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The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-11-18

HOMESTEAD, Pa, Nov. 19.--Three hun
dred Slavs and Huns stampeded the
Carnegie works for employment yester-
day. Half this number were given i'm
mediate work and the balance will likely
be engaged soon. The heads of the
Amalgamated Association and the ad-
visory committee of the strikers held a
conference in the afternoon. When the
conference ended there was much en-
thusiasm among tine large crowd of
strikers. Chairman Crawford, of the
advisory committee, said the strike was
still on. President Garland, of the
Amalgamated Association, had a large
check cashed at the Homestead bank,
and this caused much rejoicing among
the strikers.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-11-18
PHILADELPHIA MARKETS.
Closing Quotations of the Stock ant
Produce Exchanges.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. H-In tho stock mar
ket, Pennsylvania declined v per cent to Sj14
Lehigh Valley, Lehigh Navigation and West
ern New York and Pennsylvania were un.
changed Closing bids:
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-11-18
JOHN HoHY's FUNERAL.
The Dead Express Magnate Laid to Res
in Woodlawn Cemeterv.

NEW York, Nov. 1S.-The funeral of
Mr.. John Hoey, ex-president of the
Adams Express company, took place at
st, Luke's church yesterday. There was
wealth of floral pieces. Many friends
of the family viewed the body where it
lay in state, in Father Lucey's home,
until it was brought into the church.
The members of the family occupied
the seats to the right of the casket and
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-11-18

The First National bank of Ellwood
City, Pa, capital 100000, was yesterday
authorized to begin business
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-11-18

Fair on the coast; colder by morning
southeastsrly winds. increasing.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-11-18
CR0SBY&HILL
6O5, 607, 6O9 MARKET Street.
GREAT BANKRUPT SALE
Of Fine A|I-WOOI and MerinO
UNDERWEAR .as For; ;sat'sn.n. aa5'ss,

TE HAVE PURCHASED for spot cash large quantity
IN of Winter Underwear from the assignee of whole
sale house in Philadelphia which has recently failed
and that made speciality of Hosiery and Underwear We have
placed the goods sale prices running from about % SO
por cent under regular market prices This is splendid op
pouny for customers and the trading public
money We cordially invite all the large feshy people in the
community to call and this lot of goods contains many
extra large Sizes
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-05-26
FARM FACTS.

No GRAIN of any kind can be shipped
from Russia till after the harvesting of
the next crop.
THERE is scarcity of clover and grass
seeds in England, the United States and
New Zealand.
OWING to rust in wheat. Cape Colony
has recently been compelled to import
breadstuffs largely from Australia.
MANY settlers at Nueva Plata in the
Argentine Republic are planting trees,
which, they believe, will pay better than
corn or wheat.
EXPORTS from New Zealand of agri-
cultural produce, wool, fax, frozen and
preserved meat, declined largely toward
the close of last year.
PRINCE EDWARD island grows very
good wheat, and probably better oats
than most parts of the dominion. The
island is also noted for its large crops of
excellent potatoes.
COLONIAL butter is now beating that
of Normandy in the English market, the
reason being that the colonial produce
is all pure grass butter, while the con-
tinental and English products are from
fodder-fed COWS,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-05-26
THE EAST.

THROUGHOUT the New England states
the lockout of granite cutters was de-
clared, throwing from 10000 to 10000
men out of employment.
The one hundredth anniversary of the
founding of the New York stock ex-
change was celebrated.
The Delaware democrats in conven-
ton at Dover adopted resolutions de-
nouncing the Mckinley bill, opposing
the free coinage of silver and strongly
indorsing Cleveland.
AT Auburn prison Joseph l.. Tice, the
Rochester IN. W wife murderer, was
executed by electricity.
In New York an association of Amer
lean authors was formed whose object
in general is to promote the interests of
literary workers.
AT Lyons, N. Y, Oliver Curtis Perry
the train robber, pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to forty-nine years and three
months on four indictments
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-05-26
FROM WASHINGTON.

The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 10th was: Wheat,
81, 106, 900 bushels: corn, 4,3l3, 900 BUSH
els; oats, 4,5O1,0 900 bushels; rye, $40, 600
bushels; barley, $4,000 bushels.
SENATOR MORGAN and Justice Harlan
have agreed to serve as arbitrators on
the part of the United States in the
Behring sea controversy.
The collections of internal revenue
during the first ten months of the tis-
cal year ending June so, 1892, were
1925, 54S. 061, an increase of S., 6O9, S41
over the corresponding period of the
previous fiscal year.
THE exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the Goth aggregated
1,231, 500, 1871, against 81, 231 1912 4, tho
previous week. The increase as COM
pared with the corresponding week of
1891 was 9.4.
The business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the Goth numbered 1872, against IT'S the
preceding week and 254 for the CORE
spending week last year.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-05-26

SHEEP are not regarded as useful as
beasts OF burden, but in large part of
northwest India thousands of sheep
carry Tor many miles the commodities
that arc purchased by the sale of their
ownwool: The mountain paths among
tie foothills of the Himalayas are SO
preciPitous that the sheep, more sure
fsH,sed than: larger beasts, are preferred
asburden carriers. The load for each
sheep is from sixteen to twenty pounds.
The sheep are driven from village to
viAages.* the wool still growing,
and -in,each town the farmer shears the
wool ,he5sells there, and loads the sheep
with the .1rain: he receives in exchange.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-05-26

A FLORIDA plum grower has discov-
cred curious but effective method to
save his favorite fruit from curculio flies
thu: will be of interest to Iowa horti-
culturists. just as the bloom is falling
off, and when the plums are no larger
than marrowfat peas, half a dozen
small tin cans, empty tomato cans will
do, two-thirds full of molasses and wa
ter. with a tablespoonful of vinegar
added, must I've hung from the branches
Of each tree. The curculio fly will be
attracted by the mixture and eat it
grccdily, forgetting at the same time to
sting the plums. 1t is method at
least worthy of trial.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-05-26

Mrs. BETTE TAYLOR DANDR1DGE, of
Winchester, Va, is the daughter of
President Zachary Taylor, and during
his presidency was the lady of the
white house. She was then the wife of
Col. Rliss, United States navy, after
whose death she married Philip Dand-
'idge, whom she survives. Mrs. Dand-
ridge and Mrs. Harriet Lane johnson,
widow of Henry johnson. of Baltimore,
arc the only survivors of the long line
Of distinguished women who presided
over the white house previous to Gen.
GraDt's term.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-05-26
THE SCRAP BASKET.

A HAPPY. heart is better than a heavy
purse
NONE can cure his harms by wailing
them.
TRUE politeness is perfect ease and
freedom.
SLoTH, like rust, consumes faster
than labor wears, while the key often
used is always bright.
THERE are two kinds of hypocrite--
the bold and the humble-and the hum
bic ones are the worst.
THERE is fellowship among the vir-
tues by which one great, generous pas
sion stimulates another.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-05-26

"A TORONTO newspaper says that the
French Canadians are emi2rating to the
United States in greater numbers than
ever before. 1t is a stampede, judging
by the description given. 1t is called
u flight of the population" and is
creating feeling of serious apprehen-
sion. At one little railway station in
the province of Quebec $50 tickets were
sold in a day to emigrants for the
United States. In the parishes well
along down the st. Lawrence. below
thereby of Quebec, the exodus is very
great. At railway junction called
Lewis the average is 1900 persons a
week taking trains for 1.-THE states"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-05-26

THE Mississippi river at St. Paul is
still steadily rising and it is more than
probable that the danger mark of thir-
teen feet will be reached.
A SLIGHT shock of earthquake was
felt at Indianapolis the morning of the
23d.
Gov. BoIEs of Iowa has issued proc
lamation asking for contributions to re-
lieve sufferers in the flooded districts.
A BREAK occurred at Tessir Place,
st. James La, the 23d. 1t is now
200 feet wide and growing. In 1880 a
break near there caused nearly $780,
600 loss, and this one promises to be
equally destructive. 1t is thirteen
miles above the Bonnet Carr break.
and the waters from the two are likely
to meet and flood the country for forty
four miles. This will suspend the
traffic on all local branches of roads
entering here.
e. j. BECKETT, prominent member of
the Salvation Army at West Duluth,
committed suicide the Esd, by putting q
hole through his head. He was only
| V"cACy-C"o years VI aRes ana was not
in his right mind since an accident in
Minneapolis, where he hurt his head
badly by falling.
w. w. FINLEY, it is officially an
nounced, is general traffic manager of
the Great Northern Railway. J. N.
Faithorn will probably succeed Mr..
Finley as chairman of the Western Pas
senger Association.
A STEAMSHIP line has been established
by the Northern Pacific railway to ply
between Tacoma, WASH, and Hong
Kong, China.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-05-26

You need not worry over the unsolved
problem as to the length of time the sun
will light and heat the world. 1t has
been estimated by some who have little
else to do that the utmost amount of
heat the sun could have originally con-
tanned would supply radiation for 49,
600, 900 years. The same authority es-
Inmates that four-fifths of the energy
has been. dissipated and that the re-
naming one-fifth will continue to shed
its effulgence for 5000, 900 years. These
calculations may be erroneous by mil
lions of years, but the errors are unim-
portant, for the great illuminator will
serve out his day and generation.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-05-26
A Costly Blaze.

OswEGo, N. Y, May 23.-The big fire
here Friday night practically wiped out
the milling and elevator interest. Only
one elevator is left in the harbor, the
Northwestern, owned by Gaylord.
Downey & Co. The fire was the hot
test and fiercest since the fire that
swept the same site in 1853, and the
property destroyed could not be re-
placed for $500. 600
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-05-26

THERE is nothing new under the
sum- says the wisdom of an ancient
philosopher. 1t is as true now as it
was in Solomon's time. An English in
ventor of weaving apparatus recently
examined the cloth in which mummy
of the earliest Pharaoh times was
wrapped. and he found that the threads
we're crossed in exactly the same man.
ner as those of the fabrics woven by
the machine which he had just patent
ed. And we call this the most advanced
scientific age of the world!
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-05-26

1T has been discovered that Napoleon
|. was book canvasser; that George
Washington followed the same illus
trious business, selling over two hun
bred copies of Bydell's "American
Savage; that Longfellow sold books
by subscriptions; that Daniel Webster
handled De Tocquevil]e's "America";
that Gen. Grant canvassed for Irving's
"Columbus"; that Blaine began life as
canvasser for a Life If Henry Clay;
and that Bismarck, when at Heidelberg,
look orders for one of Blumenbach's
handbOOkS
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-05-26

An old maids insurance company has
been opened in Denmark. Spinsters
ran insure themselves by small sum
on reaching the age of thirteen, and, if
still unmarried at forty, are entitled to
regular allowance. If they marry,
however, thew forfeit all claims.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-05-26
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
FlFTY.sECoN0 C0NoREs&

FiFTY"SECONO CONGRESS-
MONDAY. May 16.-The funeral OF
Senator John 5. Barbour, of Virginia,
was held in the senate chamber,
and for the first time in the history
of congress high mass was celebrat-
ed within the walls of the capitol.
In the house, in committee of the
whole, the sundry civil appropriation
bill was further considered. The house
attended the funeral services of Sen
ator Barbour in a body.
TUESDAY, May 17.-In the senate a
bill was introduced to authorize the
registration of certain steamships as
vessels of the United States. A bill
was reported for public building at
Battle Creek. Mich. The naval appro-
priation bill was considered, the pend
ing question being the provision for an
increase of the navy. In the house a
bill was reported for the survey of a
ship canal to connect lake Erie and the
Ohio river. A bill was introduced plac-
ing lumber on the free list.
WEDNESDAY, May 1s.-The naval ap-
preparation bill was passed in the SEN
ate. In the house Mr. Bartine's free
coinage amendment to the sundry civil
bill was declared by Speaker Crisp to
be out of order, and the house sus-
tanned the decision of the chair.
THURSDAY, May 10. I'm the senate
bills were passed to provide for such
army officers as may be required for
the worlds fair, and exempting Ameri-
can coastwise vessels piloted by their
licensed masters or by United States
pilot from the obligation to pay state
pilots for services not rendered. A
resolution was adopted abolishing the
Office of principal executive clerk of the
senate. In the house the time was oc-
cupied in discussing the sundry civil
bill. Mr.. BANDS amendment for the
coinage of all silver bullion purchased
and now in the treasury into standard
silver dollars was ruled out of order.
FRIDAY, May 20. - The river and
Bills were also passed appropriating
$1O0,000 for public building at Joliet,
ILL.,: to increase to $125.OOO the appro.
priation for the public building at Ian
sing, Mich, and to place on the pension
roll at the rate of $40 a month Gen.
George w. Jones, of Iowa, one of the
first two senators from the state In
the house bills were introduced to adj
NIT free of duty goods, wares and
merchandise purchased in foreign coun-
tries with the farm products of this
country, and authorizing the secretary
of the treasury to issue fractional treas
ury notes in denominations of quarters
and half dollars to the amount of
81 200, 900.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-05-26

GENERAL commiseration will follow
the needless rogue who, in ritling gar
ments in the dressing-rooms of a New
York theater, made off with a pocket
full OF gags" prepared for the principal
clown of so-called comic opera
troupe that is rehearsing for tour of
the country. OF course, the thief will
read the gags" that will be his pun
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-05-26
WEST AND SOUTH.

Gov. FOSTER was inaugurated at
Baton Rouge, La.
BERRY and Jim Rowden and Will
Cantor (negroes), were hanged by a
mob at Childersburg, Ala, for assault
ing Mrs. D. c. Bryant, a white woman
In Illinois and Missouri the towns of
Venice, Brooklyn, East Madison, East
Carondolet, Centerville Station, Forest
Lawn and Cahokia were from S to 20
feet under water, and at least 80 square
miles of the most fertile farming land
was inundated, and thousands of farm
ers had been driven from their homes.
High water was also doing great dam
age in portions of Iowa and Kansas.
DEMOCRATS of the Fifteenth Illinois
district renominated Samuel T. Busey
for congress, and in the Fifth North
Carolina district the democrats renomi-
mated A. H. Williams.
CHARLES CAMP, aged 8 years, was
awarded $50, 600 damages from the West
Chicago Street Railroad Company for
the loss af both legs.
HIGH water carried away the eastern
approach to the Union Pacific bridge
over the Missouri at Omaha and all
traffic was stopped.
The American Republican College
league was organized at Ann Arbor,
Mich, thirty colleges being repre-
sented. James +. Burke, of the Michi-
gan university, was elected president.
NEAR Concordia, Kan, train carry
ing Ringling Bros circus was wrecked
and four showmen and twenty horses
were killed.
Two HUNDRED men broke into the
Jail at Gainesville, Ga and took three
negroes charged with the murder of
Policeman Carter at Toscoa and hanged
them. The negroes protested innocence.
DEMOCRATS of California in conven-
ton at Fresno chos, delegates to Chi
cago instructed for Cleveland. The
platform demands reform in the tariff
laws and the free and unlimited coin
age of both silver and gold on a parity
with each other.
AT Denison, Tex. an unknown assas-
sin murdered Mrs. W. T. Haynes and
Miss Teen Hawley, leaders in society,
and two disreputable women, Made
Kramer and Rose Stewart.
CHARLES EULErr, Harry D. Roach and
man named Hamlin were killed by
the caving in of a mine near Webb
City, Mo.
FLAMES swept away the quarters OF
the cavalry companies and the pos,
canteen at Fort Mckinney, Wyo., c;.us
ing loss of $500, 900.
The greater part of the business por
| ton of the village of Dexter, Ia, was
destroyed by fire.
A FLOOD at Sioux City Ia, destroyed
hundreds of houses and other property
audit was thought that over fifty person.
| were drowned. Fire in the flooded dis
! trict added to the horrors. The tota
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-05-26

THE oldest American naval officers
OF rank are: Commodore Henry Bruce,
born in 1898, entered the service in
1913; Rear Admiral Sellridge, born in
1904, entered the service in 1918; Com
modore Samuel Lockwood, born in
1903. entered the service in 1920; Rear
Admiral Samuel p. Lee, born in 1912,
entered the service in 1925.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-05-26
FARMERS ALARMED.
"A Bad Outlook for the Potato Crop Near
st. Louis.

IA 0"u ouC1ook LOT the Potato Crop Near
St. Louis.
ST.. Louis, May 33.-Great alarm is
felt over the potato outlook The big
American bottom, comprising nearly all
of Madison and st. Clair counties, Illi-
nois, is one of the greatest potato fields
in the Mississippi valley. 1t is now
completely inundated and not potato
will it produce. Its farmers devote
their time principally to raising
potatoes and cabbage, and had
there been no food the potato crop
would have commenced moving about
July l, fifteen days later than usual, on
account of the late season. Now there
are no potatoes to move. Every hill OF
them is now under from 6 inches to 10
feet OF water and every potato will be
rotted. The cabbage crop is also
ruined.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-05-26

AMERICAN corn is making its way
rapidly into the affections of the Euro
pean heart and stomach as an article of
army food. They do not take it clear
yet, but mix it with barley meal. They
say that the barley improves the corn,
and that the corn improves the barley.
America will win its way against all
the world
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-05-26

TRADITION says that three hundred
and fifty years ago De Soto stood on the
banks of the Mississippi river near
where Memphis is now built and looked
across the yellow waters. Now the
railroad trains cross the river at the
same place on new steel bridge which
cost 5000, 600. Tradition cannot hold
4 candle to facts in this country.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-05-26

= OWING to the fondness of deaf people
for walking on the railroad tracks it is
proposed to build them on the
grounds of the asylums, so that the in
mates can indulge in their favorite
naStimo
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-05-26
DOckery's Report.

WASHINGTON, May 2l.-The report of
the Dockery committee on investiga-
ton OF worlds fair affairs was presented
to the house on Friday. 1t forms a
document of 713 pages of solid print
ed matter. The recommendations of
the committee favor reduction
of nearly 80 per cent. in salaries
of officials. They also favor loan
by the government OF $780, 900. 1t
compliments highly the manage
ment for scope and magni6cence of
the exposition and the wonderful
progress made in the work of con-
StructiOn
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-05-26

An eastern firm advertises for a num-
Der of ladies with unusually long hair,
promising them permanent positions at
a good salary. This indicates that an
other infallible hair restorative is about
to be put on the market.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-05-26
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.


ADvlcEs from Astrakhan say that the
steamer Alexander Wolkow foundered
in the Caspian sea and that $50 passen-
gers were drowned.
OFF the county of Pembroke, Eng
land, the British bark Aberdeen ran on
the coast and eighteen Of the crew were
drowned.
A HURRICANE passed over central
New Zealand and the damage done to
property was enormous. Several per-
sons were killed and many others in
jured some fatally.
FRENCH forces in Tonquin captured a
private stronghold after killing 125 of
its defenders. Fifty-thrce French SOL
diers and five officers were killed.
In Russia three villages were totally
destroyed by an earthquake and TWEEN
ty-seven persons were killed.
On the isle of Mauritius, in the Indian
ocean, hurricane destroyed portion
of Port Louis, the capital city, and a
large number OF persons were caught
in the falling houses and crushed to
death.
LATER details of the hurricane in
hduAACIuSs Ia WIG OCcdu. uldKS.
the loss of life 1000 and the number of
persons injured 1000.
In dynamite factory at Galdoncano,
Spain, an explosion caused the death of
sixteen men and three women.
VERDICT of guilty was found against
Edward Parker Deacon for killing NJ
Abeille, his wife's lover. in the Hotel
Splendid, at Cannes, France, and he
was sentenced to one years imprison-
ment.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-05-26
Died at thA A.a of 1na-

LEAvENwoRrH, Kan, May ss.-Mrs.
Mildred Ann Clay, aged over 100 years,
died in this city Friday. She was mar
ried twice and was the mother-of tif-
teen children, all of whom are dead but
two. She was born in Virginia and
came to Kansas in 1852, where she had
since resided. Her health and memory
were quite good to the last.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-05-26

ROME, May :1.-King Humbert has
given an audience to Hon. A. G. Porter,
the American minister. His majesty
expressed great satisfaction at the re-
establishment of full diplomatic rela-
tions between Italy and the United
States
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-05-26
Given Six Yenra Zach.

ROCHESTER,, N. Y, NJ y 23.-Albert
L. Gould and. Otis Allen Gould have
each been sentenced to six years. i'm
prisonment in the Elmira reformatory
for aiding Cashier George P. Whitney
in defrauding the Albany City national
bank.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-05-26
Deacon Gets One Year.

NICE, May 2l.-The trial of Edward
Parker Deacon, for the killing of NJ.
Abeille. his wife's lover, in the Hotel
Splendide, at Cannes, on the night of
February Z, has been concluded. Deacon
was found guilty, and sentenced to one
years Imprisonment.