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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-02-13
LATER,
All on q Run.

CHAMBERLAIN, 8. D., Feb. 10.-The
widest scene ever witnessed in the
NOrthw west was enacted here late this
afternoon, when news was received that
the president had signed his proclaim
alton declaring the Sioux reservation
open for settlement. Within a few
minutes after the receipt of the news
the immense crowd of boomers who had
|congregated here in anticipation of the
issuance of the proclamation to-day
were on the move, and wild and excit-
ing race took place between them as to
who should be first to cross the Mis-
souri, river and secure the choice claims
lying opposite this city. The frozen
surface Of the river was fairly black
with the skurrying crowds.
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The original post-ofiice box used in
the town Of Pomfret, Conn.,, 100 years
ago Is now owned in that town by Ben
jamin Grosvenor, one of whose ancestors,
Lemuel Grosvenor, was the first post
master appointed between Hartford and
Boston. He received his appointment
from President Washington, and held the
office until the election of Martin Van
Buren,, when the infirmities of age de-
manded' his retirement. The box itself is
~ feet in height and 4 feet in length.
There are two apartments ut the top
with five drawers underneath, making q
curious relic of the earliest postal days
and service in Connecticut
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Mr. MERCER, a member of the Cana
dian Parliament was believed to be
joking when awhile ago he offered bill
giving one hundred acres of land to
every father of twelve children who re-
sides IN the dominion. But he got the
measure passed, and it is now law to
be treated as seriously as any other of
the Canadian statutes. Fathers that
come under the provisions of the act
are already reporting in considerable
numbers, and, while there is no such
fecundity in Canada, perhaps, as pre-.
walls in the tropics, the Government is
likely to give away a good many acres
of it's public lands,
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In the death of Prudence Crandall
Philleo at Elk Grove, Kan, recently a
remarkable woman passed away. She
VS. . Quakeress, and was one of the
hrst victims 70 the mob spirit against
abolittonists. In 1888, out of the kind
ness Of her heart she opened school
for colored children at Canterbury,
Conn. the mob destroyed her school
house and maltreated her also, and she
was hlany thrust into Jail and kept
4here for . long time. For some years
she had lived IN Kansas, and about four
years ago the Connections Legislature
voted her pension Of $1,000 year as
partial repalatton for the loss sustained
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STATES and Nations are in a number
OF instances connected by bridges, but
the bridge proposed across the Bosphorus
connects two co1tinents-Europe and
Asia. The channel to be spanned is
S72 yards wide, and bridge, while ex-
pensive, Is not work of any great en-
gineering difficulty. The project has
been in contemplation for number of
years, but it has been put off from time
to time on account of it's cost. The
railroad development now justifes the
outlay, and the historic stream connect
ing the Sea of Marmosa and the
Euxine will soon be crossed by the iron
horse
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The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
ElEIY-ElRST ooNoREss.

FlFTY-FlRsT CONGRESS.
TUESDAY, Feb. 4. - In the Senate
several petitions praying for the pass
age Of per diemspension bill were pres
scented and the Samoan treaty was
ratified. Among the bills introduced
was one to prevent the determination
Of fur-bearing animals in Alaska. and
one allowing New Mexico to frame .
constitution and be admitted to the
Union. In the House the bill to relieve
the Treasurer of the United States from
the amount now charged to him and de-
posted in tho several States was re.
ferred by the Speaker to the committee
on ways and means after long debate.
~ WEDNESDAY,, Feb .,h-Billss to pro-
vide : temporary government for the
Territory Of Oklahoma and to aid IN the
establishment and the temporary sup
port Of common schools were discussed
in the Senate, and resolution was re-
ported congratulating the people Of tho
United States of Brazil on their adop-
ton Of > republican form Of government.
In the House the journal was read, but
no business was transacted, . large mum.
Der of the members having gone to at
tend the funeral Of Mrs. and Miss Tracy.
THURSDAY, Feb e.-1n the Senate
bills were passed authorizing the con-
struction Of a railroad, wagon and foot
passenger bridge across the Mississippi
river at Burlington, Ia, and appropriate
ing SIS, 600 for the reliefof certain Chip
pewa Indians Of the La Pointe agency
in Wisconsin. The bill to provide tenn
porary government for the Territory of
Oklahoma and the Blair educational bill
were discussed. Adjourned to the 10th.
In the House the new code Of rules
were reported, and it was ordered printed
and recommitted. Bills were passed
appropriating $4,000 to reimburse
the seamen who lost their personal ef-
fects in the Samoan disaster; to estab-
lish two additional land districts in
Montana, and to increase the pensions
of totally disabled soldiers and sailors
to S72 per month. Bills were introduced
directing the Secretary OF the Treasury
to purchase a, 600, 900 worth of silver
bullion per month and to have it coined
immediately into standard silver dol
lars, and for the survey of ship canal
connecting Lakes Superior and Michi-
gan
FRIDAY, Feb 1.-The Senate was
not in session. In the House bills were
passed increasing the pension of Gen
eral Abram Duryea to 500 per month
and authorizing the construction of a
bridge across the Missouri river between
Douglas, or Sarpay County, Nebraska,
and Pottawattomie County, Iowa. Ad-
iourned to the 10th.
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The Planters' House closed.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 1O.-The Planters
House, the Oldest and most famous of
the hotels of st. Louis, has gone to the
wall, and it is thought that the failure
of it's proprietor will cause the closing
of the house for all time and that the
old building will be torn away to give
place to modern building devoted to
trade. The liabilities will aggregate
nearly $780, OOO
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= A NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Methodists Propose to Erect One In
Washington the Near Future.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1O.-The Post an
nounces that the Methodist church in
tends to found National university in
this city, and that arrangements are
making for the purchase of ninety
acre tract of land on the Tennallytown
road. near Oak View, ex-PresidentC leve-
lands country home, as a site for the
university. Bishop Hurst, whose resi-
dence is in this city, is at the head of
the movement and has paid option OF
$1,000 on the property, which is to be
sold for 500, 600.
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A GREAT discovery is heralded from
Vienna 1t is that the origin of the in
fuenza has been traced to germ to
which has been given the name of the
bishop of bacilli." Many experiments
have been made with this object in view,
but up to this time with no success, and
the manner in which tho disease was
communicated has never been satisfac-
t0rilY explained.
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Iowa's Starch Factories.

DIES MONIES, Ia, Feb. 1O.-President
Gilbert, of the Gilbert starch factory,
and Secretary Work, of the Sleeper
starch factory of this city, have re-
turned from Buffalo, N. Y, and state
that the sale of these factories
has been contaminated. The sale
was made to syndicate who is said to
be backed by English capital. The price
paid for the Gilbert starch factory was
100000 and for the Sleeper starch
factory $4,000. 1t is said this sale
places the syndicate in control of all the
large starch factories in the United
States with one exception.
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IT is now possible to go around the
world in fifty days and the trip will be
made in less than forty days before the
century is closed. A few years hence
around the world will only be a short
vacation. People who are anxious to
be famous should be planning for a trip
to the moon. Around the world is too
slow for modern times
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FREDERICK H. PAGE says in the An
dover Review that the newspaper is the
cheapest thing in the world for value
received, and that modern society has
no class which can not afford to come
under the influence of newspapers. Mr..
Page makes no pretentions to being a
prophet, or the son Of prophet, but he
hits the nail pretty squarely on the head.
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RECENTLY at Brooklyn, N. Y, Under
taker Joseph Bryan was called to the
residence of DR.. w. c. Parks, dentist,
to prepare the body of Mrs. Parks for
burial. When Bryan reached the house
he was astonished by the announcement
that his services would not be required,
as the supposed corpse had regained con.
seriousness. Mrs. Parks had simply been
In trance.
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WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. 1O.-The
President to-day signed the proclama-
ton opening the Sioux reservation.
The proclamation throws open to settle
ment 5000, 900 acres of land, which will
be disposed of to settlers under the pro-
visions of the homestead law. In addi-
ton to the fees each settler will be re-
quired to pay $l.25 per acre, and upon
the full payment of the money due will
be entitled to patent.
THE municipal election at Salt Lake
City, Utah, on the 10th, was a hard
fought, stubborn battle between the
mormons and gentiles for control of the
city. The gentiles were victorious by q
majority of nearly one thousand.
PHELPS PERRIN, who was arrested
last February for robbing the Iron Ex-
change bank, Hurley, Wis.,, was arrest
ed the 10th on four charges of embezzle-
ment preferred by the officers of the
Iron Exchange Bank.
The blockade on the Unicn Pacific
railroad, between The Dallas and Port
land, Ore, was raised the 10th.
JAMES O'BR1EN, of Minnesota, was
nominated for chief justice of New
Mexico on the 10th.
The Cook county boodlers, who were
convicted at Chicago two years ago
were released from prison at Joliet,
ILL.,, the 10th, their sentence having ex-
PRED. -, .7- 80. .......~ ~. 49,.
Two distinct shocks Of earthquake
were felt at St. Louis, No., on the even.
ling Of the 10th.
The senate committee on the 10th de.
cided to report favorab1y upon the bill
admitting Idaho Is state.
In the recent storm that swept over
chesapeake bay it is estimated that
Twenty lives were lost.
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PROF. GOODWIN SMITH believes that
by a secret ballot the people of Canada
would vote for political union with the
United States. The real sentiment of
the people, he thinks, is at present hid
den beneath the conventional sentiment
which the official class labOrs to maintain,
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FROM WASHINGTON.

The Director of the Mint estimates
that on February / there was 81, 1884,
185, ia worth of gold and silver coin and
bullion in the United States divided as
follows: Gold coin, 1924, 600, 433; gold
bullion, 500, Os0, 9s7; silver coin, $780,
646,645; silver bullion, 1857, 759..
In the East room Of the White House
impressive funeral services were held
on the 5th over the remains of Mrs. Tracy
and Miss Mary Tracy, the wife and
daughter Of the Secretary of the Navy.
The large assemblage present included
every prominent Government and for
eign official at Washington.
EDITOR MITCHELL, of Richmond, read
paper at educational convention of
colored men in Washington on the 9Th
upon outrages upon colored people in
the South. He said that 1888 negroes
had been lynched in the South from
1887 to date, and that colored men had
been roasted in North Carolina. A per-
manent organization was formed to be
known as the American Citizens Equal
Rights Association of the United States
of America.
In Washington on the 9Th the colored
mems convention elected ex-senator
Pinchback president of the National
Organization and issued an address to
the people of the United States asking
justice for the co1ored race, and declar-
ing that the colored vote in the
South is suppressed by violence or
neutralized by fraud, and that
their children are not afforded the
school facilities to which they are en-
titled. The co.ored voters are urged to
support in the future only such candi-
dates for public Office as are known to
be in favor OF justice to the colored
American citizens. All we ask, says the
address in conclusion, is justice, equal
rights and fair play.
In the United States there were 259
business failures during the seven days
ended on the 7th, against 291 the pre-.
vious seven days. The total of failures
in the United States January to date
is 1,S87, against l, 1871 in 1889.
SECRETARY TRACY, it was stated on
good authority on the 9TH, would not
| relinquish his official duties on account
| of his recent terrible affection.
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THE EAST.

The Sixth National Bank and the
Equitable Bank resumed business at
New York ON the 4th.
AT christening in Marshwood, Pa,
on the 18th lamp was upset and Michael
Gurtz, Mrs. Joseph Strasson and two
children were burned to death.
A. Cox & Co.'S stove works near Nor
ristown, Pa, we're destroyed by fire on
the 9TH. Loss, 800, 1000
AT the Metropolitan Opera-House in
New York the centennial of the forma-
ton of the United States Supreme Court
was celebrated with public meeting on
the 4th and q banquet in the evening.
JOSEPH P. MURPHY, OF Philadelphia,
manufacturer of cotton and wooden
goods, failed on the 4th for 100000.
On the 9TH window-glass manufact-
urers met at Pittsburgh, Pa, and
ordered an advance in prices of per
cent.
THE Hudson river was open to naviga-
ton one hundred miles above New York
on the 5th.
The Republicans of the Fourth Penn.
sylvania district on the 5th nominated
John E. Reyburn to succeed the late
Congressman William D. Kelley.
On the 5th the American Axe and
Edge Tool Company, comprising all the
| edge tool concerns in the country, was
organized at Pittsburgh, Pa, the capital
stock being $4,00O,0O0.
ANDREW CARNEGIE on the 9Th offered
free library, to cost not less than ST..
600, 600, to the city of Pittsburgh, Pa.
DEMOCRATS of the Fourth Congress
sional district of Pennsylvania on the
7th nominated w. NJ. Ayres for the Con
gressional vacancy caused by the death
of w. D. Kelley.
PAPER-covERED library publishers
formed trust in New York on the 7th
with capital of $4,000, 600.
A STORM in Pennsylvania on the 18th
did great damage in Fayette and
Westmoreland counties and the Con
nellsville coke regions, unroofing and
blowing down houses and factories. Al
Blairsville the glass-works were wrecked
and Charles E. Barr and Mr.. Berney
were, killed. The loss in the coke
region would reach $500, 600.
On the 7th the schooner Minnehaha
en- route from Philadelphia to Provi
dence, r. l., was, with her crew of sin
men, given up as lost.
In the Connellsville (Pa.) region the
wages of the coke workers were ON the
It'll advanced from IL to Is per cent.
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The statue of Henry Ward Beecher
destined to be placed in Prospect Park,
Brooklyn, is now being cast in bronze.
1t will be Of heroic proportions, nine
feet high, and will represent the great
preacher in the familiar soft felt hat
and cape. The cost will be s35, 900, and
the statue will be completed in eighteen
mOnths
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THE Car of Russia, Emperor William,
of Germany, and King Humbert, of
Italy, have each received a present of
ten thousand fine cigars from Emperor
Francis Joseph, Of Austria 1t will be
rather hard task Of the recipients to
examine each weed before lighting it
to see if it is loaded.
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UNDER penalty of discharge employees
OF the New York Central road and the
Wagner Palace Car Company have been
ordered to keep thermometers that are
to be placed in the cars as near a tenn
perature of 70 degrees as possible.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-02-13

THE first annual report of the New
York State Commission on Lunacy, made
public recently, relates a number Of
shocking incidents observed in county
institutions, declares the county system
failure, and recommends that the State
assume charge of these unfortunate
v>oOr1o
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Bonds Authorized.

CHICAGO, Feb. 1O.-The board of drain
age trustees has passed an ordinance
authorizing the issuance of 81, OO0, 600
worth Of bonds in denominations of ST.
600 each or less. to draw 81 per cent.
interest per annum, and to be payable
twenty years from January last past !
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GENERAL BouLANaER is engaged BY
Alexander Comstock, business manager
of the New YorklAeademy Of Music, to
visit thiscountry nextsautumn and de-
liver thirty lectures.
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The scarcity Of gold IN the Argentine
Republic is worrying the Government,
which has decided to offer for sale one
hundred and forty million acres Of pub
lie land, payment to be made for them
in GOLD
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WEST AND SOUTH:

. On the 5th E. L. Lampson, the Repub-
lican Lieutenant-Go Of Ohio, who
was ousted from his position by the
Democratic majority in the Senate, de-
cided not to carry the case to the Su-
preme Court
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Ar King Humbert's1express wish the
Italian Government is about to estab-
lish, in New York and Brooklyn four
Italian schools where will be taught
the English and Italian languages.
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CALIFORNIA FIc SYRUP co!
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
LOUISVILLE, ky. New YORK. NV.

The Twenty fifth Reunion of WAR
VETERANS of the GRAND ARMY
OF TaE REPUBLIC, takes place in
BOSTON NEXT AUGUST. The visi-
tors will number over q hundred
thousand and the occasion will be q
memorable one in every way. The
Posts throughout the United States
are moving in the matter of RE-
UNHoRM1NG, and this notice to
the officers and members Of all q. A..
II. POSTS is to call attention to the
fact that our new G.. A. B.. Catalogue
is ready and will be sent to any ad-
dress on application. We should be
pleased to take your order.
G. w. SIMMONS e. CO..
Oak Hall, Boston, Mass.
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THE M4rchant Tailors' National 'Ex-
change at its recent session in Chicago
resolved that ''sixty days shall be the
limit of credit" in their business
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TEE latest in shorthand and typo
writing issthe provision for these BUSH
moss. necessities on the limited trains
between New York and Chicago
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Robbed of $4,000.

TORONTO, Ont, Feb. 10-An officer Of
the Crown Point Timber Company ct
Rat Portage has been robbed of SIS, 600
Of dues collected in the Rainy river dis
trict. The bandit, named Dulmage, Il
bow supposed tp be IN Mtunesota
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WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE has -been
offered 'se5, 600 year by IN American
publisher for the exclusive use Of his
literary output.
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The active militia force of Canada
numbers $1,000 members, of whom two
thirds belong to rural battalions and the
remainder to the cities.
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.ortural,s Defanse FINN,

LISBON, Feb. 1O.-King Carlos has sub
scribed $45, 900 to the defense fund. The
Queen and dowager Queen have SUBJ
| scribed $40. 600 each.
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Work on the Hendricks Monument TO be

WORK on tho Hendrick* Monument co be
# Begun at Once.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Feb. 10--The
contract for putting i'll the foundation
of the Hendricks monument has been
let and the work will begin at once.
The monument will occupy position
in the southwest corner of the State
House square and will face Washing
ton street, q half square from the de-
ceased Vice-President's residence. The
bronze statue has been cast in Italy
and will arrive here some time next
month. The statue and pedestal will
cost about $4,000.
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DEATH IN A GAS EXPLOSION.

jured at St. Paul.
ST.. PAUL, Mimi, Feb. 10. - At Z
o'clock Saturday evening an explosion
in the washing and condensing room OF
the coal-gas department of one of the
buildings of the St. Paul Gas-Light Com.
pany resulted in the death of Daniel
Desmond and the injur:r of Martin Cur
ran, Chris Conley, Michael Mahoney
and j. Simons. The force Of the explo.
sion was terrific, the buildings for fou,
blocks being shaken by it, the building
itself wrecked.
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Or all the aliens who took out letters
Of naturalization in, England last year
only three were Americans.

A POSTAL. card sent from Reading,
Pa. to Stroudsburg, fifteen miles away.
ono year ago, has just reached its des-
finafiOn ~'''- f' fe ~"
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Sad Fate of an Alabama Farmer, Hia
Wife and Four Children.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Feb. 1O.-A report
reaches here that the dwelling of
q farmer named Roth, near Stevenson.
Ala, was burned Thursday and that
Roth and his family, consisting of q
wife and four children, persisted in the
flames. The neighbors did not discover
the fire until Friday morning, when
they found the charred remains of the
family in the ashes,
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Where Are You Going7

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ONE ENJOYS
Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figsis taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn efectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is tho
only remedy Of its kind ever pro-
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ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial. in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances,
its many excellent qualities COM
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the most popular remedy known.
Syrup Of Figs is for sale in 800
and 81 bottles by all leading drug.
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept
any substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP co.
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Oak Hall, Boston, Mass.