decided by the commissioners of
the District Of Columbia on the 18th to
honor the memory Of General Sheridan by
naming q new street intersection Sher-
idan circle
THERE were 20s business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the 18th, against 1875 the previous seven
days. The total failures in the United
States from January to date are 8,074,
against 7.718 in 1887.
AT twenty-six leading clearing houses in
the United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 9th aggregated 81, O67,-
S1 ,673, against Il, OS2. 46s, 4O4 the previous
week As compared with the correspond
ing we elk of 1857 the increase amounted to
20 per cent.
THE Governor of Arizona in his report on
the 9th to the Secretary of the Interior
says there has been during the year steady
progress in the growth and development Of
the Territory. The yield Of gold and
silver for the last year was stated to be
sE ~ ESS
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-11-01
A NEW ENTERPRISE,
Stock Yards and Allied Industries to be
E&t2hllRh0d ut Long Lake.

Stock Yards and Allied Industries to BE
Established at Long Lake.
F.! A syndicate headed by General W. d.
;Washburn and Ex-Governor Pillsbury has
been organized to establish large stock
yards at Long Lake, where an abattoir
will also be built. Over million dollars
will be invested in the yards, which will
be supplemented by the erection Of tan
'neries, malt houses, cooper shops, etc.
struction Of branch lines of railroads to
connect the stock yards eth the Mime
sofa Transfer and with the Manitoba &
Northern Pacific roads.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-11-01

MEN often wonder how women get
along without pockets. It is not gen.
orally known that women utilize va
1ious articles of attire for this purpose.
One is the hat. Young ladies out shop
ping may be seen fitting back their
hats and putting small articles inside.
a girl has been known to put a pair of
collars and cuffs. pair of stockings
and several handkerchiefsi in the crown
Of her hat. Husbands may have noticed
that their wives put their gloves In the
foldssof their parasol when not using
them, and the glove itself is made the
receptacle for car fare and even letters.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-11-01
KING MILAN GETS A DIVORCE.
The Leader of the Servlan Church Annu:s
the Marriage.

the Marriage.
BELGRADE, Oct 25.-The 06tcta, Journal
publishes pastoral prepared by the Met
ropolitan Theodosius, in which he says
that in the exercise of his power as leader
of the Servian church, and by virtue of
rights consecrated by precedents, he dis
solves the marriage of King Milan and
Queen Natalie and declares that it is no
longer existent.
King Milan, in letter to the Metropol-
itan, written previous to the issuance of
the pastoral, after pointing out that the
applied to the sovereign who stood above
them, demanded that the Metropolitan
avert the danger threatened for the Serv.
ian State and dynasty by dssolving his
Majesty's marriage with Queen Natalie.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-11-01

IT Is said Boston barber, after
sixty years Of steady work at his trade,
has retired from business. In his long
and useful career he has shaved about
500, men, cut the hair of over 2OO,-
600, and has probably made S27, OOO,-
600, 600, 900, 100000 statements per-
tanning to the weather, prize-fights and
haso-ha11
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-11-01

! WHILE republics are ungrateful, it
can be truthfully said that there are
american doctors who are not. The
refusal OF DR.. William Pepper to re-
!ceive any fee for his attendance upon
General Sheridan during the latter's
fatal illness is a delicate and graceful
tribute to the memory of an American
hero, as it is fact that the widow of
General Sheridan is in Strengthened
circumstances
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-11-01

! A BACHELORS club at Bentonville,
Ark, imposes a very heavy financial
penalty upon all members unmarried
at the end of 1889, excepting those who
can present satisfactory evidence that
they have proposed and been rejected
three times during the year.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-11-01

In the United States Supreme Court
the other day Chief-Justice Fuller
rendered his first decision, maintain
ing that the State of Pennsylvania has
no right to collect tax upon Western
Union Geographic messages when not
confined wholly to tho State.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-11-01

| EDWARD ATKINSON, the Boston econ
'omist. says that New England
genius has discovered a cheap method
of dissolving zinc, and that the fluid,
when applied to certain kinds of woods,
will make them fireprOOf.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-11-01
WEST AND S0urH.

WEST AND SOUTH.
In fight with circus employees at Mount
Vernon, KY, three men were fatally in
jured on the Oath.
On the Montana ranges great numbers Of
sheep had on the 9th been destroyed by
wolves.
ON the cath ar organization to be known
as the British-American National Associa-
ton was effected at Chicago, with George
E. Gooch. Of that city, as president. In
order to secure membership applicants
ton of the United States.
CLEVELAND, O., was on the 24th in an al
most bankrupt condition owing to the de-
falcaton Of Axworthy, the city treasurer.
On the oath David Crack, said to be one
hundred and seven years old, was married
at Marlboro, Nd, to Susanna Oaks, q
widow Of seventy five years, by Rev:
Joseph Humane.
In Santa Cruz, Alameda and San Joaquin
counties, CAL, forest fires were raging on
the Gath, and great damage had been done
to the fruit ranches and wheat.
Hoe cholera still ragged in Hancock
County, O., on the Gath, and swine were
dying by the hundreds each day. In Port
age township alone over six Thousand hogs
had fallen victims to the disease
A NAIL pouch from Boston which arrived
in Chicago on the Gath over the Michigan
Southern railroad was robbed of all the
frst-class mail matter it contained. The
stolen package consisted Of registered let
ters.
On the Oath Frank Hill j. B. Strathburn
and William Foster were fatally injured
at Kansas City, Mo-, by being crushed
under a hay press.
The raisin pack this year in California
was on the oath estimated at between
!, 35O, 900 and $50. 900 twenty-poun boxes,
an increase of 100000 boxes over last year:
AT Provo, Utah, the grand jury re-
turned two hundred and thirty-four in
dictments on the 25th, principally for
adultery and other offenses growing out of
the practice of polygamy.
On the 25th trains began running through
the Wickes tunnel on the Montana Central
railroad. The tunnel is sixty-two hun
dre9 feet long and cost 81, 100000.
j. A. SWAN, late treasurer of Knox
County, Tenn, was found on the 25th to be
S25, 900 short in his accounts -.
IT had up to the 25th rained continuous
~ Tor four weeks at New Philadelphia,
O., and vicinity, and fears were expressed
that the corn and potato crops would be
ruined
CoYoTEs and wolves were doing great
damage In the northern part Of Montana
Territory on the 18th. Several hundred
sheep and other stock had been killed BY
them.
r. N. ARTHUR was reelected chief al
the meeting Of the Brotherhood OF Loco.
motive Engineers at Richmond, Va, on the
18th. S.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-11-01

OUT of five hundred toilets and seven
hundred and fifty hats surveyed on q
recent afternoon on Broadway, New
York, no two were alike, and all were
fashionable.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-11-01
LATER,

ADv1cEs received at London, Eng, the
3Oth, from the Benny river, Africa, give q
revolving story Of savage atrocities and
cannibalism- The Oxrikan tribe, in re-
venge for some injury, invited party of
Ogonis to friendly palaver and then en-
trapped and massacred them. A cannibal
festival of the most horrible and indescrib-
| able character followed Then an attack
| was made upon the undefended villages
and the most barbarous outrages were COM
mitted 1t is estimated that over $50 per
sons, including women and children, were
killed and eaten.
TIE Supreme court of the United States
on the 29tb, decided that State laws inspos-
ing taxes on commercial travellers are I'M
stitutional
| ALARoE Howe truss bridge, near Blairs.
vile, Ill, collapsed on the 29tb. The
Bridge was 40 feet long and AZ feet above
high water, and spanued the Big Muddy
river Workmen were pliring the floor
ing and had loosened ono of the Orders
william Thompson was killed and ten
others seriously or fatally wou nded
| Ar an Indian dance at Adonah. Wiz. 4
few days ago, two young squaws overhear-
ing some remarks made by married wom-
IN, Mrs White Bird, turned upon her. and
gave her terrible beating, so she died of
her injurieA
ELMER Foster, an eightyear-old boy.
while aiding down the banisters of tho
Hotel Albion, Minneapolis, on the both.
slipped and fell below, striking on his head
and received fatal injuries j..
ATmE at Huenfeld, Germany. on the Goth
destroyed over 200 houses and rendered
fifteen hundred persons homeless and des
titute
A MuN1rY occurred among the prisoners
I'm prison at Arbittello, Italy on the 29th
Thirty prisoners and several jailers were
killed or wounded
INVENTIONS women In convention at
Boston. Mass, on the Goth nominated Miss
Alice D. Stookwell for Governor.
TIE Clyde line steamer saeanaw while
loading at ths dock at New York on the
10th careened and sank.
JOHN HnLFox1H, letter carrier In Chi.
cage, was killed BY Patrick Pedor, q bar
tender on the 20th.
ABlo oave-in occurred over an abandon
cd mine ct Plymouth, Pa. on the 29th.
Tho house Of John Fox sank twelve feet
and tho inmates, six in number, were
thrown from their beds and were seriously
injured in the wreck The cave-tn covers
i three acres and at least 100 families win
have to vacate their homes immcdiately.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-11-01

! JULIA BECK, Kansas City girl,
killed herself because some one had
told her "she was too homely to live"
Most girls would have fought it out on
tho same line of retaliation.