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MAPLRreN, Ia. Ang. I2.-Speciai.
Unusual preparations ars being made
for the Maple valley fair, whicn opens at
Mapleson. Sept. 10. and closes Sept. ID.
II is the endsavor of the management this
year TO secure both superior quality and
an enlarged extent Ia the displays IN every
dapartmeat, and hold frss-class fair In
every respect. Spirited races wilt be held
on the fine half -mile track. j. A. Heisler
Is president and j. E. Hazlitt secretary.
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eAN QUENTIN PMHm0N, al, Aug. A.
Yesterday afternoon three eonyicts,
named Hanley, Turcott and Manning,
who were repairing windmill belonging
20 the prison. made their escape after re-
fusing 60 halt ID ths command Of the
guards. Two Calling guns were turned loose
on than. The bullets fell all around,
bnt mover struck them. When "a y reached
ths prison boundary thsv were challenged
bF videtle Porter, and they shot q horss
from under him. II 10 supposed that they
Rafael. and Il ls said they opened fusil.
ads ON toe guards who have shem eofnsEed
Niuatesn guards ars thoroughly searching
tbs bills for thsm. Tarootf was serving
| life sAntencs fof murder and Hanlay ana
Manning sevsntssn years fes robbery.
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massachusetts Population.

BosToR, Aug. -.
Returns of the new census are now
about complete, and they show that the
population of Massachusetts mas advanced
from l.79s, 0s5 in 1850 to 2,l9a. $50 In 1890,
or over 100000. This is faster gain for
the state than was predicted by the census
once here on the basis Of the figures OF
1880. BY this continued growth the state
will be able to hold is representation in
congress, though dispatch from Wash
ington to-day says that under the next
apportionment 'sthe sir New England
states will, II is expected. lose six or
seven members Of congress" The gain
here IL In the large places and in their
vicinity.
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wAhmEar0H, Aug IL
About 400 negroes and perhaps score
OF white men attended mass meeting IN
Washington Monday night, in the interest
Of the federal election bill. Speeches wsFe
made lby representative Kerr, Of Iowa; Gen
Chalmers, OF Mississippi; Hon. John
Laneston aad others. Assistant Post
master. General Clerkson, among Others
sent letters Of regret.
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SIOUX crx, AUG. II.
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steady, quality fAir.
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higher iight. ss2ogAso; hssvy paskins and
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sheep Recelpsa, 1900 steady mutsonss o.
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San RnAycaca Ang u.
Nicholas Lnnigens. 9 well-known San
Francesca capitalist, died Monday night Of
heart disease. lie hnd been conspicuous
naare Ia san Francisco business circles
slnes Is4a His wealth IL estimated 1t be-
fwssn $lb, ,0o0, 800 and 82p, ,0o0, ,00o.
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SEpALTAs Mo-. Aus. IL.
The state convention Of farmers aad the
laborsrs' state union convened here to-
dag. The convention Was In secret ses-
sion all day.
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Parson Array an Troabl~,

sAnAsAc, hioh-. Aug Il.
Rev. J. W. Army, whose forse race last
week excited the people OF the hemisphere,
will he henlsd over tbe Goals BY the coming
oenfsrencs. Hs will be compelled 20
abandon bis fast horses or his ministerial
charge and IL ~ probable that no win stick
20 his horses.
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CLAIMs THEY WE'RE MARRIED..
Pattsburg Yoush's Former Governess
Tells y Strange story.

Tells n strange story.
PITTHBuRa. Aug N.
James e. Wood, of pittsburg. is young
man who vas raised BY his governsss, Ivy
Quick, or West Chester. Pa. He II ~,
she Is ten years older. he claims that she
did ali In her power 10 make him fall In
love With her because ae waa the heir 10 q
fortune OF over $I00,000. She eiaims
thar they we're married 10 each other while
ha was still under age. The young man
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M0NTmRAhss Ana- AZ.
President Allen, OF the Manitoba 4
Northwestern railroad, has received a dis
patch stating that the recent frost In the
valley OF Minnedosa did no damage TO
crops.
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yIKSRA. Aug. ~.
The floods I'm Hungary continue, aad
the harvest Ii ruined. Many housss have
collapsed and o number OF lives lost.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1890-08-13

THE western busy bee has noa been
making honey this ye&K. IN Iowa thax~
has been total fsilurs Of Lbs honey 1r0ps
ewing the fact thai there has been 40
honey In the flowers.
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Trains Are Running Regularly
on the New York Gen.
tral Road.
And Officials Emphatically Declare
That the Great Strike Is Conn
pletely at An End.
But the Strikers Hint at Something
Which WIN Yet Bring Them
Out On Top.

NKw YoRK. Aug. 1s.
AZ The grand central depot this morning
there no longer existed even the sembiance
Of q strike. Passenger trains we're going
and coming with all the regularity OF the
usual time. The inflow aud outflow Of
passengers was as great as ever. General
Manager Toucey this morning received q
telegram from the assistant superintendent
OF the Syracuse yards, stating thai order
was fully restored there aud that trains
we're running without interruption. THIS.
he said, ended the strike. Vice President
Webb said the road now had all the men II
neaded
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aaxsserians nsnrmprlngs.

h&u0fAH from ht0UR tnE new AuFA GHu~
trail road indicate that the strike is prac-
ticaIly at an end. Passenger trains are
summing ON time between Nav York and
Alhapy this morning, and the delay west of
there lis unimportant. All trains are nov
leaving the Grand Central depot exactly
on time aud incoming trains are only q
little detained. Freight trafiic has
been partially resumed and the blockade
of cars is being rapidly raised. The Lead
ers Of the strike are still deiiant aud talk
mystvriously about some important move
which will allow them to retire from the
Ilght with flying colors, upon the basis OF a
compromise with the railroad officials.
Everything Ia very quiet, but whether this
calm Is merely a lull before the storm,
win be known In few hours.
strikers stin Cemsaasnf.
The strikers have been IN secret session
all the morning, receiving reports from the
various plckets on duty. One of the OH
clais said TO a reporter, -we are just ss
strong now as ever. The railroad officials
have besn giving ont false reports TO che
newspapers in order to discourage the
strikers.
The strikers still maintain that they
have yet another card 20 play, but are
reticient ~ 10 just what that card Is. Ths
postoffice authorities said to-day that al
incoming mails we're arriving nearly on
sims, the delay being being very trifing.
All outgoing mails are being dispatched ON
time.
Troops Ordered Hame.
ALBANY. n. n, Aug. II.
Adit. Gen. Porter announces that the
troops on duty at Syracuse have been or
dered home, il appearing that their pfes-
enea ia Faf.f reauir@d nov
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President Harrison landed at $40 p. m.
amid The thunder Of cannons. and was
escorted to the Hotel yendome by the First
battalion on cavalry. Along the line OF
march, which was nearly two miles In ax.
tsnf, the street .wAs packed with enihus-
iastic multitudes, who greeted the prssi-
dent with cheers. The president, who rode
With Gov. Bracket, bowed right and left
nj the greetings Of the thronR.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-03-20
LIVES CRUSHED OUT.

A Fatal Land Sli'le Reported from Troy,
n. Y.-Two Residences Are Demolished
The Sleeping Occupants Bur cd Under
Tons Of EArth-Three Killed and Several
Hurt.
Troy, N. Y, March 17.-At 8 o'clock
q. m. Saturday landslide on the west
side of Warren's Hill, swept away the
two-story brick residence of Patrick Cam
field and demolished the one-story frame
dwelling of John Laurenson. Four fami-
lies resided in the Garfield house.
Mrs. Margaret Noonan and her
daughter, Mrs. Johanna Hogan, both
widows, and Annie Burns, II years old,
were killed. Mrs. John Ahearn and
infant, Thomas Laurenson and Mrs.
Pat Garfield. Jr, were injured. but not
seriously. The fire department was
called out and the bodies of the dead were
taken from the ruins. A mass of
clay and earth, fifty feet deep, slid
down from the hillside. The pro-
gress of the slide was stayed by new
brick house on the oppsite side of
Havermans avenue, and against which
the slide swept the ruins of Canfield's
house,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-03-20
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

IT vas reported on the 18th that the
ex-Empress Charlotte, widow of the un-
fortunate Macmillan, had nearly re-
covered from the insanity which had
afflicted her since her misfortunes with
her royal husband in Mexico.
Anv1cEs of the 12th state that in the
campaign against King Dahomey, which
had just ended, 1000 Dahomians, in
Guiding one female General, were
killed.
E1GHTY-EIGHT miners lost their lives
by the recent explosion at the Morsa
colliery in Glanmorganshire, Wales.
AT Ottawa the international chess
tourney which was conducted by CORE
spondence between the United States
and Canada, sixty players on side, was
concluded on the 18th, the Americans
winning by thirteen points.
On the 18th the National Bank and
the Bank of Brazil, at Rio Janeiro, be-
gan to issue paper money, redeemable
in gold.
PERU advices of the 18th say that in
political riots in the province of Ava
cucho over 100 persons were killed.
AT Brisbane, Australia, floods had on
the 18th caused a loss of 81, $780, 900.
On the 14th Virgins, the Canadian
weather prophet, predicted that a VIC
lent storm would soon be felt all over
the world and would burst over the con-
tinent of America between the 21st and
ed insts.
THE members of the French Cabinet
resigned OH the 18th.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-03-20
DEFEAT FOR THE LEAGUE.

The Old Baseball Organization Loses
Its Suit to Restrain Mailman from
Playing with the Brothe :hood.
PHILADELPHIA, March 1.-THE court
of common pleas No. Saturday morn
ing rendered it's decision in the base
ball suit of the Philadelphia National
league club against William Hail.
the injunction asked for to re-
strain Hallman from playing
with the Philadelphia players league
club and sust>3,s the players league
club in a demurrer to the National
league clubs bill
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-03-20
i BREAK IN THE LEveE.

Water Pouring. Through Crevasss %
Raleigh, MIsSss 1000 Feet Wide-Gre.t
Damage In the Vicinity.
3. V1cKsBuRG. HMiss..sMar Il. Asoor.
respond emf who visited Raleigh, or Pc.
can Grove. confirms the report of tho
Idamsge tosthe levee. Ats o'clock Sum
day afternoon the crevasse was 1000
fXet or more wide, and the ends were cav
Ing 80 rapidly that it was foolhardi-
ness to approach them. The levee is
nearly fifteen feet high, and the inn
mense volume of water was rushing
through it In stream ten or more feet
deep. The extent OF the crevasse and
the immense amount Of water delivered
by it may be. estimated by the fact that
in the twenty-four hours ending
Sunday e eyentpgS the 20 river ~ has
fallen three inches Fat Vicksburg
and four inches at Lake Pro 1idence,
though rising steadily prior to the
crevasse. Assistant Engineer Thomp-
son is quoted as saying that no crevasse
at any point along the line of the fifth
leyees district could occasion such
serious resuks as the one at Raleigh.
u no 0V0A ESlOAA OA0 SIOV0o0Os suoS
backed up several inches and flooded
some plantations. 1t will overflow fully
one-fourth of East Carroll parish and
the reater part of Tensas and Madison
parishes. The eastern part of the latter
will escape. The crevasse has ex-
cited much CONSERVATION in those
parishes, and stock is being
removed. A fall Of five inches occurred
at .Alsatia levee, five miles above the
crevasse: Sunday, greatly improving the
situation there. This levee was con-
sidered in the greatest danger of all
heretofore. Advices from other Louis
lana levees and from Mississippi show
that the crevasse has relieved the pres
sure on them.
New ORLEANS, March 1.-THE water
can be considered about at . stand here.
Cured south of the Arkansas line-at
Raleigh in East Carroll and Nita in St.
James Latest reports from the Mia
plantation crevasse say that the
break is about 800 feet wide. Tho
tracks and roadbed of the Louisville,
New Orleans & Texas road are COM
pletely washed away for quarter OF a
mile, while the track for a mike on
either side of the crevasse is six inches
under water. Mia plantation, with its
two-foot crop of cane, has been badly
washed, the crop of course being
ruined.
Governor Nichols having declined to
receive the 500, 600 donation rendered
by the Louisiana Lottery Company for
levee purposes the board of directors has
decided to offer the relief fund direct to
the various levee districts. AS money
is needed all along on the line the prob
abilities are that the parishes will &C.
cept the liberal offer made.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-03-20

Two YOUNG men in Pennsylvania
loved the same girl. One was possessed
OF 81, 600 and the other was as poor as
property-owner in tax time. The 81, 900
man was very much in earnest, and he
offered the money to the poor sutton as
an inducement to the latter to retire
from the field. The offer was &C.
cepted, but when the girl heard of it
she declared her love for the man into
whose possession the 1000 had passed.
They were married, and have used the
money to set themselves up in house,
keeping. The befooled and disap-
pointed sutton has sued to recover his
money.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-03-20
FIVE SEAMEN DROWNED.
Their Boat Swamped by tho Waves and
All Are Lost.

All Are Lost.
NORFOLK, Va, March 1.-THE steam
er Defiance arrived here Sunday after
noon from Baltimore, and Captain
Burgess reports that on passing York
spit lighthouse he saw schooner
ashore and sunk on the spit near
the northwest buoy. About the same
time yawlboat was seen, containing
five men, leaving the sunken schooner
and putting for the lighthouse. The
wind was blowing with terrific force,
and as the boat approached the light
house it was thrown against the
iron piles and swamped, and all
five men were thrown overheard.
The men grasped iron rods of the
piles in a desperate struggle for life, but
the waves dashed over them with such
fury that they were soon overpowered,
lost their hold and were drowned. 1t
is supposed the schooner was an oyster
vessel and was trying to run into the
East river
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LATER.
FIREMEN CREMATED.
A Burning Building in indianapolis Go
laps d and Zen Flremon Il :. ned.

Burning Building in indianapolis Col.
laps d and ren Firemon Il .ned.
INDIANAPOLIS, March 17.-What at
first seemed an insignificant fire in
Bowen, Morrill, & Co.'S. book store to-day
resulted in a catas trophy in which at
least ten men were killed and dozen
wounded, some of whom will die. The
building occupied by the book compa.
ny was a four story and basement,
marble front building, facing Washing
ton street just west of Meridian. The
fire started shortly before o'clock
near the furnace in the subbasement.
The fire department, when it arrived,
seemed at loss to locate the fire, and
began pouring water into the building
at the front when the seat of the trou-
BILE was in the rear For two hours the
light had continued in this way until
majority of the spectators had left I'M
der the impression that the fire was out.
About $50 however, there was terri
BILE crash, and the entire building, ex.
cept the front wall, fell inward. At the
time number of firemen, variously es-
timated at eight to twenty, were on the
roof of the building, and were buried in
the debris, which was piled forty feet
high within the walls of the burned
building.
Immediately the work of rescuing the
living and extricating the dead was be-
gun by at least five hundred volunteers,
who, in addition to the uninjured fire.
men and members of the police, formed
q strong corps of workers. At times
their ears would be greeted by the
groans of the wounded underneath the
ruins and then the work would be
pushed with renewed vigor. At II
o'clock ten f1remen were known to be
dead. Their names are: George Faulk-
ner, Ulysses Glazier, George Glenn, AL
Huffman, Espy Stormer, Richard Low
RE, Charles Jenkins, Andrew Cherry,
superintendent of fire alarm system:
Thomas 8. Burkhardt and Thomas A.
Black. Wounded-Anthony Voltz, pipe
man; Lew Rafert, fireman; Thomas
Barrett, fireman; A. c. Mercer, captain
fire department.; Samuel w: Neal, pipe
man; Webb Robinson, pipeman, slight
~; William Parte, pipeman, internally,
may die; Henry Woodruff, pipeman,
badly hurt; Ebenezer Leech, pipeman,
cut and bruised: Tom Valentyre, fore
man Engine No. 2, fatally crushed;
William Long, slightly hurt; William
Heinsley, pipeman, badly hurt; John
Burkhart, pipeman, badly hurt about
head. A fund has been started for the
relief Of the injured.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-03-20

RESIDENTS of Christiansburg, Va,
were startled the other afternoon by
phenomenon. The moon was rising and
the sun was visible over a mountain.
Suddenly three distinct suns appeared
inthe west, each completely circled with
arainbow. Each rainbow plainly showed
the seven prismatic colors, but the out
er and inner edge of each was red. In
the zenith there was another sun, sur
rounded by another circular rainbow.
This IS on the summit of the Allegheny
mountains. and this may account for the
phenomenon. Scientific men thought it
was mirage or combination of solar
and lunar rainbows.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-03-20

A PAPER published at Canton, China,
figures the loss IF life in that country
by fire. food and other calamities at
750,0O per year, but adds that there are
plenty of people left for epidemics to
get hold of. I'm fact" it concludes.
the great need Of China is the sudden
removal Of two or three million inhabit-
ants, to make elbow room for those who
a 1ofk -
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Fatal Tenement.Hon.. E,-.. :

New York, March 17.-Fire SUNDAY
morning destroyed the old two-story
wooden tenement in the rear of No. 2s4
West Thirtieth street. All the inmates
escaped save Mrs. Mary Reilly, IS years
old. She was found dead kneeling in
one corner of her kitchen, near the
door. She had been suffocated by the
smoke while battling with the flames
in vain endeayor to reach the open
air. 49,.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-03-20

R1vEr1Na by electricity has been sue
cessfully accomplished. The cold rivet
is placed in the hole, and when heated
to proper temperature it can be closed
by any of the ordinary apparatus now
In use. The heating of half-inch rivet
about half minute,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-03-20

Some of the members of the American
Dialect Society OF Harvard College are
hunting up words that were in use in
various American localities in the eight
eenth century. In list OF words Pc
culiar to New Jersey they include Jag"
explaining that its meaning strictly is
"a small load"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-03-20

IT is computed that tho ocean steam
ers running out Of the port of New York
received in passenger fares alone last
year over thirty million dollars, and not
penny OF this vast sum was earned by
. vessel flying the American flag. The
big subsidies granted by foreign gov
ernments to their shi ps are the reasons
why American foreign commerce has
dwindled to nothing.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-03-20

':AFrER nine years experience in a
hotel" says q porter, II have learned
that the rooms most commonly attacked
by sneak thieves are those at the ends
Of halls If any one will take the
trouble to look up the rooms robbed
they will find that At least two-thirds
were SO loca ted. The reason is that
when a thief is at the end of hall he
has to keep lookout on one side onlv."
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-03-20
INDUSTRIAL INTELLIGENCE


NATURAL GAS IS now used in 1O4 steel
works this country, but the supply
shows signs of failing and companies
are thinking OF returning to the old
fuel.
THE engineering Industries Of Great
Britain are in such furnishing con-
dition as to cause scarcity of men, the
unions being unable to satisfy the re-
quirements of employers.
IT is found in South Carolina, as it
has so often been found in other States,
that the chief opposition to the bill be-
fore the Legislature for reducing the
hours. of child labor in the cotton-mills
comes not from the employers, but from
the parents.
1T is estimated by correspondent in
the Chicago Tribune that at least 60
per cent. of the multitude of type
writer's in the city are women, as are rs
per cent. of the type-setters, so per
cent. of the telegraph operators and
about 70 per cent. of the employees in
dry-goods stores.
A NEW white pitch for ship-builders
has been introduced, which, it is
claimed, supersedes the present la
borious, expensive and inefficient meth
cd of white deck seams by working
putty into the seams with knife. The
popularity of the white pitch is that it
is the only material hitherto introduced
of . white color that can be run into
deck seams in . hot state like ordinary
pitch. " &
The mining industry continues to be
one of the most important sources of
prosperity in the State of Colorado, the
estimated production of gold, silver,
lead and copper during tho year 1889 ag-
gregating about $4,000, 900 in value.
Leadville is still the largest producer,
the output Of that district being valued
ct $13, 000, 900, while the more recently
developed Aspen district comes next,
the prod being valued ct So, COX, 600.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-03-20

In recent sale of old books and man.
uscripts in New York letter written by
Christopher Columbus sold for two thou
sand dollars. 1t consisted of one hun
dred and sixteen lines, and eighty-four
words, and very easy words at that, were
spelled the most convenient way: Mr..
Columbus was good at sailing but mighty
poor at spelling, though in his day it was
just as proper to spell cat with ''k' as
in any other way.