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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-12-09
His Sinister Intention.

Oklahoma Landlord-If thar is shootin'
star or two along toward midnight dom It git
scared, Mr.. Eastman. You won't be in no
danger yourself
Eastern Tourist-Certainly not! I have
seen such sights before, but was not aware
that there was to be meteoric display at
this time.
wall, I don't know for certain that thar
is goin' to be any, but I've got it figgered
out that them three members of busted
been board np me or be last 'nSo weeks eeks
while they waited for remittances from
home are goin to try to vamous tonight
an leave me holdin' the bag, an am yere to
say that they haint goin' to git away with
out ,settlin' in full, not if my old revolver
works with its usual neatness an dispatch!
That's the kind Of a-by gosh-landlord
am!"-N Y. World
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-12-09
SLosSoN IS CHAMPION.
Defeats Ives by Two Points and VIII
the Billiard Tournament.

Defeats Ives BY Two Points and Wins
the Billiard Tournament.
New York, Dec. 6.-The final game of
the Madison Square billiard tourna-
ment was the most exciting and bril-
liant of the series. 1t was won by Slos-
son, which also makes him the winner
of the tournament. Ives was defeated
by only two points. Slosson running the
game out from 44O in one of the finest ex-
hibitions of billiard playing and COOL
ness ever seen in like contest. The
firal score was: Slosson, 500; Ives, 498.
Ives had been ahead and was making a
run when he reached his 49Sth point.
The 499th shot was easy, but, whether
tie champion was nervous or too conf
dent matters not, he missed it. Slos-
son was in the 440th hole. He.seemed
not the least bit disconnected. He
picked up his cue without the least sign
of excitement and began to click off
the shots. Before he stopped he had
run out the game and won the battle
with Ives and the tournament. The
highest run made during the night was
IS, also made by Slosson. Had Ives won
the game. he, Slcsson and Schaefer
would have been in tie for first money.
AS it is, Slosson wins first place,
Schaefer second. Ives third and DAILY
fourth.
Ives, smarting under his defeat, has
issued a challenge to Slosson for a
match game of billiards, according to
championship rules. which are that
the game shall be played within 60
days of the issue Of the challenge, for
a stipulated amount and shall be of 600
points. In case Siosson should wish
a change in the rules, Ives agrees to
play him a game of 5000 points, 500
points each night for six nights. and
will wager $4,000 to $4,000 that he can
defeat Slosson. Ives has placed a
check for $3.50 in the hands of a bill
lizard company as forfeit.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-12-09
MINOR NEWS tTtMS.

At Tangent, Ore, steam plow has
been devised which the inventor thinks
will pillow IS acres day..
The golden jubilee of the discovery of
gold in California, will be deliberately
celebrated at San Francisco.
Richard Reddick (colored), claimed
to have been born in 1777, has applied
for charity to the Pittsburgh (Pa.) au-
thorities.
There are IA different parties in the
Austrian reichsrath. the largest of
which has 60 votes, while 213 constitute
a majority.
One of the entrances to the state cap
itol at Albany, n. Y, which has been
"a years in course of erection, has just
been opened to the public.
Wilbur L. Anderson, of Lynn, Mass,
leader of the Holiness band, has set
May 3, 1908. as the day for the resur-
rection of the dead and the translati ion
of the saints.
Prosperous times among the west
| ern farmers are indicated by the fact
that this fall 300 farmers sons are en-
rolled among the students in the Kan
sas state university.
Rev. DR.. Russell T. Hall, of Green
witch, Conn.,, has resigned the passionate
of the Second Congregational church
there because he couldn't stop golf
playing on Sunday.
A large hall, named after Paul Revere,
has been dedicated in Boston by the
Charitable Mechanics association. Re-
we're was the founder and first president
| of the association.
Under a new rule of the post Office
| department. every letter carrier will
have to give bond for ST 900 after Janu-
airy 1. secured by a recognized surety
or indemnity company.
President Mckinley has accepted the
invitation extended by President Bash
ford, of Ohio Wesleyan university, at
Delaware, O., and will be the orator of
Wesleyan's commencement exercises
next June.
A movement is on foot in St. Louis
to secure a, medal of honor from con-
gress for Mrs. Delina Roberts, who
saved % wounded soldiers during the
war by carrying them, one at time,
to boat, through shower of bullets.
Miss Ray has given $4,000 toward
starting a negro colony in Alabama. It
is located near Decatur and pro-
visional government has been estab-
lished over it. Her idea il to test the
ability Of the negro for local self-gov-
egnmeat
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THE EAST.

At the leading houses in the United
States the exchanges during the
week ended on the Sd aggregated
$1,323, 1861 ,465, against $1,05s, 4s2, 29s the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1896
was 5.4.
In the United States there were BOG
business failures in the seven days
ended on the Sd, against 236 the week
previous and 379 in the corresponding
period of 1896.
In New York Martin Thorn, convicted
of the murder of William Guldensuppe,
has been sentenced to be electrocuted
in the week beginning January 10 next.
Fire destroyed the Tennessee medical
college at Knoxville.
A report that the Russian govern
ment is buying large quantities of army
supplies in the United States has been
verified.
In a six days bicycle race at Madi-
sin Square garden in New York, SO
men started.
Gov. Griggs, Of New Jersey, has ac-
cepted the office of attorney general
of the United States.
In Providence, r. l., the Kent & STAN
ley company, manufacturing jewelers.,
failed for 81, sOO,O0O
At the six days billiard tournament
in New York Slosson was the winner,
defeating Ives in the last game by only
two points.
The death of Adolph Neundorff, Gel
ebrated in Europe and America as a
composer and musical director, oc-
CURED in New York, aged 81 years.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-12-09
The North Pole Calendar.

189S-Expedition of Hams Hansen, from
Haanlerfest, Norway, to find the north pole.
l899:-Expedition of Torn Tormpsen to
find Hansen.
1906. Expedition of Jhim Jhornsen to
find Tormpsen.
l9Ol.-Expedition of Jjaik Jjaksen to find
Jhornsen.
l902.-Return of Jjaksen with relics of
Jhornsen.s Marble monument erected to
the memory of Jhornsen.
l903.-Return of Jho1nsen with relics of
Tormpsen. Brick monument erected to
Tormpsen.
l904.-Return of Tormpsen with relics of
Hansen. Wooden monument erected to
Hansen.
l905.-Return of Hansen, dead-tired.
North pole still standing.
l9O6.-North pole discovered by an Ameri-
can. Auction sale of monuments at Ham
erfest.-Stephen Leacock, in Puck.
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The utter failure to find any traces
Of Prof. Andree and his balloon can
occasion no rational surprise. The
path of arctic exploration by land and
water. or snow and ice, rather. is some
what definite, and searching party
would know where to go, but searching
for traveller whose route was aerial is
like trying to follow the sky tracks
made by the wings of bird. The scien-
lists who encouraged an expedition so
in conflict with common sense, and
there were some such, would do we'll to
recognize the limitations of human pos
Sibilitv
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-12-09
A WEEKS HISTORY |
The Important Happenings Of q
Week Briefly Told.
IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION
All the Latest News of Interest from
Washington, From the East, the
West and the South.
THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES
FROM WASHINGTON.


An order of Assistant Postmaster
General Heath makes it an offense
punishable by dismissal from the serv-
ice for letter carrier to work more
than eight hours day.
Matilda Delilah Shields, grand
daughter of Richard Henry Potomax,
an Indian chief, died in Washington,
aged 113 years.
President Mckinley has appointed
Blanche K. Bruce (colored), of Missis-
sippi, to be register of the treasury.
Imports of dutiable sugar dur
ing October last amounted to 1S2,998,-
945 pounds, valued at $3,643,613, which
is an increase over September imports
OF nearly 100000 pounds.
The commissioner of internal reven-
ue in his annual report estimates that
the receipts from all sources for the
current fiscal year will aggregate $685.
100000, an increase over 1897 of SO, 300, )
900. During the year 2,241 illicit stills
were destroyed and s29 persons were
arrested.
Notices were received by the clerk OF
the house of representatives of 20 con.
tests to be made in the next house.
A counterfeit five-dollar silver cer-
tificate of the series of 1891 with por-
trait of Grant is announced by the
treasury secret service.
The position of attorney general, to
succeed Mr.. McKenna, who will be NOM
mated to the United States supreme
bench to succeed Justice Field, has been
offered to Gov. Griggs, of New Jersey.
In his annual report James II. Eek
els, comptroller of the currency, IA
'ors amending the note-issuing law,
says there are 3.617 national banks in
operation. with capital Of $630,23O,-
295, and there was paid to creditors of
insolvent banks during the year $751;
169,781 in dividends.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-12-09
MADE HIM PROPOSE.
And 1t Was Not n Very Difficult I'm
dertaking.

anu ~ W ~ NOT u very O1"CuAt Ono
dertaking.
The diffdent young man wanted to pro.
pose to his girl, but for the life of him he
did not know how to go about it. He read
books. on the subject, and sought informa-
ton from men who had experience; and
while the theories were admirable, in every
instance he found that the practice thereof
was different thing. He was walking with
her one evening, thinking over these things,
when her shoe became united. She stuck
out her pretty little foot with smile, and
looked down at it. He fell on his knees to
tie the lace. Then he walked on with her.
The shoe became united again. The third
time it happened he was ready as before.
"See if you can't tie knot that won't
come undonc," she said, as he worked away
at it.
lie looked up at her tenderly.
IF can't, know man who can" he
said.
*'Do you want him to tic it," she asked,
coquettishly
"Yes," he replied.
himself.
OTIS the parson," he said. And he rose
to his feet and finished the proposal.-Tit-
Bits
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-12-09
No one who has kept track of the de-

No one who has kept track of the de-
velopments in the Klondike region will
be surprised at the news that famine
is imminent at Dawson City. All
through the fall men continued to
flock into that district, relying upon the
transportation companies to bring in
supplies of provisions for the winter.
They were warned by experienced Alas
kans against the danger that threat
ened them, but very few needed the
warning. The result is that starvation
threatens every manin the Klondike re-
gion who failed to bring with him six
months supplies.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-12-09

Four men were killed in an attempt
to settle an old feud in Louisiana the
other day. That's generally the way
with feuds. Other things may be set
tied with good results all around. But
the minute an attempt is made to settle
a feud somebody is almost sure to get
killed or hurt, and then, when the
smoke clears away, it is found that the
feud is still unsettled. The best thing
to do with feud is just to let it alone.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-12-09
MARKETS..
MinneapOlis. Dec.

Minneapolis, Dec. 6.
Wheat-No. l northern, ss% to SOC;
No. northern, $50 to SAC; December,
s71sc.
Corn-No. 3, 24c.
Oats-No. white, 20 to 21c.
Cattle-Steers, So. 20 to 3.75; cows,
$3.50
Hogs-SS.0o to 325.
Sheep-Muttons, SO. 10 to T. so; lambs
&4.25
Butter-Creamery, extras, 81 to 22c;
c1eamery, firsts, 20 to 21c; dairy, fancy,
10 to zoe; dairy, choice, Is to Ice.
Poultry-Turkeys, to &c; spring
chickens. z to Sc.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-12-09
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
The report that Gen. Pando had been
ki!lcd in fight with Cuban insurgents
is said to be false.
In collision the French bark Bonnie
Josephine, from Bordeaux to Granville,
was sunk and nine of her crew were
lost.
The German government sent in
structions to Kiel to dispatch 200 ar
tilerymen with field guns and 1000
marines to China.
Italy's cabinet resigned and Mar
quis di Rudini, the present prime min
lister, will form new one, from which
he will exclude all conservatives.
In Havana Americans asked Gen. Lee
for warships to protect their fam
lilies.
Great damage was done by storm
which swept over Italy. Seventeen YES
sells were wrecked in, the bay of Ma
pies and their crews were lost.
Fire wiped out 10 houses at Jarucco,
Cuba, and hundreds of families were
homeless and destitute.
A definite treaty of peace between
Turkey and Greece has been signed.
Dispatches from the orient say that
a tidal wave at Port Isabella destroyed
many houses and killed over 1000 per-
sons.
It has been decided by the Belgian
government that Americans residing
in that country will hereafter be ex-
empt from service in the civil guard.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-12-09
LATER NEWS.

eN6Vv0s
Two German cruisers entered the
Port au Prince, Hayti, and an ulti.
matum from the German government
was delivered to the Haytian govern
ment, giving the latter eight hours in
which to grant the demand of Ger
many for an indemnity to Herr Lued-
erS.
Details of the fighting at Guisa,
| Cuba, have been received. According
to the official account the Spanish gar
rison defended the town heroically. 1t
consisted of 500 men. The forts, five
houses and 800 huts were destroyed.
Albert Giles, prominent farmer of
Van Buren, county, Ark, was assas-
sinated while passing along the public
road. The murder is believed to have
been the work of lnoonshiners.
German marines and sailors, with
two machine guns, entered the city of
Kiao-Chau, China, and took possession
of the city walls and gates.
The senate committee on rules in
structed the sergeant-at-arms of the
senate to enforce the rules prohibiting
the sale of liquor in the senate wing of
the capitol.
The Olympic theater at New Orleans,
formerly the famous Athletic club,
where the Corbett-Sullivan and other
notable fights occurred, was destroyed
by fire.
The first regular session of the Fifty
fifth congress begun at noon the 9th.
Simultaneously at both ends of the cap
itol Speaker Reed in the house and Vice
President Hobart in the senate,
dropped their gavels and called to or
der the respective bodies over which
they preside.
Congressman Beldon of New York
was seriously injured by falling down
the Marble stairs of the Capital.
The schooner Silver Heels, landed
cargo of war material on the Cuban
coast for the insurgents.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-12-09
GODDARD FOUND GUILTY,

Murder Case mt Kansas City, Mo-,
Comes to an End.
Kansas City. Mo-, Dec. 6.-Murder in
the second degree was the verdict re-
turned at late hour Saturday night in
the case of DR.. Jefferson d. Goddard, the
druggist who shot and killed Fred j.
Jackson, laundryman, in the apart
ments Of Jackson's wife at the Wood
land hotel. The case was given to the
jury at one o'clock in the morning. The
verdict of the jury fixes the penalty at
16 years in the state penitentiary.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-12-09

Two hundred and seventy-five years
ago in November, in the year following
the landing Of the Pilgrims at Ply
mouth, Gov. Bradford appointed the
first Thanksgiving. It lasted three
days. for one day was not sufficient for
the expression of gratitude and the con-
sumption Of wild turkeys bror ght in
by the hunters. Such was the first
Thanksgiving. and from that day to
this it has gradually extended all over
the country. and its national signifi-
canoe is indelibly connected with the
name of Abraham Lincoln and the close
of the civil war. 1t is patriotic and
Christian festival.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-12-09
WEST AND SOUTH.

William Phillips, Seth Lowe and
John Howard, farmers living near
Huntsville, Ark, fought for the hand OF
Miss Irene Pruitt and all three were
fatally wounded.
A negro named Bill Scott killed John
Singley, wealthy farmer, and his wife
and child at Warrens, Ala, and stole
$500 and escaped.
The doors of the Piedmont state
bank at Morgantown, N. c., were
closed.
Robbers entered Miles & Higbee's
bank at Milford, Ind, but secured nd
booty.
In Milwaukee Albert Kruger, q
butcher, shot and killed his wife and
then committed suicide. A quarrel was
the cause.
The two orphan children of George
Copeland were fatally burned in the
house of their grandmother, Mrs. Eliza
Copeland, at Sullivan, Ind.
At Galena, Ill.,, sharp earthquake
shock occurred and houses shook VIC
entity.
Flames destroyed the old "Brick'
Pomeroy block and the Mcmillan Opera
House block at La Crosse, Wis.,, the loss
being 100000.
A heavy snowstorm extended over
Nebr aska, Kansas, Missouri and Iowa
The death of Louis Kossuth Church
ex-governor of North Dakota, occurred
at Juneau, Alaska, of pneumonia.
At Cedar Falls, Ia, William Kern
confessed to the killing of his father,
claiming as an accomplish his sweet
heart, Delilah Fales.
The democratic legislative caucus at
Richmond, Va, nominated Hon. John
Daniels to succeed himself in the
United States senate.
On. an electric railway in the sub.
urbs of Detroit, Mich, two cars col
lied and three men were killed and II
other persons we're injured, some IA
tally.
The president Left Canton, o., for
Washington to be present at the open
ing of congress. There was but slight
change in the condition of his moth.
or, and she was said to be slowly sleep.
ing her life away.
In Jacksonville, Ind, Mahaley En-
bry Anderson, 1os years of age, died at
the home of her daughter, Mary Berk-
ley.
Flames originating in the merchan.
disc store of Price & Gillette at Tulsa.
Ind. r., destroyed over 100000 worth
Of property.
In the Chickasaw nation in Okla
homa the ratification of the Dawes
Choctaw treaty YVES overwhelmingly
deteated,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-12-09

The Thanksgiving proclamation of the
governor of Alaska is unique paper.
Here it is: ION account of the wonder
full discoveries of gold upon the Klon-
dixie we have been brought prominently
before the public, and many who have
decried Alaska as good for nothing now
are admitting that it has wonderful
possibilities. For this turn in the tide
of opinion let us give thanks. While the
cattle upon)the hills are the Almighty's,
the gold, copper and coal in the noun
tains and the fish in the sea are His
also"
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RAPID TRANSIT.
Remarkable Time Made by Union Pa.
cific Tratna.


Omaha. Neb.. Dec. 6.-Celebrating
it's new birth, the Union Pacific has
taken two more falls out of Father
Time, and has set pace for fast rum
ming that will likely stand in the west
for some time. Three record breaking
spurts in one week is it's record. Of the
first full particulars were furnished
last Tuesday. At that time 52O-mile
run was made at the rate of G2Hs miles
an hour, with hundred-mile dash at
the rate of 6s.2 miles an hour. Satur-
day the fast mail was again late in
Wyoming, and was danced across the
Nebraska plains at rate that makes
the Tuesday run look slow. 1t covered
AZ miles from Sidney to Julesburg in
80 minutes; 81 miles from Julesburg
to North Platte in n minutes: 60
miles from North Platte to Lexingto
in 60 minutes; IS miles from Lexington
to Kearney in 80 minutes, and final
dash of AZ miles from Kearney to
Grand Island in sc minutes, or 70 miles
an hour. The 261 miles from Sidney
to Grand Island was made in 23S min
utes, an average Of CSC miles an hour.
From Grand Island to Omaha the run
was ordinary, the lost time having
been made up. Sunday the Union Pa
cific brought theatrical company on
special train from .Julesburg to Coun-
Gil Bluffs, 294 miles, in 2s6 minutes.
From this must be deducted five min
utes for changing engines at Grand
Island. four minutes delay by a Mis-
souri, Pacific freight train on the cross
ing at Portal and the necessary slow
ing up through Omaha. distance of
five miles, and slow run over the Mis-
souri, river bridge. The actual running
time of the train was 275 minutes, an
average of 63.6 miles an hour.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-12-09

The old gold-brick game has just been
played in Cleveland, only with varia-
tons adapted to the times. A saloon
keeper of that enterprising city was in
duced to part with $4,000 of his good
money for 81 pounds of brass filings
and sand, palmed off on the poor fellow
as bag of Klondike cleanup. A fell
low saloon keeper who played the part
of decoy duck is in Jail, but the old
miners skipped.
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proper celebration.

About $4,000 bales of cotton are
booked for shipment to Japan this VIM
ter from the single port of Seattle. This
is said to be so per cent. more in value
than the value of all American exports
to Japan during the season of 1894-'95.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-12-09

The rapidity with which wild ami
NAL may be exterminated can be judged
from the fact that the Smithsonian in
stitution has recently tried in vain to
obtain a living specimen of the wild, or
passenger, pigeon which was formerly
found in this country in countless mil
lions. After the offer Of a liberal reward
and much correspondence it has been
concluded that the American wild pi-
geon is extinct. The seals are going just
as fast. This years catch in the North
Pacific is little more than half that of
last season. Three or four years more
will wipe out the seals unless their
slaughter is stopped or regulated.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-12-09
SOON WIDOWED.
Husband OF Young Woman Married
ThankaEiX wing Eve Suicides.

Thanksgiving Eve Suicides.
New York, Dec: Con Thanksgiving
evening Samuel G. Parlhill, "a years
of age, of Brooklyn, married Miss An
ME Kirkland, of Brooklyn, who was so
years his junior. Sunday Parkhill
committed suicide at his home in
Brooklyn by shooting himself through
the brain with revolver. When the
couple were married the families OF
both parties objected strongly to the
tie, on account of the disparity in their
ages. The couple were forced to sep
arate and since that time Parkhi!l had
appeared somewhat depressed. He
lived with his married daughter and
son, and when the family were at
church Sunday he shot himself in his
room. He was found on the return
of his relatives from church.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-12-09

Venezuela is certainly intent upon
making the most of it's natural re-
sources. Within the last few weeks val
liable concessions have been made to
American capitalists to work mines,
asphalt deposits and lumber tracts, and
if this sort of thing continues it will not
he long before Americans will virtually
control the country. Such a result
would undoubtedly be the very best
thing that could possibly happen to the
Venezuelans. They are, unfortunately
for them, not possessed of sufficient en-
terprise to make the most Of their en-
dowments. and Yankee hustlers are
needed tatnEn tho wealth into cold cash.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-12-09

Cheyenne, Wyo., Dec. 6.-James Muir
ray, a mail carrier on the route between
Cheyenne and Horse Creek. has been
missing since Thursday, when he start
ed on his trip in the heavy storm of
that day. It is believed be has persisted
In the storm. Searching parties have
been sent out, but no trace of the MISS
ing man has been found.