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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-02
LATER

AT Praire du Chen. Wis, a young
son of A. Nickerson and son of Mr..
Harget each aged IA, died suddenly Of
nicotine poisoning after smoking Gig
arettes to excess.
NELSON P. REED, editor and pro-
prietor of the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Com
mercial-Gazette, died at his home of
pneumonia, resulting from the grip.
LOUIS MONDAY and William Hall
were killed by a premature blast at
| Gheen's quarry near Jeffersonville,
Ind.
The residence of Mr.. Marchand St.
VALERIE de Batustrode at Quebec was
burned, and two of his children per-
ished in the flames.
ENGINEER FRANK Wakes, Fireman
John Oches and Frank Myers were
killed in a railroad wreck on the Phil
adelphia road near Ashland, Pa.
THE wholesale dry-goods firm of
John Birren & Co. at London, Ont. :,
failed for $3.50, 900.
Rev. DR.. HOWARD CROSBY died at
his home in New York city of pneu-
monia, aged IS years. He was one of
the most prominent Presbyterian min
listers in this country.
THE Charles Rohr Company's pack9
ing-house at Baltimore, Md, was de-
stroyed by fire, causing loss of s1oo, 900.
| ELROD HUDSON and jeff Dinsmore,
the two negroes who burned a portion
of Russellville, Ala, were taken from
Jail by a mob and hanged.
JOHN PLANK1NroN, aged 20 years, the
millionaire packer, died of pneumonia
at his home in Milwaukee after an ILL
ness of five days.
I GEN. JOHN w. FOSTER, special envoy
of the United States to Spain, is conf
dent that he will succeed in negotiat-
ing a favorable rec iprocity treaty.
| LAWRENCE GOODWIN, who died in
Brooklyn, N. Y, aged 81 years, was the
law partner of Aaron Burr.
The livery stable of H. s. Phillips at
Montreal was burned and sixteen
horses persisted in the flames.
JUDGE TUTHILL granted motion
for new trial for George Hathaway,
convicted in Chicago of the murder of
ex-Alderman Whelan and sentenced to
imprisonment for life.
| WILLIAM WAUGH. Mexican war vet
Gran, died at Vandalia, ILL.,, of Ia
grippe, aged Is years.
| "A SENSATION was caused at the treas
ury department in Washington by the
discovery of counterfeit two-dollar
silver certificate SO nearly perfect in all
it's parts as to be almost impossible OF
detection. It was estimated that there
were now nearly $40, 600, 600 of these
notes in circulation. II
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-02

GLUCOSE is produced in the United
States at the rate of one million pounds
per day, principally in the western
states. The bulk of it enters into
home cOnSumptiOn
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-02
Alaskan MOSQUITOES

Moss, shrubs and berries grow in
great profusion along Yakutat Bay
shore, and over the morainc regular
trail was formed as the large brown
bears crossed and recrossed in search of
food and berries. The glacial stream
divided into Il thousand branches and
formed an ideal delta, depositing silt
and glacial debris. Our course took us
over mountain spur and across an
interior basin about one thousand five
hundred feet in height, filled with nu-
merous lakes and swarming with mos
quitoes. Indeed, there were such myri-
ads of the latter that imagination sug-
gested that each flake of snow had con-
cealcd within it u germ, and thus the
mosquito had generated. Here it is that
sometimes huge brown bears, driven tc
fury and desperation by these tormenting
little beasts. finally tear their flesh and
die in agons.-M. B. Kerr, in Scribner.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-02

IT is figured that on the shipment of
81 ,00o, 0Oo worth of gold coin in an At
lantic voyage, there is lost by simple
rubbing something between $1,000 and
g.. 600 worth.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-02
WEST AND SOUTH

V60V VSN0 wv
AT Wichita, Kan, j. c. Adams was
convicted of the murder of Capt. w. L.
Couch. of Oklahoma fame.
The death of Gen. John C. Lee, at
one time lieutenant governor of Ohio
and a conspicuous officer in Rosecrans'
army during the war, occurred at To-
ledo, o.
In Chicago "Uncle Joe'' Mingle (col-
ored) died at the age of 1903 years.
IN wreck on the Louisville & Nash
vile near Louisville, KY, half dozen
persons were more or less seriously in
jured.
INDIANA and Missouri have been paid
their share of the direct tax refund, the
former receiving $769, Ia and the latter
$646, 95s.
AT Columbia, Ala, John Dances, q
negro, was lynched for criminally as
saulting Mrs. B. Petts.
THE governor of Louisiana has re-
piled to the dispatch of Secretary Blaine
regarding the Italian subjects killed by
the New Orleans mob. The governor
fails to express any regret of the lynch
ing.
On the Canadian river in the Chero.
kee strip wealthy Kentuckian named
Cole was robbed of So, 500 in cash. The
robbers escaped.
The Oldest man in Minnesota, Warren
Barrett, died atnGilmantown, aged 1O2
years. He was born in Vermont in
! 1880.
BANKERS of Indiana met at Indianap-
| +o$o io<s
electing Thomas w. Woollen, of Frank
lin, president.
| DOC" MIDDLETON, who claimed to be
the noted outlaw, and Mayor Peyson
fatally shot each other during fight in
a gambling house at Covington, Neb.
! AT Oshkosh Mrs. Ellen Lucy, the
Oldest woman in Wisconsin and perhaps
in the United States, died at the age OF
liz years.
In Greenville county, S. c.. T. B.
Ponder, farmer, found a rich vein of
gold on his farm
In Nebraska snow fell on the 25th tc
the depth of twenty inches on the level
and railroad traffic was greatly i'm.
peded. Severe snowstorms were also
reported from Kansas.
| On the coast of North Carolina the
British steamship Straithairly was
wrecked and nineteen of the crew were
drowned.
| AT Indianapolis steps have been taken
by the planning mill employees to start q
cooperative mill, with 800, 600 capital.
THOMAS BEACH, Nelson Van Brock.
! lin, Thomas McCandless and Fred Mill.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-02

"'YoUNG man." said the old gentleman
who was jostlcd in the horse car, ''have
you no manncrs?' ''No, sir" answered
the boy; II used them all up the last
time we had company
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-02
rHE EAST.

In twenty-four days 723 deaths oc
CURED in Allegheny and Pittsburgh
Pa, from the grip.
ing of the Grant monument COMMITTEES
in New York for breaking ground fol
the monument on Gen. Grants birth
day, April 81.
The well-known piano manufacturer
Charles +. Chickering, died at his home
in New York, aged 81 years.
The Pasteur institute director at New
York reports that of the s2s person.
treated for dog and cat bites last veal
not one died of hydrophobia
IT was stated by the treasurer of the
Gen. Sherman statue fund in New York
that $54, 786, or enough to complete the
statue, had been received
Mrs. FREDERICK BARTZ and her two
children died at Buffalo, N. Y, while
under the care of faith-curists.
1T was said that the man who recent
~ committed suicide at Niagara Falls
was J. L. Halik, of Chicago.
IT was said that Eva Brannock, a
faith curer of Pittsburgh, Pa, had fin.
ished fast of forty days, having dur
ing that time consumed nothing but
water.
The summer residence of j. NJ. Con-
stable at Orienta, N. Y, with,~its con-
tents, was burned, the loss being $685..
600.
The legislature of Maine passed a
bill providing for $500 fine or two years
imprisonment for preventing by intimi-
dalton or force any person from enter
ing or remaining in any mans employ
GEORGE w. Moss was hanged at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, for numbering his
wife; and at Mauch Chunk, Pa, Oliver
w. Stangley was executed for killing
his landlady, Mrs. Sybilla Walbert.
THE reports that Italians employed
on the Pittsburgh, Ohio Valley & Gin
cinnati railroad were drilling under
arms were fully verified.
THE death of Peter Parker, aged "a
years, occurred at the home of his
grandson at Marlboro, n. j. He was
the oldest freemason in New Jersey.
MILE CAPECE, 16-year-old girl at
Hazleton, Pa, shot herself through the
heart with revolver rather than
marry an old man, the choice of her
parents
JACK KENNEDY, milkman at Eliza.
beth, N. j., devoured fifty fried eggs in
ten minutes for bet of $40.
THE death of Charles Arbuckle, the
millionaire coffee merchant, occurred at
his home in Brooklyn, N. Y, in his 59th
year. He was known as Baby Blunt.
ing" by reason of famous breach OF
promise case.
On August ~ last Miss Zoe Clayton,
the actress, left San Francisco to walk
to New York inside of 226 days on a
wager of $4,000, and she arrived there
on the 27th. She accomplished the dis.
tance in 21s days.
BY a fire in hotel at Austin, Pa.
two men and a woman were burned tc
death.
On the Reading road wreck oc.
Cured near Ashland, Pa, and three
men were killed and three injured.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-02

The widow of Henry Ward Beecher
has the income of 800, 900 to live upon.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-02
Rough Treatment.

A man named Kinsella ran for presi.
dent of the village of Two Harbors and
was defeated. He blamed Supt Great
singer, of the Duluth & Iron Range
railroad, for using unfair means to Sc.
cure his defeat, and published a card in
the Two Harbors Iron Post abusing
Greatsinger. Much feeling was created,
and it resulted in Kinsella being taken
out and tarred and feathered and three
holes shot in his hand.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-02
Killed by q Falling Iciclo.

In St. Paul a hundred people saw
huge icicle fall from the caves on
the north side of the chamber of COM
merce building just as Mrs. Eva
Jourdant was passing. Men shouted to
her to look out, but they were too late.
The mass of ice struck her squarely on
the top of the head, fracturing the
skull in five places, and she died at st.
Joseph's hospital. A man was chop
ping ice from the roof.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-02
Piping Times in Pipestone.

The immigration to Pipestone county
this spring is the largest ever seen.
Nearly 100 families who purchased
farms there last fall have already ar
rived, and every day brings more.
Nearly fifty new fa1mhouses are now
in course of erection in the county, and
business is quite brisk.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-02

damages for injuries received June O.
1890.
Savina Rodino, of St. Paul, the Ital
ian murderer of his countryman, Palt
Binda, who was found guilty of murder
states prison for life.
Six persons have been drowned from
time to time this winter in a PREACHER
GUS airhole in the ice between Winons
and Fort Yates. The latest victim is {
Russian WAGNER. The other unfortu
mates were David Atkins, mail carrier
a German and three soldiers
The 10-year-old son of Thomas Libby
was crushed to death by street car il
Minneapolis
Walter Saussay, editor of the St
Paul Sunday Sun, was sentenced t.
three months Imprisonment for pub
fishing an obscene newspaper.
The annual dinner of the Minneapo
lis press club was given at the West
hotel.
Faribault society is talking about the
marriage of Hal Tenny, young man o.
that city, and Miss Hattie McComber
a student at st. Mary's. Their court
ship triumphed against the opposition
of the young lady's friends.
Carleton college at Northcfield has re-
opened with an attendance of about
400.
A post norton examination of the
body of Rosa Wood, who was found
dead near Fergus Falls, revealed a bull
let hole in her breast, and it looked a.
If she had been murdered.
Lumber camps near Aitkin were
breaking up, and the lumbermen are
satisfied with the winters cut.
Post, Martin & Co., of New York,
have brought suit against the Minneso-
ia Iron Car Company of Duluth for 1884,
ESQ, due on contract to furnish 75(
ventilated box fruit cars
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-02
How Clerk Davis Stole S24,8OO.

uO" C10FK DUV1B StOI6 SE4,8UUs
State Public Examiner Kenyon has
filed his report on the steal of Jay p.
Davis, deputy clerk of the st. Paul dis
trict court, who ran up bank account
on forged jury certificates. Kenyon's
method of examination was to check
the jury certificates against the daily
record in the district court, and he thus
discovered that Davis had converted to
his own use $34,s00. Davis populations
began in November, 1887, and were
kept up steadily for more than three
wears.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-01-19

n nSS@ h Ea' 81 az ana mSs
IS 50 schooner Jennie stubs hence 20 St vas.nt
5odar &rr a. NG Gibson paSeago R to st. john T. r.
umb,r %; Russian steamer Ceres hence to ManLSn,
to oaTooa ana loat 50 5a7i; British steamer
PRovIsIoNS- PoRh-Had les demand, and thu feel.
ing was barely stady s2, 100 D6iI a M le 59p
III . FOR new Short Clear ll 5o@el so EA % Prime
. 5gdo6 nj, and , aSo o35y cy F[ra lSGa Mess.
e quoted a. :o Family 80 @2atlo 90 racTyff =
mAMs-In moderate rquc,t at full prices, Quoted at
:l3 here. and ~ 30 at N West COO MEA rs
P Killed. California Hans Alrl - 800 tCs' 40 M9y i;
Srs' Ign Pcklcd iIsl, May 8'sc; $50 e, DO June;
SIC 800 t. do July s9e loo tc' ~ sw rca r Wam
S r. q RSd. 6aSa oy .t 5G 2s' a anu FSd
Hans 5adS Smoked do 956pI rsar Il
. DRT.SsED H0Gs- father easier lreer supple
bacon 2asEfb a: & SO s dG iRo and
full stocks. and anticipated free arrivals OF nor, Te
pints on later mouths leading to nl business cash
1Fe zoo aay G aI Febriry Closed gi5 asked Mach
so.d $50 9d ,ae 200 tS 0 iSS,ca en'a
BTUTT'TER1STradH vas slow ali around to-day, and
s1 e. general Sry fs aa best 25 i' to 55e'
Pennsylvania Creamery. best 279G2sc; Egm Cresner$,
eho G?5 do lair to FOOD 1919 ; nI Ella crs@sFy
SIa,c Dairy hall nrSins. ta6. pals, fail ends
fancy ends 25c hce 2yS 2tc goa and ,1br
fancy, 2sisa3Sc; choice 32G2jc far 70 cool i7d5iG
STATE Dairy hrkns choice fancy, 2ld23c fair ~ GOOD
l7d@Oc. Wrst imitation Creamery choice -, 20
good r 1sa5c %G' Wl pa{ a sa9Se Jaa
1I+c; Factory. fancy zoe first. 19al9c; sccCnd,,
CHEESE-Rulcs at finn prict- with ,teadT demands from
exporters and the home trade state factory null cream ia
made fancy. color6d Zoe do white 9sc; ine 92G"ic
Good To- nrlr, o. one fair good sd9sc common 20
air SaSaic: ful skins Bate; llght skins. Sdo2c pat
skim. ea2l.c EC'GS-fhnly maint1inei ~ pc o. S,a
receipts, Demand however continues light: state. anu
Penn vania fresh 25d-1 western and Northwestern,
2G.c: southern. 2f2d252c fair to prime Southwestfi'
.Gd-62c. ... ., .
sTEARINE-ouict and s,c2aiy hold city qnottd, al
hhds aud - In tc- br9Md gifn', cllN - w,
st'GAR-RR WQgiet FOR m. d,y BIT very irTy h'd.
report, Fair refining quoted ~ i-tC en- III
aal gi tot -; do g. and (. BE EEFINED-Mo"e
active and higher Crushed, 6+r cut I9t e.; Cub :;
J.; : Ijc Powdered e ; 1Gc: 1nuld"d Gle Mould a.
6 BLOC Confactorc - l-iGc standard ~" PC;
on ~" J'-0Jitc. white Extra &c 1.00 9-Ipc' i.NtI'
&c -" -, 0j'-c: &C. SIC: yellow D. A
TALLOW-t nchanrod In price ruling steady ana quiet
Prime city quote. q. i-c. No ~1l"-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-01-19
LANDSLIDE on THE NORTHERN PACIFIC.

st. Paul. Jan. 1s.-A Tacoma. Wash. dispatch to
The Pioneer Press" says: one Of the largest ana
most disastrous landsldes that have ever occurred on
the line Of the Northern Pacific in this state happened
at O'Clock last night at Pamers, forty three miles
from this city mountain Of earth now covers the
tracks of the road for distance of over 800 yards ana
travel has been completely shut Of Tho roadbcd OF
the line in the vicinity of the accident is practically
laid on the side of a hinge bluff! on Friday night the
rain made nrOads upon the bank and two hours DE-,
fore midnight hundreds Of tons OF earth and rock ic
with a tlunderOus noise upon the rOadbcd. ana Nho'h
the ground with the force of miniature carthqlmhc'
a large quantity Of Garth swept across the tia'hr,
carving them into the river For distance OF over
900 feet along the tracks the fallen car averaged
depth of ten feet There is no way 10 build around
the Slide, and passengers are transferred
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-01-19
GRAIN AND PRODCCE MARKETS.
FEATURES OF NEw.YoRK DEALINGS.

Speculation in the cereals saturday was restricted
TO narrow Limits. The trading in options wheat fell
below 100000 bushels The publ" cables were steady,
but some private adviccs weak. owing 10 the
heavy farmers deliveries in the United Kingdom.
Higher silver and the strength in Wall street. liberal
clcarances and the excellent bank statement were the
causes Of carly strength, but rac tic net changes
were small losses. May options started at ~ o. =
and declined to II Oh lea 81 03 Sc sales the curb
were made at 81 O3 $3.50 81 Oh 1916
Corn was duh and barren Of feature. spot lots and
January options were shade better small offerings,
but only 5000 bushels taken for export. The
late deliveries unchanged. or shade lover.
oats wcakc Oh the spot. offerings beng FAR IN
excess Of the demand. The options were quiet ana
unsettled but closed without material change.
Lard extremely dull and weaker, the options
closing of IA = points.
The final official quotations were as follows
Whcat-Fcbrary ~ o. Ii. March II % Is, May
81 O3 %, July % Us cents,
COrn-January 30 -, February IS "a, March
IS IL, MAY IS Ii cents.
Oats-January 80 H. February 30 IL, May 80 IL
cents.
Lard February So 10, March So "a. April SO 35,
May So 40.
The receipts Of grain and -four reported saturday
at New York, Philadelphia Baltimore and ROston were
a. follows: Wheat 72.O33 bushels; corn, III liz
bushels oats, 1927 bushels, total grain. i6G,427
bushels -four 35,l05 packages Al Chicago, Nil
waukce and II. LOUIS. the arrivals Wheat,
GO372 bushels; corn, l6f91J bushels; Oats, 2l1 81
bushels tJtal grain, 43G064 bushels; four, 1881
barrels.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-01-19

selling. both by holders and speculators =, A.,
confusion Of opinions in regard to the efYect .ne
free-colnage law, speculation has come prscticsns.
to a standstil common belief that so raJ;y
a measure cannot he passed has preventeS cal
general alarm. but in holders have not sold any
they have ceased 20 engage in new wntr,sy.
Attacks on The market by the 81 bear" faction beA
consequently been Intellectual in bringing " ass
large amounts of long stock, and the coniro' W!
prices at the end of the week was comnlo,.a
in the hands OF room traders and small sneeVg
latOTs who are .lways satisfied with fractio.r,
gains. The large interests on both sides LA
aloof until the fate Of the Silver Hill was Ipssi
Uncertain. While the West is apparently s,rons''
in favor Of silver imitation the East Contemplate
such an idea with remarkable apathy Aside froess
the action OF the Chamber of Commerce in III
/ty, there has hardly been protest arairsss
the passage Of o financial measure fraught WIFI
the most mOmentons consequences to the welfas
and prosperity Of the country. That there shonISs
he two opinions to the result OF neas,r.
OF this kind is not the least surprising featn,s
of what appears 10 he financial madness, IT,
success OF tiIc measure would make silver the mi,
of value il would cause an immediate contrac,ians
in the currency by the amount of gold now IN
circulation: and whatever initiation in value,
might result ultimately from the depreciation in
the currency, the evil consequences OF the chansa
would vastly outweigh it. The experiences Of tbs
county in the last quarter OF century should have
taught better lesson but besides those the cyna,,
ences of the world have all been in favor Of
sound currency. While the country is growjns
and prosperous, il is beyond the range Of prof.
ability that it can conduct its financial operations
in direct opposition to all the well-estaDlshri
laws of finance and trade As to the chances 4,
the bill becoming a law, :, ere are diverse opin.
ions without any firm foundation. II Is not i'm
possible that the doubt about the action OF ths
Executive branch If the Government has hee,
aroused by speculative interests which hope In
this way TO gain n profit ftOn decline in VALUES
That the short interest in the market has
been enlarged since the vote ir the Senate h
EevOnd dispute.
The general business Of the country is reported
to he in a satisfactory condition. and fecin,
of greater confidence prevails in all branches Of
industry The Iror and coal trades especially
have improved, and higher prices in both are
proba BILE The volume of exchanges is much larger
than at the corresponding time in previous years
ard although the increase at Newforll is partly
accounted for bv the greater activity in stocks
il indicates more extensive operations IN all de.
rirtmcnts of trade.
Following is our usual table, giving thr number
NJ shares sold of all stocks, the highest lowest
and final prices OF the week, together With the
fral prices of week ago. prcfiycd by the average
prices of January Is. 1890:
WEEKLY RANGE.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-01-19
TILE TRADE IL CHICAGO.

Chicago Jan. (Special-May wheat got 10 % cents
again yesterday. and the line Of million taken
on by a prominent room trader on Friday thrown
over. No generalization. however. followed the lGui
dation Of this holding. great deal Of short wheat
was covered. and a report Of considerable export
buying for long account done Nav sold from
So j-S to 05. bnt closed at % }-s The cable news
was disappointing, and the Northwestern cars. 2G7,
were larger than year ago. The DAYS trade was
largely local. and left the market better cvened up
than it was at the opening. The visible supply
prospect is for decrease Of about 100000 bushels.
The receipts Of again large enough t. cause
some bull disbursement prominent local short
Even this buying did not prevent decline. Cash
corn rather active but at lower Cf price
MAY sold from IL 5-S to 81. and closed at II B..
Oats sympathzcd early with the weakness In the
other grains but cash oats higher and finally
closed futures at little advance. May sold from
10 to "A Jo. but closed at 40 lo0 - Ii. Provisions
suffered considerable decline. and were stu weak
at the close The hog receipts $1,000, were un-
usually heavy for saturday; the estimates for Monday
were for 10000. Packers as has been the case Of
late led the selling with Cudaly the heaviest seller
Of all. Lard was particularly weak. on the cable
announcement that the proposed French tarh had
been adopted Toward the close there was some
good sized mm son house buying Of pork aud Lard
Puts MAY wheat were "a -. calls 80 1-ooa1 3-i