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The Worthington advance., 1893-08-03
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

AN outbreak occurred among the
Achinez passengers on board the
Dutch steamer Rajah Kongsee, trading
on the eastern coast of Achon, and the
Achinez killed the English captain,
mate and twenty-one of the Asiatic
sailors.
By an explosion at q dynamite fac
tory near Havre, France, nine men were
killed and twenty seriously wounded.
AT Canton. China, 400 houses were
wrecked and many. persons killed and
injured by an explosion of a powder
magazine.
LIGHTNING struck the house of J. B.
Landey at Clarence Creek, Ont, kill
ing his two daughters, aged IL and 10
years.
The new provisional government OF
Hawaii has drafted another annexa
ton treaty for submission to the United
States.
Orr North Book, Ireland, the steamer
Pearl ran into and sunk the steamer
Archibald Finney and seven persons on
the Flnney were drowned.
A HAND to hand fight took place in
the British house of commons over the
home rule question and many disgrace
full scenes were enacted.
A CONVICT at Prague, Karl Smetana,
mas confessed to murder for which
John Olkowski is serving twelve-year
sentence in Pennsylvania
ENGLISH coal miners to the number
of $50, 900 went on q strike.
FLAMES which started in Bercy, a
suburbof Paris, destroyed thirty houses
and did damage to the extent of 4,O00,-
600 francs.
The Worthington advance., 1893-08-03
ELECTRIC SPARKS.

THERE are /, $50 cities and towns fr
this country which have electric light2
On IN electric light wire in Reading,
Pa, . woodcock alighted. In . few
moments the current WAS turned ON,
and the bird dropped to tho street.
dead.
TIE price Of private teleph ones iz
London Is to be reduced from one hun.
dred dollars to Fifty dollars year, sub
ject to the condition of . fve-yeal
lease.
TIE Automa tic Telephone 4 Elec
trfcal company of Canada proposes t<
run copper metallic trunk line direct
from Halifax to Vancouver, . distance
of thirty-five hundred miles. Local
plants will also be established in town.
and cities along tho line.
The Worthington advance., 1893-08-03
0uRNEitT NOTES.

H1C1 &uoo0 TN eQuore with Dir.
II govo his boy Q mouth organ LAST
night. 1rA Hiels-ssBut you're NOT
square With me. MrA Dix sent him
over here 70 spend tho day. Pitts
burgh Dispatch.
HU1enY HIseINs-"H you had to
swork-jist had to-wot sort o. fob
would you like best?" Wesxy Wat
kins- Well, I think drivin' = Load O.
hay over new asphalt street would
suit me middlin' well. ll."-Indianapoli.
Journal. go 6 -
.BEAUTY II only akin Deep" said
Miss Homeleigh to tho handsome Miss
Fairleigh. '.Quits true, my dear Miss
Homeleigh, was the reply. '.But tho
important part Of Il IL that everybody's
akin 10 on the outside, where it shows"
IN. 7. Herald.
IT was the late Dr. Wisner, of Lock.
port, for. . long time pastor Of the First
Presbyteri church. who, when asked
why they did not build tho steeple of
the present church higher, said. in re-
ply: II think that II as Ear ~ we own
In that direction. News.
NICE YOKE MAN -'.Yes, sir; my
motto Il to reach the top, if possible"
Moralist-"Noble young man; keep up
your efforts and you will succeed"
Nice Young Man II don't know
whether We can turn down Philsde1-
Phia and Boston or not, but we expect
to skin Pittsburgh In next Sundays
game. Plaindealer.
The Worthington advance., 1893-08-03
Big Beet sugar Factory Open.

CHINO, Cal, July 81. The Chino beet
sugar factory, the largest in the United
States, with q maximum reducing ca
pacity of 74o tons of beets = day, will
start this morning. The industry gives
direct employment to 1900 men In
Chino and several hundred at tAnaheim,
The crop of the Chino ranch il esti.
mated at $4,000 tons. The crop to be
shipped from Anaheim is 10000 tons.
The factory will run night and day
during the season, reducing on an
average 600 tons of beets daily. The
output for this season will be 16, 600, ,OOp
pounds of refined sugar. +.
The Worthington advance., 1893-08-03
A Rig Steamer Launched.

pETRolr, Mich, July 31.-To West
Bay City, Mich, belongs the honor OF
turning out the largest wooden boat
ever built Saturday the big $3.50, ,0os
wooden steamer, the Thomas CranaRe,
was successfully launched at the ship
yard Of Capt. James Davidson, in West
Bay City in the presence Of . large
crowd Of people. The Cranage Il s24
feet over al, IS feet 8 inches beam and
- feet nodded depth Of hold. Her en-.
stnes are triple expansion, 20. IS and ).
inches in diameter. with q 42-incl
stroke Her b0ilers are two in numbea,
and are ~ bv IL. s!ss.s
The Worthington advance., 1893-08-03

r B. HAYES was, the only occupant
of the white house to die of heart dis
ease. Washington expired of pneu-
monia; John adams of natural decline:
Jefferson Of diarrhea; Madison and Mon
roe of natural decline; John Quincy
Adams of paralysis; jackson of con-
sumption; Van Buren, of catarrh; Har-
rlson of pleurisy; Tyler of bilious at
tack; Polk of chronic diarrhea; Taylor
of bilious, fever; Fillmore of natural
decline; Pierce of Inflammation of the
stomach; Buchanan Of gout; Lincoln
assassinated; johnson paralysis; Grant
of cancer; Garfield assassinated; Arthur
ofsRright' S disease. Il = n.
The Worthington advance., 1893-08-03
6EHR,No SEA settlement,
Arbitrator Decide That Polaglo SeAlin
Must He Restricted, y

Arbitrator Decide That Polsglo SeAllna
Must He Restricted. ~
PARIS, July 31.-It is announced on
reliable authority that the Rahring aes
arbitrators will decide that pela4ic
aealing should be restricted 50 as to
prevent the extinction Of tho fur seal
species, but they will not give tc
Americans the 7ull property rights ip
the herd which are claimed. The
question Of damages is understood tc
be the one which is chiefly prolonginp
the labors of the arbitrators. This
forecast of the result of the arbitration
10 substantially indorsed by those best
qualified to know.
The Worthington advance., 1893-08-03
LATER NEWS

IT was discovered the 31st that VIM.
NPnemacher, a farmer living nine miles
southeast of Amigo. Wis.,, murdered his
wife and three children bout 10 o'clock
Saturday night and then made an un-
successful attempt to take his own life.
At the inquest Nonemacher made a full
confession. He said the crops were
poor and he was afraid of starving; his
wife's parents were in Quebec, where
they had come all the way from Ger
many, and wanted money, and he had
none to send. After the inquest the
murderer was placed in Jail, but he
may not live to be tried.
The London regatta of the Royal
Yacht club took place at London the
31st. There was a fair breeze and the
yachts got away in capital style. The
boats that took part in the race were:
Royal Phelps Carrolls Navahoe; Lord
Dunraven's Valkyrie; j.. Jameson's
1verna; the Prince of Wales britannia;
A. d. Clark's Satanita; Il. H. Donald's
Calluna. The starting gun was fired at
10 o'clock, and under full sail the yachts
made for the line. The Britannia fin-
ished first minute and seconds ahead
OF the Valkyrie, which was second and
l minute and 26 seconds ahead of the
Navahoe, which finished third. ~. ... =
DISPATCH was received at New
York the 31st by the Nicaragua Canal
and Construction company from their
agent at Granada that peace has been
restored in Nicaragua. -. =
A CRISIS was reached in the lumber
showers strike at Ashland, Wis, the
31st. The Shores Lumber company
sent word to Mayor O'keefe that they.
would commence loading their boats
with non-union laborers, and asked for
police protection. Work had hardly
commenced on the boats when q great
mob of strikers swarmed down over the
dock and tramway. The foremost Of
them were forcibly handcuffed by OFF,
GERS; others arrested were sfterwarls
rescued from the police by their fellows.
E A desperate hand to hand contest fol.
lowed. In which revolvers were -four
ished and several shots fred. It is i'm
possible to learn, under the present ex.
element, whether any person is shot.
The officers were nearly all badly
bruised with clubs and slaves.
DEsPoxDExcY D over his wife,s death
Ecaused ChancY Maxfield, Of Lansing
village, Mimi, TO commit suicide, the
31ak - So sss szs Y
foRTY-FIvE Swedish singers Of Min
neapolis and ST. Paul gave concerts q
the Minnesota, North Dakota and 1Yash.:
ington state buildings q the worlds
fair. the slsk
The Worthington advance., 1893-08-03

The Railway Gazette has counted up
and finds that there have been eighty
six train robberies or attempts at train
robbery during the first six months OF
1893. The railroads will have to carry
armed guards in steel -clad car just aft
OF the tender if this thing is kept up,
and it will be kept up as long as it con:
tinues to be so "dead easy"
The Worthington advance., 1893-08-03

ABERDEEN, 5. D., has an international
Cold Wave company with a capital
stock of 81 ,O0O, 600. Its business win be
to produce cooling breezes whenever
the temperature ,reaches the uncom-
Portable stage. The company will not
only furnish comfortable summer
weather to order, but will be open to
inducements to bring early frosts for
the benefit of wheat bulls. Letters
of inquiry from proprietors of skating
rinks, summer hotels and cough medi-
cines are invited.
The Worthington advance., 1893-08-03

THE recovered city of Lachish" in
Palestine is one of the most interesting
as we'll as one of the most important of
archaeological discoveries in the Orient.
This ancient city is mentioned in
Joshua, and its site was unknown until
three years ago, when Prof Petrie hap
Pened upon its ruins while digging in a
vast mound known locally as Tel-el-
Hesy. The great Importance of the
''fnd' lies in the fact that there are
eight ancient towns beneath the
mound, each Except the first) built on
an older abandoned town. ..
The Worthington advance., 1893-08-03

BALTIMORE IS to have two sprlnkling
cars at work upon the electric lines of
that city this summer. Each car car
ries tank with capacity of 1880 gal
Ions of water, which vets down six
miles of road alongside the track. This
system is available in every city where
there are electric railroads, and bids
fair to supersede carts as well as water
ing pots in all the principal thorough
fares :
The Worthington advance., 1893-08-03

They are bobbing up serenely on
every hand, these lineal descendants
of Columbus, and soon they will be as
numerous as George Washington's body
servants. The latest accession to the
ranks is q remarkable person even
granting that he is mistaken in his as
sumed relationship to the great ex-
plorer., He, is 1o4 years old and is in
Chicago taking in the worlds fair
The Worthington advance., 1893-08-03
International Cycl ing Tournament.

CHICAGO, July Sl.-Entries for the
worlds fair cycling tournament. which
begins in this city August Z, have
closed 1t il believed that among the
entries are all the men Of prominence
in the United States; Hyslop Of
canada; Osmond and Stroud Of
England; Meintjes, the South Ameri-
can record breaker and riders from
France, Germany and Italy. The
programme of entertainment pro-
vided by the Chicago men il most liber-
n Over S15, 900 has been expended on
the meet and 81, 900 worth Of prizes, con.
sistin1 principally of diamonds
The Worthington advance., 1893-08-03

A sIX-YEAR-OLD Tennessee boy can
play on almost any musical instrument
without teaching. That is what Ten
nessee gets for having once upon time
elected a man governor. because he
could fiddle a.
The Worthington advance., 1893-08-03

AMONG the many proverbs that have
been smashed by the modern scientific
iconoclast is that. one which runs:
Early to bed and early to rise makes
sDne healthy, wealthy and wise.'' An
eminent London physician has been
making a study of the subject and finds
that eighty per cent. of the people over
eighty years of age have been in the
habit of sitting up until the small hours
and never rising until the day is we'll
aired. Early rising" says the doctor,
"tends toexhaust the physical powers
and shorten life.' There ought to be
great consolation in this for small boys
and newspaper men. ..., =
The Worthington advance., 1893-08-03
August
Flower

I used August Flower for Loss Of
vitality and general debility. After
taking two bottles I gained 6o lbs.
I have sold more of your August
Flower since have been in business
than any other medicine l ever kept.
Mr.. Peter Zinville says he was made
new man by the use of August
Flower, recommended by me. I
have hundreds tell me that August
Flower has done them more good
than any other medicine they ever
took. GRoRG1 w. DYE, Sardis,
Mason Co., Ky. q
The Worthington advance., 1893-08-03
aPALE ED ON i LEvEh.

& lnjsriss RsessvsA ~ . Ysans
=. cllisak 20 Rsssls - HsF Dsath.s .ss5
IS CHICAGO. July 31.-A peculiar acci.
dent which resulted in the death Of one
Woman and serious injury 70 three 9TH
ess occurred g tho east end Of the
Harrison street bridge Saturday after
noon An open car approached the
bridge at . good rate OF speed. Az the
car struck the east end Of the bridge
& the latter shook and swayed mp and
down Tor = moment The heavy.
pointed hardwood tightening lever at
/ the east end OF the bridge fell from Its
Sialsltenings and swung around directly
Against the right side OF the car.
@ miss Nellie Ktordan, OF i Snlden
street. sat near the right hand outer
edRe OF seat near the middle of the
car, and the pointed end Of the lever
struck her in the groin, passed through
! her body, and made q hole In the back
of the seat in which she was sitting.
The lever y extended 20 inches through the
body OF the woman. pinning her to the
fragment OF the seat left unbroken by
the fearful crash. The driver had by
TINS Time obtained control OF his horses
{ ana brought the car to stop. Wit
nesses OF tho accident ran UP
and were norrlnsd by the fearful
sisns presented ny the 1mpaled
I Won woman. man nlood was pouring from
tne WOUND IN her slde and nowing on
5sstle the moo moor OF sne car. physician who
was summoned from mouse near BY
sa'd the woman would bleed to death it
the lever was Withdrawn from her body.
q q saw WAS procured and the lever was
sawed on two feet from Miss Riordans
ooay. ~ ::
Inc Inc woman with 2 portion OF the
lever still penetrating her body, was
conveyed to the county Hospital, The
The Worthington advance., 1893-08-03
Caught In His Own Tran,

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, July s1.-The
mysterious death of H. ]. Hedland, the
anarchist, who was burned in his house,
has been explained by his wife. She
confessed he burned the house in order
TO obtain the 81, 100 insurance on it, and
before he could escape was cremated.
The Worthington advance., 1893-08-03

A NEBRASKA farmer recently lost
$1,000 by the collapse of a bank The
Missouri river was seized with an in
sane desire to change its course and
scooped out one hundred acres of the
Nebraskan's land.
The Worthington advance., 1893-08-03

A CORONER in Minnesota has decided
that when a man has been adjudged
dead by the coroner he is dead, even
though he return to the bosom Of his
family in good health and exuberant
spirits. .-.s.-
The Worthington advance., 1893-08-03
Double Tragedy In Keatuekyy..

LouIsvILLE, KY, July sl.-Andrew
Bunk, town marshal Of Parkland, 1T
tempted ON Saturday to arrest Edward
Grim for taking , COW out Of the pound.
Grim killed Bunk, and Blunk's 1s-year-
old son, Murray, shot and killed Grim
Grim had killed two men. S 8
The Worthington advance., 1893-08-03

Hon. GEORGE $. boutwell,, when
elected governor of Massachusetts,, was
the youngest person ever elected to
that Office. Now he is the senior ex-
governor of the state as we'll as the old
est in years.
The Worthington advance., 1893-08-03

TUE Wells Fargo people have just
started new bank in New York de-
spite the fact that several secondhand
ones, only slightly worn. could have
been obtained at a ridiculously low
nrice =. =
The Worthington advance., 1893-08-03

THE July poetry is all in now and
the magazines are working on the Au-
/, gust stock. Autumn verses, and those
shat read. lessons of life in the falling
leaves, viii soon be along
The Worthington advance., 1893-08-03
. Forced to Give Big Morteages,

IoFoed 70 Give Btg Morsgagos. Z /.
0RAHD RAPIDS, Mich, July sl.-I. N.
We2ton, owner Of the Grand Rapidi
Dsnocrak, an extensive lumbermau
and formerly ehairman Of the demo
cratic state central committee, haa
hled mortgages for 90. 600 Mr.. Wss
tons wealth has been supposed to rur
close 10 . million dollara NJ
The Worthington advance., 1893-08-03
Dangerous Convict.

At tho St. Cloud reformatory q con-
vict assaulted Guard Julian A. Belden,
who had reported him in the morning
for misconduct. He struck the guard
on the back of the head murderous
blow with piece of gaspipe three feet
long, cutting cash. A second blow
on the side broke two ribs and injured
the spine. Belden staggered away.
The convict followed to finish him when
help arrived. The guilty convict's name
is said to be Harrington, in for robbing
q house in Minneapolis in daylight.
The Worthington advance., 1893-08-03
I Tinanse The eole Topic

WAsH1HaTON, July 81. Presideni
Cleveland. II = said, will confne hi,
forthconinR message 70 the hnAncia
sitnation and will. defer ary recommen|
.datipns regarding the tari6 until tk
Fegnlas asaliq4 Of conares.
The Worthington advance., 1893-08-03
j eoTQAE 20 JOB.

H0ef1@1e HAllor0 ut th0ss&locteoee.O q
Aurdsrer Tayler N Auharn Prls...-rhs
First Contact Falla @ Kin. ths Dynana
Bsinx Ost 81 Fix-Whils Waisine fos
Over sn Hour for IT, Repair the Victim
Lives, yvrithing q Ms Tortars. but Un-
eonscious. =
AuBURN, n. T., July ax The at.
Tempt TO electrocute Murderer William
=. Taylor by electricity st the prison
here was attended by . horrible acci.
dent. The force Of the electrical current
gave ont, and the board to WI which one o1
ais feet wasstrapped broke One current
zof 1,7OO volts had been administered
before the accident occurred, but it was
not strong enough to kill him. When
the physicians, one ct whom was
woman--the first 70 view an
execution by electricity rushed for
ward to determine II Taylor were
dead they were startled to- find that
he was still breathing. The electrode
board to which his foot was fastened
was showed into place and the elec.
trician signaled to turn on the current
again, but the dynamo had given out
and the current did not reach the
death chair.
During the brief space of time the at
tempt to introduce second current
consumed Taylor showed signs of re.
turning consciousness, and while the
excited physicians and elecricians
were debating the question of the
best thing to do he began to groan,
his body twitched against the strap
that had held his head, arms and legs
In place The body of the murderer
was lifted from the char and placed on
cot. Morphine was freely admins.
tered and preparations were made ia
secure power from the city electric.
light plant to take the place OF
the exhausted dynamo. In the mean.
time Taylor was alive, but appeared to
be in q state Of pronounced apo.
plex% He was lying on his back,
breathing heavily and groaning. The
physicians in attendance said the force
of the first tcurrent had simply rendered
him unconscious. He would recover,
they thought, and the only way to
carry out the sentence of the law was
to again place him in the chair. :
Almost an hour elapsed between the
time the first shock was administered
and the time Taylor was placed in the
death chair for the second time. He
was first placed in the chair at .12:45
o'clock, and it was 1855 before connec-
ton was obtained from the city's elec.
tric-light plant During all this
time Taylor was kept under the in.
fluence of morphine, but breathed reg.
ularly and groaned and writhed. When
the connection was finally made with
the city electric plant Taylor was lifted
into the chair and strapped as be.
fore. The signal was then given
and the full force of the current,
said to have been 1900 volts,
was shot into his writing
body. lt>required a contact of only q
few seconds to complete the work OF
the first current. 1n less than half q
minute the current was turned off and
the attending physicians declared Tay.
lor dead. A third contact of half sec.
ond was shot into the body to make
certain work of the first.
Taylor murdered Solomon Jackson, q
white man and q fellow-inmate of the
Auburn prison. September 90, 1897. He
was tried, convicted, and sentenced to
death Januauv 10.
The Worthington advance., 1893-08-03

STATISTICS from sixty cities which
contain more than 10000 habitants
by the census of 1890 show that out of
1905 fires 2O3 were attributed to cleo
tricity and that the loss was 81. IS for
each 800. -
The Worthington advance., 1893-08-03
The News Of the eek.
FROM WARRINGTON.
~ TELEGRAPH AND NAIL.

49,
$AcrINa MIHr DIREcroB PREsToH pur-
chased 50. 900 ounces.of silver, paying
therefor 6e.00 per ounce, the lowest
price yet paid for silver in the history
of the government purchases
& INTERNAL revenue collections from
all sources during the last fiscal year
were $l61, ,0O2. 900, an increase Of 81, ,1l5,-
900 over the previous year. s
z Or the $3.50 national banks In the
United States ninety-five have sus-
pended payment since January 1, 1898.
OF the latter number twelve have re-
sumed business. &. .s.s,
ExPoRTs of wheat from all United
States ports for the week ended on the
2sth show total Of 4, 1858 900 bushels,
against 5,077, 900 bushela the previous
week. rs II
BUSINESS failures reported in the
United States during the seven. days
ended on the 2Sth numbered 3s6; in
the week preceding there were 487, and
during the corresponding time in 1s9.
the number was I'll. .. :.
The exchanges during the week
ended on the 2Sth at the leading clear.
houses in the United States aggregated
1851, ,98e. 500, against e979, ,445, ,234 the pre-.
vious week. The decrease, compared
with the corresponding week in ls22,
was l0.7. -, -.
The Worthington advance., 1893-08-03

PRINCESS TON, one Of sitka's richest
women, has lately been Christianized.
and as an evidence of good faith has
discharged two Of the three husbands
she had previously married.
The Worthington advance., 1893-08-03
81 After the RatlrOaGla.

Despite the st. Paul Il Duluth's de-
clared determination to test the con-
stitutionality of the law requiring
trains to stop at all county seats
through which they pass, County At
torney Roberts will continue the fight
in behalf of Pine City. Whether the
first case goes to the supreme court of
the United States (as it probably will)
or not, he says there will be further ar.
rests and prosecutions so long as the
Duluth limited fails to make stops at
Pine City. Mr.. Roberts is confident
that the city has good case.
The Worthington advance., 1893-08-03
Florlda's Latest Killins.

TARPoN SPRINGS, Fla, July 2s.-Be-
fore daylight Wednesday morning
masked men fred at Buck Stephenson
through an open window us he lay in
bed. The shot missed him, but
instantly killed Henry o. Steen, who
was with Stephenson. Stephenson is
the man who killed Marshal White
hurst July T.
The Worthington advance., 1893-08-03

; The last census bulletin contains tho
statistics of the smallest religious or
ganization in the United States It is
the Adonai Shomo, with twenty. mem-
bers and property worth s6, 900. 1t has
no church or temple for worship This
community was organized at Petersham,
Mass, in 1876, with eleven members. 1t
grew out of the adventist movement'
and it's principles are faith in Christ as
the Son of God and community of
goods There is q common treasury
from which individual needs are sup
piled. All labor is common. Agricul-
tnre is the chief industry. Women men,
hers have an equal voice with tho men