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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-08-20
CAMPAIGN OPENED.
McCleary addresses large and
enthusiastic meeting at Adrian.

enthusiastic meeting at Adrian.
Hon. J. T. McCleary,th popu-
lar candidate for congress, opened
the campaign Of Mobiles County,
last Thursday evening at Adrian.
A large procession was formed on
the street, headed by the Cornet
band marched to the Opera house,
where an audience Of about eight
hundred and fifty people gathered
to listen to words of enlightenment
on questions Of the day. Mr.. Nc
Cleary spoke over two hours, dur
ing which time there was but one
interruption which was made by
some Free Silver man in the Hall
asking the question, "Why will a
free silver dollar worth So cents
buy as much as a gold dollar worth
one hundred cents.' McCleary
answered in a very satisfactory
manner at the same time inviting
any further questions any one
might choose to ask relative to the
financial issue. McCleary related
the history Of coined mintage of
this country from its first inscrip-
ton traced it carefully down to the
present time showing clearly to an
unbiased hearer,that the position
is undertaken to be tended by the
Free Silverite, was not without pre-
cedent or trial. In his own pecul-
lar manner he made 1t so plain
that not one III the audience, but
what was impressed by the straight
fowardness of his position and the
truth of his conviction. There
was about sixty five people pres
ent from here, who went over by
train and team.and were pleased
with the trip. The Opera House
was we'll ventilated, so that in spite
of the exceptional wrrm evening
everyone was comfortable.
The stage draping and effect
showed a great amount of taste and
surely was the effect and working
of the cheerful hand, of the
ladies as they alone know
know the secret of producing such
an effect. The drapings were of
white bespangled with gold and
silver representing redemption at
the present time. The most con-
spicious of ornaments was gold
Standard represented in the shape
of a balance. The pictures of l. in
coin, Grant, Garfield, Blaine, Harris
n,and McKinley,were conspicuous.
A great amount of enthusiasm a
bounded. The Meeting was the
most successful ever held in South
western Minnesota. Adrian peo-
ple with their get up and hustle,
having perfected all arrangements
in such manner as to leave nothing
undone to make it success iu every
way. The Adrian Quartette assist
ed in the musical part and the
audience enjoyed their singing.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-08-27
-FOUR HUNDRED BURIED
Scarcity of Hearses and Grave
Diggers in New York.
1881 DIED DURING THE WEEK
The Number Of Children and red Par
sons Dead Is Small Average
Age Being Al Years.

New York, Aug 19.-Notwithstand.
ing largely increased forces of grave
diggers, working day and night, graves
could not be supplied to fill the de-
mand Sunday. There was also short.
age OF hearses, and it was necessary to
borrow from other cities. There were
46O funerals during the day in New
York, and over 900 in Brooklyn. Un-
dertakers said the funerals of Sunday
would be more numerous than those of
any other day of the last week, and
that meant more numerous than in any
day in the history of this city. They
were right Friday, Saturday and
Sunday saw more burials than any
seven days of which cemetery book
keepers can find record.
Those are startling figures, but these
further facts are as notable The num-
Der of children among the dead has
never in the hottest week of any year
been SO small as last week; neither has
the hottest week of any year seen so
few burials of aged people. The aver
age age of the persons inferred in three
principals cemeteries was AZ years.
There were nearly twice as many men
as women buried.
OF the 1881 persons who died in
this city last week. nearly 500 died
Thursday night. Friday and Saturday.
Because Of the difficulty of securing
caskets, hearses and carriages, or even
undertakers' services beyond the sim.
plest and most necessary, nearly all the
funerals for that period were delayed
until Sunday.
There were thity- six hearses bor-
rowed from adjoining towns of New
Jersey and twelve from Philadelphia.
Several New York undertakers whose
rush was over, loaned hearses to Brook
Ign friends. Other hearses were added
to Brooklyn's supply from Long Island
towns, as there were nearly one fourth
of the weeks 879 dead in that city still
unburied.
The cost Of funerals advanced about
90 per cent on Friday. So many graves
had been called for that the force Of
nearly 800 men at Calvary had been in
creased by over 100 diggers, and the
entire force had worked night ana day.
At the Lutheran cemetery the number
OF diggers had been nearly doubled,
and even then the number of graves
completed was less than were needed.
In consequence many bodies were
placed in receiving vaults.
All day Father Costello stood in the
tiny chapel at Holy Cross and pro-
nounced benedictions for the dead
The funeral trains approached the
chapel in double lines, the hearses
massed around the entrance, where
bearers waited with their burden. and
the weeping relatives until their turn
to enter.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-08-27
Climb Dinners In Gotham.

When the clubs Of New York were
fewer and their houses were smaiie,
than they are now, the restaurants mao
a monopoly of all the big dinners OF .
semipublic character Every one OF 'ne
dozen or more large clubs in New YorR
now has a kitchen where dinner can
10 ,,renared for several hundred people
with as much attention as the largest
restaurants could give to it Many
new Metropolitan club. During IL, the
winter the Lotos gives half a dozen am.
ners in its clubhouse, each one OF winch
is attended by 900 or more people, anu
as many as 275 persons have oeen uinv =
there. The University and the Mammal.
tan clubs give large dinners from Tins
To time. Of course such dinner neces-
states the services of extra walters but
r. does not strain the kitchen service
New York Letter.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-08-27
A Fight With Yaquis.

Tusoon, Ariz. Aug. 2O.-A courier,
who has just arrived from Oliver
camp, states that troop E, Seventh cav
airy, Lieutenant Bullock commanding,
had fight with Yaqui Indians last
evening, twenty miles south of here.
These Indians were entrenched behind
rocks on top of the mountain. The
fight lasted from $50 until $3.50. The
troops charged them in their strong
hold, killing three and capturing the
entire band of thirty, among whom
were three squaws. Three soldiers
were wounded, one mortally, and three
Yaquis were killed. The Yaquis were
armed with Winchesters, pistols and
knives, and were better armed than the
military. They will be brought here
tomorrow, and turned over to the civil
authorities.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-08-27
GAIL HAMILTON DEAD.
Famous Journalist Passes Away at Her
Home.

Famous Journalist Passes Away at Her
Home.
Hamilton. Mass Aug. 19.-Miss
Mary Abigail Dodge, writer, bi)graph-
er and conversationalist. died here this
evening. Miss Dodge sustained a
stroke of paralysis while sitting at the
breakfast table yesterday morning.
She fell from her chair, was picked up
unconscious. and remained in that con.
dition until her death.
Since the illness of last year, which
came on suddenly in the Blaine man
sion in Washington, Miss Dodge lived
very quietly at her old home in Ham
ilton, Mass. Her strength had never
rallied after that illness, but during
that time she had been able occasion
ally to drive about the town and to en-.
terrain, in her old delightful manner,
the friends who called upon her. Her
literary work during this time had
been fragmentary, done by the help
of an amanuensis as diversion when
some current event had especially at
tracted her interest.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-08-27
BLANDINA.

Blandlna' nice; Blandina S fat,
Joyous and sane and sound and sweet.
And handsome, too, and all else that
In persons Of her years is meet.
Behold Blandina!
Shes alive and testifies
With all the emphasis that lies
IN busy hands and dancing eyes
That life's a prize
That all the mischief that provokes
Doubt in the matter lies in folks,
And that, provided folks are fit.
Llfes not a failure; not bit.
Blandina loves a picture book,
Biandina dearly loves a boy.
She loves her dinner, loves the cook,
her nurse. her doll, her brothers toy,
And best Of all she loves joke,
And laughs at it.
And laughing at it testifes
With all the emphasis that lies
IN Joyous tones and beaming eyes,
That life's prize
mat all the mischief that provokes
DOUBT IN the matter lies in folks,
AND that, provided folks are fit,
Lille S not failure; not a bit.
edward S. Martin in Scribner's.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-08-27
DYNAMITE IN A KITCHEN.
Explosion Killed Three Men and In
jured Sixteen.

jured Sixteen.
Lancaster, Pa. Aug. 19-Three
men were killed, sixteen or more in
jured and several buildings demolished
by the explosion of twenty five pounds
of dynamite at New Holland, Pa. this
morning. The Pennsylvania Telephone
Company, which is building new line,
had stored the explosive in the summer
kitchen of the Eagle hotel. Early this
morning Charles f. Cannon went the
kitchen to get out enough dynamite for
the days use. A few moments later
there was terrible explosion.
Cannon was blown to atoms. Frank
Hammond, of Harrisburg, just outside
the buildings, had every bone in his
body broken and was instantly killed.
George Crossman, of Steelton, waiter
boy, was so badly injured that he soon
died. A number were seriously in
jured.
Other buildings close to the summer
kitchen were badly wrecked The dam
age will amount to large sum. The
cause Of the explosion is unknown.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-08-27
A SHY DANCER.
Stories Told by Westerners of the Antics
of the Sand Hill Crane.

Stories Told by Westerners of tho Antics
of the Sand Hill Crane.
The sand hill crane is very bright
bird. A Recreation writer says that Its
very name is synonymous OF vigilance
and alertness 1t feeds on the treeless
plains or in the barren wheat stubble,
where it can see long way beyond gun
shot, or one of flock is posted as SEN
tinel. and this bird stands with bill half
open, ready to give an alarm. 1t can be
killed by decoying it with pasteboard
figures cut to proper size and shape and
painted, but mounted birds are better.
A pit is dug deep enough to conceal
man, the decoys are put out, and the
cranes are shot as they come over. The
best region to shoot them is III the Co.
lumbia river watershed and south of 1t
in the Pacific coast states.
When one shoots bird Of the size
and build of crane in midalr, 1t col
lapses, like card house or a tent. But
such apparent collapses are sometimes
deceptive, as, for instance:
Before could reach him he scared
off into the air with wheeling flight.
Again he hit the ground with fearful
violence, but again he got on his feet
Running up, thinking to get him alive
for decoy, I tried to tap him on the
head and stun him. He showed fight,
and used my gun as I backed off, and
he took to his wings.
The sand hill crane is something OF q
fighter of men if wounded, and the only
safe crane is dead one. Their bills are
long and sharp and are capable OF put
ting out mans eye.
The sand hill crane has some curious
habits that make him Of more than pass
ing interest to the student OF birds. Out
on the prairies parties of them have balls
in the spring, to which the select birds
seem to be invited. These balls are PIC
turesoue affairs from the human stand
noint There are curious dances, which
are sort of solitary waltzes or pretty
slow jigs Sometimes the birds leap
over one another's backs and flap their
wings, giving their peculiar cry. Some
times rival birds have fierce duels, using
their keen bills like lances, battleaxss
opd swords
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-08-27
A Despondent (lubman,

Seattle. Aug. 19.-William Mazyck
Miles, q well-known club and society
man of this city. committed suicide
some time today at his rooms in the
Rainier club. At Z o'clock this even
ing the steward of the club found Miles
stretched on his bed dressed only in
his pajamas, revolver grasped in his
right hand and the pillow and bed
clothing covered with blood that had
dried, showing that the act had been
committed some hours before.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-08-27
Lady Blessington.

Inc most gorgeous Lady Blessing
Nn' as she was christened by her very
0lu admlrer, DR.. Parr, has long since
passed INTO the regions of oblivion for
Tue general world. AS an authoress she
never succeeded in making any mark,
Enough she worked at the business as
N'Iu as any OF her successors of the pres.
" Gay. Her novels were many and
fashionable, Mrs. Gore like in their
1le'nod and filled with strange and
"@iuerlng scraps of French. She edited
S0oAS OF beauty for fancy clients and at
a-l'S prices, and when The News was
CL s' started under the editorship Of
on8rleS Dickens she was offered an en-
e"sTineht as a purveyor Of fashionable
SctItY t and asked $500 year for it.
sue was offered either e4OO as a GER
soin'E' or $3.50 for six months ON ap-
80 ~, d. ana confidently chose the latter,
~ 'A Inc melancholy result at the end
Ne 1ne term-Dickens having in the
-leantlme retired from his unconeenial
b ~oiA' and John Forster having accepted
tbop o>V ad mterim-she was informed
S S Hef services We're no longer wanted.
~ I sue fought for her hand hard enough
~A ,a,ef days, poor lady, after years of
maa ~?can Nights luxury with her
bors nlncent husband, but we fear that
No, p in the literary world was
prir a. any time one of solid security.
rho ay She lived under a cloud from
man,, sandal ! which always connected her
Dose ' n WIN Count d'Orsay, and, we sup
tbev NV Without reason. At all events,
Stem :. appear to have taken any
cbarno ~ ae1end themselves against the
sDric S,S ol papers like The Age, which
that lpa'eo similar class of journals
tatbar p sn a. g up IN our own day, and
Londa,ss G Il Judgment by default
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-08-27
Ice Famine Threatened.

st. Louis is seriously threatened with
an ice famine. Prices have been
steady advancing since the opening
of the season until now they are up to
the highest point reached in this city
for several years. This week there
was an additional increase of $l.25 per
ton to the trade and another increase
may be expected soon. The price to
the trade is now IS, or more than
double what it was at any time last
year. Ice is being shipped in from re-
mote northern points, but the demand
cannot be supplied.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-08-27
Russia's Pacific Port.

st. Petersburg, Aug. 21.-The gov.
eminent has dispatched engineers to
carry out the work necessary to make
Vladivostock commercial port 1t
is hoped that they will be completed
during 1897. Prince Khilkoff, the
minister of communications, who has
gained considerable experience in rail
roads matters through visiting the
United Sattes and serving on railroads
there, beginning as an assistant stoker,
is now inspecting the trans Siberian
railroad and will proceed to Vladivo-
stock. From there, the prince will go
to Japan and thence to San Francisco,
New York, London and Paris.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-08-27
A Cuban BIockade-Runner.

The fast river steamer Unique,
which has been running between Port
Huron and Detroit, has been sold to an
agent of the Cuban government. She
will be taken to the coast in ten days.
1t is intended to cut her cabins down
and turn her into q blockade-runner.
The price paid was not stated. The
Unique was built with an eye to speed
alone, and has made some wonderful
time in the rivers. She is the first
vessel purchased for blockade running
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-08-27
A Rridge Gave Way.

A band of 1876 cattle was being
driven across the county bridge over
the MERGED river, about twelve miles
south of Turlock, Cal. The bridge
gave way and the greater number of
the animals were dropped into the
stream, falling distance of about 100
feet About score Of the cattle had
their legs broken, and others were
otherwise injured. A large number of
them are thought to have been drowned.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-08-27
Wants to Fight Corbett.

Now that Choynski has managed to
secure a fight with McAuliffe, he
yesrns for more gladiators to conquer.
Choynski says that after his battle with
McAuliffe he intends to 60 east to
challenge COrbett.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-08-27

Chicago, Aug. 21.-Oscar Neebe, the
anarchist who was pardoned for his
completely in the Haymarket riots by
Governor Altgeld. has left his wife
and eloped with another woman
Neebe was a widower at the time OF
his conviction and shortly after his re-
lease from the penitentiary married
his present wife, who is well-to-do.
Mrs. Neebe said tonight that her hus.
band had left her and she did not care
If he never returned.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-08-27
Fifteen Horses Poisoned.

Twelve of the fifteen horses belong
ing to Charles A. Worth, of San Fran.
cisco, are dead and three more are un
der treatment for arsenical poisoning.
The poison was administered by an
enemy unknown.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-08-27
Visited by q De1uge.

A terrible clouburst occurred near
Mogollon, N. M, and George Knight.
miner of Georgetown, was drowned.
Twenty others are reported missing,
but only two bodies. those of Knight
and an unknown Mexican, have been
recovered. About 100 families have
been rendered homeless, and thirty
houses washed away. Several mines in
the vicinity suffered from the water.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-08-27
An American Poacher.

Halifax, Aug. 20.-Judgment was
delivered by the chief justice in the ad.
miralty court today in the case of the
American fishing schooner Frederick
Gering, sustaining the seizure and or
dering the vessel forfeited to the Cana
dian government. The Gering was
seized for fishing within the three-mile
limit
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-08-27
A Mining Man Held Up.

George Fl. McCauley, secretary of the
Cariboo Mining Company, of Spokane,
was held up by masked highwayman
while returning to that city from Camp
Mckinney. B. c.. and robbed of three
gold bricks, valued at nearly $I1, 900.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-08-27
The Next Fair

xo me board of women managers for tbe
next ra. -o!r Which Nashville is to hold
Manv N~ ais IS already alertly in the field.
oountrv linens liner clubs throughout the
ard bara nave been enlisted in the work
so-operst;ppr promised exhibits and general
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-08-27

A London dispatch from Bonn bay
says heavy floods have been caused by
the rising of the river Kistnah. I'm
mense damage was done, and thousands
rendered homeless A river boat was
capsized and 900 persons drowned.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-08-27
Fran Ia Safe at Home.

Nansen S Arctic exploring ship Fran,
which he left behind in the ice early
in January, 1895. in order to explore
the sea north OF the route he proposed
to follow, arrived at Skjervo, province
of Tromsoe. The captain reports that
he saw Professor Andree. who was still
waiting for favorable wind to enable
him to attempt his balloon trip across
the Arctic region.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-08-27
Wounded by Burglars,

Walker B. Adams is lying at the
point OF death at Bedford Station, N.
Y, as the result of an encounter with
four burglars. Two of the burglars
have been captured, having been
mortally wounded by Adams son Will
liam, who was himself struck by bull.
let, which glanced off his suspender
buckle.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-08-27
Work Of HOBBS.

A gang of tramps robbed eighteen
prominent men in one night in Will
mar, MINI. They also shot boy who
may die. A large posse is in pursuit of
the burglars.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-08-27

By an explosion of molten metal at
the furnace of the l. Edgar Thomson
steel works in Pittsburg, Pa, ten men
were burned. Two were seriously in
jured but will recover. The explosion
was caused by the molten iron striking
a pool of water.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-08-27
Daniel Pullen Missing.

Daniel Pullen, prominent farmer
of Lapush. Wash, suddenly became
insane last Sunday and left his home
and has not since been seen or heard of
1t is believed he has committed suicide,
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-08-27
A Fatal Fire.

Fire in the residence OF John Fell
bach, in Watertown, S. D., burned to
death Mr.. Felbach and his three daugh-
terS
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-08-27
Drowned in the Columbia.

Mark Van Bibber, son of w. H.
Van Bibber, of The Dalles, was
drowned in the Columbia river near
that city. where he was swimming in
company with several companions.
The body has not been recovered.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-08-27
An American Citizen Shot.

A young man named James f. How
ard is now in the hospital in Juarez.
Mexico, with two bullet holes in his
body. He became involved in quar-
rel with Mexicans and shot three of
them dead. They had attempted to as
sault MIN. He was seriously wounded
in the fight, but managed to escape.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-08-27
A Demand by Terrell.

United States Minister Terrell has de-
manded the immediate release of six
Armenians (naturalized Americans)
imprisoned at Aleppo. Terrell has
notified the Turkish authorities that
the further imprisonment of Ameri
cans would not be tolerated.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-08-27

It is stated that nearly 1,000,0 900
pounds of fur for hatters' purposes are
produced in the United States.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-08-27
AGAIN!!
MONTAGUE \ MCHUGH

Announce the people of Whacom, San Skagt
Counties that they have large Stock of Dry Goods Clothing
Carpets Caps Boots and Shoes and that greater part
Of the same be sold in the THIRTY DAYS
der to do so, will begin
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-18
Do YOU Wish TO SEE DEMOCRACY VIM O
# &c. How Earnestly Do You Wish lt?--Here
Ills Chance to Put Yourself on Record


De
the
of Alabama which
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Hon. H. M Wlson,S
SIR designating you as member OF the com
miee
excellent work with the State Herald ana
heartily procedure Yours truly
j.
Democr Campaign
mind that up to the present time the people OF Alabama
contributions have not been
of
county the gentlemen to
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in by
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Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-18
Legal Notice.

Wood Dryer Grocery Company ct al. vs.
Southside Savings Bank and Friel Coal
Mining Company ct al.
In City Court of Birmingham--In Equity.
To Creditors of Friel Coal Mining Com
pany:
Notice is hereby given to all creditors of
Friel Coal Mining company, except the
Wood-Dryer Grocery company and c. s.
Simmons & Co., compliments in this
cause, that they are required to PROFOUND
their respective claims and prove the same
before me, Nathan l.. Miller, clerk and reg
ister within forty days from this. the 22d
day Of September. 1895, that IL Is ON or before
be forever barred from sharing In the
fund in the hands Of the southside Savings
notice that on the 9Th day of November,
1896, / will hold reference and ascertain
upon proof the correctness and amount of
each claim filed within said time above set
forth.
NATHAN l.. MILLER,
9-24-3t-thu Clerk and Register
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-18

Our store has been newly
arranged and improved. You
may think that you have en-
tered. Tiffany's, but you will
receive the same polite atten-
ton. H. G. Abbott & Bro, 12l
goth street,