davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Portland daily press., 1890-10-23
OWEN. MOORE & co.
STATEMENT,

Capltal fa1d up In Casn, SfOO,OOO.
ASSETS, DkC 81 1850.
Real Estate owned by the COM
pany. unincumbered,: .......::...s 316,15o.co
Loans on bond and mortgage (hrst
liens)...: 1890. ....:......... 574,esl.34
Stocks and bonds owned by the
company, market values. ...,..... loss, 1853 %
Loans secured Dv collaterals.. 1,04O,2UO.00
ONCE and in bank. ........... s4,730.5O
Interest due and accured.......... lI,432.64
Premiums In due course OF cOllec-
ton. ..:.::.;.............. -. 5s.soesI
Aggregate of all the admitted assets
OF the company at their actual
Nalue... .........................
ss,174.s57.o4
LIABILITIES, DEC. 81, 1850.
Net amount Of unpaid losses and
claims. .;...;::...;.;....;......s so,7544s
Amount required to safely re-iDsure
all outstanding risks, ............. 4263;5b3
Amount reclaimable on perpetual
policies. 1.3ss,91
All other demands against the
company. viz commissions, ETC., S283.37
To, al amount Of liabilities, except
capital stock and net surplus, 80. 1904, 332.51
Capital actually paid up In cash.. 100000 90
SURPLUS Deyono capital. :.....:.. 97U,024.53
aggregate diuOuut VI lldDlllLleS ln- -
Guiding net surplus....... .......
s3,l74,s57.04
ROLLINS & ADAMS, Agents.
The Portland daily press., 1890-10-23

The t0eather today
Is likely TO be
fair.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-10-30
m. H.ppisst Of wonsn.

Ono Of tho most successful women il
society IL the woman who absolutely
knows nothing-that Is, in the ordinary
acceptance of the term-but whose na-
turs is 30 nicely adapted to tho needs
and requirements of this life that she
makes no blunders, and hurts the tender
feeling Of NO one. It is matter for NJ
to reflect upon, and it should incite u
to help our children to cultivate that
spirit Of kindliness which would just Is
readily speak we'll Of people a. i'll Il
not to prefer to do 80. We might teach:
our daughters that to listen patiently to
the praise Of others will not detract in
tho least from their charms. Those
happy women who are capable OF honest
and hearty admiration for persons Of
their own sex are and always have been
admired and loved, though without &C.
complishments or graces save this one
of Unborn charity and good-will.~N. 7.
Ledger.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-10-30

GENIUS in Austria has invented a
new musical instrument. which ought
to be popular with amateurs who pound
the piano. Its capacity for noise is
much greater than the pianos, and it
can be played with equal ease. 1t con-
sists OF case like piano, which con-
tains six violins, two violas and two
violoncellos. All these instruments are
connected with keyboard, and they
can be played at once by any one who
can play the piano. The possibilities
OF this invention are obvious. An enor-
nous increase is gained in the volume
OF noise. 1t is practically whole music
store in itself.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-10-30
INFORMATION WANTED,
Whore Ia tho Right Place for u Saloon?
Can YOu Tell?

Whore Ia tho Right Place for SsIOon?-
Can You Toll?
Where is the right place for saloon?
Where is the saloon wanted? Ifnot the
fashionable mercantile establishment,
what other kinds of business are likely
to be helped by the proximity of gin
mills? Let some one name them. Is
it the baker, the tailor, the shoemaker
the butcher, the milliner, the book
seller? Do any of these find it of any
particular advantage to their trade to-
have grog-seller come and open up q
shop beside them? What surroundings
are necessary in order to Justify tho
opening of resorts for loaiers, of drunk
ard mills, of cens for the propagation Of
vice and crime? What neigh borhoods
shall be selected for the establishment
of places for the debauchment c.; men,
for the destruction of families, for the
makers of paupers and felons? Which
Is the worst. to open saloon with.
in two hundred feet OF church or
school. or to open one next door to
house, or under a house? What is
there that should make grog-shop
q stencil in the nostrils OF tho public On
one street and a sweet-smelling SAVIOR
on another? What should mako it an
ugly blot on the landscape in o:o local
ity and thing of beatty in another?
Is saloon Oh Fifth avenue calculated
to do greater harm then beer dive on
Mulberry street? II the wealthy and
powerful can :.ot endure the presence of
the grog-shop, why will they thrust
him on the poor ard weak? Are the
tenement districts-the hoc1es of those
already deep, Gown in poverty, squalcr
and misery-are these the proper
places to set the saloons? Are they
needed here to help men to live parer
lives, to make happier homes, to
strengthen the weak. to cheer the down.
cas-, to guide the erring?--N. Y. Oh
server.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-10-30
THE FAMILY SUFFERED.
And just Beciuse Smith Didn't Want tr
lie Considered .sMaanN

And just Bec,use smith Didn't Want to
lie Considered "Mean."
'Come. on mates. Fill up, boss: it's
my turn" said Smith. Nine boon COM
panions, hail fellows we'll met; nine
drinks for Smith to pay for; whisky
straight; ninety cents gone out of his
earnings and nine drinks in his fuddled
brain; and so it goes every payday, and
as many more days as the occasion calls
for. Result: Smiths children in rags
and half fed; the landlord unpaid; his
wife, a wretched, draggle-tailed woman,
a picture of misery.
Yet Smith was not . drunkard; he
went to the foundry every day; he did
not get laid of; he was good work
man. earned good wages, had steady
work; but the rum-seller took nearly
all Is earnings, and, not content with
that. being an agent for the political
machine, used his influence and his
scors to secure Smiths vote, and sue
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-10-30
THERE seems to be no limit to the tri-

B. THERE seems to be no limit to the tri-
'mphs of inventive genius. A. L. ban.
croft, OF San Francisco. has invented a
method Of naming and numbering the
roads, lanes and by-ways of sparsely
populated country districts so that a
traveller can find his way to any isolated
and remote dwelling as readily as he
could find his way to a residence in citv
10 people living in the country, and still
more to those who want to lind the resi-.
denccs of people living in remote Sec
lions Mr.. Bancroft's system will be of
much practical value. The world is
getting great many valuable things
from California.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-10-30

The career Of Mrs. Smart, of Grayson
County, Tex, shows what you can do in
che matrimonial business If you give
your whole mind to it. She is fifty one
years old and is now living with her
ninth husband. She started the record
by having her four first husbands killed
In the Confederate army. While of
+. consse not bent upon marrying every
available man in the Southwest, she in
due time had to replenish her stock Of
husbands, since one was sent to prison
fcr fifteen years, two passed from life
IN The regular way, and another was
chewed up in saw-mill. BY the way,
sha hes eleven children of her own.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-10-30

DURING the last twelve months act
ual settlers have taken up some nine
teen million acres of land in the United
States, or nearly thirty thousand square
miles This is big acquisition to the
producing area of the country. and
nearly every acre of it is fertile. When.
says the Chicago Tribune, we can in
crease our actively agricultural area in
one year to an extent nearly equal to
tho whole of Scotland, and have the
fact passed over with mere paragraph
OF comment, it may no longer he doubt
Cd that we are a great Nation, inhabit-
ing a great country.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-10-30

7. 3. HARMED, of Camden, N. j., gave
dinner to Walt Whitman rece ntly. II
pr blish my own books" says the ven-
cradle poet, land have done 50 ever since
my first little volume, entitled Leaves
OF Grass, was returned to me unnoticed
by every leading newspaper in the
country save one. Things have changed
since then, and scarcely day passes in
which ] do not receive request with
satisfactory honorarium to write for
some leading newspaper or magazine.
But l have to go slow. and Only work on
days when the spirit moves me; for you
know am half Quaker, and go little
ensthe light Within 4,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-10-30

HE Chinese have begun to build an
other railroad and it will not take long
Tor the new method of transportation to
revolutioniza the ways and customs
o. the ancient Empire. The children
of this day and generation may live to
SEQ transformatio in the East-both
IN Asia and Africa such as the world
has never before witnessed. The
agencies TO work a mighty change in a
short time are at hand as never before,
whcna great continent or a populous
empire was opened to the influences of
Western civilization,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-10-30

ceeded in handing him over to the local
heelers in order that he might vote for
3 bo6dler who would increase his rent
by increasing his landlords taxes; and
all because Smith wouldn't be mean. but
treated the crowd like man and robbed
his family. Just how many Smiths
there are it would be impossible to
say, and just how much such men
strengthen the political machine it is
hard to say.
BUTT Workman Smith will look at
his ragged children, and his bedraggled
wife, and his miserable home, and will
ask himself the question whether he
had not better brave the taunts of his
fellow workers and be mean, according
to their standard, but be just to his
family, methinks when his whisky
fuddled pate gets clear he will decide
in favor of his wife and family. Now,
Smith, be man; be courageous. First
say to yourself you will stop this treat
ing humbug, come what may. Next
make up your mind to persuade others
to do the same. Call meeting of tho
boys at noon, tell them you think this
treating business is perfect folly, and
make a motion to abolish it. Never
mind the laugh. They are cure to
laugh at you the first time. Wait
awhile
Buy good clothes for yourself and
your family; let yot1r little girl take
your dinner down, dressed nicely, which
you can do with the treating money.
Take your wife out ON Sunday neatly
dressed. Then when the boys see this
great change they will say: "Smith
isn't quite such big fool as we took
him for" Next time you call a meet
ing, depend upon it you will receive
respectful attcn zion, more especially as
your complexion has improved, your
nose is not near so red, and your cloth.
ing and general appearance greatly im-
prov ed.
The only way 10 emancipate tho
wage-worker from the rumsoiler's power
Is to give him better and different sur
roundings, and they are within tho reach
OF working men, who, realizing the i'll
effects OF the saloon, are willing 20
make a strenuous effort to tear them
selves away and lead others to Il better
appreciation Of intellectual enjoyment
and their elevating influence on man-
hood and indcpcndencc.-Wil Saul,
III Journal Of Knights of Labor.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-10-30
WEST AND SOUTH.

The steamer Annie Young was
burned off Lexington, near Port Huron,
Mich, and nine OF the crew who tried to
escape in the rawl were drowned.
AT Louisville the third game of base
ball for the worlds championship re-
suited in a tie on the Goth, the score
standing: Brooklyn, Z; Louisville, Z.
WILLIAM NYE and his two sons, Grant
and Babe, were. arrested at Ada, o.,
charged with passing counterfeit money.
MARY METzDoRFF. aged II years, who
poisoned her brother James and Louisa
Broadwaters. pleaded guilty when ar
raigned for trial ut Baltimore.
THE population of Wisconsin is given
by the Census Bureau at 1858, 697. an
increase of 36S, 200 in the past ten years.
Tho population of Oregon is given at
3l2, 400; increase, 1877. 722.
The death of Pete Mccartney, one of
the most noted counterfeiters in the
United States, occurred in the Ohio PEN
itentiary at Columbus at the age of 10
years.
The death is announced of Mrs. Mary
Jane Mills at Snowfall. MI, aged 1O2
years anu mOnCnS.
In Collinston, Utah. four workmen
were blown to pieces by the premature
explosion of a powder-blast
NELSON, the Maine phenomenon at
Cambridge City, Ind, knocked half a
second of his mile mark and put the
worlds stallion record at 2:1O%.
In the Seventh Illinois district the
al "a I'D u u<1
for Congress-, and the Republicans of
the Third Kentucky district nominated
A. d. James,.
NEAR Milan, Tenn, the boiler of an
engine exploded, killing five men.
ISAAC WEISS killed Mrs. August
Mehlin, the handsome young wife of a
railroad laborer at San Antonio Tex,
and then killed himself. Weiss was
drunk and mistook the woman he killed
for his wife.
NEAR GRANVILLE, ILL.,, David Grub, a
farmer, was shot dead by his step-scn
while he was trying to stab his wife.
ACCORDING to the Census Bureau the
population of South Dakota is 327, S4S,
an increase Of 229, $50 in ten years.
Ow1NG to domestic troubles William
Galow, German laborer, shot and
Killed his wife at Oshkosh, Wis, and
then committed suicide Both were
over 50 years Of age and leave eight
children. al:
AT Casco, Wis. Albert Ludermeyer,
In quarrel with his wife about the
quantity OF potatoes they should put
away for the winter, seized his rifle and
shot her dead and then blew his own
brains out. They had been married but
short time. ~a--rt e. -
TENNESSEE bankers met at Memphis
and organized State association.
AT smith Creek. Mich tramp fatal
~ stabbed James O'Hara and wife, his
Intention being to rob the house.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-10-30

THE fourteenth annual report on the
administration OF the New York Tri-
buno's fresh air fund. shows how, much
general interest may be aroused in such
scope. This last year the number of
contributors was 1925; the number of
boys and girls benefited, 1913; and
tho total OF contributions, S24,514
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-10-30

ONE OF the most rcmarka able old ladies'
IN Maine, if not in the world, is living
on the island OF Monhcgan. Although
seventy-five years old, she not only
knows nothing of the cars, telephone,
electric lights, etc, but has never seen
horse. She has always lived on the
island. several miles from the main
land and her world has been Monhegan.
Sheep and COWS are kept on the island,
but there is no call for horses.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-10-30

A GERMAN of Boston, well-known at
thesSouth cnds recently took trip to
thafatherland.e There he died. While
living he turned the scale at three hum
dred and fifty pounds. His body was
crematcd and the remains, weighing six
ounces, were inclosed in an envelope and
sent to his family in Boston by mail.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-10-30
THE LAND OFFICES.
Report Showing tho Business Done Du
ing the Past Year. =.

Report Showing tho Business Done Dur
ing the Past Year. I,
The annual statement of the Commits
sioner of the General Land Office, show
ing the business done in the local land
Offices of the country, has been made
public. In Minnesota Is, 253 acres OF
swamp land have been selected 1873 In
dian patents have been issued 26l,'
773 acres of railroad lands have been
patented. The Surveyor-G GENERALS force
has surveyed IA, AGES. There is,
the Commissioner saW an increasing
demand for a survey 4 the balance OF
the unsurveyed land the State. The
business of the Offices has been as FOL
lows:
Crookston, 1919 fhtries, 1851 acres sold fol
s43, 7O1; Duluth, >27S entries, S2,2H acres sold
ior $50, Ma,shall, ess entries, ss,sO acres
sold for sl7,O7S St. Cloud, 1,143 entries, 57,0i5
acres sold foy$1e 1855; Taylors Falls ia entries,
600 acres odd for $500.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-10-30
Mutil,y in Siberia.

ST.. PETERSBURG, Oct. 27.-Advices
from Yatoosk. Siberia, report another
mutiny of Siberian convicts. This out
break occurred on board a steamer in
the river Cena, there being many con-
victs on the vessel. The inhabitants
OF village which the steamer was
passing came to the convicts' assistance
and helped them to disarm and bind
the guards of the escort. The vessel
was then set adrift. The governor of
the province sent troops in pursuit, who
killed two of the fugitives and recap
tured live OF them. The minister of
the interior has ordered an investiga-
ton.
A YOUNG named Lewis Rittenhouse,
who was recently released from the
mad house at Belleville, ILL.,, went in
sane again on the 9th. He procured a
shot gun and tried to shoot every one
he met. After wounding his brother
and man named Talbot, he was over
powered and locked up. ,.'.s
The Secretay of the interior on the
9th, decided that the city of New York
could not have recount. The census
taken by Federal enumerators must
stand.
The Catholics of Manitoba are trying
to overthrow the National school laws
and have separate schools established.
AT Austin, Texas. on the 27th, an ex-
policeman named Dornwell shot and
killed woman named Maggie Null and
then blew out his own brains. Drink
and jealousy were the causes.
IT was learned on the 9th that s. s.
Cole, freighter between Spokane Falls
and Cummings, Wash, had been robbed
and killed by the Indians.
GOLD in paying quantities has been
discovered on the Sioux reservation in
South Dakota.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-10-30
LATER,
An Indian Millennium.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.-The commits
sioner of Indian affairs has received
reports from the Standing Rock agency
in South Dakota Indicating that the
"1ndian millennium craze is increasing
among the Sioux Indians. Great ex-
element over the matter prevails
among the Sitting Bull faction of the
Sioux, who are anxiously and confident.
~ awaiting the coming of the millen-
ium next spring.
Agent Mclaughlin, in long report
to the department on the subject, says
the superstitious notion come from the
more southern Sioux, and is doubtless
the same craze that has been agitating
the Shoshones in Wyoming and the
Cheyennes and the Arapahoes in the
Indian Territory.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-10-30

Mrs. LENA SMITH, of Columbus, O.,
whose sixteen-year-old son was lately
hanged, has gone crazy. On the night
OF Che execution she wrote to the Gov
ernor: Curse you, his murlerers, and
their descendants; may his shadow
haunt you to the hour Of your death!
May all the fortunes plague you which
have suffered all this time This is
INV wish"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-10-30

The University OF Pennsylvania is to
=. send out a, scientific exploring and
dredging expedition to. the Bahamas
and about Caribbean waters The craft
is the yacht Whitecap. of fifty-one tons.
Columbia College, Park Davis & Co., of
Detroit, and the Missouri Botanical
Gardens. St. Louis, will also have repre-
sentatives on board, making scientific
corpstOf seven or eight men.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-10-30

1T is reported that three nails of the
true cross have been found in the ruins
OF the theatcr at Zurich, which was
burned down. They were in little
ivory. caskct, of admirable workman
ship, together with manuscript of
parchment, and were bricked up within
a little cavity of the sub-structure. It
is presumed that these relics were hid
den by monks during the reformation.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-10-30

Let every enfeebled woman
know it! There's a medicine
that'll cure her, and the proofs
positive!
Here's the proof - if it
doesn't do you good within
reasonable time, report the
fact to its makers and get
your money back without
a word-but you won't do it !
The remedy is DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription-and it
has proved itself the right
remedy in nearly every case
of female weakness.
1t is not a miracle. 1t won't
cure everything it has
done more to build-up tired,
enfeebled and broken down
women than any other medi-
cine known.
Where's the woman who's
not ready for it? All that
we've to do is to get the
news to her. The medicine
will do the rest.
Wanted-Women. First
to know it. Second to use
it. Third to be cured by it.
The one comes Of the other.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-10-30

*DoCreaSos /
The total population for the district
is 45l, $50. In 1880 the population was
2SS, S42. Increase. 163.0 78. The ropu-
lation Of Minneapolis is 1874, 1913, against
1857 in 1880, an increase of ISL per
cent. The population of St Paul il
1873. 1856, against 41,47S in 1880, an in
crease of 222 per cent.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-10-30

"a SHORT courtship is reported from
Maine. Deacon Marvin, ono of the
early settlers OF Buckfield, mounted his
horse with only a sheepskin for sad
die, rode III front of the house where
Betty Lee lived, and, without dismount-
ing, requested Betty to come to him.
On her coming he told her that the Lord
had sent him there to marry her. Betty,
without much hesitation, replied: THE
Lords will be done"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-10-30
MiSmSted.

Mrs. Wilton-I have not heard from
your daughter since she married . for
eign count
Mrs. Bilton-She is very unhappy.
Mrs. W.-Too bad; but such matches
usually are unfortunate. ::
Mrs. B.-1ndeed they are. You SOC
the poor girl knows 50 little Of foreign
languages that she drops back into En-
glish every time she gets mad, and then
her husband can't understand q word
she says.-N. Y Weekly
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-10-30

THE Treasury Department can take
no action ptevidinR for new designs in
or gold and silver currency until next
spring. The necessary bill has become
q law, but the officials having this mat
ter in charge can not now find time to
consider new models and designs.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-10-30
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE


THE death Of Captain Richard Francis
Burton, the well-known African ex-
plorer, occurred in London.
LOCOMOTIVES have arrived at Jaffa,
Palestine, from Philadelphia, to be used
on the new railway to Jerusalem.
THE ocean race from New York to
Liverpool between the City of New
York and the Teutonic was won by the
latter.
SEVEN dervishes were killed BY Egyp-
tian cavalr; and others wounded at
Suakim for stealing cattle.
In Russia an alarm ing state of affairs
was reported. The prisons were crowded
with suspects, chiefly young men of the
educated classes. and disaffection was
spreading everywhere and incendiarism
was rife.
Mr. GLADSTONE, in political speech
at West Calder, confidently predicted a
Liberal victory at the coming general
election.
A MAN named Cast fatally poisoned
himself and his five children in Berlin.
No reason was known for the crime.
AT Canton, China, the Government
powder-mill exploded, destroying 200
houses and killing over 1000 people.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-10-30
ROYAL Arch MasONS.

The Grand Chapter Of Minnesota
Royal Arch Masons in session at Mime
apolis elected officers as follows: M.
f: G. H. p, A. Brandenburg, Fergus
Falls; Deputy, j. M. Martin, Mime.
apolis; King, Isaac P. Durfee, Worth
ington; Grand Treasurer, S. Armstrong,
Minneapolis; Grand Secretary, Il.
Montgomery. St Peter; Grand Chaplain,
R. Wells, Preston. BY The report OF
Secretary Montgomery the receipts OF
the year were shown to be $4,000 and
the disbursements $500, leaving d
balance of cash on hand of $1,000.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-10-30

WITHIN the last nine months 1867
miles of railway neutrality-suspicious.
with other companies and have ceased
tssrepresent9the Companies which had
previously controlled them. #