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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-01
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CHECKED ~ RAIN. :

showers Come to the Aid Of the Fire
Fighters In the Northwest - Fla mes
Under Control-The,r Awful Rava ges In
Enmons County. n. d, and Elsewhere.
ST. PAUL., Mimi, Sept 2s.-Dis-
patches from Carleton, Milaca, Hinck-
ley and Pine City state it has been rain
Ing at all those points for the last
eighteen hours and that the forest fires
are everywhere under control. There
has never before been = fire of the mag
nitude of this one in this region. The
whole country has been swept by
the flames, and everything has been
burned outside of the towns, except
that 9 few lumber camps were. by great
exertion, saved, Thousands of tons of
hay have been cut on tho lowlands
about the lakes and this is all destroyed.
For miles and miles on every side there
is nothing but q blackened waste.
A dispatch from Williamsport, N. D..
the county seat of Emmons county.
says the property loss there has been
somewhat exaggerated, but will reach
100000. Three persons were burned
to death in that county-Henry Tabor,
living near Williamsport, and George
W. and Clyde G.. johnson, farmers
living near Beaver Creek. A report
from the Holland settlement on the
Missouri, north of Bismarck, says three
farm hands were burned there. The
loss at that point is about $50,OO
Whole herds of cattle hemmed in by
the awful conhagration were burned
to death. The prairies are strewn with
carcasses.
Hundreds of families are homeless
and penniless, and in many instances
they had to flee from their abodes with
only the clothes on their backs. There
is certain to be great suffering this
winter unless assistance comes to them
from outside sources. The fire which
started this great contlagration was set
by thrashing machine.
TURTLE LAKE, Mimi, Sept. 2s.-
Word has reached this village that the
family of Mr.. Nesse, farmer living a
short distance out of town, consisting
of himself, his wife and several small
children, were hemmed in by the flames
and no doubt burned to death, as no
help could reach them
BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis, Sept. %.
Reports from the east fork say that
forest fires are raging in that vicinity.
Laundering camps, timber and hay are
being reduced to ashes. and even the
flooding dams on the streams are not
spared by the raging flames. Bears,
deer and all manner of small game are
seeking the streams for place of safe
ty. In this vicinity fires are raging on
every side and large amount of prop
erty has been destroyed.
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis, Sept 2s.-
Forest fires are raging all over Chippe-
wa county and the air in this city is
thick with smoke. Considerable tim
Der land, barns containing summer
crops, stock, etc, have been burned.
Whole villages have been burned.
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The News Briefly Chronicle I.

William H. clearinghouse, of St.
Paul, crazed by illness, hung himself.
Strong & Miller, owners of large
mills and elevators on the Hastings and
Dakota branch of the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & st. Paul railway, will build in
Duluth this fall the largest flour mill in
the world. It will have a capacity of
$4,000 barrels day.
George King met horrible death in
Minneapolis by being struck by an
electric car.
The jury in the case of r. O. Hall.
the Duluth banker, on trial for receiv-
ing deposits in an insolvent bank, failed
to reach a verdict and were DISCHARGED.
They stood five for conviction and seven
for acquittal.
E. J. Breed, general manager of the
Marion flint glass works of Marion.
Ind, was in Duluth to establish a plant
there for the manufacture of glass.
The Dodge county agricultural fair
at Mantorville was the most success
full meeting Of the society since its
formation twenty-one years ago.
The board of education has awarded
the contract to build the new Eau
Claire (Wis.) high school to Edward
Siskvon. Of Minneapolis, for s34,soo.
Ellen Langslow, of Duluth, appeared
before a judge and asked to be sent to
the insane asylum. Her request was
granted
Mrs +. u. Snyder, of Minneapolis,
died very suddenly of Bright's disease
of the kidneys. She was the daughter
OF ex-Gov. Pillstsry. and occupied a
prominent position in Minneapolis So
ciety.
Winona's high wagon bridge across
the Mississippi is now an assured thing.
At an adjourned meeting of the CITY
council, the contract with the Chicago
Bridge & Iron Company for doing all
the work and furnishing all the ma
terials for $94, 700 was adopted.
Fire broke out in the Acma Coopera-
tive Barrel Company's building at Min
neapolis and spread rapidly. the struc-
ture being destroyed. The loss was
$40, 900; covered by insurance.
In a quarrel at Pipestone between
Tom Allerton and John Anonsmith the
former was dangerously hurt
William Colburn threshed 1850
bushels of oats at Osseo from twenty
acres A No. oats. Isaac Trevis from
fifteen acres of wheat threshed $50
bushels of No. wheat. There were
many others who had threshed like
wise. Enormous crops of potatoes were
reported. -.
ALERT Wardell. boy Is years old,
was fatally shot while squirrel hunting
near White Bear Lake by the ACCT
dental discharge of gun in the hands
of another. - -.~# ~;
Frank Hewins, of West Duluth, was
accidentally, but not fatally shot. He
pulled a shotgun toward him in boat
and both barrels were discharged shat
tering one of his arms. -
During the past five years Minneap-
oils has put up ~, 600 buildings 1T cost
OF 81, 600. 600, and made 6l;63l real
estate transfers aggregating 1904, $40.
el4-an increase Of 100 per cent. ov.r
the record OF the five years preceding,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-01

Ten persons were injured in coils
ion on the Inter-suburban electric line
in St Paul. All were going home from
the Minneapolis exposition. The most
seriously injured were: Minnie Peter
son, Lillian Fifteen and George $. Ross,
but it was believed all would recover.
The others were Oscar Endust, Mrs.
Stevens, Mr.. J. NJ. Stoll, Mrs. J. NJ.
Stoll, II. A. Capron, Miss Mary Bishop
and Mrs. Thomas.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-01

WILL HEARsT's new steam yacht
Vamoose has done what no ether craft
ever yet has done. She has passed the
speedy Hudson-river passenger steamer
Mary Powell, crowded to her best
though the latter was, and then the
little S65, 600 marvel went around the
ktern of the Powell and passed her
again. The VamOose made over
twenty-six miles an hour to do it, and
still didn't do all her engines were
capable of,
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SWEPT BY A TORNADO.
Northern Minnesota Partly Denutled
Timber nv tho Mind

Northern Minnesota Partly Denuded OF
Timber by the Wind.
THIEF RIVER FALLS. MIMI. Sept. IS.
"A hurricane swept through northern
Minnesota Saturday night, strik.
ing the Red and Rock lake
lumber regions. The tornodo
struck Beltrami county and passed
in a northwesterly direction into Itasca
county, spending it's force near the
Manitoba line. 1t is estimated that
$50, 900, 600 feet of tim Der was DESTROYED.
The country was sparsely settled with
woodsmen and it will not be known
for several days whether or not any of
them were killed.
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Short on Silver Dollars.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2s.-Owing to
the fact that the coinage of silver dol
lars was by law stopped July / Except
that of the trade dollar bullion, about
$1,000, 900 in all, which is now in prog
ress), the shipment from the mints of
standard silver dollars now depends al
most entirely on the amount of silver
certificates of treasury notes presented
for redemption. In the absence Of
ability to ship silver dollars the depart
ment, in response to acquisitions for sill
yer coin, is sending out large amounts
of fractional silver coin as the most con-
venient substitute for the silver dollar.
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LATER,

IN Emmons county, n. D., hundreds
OF families were homeless from prairie
fires and six persons were burned to
death. In Wisconsin whole villages
were destroyed, and in Minnesota
vast area was burned over and several
lives were lost.
ELEVEN stores and bank building
at Maquon, Ill, were destroyed by fire.
In quarrel at Faxon, Minn., over
the dividing line between two farms,
James O'Neill killed Michael Col
Inns and fatally wounded his two grown
sons.
JOHN SCHwULsr celebrated his Tooth
birthday at the home of his son in
milwaukee.
SEVERE earthquake shocks were felt
in Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Tennessee,
Missouri and Kentucky. In some
places buildings were rocked and per-
sons fled to the streets.
FIRE destroyed the warehouse and
mill of the Plant Milling Company in
st. Louis. the loss being $3.50, 900.
In freight train wreck near Buffalo,
N. D., Engineer Curtis, Fireman Dodge
land sixteen cars loaded with cattle
lwere burned to death.
A MOB of white caps took defense
Less woman from her home at Bird
Eye, Ind, and nearly flayed her alive.
IHE Pennsylvania senate will meet
IN special session October IS to investi-
gate charges against the auditor gen.
Ieral and state treasurer.
A CYCLONE in the counties of Bel
trami and Itasca, in Minnesota, de-
l'troyed zoo, 0oo, 900 feet of pine timber.
1T was officially stated that 600 build
|lngs remained standing at Consueera.
Spain. There were 2, 100 before the
floods.
JACOB BROWN, who confessed at Min
Ineapolis that he had murdered tramp
lin Centralia, ILL.,, for which crime an
other man is serving a life sentence,
now denies his story.
The Greenville, ILL.,, export mills
we're burned, the loss being $3.50, 600;
insurance, $50, 600.
JOSEPH BLACK, his wife and three
daughters were killed by the cars at q
crossing near Centreville, Ind.
i In the National league the percent
lagos of the baseball clubs for the
week ended on the goth were: Chi
l:aRo, .62s;;s Boston, .6l5; New York,
1850; Philadelphia, SIT; Cleveland, $50;
Pittsburgh, .426; Brooklyn, 400; Gin
l:innati 1873! The percentages in clubs
pf the American association were:
Boston, .697: St Louis, $50: Balti-
more, .5s1; Athletic, $50; Columbus,
1865; Milwaukee. .454; Louisville, 3s4;
WASHINGTON, .S1a 81, Il. 1853 S 81 81 g.
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Fought with Swords.

Tom AllertOn and James Arrow
smith, both powerful young men and
expert swordsmen, fought a duel with
! swords at Pipestone and Allerton re-
i; ceived an ugly cash on the left side of
his head and was not expected to live
Arrowsmith was under arrest The
duel grew out of family feud which
has existed between the Arrowsmith
and AllertOn families for five years
, over division in some property.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-01

A NAN in Lewiston, Me-, has large
field of tobacco which promises to
yield fine crop. The courageous
planter was laughed at by his neigh
bors when he started out to raise the
native weed, being told that tobacco
would not grow in Maine. But he
persevered, and the tobacco does grow
iuxuriantly, being of finer quality, so
the planter claims, than that produced
in the south
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-01

! A GIGANTIC tunnel, which is esti-
mated to cost S75o,ooo and require ten
years to finish, is being constructed in
the Leadville mining district for the
purpose of draining the mines. 1t will
lie at least five miles long and will,
when completed, leave to easy access
millions of tons of good ore that can.
not now be properly got at and prob
ably never can be handled without the
use of proper drainage.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-01
Explosion of Dyn unite.

CHICAGO, Sept. 2s.-With q concus
sion that broke the glass in windows
for blocks and that lifted street car
from the tracks, 100 pounds of dyna-
mite exploded Sunday afternoon.
The accident occurred at Thir-
ty-hfth. and Iron streets, where
work is in progress for the Thirty
fifth street tunnel. Though the explo-
sion was SO great as to damage build
ings considerable distance away, half
dozen men who were at work within
few feet Of the dynamite at the time
escaped unipjured. What caused the
explosion is mystery.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-01

ROBERT II. HUMPHREY, of 81. Louis,
the man who made the rope with
which Guiteau was hanged, was
stricken down with paralysis of the
spinal cord and died in few DAYS.
Guiteau, before his death, cursed the
men responsible for his execution.
predicting that they would come to no
good end, and several of these. men
lave gone to untimely graves.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-01

The largest check ever drawn in
this country was that given by Jay
Gould to Thomas Allen for the Iron
Mountain railroad. He paid So, 900, 900
for it and handed Allen a check for that
amount. Allen looked at the paper and
said: Isn't this good deal of money
for one man to have in one bank?' Il
don't know" replied Gould. "Per-
haps it is. Let me have the check. {"
Allen then handed the check back to
Gould and he handed it over to his
office boy, saying: "Here. boy. take
this check to the bank and have the
cashier certify to it, And the boy
went out and did it.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-01

CAPT. MARY MILLER, the woman
who managed steamboat on the Mis-
sissippi for seven years and then Sc
cured a government license as pilot,
has applied for the place of lighthouse
keeper on the gulf coast. She is an
intelligent and rather prerossessing
woman. Her husband is still an active
navigator and running steamb boat in
<bo cr,,1f
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coupled with IA expression OF dread
and agony which settles over the coun-
tenaace-a form of melancholia, al
ternated by hysteris, only to be tenn
porarily relieved by repeated applica-
ton to the coffee pot or to a strong
tineture formed BY sleeping the crushed
berries in spirits of wine. Meantime
the diseased state of the body is demon
strated by the acute Inflammation,
which is apt to supervene at any mo-
ment. A bSaise, a cut. prick or =
sting, which in a healthy person. would
be scarcely noticed. is the starting
point for Inflammation of an erysipela-
tous character. so that it sello.n hap
pens that the coffee inebriate is long
lived.
Coffee drunkards are more common
among people of nervous temperament
than in the ranks of the stolid, phley-
matte folks, not easily moved by any
stimulus, or who, like many Germans,
prefer eating to drinking: -London
Standard
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Duluth'A Formulation.

The directory of Duluth for 1891 is
out, and it contains 22,140 names in
Duluth proper, against 20, 100 last year.
This would indicate population there,
using multiplyer of two and one-half,
of $3.50. According to the United
States census last year Duluth's popu-
lation was 2,S2O
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The ConRrepationaItst..

At meeting in Duluth of the Min
nesota General Congregational society
the Woman's Home Missionary Union
elected the following officers:
President, Miss Catherine Nichols, of St.
Paul; vice president, Mrs. A. H. Pierson. of
Northdeld: secretary, Miss Gertrude Keith, of
Minneapolis; treasurer, Mrs. NJ w. Skinner,
Of Northfield: auditor. Mrs Horace Goodhue.
of NOrthfield.
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Minnesota honda Burn.,,.

A small blaze at the capitol de-
'troyed nearly 100000 worth of
bonds. The fire was set by Gov.
Merriam, aided by State Treasurer
Bobleter and State Auditor Bierman,
for the cancellation of the old railroad
adjustment bonds issued in 1881. The
exact amount consumed was 81, 9o1. O)0
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-01
Railroad Ties Burned.

A destructive prairie fire ragged ives,
md southwest of Willmar for several
days. Three miles of rail track miles
west of there were burned, the ties be-
ing consumed by the flames. Telegraph
poles and railroad fences were also de-
stroyed.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-01

ST. Louis, Sept 2S.-Mrs. Otto Heb
erer, wife of a well-to-do butcher, gave
her three children arsenic and then
took a dose herself and disappeared.
Her body was found in a vacant lot.
The husband says his wife was insane,
but neighbors deny this and SAY the
act was caused by jealousy. The chill
dren will probably recover.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-01
Shot tho Mayor Dead.

SPARrASDURG, s. c.. Sept. 2s.-On
Sunday Mayor Henneman endeavored
to prevent John Williams, burly
negro, from whipping his wife. Will
liams shot the mayor, killing him in.
stantly. There are strnng prospects of
q lvnctin1 i : Sc
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-01

EDWARD B. GILES, of London, the
editor of the West End Gazette, as the
guest OF the banquet given by the as
ISOLATION of Master Tailors and Custom
Cutters made some very sensible and
telling remarks on that occasion. One
was particularly pertinent. Fashion
should be based upon common sense
and adapted to the climate of the
country and the habits of it's people.
None but Americans should originate
garments suitable for Americans. ~
This hts Americans who return from
abroad in the universal misfit suits.
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Several Buildings Burned.

fire at St Peter destroyed the Ka-
sofa eating house, the union depot and
the hotel of Mrs. II. f. Lauman, the
express Office and other smaller build
ings. The loss was estimated at from
$4,000 to $4,000.
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WEST AND SOUTH.

NEAR Roberts, Ark, E. NJ. Roberts,
well-known planter, was shot from
ambush and killed by unknown par
ties.
THE execution of w. II. Davis, who
murdered his mother and her alleged
paramount, James Arnold, at Pueblo,
January Z, took place in the prison
yard at Canon City, Col.
In Minneapolis, Wisconsin and South
Dakota forest fires were doing i'm
mems, damage. In the frst-named
state the village of Finlayson was
burned, and in Wisconsin the village
of Colnstock was nearly wiped out.
The death of Rev. Joseph Tarking-
ton occurred at Greensburg, Ind, aged
81 years. He was the Oldest Methodist
preacher in Indiana.
In Cleveland, O., Michael Karofa
shot and killed Kate Rohaly because
she refused to marry him and then took
his own life i'm the same manner.
In Oklahoma the Sac and Fox and
Iowa reservations wer. thrown open
to settlement. There were three home.
seekers to every quarter section OF
land, and two persons were killed in
the rush for the lands
In Chicago Oscar Grundman shot and
killed his wife while she was sitting al
the breakfast table and then shot him.
self through the temple. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
In Minnesota the heat has been al.
most unbearable for seven DAYS, the
thermometer ranging from 81 to los ir
the shade. In st. Paul all the public
schools were closed until cooler wealth
er.
THE Wisconsin league baseball pen
nant for 1891 was given to the Mar
quette club.
AT Sheboygan, Wis, James A. Mead
| well-known banker, fell dead from
heart disease while walking on Seventh
street.
PETER FOSTER, George Broken an6
Ernest Carlo, young boys, who were
stealing ride on a freight car loaded
with lumber, were crushed to death
in Chicago by lumber sliding upon
| them.
The death of DR.. B. G.. Bruce, edito,
| of the Live Stock Record and al
eminent authority on live stock, oc
Cured at Lexington, KY, at the ag,
| of IL years.
HENRY WEHERKAMp in a quarrel a.
Carthage, Mo-, attempted to shoot hi
brother but shot and killed his mother
! instead.
FLAMES swept away the entire bust
ness portion of Bradley, s. d.
''HoKE" ADAMS. of Elizabeth, Md, ,
wealthy farmer, committed suicide b,
taking poison because his wife insisted
on going to a circus.
OWING to i'll health Albert p. Moore
! house, aged So years, who was cover
nor of Missouri in 1887, committed sui
eide at his home in Marysville.
| THOMAS JOHNSON and Daniel Sulli
van and his brother persisted in tn,
prairie fires at Hinckley. MINI.
| THE North Dakota wheat crop wa
estimated at SO, O00, 900 bushels.
| PRAIRIE fires ruined the towns O
Perley and Comstock, in Wisconsin.
AT Haldsburg, Cal, very severe ant
long-continued shock of earthqnak,
was felt.
The department ef agriculture re
port on the condition of the corn GRO,
| OF Wisconsin,. Iowa and Illinois indi
Gates very favorable condition. s.
OwlNa to jealousy Thomas Carr, I,
farmer living near Quincy, KY. killet
his wife and sister-in-law with q corn
cutter, fatally wounded his mother-in
law and then took his own life.
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Not Deserving Of Pardon.

WASHINGTON, Sept 2s.-In the cases
OF Charles H. Ritter, of Indiana, con-
victcd of violation of the banking laws.
whose sentence was suspended, and
w. F. Bernhamer, of Indiana, convict
ed of conspiracy and sentenced to i'm
prisonment for one year and $1,000 fine.
the president has declined to grant the
application for pardon. 49, a -
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1T is reported that the cabs of Paris
are to be fitted with slot machines, en-.
abling the passenger who drops in ten
centimes to obtain an insurance policy
available for the time during which the
the cab has been hired. If the passen-
ger is killed his heirs get 5000 francs;
should he be absolutely incapacitated
by accident. 1900 francs; or if the in
jury is just sufficiently severe to keep
the rider from work for a month he re-
ceives 500 francs. There's millions in
it, for the genius who will SO modify
this scheme that it will insure i'm
munity from extortionate charges on
the part of the cab driver.
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In the museum of the dead-letter Of
fee at Washington, D. c., there is q
piece of parchment upon which is
penned copy Of the Lords Prayer
written in fifty-four different Ian
Haa0oS
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-01

NINE. PATTI, replying to an inter.
viewer, declared that alcoholic stimu-
lants of any kind tend to irritate the
throat and should he entirely abstained
from by those who wish to cultivate
SinUinp
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-01

A MAN in Augusta, Me-, who is the
proprietor of hair tonic, is getting up
some testimonials to spring upon the
suffering public. One of his friends
who loves joke sent him this very
sweeping Endorsement, which may be
printed on the outside of the book COW
or and may not: Dear Sir-A few
days ago accidentally spilled some of
your hair hatcher on the straw mat
tress at my lodgings, and when l re-
turned home l found hair mattress. "
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-01

THE most violent thunde .storms in
the world occur in French Guiana. The
thunder there in an ordinary storm is
almost deafening, while peal follows
peal in quick succession.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-01

The growth of horse-raclng in the
last ten years is illustrated by the fact
that in 1880 the money added to prizes
by the racing associations amounted to
$lSO,OOO Now it reaches "a, 600. 600.
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$3.50 o'clock Fri
day afternoon.
He at te nd e d
the First Pres
byterian church
Ia st Sund ay
and was taken
i'll in the even.
ing, but he was
not considere d
in a lou S
condition until
T,1oS6ov III