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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-07-11
TANNER IS LIBERAL.
The Commissioners Of Pensions Defines His
Policy In Caring for Disabled War Vet

Tho Commissioners Of Pensions Defines His
Policy in Caring for Disabled War Vet
CHICAGO July S-Pension Commissioner
James Tanner, accompanied by his two
daughters, arrived at the Grand Pacific
Hotel early yesterday morning: He said
he was in Iowa about month ago, and the
great cry there among old soldiers was
that there was too much delay in granting
pensions to the deserving. Said the inter-
viewer:
1T has been said that you had no right to
have certain policy; that your place was
merely in experimenting and executing az far
as the working Of the departments concerned.
How is it?
For oil that have policy. It is liberal,
fnt In every case within The law. have mott
tied the chiefs Of divisions to watch very care
| fully for fraud and that when fraud is discov-
cred they shall push the case until the bars
surround the guilty ones. One case OF fraud in
community reflects great d'scredit on the
whole work."
Have you any particular recommend atoms
which you desire Congress to act upon At the
next session.
Il hardly think So. II Congress will ar
who needs pension can secure it.
I dare say the Grand Army Of the Re-
public will express wonderful unantmity in
declaring 1t the best course. People North
and South will say amen, but can not say as
much for the much-talked-of service pensions
Congressman with whom I have conversed
about the Lowering bill as advocated by the
G. A. R., say that the finances of the coun.
try will not stand it. There are now about
$4,000 pensioners and 1000, 600 veterans and
the drain OF IS per month can easily be COM
puted. NO, let the service pension matter
rest for some years. II Congress adjusts it 50
that only those who need and are entitled to
pensions receive them that is all that can be
Asked
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-07-11
4 BOLD ROBBERY.

thugs blind = Nan with vltriol &C Mime.
apolis and Carry Him to the woods;
Where They Relieve Him OF 60, 600
Lett Hound and Gagged, He succeeds,
After Three Days Of Agony, in Resurn-
fng to HIS FrIends-His Reason Conc.
MNNEAPoIIs, MINI, July Tho boldest,
most successful and most reckless hi9h-
way robbery ever attempted In this city
occurred In the glazing light OF day last
Tuesday morning and has Just come to
light Henry Hage came hero for
the purpose of marrying his sweet
heart Miss Rena Dyset Tuesday morn
Ing Hage left the house for the purpose Of
getting shaved at Kessler's barber-shop He
found no one ut the shop and started
homeward, and on the way back he was ac-
costed BY stranger who said he
was barber and would take him
to his house and shave him. Hage accom-
panied him, and they had proceeded but
short distance when the pseudo barber
dashed quantity Of vttriol In Hayes face.
Hage was taken out In the woods dis
lance OF about ten miles from the scene Of
the attack, and, after robbing him OF
about 0,OOO, the brutes bound him
hand and foot and tied him to, =
tree. Hage remained in the woods I'M
conscious bound and helpless for three
days Friday he succeeded in freeing him.
self and wandered home He has not yet
regained his senses and may become per-
manently deranged. There is no clew to
the thieves. The $4,000 Of which he was
robbed was In the form of two negotiable
drafts, one on Milwaukee and the other
on New York bank. go
Aage had small sum of cash, dia-
mond ring, a diamond breast-pin, a gold
watch and chain and a pair Of diamond ear
rings In his possession, and all were taken
from him. With the exception of q farm
valued at II, 2OO the thieves stripped him of
all his property, besides probably disfgur-
ing his face for life ..
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-07-11

j. RH1NELANDEK DILLON, a New
York banker, wears on the little finger
OF his right hand a ring with history.
Years ass:o General Grant, while fishing
IN Greenwood lake. caught an eel.
Now an col is about as hard thing to
take oil hook as swims, and while
tho General was freeing his hook of
the wrisglcr tho wriggler drew a
beautiful horseshoe ring from the
Generals finger The ring fell over
ooard and was found in u pickerel
caught by Mr. Dillon. The finder Of
!ercd to restore the ring, but was told
10 keep it.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-07-11
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS
a FURIOUS STORM.

Many Miles of Land Laid Waste By .
CyciOno-Livos Lost.
A combined cyclone, water spout and
hail-storm passed from one to i've miles
east OF Rushford the other night, destroy
Ing every thing in It's path. It probably
gathered over the town Of Wiscoy, Winona
County, entered Money Creek, Houston
County, passed almost due south, curving
slightly to the west, through Yucatan and
the east part of Norway, in Fillmore County.
then on through Proble till it spent ita
force A belt two miles wide In the path
way of this storm for thirty miles in length
was absolutely laid waste, the trees being
as bare OF leaves az in winter. The loss by
the storm could not fall much below $780,
NN Immense trees, two or more feet in
diameter, were torn up and twisted off,
For two miles in width the merciless hail
pelted every thing into the ground. It
crossed the railroad track whore the sec
ton men were at work, and they said that
the hail-stones that fell were fully as large
Is mans fist Andrew Nzico, of Yucatan,
was drowned In the flood, and another
drowning was reported from Houston.
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ANOTHER TOWN GONE.
Bakersfield, CAL, Practically Wiped Out
bY Flames.

Bakersfield, CAL, Practically Wiped Out
by Flames.
BAKERSFIELD, Cal July a-Sunday after
noon fire broke out in the kitchen of M E.
Kelsey's house, new building just erected
in the same block with the Southern Hotel.
Ia spite of all efforts it spread to
the adjoining building, also of wood, then
to the next, and then to the South
ern Hotel With that start it soon
spread until every business house in town
was burned, besides about forty dwelling
houses, involving loss of 81 ,25O, O00. The
insurance is $500, 600. The fire department
could not begin to cope with the fire. Thir-
teen blocks are wiped out No hotel, res
taurant or business house Is left AS soon
as the fire subsidized measures were taken to
feed the homeless The fire came on so
suddenly that there was no time to save
stocks of merchandise. One hundred extra
policemen have been detailed to guard the
little that was saved Bakersfield is in the
northern part of what is locally termed
Southern California and has a population of
5000.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-07-11

WILLIAM +. Moore and Bertha A.
Van Dusen were married ut Ironton,
D.. the other night Miss Van Dusen
was employed in a wooden mill at
Whcslersbnrg, g., and while knitting
socks finished one pair handsomely
md Enclosed hcr name and address in
ONO Of them, requesting the buyer to
write to her Moore, who keeps store
ncar South Point, bought the socks
lie wrote tho romantic maiden. They
exchanged photographs. the result be-
Ing thu: Miss Van Duscn has now
entered into T. life contract to knit fancy
aO:c for Moore. ,.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-07-11
THE SOUTH FORK DAM.

The Coroner's Jury Holds Its Owners Re-
sponsible for the Terrible Loss Of Lafo
Due to Its Giving Way. a.
JoHNsTowN, Pa, July S-The coroner's
verdict holds the owners of the South Fork
dam responsible for the loss of life in tho
recent food After reciting the faulty con-
struction of the dam the verdict says:
I'VE fnd the owners OF said dam were
culpable in not making it as secure 40 It
should have been, especially in view Of the fact
that population of many thousands were in
the valley below, and we hold that the owners
are responsible for the fearful loss of life and
property resulting from the breaking Of the
dam" =.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-07-11

Tie more this useful hint circulates
turing the summer the better: DR..
Hammond, an authority, says there is
no agent more powerful with some
persons as represent of the heart
than a large draught of ice-water.
Under certain circumstances it acts
with all tho force of prussic acid.
Tho faintness and paleness that fire..
luently follow draught of it are due
70 the weakness Of the hearts action.
Had tho dranght been colder in such
cases lifo would have become extinct.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-07-11
SIMON cAMERoN's WILL.

The Document Not Yet Probated-Some
Charitable and Other Bequests Made.
HARRISBURG, Pa, July 8-The will of the
late General Cameron has not yet been pro.
bated, but among its requests are said to
be the following: Harrisburg Hospital,
$40, 600; Harrisburg Home for the Friend
less, DO, 900; his library and 8 600 to the
Young Mems Christian Association; Mrs.
Duffy, Of Marietta, $500 in grateful re-
membrance of her uniform kindness to his
son Simon; German Reformed Church of
Maytown, Lancaster County, 5000 and Z
parsonage, and to his servant, John Camp
bell. $4,000.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-07-11
Refused Z Million.

NEw SYoRK, July ga syndicate Of En-
glish capitalists is trying to buy belmont
co.'s restaurant II 1s said that u, 0OO, COO
was the amount Of their first offer, which
was refused The same syndicate will also
along the lines Of the principal railways In
this country and conduct them after the
plans Of Spiers 4 Pond in England
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-07-11

The longest recorded examination
Of a legal witness was recently con-
Guided in New York in the case of the
State OF Now Jersey against the Nor
ris 4 Essex Railway Company for
81, OOO. 600 back taxes. Richard +.
Stevens, the expert who examined the
railway company's books. was put
on the stand two years ago and testi-
lied for two hours every week up to the
conclusion of the case,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-07-11
The News Briefly ChronicIed.


At Rochester the other day Judge Start
sentenced August Beckman to four years
and Edward Peterson to three years In the
penitentiary for the killing of Taylor
Coombs In the insane asylum there.
The annual session of the Minnesota
synod of the German Lutheran church was
held recently at New Ulm, over one hun
dred ministers and lay delegates being in
attendance
Parties from Montana are about to omen .
vein carrying silver and gold on the Bald.
win place east of Granite Falls. This is the
third vein to be opened, and o:her 1nGlica-
tions will be followed as fast as time and
circumstances will permit An assay made
at the State University is just made public
showing $66 per ton Of gold and small pei
cent. of silver.
Through defective title q million dol.
lars worth of property in the heart oil
Minneapolis Is being eued for by young
attorney of that city who has bought ur
the quit claim deeds of parties originally
interested
Fred Blonde 9 and Timmand Berg,
Scandinavian farmers living near st
Hilatre, were killed the other afternoon by
lightning during a heavy thunderstorm.
Both leave families. The. parties were in
different places when killed
At the council meeting at Faribault the
other night there were granted thirteen
liquor licenses at $500 each, being two less
than last yeqr.
The Southern Minnesota horticulture
Society held it's annual summer meeting re.
Gently under the big tree,' five miles north
of Rochester.
Many farmers in Polk County have aban.
doned the hope of securing more than hall
a crop OF wheat
Railroad mail service has been estab.
lished as follows: Red Wing by Hay Creek
Goodhue Center and White Willow to Zum.
brota, Duluth, Red Wing Southern rail.
road. A new post-oftice has been estab
lished at Holland, Pipestone County, JAIME,
Hullbrigste, postmaster.
Johnnie Malri, q homeless newsboy. wa,
drowned in Lake Phalen at St Paul the
other day.
Oscar Smith, prominent business mar
and manufacturer of Winona, died thu
other evening. -
The City Council of Owatonna at a re-
cent meeting granted ten saloon license.
for the coming year at $500 each Thi,
number was one less than was granted las
year.
Ex-senator Sabin has made formal applt.
cation to legally adopt the three orphan
children who have resided with him TO,
some years, Two of them are daughters OF
the late Delegate Raymond, of Dakota, ant
the other is Ada Chambers, whose parent
are dead
The wrecked steamer City of CLEVELAND
was recently towed into Duluth. It woult
take 800, 900 to put her INTO shape.
complete human skeleton was fount
the other day many feet under ground =
the topmost peak Of Sugar Loaf, the hipl
promontory south Of Winona It was be
Heved by some to be that Of an Indian, AMI
by others Of white woman.
Nicholas Beare, Of Blooming Grove, Va
struck ~ lightning and killed few day,
ago.
The American Institute Of Homoopath,
at its recent session in Minneapolis declare{
itself opposed to the indiscriminate use q
alcohol In medicine What is known O. th,
Whisky cure was denounced except fos
uss IN nsae d snake bites
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-07-11
A CALL TO ARMS.

A Call for . National Convention, to Be
Held In Cincinnati September 12.
WASHINGTON, July a-George o. Jones
has issued q call to ''all who desire to aid in
recognizing the National Greenback party
on the principles once advocated by Peter
Cooper, and by many Of the wisest men
and ablest newspapers in both OF the old
parties," in which they are requested to
meet in their respective States and Con-
gressional districts on or before Septem-
Der 4, 1889, and appoint one delegate and
one alternate to attend the National Green
back convention heretofore called to meet at
Cincinnati, o., on Thursday, September IL,
1880 .. '.~
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-07-11
Letting Down Prison Bars,

CHICAGO, July 8.-Judge Holton in the
circuit court decided to-day that the law
requires written complaint in every case
OF arrest by police. Heretofore this has
not been required, and the effect of this
decision II carried to it's legitimate result
will be to release about 600 prisoners from
the house of correction. 80
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-07-11

CARLISLE D. GRAHAM, who pro-
posed to ''shoot' Niagara Falls in a
barrel. took the barrel to Chippewa.
Ont, recently and let it drift down the
river and over the Horseshoe falls. It
was broken into thousand pieces in
the rapids and the pieces were seen
going over. This settled the question
with Graham, and he will never again
attempt to go over the tails in his
"patent boat"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-07-11
Accident to tho EMPEROR.

BERLIN, July 8.-Emperor Williams
Norwegian trip has nearly had a fatal ter
mination. While the emperor and his
party were viewing the Buar glacier a
great mass of ice became displaced and a
fragment struck the emperor on tho shoul-
der, dash1ng him violently to the ~round.
Full particulars have not been l.. ceived,
but 1t Is known that the emperor's injuries
are serfOuS,-
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-07-11

B. P. SH1LLABER (Mrs. Partington)
Is tied up in a complicated knot by
rheumatism, but his cheerful disposi-
ton stands by him still. To a friend
be recently spoke of himself us sitting
''from years end to years end, armed
with paper, pipe, pills and patience"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-07-11
LATER.
Death In . Well.

81: PAUL, July 8-John Benson, we'll
digger, was instantly killed this evening
while working in q we'll near the motor
junction. Benson was working at the
bottom OF the WELL In some way the han
Ole OF the windlass slipped letting buck
ct full of dirt fall from the ton to the bot:
tom of the we'll striking the man on thu
head killing him instantly. -, -
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-07-11

PERSONS who have a superstitious
dread of Friday will be pleased to hear
that this is a year for Fridays. It
came in on Friday, will go out on Fri
day, and will have tifty-three of the
tll-omened days. There are four
months in this year that have five Fri
days each, changes of the moon occur
Ave times on Friday, and the longest
and shortest days OF the year each falls
on Friday.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-07-11
Two Moro Deaths ut Duluth.

DULUTH. Special Telegram, July s.
Three members of the mob that attacked
the police are dead, the boy Fltzimmons
and the Fin, Mat Beck, having d ed to-day.
Inc inquest will be held tomorrow.
There are no new developments in the
situation, except that ninety-tive repre-
sentative men formed q company to-day
70 aid the police in case of emergency.
Company z has paraded in various parts
OF the city, and was present ON East Sec
ond street, where the gas and water com.
panies put twenty-five men to work.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-07-11
A DEFAuLTER.

The Cashier OF = Bank ut Malta, O., Gets
Away with Funds Estimated at from
$4,000 to $4,000.
ZANEsvnLE, O., July a-Hiel D. Miller,
cashier of the Malta National Bank of
Ealta, O.. twenty. miles south of GAINESVILLE,
Is defaulter to the amount of s32, zoo, and
probably $4,000. His speculatons have
extended over . number of years and were
carried on by pocketing the discounts of the
bank from day to day. This was possible,
as he was cashier, paying and receiving
Of the directors His bondsmen, E. n Stan
berry and John Miller, his father, both OF
Malta, have paid $2O, 600, the amount Of his
bond, and the bank will lose the balance.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-07-11

JAMES w. BRADBURY, Of Maine, Al.
pheus Felch, of Michigan, and Jeffer-
son Davis. of Mississippi, are the old
est ex-United States Senators now liv-
ing, all three having entered the Sem
afo in 1QA7
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-07-11

A CURIOUS illustration of abuse of
process in the criminal courts recently
occurred in the Punjauh Six men
were convicted of murder. Soon after
wards y, murdered" man turned up
alv end we'll. The criminal courts
il '.A.a, it is said, are not infrequest-
- lied for gratifying private ani-
;ttieS.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-07-11

MISS HOWE and Miss Burbank, teach
ers in the high school at Hartford,
Conn.,, sailed the other DAY for Eu-
rope. bound on a long tour all by
themselves. After leaving the steam
er they will take passage northward
along the Norwegian coast, going as
high as North Cape, toward the Land
Of the Midnight Sum-" The journey
will last for about three months.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-07-11

In 1868, before the newspaper stamp
was abolished in Hungary, there were
only 12O newspapers and magazines
published in the whole kingdom.
After the abolition, the number of
papers rose to POI in 1873, 1924 in 1879,
412 In 1882, SIG in 1886. and now there
are moro than 600. 267 of which are
published in the capital, Budapest.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-07-11
WEST AND aollrA.

| OOhN hONAE, aInulcteu ny the granu jury
for the murder OF DR.. Cronin in Chicago,
was arrested on the 1st and placed in Jail.
On the farm of Henry Daley. near
Marion, Ind, a number of cattle and hogs
were attacked with hydrophobia on the 1st
and had to be killed. They were bitten bv
a dog several days before .s. 49,.
FLAMES destroyed the business district
OF Durango, Col, also three churches and a
part OF the residence section, causing loss
of s3OO, 600, with light insurance The fire
was supposed to have been set by inceudi-
| aries S 4 ,sy ~. -
AT fro on tho LIST at Savannah, Ga. ono
firenanw was killed and eight seriously in
! jured by afalling wall The loss caused by
the fire was estimated at $4,000 .-]'
HENRY BRoEN, Herman KarneM and WILL
lam Karnetz, members of the North End
Rowing Club were drowned on the LIST at
St Louis by a collision between their boat
and a'bmge. = r. 4s ce ca Fes
+. FIRE destroyed four business blocks at
HALEY, L T., on the I'd Loss, 100000.
In Kansas City Judge Phillips, of the
United States District Court decided on the
2d that negotiable paper might be indorsed
by telegraph, and that the indorser would
i be held.
WHILE Cashier Westerfeld, of Myers
bank, at Ligonier, Ind. was at dinner on the
I'd thieves entered the building and secured
several hundred dollars 8
i a TRAIN ON tho Norfolk L Western road
was wrecked by . washout on the I'd near
Thaxton's, Va, and it was reported that
several cars We're burned and that twenty
i've Persons lost their lives Many were
/ also injured
A. J. FORBES, Judge-Advocate General Of
Minnesota, died on the I'd at his home in
i Marshall 3. 3 :. .3$
GOVERNOR FnER on the Cd partioned
Joseph G. Maokin, convicted of perjury in
connection with ballot-box frauds In Chi
cago His fve-year term would have ex-
PRED in August
In session at jackson on the I'd the Mis-
sisstpM State Prohibition convention re-
solved not to form separate party, but to
vote for candidates favorable to prohibi-
tion.
Ao11u Raj and Nay Parker, inmates q
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Mrs HAyEs, known among the sol.
aiers Under her husbands command as
The Mother OF the Regiment" won
tho sobr:Quc: in the following way: A
h2.:-wi*o1 fellow was told by his COM
rsdss rpon her arrival in camp that
Sic had come to do mcnding. In good
Eai'I, be carried his blouse to her to
nerd. Aftsr moments thought she
'a~ the situation, and determining to
save him frot, :idiculo she mended it
rs II It wore really her business The
neil were ashamed, but, delighted
with hor way OF treating the matter,
gave hcr tho above title.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-07-11

PROF. E. b ANDREWS, professor of
political economy and social science
at Cornell University. has been ap-
pointed to the presidency Of Brown
University at Providence, r. L. Y
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-07-11
Ar tho pOst-nfIicr nono

AT the Post-oi1lco Department a
surious thing has bcoa found in the line
81 applications. u is photograph Of
sas-applicant for post-office, and is
accom- panied by u request that the pict-
u'c be fled wi:h tho papers in the
:s:c. Want is intended to be a genial
n''le ass evidently been too much for
Tho .k.ll Q! Ito country photographer,
Ind tho ,rss ut is MI expression of min
7..d c.to. ishncnt and dismay. which is
a, sub: .r.u:h more amusing than the
&, .,3.na. smils. This is the third appli-
:at.rr accompanied by a photograph
,sssi,ea st tAs fost-otiice Department
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-07-11
A VERDICT FOR 100000.

"A judgment Granting tho Title to Half
of Duluth Rendered.
Judge Parish in the Circuit Court the
other evening directed verdict for the
plaintiff in the case of Frederick T. Prem
tice. the New York millionaire, who sued
for possession of half of Duluth against
Mayor Reaser and Others Prentice bought
the claim of one A. 3. Butterfield, who wac
given de d for half-interest in 20 acres
of property in the city by Martin Reaser,
father of the defendant over thirty years
ago. The deed was Improperly executed
and Buttertield was deprived of possession.
The property is valued at 81, COX, COO