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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-13

DIR PAUL GlBIEn, the bacteriologist.
found in the rags imported into this
country from Europe one hundred and
Aen: Colonies Of bacteria of various spe-
c;e1. He inoculated guinea pigs, rats
-asidi rabbits with these bacteria, and
the animals died ut the end of forty
eight TO sixty hours DR.. Gibier re-
ported that the rags were loaded down
with disease germs, and that it would
!, Ia kleirelY possible to introduce chol-
e:a. tuberculosis. diphtheria and small
pox through that channel. We ought
20 bekbic to get along very comfort
ably without amy rags this year, and
Tor ssyersl years to come.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-13
MINNESOTA NEWS.
The State Flag.

For the first time In her history, Min
nesota has state flag. This result was
achieved by the efforts of the women's
auxiliary Of the worlds fair commits
sion. To be the official insignia of the
commonwealth, it was necessary that 1t
should be accepted by the legislature.
When the ladies swooped down upon
that august body with their demands,
the. solons could do nothing else but
throw up their hands, suspend other
business and pass the bill. It took lust
four hours to get the measure into the
governors hands.
The flag was designed by Mrs. Ed
ward Fl. Center, Of Minneapolis. Il is
handsome piece of work, ingeniously
conceived and gracefully executed. Not
only does it skillfully combine the ma
tlonal colors and the state emblems, but
it is also artistically done. The ground
is OF white silk, and the reverse side of
blue silk bordered with bullion fringe.
In the center is the state seal wreathed
with white moccasin flowers on a blue
ground. The red ribbon Of the seal
bearing the motto is continued through
the wreath. entwining the blossoms
and floating careiessly over the lower
portion of the flag: It bears in gold the
dates 1919, the time of the settlement of
Minnesota, and 1893. Above, also in
gold. is the date 1853, the time of the
admission of Minnesota to the union.
Below the design in gold letters is
wrought "Minnesota." Grouped around
the seal are nineteen stars in the de-
sign of star points, with the North Star.
significant of the North Star state. in a
group of three at the top.
The choice of the number 10 is a ne
culiarly happy one, as Minnesota was
the nineteenth state, after the original
thirteen, to be admitted into the union.
Many of the other designs submitted to
the examining board employed forty
four stars, suggesting the number of
states in the union, but the choice was
not so we'll liked, as this had reference
to a national and not state matter.
and would be subject to constant
change. The use of thirty-two stars.
suggesting that the state was the thir.
ty-second one admitted to the union,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-13
august
Flower

Il am happy to state to you and
to suffering humanity, that my wife
has used your wonderful remedy,
August Flower, for sick headache
and palpitation of the heart, with
satisfactory results. orseveral years
she has been great sufferer, has
been under the treatment of eminent
physicians in this city and Boston,
and found little relief. She was in
duced to try August Flower, which
gave immediate relief. We cannot
say to much for it," L. G.. Frost.
Springfield, Mass. 9
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-13

LAMARrlNE predicted fifty years ago
that before the end of this century
newspapers would supplant books. He
said: ''Alankind will write their book
day by day. page by page. Thought
will spread abroad with the rapidity of
light. Instantly conceived, instantly
written, it will spread from pole to
pole, suddenly burning with the fervor
of soul which made it burst forth: it
will be the reign of the human mind in
all its plenitudc; it will not have time
to ripen, to accumulate in the form of a
book; the book will arrive too late; the
only book possible from day to day is
tEesnewspaper.:'
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-13

The dense condition of ignorance re-
garding the life on the plains is mat
ter of wonderment to Mrs. Custer. She
says our people ''are we'll read in all
that pertains to the interior of Africa,
the wilds of Siberia and Alaska, and
while they know fairly well the stor-
les of the Pacific coast and the old
parts Of the United States, they know
nothing of the western plains. Yes, it
is fact. That peculiar region seems
to have been overlooked by authors. l
crowd my sketches with: facts. and,
though give the minutest details, find
there are always many omit that the
PEOPLE want to know
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-13
CURRENT TOPICS.

j. STERLING MORTON, in his earlier
days, was a reporter on a Detroit paper.
Our of the standing timber in Wash.
ington 41,S00,0O cottages could be
erected
THERE are in London 10000 paupers
and 10000 criminals known to the po-
lice as such.
"A HOUSE and lot in Salisbury, NO.,
was sold at public auction, the other
day, for $50.
r. A LOUISVILLE barber cuts hair with
a razor more artistically than his rivals
with shears
l.. MRS. NJ. A. HAULENBEcK, who has
been q commercial traveller for ten
years, earns $1,000 q year in commits.
sions upon the sales she makes
WHAT is known as plug hat is not q
fashionable article of headgear in Ger.
many, In one of the smaller towns it
is worn only by chimney sweeps
SENATOR Mills says that for ten
years the railroads of Texas have been
operated at an actual loss of g. 600. 600
year to the railroads themselves,
A MAN at Riverside, Fla.,> recently
succeeded in extracting'fr eighteen
pounds of orange peel oil in the proper.
ton OF fifty pounds to the ton Of peel.
The first of all American cabinets
was the youngest in average age. It
consisted of jefferson. 46; Hamilton.
80; Randolph, SO; Knox, 80, and Os.
GOOD, 4l-average age, nearly 80 years.
SPLINTER pulling bees, at which the
boys employed in the kindling wood
mills extract the splinters accumulated
during the day out Of each Others
hands, is the latest form of amusement
down east.
81 The entire report published by the
Baltimore American of the inaugural
ceremonies of James Madison consisted
of FIVE aud Q half lines. Many papers
devoted Ms many pages to the inauru.
ration ct Cleveland. : =. IS
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-13
and will be unlike any other flag that
may be shown at the worlds fair or at
any other future time or place.
A child Burglar.

EF
Tiny Reunic, aged 10 years, was ar
rested at midnight in the act of break
ing into safe in the Henry VAIL store
IN the suburbs of Rochester. Patrol-
man Aliens attention was attracted by
sounds of pounding in the store, and
breaking open the front door he was
greatly surprised to find, instead of a
burglar, a young girl standing in front
OF the safe. holding hammer, with
which she had been attempting to break
the combination.
A glance about the store revealed the
fact that the girl had been operating
on the cash drawer with a can opener.
The child cried and begged the officer
to let her 60, as she had never done
anything of the kind before. Patrol
man Allen took the child to the home
OF her parents and a warrant was
served. The district attorney asked
that the child be held for the grand
jury. Humane Agent Groot asked that
she be placed in the custody of the So
ciety for the prevention of cruelty to
children pending the disposition of the
case by the grand jury.
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LATER NEWS.

j. JEEECOATs, farmer living near
Pickens, Miss, was lynched the night
of the 10th by mob for killing his
wife,
WM. WILLIAMS, a painter in Chicago,
the night of the 10th cut the throat of
his wife causing instant death. He at
tempted to escape but was prevented.
Driven to bay he killed himself with the
same knife with which he murdered
his wife,
AN attempt was made the 10th at
Vienna, Austria, to assassinate Cardinal
Vasseary, the primate of Hungary.
The cardinal was walking with his Sec
rotary when we'll dressed young man
rushed upon the cardinal and made des-
perate attempts to stab him.
THE steamship Havel, which sailed
from New York for Europe the 10th,
took out IS, 500, 900 gold, shipped as fol-
lows: $s,ooo,00o by Heidelbach, Ickel-
heimer & Co., 100000 by Lazard,
Frerers and 100000 by Ladenburg,
Thelmann & Co.
Mrs. CATE. patient in the Lincoln
Park sanitarium, Chicago, jumped from
the fourth story to the ground, the 10th,
and was instantly killed,
The Eagle wooden mills in Hubbards.
town, Mass, were totally destroyed by
fire the 10th. Loss 100000.
AN attempt was made the 10th to
assassinate King Carlos of Portugal,
while he was driving along the streets
OF Lisbon. A young man fired a shot
at him which passed over his head.
fire again.
The Peruvian government has taken
the initiatory steps towards complying
with the demands of the United States
that reparation be made for the recent
outrage committed to one of its con.
Sulates.
In obedience to the order of the
Building Trades Council, issued after {
conference that lasted until late hom
the 10th, 1000 union mechanics EN-
ployed at the worlds fair grounds quit
work-or, rather, failed to go to work
at the hour of 8 a. m. The trades rep
resented are the carpenters, painters
ornamental iron workers, hod carriers
corniee workers, steam filters, gas fit
tiers, electrical workers, tile workers
mosaic workers, fathers, fresco paint
ers, hosting engineers, marble cutters.
gravel roofers and other smaller trades
The bricklayers, stone cutters and plas
Eterers are not involved. The troubl,
arose over an attempt to unionize al
the forces at work. At a late hour Of
agreement was reached and the mer
agreed TO return to work.
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LEolsL ALIVE NOTES.
ttsus Regarding the Doings = Lekialaaoss
Ct the Capitol.

ttsus Rssarding ths DoinEs q Ieeialaaoss
q the Capitol. sss
The coal combine investigating COM.
nittee held another meeting and ex-:
amined several witnesses. Two Wit.
aesses failed to appear and it's proba-
BILE they will be brought before the leg-
stature for contempt. . 5zs-si
w. G. Cromer Of st. Paul was called
he owned up to paying John ]. Rhodes
s25 for membership. His request to
join came through the telephone, but it
took several requests to bring him In.
He had kept out as long as he could,
until Rhodes had compelled him to
come in BY cutting off his supply Of
coal, Rhodes had threatened to cnt
him off several tin'es. Rhodes told him
when he joined that he would inform
him as to the prices, and he lived up to
those prices. He did not sign any
agreement or attend any meetings..
Rhodes had asked him to let him know
ot anyone cutting prices and he would
shut off his supply and it would be the
same with him if he cut. He had been
coerced into joining. .,, -...-. s.
j. F. Richie of St. Paul, another fuel
dealer, belonged to the bureau and had
met Rhodes several times. Rhodes had
made personal request to him to come
IN. but he. held out awhile, although
Rhodes gave him to understand that his
supply would be cut off. Rhodes price
regulated his business as that Of the
other fuel dealers. Mr.. Richie was the
last witness of the evening and routine
business was taken up.
- ..a i
The senate passed the house bill APP
propriating $4,000, 900 for the erection
OF new capitol by q vote of 81 to 10, or
six more than enough for passage. and
the bill will now go to the governor.
The minority made strong fight
against the bill and some very spicy
speeches were made.
The fight began with the opening of
the afternoon session, when Senator
Leavitt moved that the bill be referred
to the finance committee. He explained
that one of the senate rules provided
that every appropriation bill should be
referred to the finance committee and
that the constitution provides that no
bill shall be passed, except in accord
ance with the rules of the senate, His
point was that this bill could not be on
its third reading until it has been
passed upon by the finance committee.
The measure was fought by Donnelly,
HOmDe March and Others
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-13
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

AT L'Oirent. France, seventy deaths
occurred in the last fortnight from a
mild form of cholera The disease
was spreading.
AT Melbourne the Commercial bank
of Australia suspended payment with
deposits of over $50, OOJ, O00.
A TORNADO at Castleton, Ont, did
heavy damage to several business
blocks and residences. Great loss was
also reported in the surrounding coun-
try.
In Chill the revolutionists under
Gen. Tavarez fought and routed the
national forces at Artigas and in the
battle 900 on both sides were killed
Ex-CoNGREssMAN BLoUNr, sent by the
president to ascertain the feeling in
Hawaii concerning annexation to the
United States, has arrived in that coun-
try.
A STEAMER used by the sultan in con-
nectiop with the palace for his own
pleasure foundered at Constantinople
and sixty persons were drowned.
OFFICIAL reports show that with the
setting in of slightly warmer weather
the cholera has again appeared in
nearly all the places in Russia in which
it wrought havoc last summer and au-
tumn.
UNCLE SANS consulate at one of the
Peruvian ports was sacked by mob,
with apparent police sanction, and the
officer acting as consular agent for the
United States was fired upon and
wounded in the foot.
THE ruler of Khelat, India, Mir
Khudad Khan, suspecting five of his
numerous wives to be guilty of infidel-
ity caused them to be cruelty put to
death.
In Vasl>ut, Hungary, sixty houses
were burned and three persons died in
the flames.
The firm of Wimpfheimer & Co., cot
ton brokers at Liverpool, failed Tor
S350,00
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-13

THE only Chinaman in Connecticut
who has taken the trouble to register
under the Geary law is Robert Spicer.
who was brought to this country forty
years ago and doesn't know his Chi
nese name or observe any Of the GUS
toms of the race. Registration was
hardly necessary in his case, hut, hav-
ing become a good mellican man, he
did not propose to run any risk of ban
iShmant
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-13

II il about two years since seventeen
Egyptian mummics in the old muse UNI
of Berlin proved to be the bodies of
fellows who a short time ago took
their beer in the saloons of the capital
of the empire of William IL. 1t is now
believed that there is not museu m in
the world that has not been imposed
upon by frauds of this kind.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-13

Mrs. LovEJoY ALDRICH, of Seattle, is
a widow of q soldier of the revolution
by her first marriage and of veteran
of the war of 1912 by her second mar
riage. Some hero of the Mexican war
must spruce up now, marry the widow
and pass her along to a survivor of the
civil Xar
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Stanton,

TIE Ohio Legislature is fatherly old
body and proposes to look out for the
welfare of the trustful Ohio maiden if
|. doesn't accomplish anything else. 1t
has passed Il bill making it a penal Of
fense for a married man to pay atten-
tcrtsuns to an unmarried woman under
circ,, n:tances that lead her to believe
that h4 is SINGLE
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News In Brief.


The first paroles OF convicts under
the new law have been granted. They
were three in number and include
Belts, the editor of the Prison Mirror.
They were all conditional upon the re-
leased prisoners securing employment,
and monthly reports are to be made,
the same as in reformatory paroles.
Frank Boyer was arrested at Still
water on the charge of bastardy, the
complainant being Agnes Guise. He
agreed to marry the girl and the case
was dismissed.
w. h. Adams, a lawyer of Minneap-
oils, while on his way to Washington
to secure an appointment as a terri
torial judge, left the car at Prairie du
Chen, Wis, to get breakfast. Two
thieves took his satchel that he left in
the car seat, containing S., 900 in papers
that could not be replaced. Charles
Lindener, city marshal, found the
satchel containing the papers hidden in
a boat house. No arrests have been
made.
The board of prison managers. at its
regular monthly meeting, was met by a
committee of the Farmers Alliance.
composed of President Donnelly, Fl. P.
Bjorge, B. j. Hall and Robt. Eckford.
who presented proposition on the
part of the alliance to sell all of the
rrison-made binding Irvine during the
coming season. The proposition gave
rise to lengthy discussion, but no ac-
ton was taken. At present the prison
is turning out 5000 pounds of binding
Irvine per day.
Two men. whose names arc unknown.
were arrested at Duluth for the bur-
glary of j. NJ. Currie's store at Hinck-
ley. About $50 worth of the stolen
jewelry was found on their persons.
Otto Wessenburg and Hans Jensen,
both unmarried, were asphyxiated at
Morgan. The wind blew coal gas down
through the stove pipe.
An insane man unhitched a team
which was standing in the streets of
Aitkin and proceeded to take a free
ride. The team ran away with him,
breaking the wagon and harness all to
pieces and throwing the man out. The
wagon passed over him, fortunately
not injuring him. When arrested he
said he wanted some fun.
Fire destroyed Frank Bartholomew
opera house at Spring Grove, the Her
aid office and the Norwegian Lutheran
church, and about $1,000 worth of farm
machinery belonging to Mr.. Ellingson.
At the annual meeting of the Anoka
National bank the resignation of SEN
ator w. D. Washburn as president and
director was accepted, and Vice Presi-
dent c. s. Guderian was elected to sue
coed him.
The suit of Rev. Engelbrecht against
Mart Lynch, at Luverne./ for criminal
libel. resulted in a verdict for Lynch.
The body of Ole NJ. Azure was found
In the woods near Bloomington by two
boys who were out hunting. The man
had evidently suicided, as there was
bit Of rope around his neck and another
small piece dangling from limb of
tree was noticed above the body.
The milling firm of Croker, Fisk &
Co., Minneapolis, have failed. Liabili-
ties about $500, 900.
Burglars broke into the Central house
ct Park Rapids and stole over 500 .
gold watch. etc.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-13

ACCORDING to Il veteran continental
angler who has recently given the
world the results of his observations,
fishes bite most freely during the four
or five days after the moons first quar-
ter, while from the third day after the
last quarter to the second day before
the new moon the sport is at its worst.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-13

Tg1s year Louis Kossuth will be 81;
Neal Dow, 50; Ferdinand de Lesseps
and David Dudley Field, 80; Gladstone
and Oliver Wendell Holmes. 81; Pope
Leo and Senator Morrill,, s.; Harriet
Eeecher Stowe, 81; Allen G. Thurman,
80; Verdi, 70; Bismarck, Gen. Early,
c. W. Couldock and Elizabeth Cady
Stanton *
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"A Rich Find.

Mrs. c. E. Tunnel, who lives near
Sioux Falls junction, was looking over
an old tin box a few days ago when she
ran across three express orders sent to
her mother through the Adams Express
company in 1868. The orders aggre-
gated in face value 81 1000 and had neve"
been cashed. The box and contents
were given to Mrs. Tunnell bN Ter
mother when the latter died near Al
bert Lea, Mimi, seven years ago. Inc
Tunnel family is in close circumstances
and the windfall to them is almost
fortune.
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DEDIcArORY ceremonies Of the great
Mormon temple at Salt Lake City,
which was commenced sorty years ago
and which has cost more than Is. 600, !.
OOO. were begun, and the ceremonies
will extend over period Of fifteen
days.
The doors Of the Northwestern state
bank OF Sibley, Ia, were closed with
liabilities of $3.50, 600 and assets Of
S76. OOO 5ss.l
REPORTS of United States Marshal Paul
Prick show that his deputies, assisted
by the United States troops, captured
seventy-6ve Of the Mexican bandits on
the lower Rio Grande border during
the last four months.
THREE small children of ]. Nance at
Cumming. Ga. were burned to death
while their parents were at neigh
boris visiting. ~
FLAMES caused by q careless tin
smith destroyed the famous College
Hill sanitarium. situated 8 miles north
of the corporate limits Of Cincinnati,
the loss being sl50,OO0.
A WIND and hailstorm swept over the
southern portion of Chicago, causing
great damage. Trees were blown down,
bill boards were leveled and hundreds
of window lights shattered.
A MOB at San Bernardino, CAL,
lynched Jesus Ruen, Spaniard who
butchered his mistress, Francisco
Flores, and an aged German named
Goldkoffer, who tried to defend her.
FIRE destroyed the four large ware
houses of the Glenmore Distilling COM
pany at Greensboro, KY, containing
1887 barrels of whisky. Loss, $3.50,
600.
AT Romeo, ILL.,, nine men were in.
stantly killed and six others seriously
injured on the line of the drainage
canal by the falling of massive iron
crane.
THE village of Clifton, just below
Pomeroy, O., on the West Virginia side
of the river, was almost completely
wiped out by fire.
SHOCKS of earthquake frightened the
residents of Lincolnton and Edgefeld,
in Georgia.
THREE of the fragile hotel buildings
adjacent to the worlds fair in Chicago
collapsed under high winds.
The barn of Ralph Chambers at Y ork.
vile, Wis, was struck by lightning and
nineteen cows and five horses were
killed.
AT Bangor, Mich, Andrew Campbell
farmer, shot and killed his forme,
wife, from whom he was recently di
! vorced, and then took his own life.
The new directory Of st. Louis, just
out, shows that city to have a popula
ton of 574, 569.
FIRE destroyed the Yellow Poplar
Lumber company's plant at Ironton,
O., and thirty dwellings, the total loss
being s470,0OO. Mrs. Brush, an invalid,
persisted in one of the burned houses
TIMBER and buildings covering an
area of IL miles long and fully as wide
near the Black Hills in South Dakota
were destroyed by prairie fire.
| IN Nebraska the counties of Banner
Keith, Dawson and Blaine were com
pletely devastated by prairie fires, many
farmers losing their homes.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-13

OLIVER WENDELL HoLMEs, who de.
vised the hooded stereoscope, with a
handle to it and a partition between
the lenses, since patented and sold by
the thousand, when told that he might
make some money ont of it, replied
that he 'didn't care to be known as the
patentee Of IL pill or of 4 peeping con-
f,.ivaunn -
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-13

AMONG the historical Washington pa
pers is contract entered into between
the Father of His Country and the fore
man of his farm. There is q clause in
it which provides that the foreman
may get drunk 4 certain number of
times each year without suffering the
displeasure of his employer
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-13

WITH a mountain in Central America
shaken down by an earthquake, a
Mexican volcano coming to life after
having been extinct for more than q
century and political shake-ups every
enthusiastically, life down in the
tropics does not seem to be one of
ennui and dull monOtonv.
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THE MINNESOTA STATE FLAG.

terrible conflict, her dress being badly
torn, but she evidently got in some
good work on her assailant by scratch
ing him badly. Some of the mans
flesh remained under her finger nails,
and her hands and person were covered
with blood.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-13

A NEWSPAPER has just been started
in London which is printed on pos
tal-card. The first number has four
illustrations, comic. tragedy, few
jokes and puzzles and some advertise