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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-09
ONE ENJOYS

ON@ HNJo1S
Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the tcste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn etfectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and &C.
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 commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in SOC
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.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
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hundred of the minute scales Of the hui
man skin, and yet each of these scales
in turn covers from three hundred to five
hundred pores.
EXPERIMENT tends to show that the
edges of the flame of the petroleum
lamp give from thirty-seven to thirty
eight per cent. less light than the flat
surface.
NINETEEN children have blessed the
matrimonial life of Mr.. and Mrs Becler,
of Brooklyn, Ky, and they are all alive
but one. The parents are under fifty.
ave years OF age.
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BOsToN numismatist says that the
finest coin collection in that city is that
OF Mr. Parlnelee, a baker up in East
Chester Park. He bakes nothing but
beans--Boston baked beans-and all
the money he makes he puts into old
coins. His collection is worth between
$40, 900 and $4,000. He had complete
set OF American silver dollars-the only
set In Boston. Next to Parmelee's col
lection, the finest one in Boston is that
OF Nathan Appleton, of Beacon street,
There are hundreds of collectors there.
and the aggregate value of their coins
is probably greater than in any city in
this country outside of New York
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Actual amount in treasury. SITS, 98:
MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.
Some Interesting Statistics from the Sec
rotary of State,a Renort

Some Interesting Statistics from the Sec
rotary of States Report.
The assistant secretary of state will
show in his report that the total num-
Der of marriages in the state in 1890
was l0,35s, of which 1,435 were in
Ramsey and 1924 in Hennepin. The
total number of divorces was 53s, Ram.
sey claiming &c and Hennepin 49,
The total number of naturalizations,
including those taken out in the SUI
preme court, was 1885. OF these
6,045 were Scandinavians, 1890 were
Gerlnons, Poles, Bohemians and Rus
SLAMS, 2S5 Irish and 9l9 English and
Scotch. There were 1,346 from other
nationalities. The total number of
marriages in the state for the last nine
years is s5,362: total number of di-
vorces, 4,O49; total number of naturali-
cations. 996 S7
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EVA BRANNOCK, faith curist and in
cidentally q. teacher of music in the
Bethany home at Pittsburgh. is said to
have finished a successful forty days
fast. Her fast differed from all others
in that she attended to her regular
duties as teacher and keeper of rooms
in the home.
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If Cap Hatfield keeps his promise,
a family feud more fatal than the ia
nous strife between the Montagues and
the Capulets and more savage than any
Corsican vendetta has come to a final
end. Cap is the present head of the
house of Hatfield, between whom and
the McCoys deadly war has existed
since the early sixties. The hostilities
have kept the borders of kentucky and
West Virginia in bloody turmoil They
began with wedding and are to end
as they began, in wedding Aaron
Hatfield is to marry Mccoy maiden
early in May, and is to be the occasion
for a general reconciliation.
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RABBI SOLOMON SCHNEIDER, of Bos-
ton, has taken strong ground against
the proposition to colonize Palestine
with Hebrews. He says that the coun-
try cannot support more than three
million people, and the Russian exiles
alone, numbering five million, would
largely overpopulate it.
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THE round-top building between
Canajoharie and Speakers Basin. N.
Y, recently destroyed by fire, was an
old colonial structure, probably the
oldest in the Mohawk valley, and is
said to have been built in 1882
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A SINGULAR incident is related of two
Georgia brothers who were devotedlv
attached to each other and who had
often expressed the desire that thew
might die together. At Gainesville.
Ca, Walter Wood, in attempting to
cross the Tombigbee river in skitf,
was drowned by his boat capsizing On
the same day and about the same time
his brother, Julian Wood. who was
working ihs glass factory at Birming-
ham, Ala, was overcome by gas and
died in few minutes
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The Rothschilds are believed to have
$50, DOC, 600 invested in American securi-
ties. Only the Rothschilds themselves
know what they are worth, and they
never tell family secrets One of their
notices is: ''Gold never repeats what
1t sees, and another: "a man will not
tell what he has not heard;'' but some
idea of their riches can be had from the
fact that since 1915 they have raised for
Great Britain alone more than 81, OOO,-
600. 900; for Austria, $3.50, 600, 600; for
Prussia, 5000, 600, 600; for France, $780,
600. 600; for Italy, nearly $500, 600, 600; for
Russia, 1926, ! 600, 900; for Brazil, $50, OO0,-
600; for smai1er states, $500, oOo, 900 more.
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PRESIDENT DEpEW, of the New York
Central railroad, gets salary of So, 900:
President McCurdy, of the Mutual Life
Insurance Company, 100000: President
Hyde, of the Equitable, 100000: Presi-
dent Beers, of the New York life, $780,
600; President Olcott, of the Central
Trust Company, $4,000; President
Stewart. of the United States Trust
Company, $4,000; President King, of
the Union Trust Company, $4,000.
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INFANT mortality in England and
Wales during the year 1890 was notice
ably large. The deaths were regis
tered of over $50, 600 children under -
months of AGE
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lr is currently asserted that the rela-
tive heights of men and women in Eng
land are undergoing change. OBJ
servation extending over series of
years has shown, it is declared, that the
women are apparently growing taller
and the men shorter. The cause was
long considered mystery, but at a re-
cent London dinner it was unanimously
agreed that the men only were chang
ing, the apparent elongation of women
being the result of comparison. And it
was further settled that tobacco did it.
Englishmen are incessant smokers, and
begin the practice at so early an age
that their growth is much retarded
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THE new queen of the Sandwich
Islands is Lila Kamakaeha Lilinoka-
lani, sister of the late king She is
50 years old, was educated in mis-
sionary school and is married to an
American, Mr.. John o. Dominis, who
has held many important positions in
Hawaii
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AN official survey shows that Rhode
Islands nearest approach to noun
tain is an eminehce in Glocester, which
rises sos feet above sea level, and to
which the name Durfee hill has been
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-09

HELEN P. CLARK, an Indian girl and
a teacher in the Carlisle PA. Indian
school, has been appointed special
allotment agent by the United States
government and has gone to Montana
to assume the duties of her office.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-09

ONE of the electrical appliances which
will presently come into as general re-
QUESTION as that now enjoyed by the
electric motor is the electrical heater.
1t dispenses with all dirt in the house,
and can be turned off and on just when
1t is wanted. "A large percentage of
the heat from stove goes up the chin
ney and is wasted. but as the electrical
heater is light and handy, and can be
moved from place with ease. the full
advantage of it's heat can always be
secured
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A NEW departure in cremation is re-
ported. A patent has been taken out in
France for an electric furnace for the
rapid incarceration of human remains.
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The News u the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND NAIL.
FROM WASHINGTON.

In the United States the visible sup
ply of grain on the 3Oth ult was:
Wheat, 22,745,2 1863 bushels: corn, 1885,
042 bushels; oats, 2,s0s, 921 bushels.
In the United States and Canada the
total number of business failures for
the first quarter of the current year, as
reported to Bradstreet's, was S,4O1,
against 1895 for the first quarter of
1890.
THE Italian minister to this country,
Baron Fava, has been recalled by the
italian government. The recall grew
out of the New Orleans lynching and
indicated open hostilities.
LOWER rates of duty on sugar have
gone into effect, and the price to con-
sumers will be considerably reduced.
The statement of the public debt is
sued on the LIST showed the total debt to
be 81, 544, All, 2S7; cash in the treasury,
1904, AL 1886: debt less cash in the treas
ury, $3.50, 029,9 900. Increase during
March, S44O,255. Decrease since June
80, 1890, $50, 1O7.9ll.
SECRETARY BLAINE in his reply to the
note of Fava, the Italian minister, an
nouncing his withdrawal from Wash
ington by order of his government said
this government was proceeding with
an investigation of the New Orleans af-
fair, and that its action in the matter
could not be hurried by the course in
dictated by Italy.
The following telegram was sent to
Secretary Blaine from Fort Scott: "A
would like to spend the summer in
Rome. Can you furnish transporter
tiOn?"
The minis in the United States dur
ing March coined S,226. 1922 pieces of
money. valued at S7,1ls,17O. The total
of gold coined was So, 9O3. 900 and of sill
yer 50, O7,526, the balance being in
nickels and cents.
GEN. ALBERT PIKE, aged - years,
grand commander of the Scottish Rite
of Free Masonry and chief of the Royal
Order of Scotland for this country,
died at his home in Washington.
FIGURES from the treasury depart
ment show that there was a net in
crease of $11,614,415 in the circulation
during the month of March, principally
in silver certificates.
THE closing session of the interna-
tional American monetary commission
which organized in Washington last
January was held, and it was decided
that the fixing of ratio between gold
and silver and the adoption of a COM
mon monetary unit did not seem at
present feasible.
THE business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the sd numbered 243 against 256 the
preceding week and FOG for the CORE
spending week last year.
The treasury department has paid the
direct tax claims of New Jersey, 1882,
GA, and of Ohio, 81, 432.025.
IT was announced that no law had
ever been passed by congress making
the violation of a treaty punishable
offense.
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Could Not Face His Accuser.

Gustave Hopping, until a few days
ago member of the st. Paul police
force, shot and killed himself at his
home in that city. An order for Hop
pings arrest had been issued on the
charge that he and an accomplice stole
from the establishment of Frederick
Stattman, furrier, over 81, 900 worth Of
sealskins and other fine furs 1t was
alleged that Hopping and his friend
made Stattman drunk and made off
with the valuables. A few days later
the store was found saturated with
kerosene on fire. The theft drove
Stattman into bankruptcy.
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Very
Important

The importance Of taking a good Spring Medl.
slne cannot be overestimated. The changing
weather Affects the human system in such a way
hat it is now in great need of and especially sus-
,eptible to the benefit to be derived from reliable
preparation like Hoods Sarsaparilla. To make
your blood pare. give you good appetite. and
make you strong. this spring you should take
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-09

The African continent has been
crossed sixteen times, twice before
1850, six times between that time and
1880, and eight times since 1880.
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The NpyS lSrie1v s:nrOniclo.l

The News Briefly ::hroniciel.
Wheat seeding has begun in southern
Minnesota.
Peter Thompson. carpenter living
at Elbow Lake, had his hip broken by
being thrown from sleigh while the
team was running away.
The new council at Pipestone have
fixed the saloon license for the ensu-
ing year at $1,000.
The resid ence of Prof. +. b. Pearson
at Manchester college in st. Paul was
burned, causing loss of $1,000.
Gov. Merriam has appointed Rev.
l.. &. Powers, of Minneapolis, labor
commissioner, vice John =. McGaughey
resigned.
The fourth annual fair of the Pipe
stone County Agricultural society will
be held in Pipestone on September %,
% and ~.
In Faribault there is man by the
name Of Patrick Reede, who is LOG years
old.
Clifton Holden. Minnesota murder
er sentenced to he hanged April 8, was
reprieved by the governor.
DIR. Bells baby was standing in the
window at Alexandria when it fell
on her hand. breaking all the bones
At Alexandria DR.. Boyd successfully
removed cancer from William Millers
young daughter.
Albert Goheen, suspected of the muir
der of Rosa Wood, the woman who was
found in snow bank with two bullet
holes in her body, was arrested at his
home in Fergus Falls and lodged in
Jail. He had eluded the officers for
week.
George Smith, of Princeton. was SEN
fenced by Judge Nelson to one year
and one month in the penitentiary and
to pay fine of 500 for forging pen
sion certificate.
Mrs. j. j. Goodchild called notary
public at Albert Lea to draft her will.
and two minutes after signing suddenly
expired. She had been suffering for
some time with brights disease.
John Swangaard has sued the Mime
apolis street railway company for ST.
500 damages for being put off street
car after having paid his fare.
y. ~. W nlte ana NJ. Is. Lloyd, OF Min
neapolis, have invented, a machine for
weaving wire mattresses. A factory
for it's manufacture will probably be
established
A party of twenty Faribault people
have secured a tract of land at French
lake and have formed club called the
French lake club. They will have the
land fenced, erect club house, stables,
boat houses, etc. The lake is well
stocked with fish.
The famous building stone ouarries
at Pipestone were transferred from the
Red Pipestone Quarry Company to the
Sioux Valley Stone Company for a con-
sideration of 100000
An engine Of the St. Paul & Duluth
short line fell down an embankment at
Fond du Lac, carrying five men with it.
Only, one of the number, engineer
William Carey, was injured.
E. G. Hambrooke has been promoted
to the position of auditor and cashier
OF the Winona & Southern road, while
c. h Capron steps into the position of
gene, al freight and passenger agenh
made vacant by his promotion.
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THE EAST.

IN New York the grand jury found
indictments against the directors of the
New York, New H aven & Hartford rail-
road for causing the death of the six
trainmen in the recent tunnel disaster
in that city.
In Rochester, y. Y, the locked-out
clothing cutters passed resolutions re-
pudiating the Knights of Labor, and the
lockout was declared at an end
AT Media. Pa. Mrs. Caroline Schmidt,
on trial for the murder of her sister, has
been acquitted.
In March 1924 Italian immigrants
landed at New York, nearly double the
number that landed in February.
ROBBERS entered the jewelry store of
Adolph Walter at Jersey City, N. j.,
and secured diamonds and other jewelry
valued at $4,000.
THE death of Mrs. Phoebe Campbell,
who was 1O3 years old October last, oc-
CURED at Baxter, Me.
The eminent tragedian. Edwin Booth,
announces his retirement from the
stage after this season.
SEVENTY labor leaders and strikers
regions charged with rioting.
RHODE ISLAND republicans carried a
sufficient number of towns at the state
election to give them the necessary So
votes on joint ballot to elect state off,
GERS. The total vote for governor was:
Burton (nationalist), 3S4; Davis (dem. J..
22.2+9; Ladd (rep.), 1885; Larry (pro.) },
I -
stands: Senate, 81 republicans, dem
ocrats, 6 to be chosen; house, 81 repub-
licans, % democrats, 10 to be chosen.
AT Somerset, Pa, Joe and Dave
Nicely (brothers) were executed for
the murder of Farmer Umberger Feb
ruary p, 1889.
FREIGHT trains collided near Hornells-
vile, N. Y, and Fireman Morris and
Brakemen Moon and Conroy were
killed.
A FIRE destroyed Whiteman & Keith's
shoe factory at Brockton, Mass, caus-
ing loss of 100000.
A MOB of 500 riotous strikers attacked
the Norwood coke works of Fricke &
Co. at Mount Pleasant, Pa, and nine
were killed by deputy sheriffs and from
thirty to forty others were wounded,
some of them fatally. Only few dep
uties were hurt.
NEAR Ashland, Pa, fourteen coal
mines operated by the Reading COM
pany were closed for an indefinite
period
FLAMES destroyed the Waverly oil re-
fnery at Pittsburgh, Pa, the loss being
$751;
The mother of the two Nicely boys
hanged at Somerset, Pa, for the MUIR
der of Farmer Umberger, has become a
raving maniac.
The Pennsylvania Construction Com
pany and the Columbia Iron & Steel
Company of Cniontown, Pa, made as
signments, with total liza bilities of ST.
600, 600.
DURING March 42,767 immigrants ar
rived at New York, or 13,343 more than
in March, 1889. Italy leads the list
with 1860.
IN Boston and other New England
cities heavy gale did great damage.
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Doing JOhnstone's Tricks.

Some of the students of Carleton col
lege at Mortified are successfully per-
forming the feats of Mind Reader J ohm
stone. One is a young lady, who is ex
ceedingly clever in doing the work. A
young gentleman named Pray was the
first to try his hand, and astonishcd
both himself and his audience by his
success. Every one of Johnstone's
feats was performed with the exception
of the hack ride and the safe opening,
about which it has been always con-
tended there was some fraud.
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Insurance Statistics.

The advance sheets of Insurance Com.
missioner Smith show the amount of
policies in force at the end of 1889 to be
$54.317 .645; amount issued in 1890. So
746, 1873: ceased to be in force during
1890, $11, 726.329: in force December 81,
S63. 345. 500: premiums received during
1890, $l.940, 457.56: losses paid. $6l2,.
O94.69; losses incurred, Sill, 141.3O.
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MOrtgaged for a Million.

The Minnesota Iron Car Company OF
West Duluth have given Il second
mortgage to the Central Trust Com
pany of New York for 81, 1000, 600, con-
veying and assigning to the Central
Trust Company all of the real and per-
sonal property: also subject to certain
other mortgage deeds of trast, executed
to the same company, to secure the pay
ment of a series Of first mortgage bonds
to the amount of 5000, 900.
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Present a Flattering Report.

The report of Secretary Stromberg, OF
the Minnesota Farmers Alliance, shows
that the organization is making the
same phenomenal growth as last year.
More than 1900 members have been
enrolled since the election in Novem.
Der. and Mr.: Stromberg says six or
seven suballiances are being organized
weekly. The present mum Der of lodges is
1915, with total memb crship of 81, 900.
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MINNESOTA STATE NEWS
STATE FINANCES.

The Report of Treasurer Bobleter for the
Month of March.
State Treasurer Bobleter makes the
following report for the month of
March showing the balances in treas
urY at the close of business:
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Hoods
SarsapariIIa

Sold by all druggists. 81; six for S. Prepared only
BY C.. l. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries. Lowell. Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
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DISTINCTION with dinerence-cupid and
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1 ATER

AT the leading clearinghouse in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 4th aggregated
1896, S19,9S1, against $S7O.055, 1863 tthe
previous week. AS compared with the
corresponding week of 1890 the decrease
amounted to 1919
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-11-11
Patronize the New MEXICAN for all
sorts Of fine and cheap job printing larg-
est and best printing and book binding
establishment in the territory.


Why, the wabash" is the most desir
able route, for all points east.
LIST. You can purchase through tickets
for all eastern points, at any cupon ticket
Office in the west, over this line, taking
your choice of routes to the Missouri riv
err.
3D. You can 60 either by the way Of
Omaha, or Kansas City, at your pleasure
Sd. From either of those points you
can have your choice of five distinct
routes, as follows.
Via, the Admiral air line, which is the
short line of the east.
Via, st. Louis, where close connections
is made with all eastern and southeastern
routes.
Via, Chicago, the Worlds fair city, some
times called the windy city"
Via, Toledo, Ohio's great inland city,
connecting at that place with the lake
shore fast trains for the east.
Via, Detroit, Michigans prettiest and
most beautiful city, where eastern lines
connect closely.
All, of the above named points are
reached, direct, only by the Wabash and
direct by no other line running from the
west.
Ask, for your tickets by the way of this
line, and accept of them by no other.
We run the finest trains on earth. A
bold assertion, but cold fact. Write me
for rates, maps, etc.
G. M. HAMPsoN, General Agent,
0. L. ALLEN, Trveling Agent.
1927, 18th street, Denver, Colo.
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FRATERNAL ORDERS.

NONTEZUMA LODGE, No. 1, A. F. & A. NJ.
Meets on the first Monday of each month.
SANTA FEE CHAPTER, No /, r. A. Ma
sons Meets on the second Monday OF each
month.
SANTA FEE COMMANDERY, No. ],
Knights Templar. Meets on the fourth Monday
of each month.
SANTA FEE LODGE OF PERFECTION,
No. |, 18th degree A. A. S. h. Meets on the third
Monday of each month
PARADISE LODGE, No. O. I. o. 0 F.
Meets every Thursday evening. J. b. Proudft,
G.: J. r. Nrwhall, secretary.
AZTLAN LODGE, No 3, |. o. 0. f. Meets
every Friday night,
SANTA FEE LODGE, No. 2, K of P. Meets
first and third Wednesdays
GERM ANA LODGE, No. B, K. of p. Meets
I'd and Attn Tuesdays.
NEW MEXICO DIVISION, No. /, Uniform
Rank X. of =. Meets first Wednesday in each
month.
CATHOLIC KNIGHTS OF AMERICA
Meets second Thursday in the month.
SANTA FEE LODGE, No. 23,7, G. U. 0. 0. f.
Meets first and third Thursdays.
GOLDEN LODGE, No 3, A. o. L. w. Meets
every second and fourth Wednesdays.
CARLETON POST. No. 8, &. A. R., meets
first and third Wednesdays of each month.