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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-06

THAT was rude interruption to the
festivities of wedding at Vienna
Lightning struck the house, killing two
guests and injuring eighty. In years
gone by a dread coincidence like this
would have been interpreted as sign
OF Divine displeasure at the contem-
plated union. Happily the spread of
scientific information has freed man.
kind from MANY superstitions
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-06
WEST AND SOUTH.


FLAMES nearly wiped out the village
of Los Gatos, Cal.
OFFICERS of the. Knights of Labor
have issued circular urging political
action in the future as IN aid in the ac-
complishment of the purposes of the
order.
w. J. ELLIOTT, former editor of the
Sunday Capital at Columbus, O., was
found guilty of murder in the second
degree for the killing of Albert C. Os.
born and w. Hughes.
In Baltimore Samuel Sands, the
oldest living printer, died at the age of
90 years.
REPUBLICAN editors of Illinois met in
Chicago and formed the Republican
Editorial association of Illinois NJ.
w. Matthews, of the Urbana Herald,
was elected president.
In Wisconsin the republican editors
held meeting at Madison and formed
state organization with W. F. Street,
of the Superior Inter Ocean, as presi-
dent.
The bursting of cloud at Council
Bluffs. Ia, flooded over 200 dwellings,
doing great damage.
In twenty counties of Ohio along the
Indiana line the crops were being eaten
by grasshoppers.
The theft of s75, 900 from the express
office at Kountze, Tex, was reported
The city railway at Austin, New,
was torn from its bed by cloudburst,
awnings were torn down, water mains
were uprooted from feet under ground,
and the majority of the business
houses were filed with mud to a depth
of or feet
ADJOINING the Indiana and Ohio
boundary line the fields were alive
with grasshoppers, which were doing
an inestimable amount of damage to
the crops.
THE death of David B. Fisk, the head
of one of the most extensive wholesale
millinery establishments in the world.
occurred at his home in Chicago, aged
"a years.
WILLIAM HACKER, a distinguished
freemason and frequently known as
the Father of Masonry" died at his
home in Shelbyville, Ind, aged 50
years.
hal POINTER paced at Cleveland the
three fastest heats in race on record
-2:1OA, 2:10H, 2:l01.
Fire destroyed $4,000 barrels of oil
from the two tanks of the Consolidated
OIL Company, at Canton, Md. Loss
S243.0OO.
MARYLAND prohibitionists held their
state convention at Clydon Camp and
nominated Edwin Higgins, of Balti-
more, for GOVERNOR
The Tennessee legislature will con-
vene IN extra session at Nashville on
August17 to consider the convict lease
system.
! MRS. ANN MILNER WOODS, one of the
original founders of the Church of the
=, Disciples, died at Cynthiana, KY, aged
! % years g..
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-06

PHILANTHROPY and religion had a
big windfall in the New York surro-
gates court the other day Three wills
filed there left over $3.50, 900 to beneyo-
lent objects. OF this amount $500, 900
was from the estate of Hector C. Have
meyer, who distributed the money
among various organizations. Charles
w. Morrill, left STAG, 600 to similar OBJ
jects, and David Stewart bequeathed
1000 to charity.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-06

The Hatfield-McCoy family feud
which ragged for many years in Ken
lucky and West Virginia, resulting in
the killing of about 200 persons, was
supposed to have ended q few months
ago. Like Romeo and Juliet, Of the
rival houses of Montague and Capulet,
= young man and a maiden of the Hat
feld.McCoys fell in love with each
other: A truce between the factions was
declared and the couple were married.
But Cupid and Hymen ruled the roost
only short time. Again the McCoys
are on the rampage, and two of them
haNAskilled ono George Roberts, OF
HHds Greek, and the fight IS again on,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-06

WHEN Inventor Edison was an un-
known telegraph operator in Boston
one of his pastimes was the slaughter
of cockroaches by electricity. He
rugged an arrangement on the wall of
the Office made OF two squares of tinfoil
from tobacco packages. These were
pasted on the wall near together and
between them was daubed molasses.
Each piece of tinfoil was connected
with an electric current by fine cop
Per wire. The cockroaches would march
up the wall, and as they reached the
sweet stuff they would connect circuit
between the pieces of tinfoil, the demise
being swift and sudden.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-06
Death of Ex-senator sawver

SHAWNEE, Tenn, Aug. Sex United
States Senator Sawyer, of South Caro-
lima, died suddenly Friday at this place.
He was largely interested in the de-
velopment of this section of the country
and owned considerable land. He
emigrated south from the east during
the period of reconstruction.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-06

E. l.. AVER, of Portland, Orc, RECON-
mends as sure and humane method of
inf1icting legal death injection of prus-
sic acid into the jugular vein. He
would have the prisoner lie on a cot
and be placed under the influence of an
anoesthetic. When he is unconscious a
bypodermic syringe will force the acid
into the vein, and death will be almost
instantaneous. The advantages of the
method are its inexpensiveness, its sim
plicity. requiring no elaborate prepare
ton of horrifying machinery, and it's
merciful certainty.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-06
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
WHAT THE JUG COULD TELL

why Is my house 20 shabby and old,
At every crevice letting in cold,
And the kitchen walls all covered with mold!'
Ask your jug!
"Why are my eyes so swollen and red!
Whence is this dreadful pain in my head!
Where in the world is our nice feather bed?
And the wood that was once piled In the shed!''
Ask your jug!
"Why is my wife heart broken and sad?
Why are my children never now glad?
Why did my business run down 50 bad?
Why at my thoughts am well nigh mad?'
Ask your Jug!
'Oh! Why do pass by the old church door,
Weary OF heart and sadly foot-sorc,
Every moment sinking down lower,
A pitiable outcast evermore:'
Ask your jug.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-06

AN Indiana judge who did not be-
lieve that women were curious has
changed his mind since the ladies at his
hotel locked him in his room and re-
fused to release him until he gave them
the judgment he intended to give in a
divorce case which he had taken under
o1vicoror<
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-06

In two-thirds of century but one
man has been renominated for the
vice presidency. He was Richard
Mentor johnson, put up with Van
Buren, in 1S4o. He was defeated.
johnson was one of the most striking
and picturesque characters in his time.
He had been a gallant officer in the
war OF 1912, and had served in both
branches of congress for many years
before reaching the vice presidency.
Socially and politically he stood high
in his state, Kentucky, and in the
country at LARGE
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-06
Fell Dead In q Train.

LEXINGTON, Va, Aug. 3.-Rev Dr..
Ebenezer Judkins, of Houston, Tex, a
native of this city, and brother-in-law of
Stonewall jackson. fell dead on an East
Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia railroad
train while near gehqsQa CITY, Tenn.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-06

TELEGRAPHY without wires is said to
have been accomplished in England
Mr.. Preece, the head electrician of the
postal system, succeeded in establish
ing communication across the Solent
to the Isle of Wight, and telegraphed
also across the River Severn without
wires, merely using earth plates at a
sufficient distance apart. 1t is now
proposed to make a practical use of
this system in communicating with
lightships
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-06
MASSACRE IN PARAGUAY.
Men, Women and Children Arc slauet
tered by Scores.

Mem Women and. Children Arc slaugh-
tered by Scores.
New YORK, Aug. 3.-The details of
a terrible massacre of inoffensive resi-
dents of an isolated village in Paraguay
by half savage natives reached this CITY
by mail Sunday. According to the adj
vices $50 men, women and children
were wantonly slaughtered, and then
the butchers celebrated their victory
by wild orgies in the treet. The affair
occurred on the night of March 10 and
the news was delayed in reaching here
by the lack of facilities for communi
eating with the outside world,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-06

AT low estimate American tourists
spend 500, 600, 900 every year in Europe.
1t makes Uncle Sam sweat occasionally
before breakfast to keep them all in
pocket money and give the dear girls a
chance at the dukes and princes and
their usually attendant miseries. But
it is the fashion, and that tells the
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-06
A Victim of Hydrophobia.

SAGINAW. Mich. Aug. s. Morris
Godfrey, the 17-year-old boy afflicted
with hydrophobia as the result of a
dog bite on July 4, died Saturday in
great agony. He was conscious le-
tween fits of raving until an early
hour, when the spasms increased in
length and violence, finally producing
DEATH
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-06

A LECTURER in Massachusetts, is try
ing to demonstrate to the young ladies
that old maids are the salt of the earth,
That may be true, but the girls prefer
to be ikened to the sugar of one house.
hold
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-06

DIR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES says:
IF nine-tenths of the medicines in the
world were thrown into the ocean man
kind would be greatly benefited" But
what about the poor fish?
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-06
TOBACCO merchants handle larger
amount of ready money than any other
class of business men.

The Italian government has taken
steps to restrict emigration by refusing
to allow minors to leave the country
except under certain conditions.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-06
shrinkaxe in Kansas values.

TOPEKA, Kan. Aug s.-The state
board of equalization has found that
the total valuation of the property in
the state for 1901 is s341, 1855, 075, being
about Sc, ia, 1858 less than last year.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-06

The statistics for 1890 for the Pas
teur institute show that fifteen hun
dred and forty-six patients were treat
ed. The record for the past five years
shows only .O6 per cent. of deaths.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-06

JAMES w. BRADBURY, of Maine, 1ad
Alpheus Felch, of Michigan, who en-
tered the senate in December, 1S47, are
the oldest ex-senators of the United
States now living.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-06
the EAST.

Fl. r. HELMBoLD, of New York, who
was said to have made $40, ZOO, 900 by
the sale of patent medicines, was placed
in an insane asylum for the fourth time
in twenty years.
The death of Frederick c. Havemey-
er, who, with his cousin, William +.
Havemeyer, founded the sugar refining
business in Brooklyn, N. Y, occurred
at his home at Throgg's Neck, l.. l., in
his s5th year.
AN indictment was found against
James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of
the New York Herald, for publishing
an account of the Sing Sing electrocu-
tions
NEAR Phillipsburg, Pa, miner
named Wilkins fatally injured Mrs.
Joseph Wilson with baseball bat and
then shot himself
GEORGE LEMON, Michael Manning
and b. Corkhill were killed at Pitts
burgh, Pa, by the collapse of the new
pudding mill of the Pittsburgh Oil
Well Supply Company.
The resignation of Joel B. Erhardt as
collector of the port of New York was
accepted and J. s. Fassett was appoint
ed as his successor.
The failure of the Suffolk Suspenders
Manufacturing Co. of Boston for $780,
600 was reported.
The republicans of New York will
hold their state convention ut Roch-
ester September 0.
A HEAVY rain flooded portions of the
town CT Williamsport, Pa, and the
wind carried thirty-dvc houses off their
foundations.
THE Centennial Land & Security
Company, with capital of 81, 600, 600,
and whose Offices arc located at Bos-
ton, New York and Denver, made an
assignment for the benefit of it's cred
itors.
In JohDstown, Pa, an organization
was completed at a mass meeting to
sue the South Fork club for losses sus-
tanned nv flood
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-06
COINAGE for ,July.

WASHINGTON. Aug S.-The total coin
age executed at the minis of the United
States during the month of July was
zoos. 600 pieces Of all kinds valued at
$s,ss9;QQQ,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-06
Weary of Life.

Christian Mass, an old German farme,
living near Cleveland. was found dead
behind his granary, with the top of his
head blown of. In one hand he held a
shotgun, in the other a stick, showing
only too plainly the manner of his
death. He was over 70 years old and a
widower, with three grown-up chill
dren. No cause was given for the deed.
He had been Respondent for some time
past.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-06
Special Tax Too Small.

On account of an amendment to the
state law as regards school apportion-
ment some thirty school districts in
Winona county, have failed to vote suf-
ficient special tax to obtain from the
state all they are entitled to. The
districts will be notified by the SUPER
lntendent of schools as soon as posi-
BILE and they will have to raise the
special tax or lose a-certain amount of
the state apportionment.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-06
Pennsylvani. Oil Development

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. 3.-The record
of oil development for July shows an
increase of thirty wells completed and
an increase of 1880 barrels of new pro-
duction as compared with the month of
June.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-06
Completed Its Big Work.

The affairs of the great trus,
formed in 1879, and consisting of
A. Fl. Wilder and E. +. Drake, to
which were given the lands grant
ed to the five roads which form
the present Omaha railroad, by
which trust nearly $50, 900 acres of land
have been sold and 100000 people
brought into Minnesota, the trustees
having handled millions of dollars in
its affairs, have come to an end, its
work being completed.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-06
Storm In Norman County.

A destructive hailstorm PASSED
through Norman county. The area
covered by the hailstorm was strip
about miles wide and 80 miles long
On the majority of the farms struck
the crops were totally destroyed and
the farmers had no hopes of saving
anything. Hail fell outside of the belt
mentioned, but did but little damage.
1t was estimated that at least 2, 600
acres were ruined. Those fields were
good for twenty bushels per acre.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-06
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS
ON EASY PAYMENTS.
Minnesota People May Visit the World
Fair hx Kaakly Ilanaslfa

mlnnos0to FNOplo MAY visit tho Worlds
Fair BY Weekly Deposits. =
The Worlds Fair Transportation
Company, of st. Paul, has filed articles
of incorporation. The officers of the
company are Louis j. Merritt, T.. Mill
naire, real estate agent of Duluth, and
w. w. Braden. The land commissioner
of the Great Northern railway; Joseph
Bobleter, state treasurer of Mime.
sofa; Frank Kruyenbuhl, United,
States gauger of the South St.
Paul distillery; Moses Clapp, At
torney general of Minnesota; Mark
D. Flower, manager of the South
st. Paul Packing Company, are also in
terested in the company. The object is
to give persons in moderate means an
opportunity to visit the worlds fair.
The applicant pays 81 when application
for transportation is made, and so cents
each week until the amount, which in
cludcs railroad fare. board, and admis-
sion to the fair for six days, is paid up.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-06
Had Boon Dead for Davs.

David Judson was found dead in his
room at the Merchants hotel in Min
neapolis. He had not been seen at the
hotel for four days. and the proprietor
supposed he was in St. Paul attending
the races. A servant girl at the hotel,
while passing Judson's room, detected
a disagreeablo smell, which she re-
ported at the Office. The room was
forced open and Judson's body was
found on the bed in q state of rapidly
advancing decomposition. He was
about SIS years old and bachelor.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-06
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND NAIL.
FROM WASHINGTON.


A STATEMENT by the treasury depart
ment shows that the commerce of the
United States has increased during this
fiscal year $50. 1911, 1908. The total COM
MERGE of the past fiscal year aggregates
81, 729. $50, 500. The total value of i'm
ports for the year was $s44, 995, 491, and
of imports, 1884, 425, 405.
STATISTICS from the treasury depart
ment show that the total number of
immigrants arriving in the United
States during the last fiscal year was
SIS, ACC, against 451, 219 in 1890, showing
an increase during the last fiscal year
of lO4.277 The increase was largely
from the following countries: Italy,
1854; Austria Hungary, 1851; Ger
many, 81, 112; Russia, including Poland,
2s,245.
THE gold and silver exports from this
country during the last fiscal year were
Sl0S, 729, 28S, and the imports were $780,.
212,Ss4, an excess of exports of So. $780,
954. The exports of gold were $50, 1913, :
6sa and the imports $1s,1l7,11o, the
largest excess of exports of gold in any
year of our commerce.
MATTHEW s. QUAY at a meeting in
Washington of the executive commit
tee of the republican national commit
tee resigned as chairman of the ma
tional committee and w. w. Dudley re-
signed as treasurer. j. S. Clarkson, of
Iowa, was chosen as chairman until
the meeting of the committee in No.
vember.
A TREATY of reciprocity between the
United States and San Domingo has
been signed.
IT was estimated by the census blu.
reau that 2, $50, 600 families in the United
States occupy and own incum bered
farms and homes.
OVER ia, 900 entries for public lands
were made in the United States during
the year ended June 80 last.
THE business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the 31st ult. numbered 247, against 254
the preceding week and 1s9 for the cor
responding week last year.
IT was said that j. E. Baall, a real
estate expert, testified before the Rock
Creek Park commissioners at Wash
ington that ex-President Cleveland
bought his RED Top property for
$4,000 and sold it for s140, 900. realizing
Sll4,0oo profit.
ONLY 322 miles of railroad have been
built since January l, a heavy decrease
from the figures of last year.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has issued his
proclamation announcing the compile
ton of a reciprocity treaty with Spain
as to certain products of Cuba and Porto
Rico and the United States.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-05-04
How to Read the Tongue.

The perfectly healthy tongue is clean,
moist, lies loosely in the mouth, is round
at the edge and has no prominent papilla,
saws DR. Julia II. Smith in the New York
Ledger, and then proceeds to interpret
other aspects of this small but mighty
member; The tongue may be furred from
local causes, or from sympathy with the
stomach, intestines or liver The dry
tongue occurs most frequently in fever,
and indicates nervous prostration or de-
preston. a white tongue is diagnostic
simply of the feverish condition, with per-
haps a sour stomach. When it is moist
and yellowish brown it shows disordered
digestion. Dry and brown indicate a
low state of the system, possibly typhoid.
When the tongue is dry, red and smooth,
look out for Inflammation, gastric or intes-
final. When the papille on the end of the
tongue are raised and very red we call it a
strawberry tongue, and that means scarlet
fever, Sharp pointed red tongue will hint
of brain irritation or inflammation, and a
Yellow coating indicates liver derange-
ment
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-05-04
For Over Fifty Years

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has
been used by millions of mothers for
their children while teething. If dis
burbed at night and broken of your res
by a sick child suffering and crying with
pain of cutting teeth send at once and get
bottle o. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing
Syrup" for children teething. 1t will re-
lieve the poor little sufferer Immediately.
Depend upon it, mothers. there's no mis-
take about it. 1t cures diarrhoea, regu-
lates the stomach and bowels, cures wind
collie. softens the gums. reduces inflsmma-
ton and gives tone and energy to the
whole system, Mrs Winslow's Soothing
Syrup" for children teething is pleasant
to the taste and is the prescription of one
of the Oldest and best female physicians
and nurses in the United States. Sold by
all druggists throughout the world. Price
twenty-five cents bottle. Be sure and
ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-05-04
Disease 1. a Pun,.nm.n, for s,nY

The following advertisement, published
by prominent western patent medicine
house would indicate that they regard
disease as punishment for sin:
DO you wish to know the quickest
way to cure severe cold? We will tell
you. To cure cold quickly. it must be
treated before the cold has become set
tied in the system. This can ALWAYS be
done if you choose to, as nature in her
Kindness to man gives timely warning
and plainly tells you in natures way,
that as punishment for some indiscre-
ton, you are to be afflicted with a cold
unless you choose to ward it off by
prompt action. The first symptoms of a
cold. In most cases, is a dry. loud cough
and sneezing. The cough is soon fol,
lowed by profuse watery expectoration
and the sneezing by profuse watery dis
charge from the nose. In severe cases
there is thin white coating on the
tongue. What to dor II is only neces-
sary to take Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy in double doses every hour. That
will greatly lessen the severity of the cold
and in most cases will effectually counter
act 1t, and cure what would have been a
severe cold within one or two days time.
Try it and be convinced" so cent bot
ties for sale by Hartz s. Bahnsen, drug
gists.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-05-04
Happy Hoos,srs.

VIM. T;mmons. postmaster of Idaville,
Ind writes: Electric Bitters has done
more for me than all other medicines
combined, for that bad feeling arising
from kidney and liver trouble" John
Leslie, farmer and stockman, of same
says: Find Electric Bitters to be the
best kidney and liver medicine: made me
feel like new man." ]. w. Gardner.
hardware merchant. same town, saws
Electric Bitters is just the thing for a
man who is all run down and don't care
whether he lives or dies; he found new
strength, good appetite and felt .ust like
he had new lease on life" Only soc,
bottle at Hartz & Bahnsens drug STORE.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-05-04
False Teeth Fenrtbep Life.

\ dentist is quoted rs follows: The
perfection TO which the manufacture of
false teeth has been carried has practically
abolished old age-that is, old age in the
sense that l used to know it. You see
none of the helpless, mumblinG old men
and women that you formerly did. This is
not because people do not attain the age
their parents and grandparents reached,
but because the dentist has prevented some
of the most unpleasant consequences of ad-
vancins years Men of seventy no longer
either look or feel old, because they are not
deprived of Rourishing food at the time they
need it most. Estimates have been made
showing that the average length of life has
been increased from four to six years by
the general use of false teeth.