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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-19

eties was formed ut the same hour. The
body marched to the depot, and the train
was taken to the fort, where the Gov
eminent troops were drawn up TO re-
ceive them Headed by the Sixth Regi-
ment band, led by the United States
soldiers, the procession reformed and
marched to the grounds at the fort where
the monument stands There the troops
were massed around the vailed figure. BE.
hind them were stationed the Grand Army
OF the Republic posts and uniformed
societies. while the remainder of the multi
tude took up positions wherever
point of vantage could be found Rev.
E. F. Holland, chaplain of the Department
of Kansas, Grand Army OF the Republic,
opened the ceremonies with lraver.
Brigadier- General Wesley Merritt, United
States army, commanding the De-
partment of Missouri, reviewed the work
of the Grant Monument Association, by
which the statue was erected and of
which he is president, and explained
how the cost OF the tribute has
been betrayed by public subscriptions
taken in all parts OF the country.
Then while the Sixth Regiment band
played the National air the General stepped
forward and unvailed the statue amid the
applause OF the multitude. AS the vail fell
to the ground there was revealed to tho
spectators Il statue of General Grant, of i,n-
posing design and artistic execution.
After the statu was unvaiicd orat:ons on
General Grant were delivered by Senate:
Ingalls, of Kansas; General G.. W Blair of
Topeka, and Rev. Henry Swift, chaplain of
the post at Fort Leavenworth
1.-The figure is OF bronze, was designed by Mr..
dorado Taft. artist, OF Chicago, lii, and stands
nine feet II gh, while the pedestal is OF barre
granite, eight feet h Oh, and seven feet square
III base. resting on circular mound Of earth
thirty feet in diameter and making the total
height OF the structure nineteen and Il half
feet On the front OF the pedestal is u large
bronze panel, on which is inscribed St of The
most notable battles IN which General Grant
participated. On the back of the pedestal il
another panel Of b:oaz,, showing "Gr mt in
the Wilderness"
The statue is a bronze military figure OF he.
roic q, ne feet high, upon a polished gran to
pedestal Of equal height. The left foot is slight
ly advanced, and the left hand holds q paper
of official appearance to which points the
r ght forefinger. a SLOUGH hat. which all the
army veterans recognized at once as Grants
army hat, covers the head. The figure is
draped in a long military coat, the cape thrown
back over the shoulders
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THROUGH THE RAPIDS.
w. j. Campbell Swims the Niagara Vvhirl
pool in Il Cork .Iackot.

w. j. Campbell Swims the Niagara NVhrl-
pool in Il Cork Jacket.
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y, Sept 16-WaIter
J. Campbell, young swimming-teacher
from Youngstown, a little village down the
river, Sunday successfully swan the whirl-
pool rapids with no other protection
than an ORDINARY cork jacket Start
ing at 2:2O o'clock, accompanied
by dog, he rowed in little boat from the
Maid OF the Mist landing till the current
caught him and compelled him to unshtp
his oars. Sitting in the bottom of the boat
he chung to it desperately till after
Buttery's elevator was reached, when
animal and man were thrown out
into the boiling water. The life preserver
enabled Campbell to keep atioat
till In the second circuit of the great
whirlpool he was thrown SO near the shore
that his father, who waited on the bank,
was able to catch his hand and help him
out Once huge log caught the back of
his head, and for time held hinr down,
but he dove from beneath it and was not
much injured. At $40 he was pulled out,
but little the worse for his trip
In speaking of tho trip the young man
said that nothing in the world would tempt
him to make the trip again. He had had
enough The dog landed at the whirlpool
all right The boat was seen floating about
in the whirlpool bottom up. Campbell ia
the youngest of the Niagara heroes and
will be 81 years old October j His height
Is i've feet seven inches.
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A LASTING TRIBUTE.

Kansans Honor the Memory OF General
Grant ih the Erection OF + Handsome
Monument ut Fort Leavonwortl,.
FORT LEAvENwoRTH, Kan, Sept 1G.-The
Grant monument was unvailed here SAT-
urday with civic and military honors in tho
presence OF great crowd Of enthusiastic
citizens
Excursions had been made up from tho
adjoining States of Missouri and No
braska, and the city was taxed to its ut
most In entertaining the thousands Ut
visitors The occasion was made a holi-
day In tho city OF Leavenworth, and az
much holiday at the fort ns the discipline
OF the troops ever allows The public build
tngs tn the city were suitably decorated and
from each staff on the fort foated the Ma
tonal colors. 100, q
At o'clock in the afternoon the troops
from Fort 11eavenworth, under command
OF General A. Med. Cook. commanding
officer at the post, we're formed to prepare
for the part they were to take in the cere-
monies They consisted OF five COM
panies OF infantry, -four troops of cavalry
and one battery Of light artillery. In tho
city procession of militia and civic soct-
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WEST AND eouTh.

In tho Constitutional convention at Santa
Fe, n NJ, on the 10th a majority refused to
permit the incorporation OF woman
suffrage clause in tho article relating to an
elective franchise.
WILLIAM BRILL was put of a train on the
18th at Bakers Station, Ind. for not paying
his fare, whereupon he shot and killed the
conductor. James Lemon.
A MOB took Franklin Stack (whtte) and
David Boone (black), both murderers,
from Jail ut Morganton, N. G., on the 18th
and hanged Them
In Eastern Tennessee the coal miners
were out on strike on the 18th for higher
wages and many families were in want.
FROM all portions of Northern, North
eastern and Northwestern Texas reports of
the 18th were to the effect that great DAM
age had been done to property and crops
by foods
In the Constitutional convention at
Cheyenne, Wy. r., resolution was passed
OIL the 18th fixing the number of Senators
at fifteen and Representatives at thirty.
the former to serve four years and the lat
ter two years
The geysers and boiling springs in yell
lowstone Park, Colorado, were on the 18th
reported to be in 4 furious state of
activity, including tho wells that were sup
posed to be extinct. Scientists claimed that
this outburst had some connection with
the great storm prevailing en- the Atlantic
coast
A BOILER in a sash, door and blind factory
at Oakland, CAL. exploded on the 18th. de-
molishing the enginc-house and killing
four men. Several others were severely
injured
WHITE CAPS took William Brown, of Heth
township, Ind from his bed on tho night
OF the 18th, tied him to tree in his yard
and gave him fifty lashes on the bare back
in the presence OF his family.
AT Clarkdale, Miss, Louis Mortimer fool
oreD, charged with aiding in the recent
killing of Elder Pickett, was lynched by q
mob Of armed men on the 18th.
On the 18th tho National Association of
Colorcd Baptists met in Indianapolis, Ind.
Some of the delegates were assaulted by q
mob ut Boxley. Ga, while en- route. Rcso-
lut1ons were adopted denouncing Southern
outrages and the murder of blacks, and re-
solving to lay complaints before the Presi-
dent and Governors OF Southern States and
ask TOR investigation. ~ 4~1~'-. s.-.
OS the 18th John Greenland. q farmer
near Pecatontca,5 ILL.,, killed himself be-
cause one Of his horses and Il COW were
fatally injured in barbcd-wixe fence
A DECREE was granted in tho Tucker di-
vorce case in Chicago on the 18th in Just
ten minutes after the first notice was filed
Ihis was the speediest divorce trial on rec.
ord =.
A CASE of rare and valuable coins belong
Ing to Mrs. A. P. Reynolds was stolen from
the floral hall at the Montgomery County
\Ind) fairon the 18th. The collection was
valued at $4,000
! JAMES DEERELI, of Findlay, O., an en-
ploye In the rolling mill was killed on the
18th by piece Of red-hot iron which struck
him on the leg and ran upward until it
came to bis back Over three feet of the
iron passed through him
WHITE CAPS or regulators burned Z
negro church on the 18th at Post Oak
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The announcement il made that
Representatives of the State of vir-
elnla Will push a c1sstIH tfor u ~. 600
borrowed by General Washington from
that State to build the White House,
which was never repaid. The request
will be made that the sum be appro-
priated for the construction of q Ma
tional highway from Washington to
Mount Vernon.
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The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
from WASHINGTON.

r- rt0M WA0tStN(3tONs
PRESIDENT HARRIsoN on the 18th re-
ceived the rosignation of Corporal Tanner
rs Commissioner of Pensions
On the 18th the one hundredth ami
versary OF the opening of the United States
Treasury Department Occurred.
In tho United States there were 40
business failures during the seven days
ended on the 18th against ia the previous
seven daye
Ar the leading clearing houses in tho
United States tho exchanges during tho
woek ended on tho 14th aggregated
Il ,OtI 2269. 435, against 40s3, 02l. ST. the pre-
vious week As compared with the cor
responding q week OF 1858 tho ipcrea,e
amounted to rs "ssEs@e
A STATEMENT from the Treasury Depart
meut showed on the 14th that the total
amount of bonds purchased to dats since
August 3, 1887, 4l99, a53 $40, OF which $751;
476, $50 were 4 per cents and Sis, ia, a56
were ~ per cents. Tho cost Of these bonds
was $23l ,53S, 3S6 !
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Tie town Of Guilford. Conn, which
recently celebrated the 250th anni-
versary OF its founding, has, it is
claimed, the oldest house in this coun-
try. The house was built in 1910 for
Rev. Henry Whitfield. a minister of
the Church of England. The stones
for it were brought on barrows from a
ledge a long distance from the site.
At times it was used by the early SET
tiers as Il kind of fort to defend
themselves against the incursions of
hostile savages, and tho first marriage
in Guilford was solemnized within it's
WALL,
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JOHN MULLEN. of Oxford, Me-, is
one hundred and thirty-three years of
age. He has led wandering life, and
attributes his good health to his habit
ct wearing woolens and leaving liquor
alone. He runs a farm OF forty-three
acres, doing most of the work himself.
He has always lived on plain diet
and his habits are remarkably reeu-
lar. His only medicine is NORWOOD,
which he makes into strong tea and
drinks when "out of sorts.' He is
quite a philosopher in his way, is of i,
genial disposition and close student
of nature
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IT is said that an invention which
promises to revolutionize the method
of discharging firearms has been
lately under the consideration OF the
British War Office. It consists in firing
the cartridge by electricity.
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AT the limestone quarry of Peter
Callahan at South Bethlehem, N. Y,
the largest displacement of rock at
one blast ever made in this country
was accomplished recently. Twenty
two thousand tons of rock came crash
ing down. The force used was one
ton OF dynamite placed in several
holes, driven to the depth of thirty
feet in the solid rock.
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CURRENT CONVERSATIONS.

WHAT shall be our National flower? This
question is discussed in the agricultural
and other journals. Some writer's favor the
golden-rod, others the mountain-laurel. The
mayhower, tho sunflower and the stately
magnolia have also been mentioned.
A SEA TURTLE ten feet long, five feet wide
and weighing 1000 pounds was caught re-
Gently in trap off South Harwich, Cape
Cod. This monster is estimated to be fully
sO years old. AS it stands the distance be-
tween its fore tlappcrs is over ten feet.
The great bridge which is to cross the st.
Lawrence at Quebec will, with it's an
proaches, be 81 600 feet, or nearly six and q
half miles long. The top of the bridge will
be aus feet above high water level, allowing
the largest ocean vessels to pass unLer It,
One spar in the bridge will have q len 9Th of
l,442 feet.
TIE fusing of telegraph wires by light
alng IL very rare occurrence, although
t:-e:c are numerous instances of their car
rylng very large currents. A case is cited,
on most excellent authority, where one of
the linemen was killed by touching wire
struck by lightning at a point fifty miles
away.
A REMARKABLE instance of TELEPHONE
communication occurred in Charleston, s.
c.. recently. A young man employed in
the Western Union telegraph office in that
city conversed without any difficulty with
his brother, who was in Omaha, 1900 miles
away. The brothers talked an hour with
hardly any pause between questions.
In the pother which has been made over
the sensational sale of Millet's ''Angelus,"
the fact has been overlooked that the orig
inal study for this picture has been for some
years in this country, in the collection Of
Mr.. w. T. Walters, of Baltimore The
study, which is in black and white, is care
fully executed, and the completeness of the
expression is remarkable. since Millet
was u master Of linear design. This is the
only study which was made for the paint
ing. Among the paintings by Millet In Mr..
Walters collection is the "Sheepfold,n one
OF two or three pictures by Nillet which
arc considered BY amateurs 70 10 auer ID
quality than the "Angelus !,
- ~
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In Iceland tho Good Templars have
begun an agitation for prohibition.
The whole population Of Iceland is but
seventy tho ,sand to eighty thousand,
and Of these several thousand are
Good Tenn Dlars.
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y. L. IROWBRlDGE, whose stories for
boys have made him famous, was born
in 1927 in Western New York. He
taught himself Latin, French and Ger
man. He writes at the present time
almost wholly for the Youths Com
panion and makes Il handsome income.
he is tall, fresh-looking man, with
n very pleasant face. His hair is
white, but otherwise he does not show
his years. He has never cared for
society and lives in retirement in Bos-
ton. He has a taste for speculation,
but has never INDUCED in it to any
great extent.
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\ MORMON elder says the religious
Mormons are steadily drifting out of
Utah toward Mexico, where they can
live up to the full requirements of
their faith. and that altogether fully
ten thousand will eventually leave the
'rerritorv
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IN a recently published memoir
Sarah Pugh, a well-known Quakeress,
tells how. when somebody complained
about the poor show made by America
in the great exhibition of 1851, she re-
piled: ''You must remember that
America is young-that l. u woman
now living, remember when we used
to ask for. the return of a pin that had
been borrowed, and one of our school
notices was: SO
!" To see pin and lot 1t lie
You'll come to want before you die
Miss Pugh. it should be added, was
born In 1900.
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SWITZERLAND has apprised Min
lister Washburne that full indemnity
will be paid the two American travel
ers who. mistaken for pickpockets,
were recently locked up in Lucerne;
also, that ample verbal apology will
be made them.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-19

IRON is rolled so thin at the Pitts
burgh iron-mills that twelve thousand
sheets are required to make single
inch in thickness. Light shines
through one of these sheets as readily
as it does through creased tissue
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For purposes of securing jurymen
OF the desired sort, says the Chicago
Tribune, this country appears to need
a railway to the moon or to some third
rate planet or asteroid whose inhab-
itants have never formed or expressed
m opinion about any thing
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-19

IHE idea of making Queen Victoria
a Colonel of German Dragons has
struck good many people as rather
odd; but it is said female officers were
quite common in the British army
about hundred and fifty years ago.
At that time, it is said, persons who
had pull on the Government were in
the habit OF christening their daueh-
tiers by masculine names, getting
them commissions in the army, and
drawing the pay for the service which
the girls did not perform.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-19

CHAIRMAN COOLEY, of the Inter-
State Commerce Commission. pays
his own railroad fare, and thinks that
everybody else ought to follow his
example.
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The demand for General Grant 3
Memoirs" does not slacken. Mr..
Webster says the presses are at work
on large editions for the fall and win
ter book trade. So far $4,000 sets,
or $50, 600 volumes, have been sold.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-19

Mrs. SALLY Is. WEEKS BucKNAM.
then Il blushing bride, went to house
keeping seventy-three years ago in a
snug farmhouse on the west slope of
Mount Prospect, N. H. The other day
in this same house. where she had
lived ever since, she celebrated her
one hundredth birthday, and was
strong enough to receive not only her
children. grandchildren and great
grandchildren. but also a large num-
Der OF her friends and acquaintances.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-19

PORTLAND, Ore, Sept. 10 While twelve
men were opening cans of powder with
chisels at the stone quarries, near Van
couver Sunday morning an explosion &C.
CURED and one of tho men. Pat Delaney.
was instantly killed Four others were
throw q considerable distrnce and fear
fully burned One of them. PIT Moran.
died shortly after reaching the hospital at
Vancouver, and another, Jim Murphy. is
not expected to live.
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RENO'S MEMORY REvERED.

On Antiotam's Battlefield Whore tho W ar
rior Fell His Monument Il Cnvailetl.
Harrisburg, Pa, Sept 1G.-The Reno
monument was unvailed on the Antietam
battlefield yesterday ON the spot where
the General was killed Colonel Il.
H. L Goddard, formerly OF the Ninth
Army Corps, presided, and the un-
vailing was performed by former members
of General Reno's staff: General o. 3.
Wilcox, U. s. A., delivered the Grafton The
monument is of granite and its full length
is nine feet 1t has the word Reno on
its second base. and on the polished front
face of the die Is carved a badge of the
Ninth Army Corps.
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=,
MILWAUKEE, Sept 1G The city Of
Stoughton was in danger of destruction by
fire early Sunday morning, and was saved
only by timely shower. Saven business
houses, two barns and other buildings
were destroyed, making total lost of 49,
GOO with very little Insurance.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-19

NEW YORK. Sept 1.-THE oyster planters
have sustained a loss of $2,0JO,OO) Owing
to the storm last week many o. the
planters have suddenly and unexpectedly
been forced out Of business and into bank
ruptcy. James W. Boyle said Satur-
day that nearly all the splendid oyster
beds IN the great kills. the middle grounds
of Oyster bay and the beds on the
sand-bars in Jamaica bay and Rockaway
were ruined and the stock total loss.
There are hundreds of restcrate urs
In New York who can not OBJ
tain an oyster. Philadelphia and other
places depending on New York for their
biba!ves are unable to get single order
filled
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Captain and Five Sailor. nrow,.d

BosToN, Sept IL. Bark Cater:na r.,
from Pensacola, for Swansea, with hard
pine lumber. was abandoned in a sinking
condition September IL, at 7:l5 a m. Cap.
tain Mortola and five Of the crew were
drowned The remaining seven men were
rescued and landed ut Boston by the steam
er Dana, from Baracoa.
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Texar<ana Citizen and 437, 900 in Hard
Cash Arc Missing.

TExAEKANA, Ark, Sept 49, - Prof. J.
Wiss. one of the Oldest and best-known cit
liens of the town, is absent and it is stated
that lie has decamped, taking with him
s37. GOO in cash from the Texarkana Savings
Bank, Of which he was until lately presi-
dent and manager. He had pur-
chased an interest In the lumber business
of the Matthews Lunlher Company, aud be-
came its treasurer. He also induced his
kinsmen to take large interests in the lum-
Der company, and, it is said, received large
sums of cash from them Ho was i'm,
plicitly trusted, was man OF good habits,
and his escapade as a defaulter causes the
greatest surprise.
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Three People Drowned.

VALLEY FALLS, Kan, Sept 16-The heavi-
est rain-storm OF the season occurred here
Saturday. The roadbeLs of the railroads
are badly damaged The Delaware river ID
evon with its banks and the water IL still
rising: Three people are reported to have
been drowned In hack water on the rtveE
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-19

SUSAN B. ANTHONY is seventy-two
years old. yet she hopes to live to see
women vote and have the same right
~ men to propose marriage. T
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Spring Valley Miners Make an Appeal tn
Governor Fifar.

BLOOMINGTON, I'LL, Sept 1G-Hon. Adel.
bert Hamilton, of Chicago, came here Sun
day to lay before Governor Fifer a memo
rial touching the suffering and destitution
of the Spring Valley niners. It keseechos
him to visit Spring Valley and personally
investigate, and to call special session of
the legislature. Governor tifer expressed
deep sympathy with the suffering people
and promised to do all in his power to aid
them.
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Burned toa Crlsu.

ST. JOSEPH. Mo Sept ie.-Capt. Foster
OF this city, who has charge Of the cereal
exhib t, had sleeping room in the attic of
the art hall to which he retired early in
tho evening. No one thought to awaken
him when the are started In the EXPOSE
ton building and he was burned to death,
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Where Are You Going?

Whe:, do you start7 Where fromf How many
IA your par - What amount OF freight OF
baggage have you7 What routs 10 you prefer
Upon receipt Vi an answer to the above ques-
lions you will DO furnished free OF expense. with
III: n:G. Il s satss; s!sc
c,sll In person where necessary. Parties not
.ca!!y 20 e:'swer above questions should cut out
snG preserve ..is notice for future reference. 1t
may brcc mo useful. Address G. II. WARREs,
orneta, Passenger AReEr. st. Parl, Nina
1atsd SDR new 80 q Northwest
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conin9oQs
s Rs4ss MSo R9
iowa. Gansn
and ssteao
%sd1ats makng
I SE sss A saiasr se t kes
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A NIerchant,s Sad rat.

MILWAUKEE, Sept 1G-Isaac Friend \
well-knOwn merchant, fell down the ele.
vator shaft in his store and was Instantly
killed :, - S.... IS. -
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The WORTHINGTON ADVANCE.
ROBERT MCCUNE. Editor and Publisher.
wORTH.NGTON. Mobiles Co.. MINI

GOVERNOR LOWRY, the energetic and
anti-pugilistic Executive of Missis-
sippi, has eleven children, nine of
whom are married.