davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25
MISSING MONEY.

A Package of $4,000 in Gold Mysterious
ly Disappears from the Office of the
Northern Pacific Express Company at
Brainerd, Mimi.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, April 19.-The Jour-
nails Brainerd (Minn) special says: A
package containing $4,000 in gold has
mysteriously disappeared from the Office of
the Northern Pacific Express Company in
this city. Louis Holman, the night clerk
In charge, received from the train arriving
at l As a. m four sacks of specie, two of
which contained $4,000 each in gold and
two $500 each in silver. The money was
consigned to the First National Bank at
this city by the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company, to be used
In paying employees of the road Holman
says he carried the specie with other ex-
press packages on his truck to the door Of
the express office. He is positive that he
then carried all the specie into the vault
and turned the combination. Half an hour
later, in checking up, he discovered that
one of the bags of gold was missing He
at once notified his superior, but a close in
vestigation failed to reveal 4 clew to the
missing money. Holman has been in the
employ of the express company for several
years and is regarded as honest and faith
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25

The official at the White House who
does the Presidents newspaper read
ing and clipping is. Benjamin Mont
gomery, the. telegraphic secretary.
He is one of the most valuable officers
OF the force, as. in addition to his
knowledge of telegraphy, he possesses
a wonderful acquaintance with men
and measures, and is singularly active
in clerical work. He now attends to a
duty that was formerly performed by
Colonel Lamont, namely, perusing the
newspapers and transferring to scrap
book all articles regarded as worthy
of the Presidents consideration.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25
SIX PERSONS MURDERED.

Horrible Crimes Committed by Robbers
in North Carolina.
CHARLOTTE, N. c., April ga horrible
story comes from Mason County. W. P.
Wood is an industrious and steady farmer.
He was last Mon lay called away for q
few days, and when he returned Fri
day he was Mortified to find his
dwelling completely in ashes Soon quite
a number of sympathizing friends joined
with him in the search for his family. but
all inquiries proved fruitless They then as
last resort turned toward the spot where
the dwelling had stood, and were Mortified
to find the charrei remains of Mrs. Wood
and her five children. They had been
murdered by robbers, who had then set
fire to the house,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25
slLE OPIUM pENs.
The Extent to which They Flourish /.
San Francisco,

The Extent to which They Flourish IL
San Francisco.
The dumber Of opium dens at present
existing In this city outside Of China
town suns up into the hundreds The
low lodging-houses are alive with them.
In certain buildings on Kearney, Bush,
Geary, Suffer, Sacramento, Broadway,
Stockton, Vallejo and Dupont streets
there Ia scarcely room which ia not
equipped with an opium layout. South
OF Market street. within stones throw
OF the city's main thoroughfare, there
are, at the least calculation, three hun.
dred dens resorted to for the purpose OF
opium-smoking. The Petit House, on
Fourth street. where three murders
have been committed during the last
few years. Is specimen of the others.
Within the walls Of an opium den all
fends are equal. Colored men and
white women lie about the floors inhal.
ing the fumes of the drug until, stupe-
fed. they fall into the opium-smokers'
sleep. The majority of loose women
who ply their trade on the streets in
the southern section of the city have
been brought to their degraded condi.
ton by the use of opium, or by associ.
alton with users of it. A policeman
tells story which many of his fellows
fully indorse. Il have entered opium
dens, he said, (which can't find Ian
guage to describe. Young men and
women, negroes and whites, all lying
about the floors in the most filthy con.
dition. They are like beasts. Diseased,
besotted creatures, lacking the strength
to get up and eat. Why don't we arrest
them, you ask? Well. to tell the truth,
it's not much use They get the stuff
in all the jails despite all precautions
taken by their keepers"
DO you believe the vice is Oil the in.
creasep"
''On the increase? Well, should
say SO. Down in this part of the city
you find ten tends now where there
was one eight years ago." San Fran
cisco Examiner
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND NAIL.
FROM WASHINGTON.

FROM WA86IS9TONs
ON the 10th Emancipation Day was cole
brated by the colored people OF the DISTRICT
of Columbia by parade Of military and
civic associations.
THE President on tho 10th appointed WILL
lam P: Hepburn, Of Iowa, to be Solicitor Of
the Treasury, and James A. Sexton to be
postmaster at Chicago.
The President made the following sp-
pointments on the 18th: E. & Lacey, Of
Michigan, Comptroller of the Currency;
Robert P. Porter, Superintendent Of the
Census; and William II. Calkins, Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of the Terri
tory Of Washington.
WH1TELAw RED, the newly appointed
Minister to France, took the oath of Office
on the 18th ut the State Department.
FROM all parts Of the country reports on
the 18th indicated that the peach crop this
season would be tho largest ever known,
that the crop Of fruit generally would be
good, and that the Yield Of vegetables
would be enormous
THERE were 211 business failures In the
United States during tho seven days ended
on the 10th, against $50 the previous seven
days.
ON the 10Th new commandery of tho
Union Veterans Union at Washington was
named for Philip II. Sheridan.
The President decided on the 10th that
applicants for Office must file petitions with
the proper department.
AT twenty six leading clearing houses in
the United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 10th aggregated u ,0Oe,
7s6, S7S against 81, 0S3, 120, AS the previous
week As compared w1thIthe corresponding
week Of 1888 the increase amounted to IS
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25
BURNED TO DEATH.
Three Men Lose Their Lives at y Fire IL
u Detroit Lodging House.

Three Men Lose Their Lives at q Fire in
Detroit Lod9ing-House.
DETROIT, Mich, April pa fire at Dennis
Hotel cheap lodging house, 43 and Is
Cadillac square, at 3 o'clock Sunday after
noon, caused the death of three men and
serious injury to fourth. Malaki Powell
porter, let lighted lamp fall from
his hands in the rear of the bar-room
and in an almost incredible space Of
time the entire building was full of smoke
E. j. Gibson, bartender, and F. r. Bollio
were asleep on the third floor and both
were suffocated William Whitaker, a
sailor, was seen at his window on the fourth
floor, but before. the firemen could reach
him he fell back and was smothered
Powell was badly burned, but will probably
recover.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25
A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY.
Four Children Killed by Their Father,
Who Then Suicides,

r our Cnlldtfen ALLIED ny Their Father
Who Then Suicides.
ADDISON, N Y, April 22-Frank Hancock,
employed as fireman in u saw-mill at Blue
Run, Pa a small town near here. was found
dead Saturday morning, having hung him
self to rafter during the night In bed in
the same room lay the dead bodies
OF four of his children, two with
their Threats cut and two stabbed
through the heart, but the fifth. an infant,
lay sleeping quietly in cradle, unframed
His wife was away spending the night, it is
claimed, with sick neighbor. Domestic
trouble was the cause. At the in
quest Saturday afternoon the wife
testified that her husband had been unduly
intimate with other women, and ac-
knowledged herself as having been unfatth-
full to him, and that they had mutually
agreed to separate on May l. Hancock left
a note saying: II leave my watch for my
baby, take care OF him, and when he is
grown up give it to him and say it is from
papa Hancock was known as a steady
Industrious man and had never given any
evidences OF insanity: The five bodies will
he buried Sunday at his former home in
SaDinVille Pa
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25

IT looks as though the steamer
Bothnia, which has been chartered to
take tie American delegates to the
Worlds Sunday-School convention in
London, would be unable to accommo-
date all who desire to go, and an ad-
ditional steamer will probably have to
be procured. 1t is certain that the
convention will be the largest of the
kind ever held. The London commit
tee has advices concerning the dele
gates who are to be present from
Asia, Africa, North America and other
parts. Che object of the convention is
to promote Sunday-school work.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25

! In Norwalk, Conn.,, the other day,
woman nearly eighty years old capt
ured a burglar and sat on his head un-
til help came; and even then she didn t
get up until he was securely tied.
After this, that old SANDER about
woman being the weaker vessel ought
to be relegated to the widowed and
libolous past where all exploded am
munition belongs.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25
An Express Omco Robbed

GA1LAr1N, NO., April 22-The express
office at Patterson, Daviess County, was
robbed of between &c. 600 and $4,000 by a
masked man who entered the building,
catching the agent unawares He presented
. revolver at tho latters head and forced
him to give up the keys to the safe. He
escaped, and the search for him has bee
unsuccessful
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25
DEATH ON A COUNTRY ROAD,

A Farmer and His Wife Fatally Burned
While Riding in a Lumber Wagon.
WATERLOO, Ia, April 19.-Robert Shidler,
of Manson, was buried Thursday. His death
was caused by burns which he received
while trying to save his wife from be-
ing burned to death April s. They
were riding to town in lumber
wagon during high wind, and
the hay in the wagon was set on fire by a
spark from his pipe. Before they noticed
it Mrs. Shidler's clothing was on fire.
Mr.. Shidler got her out of the wagon and
tried to smother the flames In doing
so the dry grass beside the road
caught fire from her clothes and the
heat was so intense that she suffo-
Gated, dying In her husbands arms. His
hands and arms were fearfully burned the
flesh coming from them in shreds He suf-
fered intense pain, but fingered until Tues
day last, when he too died. Mr.. Shidler
was 6S years old and his wife g.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25

JAMES GILBERT, of Smithville, Ark,
puts in a claim for the fifty dol.
lars offered by the Little Rock Ga
zette for the largest family in Arkan-
sas. He is the father of seventeen
children. The mother of the whole
seventeen is still alive, and if Mr. Gil
bert wins that prize and doesn't turn
every cent of it over to her he will be
one Of the meanest men that ever lived
in Arkansas.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25
Killed by q Brutal Father.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, April 19.-At Manatee,
Fla, Wednesday night Isaac Jones (col-
ored) without provocation assaulted his
4-year-old child with a heavy iron bar,
breaking nearly every bone in its body and
killing it instantly. jones' wife, who at
tempted tc interfere, received injuries
which will prove fatal The murderer was
arrested He does not seem concerned
about his crime. He says the murders
were committed while he was in fit
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25
Millions Dlspo sod OF.

New FORK, April 10. The will of Mrs. W.
E. Vanderbilt Allen, daughter of the late
Commodore Vanderbilt, bequeaths the es-
tate, valued at q, ooo, COO, in six equal parts:
one to each of her five living children and
one to the children of her deceased son,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25
All We're Drowned.

BALTIMORE, Nd, April 10. - The SUMS
special from Norfolk, Va. says: vessel
went ashore Wednesday night near life
saving station No. 81, but as all on board
reach them, and the vessel went to pieces
shortly after she struck the beach, it has
been impossible to ascertain her name, des-
tination or cargo.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25

NORFOLK, Va, April 19.-Captain Heze-
k1ah Williams, one of the oldest members of
the Virginian Pilots Association, died
Wednesday night, aged - years. He was q
native Of Middlesex County. He was one
Of the pilots Of the tron-clad Merrimac, and
was at the wheel in the encounter between
that war-ship and Ericcson's Monitor in
Hampton Roads during the late war;
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25

! Mr.. CLARK, the well-known tele-
scope-maker of Cambridge, proposes
to construct forty-inch telescope for
the observatory of the University of
Southern California. This will sur
pass in size and power any telescope
ever made. It will cost 800, 1000.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25

: PEOPLE living in comfortable homes
md reasonably contented and happy,
should think several times before emil
grating to Oklahoma, says the Chicago
Inter Ocean. It will be some time be-
fore it will become pleasant locality
to raise family.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25

YELLOW fever opens the season by
appearing at Santiago, Chilli. 1t Is
not W. known whether the epidemic
) cOntemplatse tour in the northern
hemisphere this year.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25
In North Carolina towns negro I,

b In North Carolina towns negro labor
is rated at the following cheapness:
''The men get from $40 to 1925 month;
the women who live out as domestics
get from S. to IS a. month and din
ner, and have to go home at night for
supper apd bed and return in the
morning a1ter getting their own break
fast Stamping big girls, from six
teen to thirty years, will give their
services as children's nurses for 81 or
s. q month and found. So keen is the
competition for laundry work that the
negroes will offer to do the washing
of a family for Is cents week."
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25

A MARRIED lady in New York City
named Amalia Krzywoszynski, nee
Czysncrsky. eloped recently with John
Jwinjinjynsky, nineteen-year.old
youth. Her husband, John Krzywos-
zynski, has sued her for divorce. His
suspicious were first aroused by find
ing letters from her lover in her dress
pocket. It would seem as if the fami-
ly had a right to have carried some of
the letters of their names in their pock-
cts, if their pockets had been big
enough.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25

JAMES CLARK, a negro boy of Al
bany, Ga ,. is one of the wonders of the
place, BECAUSE; though never having
been taught, he is we'll educated, a
good mathematician and writes q
'.pretty hand. . He buys many books
and says when he studies a textbook
and tries to master d lesson he can't
understand. it; but at night in his
dreams the entire lesson is impressed
upon his mind, and he never forgets
it. He is described as being exceed
ingly absent-minded and Eighty in his
manner, and his looks give him the
appearance Of one who has visions"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25

! HANNIBAL HAML1Ns remarked the
other day that only four persons were
now living who were in Congress
when he entered. it. These are Mr..
Bradbury, of Maine; Mr.. Fitch, Of
Michigan; Jefferson Davis and him.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25
MINERS have a superstition that ric1

MINERS have a superstition that rich
gold diggings are always found every
ten years, and the record, thus far, fairly
sustains the notion, as the historic
''big And' in California was in 1849;
Pixies. Peak, 1859; Nevada, 1869, and
Leadville, 1879. This belief, more than
any thing else, is said to constitute the
reason why the recent Southern Cali
fornia imposition was so successful;
and twas also likely the inspiration
moving its perpetrators to spring their
scheme at this time
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25
starvation In Hun1ary.

VIENNA, April 19.-Famine prevails in
the villages of Bicske and Bistritz and in
the Waag river district In Hungary. Hun
dreds Of people are starving and many
deaths have already occurred.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25
Hundreds OF People Homeless.

RICHMOND, Va, April ~ Ex-senator A.
N. Lybrook, of PatricF County, says there
has never been q parallel to the destruc-
tion of property resulting from the fires
that occurred in that county last week.
Hundreds of people are left utterly desti-
tute. They can not live without aid from
abroad until the harvesting of the next
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25
The Oatmeal Trusts Collapse.

Dies MONIES, Ia. April oh. r. Heath,
Of this city, proprietor of the Des Moinee
oatmeal mill, has received dispatch from
Chicago, signed by the Consolidated Dat
meal Company, saying: Have concluded
to let the combination 20 to pieces" This
means that the oatmeal trust ia broken,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25

EDISON has, it is stated, devised q
dollwith small photograph inside,
which talks when the handle is turned.
The photograph is placed in recep-
tacle within the chest OF the doll and
tho handle protrudes When it is
turned the words appear to issue from
the dolls mouth. Edison has also de-
vised a clock which announces the
time by speaking; the talking appa-
ratus being, of course, phonogra oh.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25
FRIENDSHIP for the Australian (or
secretly principle Of balloting seems to
be making Roadway in all parts of the
country.

q EXCEEDINGLY large quantities of
eoleomargarine are shipped from this
county into Mexico Grease for the
greasers! Well, there's something
poetic about that. 81 8, -. +sys,z,s
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25

The twenty-eighth International con-
vention OF the Young Mems Christian
associations of North America will be
held in Philadelphia May 8-12, 1889.
The biennial report which the commit
tee will submit to the convention will
show the marked progress which
association work has made on this
continent since the last convention.
The cost of the work intrusted to the
committee was, for 1887, $43, 26O.27;
and tor 1883, $48, 248.83.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25

T18 idea that every white man in Ken.
tuoky 70 . Colonel IL al wrong. Only one
hundred and twenty wore made during thu
HAts a14 4 llRayl4o q these 90 dad.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25
WEST AND SOUTH.

V@Sb VIN0 SOO
ON the 10th Ex- Governor John s Pillsbury,
OF Minneapolis, presented to the Minnesota
State University, Of which he is . regent
the sum of $l50.OO0
No less than five persons committed sui
eide in Chicago on the 18th. Sickness and
dependency were the causes
AT Fletcher, O., Dora Webster. aged six-
teen years, was shot and killed by her
cousin, Joseph Heath, with a revolver
which he thought to be empty.
A JURY in Chicago on the 10th found Mra
Josie Gurley guilty of kidnapping little
Annie Redmond, and the jury fixed her
punishment at five years in the peniten-
tiary.
BLAST fired revealed q vein Of copper
ore Of great richness, while excavating at
Duluth, Mimi, on the 10th for new Mason
ic temple.
FLAMES on the 10th at Lynchburg, Va,
destroyed the tobacco warehouse of J. w.
Childs, together with a largo quantity of
leaf and manufactured tobacco stored
therein
AT Santa Fe ON the 18th l. Bradford
Prince was duly installed Governor OF New
Mexico.
NEAR cambridge, Ca, five men were
drowned on the 18th by the eapsizing of a
boat
The schooner Eva with her captain,
Henry Parks, and five men, was reported
as lost on the 18th at Baltimore, Md
PERRY WINE, of Brocton County, W. Va.
was Telling tree on tho 18th when it broke
! across the stump and fell, demolishing his
house and killing his wife and three chill
dren.
On the 18th George Kramer and Charles
He1dke, two Oklahoma boomers, quarreled
at h1owa, Kan, over the right to a certain
claim, and during the fracas both were
killed A fight also occurred between cat
tlemen and boomers west of Oklahoma City.
and four men lost their lives.
RAIN and wind-storm passed over Sum-
mer County, Kan, on the 18th, doing great
damage to crops and property. Several
houses at Wellington were unroofed and
others were blown down, and Mr.. Hacker
was killed.
WHILE fighting the forest fires in Patrick
County, W. Va. on the 18th DIR. Abe Robert
son was overcome by smoke and burned to
death. Over fifty farmers were burned out
by the flamea
The death of Felice viart, aged SEVENTY
two years, q professional beggar, occurred
In New Orleans on the 18th of debility and
neglect In an old shanty where she had
lived twenty years: She was supposed to
be very poor, but the coroner In inspecting
the circumstances Of her death discovered
hidden around her shanty $751; 500.
IN the farm OF Richard Davidson, near
Charlottesville, Ind, large barn was
burned on the 18th with its contents. in
Guiding six horses and = numAex Of cattle.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25
O'Conn0r Accepts.

SAN Francisco, April 1a-WilliAm O'Con-
nor has cabled an acceptance Of the chal-
lenge to row Searle for "a 500 astde on tho
Thames In September.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25
Four M,.sour,an. Drownefv

CARTHAGE, NO., April 22.-Mrs. A. H.
Lucas, her two daughters and hired man
were drowned Friday night while attempt
ing to ford a swollen river None of the
bodies have been found.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25
MExlcO'S Ex-PREsIDENT DEAD,

After q Brief Illness Don Sebastian Lertlo
de Tejada Dies in New York.
NEW YORK, April 22.-Don Sebastian Lerdo
de Tejada, ex-President of Mexico, died at
1:45 Sunday afternoon at the Lennox, Thir-
teenth street and Fifth avenue. He had
been sick about ten days, but up to Satur-
day night his condition was not considered
particularly dangerous President Lerdo
was bachelor and leaves no family, and it
is not known what disposition he has made
of his property.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-25
Sir .1o111Qn A rrSu,>

New YORK, April 22.-Sir Julian Paunce-
fote. the newly appointed British Minister
to Washington, arrived here Sunday.