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The Worthington advance., 1892-12-29
SEVEN MEN SLAIN.
.esstle Thievss aad O0cers .Tlght "a
sSsE<sss The n InvA RAamaa

eoetje Thieves and O0eers .TIght VAN
the Allows Result
CHEYENNE, Wyo, Dec. 21.-MeagSr
particulars havo reached here by mskl
of the killing Of seven persons in tie
Big Horn basin few days ago. Tie
basin is situated near the Yellowstone
park and almost inaccessible from tie
south during the winter. Hyattville,
thescene of the trouble, is 90 miles from
Buffalo, which in turn is about so miles
OF the railroad. According to. tho
story Bill Nutcher and Jim Huff went
into the basin to arrest some cattle
thieves. Nutcher was himself under
arrest on charge of stealing in Fre-
mont county, while Huff, whose repr.
tation is rather poor, is said
to have been . deputy United
States marshal These men caIae
across three alleged cattle thieves
whom they were after, near Hyatt
vile. which has not more than half .
dozen houses. The encounter was des.
perate from the start and was main.
tanned with rifles and finally with six.
shooters. Upon its conclusion not only
the cattle thieves but the officers Law
dead on the prairie, everybody com.
pletely riddled with bullets.
According to the same story Ira
Walker and Asa Shuck were found at
the heard of Norwood, in the same
section. with sixty head of stolen cat
tie in their possession. Both men were
subsequently found shot in the
back, but by whom is not known.
although it is believed they met
their fate At the hands of
some officers Of the law. Both men
were rather notorious characters.
Walker was the man who was credited
with having killed Hank Lovett on
Shell creek last b summer. Lovett
was q Texan and operated 1T
horse stealing in the Black Hills
until the country got too hot for
him and then went to the basin.
The Worthington advance., 1892-12-29
Settled.

CHICAGO, Dec. 21.-The w. B. Conkey
Company has signed contract with
the Typographical union; the protest
of the labor organizations against tho
award of the worlds fair catalogue
printing concession has been with
drawn; the investigation by the special
committee conducting the catalogue in
quiry Is at an end.
The Worthington advance., 1892-12-29
FOR A SHIP CANAL,

4 Call Issued for . National Convention
ut Washington, Jan. 12.
DULUTH, Mimi, Dec. 24.-Secretary
8. A. Thompson, of and in behalf of
the Duluth board of trade, has issued q
circular calling a convention to be
held at the Arlington hotel, Wash
ington, January 12, 1898. to dis.
cuss and promote the construc-
tion of deep-water ship canal connect
ing the great lakes and the Atlantic
All commercial associations, including
industrial unions and farmers organi-
xations, are invited to participate by
sending five delegates each.
The Worthington advance., 1892-12-29

The will of Wilson G. Hunt, with as
sets Of $5,ooo,ooo, has just been put on
die in New York and calls out the fact
of Mr.. Hunts failure many years ago.
After a hard fight he again got on his
financial feet, called all of his credit
ors to banquet, and under each plate
was check for principal and interest
Of the Indebtedness of Mr.. Hunt to the
person named. The affair created a
profound impression at the time.
The Worthington advance., 1892-12-29

ACCORDING to the statistics of the
interstate commerce commission a rail-
way passenger stands one chance in
10, 1928, 153 to be killed while travelling.
A'great many persons are willing to
lake the chance and even accept free
pass agreeing not to hold the railroad
company liable for damages in case of
in iurv
The Worthington advance., 1892-12-29
8F'usiOn.
tWing, sociahst-labor, l7,95A
EXPRESS OFFICE ROBBED.
The Thieves Had Keys to tho Omco ond
the Safe, and Secure $1,000.

The Thieves Had Keys to the Once and
the Safe, and Secure $1,000.
PORT HUnoN. Mich, Doe a1--O.> Of
the boldest and most daring robberies
that ever occurred in this vicinity was
perpetrated at the Canadian express
office at Sarnia Tuesday, when $1,000
were taken out of the safe in
the Office while the clerk was
at dinner. The robbers made
good their escape. apparently without
leaving a single tangible clew. Thomas
Cook, Jr.. agent of the company, has
been sick abed for tho last few days
and the Office was in charge of James
McMahon. At 1925 o'clock Mcmahon
locked everything valuable in the of.
fee safe, which is an old-fashioued key.
lock affair, and after locking the front
door went for his dinner. Upon his re.
turn, at 1885, he found the door of the
safe open with key sticking in the
keyhole and $1,000 in currency miss.
ing. The perpetrators of the robbery
gained entrance through a rear door in
the basement which had been left
open for the delivery of some coal.
The Worthington advance., 1892-12-29
SOUVENIRS IN BIG DEMAND.

Spectators Obtain Five Dollars for the
First of tho Columbian Half-Dollars.
CHICAGO, Dec. 21.-Columbian souve-
mir half-dollars are in great demand
and the supply is'exceedingly limited.
The first subscribers for the coins.
whose orders were taken months ago
called a: the Office of Treasure,
6eeberger and carried their treasures
away in little canvas bags Compare
lively few of these found their way
into circulation, however. Those that
were taken by business houses were
distributed among employees, who
will hold the coins as keepsake,
and prize them as coming from the
first lot shipped to Chicago. Some O.
those that did get into circulation
brought big premiums from people
anxious to possess one of the first con
signment. They were sold by the
spectators in some of the hotels foy
as much as five dollars apiece.
The Worthington advance., 1892-12-29

GUESSING contests as carried on by
certain sensational newspapers have
received a severe blow at the hands of
an English judge who holds that they
do not differ in fact from other forms
OF gambling, and that the same laws
are applicable to them. One form of
guessing contests, which has been very
popular with the English papers. is the
printing of an incomplete sentence and
charging certain price for the privi-
lege of guessing on the missing word.
One paper made S55,00o out of one of
these foolish contests and the men
who guessed the right word received
4155.
The Worthington advance., 1892-12-29

AN agent of the Anchor line steamers
in New York says that fully 80 per
cent of the Italian immigrants 20
home every fall to spend the winter
upon the money earned here during
the summer. More than 1900 went
this fall. and they carried with them
an average of $3.50, or q total of 81, $50,
600 taken out of the country. Some
10000 immigrants from other parts of
Europe returned during the year, car
rying on the average $500 each, or a
total of S21, 100000. That is taking an
unfair advantage of Uncle Sam. If this
Is good enough place to earn money in
it 10 good enough to live in.
The Worthington advance., 1892-12-29
70 OPEN THE FAIR.


PFoeramme of AVER claes 2Arranaod FOR eIA1
Inau9uration Of the Worlds Colunnbaas
Expositlon In May Nsxt.
CHIcAeo. Dec. 2s.-The programme
for opening the exposition next May
has been completed by the committee
having the matter in charge. Grover
Cleveland, who will be president Of the
United States when the fair Is opened,
is to deliver the only address and start
the machinery. No other orator will
be heard. A poem, perhaps. by Oliver
Wendell Holmes, and some music
will precede Mr.. Cleveland's i'd
dress After the wheels are buzzinx and
the crowds are rushing through the
buildings it is proposed that President
Cleveland and his party shall drive
through the grounds and pay their re-
spects to foreign commissioners to the
fair, who will be waiting in the official
headquarters to receive the presiden-
tial party. Later in the evening Mr.
Cleveland's carriage will stop in front
of festival hall. and there the presi-
dent will hold q public reception for
two hours, from to o'clock.
The public will not have an opportu-
nifty to attend the exercises Of formally
inaugurating the great exposition.
Festival hall seats but 5000 persons.
One Thousand tickets will be reserved
for officials of the fair. members of
congress and others. The remaining
1000 seats will be sold at five dollars
each, tickets being issued on invitation.
This Is the programme decided upon:
Music-Arranged by Theodore Thomas.
r Prayer.
Music. e4
Presentation Of chiefs OF departments by the
director general.
Poem. s@
Music
Address and opening Of the Worlds Colun.
bian exposition by the president Of the United
States =
Benediction<
1t is recommended that the exercises
begin at exactly 10 o'clock on May 1
and close at noon or earlier. From
noon to 1870 o'clock lunch will be
served President Cleveland and tho
1000 special guests.
Those who have been chosen to attend
the inaugural exercises are: The presi-
dent, vice president and ca 6inet, the SUI
preme court, the diplomatic corps. the
United States senators, members of
congress, worlds fair directors, ma
tional commissioners, lady managers,
foreign commissioners, worlds fair
officials and the Chicago aldermen. A
number of distinguished American citi-
zens will be added to the list.
Prot. Tomlins and Mr.. Wilson, of the
bureau of music at the worlds fair,
have decided upon the dates for the ap-
pearance of the festival choir, COM
posed of representatives of the eastern
and middle states, in festival hall, at
the exposition. The programme is as
follows:
June 2, Cantata. "Festo Ascensionis Christi"
Bach; '1srael in Egypt selections Handel
June 8, "Elijah," Mendelssohn. June o. Halle
lujah," cantata, opus fifty, A. Becker: selec-
tions. Moses, " Rubinstein: Vorspiel quintette
and chorus from third act "Die Meistersinger,"
Wagner
The Worthington advance., 1892-12-29

WHEN the bewildering news comes
from Calcutta that the Nizam-Ul Mulk.
brother of Afzul-Ul-Mulk, reigning
sovereign of Chitral, has defeated the
torces of Sher Afzul Kahn, the usurper,
who murdered Afzul-Ul-Mulk last No.
vember and took possession of the
throne of Chitral, we get some idea of
the exceeding toughnesss of the Allan
tic ca h1o
The Worthington advance., 1892-12-29

An oil tank at Springfield, O.. 81
ploded, throwing burning oil over
number Of employees William Kohle
. was practically cooked alive and man,
others were thought to be fatal,
burned.
ENGINEER SOUTHLAND was killed In ,
railway wreck at Lenexa, Kan, eeve,
persons were injured and railway prop
erty valued at $50, 600 was destroyed. 4.
Ar her home near Mitchell, Ind.
Mrs. Betsey Bowling died, aged 10:
years
HENRY GROVER, Of New Haven, Ind.
while fooling with gun supposed Il
be unloaded shot and killed his twt
little brothers.
MARCUS WHITES house at Waverly
Tenn, was burned, and his three chill
dren perished in the flames.
INDIANS while drunk engaged in /,
fight at Barker, Minn., and during th.
fracas John Launtery and his son wer,
shot dead.
In Cincinnati Rob~xt H. Kuehnert
an attorney for building associations
secured $26, 800 by fraud and fed.
FLAMES destroyed tho Fargusso,
building in Duluth, Mimi, causing !,
loss of about $3.50, 900 on building ant
contents.
In Denver, COL. Gen. Frederick T.
Dent. the distinguished union soldie,
and brother-in-law of U. s. Grant, dice
at the age of 70 years.
SHARPERs swindled Martin A..
Richie, wealthy farmer residing q
few miles north of Litchfeld. ILL.,, out
of s., 600 in a three-card monte game.
A TRAIN was wrecked on the Santa
Fe road near La Junta, Col, and eight
empty Pullman coaches were demol
ished and burned.
SECRETARY THOMPSON, of the Duluth
board of trade, has issued call for .
convention in Washington January IL
1893, to discuss and promote the con
struction of deep-water ship canal te
connect the great lakes and the At
lantic.
The legislature of South Carolina ha,
passed bill providing for state
liquor dispensary with county dispen
saries, the location of which will be
confined to towns. They will be in
charge of officers elected by state au.
thorities aud only liquors that are
analysed by state chemists and found
pure can be sold. They must be sold
in sealed packages and the purchaser
cannot break the seal in a dispensary.
THE upper peninsula press has start.
ed movement in favor of making that
part of Michigan a separate state.
On the Santa Fe road the Chicago
express was derailed near Halstead,
Col., and twenty-one passengers were
injured, two fatally.
AT his home near Bloomfield, Ia,
McCabe Benge died, aged III years.
He voted in every presidential contest
since 1904 and his last vote was cast fo1
President Harrison.
The revival of an old feud over the
location of a country road near Sno.
homish, WASH, resulted in the murde,
of two well-to-do farmers, Foulks and
Smith, by two boys, IA and Is years OF
age, named Langston and Robinson.
The Worthington advance., 1892-12-29

THERE is loud call for servant girls
in South Dakota, but they don't mate
rialize. The girls are generally clerk
ing, typewriting, dressmaking, tending
machines. stenographing, and getting
farther away every day from the kitch-
en- toll. SO elsewhere. If family
happens to coax good cook into serv-
ice by high wages she is apt to strike
tor higher pay just about dinner time.
Sociologists can't solve the problem
and housekeepers will simply have to
solve it themselves by doing their own
work or else adopt the cooperative
cooking plan.
The Worthington advance., 1892-12-29

DIVORCES are becoming more easily
obtainable as the years come and 20.
In Denver Judge Miller granted a d.
vorce to j. M. Williams and then ad-
journed court to marry him to Ethel
West, who was with Williams in the
court room when his divorce was
granted. Williams testified that his
wife left him because he would not
allow her to carry the family purse.
Then Judge Miller performed the mar
riage ceremony, and handed Williams a
marriage certificate along with the de-
cree of divorce. The new wife was thus
given legal evidence that her husband
intends to carry tho family purse"
The Worthington advance., 1892-12-29
SHOT WIFE AND SON.
The Crazy Deed of Cincinnati Man whi
Drunk.

The Crazy Decd of Cincinnati Man While
Drunk.
CINCINNATI, Dec. II. - Tuesday
night Charles Hazard, an employe IL
the Schell insurance agency at Is Wes'
Third street. shot his stepson, Gabrie
Benson, and his swife, Kate Hazard
There was no provocation. Hazarv
was crazy drunk and shot like ms
MAC. Benson lives at 1ndianapoli,
and has been here since Sunday visit
ing his mother. He received three
wounds, and Mrs. Kate Hazard, hit
mother. was shot twice. 1t is believed
peither can survive. Hazard is living
dead drunk in q prison cell.
The Worthington advance., 1892-12-29

IDA LEWIS, the heroine of Lime Rock
lighthouse in Narragansett bay, still
holds her position and lives her solitary
Gfe on that storm-tossed bit of rock.
She has saved q great manv lives.
The Worthington advance., 1892-12-29

CARA is small man personally, but
he II revolutionist with a large r. He
has cost the United States government
over 100000 in military and judicial
operations, has killed any number of
Mexican soldiers, and is still doing
business at the old stand despite the
regular troops on either side of the Rio
Grande
The Worthington advance., 1892-12-29
LATER NEWS.

The wife of George Plummer of Will
mington, O., committed suicide at her
home the 25th. Domestic trouble had
separated the couple but they had re-
united. Just as the hands of her watch
showed midnight and the bells began
to ring out Christmas, she blew her
brains out.
A CALL has been issued for congress
of Catholics to be held in Chicago dur
ing the worlds fair.
A DYNAMITE bomb was exploded out
side the police court in Dublin the oath.
Detective Synott was instantly killed.
A number of persons were thrown to
the ground.
Four women at the colored home for
aged, Baltimore, Nd, were found dead
in their rooms, the Gath. Death was
caused by gas from the stove.
AT Chicago, the night of the 2eth
Mrs. s. B. Mitchell entered cable car
without noticing that her foot had be-
come entangled in coil of telegraph
wire. When the car started and the
wire was made taut Mrs. Mitchell was
dragged from her seat through the door
and against the rear platform of the
car. Before she could be liberated her
leg was so cut by the wire that amputa-
ton may be necessary.
JUDGE SPEER of the United States
court at Macon, Ga, rendered decision
| the oath in the case of the striking tele-
graph operators on the Central railroad
against the receiver. Judge Speer said
tho fun NJ hot = -
labor organization was no reason for
his discharge.
The famine in the government of
Uleabory, Sweden, threatens to cause
an exodus of the poorer people. Hun
dreds have gone to the coast of the gulf
| of Bothnia to seek means of emigrat-
ing. Uleabory City is crowded with
starving peasants. In the interior the
people are reported to be dying bv the
score.
A BLIZZARD prevailed throughout
Kansas on Christmas.
| A BATTLE occurred on the Mexican
! frontier, the oath, between the United
States marshals and Mexican revolu-
tionists, in which the marshals were
defeated. ~
A RIOT occurred at Altoona, Pa, the
oath, between some negroes and gang
of bricklayers. John O'Hara was NOR.
tally wounded and Milton Youngs seri.
otisly hurt. The trouble arose from 4
dispute as. to whom should pay for
sotne bser.
Two burglars entered the residence
Mtchael Birnbeek. Chicago, early or
ohisst4ss MI Myss lill1d,
The Worthington advance., 1892-12-29

DAVID A. WELLS says that s1o,ooo,.
100000 have been wasted during the
last forty years in whisky and other
intoxicants. An old topper doubts the
correctness of Mr.. Wells statement.
He thinks that money spent for an
article, three drinks of which will
make man feel as if he owned all OF
The United States and part of Canada,
cannot be said to have been wasted.
The Worthington advance., 1892-12-29
(hOlera'S Advance.

VIENNA. Dec. 24.-The cholera is in.
creasing in the province of Lublin, in
Russian Poland. and adjoining the
Austrian border. The CONSERVATION
caused by the ravages of the cholera
last autumn in that region had become
allayed. but is again being aroused,
and many of the people are fleeing
from the stricken districts.
The Worthington advance., 1892-12-29
Mrs. CleveIand's Cousin Killed

New YORK, Dec. 23.-Theodore Fol-
som, who was struck and killed Thurs
day night by fast express at the Le-
high Valley railroad crossing in Clark
township, miles west of Palhby, N.
j., was a cousin of Mrs. Grover Cleve-
land. He leaves an aged mother and
six daughters
The Worthington advance., 1892-12-29

IT 10 said that determined effort
will be made this winter to have the
New York legislature abolish capital
punishment and substitute life impris-
onment Some of the strongest advo-
Gates OF this action have been returned
to the legislature. The bill to be pro-
posed this year will also take from the
chief executive the power of pardon,
and in its place allow pardons to be
granted by the court alone upon the pre-
sentation of new extenuating evidence.
There are eleven mtrdsrers in the state
prisons awaiting death: Mcguire, exc
cuted recently at Sing Sing, was the
easvsnth e stt u the slssaElesl shsin
The Worthington advance., 1892-12-29
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

In the garrison at Strasburg three
fresh recruits committed suicide rather
than serve in the German army.
BURGLARS entered the Canadian ex.
press Office at Sarnia, Ont, and took
$1,000 from the safe while the clerk
was at dinner. The robbers made good
their escape.
FIRE destroyed Morgan's carriage
works at Leighton Buzzard, England,
the loss being 100000. Among the
stock burned were ten carriages that
it was intended to exhibit at the
worlds fair in Chicago.
In Toronto the first issue of an even.
ing paper called the Sun made its ap
pearance, its object being to advocate
the annexation of Canada to the United
States.
In the treasury of the state of Pu.
eblo, Mexico, a defalcation of $3.50, ,00Q
was discovered.
In Paris several prominent officials,
including NJ. Rouvier, ex-minister OF
finance, and NJ. Jules Roche, ex-minis.
ter of commerce, have been indicted
for Panama canal swiudles, and the
overthrow of the republic was threat
ened.
The Mexican state department ha,
prepared a complaint regarding the
crossing of bandits from the Unitec
States to Mexican soil and of the dam
age they have caused, and requesting
the American government to put
stop to such practices
IN Guatemala, Mexico, number O,
street brawls occurred at the municipa!
election in which seven persons were
killed.
OVER dozen families in the Sierr<
Madre mountains in Mexico have beer
massacred by Indians.
Four persons were killed in wreck
on the Mexican Southern railway nea,
the City of Mexico.
A COURT decision has deprived
Michael Davitt, a member of parlin
ment for North Meath, of lis scat
The Worthington advance., 1892-12-29

II you wish to learn football you
must study up on stort stops, catch
back, broken backs and other surgical
accomplishments of the game. A we'll
organized ambulance system is q ne
sessity of modern football.
The Worthington advance., 1892-12-29

The Columbian issue of postage
stamps, including every denomina-
ton from a one-cent to q five-dollar
stamp, will be ready for use in JAN
nary.
The Worthington advance., 1892-12-29

TIE name of the queen of the Sand
wich Islands, Liliuokalani, is pro-
uounced Lil-lee-woke-a-lamy. All you
have to do to pronounce that name is
20 think of Lilly waking Mary's lamy,
Or some other little girls lamy.
The Worthington advance., 1892-12-29

ADJ. GEN. PORTER, of New York, has
fled report which demonstrates that
the expense incurred by the National
Guard during the recent Buffalo strike
was $192, 2,OOO
The Worthington advance., 1892-12-29
Mexican Government Troops Unable to
Suppress Yaqui and Mayo Indians.

Mexican Government Troops Unable to
Suppress Yaqui and Mayo Indians.
CHIHUAHUA, Mexico, Dec. 23.-Thc
Mexican government troops sent from
here to the Sierra Madre mountains to
suppress the Yaqui and Mayo Indian
uprising are unable to put down the
rebellion. The Indians, to the num-
ber of about 5000 have their rem
devious in almost inaccessible canyons
of the Yaqui river, and bands of them
continue to make frequent raids upon
the settlers Dozens of families have
been massacred during the past
few weeks, and the troops have been
powerless to prevent the depreda-
tiOns.
The Worthington advance., 1892-12-29
FROM WASHINGTON.

PRESIDENT HARRISON when he leaves
the white house will, it is said, become
a nonresident professor of law in Stan
ford university in California.
The report of the chief of the bureau
OF statistics shows that the number OF
immigrants arriving in this country
during the eleven months ended in No
vember, 1892, was $50, 76s as compared
with 562,o73 for the preceding eleven
months.
IT is predicted by Thomas B. Carter,
chief of the secret service bureau, that
the country will be flooded with bogus
worlds fair souvenir coins.
CONTINUED prevalence of cholera in
Europe excites apprehension in admin
istration circles and the conviction is
forced upon government officials that,
as predicted by many scientists, the
disease will reappear with increasing
violence in the spring.
AN ex-policeman named Lloyd,
whose testimony at the trial connected
Mrs. Surratt with President Lincoln's
assassination. died in Washington,
aged SO years.
DURING the past year over 4, 900 miles
of railway track were laid in the
United States.
The exchanges amounted to $1,512,-
261. .277 in the leading clearing houses
in the United States during the seven
days ended on the 23d, against 81, 1885,
1882 the previous seven days. AS
compared with the corresponding week
of 1891 the increase was 24.3.
FAILURES in business to the number of
3O1 occurred in the United States in
the seven days ended on the 23d,
against 3o4 the preceding week and
1856 for the corresponding time last
The Worthington advance., 1892-12-29
On,clal Count in Montaua

HELENA, Mont, Dec. 21.-The official
count OF the vote ct the late election,
made Tuesday, shows that Harrison
received 1S 051 votes; Cleveland, 1881;
Weaver, 1854, Bidwell, 81. Hartinnu
(rep.) Is elected to songrtss " Vlu
valitt u 1T9 Vo00A
The Worthington advance., 1892-12-29
Killed While Resisting Arrest.

MANCHESTER, O., Dec. 9l.-Ohicere
tried to arrest Tom Bouvard and Hans
Bell, two notorious characters, when a
general fight ensued in which Eouvard
was killed and bystander was slight
~ wounded. Bell made his escape but
is being pursued by posse.