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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-08-28
A TREE THAT KILLS.
A Tropical Plant Which Resent
Saloons and GAMING lnusa.

A Tropical Plant Which Resembles Our
Saloons and Gaming Houses.
A tree of death has been sent to a
| lady in Savannah, Ga, by her brother,
! who is living in Java H. says that the
natives warned him against handling a
| certain tree, which grows in the vol
| and which they called Kali Muiab.
They said its breath would kill birds
and even human beings. He paid
little heed to the story until, chasing
bird of paradise one day, he saw it drop
lifeless to the ground without apparent
cause. He found the bird under tree
which gave forth the peculiar odor de-
| scribed by the natives and knew that
he had found one of the famous death
trees. He examined it closely 1t had
long, slender stems, armed with thorns
nearly an inch long, and covered with
broad satin-smooth leaves of a heart
shape and of a delicate emerald on one
side and blood red. streaked with
cream, on the other. The flowers were
large, milk-white and cup-like. and gave
forth faint perfume rescn bling that
of chloroform. After inha1ling it he
became almost insensible, had violent
headache, singing in the ears and
twltchlng of the muscles. Itappeared to
have baleful influence on other plants:
Tor, though the soil was fertile, none
were growing near it. 1t was fatal to
all insects; and small birds felt It's ef-
tects at distance of fully three feet
They dropped to the ground, and, if not
speedily removed, soon died. He pro-
cured this specimen with some difficulty
and sent it to America. 1t is the first
living one that has ever been brought
here. Cnhappily. however, we have
many forms of evil which produce still
more disastrous results. Though the
death tree" does not flourish here, our
saloons, gambling houses and haunts of
vice do the same deadly work on the
souls of the people that the death
tree" does on animal life. They attract
the multitude, while few go the way to
the tree of life," the leaves of which
arc ''for the healing of the nations"
(Rev. 1922 )-Nashvill (Tenn.) Banner.
THE Federal Grand Jury at Paris.
Texas, said in its report last month:
1--WE believe, from our investigations,
that more than one-half of the offeuses
committed in the Indian country origi-
nate from the introduction of spirituous
liquors, hence we think that a rigid en-
1orcement Of the liquor law is essen
tial'
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-08-28

TIE bicycle is getting into the army
in England, and it is understood to be
regarded with so much favor that it will
30 permanent fixture. The first use of
tao "hecl in that way in this country is
reported in the National Guard of New
YORK. One company has been equipped
and is being drilled on the bicycle. The
theory is tina: it will do duty for the
hor: in cavalry or mounted infantry
and o. great saving in expense. Ar
rangeme,': is made for carryingthe gun
ard lAnapsack. 1t is claimed that about
al .he requirements of the cav
airy sarv;ce can be met with the
wheel.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-08-28
BEAT THE RECORD,

Edward Checkley Rides from New York
to Chicago on u Bicycle in q Little
Moro Than Fourteen bays.
CHICAGO, Aug. 25.-Edward Checkley,
of Brooklyn, rode into Chicago Saturday
night on a safety Wheel" having
broken the bicycle record from New
York to this city by sixteen hours
The previous record for the distance,
which was established some years ago
by Nelson, was fourteen days twenty
three hours and thirty minutes. Mr..
Checkley rolled his machine over the
road in fourteen days six hours and
TWENTY-FIVE minutes.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-08-28
KILLED BY 4 MAD HORSE.

Triehtful Struggle Between Kansas
Farmer and His Crazy Steed.
: WICHITA, Kan, Aug. 25.-A farm er
named II. A. Smith was killed on his
place near Mulvane Saturday by mad
horse. Smith was tying up the brute
when the latter turned on him, seized
him by the shoulder and threw him
down. Just then the barn door closed.
shutting off all means of escape. and
the horse viciously attacked the man,
biting, paving and kicking, until Smith
seized club and with it killed his
horse. He was So badly exhausted,
however. that he died shortly after.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-08-28
The News ISrIeay ChromtG1ed.


A butter and cheese factory is talked
of at Ellsworth.
A young son of Mat Poison, living
near Alexandria, had his leg cut off by a
binder recently.
In the thunderstorm the other night
at Fergus Falls, Henry Zimmerman
was killed by lightning. A. E. Soliah's
largo barn was also burned.
The Farmers Alliance of Lincoln
County have commenced the erection of
their elevator at Lake Benton.
A five-foot vein of native silver. at q
depth of forty-two feet, has been dis
covered in the ancient Taltee work
ings above Duluth. 1t is fabulously
rich.
Articles of incorporation were filed
recently with the Secretary of State,
by the South Superior Gold and Sill
YER Mining and Milling Company;
capital stock $3.50, 900; incorporates,
Sampson Parker, E. E. Blum, NJ. N.
Price, j. L. Parker and E. D. Westby,
all of Minneapolis, which will be the
headquarters of the company.
Mrs. H. A. Hobart, State president,
has issued the call for the 14th an
nual convention of the State w. C. T.
u. to be held at Minneapolis, Septem-
Der 16, II, Is and 10.
The State prison inspectors have de.
cided to purchase machinery for the
manufacture of binding Irvine and will
put in plant at Saltwater peniten.
tiary.
Secretary H. H. Harthas received the
plans for the new Jail OF Benton County.
A steel plant at Newport KY, will
move to Duluth. Twenty acres of site
were to be given it, of which eight acres
will be under roof.
v. G. Curtis, superintendent of the
public schools of Winona, has resigned
to accept the superintendency of schools
at New Haven, Conn.,, with a salary 81
IS, 800 per year.
A photographer named Smith, who
was connected with Millers gallery, at
Fergus Falls, was held to the grand jury
the other day for attempting to shoot c.
W. and William Y. Smith.
Miss Lizzie Notrom, of Fergus Falls.
where her parents reside, was drowned
| recently in the Snohomish river.
She was 10 years old and was F.,
teacher in the Snohomish wash city
school,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-08-28
Killed with a Pair of Shears.

CLEVELAND, O., Aug. Is. Joseph
Klitzman, tailor living on Martin
street, became angry with his son, Mar.
tin, aged IA years, Saturday afternoon
and threw heavy pair of shears at
him. One Of the points entered the
boys side, and he died in The evening.
Klitzman tried 10 commit suicide, but
is now in Jail.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-08-28
Killed q Helpless Infant.

Dies Mo1NEs Ia, Aug. 25.-Robert
Pennicton and Mrs. Roth were found in
their apartments in a drunken stupor
by the police Saturday morning, and
near them their" infant child in the
throes of death, with the mark of a
boot-heel on its forehead. The two
were arreSted
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-08-28

TIE latest invocation in door locks is
one which can not be opened from the out
silc If it is locked from the inside, and
for this reason is especially valuable for
hotel rooms and inside doors of build
ings generally. 1t has double bolts,
ono above tbs ether The lower one is
used 10 lock the door from the outside.
lis key:hole docs hot 90 clear through
tho lock, neither docs the key-hole OF
tho bolt that locks the door from
tho inside. When the door is locked
on tho inside there is no means OF
reaching the key or the key-hole OF
tho inner 0olt from the outside of the
door,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-08-28
Snow In Pennsylvania.

Milton, Pa, Aug. 25.-The tempera.
ture that was up in the eighties Friday
afternoon changed shortly after mid.
night and an inch of snow fell. The
early freight trains on both the Phila.
delphia & Erie and Philadelphia 4 Read.
ing roads Saturday were covered with
about half an inch of the white article.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-08-28
Accidentally shot.

Alfred Mason, of st. Paul, received =
painful wound in the knee whilo loading
a pistol, at Four Lakes. He was taken
to cottage near, and two physicians
from the city were sent for, who probed
the wound and removed some small
pieces of cloth from it which had been
carried in before the ball. He was
driven back to his home. on Wabasha
street, near Tenth. and was doing as
we'll as could be expected.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-08-28
Mimi eapolis Tn Q trIcal Deal.

The capitalists who compose the
Grand Opera-House syndicate of Mime
apolis have completed the deal which
makes them the proprietors of the Harris
theater. The consideration is $3.50, 900.
Manager j. +. Conklin, &ho represents
the syndicate and is also manager of the
Grand Opcra-House, willie manage and
book all attractions in the Harris. 1t
will hereafter be run as a first-class
place of amusement
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-08-28

PROF. MAYO says the power Of the
Mormon is broken in Salt Lake CITY
and vicinity. They are now in the
minority and have hardly hand in the
government of the city in which they
we're once supreme. The entire munich
pal government and the schools have
passed into the hands of the Gentiles.
The social customs which distinguished
the Mormons are fast disappearing.
There is even society of young Nor
mon women who pledge themselves not
to marry a pOlygamist.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-08-28
HARD WEATHER IN MINNESOTA,

Crops In tho Northern Half of tho State
Seriously Injured by tho Frost.
A line drawn east and west through
the center of Minnesota divides the
rain belt from the frost belt, the
northern half having been visited by
severe frost the other night. All night
and most of the day rain fell over the
southern halt, so that the damage by
frost was offset by the rain benefit. In
the vicinity of st. Vincent and thence
south to Moorhead the corn was badly
nipped by frost, while snow fell in
several places. In the western counties
the rain greatly helped all late crops,
especially the corn.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-08-28

A WESTERN papers definition of the
electrical term volt: THE volt gives
ono blow Of a specific force. AS volts
are added together the force of the blow
is increased until the endurance limits
reached. 1t takes about twenty five
volts to make perceptible tingling SEN
sation in the human body. When fifty
volts pass through the body the ting
ling scnsat' IN becomes unmistakable,
but no: strong. while one hundred vol IS
fools lively, two hundred volts strong,
throe hundred volts powerful, four
hundred volts Titanic and five
hundred volts will knock a man
f!at'
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-08-28

A KANSAS man after the expenditure
Of much time, labor and expense, has
evolved a burglar-proof and rat-proof
hencoop Genius often takes unneces-
sary pains to accomplish its end. He
could have made any ordinary henhouse
both rat and burglar proof by the in
vestment of fifty cents in a little sore-
eyed dog
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-08-28
WEST AND SOUTH.

NOMINATIONS for Congress were made
on the Goth as follows: Kansas, Seventh
district, Jerry Simpson dem. and Peo-
ple's); California, Second district, A.
Cammette Uem.); Iowa, Eleventh dis
trict, A. Westtall Farmers Alliance);
Seventh district, James Il. Weaver
Dem.); Ninth district. N. H. Bowman
Farmers Alliance): Mississippi, Third
district A. c. Catchings (Dem.) renom-
mated; Indiana, Fifth district, w. R.
Shelf (Pro.); Alabama, Seventh district,
w. II. Forney (Dem.).
DEMOCRATS in State convention at
Raleigh, n. c., on the Goth, nominated
a ticket with A. S. Merriman at its head
for Supreme Court Judge.
FIRE on the goth at Atlanta, Ga, de-
stroved the factory of Ghclstein, Hass
& Guth man, mattress manufacturers
Loss, $3.50
WISCONSIN Republicans in State con-
| vention on the 20th at Milwaukee, NOM
mated full ticket, with w. D. Hoard
at its head for Governor.
TIE Harlan family held reunion on
the goth at Richmond, Ind, represent
0~>'oS AVN No|tG q uOAOA uAACNCAu
States being in attendance, including
Justice Harlan, of tbs United States
Suprems Court. The association num-
bers about 1000 persons.
CHILDREN playing in barn near
Akron, O.. on the Goth, reported to a
farmland that skunk was under a
haystack. He thrust pitchfork into
the hay and impaled negro with fatal
effects. He was identified as John
Williams, an escaped convict from the
Ohio penitontiary.
VERDICT of murder in the first de-
gree was rendered at Parkersburg, W.
Va. on the Goth against Mrs. Mary
Morgan for the murder of her husband
and she was sentenced to be hanged
Upon being reprimanded by her ia the1
on the 21st Carrie Walker, aged II, liv
ing in St. Louis, went into her room
and swallowed dose OF arsenic, DYING
an hour afterwards.
IDAHO Republicans in State conven
ton at Boise City on the 21st placed .
full ticket in the field, headed b,
George L. Shoup for Governor.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-08-28
INNOCENT RECREATION.
Facts That Must BE Fairly Looked In the
Face by RefOrmers.

Facts That Must BE Fairly Looked In tho
Face by Reformers.
Among mechanics and day laEorers
OF all kinds exists an almost universal
desire for some kind of stimulant
Hard, monotonous grinding toll, day
after day, and month after month, does
not suit mercurial and nervous tenn
peraments. The soul demands variety,
change, new outlook and the calling
into activity of unused faculties.
Against this change of activity mod
ern inventions have conspired. Think
of a'man spending his lifetime in max
ing the screws of watch, in guarding
small. but impor tant bit of machinery,
in blowing glass or in ''minding" the
broken threads in a loom! Continuous.
minute, uninteresting labor dulls the
mind and stupeties its faculties.
Yet work is more and more dividin
into certain departments. Even the
Japanese artist spends his whole life
in painting stork or cherry tree un-
til he knows nothing but storks or
cherry trees. True, he attans inconceiv-
able dexterity in his domain, but at
what expense! He knows nothing else
1t is the same with multitudes OF
laborers. The thoughts of the man who
| tends the machine that cuts wires into
pin lengths are the slaves of his ma
chine. He can not even polish them, or
point them. or head them, or superin-
tend any other of the eleven different
processes through which the pin passes
before it is ready for use in my lady's
chamber.
Competition is so great that the ut
most dexterity is required of the work
man. To that all other activity is sac
riticed so that he may become an expert
| in one direction.
| Against such painful concentration
and narrowing down to one minute
| point the mind rebels. The man does
not reason about it; he merely feels
! when the days work is over he must
have change. He knows where to get
it-at the nearest saloon.
| Right here is great work for the
! philanthropist and Christian. The
workman is in no condition to listen to
temperance talks or read tracts. His
brain surges with stagnant blood; his
| heart demands brightness, geniality,
| sociability. These can not always be
had in the narrow tenement he calls
home. The wife knows no better than
he how to find or make it,
But the boys know! There are songs
and rough witticisms, and maudlin
stories, and little sparring, and the
dull ache is forgotten. Take another
finger of gin and the dingy saloon be-
comes fairy-]and, and the other fell
lows are the genil. There is letting
up from the same narrow round For
little while the tread-mill is forgotten.
and the soul enters another realm.
miserable though it must be.
These facts must be fairly looked in
the face by the reformer, especially by
those who know no such sodden round
of uninspiring work. In place of the
groggery, innocent and enlivening
recreations are needed, certainly wher-
ever men are compelled to work in mar
row and combining occupations.-Cnion
Signal
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-08-28

SOME statistics from summer resorts
show that the New England coast re-
ceives the greatest number of city visit
ors in the summer, $50 prominent per-
sons visiting it, while 3Os go to the in
teSior; the same number go to Penn
sylvania, Maryland and Delaware, 240
to the south shore of Long Island, 232
to the north shore of the sound, 2O4 to
the Hudson river, us to the JERSEY
coast and IS to the north shore of Long
Island
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-08-28

WOMEN doctors say, and many women
prove it in practice, that by going up
stairs slowly, with the foot-heel and
toe alike-put firmly on each stair, one
may arrive at the top of four flights of
stairs really rested, instead OF gasping
for breath as when one runs upstairs.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-08-28
Death Of an Ex-Congressman

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 25.-Ex-Con-
gresham Horace F. Page died here
Saturday from complication of kidney
and heart troubles. He was born in
Orleans County, N. Y, October 20. 1888,
and came to California in the ffties.
He was elected to Congress in 1879 and
served in the Forty-third, Forty-fourth.
Forty-fifth and Forty -sixth Congresses.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-08-28

prohibited the manufacture and impor.
tation Of intoxicating liquors. any Eu-
ropean government which assumed tho
administration or protectorate Of tho
territory should take all due steps to
maintain and strengthen laws so bene-
fetal, and that in native countries
where such laws had not obtained, pro-
hibition should be introduced as speed
lily as possible:
At the third annual meeting of the
committee in London a few weeks ago
| the chairman stated that since the con-
ference at Berlin in 1885 it was salts
| factory to find that this question of tho
supply of alcoholic drink to native races
had come very much to the 'front.' large
~ owing to the declarations of our own
ministers at home and the expression of
An adverse public opinion abroad. While
the liquor for the native races came
mainly from Germany and Holland, a
quantity was conveyed in British ships
from Germany, and hence this country
! had not clean hands in this matter. Mr..
| Gaines exposure of the prevalence of
drink shops in India had led to inquiry
on the part of the Indian Government,
of which they might soon expect to hear
the result The native races who were
unable to protect themselves looked to
the governments of the civilized coun-
tries of the world to protect them. The
chairman moved: THAT this meeting
expresses its earnest hope that the In
ternational Anti-Slavery conference now
assembled at Brussels will be able to
recommend measures whereby the ma
tive races of Africa may be protected
against the Introduction and sale by
European traders of alcoholic liquors,
which are so detrimental to the prog
ress of civilization, of the Christian re-
ligion and of sound commerce" Car
dinal Manning seconded the resolution.
which was supported by Hon. and Rev.
Canon Leigh and adopted unanimously.
And let all the people say "Amen"
Here is work in which Catholic and
Protestant, Agnostic and Nottingham
can unite, and one large enough to re-
quire their united energies.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-08-28
Two Cincinnati Murders

CINCINNATI. Aug. 25.-There were
two murders here Saturday night.
Charles White killed Bob Burley with
knife, ana Ed mccarthy. paroled pen
itentiary convict, shot and killed Charles
Nettleton, both in drunken quarrels.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-08-28
TIE EAST

A PASSENGER train on the Old Colony
railroad jumped the track on the 10Th
near Quincy, Mass, and over twenty
people were killed by being crushed or
scalded by escaping steam from the en-
CINE, and twenty-five others were in
jured.
A. l.. TILDEN was nominated at the
Dem ocratic convention of Erie and
Crawford counties at Cam bridge, Pa.
THE third vice-president of the New
York Central railroad declared on the
10Th that his company was ready to
spend 81, 600, 900 to defeat the present
strike. 1t was thought that the de.
termination of the Central company to
defeat the strikers would result in the
extension Of the strike to all the Van
derbilt lines.
THE number of people killed by the
recent cyclone at Wilkesbarre, Pa, was
said on the Goth to be fourteen, and ten
were fatally injured. The number OF
buildings destroyed was estimated at
about 400, and the loss of property
would exceed S1,0OO.O00.
PENNSYLVANIA Prohibitionists, in
State convention at Harris burg on the
2lst, nominated Charles w. Miller fol-
Governor and Charles C. Hyatt for Lieu.
tenant Governor.
BY the blowing down of street railway
car-sheds at Philadelphia on the 2lst
four persons we're killed outright and
several others were fatally injured.
FIVE members of a pleasure party
were drowned by the upsetting of 9
row boat off Whitestown. L. l., on tbs
21st.
A CAR on the Mount Penn Gravity
! railroad at Reading, Pa, ran away with
eighteen passengers on board on the
22d, making the descent in three min
utes, and rolled down a ifty-foot EN-
bankment at the end of the track. -Four
persons were killed. two fatally and
| others seriously injured.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-08-28

Few people have got better "pull"
than an American dentist in Bombay.
He is the only good dentist in that
great city, and he gets seven dollars
and fifty cents for pulling teeth.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-08-28

The New York State factory inspec-
tors ruled recently that corporations re-
ceiving their charter from other States
were amenable to the weekly payment
law, even though their stock was not
taxed in the State.