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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01
FACTS IN A NUTSHELL,

The Lutherans in the Baltic prov.
inces of Russia have undertaken a Wig.
orous campaign against intemperance,
and have already achieved q notable
success.
THE Anglo Temperance Association i.
making rapid advances in India. The
object of the organization is to secure
the ultimate prohibition of the sale OF
liquor throughout India.
THE Young Woman's Christian Tenn.
perance Union. of Mount Vernon, ILL.,.
has undertaken the entire care and sup.
port of young orphan girl who has be.
come an invalid through overwork.
II is said that MI: George w. Childs
confidently states that since the intro.
duction Of foreign and native mineral
waters as table beverage the use OF
wine has decreased one-half at Dime.
parties and entertainments.
Towns and cities receive annually
from liquor licenses about $3.50. 600,
while over 81, ooo, 600 is paid into sa-
looms by the people. Fer every dollar
paid in for license about twenty-one dol
lars are paid out by the people. The sa-
loon antagonizes all good government
and all educational Influences
D. Wright.
! The drink consumed by the working
classes of the United States last wear
cost 81, ESQ, 600, 600, nearly twice the
banking capital of the country, more
than one-fourth the cost of all the mills
and factories and considerably nooro
than one-fourth of the cost of all the
railroads. Think of it! Mr.. Powderly
says: '"Tbe rum habit is the wage
earner's greatest enemy" Who can
doubt it?
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01

ME medicine-n,an M ofsthe; Shoshone
Indians predicts 4 second edition Of No
abs Aood which is to occur some timein
July and, utterly sweep away the pale
faces. Tho prophet has sent out run
ners TO notify other tribes of the: i'm
pending visitation. and IT; is supposed
tant sllstho mountains In the West will
re ornamentcd with Indian &wigwafns
about tho etime for celebrating the
Fourth of July. But when, the season
passes without an inundation the pro-
phetic soul Of the Shoshonc seer should
warn'shim TO remove his scaa plock far
away beyond reach Of the disguised and
disappointed. sayagcs.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01
A Whisky Organ on Beer.

Corn is used for barley; resin is also
freely used, while very cheap and
poisonous quality of salicylic acid is
the popular agent employed to prevent
souring. As for the substitutes for
hops, brewers keep them we'll con-
cealed. 1t is known, however, that
there are some preparations of what are
called "hop substitutes" which consist
OF glucose and strychnine. The manu-
facturers will, of course. deny this, but
1t is a fact nevertheless, proved by
chemical analysis. Strychnine is an in
tense bitter substance, and that is the
reason why it is used. OF course, all
brewers are not dishonest, nor do all
produce beer unwholesome by reason of
substitution, but there is no gainsaying
that not few of them make as-cheap
beer as they can and retain their Gus
toners. Such cheap beer is absolutely
unfit for consumption.-Wine and
Spirit Gazette.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01
A Terrible Story from chicago.

Some one has said that saloons can no
more be run without boys than saw.
mills without logs. Lately in Chicago
a school-teacher noticed . knot of
boys counting the number of holes in
some cards. He called one of them up
and insisted on knowing what it meant,
and the boy told him that . saloon
keeper who had his saloon near the
school had given them those cards, and
every time they took drink he punched
them-one hole for beer, two for straight
drinks and three for mixed drinks-and
each month he gave prizes. The boy
who had the most holes punched in his
card got revolver, the second : life Of
Jesse James and the third meerschauw
pip0."--N. Z. Witnese.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01

P"1ro1ooIars estimate that the Ger
= man language is now spoken by about
60'c00,0 900 people, the French by A, OO0,-
600 and the English by ls0, o0o,O o0 The
number speaking tho English language
has increased much moro rapidly
throughout the world in the past fifty
years than those speaking other Ian
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01
THE TRAFFIC IN GIN.
1t Degrades the People OF Africa Mo,
Than Did tho slave Trade.

1t Degra1es the People OF Africa Moro
Than Did the slave Trade.
With the stoppage of the slave trade
the gin traffic only received more pow
erful stimulus. To its propagation all
the energies of the traders were de.
voted For spirits there was already .
huge demand, and 1t was increasing out
OF all proportion to the taste for better
things 1t required no exertions on the
part OF the merchants to set it agoing,
and once started it grew and spread of
itself without. any danger Of it's stop
ping. The profits, too, were enormous
and certain, because the appetite for
drink had to be assuaged, no matter
what the price. Yet in all conscience
the pleasures Of intoxication are not
expensive in West, Africa. Over the
doorway Of hundreds Of traders houses
might he hung the signboard Of Ho-
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01

y THE statement that Vice-President
Morton reads more newspapers than any
Other man in Washington; accounts in q
great measure for the intelligence neces-
sary in the accumulation of so large a
fortune. Now, would-be millionaires,
now, is the time to subscribe.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01

3, JAMES HINES took up "squat claim
In Arkansas. lie. was warned off, but
decided not to 60, and he held out for
three years: During that timo he was
shot at thirty-three times, wounded
four times, had his cabin set on fire
twice, his wife was driven to suicide
and ais boy ran away, and at last the
man grew..weary and hanged himself. :
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01

OVER two years ago a South Carolina
man went to sen, leaving behind his
wife and dog. During his absence he
was shipwrecked and cast upon the bar
rem coast of Terra del Fuego. When he
returned he found dog and wife both
faithful, and both glad to see him.
Here is an .Enoch Arden tale with hap
py termination
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01

; Governor Merriam recently received
letter from R. B. Hoover, president OF
the Lincoln Memorial League of Spring.
field, ILL.,, expressing thanks for the
floral tribute presented by the Gov.
ernor on behalf of this State on the oc.
casion of the commemoration of the
twenty-fifth anniversary of Abraham
Lincoln's death.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01

WHEN the average man or woman
comes to he fitted with Tho 6rs. pair of
Rlasses some curious discoveries are
made: Seven out of ten have stronger
sight in one eye than the other. In two
cases out of five one eye is out of line.
Nearly one-half the people are color
blind to some extent, and only one pair
OF eyes out Of every fifteen arc sound in
every respect.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01

AT shoe factory in Lynn thief en-
tered a room, at monday to steal cloth
ing. He got caught in a shaft and was
whirled around at the rate of ninety
times per minute for quarter Of an
hour before being discovered. When
released he looked a little out Of plumb,
but had nothing 10 say and was permit
ted to 90 =
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01

g. THE Louisiana Lottery Company Of.
&fers to pay the State Of Louisiana $12,-
500, 600 for the privilege of carrying ON
It's business for period Tot twenty-five
years, and asks that the Legislature
submit it to vote of the people.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01

TN: annual .rsl'ort s.ot the Boston
"Aome for Aged and INDECENT Cats
shows tnafsdurlns the last year the in.
sti:ution took in two hundred and sixty
one sick deb i1itatod, su pcrannuated OF
homgfess cats. Qrtfe> total number OF
cacs received one hundred and severity.
one ware sent in for .rcatnlent by their
owners, while :: l1incty were sssimply
pulled ,, in for boipg,, without. visible
aaans o.slpport.. *0fdcaths there were
thirty-fve, the largest proportion being
due TO la grippe. .!:%.%>s;ais.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01

An English photographer claims to
have obtained photograph in which
the natural colors were reproduced when
the exposure was made By accident, 4ast
ut the moment when there came a
binding fash of lightning. He says
that friend OF his. once got a colored
plate under similar circnimstances, and
believes that electricity has to do with
photoeranhing colors =
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01
Tho Nows BrIotiv a;hron,clod.

Tho News Briefly Chronioled.
! The insane asylum at Rochester is to
be remodeled.
William Robert Smith, an old resi-.
dent of Winona, died the other morning
OF Inflammation of the bowels. ! He
leaves wife, daughter and two sons.
Henry lehman committed suicide
at st. Paul recently by hanging him.
SELF
Axel Paulsen. of Minneapolis, the ia
nous Scandinavian skater, skipped the
country recently, and his wife had in.
stituted proceedings for divorce.
Parties interested in q 6, 600 barrel -four
mill At Oneota arrived recently, and
work on the mill would soon commence.
The river and harbor appropriation
bill recently reported in the House al
Washington gives Duluth harbor $780,
600, Grand Marias harbor SIS, 900, and
Agate Bay harbor $40, 900.
The body Of Eddie Heigler, drowned
in December last, was found in Maple
lake near Crookston. recently.
Charles Weston's barn on his farm in
Walcott was burned to the ground BY
lightning recently, together with two
head f.cattle, hay and feed. ;.
William Mccormick: q. brakeman il
the employ Of the Milwaukee, road, wa.
killed at the depot in Faribault re-
Gently: : MI
Attic last meeting Of the Minnesot,
Academy of Natural Science the othe,
night it was proposed to appoint com
mittee to aid in raising $4,000 for thu
prosecution of sciences in the Phillip
pine islands.
The Minnesota naval veterans met Al
st. Paul recently and elected officers
for the ensuing year as follows: james
Kavenaugh, Commander; John J.
Brady, Executive officer; H. J.. Barber
Paymaster; E: B. Mitchell, Secretary
and John Ryan, Surgeon.
The man Krause who attempted t<
murder his wife at Crookston, was re-
Gently pronounced insane and sent ia
the asylum at st. Peter. ~r.-.
Edgar Wilson, son of prominent
merchant at Kasson, was thrown from q
horse the other day and kicked in the
face by the animal. One of the law
bones was broken and he was otherwise
injured.
An oil painting of Fort Ridgeley as il
appeared in 1862 while the Indians wera
making an attack upon it has been pre.
sented to the AdjutantcGeneral's Office
at st. Paul by Captain j. G. McGrue, OF
Crookston.
A 4-year-old-boy named Hern Heroch
was instantly killed recently at St.
Paul by the kick of horse. @a5a
The cold storage warehouse 1T Duluth.
occupied2by McGindley & Howard and
j. b Stutphin, was burned recently.
The total loss was 81, 1000; Insurance.
81, 500. 5........-...s .s.....-s.s :,
The Supreme Court of the State "a.
Gently decided that under the Mime.
sofa statute married woman can hold
real estate in her own right the same
Is single woman. the marital ripht1
Of the husband in the estate Of the
wife. real or personal, being practically
abolished - :
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01
A STRICKEN VILLAGE,

fNine-Tenths of the Population of vining
: Afflicted with Diphtheris.
. Malignant aiphtheria,, is epidemic; in
the village of Winning, in Otter Tail
County, having a population of only
about $50 persons, nine-tenths of whom
are afflicted with the disease. There
have been twenty deaths since April
and thirty altogether Instead of adopt
ing measures to check the contagion the
people, mostly Scandinavians, we're
seemingly doing every thing possible to
spread it The funerals of all the vic
tins had been public and largely At
tended. The State Board of Health had
been notified.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01
Green.Eved :Jealousv.

George R. Buchan, civil engineer
from Pittsburgh, Pa, shot and probably
fatally wounded Joseph F. Anderson, q
grocery clerk, while walking on the
street in Minneapolis the other evening
with Anderson's wife. The Andersons
separated few years ago, but the hus-
band was jealous of Buchan, and, &C:
cording to the wife's statement, began
the quarrel, which resulted in the shoot
inn
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01
Finished Its Work.

|, The North Dakota seed wheat com.
/: mission finished its work in Minneap.
oils the other day and left for home.
The total of all subscriptions to date
was $307,175 OF this amount $l31, SOC
was subscribed in St. Paul, 1928, $50 in
Minneapolis, $50 600 in Duluth and $685..
425 in North Dakota.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01

TIE pct names Of the four baby States
are as follows: North Dakota is the
7"Elickertail State" South fDskots is
tho .Swinge Cat State" Washington is
the 'Chinook State" and Montana is
tho "Stu bbcd Zoe State:"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01
LATER
Aga,nSt tho Prohlbitionlsts

WAsH1NeToN;nApril as.-The supreme
court of the United States to-day rem
dered a decision in the case of Leicy,
beer manufacturer of Peoria, ILL.,,
against Marshal Hardin, of Keokuk,
To-, who had seized beer imported from
Illinois to Keokuk, adverse to the con-
stitutionality of state laws providing
for the seizure Of liquor brought into
the state in original PACKAGES Such
laws, the court holds, are an interfer-
ence with interstate commerce. After
the liquor becomes the property of the
importer the state may under its, police
powers regulate or prohibit sale, but it
has no power in the absence of express
congressional authority to prohibit the
transportation of the article from an
other state and its delivery to the i'm
porter.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01
FEMALE VOTERS.
Attorney-General Clapp Intsrprets tho
l. Minnesota Statute. = 9:

Attorney-GeneFal ClaPp tnt0rprots tho
|. Minnesota Statute. : .
Acknowledgement Clapp has given his
opinion to Superintendent Kiehle rela-
tive to the rights of women as voters on
school matters. He says:
"A woman is entitled to vote upon school
matters when she is Of the necessary age, has
resided in the United States one year, in the
district four months, and is either citizen OF
the United States or has declared her inten.
ton to become.a citizen. A foreign born WON.
an possessing the other qualifications is en-.
titled to vote upon school matters IT, before she
became OF; age, her father had been duly nat
uralIzed or if she is married to a citizen of the
United States. whether such q citizen be q
native OF the United States or duly natural
ICED alien"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01

an buying $sl1, 91s, 6es. ~ worth of
bonds tyr Refinement the Treasury De-
ftment has saved Taxpayers 500, 7ox !
1928 Tho course to follow seems
plain-buy bonds. ~ lts q pity We can't
ali do IT, - T7&ta"S- - -" 49, ''1Se -:
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01

A NAN recently hanged in Southern
. State was born on: Friday, was married
on Friday, presented with& twins on
Friday, committed his crime on Fri
day, and was hanged on Friday. And
his name wasn't Friday.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01

- CAPTAIN w. E. HOOPER, treasurer OF
Harvard University, says that the fund
!. Of that Institution is now over $1,000,
B O1G9nnd has increased 81, 100000 the
=
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01
CANADIAN MONEY.

Minneapolis and st. Paul Banks VIII Only
Take 1t ut . Discount.
The action of the banks Of St. Paul in
refusing to accept Canadian1aopey ex-
sept at discount has been followed BY
the Minneapolis banks. The banks
have had great difficulty in getting rid
Of it, even the Canadian banks refusing
to take it except at large. discount.
As bullion the Canadian specie will
bring about seventy-five cents on the
dollar. It is charged that!a company Of
sharpers in the East have been buying
up all they could get and then have
shipped it West. The Canadian pieces
are lighter than those of the United
States. Canadian paper money. will
hereafter be received in Minneapolis
only at discount of 2 per cent. and 20
per cent. on coin.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01


WASHINGTON, April 2s.-Representa-
tives of ten of the seventeen nations
participating in the international Amer
lean conference this morning signed the
agreement drawn up by the conference
for the Settlement by arbitration Of diff
ferences and disputes between them.
Among the nations which signed the
treaty were Brazil, Bolivia, Columbia,
Ecuador, Guatemala, Salvador and
Honduras.
MICHAEL H. K1vsON, retired rail-
road man of Burlington, Ia, on the 2sth,
put strychnine in the sugar bowl at the
Barrett restaurant and literally dosed
his coffee with the same. He died. In
the meantime, what was left of the COT
fee was thrown out, and the dog licked
it up and expired. Then Ben Barrett,
the proprietor, sat down to supper, sup
piled his coffee with the doctored sugar,
and has only been saved from death by
the hard work Of physicians. >.s
On the 2sth, at Toronto, Ont, Martha
Mclean asked Nathaniel K. Hutchin-
son for the last time to marry her and
save her from dirgrace attendant upon
his betrayal OF her, and, upon his refus-
ing, drew q revolver and shot him in
the head causing fatal wound.
ABOUT $50 coal beavers and dock men
atsWest Superior, Wis, struck on the
2sth for an increase of pay leaving
about dozen coal laden vessels idle at
the dock. This is a REPETITION of last
year'sstroubles. ~ st@s+t@-s Es=s..: y III
/ The Rt. Rev. Bishop Borgess., foun-
der Of the Borgess. hospital Of Kalama-
ZOO, Mich, while visiting 1t the dean
cry on the 2sth, was stricken with par
ralysis.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01
~ = IE.ss-1~- y ~ - y
JAPANESE, chickens with tails from
eleven to- thirteen feet long are being
imported into this country.

BUFFALO BILL seems to have caught
the European fever. He has purchased
historical house in Naples once owned
sSnd occupied by King Bomba. - '-.f
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.
AsHORRlalE DEATH.


IN Old Man Caught In . SHAFT ana Evsr1
Beae mills body Broksa.
Erick Messer, an old man Is years Of
.ge, was killed instantly at Granite
Falls recently by having his clothing
caught in the main shaft Of q mill he
vas running. The shaft was turning 6
he rate Of 900 revolutions per minute
md tho body was literally broken in
pieces The bones of both legs, ono
.rm, the skull and all the ribs were
fractured and the brains were protrud.
ing from the head. His son Eric was
IN the engine-room at the time. Of the
accident and was horrified to zee what
had been done. The body was taken
Town and carried to the sons house.
Messor had lived in that vicinity over
twenty years, coming to this State from
Wisconsin. His aged wife and q large
family are left. i2&
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01
THE FAST.

DAVID A. TAGGART, president of the
New Hampshire Senate, was on the 22d
inangurated to perform the Guberna-
torial duties, owing to the illness of
, Governor. Goodell--th the first time. in the
history Of the Stats. Since 1884, that such
a-eourse had been adopted. y -. .
The Massachusetts, Legislature on
the Esd passed bill providing for bien.
NAL instead of annual elections of State
officers: 49,. =. 80:
sNsYLvAs1A:Republicans will hold
their State convention at Harrisburg
June Is. !
: IN p: S. Gallagher's stables at Slater
Vile, a. Y, on the 23d Egbert William
son, q coachman, and three horses :were
burned to DEATH =
gTnE eProhibitionists of Maine will
hold their State convention sc Portland
june Is. ~ ., ~ :: - $ !
AT the Etna mills al; Newcastle, Pa,
on the 23d, three men were killed by an
explosion and six badly injured, two of
whom would probably die. q
FLAMES on the, 23d at Rochester, N.
Y, in John g. Wagner'ss five-story
block, caused loss of 5000, OOO.
In the Union silk works At Catasau.
qua, Pa, flames caused an explosion on
the Oath by which four men were killed,
four fatally injured and many others
less seriously hurt.
AT Temple, Pa, tho large furnace OF
the Reading Railroad Company was
| started up on the -25th after being idle
seven years.
On the 25th Daniel Reittman, an AL.
toona (Pa.) brewer, shot his wife and
then killed himself. =
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01
PLAYING BEER.ShOP.

How . Dealer In Liquor Was Reformed
ny His Children.
IL hear that Smith has sold out his
saloon" said one of couple of middle
aged men who sat slipping their beer and
eating bit Of cheese in a Smithfeld
street saloon last Friday night.
''Yes," responded the other, rather
slowly.
"What was the reason? thought he
was just coming money there"
cts rather funny story. Smith,
you know, lives right near me, where he
has an excellent wife, nice home and
three as pretty children as ever played
out doors All boys, you know, the old
est not over nine, and all about the same
size. Smith is pretty respectable sort
of a citizen, never drinks and thinks a
world of his family.
"Well, he went home one afternoon
last week, and found his wife out shop.
ping or something of that sort. He
went on through the house into the
back yard. and there, under an apple
tree, were the little fellows playing.
They had bench and some bottles and
tumblers, and were playing keep sa'
LOOM He noticed that they were drink
ing something out of pail, and that
they acted tipsy. The youngest, who
was behind the bar, had towel tied
around his waist, and was setting the
drinks up pretty free. Smith walked
over and looked in the pail. 1t was
beer, and two of the boys were 50 drunk
that they staggered. A neighbor's boz,
couple of years. older, lay asleep be-
hind the tree.
" My boys. you must not drink that
he said, as he lifted the six-year old
from behind the bench.
" Yves playin' s'loon, papa, an 1 was
a oollin' it juot like YOU said the little
fellow. Smith poured out the beer,
carried the drunken boy home and then
took his own boys in and put them to
bed. When his wife came back she
found him crying like child. He came
back down town that night, gave up his
business, and says he will never sell O,
drink another drop of liquor His wife
told mine about it, and she broke down
crying while she told t."-Christian at
WorL
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-01
FROM wAsH,Ncron

In the United States the visible sup.
ply OF wheat and corn on the s1st was,
respectively, 24,513, 27a and 1856, SOC
bushels. -
Fog the first nino months Of the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1890, the total col
lections of internal revenue were $780,.
94%:22G, being an increase of $7,504. 77e
over the corresponding period last
year. =
In the United States there were 21s
business failures during the seven days
sendedA on atho 25th, against 214 the
previous seven DAYS: The total of fail.
ures in tbs United States from January
! tosdate iss4.0QS against4,245 in 1889.
PRESIDENT HARRISON signed the
world fair bill on the e5th.