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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-07-24
War in Central America.

CITY OF MEXICO, July 2O.--El Uuiver-
sal publishes an account of a battle be-
tween Guatemalans and San Salvador
ians in San Salvador in which the for
mer were defeated with heavy loss.
The Guatemala force numbered 5000.
Cen Barrundia, the Guatemalan refu-
gee, has left Oaxaca to take part In the
war. He will probably raise the stan
dard of revolt in Guatemala. Private
kilograms from San Salvador say that
the San Salvadorians captured the
Guatemalan artillery in the battle,
which took place Thursday. It is ru-
moree that President Barillas, of Guat-
emala, talks of resigning.
On the night of the 10th, two detec-
tives near Birmingham, Ala, under
took to arrest Mart Thrasher,<a notori-
Gus moonshiner, at his home in Bibb
county. The officers fired on a man
they supposed to be the outlaw, killing
him. The victim proved to be Bart
Weather, and the outlaw is still at
large. :.
TIE thermometer throughout the
Arkansas Valley in Kansas on the Goth,
stood at 104 degrees. Hot winds pre-
vailed and thousands of acres of corn
were ruined.
THE real AL thor of Beautiful Snow.
John Whitaker Watson, died in New
York on the goth. ez q
A PROMINENT business man OF Celo-
RADIO Springs, Colo, named Spinney was
kidnapped on the 10th and taken into
the mountains by Texan. named Hsr.
ris, who claimed that Spinney owed him
two thousand dollars. s.
A FAMILY named Kingberg, livtn9
near Eau Claire, Were poisoned on To
Goth, by eating canned meat. Four al
the children cannot recover, I'D
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-07-24

The value of the property destroyed
\ In the United States BY tornadoes and
cyclones during the eighty-seven years
ending December 81, 1887, was $341, &c.,
500, an average of 81, s19, 1870 a year. Dur
Ing that time the mum Der OF lives known
to be lost was 8, 1865 and the number of
persons reported injured was 500.
Since January !, 1888, different parts Of
this country have been visited by very
destructive storms. In looking about
tor cause the most natural explains
ton, and the one most supported by
facts. would seem to be that they are
due 4, part, il not wholly, to the want
Of forests,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-07-24

Mrs. FRANCESCA CoRDoLLA, fifty
years of age. living near Pomona, CAL,
Is said to be the youngest great-grand-
mother In the United States. She was
married when but fifteen years old. and
her eldest daughter married when she
was seventeen. Mrs. Cordoba was a
grandmother at the age of thirty three;
her eldest granddaughter was married in
April. 1889, at the age of fifteen, and
now Mrs. Cordoba is a great-grand-
mother-an on account of the glorious
climate of California
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-07-24

Soon there will be no profession or
trade left as proud mans very own.
Women have successfully mastered
farming, doctoring, the law, telegraphy
and many other pursuits and now an
Ohio woman has begun work on a rail-
road building contract. A female cap
tain cruises along the Atlantic coast in a
neat schooner of her own, and steam
boat on the Mississippi possesses q
woman engineer
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-07-24

In New York recently the Italian resi-
dents accepted the design for a monu-
ment to be erected in that city to the
memory OF Columbus, to cost 5000, 900.
The plans are by Roman artist and
granite is to be brought from near Lake
Maggiore; and surmounting the column
100 feet high statue of Colum bus is to
be of bronze with the costume of an ad-
miral The King of Italy is interested
in this matter, and, although it will
cost $500, 600, there is no doubt of its
ultimate completion and arrival in this
country at the four hundredth ami
versay Of the discovery of the American
continent.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-07-24

Prof. TYNDALL says: my first little
physical investigation was on subject
of extreme simplicity, but by no means
devoid OF scientific interest-phenomena
OF a water jet Among other things
noticed that the musical sound of cas-
cades and ripping streams, as we'll as
the sonorous voice of the ocean, was
mainly, if not wholly, due to the break
ing of air bladders entangled in the
water. There is no ripping sound of
water unaccompanied by bubbles of
IN
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-07-24

THERE are five hundred and thirty-six
authorized guides in the Alps. One
hundred and ninety-four OF them have
taken regular course of instruction in
their profession and have received di-
plomas. Thirty-tive of them are be-
tween sixty and seventy years of age,
ard six are over seventy.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-07-24

SOME relic hunter has cut out and car
ried away from the Union College build
ing in Schenectady, N. Y, section of
window sill in which ex-President Ar
thur cut his name years ago when a stu
dent there.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-07-24
Mills 11OVCOtto;l.

PARIS, Ill.,, July 19.-In April the diff
erent mills of Paris and Redman agreed
not to take wheat on deposit unless at
the market price and drawn out at mar
ket price. The Farmers Mutual Bene-
fit Association of Edgar County met
here Friday and adopted resolutions
boycotting all of these mills.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-07-24
FROM WASHINGTON.

UP to the 10th the total list of deaths
by cyclones, lightning~and wind-storms
in the United States since January l
was placed at LOO, as compared with
only 1853 deaths by the same cause all
last year.
The President on the 10th appointed
Prof. James R. Solely as Assistant Sec
rotary of the Navy and nominated A. B.
Nettletoh, OF Minnesota, to be Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury.
THE collapse of the scheme to ANAL
gamate into trust and sell to English
capitalists the soda water and beer APP
peratus interests OF the United States
was announced on the 18th.
THE President on the 18th appointed
O. L. Spaulding, of Michigan, Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, vice George
c. Tichenor, resigned.
In the United States there were 207
business failures during the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 1911 the pre-
vious seven days.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-07-24

THE ''relief fund" of the Pennsylva-
mia Railroad Company is no small affair.
Last year it IS said the employees con-
tributed S37, 46l and the company $7O,-
100, making total of S447,62 OF this
S343, 500 was paid out.
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Prentice Beaten Again.

The attempt of Frederick Prentice,
the well-known land speculator of Ash
land, Wis, to obtain land in the center
of Duluth valued at 81. 900. 0oOis again
unsuccessful, Judges Nelson and Miller
rendering decision the other day in
favor of the defendants-the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company, the Duluth
Street Railway Company and others.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-07-24
An Elevator Burned.

CRAwFoRDsv1LLE, Ind, July 19.-The
new elevator of Messrs. Crabb & Rey-
nolds in this city was burned to the
ground Friday morning. 1t contained
from 5000 to 1000 bushels of new
wheat which was destroyed! The
building cost $4,000; insurance, Sc, 900
on building and machinery and $4,000
on the wheat. The fire is supposed to
have caught from hot-box in the
elevator
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-07-24
Had Good Success.

. Mrs. T. Cause and Mrs. Cora A.
Meiser have had remarkable success in
establishing branch of the American
Humane Society in Minneapolis About
thirty members have already been en-.
rolled. They are soliciting aid for the
local 8. P. C. A. The idea is to raise
enough money to enable the society to
hire paid agent who shall put in his
whole time in the prosecution of cases
Of cruelty to animals.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-07-24

The new bridge authorized by Con-
grsss to be built across the Hudson
river between New York and Jersey
City will be 1000 feet long and have
one central span 1850 feet in length. 3
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-07-24

A LIFE Of the late Jenny Lind is being
written by her husband, Otto Gold
schmidt, who married the "Nightin-
gale" in 1852, at the close of her men,
orable American tour.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-07-24
Blown Down 1T st. Paul.

A terrific wind-storm, almost a cy.
clone, visited the northern part of st.
Paul the other night The brick build.
ing of the Acme Chair Company at
North St Paul was completely demol.
ished. The night force, seeing the
storm coming, fed from the building
just in time to save their lives. Loss,
$50. 1000.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-07-24
p. T. BARNUM's fortune is estimated
1T 81, 900, 600, every cent Of which he
has accumulated since he reached his
fortieth birthday. =

ANEW style Of mourning paper drops
the band of black all around the sheet,
and has it drawn diagonally across the
left-hand corner Only
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-07-24

JOHN CHARvoUs, reformed cannibal
from the Fiji Islands, is lecturing in
Georgia. He says he never did any
thing in his life that he regrets so
keenly as the eating of his fellow-men.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-07-24
WEST, AND SOUTH.

Two YACHTS from Chicago were lost
in storm on Lake Michigan on the
10th and five persons were drowned.
THE Ohio Republicans met in State
convention at Cleveland on the 18th and
nominated Daniel j. Ryan for Secre-
tary of State and T. A: Minshall for Su-
preme Court Judge. The platform in
dorses President Harrison's administra-
ton. the Congressional legislation and
the silver, pension, tariff and election
bills, approves of the administration of
Governor Foraker, and denounces the
present emocratic Legislature for it's
corruption, extravaganza and PARTISAN
ship. The death of General Fremont
was deplored.
On the 10th Mrs. Ellen Pearson, aged
96 years, committed suicide in her cabin
in Wilcox County, Ala, where she had
lived for forty years She had no living
relatives and left as an excuse for the
deed that she was tired of living on
charity.
DISPATCHES of the 10th say that Nor
ris Sullivan and his wife were MUIR
dered in their home in Goreville, ILL.,, by
their son, aged 16 years, who gave as a
reason for the crime that he was tired
OF waiting for the old folks money.
JOHN HAMLETr's house, near Valpa-
raiso, Ind, was burned on the 10th, and
his wife and four little children per-
| ished in the flames. HAMLET was absent
from home,
The Democrats of Wisconsin will
meet in State convention at Milwaukee
on August 81. -
In quarrel on the 10th Henry Hall,
aged IS years, . teamster of Council
Bluffs. Ia, shot his wife and fatally
wounded himself .
In the Eighth district of Indiana
James A. Mount (Rep.) was nominated
tor Congress on the 10th, and in. the
Third district Of Minnesota Darwin s.
Hall (Rep was renominated
AN official list WAS prepared by the
mayor OF Red Wing, Mimi, on the 17th
Of the victims Of the Lake Pepin dis
sster, by which it was shown that nine
ty-seven OF the IT'S persons on the Sea
Wing lost their lives.
The death Of Thomas pozewell, the
Oldest turfman In the United States,
occurred at Richmond, Va, on the nth.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-07-24
Minneapolis Brewsrles Combine.

= 7SA'"a101POsAS 15HUwOFE0U VOmUIuOS -
Announcement was recently made
that four big Minneapolis breweries had
consolidated with q capital of 81 900, 600
The firms are the John Orth Brewing
Company, tho Heinrich Brewing Com.
pany, F. D. Noerenberg and the Ger.
mania Brewing Company. The above
are the sole shareholders in the new
concern, which will be known as the
Minneapolis Brewing and Mating Com.
pany.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-07-24
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS
A HOTEL BuRNED.


Guests st . Summsr Rssert Tsrnod Out
BY Fire. IS 81 10
Ate O'clock the other morning the
large family hotel ct Lake Elmo vas
totally destroyed BY fire. Elmo ID
twelve miles from St Paul and Is
the most fashionable and exclusive
summer resort In Minnesota. The ho-
tel was crowded with people. but ~
most of the male guests do business In
thecity everybody was sstir. and there
was no loss of life. All Of the out
houses, two large barns and : new boat
house were consumed. The loss was
about $3.50, 900, exclusive Of the valua-
BILE personal effects of the guests.
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The News Of the Week.
BIZ TELEGRAPH AND NAIL.
.FlFTY-FlRsI CONGRESS.

Z Z F.. s
TUESDAY, July Ii In the Senate
bill was passed granting tothe State
OF Washington section Of public
land for soldiers home. Tho discus
sion Of , proposed amendment to the
sundry civil appropriation bill increas-
Ing the appropriation for irrigation sur
veys from 5000, 600 to 5000. 600 occupied
the remainder of the session. In the
House bill was introduced granting q
pension Of $1,000 year to the widow Of
General John &. Fremont. A long and
heated discussion took place on the bill
appropriating 1886, 1S9 for an additional
clerical force to carry into effect the
provisions of the dependent pension act
The bill was passed. %
WEDNESDAY,, July 16.-In the Senate
bills were passed extending the time
OF payment to purchasers of land of the
Omaha tribe of Indians in Nebraska
and to establish q National military
park at Chickamauga battlefield. Bills
were introduced to give pension of
~, 600 year to Mrs. Jessie Fremont
and to establish q limited postal and
telegraph service. A resolution was
introduced for information as to the ar
rest in Havana Of Rev. A. ]. Diaz, an
American citizen. The Indian appro-
priation bill ($7, 15s, Sly was reported.
In the House no business was trans
acted owing to the lack of quorum. The
land grant forfeiture bill was discussed,
but not disposed of.
THURSDAY, July II. - The Senate
spent the day discussing the sundry
civil appropriation bill In the House
the land-grant forfeiture bill was
passed. BY its terms over 5000, 0O0
acres of land are restored to. the public
domain.
FRIDAY, July 10. In the Senate
an amendment to the tariff bill was in
troduced giving the President power,
after one year, to reimpose the duty
on sugar if advisable. The sundry
civil appropriation bill was further dis
cussed. In the House the original pack
age bill was considered and the bill Civ
ing the widow of General Fremont a
pension of $4,000 year was favorably
reported
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LATER
A Kentu ky Foud.

LOUISVILLE, July 19.-Another out
break of the Smith-Messer feud is re-
ported to-day from Knox county. The
battle occurred at Hubbard's mill, on
Sinking creek, one of the most lawless
sections in this state. There was po-
htical gathering there, the candidates
for the various Offices being advertised
as speakers. Both Smith and Messer
factions were on hand, wearing their
Winceesters and forty-fours. 1t is not
known just how the trouble began, but
about 4 o'clock, when the smoke had
cleared away, four men were found to
have bitten the dust, while the rest had
scattered and disappeared. Eighteen
men were arrayed on one side and about
twenty-five on the other.
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Mysterlous Shooting.

As the excursion steamer Josephine,
of Winona. arrived three miles from
that city the other evenings pistol shot
was heard in the ladies' cabin, and :
moment later the lifeless body OF Hilda
Gilum, the colored laundress, was found.
It was hard to determine whether it
was . case Of suicide, accidental shoot
ing or murder. The mate, Phil Burrell.
and the stewardess, Kate English, were
in jail to await further Developments In
the case.
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v0Ay "a Ou0 u0GlA0W 00O N0AVOAAA4ASA
Building and Loan association ct Dem
yer, Col, was said to be short in his ac-
counts about $50, 1000 B.
THREE little sons Of Otto Golden. ct
Monroeville. O., wore struck by light
ming and killed on the nth, and BEN
jamin Morton and his son Rufus met .
like fste near Paris, Ill.
A VIRGINIA and Massachusetts, syndi-
cate on the 18th purchased the Natural
Bridge property in Virginia tor 5000 000.
On the 18th Albert F. ALLEN was nom
mated for Congress by the Farmers
Alliance of the Second district of Kan
sas.
AT Indianapolis on the 18th Judge
Rowland decided that German must be
taught in the public schools. sSzs,
The National Woman's Relief Corps
dedicated home for soldiers wives and
mothers on the 18th ct Madison, O.
AT the State convention Of the Farm
ers' Alliance and United Labor parties
OF Minnesota in St Paul on the 18th the
following nominations were made: For
Governor, s. NJ. Owen; Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor, j. 0. Barrett; Secretary of State,
NJ. Wesenberg; Auditor, r. II. Rahilly;
Treasurer, Eric Mattson; Attorney Con
eral. M. Burlinganae; Clerk Of the 6u.
preme Court, F. w. Kohler. -~...
DURING q quarrel over mulo trade
on the 18th at Guyton, Ca, R. G. Nor
ton, Jr., shot and killed Willie and
John Bird (brothers). All we're young
boys. r.
On the 18th Cyrus Craig, Of Marys.
vile, NO., local agent for Bortle Bros,
brokers and real-estate dealers in St.
Joseph, Mo-, was charged with having
defrauded his employers and others out
of 1895, 200. 49,. ....'
THE mystery concerning the robbie cry
of $40, 900 from the United States Ex-
press Company in Chicago last March
was virtually cleared up on the 18th by
the confession of John Ehret the driver
of the delivery wagon, who took the
money.
The negotiations were completed on
the 18th between the Cheyenne and
Arapahoe Indians and the Cherokee
commissioners by which 4, 600, 600 acres
of land in Indian Territory will DO
thrown open to settlement
AN attempt was made on the 18th to
rob a train on the Cincinnati, jackson
& Michigan road near Enterprise, O.
Engineer Vandevender was killed and
the fireman fatally wounded by the rob-
beers, who made their escape without Sc
curing any plumber.
In the Democratic State convention
at Nashville, Tenn, the deadlock was
broken on the 18th, John p. Buchanan,
the candidate of the Farmers Alliance,
being nominated for Governor on the
twenty-fifth ballot.
In fracas on the 18th at Tuscumbi
Ala, Mayor Steele was shot dead and
John Goodwin and w. P. Chalen were
probably fatally wounded.
MRS. w. B. BISHOP died at Atchison,
Kan, on the 18th, and physicians united
in declaring that Asiatic cholera caused
her death.
In the Second Minnesota district the
Farmers Alliance on the 18th nomi-
mated James H. Baker for Congress- and
in the Sixth illinois. district Andrew
Ashton was nominated by the farmers.
AT Fort White, Fla, Green Jackson
(colored) was lynched on the 18th by
neighbors of Mrs. Robert Pritchard, a
white woman whom he had assaulted.
NINE men were sentenced to be
hanged for murder in the Federal Court
at Paris, Tex, on the 18th. -.
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Died In . Cemetery.

Ludwig Rosenquist,a laborer in Lake
wood Cemetery at st. Paul, died sudden
~ the other afternoon. He was engaged
at work when he began complaining Of
q pain in the region Of the heart. In :
few minutes he was seized with spasms
and was conveyed to q neighboring
house in . fit He died in few minutes.
1t was thought that his death was caused
by excessive use of liquor Is he had
been on q spree for several days
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THE EAST


The yacht Marion, of South Boston,
struck rock at Portsmouth, N. H., on
the 18th and was sunk. Three of the
crew were drowned.
THE strike of the New York cloak
makers was ended on the 18th by the
manufacturers agreeing to discharge al!
non-union men.
On the 18th. Miss Nancy Goodrich
died at Bloomfield, Conn, aged 10
years.
MAJoR.GENERAL JOHN C. FREMoNr's
funeral took place at New York on the
10th, the remains being laid to rest in
Trinity Cemetery. Many distinguished
persons were present.
On the St Lawrence river near Alex
andria Bay, N. Y, the steamer St. Law
renee ran into the yacht Catherine on
the 18th, and out of party of twelve
on the yacht five were drowned. They
were all from Bradford, Pa.
OVER parts of New Jersey and Penn
sylvania rain, thunder and hail-storms
on the 18th caused heavy damage.
Lightning killed several persons and
caused many destructive fires.
On the 18th Brigadier-General Daniel
I. Van Buren,, who was one of the first
to volunteer at the outbreak of the re-
bellion, died at his home in Plainfield,
N. j., aged 81 years.
JOHN M. WEAVER was nominated for
Congress onshe 18th by the Republicans
of the Twenty first district of New York.
THE New York police on the 18th
captured two counterfeiters, members
of gang that had been flooding the
country with an excellent two-dollar
silver certificate.
The prophecy of a furtune-telier
that Jennie McDowell's wedding dress
would be her shroud was fulfilled by
the girls suicide on the 18th at Pitts
burgh, Pa.
FLAMES destroyed the upper floors OF
the Western Union Telegraph building
at New York on the 18th. together with
valuable books, files and records that
can not be duplicated. Loss, $500, 900.
BURGLARS on: the 18th took $40, DOC
worth of jewelry from the Bliss cottage
at Saratoga Springs, N. Y, occupied by
the families of Vice-President Morton
and Mr.. Bliss.
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The CHICAGO, KANSAS e. NEBRASKA
THE FAMOUS ALBERT LEA ROUTE
Where Are You Going?

Wren do you START Where from2 How many
10 your par ~ What amonnt OF freight OF
BAGGAGE have root What route do you prefer
C;.,n receipt Of an answer to the above ques'
t!o:.s you will DO furnished, free OF expense, with
the 10 .ss a faSls: pane s!aS
BE XII 1s IVA SM s.!,.Ax Nation which
vii, sHvo trouble, time and money. Ageuts viii
call In reryon where necessary. Perties not
really to answer above questions should cut OFT
and preserve this notice :cr future reference. u
u Av become useful. Address c. II. WAE7Sn.
General Passenger Agent, et. Paul. MINI.
Resd say esu saap al Northwest
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-02-20
Vance County Court.

Spring Term Of Vance County su-
perior Court convened Monday. his
Honor Judge T. J. Boykin on the
Bench. Col. D. Worthington was
present to represent the State in his
capacity as Solicitor, and the grand
jury being sworn in the Judge delivered
his charge. It was able and cOmpre-
hensive and made a profound impress
sion on those who heard it. Judge
Boykin speaks in a deliberate, studied
manner and makes his meaning clear
and his language readily understood.
He is vigorous worker and while ex-
ercisipg no undue haste does not let
business drag in his court. This is
Judge Boykin's first term here and he
has made favorable impression upon
our people.
Twelve white and six colored men
compose the grand jury, of which Mr..
Theo Stallings is foreman. This body
has been quite active and number of
presentments have been made. AS we
go to press subpenas have been served
on a number of our leading tobacco
men to testify as to what they may
know about the cigarette or cutter
trust.