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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14

The total value of the mineral prod
ucts Of the United States IN 1890, &C.
cording to the chief of mining statistics,
was 1852, o99,216. In 1880 the produc-
ton was 1868, 900. The output of
pig iron increased from 3,375,9l2
tons in 1880, worth $50, 315, 500, to 9, 20a,-
7o3 in 1890, valued at s151, 200, 40. The
value of the coal products increased
from, So, 640,3 in 1850 to $171, s66, 4s4
in 1890. Among the other important
metallic mineral products are: Gold,
ss:, s65, 900; silver, $40, 464,645; copper,
$50, 84s, 797, and lead, $14,266, 703. The
value of the non-metallic products is
estimated at $344, 765, oil.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS
ARBoR DAY.
The Governors Proclamation Namin
May for tho Celebration.

The Governors Proclamation Naming
May for tho Celebration.
Tho following IL . copy of q procla-
nation issued by Gov. Merriam:
It has becomes well established practice in
most Of the states Of this union to devote ono
day In each year to the planting Of trees along
the highways, around the homes and about the
public grounds.
In recognition of the spirit of this graceful
custom, L. William r. Merriam, governor of the
state Of Minnesota, do hereby designate Mon
day, May 2, 1892, ~ Arbor day and recommend
that 1t be respected rs spring festival In which
all should unite to contribute to the general
fund OF enjoyment and profit
Let all esteem 1t IN agreeable duty to en-.
belltsh the homestead. the roadside and tho
public park with the beautiful trees and flower
Ing shrubs, and with . deeper sense Of obliga-
ton let us cherish and sdorn the last resting
places OF those whose example and deeds have
added luster to the state and security to our
inhabitants. This day should be particularly q
gala day for our school children and trust
that 1t will be observed with suitable exercises
by the public schools throughout the state.
In testimony thereof, have hereunto set my
hand and caused the great seal of the state to
be affixed at the capitol in the city OF St. Paul
this I'd day Of April, A. D. 1852.
WILLIAM r. MERRIAM,
BY the Governor.
F. p. BROWN.
Secretary of State
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14

THAT mere infants should be CARRYING
pistols to school, in Chicago and else
where, and be playing with them dur
ing school hours, shows, says the Chi
cago Journal, lack of home and school
vigilance in the highest degree censur-
able. What is the probable future of a
boy aged ID who carries pistol around
with him, even to his school?
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14

The New York legislature proposes
to prohibit the sale or gift of cigarettes
to minors In Massachusetts such q
law is now in vogue. Physicians very
generally agree that the continued con-
sumption of tobacco in this form is
more injurious to health than in any
other shape. In the year 1891 the num-
Der Of cigarettes manufactured in this
country was s,s77, 799, 40, against 2, 1885,
SIS, 500 the previous year. A statisti-
clan places the worlds population at
Z, 4SO, 000, 900. Hence, the United States
makes and smokes enough cigarettes to
furnish every man, woman and child in
the world with two cigarettes q year.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14
Charged with Murder.

WAUPACA, Wis, April 9.-Assembly.
man Alfred r. Lea, Sam Stout, Alfred
Pail and David Holmes, all of this city,
have been arrested upon indictments re.
turned by the grand jury when it fin
ished its investigation of the MUIR
der of Banker Mead. Stout is
charged with being a principal in
the murder, and Lea, Pail and Holmes
as accessories. Tab Pryor is also under
arrest at Rhinelander charged with be-
ing principal in the affair. It is
thought probably four more arrests
will take place soon. The men under
arrest will probably be tried at the
next term of court in October.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14

The new United States steamship
Raleigh was successfully launched at
Norfolk, Va, in the presence of large
crowd, and will be ready for commits
sion in about year. Her battery con-
sists of one 6-inch and ten 4-inch rapid
fire breach-loading rifles on center pivot
mounts, protected by thick steel shields
worked as part Of the hull or made fast
to the carriage. The second battery
consists of two 6-pounders, two 3-pound-
ers, one 1-pounder and two s7-mm R. G.
There are six torpedo tubes with OPEN
ings about four feet above the water
worked from the berth deck. Her work.
manship is superior.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14
Damage to Plantations.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April 9.-No
trains have been run between Memphis
and Birmingham over the Kansas City,
Memphis & Birmingham railroad for
three days on account of washouts
and landslides caused by the re-
cent heavy rains. The Coosa and
Tallapoosa form the Alabama, and it
now looks as though the great cotton
producing valley of the latter will be
flooded and much damage done. All
the valley lands in the state are freshly
plowed and cotton planting is nearly
finished. The damage to farming in
tersst" and to the railroads is great.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14

A BOTTLE was found in the sea off the
coast of New Jersey the other day and
in it was fifteen dollars in money and a
note reading: ''The finder, whosoever
he may be, will use this money as his
own. We are sinking; death stares us
in the face" That must have been q
generous soul that could think of others
at such an hour and set his little stock
Of money adrift on the waters where it
might be picked up and used.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14

The census of 1890 shows that there
were 80, 953, 1927 pounds of maple sugar
and 2,25s,327 gallons of maple molasses
made in this country that year. The
romance of the sugar camp may have
departed, but the camp is still in ex-
istence and does a good business, es-
pecially in New York and Vermont.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14

FREDDY GERHARD, of New York,
noted for his attentions to Mrs. Langtry,
the Jersey lily" who when twenty
one had an income of $50, 200 a year, has
just been sued by druggist for pre-.
scriptions intended to counterfeit the i'll
effect of a fast life. Freddy's great
fortune has melted rapidly, though he
still has enough to pay his board.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

In a powder factor! at St. Peters
burg an explosion killed nine men.
The members of the French expedi-
ton under Capt. Menard were said to
have been massacred on the Upper
Niger in Africa.
In Roumanian military academy
five cadets have committed suicide by
shooting themselves with revolvers.
They belonged to a suicide club.
In Mexico Diaz has been reelected
president by practically unanimous
vote.
FIRE at Ell Porvenir, Cuba, destroyed
1s,61s, 900 pounds of sugar cane.
BIZ the sinking of the British ship
ErSto at Hamburg fifteen persons were
drowned.
AT San Pedro Mex, five bandits were
shot.
THE total exports from Germany to
the United States have largely de.
creased during the past year.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14

A BosToN barber claims to be the
swiftest man in the profession. He says
he once shaved a man neatly and then
ran one hundred yards all in a minute
and three-quarters. Whether the VIC
tim overlook him or not he fails to state.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14

A STRIKING illustration of the perfect
lon and solidity Of modern marine
architecture is afforded by the case of
The steamship Elder, which has Just
been dragged from Atherfield ledge
after having been at the mercy of the
waves and rocks for almost two months.
The stanchest vessels of twenty years
ago would have gone to pieces in two
days in such a position, bat the Elder
has withstood tempestuous weather
and heavy pounding and with slight re-
pairs will resume her place in the
Ocean-carrying trade
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14

SAN FRANCISCO, April 9.-Rev. DR.. j.
Benton, one of the oldest Congrega-
tional ministers on the Pacific coast and
president of the Golden Gate Theo-
logical seminary, died at his residence
in Oakland Friday from bronchitis. He
was born in Guilford, Conn.,, 70 years
ago, graduated from Yale college, and
came to California in 1849.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14
sl,l58,68 3;

The dwelling house of Chardon Ken
nedy at Bonniwell's Mills was de-
stroyed by fire with all it's contents.
The parents were some distance from
the house and did not learn of the fire
until their little 4-year-old daughter
called to them. The baby had been
left in the cradle, and the sparks fall
ing from the upper floor set the quilts
wrapped about the little one on fire.
The little daughter, with great presence
of mind, rescued the infant.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14

WHILE irrigation has been doing won
1ers for the mythical great American
desert" which the geography pupils of
forty or fifty years ago used to see upon
their aliases, it has done something
equally wonderful for the real African
desert of Sahara. BY the use of artesian
wells 100000 acres of this desert in
Algerian territory have been reclaimed
md brought under cultivation. This
land is especially adapted to grape cul-
ture, and in one year recently Algiers
sent to France 10, 500, 900 gallons of wine.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14

''GoD save American That is the
prayer that comes from famine-stricken
Russia as the food supplies furnished
by our people are distributed to the
needy. "Peace hath her victories no
less renowned than war;" Could any
triumph in battle draw forth such q
heartfelt blessing?
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14

1T being leap year Liluokalani, queen
of the Sandwich Islands, proposes q
union with Uncle Sam. 1t is to be
hoped that she will not insist on his
taking her name.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14

CLEVELAND, O., April 0. Edward
Lohiser was instantly killed Friday
morning by an electric shock. Lohiser
was putting tip an awning. The cleo
trio light wires were crossed with the
awning frames and he received the full
force of the current.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14
TEXAS SCOURGED BY DROUGHT
Crops Lost and Cattle Dying by Thou
sands for Want Of FO0d

sands for Want of Food.
SAN ANTONIO. Tex, April 9.--The
country between Corpus Christi and
Laredo is in q deplorable condition.
Crops are lost and cattle are dying
by the thousands. The bones of
the dead animals are being col
lected in great piles at every Next
can National railroad station. Cattle
men are feeding some of their
stock on burnt cactus to save them.
1t is the worst drought for years in
that region, and the loss is beyond COM
putatiOn.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14

LOUIS KossUrH will be ninety years
old if he lives until April 81, and says
that except for the trouble he has had
with his failing sight he feels compare
lively strong and vigorous.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14
For Con gress.

HARRISBURG, Pa, April 9.-The pro-
hibitionists have nominated L. T. Yoder
for congress from the Twenty-second
district OF Pennsylvania, and ]. j Porte.
from the Twenty-Five.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14

the value of the legal-tcnder dollar may
serve some useful end, but the only way
to really find out the value of dollar
is to need one badly.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14

A TEXAS boy found an old bomb that
had been lying in the water since the
war and tried to open it with an Ak. 1t
exploded; he may live, but it is doubt
&..1
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14

IT is interesting to note that of the
B2s,00o divorces granted in the United
States during the last twenty years
$4,000 were granted at the request of
sr;voe
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14
Cast Twenty-Two-Ton Flywheel.

AURORA, ILL.,, April 9.-The Hercules
iron works Thursday night successfully
turned out a twentytwo-ton casting, a
fywheel, II feet in diameter, with 49,
inch face, for the Joliet steel works. This
is much the largest casting ever turned
out between Chicago and San Francisco.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14
Released and Rcarrcstet1,

Charles Tilbury, sentenced from Pipe
ston county May n, 1891, to serve one
year in the penitentiary for burglary in
the third degree, was released and i'm
mediately rearrested by United States
Detective Brown, of Minneapolis, for
desertion from the army. Tilbury was
stationed at Fort Smelling.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14

Two CARGoEs of European measles
were received in New York the other
day. They should have been spotted
before landing.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14
F. p. BROWN,
Secretary of State.
MINNESOTA'S FINANCES.

Shown to BE In Good Condition by tho
State Treasures Report.
State Treasurer Bobleter's report for
the month of March shows a healthy
condition of the state treasury. The
fipnreS are aS fO11O1vc.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14
WEST AND SOUTH.


In the recent storms in Oklahoma and
Indian territory thousands of cattle have
perished.
In Kansas Union Pacific express train
passed through shower of mud which
plastered it with a layer of mud an inch
thick, darkening the windows and OBJ
securing the headlight.
FLAMES destroyed nearly every house
in Milton, Ala.
IN central Illinois heavy storms dam
aged crops, overflowed farm lands and
carried away bridges and fences.
BECAUSE she refused to give him a
kiss William Maier, of Wheeling, w.
Va, shot and killed his wife.
In the worlds fair grounds in Chicago
cyclone did So, 900 damage.
A CYCLONE wiped out Brownsville. a
small town in Pickens county, Ind. T.,
and two persons were killed and sew
eral injured.
ONE of Cronkill & Co. s furniture fac
tories at Piqua, O., was destroyed by
fire, the loss being $3.50. 1000.
In fire at Fort Madison, Ia, S. V.
Kitchen, his wife, three children, his
wife's sister, Miss Sidney DAY, and
August Knemeier, a boarder, were
burned to death.
AT Lock No. 2 on the Kentucky river
six raftsmen were drowned.
In wreck on the Northwestern road
near Waukesha, Wis, four persons
were killed.
LARGE quantities of tin have been
discovered near Chattanooga, Tenn.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14
LATER
Death by Flood.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April 1O.-Disas.
trous food news is coming in from
Columbus, Miss. The river rose two
feet higher than ever in its history, and
up to tonight has fallen only six feet.
The town is full of people who come
from the surrounding plantations and
are being fed by the citizens. The loss
OF life is great. Fourteen persons are
known to have been drowned. What
the loss of life is in the wide territory
covered by the food cannot be told.
The situation at Columbus is so bad
that the people have already decided to
ask the government for aid. The town
is now feeding over 500 refugees from
the floods. 1t is impossible here to as
certaino the names of any of the
drowned, who are reported to number
twenty, as far as ascertained.
The Passiac Chemical works, Newark,
N. j., was damaged by fire the 18th, to
the extent of $4,000. Owing to the
heavy fumes of the chemicals the fire.
men had difficulty in fighting the fire.
About twenty fremen were overcome
by the fumes.
The flour mill of Patton & Co., Lou.
isville, KY, was destroyed by fire the
18th. Charles Mccoy, the miller was
burned to death.
IT has been agreed to submit the
boundary difficulty between Brazil and
Argentine to an arbitrator to be ap-
pointed by the president of the United
States.
DURING the early morning hours of
the 10th the residence of James Haw-
ley, Midway, w. Va, was destroyed by
fire. Joseph Linton, aged 10 years,
sleeping in the attick, was fatally
burned.
SHIPPING circles are at present great
" alarmed over the probable loss of
three vessels, the crews numbering
forty-eight persons, and property to
the valuation of about $24s,OOO. They
are all some weeks overdue.
A FIGHT between rustlers and cattle
men occurred near Douglas, Wyo., the
18th. Several of the cattle thieves were
killed.
The steamship Phidias, from South
America, arrived at New York the 18th,
short seven Of her crew. They all died
from yellow fever,
The Oxford crew won the University
race from Cambridge on the Thames
river, the 10th. It was Oxford's 26th
victory.
The bill putting cotton ties on the
free list, passed the lower house of con
Iress the 10th
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14
The WoRTHINGT0h ADVANCE
ROBERT McCuNE, Ed. and Publisher.
WORTHINGTON,N Mobiles Co., MIMI.

In California peach trees are success
fully grated with rosebuds, thus pro-
ducing groves of red, white and pink
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14
CoxsoIA11oN. do moi fret II you ea1'e
get into society. Tho oyster 10 often pros.
emit ct . supper when he would perhaps pre-.
fer to be Ct home IN his bed.-DemoEest's
Magazine. ~s-,-S-.-.--<' : ~ ~---'l n. =.

Heads off
disease Pierce's Golden Med
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the blood. When you're weak,
dull and languid, or when blotches
and eruptions that's the
time to take it, no matter what the
season. It's easier to prevent than
to have to cure.
For all diseases caused BY . tor.
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STA, Biliousness, Scrofulous, Skin, or
Scalp Diseases even Consumption
Tor Lung scrofula J, in its earlier
stages, the "Discovery" is the only
remedy that's guaranteed. If it
doesn't benefit or cure, you have
your money back.
You pay only for the good you
get.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14
Arrested for Robbery,

Albert Thompson and Charles Brown,
young men living near Northwood,
we're arrested for robbing the late San
ford Tanner, rich old miser, on three
different occasions of ST 200 in money
and nearly $40, 900 in mortgages and GER
tificates of deposit. The executors of
Tanners estate have been looking mat
ters up and obtained confession and
affidavit from one of them.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14
THE EAST.

The death of Mrs. Welthea Little
Sprague, widow of Hon. Seth Sprague,
occurred at Dux bury, Mass, at the age
of 1O3.
A wINDsroRM at Scottdale, Pierson
and Brownstown, in Pennsylvania,
blew down and unroofed many build
ings.
AT Johnstown, Pa, Hungarian was
instantly killed while trying to light his
pipe at an electric light.
WHILE assisting in the funeral serv-
ices of Abraham Kraus at Palm station,
Pa, Rev. Joshua Schultz, aged 81 years,
died suddenly in the pulpit.
A HURRICANE wrecked ten houses and
a church at Clean, N. Y. One woman
was killed and a number of persons
seriously injured.
Rev. Dr. PARKHURsr, of New York,
has received eleven letters threatening
his life if he does not desist in his cru
SADIE against crime in that city.
BY the explosion of a locomotive
boiler at Long Island City FIVE men
were fatally injured.
The death of Willard Salisbury,
chancellor of the state of Delaware
since 1874 and United States senator
from 1859 to 1871, occurred at his resi-
dence at Dover, of apoplexy.
THE bill allowing women to vote for
school commissioners in New York has
become law.
COMPLETE returns from the Rhode
Island election give the following re-
| suits: Brown (rep.), for governor,
polled -, 466 votes; Wardwel (dem.),
25,429; Gilbert (pro.), 1850; Burton
(peo.), 1856; scattering, Is. These
figures show Il plurality of 2,046 for
Brown and a majority of 1856. The
legislature is republican in both
| branches.
In Pennsylvania the prohibitionists
have nominated l.. Z. Yoder for con-
gress from the Twenty-second district
and J. J. Porter from the Twenty
third.
| MASSACHUSETTS democrats in state
| convention at Boston elected delegates
to the national gathering favorable to
Cleveland. The resolutions adopted
favor tariff for revenue, approve the
free wool bill now before congress and
oppose the free coinage of silver.
BUT one-quarter of the average maple
sugar crop of Vermont has thus far
been produced. The loss to the farmers
will be fully $1,ovo, 900, it is said.
NEAR Cedarbrook, N. j., forest fires
destroyed several houses and hundreds
] of acres of wood and.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14
10000 Barrels of Flour Per Day

M1NNEAPo1.1s, Mimi, April 9.-The
mills last week did all that was ex-
pected of them. In the six days
ended Wednesday they ground 1885,
$40 barrels, averaging $4,000
barrels daily, against 1G6, 900
barrels the previous week, 122, 800 bar
rels for the corresponding time in 1891,
and Iii, GAO barrels in 1890. There were
seventeen mills running yesterday,
making about 80, 900 barrels per twenty
four hours
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14

The proprietors of DR.. Sage's Ca
tarrh Remedy lose $500 if you're
not cured of Catarrh. They prom
Use to pay you that if they can't
cure you. What do you lose by
trying it? Is there anything to
risk, except your Catarrh?
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14
FROM WASHINGTON.


The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 4th was: Wheat,
Al, OPS, 900 bushels; corn; II, 539, 600 BUSH
els; oats, 5000 bushels; rye, 1,O43,-
600 bushels: barley, 100000 bushels.
"A RENEWAL of the modus vivendi on
the Behring sea question was said to
have been agreed upon between Sir Jul
liam Pauncefote and Secretary Blaine
and signed by President Harrison.
The business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the 9Th numbered 20S, against 21s the
preceding week and 243 for the CORE
spending week last year.
THE exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the sth aggregated 81,
241, s9o,2s7, against sl,os3, 62s, 1856 the
previous week. The increase as COM
pared with the corresponding week of
1891 was 17.6.
THE losses by fire in the United States
and Canada amounted to $40, Gas, 900 dur
ing the month of March, against 3d.
$40, $50 in March, 1891. The losses dur
ing the first three months of this year
were s35, 126, 900, against $50, 99s, $50 in
the same time last year.