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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-04-23

THERE is more Catarrh in this section OF
the country than all other diseases put to.
gether, and until the last few years was sup
years doctors pronounced it a local disease
and prescribed local remedies, and by con.
stantly failing to cure with local treatment,
pronounced it incurable. Science has proven
catarrh to be q constitutional disease, and
therefore requires constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure, MANUFACTURED by F. J.
Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only
constitutional cure on the market. It is
taken internally in doses from 10 drops to 9
teaspoonful. 1t acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces Of the system. They
offer one hundred dollars for any case Il
fails to cure Send for circulars and testi-
monials. Address F. J. CHENEY & Co., To-
ledo, o. Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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Royalty Gathers at Nice.

Nice, April 2O.-The -Dowager EN-.
press Frederick of Germany has arrived
here for visit to Queen Victoria, her
mother. The dowager czarina Of Rus.
sia, the duke of Saxe-Goburg and Gotha
and the emperor and empress of Ger.
many arrived Sunday evening to be
present at the wedding of. the heredi-
tary Prince Ernest of Hohenlohe-Lan
genburg and Princess Alexandra, the
third daughter of the duke of SAKE.
Coburg and Gotha (the duke of Edin-
burgh) and granddaughter of Queer,
Victoria. The arrival of the royal per.
scnages was greeted with firing OF
artillery salutes, the ringing of bells
and the cheering of the people.
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PASSED AWAY.

Death Of Arthur I. Boreman, West Vir-
Einia's First Governor.
Parkersburg, w. Va, April 20.--Ar.
thur I. Bore1nan, first governor Of West
Virginia, afterwards United States Sell
ator~and for eight years judge Of tho
Fourth judicial circuit court, died Sun
day morning at $3.50 after two weeks
illness. "A general breaking down Of
his constitution, brought on by ever
work and old age, was the cause of Bis
death. He took an active part in the
formation of the state of West Virginia
and has been one OF its leading citi.
zens ever since. He was Is years of age,
His death leaves but two Of the state s
ex-governors living.
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AN AID TO TRADE.
Seasonablo Weather Brings Improvement
t, In Business. $s#

Se00On0bl0 weather Brings improvement
in Business. &s
New York, April 1s.--R. G. Dun & Co.
in their weekly review of trade say:
1.-THE sudden change from sleighing "a
midsummer heat has tested the prevalent
idea that good weather only was needed ia
bring general Improvement Of business
Everywhere there mas been more retail
buying and in some branches better de.
mand at wholesale and at the works has
resulted, but not as yet in most lines
There is no abatement Of the almost uni
versal disposition to deal with unusual
conservatism and not to anticipate future
spicuous where combinations have been
formed or prices advanced.
ITO many interested in iron ore and coke
steel billets. Bessemer pig and vartoul
forms Of steel, it may be disappointing
that the forming Of combinations and fix
ing Of prices have not started again tie
rush to buy ahead of needs. which made
last year SO memorable. But 1t is not easy
to forget the lesson which the past veal
taught. Instead of Increasing, purchases
have been on the whols rather slackened
though little better in plates at the eas(
and in sheets at Chicago
1.-THE boot and shoe makers have put
some quotations shade lower since leather
has fallen below the average q year ago
and hides at the lowest average since No
vember; 1894, having declined three rel
cent. this week. The northern and north
western demand is backward Though he
south has bought freely. The silk associa.
ton states that 40 per cent. of the machtn'
cry and hands in the country are idle, part
ly because of increasing Japanese compe!
tition. Several more wooden mills have
shut down and some have reduced wages
ten per cent, while many are working only
half time, but recent advances by apprais-
vat MIL hAa n1nvS vol,
tons in the past, but tend to check future
imports. The demand for goods does not
improve. Somewhat more demand <o1
staple cottons has been aroused by bar
gain prices, but the closing of many mills
for a time is urged as necessary.
Wheat rose about five cents last week.
met some reaction, bus is a shade higher
changed for many days. rumors either way
having no effect. cotton rose a sixteenth
on Thursday Heavy commercial and mill
stocks hinder most buyers, and possibili-
ties of injury to the coming crop retard
sellers at current prices.
Partly because of low prices. which
were again the lowest ever known, the
volume Of business represented by clear
ing-house exchanges. SIS per cent. larger
than last year, is 20.4 per cent. smaller
than in April. 1893. Railroad earnings for
April thus far show gain of only 2.6 per
cent. over last year. The stock market
has grown stronger on stories about things
ing, though trusts weakened on the sign.
ing of an antitrust law by Gov. Morton.
March imports were $3,912,A55 smaller.
and exports SO, 3G6, 107 larger than last year,
and the excess Of exports was $9.14i.0l5.
Failures for the past week have bcc:,
year and Sc tn Canada. against "a last
wear"
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WAGES OF SIN.
An Eloping Couple and Two Chndrs1
Are Drowned.

An ElopinE Couple and Two Children
Are Drowned.
Hannibal No., April 2o.-For several
weeks past Samuel Drew and family
and Otto Oatman and family have been
camped on the opposite side of the river,
engaged in making willow baskets.
Thursday night, while Oatman was in
Quincy on business, Drew and Mrs.
Oatman and her two children eloped
and started down the river in a small
flatboat. Friday the hatboat sank in
the river ut a point about IA miles
south of this city and all the party were
drowned. The two children were boy
and a girl, aged seven and nine yers,
respectively. The boat sank in about
ten feet of water.
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News IN Brief. .

The Cannon Valley G., A. R. encamp.
ment will be held at Northfield, June
%, "A and 25. Posts from II towns and
cities will be represented, the associa'
ton being composed of old soldiers re-
siding in the counties of LIE Sueur, Wa
SEGA, Blue Earth, Rice and part of
Steele, Goodhue and Dakota.
"A. 81. Ranney, of Minneapolis. was
kicked in the head by a horse, and
q portion of the skull broken and
pressed down on the brain.
The Southern Minnesota Dental AS
ISOLATION held five days session at
Mankato.
The city engineer at st. Cloud, with
q crew, worked on the ice all night,
and in the morning the entire body
began moving, and went out SO rapidly
that nine men, including the engineer,
had a narrow escape from drowning
before they could reach shore. The ice
and logs piled up 30 feet high. going
over the dam, presented a grand sight.
All went over without damage to the
dam or bridges.
The ice in Lake Pepin has practically
disappeared and the navigation season
for 1896 is now practically open.
An attempt was made to burn the
home of the Kotchutz family of father,
mother and eight children, at Fountain
City. The front door and steps had
been saturated with oil and considera-
BILE paper burned. A timely rain put
out the blaze. ~,
Mary A. Kidder was commissioned
, postmaster at Thomson, and Walter w.
Wright at Swan River.
The farmers around Owatonna have
organized and will build an elevator.
Three little boys were found locked
I'M in box car at st. Paul. They were
playing hide and seek at Chippewa
Falls, Wis, abouta freight, when, be-
fore they knew it, they were locked in
the car snd pulled out of town. They
were nsAriy "a hours without anything
70 eat. 49,. > --....ys-., - s-,....,.
A cdl.fmittee of Methodists met at
Hennepin Avenue church. Minneapolis,
and AFTER full consideration decided to
make 10 fight for the general confer
ence ofloO0. The reason advanced WAS
that there was no hall In tho city salts
factory t0the COMMITTEES. = - n. :,
y i Is q .-
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First Place.

First place in the Minnesota Inter-
collegiate Oratorical Association has at
last been won by the University of
Minnesota. Not only that, but second
place, too.
The 10th annual contest of the asso-
citation occurred at the First Congrega-
tional church, Minneapolis, under the
auspices of the university association.
Adolph O. Eliason and Warren w. PEN
dergast, both of the university, took
first and second places, respectively,
and A. r.. Tasker, of Hamline, was
third. ~ ,&...-..> ~,
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St. Paul Lady Chosen.

Miss Caroline Boeckman, of St. Paul,
has been chosen to unveil the cast Of
the Ole Bull statue at the concert to be
held May II at the Exposition building,
at Minneapolis. There has been some
talk of late that the cast would not be
finished in time, owing to the illness Of
Jacob Fjelde, the sculptor, but there is
no foundation for this, as the cast is
practically finished now. The commit
tee that acted on the selection of a
young lady to perform the unwilling
consisted of J. w. Arctander, Charles
Kittleson, T. E. Nilsson, Eric Guile and
C. f. Struck.
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A Tough Young One

Fred Johnson. a 19-year old lad.
pleaded guilty to burglary in the sec
ond degree and was sentenced by Judge
Russell, of Minneapolis, to the reform
atory. johnson said that he had gone
to the house occupied by Emma Lind
and Lizzie Smith at 1921 Second street
s, and tried to get in. They wouldn't
let him in so he kicked in the door. The
presence of lot of silverware which
was found in his possession, however,
did not sustain his position in the mat
ter and he concluded to plead guilty.
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0ypsina.

WITH >a 0ypsine. H1-r r.
eanltarians cay that the use Of kalsomine
and paper on the walls promotes disease, ow.
ing to the fact that the glue and paste used,
being animal matter, decay and breed germs.
To have the home strictly healthful and
clean, ono should use q tinting or coloring
Of an animal nature. Permanent wall
finishes are now made to overcome this OBJ.
lection, and ut the same time, by their last
Ing cement qualities, to overcome the fur.
ther objection to kalsomine, that It has to
be washed of. The wall finishes harden
times, each successive coat cementing@itself
to the others and. making the plaster wall 80
much stronger and better. One Of the best
known and most used Of the permanent
finishes is Gypsine, called by the manufac-
turers, 1.-THE Everlasting, Healthful Finish, !"
which adequately and truthfully describe it.
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An Old Man,

c. A. Combs. colored man who was
born in 1884, died at his home on Sibley
street, st, Paul, at the unusual age of
112 years. This announcement will
astonish many, but the friends of the
decease claim that the record is COM
plete. He first saw the light in Ken
lucky, where he was born of slave
parents, and in his manhood became
the body servant of Zachary Taylor,
with whom he served all through the
Mexican war. He was for 60 years a
slave.
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Convention of School Boards.

convention Oh ScnOOA oO8ruSs
The first convention of the school
boards of the state met at Mortified,
the 18th. The following officers were
elected: President, DR.. w. A. Hunt,
Northfield; vice president, George s.
Spaulding. Alexandria; secretary, Luth
Jaeger, Minneapolis; treasurer, J. w.
Todd, Montevideo. Delegates to the
national conventions: w. G. Crosby,
Duluth; G. w. Boswell, Blue Earth
City; 81. Benedixeu, Springfield.
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Half Faro to Virginia and Caroline.

April 81 and May Homeseekers' Excur-
sion tickets will be sold from all points in
tho west and northwest over the big -Four
Route and Chesapeake and Ohio Ry. to Vir-
glnia and North Carolina at one fare forthe
round trip. Settlers looking for home in
the south can do no better than in Virginia.
There they have cheap farm lands, no. biz
cards, no cyclones, mild winters, never fail.
ing crops, cheap transportation and the best
markets. Send for free descriptive pamph.
let, excursion rates and time folders. q. l..
TRUlrT, N. w. p. A., 234 Clark St. Chicago, Ill
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SUITS CHAUNCEY.
Mr. Depew Says = Good Word for the
President.

Me. Depew Says Good Word FOR the
President.
New York, April 20.-The Montauk
club, of Brooklyn, Saturday night gave
dinner in honor of Chauncey NJ.
Depew's birthday. Around tho board
were gathered many of the most dis
tinguished citizens Of Brooklyn Mr..
Depew, who was the guest of honor.
was called upon for speech at the close
OF the feast. The unique feature of his
address was his reference to Grover
Cleveland. Speaking Of the president
he said:
"While differ widely from President
Cleveland on almost every part Of his pub
lie policy; while think that his theories
40 far as they have been practically car
ried out. have been disastrous. and, II
to our industries, nevertheless, in frank
ness and fairness, it is due to him to-day
to say that the rout Of the free-coinage Of
silver policy and the energizing of the ma
tional credit by the triumph Of sound
money, are more largely due to his throw
age and ability the whole strength and
power Of his great Office and of his adj
ninistration than to anything else.
while we have had period of distress
which has brought much suffering to mil
lions of homes. and while the cost has
been more than that Of a disastrous war,
yet the suffering has not been in vain and
the cost has not been lost II 1t shall have
gained for US in education by discussion
and by the experiences. Of our people the
DEATH Of the absuFdities Of populism and
.he triumph Of that sound moneycurrency
which. shall keep this the great trading.
business and commercial nation of the
world"
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Milan WIN Visit America.

;, London, April II The Standard an
nounces this morning that ex-K1ng
Milan of Servia will start in May for a
tour of the United States, which may
extend to San Francisco and around
the world. -. .,yEs.s: - "a.
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Better. Than Refined Gold

Is bodily comfort. This unspeakable boon
10 denied to many unfortunstes for whose
ailments Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is a
the rheumatic, the nervous, persons
troubled with biliousness or chifls and
fever, should lose no time in awaiting them
selves of this comprehensive and genial
medicine. 1tpromotes appetite ar d nightly
slumber.
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Celebrated Austrian sculptor Dead,

Vienna. April l7.-Victor Oscar Til
gner, the celebrated Austrian sculptor,
died here Thursday from a stroke OF
,opoplexy. His death occurred only IL
Jew days before the time fixed for the
unwilling of his masterpiece, monu-
1nent to Mozart. He was in his SD
year. $3.50 y &7.}5E5eH
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CoRRoBoRATED.-NewY orker-':Are Phil
adelphans as slow as New Workers think
they area" Philadelphia (surprisedl
New Workers think we're slow?"-Truth.
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''ruou hast pretty w.t." quoth the mon
arch. "Aye, and dry humor, replied tn
jester. Whereupon the king pushed thu
button. Record.
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THE discovery Of what is true, and the
practice of that which is good, are the two
most important objects Of philosophy
Voltairo
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A Child Enioye

The pleasant flavor, gentle action, and sooth-
ing effect of Syrup Of Figs, when in need Of
alaxatiye, and If tho father or mother be
costive or bilious the most gratifying 70
family remedy known and every family
should have q bottle.
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FoRrrFY Feeble Lungs Against Winter
with Hale's Honey Of Horehound and Tar
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FRS stopped free by DR.. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. No fits after first days use.
Marvellous cures. Treatise and 81 trial bot
tie free, DR.. Kline, 98l Arch st.. Phila, Pa
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HE-"Do you believe in love at first
any kind Of love. "-Somerville Journal.
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DID you write Tho N. G. Hamilton Pub.
Co., Of Cleveland, Ohio, about their Life Of
Mckinleyi Better do so-chance to make
money rapidly.
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HORACE appears in good humor while he
censures, and therefore his censure has the
more weight rs supposed to proceed from
judgment, not from passion.-Young.
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USE Piso's Cure for Consumption both in
my family and practice.-DR. q. W. PAT
TERsoN, Inkster, Mich, Nov. 5, 1894.
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SNAIL are the seeds fate does unheedet
SOW Of slight beginnings to important ends
-Davenant.
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GILL kiss you for my sisters sake.''
Pray, don'tforget yourself" she said.
! straightway took her at her word,
And kissed her for myself instead.
TRUTH
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DE TANQuE-"You don't take enough ex-
ercise for man Of your habits" Old Soak
-"Why, I have been shaking dice for
drinks all the afternoon. "-Philadelph
Record
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THE measure of choosing we'll is whether
q man likes what he has chosen.--Lamb.
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LET them obey that know not how to rule.
$3.50
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Killed by Burglars.

indianapolis, Ind, April 20. - Leo
Hirth, a wcll-known and wealthy Ger
man citizen, living at 1920 West Wasl,-
ington street, where he conducted a
large grocery business, was Instantly
killed at two O'Clock Sunday morning
by two masked men who were discov-
cred in his bedroom, and whom he pur-
sued into the rear of the house.
Mr.. Hirth was known to keep large
sums Of money in the house. 80,
National Congress Of Religious Education.
Washington, April ls.-The first ne
tional. congress of religious educa-
ton, under the American society de-
voted to that cause, will be held in this
city, beginning Monday evening next
and continuing until Thursday after
noon. Associated with the officers of
the society in the call for the congress
is q committee representing seven O:
the leading denominations, including,
besides prominent pastors, Justice
Brewer, of the supreme court; Hon.
Hilary A. Herbert, secretary Of
the navy; ]. L. McCurry, ex-minister
Os9pain' 49,, ''---t-' "s .F.,-
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-02-20
LONG LAKE.

Perry Whitford and family visited
at Fay Conklin's, Sunday.
Chas. Lynch and wife are keeping
house for Chas Hagadorn.
B. Hall has sold quantity of his
pine wood to Chas. Brown at Shiloh.
Henry Spencer moved his engine to
Sidney, last Saturday, to be used in a
mill.
Chas. Whitford and family, and AL
bert Brown and family were in Belding,
Friday.
LII. Whitford rallied his gun at
Chadwick, Saturday, and No. ii was
the lucky number.
The little four-year-old son OF Otis
Friant, who lives near the Birdslee
schoolhouse, in Fairplains, fell in a
dish pan of hot water, last Wednesday,
and was scalded TO death.
Talk about spooks, and hobgoblins,
and sleeping in the haunted Hagadorn
house eighteen years ago with litter
OF puppies, we think that if Hagadorn
ever killed anything at that place, it
was that same litter of pups as they
we're said to cause no end of trouble.
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Last Weeks Letter.

Mr. Hicks of Ionia called on f.. Ring
and wife, Sunday.
Mr. Davis of Lowell is assisting Mr..
Broadbent in the flour mill.
Mr. and Mrs. T.. Cambell of Lowell
called on friends here, Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. George Macarthur of
Oakiield spent Monday at Edmund
Rings.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burr DAVIS Sundayed
at Orleans with her mother, Mrs.
Towns.
Cora Godfrey of Lake Odessa was
visiting friends and relatives here for
several days this week.
Sarah White visited at George
Bradish's, near Greenville, on Frank
Chase's farm, last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. ID. A. Church, and Mr..
and Mrs. Willis Purdy visited relatives
in Belding one day last week.
Miss Ida Cooper of Lowell and Mr.
Mckabe OF Smyrna were guests at
John Hapeman's, Sunday evening.
Glad to learn that our editor, T.. b.
Lapham, will go on the excursion to
Mexico and hope that he will give us
a graphic description of his journey on
his return.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-02-20
FENWICk.

Plenty of snow and cold weather up
this way.
Mrs. Richard Willett is on the sick
list, this week.
Charles Emmons was at Sheridan on
business, Tuesday.
H. ID. Loree was on the sick list, last
week, but is out now.
Lewis Haysmer is much worse; lie
can live but a few days.
Miss Pearl Hinman is helping Mrs.
Willett for week or two.
Charles Hagadorn called on Vern
Crosby, one day this week.
Robert chatham is very sick at
present with heart failure.
&The new F. Nj. church west OF Fen
wick will be dedicated February %.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Hays
mer, Saturday morning, daughter.
Mrs. Oliver Champlin was one of the
school "marms" at Greenville, last
week.
w. G.. Rasmsen speared fish at
Amsden. last Saturday, that weighed
20t pounds.
The Methodist Ladies' Aid Society
will meet at the home of Mrs. George
Chairman, February 20.
GMiss Myra Saring teaches the
Barnes school this winter. She is
teaching the older ones how to paint.
Mrs. S. L. Slocum has been very
sick for "a week or so with throat and
lung trouble, but. is some better at
present.
Married, by Fred Simmons, Esq, at
his home in Bushnell, Harry Piper and
Miss Bessie Saule, both of Bushnell,
February TO-
Filling ice houses seems to be the
order of the day around here. The
ice is some twelve or fourteen inches
thick and clear and nice.
The young people of the Barnes
school gave Miss Evelyn Rasmussen a
surprise, Friday night. They had a
good time but on the way they had a
themselves in the shape of a.
barbed wire fence.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-02-20

Frank Loree and family returned
from their trip, Monday night.
p. f. Broadbent and family, our
Amsden miller, spent Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. Nelson Stafford.
w. E. Thompson has sold his inter-
est in the firm of Thompson Bros. TO
his aunt, Mrs. l.. f.. Curtis.
DR.. Donders, while on his way from
here to Shiloh, Tuesday night, had a
runaway. The result was dislocated
shoulder.
Mrs. Carey of Fairplains, after a
long illness, passed away last Thursday
evening. The funeral was held at the
Fairplains Nj. L. church, Sunday.
Lewis Haysmer has only a short
time to live. He has cancer on his
under lip, his throat is filling up and
he can not eat anything. A daughter,
Mrs. Lizzie Gordon, OF Gowen, has
been with him this week.