The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-03-01

Apfil15. ..The men have been made des-
perate," he said. ''They are going to
fight and fight earnestly. They have no
option but to strike. It will be the great
est fight which this country has ever
Seen" iE6s 5i43b u 35F 4
The deaths at Rio Janeiro from yellow
fever now average sixty daily. The gov
eminent dynamite cruiser Nictheroy,
which was reported outside the harbor,
has sailed south. The United States
cruiser Detroit has returned to the har-
Dor. The United States cruisers New
York and Charleston are cruising outside
the harbor. =
private secretary to Governor Peck, In
regard to the roster deal at Milwaukee,
the most important point brought out
was that the roster syndicate expected to-
clear $4,000 on the first order of $4,000
set. Clark testified that the Governor
and all interested in the deal were aware
OF the big profits in view.
Excursionists from all over the country
in great numbers are at Niagara Falls,
N. Y, to see the splendid ice bridge over
the falls. The bridge is more than usual
~ beautiful, the recent blizzard having
made most magnificent arch. The peo-
pie come in drovcs, private cars bringing
In railway magnates and their friends and
the various trains being crowded.
The Supreme court of Michigan has
confirmed the constitutionality of the act
of 1893 providing for closing barber shops
Snn1ov Tho ri hn16 fho< hn ~
contravened neither the Constitution of
the State, providing that no person shall
be deprived Of life, liberty, or property
without due process of law, nor the four.
tenth amendment to the Federal Con.
stitution. .--
No uneasiness has been caused in Du-
buque because Of the recent investiga-
tions made by the heirs of Julien Du-
buque. They have attempted to set up a
claim to s4S, 900 of real estate at that
place, but in 1858 decision of the United
States Supreme court declared Julien Du-
buque's title to the town imperfect, and
there is no fear that his heirs claim can
be established. =
Discord has arisen in the Fond du Lac,
Wis. Methodist Church. Two factions
have sprung from the remark recently
made by the pastor that no person could
be true Methodist unless he were pro-
hibitionist. Because of this sta tement an
attempt was made to remove one of the
Sunday school teachers and trouble re-
suited which will have to be settled by
the presiding elder. ....
Erastus Wiman, formerly nominal, but
not an active partner in the firm of Dun,
Wiman e. Co., of New York, was arrested
and locked up in the Tombs on charges
of forgery and embezzlement. The COM
plant on which the arrest was made al
leges that in the last four years preced-
ing 1893, when Wiman's connection with
the firm ceased, he embezzled s229O1S and
forged two check for nearly $4,000.
During a recent session of the Iowa
General Assembly, a resolutioe was made
to investigate the barring of negroes from
the State House restaurant. A commit
tee Of three was appointed which will
thoroughly inventigate the matter and
report to the House at once. If the dis
elimination between blacks and whites is
found to exist, as alleged, action will be
taken against the proprietor of the res
taurant.
Joseph S. Hardin, who was serving a
twenty sentence for his connection
with the Centralia, ILL.,, train robbery,
made bis escape from the penitentiary at
Chester Tuesday. He was recaptured
near Menard, Ill.,, Thursday. He had
walked fifty miles but kept going in a cir
Gle, and was but three miles from the
prison when captured. His feet are
frozen and he is in bad shape. He is
now in the prison hospital.
Michael Corners, an ex-convict, told
Gov. jackson Of Iowa terrible tale of
the brutalities practiced in Fort Madison
renitentiary. He exhibits two almost
useless hands and arms, affected by pro-
gressive paralysis, the result of being
strung up'' in: the dungeon. He tells
terrible story of brutality practiced I'M
der the regimes of Warden Mcmillan and
DR.. Hoffmeister, ex-prison physician, who
was also removed by Gov. Boies.
The unprecedented storms of Jan. %
and Feb. II and ~ have wrought dire
havoc among the cattle upon the great
ranges in the Indian reservations in Okla
homa and in Kansas. The extreme cold
and the unusual accompaniment of large
quantities of snow could not we'll be with
stood by cattle already weakened by the
shortage of winter pasture and thousands
If them persisted, while those that re-
main are in very shaky condition.
The judgment of the court which tried
The members of the Omladina secret So
:iety, at Prague, Austria, is as follows:
ziegloser is sentenced to eight years i'm
9risonment; Waigert, Stichr, and Hrad-
,tz five years; Wenzel and Cizok. six
7ears; Helm eighteen months; and Holz-
zach thirteen months. Two of the ac-
FUSED were acquitted and the remainder
we're sentenced to terms of imprisonment !
7arying from a fortnight to three years.
Chief Of Police Deitsch of Cincinnati,
Who caused the arrest of Anarchist Tenn |
men, has in his Office complete directory
giving the name, occupation, residence,
md personal history of every anarchist |
n person of anarchistic tendency in the |
ity. This directory also Classics the
anarchists as extreme, moderate, and |
emf anarchistic. There are, all told,
20 in the CITY,, and all their movements
re watched. They have no separate or
,anization.
The Kiowas and Comanche Indians