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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-20

Iowa FARMS for sale on crop payments, 10
per cent. cash, balance crop yearly, until
paid for. j. MULHALL, Waukegan, Ill.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-20

DR.. JALAP-"Let me see your tongue
please" Patient-"O, doctor no tongue
can tell how bad l eel."-Boston Tran.
script.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-20

FLANNEL next to the skin often produces a
Hills Hair and Whisker Dye, 80 cents.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-20

"AS' so O'Flannigar was stint up fer
loife, ye sezl" "Yis, but his friends do be
thryin' to get his sintence redooced tin
years Life
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-20

MOST of us know good thir g when some
one els. has Little.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-20

FoREIGN-W thought her husband was
French" ooh, no. Broken English. ~
Detroit Tribune.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-20

"WITH all thy faults, love thee STILL" a.
the husband said to his scolding wife,
ID. E. W.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-20

DuckIings thrive best on soft food and
need plenty Of water while eating to
help them to swallow.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-20

JoANNY-"May l wake the baby, man.
ma" Mamma -"Why do YOU want to
wake the babyi" Johnny-"So's lean play
| on my drum. Woonsocket Patriot
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-20

We think Piso's Cure for Consumption is
the only medicine for Coughs.-JENNIE
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-20
CHICAGO COLLEGE OF LAW

Hon. THOMAS A. MORAN, Ill. u. DEAN. Two and three
year course. Session each weekday evening.
tF- For further Information address SECRETARY
ELMER Z. BARRETT. 100 Washington Street, Chicago.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-20

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ment In this paper.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-17
MAY BE REJECTED.
Venezuela Withholds Her Consent to the
Treaty.

Venezuela Withholds Her Consent to the
Treaty.
Caracas, Venezuela, via Hayti, Dec.
11.-Senor Andrade, the Venezuelan
minister to the United States, was to
leave Thursday for Washington with
the cabinets approval of the Guiana
boundary arbitration treaty, but his de-
parture was suddenly stopped. The in
depreciation put upon this move is that
public opinion has conquered and that
Venezuela will withhold her consent to
the arrangement entered into between
Secretary OIney and Lord Salisbury for
the settlement of the dispute between
this country and Great Britain, thus
multiplying all the work that eliminated
in this treaty. Comments on the part
OF press and public on the negotiations
continue to be very bitter.
Neither Crespo nor the members of his
official family are willing to try any
longer to stem the apparently irresista-
bile. tide and it is confidently asserted
that when Andrade leaves for Washing
ton he will bear nothing more than a
diploma tic note to Cleveland saying that
the treaty will he duly laid before con-
gress when it. reassembles next Feb
ruary in regular session.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-17
BOILED CHIEFS HEAD.

Fate Of m African Potentate Who Was
Crushed BY British Expedition.
One Of the innumerable little wars
that England carries on with savagoa
has just taken place on the river Niger
in West Africa. 1t concluded with the
eating of human head by the native
allies of the British. says the New York
journal.
A chief named Katshella had built
himself a stronghold on a tributary OF
the Niger, from which he made raids
into the territory of the neighboring
king, who was under British protection.
Katshella was Of immense size and
fearful appearance. He lived q life Of
utter depravity. !;
A British expedition Of $50 men waa
sent after him, and smashed his strong
bold. Lieut.. Testing, who command
cd the expedition, writes:
1.-The robber prince, Katshella. an inn
men*e man, was killed just outside
the town, and then the brutal instinct
of the niggers came ont. They cut of
his head and sent it to tho king was
helping. He, If you please, had it
boiled, and his muntshis dow native fol-
lowers) ate it. The king subsequently,
sent the skull back to me, and it was
handed to the doctor for disposal"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-17
A Duluth Bank Suspends.

Duluth, Mimi, Dec. 12.-The National
Bank of Commerce failed to open for
business Friday morning. notice
posted on the doors stated that, owing
to the inability to make any money in
the business, the directors had decided
to stop. The notice also stated that the
bank expected to pay depositors at an
early date. The bank is capitalized at
100000 and has $4,000 surplus. It's
deposits have been gradually but stead
lily drawn down since the failure If
the Security bank. and it has been un-
able to make any profit for some time.
Collections were hard and could not
keep up with the Withdrawals. The
bank owes eastern banks as re-discouat
something like $4,000. e. w. Matter is
cashier. The deposits of the bank four
months ago were 100000. At the time
of closing Thursday evening they were
only 1000.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-17
VIII Stay In tho Field.

indianapolis, Ind. Dec. 1.-THE ma
tional executive committee of the ma
tional democratic party held its first
meeting since the election ut the Bates
house in this city Thursday afternoon
and in the evening enjoyed n little sup
per with Henry Watterson as the guest
Of honor. The business OF the after
noon was the auditing of the accounts
of the committee and discussing the
question OF organization during the
next four years. The accounts were
found to be correct with a balance lett
III the treasury. 1t was decided to holt:
the organization intact as it stands and
to make an effort to extend it into states
where it had no footing in the last cam
raign as we'll as to make it more
thorough in those states where it was
active. Various subcommittee were
appointed.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-17
FOUND DEAD.
Mrs. S. H. Cooper and Daughter Commit
Suicide In San Francisco.

Mrs. S. H. Cooper and Daughter Commit
Suicide In San Francisco.
San Francisco, Dec. l2.-Mrs. Sarah
II. Cooper and her daughter, Harrie,
Cooper, were found dead in their home
in this city Friday morning with the
gas turned on and every evidence Of
suicide. In her will, written Thursday
Mrs. Cooper requests that the bodies Of
herself and daughter be not taken to the
morgue. The Coopers have lived entire
ly alone except for Chinese cook. who
had been in their employ for 20 years
He has not yet been found. It is en-
pected he can throw some light on the
tragedy. The room in which the bodies
were found was full of escaping gas
which the physicians said had undoubt-
eddy caused asphyxiation.
Mrs. Cooper was president of the Kin
dergarten association and her daughter
was deputy superintendent. Mrs
Cooper had lived here 30 years and was
widely known as an educator. philan'
thropist and writer. She was president
of the Women's Press association
president Of the Women's Suffrage
association, and prominent MS ar
officer of the Women's Christian
Temperance union. For many years
she taught the largest Bible class
in the city in the First Congregational
church, her class numbering several
hundred adults. She was also assistant
pastor Of the church under the pas.
torate of Rev. DIR. C. O. Brown.
When the scandal concerning DR..
Brown was first talked about Mrs.
Cooper stood by her. pastor and cx.
pressed confidence in him. Later lie
velopments caused her to change her
mind, and she and her daughter be-
came his most prominent opponents
and accusers after Mrs. Davidson. Much
bitterness in church circles was engen-
lered by Mrs. Cooper's statements on
the witness stand at the church trial.
Miss Cooper was even more pronounced
than her mother in opposition to DR..
Brown. This action estranged many
cid friends, and the suicide of mother
and daughter is ascribed to the brood
ing over GOODNESS and snubs from formet
friends.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-17
BULL AGAINST RHlNOCEROS.
A Terrific Battle in the Land OF the
Zulua.

When I was On the Zulu frontier,
said traveller recently, stopped for
a week with native, a splendid fellow,
who had fine farm. Among other ami
mails he had young bull. called Hulo.
which he and his children fondly be-
lieved could vanquish any beast on
earth. Hulo was great pet and not in
the least vicious, so was surprised on
the second evening of my stay to sec
Hulo shifting the air and paving the
ground in evident rage. I was about
to ask what it meant when out of the
forest came an ugly rhinoceros. My
host and hurried for our guns and HUI
10 dashed ut the beast with dauntless
courage. A rush, q crash, and the bull
was hurled 20 feet. Fortunately the
horn of his enemy had not caught him
and the first rush had taught him a les
son. His horns were like sharp swords,
but the hide Of q rhinoceros is remark
ably thick. and the young bull soon
showed signs of fatigue. So he resort
ed to strategy, and lodged behind his
clumsy foe. giving him vicious stabs in
the thighs. This was rapidly weaken
ing the rhinoceros, and just at this time
we found some steel bullets Qeaden bull
let's having no effect on this animal)
and quickly completed the work Hulo
begun. Then the bull stood on the COR
cass and beloved his joy.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-17
AN uLFATED VESSEL.
Steamer Goes Down with Two Hun
dred and Seventy-Five Lives.
Disaster Occurs on tho Southwest Coast
OF Coruna - Boat Driven on tho
Cerrubedo R0cks-A Sue
Ccsaion OF AIiShaps.

Vigo. Spain, Dec. 1.-The North Ger
man Lloyd steamer Salier is q total loss
off Coruna. All hands are drowned.
She carried 210 passengers and q crew
Of IS men. The Salier's passengers
consisted of 113 Russians, IS Galicians,
81 Spaniards and one German, mostly
in the steerage. The Salier was bound
from Bremen to Buenos Ayres, via
Coruna and Villagariea. The Corfu
bedo rocks, on which the ship was lost,
are situated of the southwest coast of
Coruna and should have been given u
wide berth before the steamer headed
eastward, and then in northeasterly
direction for the bay leading up to VIII
lugariea How she managed to be in
that perilous position is inexplicable to
navigators.
The loss of the Salier is another of
the series of disasters that have at
tended the fortunes of the North Ger
NAN Lloyd Steamship company. 1t
calls to mind the frightful loss of life
that occurred early in the morning OF
January 30, 1895, when the steamer
Elbc, belonging to that company, was
run into in the North sea and sank by
the British steamship Craythie. OF the
81: passengers or" board the Elbe all
were lost except %. most of whom were
uembers of the crew.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-17
Smallpox and Yellow Fover.

Washington, Dec. 1o.-The marine
hospital service has received reports as
fellows of smallpox and yellow fever
in Cuban seaports: The United States
consul at Cienfuegos reports that dur
ing the week ended November % there
were in that city ~ deaths from yellow
fever and two from smallpox. The
United Suites sanitary inspector at
Havana reported 220 new cases and 81
deaths from yellow fever and 81 deaths
from smallpox during the week ended
November &c. The inspector says he is
informed, from what he believes cred
ible sources, that in the eight govern
n.ent military hospitals in the city and
its immediate suburbs there are over
10000 sick and wounded Spanish SOL
dierS.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-17
TRADE REVIEW.
Conditions Put on Further improvement
Until the New Year.

Conditions Put on Further Improvement
Until the New Year.
New York. Dec. 12.-R. e. Dun e. Co.,
ir their weekly review of trade, say:
Approach of holidays and doubt about
the action Of congress put OF further Inn
provements until the new year. While IN.
dustries have gained in working forces
they are waiting for commensurate gain
in demand. anu meanwhile are trying to
clear away embarrassments which restrict
them. Speculation has been hating and
timid. There il no sober-minded fear o;
foreign difficulty, but some have succeeded
in imagining that congress might go so Tar
beyond the presidents prudent message re-
garding Cuba as to embroil this country
with SPAIN Money is in abundant supply.
lending in London continues and there Is
nothing to cause less activity IN genera
business except that the rush of oroers de
ferred until after election has not been
continued. The volume OF business shown
by clearinEs has been for the WeeA OK pei
cent. smaller than last year.
1.-The wheat market was weakened WITH
less gloomy news from other countries ana
larger western receipts, though only S,69l.
374 bushels, against G,OO3, Ava last year. DIS
appointment about the break IN prices may
help to increase receipts. The market has
declined IL cents, and the decrease IN q j
mand for flour with high rail rates has
closed nearly all the Superior-Duluth anu
many Of the other northwestern mills.
1.-The iron output December l was l42.27'
tons weekly. against l24,OH November !.
and 213. 7s7 year ago. and unsold stocks re
ported were S1,901 tons smaller than No
vember !. but these do not include stocks
OF the great steel companies. The entire
industry il for the time demoralized by
uncertainty regarding the great combina.
lions.
'"Textile industries are working a larger
force than In October, but there Is not
much evidence Of larger demand, and some
kinds of goods are accommodating. A. raw
cotton is lower. some yielding in prices Of
staples Is expected, and buying Is on that
account more restricted, few qualities OF
goods having slightly declined Print
cloths are weak in tone, with enormous
stocks. Wooden goods are not In better de-
mand, and there Is general indispositson to
make commitments ahead.
Failures for the week have been go In
the United States. against 1888 last year.
and 43 in Canada. against 81 last year.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-17
Noted ClerRyman Dead.

Baltimore, Md, Dec. 'l4.-Rev. Or.
James A. McCauley, one Of the best
known clergymen of the Methodist
Episcopal church, died Saturday night
at his home in this city, aged ~. He had
been in feeble health for some months
and on last Wednesday suffered mild
stroke of paralysis. He was Il native Of
Maryland and, early in life, became
noted for his logical reasoning. White
president of the Wesleyan female col
lege at Staunton, Va, he was elected to
several professorships in different col
leges, all Of which he declined. In 1872
he was elected president of Dickinson
college. Carlisle, Pa, and remained in
that position for 16 years.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-17
Secret Preyod on His Mind.

Harrisburg, Pa, Dec. l2.--George Erb,
aged "a, q stone mason who formerly
lived Mt fredericksburg. this state,
called ut police headquarters Friday
afternoon and confessed his participa-
ton in a murder at Fort Smith, Ark,
last March, He said he and woman
named Ella Hicks gave Edward Nutter,
weighmas:er. Knockout drops for the
purpose of robbing him, and he subse-
quentIy died. Erb said he could not
keep the secret longer. He is in Jail.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-17
WORK OF A YEAR.
Commissioner Miller, Of the 1nternal Row
enuo Buresu, Reports.

enuo BUresu, Reports.
Washington. Dec. 1.-THE annual report
of Commissioner Joseph g. Miller. OF the
internal revenue bureau. shows the receipts
for the fiscal year ending June 30. 1896. to
have been SAG, S30. Gl5: for the fiscal year
Of 1895. 3143,246.U77; for the fiscal year OF
1894. $147. 16S.449. and for the fiscal year OF
1891. $l6l. 1850. The receipts during tho
Of revenue, and the increase or decrease
In each, as compared with the fiscal year.
1895. are given as follows:
Spirits. O.070. increase $S07. 443: to-
bacco. $50. I'll .62s. increase $1,000. 721: fer
mented liquors. $S3.7s4,225. increase. $2.14S.-
III; oleomargarine, 81, ms. 49, decrea Sc $780,
778: banks and bankers, $134. increase $l34;
miscellaneous. $445.ll3. decrease $ls36GO.
The cost OF collecting the internal revenue
during the last fiscal year amounted to
H.0S6, 292, and the estimated cost Of collec-
tions for the next fiscal year is 81. 1858. 09O
The estimated receipts from all sources
during the current fiscal year are $l5O.0OO.
0OO
During the year the work performed by
the revenue agents is given as follows.
no; Illicit distil!eries seized and destroyed.
1876 gallons of spirits seized. l23,6SS; fer
mentors seized and destroyed, 1886; gal
Ions Of beer seized and destroyed. l.39S.-
034: horses seized. l01; wagons seized. 66:
value of property reported for seizure.
$3OS. 40: assessments reported, $2lO,607. The
number of persons arrested was S3e Three
persons were wounded. Since 1925 ten off,
GERS and employees have been killed and
Is wounded.
The number Of registered distilleries "a
operation during the year was 6.lS7. The
number of gallons Of molaSses used for the
production of spirits during the last fiscal
year is 3,5O7.6O9. with product therefrom
Of 2.642.S22 gallons of spirits The guam
tity of grain used for the production OF
spirits during the fiscal year ending June
81. 1885, Is, GU. 619 bushels, shows an increase
Of 1,l2O.907 bushels over the actual amount
OF grain used in the preceding fiscal year.
and Is 3,224.2A bushels less than the av.
craKe for the last ten years. The number
Of gallons Of spirits produced from grain
during the year. 81. 426, 153, shows an increase
of GAL gallons over the product for the
year ending June 3d. 1895. and Is 1851 .ls6
gallons less than the average product for
the last ten years.
The commissioner calls attention to the
marked improvement Of the service since
the classification under the civil service
Law
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-17
A Queer Impulse.

While passing the Milwaukee depot
at st. Paul on her way to church serv-
ices Sunday morning, Mrs. Richard
Casey, wife of a wealthy farmer near
North St Paul, was seized with an ir-
resistable desire to to take trip. The
train was in the depot and she found
she had just enough money for q ticket
to Chicago. Her husband missed her
after church, and, learning of her de-
parture. telegraphed the Chicago police
to detain her on her arrival. She ar
rived in Chicago the next morning.
worn out, hungry and penniless, and
said she would be glad enough to get
back home. She could not account
for her action except that she could
not resist the sudden impulse.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-17
no Anawer q Murder Charge.

Usage. Kan, Dec. l0.-Rudolph Brock
man. the wealthy farmer of Usage town.
ship who beat and shockingly abused
his 17-year-old daughter because nhe
did not work to suit him in the field,
must answer to the charge of murder,
having been held for trial in $4,000
bonds. After terribly beating the girl
four weeks ago, Brockman dragged her
q quarter Of a mile to his barn benin d
his wagon, she being tied by rope
fastened around an ankle and the rear
axcl of the wagon. The inhuman
father then locked her in the barn with
insufficient food. Her uncle and an
other neighbor carried her away, but
she died from her injuries.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-17
Lives Lost Near Cadiz, Spain.

Cadiz. Dec. IA terrible disaster
occurred at Nercs, in the province 81
Andalusia and 16 miles from this city
Friday morning. through the collapse
Of a building. A house containing -
persons collapsed without warning,
burying all of its inmates in the debris.
The house fell upon an adjoining tene.
,nent building which also gave way.
The tenement house was Inhabited by
s. persons. all Of whom were buried by
the wreckage. Eleven dead bodies AMI
a seriously injured persons have al
ready been taken from the ruins and
the work of excavation for the purpose
o: recovering the others is proceeding
as rapidly as possible.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-17
CAN'T ENFORCE IT.
Antitrust Law Practically . Failure
~ Attornax.G General Reporta.

a. AVIO1UOys10uOk8A nCPOES~s
Washington. Dec. 1.-THE annual re.
port of Hon. Judson Harmon. attorney
general of the United States. was sent
tn congress Thursday. Concerning the
antitrust law. he says that the restrict
ed scope of it's provisions, as construed
by the courts. makes amendments nee.
essary. If any effective action is expect
ed from the department Of justice. Be.
sides, he adds. the fund atthe disposal OF
the attorney general which can be ap'
piled to the investigation, preparation
and prosecution of cases under this
law is wholly inadequate. OF the case
OF the United States versus the Trans
Missouri Freight association. now
pending in the United States supreme
court, and the claim that the act does
not apply to railroads, the attorney gen.
cral says:
feel confident Of its correctness. the facl
tnat SUCH question can he ratsed and ha!
OF
ness of the terms Of this law which Is s
serious obstacle tn the way Of its prompt
enforcement
a new crimes act is one of the things
the attorney general thinks is needed
Further defects in the criminal laws
were discovered during the past year,
Criminal legislation is hopelessly con.
fused, says the attorney general.
He points out that there is genera,
statute Furnishing embczzlement. but
there are also many special statutes,
furnishing embezzlement in particular
cases. and he is not aware that it nas
yet been settled whether the genera
statute applies to such cases or not
There are statutes furnishing frauds
on the United States in many specific
| cases. and there is general statute
Furnishing conspiracy 10 defraud the
United States in all cases; but there l..
no general statute furnishing frauds
| against the United States when com.
mitted by one man alone. He suggests
that commission could easily and
| quickly frame a new crimes law, GOV.
ering a Uniform system of punish.
ments. He says that the increasing
repugnance on the part of juries TO IN
fiict the death penalty and the fact tina,
the law makes no degrees in murder,
constantly leads to entire acquittal, ana
that this danger to society can he IL,
least mitigated by the establishment
OF different degrees OF murder vita
corresponding grades of punishment.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-17
Found Dead.

Boston. Dec. l4.-Salnuel r. Putnam
and Miss May l.. Collins were found
dead Saturday morning in HAT which
had been occupied for week past oN
Miss Collins. The deaths we're due to
asphyxiation. and the police think were
caused by accident. Both we're found
lying on the floor Of the room and were
fully dressed. From one Of the gas
burners the gas was escaping in full
force. Mr.. Putnam. who was Sc years
of age. and Miss Collins, 20 years old,
aud Free Thinkers. had been travel
ing together on u lccturing tour.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-17
PARDONED.
Gov. Morrill,, of Kansas, Gives . Dcfaultel
His Freedom.

Gov. Morrill,, of Kansas, Gives q Dcfaulter
His Freedom.
Topeka, Kan., Dec. l2.-James l..
Dick, the defa ulting treasurer of Ellis
worth county. who was sentenced in
1895 to ~ years. imprisonment. has
been pardoned by Gov. Morrill,. The
governor had repeatedly refused u par
don on the representation that the COLI
vicr was in poor health, but when he
learned Friday that John Dick, only son
of the prisoner and sole support OF the
Iattcr's wife. had been killed in a rail-
road accident the pardon was a: once
signed and sent to Warden Lynch with
orders to release Dick so that lie could
board the next train for his home.