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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-02
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS
LOVED A. SAILOR.
Sequel to Pretty Romauco Found In
Minnaapolis DiYorca Cont

Sequel to . Pretty Romance Found In
e. Minneapolis Divorce Court.
The sequel to pretty little romance
was wrought out in the divorce court
at Minneapolis. Back in 1887 William
H. Trigg, the son of an English gentle.
man, was running as captain of a
ship from Halifax to Montreal. He met
on the Nova Scotia coast healthy,
robust girl named Harriet Taylor and
married her in September, 1887. He
kept her with him on the ship for a
couple of months, when his ardor
cooled and he returned her to her ia
TIERS ROOT. He continued to support
her, however, until the following Feb
ruary, when he took command of ship
running from Liverpool via the Suez
canal to Mediterranean ports and has
since done nothing for her. Judge
Lochren gave her q divorce.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-02

REV. SHELDON JACKSON, in charge of
the thirty-four government schools of
Alaska, is sailing northward on tie
Bear to Siberia to purchase the five
hundred reindeer which the government
hopes to make the foundation of a
new food supply for the half-starved
Alaskans. The reindeer will first be
put in charge OF the brighter scholars
OF the school, and in time are expected
to multiply and become the chief staple
of Alaskan food.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-02

The plan for great line of Ameri-
can steamships to Europe grows apace
The ships will start from an eastern
point of Long Island and touch at the
nearest point of land east of the At
lantic. Connection from New York and
London to the points of arrival and de-
parture will be by the fastest railway
trains. The ocean transit will be made
in much less time than heretofore,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-02

JOHN II. MCCORMICK, one of the oldest
employees in the hindery of the govern
ment printing Office at Washington, has
just died. Mr.. Mccormick was one of
the men who carried President Lincoln
from Ford's theater on the night of the
assassination to the house opposite,
where the martyred president breathed
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-02

The busy searchers Of ash heaps and
garbage barrels colleet every day in the
city OF Paris alone at least one hundred
pounds Of hair which some hundreds of
thousands of" women have combed out
OF their heads during the preceding
twenty -four hours. This hair, all mixed
together and soiled, one would think
beyond redemption, is sold to hair
cleaners at from 81 to $3.50 a pound,
which shows simply that the fair sex in
one city alone throws away annually
about 100000 worth of hair, for which
they afterward pay-and it is the same
hair, mind considerably over $780,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-02
FROM WASHINGTON.

PRESIDENT HARRISON proclaimed the
treaty of commercial reciprocity be-
tween Austria Hungary and the United
States.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 9th aggregated
81, 146, sos, 69s, against 81, 231 1899, 1877, the
previous week. The increase as COM
pared with the corresponding week of
1891 was 12.1.
The business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the 27th numbered 1913, against 1872 the
preceding week and PAT for the CORE.
spending week last year.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-02

The JOhnstown relief commission has
finished it's work and rendered it's ac-
counts. The sum Of nearly So, 900, 900
was disbursed in caring for the victims
OF the Pennsylvania flood, burying the
dead and restoring the town. The
great disaster occurred three years ago
the 31st of May. 1t was the monu-
mental calamity of the country. But
the mighty deluge of waters was
matched by the food of charity let
loose in response to Johnstown's appeal
for helm
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-02
THE LAW STANDS.
school Districts In Minnesota Get
Benefit of LIQUOR Licensas.

School Districts In Minnesota Get the
Benefit of Liquor Licenses.
The state supreme court in a case
brought before it has decided the
special law providing for the payment
to. particular school district of
the money received from the sale
of liquor licenses in q village en-
braced within such district to be
constitutional. The court holds that
this special act does not conflict, as has
been claimed, with certain clauses of
the constitution, since it is not grant
OF corporate privilege nor yet special
or exclusive privilege, immunity or
franchise within the meaning of those
clauses.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-02

QuRfNG the twelve months ended
with last April 176 new national banks
were added to the number previously in
existehce, increasing the total capital
by 81, $50, 600. Of this number eighty
nine. with a capital of So, $50, 900, were
incorporated in the first half of the
term. The number for the entire year
is larger than that in 1885, 1886, or 1888,
but falls below the s07 reported for the
year ended with October, 1890, the capt.
tai stock of which was $50, $50, 900. Most
OF the new banks are incorporated in
thosWest, there is not territory unrep-
resented. and the six states admitted
since 1898 rain teen new banks. zse
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-02

EDWIN c. McCABE, who is engineer
ing the movement to make Oklahoma a
negro state, was formerly state auditor
of Kansas, is almost white man, and
is said to be quite intellectual. There
are 10000 negroes now in Oklahoma, it
is stated, and 200, 900 in the south organ
lied for the same destination.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-02

LET1TIA TYLER SEMP1.E. DAUGHTER Of
ex-President Tyler, and formerly a
lady OF the white house," is now, at
81, friendless, penniless inmate of the
Corcoran home for aged women in
Washington. Almost within sight of
the old home where she was courted
and feted in the days of her youth and
bellehood she sits and awaits the end
with her grief and her memories for
cOmDanv
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-02

Mrs. CARRIE BURNHAM Kl1eoRE, the
only woman graduate of the law school
OF Pennsylvania university, received
circular inviting her to attend the re-
cent alumni banquet, and to send a sub
scripsion of ten dollars. She accepted
the invitation and sent the subscription.
A few days later the secretary wrote
her that the committee had overlooked
the fact that there was one lady among
the graduates of the law department.
and asked her to withdraw her sub
scrlption. as arrangements had been
made for smoking between the courses.
Her subscription was returned to
her.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-02
The News OF the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND NAIL.
FIFTY-SECoND CQNoRESA


TUESDAY, May pa bill was passed
in the senate appropriating $50, 600 for
public building at Owosso, Mich. A
joint resolution was reported direct
ing the president to proclaim general
holiday commemorative the 4Q0th ami
versary OF the discovery of America on
October ~, 1892, and another proposing
constitutional amendment providing
for the election of United States sena-
tors by popular vote. In the house a
bill was introduced to admit free of
duty glass windows imported for the
use of churches. The senate amend
ments to the river and harbor bill were
non-concurred in.
WEDNESDAY, May .5.-Bills were re-
ported in the senate appropriating
100000 and $4,000 respectively for
public buildings at Muscatine, Ia, and
Muncie, Ind. The bill to provide for
the punishment of violations of the
treaty rights of aliens was discussed.
In the house the sundry civil bill was
taken up, the first item being the gov
eminent exhibits at the worlds fair,
and provisos were adopted that in no
event shall the exhibits made by the
government be open to the public on
Sunday, and that no intoxicating
liquors shall be sold on the grounds Of
the exposition. An amendment was
adopted reducing the salary of the di-
rector general to $4,000, and that of the
secretary to $1,000.
THURSDAY, May 20. - In the senate
a bill was introduced by Senator
PETER to increase the currency, to re-
duce the rates of interest and to estab-
lish bureau of loans. Senator Stew
arts free coinage bill was discussed.
In the house bill was introduced to
amend the act to protect trade and
commerce against unlawful restraints
and monopolies. The sundry civil ap-
preparation bill was further considered.
FRIDAY, May 81. - The silver bill
was laid before the senate, but dis
cussion was postponed. A bill was
passed to reclassify and prescribe the
salaries of railway postal clerks, the
rates ranging from $500 for first class
to 81 800 for seventh class. Adjourned
to the 3lst. In the house bill fixing
the rate of postage of semi-weekly and
tri-weekly publications mailed at GER
tain free delivery offices was favcrably
reported. The sundry civil appropria-
ton bill was passed and the post Office
appropriation bill was discussed. The
bill eliminating from the pension rolls
the names OF. persons not residents of the
United States was reported adversely.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-02
THE EAST.

AT Pittsburgh, Pa, Patrick Fitzpat-
rick was hanged for the murder Of
Samuel Early, steel roller, Septem-
Der 2, 1891.
FIRE destroyed Darflinger's glass
works at White Mills, Pa, the loss be-
ing 100000.
In state convention at Trenton the
New j rsey democrats instructed their
delegation to Chicago to vote for Cleve-
land for president The platform con.
demns the policy of free coinage of sill
yer, and asserts that the democratic
party should continue it's battle for
tariff reform.
ABOUT 10000 children marched in the
annual parade of the Brooklyn IN. "
Sunday school union.
VERMONT prohibitio1ists in conven-
ton at Rutland nominated E. L. Allen,
of Fair Haven, for governor
Four boys were fishing at Woodville,
Pa, when the bank caved in and they
were thrown into the river and drowned.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-02

The question of good common roads"
is beginning to take prominence in all
the wide-awake states. There is no
question in which all classes of people
are more directly Interested The Or
binary methods of road-making and
road-repairing are only ''playing at
road-making.' THE iron horse has
solid road beds, beautifully ballasted
and bridged - but the faithful. four
legged horse goes on miring and wear
ing out his life in pulling the farmers
wealth to market. The times are ripe
for reform in conntry-road building.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-02

From several portions of the United
States the suggestion is made that the
schools OF the country on October IL
next unite in celebrating the four hun
dredth anniversary of the discovery of
America by Columb bus, and thus, as one
enthusiastic writer puts it, "a wave of
patriotic sentiment will sweep with the
sun across the country from the Allan
tic to the Pacific coast and will do much,
it is hoped, to inspire afresh the feeling
OF Americanis1n in the breasts uf the
generation just coming upon the scene
OF active endeavor." Avery good idea
The children of the public schools can
not imbibe too much patriotism.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-02
The homeopathic.

The Minnesota State Homeopathic
institute in twentv-sixth annual session
at Duluth elected the following officers
for the ensuing year:
President, DR.. w. Horning, Minneapolis:
first vice president, c. B. Pillsbury, Duluth:
second vice president. A. P. Williamson, Fergus
Falls; secretary, E. L. Manu. st. Paul. treas
urer, d. A. Locke Minneapolis: censors, D. A.
Striclzler, St. Paul. A. E. Higbee and H. W.
Brazie, Minneapolis. executive committee, w.
II Leonard, H. w. Brazie, Minneapolis; p. E.
Saver, L. E. Penney, St. Paul; T. A. Bowman
c. B. Pillsbury. Duluth: w. T. Stone, St
Cloud; Thorn IS Lave, Slayton
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-02

The Oldest hotel in Switzerland and
probably in the world is the hotel of
the Three Kings at Basic. Among its
guests in 1926 were Emperor Con-
rad H., his son Henry III. and Rudolph,
the last king of Burgundy,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-02
LATER NEWS.
Cyclones.

MEXICO, Mo-, May 30.-A cyclone de-
vastated the northern portion of this
(Audrain) county last night. Barns
torn up, orchards ruined and trees up.
Footed from the ground. A cloudburst
followed the cyclone, flooding the
devastated district. The house of Hen
~ Berry was leveled to the ground, but
none of the family were seriously hurt.
William Brenton's house was demol-
ished. OF the eleven of it's occupants,
Alvin Brenton and Mrs. w. G. Brenton
we're the only ones badly hurt, and
their injuries are not dangerous.
Devastating storms visited Sterling,
Kas., Webb City, NO., Caldwell and
wellington, Kas.
FIRE at San Francisco, CAL, the 3Oth,
destroyed the Fulton iron works, Ham
mond car works, Van brakes brass
foundry and number of small frame
buildings, causing a loss of 800, 900.
ADv1CEs from Calcutta, the 3Oth,
state the cholera epidemic at Srinagar,
in the vale of Cashmere, continues its
terrible course. In the last four days
out of 1881 persons attacked 900 have
died.
The dedication of the soldiers monu-
nent at Rochester, N. ", the 30th,
was attended by President Harrison.
IT is now known to certainty that
twenty lives were lost in Friday nights
cyclone in Wellington, Kas., and the
fatally injured list is adding hourly to
the list of dead. There are lots of per
sons known to be missing, but no trace
Of their bodies can be found until the
wreckage of the Phillips House and the
stores on Washington avenue have
been removed. The Phillips house
register cannot be found, and the clerk,
!. Henry Adams, is unconscious from in
juries, so he cannot tell who was in the
! building.
Bob FLOYD, the fourth one of the
train robbers who killed Messenger
Saunders at Monroe Junction, Fla, on
the morning of May 81, was captured
! the 30th. He impresses all as being a
F.; simple country lad led to the bad by
evil companions. He has confessed.
| A BOILER in Barclays steam mills at
Corbeille, France, exploded the s0th,
completely destroying the mills. -Four
employees were killed and thirty were
| injured.
! The prize fight in England, the 30th,
between jackson the negro, and Slavin
the champion of England, was won by
BY jackson in the 10th round. Slavin'e
jaw was broken. -! ~ ..s.@z. :.a::.z / I
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-02
Too Much Of n Snnrt.

Frederick w. German, of St. Paul,
aged 25, seeks divorce from his wife,
Margaret V. German. They were
married at Hudson less than three
years ago. He charges that during the
time they lived together she was irregu-
lar in her conduct. He alleges that she
is residing at the Hotel Brunswick, in
Minneapolis, that she has q room at
Fourth and Nicollet streets where she
has suit of male attire and>a wig
These, he says, she has frequently
donned and gone out with male friend
to ''dO'' the town.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-02
One Man Killed.

DAYTON, O., May 2s.--An explosion
in the wood pulp mill at the Friend
Paper Company's mill at West Carroll
ton, miles south of here, demolished
the building and killed Emery Blood,
the assistant superintendent Henry
Stebbins, the superintendent, was
slightly injured. Two other employees
were hurt
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-02
Died Suddenly.

A private dispatch announced the
sudden death of r. P. Herrick, a we'll
known citizen of Crookstop. He was
on his way to New York and died a
couple of hours after reaching his des.
tination, of rheumatism of the heart.
He was a member of the wealthy mill
ing firm of Lee & Herrick. A few
months ago his senior partner became
suddenly insane and is now confined in
the Fergus Falls asylum. The firms
extensive business at Crookston is left
without head.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-02
Minnesota Lard Laws Valid.

In the state supreme court at st. Paul
Judge Mitchell sustained the validity of
the laws re ating to the manufacture
and sale of lard compounds. The suits
were appealed from the municipal court
of Minneapolis, where Knute Aslesen
was convicted of selling cotolene and
{. NJ. Bassett of selling food prepared
with this article without furnishing the
purchaser with a card containing no
tice of that fact.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-02

TIT original manuscript of the Book
of Mormon isanow in one of the banks
at Richmond, Ray county, Mo-, in Gus
tody of j. D. Whitner, straight and
apparently nonpoIygamous Mormon.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-02
The News TRrfef1v Stafn,1

The News Briefly Stated.
A new bank has been opened in Eagle
Bend by W. E. Lee, of Long Prairie.
John Anderson, an unmarried Swede.
for some time working for Solomon
Nicholson, farmer at Hoyle Run, sud-
denly became insane.
Andrew G. Bohlen, a MINNEAPOLIS
teamster, was killed by the cars at
West Union Junction, Wis.
AS a result of a storm a farmer living
at Candy lost thirty head of cattle.
Several other farmers sustained small
er losses.
Minneapolis will have irst-class
trotting meeting the first week in July,
under the management of the new Min
neapo)is Driving club.
The Ramsey County Medical society
has filed articles of incorporation.
Moses Hurd, an influential and
wealthy citizen of Rochester, died from
consumption, aged 70.
The Longshoremen's union of Duluth.
a benevolent organization, filed articles
of incorporation.
Frank Marber was found guilty at
Minneapolis by jury of being the
father OF the child of his 1s-year-o.d
stepdaughter, Emma e. Diezel.
The mail wagons between Moorhead
and Halstad via Kragnes, George
town, Perley and Hendrum, will be put
on July 1.
Burglars broke into box car on
train No. IS, Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul, and robbed the car of about 500
worth of Key West cigars that were
being shipped to c. Crunninger, of St.
Paul.
George NJ. Carleton, stationary en-
gineer, was killed in South St. Paul.
lie had temporary charge of the engine
at the grain elevator and was alone at
the time OF the accident. 1t was
thought he slipped and fell upon the fly
wheel.
c. j. Beckett, cousin of Councilman
1de, of West Duluth. committed suicide
near the wooden mill while Temporarily
insane.
Mrs. Hendrickson, of Litchfield,
whose husband was killed by Great
Northern train last year, has been
given a verdict for $4,000.
Lucy Thomas, Minneapolis colored
woman, told Judge Lochren that her
husband had failed to support her, and
divorce was forthwith granted.
At the close of the mems six.dav
walking match in St. Paul the score
was: Engledrum, 343 miles; Click, $40;
Hart, 500, Morse, s27; Taylor, 800.
Albert Holland, bachelor at Nor
wood, has had thirteen proposals this
year and has accepted none. The girls
are in despair.
The Merritt Nickel Mining Company
has been organized at Duluth with
capital stock of $4,000, 900. The com.
pany proposes to mine iron and nickel
and manufacture the same into nickel
steel at Duluth.
There was good deal of excitement
at Little Falls over the finding of the
remains of man near Randall, 10 miles
west. Evidently the body had been
burned A pistol aud jackknife we1e
found near the charred bones.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-02
Killed by LtHht l,inr.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Col, May 2s.-A.
J. Barus was struck by lightning while
driving in the storm here Frida;.
kAYhER, COL, May 2s.-Arnold Bert
chlnger' while riding in a storm Friday,
was was struck by lightning Man and
hcrae were both killed. .:x.-.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-02

ARcapEAo6x FARRAR says there is
room only for two more monuments in
Westminster, abbey, and this space is
reserved for those to Gladstone and
TennvSOn
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-02
A TAME AFFAIR,
The Threatened Tragedy That Never Too

The Threatened Tragedy That Never Tool
Place.
In his excitement his voice rose. and
the two men in the next room heard
him say, with startling distinctness:
YOU'RE liar - understand? What
you say is a foul, deliberate lie, and |
tell you so to your face"
The man in the next room, with his
chair against the door connecting the
two rooms, got up and hastily moved
away, and he and his companion waited
silently for the climax.
you're dishonest, dirty scoundrel!''
went on the voice. ''Your enmity is a
greater honor than your friendship
Your associates show that"
"Ihereu be trouble there in a min
ute, said one of the listeners. whats
the trouble about?"
Don't KNOW" replied the other. Il
didn't overhear the first of the CONVEX
sation. But I'm glai to get away from
that door-a bullet would come through
it mighty easy"
III man said that to me-" continued
the voice after pause. ''I'd shoot him
understandable kill him, if 1 wasn't a
skulking coward!'
The two listeners held their breath
until they heard the man in the next
room continue in a lower voice:
THAT'S what l said to him, and-''
'Ho!'' said one of the listeners. "He's
just telling what he said to some one
else
What he says he said to some one
else" corrected the other 81 know the
class. Chicago Tribune.
Engagement Rings.
An engagement ring is no longer the
special prerogative of the sex feminine,
but the accepted sutton must also wear
the token that silently yet effectively
proclaims the fact that he has become.
as it were, private property. OF course,
when the lover presents to his fiance
the gem-set circlet which marks her fol
his own, opportunity is afforded for
artfully learning the preferences of the
young man in this particular line OF
jewelry, and as soon thereafter as NAV
be he is the surprised (?) recipient of q
love OF ring, perfectly suiting his ideas
Of what gentleman's ring ought to be-
which is convincing evidence of thei,
oneness of taste-in matters artistic al
least. The favorite engagement ring
at present for. a lady has overlapping
ends, each set with gem, a diamond
with either ruby, sapphire, moonstone
or pearl; and for gentleman, band
OF gold with two or three gems, a dia-
mond with ruby or sapphire, or all
three, set very deep. Another popula,
style of ring for a gentlemen is chain
OF platinum and gold with a true-lovers
knot on top. Engraved inside of each
ring are the initials of both parties and
the date of betrothal. morest.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-02

The growth of the bicycle habit is in.
dicatedxby tho fact that Indiana manu-
factories aloncsexpect to produce IS, 600
new 'wheels" this season.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-02
Breaking 1t Gently,

Wife-He is very sick, isn't he, Doctor?
Doctor-Yes, indeed.
Wite-Wel, Doctor, if there is any
thing very serious the matter with him.
tell me all about it in such a way that ]
can't understand it-Texas Siftinsn
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-02
Proktbitionists Shut Ont.

BosroN. May 2s.--In the senate the
petition o: the prohibition state COM
mittee for legislation enabling their can
didateS TO be placed On the official state
ballot was refused admission-13 tn IA
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-02
Hunting for Q Miser's Money.

A somewhat eccentric character
named Eli Ebor, aged u years, died
at Fisher. For the past twelve years
he lived in rude hut erected in the
timber, and eked out an existence from
the sale of vegetables and fish. It was
generally believed, however, that he
d ed possessed of upwards of $40. ZOO.
Already about one acre of cleared and
two acres of timber land about his hut
have been dug up by parties eager to
find hidden treasure, but no money had
been found.