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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-28
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But don't get something that the
dealer says is "just as good."> It
may be better for him, but It's
pretty certain to be worse for Won.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-28

1T took four electric shocks to kill
jeremiah Cato in the death chamber at
Sing Sing recently, and all who were
present agree that it was revolving
spectacle. Yet it does not seem wholly
mpertinent to recall that it required
fourteen stabs with a butchers knife
Tor Mr. Cato to murder the man whose
wife he coveted and for the slaughter
II whom he has paid the penalty.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-28

THERE were incorporated in the
United States during the past few days
t@l corporations, with total capital of
1921, o., $50. OF the number l7s were
mercantile and manufacturing COM
?anies, capitalized at s24,157, 900; II
we're coal and iron companies, with
s2o'475,Oo0, and % were light, heat,
power and transportation companies,
with capital $50, 1921, 500.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-28

THE most unhappy period of mar
Rage, according to French divorce sta
;istics, is for the period extending from
The fifth to the tenth year. After that
The figures drop rapidly. Only 90 per
cent of couples seek divorce between
heir tenth and twentieth years of
anton. Only one pair in 100 seek to cut
The knot after the period of over thirty
and under forty wears.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-28
SILVER CONVENTION.
The Bimetaliists Will Meet at Washin;
ton Nav 1927.

The Bimetaliists Will Meet at WashinS-
ton May 1921.
WASHINGTON, April 25.-The rational
silver committee has issued call for a
convention to be held in this city May
26 and -. The call is extended to all
who earnestly favor the immediate
restoration of free b;metallic coin
age in the United States, and
each congressional district is re-
quested to send two delegates and each
state and territory to send two addi-
tional delegates at large. Farmers ALI
ancc organizations, Knights of Labor,
State Oranges, Patrons of Industry and
all industrial organizations favorab bic
to the free coinage Of silver are also
invited to send one delegate for each
local organization.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-28

MRS. F'RENCH-SHELDON, the woman
explorer OF Africa, spent many months
IN the dark continent, the companion of
natives and surrounded by wild beasts
and great: serpents, without any show
Of fsar: She was named 1.-The master
woman" by the native chiefs, who
were ever ready to do her: bidding She
returned from Africa with many tro-
phies OF her hunting expeditions where
she faced tigers and escaped the coils
Of pythens; but when she got back to
England she confessed that there were
just two'things she fearel--a drunken
man and 9 cow. She said nothing about
q Mouse. :" - -
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LOST IN 4 SNOWSTORM.
Two Men Lose Their Way and Die In O
Drift-One Is Saved.

COLORADO SPRINGS. Col, April 25-
Three Mexicans left Pueblo on the 18th
inst. for Thurlow's ranch, near Colon,
where they were to have gone to work
as herders. During the day it COM
menced to rain. completely satur-
ating their clothing. The weather
turned cold, turning the rain into snow,
and the men lost the trail. Two of
the men bec:me SO cold that they were
unable to follow the horses with
them and were left to perish.
The third managed to keep pace
with the animals. and they led him
to camp about daybreak. The next
day searching party found the two
dead bodies of the missing men IL miles
from Thurlow's ranch. One of them
was about Is years old and the other
middle-aged man.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-28
The News Of the Week,
BY TELEGRAPH AND MA1ra
FlFTYSEooN o@CoNaREA


TUESDAY, April II y The. senate
agreed TO resolution Tor al inquiry
into the present condition Of agrf-
culture IA the United States. The West
Virginia direct tax bin and the bill to
establish court of appeals for the Dis
trict of Columbia were passed. The
convention providing for a renewal OF
the existing 1nodus vivendi in Beh1 ing
sea was ratified. In the house a resolu:
ton to promote greater reciprocity in
the commercial relations between the
United States and Mexico was favor:
ably reported
WEDNESDAY, April 3o.-Senator Shcr-
man announced in the aehate that care
full examination OF the amendments
made TO the Chinese restriction act Of
May, 1864, showed that the restriction
laws did not expire until July, 1894.
Senator Teller spoke in, favo, of free
silver I'm the house a favorable report
was made on a bin making eight hours
Il days labor In the District of Co.
lum bia., The resolution for a. Joint
Mexican feciprocitys commission was
also faeorably reported
THURSDAY, April 81. - Bills were
passed in the senate to create third
division of the district of Kansas for
judicial purposes, and to establish a
military post near Helena, Mont. The
house bill to prohibit absolutely the
coming of Chinese persons into the
United States was considered. In
the house the time was occupied in dis
cussing the Noyes-Rockweu contested
election case from New York.
FRIDAY, April %. - In the senate
the urgent deficiency bill and bills pro-
~iding for the discharge of the duties
of the president in case of his death,
and to increase the pension of Mexican
war veterans from IS TO $l2 per month
were passed. The army appropriation
bill was reported. In the house the
contested election case of Noyes VS..
Rockwell from the Twenty-eighth New
York district came to an end, Rockwell
(dem.) retaining the seat by a vote of
12S to lO6
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-28
Horses Impaled on a Harrow.

Roger Waldron, of Scambler town
ship, Otter Tail county. was narrowing
when the team became unmauageable
and tipped the harrow over on to him.
The horses got tangled up in their
struggles and fell over on the harrow,
impaling both and inficting fatal
wounds. Young Waldron was badly
injured
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-28

p ISAAC RICHARDS, of East Machias,
Me-. who lacks few months OF being
ninety-nine years of age, rs said to be
the Oldest pensionet of the war of 1912.
He is Slightly deaf, but otherwise his
faculties are unimpaired. He lives in
The same house with children, grand.
children and great-grandchildren,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-28

The telephone company OF Glasgow
has completely fitted up an elaborate
telephone arrangement in Woodside
church, whereby the subscribers are en-
abled to hear the entire service with the
utmost distinctness and ease.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-28
Died Under the Knife.

Patrick Stanley, who was shot in the
leg by some member of the sheriff's
posse while he was trying to escape ar
rest for being engaged in bulldog fight
ing, died at St. Joseph hospital in st.
Paul about two hours after his limb
was amputated. 1t was serious ques-
ton whether his physical condition
would enable him to endure an amputa-
ton
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-28

A FIN manufacturer in Ansonia, Conn.,,
IS about to utilize twenty barrels of i'm.
perfect pins in. building sidewalk in
front of his residence. There is in that
town small piece of sidewalk built of
scraps from the pin factory, which by
corrosion has become so hard in few
years that:it required much hard work
in drilling and blasting with dynamite
to make:sa hole large enough to set a
telegraph pole, although it was but
three Or four inches thick. It bids fair
to last as long as s. dewalk of solid
brass. =
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-28
Minnesota Banks.

In Minnesota there are 103 state and
sixty-six national banks, and a report
made by the superintendent of banks
shows the condition Of the banks at the
close of business on March 1, 1892. to
have been as follows: State banks. re-
sources, 1888, 1913. $40. Is; national banks,
resources, S63, SIS, 842. 80. Liabilities,
state banks, $ss, $40. Is; national
banks, S63, 8l5, S42 80.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-28
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

THE Spanish anarchist, Munoz, has
confessed that at recent anarchist
meeting lots were drawn to decide who
should kill the boy king.
In Mexico Diaz has been renominated
for president.
OFF Gore Point, near Bracaster, the
German brig Felix went aground and
five of the crew were drowned.
THE Rothschllds banking house at
Frankfort is said to have lost 1000, 900
marks through Herr Jaeger, an alb
sconding cashier.
In four counties in Mexico drought
has rendered the production OF the nee
essaries of life impossible and s, 600 per-
sons have issued an appeal for help.
In Ireland Mrs. Farnell, widow Of
the great Irish champion, has instituted
suits against tenants for rent.
FLAMES in a tenement house in St.
Petersburg burned to death nine per.
sons, and fifteen others were injured.
The car personally requested Charles
Emory Smith, United States minister to
Russia, who is returning home, to thank
the people of the United States for their
kindness in rendering relief.
ALFRED LUCAS, aged II, Ernest Lucas
and Henry Petit. aged ~, respectively,
were smothered in a sand pit at Toron-
to, Ont.
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JOURNALISTS INDICATED.

commitment for Contempt Set Aside by
Indiana's Supreme Court.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, April 23.-The
supreme court has reversed the decision
OF Judge Taylor, of Terre Haute, by
which George NJ. Allen and w. 0. Fish
back, proprietor and editor respectively
of the Terre Haute Express, were
committed to Jail for thirty days each
for contempt of court. TIE Express
published articles criticising the
grand jury and Judge. Taylor in con-
nection with an Investigation Of alleged
municipal crookedness. The supreme
court holds that journalists have the
right to criticise public officials, but
that there is limit beyond which they
must not 90. 1t is held that in this in
stance the criticism did not go beyond
the bounds.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-28

A DOCTOR in St. Louis says that mel
'ncholia with suicidal impulses, halla-
'inations, precurso,y symptoms of In.
sanity, insomnia, crying spells, prsecor-
aial anxiety, fears of impending evil,
vertigo, beginning of Impairment of
memory and judging power and even
The lowering of the moral tone are at
;ributable to chronic tobacco intoxica.
ton. This may be called hitting the
pipe with u sledgehammer.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-28

ELLEN TERRY is mourning the death
IT her mother, whom she lost recently.
There was more than ordinary love
between the two, and English .theater-
yoers remember the sweet-faced old
lady who was so regular and admiring
IN attendant at her daughters per.
tormances. Hers was the face that
Ellen looked for on first nights, and if
It wore its usual expression of loving
pride the great actress was content.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-28

THE total estimated Investment in
electrical Industries in the United
States at the close Of 1891 was 500, o0o>.
900, cne-half Of which was invested in
alectric-light companies and electric
RAILWAYS
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-28
WEST AND SOUTH.

+, The northern portion of California
was visited by Il severe earthquake
shock and great damage was done to
business houses and dwellings, the to-
tai loss being estimated at over $780,
In the Fifth Indiana district George
W. Cooper has been rcnominated for
congress by the democrats.
FLAMES that started in the North
western Wire Mattress Compapv's
works in Kenosha, Wis, DESTROYED
eight blocks of buildings, causing loss
of over $500, 1000.
IN Oklahoma the Cheyenne and
Arapahoe reservations were thrown
open for settlement, and nearly 80, 900
men on horseback, in wagons and on
foot rushed; into the country =
For the murder of lack Dixson in
November, 1888, Larkin Lancaster (co,-
ored) was hanged ut Pulaski. Tenn.
lT was said that the Western Mutual
Benefit association of San Francisco had
collapsed and that w. III. Biddle, it's
manager, had absconded within 20, 600 of
its funds.
E0y OOACs 0AISSs, SOlCmdU Black
burn was executed for wife murder.
In d. w. Culbertsons barn near
Glidden, Ia, twenty-eight horses were
burned to death. -: ~ 81
WITHIN the past month twenty bodies
ofwomen have. been taken from the
lake at different parts in Chicago.
LATER returns from the Louisiana
election indicate that the nluralitu nj
Foster, the anti-lottery democratic can
didate for governor, will reach 20, 900.
Foster people will also probably con-
troll the legislature.
d tscoIoRsDspeople of the United States
will hold a national convention, in Gin
cinln IN July 4 for the purpose of TAX
ing effective steps to enlist the sym
loathy of all civilization in behalf OF
justice. %@& '~Jta i: ,.f -
In the Seventh Indiana district Con.
gresham Rynun was rcnominated by
the democrats. 81 -. - r -. ~ -
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-28

MANY stories are told of Queen Vic
toria's dislike for tobacco smoke and
her restrictions on it's use near her pal
aces, but her latest request, which
amounts to an order, appears to be the
most radical of all. Recently one of
the cabinet ministers received a letter
from her private secretary, Sir Henry
Ponsonby'' saying that her majesty
begged that in future he would not send
his dispatches saturated with tobacco
SmoLo
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-28

1HE ddestwoman in the country who
Is preacher, 1t, is thought, is Rev.
Lydia Sekten, of Seattle, now % years
OF age. She has been in service about
half cshtpry: For eight OF ten years
she was an'exhorter before RECEIVING a
regular license to preach, in 1851. Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois were her field
prior to ,fS7e, when with her husband
sheA removed to Kansas. Seattle was
adopted as her home three years ago.
She has si9ce then conducted many re-
vlval and other meetings, but failing
eyesight threatens to terminate her
activityefeSlong. She hopes to live to
be full hundred yearsoold.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-28

HE great bridge over the Mississippi
river at Memphis is nearly completed.
The formal opening will occur Nav 70,
but trains will be able to cross before
that time. The bridge and it's ap-
proaches are three miles in length, and
the bridge itself is three-quarters of a
mile long: One of its spans extends 794
feet, making it the third largest in the
world. 1t cost about $4,000 MAY
IL will be a great day in that section.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-28
THREE MIGRANTS KILLED.
TrampS Who Had Abducted a Michiga
BOY Slain In q Quarrel.

Tramps Who Had Abducted Michigan
Boy Slain I'm a Quarrel.
PARAMOUNT, w. Va, April 25.-Threc
men were killed here Saturday evening
in drunken row. Two days ago three
tramps, who had kidnapped two boys
from Saginaw, Mich. came to Fairmont,
and camped near town, keeping the
boys in confinement. Saturday evening
the gang was joined by a man named
Tracy, of Dunbar, Pa. n row was
started and the gang turned their
pistols on one anot'er. Tracy was
killed, one tramp was, shot through the
left nipple and another had his jugular
vein cut. The boys gave the alarm.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-28
Did Not Want Sitting Bull Killed.

WASHINGTON. April pa commune
cation was laid before the senate +! friday
from Secretary: Noble recommending
the granting of medals and pensions to
Indian police who suppressed the re-
cent Sioux uprising. The communica-
ton closed with this sentence: ':The
killing of Sitting Bull was neither de-
manded nor directed by the department
or under it's direction
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-28

since The advent Of Jack the Rip
per" Of London, this country has devel-
oPed >'Jack the Kisser,' Jack the
PeePe3, Y aGk the Shipper" and sew
eral CHER kinds of->bad Jacks" The
latest iAzssJack: the Smasher,". who is
now troh4ding Chicago. He breaks into
the hot9se4. and destroys costly furnis
ture, PAntings; statrary, jewelry, cur
tains, and Hrcsses, but does not carry
on anyhtQgs Not. q: single, article of
value HIS baen missed. though; .ssgfreat
many have been rendered worthless.
The jack business has become a fad
among the Vicious and nothing short
g q : few dosesSof cold lead will cure it.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-28
TRAGEDY III UTAH,
Young Girl Disoleys Her Uncle and No
shoots Her Dead4-His Attempted sai.

A Young Girl DisoSeys Her Uncle and no
shoots Her Deadz-His Attempted sais
!, SALT LAkL T.. a., April ss.--Ns1wa
haasbeen recAivedsof d krrible tragedy
at aParh Civ, U.sT.s.sAs Miss Graiee
Flue1ling was walking along the rail.
way track conversing with young
man, J. T. Paradise, her uncle, Mi.
Trottman, logged their footsteps;
then, making a circuit, got Is the
track *ahead Of 1hem aud bid ii 'thSs
bushes. the pair got opposite Trott-
man jumped ont and shot the girl twice;
once in the bead and once in the back:
She died ~instantly.>y- Then sapsottman.
realizing the enormity of lis crime,
sat down beside the body of his
niece and shot himself in the head,
falling over unconscious. lie is not
dead, but has not recovered conscious
ness and is expected to die at any mo-
ment. About five months ago the girl
absented herself from home and her
family thought the act was on account
OF Paradise. But her uncle Trottman
told her if she went any more with Par
adise he would shoot her. He has full
filled his threat
FOUND DEAD IN HIS STORE.
edward Drexeler Killed by Thieves in st.
Louis Yesterday Morning.
ST. LOUIS, April 25.-Edward A. Drex-
eler, proprietor of the cigar store at s1s
Pine street, was murdered early Sunday
morning, it is presumed by thieves. The
discovery of the. crime was made
by John Hill "a co]ored bootblack,
employed by Drexelcr. tie arrived at
the store as usual Sunday morning, but
to his surprise found that the front door
was locked. He looked through the
window and saw his employer lying
npoa the floor in a pool of blood.
BY Drexeler's side lay an iron bar
covered with blood. Hill and an
other negro, Charles Wisdom, were
arrested Immediately. Wisdom, like
Hill, BACKED boots in Drex-
eler's place. The examination of Wis
dom AID Hill resulted in eliciting some
damaging testimony against both, but
particularly against Wisdom, ON whose
clothes and face were noticed several
SO11~Uu4C StoCS VI OAOOAs Dull ucSTOtsS
are ex- cOnvicts.
ONE KILLED AND A SCORE HURT.
Fatal Accident ut tho Laying of the Cor
ner stone of u y. NJ. Z. a. Building.
HOLYoKE, Mass, April 25.-While
the exercises attending the laying of
the corner stone of the new Y. NJ. G. A.
build .ng in this city were in progress
Saturday afternoon an accident
occurred in which one person
was killed and about twenty
others were more or less seriously
injured. The preliminary exercises
were held in the Second Congregational
church, which adjoined the new struc-
ture, and the crowd had just left the
church and throngcd about the new
building. The Y. NJ. c. A. building had
been closed in except in front, which
had been left open for the corner stone
exercises. The front of the second story
was supported by scantling, and upon
this floor about $50 persons were crowded
when the scantling gave way and pre-
cipitated them upon the crowd below.
The name of the person killed is George
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-28

The discovery is made that the,
Alaska soil and climate are. peculiarly
adapted to hop-raising, and the: predic-
tlon$s sent out that itWilks6on become
the greatest Aop-prodncing country in
the world:: A Portland syndicate has
Purchase large tract near Fort
WrangleS and will plant it with. hops.
The 9sun shines with almost tropical
heat during the short summer, and
hence the crop is sure of maturity.
Landsan be..had for the asking, labor is
cheap and'the soil needs little prepare:
ton. The hops can be gathered for
Twenty-Five gents a basket, or about
half the rate. paid pickers in Oregon.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-28
TIE WDRTaInGIoa ADVANCE
RoBERr MCCUNE, Ed. and Publisher.
NORTHAMPTON, Mobiles Co, Miflfs.

JOAN H. ~INMAN, the richest man of
the SOUTH was q drummer boy in the
confederate army, and when the war
was over he did not have q cent or a
friend to helm him
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LATER.
Three Important Meetings.

HELENA, Mont, April 26.-The Su-
preme Lodge, A. o. U. w., meets in this
city June 18th, for which occasion the
Great Northern Railway makes rate
OF $40, from st. Paul and Minneapolis,
with choice of four routes returning.
The same rate will also be made for the
Mining Congress, July 18th, and the
National Encampment Of the Sons of
Veterans and Ladies' Aid Society, Aug
ust 9Th, both to be held here. Helena
extends cordial invitation for mem
bers and friends of these Orders to
come, as there will be ample entertain
ment aud accommodation for all. !:
Low Rate to tho Pacific Coast.
ST.. PAUL, MIMI, April 26.-On &C.
count of the Presbyterian General AS
sembly, which meets in Portland, Ore
gon, May 10th, the Great Northern
Hallway has made a half rate fare, or
$50, for the round trip, from St. Paul,
Minneapolis, Duluth and Superior, with
choice of various routes returning.
AN old reclnse named George NJ.
Babbett. living at Mansfield, Mass,
has been robbed of $4,000 in stocks
and bonds, which he had concealed in
barrels, trunks and tomato cans about
his house. His grandson and two other
men were arrested. Il
TIE arrest of J. j. .Halloweu cashier
of the Superior National bank, West
Superior, Wis, was made: at :Philadel-
phia, the 25th. 1t is charged that Hal
lowell is $35, 900 short in his accounts.
The longshoremen's strike, which
has been on since the opening of navi-
cation at Chicago, has ended in a VIC
tory for the strikers, their demand for
Is cents an hour being granted.
The restaurant of NJ. Very, who on
March 80 delivered Ravachol, the anar-
chist, into the hands of the police of
Paris, was utterly wrecked the s25th by
"a bomb explosion. The force of the
explosion was terrific and widely felt,
and an enormous crowd quickly gath.
cred about the shattered building. =.
Two explosions. Of natural sgas took,
place at Steubenvifle, Ohio, the 25th, at
the Sumner glass works, fatally burn
ing Sadie Crawford, q packer, and dan
geronsly snjuring Lawrence Christensen
another employe, "A number of boys
and girls were more or lessshurt by;
being hit by flying debris. II
~ On account Of jealousy George Moore,
a railroad man at Dennison, o., the
18th, shot his wife and Edward McClel-
land, saloonkeeper, and then shot him
self. Mr.. and Mrs. Moore were killed.
but McClelland will probably live.