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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-05-02

sen ~ the opening. ana = frm<r feeling
resulted Later. however. ofcrsnrS be-
came free. and yesterdays recort-sreAk-
Ing pfsces were touched
frcvt1tons were weak ali day. The OPEN
sng was hover. Influenced by the demorai-
incd condition OF the 1--we stock market.
ard ~ the grain markets wsskened stsit
farther reflections wers noted IN pork and
r.hA
Cios1ag Quotations.
Wkeat-May. es<c. June, ssssc.
Ccrn-Aay. Skc; JAY. SIC
osfs-Aay. ls'sc. July. sc.
fork-Nay. E.sss July. 0.is,
Lard-May. s$-ss. July, A.sa-
Ras-May. ss.essss JAY. A.is.
Live stock.
Casrle-T oiay's nsarket was iAc higher
than yesterdays. sni the supply was well
6ken: ccrnsoa 70 eaesee dressed beef and
shipping steers. g .sasfs.sa; cows and heaf-
ers, s. -st7s Ts. bulls. s. sssss.
Hcsx-Ttse bulk sold saSsy AZ s. asf&A
sales being AZ S4s 3 fer heavy, with the
best weights A. $. . and clscsce assorted
l.ghss NJ 81. ssas %.
Shcep-Tnis weeks Supply promises 20
reach about ss.tsss head Trade toiAy was
active At fssli prices sheep were wanted
At & -SssS.-s for cor,ncn to chc!ces lambs
eold .; S.s5f7s FOR ordinary to fancy
fccks, and large numbers sold at IS.
Receipss-Csttie 4.see. hcgs sa.ssa. sheeu
Hoe.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-05-02

Got On TO tho Nor1BfFn tocluc fiyep.
The change OF time via the Northern
Pacific enables passengers 70 leave seat
tie daily at 80 p. m, reaching 81. Paul
and Minneapolis IN three days. 81. Louis
and Chicago I'm three and one-haf days.
LINCOLN. Neb., NJ 13:ss noon Of the third
dav. Omaha ut As. 81. Joseph ~ SO,
Atrhison at ga. T.eayeDworfh at T.ss and
Kansas City at s:ss.
You can see from this that the Northern
Pacific equals all Other lines 70 all points.
aaa, IL you VIII compare schedules. you
will sec the Northern Pacific beats nj.
other lines into Lincoln fcnr hours. ~.
Joseph twelve hours. Aichis5n twelve
hours. LeavenscFIh fourteen hours and
Kansas City ten hours aad forty.fiss min
uter. where Immediate connections are
made In unlon depSts for all points
south.
Don't forget that the Northern Pacific
Is the only line running two trains daily
20 the Eaxs, ths only line making close con-
nerssons with only one change OF ears 10
all southeastern points. the only Hire to
the Yeilowsfone Nafional Park, ara tho
Pullman ard dininx-ear route from aeat-
tie.
For fan information. tickets. sleeping
car reservations. etc. cali on or write T.
A. Sadeau. General Agent. corner First
avenue and fesier way. Seattle. Wash.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-05-02
MARINE NEWS.

San Francisco, May 1.-Arrived-U. 3.
8. Petrol. Honolulu; schr CoQuslle. Co
guile river; biz Aureoia. Columbia river:
schr Guide. Tacoma; schr Parkcrsburg.
CoQuiile river. schr Del Norte. CoQuiile
rivay. Departcd--Schr Annie Larsen. Ia
coma: schr Maria 4. Smith. Tacoma.
Port Gamble. May 1.--Speclal-Arrived
--Sehr Meteor. Capt. Bjorn. twenty -ona
days from San Pedro. sehr Spokane. Capt
Jameson. thirteen days from San Fran
cisco.
Hoquiam. May l.--Arrived April 3-Fur
Hoquiam. schrs Gem. San BuenAventura
and Uncle John. from San Francisco;
schr c. A. Thayer. from San Pedro. Ar
rived April so-Bktn North Bend from
san FrancIsco for Hoquiam
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-05-02

COMPOSITION IN nonparesi. minion, bre.
vfer or long primer faces on the foilov-
ing size bodies. SonpareiI or nsslou. 40
breeding - ems Plea: brewer, not ~
seediag ,s ems plea; long primer. not e.
ceedtng "a ems plea Special terms ~.
large ordsrs Address Post-intslligencSr.
Eea tia
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-05-02

Orders confirming sale were essrf& IN
the superior court YESTERDAY ~ follows:
r. 2. Robinson va. y. y. IsAy ~ tx lots
ard 7. block /: lots ], : and :. block &.
E1derado. rs. IN the matter q the estate
of John wackfors. iEsxaHss loss ! ard :.
beck e. Fon,ias' serossd supplemental adj
6li.ou, 10 Jacob Ez1eF. In.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-05-02
Ho2s-Nom.nal at aa4c per pound
NEW YORK MARKETS.


New York. May The ahseace 81 os1s-
side interests IN the stock market was
sharply defined today. the aggregate trans
actions footing Up barely iaes shares The
Giilness 10 parity ascrftsea 10 the renewal
Of the gold exports ard the political aacer-
faintiee ahrosf. which have caused eoTn-
plate withdrawal Of pEsiic Interest In THE
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-05-02

ne California readers Of the Post-latsa.
ngencer will md II on sale daily At Cooper
4 Co.'S stationary store. ~ NariEet street.
Just one block up MARKET street fren the
Chronicle once. PF1ce e.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-05-02

THE ssx-stofy building OF me Junior Or
Ger Of Losiea American Atchangrz ~
fniiafsiphia: MAS entirely DESTROYED ~
fire Wednesday sight. Loss. about t2io, 90.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-05-02

1Daiiy. iDafy except Sunday.
Short AID Greet line 70 ali points IN
British Columbia through the pffrc4nsi
1um1er districts Of Western washIngtou-
General cfsee. Coimaz block. 6eastla.
Wash.
r. A. ALLEN. General Treish. saa
PaaFenrer Agent
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-05-02
PORTLAND WHEAT MARKET.
sAN FRANCISCO aARKErs.

Portland, May -WallA Walla.
5785scs Valley. s9Qe0c per bushel.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-05-02


Total sales.
The total sales of stocks today were 1ol.-
GO shares. including: American Tobacco,
s.4oo: American Sugar. 1a.eo; General
Electric. 400. Louisville 4 Nashville. $500:
Manhattan Consolidated. 1850: Reading,
$500; St Paul 1000.
Flour-Receipts. 1880 barrels: exports,
1880 barreis. Dull and easier, with tho
fall IN wheat, although stili held 1t old
figures.
Wheat.
wheat-Receipts, es.soo bushels; exports,
3. 800 bushels. Spot weak: No. red. IKE;
No. / hard. 7ikc. Options opened steady.
but yielded to disappointing cables, big
spring wheat receipts and fine weather In
the winter wheat belt. and later sold on
under free liquidation. closing xGsfc net
lower. No. 2 red May closed ssc; ssptem-
Der. Sac.
Hops-Dull
Pig rron-ouiet; Southern. slo7sg1asp:
Northern. tiI3i350.
Copper-Duli; exchange price. tio.7k
Lead--Quiet. exchange price, sos.
Tin-stesdy; straits. Sis-s9isso: plates.
firm
speiter--Quiet: domestic. Ao6<3Glo
Coffee.
Cosfee-Opssons closed steady, at 10 points
decline: May. sizS; September. 81 500
nso. epot coHee-Rio. quiet: No. :. u5sc:
mild quiet: Cordova, lsa.9lsc.
Sugar.
sugar--Raw. quiet but nrTn: refined quiet.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-05-02
Money ana Exchnnu..

Money on call. easy At sssas per cent. |;
iAst loan "a. closed "a per cent; prime
mercantile paper, A4&5.s per cent. sser-
ing exchange steady. with actual business
IN bankers bills ~ A@s04ss for demand
and eASs&0Ass for sixty days: posted
rates. Ass.ss2<s and s.ssas6&so: CONNER
ciai bills. N0. Bar silver. sc. Silver Ger
uficatea. 6ss6ssasc.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-09-24
OUR COLUMBUS LETTER.
Some Statistics on Ohio's Facilities
for Giving Her Youth Higher
Education.
The Three Institutions Over Which
She Exercises Control-Their
Manner of Origin.

Two Public Men who Emulate David and
Observation-Disclosures In the State Ii.
brary-The New commission-Grind OF
the Courts.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-09-24
MUCH COMPLICATED CASE.
Is Isaac Smith Suffering for An
others Crime?

Mr. James McCloud. of Scioto conn.
ty, was at the penitentiary recently To
see the institution. He is well posted
On the case of Isaac Smith, who is sery.
ing life sentence from Pike county.
He says the people of that cou1 ty have
never believed that Smith com.aitted
the crime for which he was five times
sentenced to be executed. and his sen.
tence was even carried so far that he
was placed on the fatal trap door be.
fore being notified that Governor Camp.
bell had granted him a communion of
sentence to imprisonment for life
Smith was well known in that COUNTY
Nathan Wallace, now dong time In the
prison from Sciotoc county was general,
Iy regarded as bad man. It will be
remembered that his step-mother re.
Gently made affidavit that she had
overheard Wallace and pal talk about
having committed the crime while Sc
creted in her house. When Wallace was
sentenced to serve time the court ask ed
him what he knew about the crime nd
he refused to answer. but turned pale
Smith is now a trusty about the prison.
and goes out and comes In the big gate
at will, He still ma ntains that he is In.
nocent of the crime. and he Is as pos;
tive about 1t as he was the night he
was placed on the death trap 10 make
him confess that he was the real muir.
aerer of Stephen Skidmore.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-09-24

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Sept. 19.-The
sheriff has been asked by the Wood
ward Iron company for protection
against some of its men who made
threats and opposed other of the miners
who had agreed to resume work at Il
per cent reduction. For awhile the
situation was threatening. The sheriff
held posse in readiness to act and
trouble was averted but the situation is
regarded as still serious
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-09-24

All those creeping, crawling, stinging
sensations that combine to make up the
tortures OF any itching disease OF the
skin are ing family relieved and perman-
emily cured by Dosn's Ointment. Take
no substitute. Deans never fails.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-09-24
The Silver Question.

Battered Butts-Now, see here,
Weary Here's de hull silver question
in a nutshell. If you he'd fifty-t'ree
cents wort ov silver in yer pocket, and
yer knew yer could take it to de United
States Treasury an git silver dollar
fer II, ye'd do it, wouldn't yer2
Weary Willy-No.
Battered Butts las tounded) Am why
not?
Weary Willy--'Cause I never could
git by all de saloons between here an
de Treasury wit dat much silver in me
pocket. Puck.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-09-24

He-Miss Uptodate's bicycle rigging
is pretty loud ism it2
Her Rival-Loud I should say IL
was. Every time she passes a vacant
barn by the roadside her bloomers crs-
Ated an echo.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-09-24
Teachers Examinations

The Board of Examiners of Stark county will
meet at Canton for the exsTination of applicants
for Teachers, Certificates, on the FIRST Satur
day of each of the following months:
September and December 1895.
January. February, March. April, May and
June, 1897; also, on the THIRD Saturday OF
1897.
Examination of pupils under the Boxwell Law.
at Canton, on the THIRD Saturday of April and
on the THIRD Saturday of May, 1897.
All examinations begin promptly at 8:15 A NJ.
All work must be done with pen and ink.
Examinations will be held in the Central High
School building.
JOHN ELLIS, Pres,
Massillon, o.,
JOHN NJ. SARVER,
Canton, o.,
j. A. SYLER. Clerk,
New Berlin, o.,
EXAMINERS.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-09-24
Cautious Comnarison

And you say that the hailstones
were as large as hens eggs?"
mo, said the cautious person, they
were not quite that They were, say,
aboua the size of boarding house canta.
lOunaa
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-07-09
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

The following congressional nomina-
tons were made. Minnesota, First dis
trict, J. A. Tawney (rep.) renominated;
Second, j. T. McCleary (rep.) renom.
mated; Third, ]. P. Heatwole (rep.) re-
nominated. Ohio, Fifth district, D,
Meckison (dem.);. Eighth. M. Dunn
(dem.). illinois, Nineteenth district,
A. ]. Hunter (dem.); Twenty-first, T.
E.. Ford (dem.); Twenty-second, j. J.
Hall (pop.). Kansas, Fifth district, w,
A. Calderhead (rep.) renominated. Cal.
ifornia, First district, J. A. Barham
(rep.) renominated.
In the Fifth district of Ohio David
Meekeson, mayor of Napoleon. was nom.
mated for congress by the democrats.
During July conventions of the new
national prohibition party will be held
in over 20 states, and complete state
tickets and presidential electors nomi'
mated.
The Arkansas republicans in conven'
ton at Little Rock nominated II. NJ
Kennel for governor. The platform
adopted Endorsed the st. Louis plat
form.
In convention at St. Paul the Mime.
sofa republicans renominated David NJ
Clough for governor and adopted plat
form indorsing the national candidate.
and platform.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, the gifted
authoress of "Uncle Toms Cabin" and
other works of worldwide reputation
died at her home in Hartford, Conn.
aged "a years.
The Nebraska republican, state con
vention at Lincoln nominated John Nc.
Coll, of Lexington, for governor, and
adopted a platform indorsing the work
of the national convention.
Carrot a. Hobart, the republican
nominee for vice president, visited Maj.
Mckinley at his home in Canton, O.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-07-09
A FAMOUS LIFE ENDS.
Death at Hartford, Conn, Of Har'
riet Beecher Stowe.
A Briee synopsis Of the Life Of the
Gifted Woman Who Gave to the
World tho Great Novel s'Unole
Toms Cabin.

Hartford, Conn.,, July Mrs. Har-
riet Beecher Stowe, the gifted author
ess Of "Uncle Toms Cabin, ""Dred" and
other works Of worldwide reputation,
died at her home, No. 70 Forest street,
at noon Wednesday without regaining
consciousness. She passed peacefully
away as though into q deep sleep. BY
her bedside at the time were her son,
her two daughters, her married sister
and her husband and DR.. Edward Hook
e., her nephew, who was also her med
ical attendant, and other relatives.
Mrs. Stoves malady, of many years
continuance, mental trouble, took an
acute form on Friday, when congestion
of the brain with partial pa
ralysis appeared. During Fri
day, Saturday and Sunday Mrs.
Stowe was about the house. but
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-07-09
OVATION TO TELLER.
The Colorado Senator Warmly Received
on His Way Homeward.

The Colorado Senator Warmly Received
on His Way Homeward.
Denver, COL, July Ex-senator Henry
NJ. Teller could have aroused the west
to no greater demonstrations of ap-
prevail had he been sovereign of IN
empire or a president of a republic. All
Tuesday night his progress west from
Omaha along the line of the Union
Pacific was marked by noisy demon
STATIONS at every stopping point in
Nebraska. Bands met him with ener-
getic martial and patriotic airs, crowds
,cheered and demanded speech, and at
many places the senator was fairly
dragged from the train, mounted upon
boxes where he could be seen as he
thanked the people for their good feel
ings towards him and the cause he has
been championing. It was long after
midnight before his party or any other
passengers on the train could take any
comfort or rest.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-07-09
A Behring Sec Decision.

San Francisco, July LIN an opinion
handed down by the United States
court of appeals the Paris award in
regard to sealing in the Behring sea
must be upheld as the supreme law of
the land, and the United States govern
1nent is prohibited from making any
special laws that do not permit Amer
lean citizens equal privileges with for
eigners on the sealing territory. This
is the first decision defining tie restric-
tions to be placed ON American seal
hunters in the sea.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-07-09
LATER

The steamer Three Friends passed
Key West, Fla, the 9Th, pursued by
the Spanish warship Alfonso XII.
Both vessels were under full steam.
The Three Friends was between eight
and ten miles ahead of the warship.
1t has been stated by the observers
that the warship fred upon the Three
Friends. The warship was cutting the
three mile limit very close.
A despatch received by the state
from U. 8. Dispatch Agent
Rosa, at New York announces that
Gen. Pierce NJ. B. Young, U. 8. Minis
ter to Guatemala and Honduras, died
in New York the 9Th.
In the circuit court at Milwaukee,
Wis.,. the 9Th. Judge johnson upheld
the constitutionality Of the Keely law
and dismissed the demurrer entered by
the county to the suits brought by the
various institutions to recover for treat
ment ordered by the county judge. 1t
is stated that notice of appeal to the
supreme court will be Immediately
fled. This will put the case upon tho
next calendar. e..
Mrs. Ida RUSSELL. formerly of Fay.
cite, To-, but for the last year first cook
at the Hotel Tibbitts, of Sumner, TO-.
shot her 9-year-old daughter and then
killed herself. Up to the time Of the
tragedy there seemed to be nothing I'M
usual in Mrs. Fnssell's; appearance.
Fourteen prisoners overpowered tho
guards in the United States jail ut
Guthrie, Okla, and broke jail. Bill
Doolin and Dynamite Dick, the last
survivors Of the Dalton gang, who were
charged with the murders committed
in the Ingalls, fight, at which four. dep
uty marshals were killed, were the
principal actors. Fourteen out of 50
prisoners escaped.
During a drunken brawl at Mason
City, TO-, the 9th, Dick NJ. Vanderburg
shot and fatally wounded Charles d.
!! Martin. One ball passed entirely
through his body an inch above the
heart. The second inflicted a scalp
wound.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-07-09

suffering very much. Since Monday
morning she has been confined to her
bed, and Tuesday afternoon became I'm.
conscious.
Mrs. Stowe, until about seven years
ago, was in good health, although she
was frail bodily.
Short Biography Of Mrs.. Stowe.
Mrs. Stowe was the third daughter and
sixth child Of Rev. DR.. Lyman Beecher.
She was born in Litchfield. Conn.,, June "A,
Of four years, and was then placed under
the care Of her grandmother. who lived at
Guilford, Conn. After her fathers Sec
ond marriage her education was continued
at the Litchfield academy.
Her father. though Calvinist clergyman,
was possessed Of broad and liberal Views.
He had early cspoused the cause Of the
slave, and night and morning in family de-
votion Harriet heard her father appeal to
Heaven that the time Of deliverance might
The effect Of such sermons and prayers on
tho mind Of an imaginative and sensitive
child can easily be conceived. They tend
ed to make her from early childhood the
enemy Of all slavery.
Married. . clergyman.
In January, 1876, she married Calvin Ellis
Stowe. a clergyman Of the parish Of Wal
home In Cincinnati was q station Of the
underground railroad. and many 9 fugitive
slave found temporary quarters there be-
fore being helped to friends and freedom
on the Canadian border. Many night
Mrs. Stowe sank into uneasy slumber; ex-
pecting to be reused by the bowling of .
mob led by the agents OF exaggerated and
desperate shareholders.
In 1919 Mrs. Stowe published 1.-THE May
flower; or Sketches Of the Descendants Of
the Pilgrims" being collection Of papers
which she had from time to time contrib
uted to various periodicals. In 1850 she
removed with her husband and family to
Brunswick, Me-. where the former had
just been called to a professorship in Bow
dom college.
It was at the height Of the excitement
caused by the passag 30 tof the fugitive slave
law It seemed to- her az II slavery waI
about to extend itself over the free states:
She conversed with many benevolent and
tender-hearted Christian men and women
who were blind and deaf to arguments
because they did not realize what slavery
really meant. She determined, II possible,
to make them realize 1t, and as result OF
this determination, wrote Uncle Toms
Cabin: or. Life Among the Lowly."
"Uncle Tom's@ Great Success.
Neither Mrs. Stowe nor any Of her
friends had the least conception Of the
future that awaited her book. She was
herself very Respondent. It does not seem
to have been very widely read when 1t ap-
peared in the National Era at Washington,
D. c., from June, 1851. till April 1862. be-
fore it was issued in book form. During
the first year 10000 copies Of the book were
sold.
Mrs. Stowe published I'm 1858 "A Key to
Uncle Toms Cabin, Presenting the Orig
inal Facts and Documents Upon Which the
Story Is Founded Together with Corrob-
orative Statements Verifying the Truth Of
the Work." She also wrote "A Peep Into
story has been dramatixed into various
forms. once by the author a. THE Chris
tan Slave"
Mrs. Stowe wrote many other books,
many Of which were just published as
serials in the leading magazines.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-07-09

Jefferson's Gfanddaughter Married.
/ Buzzard's Bay, Mass, July Miss
Josephine Jefferson, daughter of
Charles B. Jefferson and granddaugh-
ter Of Joseph Jefferson, was married
here to Charles Rolfe, son of Prof. Will
liam Rolfe, the Shakespearean scholar
Of Cambridge.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-07-09
FOREIGN.


Forest fires were sweeping over thu
northern section of New Foundland. do
ing immense damage.
Fire in the arsenal near Fort Moselll
at Metz. Germany, caused q partial ex
plosicn, which killed seven person!
and seriously injured many.
Col. Vision. of Portsmouth, the young
Ohio man who organized company o.
soldiers and with them joined the
Cuban insurgents, was killed in Q Skin
mish with the Spaniards.
The export of bananas from Gibra
Nuevitas and Obeyes has been prohib
tied by Gen. Weyler on the ground that
the steamers engaged in the trade bring
supplies to the Cuban insurgents.
The Egyptian government packet
Rahmanieh, from Suakim for Suez
broke her shaft and was wrecked on q
reef and it was feared that 60 persons
were drowned.
In June there were 3,5os deaths from
cholera in Cairo, Egypt. E
It Is said that Russia has obtained
absolute freedom Of trade in northern
China.
The Cretan insurgents defeated the
Turks in recent contest on the north
western coast of tho island Of Crete
killing 200 of them.
At banquet in Wilhelmshaven EN-
peror Wilhelm said during q speech:
"Germany is resolved to go its OWL
way, counting no ones favor, doing nc
one wrong, but ever ready to uphold
peace and order in the world"
Earthquakes were occurring daily
at Arequipo, Peru. and much damag<
was being done.
The Egyptian packet Rahmanieh ar
rived at Suez. She was reported to hav'
gone ashore on a reef, with the loss o.
GO lives.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-07-09
Poison in tho Water Barrel.

Oregon City, Ore, July s.-John He'll
1nan and five children, who live near
Damascus, were poisoned by strychntne
placed in a barrel of water used for
household purposes. One child is dead
and another will probably not recover.
It is not known who put the strychnine
in the water.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-07-09
Phoebe Cousins Stranded,

Los Angeles, CAL, July la very
earnest effort is being made by the SUI
frage women of Los Angeles for the re-
lief of Miss Phoebe w. Cousins, of st.
Louis, who is in the city sick, helpless
aud penniless.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-07-09
Bank Robbers Captured,

Portland, Ore, July John Nc
Ginner and John O'Brien, men of many
aliases and notorious bank robbers,
were captured in Vancouver by Detec-
tive Joseph Day, Of this city, and are
now safely housed in the Clark county
Jail.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-07-09
Had . Mean Disposition.

Perry, o. r., July 3.-Rev. Ronard d.
Worth, q New York Baptist preacher,
has been divorced from his wife, Elvjra
NJ. Worth, in the courts here. He swore
that she spoiled his Sunday coat to keep
him from his preaching appointments
and filled his Sunday shoes with wafer.