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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-13
AN ATHLETIC YOUNG WOMAN.

Gymnasium Practice Enabled Her to Cap
ture Footpad.
One dark night slender blonde
young lady, who has gone in for gym
nastic work till her slender limbs have
muscles like steel springs, was walking
along dark street alone. 1t was only
or $50 o'clock, and the young lady
wasn't timid. anyway.
One particularly dark place on her
way home was where there was a dead
wall all along one side of the street for
nearly a square.
AS she was passing the dead wall a
ha]f-grown negro jostled against her,
and before she knew what he was after
he grabbed her pocketbook and started
to run.
For all her good sense and good mus
Gle she carried her portmonnaie in her
hand, as nine-tenths of the gentler sex
do. But before the negro had time to
get out of reach she sprang at him and
had her strong fingers hooked into the
collar of his ragged coat. A quick jerk
threw the negro on his back on the
brick pavement
Then she dropped on her knees ON the
sc"red negro's chest, and selling his
head between her gloved hands she
bumped it up and down on the bricks
till he prayed for mercy. Then she
picked up her poclxetbook from where
the negro had dropped it and went on
her way home, her cheeks were red, but
the glorious light of an athletic victory
in her blue eyes
This particular young lady, by the
way, can jump and catch the top notch
OF the ~ornice over an open door, and,
clinging to it merely by the streng 9Th of
her dimpled fingers, raise herself up til
her chin is ON level with her hand,
eight or nine times without stopping.-
Washington Post.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-13

SENATOR HEARST was generally sup
posed to be worth about $4,000. 600
when he died. The appraisers have
filed their report in the San Francisco
probate court and the estimated value
of the entire estate is 80, 7SS. 137.15
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-13

Mrs. CHAUNCEY NJ. DEPEw is hand.
some woman, with very dark and ex-
pressive eyes, brown hair and COM
plexion of more than common clearness
and brilliancy. Her nature is essen
TALLY social, and she is fitted, by reason
OF her polished manners, keen wit and
many graceful accomplishments, to as
sumo leading social position. She is
devoted to charitable enterprises of all
Lirlv
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-13

Miss HELEN GLADSTONE, the ''Grand
Old Mans favorite daughter, resem-
bles her father in looks and possesses
great part of his extraordinary vital
ity. She can tell a story that will set a
dinner-table in a roar, and is quite
original in her dress.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-13
DEsTITUTIoN FROM DROUGHT.

Failure of Crops Affecting Both Amerl-
cans aud Mexicans.
HAVANA, Tex, Aug. s.-Those who
have lived twenty-five years on the
Rio Grande have never seen so
much misery among the Mexican
population as this year. The
staple crop of the Rio Grande
valley is corn and the Mexican
frijole, but the drought has
been SO terrible for the last eighteen
months that scarcely nything has been
raised and stock has died by thousands.
Many men who two years ago were
considered we'll off have nothing left
but their land.
MIDLAND, Tex, Aug a-The rain
making experimenters have arrived
with carload of ombustibles and ap-
paratus of various kinds and have
gone to Nelson Morris ranch, where
the trial will be made as soon as they
are ready, which will be some time
next week. 1t required several freight
wagons to move the material alone.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-13
Endurine Bliss.

He had staid and staid the night b.
fore until the girl was mad enough to
say anything, and she did the next day
when she met him. ~ y
Il had perfectly delightful time at
your house LAST night" he murmured,
hen he met her. = =,
'.Time?" she said, CURLY. ut was
Y ore like eternity. "-Washington Star.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-13

BENJAMIN +. BUTLER never forgets
name or a face. A New York paper
says that he has in his offices, both in
Boston and that city, an Al pha be teal
list containing the name of every per-
son with whom lie has had any bust
ness dealings. The names of all per-
sons who call upon him at his office are
entered, together with such informa-
ton as he may from time to time OBJ
tain in regard to them.
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Tho News lBr,e.iy Chronlcjoi.

Tho News BREEZY ChrOnlcIoi.
An unknown man was killed by the
cars at West Duluth.
A fire at Crookston destroyed hearl Y
one-half of business block. Loss
over $50, 900.
The Wadena & Park Rapids railroad
has reached the latter place.
Ole Peterson, oae of the pioneer
settlers of Pope county, died at St
Peter, aged S. years Mr.. Peterson
was the first sheriff of Pope county.
p. II. Peterson has been appointed
postmaster at Carmen, Polk county,
vice j. N. Borley, resigned.
Contracts have been aw arded for the
new state building at Faribault for the
use of the school for the deaf
Hail destroyed 400 acres of grain in
the town of Martinsburg.
II N. Lund, an old resident of Grove
City, shot himself. The cause of the
suicide was unknown.
Work has been suspended on the
new courthouse at Minneapolis owing
to lack of money.
A severe storm of wind and hail
passed through the grain fields 4 miles
north of Montevideo. The damage
was from IS, 0Oo to $4,000.
The Indians living on Prairie island
held a war dance in honor of the new
self-binder just presented them by the
government. =:
At city election IN Duluth it was
voted to issue bond 20 the amount of
100000 for constr ctioa of a public
waterworks system about Fourth
street.
The ninth attempt was made to burn
the Turnquist block at Minneapolis.
blaze was discovered in a closet on
the third floor, but was extinguished
without any serious damage. The fire
was plainly inccndiary, and was started
by means Of rags and paper saturated
with OIL
r. NJ. Hunter and A. B. McFarlane, of
Duluth, have donated five acres of land
in Glen Avon division and Hunters
park, on which $4,000 Cath bic
orphans home will be erected.
Robert Willie, an Englishman &c
years of age, fell from the Laurel
avenue bridge in Minneapolis, where
he was employed, AMI sustained fatal
injuries.
Charles Hess, q helper of the brick.
layers on the new union depot at Du-
luth, who fell from q scaffoldiug, died
from the effects of his injuries. He
leaves a wife and child at Madison,
Wis
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-13
studyine American Method.

The mining departments of the Rn..
sian ministries of imperial property and
OF the interior have sent three .ro;-
neers to America to study the method.
by which gold is worked ont in ~.
mines OF Arizona. Colorado, N,v.d.
California and Utah. The Yield ~ Rn.'
elan gold mines has been very poor of
iate' and the raising Of the price of Ia
oor ~ well as the rising of Russian
values in the foreign markets has made
the mining of gold almost Improbable.
1t Is believed that the introduction ~
american methods Of mining will inn
prove the miners trade. chicago New.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-13

The proportion of insane to sane per-
sons in the United States is one in
every 263; in Scotland it is one in
every 574; in the agricultural districts
of England it is one in $40; in London
the proportion is one in 400.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-13
Acres Of Grain Damaged.
Tried to Kill His Fataer-in-Law,
The Work Of BURGLARS.

burglars set fire to the barn of James
Thomas, farmer living in Wynette,
1santi county. and while the attention
Of the family was called to the barn the
house was entered, chest containing
$500 dragged from the house to a marsh
some distance away and the money ex-
tracta0
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-13

In Chautauqua talk Mrs. Ewing
said we need better ''punkin" pies and
less politics, and that, as the country
needs cooks, women should take up the
craft that men have monopolized.
Cooks are wanted everywhere" she
says. There is scarcely village in
the land where a competent woman
could not earn big wages in giving
cooking lessons. Half dozen churches
In Kansas City each paid me for a
course OF lectures sum larger than
the average school-teacher can earn in
a year, and they themselves made big
profits out of the course"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-13

THE inheritance of great wealth has
not destroyed young Adam Forcpaughs
love for the glitter and spangles of the
circus. Though his income is now
greater than the presidents salary, the
son of the great Snowman dons the
pink tights at every performance and
rides in the hurdle race with all the in
terest of a ten-dollar- supe.
Young Forepaugh is thirty years old
and built like an athlete. He has had
something to do about IL circus ring
since he was bow of seven.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-13

For the successful treatment of his
wife in dangerous surgical operation,
performed by DIR. Nicholson, of Wies-
baden, Herr Won Bonner, merchant
of Hamburg, has placed at the disposal
Of the authorizes in Ham burg, as a
thank offering, the sum of two million
marks. The money is to be expended
in the erection of a hospital in Ham
burg, in which DR.. Nicholson is to be
installed as chief physician.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-13

AMERICAS two champion lawn tennis
players, DIR. Dwight and ''Dicky'' Sears,
of Boston, are men of small physique
Sears is short, rather stockv and
blonde; DR.. Dwight is short, slender
and dark
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-13
UNCLE SANS MAIL BOYS.
Now Oniccrs Chosen at the Convention in
Detroit.

Now Oaiccrs Chosen at the Convention In
DETROIT. Mich, Aug. 8. AT Friday
mornings session of the Letter-Car.
riers' National association convention
the committee to which J. A. Balls
resolution on equalizing letter-carriers'
salaries was referred yesterday re.
ported recommending the adoption
of the resolution, and after some
discussion the report was adopted.
The report of the commute on consti-
tuition and bylaws, which calls for
slight changes, was adopted. The
finance committee reported in favor of
simplifying the bookkeeping of the
association and a recess was taken.
In the evening the convention ad.
journed after electing officers as fol-
lows:
President, Theodore Dennis, of Boston; vice
president Frank E. Smith, OF San Francisco;
secretary John Z. Victory, of New York;
treasury, T. H. Larch, Of Indianap' lis: execu.
tive committee, u. J. Cleftner OF Omaha, Will
liam Hogan of Chicago, P. j. Riley Of Milwau.
kee, c. c. Conden OF Detroit, and T. b. Gregory
OF Boston; legislative committee. James Ker
mo OF Pittsburgh. c. w. Morton OF Brooklyn
c. II. Cutler Of Boston, D. NJ. Rails Of Kansas
City, and v. b. Gonzales Of New Orleans.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-13

Miss ANNA WILLIAMS. the girl whose
classic profile is reproduced on the
silver dollar. is still Philadelhia
teacher, as she was when her features
attracted the attention of the mint en-
qraVer.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-13
rHE COTTON, sLossoM oLus

IT, =
Brsthsr 1t. Clair WlIlisns CallsA Down Tor
Bsaag Too Pretty.
E When the regular Saturday night
meeting had been opened In due and
ancient form, and the jsnitor had sig
nailed that the thermometer showed
nincty.eight degrees oil over the hall.
Brother Gardner looked around and In
quired: *-@ Z. g5.s.. s
p 'Is Brudder 81. Clair Williams pres
ent wild us dis evening"" 80. s-,~s
HE ar'," replied the individual a.
luded to, as he rose up. sf
''You will please step dis way
~. Brother Williams is known - the
jin-dandy of the club. He uses real
bears oil for his hair. wears patent
leather shoes and has been known to
change collars twice q day since the
warm weather set in. He has had his
photograph taken in seven different
poses, and has been known TO pencil
his eyebrows while riding ON the front
platform of . street car
''Bruddcr Williams" said the prcsi-
dent, as he looked down upon him, you
are 'sposed to be de purtiest an. sweet
est member of dis Cotton Blossom club"
Eyes, sab" replied the brother, grin
ming at the compliment
HAS you got any regular bizness,
Brudder Williamsburg reg'lar bizness
'cept dat of lookin purity an sweet?'
'Ize a waitah, sab, but out of job
jist now"
'How long has you bin out of job?''
"'Bout TO months, sah."
SIS dat suit of clothes paid for?''
mot quite, sah."
'Is you squar' on yer board?'
'I'ze little behind. sah."
"Does you owe members of dis club
borrowed money!"
''Jist few dollars"
''Br1dder Williams" continued the
president, II has had my eye on you
since de fust night sot in dis hall. I
sized you up for purity man, an see
l was right. How you got into dis
crowd, can't say, but I kin easily tell
you how you will get out of it! We
doan' want no purity men heah. five
had hop-yard, an wanted sumthin'
fur vines to climb up on, we could mako
use of you. You might do fur fsh-bait,
but we has no time to go fishin'. When
a man sots out to be purity an sweet
he amt no good any mo-. When his
only ambishun is to grease his ha'r,
wax his mustache an go long de street
as if he was steppin' on 'aigs, he amt
with bein' bit by q ten-cent dawg.
Brudder Williams, you is purity, but
you owe mo- money dan you kin pay in
two Vars. You is sweet, but you has
to dodge de tailor. You has an elegant
way of liftjn' yer hat, but de hat amt
paid fur. You walk like gunner, but
yer shoemaker duns you almos' cherry
day"
"Yyes sah," stammered the victim.
II am gwine to give ye u show. If
durin' de comm week ye kin find job,
git into some common clothes, arrange
to pay yer debts, an git rid OF dat ha'r
lie an perjury, you will still be carried
on our rolls Of membership. II not.
You needn't come here agin'.''
The pretty member returned to his
chair in state of great mental excite
ment. but after cooling off and thinking
the matter over, he told Judge Cabiff
that he had decided to stop being sweet
and pretty and become one of the pill
lars of the club.-M Quad, in N. Y.
World
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-13

New YORK company has been or
ganized whose business will be lending
um brellas. A short reign, in such q
case, will contribute the most success.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-13

} SUSAN b. ANTHONY finds that twenty
three states have given women the
right to vote for school officers. That
is just majority of all the states. Susan
now moves to make it unanimous.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-13
ALMOST CIVILIZED BRuTES,

Animals That Kill Each Other with All
tho Skill OF Men.
Indian wolves have been seen to leave
some of their number in ambush at
points on the edge of the Jungle, while
others drove in antelopes feeding in the
open ground beyond. But wolves as a
rule, hunt alone or in families, except
when pressed by hunger. Wild dogs
however, habitually combine to hunt,
and Baldwin, in his ''Game of Bengal
mentions case of four or five martins
hunting fawn of the ''muntiac" or
barking deer.
But in real military organization and
strategy monkeys are far ahead of all
other animals, and notably the different
kinds of balloons Mansfield Parkins
gives an excellent account of the tactics
of the dog faced Hamadryads that lived
in large colonies in the cracks of the
cliffs of the Abyssinian Mountains
These creatures used occasionally to
plan foraging expedition into the
plains below, and the order of attack
was most carefully organized, the old
males marching in front and on the
flauks, with few to bring up the rear
and keep the rest in order. They had a
code of signals, hating or advancing
according to the banks of the scouts.
When they reached the corn fields the
main body pluudered while the old
males watched on all sides, but took
nothing for themselves. The others
slowed the corn in their cheek pouches
and under their arm-pits. They are
also said to dig wells with their hands
and work in relays. The Gelada ba-
boons sometimes have battles with the
Hamadryads, especially when the two
species have mind to rob the same
field, and, if fighting in the hills, will
roll stones on their enemies. Not long
ago a colony of Gelada balloons, which
had been fred at by some black soldiers
attending Duke of Coburg- Gotha on a
hunting expedition on the borders of
Abyssinia, blocked a pass for several
days by rolling rocks on all comera
This seems to give some support to
a curious objection raised by a Chinese
local governor in report to his super
Tor on the difficulties in the way of
opening to steamers the waters of the
Upper Yang Use. The report, after
noting that the inhabitants on the up
per waters were ignorant men who
might quarrel with strangers, went on
to allege that monkeys inhabited the
banks, and they would roll down stones
on the steamers 1.-The last two facts, ="
the report added, would lead to COM
plant from the English and embroil
the Celestials with them, especially if
the men or the monkeys kill any En-
glish. "-London Spectator.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-13

The war records will make a good
sized library. Sixty-five volumes have
already been issued by the government
in one series. Two other series will
folln1U
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MINNESOTA STATE NEWS
BURNED THEIR IDOLS.

Successful Work Of lllssionAFiee Anona
the Chlppewas. ; -szsf
Capt Jack Crawford, the poet scout,
las returned to Duluth from trip 70
The northern part of Vermillion lake
md reports that Frank Porter, half
breed, and Mrs. Dempsey. have for
;hree months past been working among
he Chippewa Indians on the reserva-
ion and have converted nearly all to
Christianity. Old Chief Wake-Me.Up
s one of the most ardent converts
thirty of them were baptized by the
Methodist minister at Tower. The In
lians gathered all their idols in a big
pile and burned them up.
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LATER,
Camp Douglas Burned.


NEW LISBON, Wis, Aug. 10-Camp
Douglas is in ruins. At p. m. the cry
OF fire was raised. It seems that a
lamp exploded in McGuire's saloon, but
the flames had been nearly smothered,
, the proprietor left the building. The
lire took new start, and in about ten
minutes was beyond control. It
spread rapidly through several houses
till it reached Camp Douglas Hotel. It
then crossed the Omaha tracks and set
fire to the Commercial House and the
depot.
Although all this happened in very
few minutes the soldiers at the camp
had been notified and they had assem-
bled and succeeded in saving nearly all
the goods in the hotels and stores. be-
sides the whole of the business part of
the village. Many dwelling houses
were burned, there being nothing left
but few residences in the southwest
ern part of town. The wind blew from
the south and kept it burning so rapid
~ that the fire engines from Mansion
had been sent for as soon as it was evil
dent that the fire had good start, but
reached there too late. Total loss esti-
mated at about $150,0o0.
swind,ers.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Aug. 10.-Alfred Down
ing, president and N. H. Tollman, vice
president of the National Capital Saw
| ings, Building and Loan Association of
North America, were arrested by Post
Office Inspector Stuart, charged with
using the mails for fraudulent purposes.
1t is charged that the men who have
been conducting this association have
swlndled thousands of people from
every state in the Union and taken in
from 100000 to $4,000 and given
nothing in return. The victims hail
from Maine to California, and are num-
bered among the rich and poor alike.
AN investigation of the Office of the
city treasurer of Denver, Colo, for the
past ten years reveal shortage of
SIC, 900.
| j. o. WYNNE. the business agent of
the Georgia State Alliance is over S20,-
600 short in his account. The Alliance
ran a business exchange at Atlanta
and it was in the management of this
that the loss occurred.
AT Amherst, N. a., Mrs. Leila Robin
son Sawtelle, member of the Massachu-
setts bar and authoress, died on the
10th. s.* .- = -. ~. 49,, -,
WHILE trying to arrest George Duhl-
meyer, a wife-beater at Chillicothe, o..
on tho 10th, Officer Hall was mortally
wounded. - .=.21 -
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Paid with Her Life.

. CINCINNATI, Aug. 8-About .. O'Clock
Friday night an affair of love, disap-
pointment and jealousy terminated in
the murder of girl by her rejected
lover. The victim, Miss Ida Kipp, last
September promised to marry Lewis
Levi, but afterward rejected him. Since
chen Levi has been inflamed with rage
and wounded pride. Friday night he
saw Miss Kipp going with an escort
and he followed her on Sixth street to
Fifth and johnson streets, near the
Fifth street garden. There he emptied
three shots from his revolver in Miss
KipP's body, killing her on the spot
Levi was aErested :.
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AN epidemic of smallpox was report
ed at Acapulco, Mex.
The architect of the great tower at
the French exposition, NJ. Eiffel, tele-
graphed to the board of managers of
the Columbian exposition for permis-
sion to erect a tower on the fair
grounds.
THE English parliament was pro-
rogued to October "a. Queen Victoria
in her speech congratulates the country
upon it's prosperity and says measures
taken have resulted in marked abate-
ment of agrarian offenses in Ireland
and considerable advance in prosper
ity.
RECENT rains in the grain-producing
state of Vera Cruz, Mex, have dam
aged the crops to such an extent that
it was said that not one-fourth of crop
would be harvested.
A THOUSAND families were rendered
homeless and there was much sickness
and fever among them caused by the
overflow of the river Yarra at Mel
bourne, Australia. The damage caused
by the flood amounted to s., 100000.
A MEMBER of the British parliament
gave notice that at the next session of
that body he would introduce resolu-
ton favoring treaty of arbitration
with this country.
IT was said that Charles S. Parnell,
the Irish leader, had decided to visit
the United States late in the fall and
conduct camp aign throughout the en-
tire country.
ANOTHER woman was murdered in
the Whitechapel district of London.
She is believed to be a victim of 'Jack
the Ripper"
On account of the scarcity of corn the
government of Russia has decided to
prohibit its export.
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BIG FAILURE,

The 8lymer Ice Machine Company Of
Cincinnati Forced to Assign.
CINCINNATI, Aug. S.-The Blymer
Ice Machine Company. doing business
on Eighth street, between Harriet and
Mclean avenue, made an assignment
for the benefit of creditors. The COM
pany has an extensive trade all over
the United States and in South Amer
lea The receivers are Edward Worth
ington and Fred Bussey. Liabilities,
1920, 900; assets believed to be 5000, 900.
The company has been giving long
time on notes, but its own creditors
became pressing, causing the failure.
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A FUR buyer of Lewiston says that
on an average Eve hundred bears are
killed yearly in Maine.

ROBERT BONNER has been such a
lover of speedy trotters that he has
spent more than $500, 900 in gratifying
his tastes in that direction.