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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-04-05

mittee on foreign relations, who is also q
personal friend of Rear Admiral Walker,
discussing the mission OF the admiral to
the Pacific, said that, while he had no
authority to speak for either Admiral
Walker or the state department, he be-
leyed that his mission had far more to
do with the Boring sea question than
with Hawaii.
Representative Geary of California
does not, as most of the Pacific slope con-
greSSiuen have done, condemn the new
trea tyt with China. 1t is, he says, a, de-
cided advance upon the last treaty, in
that this governments right absolutely
to prohibit Immigration is conceded by
China. Another point gained, Mr.. Geary
says, is recognition of the principle OF
registration
United States Senator Alfred Holt Col
Quit of Georgia died at his residence in
this city Monday. The funeral took
place in the senate chamber at 8 o'clock
Tuesday morning and the remains were
then taken to Macon, Ca, for interment
and were accompanied by committees OF
the two houses of congress and the fam
lily of the deceased and that of his col
league, Senator Gordon.
The large daily average of notices of
reduction of pensions sent out to veterans
and other pensioners is kept up by the
pension bureau. These are in accord
ance with the act of Dec. 81, 1898, and
provide for reduction unless additional
evidence is filed within thirty days. The
notices have. been forwarded by regis
tered letters in order to record the time
of receipt. Already 1000 have been sent
in this way.
The proposed amendment to the pre-.
amble of the constitution 'sacknowledg-
ing the supreme authority and just gov
eminent Of Almighty God in all the af-
fairs of men and nations was finally dis
posed of by the house committee on judi
ciary when by a viva voce vote it was de-
cided to allow the resolution to lie on the
table, the only dissenting voice against
such action being that of Representative
W. A. Stone of Pennsylvania.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-04-05
TO TRY ANOTHER SEIGNIO7AGE BILL.

Representative Henderson of North
Carolina followed the presentation of the
presidents veto message in the house by
submitting bill for the coinage of silver
seigniorage. The text is the same as the
Bland bill, emitting the second section
and some of the explanatory language of
the first section. 1t directs the secretary
OF the treasury to coin as fast as possible
the silver seigniorage into legal tender
standard silver dollars. The bill was re-
ferred to the coinage committee.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-04-05
HE SWiPED NE PANTS" 4

1t Was New Tale Of Woe This Ingenious
Begsar Offered.
So hard a winter as this just closed
has developed all the ingenuity of the
tramp Take man who must live by
his wits alone, and yet one whose am
bition does not rise to broadcloth. silk
hats and rooms at the Richelieu says
the Chicago Herald, and you have
human ingenuity at the highest strain.
They can deceive the very elect.
Whether they are telling the truths a
simple guess, no matter what the sScor.
roborative evidence. Street beggars
used to plead for dime or nickel to
complete fund with which they were
going to buy bed or supper. They
claimed to be very hungry or worn out
with fatigue. They looked SO straight
into your eyes, assuming a countenance
of immaculate virtue, and signing with
the memory of misfortunes.
But latterly they have changed all
that. Now they openly ask for dime
to buy them drink, and the very
frankness of it has won scores OF
them very comfortable income, for
every drinking man in town will give
the price of a drink, if he has it, rather
than send soul away uncheered by
toddy. @
They have developed q countless
variety of ways. One of them struck
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-04-05
PLAN TO KILL SUGAR BOUNTIEs.

A plan for abolishing the sugar boun-
ties without waiting for their repeal in
the tariff bill has been discussed by men,
bers OF the house opposed to bounties, by
attaching bounty repeal amendment as
o rider to the legislative and judicial ap-
propria ton bill. The ways and means
committee has taken no action on the
suggestion, nor is it likely to for the
present, as it would indicate fear that
the tariff bill might fail.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-04-05

Inquiry among republican senators as
to the policy they will pursue with refer
ence to the tariff bill when it shall reach
the senate develops the fact that they
are as yet undecided as to whether they
will move to recommit the bill upon the
commencement of the debate. This was
the first plan when the bill was received
from the house and the democratic ma
jority of the finance committee refused
to grant hearings, but there are indica-
lions that they have reconsidered and
will not move in this direction, at least
not at the beginning of the debate.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-04-05
asoMEBoDY swlPED ME PANTS, seer"

"soMEBoDY swlPED ME PANTS, SECT"
Slivers, the artist, the other evening.
"Say, boss, said he, II amt goin' to
sing you no tale of woe, bnt somebody
swiped me pants"
3Your what?" exclaimed the aston
ished Slivers. @
aMe pants, said the man. aYou see.
it was dis way. Me and me partner
was sleepin' in the lodgin'-house down
here and some bloke swiped me pants.
I've got on me partners and me part
ner's in bed. Can't you stake fellow
to pair?"
aWell, that's q new one, said Slivers.
ut seems worth the price Of pair Of
trousers. Come up to my den and see
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-04-05
FAvORs A LARGE CUT IN SALARIES.

Representative Boen of Minnesota has
introduced a bill for the reduction of
compensation of persons in the govern
ment service The bill recites that the
unit value of money is increasing and
that private wages are falling, while
public salaries are kept up to their old
figures. 1t further states that the peo-
pie are being borne down by ''the incom-
potency, dishonesty, or corruption OF
those who control the affairs of our gov
ernment.'' It provides. that salaries
from 81 900 to 5000 be reduced Is per
cent, and those from 5000 to $4,000 re-
duced SO per cent; all above $4,000 re-
duced 50 per cent.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-04-05

il l can SUIT you. !, 5,3 ~
The unfortunate man rode up in the
elevator, warmed his hands at the steam
coil, selected pair Of trousers that
Slivers had discarded because the
pockets We're not deep enough--this not
being an objection in the 'beggar's case
and went down again, leaving his
thanks and those of his partner as pay
ment in full.
Slivers doesn't know yet whether the
man was honest, and he doesn't care.
Whenever he finds anything new I'M
der the sun he is willing to pay for it.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-04-05

9WHAT A CHARMING GOWN THAT 10.
every dry goods store in town and
never worked so hard in my life, but !
couldn't find what I wanted at tho
price. Finally, in despair, I decided to
take the first piece had looked at,and
o, Laura, imagine my horror to find
when the clerk had cut of the pattern
that had lost my pocketbook.
"How perfectly awful"
@Wasn't it? l thought I should die.
I knew I would have to tell Albert all
about it some time, SO I rushed around
to his Office to tell him in the presence
of strangers when he could not say
anything dreadful. I wept and &C
cused myself of carelessness when he
said he would advertise, for couldn't
remember when had had it last nor
how much money was in it. His part
ner was there, and he. seemed to feel
SO sorry for inches an old bachelor
that Albert didn't scold much, and
actually gave me the money the second
time"
@And then you went and got the
gown" !.
aWell, no; had changed my mind
about that piece of goods, it had such
q cheap look, so just went home to
think it over"
q aBut you never got that gown
cheap"
mo, didn't. The fact is found my
pockctbook on the hall table where /
had left it when I took out my car fare
to put in my GLOVE am SO careful OF
money that don't like to display much
in the cars"
aAnd what did Albert say when he
found it out?"
aHe would have said great deal il
he had found it out, but he never did.
knew he'd scold me for carelessness
if I told him, so I just kept all the
money and bought my gown. I'm so
glad you like 1t, dear. Chicago Trib-
une.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-04-05
PADDING IN THEIR SHOE TIPS.

Rich and Poor Swails Alike Stuff Out the
T"othpick Points of Th"ir FO"t.G"ar.
Vanity among the dudes begins at
the shoe-tips where it ends no man
can say. Their latest frenlz is to put
padding in the pointed tips of their
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-04-05
For Sale.

For Sale.
P. Rocks, pairs or trios; 1t. Brahmas
and eggs from Toulous Geese.
Address, Sec %, Elk.
Worthington,
21-1mo. MINI.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-04-05

Rich dudes have the work done by
their Wallets. Dudes who are their own
men-servants must do it themselves.
Fancy the ambitious swells sitting, pa
jana clad, in the quietude of hall bed
rooms and prodding tenderly wads of
shoe points, ~
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-04-05

THAT TREATY WITH CHINA.
Touching the new treaty, which has
been negotiated between the government
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-04-05
THE WORTF1INGTON ADVANC u.

of this country and China, it is learned
that for several years past the Chinese
government has been earnestly pressing
upon our government the desirability Of
such an agreement. The present treaty
is generally considered as the forerunner
of {, commercial treaty, the draft Of which
is believed to have been made and for
warded to China for the inspection OF the
Chinese government. Secretary Gresham
is known to be anxious to signalize his
administration Of the state department
by perfecting an agreement which will
increase the commercial interests OF the
United States in the Chinese empire.
. THE SUGAR TRUST CASE. sis
The attorney general has instructed
the district attorney at Philadelphia to
appeal the sugar trust case to the SUI
preme court OF the United States; not
that he expects to get o reversal of the
decision of the lower court, but because
he wants to get the opinion of the high
est judicial authority as to what cOnsti-
tutes monopoly. In this case che lower
court has decided that the sugar trust is
not monopoly, although it was shown
that it owns all the retineries in the
United States, because any person can
start refinery whenever and wherever
he pleases without interference from tho
trust-that is, it does not possess the sole
right to make sugar. In the second place
it was decided that the trust does not
strict commerce in the meaning OF the
law, because any one can buy and sell
sugar freely, at a price that only affords
a slight and reasonable profit upon the
cost of manIfac tllre. $500
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-04-05
EUT ALBERT NEVER FOUND 1T OUT,

Pathetic Tale of q Lost POcketbOOk and a
Charming Gown.
"What charming gown that ISL
cried the young woman with the
picture hat. 9 I only wish had one
like it, but never could afford it.
4Neither could I, my dear,if hadn't
lost my pocketbook.
"Good gracious, prosperity has affect
ed your mind; don't see how"
Il "Well, you see, Albert gave me the
money to buy gown; I told him it
was not half enough, but he protested
it was every cent he could afford. !
cried for two days about it and. as he
didn't give in then, concluded he was
really telling the truth, so I started
out to do the best could. went ia
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-04-05

Hoods Pills act easily, yet promptly and
efficiently, on the liver and bowels. 25c.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-07-19

cast, uncovered head. Close behind
him walked Jailer Morris and then
came Prendergast.
The condemned mans face was
eagerly watched by the spectators to
see whether he would bear up under
the terrible strain when he came in
sight of the dangling moose. He held his
head well back and his lips were
slightly parted. He was deathly pale.
His hands hung close to his sides and
he looked steadily before him as he
walked onto the trap.
Father Barry, Prendergast's spiritual
visor stood beside him, holding a
small pray err book, but neither man
spoke.
Jailer Morris rapidly passed strap
around Prendergast's ankles and
bound them firmly. AS he stood UP
and touched the arm of the condemned
man the latter lips parted and raising
his right hand he made the sign OF
the cross.
Morris, Sheriff Gilbert and Spears
hastily stepped from the trap to the
solid part of the scaffold, the jailer
waved his hand to the hangman in the
little box at the rear of the scaffold.
Then the whole platform seemed to
sink under Prendergast, the white
figure shot down and dangled at the
end of the taut rope. The sentence OF
the court had at last been carried out.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-07-19
Colgate Searching Party Returns.

MIssoULA, Mont, July 1.-THE Col
gate searching party, sent out under
the direction of Ben f. Kelley, the
trapper, who escorted the Carlin
hunting party out of the mountain
Businesses last tall, which left this
city in June, returned unexpectedly
here, having met with no success.
1t is now generally thought Colgate
persisted near the spot where he was
deserted, and that his rem aims were
carried away by the waters, which
attained height of forty feet above
low-water mark during the spring.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-07-19
HANGED UNTIL DEAD.
PRENDERCAST, SLAYER OF
HARRISON, EXECUTED.
He Made No Dying Declaration at All
Nothing Occurs to Mar the solem-
uitv-The Prisoner Met His Fate
With Remarkable Fortitude.

CHICAGO, July AT 11:4715 o'clock
yesterday Patrick Eugene Joseph
Prendergast was hanged in the corri-
der of the Cook county Jail for the
murder of Carter III. Harrison.
Prendergast retained his nerve to
the end and approached his doom
without faltering. He made no dying
speech on the scaffold and not a
word was spoken from the time he
stepped on the trap until the end The
drop fell at I1:l71a and the body was
cut down at 1858. For over an hour
the crowd of spectators sat in the
bright corridor with the gloomy glib
bet and its dangling rope before them.
1t was just 11:44 when Turnkey
schaeffer, who was standing on the
scaffold, removed his hat and waved
his hand to the crowd below.
Instantly every voice was stilled
and few anxious spectators shufiied
about to secure standing-room where
they might obtain better view of the
execution.
The death procession was ap-
preaching. Sheriff Gilbert then
came into view from behind the
cells He walked slowly with down
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-07-19
SHOWS TRADE SOUND.
Withstands the Eject OF Both Strikes
and Tariff Talk.

New YORK, July 16 r.. G.. Dun &
Co.'S Weekly Review of Trade says:
When circumstances are duly weighed
the strength and soundness of bust
ness in this country during the last
two weeks are amazing. The shrink
age of business and the depression of
values have been unexpectedly small,
the failures relatively few and unim-
portant, and there are even signs in
some industries of actual progress to-
ward recovery from previous troubles.
Wheat is slightly lower, in profound
disregard of the government report
indicating yield of less than 400, DOO,-
600 bushels, and as the official esti-
mate of yield in 1893 was more than
100, 600, 900 bushels short of actual eX-
ports and consumption, it is readily
assumed that another discrepancy
as large may spring from SINH
lar causes. Receipts and exports
in the present disturbed con-
dition of business are not significant
Corn has advanced a little though &C
counts indicate good yield. Cotton
has declined an eighth with more
favorable information as to conditions,
and the years records have so dis
credited official and other estimates
that little attention is now paid to
them. With stocks of American
abroad about as large as a year ago,
and the demand for cotton goods visi-
bly, narrowing, weakness is natural.
The decrease in failures exhibited
last week is followed by good returns
for July thus far. Reported liabilities
in the. first five days were only Ssil,-
567, though mail delays keep back
some western returns The number
of failures during the last week have
been 237 in the United States, against
374 last year, and in Canada 49, against
25 last year.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-07-19
items OF GENERAL NEWS

The president on the 18th signed the
Utah admission bill.
Yale College sent her athletic team
to England to contest with that of Ok
ford and the latter won by a score of
20 to 90.
Two hundred sticks of dynamite ex-
ploded among a crowd of men who
were preparing to go to their days
work in the Stockton mine at Hazleton,
Pa. All of the unfortunates were scat
tered and torn to fragments. The
exact number killed is not positively
known but it is placed between eight
and eleven. The true cause of the ex-
plosion will never be known as none of
the men are living.
While Troop F, Third United States
Cavalry, IN duty at Chicago in main
tanning peace, was getting ready for
running exercise, a caisson exploded,
killing three men and wounding fifteen
others, one of whom has since died. 1t
is said a portion of the apparatus be-
came dislodged, letting some powder
out. This became ignited by friction
and the awful explosion resulted. The
loss to adjacent property will reach
about $4,000.
The new United States cruiser Min
neapolis on its trial trip made a speed
of 1914 knots an hour, proving her to
be the fastest cruiser afioat. Her con-
tract called for speed of 81 knots, and
allowed $50, 900 for every quarter knot
above that speed, which will give the
Cramps a bonus of $450,00O.
A dispatch says the japanese gov
eminent has chartered sixteen steam
ers to land troops in Corea. Strong
reinforcements are also held ready in
Japan and war with China is regarded
as inevitable.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-07-19
Passed Fraudulent Cheeks

DETROIT, Mich, July l7.-Alonzo
Jay Whiteman, at one time member
of the Minnesota senate, the son of
millionaire and worth $780, 900 in his
own right, occupies cell in the GEN.
trail station. When arrested he gave
the name of Frederick Henry Cooper,
but he was recognized by former
chum in the Columbia Law college of
which he is graduate. He is under
arrest here for completely with James
r. Dewitt in passing a forged check
for $50 on the Cadillac hotel. He made
full confession.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-07-19
Literary Notes.

'The picturesque grandeur of the
Great Smoky Mountains" says the
Boston Beacon, again provides an
effective background for Miss Murfee
Charles Egbert Craddock) in her story
of His Vanished Star''-a story in
which mountaineer obstinacy, roman
ticism and superstition are matched
with northern enterprise and determi-
nation in result that may very well
be spoken of as drawn battle" The
book has just been issued in neat form
by Houghton, Miffiin e Co., Boston and
New York.
Outing for July opens with delight
fully entertaining complete story,
THE Descent of Isaac Russ" by Frank
NJ. Bicl1nell. In it figure the erratic
heroine, two lovers, and Isaac Russ"
an air-ship. and before the author gets
through with them he proves conclus-
lively his rare power as writer OF
clean, original and charmingly quaint
humor. There is wholesome laugh
for everyone who reads this story.
The Architects and Builders Edition
of the Scientific American is large
and splendid illustrated periodical,
issued monthly, containing floor plans,
perspective views, and sheets of con-
structive details, pertaining to modern
architecture. Each number is illus
trated with beautiful plates, showing
desirable dwellings, public buildings
and architectural work in great vari-
riety.
The July Cosmopolitan marks the
close of the first year since the revo-
lutionary announcement was made
that the price of that magazine, al.
ready low, had been cut to one-half OF
three dollars year. All sorts of pre-
| dictions have come to be unfulfilled
during the year-it would be impossible
to maintain the rate-the quality
would be lowered-the size would be
decreased. But even severe critics
admit that with each succeeding num-
Der there has been a betterment in the
quality of articles and illustrations,
and the size has remained unchanged
| except the always growing advertising
pages. The magazine printed, for the
six months embraced in Volume XVI,
| one million four hundred and nineteen
| thousand copies, an entirely unap-
preached record, and has doubled its
already large plant of presses and
| binding machinery.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-07-19
HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHIC

Spectacles were invented in the year
1920, but were not in general use until
nearly 200 years later.
The giant Galabra, brought from Arabia
to Rome during the reign of Claudius
Cesar, was ten feet high.
Melons were first called canteloupes
from being cultivated at Canteluppi,
village near Rome, where they had been
introduced from Armenia by missionaries
The Carthagenians were the first to in
troduce a stamped leather currency.
Leather coins with silver nail driven
through the center were issued in France
by King John the Good in 1906.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-07-19
May Not Name a tor.

CHICAGO, July 16.-Sentiment among
the republican leaders seems to be
crystallizing against making a nom
nation for United States senator in
the state convention. 1t is the opin-
ion of many of the leaders that a ma
jority of the delegates to the conven-
ton will take the position that it
would be wiser not to thwart the am
bition of persons who may aspire to
the caucus nomination by making a
nomin alton in the convention.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-07-19
Had Planned to Kill the Gar.

VIENNA, July 1.-THE Poster Lloyd
publishes a dispatch from Warsaw
that the proposed autumn maneuvers
of the Russian army near Smolensk
have been abandoned. The dispatch
adds that the abandonment of the
maneuvers was due to discovery re-
Gently made of mines that were in
tended to blow up the building which
would have been occupied as the
headquarters of the car. A number
of nihilists have been arrested con-
nected with the plot
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-07-19

It is possible for any Chinaman, on
the payment of a sufficiently large
sum of money, to become diety in
the Celestial empire.
"Fitzgoober's wife leads him ter
rible life; she's constantly quarreling
with him" Indeed; why dldn
think she ever lost her temper" "She
don't; it is always with her"
"Gotrox has sent that wooden
headed son of his on an ocean voyage.
I wonder what for?" 81 understand
somebody told him if mere was any
thing in the boy the sea would bring
it OUT
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-07-19
SAYS Her Husband Is a Murderer.

NEWARK, N. j., July l7.-Mrs Henry
Kohn of this city has virtually con-
fessed that her husband murdered
Joseph Preine, whose dead body was
found in Shinder creek June Is. Last
Sunday night KohD quarreled with
his wife and drove her out of the
house with knife. He was arrested
and committed to Jail for assault and
Mrs Kohn makes the confession
which duplicates her husband
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-07-19

When the aluminium cap was put on
the Washington monument it cost 80
a pound. Now it can be bought for
thirty-seven cents pound.
Professor Dewar of the Royal in
stitute, London, in a recent lecture
astonished his audience by many
wonderful experiments, among others
the freezing of soap bubbles.
The interior of the Josephine caves,
near Grams Pass, Oregon, has been
explored for distance of thirteen
miles. Although in the midst of a
rugged country, they are easily
reached by wagon road.