The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-08-16
Miscellaneous News Items.

The Jacksonville (Florida) board of health
announce that the developments which have
occurred in the last twonty four hours assure
them OF the prevalence in that town Of yell
form.
formal conference with all the chiefs Of the
tribe, With tho exception Of Sewers and Buck
skin Charlie, who had not yet come in. The
chiefs afterwards had consultation and de-
clded to formally meet the commissioners,
and after bearing what they have to say
they will then state their own grievances.
The commissioners have not the slightest
idea as to the result of the meeting, but hope
it will be satisfactory.
The Republicans Of Michigan have noml-
mated the following ticket: For governor,
Cyrus G. Luce; for lieutenant governor,
James s. Macdonald; for secretary of state,
Gil d, Osmun; for state treasurer, George
Maltz; for auditor; Gen. II. H. Alpin; for
state land commissioner Roscoe D. Dix; for
attorney general, S. V. r. Trowbridge for
superintendent of public instructions Perry
Cappon were nominated as electors ut large.
Agent Shehan of the White Earth reservation
has made a tour Of the region where the In
dams are now picking berries, which extends
from Wadena to half way from this place to
Duluth, more than 100 miles, and says all is
going exceedingly well, with hardly COM
plant. In the aggregate he says, there are
over 5000 Indians gathering the berry crop,
which will bring them this year about $780,
900. Marshall Campbell arrested a man
named Crowley and took him to Moorhead
for examination for selling whiskey to the
Indians.
The indication after the arguments in be-
half Of Maxwell before Gov Morehouse of
Missouri. were that he would not hang on
Friday. A large share of the speech Of 4. J.
G. Garesche, one of Maxwell's attorneys, was
tesy, and evidently it made good impress
sion. The governor said he would not grant
respite on any other grounds than the re-
quest of the British government for ample
time to make such inquiry rs may be deemed
necessary, and there is little doubt that he
will accede to the request.
In few days about $4,000 will be paid
to the Winnebago Indians at Black River
Falls. MINI. Some Of the tribe have been
paid Sc. 900 at Eland Junction, and about
~ 900 is now being distributed at Tomah.
One thousand three hundred and sixty-six
Indians are now on the pay roll, these in
Guiding full and halfbreeds. Nothing less
than this receives anything Three thousand
dollars will be extended next year by the
government to assist them on their farms,
and al 900 In cash has beep appropriated,
Chief Engineer Latcha, ofthe Duluth, South
instructions from Vice President Calvin S.
Brice, of New York, to go ahead at once and
build the road into Duluth. The road now
connects with the Northern Pacific at Iron
river and it had been the intention of the
South Shore to use the line into Duluth.
The recent change in the management of the
Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic has causvd
the Northern Pacific people to notfeel inclined
to put themselves out to accommodate the
new manager. The work OF completing the
line to Duluth vii! be pushed as fast as pos.
s1bie. "
Immediately after Mrs. Rawson, the Chicago
bankers wife, OF divorce and shooting
n0toriety, secured her release from the coun-
ty Jail few weeks ago, she was taken by
her friends to a Wisconsin watering place.
But her stay at the summer resort was short,
as paralytic affection of the hands and feet
began to develop ITSELF and her immediate
removal to Chicago became necessary Par
tial paralysis Of both hands and feet has
now set in and the unfortunate woman can-
not use her hands even to sign legal docu.
ments. The attendant physicians fear she
may lose the use of her feet and hands ner.
manentiy. Her condition is attributed to
her imprisonment and tho damp condition
of the Jail.
Two prospectors game it to Livingston, II.
T., from the Boulder country, bringing with
them buckskin bag containing over il 900
IN gold, which they had pounded out with
sledge hammers on fat rocks They also
brought the richest specimen of quartz prob
ably ever seen in the territory The speci-
men was about the size of an ordinary cocoa
nut. so soft that it could be pounded with
hammer, and was full Of fne wire gold,
plainly visible to the naked eye. The Boulder
! district has, until within a comparatively
recent time, been part Of the Crow Indian
reservation, but it Is now open to settlement
The prospectors say it promises to be one Of
the richest natural mineral districts in this
part of the country.
A man about thirty-two was picked up on
the street at Washington City by the police
and was taken to the hospital, where he
| died soon after. Death was caused by the
| severe heat. 1t appears that he was for
years connected with the United States
army, and that he was discharged last
January under the name of Frederick Nc
Outlook. 1t also appears that his real
name was Philip Irving Thurber, and that
he was member of q prominent Detroit
family. 1t is said that he joined The army
because Of his having killed q man in st.
Louis: A remarkable popularity Of the de-
ceased was that he would neither receive nor
write letters. II letters wore handed to
him he would tear them up without perusal
These facts about the dead man were told
by member Of the Third artillery, now sta
TONED at the Warrington arsenal.