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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-08
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

Orr the Cape Breton coast the
sch ooner Maurice Wilson was wrecked
and five of her crew were drowned.
PIRATES had two engagements at
Haldu, China, with the civil guards, in
which forty-seven pirates were killed
and the remainder driven back into the
mountains.
FROM Guatemala an uprising against
President Bar;llas was reported.
Fighting in the capital continued for
three days, during which time 500 citi-
zens and soldiers were slain.
THOUSANDS of Jewish refugees from
Russia were to be shipped to Canada.
The French political intriguer, Gen.
Boulanger, committed suicide in Brus.
sels. go
The seventh parliament of the do
mi9ion of Canada convened at Ottawa.
In a fire at Puylanrens, France, four.
teen houses were burned and family
of six persons persisted.
THE Canadian government will pros
ecute the officials found by the recent
parliamentary investigation to have
been, systematically. defrauding the
governments.
In gale three fishing vessels return
ing to st. Johns. N. f., from Labrador
were wrecked and sixteen men were
drowned.
FLAMES at Halifax, N. s., destroyed
business property valued at 500, 900.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-08

business relataoa 10 profssod. md -
he : drinking MANY .s1s ~ q married
MANI" are the two questions always
asked by any Business man or firm
concerning proposed employe or ~
soefate This, NO doubt tend; to hold
many . man to psths Of s0briety who
perhaps has not enough setf-respect to
do SO. They can't indulge bocause. in
. business sense, they cant afford to. :"
This is emphatically true Of some oc-
cupations feAll Of the leading steam
railroad companies of the county 10
fuse to employ men who patronise the
saloon. Not long ago the company
which operates horse cars on Fourth
avenue in this city issued III order to
it, conductors and drivers that sumo
mary. discharge awaits the ..men who
visit saloons ut either end Of the road
between ips." The officers of tho
road said that the order was issued for
the purpose. of, insuring discipline
among the men, some of whom were
in the habit of leaving their cars and
horses unattended while they itered
in saloons There was some excitement
among the men, and even . little tsIx
of organizing an opposition to tho
order, but it soon subsidized when they
reflected that there were plenty of men
willing to take their places who would
agree never to visit saloons
natl Commercial Gazette,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-08
Our Schools.

WASHINGTON, Oct. SIN his annual
report w. T. Harris, commissioner of
education, says there were enrolled in
$4,000 in the public schools of the
United States of elementary and Sec
ondary grade 13,ess,97s pupils, as
against $780,, sos in 1880. The whole
number of public. school teachers
the past year was, Males, l25, 6o2; fe-
males, 23s, 333. The amount expended
during the year for public schools was
$40, 277, 4s4, against $cs, 1876, 6s6 in 1870
and s7s, 90. 8s7 in 1880. The expendi-
ture per capita Of population
in 1880 was $1.58, while in
1890 it was $2..4.
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THE DRINKING HABIT.
1t Ii Not Respectable, and Business Nc
Dislike 1t.

1t Ia Not Respectable, and Business Men
Dislike 1t.
writer who has spent some years
as q Washington correspondent, has re-
Gently been making tour of the fash
ionable summer resorts along the At
lautic coast from Cape May to Mount
Desert In one of his letters he sum-
marizes the results of his observations
regarding the matter of temperance.
He says:
There is less dissipation among the
men at watering-places than is gener-
ally supposed. In fact, it may be
broadly asserted that there is less dis
sipation among American men than
there was in the past, and. furthermore,
it grows less and less year by year.
AS long as men are men they will eat
and drink and have some fun; but
there are all gradations in the process,
from the hummer who falls into the
gutter or the savage who fills himself
with firewater and raw dog, to the gen.
tleman who, in the cafe takes adrink in
good fellowship with some friends, or
in his club, or in his home. eats his din
ner and comforts himself with q glass
or two of wine in pleasant companion
ship.
1ntoxication becomes more and more
disgraceful. Among the better classes
of men the visiting of public saloons
and the stand-up drinking at bars is
falling more and more into disrepute.
In old times drunkenness was not con-
sidered disreputable among the gentry.
The great man was the -four bottle
man" and the hero Of the occasion at a
drinking bout was the one who could
put all the others under the table. -
All this has not entirely disappeared
not by any means-for habits and hui
man nature do mot change in . day.
But there certainly has been marked
alteration for the better. The man
who, in an assembly Of gentlemen 1t
dinner or elsewhere, gets drunk, makes
himself obnoxious. He is:fgnot an
plauded; he is not even pitied. He is
condemned, and his company fought
shy of thereafter. ;, - .,- 49,
The chief influence in working this
change, the writer thinks, is the
growing self-respect, education and
better breeding" which make - man
ashamed to get drunk ? He finds
another strong influence, working. to
the same end in the fact that the
drinking habit, even in moderation.
counts so sharply against man In the
busipcss affairs Of life. Upon, this point
he says: us he drinking man4'' il
one Of the first and msin questions put
by oae man Of another with whom any
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-08
GENERAL MENTION.

The charity commissioners of Lon
don have formed new scheme for car
rying on the Peoples Palace, and in
it there is promise that no intox.
icating liquors shall be introduced"
and there are to be free lectures on
temperance and thrift"
In this day and age no man who is
not a total abstainer from all forms of
Intoxicating drink has no right to
count himself on the side of temper
ance reform. He is a stumbling block
in the way of temperance progress, and
if he persists in his selfish and un-
christian indulgence the less he has to
say upon the subject of temperance the
better it will be for the cause-Chris-
tan at Work.
DR. PARKER once took three soldiers
and made them march twenty miles q
day, loaded with guns, pouch, KNAPP
sack, etc. for six days. They had the
same food on each day, but on two
days he gave them brandy and water,
on two other days coffee, and on tho
other two weak beef-tea to drink. All
three said that brandy revived them for
a time but they were more tired after
taking brandy than they were after
taking coffee or beef-tea
THERE are seven breweries in Wash
ington, our national capital, and they
made last year liz, 339 barrels of teer.
being an increase of 1882 barrels over
the previous year. The District of Co.
lumbia is not state, passes no laws of
its own, but is governed entirely by the
national government Congress has
power to prohibit the manufacture and
sale of intoxicants in the district Let
us elect congressman ready and willing
70 rid our national capital of sill its
breweries. distilleries and saloona
A sEvEN-YEAR-oLD Boston lad, build
ing better than he knew" invented
the other day = new and exceedingly
appropriate name for the ordinary run
of city saloons. The little fellow knew
that we bought tea at a tea-store and
boots at 4 bookstore. So this kind of
unconscious analogy guided his speech.
At the table the other day he broke out
with the news: Il seed two men COM
ing out of a drunk-store; and one of
'em was oxticated." ..Drunk-store.
the Traveller recommends for general
use Is the more appropriate for the
regular business of such places.-Bos
ton Traveller. +. = 49,. ..,.,
In old times drunkenness was not
considered disreputable among tho
gentry" The great man WIS the
''four-bottle man." and the hero of the
occasion at a drinking bout was tho
one who could put all the others un-
der the table. y All this has not entire
" Misrepresentation by any means-for
habits and human nature do not change
In day. But there certainly has been
. marked alteration for the better. The
man who, in IN assembly of gentlemen
Ct dinner elsewhere, gets drunk makes
himself obnoxious He Is not applaud
ed; he Is not even pitied. He is con-
demned and his company fought shy OF
thereafter. Cincinnati CommerciaLCap
zettA
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-08
The New. Briefly cnron,c,.,


Fifteen young men from Tipperary
and Kilkenny have been selected by
Bishop McGoldrich, of Duluth. as
students for the American priesthood
Charles Durham, brakeman on the
Northwestern, was thrown between
two freight cars near Owatonna by a
brake chain giving away and his head
was cut off.
The establishment of a post Office is
asked for at lrondale. Ramsey county.
The twenty-fifth annual fair of the
Ric, County Agricultural society was
held at Mortified.
John d. Howard q pioneer. state
senator and millionaire, died at Duluth.
He was q native of Connecticut. and
went to Duluth in 1855.
Joseph Kriz, a Duluth butcher, aged
80 years, committed suicide in saloon.
No cause was known.
Millionaire Thomas Lowry, the Min
neapolis railway king. gave his
daughter draft for $500, 900 on the &C.
casion of her recent marriage to H. P.
Robinson, a local newspaper editor.
Mrs. Swan, of Council Bluffs, Ia, ,
visiting with her nephew, George O.
Moore, at Worthington, died suddenly
of heart failure. She was about 70
years old. a.:
Thomas Larson, of Dane Prairie,
while boring q we'll for G. l.. Assness,
In St. Olaf, struck what he thought was
vein of natural gas at a depth of 90
feet.
Miss Augusta Pratt, of Minnesota,
has been appointed civil service COM
mission examiner. Miss Pratt is a grad.
uate of Minnesota state normal school
and has been a clerk in the treasury
department at Washington for several
years.
Several lives were reported lost in
the tornado which leveled millions of
feet Of lumber near Grand: Rapids. A
deputy United States surveyor was
among those killed.
Ignatius Donnelly, president of tho
Minnesota Farmers Alliance, said that
he was in favor of the farmers holding
their grain thirty days more lie had
issued a circular to that effect.
james Jackson, . farmer miles
from Woodstock, was thrown from q
horse and badly bruised. His jawbone
was broken and face badly disfixured
by the horse stepping on him after
throwing him.
The Page -four mill at Fergus Falls
has been leased by George w. Tileston
& Co., who will operate the mill while
litigation is In progress. TIE mill has
capacity of 800 barrels daily! ..
The receipts at the state fair were:
Gate receipts, $50, 600; privileges, 81, 600;
stall rent, 81 900. making $50, 900 in all.
The expenses were $a9. 900, leaving !
balance of 5000. - '.'2 = p =
A. census bulletin shows that there
sre six exclusive seed farms in Mime.
sofa, LAO acres being cultivated. This
and is valued ct 3SA 50 per acre, and
the total value Of farm implements and
taildings Is 81 :37.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-08
First Payments of u Sugar Bount,

WAsHINGroN, Oct. 5.-The first pay
ments of bounty under the law giving
a bounty of two cents a pound on sugar
produced in the United States have
been made ut the treasury department..
They were both in favor of the Chino
Valley Sugar Company at Chino, Cal,
on two claims for the production of
$4,000 pounds of beet sugar and
amounted to $500.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-08

~ 4. VERY formidable war vessel is
about ready to fly Uncle Sans colors.
She Is the monitor Niantonomoh, is
"59H feet lcng, and carries in two
double turrets four ten-inch rife guns,
the most effective ship guns we have
yet turned out, She is belted with
twelve and 'one-ha!f inches of steel
Ind iron, and sits low in the water.
She is intended for harbor de-
Tense, and = will justify confidence
IN her ability to make a good fight
~against.rt the, strongest iron-clad~ that
can lie sent against her. She has
two amiables sisters, the Puritan and
Terror. ~ L. - - 49,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-08

SIMULTANEOUSLY with the news that
the empress of Austria is showing signs
of approaching insanity comes the lit
formation that she smokes forty Tu,'-
kish cigarettes day. 1t does not need
an expert neurologist to trace cause
and effect in this case.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-08

,,,n, ANEW mineral is said to have been
discovered in Texas in large deposits.
1t is called litho-carbon, and is found
, mixed with sand. from which it is sep
aratedrby being dissolved in benzine. 1t
"a. issaid to be the most perfect electric in
p, su!ator known, a wire coated with it
having a. resistance of 1000 megohms
4 PER mife; against 1000 attained by the
!. hest insulation known hitherto. The
81 slightest film of it coating a.wire in
~. sNres . perfect insulation. 1t is also
and practically fireproof,
! yald susceptible of use as paint or
iiyarnish. II is unaffected by the weather
ssanl is entirely odorless r. T.. =
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-08

BosToN is the only city in the world
which preserves an exact record of the
proceedings of its common council.
Every motion, argument and remark,
no matter how unimportant, is stem
geographically taken down. The men,
bers are, therefore, very careful of
their utteranceS.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-08

The new Plaza bank soon to COM
mence business in the city of New
York will be as distinctly million
aires bank as the Metropolitan club is
club of millionaires. 1t has on it's
list OF stockholders greater numbe of
millionaires than any other similar in
stitution in this country. The COM
bined wealth of the men backing the
new bank is probably $500, O0o, 900.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-08

81 e. The wonderful crops and the album
~ dance Of general products in the United
States this year seem to be a family
: blessing, bestowed without regard to
where the Individual members may he
ID located, from the arctic, circle to the
Nj xNf and covering half the world in
.fas dQngitude.3 This is really noteworthy,
considering the hard times aflicting
sssniieke rest of the world with equnl impair
TALLY ss The salmon product. CT Alaska
is unusua1ly large, and will average is
PER cert ov~r>that Of last year. Over
goo. 600 cascs of salmon will h. n1,:ped
from Alaska this season. OEs Steamer
l,rJaeht dos Y, 900 cases .,.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-08

The two erstwhile globe trotters of
the feminine persuasion, Miss Elizabeth
Bislana and Miss Cochrane (s'Nellv
Bly, are reported as thriving in their
several walks. Miss Bisland, just from
Europe, is to marry Mr.: Charles w.
Wetmore, a New York lawyer. Miss
Cochrane is said to be wearing Partisan
gownsand writing well-paid stories of
the ephemeral and Intellectual sort
But both girls are getting on by self
help, and that's what American girls
arc born for
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-08

The evidence taken in the celebrated
Davis will case in Butte, Mont, COW
cred four thousand pages of transcripts,
total of about one million two hun
dred Thousand words. If the sheets of
evidence were placed end to end and
close together they would reach nearly
a mile. AS they stand in the court rec
Ords they make a pile about six feet
high: And this is simply evidence,
Without attorneys speeches and rulings
OF the court. 7 he stenographic work
= cost about 81, 600. 80
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-08

The amount of money now raised by
the New York Grant Monument asso-
citation Is 151,2l3s SO. This will be
enough to, pay for building one story of
the monument. The committee has ap-
proved the proposition to remove the
present temporary tomb of the dead
general and place it in the position it
is to occupy permanently as soon as
the concrete work of the foundation is
,, completed. 1t is proposed to move the
.sep'tlcher intact without disturbing its
form or contents, and to place it where
subsequently the crypt to contain it is
! 10 be built. -.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-08

A SOUTHERN genius is credited with
the discovery that very fine article of
sugar can be made or distilled from
the, long.despised cotton seed. The
product is claimed to be fifteen times
the strength of an equal quantity of
cane sugar and twenty times the
strength of sugar made from beets.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-08

1--WE American miners went from
California on May last to prospect for
gold along the River Maranon, in Peru,
the headwaters of the Amazon A
South American paper says that one of
the party returned to Lima about three
weeks ago completely broken down by
sickness He was unable to continue
his jonrneyings, and reports the death
In the mountains of his four compan-
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-08
|MINNEsO TA ST ATE NEWS
TO SAVE THE WHEAT.

6allroads Offering 20 Garry Men and L.
chjnes 70 North Dakota.
The Jobbers' union of St. Paul
has issued m urgent call for thresh.
ers and machines for North Dakota.
Unless they can DO got in num-
bcrs great part of the immense
wheat crop Of that state will be
lost So short was the working. force
that farmers were threshing from
the shock and helping each other out
But by this process not nearly all 81
the wheat can be saved and the impor-s
tant full blowing cannot be done. The
railroads are offering TO carry machines
and men to the harvest fields and re-
turn free.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-08

! "A LYONS anatomist has examined the
skeletons of eighty-six monkeys
cbimpanzees gorillas and orang- outangs
/ land has found diseases of the bone to
be as frequent as in man, and of a
strikingly similar character.
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Canning Works DESTROYED.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Oct, 5.-Shortly
after o'clock Sunday morning fire was
discovered in the immense canning es-
establishment OF Vancamps The fire
was beyond control when the depart
ment reached the scene and the entire
building running from Noa 800 to
100 Kentucky avenue: was destroyed.
The loss. will be ss5o,Ooo.s 1t was in
SIRED for $3.50, 900 Beside this loss the
fire happened in the busiest season OF
the year and over 500 employees arc
temporarily thrown ont Of employ
ment. The building. will he immedi
sately rebuilt. %E% ~
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-08

u Orr gold coins are alleged with silver
and copper, chiefly the latter. Copper
alone is used to alloy our silver coins.
In both silver and gold there are nine
parts pure metal to one of alloy. Our
nickel coins are three-fourths copper
and one of nickel. The Que cent is
ninetv-five per cent copper and five of
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-08

TIE late Bishop Caldwell, of India,
had been in charge of the great Tin
nevelly mission just half century,
having been appointed thereto three
years after his first arrival in Madras.
The mission now embraces 61S villages,
10000 Christian adherents, and 46
clergy, chiefly natives.
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THE EAST.

FIRE destroyed Motifs cider refinery
and storage houses at Rockville, N. Y,
the largest in the country. Loss, $780,
900.
BIZ gasoline explosion Mrs. Henry
Kessler, wife of leading business
man at Erie, Pa, was burned to death,
and Mr.. Kessler in trying to save his
wife's life was disfigured and crippled
for life and his aged mother was badly
burned.
FLAMES among warehouses in Phila-
delphia caused a loss to Jessup &
Moore and Phillips & Cunningham of
$1,000
NEAR Pittsburgh the biggest oil well
opened, the product estimated at 10,-
0CO barrels day.
AT Buckhorn, Pa. John Appleman
was swindled out of So, 500 by two
strangers with gold bricks"
THE firm of +. Il. Wallace & Co.,
New York brokers' failed for $500, GOO;
assets, 1928, 535.
THE White Star line steamer Teu-
tonic reduced the eastward record by
making the trip from New York to
Queenstown in S days 81 hours and 90
minutes.
The Massachusetts, democrats held
their convention at Worcester and re-
nominated William E. Russell for gov.
ernor. A resolution was adopted OPP
posing the free coinage of silver.
THE National Civil Service Reform
League at the convention at Buffalo,
N. Y, reelected George William Curtis
as president.
Two MASKED men robbed an Ameri-
can express car between Little Falls
and Utica, N. Y, of $4,000. A pack
age containing S., 900 was overlooked
THE Routzdale (Pa.) First national
bank suspended payment on account of
the embezzlement of 1000 by the
teller
THE death of Maj. William Mckee
Dunn. who was Gen. Grants personal
aid de camp during the war, occurred
at Cushings Island, Me.
In the Pittsburgh district 10000 rail-
road coal miners struck for increased
wages.
NEAE Avon, n. j., Andrew Quinlin,
aged so, and the oldest railway con-
due: or in the United States, was killed
by train.
THE wooden mills of the Harper Man.
ufacturing Company at Oxford, Me-,
were burned. causing loss of 500, 600.
PRICES in the Connecticut tobacco
market have advanced from three to
eightcents per pound.
The firm of Turner & Bro, Boston
bankers, failed for 100000.
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WEST AND SOUTH.

The South Dakota republicans have
nominated John L. Jolley for congress
to succeed the late Johu r. Gamble.
The stables of r. A. Wilson at Wood
lake, KY. were burned, together with
ten valuable trotting horses
The noted revlvalists Sam Jones and
Sam Small have been summoned be-
fore a. grand jury at Rome, Ca, for
saying in one of their meetings that
"Rome was hotbed of cussedness and
CO >ruption.'
THE1output of sorghum sugar IN Kan
sa$ and beet sugar in Nebraska, Utah
and California was estimated at fully
$1,000, 600 pounds for the present sea-
son.
JAMES LEErER and Ed Powell were
hanged at Gainesville, Tex, for the
murder of John T. Mathiason.
The democrats of Colorado in session
at Denver nominated Luther NJ. God
dard, of Leadville, for chief justice of
the supreme court. ::
In Eldorado county, CAL, forest fires
destroyed farmhouses and barns, and
left over forty families homeless.
REPUBLICANS of Colorado met in
state convention at Glenwood Springs
and renominated Joseph c. Helm for
chief justice of the supreme court.
The tug Bertha Endress went down
during heavy gale near Point Iro-
quois. Mich, with six men on board.
and all persisted.
AT the age of s6 years William Allen,
who spent small fortune and fifty
years of his life in efforts to ameliorate
the condition of the workingmen, has
been sent to the county poor-house at
Columbus, o. .u '~
THE democrats have nominated j. M,
Wood, of Rapid City, for congress from
South Dakota -5.~
AJuDaE in Texas refused to natural
ize an applicant for American citizen
ship who is socialist. The Judge said
the principles of socialism were not in
harmony with the constitution of the
United States 49,,
a SCOPE of country 300 miles long
and 200 miles wide was burned over in
the vicinity of Fort Yates, N. d., s,.d
farmhouses, stock ranches and many
herds of horses and cattle we,e iie-
stroyed. - r r - 49,
By collision on the New York,
Pennsylvania & Ohio near Kent. O.,
four persons were killed and thirt:. in:
jured. .-.:e @- " .
In South Dakota large numbers OF
hogs were dying of cholera t.;:%
NEAR Oak Glen, suburb Of Chicago,
Mr. and Mrs Adolph Basdorf were as
saulted by William Mante, q farm
hand, and would both probably die
from the injuries received ri .l$ gt,;... u
.. In Texas heavyrains have fallen and
the government rainmakers were likely
to move to dryer regions s5stssgs
At Fort Howard, Wis, Nice artney.e
exchange bank was robbed Of $40. oo0
in cash and bonds. 5$s 4. 5.s = y
FIRE destroyed Bird e. Wells saw.
mil at Wausaukee, Wis, the loso being
41(D 600. Rs. ~ 3 :