The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-03-08

nne, or both, as felony the punishment
Is not more than seven years and $1,000
fine, or both. III
County Treasurer Hicks Of Ottum-
wa, Iowa, was recently arrested on the
charge Of embezzlement. Sheriff j. w.
McIntire was also found to be short e6, 900
in his accounts and more investiga tions
| will be made which, 1t is expected, will
| disclose the shortcomings OF q number OF
county officials.
In the United States court at Madison,
Wis, tho case Of the United States vs..
James Stinton, of Chicago, involving his
the city limits of Superior, and valued at
about 81, SOC, 900, was dismissed for want
of prosecution, on motion of attorneys
for the defendant.
Judge Cox, of the district supreme
court at Washington, has granted the In
| junction asked for by Judge Charles D.
Long, Of the Michigan supreme court, to
restrain Com missioner of Pensions Loeb
rem from reducing his pension from 81 to
$50 q month, as the commissioner an
nounced he would 60.
| Representative Wilson's condition is
| unchanged. Mr.. Wilson Is living in Gen
eral Manager Robinson's private car In
| the sta ton at Guadalajara, Mexico, and
| is pleased with the climate of the place.
President Daz sends an adjutant every
day to Consul General Crittenden TO in
quire as to Mr.. Wilson's health.
The steamer Rio Janeiro, from China
and Japan, brings advices that smallpox
IS rayaging Nagasaki, japan, the dis
ease being unusually fatal. Great prep
arations are being made for the ce(ebra-
ton of the silver wedding of the En-
peror. Eight hundred thousand dollars
are to be expended upon the festivities.
The populists of South Dakota are
seeking recruits and have adopted novel
means of securing them. 1t has been de-
cided by the county committees to hold
series of meetings for the purpose OF
| filling up the ranks of the faithful, and
these meetings will be conducted on the
same principles as old-time religious re-
vival meetings. ~
It is reported that q fight took place on
the Russo German from tier between de-
tachment of the Russian dragons and
number Of Prussian Uhlans. Several are
reported to have been killed on both
it is reported, that Prussian Uhlans were
using the Russian eagle, fixed to 'front.'
Ter post, as target. -
Rev. DR.. r. w.. Patterson, ore of the
patriarchs of Presby died at
his home in Evanston, ILL.,, Wednesday
morning at 1O:45 o'clock, after brief ILL
ness DR.. Patterson had been identified
with Chicago and it's interests for more
than sixty years. He was an ordained
clergyman preaching in Chicago church
more than fifty years ago. @f'H a
Four thousand railroad men, who have
been working seven days a Week for
years, will get holiday hereafter. For
the first time in the history of trunk lines
in this country an order has been issued
by the Erie Road to hold all common
freight trains in the yards from 12 O'Clock
Saturday night to 12 O'Clock Sunday
night ever week in the year. es..,l5
DR.. w. Z. Poole, the famous librarian
of the Newberry Library, at Chicago,
died Tuesday. For more than thirty
years DR.. Poole was a constant writer of
trea ties on library management. His
paper on the organization and manage
ment Of public libraries published in the
report Of the United States bureau of ed
uca ton in 1876 is Still the standard au
thority on the subject. \
Representa- tivcs of 10000 Ala bama min
ers met 10 determine which of the politi-
cal parties it was most to their interest
to support. After a secret conference
they passed resolution indorsing the
Jeffersonian populist platform on account
of its plank opposing convict labor in the
mines. They nominated candidates for
the legislature from their ranks who will
run on Bolter Kolb's ticket.
The fight On the liquor question may
now be said to be fairly under way in the
Iowa legislature. The Carpenter local
option bill was introduced in the senate
and made a special order for next Thurs
day morning and the committee mulct
tax bill is a special order in the house for
next Wednesday morning. Both meas
ures are attracting much attention,
and, tits claimed, that each is gaining
ground.
News has been received to the effect
that number of British officers and
sailors have been killed In an encounter
with white slave dealers on the west
coast of Africa. Inquiries made at the
British Admiralty Office have resulted in
a substantiation of the report. Those
killed were officers and sailors on board
the cruiser Raleigh, flagship of the Brit
ish squadron on the African coast, and
the screw gunboat Widgeon.
The agitation of the Des Moines, Ia,
Knights of Labor regarding the property
upon which Chief Engineer P. NJ. Arthur
pays the taxes in Cleveland and the state
ment that they would investigate the
matter, have given rise to the inquiry as
to how much property is owned by Mr..
Arthur. Last year he paid taxes upon
real estate on valuation of s45,65O. His
estate therefore is worth about s90,G0o |
His personal estate was assessed at 50. $50.
Residents of Salt Lake City are in q |
state of terror over the strange spectacle |
of mountain lions, coyotes and other wild |
animals roaming about the streets with
the utmost composure, as if it were no |
unusual thing for them to come into |
city of $1,000 inhabitants in search OF |
food. People in the outlying sections OF |
tho citv are almost afraid to venture out !