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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22

3. The New York Times says: edwin
Booth had fulfilled his mission in life
iso xSaiu snefs S ~ be t yaan obituary
influence will be detrimental to the
American dramatic stage. Yet as a
matter of fact, he achieved remarkable
--ssii work "a Almost alone, for he had no for
midable competitors in the last half of
his career, he kept tragedy and the old
traditions Of poetic drama living on the
Mg American stage long after they had
given place to something different in
England. He was not the first of new
race Of actors, but the last Of dying
race. Hewasthe last of the tragedians. y
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LATER NEWS.

THE Duluth & Winnipeg train which
reached Duluth the 10Th brought NUM-
Der Of people from Virginia who had
succeeded in getting down the Mesaba
line to the junction with that road. All
say that almost the entire town is gone,
and several of them believe that from
~ to Is people were burned to death,
Three of the refugees were certain that
Fred Viger and his family of children
persisted in the flames. A woman and
her infant child, names unknown, are
also supposed to have persisted in a
burning building, to which the woman
returned to save her child, after remoy-
ing her trunk.
MRS. IRA CLARK. Of South Superior,
while alighting from buggy in West
Superior the morning of the 18th,
tripped and was dragged block, re-
ceiving injuries which have proven
fatal. An s-year-old daughter Of 1. c.
Lock, who was inxsthe vehicle, was
thrown violently to the ground and ia
tally injured.
JOHN THORNIN, a laborer overcome
by the heat, fell from the roof of the
manufacturers building at the worlds
fair, the 10Th, to the floor, distance of
120 feet. His head was crushed, both
legs broken and one arm crushed. q. :.
. The worlds fair hereafter will be
kept open until II p. IA. pr
The shipments. of currency the 18th
by the New York banks to the interior
amounted toS1, soc, 900. 81 !, @s#s
AN explosion of fire damp occurred
the 10th in the coal mines of Hartley &
Marshall, near Pittsburg, Pa. Three
miners are missing. yE ;.
AT Chicago, the 10th, Mrs. Ellen
Seeney. of burlington, Wis, was struck
by cable cars and fatally injured.
Z The announcement was made the
10Th that Associate Justice Samuel
Bfatchford, of the United States SUI
preme court, has been stricken with
paralysis at his summer home at New
port, r. i.
An attempt was made the 10th by
Mike Leitch to kill Robert s. Browne,
president of the NationaL bank at Mos
cow, Idaho. Browne was only slightly
wounded. q:
AT Denver, Colo, Rev. T. C. Spark
man was arrested the 10th. charged
with larceny as bailee. *
a TYPICAL Cherry Hill tough, John
H. Haggerty, jumped from the Brook
slyn bridge to the river the 10th on
wager Of . pint Of beer. He was not
injured in the slightest way. He was
drunk when he accomplished the feat
and was in the same condition when
landed in the police station few min.
utes after his great leap. ss5
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LlPPlMco
august.
Flower

lone of my neighbors, Mr.. John
Gilbert, has been sick for a long
time. All thought him pastrecovery-
He was horribly emaciated from the
inaction of his liver and kidneys.
1t IS difficult to describe his appear
ance and the miserable state of his
health at that time. Help from any
source seemed impossible. He tried
your August Flower and the effect
upon him was magical. 1trestored
him to perfect health to the great
establishment of his family and
friends" John Quibel1, Holt, Ont. Q
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The statistics Of last years suicid

The statistics Of last years suicides
ZIP atis show that fifty boys and TWEEN
txRns girls under the age Of Is regard
ed the game OF life as not worth the
4, candle and killed themselves. The
1871 greatest predisposition to self-murder,
or to enthanasia, according to the point
view, among the male suicides of the
French capital was between the ages Of
ssnd 62. sat which time of life zoos
< hd6A tooks their lives. Most Of the
women who committed suicide did so
sitter they had passed 60. fact that
seems strange, for among English
speaking people the largest percentage
II women Stiieides is among the young.
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Many Hurt In q Panic.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, June 19.-At
Coopersville, Ottawa county, Saturday
night high school commencement ex-
ercises were held in the opera house
and nearly everybody in town
was there After one of the tableaux
the curtain was discovered on fire
and panic followed. Mrs. Mead
had three ribs broken and sustained Sc
rious internal injuries by being
trampled upon. Miss Tisch, of this city,
jumping from window to the ground
30 feet below, was seriously hurt Many
others were injured, but not seriously,
and many of the ladies had their cloth
inc badly torn ~z+-s <5s... T.
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No A1idsummer session.

WASHINGTON, June ia renewal OF
the baseless rumor that the president
intends to call 2 midsummer session al
congress meets fiat contradiction in
every well-informed quarter here.
Further to clinch matters, it can be
stated on authority that the president
has completed his arrangements to be
absent from the city for some time in
July until the latter part Of August.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22

IT is stated that the colored people Of
the, United States support seven col
leges, seventeen academies and fifty
high schools, in which there are 10000
, 3, pupils. They have 1900, 900 children in
the common schools and "a, 900 teach
ers. More than 100000 of the race
can read and write.
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After Land.

There was considerable excitement
at Duluth when town 81, range Is, was
thrown upon the market. About 30
persons slept in the Offices and halls ad-
jacent to the land Office to be on hand
to get as near first chance as possible.
Dundas Harlow, an old settler, secured
the first place. Thlrty-nine applica-
tons were received, most of them from
bona fide settlers. OF these, % were
filed under the timber and stone act; IA
declaratory statements were made and
two hOmeSteads filed.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

~'e~s~'S w ~H~sN@sSS@
In southern and central France chol-
era was said to be spreading and many
deaths were occurring daily.
AT Megelhoff, Bavaria. Minnie
Marschali, 16-year-old girl, killed her
mother, her sister and an aged uncle
who objected to her vicious mode of
life and then cut her own throat
In Brodetz, Bohemia, Kuffler's cotton
mill was burned, the loss being 1885,
600 francs.
In Japan Mount Higashiazum was in
state of eruption and 100 lives were
said to have been lost.
PILGRIMS were crossing the Rhine at
Bensburg, Germany, when the boat up
set and four women and q man were
drowned.
NINE persons were burned to death
in fire at Nergersdorf, Saxony, and at
Maihren whole family, consisting of
five adults, were burned, together with
their homestead.
In Paris the court of cessation holds
that the cases of the Panama canal con-
victs are outlawed and has ordered the
release from prison of NJ. De Lesseps
and his son and the others convicted of
squandering canal funds.
The probable fate of the Russian
monks arrested for robbing the Chudor
monastery is Siberia for life.
A POWDER magazine few miles from
Athens, Greece, exploded, and twenty
persons, including officers and soldiers,
were killed, and property valued at
100000 francs was destroyed
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H1REgis something : disconcerting
htlthe way new discoveries are be-

meddling Investigator has discovered
the secret of literary style, SO that by
a Mi adiastment Of q simple appliance to
M sa printing press raw facts may be fed
y 1t onAend and literature cut of at
the other in lengths and 81 qualities to
suit. It remains for mankind to hope
that wshep it ceases to be possible for
the Multitude to make living on earth,
the secret of living without food may
~ Come out, or the perfection of flying
mashnes, or something, may provide
e $50 neAns Of emigration to other spheres.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22
Burned To Death.

Elem, ILL.,, June 10. - Miss Jessie
Hamilton, insane, aged 10 years, was
burned to death at the home of her
adopted parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. Ham.
ilton. near Lilly Lake, Kane county,
Saturday afternoon. She set fire to the
house, whether by accident or purpose,
". II not known.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22
HlllNES0T NEWS
Orushsd g D,eth.

Albert Wilkinson, . switchman, was
killed In the yards Of the Northern Pa
chic In Minneapolis. Az far @ could
be learned Wilkinson stepped between
two oars, when another car war kicked
against the train and he was caught be
tween the bumpers and crushed shout
the abdomen. The body was then
thrown to the ground and run over, the
wheels passing over his left leg from
the hip to the knee, and also over the
right leg below the knee. He was hor-
ribly mangled, but lived long enough
e be taken by the patrol wagon to St.
barnaba's hospital, where he expired Z
few minutes after his arrival.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22

SECRETARY BoLLEs, of Hartford, cites
thee of one young man who entered
college with only fortyfour cents in his
possession, paid expenses and a debt OF
$1155 and came out 1906 ahead upon his
graduation. II. the college were a pri-
tvate business that hustler would own it
1ofOra this
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22
Got into Trouble.

H. 6. Bushawe is in the Hennep:n
county Jail as an outcome of violation
OF the law in reference to the issue IF
imitation money for advertising par
poses. Bushawe did not make the
money, but he had in his possession the
imitation of $40 bill while going the
rounds of the city. There was an at
tempt made to pass the imitation as cur
rent issue of the United States, which
failed, and after an examination before
the United States commissioner, he was
lodged in the county Jail to await the
setting of the United States grand jury.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22

In the Mediterranean Naturalist it is
noted that upward Of 60 per cent. of
the earthquakes that have been record
ed have occurred during the six colder
mopths, of the year-the maximum
: number in January and the minimum
number in july.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22

Gov. MCGRAw. of the state of Wash
ington, event vest. eight or ten years
ago, arriving in San Francisco with
forty-two dollars Ia his pocket. He sent
forty dollars hoihes to his wife, and be-
gan his western life as horse-car
driver. He made his way to Seattle,
where he became sheriff, hotelkeeper
and lawyer, and finally one of the most
prosperous and popular men in the new
state. He is about forty years old
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22

~ THE number of Inhabitants of New
York st=tee, according to the New York
Sun. is greater than the aggregate pop
.ulation Of Connecticut, West Virginia,
Nebraska, New, Hampshire, Vermont,
Rhode Island, Delaware, Florida, Ore
gon, Utah, North Dakota, South Da-
kota Mon lana, Washington, Wyoming,
New Mexico, Arizona and Idaho.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22
A Lucky Man.

John O'Brien, said to he q native of
North Dakota, wandered onto the
tracks of the St. Louis road, in the vi
cinity of the First street bridge, near
Fourth avenue south, Minneapolis. He
did not heed the approach of Mime
apolis transfer train, which struck him
and sent him down between the rails.
The fates were with O'Brien, who, al
though ID cars passed over him, re-
celved no other injuries than severe
scalp wound
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22

A GERMAN authority asserts that
writer's cramp may be avoided by hold
ing the pen or pencil SO that the move
ments take place at the brachio-carpal
articulation, but the new reporter says
he thinks he'd rather run his chances as
70 the cramp. ~ .tu,,| j.,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22

A PREVENTIVE of colds. is said to have
been discovered in the new paper stock
ings now made in Germany. The ma
.+terial they ARE formed Of is specially
prepared paper. impregnated with some
substance which apparently sucks up
all perspiration as quickly as it is
formed. keeping the feet warm and dry.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22

T. - The bureau of statistics in Washing
a ton says that from the close of the rev.
u dictionary war until 1920, only one
4 quartet If a million strangerscame into
there came aitosether from 1857 TO m '13c
grantsi of whom about 3,4oo 900 came
to settle, while the others were mere
visitors Or sojourners - During the SO
- ,years, 1s56-1s92. the number of imm,-
'fs s'grunts basirisen to the enormous total
of 1s,s71,959; so that altogether.
= during the century, about 16,ooo,-
600 aliens have arrived in the
ssazs.ss4l States to help build up the
country,
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Arrested for Embezzlement.

OrruhwA, Ia, June 19.-Harry Card
ner, travelling salesman for E. j. Nc
4aughlin, 9 wholesale grocer, left for
the west about two weeks ago, and it
was learned shortly after that he was
an embezzler to the amount of $1,000.
He was arrested Friday in Washington
state - F..sS= - :s7s-. g2.5a -. 80
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22
Confederate Bills,

John Jackson, Peter johnson and
John Dodson were arrested in North
Minneapolis trying to pass confederate
bills for good money. The trio went
into . saloon and bought cigars and
drinks, rendering the bogus money in
payment. The negotiations proved dis
astrous, for Sergeant Foster and OFF,
GERS Brudigen and Ellbridge took q
hand in the transaction and locked the
men in the North Side police station.
They are in the employ of Bardwel-
Robinson, the sash and door manufac-
turers.
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Bprelars Raid : yilIar 3,

&. BATTLE CREEK, Mich, Jnre 10. Bur.
glars rafded the village Of Galesburg. Q
miles west Of here, early Friday morn
ing and broke into and robbed John
Best's saloon, Schroeder + Carson's dry
goods store, Eldred's harness shop, and
Q. z. Evans grocery, A large amount
I Of plumber was secured by them.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22
Ansaulfefl.

A German, Nick Uhl, who hired out
70 work for Ringling Bros circus, is at
Waseca badly wounded about the head
ana shoulders. He claims that as the
circus train was leaving, some of the
crew told him to strip his clothes and
go to bed, but being suspicious he re-
fused when they jumped on him, hit
him with bar of iron across the head,
robbed him of 50, all he had, and then
threw him of the moving train. He
managed to crawl to house near by.
and word being sent to the night police,
the wounded man was taken to town.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22

Il, A YOUNG lady at Hoboken, N. j.,
married against the wish of her father,
and wore on the occasion gift of her,
dead mother, The irate parent swore
out a warrant charging larceny, and the
syoung woman was arrested and taken
from the room, where the ceremony had
just been performed. No one can won
der why she married to please herself.
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Dir -HEIkHXK AVE We

DR.~ZEIsHA1 X ANE was the most IA
snl's aTg re ~ the storn ~ hs 4hu; WI.
adventures. He died many years ago,
but hiss widow still survives and the
closing scenes of her life are among the
. saddest and most squalid surronn aings.
.ss,agssRe eently. she was taken rom a colored
tenement house in New York city to an
insane asylum, crazed as the result of
years Of, indulgence in strong drink
<sShe was one Of The famous Fox sisters,
..rni Whose :spiritual 'rappings' won them
ax,ws.ffQxt fortune and notoriety. 49,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22

- ~ A MILL. owner not long ago issued the
Y order that the girls in his employ should
~not wear laced shoes. The reason that
he gave was that each ones boots be-
came united at least five times day
and took at least five seconds to retie
When these tw twenty-five seconds were
- tiplied ~ three hundred the mum
Der of girls in his employ-the loss of
time was, he said, too serious to sub
NIT IT, z:.t"4-- ~ r -
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M CHINA makes q poor show in the
journalistic world. For all its 400, 600, Z
900 inhabitants it has only twenty-four
newspapers. ten of which are daily and
fourteen appear at longer intervals
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22
Killed BY Lightning.

MART1NsyILLE, Ind, june 19.-Lightr
ming struck tree in johnson county,
under which Henry Byers and Albert
Lagrange were standing. Byers was
Instantly killed and Lagrange was par
alyzed in both legs.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22
THE EAST.

IN New York six-story building
filed with sweater shops caught fire,
and in the wild rush to the street four
persons were killed, two others were ia
tally injured and five Others were badly
hurt.
Ten buildings were burned at Waldo
boro, Me-, causing loss of 100000
THERE was a general celebration at
Philadelphia for the first time in
American history of the anniversary OF
the adoption Laeongress June IA, l777,
of the stars anu Stripes. In every school
the story of how the first flag was made
was told.
In wreck ON the Nickel Plate road
at Hamburg, N. Y. five men were in
jured, one fatally, and twenty cars
were smashed.
Princeton, N. j., the one hundred
and forty-sixth annual commencement,
of Princeton college took place.
In Pittsburgh the third floor of the
old government building collapsed and
four men received probably fatal in,
juries.
1T was decided by unanimous vote
at meeting of the board of directors
of the Union theological seminary in
New York that Rev. DR.. Charles A,
Briggs should continue his work in the
department of Biblical history as hith'
erto.
In Buffalo, N. Y. the Genesee Oil com
pany made an assignment with liabili
ties of s3OO,0
FLAMES ruined the Highspire distill
cry at Harrisburgh, Pa, with 5000 bar
re!S of whisky, entailing loss of $780,
900.
FIRE destroyed the Methodist church
and several dwellings at Dundof, Pa,
the total loss being $4,000.
The firm of Winkley, Dresser & Co.,
Boston statiOners, failed for $15O,OOO.
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LABOR RIOTS IN AUSTRIA.
Many Worktngmen and Policemen Wound
cd and Two Killed.

VIENNA, June 19.-Five thousand
workingmen, IN defiance of q police
prohibition, held q meeting in favor OF
universal suffrage at Weissen-
berger, outside Of Bruenn, Sun
day. When the police attempted
to dispense the meeting they were
received with volley from revolvers
and shower of stones. A commissary
of police was killed and five police
men were critically injured. On the
other side twenty-six workingmen were
wounded - 80 :.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22
Admits tho Girls,

At meeting Of the governing board
and trustees of Manchester college, it
was deGded to adopt co-education in
that institution. This is quite radical
step, and although the matter has been
considered at various times, no definite
action favoring co-education has hither-
to been adopted. The next question to
be considered will be an increase in the
accommodations of the college to make
room for the additional students who
will come in.
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News In Brief.

Mrs. Jennie Jones, wife of F.. F..
Jones, barber in the employ of the
West hotel barber shop in Minneapolis,
committed suicide at the Parker house
by taking morphine. Domestic trouble
| was the cause.
The receipts for May grain inspection
amounted to 81, $780, 90.
Officer Riley, of the St. Paul police
force. arrested burglar who was try
ing to effect an entrance into the Office
OF L. L. May & Co.. On the way to the
box the burglar broke away and ran,
but was brought down by pistol shot
through the arm.
The store and dwelling of Ole Moe at
Little Falls was destroyed by fire.
H. +. Heitsch, the old German who
has gained some notoriety from his di-
vorce suits at Fergus Falls, left last
week for Oregon to get away from his
trouble. A dispatch received from Mis-
soula says he was found by the track,
dead. 1t is supposed that he fell from
the cars.
The plans of Chas. P. Brown, of Sioux
City. TO-, have been accepted for the
new school house at Pipestone. Red
stone and jasper trimmings will be
used.
| Quinn Bros. warehouse and contents
at Waverly were destroyed by fire.
Harry Barger, the l5-year-old boy ar
rested several weeks ago for criminally
assaulting 1O-year-old girl at Lester
Park, pleaded guilty in the court at Du-
luth to indecent assault.
The Great Northern has increased its
capitalization to s4A 1000, 600, of which
$25, 000, 600 is preferred stock. A certifi-
cate 10 this effect was filed in the Office
of the secretary of state.
Gov. Nelson has issued commissions
to VIM. G. Bronson, as lieutenant col
onel of the LIST infantry; Wescott w.
Price, as major of tie sane regiment;
Julius c. McQuade, as second lieutenant
Of Company A, I'D infantry; Halvor w.
Thune, as second lieutenant of Company
l. Sd infantry. ....-.
Burglars entered the roller mill at
Rush City, knocked the handle of the
safe door, put in . charge Of powder
and blew of the door. At this point
they must have become ratified or else
their ammunition gave out, for the cash
chest door was uninjured and in which
was about $3.50 in checks and currencyl
The courts of St. Paul appointed!
Judge Charles E. Flsndreau as receiver
Of the st. Paul Globe. Mr.. FlanGlreau
qualified by filing his bond in the sum
Of $500, 900, with w. r. Merriam and
VIM. Dawson as suretieA
Edward A. Dunsmore has been APP
pointed by Gov. Nelson to represent
this state In the so-called interstate
north and south railroad convention,
which is to be held In Lincoln, Neb.
a forlorn looking individual named
Albert Rothas appeared in the police
court Of Minneapolis with tale Of voc
about being slugged and robbed. Th
court fined him $40 for drunkeppess.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22

Russ1A's 100000, 900 people have 1858
newspapers and the majority OF those
are under the ban of the censors. The
s., 900, 900 people of the United States
have 1881 newspapers and they are
all free and untrammeled. sing ...s-..,,,..
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22
To Begin Work.

Assistant Government Engineer Du-
Schane was in Minneapolis and report
ed that the work on the two dams and
locks between Minneapolis and St. Paul
would be commenced in a week or ten
days. The total cost of the two dams
will not be over 81, 900, 600, the previous
estimate being 81, ZOO.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22
~ ~ ror%ro1

Tn8a ale hard in Central America
did the people cannot indulge in their
favorite luxuries President Ezeta, OF
San Salvador, thinks that owing to the
backwardness OF the crops there will be
no more revolutions this year.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-22

THE Nawao Of Rampura is IN San
j; francisco on his way to the worlds
fair. The MAN of Hyderabad and the
Abkoond of Swat were unable to come.