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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-10-30
Excursion to Middlesborough. Ky, Nov.
7th and 8th.-Half Faro Rate.
The MiddleShOr0uph Town Comnanv vnhO

The Middlesborough Town Company, who
are carrying on vastimprovementsw want all
classes OF skilled labor. Mechanics are sure
Of employment at good wages, investors Of
large profits either in purchase OF lots or
ance is promised by the Company to husi-
ness men of limited means. No better 10
cality or opportunity can be found in the
United States. Tickets for the round trip
good fifteen days from date Of sale, can be
procured at any Office of the Monon Route.
For pamphlets or descriptive matter apply to
any Ticket Agents of the Monon Route, or
James Barker, General Passenger Agent
Menon Block, Chicago, Ill
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The seat of sick headache
is not in the brain. Regulate
the stomach and you cure it.
DR.. Pierce's Pellets are the
little regulators.
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THE EAST.


The Labor party of Connecticut met in
convention and nominated full State
ticket with Henry C. Baldwin for Gov
ernor.
The death was reported of DR.. John
+. Boynton. of Syracuse, n. Y, who was
the friend and adviser of Agassiz, and
the inventor Of many successful de-
vices.
ORDERS have been issued by the
United States Express Company to it's
agents not to receive money, tickets or
lists of drawings from the Louisiana
Lottery Company or in any way to as
sist in the transaction of lottery bust
ness.
AT Forest City. Pa, John Marched
sold his young and pretty wife to
stephen Muskar for Sis.
The mayor of Philadelphia thinks the
census count of that city is IS, 900 too
small, and proposes to take a police
census in November.
FOR assaulting newspaper reporter
Mayor Gleason, OF Long Island Citv,
was sentenced to Ave days in Jail and to
pay fine of $3.50.
HENRY w. SAGE at meeting Of the
Cornell University trustees at Ithaca,
N. Y, added 5000, 600 to his previous
gift of $50, 900 for the establishment of
a department of philosophy. MIR. Sage's
gifts now aggregate more than 81, 900, :
600. The presidents report showed
1914 students in actual attendance, an
increase over any previous year.
In storm off Fall River, Mass, a
yacht was lost and six persons on board
were drowned.
AT Concord, N. H., the bronze statue
of Major.General, John Stark, the hero
of the battle Of Bennington, was un-
vailed in the State house yard.
ALONG the Atlantic coast terrific,
storms ragged on the 23d, doing great
damage to shipping. and incoming
vessels were roughly handled.
On the Gath Mrs. Adam Wuchter. of
Whitehall, Pa, had tasted for 225 DAYS.
In blacksmith-shop in New York
Joseph Wood and Carl Harg fought a
duel with crow-bars and fractured each
others skulls.
FIRE destroyed Leighton's shoe fac
tory and several other buildings at East
Pepperell, Mass, causing loss of $780,
600.
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The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND NAIL.
FROM WASHINGTON,


In the United States the visible sup
ply Of grain in store on the Goth was:
Wheat, 1s,6O7, 248 bushels; corn, $685.
400 bushels.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has been petit
toned by the local Wage-Workers'
Political Alliance in Washington to
present the name of Mrs. Elizabeth
Cady Stanton to the Senate of the
United States as an Associate Justice,
in the place Of Justice Miller, deceased.
AT his home in Washington A. II.
Mullett, aged Sc years, long the Super
vising Architect of the United States
Treasury, committed suicide on account
Of poor health. s.
INSPECTOR GENERAL DUMoNT, of the
STANDARDIZATION service. shows in
his annual report that during the past
year there were "a accidents, resulting
in the loss of 2S4 lives, a decrease of So
as compared with the preceding year.,
General Dumont says that no mode of
travel at the present day shows so low
a percentage of accidents as the travel
by steam vessels.
In session at Washington the Su-
preme Council of the Scottish Rite
Masons initiated thirty-four members in
the thirty third, the highest Masonic
degree.
THE Sixth Auditor of the Treasury in
his report shows. that the total postal
revenues of the Government for the last
fiscal yoar wore $50. sS2. 097. an increase
over the preceding year of 81, 7O5, 1856.
The excess OF expenditures over rev.
enue was S., O4S,6I9, against SIS, 2O1, 1886
for the year before. The total value of
stamps sold was $57,65l, 724, an in
crease over the previous fiscal year of
81, 69S, 622.
CLAIMS to the number of ~, O3S, aggre-
eating SlGS, 1875, 479, were settled by the
Treasury Department during the fiscal
year ended June 80, 1890.
FIRST AUDITOR FISHER, in his annual
report to the Secretary of the Treasury,
shows that during the last fiscal year
that Office passed on 2761 receipt &C..
counts, representing $l,Ol9 6s4 430, and
on 81, S67 disbursement accounts, repre-
senting 81, 1865. S79,6 $3.50.
In the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the gath numbered 225, against 227 the
preceding week and 225 the correspond.
ing week last year.
SIX MILLION packages of free seeds
will be distributed this season by mem
bers of Congress.
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It is very important in this age Of vast
material progress that remedy be pleas
ing to the taste and to the eye, easily taken,
acceptable to the stomach and healthy in its
nature and effects. Possessing these quail
ties, Syrup of Figs is the one perfect 1axa-
tive and most gentle diuretic known.
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In health has tie constitution fortified and
built up with Hostetters Stomach Bitters.
The entire physical structure nourished and
sustained through the agency Of assured d.
gestion and assimilation, regularity of the
bowels and liver restored, the nerves invig-
GRATED, nightly repose sound and health
yielding-these are among the results Of its
USE Malaria, rheumatism, kidney com,
plant, are annihilated by it.
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800 Reward. 800.

The readers Of this paper will be pleased
to learn that there Is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure in
all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls
Catatrh Cure is the only positive cure now
known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being constitutional disease, requires q
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system, thereby destroying the foundation
of the disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the constitution
and assisting nature in doing its work. The
tive powers, that they offer 800 for any case
that it fails to cure Send for list of testi-
monials. F. j. CHENEY Il Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
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the W0RTHIRCT0N ADVANCE.
ROBERT MGCUHE, Editor and Publisher
woRTH1NGTON. Mobiles Co.. MINI

An association of Philadelphia house.
wives will abolish kitchens in their
homes and start cooperative central
cooking house. z 49, -" so
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A Strong Foundation

GRAosI -! at: air il; was that you were
Rire, and landed him. IN. Y Herald.
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THERE are two sides to every question,
buta bullheaded man will always bet that
he is riRht-Rams Horn
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TIE poet is an idyl fellow, and that's
probably why the public stanza verse to be-
Ing ode by him.-Binghamton Ledger. i.
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Progress.

No, QUERCUs, it does not necessarily 70
qulre tug-of-war to tow i warship into .
harbor.-Binghamton Republican.
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WHY don't you try Carter's Little Liver
Pillse They are positive cure for sick
headache, and all the ills produced by dis
ordered liver. Only one pill dose.
The men who hold up trains for robbery
should themselves be held up for example.
IN n Picav1,no
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ANY one can take Carter's Little Liver
Pills, they are so very small No trouble to
swallow. No pain or gripping after taking.
IT does not injure a joke to crack it, any
more than it spoils horse to break it
Epoch.
BRONCHITIS is cured by frequent small
doses Of Piso's Cure for Consumption.
MAN ito parrot) -"Hello, Polly!' Polly
"Hello! Do you want a crackerl"
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II you want to be cured Of cough use
Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
The fashionable resorts are becoming
filed, 50 to speak, with fall leaves.-Phila~
delphia Times.
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A Farewell Meeting,

At the Missionary Training Institute
ing in honor of five young missionaries,
James Duff and William Taylor of Tor.
onto, and A. W. Lagu rquist and Geo.
Marshall of Chicago, who were just
leaving America for the interior Of
China. Rev. F. A. Steven, of Toronto,
who has been in the missionary field TO,
seven and one-half years, and who &C
companies the young men as far as the
coast, was also present, in Chinese cos
tune, and gave an account of his work
among the heather.
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II you wish to do the easiest and quickest
weeks washing you eper did, try Dobbins'
Electric Soap next washday Follow the di-
rections. Ask your grocer for it. Been on
the market "a years. Take no other.
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SCHOOL MA'AMs are nearly all misses, and
the misses on the stage are generally
ma'ams.-Baltimore American.
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His Liberty Of short Duration,

Thomas O'Connor, with life sentence
for murder, who was pardoned on condi.
ton that he leave the State forever.
has been sent baols to prison lie die
not leave the State, but went to his
former home to see his wife, who was
suffering from paralytic stroke, and
while there was arrested on account Of
not complying with the terms of the
pardon. A friend of O'Connor stated
that O'Connor had intended leaving this
country forever and going to Canada,
but was detained by his wife's sickness.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-25

breeding not successful the stock brought out at
each years sale OF the poorest description and
brought wretched prices. and finally Mr.. Belmont, In
desperation resolved TO return to the turf and once
more try to beat his opponents. lie began proceed
ings by buying Raceand-then two-year-0ld-from
tlman for S17, 500, and George oyster for 10000
Racoands splendid list Of victories. that included
suburban. has made his name famous In racing
annals but George oyster has not yet got back his
purohase money. With the speedy but faiDthearted
st. Carlo, Mr.. Belmont won the Great American
Stakes at Brooklyn last year aud lost the Fuurlty by
a neck while the good. game. honest. sturdy Prince
ROYAL has placed long list OF stake races 70 his
credit The flying Ftdes, after an excellent three
yearold career, carried of the Toboggan slide Handl-
CAP this year aud smashed the record fOr SIX fur
longs while Her Highness has shown good consistent
form. o..
Blake and Susquehantia that Dir. Belmont achieved
the browning triumph Of his career Every one KNOWS
how Potomac on his third appearance IN silk, romped
home with the Futurity, while Masher capped me
climax by running into the place. thus winning ior
Mr. Belmont first and second prize. In st. Baise.
he Derby winner of 1853, whom he Imported for
stud purposes, Mr.. Belmont has found q veritable
ON the turf. as elsewhere, Mr.. Belmont was the
soul of liberallty. and all those employed about ms
horses from James Rowe and Hamilton down 70 me
lrmblest stable boy, mOurns the loss OF KIM anu
generous master.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-25
COLONEL JOHN X. BAKER MISSING.
A PHILADELPHIA sTOCKBROKER DISAPPEARS
AFTER HEAVY LOSSES IN LEIiIGH
NAVIGATION STOCK.

Philadelphia NOV. "a Speclau.-Fnaneial circles had
surprise to-day In the disappearance OF Coonel Johh
r. Baker IT,. prominent In society and well known as
stock operator has figured In the Street for over
five year, as plunger the bull side OF the Market
The immediate cause Of his disappearance IS believed
10 have been large losses incurred in the manipulation
OF Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company's stock the
original operation is said TO have been on basis OF
$50 OOO and with his money Baker purchased large
amount of tile Lehigh Navigation stock and hypothc
Gated IT, Ills efforts to bull the stock proved futile
AS The stocks declined Baker began to make extensive
purchases of the stock. When his own cash was nearly
exhausted lie ceased TO buy the stock outright ana
hogan TO buy IL on margin. lie continued to do this
until he had accumulated nearly 10000 shares, the
average price being $50 share. 1t Is known that
he had exhausted all his own funds and had borrowed
extensively from his friends and relatives within
the last few days nearly 10000 shares Of the stock
have been sold on the Stock Exchange, and much OF
this 4, believed to have been Bakers. Upon these
sales he Is said to have suffered loss of at least
5000 900. The climax undoubtedly reached on
Wednesday. This the last time that he was seem
FREQUENT inquiries were made at his Offices for him.
Brokers called give notice that they wanted their
money but found no one upon whom notice could be
served This continued Friday and saturday, and
finally Bakers relatives admitted to those who called
Yesterday that lie had disappeared AZ once large
quantities Of the stock sold upon the Exchange
the total amount being 5642 shares the largest sale
ever recorded In Lehigh Navigation in one day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-25

tho hank officers at the National Bank OF Commerce
Mr. belmont called upon .b us d asa from the Ros.
cbjlds accepting the purchase on te terms proposea
provided could have the WHOLE rSs ~ Wsshinuton
after an absence Of three days and the success o. inc
negotiation announced mne ,.r ."e ans the
Scheme proposed for the resumption OF specie pay,
mens This negotiation was one G and sc felIoW
H. Ing ls s1s 'e'H'np'''" u ,..
Mr. Knox said he met Mr. Belmont few evenings
AGO at the dinner given by General But'erneld ~
the Union Club 60 the Connie ae rars. or. beimoh'
was apparenty in excellent health and spirits, and In
h ourse of conversation referred with evident pride
~ h,s connection with the Government In various
WAYS both before the late war, during Its progress
and afterward. lie was well known as leading
member OF the syndicate OF bankers IN ths CITY
which negotiated millions OF the a J." and per cent
hands for resumption and refunding purposes.
Mayor Grant who returned late yesterday from his
visit TO Frederick Nd, and the Gettysburg battle
Geld was deeply erieved by the news OF Mr. Bel
mont,s DEATH which met him on reaching home.
Mr. Grant characterized 1t as the saddest In
telligence he had received for many years.
August Belmont's DEATH the Mayor said, us
a great personal loss to me- lie was ono
Of the best advisers have ever had and since have
occuned nv present place his counsel in every matter
which I have desired to submit to his judgment has
but stA to me it personsl msiortnne.' The Mayor
spSted Pi Last Winter Of which Mr. Belmont was
per and OF his valuable services therein. Mr. Grant
s that n happy % g s%s E OF M
monts experience and ability had he lived
raae sna saa S
had few citizens whose death would prove a greater
mont said Mr. Coleman Twas one Of the most lonien
men | ever knew n money matters He never sought
bad nut n his Often immense benefit might
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-25
DIR. ROBERT KOCHS EARLY HISTORY.
From an interview with his brother, Arnold Koch, re-
ported In The st. Louis Republic.

From an interview with his brother Arnold Koch, re-
ported in The st. Louis Republic.
DR.. Robert Koch was born in CIaustlal, Hanover,
in 1874, and Is the third or thirteen cniure Oh
whom the first nine successfully were boys. Accord
ing to the law Of Hanover where nc was born wleh
cessiOn the King must be godfather TO the SEVENTH
and the mother receives an eesant ver snS
Mathilda Koch. Our father was distinguished min
Mountains In the employ Of the IIanoverian Govern
ment.
From his earliest years Robert Koch gave promise 1
OF that distinction to which he has attained While
his other brothers spent their leisure time in fishing
and hunting ne M hs ci 5enS to S
llchens and MOSES under microscope which ne had
seventeen lie had completed the course of the High
school ut Clausthal, Hanover having done double
University Of Goettingen although abundantiy pre-
pared for the course because OF law OF that istit-
student Should have attained his eighteenth year.
He thus kept back from tho university for one
ihe age of eighteen he entered the University Of
Goettingen and began the study OF medicine course
covering four years Of study gIly ,,, ,
prize of SO thaers in gold was offered TO the stu
essay. The student was TO select the subject from.
his own department. Although only In the second
Of o @ S e or yes
After finishing his medical course at Goettingen In
1866, he went 70 Hanover ana stood MS examination
place. He located at Posen and began the practice
of medicine regular physician.
While at Pcsen he wrote number OF articles on
the spleen, and began those Investigations on bac.
tera which have since made him famous Az the ont
break Of the Franco Prssian war he offered his ser
vices to the Government lie served throughout that
sanguinary struggle and at its conclusion again
tired to Posen While there he attracted the attention
OF the medical profession of Germany by his writings
on bacteria and in 1882 called to Berlin and APP
pointed a member of the Board OF Health When the
cholera broke out in India and Egypt, the German
Government sent him to Egypt to ascertain what step:
could be taken stay the ravagcs of the epidemic and
nreyent its spreading 10 Europe Not satisfied viii
his investigations in Egypt. he asked and obtained
the permission Of bis Government TO go 10 India, where
he might more fully prosecute his researches. While
there he announced his theory that cholera was due
to bacteria His theories were bitterly fought by the
English phy sicans In India. bnt Robert proved by
microscopic examinations Of the bodies OF those afflicted
with the cholera that he correct. On his return
TO Berlin he was received like conqueror. and tho
Reichstag voted him 100 900 marks In recognition
the eminent services which he had rendered 10 science
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-25
A TRIEuTE FROM ODEN BOWIE.

Baltimore, Nov. 24.-Ex-GOvernOr Bowie gave an
interesting account OF his business ASSOCIATIONS WIN
Mr. Belmont. Among other things he said Il was
acquainted with Mr.. Belmont socially, polucaiy
and on the running turf. j always found nm man
Of superior qualifications. with bravery and out
spoken in his opinions. lie was fearless III his al
vOcacy of what he considered right. ne some years
AGO published two books containing his letters ana
speeches which we're never. ii l remember correctly
placed on the market for SALE but merely distributed
among his friends. / received copies, and remem
her they were much praised by newspaper men. Ills
career I'm politics was an important One and for eight
wears he was chairman OF the Democratic National
Executive Committee. 1t was during the seymour
and Greeley campaigns that he was the Chairman ana
I WAS fine Mary land member Of the committee
was brought into contact with him through committee
busness more than ] would have been Otherwise
and 7 was much struck with the remarkable discern
mcnt and force of the man. He was always keenly
alive to the exigencies Of the moment, and clever
upright man in politics. l knew him on the turf' ana
urIetor of the celebrated Nursery Farm in Kentucky
lie had made extensive purchases of imported stoe'
and at first established his breeding quarters on Long
Island near Babylon. lie purchased large tract OF
land and made extensive improvements. HIS idea
was TO have annual sales Of the produce One or TWO
sales wcrc held. and he found that OWING 10 tne Az
the colts understood. In addition he dseoNeru
that there was a combination formed TO buy MS coltc
cheap. He accordingly determined to remedy tnees
evils, went TO Kentucky bought tract OF ana s t
there located his Nursery Farm. lie discontinued the
annual sales and again raced his own horscs' nc me'
with great success on the turf"
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WHERE WAS MARIE AyTOINETTEl
From The Kansas City Times.

from hdTIodS IIIIto
IL was In the darkest hour Of the French revolution
Bold and desperate spirits, dead In moral feeling in
human and brutal IN action, atroclOus selfish, COR
rupt and cruel by nature despising the Of God
authority OF law and brotherhood OF man. ushered
i'm the clOaked empire Under their dcspotic sway
tie hope Of freedom perlshed and with IL the last
vesigc OF security for life aud property. rhe form OF
liberty STOOD pniOned to the stake OF tyranny. The
n-oi OF despUtism ola,ed in fury around H. Awinl
horrors, dark crimes, fnhuman 1nclties and bloody
scenes blackened the pages Of universal! history while
mahihg up the annals OK France.
Robesperrr, Marat and Danton were In power. The
fires OF revolution had reached their tlercest fury
IT. crimes were darkest and It's more than human
heart and soul could bear. The usurpers, drunk
nations blood and revealing In her tears at
the height Of their fendi-h truniphS.
Josephine was In prison and condemned 10 die.
The day Of her execution hand. The next days
rising was 10 witness the bloody tragedy. the
cruel and causeless crime. The king Of day, with his
brilliant glory and parting splendor, had dipped into
the horizon. Night had wrapped her sable curtain
around the bleeding form u France. The whole
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-25
THE FIRE RECORD.
LOSSES IN VARIOUS PLACES.

Louisville. KY. Nov. "a (Special.-M Henderson
today Wtlers, Dade e. Co.'S dstlllery was burned
with 5000 bushels of corn and thirty barrels Of
whiskey. Loss, 10000, partially insured.
Nashville, Tenn Nov. 24.-The laboratory and
other buildings of the Chattanooga Medicine Com
pany in the suburb Of St. Elmo, were burned yester-
day. Loss, $4,000; insured for 100000 Four car
loads OF printed matter and one carload of an in
gr dent Of one Of three preparations which the
printing presses.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-25

UpOH IIl1FS Ut S"O EObEhr IVUfo
cessful Railroad Articles; .
THE SEASHORE, by Prof. N. s. Shaler; the latest
EXPLORATIONS OF DIR. CARL LUMHOLTZ in
Mexico. will be features, all aDlndanty illustrated.
SHORT STORIES will be Of unusual interest In
the new volume, and among the writers are FRANK
r. STOCKTON. THOMAS NELSON PAGE, OC.
TAVE THANET, and several new writer's. A
more extended announcement can be had by adj
dressing the publishers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-25
THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH aorE

Tit Methodist Episcopal Church Home. al NSev
second-st and Amsterdam ave-, where the ages ~
niirm are cared for held Its annual bazaar OF aN'
Yesterday. The chapel Of the home given up ,o'
the purpose Of the bazaar ana contained boohA
Monday contained al things necessary for wenms
Tuesday for ironing; Wednesday Tor mendne is sns
day was parlor day aud here were sold all the -
things for an afternoon tea Friday swecpnS az,
ana the demand nor brcon,s ETC.. wac so brisk NAV wa
baking day. ana the booth was hllcd with rsi.'nX
powder Then came Sunday with church besSs s"~