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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-01-23
SAY He IS SHORT.
The Tibbetts Investigating Com
mittee Make A Report Of
+. Their Findings.
Council Accepts The Report and
Make a ssSettlement' With
MIR. Tibbetts.

WoRrH1NeroN, MIMI, Jan. II, '96.
To the Hon., the Village Council of
Worthington, MINI.
Gentlemen: ..'
Your committee appointed to in
vestigate the accounts of Mr.. H. B.
Tibbetts, formerly Supt. of Water
Works, would respectfully make re-.
port. We have devoted much time
to the work in hand, having thorough
" investigated every item that has
come to our notice. The committee
finds in the accounts many things
that were not at all clear. Yet the
committee, having disposition to
give Mr.. Tibbetts the benefit of any
doubts, we have passed them by.
Mr., Tibbetts has made acknow-
Judgements to your committee that
he should pay the Village for the
following errors in collections made
by him and not reported:
Il. Brandt, ia lance on cOllneCtlOu.. o.VV
w. 8. Lewis. for connection to store. .....1 1000
COWen Building connection. 1000
f. F. Cross, for Crigler house ...ls.0o
r. R. Smith, transient..... ..:........ 45o
Geo. Bulls, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. l.2o
John Durm ....... 200
F.F. Cross, for building permit G.l5
From Evans Bros. anu C. II. BabcOck, Tor
water rent in addition 10 What has here.
tofore been paid. 80. ..~........ 4.30
G.. H. Babcock, water rent for store year. 800
J, d. Carroll, on account of water used in
building the court house (ba!ance paid i'll
brick etc) ..... ..... ........ .........''l.'o 20
j, H. Rosenberg 2ud, Sd AMI 4th quarters
of 1895 rents. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. '.z'
undrv items III Wilson block k................ $50
Gus Swanberg, water rent. 1.15
M. II. Damon, water rent ............. 2e5
A. Atkinson, building permit ............. $50
A Forbes, rent for lawn in 1892. -. 800
Geo. D. Palm, additional for connection. -. 400
A.OUW /" - go. 1920
James Ramage, for lawn in 1894. 300
w. NJ. Evans, water rent. .......... HOO
j. H. Maxwell, water rent ......... 80. 2.CO
P. Anton, additional for connection. 1913
Fred Golf, for building permit. .s...... l.90
Chris. Smith, water rent. LOO
j. H. Schuck. water rent. .:.........:..... hOO
Total Hll3.cO
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-01-23

H. L. Henry of Red Wing, deputy
revenue collector, was in the city
Tuesday,.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-01-23

The Cora Belle Fellows fasco is a
lesson to white girls that it is unwise
to marry Indians with the idea of ire
forming them. Cora married Sam
Campbell, an ,uncouth red man.
The latter deserted his wife for a
squaw and has just been sentenced to
iail for theft.-St. Paul Globe.
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Still Buried.

Although every effort has been
made by the workman at the village
we'll to extract the drill from the
depth at which it was buried when
the walls of the we'll caved in, their
labor has thus far been unsuccessful
and the drill stills remains firmly
wedged in the earth at a distance of
about $50 feet below the surface.
An expert has been at work for sever
al weeks but apparently the drill and
connecting rods have been buried to
stay.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-07-15
FOREIGN.

| Il was said that the steamer Three
Friends had safely landed in Cuba the
men and arms and ammunition which
she took from Key West, Fla. to aid the
| insurgents.
The Cretans have elected provisional
government and have decided to pro.
claim the union of the island with
Greece.
Daniel d. Youmans, prominent hat
ter of New York, and his wife were
drowned at Bergen, Norway, where
they were on visit.
Linton, the English bicyclist at Cat
fird, England. covered 81 miles and S
yards in an hour, thus beating the
| worlds record by miles.
The Yale crew was defeated at Hen.
ley-on-TEames in the third trial heat
for the grand challenge cup, the Lean
der crew of London winning by ~
lengths in 7:14.
The ancient and honorable artillery
company of Boston were accorded an
enthusiastic welcome on their arrival
in London.
Sir John Fender, the well-known ca
BILE magnate, and one of the original di-
rectors of the first transatlantic cable
company, died in London, aged so years.
Three hundred houses in the town Of
Kobrin, Russia, were burned and 1000
people were homeless.
Sir Charles Topper and his cabinet
resigned at Ottawa, Ont, and the gov
ernor general sent for Mr.. Laurier, the
new premier. to form government.
Advices from Constantinople say that
10000 Kurds in the Diarbeker district
had revolted and were pillaging the vil-
lage indiscriminately.
Advices from Japan say that 37,155
people were killed in the two pre-
lectures, Mujasgi and Irvate, by the re-
cent tidal wave, and 10000 lost their
lives at Morika.
The Spanish embassy in London pro-
tested at the foreign Office against al
legged shipments of arms and ammuni-
ton to the Cubans.
A passenger train was derailed near
Batraki, on the Samara railway in
southeastern Russia, and 40 persons
were killed.
Advices from Vienna say that Baron
Hirsch's widow has donated e4,OOO,Oo0
($2O,00O,OO0) to promote the immigra-
ton of Russian Jews to Argentina.
Senior Mellaj speaker of the chamber
of deputies at Madrid, said that the gov
eminent ought to be energetic in pre-
pairing for the inevitable conflict be-
tween the United States and Spain.
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-Messrs. Chamberlain and Hart-also ad-
hitting the contesting delegates from the
Ninth congressional district of Michigan
Messrs. Hoyt and White-and recognizing
the right to their seats of all the other dele
gates from Michigan.
After considerable discussion the prev!-
Gus question was ordered, and the motion
to substitute the minority for the majority
report in the Michigan case was lost:
Ayes. 1868; nays. $50.
Silver Has q Two-Thirds Vote.
The chairman put the question on the ma
FORTY report of the committee on creden-
tials and declared it adopted. The result
of the Michigan contest leaves the major
fly of the delegation for silver, and the
state vote will be cast for silver under the
unit rule. Ex-Gov. Sheehan, of New York.
says the action gives the silver men two
thirds vote in the convention.
White Elected Permanent Chairman.
The report of the committee on per-
manent organization was then presented
by Mr.. Finley, of Ohio, naming Senator
White. Of California. as permanent presi-
dent Of the convention and Thomas j.
Cogan, of Ohio, as permanent secretary.
The report was adopted.
Senator Daniel. in retiring from the tenn
porary craftsmanship. expressed his deep
sense of the honor which he had enjoyed and
introduced Mr.. White as 'the distinguished
Senator from California"
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David 81. Mercer was renominated for
congress by the republicans of the SEQ
ond district of Nebraska.
Frank H. Hurd, one of the most prom
incnt democrats in Ohio, and member
OF congress in 1874, 1878 and 1882, died
at his home in Toledo. aged Sc years.
A large number OF leading democratic
newspapers, among them being the Sun,
Herald. Times and World in New York,
the Louisville Courier-Journal, Phila-
delphia Record, Brooklyn Eagle and
Chicago Chronicle, have bolted the DEM
ocratic national ticket.
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it in the war of the revolutions:
age of both silver and gold at the present
legal ratio of sixteen to one without waiting
We de demand that the standard silver Dollar
gold. for ali debts, public and private. and
the decentralization Of any kind Of legal
tender money by private contract.
tice Of surrendering to the holders Of the
obligations Of the United States the option
by law to the re a1Snr s Of
coin or gold coin.
I'VE are opposed to the issuing Of inter-
"a bonds ndS OF the United ute IN
change for bonds and at an enormous
treasury with gold to maintain the policy
of gold monometallism.
Congress alone mas the power to coin
declared that this power could not be dele
gated to corporations or individuals: We.
intended to circulate as money by national
banks as in derogation of the constitution.
and, we demand that all paper which IS
debts, or which is receivable for dues to
the United States, shall be issued by the
government of the United States. and shall
be redeemable in coin.
Tariff and Taxation.
1--WE hold that tariff duties should be
levied for purposes of revenue, and that
taxation should be limited by the needs of
the government honestly and economic
ally administered. We denounce as dis
turbing to business the republican threat
to restore the Mckinley law. which has
been twice condemned by the people in
national elections, and which, enacted un-
der the false plea of protection to home
industry, proved a.. prolific breeder of
trusts and monopolies. enriched the few
at the expense of the many, restricted
trade and deprived the producers of the
Natural markets. Until the money Ques-
ton is settled we are opposed to any agi-
tation for further changes In our tar1n
laws, except such as are necessary to meet
the deficit in revenue caused by the adj
verse decision of the supreme court on
the income tax. There would be no deficit
in the revenue but for the annulment by
the supreme court of law passed by u
democratic congress in strict pursuance of
the uniform decisions of that court for
nearly 100 years, that court having Sus-
tanned constitutional objections to- it's en-
actment, which has been overruled by the
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personal rights, the equality of all citizens
before the law. and the. faithful OBJ
servance of constitutional limitations.
During all these years the democratic
PARTY has resisted the tendency Of selfish
interests to the GENERALIZATION of govern
the Integrity of the dual scheme of gov
eminent established by the founders Of
this republic Of republics. Under its guild
ance and teachings the great principle Of
local self-government has found its best
expression in the maintenance Of the
rights or the states and in its assertion Of
the necessity Of combining the general gov
eminent to the exercise Of the powers
granted by the constitution Of the United
States.
'"The constitution of the United States
guarantees to every citizen the rights Of
civil and religious liberty. The democratic
party has always been the exponent OF
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LATER.
Collision.

Logan, To-, July ia terrible head
end collision occurred here Saturday
evening on the Chicago & Northwest
excursion train just pulled out to re
turn to Omaha when No. 3s fast freight
came around the sharp curve, and be-
fore either train could stop they
crashed together. Twenty-seven peo-
pie were killed outright and forty or
more seriously injured.
The wreck occurred as a result of
Engineer Montgomery, of the excur-
sion train, mistaking orders. He was
ordered to wait at Logan until the fast
mail and the eastbound passenger train
had passed. He waited for the passen-
ger and then started out. having for
gotten about the mail. The trains
were going fifty miles an hour when
they met three miles west of Logan.
Engineer Montgomery jumped and es-
capped with broken arm.
Word was at once sent to Omaha and
in a short time special train with
doctors and officers Of the road on
board was sent out from Council Bluffs.
AdYices from Havana state that
panic prevails in the Spanish army
owing to the alarming increase of yell
low fever in the last few days. About
40 per cent Of the cases prove fatal
At Lawrence, Kas., the 18th, a row
boat with four persons was swept over
dam on the Kaw river and all were
drowned.
The Merchants Terminal elevator at
st. Louis, Mo-, burned the 18th. Loss,
$5O0,00O
The warehouse of the Morgan steam
ship company at Galveston, Tex, was
destroyed by hre the 18th. The loss is
S15O,OOO.
A section of a picnic train was
wrecked the 18th on the Chicago &
Northern Pacific railroad at Chicago.
Five were killed, three fatally injured
and a score or more seriously hurt
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-07-15
BRYAN is NOMINATED.
Chosen as Democratic Candidate
for President.
Account OF the Proceedings of the Con-
vention-Platform Declares for Free
silver-Minority Report Presented
by Gold-Standard Men.

Chicago, July Sat one o'clock p. m.
| Tuesday the national democratic conven-
| ton was called to order by Mr.. Harrity, of
Pennsylvania, chairman of the national
committee. Prayer was offered by Rer.
Ernest M. Stires, rector of Grace Episco-
PAL church. Chicago.
Hill Proposed for Chairman.
Then Chairman Harrity. in slow. DELHI
crate tones. said:
.Gentlemen Of the convention. by direc-
tee. desire to report the following as the
temporary organization of the convention:
NNs sWp %nrEy. chairman. David B. Hill. Of
Mha Nj is H ths Rea ssps Of the
committee?'
Mr. Clayton Presents Minority Report.
On that, Mr.. Clayton, delegate from
alabama: arose. advanced to the platform.
Gentlemen Of the democratic national
convention, on behalf of the % members of
y 0I natohah committee m as opposed to "a.
wish Of the great majority Of this nation
(Cheers). am authorized to present to this
Whch SHAH moHe as fos
part of the motion made by the chairman
OF the national committee.
The Minority Report.
ITO the democratic national committee:
The undersigned members of the democrat
tc national committee respectfully recon-
mend that the name Of Hon. John W. Dan
lei. OF Virginia. be substituted in the COM
mittee report for that Of Hon: David B.
Hill, of New York, and that Hon. John
w. Daniel be chosen temporary chairman
Ballot on the substitution of the name OF
John w. Daniel in place of Hill began
The chair declared that the minority re-
port substituting the name Of John w.
Daniel for temporary chairman was
adopted.
Daniel Takes the Chair.
The chair appointed ]. K. Jones, Of Ar
kansas; r. P: Heating. of Nevada, and s.
| M. White, Of California, committee to
| escort Senator Daniel to the chair.
The Night Session.
Convention Hail.. Chicago. July 9.-The
convention assembled at $50 D. m. with a
full attendance of delegates and witt
crowded galleries. Senator Daniels, of Wiz.
ginia. was In the chair as temporary chair
man. There appeared to be no business
ready for presentation and the band had to
MI up the time. which it did to the general
enjoyment and satisfaction.
The Michigan Contest.
At sos the committee on credentials pre-
sented its complete report. admitting to
seats the contesting delegates from tho
Fourth congressional district of Michigan
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PLATFORM ADOPTED.
Has Votes to Spare Over the Required
TwO-Thirds


TwO-Thirds
Convention Hall. Chicago, July 1o.-At
five minutes before II o'clock Senator
White, Of California, the permanent pres
ident of the convention, called the assem-
bly, to order, and stated that the days
proceedings would be opened with prayer
by Rev. Thomas E. Green. of the Grace
Episcopal church, of Cedar Rapids. Ia. the
same clergyman who offered prayer
Wednesday.
Representative Richardson, Of Ten
nsssee, was called to the chair. Senator
Jones, of Arkansas, chairman of the com
mittee on resolutions, read the platform as
finally adopted by that committee.
Text of the Platform.
The full text of the platform as adopted
is as follows:
I'VE, the democrats Of the United States.
In national convention assembled. DO re-
affirm our allegiance to those great es-
sential principles of Justice and liberty
upon which our institutions are founded
and which the democratic party has o a6vo-
freedom Of speech. freedom OF the press
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political liberty and religious freedom and
1t renews it's obligations and reaffirms its
devotion to these fundamental principles
OF the constitution.
Financial Plank.
Recognizing that the money question
is paramount to all others at this time,
we invite attention to the fact that the
federal constitution names silver and gold
together as the money metals of the United
States, and that the first coinage law
passed by congress under the constitution
made the silver dollar the unit of value and
admitted gold to free coinage at the ratio
measured by the silver dollar unit.
I'VE declare that the aot of 1873 demone-
tizing silver without the knowledge or
approval Of the American people has re-
suited in the appreciation of gold and a
corresponding fall in the prices Of COM
modities produced by the people; q heavy
increase in the burden Of taxation and Of
all debts, public and private; the enrich
ment of the money lending class at home
and abroad; prostration Of industry and
impoverishment of the people.
I'VE are unalterably opposed to the sin.
gle gold standard. which has locked fast
the prosperity of an industrial people in
the paralysis of hard times.
Gold mOnometallism Is British policy,
and its adoption has brought other nations
into financial servitude to London. It is
no. only un-American, but anti-American,
and 1t can be fastened on the United States
only by the sitting Of that indomitable
spirit and love Of liberty which proclaimed
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

John w. Evans, of Waupaca, has been
nominated for congress in the Eighth
Wisconsin district by the national
party.
Gen. Pierce M. B. Young, United
States minister to Guatemala and Hon.
duras, died in New York.
William II. Colvin, well known in Chi
cago business, political and philan-
thropic circles, died at the age of Sc
years.
The Massachusetts, republican stats,
convention for the nomination Of
state officers will be held in Boston Oc-
tober 1.
James NJ. Turner, republican candi-
date for governor of Michigan in 1890
and chairman of the state central com.
mittee of the independent free-silver
party, died at his home in Lansing.
George Law, the millionaire street
railway man, died at his home in New
York, aged SO years.
The Illinois League of Republican
Clubs will hold their next annual con.
vention at Peoria on September l.
The New York republican state con-
vention will meet at Saratoga on August
IS to nominate candidate for governor
and other state officials.
The committee appointed by the re.
publican national convention at St Louis
to notify Carrot A. Hobart of his nomi-
nation for vice president met at the
home of the nominee in Paterson, N. j.,
and performed that duty.
The socialist labor party in national
convention in New York nominated
Charles H. Machett, of Brooklyn, for
president, and Matthew Mcclure, OF
Paterson. N. j., for vice president.
Sallie Holland, who had an authenti-
Gated age of 1913 years, died in Sugar
Loaf county, Tex.
r. Z. Linney was renominated for con-
gress by the republicans Of the Eighth
North Carolina district.
The New York Sun repudiates the
national democratic platform and an
nounces that it will support Mckinley
for the presidency.
The South Dakota republicans in con-
vention at Aberdeen nominated full
state ticket with A. o. Ringsrud for
governor and r. S. Gamble and Coe I.
Crawford for congressman. The entire
st. Louis platform was adopted and
Senator Pettigrew was severely con-
demned for his action in boiling the
ticket nominated at st. Louis.
Col. D. ,B. Henderson was renolni-
mated by reclamation at Waterloo for
the eighth term as representative in
congress Of the Third Iowa district.
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, The town OF Marengo, o.. was almost
completely wiped out by fire.
The 18th annual international Chris
tian Endeavor convention convened in
Washington. President Clark in his
address said that each year of the Is
years had been noted for some advance
step. The report of Secretary Bae1
showed total membership of 2,7oo,oo0
1t was decided to hold the next convcn-
ton in San Francisco.
H. F. Allen and his sister, Mrs. Charles
w. Grant, among the heaviest property
owners in jamestown. N. Y, made an
assignment with liabilities of 100000
In Philadelphia the Robert Smith
India Pale Ale Brewing company, or
ganized in f773, went into receivers
hands with liabilities of $1s0.oOo.
BY the caving in Of trench at Kan.
sas City. Mo-, Frank Scantfile, d. Holton
and Charles Jackson were killed.
The exchanges at the leading clear.
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 10th aggregated
$685., 244.o72, against $1,103,51s,933 the
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week in 1895
was $40.
There were 21e business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 10th, against 217 the week
previous and 1875 in the corresponding
period of 1898.
The Security Warehouse company's
warehouse B in Minneapolis was de-
stroyed by fire. the loss being 100000.
James D. GAVIN, an architect, was
convicted at Elyria, O., of burning a
schoolhouse in order to get contract
for drafting new plans.
"Oklahoma" Harry Hill, well-known
frontiersman whose life has been a ro-
nance interviewer with the early his
tory of Kansas and Oklahoma, died in
Wichita from the effects of being
thrown from buggy in runaway.
The Retail Clerks Nationa! Protective
association in session at Denver elected
H. j. Conway, of st. Louis, as president.
Robert M. Steel, of ST. Johns, Mich,
reputed to be the wealthiest man in
that section of the state, made an as
signmert with liabilities of 100000.
j. L. klecknor, cashier of the broken
Citizens bank at Edwardsville, Mich.
who confessed to shortage of $4,000
in his accounts, has left his bondsmen
in the lurch.
For the first time since February, 1896,
the government net gold reserve held in
the treasury to protect the issue of
United States notes was on the 10th be-
low $1OO,OOO,O0O.
The government report makes the
winter wheat condition 75.6, indicating
a yield of 7O,564,OOO bushels. and the
spring wheat condition 93,3, indicating
a yield of 173,2e4,o0o bushels-a total
spring and winter wheat yield of 443,-
$4,000 bushels. The average condition
of corn is 1924, against 1913 in July last
year.
The California FLY Palomacita es-
tablished new state record in Wiscon-
sin for seven furlongs, going the dis
lance at Milwaukee in 1927.
The Music Teachers National associa-
ton in session at Denver elected as
president H. w. Greene, of New York.