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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-10-19
Farm Buildings Burned,

LAKE BENTON, MIMI, Oct 49,
While threshing on the farm of George
Tamms, near Verdi, this county. FIRE
from ike engine burned the barn and
granary, with 100 bushels of wheat, q
buggy, binders and other farm machin-
cry, together with some hogs. Loss
about 81, 2OO; no insurance.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-10-19
Result of a Feud.

GREEN Bay, Wis.,, Oct. 1s.-Frank
Morse was fatally stabbed in the ab-
domen with penknife at 8 o'clock a.
m. at Fort Howard by his brother-in.
law, Adolph Krause. It was the result
of family feud that has existed for
long time. Krause was arrested and is
now in Jail.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-10-19
SURGEONS KNIFE
Captain Adams, Commander OF the G.
A. r.. UndergOes an Operation
at Chicago.
Several Pieces Of Bone Removed From
a Wound Received During the
Late War.
1t Is Reported That the Operation
Was Most Successful
One.

CHICAGO, Oct. 1H-Capta:n J. G. B.
Adams, communicative chief Of the
Grand Army of the Republic. is re-.
ported to be seriously i'll at the Hotel
Imperial in this city. Captain Adams
and his wife arrived in Chicago last
Saturday and went immedia tely to tho
suite of rooms they had engaged in the
hotel, adjoining that of C. S. Merrill 1
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-10-19
Prairie Fire Raging.

WoRTHINaToN, Minn, Oct l6.-A
large prairie fire is raging two miles
ing gale. A large amount of hay has
already been destroyed. There are
thousands of tons in its track with no
protection whatever.
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Tried to Burn II Hotel,

DUBUQUE, Ia, Oct. 1s.-Repeated at
tempts were made during the night to
destroy the Montana hotel in this city.
The stables were destroyed and the
fire department called back twice to
extinguish flames in the hotel. Rags
soaked with kerosene were found in
many places.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-10-19
County Treasurer Robbed.

BLACK Rock, Ark, Oct. lS.-Will-
lam NJ. Campbell, county treasurer of
Lawrence county, has been robbed Of
$4,000 of the county funds He, after
locking both the safe and Office door,
went to his dinner and on his return
found everything apparently intact.
Having occasion to go to the safe dur
ing the afternoon he quickly discovered
it had been robbed of about s. sou.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-10-19
No DcfaIcatlOn.

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct l8.-The commit
tee that has been investigating the
books of the Knights and Ladies of
Honor, which has a membership all
over the country with headquarters
here, reached point Tuesday where it
could be stated with certainty that
no defalcation exists, although the
books were found in very muddled
state
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-10-19
One of q Famous Family,

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. Is. Walter
Eytinge. who has been playing with
the Span of Life" company at the Cal,
ifornia theatre, died here during the
night of typhoid fever. He belonged
to a theatrical family. being relative
of Rose Eytinge.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-10-19
Thirteenth Victim.

JACKSON, Mich, Oct. 18.-Mrs. limo
thy Donovan of Morris Run. Pa, one
Of the most seriously injured in the
Michigan Central wreck here on Friday
last, died at the city hospital at 8 a. m.
This makes the thirteenth victim,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-10-19
Embezzlement Charged.

GREAT FALLS, Mon, Oct. 18.-Will
Hanks, ex-president of the suspended
Merchants National bank, has been ar.
rested on the charge Of embezzlement.
Complaint was made by Receiver L. G.
Phelps, and charges that Hanks con.
verted to his own use 80 shares of Cas-.
cade bank stock,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-10-19
SUMMONS.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, 10
County of Mobiles.

SUMMONS.
STATE OF MINNESOTA. l.s
County of Mobiles.
District Court, Thirteenth Judicial District.
Nellie Small, Plaintiff,
Against.
Alfred Small, DEPENDENT.
The State Of Minnesota, to the above named
Defendant:
You are hereby summoned and require. TO to
above entitled action, which omplaint has been
filed in the office Of the clerk Of SAID District Ct
SohIe. a. and State Of Minnesota, and to serve q
Of your answer to said complaint on the
Heron Lake, in the County Of jackson, and
State aforesaid: within thirty days after the ne
The day Of such service; and Il you fail to an
the ssd within the time ado re-
Court for the relief demanded in said COM
plainf.
F.. LAMMBRs. Plaintiffs Attorney.
5.7t Heron Lake Minnesota.
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SUMMONS.

STATE OF MINNESOTA, lsa
County Of Mobiles. IS
defendant.
You are hereby summoned to be and appear
] before the undersigned, one OF the Justices
of the Peace in and for said county, on the 2nd
day of November 1898 at ten O'Clock in the fore
noon at my office in the town of Ransom in said
county to answer to John Widman in civil
action. Should you fail to appear at the time
against you upon the evidence adduced by
said John Widman. for such sum as he shall
show himself entitled to.
1885,
ROBERT SHORE,
9W3 Justice of the Peace.
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Russian Royalty in France.

PARIS, Oct. 1S.-The Russian Grand
Duke Vladimir and the Grand Duke
Sergius are expected to stop here on
their return home from England,
where they have been visiting Queen
Victoria.
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RANSOM.
FULL CIRCLE,

The visitors to the Worlds fair
are at home again. They all agree
in one thing and that is, that the
fair is the greatest sight they ever
saw, or ever expect to see. When W.
n. Dow and sister Lounita were
there, they spent Sunday at the
Moody Institute and thought them
selves we'll repaid for the time
spent there.
On Saturday last T. H. Prideaux
and his sister Clara, got home
from the fair. Tom regards him
self as wide-awake young fellow,
but when he entered the gates of
White City his eyes opened still
wider, and that without the least
effort on his part. He does not
think that he saw the l-hundredth
part of what is to be seen, but
he saw enough to give him, as
nothing else could, an idea of the
almost illimitable produc tons and
resources of this world of ours. It
is sight worth going long way
to see; sight which once seen will
never be forgotten. And that is
not all. One of the pleasing fea-
lures Of the trip is that it gives an
opportunity for friends and rela-
tives to meet each other-indeed.
to have a genuine reunion of rela-
tives and friends, who have not
seen each other in many long years
and many of whom; probably, will
never meet again. The Prideaux
family. with the connections of the
family, formed quite respectable
party of themselves, and had a
most enjoyable time. And the
same is true of hundreds, and prob
ably thousands, of those who
have visited the fair. The remem-
brance of these pleasant reunions
will be green and fresh in the
memory, when many of those who
took part in them are wrinkled
and grey. Tom and Clara brought
home few tasteful articles, pre-
sents for members of the family;
something to remind them in the
coming years of the great fair
Of '93.
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Jud gnent Affirmed.

4 Dies MONIES, Oct. l8.-The criminal
libel case Of Senator Finn against NJ.
w. Belvel, prominent Democrat was
affirmed in the supreme court. =
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-10-19
Old Are Webs.

BELo1T, Wis, Oct. 1S.-James Nc
Camp, aged 80, and Bridget Ryan,
aged ~, were married here
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Eckels and Bankers to Meet

EcKeIs ana BANKERS TO Meet
WASHINGTON, Oct. l6.-Hon. James
J. Eckels, comptroller of the currency,
has left the city for Chicago to attend
the meeting of the bankers congress
during the present week.
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Loss $4,000.

MANKATo. Kan, Oct. ls.-Fire de.
stroyed the principal business block in
the town. Loss, $50, 100.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-10-19
COlumbia's Trial Trim.

LEwEs. DEL, Oct. 18.-The cruiser
Columbia went to sea at 6:l5 a. m. to
continue her trialtrip. The Vesuvius
still remains at the breakwater.
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THE WORTHINGTON ADVANCE.
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.
Items Of Interest Gathered ~
Advance Correspondents. n

Ransom.
Mr.. Beckman and Spencer are
here attending to their grain. @
Threshers are very busy. Grain
is turning out fairly we'll, corn il
very good, and bids fair to be the
largest crop ever raised in the
town. s&
There is more blowing done than
ever at this time. Z
Some of our neighbors have been
badly damaged by a. prairie fire,
set a, Schafer's grove, by a..passing
engine, last Saturday; the fire after
leaving the grove, passed southeast
to the Bates place, burning their
barn and the most of their hay,
and one or two settings of grain,
thence to McCann's, burning fifteen
stacks of hay. About dozen able
and determined men saved every
thing on Section 10 but one or two
settings of flax, stable and about
fifty tons of flax and hay, that was
on the place of E. w. Golf. Sec
ton IL did not fair as we'll, the
mad flames swept over it, Destroy
ing one large setting Of grain for
Mr.. Mason, and all of his hay.
Also that of Mr.. Goodman and
Jacobs, leaving them none to feed.
From there thu mil anne passed
on to Sec. IA, leaping the road and
fire brakes, burning all of VIM.
SCOTS hay, and but for the timely
aid of three neighbors, his build
ings would have been burned, one
hay stack burned within four feet
Of the corner of the barn, persistent
obstiancy and plenty of water was
all that saved it, the flames passed
onto the place Of R. H. Belknap,
ten large hay stacks and one
setting of grain we're consumed,
then the fire marched through
about ten acres Of timber. Large
fields of.plowing,and the timely aid
Of neghbors, saved the fire sweep
ing through to the railroad, south:
east, and the burning of a house
and barn for R. II. During all
this time there was a threshing
machine running in plain view Of
the fire, three times they were ap-i
pealed to for help, but still they:
threshed on. Every one is very
much displeased about it. There
was some talk of running them
out, but finally decided to allow
them to 90 out, but import rail
TO be used if they ever return:
Messrs. Mccain, Settle, Scott and
Belknap, desire to thank the neigh
oors, through the ADVANCE, for
their kind and timely assistance in
putting out the fire.
r. II. BELKNAP.
***
Dewald.
The weather is fine and farmers
are pushing their fall work.
The road overseer in district l
got the men ont last week, put in
, good bridge over the Little Rock
lust west of J. H. Maxwell's. Also
! small bridge near John McKan-
lies, and improved the road in
many places.
We are informed that school dis
;rict Is, is to have a new school
house.
Mrs. Fred Hastings has returned
rom a visit to her old home in Illi-
1ois. She also visited the big
show at the windy city.
Chas. Schinkel met with an &C.
,ident that might have been seri-
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RuSlllllOre.

11llSlllnOfcs
Farmers are improving the nice
weather to finish threshing.
Mrs. Helms left for st. Paul on
Monday.
The harvest home concert at the
M. E. church last Sunday passed
off very pleasantly.
Rev. S. B. Smith and family are
back for another year.
Mr.. Chichester has bought the
Helms property and moved his
family in last week.
Miss Georgia Grosscup is visit
ing at Mr.. Hollis.
Mrs. Hamline has been visiting
Mrs. Bedford.
Rev. w. Steinmeyer, the. Ger
man minister, moved into Frank
Cows house last week.
James Chichester has bis new
blacksmith shop nearly finished.
Mrs. Spurgeon, of Waukeegan,
ILL.,, is visiting with Mrs. Barron.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-12-03

when the town Is crowded with strape
ers, and the khans and eonvents are
iull 20 OVERLOOKING. There h M hotel
ana q great majority of the houses are
private dwellings,; but the nven
thFoW open their refectories for the en-
tertainment Of the new arrivals and it
must be admitted that the monks knew
o TO spread 8 generous table. al
though, OF course, every body is ex-
peeted 20 pay. AS the distance 20 Jer-
usalem Is trihing, pilgrims usually re-
turn the sameday, the Accommodations at
tne latter city being much better. At
such gaia seasons, Bethlehem presents
3 remarkably picturesque appearances.
Ou horseback, on asses, on camelS and
aIOOt, d pilgrims come streaming In
az the principal gate, while the towns
folk, or the women part az least. watch
them c~uriOusly from the white house
tops, or through the balconied or lat
tleed windows. 1t is a moving panorama
OF brilliant colOrS such as can only be
seen In b East on great festival days.
not the least attractive part Of the show
being the women Of Bethlehem them
selves, VINO wear a peculiarly attractive
ana somewhat cOQuettiSh style OF head
dress The younger members OF the
sex adorn their pretty heads with a
light frame which is covered by a long
white linen veil falling gracefully over
the shoulders TO the elbows, while the
matrons wear around, brimless felt hat,
layishly ornamented in front With gold
or silver coins. Both maids or matrous
set OF their personal charms With heavy
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-12-03

pedlers and townsfOlk are all full OF 1t.
There Is enough that is genuine in and
about Bethlehem and its lovely envir-
ons to claim the attention and fix the
reverence OF the pilgrim, no matter
what his nationality. but he must needs
be assalled with a mass OF conflicting ir-
~relevance that go far toward destroying
his faith in anything he sees or hears.
Even the altar that O~verhangs the place
Of the Nativity is robbed OF much OF its
Sacredness by the rude behavior OF the
Greeks and Armenians, who, while the
Latins are holding services, crowd the
stairway and talk and laugh loud
enough 70 be heard across the grotto!
Hearing aud seeing this, we can more
readily comprehend how outbreaks OF
passion occur even among men whose
whole life is passed in that sacred
atmosphere.
The Manger Of Bethlehem, within
whose shadow these pitful displays OF
human weakness have taken place, is
In a cave or grottO beneath the Church
OF the Nativity, and is approached by q
spiral stairway. Near the foot Of this
staircase is a niche in the wall OF the
limestone rock, and in front Of it, set
In the floor is a marble slab with q silver
star or glory" In the centre aud on the
star the inscript in Latin which pro-
claims 10. the very spot whereon Jesus
was bora into the world. This silver
star is the object o. most profound
reverence on the part OF the pilgrims.
They kneel aud K IS it, and stand gazing
upon &c with L-Ir-dinmad eyes. they
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Esther came up In the most uncon.
cerned manner, still cumming the
waltz. ~ think" she said, "you might
wipe YOUR feet before coming into the
the room"
80, l haven't time nov 10 think about
wlping my feet" he replied. 1--WE
something more urgent 10 attend to-"
Are you sure" she said demurely,
without looking at him, that there are
paperso don't remember seeing any"
"Weil, ] want you to understand, J" he
snorted quite savageiy, that will not
leave this mouse tlll l get them"
"Can send them to yon?" she meekly
sked.
NO, sir, l want them now and l
don't stir q foot till / get them"
And he didn't. So, you see, it was
lucky FOR me that l didn't write the let
ter to his wife.
Whenever he comes over now az
nights be wakes me up and informs me
that this time the break is for good,
that no earthly power can heal the
breach, and all Is over At last. / mildly
inquire why be can't arrange the final
breach In the daytime. And the last
time / was so aggravated that dropped
to the momentary perfdy Of q pun.
.'LOok here, old 10y" said, 81 have
heard Of wives wsating the breeches,
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earrings and strings OF glittering coin,
row upon row, that hang from the neck
and rest upon the bosom OF the Wearer.
But the pilgrim 70 Bethlehem has no
eyes for the beauties Of It's daughters
at least, not until he has performed his
vows aud visited the shrine Of the Man
ger. IL naturally eXcites his surprise
10 ind q building so v%enerated as the
Church OF the Nativity in such a dila-
pidated condition, but a like inquiry
disclOses the fact that its wretcned
state, like everything else that is wrong
iD Bethlehem, is the result of the bitter
|jealOusieS of the three rival religious
seCts, no two of which will consent that
the third shall have the honor OF repair
INK the building, although the roof and
certain other parts were dangerously in
need OF attention. The church proper
and the grOtto of the Nativity beneath
90 are parcelled out among these three
secrs. and each has It's own altar where
services are performed. There are, be-
sides, other affairs, which are common TO
all. So intense is the anJagOuism Of
the seCts that even the sacred grOttO is
not free from their braWls and az diff
ferent times, the monks, maddeDed by
each others taunts. have come into
angry collision there. Some seventeen
years ago, there was an alteration be-
tween Latin aud the Greek monks,
yfe6fbe latter secured a temporary
triumph. Before \tbe trouble ended,
the sectarians entered the fight and
pistols we're used. tbs result being sew
eral persons killed and q number In
iured. Before the s%anguinary climax
was reached the c|ombat2nts had with
drawn outside of the church. In the
recent fatal disturbance, however, the
shooting took place within the church,
I'm the Nave, where q considerable
crowd had assembled. These could not
have gathered Ga the grottO Of the Man
ger which can only be entered by a few
persons 40 a time, whereas q thousand
can be comfortably massed in the Nave.
Doubtless, ike almost all the distur-
Dances of past years in the Church OF
the Nativity, it had its origin in religi-
Gus hatred-a strange and sad common
tary on human behavior at the birth
place OF the Prince Of Peace. But
brawls are Of such frequent occurrence
there, especially 40 festivals, that they
excite little attention unless something
serious happens.
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bow their heads in mute alteration.
Above 10 hangs sixteen silver lamps,
ever burning, and which are trimmed
ty the three religious factions, the
Greeks taking six, and the Latins and
Armeniaus FIVE apiece. Over the star
is an altar at which each faction wOr-
ships in turn. The walls OF the grOtto
are covered with costly embroidered
cloth, some OF them the gift Of queens
and expresses. A little 20 the right is
a recess cut 10 the rock which is point
ed out as the Manger wherein Christ
was laid.
Ouarrels among religious dictionaries
rage even more fercely in the Church
of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem
than az Bethlehem. Every Easter,
according 10 the traditional claim Of
the Greek church, fire descends from
heaven aud is communicated TO the
faithful by the Patriarch and his as
sociate priests on Easter in the Chapel
of the Angels, which is a part Of the
Chapel Of the Sepulchre itself. On that
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day, Armenians, Copts, Abyssnians,
Russians, SyrianS and Arabs, gather to
witness the descent of the fire, and TO
light a taper SO its flame. When the
Patriarch enters the chapel attended
by a strong body guard, he finds it &C.
cupied by a frenzled mob, Of anywhere
from two TO i've thOusand-men, wom-
en-, and yer children all in a condition
Of high excitement. Most OF them
have waited, 10 may be, for hours, aud
the mOnotouOus repetition has been
kept up by a thousand voices IN harsh
unison: This is the tomb Of our
Lord, 'G0d help the Sultan.' "Oh
Jews, Jews, your feasts are the feasts
of pigs, and ether ~utteranceS of q sort
calculated 20 breed riot, especially in
view of the presence of a Noslem guard
at the entrances. An Easter crowd of
pilgrims in this chapel in 1884, became
so demoastrative that the Turkish
guard believed they were about 70 be
attacked by the Christians and there
upon drove 60 on the frenzied mob with
the bayOnet, beSpEttering the walls
with blood and brains, and turning the
chapel into q ShambleS. with COrpSes
piled upon the marble floor, even the
''Stone Of Uncti0n" being covered with
the dead. 10 is said that nearly 400
people were sacrificed TO MOhammedan
lazy on that terrible Easter, In the
Temple Of the SePulchTe.
I r. C.
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IS LIBERAL IN NAME.
A QUEER SETTLEMENT FOR INFlDELS ONLY
OUT IN MISSOURI.
Was Founded by B. Il. Walssr - Finding that
His Plan Did Not Work the Promoter Starts
a SpiritualisIiC College.

Spiritual mediums are on the Increase.
Once they simply developed-au natu-
rel-but now there Is established a reg
ular college for tho manufacture OF
them. Ii Is situated In Liberal, Mo-,
and Liberal IS a town with a history.
mo Christian need apply" IL was
almost as appalling an inscription as
that other which Dante beheld writ
above the gates Of hades. Yet this town
-this-was ycleped Liberal" Misno-
me! The trouble withe these liberal
churches" said a bright woman, as
that they have got to so pride them.
Selves upon their liberality and TO so
exploit il that they have become most
illiberal."
And that is the way with the town OF
Liberal, No. II is not a very large
place, since there has never been moro
han 400 inhabitants therein. But
what IL lacks 10 numbers is more than
made up ia queernesses. IL was sui
generis. It has no parallel. To be-
come prominent In Liberal all that q
townsman needed was TO hate Chris
tianity. The one essential prerequi-
sta was emancipation from the '"06
idea" and Ia Liberal It was fashio.ve
70 write the name OF the deity wit.
small ''g." In other words, Liberal was
a settlement Of inGdels, agnosties and
fr @ thinkers and the monarch OF tho
SIX - was there dethroned.
T. is 2 very bad place, geographically
spsakisg, but the people would rival
those OF our late lamented Mid way
P~laisaHcc. There were l~ong-balred
crank men and s~hort-haired crank
women. There were Communists and
Anarchists. People who believed that
the institution Of matrimony failed 10
properly adjust the relations OF the
sexes. and who cheeriully practice1
wha, they preached. People who be-
lieyed in absolute beauty Of character
wholly apart from Christianity, and
who utterly failed 20 live up % their
belief People who believed conYen-
tioDal dressing a cardinal sin, who re-
sentod the tyranny Of a skirt and did
the r~eseDting IN aggressive bloomers.
There were ''doctresses' and %"proies-
sors" and magicians, and people gifted
with q healing and magnetic touch. and
hypnotlsts and clalryoyantS-ail these
I foregatheTed At Liberal under the lead
ership Of e. II. Waiser.
Now, there was ! man and a crank
worth noticing. Once a successful
lawyer at Lamar, Mo, Walser LETT his
profession Ic enter Il 0 arena IN the no.
bic cause OF free thought and atheism.
HIS first inporta ut move was 10 buy q
large tract OF land 10 the Western part
/ OF Barton county. and 10 1881 laid out
their present twn Of Liberal and To-
yited kindred spirits. male and female,
TO come and dwell therein.
They came, IS GDeiore stated. .
Heterogeneous lot, each battering
against the Institutions OF priest
craft and superstition" and after that
- Well, there the unanimity ceased.
However, they had the courage OF
their convictions. bad these agncsilcs,
and the town had . paper which lear