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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-02-04

THE lawyers of the late Mrs.. Jane
kingsbury made strange find in her
residence at Lynn, Mass. When she
died no trace of any property could be
found for several days, but finally the
executors came across several docu-
ments concealed in chest in a spare
bedroom. They represented property
amounting to $50, 1000. The search con-
tinued, and 100000 was found in the
house. OF this sum S14,Oo was in gold
pieces in denominations ranging from
81 to $50. The balance was in curren-
cy. This money was found hidden in
the bottoms OF trunks. bureau drawers
and beds.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-02-04

WARD McALI1sTER figures up that a
gentleman can live decently in New
York and keep a family on $ls3, 952 a
year. Now, if Mr.. McAllister will try
his hand at showing how a man can
honestly earn enough to live on de
Gently" he will be doing the country a
real service
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-02-04

DY the bill for the admission of Utah
o. 2 state, introduced in the senate by
Senator Teller, all persons qualified to
vote Tor representatives to the legis-
lative assembly are made eligible by
the bill to be elected to the convention
70 form the state constitution which
shall meet on the first Tuesday in o.
tober of 1892 The bill further pro-
vdes that it shall secure perfect reli.
gions sentiment and forbids the mo-
Hesitation Of any person on account of
mode OF worship. All rights to public
lands are to be disclaimed Novem-
Der, 1892, is fixed as the date of ratifica-
ton Ut the constitution BY the peonla
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-02-04
Died from tho Enects 81 a I,e.t,n.

PErosKEY, Mich, Feb 1.--Elmer B.
Hustled. the mill owner who was as
saulted by Swedish laborers Thurs
day night, died Saturday. Hustled was
attacked while coming out of his barn
end badly beaten about the head.
Charles Carson, Alfred Brown and
Ralph Saunders have been arrested for
khc crime.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-02-04
DRANK HER OWN POISON.

a Wife roiSons tho Tea and When Accused
Drinks 1t Herself and Dies.
KINGSTON, Ont, Feb. Mrs. Black
we'll, of Wolfetown, Rcnfrew county,
poisoned the tea prepared for a meal,
with the intention of taking the lives of
her family. Her husband detected the
fact that there was something wrong
with the tea and accused his wife of
having placed poison in it. She denied
the accusation, and to prove that tie
beverage was all right drank cupful
of the tea. She was taken i'll in a short
time and died before doctor who was
summoned reached her side.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-02-04

TIE first consignment of camel skins
Tor commercial purposes ever brought
to this country reached New York the
other day on the last voyage of the
steamer Normandie It consisted of
five bales, thirteen skins in bale,
shipped from Alden to q firm of moroc-
CO manufacturers. The shipment is an
experiment.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-02-04
Tnrnad nvar ,u nj. ra.

ST. PAUL, MIMI, Feb. Last week
an old man was buried at Cazenovia,
near Reedsville, Wis His son returned
from the west recently and expressed
desire to see his fathers remains.
The corpse was taken up and was
found to have turned over iH the coffin,
tearing the hair and decorating the
face in SO doing.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-02-04

IENNYsON was first moved to write
verses, according to some special in
formation which the Boston Globe has
recently obtained, when 16 years of
age, and upon Sunday while staying
home from church. The attemp t was
suggested by someone else, as a means
OF occupying his spare time The task
was undertaken, so the story goes, and
with such success that the youth was
encouraged to try further
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-02-04

AT the instance of several philan.
thropic ladies of high station Enemies
of'Tobacco Smoking have been formed
in st. Petersburg. Every member of
such "circle" pledges himself not to
smoke and to discourage smoking in
others. The money which such a mem.
Der would spend on tobacco or cigars
from the time he joins the circle to
September l, 1892, he pays to the So
clety, to be sent to the ADMINISTRATION
communities
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-02-04

This is Columbian year, as it might
be called, since it is the four hum
dredth anniversary of the discovery of
America by Christopher Colum bus, in
honor of which the Inauguration of the
big centennial in Chicago will be be-
gun; 1t is also presidential year, and
likewise it is leap year, in which
ladies who have been sighted and left
ungathered by the ungallant bachelors
have been granted by popular custom
the right to choose a determination
from the ranks of the sterncr sex, and
can do something more than hint for
the proposal which they crave and
would accept
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-02-04
A TERRIBLE WARNING.
Tho Destructive Effects of Liquor on the
Brain.

Brain.
Very many people, and among them
not the least we'll educated, think that
alcohol is cure for different sick
nesses and indispositions, and in such
cases even children are frequently COM
PEELED to make use of it. If it is still
question as to whether the use of al
cohol produces the wished-for and ex-
pected results in the case of men who
feel indisposed there is not the slight
est doubt that for children alcohol is a
poison in every case, whose after effects
may be inexpressibly far-reaching
Prof Demme cites a noteworthy case
of the injurious effects of alcohol on a
boy, which should serve as a warning.
For the purpose of STRENGTHENING" his
ten-year-old son, who was very intelli-
gent but physically weak, an anxious
father administered daily at first a
glass, then several glasses of strong
Malaga wine. After some weeks the
parents noticed that the memory of the
boy was steadily declining. Finally
by order of the physician the supply
was discontinued, and in the course of
six or eight weeks the boy recovered.
His mental powers had become so
weak that at times he did not know
his own name, failed to recognize his
relatives and could scarcely point out
the simplest objects in daily use. But,
as is often the case with fathers who
believe in using alcohol, this one
could not allow himself to be convinced
of its injurious effects He could
not bear to withhold this supposed
strengthening article, and he again
staked his sons health on this belief
This time he experimental with beer
and gave the boy wineglassful every
noon and evening. In few weeks he
observed the same significant decline
OF memory and the same dwindlin2 of
his sons mental powers, which were
again recovered when the use of alco-
hol was at last forever ended. Reason
able thinkers can scarcely understand
how we'll informed people are able to
deny this and similar effects of alcohol.
This destructive influence upon thought
and the mental powers is self-eyident.
and everyone who does brain work will
be proof of this if he allows himself
to be led to use alcohol That this ef-
feet will become greater by continued
use need not be mentioned. And now
the same result has been found in the
delicate unused faculties of child. It
is inexcusable for any parent to allow
his children to have even a taste of al
cohol. How many sicknesses for which
one has vainly sought an explanation
would be understood if the carelessness
OF parents in this respect were known.
A child should be taught to fear alcohol
as it breads the fire 1t is sad that
this is so seldom the case. There are
frivolous fathers who give their chill
dren strong drink for a "joke" instead
OF becoming acquainted with the Spec
tacle afforded by the play of the child's
natural inclinations-Public Opinion.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-02-04

MRS. JULIA REzAU, of New Orleans,
celebrated her Tooth birthday recently
Her father. Joseph Oaken, was one of
the men who rowed George Washing
tou sc-oss New York harbor on the
occasion of his inauguration, and her
list steamboat.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-02-04

Or the 1926, 617 divorces granted in the
United States for twenty years, 216,-
176, or 65.S per cent of the whole,
were granted to wives on their petitions
for divorce from their husbands, and
112,546 were granted husbands for the
alleged fault of the wives, being $40
per cent OF the whole number; that is
to say, in the proportion of nearly two
to one it is the wife who seeks a d.
vorce rather than the husband.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-02-04

under the influence Of liquor Ut Ill d
not . reliable nor competent work.
man.ss Add to this the fact that the
drinking man is apt 70 get drunk at the
most inopportune times, when the shop
or mill is crowded with work, and to
leave his place vacant any morning be-
cause he is not yet over the effects Of
his nights debauch, and we at once
see the reasons for the growing disin-
clination to employ drinking men.
The leading railroads of this country
are enforcing the rule that drinking
men shall not be employed The reg
ulation is not only to prevent the loss
of money from wreck, but directly to
save human life. Think of q train,
loaded with hundreds of people, at the
absolute mercy of switch-tender. q
signal.man, or the keeper of draw
bridge, and the latter half drunk! Tho
recent terrible accident near Newburg.
on-the-Hudson was caused by drink
A derailed freight DISTRACTED the track,
and stopped passenger train. The
conductor of the latter sent back q
man with a red lantern, to warn an
express train which was nearly due.
The man went into a switchman's
shanty to take drink. and came out
only to see the express thunder by, to
plunge. minute or two later, into the
standing train, killing and injuring a
number of people. One such object
lesson should be enough to cause the
discharge of every drinking man on
every railroad in the country.
The same practice is extending to
other occupations. Business men de-
sire in their counting-rooms, behind
their counters, and in all other places
of trust, men whose faculties are all
alert, and not dulled by indulgence in
drink. Banks and moneyed institu-
tions do not want men will, this vice,
which is the fruitful parent of others,
and which is liable to lead to theft or
defalcation to obtain the funds with
which to pander to them. Each year
sees gradual extension of the rule
against the employment of men who
drink. Each year the more profitable
avocations are more and more closed
against such men.
The same thing has bee ONE the rule
with most of the secret beneficiary or
ders They will not admit drinking
men to membership, for the same rea-
son that many life insurance compan-
les will not insure them---because in
temperance shortens the expectation
of life of every one who INDUCES in it.
and renders his life a much greater
risk than that ct q sober man of the
same age. The economic argument
against drinking is going to tell in
time. Once let young mon understand
that the drink habit shuts them out
from the better class OF occupations,
and they will be far less likely to fall
into it. They Will be more ready to
examine into the liquor question. and
that examination will always result in
their joining the ranks of those who
are working to abolish the traffic -
| Toledo Blade.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-02-04

The best known of these peaceab BILE
settlements OF international controver-
sizes was that between the United States
and Great Britain in 1872 on account of
the alabama Claims" which matter
was referred to five arbitrators named
by the United States, England, the
Swiss republic, the king Of Italy and
the emperor of Brazil, respectively. In
dispute between England and France
IL 1s4S the king of Prussia ;.cted as ar
bitrator.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-02-04

CURRENTS of water serve to a vast
ea:ent the purpose of distributing
seeds. Walnut, butternut and pecan
trees arc found close to streams, where
they drop their nuts into the passing
Hood, to he carried far away and start
other groves perhaps hundrees of
miles distant. Tree seeds of many
sorts arc carried by oceanic currents.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-02-04

The following states have estab-
iished labor bureaus and the good
they have accomplished is incalcu'able,
though their work is only in its in.
fancy to-day: Massachusetts, 1869:
Pennsylvania, 1872; Missouri, 1875:
Ohio, 1877; New Jersey, 1878; illinois,
1879; Indiana, 1879; California, 1883:
Michigan, 1888; Wisconsin, 1888; Iowa,
1884; Delaware. 1884; Kansas, 1885: Con-
necticut, 1880; North Carolina. 1887.
NEBRASKA, 1887; Maine, 1887; Rhode
lsiand, 1887; Minnesota, 1887; Colorado,
1855 View York, 1899; North Dakota.
1870; South Dakota, 1890; Idaho, 1890:
Tennessee, 1901; New Mexico 1901
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-02-04

COL. HERNANDEZ, who was recently
condemned to death by a court martial
at Monterey. Mexico, for sympathizinp
with Cara, attempted to escape the
LIST, and was shot by guard.
THE Supreme Court of the United
States decided the LIST that Boyd, elect
ed by the Democrats of Nebraska as
governor, last fall, was a citizen and
entitled to his seat.
RESOLUTION was introduced in con-
gress the LIST, demanding the recall of
Minister Egan from Chilli.
A TAILOR named Tiett. who has a
family at Winona, Mimi, but has been
j at Sioux City, Ia, several weeks, was
killed in a row at a dance the nipht IF
the LIST. A saloonkeeper named Barney
Walker knocked him down stairs and
he died an hour later. Walker is under
arrest.
Mr.. Smith, United States minister tn
Russia, furnishes a statement of the &C.
tual condition of the sufferers in that
country, who number at least fourteen
million.
HE German steamer Elder. WAS
stranded on the rocks off the Isle If
Wight the LIST, and the passengers had
narrow. escape from death.
THE public debt decreased Az. eo5. $40
in January.
The federal supreme court decided
that the anti-lottery law is constitu-
tiona1' ~
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-02-04

EMrERoE MAMMALIAN, of Germany,
ordered suit of clothes from his tailor
four hundred years ago, and the bill
has Just been put into court Mon.
Rrchy has its advantages, after all. .
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-02-04

THE forty-tourth anniversary of the
discovery OF gold at Suffers sawmill in
Ell Dorado county, CAL, was celebrated
in New York the other night by the as
ISOLATED pioneers of the territorial days
OF California with dinner. AS the
years roll on death plays sad havoc in
The ranks of the sturdy gold diggers of
40, aud there was less than a half hun.
dred left to tell the tales of the olden
6ays
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-02-04
DRINK AND WORK,
Dru" kards Not Wanted by Employers Of
WOrkmen.

ru"kardS NOT wanted by Employers of
WOrkmon.
One of the indications of the steady
growth of anti-rum sentiment in the
country is the increasing number of
occupations from which drinking men
are excluded. There was considerable
OF sensation created at tho great
iron rollmills at New burg, near Cleve-
land. by the discharge of several of the
hands at Christmas time. They went
to the foreman for an explanation, and
found that it was because they were
drinking men. They protested, of
course, against dismissal, and urged
the plea that they did not drink while
on duty" This, however, does not
cover the real ground. A drinking
man, after time, has his nervous
system deranged by the alcoholic
stimuant. His eye is not so sure, his
hand not so correct, his judgment in
the thousand and one technical points
constantly coming up in the pursuit of
any occupation requiring training and
skill is not so good. as are those of q
man who does not drink.
These things are true, even when
the drinker is absolutely sober. His
brain and nerves and muscles have
been injured by drink, and he is an in
Terror workman. as compared with one
who does not drink at all. This dis
poses entirely of the plea that the en-
ployer has no right to interfere if the
man does not drink when on duty. 1t
is the inferior workman, made so by
drink, that is not wanted. 1t would
seem that here is field of usefulness
for labor unions. They take it upon
themselves to declare that employers,
in almost any mechanical occupation,
shall not employ any workman who is
not q member of the union covering
that field of labor. 1t is no more than
just that they sh ould then exclude from
their membership those who are not
first-class workmen in their particular
line,
1t needs no argument to prove that a
habitual drinker is not q first-class
workman, no matter what he might
have been before he contracted the
habit As shown above, his inferiority
is chronic-a damage resulting to him
from his intempersnce. Then. = man
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-02-04
Heavy Damages for His Iu,uri.

LYNN, Mass. Feb. 1.-Arthur B.
johnson, a lineman of the Edison Gen.
eral Electric Company who was thrown
from . trolley wagon by, breaking
wire to the ground and permanently
hurt. has settled for $ls, 500 This il
believed to be the largest sum ever paid
for personal injuries In this vicinity.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-02-04
DOUBLE TRAGEDY.
Jacob SOmbOril Shoots His Cousin and
Then Kills Himself.

JACOB somDorn Shoots His Cousin and
Then Kills Himself.
New YoEK, Feb. l. - Jacob Som
born shot his cousin Saturday, Julius
Somborn, who is now in precarious
condition. When the officers attempted
to arrest the would be murderer, he shot
himself and died almost Immediately.
Julius is wealthy wine merchant, and
it was in his office, at 81 Broad street,
that the tragedy occurred The MUIR
derer and suicide was pensioner on
the bounty of his wealthy cousin, and
often came to the Office to get money.
A refusal to continue the practice, was
the cause of the trapedv.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-02-04
Failure in Quebec.

QUEBEC, Can, Feb. 1.-Felix Gour-
deau, leather and hides, has assigned.
The liabilities are 81, 900. La Banque
Rationale has q claim of $50, 600 and
La Banque du Peuple one of $40. O00.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-02-04
WEST AND SOUTH.

RAILWAYS killed 1913 persons in Chi
cago in 1891, as shown by the records
of the coroner.
AT Topeka, Kan, Judge johnson de-
cided that indorsers of promissorv
notes were not liable
IAE doors of the bank of Jefferson,
at Shepherdstown, w. Va, were closed.
The loss to stockholders would be
heavy.
In the northwest the total value OF
the wheat stock was estimated at $780,
SCI, 100: A year ago it was 81, So, 200.
FLAMES which started in q laundry
OF the city workhouse in Cincinnati
caused a loss of 800. oOo. :;
In Columbus, O., fire destroyed an
entire business block, causing a loss of
500, 900; insurance, $500, 0OO The Met
ropolitan opera house and two news
paper offices were among the buildings
burned
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-02-04

"AuNr" CLARA VOORHEES, died at
Princeton, N. j., the other day, aged 81
years She was known to every scholar
at Princeton college where she had
lived for the past sixty years
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-02-04
A MARINE DISASTER.
A British Vessel Wrecked on the Pacific
COast-Twcntv Sailors pcri.l,

A British Vessel Wrecked on the Pacific
Coast-Twcnty Sailors Perish.
ABERDEEN, Wash, Feb 1.-The Brit
ISL bark Ferndalc, which went ashore
10 miles north of the entrance to
Gray's harbor Friday, is now a total
wreck about l mile off shore and of
her crew OF twenty-threc men all
but three sailors arc drowned.
n terrific gale and exceptionally high
tide prevailed ut the time. The sea
ran higher than was ever before
known. When she struck the officers
and crew at once prepared to reach
shore. but they had little time in which
to make their preparations. 1t was
impossible to successfully launch their
boats with the tremendous sea rum
ming, and although an attempt was
made the frail craft were almost i'm
mediately swampcd.
Nothing was left for the crew to do
but to lash themselves to the yards and
broken pieces OF masts. Soon after
the sea broke over the stranded ship
and several of the crew were washed
away. The last man to leave
the deck was Capt blair Three
OF the seamcn reached the shore
on pieces of drift and the body of the
mate was afteward picked up on the
sandy beach incasc.l in life prcserver,
but no trace Of TIE others could be
found. The Fernlaic was Il new YES
sci and was on her first trip to the
coast. 1t WAS also the first visit Of
Capt. B:air to this coast The vessel
was worth about $50. 900
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-02-04
Shot His wife and Her brother

WASHINGTON, Feb L. Howard
Schneider, aged %, Sunday night shot
his wife, It is believed fatally, and
killed her younger brother, Frank
Hamlink. while they were coming
home from church. The wife had 70.
fused to live with her husband,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-02-04
Dedicated to Temporance.

H. DAYTON, O.. Feb, 1.-The Womau's
Christian Temperance association
building. for which they paid $50, 900,
was dedicated Sunday with a vast
crowd of people participating in the
ceremonies. - = :. s
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-02-04
yyill End I1i, Dave IN .1.u.

FRANKLIN. Pa, Feb. III. H. Wi
nans' the wealthy farmer, politician and
church deacon, convicted of burglary
and arson, was sentenced to five years
Imprisonment in the penitentiarv.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-02-04

MANY a man who turned over a new
leaf about four weeks ago failed to
paste it down with the mucilage of
perseverance,.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-02-04
An Old Record Book Found.
Say They Arc Starving.

Some of the Indians on the Fond du
Lac reservation have addressed letter
to Bishop McGolriek, the Catholic
bishop of the Duluth diocese,
setting forth in broken English
lish claim that they are starving and
need provisions and clothing to keep
them from freezing to death.