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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-29
ALCOHOL AS MEDICINE,
Gratifying Reports Made BY tho Medical
Authorities OF England.

Gratifying Reports Made BY tho Medical
Authorities OF England.
A very interesting report has been
presented to the British Medical Tenn
perance Association by Drs. Morton
Moir and Pearce on the administration
of alcohol in hospitals. The committee
have drawn up a series of tables full of
instruc tive figures, instituting COM
parison between the amount expended
under this head in 1868 and in 1888. The
rema k tble fact is noted that in these
twenty-five years there has been, from
the returns made by lib hospitals, an
increase of 800 per cent in the charge
for milk and decrease of ~ pc. cent.
in the charge for alcohol. A second table
gives returns from g. hospitals of which
no previous record could be found. On
the basis adopted by DR.. Fleetwood
Buckle, in his report on 1863, these go
hospitals show decrease of 80 per
~the expenditure for alcohol per
bou. 1I~third table shows the COMPARE
tive alcoholic charges per bed in 1853
and 1888 respectively. In 70 hospitals
there had been an increase of
2,10s beds, and decrease of
total average cost per bed OF
s78, IS. 6. Beds have thus increased 1T
the ratio Of Is per cent, while tho
amount expended on alcohol has de-
creased at the rate of Al per cent Only
eight of this group of hospitals showed
an increase in the quantity of alcohol
consumed. In the remaining IS the de.
crease ranged from 80 to 81 per cent
In the London Fever Hospital, while
milk has risen from s15O to $3.50 per
annum, the disbursements for alcohol
were at the rate of only 15s. I'd. per
bed in 1883, as compared with e3, IS.
per bed in 1863. In st. Bartholomew
Hospital the milk bill has gone up from
$500 to over $4,000, while the alcohol
bill had gone down from 91,446 to e953.
These statistics prove that there has
been grad aally increasing rational
medical administration of alcohol, the
credit of which must be awarded to the
medical stats of the hospitals fact
which affords yet another proof of the
lively interest in the promotion of Tenn
perance taken by the medical profess
sion.-Rritish Medical Journal.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-29

THE use OF electricity az q motive
power for street cars will be an impor-
tant section of the census investigation
OF the electrical industry. None of
the many forms of application of
electricity has been developed more
rapidly or been accomp panied by more
satisfactory results than that of the
transmission of power for street car
purposes. The plan of investigation
that has been adopted is designed to
make comparison between the differ
ent motive powers employed-animal,
steam dummy, cables and electricity
to show the relative economic value of
each
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-29

who was burning him before his ap.
pointed time. Little said that Wicks
Howard had applied the match. This
was nearly ten years ago. Turner and
Howard fought, with pistols, of course,
and Turner was killed. Howard was
tried, and, according to the custom Of
the county. acquitted. a
Then. it now being 1882, Turner's sur
viving brother sought to kill Wicks
Howard. Both Turner the second,
whose name was Will. ana Howard were
wounded in this second duel, which
grew out Of the joke of a drunken man
Will Turner fed to Texas, but soon re-
turned. Then Turner the third, whose
name was George, made proclamation
that bulldog Will" was on his native
heath again, and defied the clan of
Howards to do battle with the clan of
Turner's. The battle was fought and
Bulldog Will was slain. Twenty Turner's
and twenty Towards took part in this
third fight, which had occasion in a
drunkard's jest. Wilson Howard was
indicted for the murder of Will Turner.
Wilson commonly "Wils") How
ard was not kith or kin to Wicks
Howard; he just fought against
the Turner's because he did not
like them; one of them had whipped
him when he was boy. evils also
escaped justice, according to the custom
of the country. After this "Wicks"
Howard drops out of the roster of fight
ers, and evils" becomes leader of the
Towards, though alien to the family.
Wicks, however, had killed Turner, the
fourth, whose name was Robert, on
March Z, 1882. The Towards defed the
law; Sheriff King tried to arrest the
leaders of the clan, but in vain. While
evils" Howard was on hail Tor the kill
ing of Will Turner, he shot at George
Turner, who returned the fire, but
neither was hurt In July, 1885, five
years after the perpetration of the
drunkard's joke, evils" Howard shot
and killed James Mcknight. Mcknight
was friend of the Turner's; he had
come to Harlan to pass an examination
for the place of school teacher. His
crime was that he boarded with some of
the Turner tribe. The same day evils"
shot and wounded Charles Il. Turner,
NO ! GA ssuAuShs oAVOoAAS az "OACA ebAN
children, and fled beyond the stream of
Clear Fork. This was on Monday. On
Tuesday he shot and killed Alexander
Bailey, who was friend of the Turner's.
After that he shot and killed George
Turner. Then he fed to Missouri.
Will Jennings was with wills How
ard at the killing of Baily; he has been
arrested, and the whole clan Howard,
with its numerous allies in Harlan Coun-
ty, is in arms to overawe the jury impan-
eled to try him, and to rescue him if
convicted. Three regiments of the
State troops of Kentucky have been
called on to send parts of their forces to
suppress the clan Howard. Six of the
State troops have been shot by the
Towards; no Howard has been shot by
the State troops. All this in Kentucky
in the year of our Lord 1s9o-Chicag go
Inter Ocean.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-29
The Gear Of Russia wears the largest
ruby in the world, valued at 500. 600, in
his crown, which is miter-shaped and
has on its crest cross composed Of tive
big diamonds supporting the ruby.

THE town of Chelsea, Mass, which pc
titioned the Legislature for change OF
name because of the common expression
'.as dead as Chelsea" has reconsidered
and will retain the name it has borne
aimee 1885,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-29
MICROBES IN BEER,
Tho Foamy STUFF Is Full of Diseas o. Bree
(SArn1

Tho Foamy STUFF Is Full of Diseas o. Breed.
ing GermS.
"Come in and have smile with me, -
said learned young scientist as he
took the arm of reporter and ushered
him into palatial cafe on Broadway.
Sitting down at one of the tables. he
tapped the bell and inquired: "What
are you going to have?"
Beer" said the newspaper man.
A bottle of beer was brought. The
beverage shone in the thin drinking
glass like liquid gold and the foam was
white as snow.
1t had so excellent taste that the
scribe was about to pour the remainder
into his glass when the scientific man
said: "Wait moment" and drew from
his overcoat pocket microscope and
slide.
He placed few drops of the beer be-
meath the powerful glass, arranged it
80 that it's magnifying powers were
focused on the malt liquor, turned the
eye-piece toward his companion and d.
rected him to look.
The reporter started back with as
Constituent, so huge seemed che multi
tude of bugs and wriggling, crawling
creatures that he gazed upon.
''Great Scott! What are these?' he
exclaimed.
Bacteria" replied his vis-a-vis.
''You have already taken few hundred
thousand of them.''
The reporter grieved because his
friend had not made the revelation be-
fore.
"Oh, never mind" said the professor,
lightly. you. drank only one glass,
and don't suppose that will hurt you
very much. But did you ever think
bottle of beer was more crowded with
living creatures than the most Dense
ly populated tenement-house in New
York?''
The reporter confessed that he didn't.
and asked 1t such beer bacteria were
harmful.
''Of course" was the reply. II do
not mean to condemn and decry all hot
tied beer, but lots of it is full of such
germs as these, invisible to the naked
eye, which are insidious promoters of
disease in the system of any one who
drinks it. This little lesson of mine"
he said, lust demonstrates that beer
is full of germs, and the question as to
whether beer itself is liable to contami-
nate the drinker and kill him depends
on how it is made and bottled. may
tell you plainly that there are bottled
beers which it is absolutely unsafe to
drink. have taken samples of various
brands of beer. subjected them to anal
ysis. and found them thick with the
most harmful sorts of bacteria. IN. Y.
Morning Journal.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-29
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

In England the list anniversary of
the birth of Queen Victoria was cele-
brated on the 21st.
BUENos AYREs advices of the 21st saw
that twenty-six people were killed and
forty-one wounded in the recent upris-
ing at Puerto Allegro.
AT the inquest on the ed it was
shown that fifty-six persons lost their
lives in the recent Montreal insane asv-
lum fire.
THE 6ooth anniversary of the found
ing of the University of the Montpelier,
in France, was celebrated on the ed.
In Nova Scotia the party which favors
closer commercial relations with the
United States elected thirty out of thir-
ty-eight members of the Provincial Par
lament on the 22d.
DURING services in church at st.
Mahlen, Germany, on the ed thunder
storm came up and the building was
struck by lightning. Six persons were
killed and twenty injured.
SMITH, WADE & Co., of Quebec, Can,
lumber dealers, failed on the 23d for
81, 100000
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-29
SENT TO AUSTRALIA.

Minnesota Lumber Coos to Build Houses
In tho Antipodes. s.
C. e. Broad, leading merchant Of
Sidney, New South Wales, was in
Duluth recently on peculiar errand.
He came to buy several hundred thou
sand feet of white pine lumber for.
shipment to Australia. The lumber
will be sent from Duluth to Buffalo,
transhipped to the Atlantic coast, taken
then on a sea-going vessel and carried
around Cape Horn to Australia, the first
time lumber was ever sent from the in
terror of the United States to tho An
tipodes.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-29

GEORGE s. PEPPER, of Philadelphia,
who died recently. divided a bulk sum
of Sl,o67. 600 among public institutions,
which are to further receive a portion
OF the rcsidoary estate. Among these
bequests are $4,000 to the University
of Pennsylvania for the endowment Of
professorship; $50. 900 to the Pennsyl-
vania Academy of Fine Arts, and $780,
600 for the establishment of free
library. Almost every charitable in
stitution and hospital in the city is
named in the will for gift ranging in
amount from So. 900 to $50, 600.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-29

A LITTLE white-bearded man named
Widows, now clerk in the Treasury
Department at Washington. was one Of
PATHS first managers. Widows is a
noted chime-ringer He paid the thir-
teen-yearold child who was destined to
become world-renowned diva $500 a
week for singing in concert troupe
with which he toured the country.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-29
A REMARKABLE coincidence

A REMARKABLE coincidence is report
ed from West Virginia A census of
Elm Grove was taken tie other day pre-
paratory to incorporating the village as
town, with the following result: Num-
Der of males over twenty-one years of
age, 14S; number Of males under twenty
one years OF age, 14S; number of females
over sixteen years Of age, 14S; number
of females under sixteen years of age,
149; grand total, 592
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-29

JOHN SwEARER, who has just been
granted pension of twenty dollars a
month. is officially declared to have
been the first man wounded in the war
of the rebellion. There were a good
many other swearers in the army, but
JOHN is the first to achieve distinction.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-29
The News Of the Week,
By TELEGRAPH AND NAIL,
FlFTY-FlRsT CONGRESS.

TUESDAY, May 20. In the Senate
a bill was introduced for the estab-
lishment of land-loan bureau in the
Treasury Department The bill sub
jecting imported liquors to the provi-
sions of the laws OF the several States
was discussed. A joint resolution was
introduced proposing new article for
the constitution providing that neither
the United States nor any State shall
pass any law authorizing the establish
ment or maintenance of any lottery or
distri button Of prizes by chance. In the
House the bill to forbid the bringing
into State of liquor in original pack
ages where the State law prohibits such
importation was considered and the de-
bate on the tariff bill was ended.
WEDNESDAY, May 81. - Arguments
on the silver bill were made in the
Senate, and the ''orignal PACKAGE bill,
intended to nullify the effect Of the re-
cent decision of the United State SUI
preme Court, was discussed. In the
House the Mckinley tariff bill was
passed by vote of 1862 to 142, all the
Republicans present except Mr.. Cole
man. of Louisiana, and Mr.. Feather
stone, Of Arkansas, voting for it. and
all the Democrats against it.
THURSDAY. May 22.-1n the Senate
bills were reported favorably making
it felony for any person officially
connected with an election to change
the returns of elections, and to prohibit
the printing of advertisements on the
flag of the United States. The creden'
tails of Calvin s. Brice as Senator from
Ohio for six years, commencing March
4, 1891. were presented. The silver bill
was discussed. In the House bill was
introduced reducing to one cent an ounce
or fraction thereof the postage on drop
letters in cities of 100, 900 inha bitanta
or over. A bill to punish census emu.
merators who shall accept fees other
than their regular pay was passed.
The river and harbor bill ($ao, 49,, 0o0)
was discussed, and bill was favorably
reported proposing constitutional
amendment granting the right of sui.
frage to women.
FRIDAY, May %. - In the Senate
the naval appropriation bill was dis.
cusscd and the tariff bill was received
from the House. In the House bills
we're introduced subjecting oleomarga
rine to the provisions of the laws of the
several States, and to provide for the
survey of an intercontinental railway
to connect North and South America
I he river and harbor bill was furthe,
considered. At the evening session
forty-two private pension bills were
passed.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-29

WHILE all Europe is talking OF Prince
Bismarck, few know how the great
Chancellor and his ancestors got their
name. Bismarck is the name of one OF
those ancient castles short distance
from Stendal. on the road from Cologne
to Berlin, in the center of the old mar
quisate of Brandenburg. The castle
has this name because it defended the
"Marca," OF the line where the river
Biese formed boundary in former
times. or mark of defense against in
trUders. Hence the name Bismarck.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-29

SOME time ago the teacher of River
side (Cal.) school instructed her class
how to act in case of emergencies, such
as drowning, gun-shot accidents, etc.
A day or so after the lesson lad named
Haight went home and found his baby
sister given up for dead, after being
picked out OF a canal. There was no
doctor to be had. and young Haight
went to work to apply his lesson. and in
few minutes the baby was restored to
life. Why should not such lessons be
given in every school?
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-29

Or the inhabitants of the world the
Mongolians lead with about $50, 600, 600,
and the Aryans. which comprise practi-
cally all the people of Europe, four
fifths of those of the American CONT
nent, and all of the civilized residents
OF Australia, come next, with 545, OOO,-
900. The negroes are put at $50, 900, 900,
the Semitic people at IS, 900, 600, the
Malays and Polynesians at 81, 900, 600,
and the Indians of North and South
America ct Is, OOO.O
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-29
BLOODY FAMILY FEup,

Tho Origin Of the Howard-Turner War
fare Due to Whisky.
Wicks Howard and Bob Turner had
been drinking moonshine whisky in .
doggery in the village of Harlan,
which is the county seat OF Harlan, in
the State of Kentucky. Turner became
drunk. then sleepy, and he slept. While
he was sleeping a fellow named Little
struck match and set hts hair on fire.
Turner woke and demanded to know
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-29
The announcement that the Quaker

The announcement that the Quakers
arc not dying out is made in letter
from "a Quaker to Murrays Maya
zine. During the first half of this CEN
tnry their decline in numbers was very
rapid; but for a good many years past
the accessions by CONFINEMENT have
been every year so greatly in excess of
the seccssicns that, notwithstanding a
very low marriage rate and very low
birth ratio thera is yearly steady in-
crease in Great Britain. In the United
States the Quakers are increasing, cs-
pecially in the South and West, mainly
through accessions from other religious
bodies
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The News Brief ChronIcIed.


Jens Lavang, living south of Roches.
tor, was accidentally killed recently by
runaway. He fell behind the horses.
Corpo, the Italian assaulted at St. Paul
by the Murray brothers, died the other
day.
Mrs. Perry Rolfe, wife of a well-to-do
resident OF Owatonna, eloped recently
with George Bulson, travelling agent for
a Detroit (Mich.) drug-house. They
were supposed to be in Chicago.
Minneapolis has forty-one million.
aires and St Paul thirty-one.
The report that the patients in the
insane asylum at Rochester had been
poisoned by eating canned meats is de-
MED by Superintendent Phelps.
Peter Lundberg, of Jordan, was
drowned at Swan river cutoff recently
while driving logs in the Mississi ppi
100 miles above Aitlzin.
Duluth is to have $500. 600 renais-
sance union depot, to be completed by
December.
The State homeopathists declared re-
Gently that they would demand equal
representation in the State Board of
Medical Examiners.
At Winona the jury in the case of B.
Il. Ehmicke vs.. L. C. Porter Milling
Company brought in verdict recently
for the plaintiff for So, 900 damages.
A COW belonging to Norwegian west
OF Luverne gave birth to five calves the
other day. The calves were but little
larger than dogs, but were all alive and
frisky.
A peculiar accident recently befell
William F. Miller, of Winona, which
resulted fatally. He started to run
across railroad track, tripped and fell,
striking his neck on the rail, breaking
his windpipe.
Edward j. Cottell, resident pa rtner at
st. Paul, of the firm of Walker & Co.,
stock brokers, disappeared from st.
Paul recently and had not since been
heard from. It was supposed that he
was defaulter and has gone to Canada.
The complete Edison electrical ok.
hibit as made at the Paris exposition
has been secured for the Minneanolis
exposition.
nv AAAAAVoOU0 AASdA0 dSy 1um CruSt4oS
met at Fergus Falls recently to arrange
for the opening Of the new asylum about
July 1. Sixty patients will be BROUGHT
there from the other asylums at the
outset
j. w. Baer, who was recently appoint.
ed general secretary of the United So
cieties of Christian Endeavor of the
World, departed recently from his home
In Rochester for Boston to assume the
duties of his position. a@T
The Republican State Central com.
mittee met in St. Paul the other dav
and decided to call the State convention
in St. Paul. July "a. -
:: The barn of A. H. Bulls, near Whine.
bago City, was burned the other dav bv
an incendiary. Machinery, wagons,
sheds and seven valuable Hereforda
were destroyed. Mr.. Bulls was badly
burned willie fighting the fire.
Faribault's new boat club IL called
"Teepe Tonka" Hon. Gordon E. Cole
has given the club two acres of land and
. good dock on the southeast shore 81
Cannon lake and . dining-room and
boatrhouse will be erected.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-29

HERBERT GLADSTONE, who is coming
over here this year on visit, is man
rather below the medium height, with
thin hair, a dome-like forehead, and an
air of gentle melancholy. He is great
favorite at all the women's meetings
and the general conventions for pro-
noting woman suffrage in England. He
has been called 1.-The FIVE o'clock tea
statesman" He affects extreme SIM
plicity of attire. wearing turn over COL
lars, the smallest sort of a black shoe
string cravat, and clothes that are not
conspicuous for their good fit or fine
texture. It is said that he is of great
assistance to his distinguished father.
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Ex-GovERNoR ROBINSON, of Massa-
chusetts, holds that the selling of liquor
in original packages is legal, and has
advised his clients. syndicate of
Holyoke unlicensed liquor-dealers, to
make test case to decide the conslitu-
tionality of the law
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-29

LIGHT, we now learn, not only has
sound, but can be heard \ beam of
sunligh5 is made to pass through a
prism, so as to produce the solar spec
trum. This is turned upon disk con-
tanning colored silk or wool, and, as the
colored lights of the spectrum fall upon
1t, sounds are given by different parts
OF the spectrum, and there is silence in
other parts For instance, if the green
light flashes on red worsted, loud sounds
will be given. Only feeble sounds are
heard when the red and blue parts of
the rainbow fall upon the worsteds;
other colors evoke no sound. Green
silks give best sound in red light.
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Found Dead In His Coll.

The dead body of william Bernard,
who had been locked up in St. Paul for
being drunk, was found in cell at the
Central police station the Other ..,e.r-
ing. Bernard was married and until
recently was bar-keeper at saloon on
Eighth and Washington streets. His
wife said he left her intending to go to
Montana.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-29
A Promising Outlook.

The Southern Minnesota Fair Associ-
alton has commenced active prepare
tions for the coming fair at Rochester
in September next Premiums and
purses to the sum of SIS, 900 have been
offered, and already the outlook for the
fastest string of horses ever in that
city was very promising. New build
ings were to be erected and the grounds
materially improved.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-29

THREE THOUSAND women in Greece
have petitioned the king to allow their
sex the same educational advantages as
are enjoyed by his male subjects. They
say: If the progress of our country in
civilization remains behind the hopes
and expectations of the government,
the cause is the backward development
Of Grecian womanhood. Fit US to rear
your sons and will show you how much
we can do for you and Greece"