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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12
A TIDAL WAVE.

Over 1000 Persons ut Far Rockaway
Beach Drenched by Sudden Uphexval
Of the Seas-WOmen and Children Car
ried Away by tho Reslstless Undertow
Saved with Great Difficulty.
New YORK, Sept. GA monster tidal
wave created havoc OH the Far Rockaway
beach Sunday. Thick weather has been
prevailing out at sea for three or four days.
the ragged edges OF the storm making oc-
casional appearances in rain threatening
clouds over this and neighboring cities
Sunday the sea, which had been rolling
high, began to increase, coming in large
pillows shoreward and breaking in thunder.
ing roars on the beach.
There were large crowds watching the
sea at what they supposed was safe dis
lance when at about 4:30 clock tidal
wave rolled upon the beach seventy
feet beyond the previous high-water
mark 1t broke over at least
1900 men, women and children who
were sitting, walking or standing on the
strand. 1t came unperceived by the great
majority, and although there was general
scramble to get beyond its reach but few
were successful in wholly escaping it's
grasp. The great majority of the crowd
suffered a thorough drench1ng.
NAdAy "c1o GulllD1eu over In the rush OF
waters and several women and children
wore caught by the undertow and carried
back toward the surf line. Their screams
OF terror were heard above the roar Of the
waters and for All instant it seemed as if
some must bc swept away and drowned,
but strong arms reached for them and all
were rescued
The material damage done along the
beach was considerable. Between the
hotels that front the sea and high-wa
mark there were number of booths.
oyster boats, stands and small buildings.
These were all overwhelmed by the tidal
wave and washed away from their places
or crushed into chaotic wreckagc.
1T Far Rockaway the narrow strip of
beach was nearly half washed away and
fears were expressed that it would en-
tlrely disappear. The Oldest inhab-
liant has no recollection of any such
havoc wrought by tidal wave Reports
from other r1uces along the beach in both
directions confirm the report Of high seas
and unusual tides. At Coney Island the
giant waves broke with a roar like inces-
SAINT cannonading and the sea washed
channel clear across the bar to Coney ISL
and creek.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12
sELoiuM's HORROR,
Further Details Of the Terrible Exploel
- and Ezra NJ Anf1HaHm .----...-

FARTHER Details or the Terrible Explo.ion
snd Fire 1t Antwerp.
ANTWERP, Sept 9.-Ths fre which started
In the cartridge factory on Friday has 81
last been extinguIshed. Several moro
corpses have been found and the number nf
dead will certainly reach 100 King Leonold
and the Cabinet Ministers yestordav
visited the hospitals whore the ant
ferers by the fire are being cared for. The
arrest of NJ. Corvtllan, the proprietor Of
the cartridge factory, has been ordered
Many persons passed the night in the omen
air. dreading to remain I'm their homes ow-
ing to the explosions of petroleum which
occurred at intervals until Sunday morn
ing. The village of AusmuwelI, in the
suburbs, inhabited by artisans, was COM
pletely destroyed for hundreds of yards
and In it's vicinity not building ESCAPED
damage. All parts Of this city show more
or less damage, and portions have the an
pearance of having been bolnbarded,
At the moment of the explosion
many OF the work,nen jumped into
tho scheldt in their fright and
were drowned. A number OF sailors
and customs officers were killed on
board ships by the flying bullets, and ships
were rtddled by the luissiles It is
estimated that 2. 0O tons of cartridges ex-
ploded. The noise was heard thirty miles
away. The smoke which filled the air waa
greater In volume than that of q great
battle. Human heads and other paris Of
bodies were found half a mile awav
from the scene Of the disaster. Ono
hundred and thirty whole corpses lie in the
morgues, and charred heaps of human re-
mains represent an unknown number of
dead. The first officer of the Red Star
Line steamer Zealand was terribly wound
ed on board his ship The populaco
watched the flames all night. The
noise OF the exploding barrels of oil and
the falling of ruins exactly resembled the
sounds Of u battle. Those who have been
deprived of their homes by the fire are en-
camped upon the river banks The water
works, which cost ESQ., are threeparts
destroyed
While the flames were at their height
last night the city authorities received in
formation that gangs of thieves and high
waymen, taking advantage of the concen-
trat1on OF police in the vicinity OF the great
blaze, were Overrunning the more distant
portions of the city 4 number of peo-
pie were garroted on the streets
the robbers also entering many houses and
demanding money and valuables from tho
inmates, who were generally women.
Large sums were secured in some in
stances. When these facts wero reported
mounted police were dispatched to the
infested places, and in short time had ar
rested nearly fifty Of the marauders, re-
covering great deal OF plumber
The spectacle was awfully superb and
there Is nothing IN recent history that can
be compared to it save the scene which Paris
presented during the last days of the COM
mune anu the great fire in Chicago.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12
GLADSTONE ON AMERICA.

Entitled to Be Considered the Great
Organ of the English Tongue.
PARIS, Sept 9.-In his speech at ban
luet Sunday Mr.. Gladstone, referring to
the rapid increase of population in Ameri-
ca, said:
"Iwlsh to recognize Americas right to be
considered, prospectively at least and even
now to some extent, the great organ OF tho
powerful English tongue. I wish also to in.
dulge in feelings of satisfaction on rejecting
that no cause on earth, unless our own folly.
now or hereafter ought to divide us from
ono another or revive those causes of honor
able or less honorable contention that have
heretofore prevailed among u.s.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12
A Fatal Fire

ALBANY, N. Y, Sept. Up. j. McArdle's
large rag and general paper stock ware
house was totally destroyed by fire to- day
caused by spontaneous combustion. So
quickly did the fire spread through the
grease-saturated building that the en-
ployes were forced no jump for their lives.
Two were killed and dozen more badly
injured.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12

SOME one with nothing else to do
has figured out that no one now living
will ever be able to date a document
without using tho figure nine. 1t now
stands at the extreme right, 1889.
Next year it will take third place.
1890, where it will remain for ten
years. 1t will then move up to second
place, 1900 and remain there 100
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12
Yery Like AN Earthnnaka.

KAUKAUNA, Wis, Sept a-The village of
Florence, Outag mic county, small place
one mile above here, was shaken on Sat-
urday by what is believed to have been an
earthquake. The disturbance of the
earth's interior seemed to have been d.
rectly under the spot where stands the
immense pulp and paper mill of Van Not
wick Rogers company and great damage
was done to the structure. An artesian
we'll ON blum 200 feet above the mill has
ceased to flow since the occurrence,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12
AA1fas
Drowned in 4 Mine.

GOLDEN, Col, Sept. a. serious acci-
lent occurred here late this afternoon.
In the White Ash coal mines, near this
place, an old abandoned mine runs along
side the White Ash, and has for months
been full of water, which without a mo-
ment's warning, burst through into the
White Ash mine, filling it full Of mud and
water, Ten miners are known to have
been at work in the White Ash mine at
the time Of the accident and not one Of
them could have lived five minutes after
the surging mass broke in upon them. It
will take between two and three weeks
before their bodies can be reached.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12
HE WAS SCARED.

Rudolph schnaubelt, who, 1t II Alleged.
Throw tho Haymarket Bomb, Flies from
London.
LONDON, Sept. 9.-For the last fifteen
months Rudolph Schnaubelt, the Chicago
Anarchist, who is supposed to have thrown
the fatal bomb In the Haymarket riot, has
been living In London under the protection
Of an Anarchist named Penkert The ut
most secrecy has been observed with regard
to schnaubelt's presence here, but recent
~ his identity was discovered and his
patron changed his quartets. It IL now
learned that schnaubelt has lied the uttV.
fearing that he would bo arrested and q.
tradited TO Chicago Il ID Thought thaA r.
M rome e oono1 ha9on. -.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12
DIphtherfa Stati tics.

Some interesting statistics with refer
ence to diphtheria in Minnesota have Just
been compiled by Secretary Hewitt, Of the
State Board OF Health The record of
deaths from that disease by years since
1872 is as follows: 1H72. IL; 1875, 236; 1875,
22226; 1876 379; 1877 So; 1878. 65S; 1870, 95l;
1884, 1897; 1881, ,Go2 1855, ,374; 1854, l. 13S;
1885, 1,13S; 1887, 7SS; iSss, s:4. The average
for the last two years to the total deaths is
j. 81 per cent
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12
A CRUISER CHRlSTENED.
Successful Launching of the PhiIadelpl
thu N~v Wur.

Successful Launching of the PHILADELPHIA.
tho New War-Shtp.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept 9-The cruiser Phil
:delphia was launched Saturday morning
at Cramps shtp-yard at Port Richmond.
She was christened by Miss May Wana-
maker, daughter of the Postmaster-G General
The new vessel is officially reckoned "a
cruiser No. 4, and Ia the fourth in size Of the
armored cruisers provided for the new navy.
The cruisers length is 315 feet, beam
aeH feet, draught 1914 feet and dis
terry will consist OF twelve 6-inch
.:ties, while her secondary battery will be
composed OF two Cuttings, four six-poupd ,r
Hotchkiss, two three-pounder Hotchkiss one
one.pounder Hotchkiss, and four thirty-seven.
inch rapid fire revolving cannon.1
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12

IT is a. curious fact that there are
two hundred thousand people in the
United States who have artificial legs
or hands. This number does not in
cludc the veto ans Of the Union or the
Confederate army. In New York City
and vicinity there are about five tho u
sand mon and women who have sup
piled the place Of lost limbs with the
manufactured nr;iric
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12
Minneapolis Mills Cons olidate.

An important milling change is au-
nounced in the consolidation ut Mime
apolis of the Standard. Excelsior and St
Anthony mills under the name of the
Minneapolis Flour Manufacturing; Com
pany. The company will hare $500, OOo
capital stock. The three mills will give the
corporation daily aggregate capacity of
close to three thousand four hundred
barrels, and make 1t the owner of about
the third largest capacity in tho country.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12
Salt in Dakota.

BISMARCK, N. D. Sept. 9-The discovery
of bed of rock salt in this county, made
to-day has occasioned no little excitement
and prospectors are quietly preparing for
an early start towards the fields where
the discovery is supposed to have been
made. The bed was found by Charles
Chamberlain. farmer, who will not give
the location of his tipd, but says it is in this
county, within twenty miles from Bis
marck. II c salt is of superior quality,
and Chamberlain declares that the sup
ply is inexhaustible,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12

AN Old Maids club at Berlin, Ger
many. has just come to an untimely
end. Tho society was started in 1880,
with nearly thirty members, each of
whom agreed to pay Il fine OF one
thousand marks (tifty pounds) if she
were weak enough to marry. At first
the sP'nsters kept to their colors; but
lie by little they married off, till
now only one is left single. and she in
hcrts the fines, amounting to fourteen
hundred pounds. She will give one
half the money to u charitable hospi-
1al and retain the remainder for her
own u.s..
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12

PATTI has concluded to make another
farewell tour of this country next sea-
son. The plentitude of American dol
lars makes parting such sweet sor-
row that foreign stars keep it up in
definitely.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12

HE Acting Secretary of the Treas
ury, George $. Batchellcr, has in
formed II correspondents that a Chi
ncsc student in (iermany desiring to
come t" tao United States for the first
time Will not b, permitted to land en-
cept upon the production of !, certificate
from tho Chinese Cove nment or it's
representative ut the port of depart
u'c, ""'ntersiglicd by ~ United States
consular officer. In case. however.
he Is Il n:,t,lra,iZcd citizen of
Germany, he will have to pro-
ducc certificate from that gov
ernment.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12

TIE claims of various sections for
possessing the oldest living man, the
Oldest dog, and the oldest horse, hav-
ing I'LL been submitted and duly
Weighed Kentucky now comes to the
front in the person of d. j. Charbon-
neau, OF Willia1nstown, with the Oldest
living hen. She is sound and healthy
1T the age Of fourteen, but has stopped
laying eggs BY and by we shall get
Mt the old women.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12

A LOCAL brass band plays all day
long in Il room at the Edison labora-
tory in West Orange, N. j., for a
photograph, and large numbers of
duplicate cylinders containing the
melody are made and shipped to the
Paris exposition. The manufacture
and shipment OF the cylinders will con.
tinue SO long as the exposition remains
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12

So,IEri in Munich is ut present On
cited Over the determination of
young Japanese woman, who has
played :: social role III the Bavarian
capital. Miss To]Si Mardira, the
daughter OF one Of tho highest fami-
lies OF the Empire Of the Mik;,do, has
decided to take the vail, and next
month will cutter the Convent of tho
Sisters OF Cheniailles This is said to
be the first instance Of the kind on
fpC01.i
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12

JOHN ]. BLAIR, the New Jersey rail-
road king. worth from $40, OOO,O 900 to
$50. 600, 900, says that he laid the
foundation of his fortune by trapping
when boy. 1t was while living on
the homestead farm near Blairstown
that the spirit of noney-getting seized
him, and he began trapping for rab-
bits. The local market being dull, he
walked to Easton, Pa, twenty miles
away, and sold q lot of skins for one
dollar. This was the first money he
ever owned, and Mr.. Blair declares
that he then felt richer than he ever
ms since, despite his wealth.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12

a SINGULAR fact is reported asto
the Italian immigration to this coun-
try. Of forty-tive thousand Italians
who landed in Castle Garden, New
Yor!s, last year, thirty.four thousand
were males. The emigration of fe-
males from Italy is smaller than any
other county averaging but fifteen
per cent. of the whole number who
land. From Germany the percentage
is forty; from Ireland. forty-hve Ital-
ians mostly come to the United States
to acquire little fortune and expect
to return. For that reason their fam
lilies do not accompany them.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12
Raising Peaches,

Peaches in Minnesota! Why, it must be
inpract1cablo to raise them in this northern
latitude. But impracticable or not, Peter
NJ Gideon. whose fruit farm is near Lake
Park junction. does raise them, and every
fall has few to exhibit not necessarily for
sale, but as guarantee Of good faith. The
greatest drawback to raising peaches in
Minnesota is the necessity of covering the
trees In the fall, but this has been ac-
compltshed by Mr.. Gideon. who has lately
plucked ripe peaches from trees in his
orchard that have been bearing four yearA
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12

IT is said that the common cow
catcher attachment TO locomotives is
about the only article of universal
use that was never patented. Its
inventor was D. B. Davies, of Column
bus, who found his model in the
OlOw
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
FROM WAaHINoToN.

The public debt statement issued on the
I'd showed the total debt to be 81 81, $685.
1853; cash In Treasury. $4S. 4S9, 30; debt less
cash in Treasury, 81, OS}, 74O,625 Increase
during August, 81. vi, 693. Increase since
June 80, 1855, $7,O94, O04.
THROUGHOUT the country Labor Day was
generally observed on the I'd
COLONEL WILLIAM W. BURNS, Assistant
CoMmissary- General of Subsistence, was
on the I'd placed on the retired list Of the
army on account OF age.
On the 5th Albert F. Childs, of Ohio. was
appointed chief clerk OF the Census Office
In the United States there were ia
business failures during tho seven days
ended on the 9th ult against 1S9 the pre-
viOus seven days.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12

The full title of the Sultan of the
Sulu islands is Paduka Baginda yang
di per Tuan Maulana Sultan Moham-
med Budderooddin. He is a strong
man but always looks tired.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12
TIE only house ever built bv {

IHE only house ever built by George
Washington at the capital city of the
Nation IS still standing in Washington
City. l. was originally a three-story
lick, but when tho street on which it
stands Was graded two more stories
wee added. making it tive-story
building. which is now used for 4 no.
tel. Some Of tho rooms are pretty
much IN tho same condition as they
we:c when occupied by Washington
in 1872.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12

EIGHTY years ago Tennyson, OAR
win, Gladstone. Lincoln, Oliver Wen
doll Holmes. Edgar Allan Poo and
Lord Houghton were born. Eighteen
hundred and nine was great year.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12

THERE will be eighteen contested
election cases in the next House of
Representatives.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12
NOTES FOR NATURAllSTS.

AN East0n (Pa.) paper says a resident
has an amorphophallus plant, the only one
of the kind in that section. The odor of the
flower is that of stale raw meat, but its COL
or is beautiful.
ACCORDING to Mr.. G.. II. VERBAL, F. E.. s.,
there are about one hundred species of mos
quito in existence, of which eight or ten
inhabit England. No specially tropical
species is known in Britain, but we'll
known British species was recently found
in Mexico.
AIADr of Harrisburg, Pa, has two plants
called elephants ears, the leaf of one meas
uring 3 feet II inches in length and 2 feet
inches in width. The other plant has
leaves measuring few inches less, is in
bloom with its fourth successive flower and
two buds forming. The flowers are deep,
rich cream color, shaped like 6 Gala lily,
only very much larger.
The hen-cuckoo lays her egg on the
ground, then takes it in her bill, and, find
ing the nest of a suitable parent-that IS,
parent who will feed the young one on the
proper food-deposlts her egg therein, and
goes her way to enjoy herself, free from
the cares and responsibilities of family.
The foster-parents are most commonly the
hedge-sparrow, reed-warbler, pied wagtail
and meadow-pipit.
Or the 4, 200 kinds OF flowers which grow
in Europe only 40, or 10 per cent, are odor-
ferrous. The commonest flowers are the
white ones, Of which there are l, 1914 kinds.
Less than one-tifth of these are fragrant.
OF the 951 kinds of yellow flowers u are
odoriferous; of the s23 red kinds, 81; of
the 594 blue kinds, 81; of the 3OS violet
blue kinds, -. OF the 80 kinds with COM
bined col0rs Is are fragrant.
THE history of the cow as domestic ami
NAL reaches far back into the past, and we
find her the companion of man at the very
dawn Of civilization. The Mosaic record is
supposed to reach back to period some
1000 years before the beginning of the
Christian era, and on the Egyptian sculpt-
ures there are representations Of milking
cows and feeding calves that are quite Is
old @ this, for the ancient Egyptiaus wor-
SHIPPED this animal and were Vrontiy
~ 1fSt % 6enoetlease her.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12

Or the 478 students just graduated
rom the school Of medicine of the
Boston University nearly one-half
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12
Searle ID tho Cha mnion.

LONDON, Sept 9.-Thc race on the
Thames for 5000 and the championship
of the world, over course four miles and
three furlongs, between William O'con-
nor, champion oarsman of the United
States and Canada, and Henry E. Searle,
the Australian. was rowed today and
was won by Searle Time % ~.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12

SOME fish swim deep. The Govern
ment steamer Albatross, Investigating
the coast of Southern California,
caught black cod at $50 fathoms.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12
An Ocean Storm.

ATLANTIC CRY, N. J., Sept. 9-Atlautic
City was visited tonight by terrible
ocean storm, the waters extending to q
point at least 500 feet from the beach
roper, damaging the bath houses and %.
villions along tho peach to the extent OF
about GO. O00 81.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12

DIR. AGNEw says that Il healthy
woman can kill herself in about a year
by horseback riding.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12
The CHICAGO, KANSAS e. NEBRASKA R'Y
ROCK RQuIEl
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