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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-09
LATER NEWS,

The Pacific mail steamer San Juan
was dispatched from San Francisco the
4th to search for the steamer City Of
Pekin' which is ten days overdue.
The worlds fair directory has de-
cided that it is not necessary to open
the exposition with the usual prayer.
FISHING in any manner whatever IL
the waters of the Mississippi river dur
ing the months of March, April and
May OF each year is made unlawful rn-
aer a bilFintroduced the 4th by Senator
Stockbridge, chairman of the fisheries
committee of the United States senate.
MRS. WHITNEY, wife of ex-Secretary
OF the Navy Whitney, died at her home
in New York city the 9Th.
The most important Developments in
the Hawaiin matter" the 9Th was the of.
dcial announcement. that all govern
ments, including Great Britain, have
recognized the provisional government
Of Hawaii. J"
The Hawaiin annexation commission.
crs had meeting with Secretary of
State Foster the 4t!,.
FIVE mad women were In st. Joseph.
Mo-, the. 18th, looking for George Nc
Adams, fresco painter from Chicago.
lie had married all Of them and pro-
cured money from each. His where
nbouts is unknown.
AN order has been issued by Secre-
tary Rusk directing that all cattle i'm
lorted from Canada must be held in
quarantine 90 days on account of pleuro-
pneumonia existing in the Dominion.
BECAUSE her sister was to be married,
Miss Sallie c. Koop Of Brooklyn, N. Y,
sommitted suicide the 5th by taking
chloroform.
The trial of Frank Lewis, one of the
TWO men who attempted to rob the
bank at Waverly, Kan, was concluded
IL Burlington, Kan, the 4th. and the
jury brought in verdict Of guilty of
murder in the first degree, after being
Uut IA hours. Judge Randolph at once
passed the death sentence upon him.
AT Pelham, Ala, the 5th, DR.. O. G.
Derson. while returning home from
professional visit was waYlaid by two
white men and beaten to death with q
bar of iron. ".-e~ T. s.,-'.:,
TIE California appellate court knockd
out the Standard Oil company in the
case Of Whittier, Fuller Il Co. The
standard cannot control the Pacific
coast trade. -. .s35z. !.
Jason B.. WARD: better known as Jack
Ward. and Jack voD Scoy were killed
In . snow slide at the Emereld mine in
the Waterfall basin, near Telluride,
Col, the 5th,. il which the two men
were working, c ..ss ..
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-09

ALL records are smashed this winter
In the Catskill mountains the cold
stopped the clocks; over in Sweden the
temperature has been so low as to
freeze the mercury, and not long ago q
ship arriving in New York reported
that the alcohol in the compass had
frozen. The worst "old-fashioned win
ter OF our daddies" never knew any.
thing like this
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-09

ONE of the greatest works which the
late Phillips Brooks accomplished, says
New York dispatch, was in that city
some years ago. when, during the busi-
est hour of week days, he held service
In Trinity church and commanded an
audience of business men that filed
every portion of it. That is a test of
ability which few men can stand. and
is to large extent the measure of q
clergyman's usefulness. Such a test re.
quires intellectual and oratorical abili-
ty OF the highest order. adorned with
the spirit and graces of Christianity.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-09
WEST AND sQurA.

In was feared that four young men,
members of prominent families ia Che
boygan, Mich. who left their homes to
6sh through the ice in the straits, had
been drowned or frozen to death, as no
trace of them could be found.
Portions of the roofs of the manu-
features and other buildings on the
worlds fair grounds fell in from their
weight OF snow. the total loss being es-
timated ut $50. 900.
NEAR Kent, ILL.,; train containing a
party of lumbermen from Minnesota
went over bank and w. E. Akers, of
Minneapolis, vas killed and forty
other persons were hurt ;,
In their home at Hamlin, w. Va.
John Michaels. his wife. and three chill.
dren were all frozen to death.
FoRTT-oNE paper mile in various
states have effected = combine under
the name of the Columbia Straw Pa
per company, with headquarters 1t
Chicago. zs .5s.s.. .s..s.........s n.
MICHAEL HALEY, Mike Davidson aud
Joseph Smith were instantly killed BY
mass Of falling rock in . coal mine
near streator, Ill
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-09

The adulteration of baking powder
may be detected by u simple expert
ment If alum is present in the pow
der, md this is usually the adulterant
used in Place Of cream of tartar, which
is much more expensive, it may Ike de-
tected by scattering little of the pow
der in glass OF cold water. The alum,
if present, will sink to the bottom of
the glass. heavy white sediment
The powder containing cream Of tartar
will produce more foam and not have
much sediment.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-09

WOMEN are, when put to it, the most
unselfsh creatures in the world. Here
is one in Kansas who is not only will
ing to support her husband while he is
cumming around with the politicians,
but is paying, on the installment plan,
for his first wifc's funeral expenses
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-09
THE ARTS.

WILLIAM LLOYD GARErsoN's statue In
bronze, of colossal size, will be unveiled
in Newburyport next Fourth Of July.
Ex-PREs1DENr HAYES portrait, it is
thought, will be placed on the govern
mcnt treasury notes before many
months. The faces of Grant and Gar
field have been so used.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-09
Three Lives Loaf,

NEW York, Feb "A fire of q
mysterious origin. which started about
4 a. m. Friday in the hallway of the
six.story tenement. 137 Orchard street,
resulted in the death of a
whole family, consisting of three
persons, by suffocation. Three
other people were injured The
dead are Morris Cohen, his wife Sophia,
and their baby Esther. The injured are
Annie Goldberg. aged 10; Jacob Cohen
and Pauline Goldberg. The Cohens
had been married but eighteen months.
Tho building was damaged to the ex-
tent OF $4,000. The tenants lose
about $50 each.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-09

TIE comet. which was the cause of
80 much excitement in November last
is still visible. 1t had been growing
rapidly fainter since its discovery until
Monday. January 18, when it suddenly
grew brighter in the most astonishing
manner. 1t may safely be said that
the suddenness and extent of this in
crease OF brightness are without prec-
edent in the history of astronomy.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-09
CURRENT TOPICS.

RABBITS two for nickel in Nevada.
The pyramids Of Egypt were begun
about b. G. 1900.
st. PErER's, at Rome, was begun In
1850 and finished in 1926.
ST. PAu1'A London, was begun in
1875 and finished in ITO
To straigh&en whalebones hold them
TO the steam of boiling water.
VINE In Theoretically sealed TASKS
was recently found in Pompeii
COFFEE cups now should be high and
slender; tea cups low and broad.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-09
Minnegota's War History.

The new volume of "Oficial reports
and correspondence relating to The Or
ganization and services of Minnesota
troops in the civil and Indian wars,
lsel-ls65," is ready aud now being de-
livered to the adjutant general, st.
Paul. Each soldier who served in a
Minnesota organization, or his repre-
sentative, is entitled to a copy free. The
postage on each copy is 40 cents, and as
the adjutant general has not yet been
provided with funds for mailing it,
those entitled to a copy should call in
person and receive it or remit the post
age. Each public library and each pub.
lie school library is also entitled to a
cOpv free.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-09
The News In I3rl0f.

Miss Irene Knapp of Owatonna was
to have been married. Not being OF
age her father refused consent. She
attempted suicide by poison but was
stopped.
A deal has just been consummated
which will, it is thought, result in the
establishment of a mammoth saw mill
at st. Cloud by the Weyerhauser syndi.
cate. The deal is the sale from F. NJ.
Fowler of Detroit, E. c. Whitney OF
Minneapolis, and Arthur Hill of Sagi.
nav of about $1,000 acres of land in
Cass, Hubbard, Morrison and Wadena
counties, on which it is estimated fully
100, COX, 900 feet of pine will be cut
The following statements of gross
earnings in 1891 were received by the
railroad and warehouse commissioners
Winona &. st. Peter railway, miles
operated in the state, IA; gross earn
ings, $2,l4O,o9o. 70; tax at per cent
making taxes amounting to s64, 800. 70.
Duluth & Iron Range, gross earnings,
$l,647, 1850; tax at 2per cent, making
taxes S0.249.5a.
Prot. Charles w. McCurdy, of the Wi.
mona high school. has notified the state
superintendent that he has accepted
the. chair of chemistry and biology il
the Idaho State university. at an ad'
vance of 5000 over his present salary.
It is probable that there will be no
summer race meeting under Jockey
Club auspices this season. A statement
was made BY Chicago paper, Is re-
suit Of IN interview with Frank Shaw,
secretary Of the Twin City Jockey club,
to the effect that Shaw had decided not
j: to open stakes for. meeting this sea
son. 70
The election contest of A. c. Rhine.
hart against Robert Anderson, county
commissioner Of Polk county, was de-
acided in favor Of Rhinehart. Anderson
had three more votes than his opponent
and has occupied his seat since Jan. l.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-09

IT costs about $l2, 0o0 to get the votes
OF the electoral college brought to
Washington from the forty-tour states.
When received the returns are locked
in steel safe in the vice presidents
room. The safe has been specially
provided with detective electric appara-
tus. The day Of the count by congress
the returns are carried to the house in
q pair of well-locl<ed cherrywood boxes,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-09
MINNESOTA NEWS.


Gov. Nelson has appointed tho follow
ing members Of his .tah: Brig. Gen. A.
z. Pray, Minneapolis, inspector general;
Brig. Gen. J. NJ. Diment, Owatonna,
quartermaster general; Brig. Gen. c. A.
rowne, Duluth, Judge advocate general;
Brig. Gen. ]. H. Murphy, St. Paul, sur
geon general; Brig. Gen. s. E. Olson,
Minneapolis, commissary general;
Lieut. Col. N. B. Fulner, Winona, as
sistant quartermaster general; G.. A.
Whitney, Wadena, assistant inspector
general; Jorgen Simmons, Appleton. as
sistant oommissary general; James A.
Brown, Fergus Falls, assistant judge
advocate general; DR.. A. C. Wage, Al
bert Lea, assistant surgeon general;
Col. Mahlon N. Gilbert, St. Paul, chap
lain.
Assistant adjutant general and aides
de-camp: Col. A. E. Chantler, st. Paul:
Col. Lucian Swift, Jr., Minneapolis; Col.
Chas- F. Pusch, st. Paul; Col. C. A.
Smith, Minneapolis; Col. G. r. Ward,
Alexandria; Lieut.. Col. H. T. Bevins,
Morris.
Aides-de-camp-Lieut. Col. L. X. Stone,
st. Paul; Lieut. Col. c. L. West, Austin;
Maj. J. A. Eckstein, New Ulm; Maj. A.
J. Blethen, Minneapolis; Maj. Andrew
Nelson, Litcht1eld; Maj. Chas. A. Roy,
Leroy; Maj. w. w. Smith, Sleepy Eye.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-09
Women's Work.

At recent meeting of the Women's
Worlds Fair auxiliary of Minnesota,
Mrs. Crosby, Third district manager, re-
ported that Meeker county would send
to Chicago miniature log cabin made
from the wood of the log house in which
the first blood was shed in the massacre
of 1851. Mrs. Stebbins Of Rochester,
state chairman of the agricultural de-
partment, said that she had learned Of
more than 100 women in Minnesota
managing farms varying in size from
100 to leo acres, all Of whom were pros
porous, and thought that accurate sta
tistics III regard to these female pio-
neers in agriculture would be of inter.
est to the people of the country.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-09
FROM the official financial statement

FROM the official financial statement
of the dominion government, as pub
lished in the Ottawa Press, it appears
that the total expenditure in 1892 was
s42. S72, 34S, while the total revenue
was only 1856, ,S71, an excess of ex.
penditures over receipts of IS. $50, az.
The gross debt on June 80 last was
1926. 1888, 900, and the net debt s24l. 49,
4S4. The net increase in the debt for
the year was s., 1922, 4O3.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-09

QUEEN VICTORIA since the beginning
of her reign has only signed one death
warrant, which was for an execution
In the Isle of Man, the act passe for
relieving her majesty of signing death
warrants having by an oversight not
included that part of her majesty's do
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-09
ONE PASSENGER KILLED.

Two Fast Express Trains Collide at East
Douglass, Mass.
WooNsoCKET, r. l., Feb. A-The new
Washington express, via the Reading
and the New York & New Eng.
land road, eastbound, ran into the
rear Of the Norwich boat express
in front of the station at East
Douglass, Mass. on the New England
road. at = o'clock a. m. A woman pas.
senger on the boat train was killed aud
several others were injured. A com.
bination car aud a coach of the boat
train and the engine and baggage car
of the Washington express were
wrecked by telescoping.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-09

1RENos and Amea Elton. of Vineland,
N. j., celebrated their diamond we'd
ding the other day, having been mar
ried seventy-flve years. They are aged
respectively o5 and 81 years, and retain
possession of all their faculties
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-09
FROM WASHINGTON.

HE visible supply OF grain in the
United States on the 30th ult, was:
Wheat, 81, 1856, zoo bushels; corn, IL, $685.
600 bushels; oats, 5,7Os, 900 bushels; rye,
9s7, 900 bushels; barley, 2,114,000 BUSH
e,e.
JAMES G. BLAlSE's funeral took place
at the Church of the Covenant in WASH
ing,on on the 30th ult., after which the
remains were inferred in Oak Hill
cemetery.
The estate of the late James G.
Blaine is p aced at $500. QUO and all is left
unreservedly to Mrs. Blaine. she to be
sole executrix and not required to give
any bond.
SECRETARY FOSTER estimates the ap-
preparations for defraying the expens -
Of collecting the revenue from custom
for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1894,
at 81. 393 400.
The statement of the public debt is
sued on the LIST showed that the inter-
est and non-interest bearing debt in.
creased SIS, 1861 during the month of
January. The cash in the treasury
was 2G,00o,0o0. The total debt, less
the cash balance in the treasury,
amounts to ssss, 5s7, oe5. Since March
l, 1889, the beginning Of the present
administration. the bonded indebted
ness of the country has decreased $780,
or, $50.
In his annual report to congress the
commissioner of patents shows that the
net receipts of the Office during the last
calendar year were 81, 2s6, 3d. So. and
the expenditures LILO. 739 "a. making
the receipts over expenditures Sl75, 5o3
SO. There were 81, 427 patents issued
to citizens of the United States during
the year and s,o51 to foreigners.
GOVERNMENT receipts in January
amounted to S35, oo9. 972, the largest in
any one month for two years, and
81, $50, 900 more than in january, 1892.
The president sent to congress a
message dealing with the subject OF
the importation of foreign goods into
the United States across the Canadian
border under cons ular seal in which he
says that the present system shows
favoritism to Canadian transportation
routes and seaports against those OF
our own cOnntrv
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-09

ANDREW LANG says there are fully
100000 novelists in Great Britain; but,
fortunately for the public, only one
author in a hundred finds a publisher
willing to launch his book.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-09
Two Porso.,e Drowned

MARYsvILLE, Cal. Feb 4.-Paulin1
Newcombe. aged 20 years, and willard
Woodwork. aged "a. an engaged couple,
werc drowned in Feather river Thurs.
day night b. the eapsiSipS e boe$
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-09
senator-Elect Mitehell,e Genaro.,tx.

KENosHA, Wis. Feb. S. Mrs D. A..
Mahoney, the widow of the Kenosha
assemblyman who died at Madison last
week, is in receipt.of check for IS, 600,
o gift from Senator-elect J. l.. Mitchell.
Mr.: Mahoney died . comparatively
poor man. He was IN ardent support
or OF Mitchell in the great senatorial
contesk ..s.-- ,=g-. -. =. H.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-09
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

THE government of Great Britain has
instructed Sir Julian Pauncefote, its
minister in Washington, to protest
against the action of the United States
officials and forces in Hawaii.
In mine near Crate, Syria, five
miners were killed and ten injured by
an explosion.
The English parliament convened on
the 31st ult. the queens speech being
read.
THREE sailors, survivors of the
wrecked Norwegian ship Thekla, ar.
rived Mt Hamburg, Germany, and re-
port terrible suffering. For sixteen
days they subsisted upon human flesh,
the three strangling a fourth com.
panion.
NEARLY 500 houses were destroyed
by fire ut Shibushi, Japan, and many
lives were lost.
A FIREDAMP explosion in coal pit at
Recklinghausen, Germany, killed
eighteen miners and seventeen Others
were injured.
THE death of Ira Mulock, president
OF the dcfunct bank of Florence, Col. ,
occurred in Mexico, where he had been
exiled for several years to escape Grim.
inal prosecution.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-09
For the Worlds Fair,

Another scheme to bring Minneapolis
into prominence during the worlds
fair is plan to have bi-weekly trains
run to the city from Chicago, with cheap
rates and generous stop-ovcr privileges.
The Business union favors this plan and
a committee consisting of w. E. Steele,
c. L. Travis and w. G. Byron was ap-
pointed to confer with special com.
mittee from the Business union on this
matter,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-09
THE EAST.


DISPATCHES from New York say that
most of the transatlantic steamship
companies have stopped bringing i'm.
migrants to this country in the steer
age.
BEING penniless nine Austrians who
arrived in New York on the French
line steamship La Gascogne were or
dered to return on the same steamer.
GEN. Buffers will was filed in the
Middlesex probate court at East Cam
bridge. 1t bears the date of 1854, with
codicil added in 1862 All his estate
is left to relatives, including wife aud
mother, since deceased.
THE residence of James Addison at
West Newbury, Mass, was DESTROYED
by FIRE and Mrs. Addison, aged 40, and
his son William, aged Is, persisted in
the flames.
The plant of the Warner Portland
Cement company, located at Warner,
n. Y, was entirely destroyed by fire.
Loss, SITS. 600.
IT was said that the liabilities of the
Erie car works at Erie. Pa. whose
failure was recently announced, would
reach 81 ZOO, 900.
FIRE destroyed several buildings, in
GLIDING the Hotel Roclxton. Grand Cen.
trail hotel and the Metropolitan block
at Little Falls, N. Y. the loss being
$500, 900.
in the Wyoming and Lackawanna
valleys in Pennsylvania the $1,000
miners will hereafter work eight hours
day.
In the case of Robert J. Beatty.
charged with poisoning the nonunion
workmen at Homestead, Pa, a verdict
ut guilty was rendered.
In Brooklyn Mrs. Jacob Plimler, q
handsome woman of SO years of age,
after a brief quarrel with her husb band
shot him fatally and then shot herself
dend.
In the state OF New York the total
mum Der of deaths rerorted for the year
1892 was $50, $50 This makes the death
rate for the Year :o.7s per 1000 popu.
lation.
In the Conygham shaft near Wilkes
barre. Pa, an explosion burned nine
men, two of them fatally. -,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-09

The Chinese are shown by statistics
to be longer.lived than any other ma.
ton. which fact is attributed to their
abstemious habits and their remark
able freedom from phthisis, or pull
monary consumption.
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ONE ENJOYS

- - ~
Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly Oh the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn ef1ectual!y, dispels colds, heal:
aches and fevers ard cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is tho
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac-
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
it's action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in Soc
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to tayit Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA re SXRUP co!
SAW FRANCISCO. cAl.
LOUISVILLE. Ky. NEW YORK. ~.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-09

SOMEBODY asked Tim Campbell what
Phi. ID. meant 1t Is said that Congress-
man. Tim answered without a mo-
ment's hesitation: Its Latin for
Phwat's Dat?' It
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-09
The State Cash.

Col. Joseph Bobleter, state treasurer,
issued report showing the amount of
cash on hand in the vaults of the CAPT.
tol and the various amounts on deposit
In the banks of the state designated as
state repositories. The report also
shows that there are now 81 banks act
ing as state repositories. Following is
the detailed statement:
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-09

THE lighthouses Of the world number
5000, with about $50 lightships. Of
t:ese lights Europe has $500; North
America, 1920; Asia, ZIG; Oceanica,
$40; Africa, 219; South America, 1863,
and West Indies, 100. The coasts of
the United States are illuminated by
S02 lights distributed as follows: At
1antic coast. 4G7; gulf coast, ~; Pacific
coast, IS, and the northwestern lakes.
S1a The oldest lighthouse is at Corun-
ma, Spain. 1t was built in the reign of
Emperor Trajan, and in 1884 was re-
constructed. England and France have
towers erected by their Roman conquer
ors, which wer. used as lighthouses
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-09

The ocean is more productive than
the land. An acre of good fishing
ground will yield more food than an
acre Of the best farm.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-09

Al jubilee meeting in the mission
rooms in bridgeport, Conn.,, Neils
Olsen, thriving jeweler, arose and
said that in answer to long and contin-
uous prayer the Lord had fully re-
stored his eyesight. TIC; prove his
words, Olsen took up Bible printed
in tine type and read a chapter without
glasses and with no difficulty. For
years he has not been able to read or
do fine work without the aid of fine
lenses He felt his vision gradually be-
coming weaker, and believing that the
Lord sometimes performs miracles in
tho present day he prayed for better eye
sight with faith that relief would come.