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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20

THE conscientious reporter Of the Asso-
ciated Press at st. Louis did quite well
when he told of an elevator being blown
across the Mississippi river at that
point and landed on the site of q lumber
yard which was in turn transferred to
the spot where the elevator had been.
Avery creditable cyclone story indeed,
but not equal to one which has floated
up from Georgia, and runs thus: .An
old coloretl woman in that state owns .
large wash pot, which was turned in
side out by cyclone. She says the
pots % good as ever, only the legs and
handles are on the inside now, and pes
ter her heu she stirs the clothes
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20

In the long run there is no such tonic
as the open air of spring. Any apparent
feeling of languor is not sign of de-
bility, it is the first symptom of recov-
cry from debility. In most sicknesses
when a man begins to feel lazy, he is
on the verge of recovery. The lex
IRENE tired feeling" that comes with
spring is not ill-health. 1t is GONZALES
cence from winter.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20
The Capitol Commissioners.

Gov. Nelson selected the members of
the new capitol commission and the
nominations were confirmed by the SEN
ate. The commissioners are as follows:
First district, II. w. Lamberton, of Wi
mona county; Second district, James
McHench, of Martin county; Third dis
trict, George A. Du Toit, of Carver
county; Fourth district, Canning Sea-
bury, of Ramsey county; Fifth district,
John De Laittre, of Hennepin county;
Sixth district, c. II. Graves, of St.
Louis county; Seventh district, T. H.
Barrett, of Grant county. OF the COM
mission Lamberton and Du Toit are
Democrats; Barrett Populist, and Nc
Hench, Seabury, Graves and DeLaittre,
Republicans.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20
LATER NEWS,

The American line steamer New
York, from Southampton, with the lin
cal descendant of Christopher Column
bus, the Duke de Veragua, on board,
arrived at quarantine, New York, the
morning of the 18th. He will take part
in the worlds fair opening exercises.
Four inches of snow fell in New
York the 18th.
HENRY SrE1NKE, farmer living at
Vineland, Wis, is charged with the
murder of his wife, who died recently
under suspicious circumstances.
The president, the 18th nominated
John S. Miller, of West Virginia, to be
commissioner of internal revenue and
John w. Riddle, of Minnesota, to he
secretary of legation of the United
States in Turkey.
AN order was received at the SUBJ
treasury at New York, the 18th, for the
suspension of the issue of gold certifi-
Gates in accordance with the provisions
by the act of congress of July 10, 1882,
which says that when the gold, coin or
bullion, held by the treasury for the re-
demption of United States notes falls
below 800, 600, 900 the issue of certifl-
Gates shall cease.
The largest grain feet that ever left
Chicago cleared from that port the 10th.
The feet had on board about II. 600, 900
bushels.
THE greatest crowd yet seen at the
worlds fair ground, save dedication
day, was that of the 10th. Nearly 35,-
600 persons bought admission tickets,
and besides these there were $4,000
workmen and small army of dead
heads. Work is being pushed night
and day to get the fair into presentable
shape for the opening ceremonies on
May l, and Sunday is no longer day
of rest. > ...tsne
AT Beaver Brooke, N. J., Mrs. John
Budner gave birth to four children.
Two of the babes are boys and two
girls. Mrs. Budner is the wife of a
young farmer and is but 16 years of
age. Both mother and children are
doing well.
Two foreign men-of-war arrived off
Fortress Monroe the 10th, the italian
Giovanni Bausan and the French Jean
Bart. There are now seventeen men,
of-war in the harbor.
The colored walters employed by the
Pullman Palace Car Co., are threaten.
ing to strike. -.
FIRE started in the Stadt theater.
Milwaukee. the 10th, and damaged the
building and contents to the extent OF
$50, 900. This is the fifth Ere in this
theater within three weeks.
TIE United States senate adjourned
fhA 10th. -
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20

GEORGE SHEFFIELD, a New York in
ventor, says he is going to run ocean
greyhounds from New York to Queens
town In three and half days, the mo-
tive power to be a series of explosions
produced by the contact of sugar, chlor-
ate of potash and sulphuric acid. Why
not mix fire and gunpowder and go
across in half the time?
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

THE explosion of gas IN coal pit near
Pontypridd, in Wales, entombed 500
miners and property to the value of
thousands of pounds was destroyed.
Seventy of the imprisoned men made
their escape and the rest probably per-
ished.
In the Sala Caladia company's mills
in Matara, Spain, an explosion killed q
number of persons. The dead bodies
of nine men and the manager had been
recovered.
In London the English, Scottish and
Australian chartered bank failed with
amounting to s4o,ooO,ooo.
Ex-PREs1DENr GONZALES, of Mexico,
is not dead as reported, but his death
was hourly expected.
The stars and stripes have been lowered
from the government building at Homo
lulu. Commissioner Blount has officially
declared the protectorate of the United
States at an end and public affairs were
in sole control of the provisional gov
eminent 1t was feared that an at
tempt would be made to reinstate the
queen, but the provisional government
would never give up until compelled to
do SO by force of arms.
The firm of Samuel Williams & Co.,
cotton brokers at Liverpool, failed for
$3.50. 900.
ADv1cEs received at Zanzibar from
the son of Tippo lib confirm the report
that Emin Pasha had been killed in
battle.
AT Belgrade bloodless coup d'etat
was effected and King Alexander L., the
youthful ruler of Servia, who had here
tofore governed the country through
regents, now rules in his own name.
FLAMES at Vesseprim, town in Hun
gary having a population of about H.
600, destroyed al houses and did dam
age to the extent of 500, 600 forms. One
thousand persons were homeless.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20

On a wager as to who could eat the
more raw oysters two club men in
Baltimore the other day ate eleven
dozen each and were still in good
working order when the "shucker'' be-
came tired out and quit furnishing the
oysters. They called it draw, but
they should have called it gluttony.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20

In. Mississippi the town Of Robinsonvi1le
was swept away and several persons
were killed and many injured. At
Coudray, Mo-, only three houses were
left standing, nine persons were killed
and fifty others were injured, some ia
tally. In other portions Of Missouri
trees, fences, houses and barns were
demolished and many persons killed
and injured. In Illinois many buildings
were unroofed and trees leveled at
Rockford, Quincy, Galena, Alton, Van
dalia, Olney and at other points. Kan
sas and Iowa also suffered from the tor
nado.
MATTHEW BITsoN, during . quarrel
on farm at Bradford, Wis, shot and
killed his wife and Mrs. Arthur Hearn,
a neighbor who was acting as peace
maker, and then burned the house in
which the two women lay and made his
escape Sssz
The cyclone at Ypsilanti, Mich, de-.
stroyed all of the principal business
blocks, stores, the opera house, post Of
fee, hotels and $50 dwelling houses.
No person was fatally injured.
the town of Robinsonville, Tenn,
seventeen persons were killed and over
100 Others were injured, some fatally.
CHARLES REED, prominent horse
man near Gallatin, Tenn, lost his barn
by lightning and twenty-five brood
mares in foal by the celebrated horse
st. Blaize were instantly killed. Loss,
100000.
In Missouri the recent cyclone killed
Lexington, two at Stanbury, two at
Steeleville and five at Page. A large
number of persons in the places named
were injured, some fatally.
SALINE, Mich, with population of
$500, was entirely wiped out by
cyclone:
OVER fifty derricks were blown down
in the Ohio oil fields by heavy winds,
causing great damage.
THERE had been expended up to April
toward building the worlds fair s16,-
70S, S26.4S, and the total receipts were
81, 496, 432
In Warren county, N. c., forest FIRE
swept over miles of country, Destroy
ing over 200 farm buildings and much
other property.
In the yards of the West Michigan
Lumber company at Diamond Lake a
fire caused a loss of 100000.
The death of Nathaniel Straughn,
aged nearly 1Ol years, occurred at his
home near Mitchell, Ind.
AT Rockville, Md, William Boud
(colored) was hanged for the murder of
Margaret Cephas (colored) November
%, 1891.
JOHN E. MCBRIDE, of Ohio, was
elected president and Patrick Mcbride
secretary-treasurer of the United Mine
Workers of America at their meeting in
Columbus, o.
AT Thibodeaux, La, and vicinity a
cyclone wrecked several buildings,
killed fifteen persons and injured many
others.
TRAMPs while resisting arrest killed
two policemen, named Firth and Henry
Talcott, officers in the employ of tho
Milwaukee Railroad company at Du-
buque, la.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20

COLORADO has law Ito compel indo-
lent and vicious husbands to provide
for their families OF course there
will be no more neglected families now
that this law has been enacted. Now
can there bd5
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20
The News Of the Week.
by TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.

u. s. SENATE IN EXTRA SESSION. .
MONDAY, April 10. The recent de-
cisions Of Judges Taft and Kicks in
Ohio and Specr in Georgia in relation to
the rights andduties of railroad en-
ployes were discussed in the senate. A
resolution was adopted authorizing the
interstate commerce committee to in
quire whether railway conditions re-
quire repeal or modification of the
anti-pooling sections. and also whether
any notifications should be made con-
corning the relations between common
carriers and their employees. -5as -
TUESDAY, April lin the senate
the resolution for the admission of
the three senators appointed by the
governors of Montana, Washington and
Wyoming was discussed, but no action
was taken. The nomination of Daniel
N. Morgan, of Connecticut, to be treas
urer of the United States, and that of
Daniel NJ. Browning, of Illinois, to be
commissioner Of Indian affairs, We're
received from the president.
WEDNESDAY, April a. The NOM
ination of James H. Eckels, of Ottawa,
ILL.,, to be comptroller of the currency.
was confirmed in the senate after consid-
cradle discussion. A resolution was re-
ferred to the committee on contingent
expenses for the investigation of the
claim of Joseph w. Ady to seat as
senator from the state of Kansas.
THuRsDA1, April 1s.-1n the senate
. memorial signed by seventy-seven
members Of the Kansas legislature
against the right of John Martin to hold
his seat as senator from that state, and
asserting that Mr.. Ady was legally and
fairly elected, was presented by Mr..
Sherman and was referred to the COM
mittee ON privileges and elections. The
nomination of Alexander w. Tyrell, of
Texas, to be minister of the United
States to Turkey, was received from the
president.
FRIDAY, April 1.-THE senate was
occupied during the greater part of
its session with the resolution for
the investigation of the charges against
Senator Roach, of North Dakota. The
nomination of L. Q. c. Lamar to be
recorder of the general land Office was
received from the president.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20

NOTWITHSTANDING all that may be
said against horse racing it is to be used
as a civilizer. A st. Louis man intends
to establish race tracks all over Mexico
for the purpose of doing away with
bull fighting. Horse racing in Mexico
and big syndicates in Honduras! South
ward the course of empire takes its
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20

IL some parts of the west democrats
who become populists are called dem
opops'' and ''popocrats," while repub-
licans who desert to the populists go by
the name of "poplicans." When they
wait a new word in the west they don't
hesitate at anything.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20

DIR. Opel, the great German geog:a-
pher, says that one million seven hug
dred thousand square miles of the earth
are still uninhabited or ownerless. This
leaves quite big field for real estate
speculation still open.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20

HEREAFTER the morning papers of
Turkey will appear in the afternoon so
that the censors may have time to edit
them properly. The sultan was dis
pleased at the reports of the accident to
his yacht; hence the new order of
fhinpS
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20

MISS ROMANS, the head of the Normal
School Of Gymnastics in Boston, gives
in a recent interview these statistics
concerning the influence of athletics
upon dress: 1.-Two years ago." she
says, tout of a class of thirty-seven,
there were but two of the young wom-
en- at the end of the school year who
continued to wear corsets, and no one
continued to wear French heels. Last
year, out of a class of seventy-one,
seven-eighths gave up wearing corsets -
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20
Indian Murder.

Indians who, with their wives. had
camped on the Red lake road, near
Fosston, had an alteration, during
which one ripped the other open with a
butcher knife, from the effects of which
he died shortly afterwards. There was
another Indian in the tepee at the time
of the time of the killing, a brother of
the one who it is supposed did the stab
bling, but he claims to have been
asleep at the time it was done and not
to have done it. The wife of the MUIR
dered one says that she was outside the
tepee at the time it was done.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20

A CENSUS of the great trees of Cali
fornia, the giant redwoods," reveals
the fact that there are 2,875 of them
left, the average diameter Of the lot be-
ing thirty-three feet.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20

CHARLES TYLER, New York city let
ter carrier, has been forty-eight years
in the service, and in that time, it is
estimated, walked three hundred thou
sand four hundred and eighty miles.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20

A New York state editor the other
day wrote a headline: 'Alleged Trea-
son in China, and was horrif ed to see
it run through the paper. "Alfred Ten
nvson in China
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20
A Cordial Welcome.

Visiting Mother-in.law-How glad
am to see you, my dear daughter!
Daughter-in-law-Ia am 90 glad to see
you. It 10 90 kind in you to travel that
long distance just to sec me. Take of
your things You must not think of
leaving us before the first train in the
morning. Texas Siftin9A
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20

Miss CLEMENCE EvERARr, aged 20
years, has passed with the highest dis
tinction in Brussels the examination for
the degree of doctor of medicine. She
is Belgium's first woman doctor.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20
WEST AND SOUTH.

In Chicago the American railway un
ion was permanently organized. It
will comprise all classes of railway en-
ployes working on trains, tracks, in
shops, Offices, anywhere.
FIRE nearly wiped out the town of
st. Mary's, o. Loss, 100000.
ONE-HALF the residence and the en-
tire business portion of Parker, No.,
was destroyed by cyclone and several
persons were killed and large number
were injured.
In San Francisco J. w. Flood, for
twenty-seven years cashier of the Dono-
hoe-Kelly Banking company, was ar
rested on charge of embezzling
$164.O0O.
The famous Chicago board of trade
plunger, Ed Partridge, lost $3.50, 900 by
a rise in wheat.
A MOB lynched James Jefcote near
Pickens, Miss, for numbering his wife.
AT Ramona, Kan, Samuel Yarrum
celebrated his 1Osth birthday.
AT Bowling Green, KY, George Brad
ley, negro, killed his boy while in
rage, and then, Mortified at the deed, he
and his wife took poison.
The Bohanan livery barn at Lincoln,
Neb., was destroyed by fire and thirty
two horses and thirty-eight head of
Holstein cattle WEI. burned to death.
A CYCLONE nearly destroyed the city
OF Akron, a., and many persons were
injured, some fatally. The storm fol-
lowed the Sioux valley south to West
field and its path was marked by de-
molished houses and barns. A man and
his wife were killed at one farm house.
Several others were badly injured and
many horses and cattle were killed.
IN the southern portion of Kansas
three towns, Willis, Everest and Pow
hatten, were laid in ruins by cyclone.
FIFTEEN thousand men are at work
on the worlds fair grounds in Chicago.
The governor of Indiana has par
doned Mcdonald Cheek, serving a life
sentence for murder in the state prison
south. He had served twenty-one
years.
GOVERNORS of the southern states met
at Richmond, Va, the object being to
encourage immigration into that Sec
ton of the union. .....
FLAMES swept away the entire busi-
ness portion of Mulvane, Kan, a town
of 600 inhabitants.
OFFICIALS of the Ann Arbor Mich
road have begun suit against Chiefs
Arthur and Sargent, of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers, to re-
cover damages to the amount of $780,
600. The suit grows out Of the recent
strike. r
GEORGE oENsoN's cottage in Chicago
was burned and his three little chill
dren persisted in the flames.
OVER portions of nine states cyclones
and windstorms did great damage In
Indiana buildings were wrecked at JET
fersonville, Kokomo, Greencastle and
Rockport, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank being
killed in the latter place. At Ypsilanti,
Mich, nearly al the business buildings
J eQd 4 eysrsl Fesidencesw were demolished
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20
A Narrow E0cape.

During recent storm the house of
Frank Williams, near Crookst on, was
struck by lightning and the inmates
had very narrow escape. The light
ming came down the chimney, splitting
It in two parts, then divided and ran
down the stovepipe onto the kitchen
stove, around which the family sat.
Shattering this into pieces, it went out
through a bedroom without injuring
any of the family although all felt
stunned by it.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20
MINI ESOTlA NEWS.
ROBBED the Poaf once.

ss AbVOOO0 the xO0e O0ACQ.
The postomce at Alexandria was emit
cred by two masked men and the cash
from the money order and stamp de-
partments, to the amount of about 500,
was taken. The registered packages,
about six or seven of them, and the
money received from box rent, to the
amount of nearly 500, were overlooked.
The burglars discussed the question of
taking the stamps, but thought they
would be hammered with them. There
were nearly 500 worth. Entrance was
gained through the back door. The
deputy postmaster, Robert Brough,
sleeps in the postoffice, and was awak-
ened by the rustic of rubber coats and
punch with q revolver with COM
mand to wake up, pard, and open this
SAFE" He found two men standing
over him with revolvers and others
watching outside. He tried to gain
time by missing the combination three
times, hoping the bus would come, but
they gave him one minute to open or
be slugged with a jimmy. After secur-
ing the swag they marched Brough out
OF doors to give them q chance to es-
cape. The sheriff was notified at once
and began the search.
John Lampman, an expert hunter,
took their trail, and after following
them through the woods and across
fields, he finally located them in a
small lodging house in the outskirts of
Sank Center. Securing assistance, he
arrested them, finding $164 in cash and
six revolvers, one of which has been
identified as the ono taken from the
postofice.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20
The CAROLINA PARROT.

A Species That Has Become Nearly Ex-
tinct.
The parrot family is a large one.
More than four hundred species are rec
ognized-cockatoos,m acaws, loris, par
rakeets, as we'll as the parrots proper,
being included Of this whole number,
only one species is found in the United
States-the Carolina parrakeet, or as it
is often called, the Carolina parrot.
At one time and another the Carolina
parrot has been seen in more than
twenty states of the Union, New York
and Colorado being the northern and
western limits of its distribution, SO far
as these have been made out Its re-
markable hardness, as compared with
parrots in general is sufficiently evil
denced by the appearance of flock in
mid-winter at Albany, N. Y.
The birds were formerly abundant
Audubon speaks of them as covering
stacks of grain till the stacks looked as
If a brilliantly colored carpet had been
thrown over them. Unhappily, the
bird was destructive to grains and
fruits, and was itself destroyed without
mercy by farmers Audubon had seen
several hundreds shot in few hours
Nearly sixty years ago the Carolina
parrot was rapidly becoming less nu-
merous, and now it is without question
fast approaching extinction. Accord
ing to Mr.. E. M. Hasbrouck, who has
recently treated the ubject in the AUX,
it appears to be restricted to some of
the least accessible parts of Florida,
and perhaps to q part of Indian Terri
tory.
Now that it is almost impossible to
study its habits, it is found that there
are many serious gaps in our knowledge
of it.
Wilson and Audubon described the
birds as building nests in hollow trees
Later information, derived from men
who are not ornithologists represents
them as building in the branches of
cypress trees-sometimes as many a.
forty or Fifty nests being found in one
small tree. As Mr.. Hasbrouck remarks,
it seems hard to reconcile the two state
ments, but perhaps the parrakeet, like
some owls, nests either in hollows or
on branches, as circumstances favor.
However destructive the parrakeet
may once have been, it is certainly de-
plorable that so handsome and interest
ing bird, our only representative of so
interesting q family, should be perse-
cuted to utter extermination.-Y
Companion.