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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05
ENDED AT LAST.

After Twenty Yo rs Of Litigation the
Celebrated Jones County Qa.) Calf Case
IL Brought to q Close.
DIES MONIES, Ia, Jan. 3O.-The Iowa
Supreme Court has finally affirmed the
lecision of the lower court in the cele-
Grated case of johnson VS.. Miller, ct
H., better known as the Zones County
;alf case" The verdict of the lower
court was for the plaintiff in the
sum of $1,000. The last jury re-
turned a general verdict and
also answered number of spe-
cial interrogations, and the case
went to the Supreme Court on the
ground that the answers to the special
.nterrogations did not warrant the YER
lict. The case has been in the courts
FOR about twenty years, has been tried
several times in the lower courts, and
has taken a number of trips to the Su-
preme Court. It has bankrupted every
body connected with it except the at
torneys The calves over which the
litigation has ensued were originally
worth $45, and the total cost of the
case has grown to between SIS, 900 and
$4,000 in addition to the verdict of
81 600 49,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05
Death of General G.. II. Norton.

CHICAGO, Jan. 3O.-General C. B. Nor
ION, prominent agent of the worlds
air, died at the Palmer House Thurs
lay evening. On the recommendation
If Chauncey NJ. Depew Mr.. Norton was
employed by the worlds fair directory
to devise schemes for advertising
and exploiting the exposition. He
zane to Chicago in June and
began his work. The chief product of
ais labors was the volume of sketches
IN worlds fairs. He had been in i'll
aealth for months aud stroke of
paralysis two months ago fastened the
elimination of the disease. General
Norton was born in Hartford, Conn,
IS wears ago. +.-
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05

The vigor with which the criminal
law is administered in England was H.
Illustrated in case at London. Henry
Atweu was on trial for shooting at
Robert Burn, his employer, the shot
going wide of it's mark. Justice Smith
in summing up denounced the practice
OF carrying abominable pistols which
are absolutely useless to any one and
dangerous to ALL" The prisoner was
found guilty and sentenced to five
years penal servitude-quite as severe
punishment as he would have been
likely to receive in this country if he
had succeeded in killing the man he
was after.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05
Disaster at a Michigan Mine.

IRON MOUNTAIN, Mich, Jan. 3d.
A bout o'clock Thursday evening a
part of the Chaplin mine, one of the
largest and most productive in Mich
igan, caught fire at the sixth level, and
the flames spread to an alarming ex-
tent. The shafts were quickly closed,
but eight men are underground with
out q possibility of escape. How the
fire started is not known. At q late
hour the workers had not succeeded in
subduing the flames.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05
WEST AND SOUTH.

The death of John WOOdbeck, aged
101 years and veteran of the war of
1912, occurred at Pewamo, Mich. He
was born in Columbia County, N. Y.
AT Santa Barbara, Cal, Ramon Lopez
was hanged for the murder of Mary
Diserello last October.
AT lama, Ia, James Horton, tramp,
confessed that he murdered Conductor
James O'Neil at Long Point, a., few
days ago. -.-.--
NEGRO families in Alabama were
moving to Oklahoma.
AN explosion in the paper mill at
Rock Falls, ILL.,, would cause the death
OF five workmen.
Ar depth of 800 feet vein of silver
sixteen inches thick was found on the
farm of A. G. Brandt, near Fairport, Ia.
In a clearinghouse at San Jose, CAL,
two men were burned to death.
AT Grand Rapids the Michigan Ma
sonic Home was dedicated by the Grand
Lodge of the State in the presence of
Is, 600 people.
DISPATCHES say that Captain Godfrey
and six soldiers of the Seventh Cavalry
were fatally injured, beside the four
trainmen killed, in the recent Union
Pacific wreck at Irving, Kan.
AT Springfield, O., fourteen Masons
contributed pieces of their skin from
their arms to cover sore on brother
Mason's leg.
HE Kansas Legislature on the 2Sth
in joint session elected w. A. PETER to
succeed United States Senator Ingalls,.
The vote was: PETER Farmers ALI
ance), 101; Ingalls,, SO; scattering, 6.
IT was decided at the session of the
National Farmers Alliance in Omaha
to nominate candidates for President
and Vice-Pesident of the United States
in 1892. =.
The death Of Mrs. Eunice Beers &C.
CURED at Omaha, Neb., aged 101 years.
In the early history, Of the Territory OF
Nebraska She was influential in pre-.
venting number of Indian massacres
WHILE insane Surgeon William d
Deitz. Of the Fifth Artillery. stationed
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05

GEORGE BANcRoFr's library is re-
puted to be one of the best private COL
lections OF books in the country. It
contains about twelve thousand vol
umcs, among which are many works in
foreign languages, and every book in
the collection has value apart from
its selling price. The books were close
ly packed in the four rooms that COM
prised Mr.: Bancroft's literary work.
shop. and there never was any attempt
made to display them.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05
Freezing Out =" tho Retailers.

JOLIET. ILL.,, Jan. 3o.-Granges are
rapidly being organized in this county.
Wholesale grocers are bidding for the
Alliance and Grange trade, and are
sending out statesmen to sell direct to
the farmers organizations. They have
their blank order books for every arti-
Gle for household use, and the agents
claim to sell at the same prices given
retail merchants. This is creating some
confusion among retail grocers.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05

MRS. ANFA c. FALL, of Boston, is now
slawyer, and has been admitted to the
Suffolk bar, at which she will practice.
Her husband is also lawyer, prac-
ticing in the same court, but if he hap
pens to be retained on one side of a case
while his wife holds brief on the
other, he'll have to handle his witnesses
very tenderly and treat his s.learned
brother" with considerable respect OF
he will get himself into trouble when
the court isn't around to protect him.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05

: A KANAKA legend exists that when a
red fish enters Honolulu harbor the
reigning sovereign must soon die. Such
- Gsh appeorrva OH the 10Th OF Novem-
Der, fifteen days before the late King
Kalakaua sailed for San Francisco It
was intimated, however, that certain
persons had something to do with the
appearance of the ominous member of
the fnny tribe.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05

New York has passed law to stop
the docking of horses tails, but the
fashionable people, incapable Of bclicv-
ing that such a law could apply to them,
have persisted in the practice. The So
ciety for the Prevention of Crre!s, IS
now collecting evidence with view to
the prosecution of the offenders.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05

A NAN who has been annoyed for
years by the fact that one side of his
mustache grows about twice as fast as
the other side claims to have found an
explanation in the circumstance that he
sits all day at his desk with one side of
his face turned to window, the light
from which stimulates the growth of
the hair on that side.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05

The Japanese author does not write
books. He paints them. AS soon as he
reaches the Indispensable minimum of
Ideas he shuts himself in his study,
frightened slightly by soft light from
= four-cornered white paper lantern.
He has before him a polished table on
which lie his idyllic writing materials.
The paper is of an agreeable yellow,
and Is marked with perpendicular and
horizontal blue lines. His ink is held
IN rich ebony plate, deliberately
carved, and with depression in which
the black tablets are rubbed to nothing.
The plate carries also five bamboo
brushes which serve as pens.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05
Drought in Illinois.

Z ST. Louis, Jan. 3O.-For three months
the drought in Central and Southern
Illinois has been unprecedented, and
has now assumed such proportions that
coal mines and manufactures of all
kinds are compelled to shut down. The.
trouble is especially prominent along
the WABASH line. Water Is being
hauled In Oh tanks, bat the demand ID
50 great thht thi. method Of supply -
inaleQuatas
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05

TIE late Harvey B. Dodsworth, the
well-known New York bandmaster,
furnished the music at Presidential in
augurations for the last thirty years
During the war, free of charge for his
own services, he furnished the armies
of the North no less than fifty band.
masters and five hundred musicians.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05

WHILE we are having just an enjoya-
Die winter, Europe is experiencing the
toughest kind of weather. The biz
gard, supposed to be an exclusive pos
session of our own wild West, is raging
about Austria and Germany with Sc
verify rarely surpassed in the region of
tho H0.kipS
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05

THE Presbyterian church of New
Bedford, Pa, has declared itself in favor
of matrimony. It demanded that a
newly-elected deacon resign because he
did not come up to the rule requiring
that q deacon shall he 1.-THE husband of
one wife and have his children in sub
4e.,t;o,,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05
177se ersRuARx WIDE AWAKE

u both timely and seasonable, In
Lieut. Fremont's account Of Life at
Frontier Forts, !" with illustrations from
photographs, and in William Zachary
Gludwin's opening ..Valentine:"
Twas an eye tor IN eye md tooth for tooth
In the old-tims Scripture day;
But / tell my love that , heart for heart
- by far the better way!
A curious little article about "A Fish
Army" is q sort of military pendant to
Lieut- Fremont's article. ''Sirs Grim
bald's Ransom" is q ballad, by Mary
Bradley. of the brave Crusader an
cestor of the present British Minister of
Washington, Sir Julian Pauncefote,
whose drawer lady gave her right hand
to ransom her lord from the Saracens.
The unusually clever short stories of
the number include the strange true &C.
count of Aunt Dolly's Two Robbers"
by Sydney Quarles, Diamonds and
Toads, " by Mrs. Burton Harrison (au-
thor Of 1.-THE Anglomaniacs', and 9TH
ers.) "A Little Nobody Who Became
Great Somebody" is Mary Wager
Fishers account of a poor French boy,
who established cotton weaving in
France and thereby became the friend
of Napoleon. Miss Rimmer's drawing
lessons are developing most ingeniously.
Dorothy Holcomb tells of "Home-Made
Games" There are poems by Mrs.
Whiton-Stone, Elizabeth w. Bellamy,
Mary E. Wilkins, and others. Kirk
Munroe's railroading serial, "Cab and
Caboose," becomes exciting, Margaret
Sidney's peppers" is full of delightful
doings, and "Marieta's Good Tines is
unique as the naive autobiography of a
little Italian girl. Men and Things
sparkles with wit and anecdote. Bridg-
mans amusing pictorial skit, Through
the Dark Continent" drops the curtain
20 the laughter of the audience.
WIDE AWAKE is S2.40a year; 20 cents a
number. D. Lothrop Company, Boston.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05

The death of King Kalakaua removes
. picturesque character who for seven
teen years ruled the little Kingdom Of
Hawaii. The most that could be said
Of his Majesty was that he was harm
less. The affairs of State never rested
heavily on him. The fifty thousand
persons on the Sandwich islands are not
= difficult population to govern. being
more intent on raising sugar cane and
rice than ondisturbanceso of any kind, and
the result was that Kalakaua' s reignwas
characterized by only one revolution.
Personally Kalakaua was q good fell
low. who enjoyed frstrclass dinner.
Ind death was hasteped BY high living.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.


The Jamaica worlds fair opened at
Kingston on the 2sth, the Governor-Gen-
eral officiating.
WOLVES, maddened by hunger, at
tackled bands of Indians near Lake
Winnipeg and many of the red men
were killed and devoured.
In Greece an avalanche, destroyed
eighty houses in the town of Atha-
mana, and twenty-five persons were
killed outright and many injured.
BY the burning Of the steamer Shan
ghai on the river Yangtse, in China, 800
Chinese lost their lives *
In Australia two large new gold fields
were discovered on the Turner river.
A TERRIFIC storm caused enormous
damage on the island Of Massowah, in
the Red sea, and over 100 persons were
drowned. ~.
On the SOth ult. Charles Bradlaugh,
member of Parliament for Northampton
and one of the most unique PERSONAL
ties in English political life, died in
London, aged So years. !.
ADv1CEs from Java report serious
earthquakes in Batavia. The town OF
Joava was in ruins and many Chinese
were killed. 49,, -i.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05

MISS MAMIE SMITH. beautiful young
girl OF twenty-five years, was arrested
at Denver three months ago for at
tempting to pass forged check upon
one of the local banks She was SUBJ
sequently released on bail, and re-
NAMED there pending trial. The other
night. after brief illness, she died of
pneumonia, when it was learned that
she was not compelled to commit the
crime from necessity, but was a mono
maniac on the subject of passing forged
paper. She had an estate in Louisville,
Ky, valued at $751; 900, from which she
received a monthly income of $500. Her
remains were sent East for interment
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05

BY her contract for tour of America
Sara Bernhardt is to get 5000 day for
hotel expenses, 5000 for each perform
ance, and one-third of the gross receipts.
Sara may have deteriorated in her act
ing, but she has lost none of her nerve.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05

COMMODORE" TYSON, of theater-tick-
ct fame conceived and carried out the
idea of running news-stands in the lead
ing hotels. He is now worth half a
million
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05
Special Care

Should be taken in the winter not to allow tho
blood to become depleted Or imp are. ~ it does,
attacks OF
RHEUMATISM
Of neuralgia are likely follow exposure to cold
vet weather. Hoods Sarsaparilla is an excel.
lent prevent Of these troubles. as it makes the
blood rich and pure and keeps the kidneys and
liver from congestion 50 liabls at this season. If
you are subject rheumatic trou bles. take Hoods
6aEsapsrilla safeguard. and we believe you VIII
>e perfectly satisfied with its effects.
And II you decide tn take Hood's Sarsaparills do
bot be Induced TO buy any substitute.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05

A COMPANY has been incorporated in
San Francisco for the manufacture of a
new explosive, said to be five times the
strength of dynamite and the inven-
ton of Dmitri Alindliff, a Russian
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05

THERE are now two hundred regularly
ordained women preachers in the United
States, where forty years ago there was
only one.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05

f. B. SEARS, of Boston, has bought
the famous English st. Bernard dog,
Sir Bedivero, paying for it $500.
Rather costly piece of unconverted
eo,,cnoo
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05

A POLICEMAN buying paregoric sur
prised a Brooklyn reporter, who thought
that the profession had no need of that
medicine.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05
The News ltr,.. IL .:hrOniCloi

The SaW* ltr,- ~ :Hhronicio1.
The proposed annexation of suburbs
of Duluth will give that city an area OF
sixty-three square miles.
Ira C. Aldrich, of Faribault, has been
appointed by Commander in Chief
Veasey of the G. A. R. an aide-de-camp
on his staff.
At special school meeting at Prince.
ton bonds in the sum of SIS, COO were
voted for the purpose of building new
school-house at that place.
George w. Magee, proprietor of the
Metropolitan 81 tel at st. Paul failed
owing $l5,OO]. The assignee would run
the hostelry for the present.
A meeting of the State fair, directors
in st. Paul resulted in the selection of
September z, as the opening day, the
fair to continue through the week
A store building at Pleasant Grove
owned by Ross H. Russell was de-
stroyed by fire. The building was oc
cupied by DR.. Baker with a drug
store.
Charles Kemmie, of Minneapolis, has
challenged any 140-pound fighter in the
world to match for a purse of 81 ,O0l
and a side bet of from 5000 to 50 S o. q.
NJ. b. Harrison has secured three new
manufacturing concerns for Duluth--a
wooden mill, furniture factory anc
planning mill.
The tCdy of an unknown man, whose
skull was fractured, was found floating
in the canal at Duluth.
A body of hematite ore has been dis.
covered near Ely. Tie lind lies nea.
the famous Chandler mine.
Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, has
teen retained by the Duluth prop rty
holders to present their ca es for quiet
ing title aga nst the Prentice claim
before the I'm ted States Supreme
Court. 49,
Laurence Schmidt, Salvation Army
private in st. Paul, was captured by q
policeman recently, charged with
forgery. 1t is said that he purchased
twenty-five cents worth of sugar at a
grocery store, handing out forged
cleck for seven dollars and getting sir
dollars and seventy-five cents in return
A dustless coal and grain chute has
been invented by T. W., Emery, Min
neapolis man.
At the speed contest of the Stenog.
raphers' Business Association in St
Paul Stephen c. Vasaly wrote 52(
words correctly on a typewriter in five
minutes. ,..-
Mrs. Thomas Dixon, of Minneapolis
was run over and killed by switch en-.
CINE. 49, 81
John Mills and William McMahou
were sentenced at Winona by Judge
Start to six years each in the STATE
prison for holding up Richard Hague
and relieving him of 81.
Mr. and Mrs. William N Harrington,
of Winona, celebrated their golden wed.
ding anniversary. - ill.,
Fred Il. Matthews, head book-keeper
for Il. Kirkbride & Co., at .Minneapo
lis, was missing, and it was feared that
he had met with an accident. ~
T. C. Haxgrave and w. H Gould, OF
Minneapolis, have obtained patent on
a new method of manufacturing sewer
pipe. Z. - ~
Charles F. Leland, Of Thomson, will
organize q National bank in Duluth
with an authorized capital Of $500, 0Oo
to take the plaeesof the two West end
banlss which lately failed
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05

HI'-'Ya-as. I guess have the rep
utation of being one Of the young fell
lows about town who have more money
than brains. sShe-'.And yet you are
net sich. ore you9"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05
Doing Things Up Brown,


Nubuddy-Now, Mr.. Architect, we
come to the library. I suppose that IL
have to be pretty big room.
Archltect-I presume SO. How many
books have you?
Nubuddy-1 thought we might leave
that to the furnisher and decorator.
haven't any yet Harper's Baxar.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND NAIL.
FlFTY-FtRsT CONGRESS.
SAc0nd eAsainn.

TUESDAY. Jan. "a. In the Senate
the credentials Of Mr.. Stanford and
Mr.. Irby as Senators-elect from Cali
fornia and South Carolina for the term
beginning March 4, 1891, were pre-
scented and fled. The Congressional
apportionment bill was discussed. In
the House bill was passed for rail.
way bridge over the Missouri between
Council Bluffs and Omaha. The Mill.
tary Academy appropriation bill was
discussed. fz
WEDNESDAY,. Jan. 20. - The House
apportionment bill was considered in
the Senate, and House bills were
passed for public buildings at Rock
Island, ILL.,, and Rockford, Ill. In the
House the journal was approved with.
out question. The resignation of John
s. Mccarthy, Representative from the
Eighth district of New York, was pre-.
sented.
THURSDAY, Jan. 90. The Senate
passed the Congressional apportion
ment bill exactly as it came from the
House by a vote of yeas 81, nays "a.
This gives the House $3.50 members.
The bill creating the Office of Fourth
Assistant PostmasterGeneral was also
passed. In the House the time was &C
cupied in discussing the Military Acad.
envy appropriation bill. "
FRIDAY, Jan. 30.-After the reading
of the journal in the Senate Senate,
Morrill, announced the sudden deatl
of Secretary Window, and in re
spect to his memory the Senate
adjourned for the day. In the House.
after few affecting words of tribute
to the worth of the deceased Secretary
of the Treasury by Mr.. Dunnell, Of
Minnesota, the House, on motion Of
Mr.. Mckinley, as mark of respect t.
his memory, adjourned.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05

What a pretty idea, Johnny, to
call your sailboat Mammal" Eyes, i,
is: l tell you she's spanlser!'-.l5 Brood
ivn Eapie b..
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05

AT Nancy, France, q woman and her.
three children were burned to death in
q fire that broke out in 9 carpenter shop
on the I'd.
REPORTS from Buenos Ayres received
the End, state that the recent revolt
has been fully suppressed.
|, The Senate blu oppropriating $780,
COO for government building In Sc.
Paul vs. passsd by Congress On ths "a.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05

Most Interesting Novelty Ever Brought Out
Send to the Novelty Company, 3OS Dear
born street, Chicago. and get one of their
celebrated clown acrobats ycleped-''Mr.
ncGinty''-the latest, cutest and most Cap
tivating novelty ever offered Price 1Oc.
Mailed postage free. What makes it got
This is the question. See it you can dis
cover the secret. Any boy in any village
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05
THE W0RTHINGT0NA ADVANCE.
Robert McCuNE: Editor and Publisher.
wORTHiNGToN.N Mobiles Gu. MINI
CAMPAN1N1 has the spirits of q boy
since his voice has been restored to him
by Q surgical operation.

ASK any woman what is q woman's
most interesting age and she will come
very near telling you how old she is.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05
DON'T DO TT.

From tho "Nedienl Re~ie,r.0 ssUpon tho
0rst symptcms of Liver Complai tho mis-.
guided sufferer applies blue pill, calomel
and other mineral Potsons, in the delusivs
hope ofobtaining relief, whereas these pow
and debtlttato tho constitute IN. DR.. Tut
has had tho courage to ignore this killing
practice OF tho old school. His remedies,
drawn from tho vegetable kingdom, arc al
9ose miraculous in renovating the broken
down body. The letters OF cured patients in
the Doctors possession are q tribute Of graf
8udo to his genius and skill which but few
can ,xhibit. His IiverPills arc sent all cveR
tho world. They can be found in every Gown
md hAna1oeAR tho United States,"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05

'Do YOU know who built this bridget"
said person to Hook. NO. replied Hook {;
''but if YOU GO over You'll be tollel"