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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-08-25

Mrs. LAvlNlA FILLMORE, of Buffalo,
N. Y, relative of Willard Fillmore,
recently ce!c brated her 1o5th birthday.
She was bornin this country and lived
under every PRESIDENT it has had. Her
husband was the first licensed Method
list minister in western New York.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-08-25

3 THERE is money in almost everything
IT one can find a way to get it out. A
novel industry is that of two farmers
near Midtown, Pa. who have gone
into the business of extracting the
poison from bees. They catch the bees
and either imrnerse them for eight days
in bottle of alcohol, having previously
enraged them so as to cause the poison
to exude from the poison sacs, or else
they kill them and squeeze the virus
into glass tube. The virus has local
repute as 4 cure for dropsy, chill and
fever, and all kinds of insect stings.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-08-25
LATER NEWS,
IncenliArlRm.

NEW YORK, Aug. 22.-Three persons
were burned and bruised and narrowly
escaped death in an incendiary fire
which occurred shortly before o'clock
yesterday morning in fashionable
apartment house on Henry street,
brooklyn. Nine other persons escaped
from the burning building in their
night clothes. The injured are Charles
E. Fuller, forty-two years of age, a
broker, jumped from the second floor,
injured internally. Elizabeth D. Holt,
aged twenty-three; Rosa Belle Holt,
aged twenty-six. These two sisters
slid down rope from the fourth story,
and were severely lacerated about the
hands and limbs, besides being burned
about the head. Three attempts to
destroy the house havebeen made in a
week. Loss $125, 1000.
Two convicts, Charles Vincent and
Thomas Welsh while attempting to
escape from the prison at Sing Sing,
N. Y, the 22nd, were shot and killed.
The International Peace Congress- be-
gan at Berne, Switzerland the 22nd.
The national encampment of the
Knights of Pythias began at Kansas
City, Mo-, the 22nd.
TREASURY officials state that the de-
partment has a balance of $50, 900, 600,
and the revenues, Notwithstanding the
loss of the $50, 100000 on sugar, are in
creasing at the rate of $1,000, 900 a
month from customs alone. This rate
of increase has been going on since
the 1st of March. The increase of in
ternal revenue for the year closed July
was 100000 over the year before,
and this year there will be an increase
of Sc, 600, 900 over the year just closed.
NEARLY one thousand saw mill men
at Eau Claire, will strike the 2end for
a ten hour day.
The preliminary hearing in the Bor-
den murder case at Fall River, Mass. is
postponed.
The Great Northern has nearly one
hundred miles of new track down west
of Spokane on its Puget Sound line.
1t is expected that the Sound will be
reached before the close of the present
| year.
ACTING Secretary Spaulding, of the
treasury department., has issued cir
cular letter of instructions to collectors
OF customs under the act relating to
tolls on Canadian vessels at the St.
Marys Falls canal, which provides that
the money shall be collected under
regulations to be established by the
,aSeserF Of shs treasury, = . 49,.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-08-25
Death Cheats the (;a,lcw.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, Aug. 22--Peter
Wright, a condemned murderer, died
suddenly in the county Jail here Satur-
day evening of an epileptic fit. Wright
fatally stabbed William Clark and es-
capped to Quincy, ILL.,, where he was
captured, and he was sentenced No.
vember 10, 1891, to hang January s, 1892.
The case was appealed to the supreme
court, which had not yet taken action.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-08-25
The emDerOr IF Garnoopv

The emperor of Germany is gallant
to the fair sex. He has during his
reign appointed five women as
''colonels of regiments. Seven ladies
now hold that rank in the Prussian
army. The oldest in rank is EN-
press Frederick; the next in order,
Princess Frederick Charles; then Queen
Victoria, then Princess Albert, of
Prussia; Empress Augusta Victoria.
wife of his majesty; the duchess
OF Connaught, and he has just appoint
ed the queen regent of the Neither
an6S
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-08-25
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

In Russia nearly 5000 new cases of
cholera were reported on the 18th, but
the plague was decreasing in Persia.
FIRE in the town of Sardovsk, Rus
STA, destroyed 800 houses and made
1880 persons homeless.
HILL and Mcdonnell. the accomplices
of the Bidwells, the Bank of England
forgers, We're released from prison on
condition that they leave England for
ever Hill is an idiot and his hair had
turned white.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-08-25
Crushed Under = Derailed Car.

BALTIMORE, Md, Aug. 22.-By the
derailment of q coach of a passenger
train on the Baltimore & Annapolis
short line. miles from Baltimore. late
Saturday afternoon one unknown col
ored woman was killed and fifteen per.
sons were injured-three probably ia.
tally -.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-08-25
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS
CLOSE FIGURING.

estimates Of Population In state Institu-
tions Made In 1890.
& The state board of corrections and
charities is accustomed to making esti-
mates, in advance, of the population of
the state institutions as basis for esti-
mates of appropriations for current ex-
penses. The estimates for the fiscal
year ended July 81, 1892, were made two
years ago and it is interesting to see
how near they were to the actual facts.
"A comparison is made in the following
table, which shows the average num-
Der of inmates of state institutions for
the year endad I1al,z 81 1900.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-08-25
Fire at Calla0. Perm.

CALLAo, Peru, Aug .2a. Fire destroyed
whole block except the offices of
the project and one saloon. Shute & Co.,
ship chambers, lose their stock and
buildings, amounting to $500, 900. Six.
teen stores and shops and about the
same number of residences were de-
stroyed. The total loss is about $780,
OOO
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-08-25

A MAN died in the corridor of the
Fifth Avenue hotel, New York, who
for twenty years had been talking
about disinfectant he had invented,
and which he expected would make
him the richest person on earth. He
was man of great learning, and that
he had made a valuable discovery no
one doubted, but he never used it, He
was once offered $225, 900 to reveal his
secret, but he declined, saying he would
not consider smaller sum than $780,
900 a year for the use of his great in
vention. But while waiting to confer
with a party he fell dead with heart
disease, and his secret died with him.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-08-25
A New York woman has been max;

- A New YORK woman has been making
q good living by having her teeth
pulled by BARRIERS and then informing
on them. The fine for the unauthorized
and irregular pulling Of tooth by any
tonsorial practitioner in that city is
fifty dollars. The dentist at whose in
stigation this woman has been offering
up her tusks and molars at the shrine
Of justice is regular ID. D. s., who
would scorn to violate the ethics of the
profession by such thing as advertis-
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-08-25
The SWIMMING C.h.mn,o,

MONTREAL, Can. Aug 22.-Arthur
Kenny, the Australian swimmer, won
the 1oo.yard championship of Canad.
in rough water. He also broke IA
AmerisaA record ox 1,1a, ~ ~ .mr lnx
the alsa4xzt Ia ttaih, 20
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-08-25
Very Valuable Find.

LITTLE Rock, Ark, Aug. 2o-Two
prospectors have discovered high grade
silver and lead ores about Is miles from
here. The silver ore assays as high as
1900 ounces to the ton.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-08-25

Four different peaks in the noun
tains of Idaho are from nineteen to
twenty-tbree feet lower by actual
measurement than they were fifteen
years ago.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-08-25

This time it is jelly trust. 1t is re-
ported that all the large manufacturers
of jellies and preserves in the United
States and Canada have formed a COM
bination to regulate prices, dispense
with agents and do away with adver-
Using. 1t is said that $50 individuals
and firms hive entered into the combi-
nation an have issued stock to the
amount of IL, 900, which is divided
among the concerns in proportion to
the size of their works and the capital
they have invested. AS in other combi-
nations, they are to pool their business
and share the profits in proportion to
the number of shares they hold.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-08-25
Paid the Laws Debt.

PENDLEroN, Ore, Aug. 22.-Frederick
Zorn was hanged for the murder of his
wife and mother-in-law near Milton
last October. Zorn displayed remark
able composure to the last.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-08-25

IT is claimed that, Chinese is the
easiest language for telephoning, be.
cause of its monosyllabic quality. If
YOU don't believe it. try it,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-08-25
Swept by Flames.
idaho People's Party.

BOISE, Idaho, Aug: 2o.-The peoples
party state convention nominated A.
J. Crook for governor, ]. h. Wright for
lieutenant govsfnet anA famss 0nsa
las senfsss1,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-08-25

The United States has more than
500, 600 hearing banana plants, 200, 900
bearing lemon trees, 1000, 900 orange
trees, and $1,000, 900 pineapple trees.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-08-25

The first oil we'll was discovered in
Wayne county, KY. in 1929, thirty
years before the discovery of oil in
PENNSYLVANIA.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-08-25
A FATAL BOLT,
Lightning Demolishes . Barn with TIE
rible Results.

Lightning Demolishes = Barn with Ter
rible Results.
GRANT, Neb., Aug 22.-Five Keith
county farmers sought shelter from a
storm in the barn of Scott Gastineau
A lightning bolt demolished part of the
barn. killing James McHugh and Levi
Gastineau and rendering unconscious
the others. They are in a dangerous con-
dition and marked with livid scars on the
neck and shoulders where the deadly
fluid struck. The dead men were so
terribly mangled that interment was
necessary at once. Their clothes were
fred and the bodies horribly burned.
Swept by Flames.
ATHoL, Mass, Aug. ga fire at
South Royalston Saturday night de-
stroyed the George Whitney Wooden
Company's large wooden mill, also his
large chair shop. This cleans out the
business of the town, throwing about
200 people out of employment. The
property is insured for $4,000 to
500, 1000.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-08-25
She Was Disappointed.

Miss Maggie Levens, chief cook at
the Howard house in Litcbtield, took a
dose of strychnine and died in twenty
minutes. Miss Levens was about 80
years old, and had been employed at
the Howard house for the past two
years. She had relatives near Mime
apolis. The suicide was said to be an
other chapter in the old story, disap-
pointed in a man.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-08-25
The Fair Fund Complete.

Worlds Fair Commissioner Hunt
states that Minnesotas special fund,
which was assessed by the counties
themselves, had all practically been re-
ceived and that the preparing of the
states exhibit would now 60 on apace.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-08-25
Suicide in Il Watering Trough.

Mrs. J. c. Koch, of Springwater town
ship, Rock county, committed suicide
by drowning herself in a watering
trough on her farm. She leaves four
children, one a babe few months old
and the OIL lest years. Dependency,
caused by illness, was the cause.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-08-25
THE EAST.

In Philadelphia the Mutual Banking
Surety Trust and Safe Deposit Company
failed with heavy liabilities.
The Delaware democrats held their
state convention at Dover, rerominat-
ing John w. Causey for congress, and
choosing f. T. Cooper and W. H. COL
burn as presidential electors.
FLAMES a. Mount Indoes. VT, des-
troyed the shop and 100000 feet of
lumber of the Connecticut River Lum-
Der Company. Loss, 100000.
On the 10th 400 New York Central
switchmen at Buffalo, and the Buffalo,
Rochester & Pittsburgh Company men
struck, and it was feared that the
strike would become general through
out the country. State troops were
keeping order at Buffalo.
1'HREE-FouRTHs of the village of Del
mar, Del, was destroyed by fire and
800 persons were homeless.
LAKE SHORE switchmen at Buffalo,
N. Y, and the big Four switchmen
at Cleveland, O., joined the strike on
the 18th. Sheriff Beck sent tele-
gram to Gov. Flower requesting him to
guard. and his request was granted.
AT Mamaroneck, n. Y, during fire
in the stables of John A. Bostwick, a
millionaire, two men were burned to
death, and in the excitement Mr.. Bost-
wick fell dead.
The business part of Ashville, Pa,
was destroyed by an incendiary fire.
CHARLES H. PECKuAM, 81 years old,
confessed at Fall River, Mass, to the
murder of Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew J..
Borden. He was said to be insane.
AT the close of the sixth day of the
switchmen's strike in Buffalo, N ",
on the 18th the Nickel-Plate men went
out. Eight thousand state troops were
concentrated in Buffalo to protect the
railroad property and determined eff
fort was being made to remove the
freight blockade.
A CLoUDBURsT occurred at Freeman,
Pa, which nearly destroyed the entire
place, and it was feared that seven per-
sons had been drowned.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-08-25
IHE NORTHlNGTON ADVANCE
! ROBERT McCUNE, Ed. and Publisher.
woRTH,hoToN, Mobiles Co., MINI.

7 : ALASKA has yielded Sa3, 600, 900 in
sealskins. Russia sold it to us for $751;
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-08-25
Polk County's Unoccupied Land.

There are still $500 acres of unoccu-
pied land in Polk county, 1890 of which
are still unsurveyed. The entries at
the land Office here for the past quar-
ter have been 42,256 acres, which are
divided an follows: Cash entries, 2,6O2.-
81; homesteads, 23,0s9.s5 acres; final
proofs, Il, 1928 43, and final timber cu'-
lures, LAO acres. The total cash re-
ceipts for the quarter were IS, 721. ~,
the prescriptions amounting to 81, 49, 20
and the homesteads to So, 29S.7S.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-08-25
Sues for the Loss of a Wife.

Capt. B. >B. lnman, proprietor and
manager of the Inman tug line at Du-
luth. was made defendant in a suit for
$25,0 900 damages. A. D. Frost, the
plaintiff, alleges Capt. Inman alienated
the affections of Mrs. Frost. Mrs.
Frost was recently granted divorce
from her husband. In granting the
decree the court stated that Mrs. Frost
had no ground for action until her hus
band circulated slanderous statements
linking her name with Capt. Inman,
and gave her bill on these grounds.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-04-01
Birds Gathered His Almond Crop.

An almond grower of this locality hit
upon neat device for gathering his crop
last fall. His trees bore largely, and
this early became known to the yellow
hammers, species of the woodpecker
tribe of birds, and they had regularly
stored away large quantities of ripe nuts
taken from the orchard in the limb of an
oak tree near by. The astute orcharcs,t
watched operations, and at last hit upon
novel nut and labor saving plan, sid
he lost no time in putting it into execu-
ton.
The limb was sawed from the tree nd
replaced by a square shaped funnel lsng
enough to nearly reach the ground; a
bucket was then set underneath. A
genuine robbing game then went merrily
on. The birds gathered the nuts, which
they dropped into the tunnel and down
into the bucket below, and as regularly
as night came the almond grower would
in his turn empty 1t of its contents and
set it back for new supply. This was
kept up until the entire crop had been
gathered, and the yellowhammers had
departed broken hearted at the heartless
deception practised upon them.-Suttet
City Enterprise,
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-04-01

The gross receipts of the Philadelphia
and Reading system will hereafter be
$50, 200, 900 annually, and the number
of its employees will approximate 100,-
600, being more than are employed by
any single corporation on this planet.
The requirement of the Poughkeepsie
Bridge and the lines tributary thereto
throws the Reading and its entire aug
mented system into the very heart of
New England, giving it the only all-rail
route from the Middle and Southern
States to the East, with connections
with all important New England roads,
and enabling it to virtually control the
coal traffic of that entire region.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-04-01

The Boston Transcript says: The
decision of the Supreme Court that the
"habtual criminal act is constitutional
is gratifying one. The act provides
that on conviction Of third felony a
person may be sentenced to the State
Prison for twenty i've years. The prin-
cipal which underlie5 this legislation is
n sound one. The man who proposes to
live by preylng upon the community has
no right to live in the community.
This is one of the propositions which
prison reformers long ago laid down,
and in securing the passage of the law,
which the court now sustains, they have
done the community great service.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-04-01

A company, backed by Eastern cap
italists, has been incorporated in Chi
cago, ILL.,, for the manufacture OF Ameri
can flax. The capital stock is 50, 900, 900.
Speaking for the new company its attor-
ney said. ''At present nearly all the flax
used IN this country is imported. This
company has experimental to its own
satisfaction that it can manufacture the
American article much cheaper than it
can be imported, and, at the same time,
furnish as good an article as that made
in foreign countries.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-04-01

Asafetida as cure for ''grlp" has
been ridiculed by great many physi-
clans, but most Of them admit, adds the
New York Post, that they have never
prescribed it. In the West asafetida in
pills Of four grains has been tried with
gratifying results. Quick recoveries are
reported in nearly every instance, with
out the usual sequel of debility. In
Louisville alone 30, 600 of the pills were
sold in one Gay recently. No bad effects
can follow the use of asaietida, for of
all things it is a sedative. In Asiatic
countries it is employed as a condimcnt,
but this is q use to which few persons
will cfre to put it. Many old people in
the West who were far gone with the
disease have, it is asserted, been cured
by the asafetida pills. They should be
taken, according to their admirers. three
times a day with glass of water, and
taken in this way are warranted not to
taint the br ,ath,
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-04-01
THE OLD sPINE1.

Within anupper room It stands
A garret corner grim and gray
Where spiders spin their silken strands
Molested by no sunlight ray.
Yet DANES and damsels. dare say,
Have loved its music; to and fro
Their lily hands were won't to stray
On that old spinet, years ago.
I often fancy ghostly bands
A stately minuet essay
At dead Of night, while unseen hands
Their long-forgotten skill display.
The little children-where are theyt
For many must have danced, know,
To measures fanciful and gay
From that old spinet, years ago.
Some cavalier of other lands
To it once sang his roundelay,
Regardless of the reprimands
OF her whose heart he longed to sway:
Or some despairing genius may
Have made it sharer of his woe,
And bowed his weary head to pray
Ger that old spinet, years ago.
Behold it still resists decay,
There's music in it still, although
The hands are dust that used to play
On that old spinet. years ago.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-04-01
EVERY DAY.

And the tumult of the street
And ceaseless tread of restless feet;
What varied human forms we meet.
Every day.
Some burdened with unwhispered woe;
Sad secrets God alone can know;
We see them wandering to and fro.
Every day.
Some scared by times decay or blight;
With furrowed brow and fading sight,
Who haunt our feet from morn till night
Every day.
Some swayed by passion deep and strong,
Enkindled by some burning wrong,
Unheeded by the listless throng,
Every day.
The lust of power, the greed for gain,
Twin tyrants of the heart and brain;
We see the ruin of their reign,
Every day.
The crafty ghouls that throng the street,
Wearing the garments of deceit;
Who breathe to lie and live to cheat,
Every day.
And some aspiring to be great,
With beaming eye and heart elate,
Scorning the thorny thrusts of fate,
Every day.
The youth enthralled by some fond dream,
Or borne along on fancy's stream,
Believing all things what they seem,
Every day.
The aged tottering toward the tomb,
No light to lift their rayless gloom,
Nor hope their weary way illume,
Every day.
The rich and poor, the old and young,
With silent lip or fluent tongue,
And griefs untold or joys unsung,
Every day.
Thus in the drama of the town,
Some bear cross OF wear crown
Until death rings the curtain down,
Every day.
ID. B. Sickels, in New York Press.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-04-01

Occasio ily, something turns up tc
prove, r. iarks the Boston Transcript,
that son of our homeier methods in
therapel dies, sold women's remedies, ]"
as the doctors sneeringIy call them, are
found to be reasonably scientific after
all. Lately, for instance, an expert, who
has been experimenting in NJ. Pasteur's
laboratory. has discovered that no living
disease germ can resist for more than
few hours the antiseptic power of essence
of cinnamon, which seems to be no less
effective in destroying microbes than is
corrosive sublimate. Its scent will kill
them. A decoction of cinnamon is rec
omended for influenza cases, typhoid
fever and cholera. Perhaps some of us
can remember when elderly ladies used
to carry in their wonderful pockets. the
capacity of which was enormous, bits of
cinnamon or other pungent and fragrant
spice, the odor of which would betrav
their coming many feet away. Whether
it was carried as a preventive or merely
for the satisfaction of having something
to nibble was not revealed to us youngs-
sters of those days. Peppermint candy
was always recognized stimulant
against attacks of somnolence at sermon
time at church
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-04-01
Some Use for the Sparrow.

Within the past few days Harry T.
Scoville, of the Western Union Telegraph
Company, has gained quite a reputation
as sparrow exterminator. AT one time
he ran what was known as school for
rifle practice, and those who are ac-
quainted with him are aware that he is a
splendid shot, He has been using an
air-gun on the birds and in three or four
nights has killed over 500 by actual
count. He says they make splendid eat
ing. He strings them on wire, which
he places before the fire in the engine
rooms, and they are cooked so as to make
savory bite --Cinslnnati Enquirer.