The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-12-13
MATTERS IN GENERAL.

O.. 8 MATTERS IN GENERAL. -. /
Eleven prisoners escaped from the Council |
Bluffs jail Oh Wednesday, Dec. 9TH Four were
recaptured.
West Virginia defeated the proposed prohtbi-
[ty of &, 600. .a-:
Over sixty Republican papers Of Minnesota
advocate the election OF Gen. wash
burne to the United states Senate.
The Attorney General of Ohio is moving to
suppress the White Caps. He began little late,
but we hope will make all end of their brutal
Illinois reports 1,1l3.O 900 persons Of school age
schools. over 1000 teachers are employed. in
r. ooo school buildings. The cost Is over slOoOo'
COO per year.
The returns to the State Auditor show that
nesota during the past year. This Is largely the
result Of the State forestry fund provided under
the act OF 1881.
Prof. Lerz, an experienced African traveller,
thinks that Stanley has effected a junction with
an and there he irsnds or
will be heard from. Prof lsnz thinks that
stanley has opened up passage between the
Congo and the Nile. =
Last year the balance of trade was against the
would have BEEN much greater IT the free
traders had succeeded in tinkering the tariff to
their satisfaction. 1t is not we'll to nave the
outgo exceed the income by so large sum In
one year.
Gov. Swineford Of Alaska. and Treasury Agent
Ryan complain Of the way in which the Alaska
Commercial Company treat the natives Men
whose only thought is gain need the watch
to treat defenceless people with any degree OF
| Justice or humanity.
| Speaking of the relation Of the Knights of La
bor to strikes. Mr.. Powderlv says: 1--WE are not
opposed to strikes hut believe in reason before
strikes-not strikes and reason after wards
Sometimes we are compelled to strike. but 1t i
often better TO hear the Ills we have than to fly
to others we know not Of What we want IS CO.
operation all around"
Chauncey Depev's announcement that he ha:
| accepted place III Gen. Harrison's cabinet Is
Smf1ingiy received by the American people. He
says he is to he Secretary OF the FXteri"r." lr
that capacity his influence WI, not be less tina,
the "!nterior.' Manhood has often more power
than Office, so far as influence concerned.
THE Receivers and Register Of the Land Ofhc'
at Cheyenne. have cancelled entries of 326
he desert land a.t OF which final proof hai
been made. A special agent reported that th'
conditions of the law had not been comnliet
with Appeal will he made tn the COMMISSIONS
Of the Land Office, and possibly to the secretar.
of the Interior.
A federation OF ri, railway emnloyes in tn
country is proiec'ed. It contemp1ateS taking Il
all classes of emNoves. and it is claimed that il
will have membership Of 10000 There. is t.
be All insurance fNnd. and strike fund, I'M
strikes local and general are to he under tn
control OF a gp1aral board of federation AM
ted This will diminish the number Of strike
hnt will make those which do occur of imperia
effectiveness.
r. r. Barry, who led such a bitter assault o.
Mr. Powderly. with such signal failure. is tryin
to organize a naW m0vemant. to he called "Ih
$borh ot tod Lab with the follow
man to the nse Of the earth Second The takin
from us',rers and shv'ocks the wight to contro
ship Of the means Of transporting persons
freight and Intelligence. AND the taking of thos
J engines of haman hanninesS ont OF the hands q
stock gamblers and SOacnlatnrS and operat
them for the benefit OF producer and consumer
Mr. Powderly says the Knights of Labor hav
pretty well wpeed out the anarchi~tc elemen
VIII ch forced it's way into the order. He saw
forcibly that these fellows. who are at war wit
ali our institutions. feel perfectly happy whe1
they get into The order and succeed in stirrin
up Q,iarrelS. We have no room for any kind o
anarchists in this country. They have opposed
ahead. The knights Of Labor. it is true. hav
declined in membership. Such organization
have their eh'> and flow. But now we arc pros
pering and the membership is growing.
Speaking of President Cleveland's retire
ment from public life, the New York Vail au.
Express forcbly and fifty SAYS: 1T is MI
CIeveland's own fault, however. that the transi
tion from popular idol to party sea pce"a
was such violent one. His message show
him in his trne light. We all knew before tha
he believed in his "'destiny" as Democrats he
ance showed that. Most Of us knew TINT ;,t
was obstinate narrGw- minded and ugly in hi
temper. Put the whole American p"o1le cal
now see all these qualities set forth in the mes
sage. and its exhibition Of personal bitterness
which even the Mugwump papers recognize, it
und.gnffied TRADE about the greediness o
wealth and the oppression Of the many by tn
few, its irritpment to cOmmunist'c md almos
to anarchistic outbreaks. have revealed the ma.
as he is. in all his narrnWneSs his bigOtry. hi
pig headedness, even to his friends OF yester
day"
| The Gar OF Russia recently hid a wonderful
escape with his family. from destruction in
railroad wreck. One account says: That the
were not all killed from first to las is now til
subject Of the profOundeSt amaZement for al
Russia A dog, the Cars favnrlte hound, lyin
at his feet, a servant presentingto him ira
with glass OF tea, were killed instantaneous
ly, and the Car remains unsca!heh. Under tn
} feet Of the whole imperial party. seated aroun
the dining table, the floor sinks, the whole bo
tom of the carriage disappears. The four wall
; are crushed together in the sudden smash; til
unsnpportea roof gIyes way, ard is preyente te
august children only by the powerful arms {
the Emperor. who for several minutes support
it alone above the heads Of his family. The Fin
press was the first to extricate herself from IT. tn
wreck and her terrible cry Where is the E,r
peror? Where are my children? was MOI
heartrendiug than any words can describe Tn
Empress right hand was badly bruised, and til
left slightly cut about but she went at once
from the wreck of the other car. For nearl
four hours she sat in the drizzltng rain on tn;
sOpping bank binding up their wounds or S0Otl
ing them with words healing as the balm I