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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-20
LATER
1T was q Bear DaY.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Aug. 17.-This was
another wild day in wheat. SATURDAYS
closing was $1.o6h for December. The
opening this morning was 81. 90 bid.
81. 10 bid, Sill bid, and some to be had
at $1.11H. Some was had at all the
prices named IN the first ten seconds.
Within three quarters of an hour after
the opening in the great furry there
had been sales at $1.1215, a great
Hood OF them at 81. 13, and some excited
bidders bid $1.14, while hundreds were
selling at cent lower. In the heieht
OF the excitement one trade of 10 ono
bushels was made at $1.15.
Suddenly it seemed to be the general
opinion that the advance had been too
strong and December began to dron,
How December did drop. The most de-
termined efforts of the bulls could onlv
result in holding it now and then for =
minute on the stairs and perhaps boost
it upa step or two, only to have It
start down again. It was too heavy.
Within very few minutes it had
reached $1.05. Then more bull news
came in and with hard fight it was
brought back to $1.07, but after an honr
OF seesawing back and forth between
That and $1.O61, the bears hit it with a
club. Down it went to $1.O4k. Int
soon recovered to $1.05I and finally
closed at $1.O3.
1T is believed that the Russian ukase
prohibiting the expectation of rye will
be rescinded in October. The St. Pot
ersburg journal states that the car
held out for long time against the ad-
vice that the decree be issued. It il 70.
ported that the German government
will reduce the income tax on certain
classes in order to mitigate the effects
OF the stoppage Of rye exports from
Russia. -,
REPORTS reached Portland. Or. m
the 18th, that Mount Hood was n .
state OF eruption. Smoke could be seen
issuing from the mountain. Several
distinct earthquake shocks were also
heard and felt about S clock and many
OF the citizens feel considerahlv
alarmed. Mount Hood is only s;xty
miles from Portland in a straight line
AT Grand Forks, N. D., the nth. Rev
w. T. Currie. his daughter Ruth. aoed
fifteen, and Dora Vankirk wera
drowned while bathing in Red Lake
river. & - @;SssE ~ s%=Es: 5Y>ls n +
8: L. BAY was arrested at Little Rocl
Ark, the 18th. charged with stealing
300, 900 in state scrip. 49, y :"
FOURTEEN persons were killed in q
railway collision in Switzerland, on tho
18th. .ss Bal z,
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Found Money in = Chimney.

MARTINsvnLE, Ind, Aug. 17.-While
tearing down an old chimney near
Mooresville Harry feathers found $500
in $40 bills secreted therein. The bills
are in a fair state of preservation.
There is no clew as to how long the
money has been there or who placed it
in hiding.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-20
Death Of q Noted Wrestler.

= New York, Aug. 17.-Matsada Sor.
~akishi. the celebrated Japanese wrest-
Ter, who, after gaining many laurels at
Toxic, japan. and becoming cham
pion wrestler of his own country,
came over here, where he at
tracted great attention and proved
himself to be a wonder at his own
style of wrestling. died here Saturday.
Sorakichi came here about eight years
ago. Sorakichi was born in Shinana,
Japan, 80 years ago. He was not a
large man, but his physique was =
wonderful one and his strength was
:. predictions.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-20

A MAN in San Francisco has peculiar
mania for opening and closing doors,
aad will stand for hours at time at
one of the entrances to the post office
opening and closing the doors for the
accommodation of the pedestrians
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-20

IT'S all very well to promenade the
deck of an Atlantic racer and bet
she'll scale down to the Majestic's
time, but the boys that saw the wood
and get no fame out of it are the
stokers. 1t is not always the major
general that wins the battle; it's the
grimy, stalwhrt unkno,yps that serve
the guns.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-20

VoT1SG day in Japan presents some
curious sights. The voters have to don
their best garments and proceed to the
voting counter, there to ballot without
any parleying as soon after eight
O'Clock as possible. After casting
ballots they make a bow to the assem-
blage present, in which their heads
nearly strike the floor, and retire as 81.
IDENTIFY as they came.
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The proportions of the human figure
are six times the length of the right
foot; the face, from the highest point
OF the forehead, where the hair begins,
to the end of the chin, is ne-tenth of
the whole stature; the hand, from wrist
to the end of the middle finger, is also
one-tenth of the total height; from the
crown to the nape of the neck, is one
twelfth of the stature.
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Funeral Of Mrs. Polk

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Aug 17.-The
funeral of Mrs. James K. Polk occurred
here at 10 o'clock Sunday morning.
There was q great crowd present, but
the services were transformations. The
remains were placed in the tomb be-
side those of her distinguished hus-
band. = -. IT. g $780,.
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Buried by . Cavs-Iu,

DANvlLLE, Va, Aug. IT, While q
force of hands were at work Friday in
. sewer ditch the walls caved In, and
five men were buried under the falling
earth. They were dug ont in = few
minutes, but Sam Perkins was found to
be dead and Spencer Ewell fatally in
jured. Three others were injured, brt
not fntallv All were negroes =. 80. :
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-20

DOVE COTTAGE, the simple little
dwelling at ~Grasmere, wherein Words
worth lived so long with his sweet SIS
ter Dorothy and wrote much of his best
work-and where De Quincy lived
afterward and wrote the Opium
Eater"-is now the property of the
british nation. 1t is to be restored and
kel!t in perfect order.
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WHHELM BAUM, of Chicago, who ig-
nored the majesty of the law by trans
ferring his young wife to his cousin
with quit claim deed for considera,
ton OF seventy. five dollars, appears to
have leaped into a variety of trouble.
impatient at the receipt of the pay
ments on the installment plan he de-
manded the return of his wife, and made
things, SO lively that he was arrested
for disorderly conduct, which resulted
inhis original matrimonial transaction
becoming public. There are African
districts whore men sell their wives, but
Mr.. Baum win probably be convinced
that his proQseding was very irregular.
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IT is said that Italy, having got over
her huff, would like to get back into
the diplomatic circle at Washington,
but the rupture over the New Orleans
tragedy must be. amicably settled be-
fore Italy can return a minister to this
government We must show some dis
position to grant an indemnity in order
that Italy may kiss and make up with
out loss of dignity. Contrary to the
custom in our official life a vacancy in
the diplomatic corps is not filed by pro-
motion. The Marquis Imperial can.
not become minister, because he is a
secretary only. At present Baron Fava
is taking things quietly in Rome.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-20

= The potentially of Texas as wheat
growing. state is something incalcula-
bic. Three years ago they didn't know
they could raise it-cotton seemed
their stronghold. This year they turned
out 7,500,O 900 bushels, and of this $500,
600 came from the Panhandle, which.
five years ago. they thought good only
for grazing: After this season land
can't be bought in the Panhandle for
twenty-five cents an acre. Itwas a big
sensation this season when Texas
shipped ninety thousand bushels OF
wheat to Liverpool. The farmer got
from sixty-eight to seventy-eight cents
ut the nearest point of shipment.
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FELL DOWN THE CHIMNEY.

Six Warkme,l Go Down $50 Feet and One
Is Killed.
LAWRENCE, Mass, Aug. 15.-While
:work1nen were placing in position fire
core ON the top of the 15O-foot chimney
of the Pemberton mills the staging
broke, dropping the six workmen,
Frank Shaw, foreman; O. Meyers.
John Kennedy, Leveret Griffin, Fred
Proyrr and Anthony Gaudett, who
wer' handling the core. The staging
rebounded against the sides going
down which broke the fall so that
while all were seriously injured none
were fatally hurt but Griffin, whose
neck was broken,
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A Husband.s AvYnl No.,

OTTAWA, Kan, Aug. 17.-E. B. Pres
ton. q lumber merchant of North Of
tawa. shot and killed his wife SUNDAY
afternoon and attempted to commit
suicide. Mr.. and Mrs, Preston sep.
srated some time ego.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-20

+ The British House. of commons is be-
coming sensible and more inclined to
transact its business at proper hours.
Every year the tendency is for shorter
sittings A few. years ago it sat till
two or three o'clock in the morning,
and often after the morning papers had
gone to press. Now it is impatient ut
being called upon to sit until one
o'clock in the morning on only two
days in the week. Midnight is the
time when the last trains go homeward,
and the members do not like to be de-
tanned.
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The belle of Charlotte, a fashion,
able summer resort near Rochester,
N. Y, was recently won heart and
hand, and married d dashing young
stranger. The impromptu wedding
feast was hardly cold before the groom
was arrested as common sneak thief.
He is in prison cell and his bride is
bowed down with humiliation.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

ACCORDING to official statistics the
population of Mexico is 1893. s24.
Two STEAMERS that were racing
collided near Yokohama and ECO per-
sons lost their lives.
OWING to wholesale corruption hav-
ing been unearthcd in his department
Sir Hector Langevin, minister of pub
lie works in the dominion government,
has resigned.
The vault in the cathedral at Lima,
Peru, in which the remains of Francis
co Pizarro were placed in 1851 was
opened and the remains moved to the
chapel Of the viceroys. The body was
found well preserved.
NEAR Bowmanville, Ont, Mr.. and
Mrs. Hawkins and Miss Mary Bee
were drowned by the capsizing of q
boa.
ADELINA PATTI threw open her new
theater to the world on the 18th at
Craig-y-Nos, Wales.
In France immense tracts of timber
were being consumed by forest fires.
In Hamilton, Ont, John Callahan, an
employe Of street railway company,
confessed that he had in the last six
years embezZled SIS, ZOO.
NEAR Potsdam. Germany, tornado
leveled farm buildings and over adozen
persons were killed.
Two OF the leaders of the massacre
of British officials in March last were
hanged at Manipur, India.
The wheat crop of Franco will fall
8, 200. 900 bushels short of supplying its
own needs
Moscow police received orders that
would result in expelling all Jews
from that city within two months.
FERMIN PEREZ, Hiplyto Gonzales and
Bonifacio Vaides, who had been CEN
victed of kidnapping, were executed at
Havana.
The total public debt of Brazil is
$3.50, COS, sos.
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BRAZIL this year has a coffee crop of
nine million bags nearly double the
crop of last;syear In Guatemala the
crop is also excellent and is expected
10 bring sixteen million dollars in gold.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-20

THE first American built steel clip
per ship, the Title f. Starbuck, has
just completed . voyage between New
York and Liverpool. Time from Liv-
erpool twenty-five days..
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PATHOLOGICAL statistician calculates
that in the year 1000 there will be 1,7oo,-
Oo0, 900 people who speak English, and
that the other European languages win
be spoken by only 500, O00, 900 people.
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tory handled !, 500, 900 pounds of milk
in July.
The owners of the St. Louis hotel at
Duluth, recently burned, have decided
to at once put the building in the same
condition as before the fire.
The First national bank of St. Paul
made reserve agent of the Lyon Coun-
ty national bank of Marshall.
A. T. Agan, collector for the German
American bank of Minneapolis, was
robbed of 500 in bills and a number OF
accepted drafts By pickpocket-
In connection with the establishment
of a post Office at Menahago, Wadena
county, it is proposed to esta blish
another at Lebeka- Lebeka is miles
north of Wadena.
H. NJ. Kent, an old resident of Mime
apolis, died of cancer of the stomach.
A Hebrew peddler named Soroschiky,
aged so years, dropped dead in the
streets at St. Paul.
The July expenses of the Minnesota
hospital for the insane at St. Peter
were $10,S95.06.
George, the s-year-old son of Charles
drowned in mill pond at Edna Mills.
The friends of William Wintheiser
and wife, of Minneapolis, gave them a
pleasant surprise on the twenty-fiftl;
anniversary of their marriage.
An unknown man was struck by a
Northern Pacific train in Minneapolis,
and probably fatally injured.
William Foord, well-to-do farmer
living in the outskirts of Vernda!e,
shot and instantly killed himself in an
clubhouse.
August Fuhrmann, father of II. C..
Fuhrmann, died in Winona at the age
of 50 years. He was an old resident
1t was estimated that 40, 600, 600
bushels of wheat would be handled at
Duluth the present season.
James Hughes, q well-known Mime
apolis express man, fell. under loaded
wood cart driven by himself and was
instantly killed.
Elias Schiller, young German in
the employ of the Fitger Brewing Com
pany at Duluth, got beyond his depth
and was drowned in Spirit lake while
bathing.
The establishment of a post Office is
asked at Menahoga, Wadena. county, a
station on the projected railway line IL
miles south of Park Rapids, in Hubbard
county.
A heavy hailstorm passed over the
region of Sawyer and Big Lake, totally
destroying gardens and crops of ali
kinds. The heaviest part of the storm
passed directly over village of Chip
pewa Indians, mile north of Sawyer,
demolishing number of huts.
Herman Mason, q 12.year-old Mime
apolis boy, had his right foot cut of BY
the cars
NJ, Dali, well-to-do farmer living 2
miles from Litchfield, died very sud.
denly.
Receiver Truesdale, of the Mime.
apolis & st. Louis railroad, says the
crops along that road are the best he
ever saw. 80
The officers of the southern Min.
nesota fair to be held in Rochester are
making great preparations for the fai,
to be held the first week in September
It will be superior to any fair ever held
by the association. -..s--'
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Braxll's Public Debt,

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-THE report
of the finance minister of Brazil for
1890 shows that the total public debt of
Brazil is 1886, COS, s05. The foreign
debt is $l51, 900, 600 and the internal
debit 34?s 000 XOS
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Kicked tho Can.

l. Fort Smith, Ark, Aug. N.-Edward
Stinson, q farmer living 10 miles from
here, kicked can of nitro-glycerine to
see what it contained. 1t took the
coroner's jury three hours to get his re-
mains together, = e.. 49,
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Hid tho Body in q aaystack.

AMEsBURY, Mass, Aug. II. The
body of an unknown man has been
found concealed underneath haystack
near Newbury, this state. From all
indications the body had been there six
or eight months, and the auth critics
are convinced that the man was MUIR
dered.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-20

IF there is one department of human
knowledge in which the average Brit.
Usher excels it is that devoted to the
geography of the people inhabiting
the North American continent between
Canada and the Gulf of Mexico. For
instance note this bit Of profunlity:
1.-THE city article of the London Times
informs its readers that Chicago is des-
tined to become one of the greatest
Craln-growing states in the union. ~
The fair will do more fo~ our English
cousins than course at Oxford or Cam
bridge
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-20

NOT far from Portland, Me-. a harm
was set on FIRE BY. lightning. The SOME
bolt that fred the building shattercd 3
pipe that connected with a water MAN.
and the flow Of water extinguishcd The
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-20

The important question of the ad-
mission to the worlds fair in '93 is
practically settled Fifty cents will be
demanded of every one entering the
gates, but, the money once paid, the
visitor will be entitled to see every
thing on the grounds. There will he no
side shows, To encourage people who
bring exhibits from great distance and
ut great expense licenses will. be
granted for the selling of goods. It will
be possible to buy an ivory-back
scratcher from a Chinaman, or a carved
scarabeaus from an Egyptian princess,
but it will cost nothing extra to see
any of the exhibits.
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WEST AND SOUTH.

IT was said that j. .. Wynne, OF
Atlanta, business agent of the Georgia
State Alliance exchange, was over &c.
900 short in his accounts.
The National Capital Savings, Build
ing and Loan association of North
America, with headquarters in Chi
cago, was found to he gigantic swim
die, and L. f. Mortimer, the manager,
escaped with Sl50,O00 in his possession.
The population of Iowa according to
a census bulletin has increased 2S7,-
POI, or 17.6S per cent, within ten years
The total population was given at
1,9l1.S98:
FIRE destroyed nearly the entire vii
lage of Camp Douglas. Wis. the loss
being over $3.50, 600.
FRANK COFFEY was killed and two
young men fatally wounded in a free
for-all fight over q pint of whisky at
Atlanthus. Mo-
The assessed value of Illinois prop
erty for 1891 is $737, Sl6, 405, against
$727, 425, 7O7 in 1890.
Orr Pressure Isle, Mich, a yacht was
struck by squall and capsizcd, and
three young ladies were drowned.
HURRICANE destroyed the Chippewa
Indian village near Sawyer, MINI.
On the Grand Rapids & Indiana rail-
way an express train ran into freight
at Briant, Ind, and Engineer Dick and
Fireman Brown were killed.
In Minneapolis R. b. Gurley, of the
San Francisco Examiner, dropped dead
in street.
"A FIRE in the wool houses of George
Oberne and Hosick & Co. in Chicago
caused loss of $500, 600.
AT the age of 50 years William Arm
strong, said to have been the oldest
living odd fellow in the United States,
died at Salem, Ore.
IN the bay at Toledo, O., q yacht
capsised and Miss Sullivan, Mr.. Oberly
and Mr.. Fitzgerald were drowned
EFFORTS to produce rain by the firing
of dynamite in balloons sent up for
that purpose were successful at Mid.
land, Tex.
AT Redlands, Cal, q cloudburst
flooded all the business houses and
washed away many small buildings.
On the 18th Mrs. Asenath Miller, of
Chicago, celebrated her 1O4th birthday.
She was in good health.
A BULLETIN from the census Office
shows the population of West Virginia
to be 1852, 794, an increase of IA, 1877
over 1890.
WHILE smoking cigarettes boys set
fire to the barn of Sanford Moss at An
derson, Ind. and three horses and q
large amount of hay, grain and farming
implements were destroyed.
NEAR Melrose, Mimi, a hailstorm
leveled thousands of acres of wheat,
many farmers losing all their crops,
even corn and potatoes
AN investigation of the n ational Cap
ital Savings, Building and Loan asso-
cations books in. Chicago shows that
over 8, 100 victims were swindled out of
sums aggregating $4,000. :ee
The failure was reported of William
A. Levering, lumber merchant of
Philadelphia, for $3.50. 600 = 49,. =.
The national Farmers. Alliance con.
vention will be held in Indianapolis
November IL. r.
BURGLARS killed Mrs. James r. Rob
ertson and her daughter, Miss Belle
Robertson, in their house at St. Mar
ttinsville, La. s4rsse H. ~ M. ~.
/. FIRE destroyed the factory of the
Henry c. Hart Manufacturing Com
pany in Detroit causing loss Of $780,
600. et ~ r. :Gs.= ~5a& {
A TORNADO nearly wrecked the vii
lage OF Ellsworth, MINI.
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A NEW YORK bartender touched an
electric motor in his saloon and fell
dead. The electric light people say
electricity didn't do it, and a coroner,
who knows no more about medicine
than pig knows of Greek, says it's a
clear case of heart disease, That
settles it, so the man may have died of
Group, or dyspepsia, or home sickness.
for all these diseases are of course
quickly engendered by laying your
hand on a live motor and bringing your
head in contact with the other pole in
some unexpected fashion.
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WILLIAM ALLlBoNE, of Punta Rassa,
Fla, has an alligator which eats M the
refuse OF the Allibone household and Is
: q better :scavenger by tar than the
average New York garba1e man.
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THE EAST.

SUIT has been commenced. by the
state of Pennsylvania against the late
Treasurer Bardsley for S527, 024. and
against the county of Philadelphia for
1922, 600 taxes said to be due the state.
The death of Mrs. Leila Robinson
Sawtelle, the first woman to be admit
CURED at Amherst, N. H.
The thermometer in New York city
on the 10th registered 81 degrees in the
shade, and there were twelve fatal
cases of sunstroke.
THE death of James Russell Lowell,
the great American poet and diplomat,
occurred at 2:10 o'clock ON the morning
of the 18th at his home in Cambridge,
Mass. He was born February %, 1919,
death was caused by an affection of the
liver.
In New York city there were 100
cases OF prostration ON the 18th from
the intense heat.
A PROMINENT Cleveland (O.) physi-
clan, A. G. Moffett, was drowned at
Chautauqua, N. Y.
In New York city thirty persons
died from the effects of the heat and
eight met like fate in Philadelphia.
A SPECIAL session of the Vermont
Legislature will convene August 25.
A TORNADO at Landenburg, Del, de-
molished several buildings, killed two
persons and many cattle and ruined
crops.
AT Cold Spring, L. l., sixteen persons
were killed and twenty others injured
by the deck of an excursion barge fall.
ing upon them.
New YoRK democrats will hold their
state convention at Saratoga Springs
on September Is.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, w. E. Schmertz,
boot and shoe dealer, has failed fo1
$3.50, 1000.
THE death of George Jones, editor
and proprietor of the New York Times,
occurred at Poland Springs, Me-, on the
18th, aged so years.
CHARLES +. WOLF, who had Just been
elected executive officer of the worlds
fair commission from Pennsylvania a,
dropped dead on his way to his home
in Harrisburg, Pa.
BY collision between an express
train on the Philadelphia & Reading
railroad with freight at Egg Harbor,
N j.. nine persons were injured.
AT Goshen, N. Y, Miss Anna Diclzin-
son lectured on "Joan of Arc," and
showed no signs of insanity.
WHILE en- route from New York to
Europe Rev. DR.. Nargan Sheshadon,
the first high caste Brahmin ever con
verified to the Christian faith, died at sea.
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A NEW car on the Michigan Central
railroad does the work cf three hundred
men in scraping the dirt, dumped on
the sides of the track to the edges Of
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A VAUDEVILLE (Me.) gardener en-
ploys new way to raise squashes. He
vets the young plants down three
times q week with skim milk. ~