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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-02-25
An Apologize for the Sultan.

It was the sense of recent meeting
of sympathizers with the Armenians,
held in Boston or some other outspoken
place, that the name of F. Hopkins
Smith would go down to posterity
coupled with that of Abdul Hanrid, and
that posterity would have an uaspeak-
able opinion of both of them. This
conviction is probably based more upon
zeal than sound reflection, but Mr..
Smith, as the apologist of the sultan,
continues to be a good deal of a target,
and if he is not full of holes it is because
his constituents materials are tough.
He clings to the opinion that the revo-
lutionary Armenians are much more to
blame for the massacre of their ccun-
trymen than the sultan is, which view.
has basis of fact which is recognized
BY many observers who by no means ac-
cept the opinion itself. Harper's
Weekly. Il: s:s
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-02-25
Snake and q Bicycle.

There are snakes in Florida, as all
residents know, and recently Jackson
vile bicyclist made acquaintance with
one in peculiar way. He was Wheel
ing to Orange park with a party, and
riding leisurely, when he noticed some
thing strange on his front wheel. A
second glance Showed the object to be a
rattlesnake, entwined in the spokes.
How it got there no one can imagine,
and the cyclist just then did not stop
to inquire. He dismomted with the
speed of Oh expert, letting the wheel
fall On the read. Then he went in search
of a club, but before he could find one
the RATHER had uncoiled and wriggled
itself into the dense underground,
where no one cared to follow it.-Golden
Days. ...t
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-02-25
Put Guns Together Carefully.

When cleaning firearms, too much
care cannot be taken to put them prop
erly together, so the sportsman does
not become a victim, instead of his in
tended game. Do not take the weapons
apart unless you have the patience and
mechanical skill to put them back the
way they were; your life may be the
penalty else. A farmer in Alabama re-
Gently fell dead after firing his gun;
the charge came from the breech in
stead Of the muzzle, and entered his
brain. He had made the mistake above
referred to.-Everywhere.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-02-25
quors, the operation Of eating houses,

auors, the operation Of eating houses,
and free lunch. ~
Representative Henry Johns presi-
dent over the committee of the whole
in the house which practically killed
H. +. No. los, by Mr.. Schmidt, of
Duluth, providing for repositories for
the state treasurer. The following
bills were introduced. y
Relating to the compensation of
township assessors in their duties COL
lection from statistics, making the rate
10 conts for each farm; placed on gen.
eral orders.
To amend the present law relating
to arrest of horse thieves, reducing
bounty to 500; a bill repeating this law
has passed the house.
Amending laws relating to public
roads, making them four rods wide
and may be six if all property owners
interested agree.
To amend election law relating to
compensation Of judges and clerks of
election; placed on general orders.
To provide for the organization of
all unorganized counties; placed on
orders. The bill provides that the
governor shall have census taken
and the people then are to elect their
own officers The either bill provided
that the governor should appoint.
st. Paul, Feb. 22.-The senate Satur-
day was in q negative mood and re-
fused to fix the date of adjournment at
March, 81. as suggested by Senator
Knatvold.
The house resolution fixing the ap-
portionment at a maximum of 65 sena-
tors and Ia representatives. was amend
ed by Senator Barr to make it go sena-
tors.
Senator Culkin. thought the whole
matter should be left to the committee.
On motion of Mr.. Stevens the mat
ter was made a special order for
Wednesday afternoon.
The senate adjourned until Tuesday
afternoon.
The house adopted the Foss resolu.
ton introduced Thursday, calling upon
the president of the State University
to inform the house as to the number
of students in attendance who were
not residents of Minnesota. The fol-
lowing bills were introduced:
To provide for reduction of 20 per
cent in freight rates between points in
the state.
To provide for right Of redemption OF
sale made under chattel mortgage.
To provide that voting away OF
franchises by city councils shall be
ratified by vote of the people.
To amend law relating to separa-
ton of town and villages.
To authorize district courts to hold
special terms outside of county seats.
To amend law relating to power OF
district courts.
To amend law relating to bakeries.
To amend law relating to education
in school districts.
To amend law relating to town
officers.
Relating to county commissioners
com pensatiOn
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-02-25
LIVED in THE GRAVE.
The Remarkable Story Told by Doctor
! -. Tanner. E., -

The Remarkable Story Told by Doctor
Tanner. -
There is a regular crusade going on
in the different countries of Europe
against hasty burials of those supposed
to be dead. Scientific men and women
of high standing are studying every
phase of the subject of suspended ami.
nation and making the results of their
Investigations known to the people
1t appears from the exp ressions of those
engaged in this ~laudable effort that
there is only one sure and positive test
of death, and that is decomposition OF
the tissues of the flesh. All other tests,
SO it is claimed, prove nothing, and are
therefore, absolutely useless.
Seven or eight years ago DR.. Tanner
Gan investigator and experimenter OF
highest rank, although known to peo-
pie in general only as ''Tanner, the
faster"), attempted to inaugurate cru
SADIE in this country similar to that
which is now on in Europe. He first
made the matter serious study during
the first four months of the year 1889,
and found that during those II weeks
there were not less than Is cases in the
United States Of suspended animation.
Tanner argued that the stoppage OF
heart pulsations and of the breath were
of themselves no Indication that actual
death had taken place. He declared
that it was impossible to tell when
persons were so constituted as to be
liable to fall into a trance and remain
in that state for weeks or even months.
One of the most remarkable stories re-
lated by the doctor was this:
II have a case in my mind where the
body Of a young man was buried i'm q
vault. After three years had elapsed
it became necessary to remove the re-
mains in order to make some repairs,
The body was found perfectly fresh and
natural and not in the least decomposed
The physician who was called pro.
rounced it a strange case and pro-
ceeded to investigate: He laid the
body out properly and made a slight in.
cision with his scalpel. To the doctors
surprise and to the horror of those who
had gathered around, the, supposed
corpse the body which had been dead
and buried for over three years in
stantly arose to a sitting posture and
within q very few moments was thor.
oughly resuscitated. The
young man lived for more than 30 years
after this strange experience
Louis Republic.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-02-25
ENGLAND'S HISTORIC EVENTS.

Not Much Stir Created Over Days OF
Great Deeds.
So far as public celebrations go, you
could live lifetime in England without
knowing that she had a history. No at
tempt is made to keep alive the mem
cries of her great deeds, to stir up her
patriotic emotions. Waterloo might
never hav E been fought for all the notice
taken of its anniversaries. Once a
year the survivors of the Crimeau war
dine quietly together, and the outside
realizing that there are still alive peo-
pie connected with an event which has
so completely passed into history. Guy
Fawkes' day has long since become a
mere holiday for schoolboys. All the
more remarkable, therefore, was the re-
cent outburst of enthusiasm on Trafal-
gar day. The events of the past year
have had most stimulating effect on
the English public. Patriots and jim
goes and severe statisticians on the mill
tary and naval resources have sprung
suddenly into excessive vigor. The
union jack has begun to be introduced
at public meetings. Men have gone
about talking of spirited foreign pol
icy that would teach Germany her
place. There has seemed to be some
thing stirring in the air that spoke of i'm
perial enterprise. Even the poet-lau-
reate was moved to compete with the
music halls in this national uprising.
And the result of it all was seen on
Trafalgar day, when Nelson's column
was wreathed with flowers and Trafal-
gar square filled with cheering crowd.
Another result was seen at the meeting
CT the Imperial institute, summoned to
listen to lecture by a Mr.. Draper on
the geology of South Africa. Mr..
Draper was supposed to have helped the
Transvaal republic in it's defeat of DR..
Jameson's raid, and the members of the
Imperial institute gave him warm
reception. Traitor, renegade, cur and
liar were what they mostly called him.
Considering the social standing of the
members, the scene was almost as re-
markable as that famous night, some
20 years ago, when Sir Charles Dixie,
rising in the house of commons to pro-
pose an inquiry into the expenses of the
crown, was howled at and Kissed and
all but mobbed by his brother members.
-Harper's Weekly.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-02-25
CURRENT TOPICS.
No electric cars in London.
No Mexican chews tobacco.
PAprp na tch 40 oro a ~u1,,-oo1

no electrlc cars In London.
No Mexican chews tobacco.
PAPER matches are announced.
Bosr0N is to have a horseless Are
engine.
CHICAGO has geo union women steno.
graphers.
JAcKeoNv1LLE, Fla. announces q
colored baby show.
New YORK Central Labor union has
expelled the BARRIERS.
AN eight-heur bill recently passed
the Montana Legislature.
CHICAGO male walters denounced a
boss for giving employment to women.
The production of tho Portland mine
Of Cripple Creek for 1896 was 81, 49,
1873
MILWAUKEE council committee re-
fused to drop the litigation for four
cont fares.
REV. j. A. Brooks of Memphis, pro.
hibition candidate for vice president
in 1883 is dead.
A LEAvENwoRTH hirod girl declares
that she buys the old dresses of the
house to hold her job.
THE Tennessee house passed the
Johnson bill against bribery and in
limitation at elections
PENNsYLvAN1A's superior court has
decided that owners of drugstores need
not be qualified druggists.
TH1RTY-s1x million barrels of fer
rnented liquors were produced in the
Uaited States during 1886.
81
bureau, has been made permanent
president Of the National Good Roads
congress-
WILLIAM E. CoAKE, Of Portsmouth,
R. l., who recently celebrated his hum
dreth birthday, says that he has
chewed tobacco for 50 years
The most dangerous waters in the
world for the passage of ships lie off
the east coast OF England, Cape Ushant
IN France, and Cape Finisterro, in
Spain.
1T is announced from Brussels that
on and after May next the Belgian
railway, postal and telegraph admins
trations will adopt the 24-day system
of reckoning time. The system will
probably be extended to other govern
ment departments.
THERE are two policemen in Cam
bridge, Mass, who have been striv-
ing for records in the numb of ar.
rests they make. So annoying has this
become that the citizens in that one
section of the town have made COM
plant to the authorities.
TOPEKA is the largest disbursement
AGENCY for pension money in the
Bnited States, the amount to be paid
out through th.f agency for the next
quarterly disbursement being $3,S75,
900. Phfladelphia is the next largest,
with pay roll OF 81, s75, 900. -
1I1TAr1eN almonds are now being
sold in Chicago, which are said to be
real works Of art, 50 perfectly do they
resemble in appearance the nut in
question. They are made out of peach
stones, cut to the proper size, ground
smooth, and then deIicately engraved.
WrrHIN three or four. years the
youngest group Of senator's ever known
has entered that body. Senator But
Ter, OF North Carolina. is SO years old;
Senator Cannon, Of Utah, is 81; Sena-
tor Pritchard, of North Carolina, Is 80;
and Senator-to-be Penrosc. Of Pennsyl-
vania. is &C. III. 81 q. 3s... 5 i5
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the manner OF conducting the lnveStl-
cation. In order to cut the Gordian
knot the committee proposes to stop
short and report no case while the la
Dor unions, through their friends,
come into the senate and desire to have
the committee instructed along the
lines they (the labor unions) have laid
down. After debating a very consid-
cradle portion of the session the whole
matter, was made the special order for
next Tuesday afternoon.
The house was more barren of re-
suits than the senate. A large por-
ton of the session was devoted to dis
'cussing tho proposed reapportionment.
The house evidently does not have
much confidence in its committee and
after long discussion instructed the
committee to limit the number of sena-
tors to sixty five and representatives to
one hundred and twenty. No bills
were passed and it is really beginning
to be q puzzle to dig business sufficient
to continue ninety days, which is the
constitutional limits of the per diem
for a member of the legislature. BUSH
ness or no business, the session will
terminate with the per diem limit.
st. Paul. Feb. 20.-The weather was
very comfortable out of doors vester-
day, but regular wind storm ragged in
the Legislative halls. The session of
the senate was especially devoted to
considering tho question whether the
tax payers should be allowed to pay
their taxes semi-annually, instead Of
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-02-03
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Senator Wolcott has left London for
Paris, where he will continue his mis-
sion in the interest of bimetallism.
According to the official report just
issued there have been 1895 cases of
bubonic plague and 3,275 deaths from
the disease in the city of Bombay and
664 deaths have occurred at Karachi.
A dispatch announces that about
1000, 600 persons are now employed
upon the relief works in the famine
stricken districts of India.
The death of George Hay eleventh
Earl of Kinnoull, is announced at Lon
don. lie was born in 1927 and sue
ceeded his father in 1866.
The pilgrimage to Mecca has been
forbidden by the sultan this year be-
cause of the prevalence of bubonic
plague.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-02-03
uASHlNGTON.

The death of Brevet Maj Gen. Albion
P. Howe, u S. A., retired, occurred at
his home in Cambridge, Mass, on the
27th ult.
Having reached the age limit of "a
years, Col. James S. Casey, Second in
fantry, has been placed on the retired
list of the army.
BY vote of Al to Is the senate has
confirmed the nomination of William
s. Forman to be commissioner of in
ternal revenue.
The contested case of BenOit vs. Boat
ner, from the Fifth Louisiana district,
was decided by house committee on
elections No. 3 in favor of Mr.. Boatner,
dem the sitting mem ber.
The application for foreclosure of the
Kansas and Pacific railroad has been
signed by Attorney General Harmon
and the papers will be fled in Kansas
and Missouri
Counterfeit money to the amount of
S2,754,307 which had been seized by
secret service officers was turned over
to the treasury department during the
year 1896.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-02-03
WEST AND SOUTH.

The Ohio river is now open to Pitts
burg, the Missouri to Kansas City and
the Mississippi to Davenport. If the
severe weather continues these rivers
will probably close as far south as the
mouth of the Ohio.
The recent blizzard in the Indian
Territory has, according to reports re-
ceived from prominent stockmen, re-
suited in the death of thousands OF
cattle. For the first time in many
years large water courses are frozen
over.
A law has been passed in the Ala
bama house of representatives repeal
ing the Australian ballot, which has
been in effect in Alabama for four
years, and re-enacting the old election
law.
While crossing the Baltimore & Ohio
Southwestern railway at Eastwood,
near Vincennes, Ind, on the Goth ult.,
Katie and Dottie Miller, aged Is and
II, daughters of a suburban farmer, re-
turning home from school in the city,
were struck and killed by passenger
train.
The steamers on the Tennessee river
above Chattanooga are all bound,
and some of them are at small land
ings miles from any city or town,
Ralph Metcalf was appointed receiver
for the Dime Savings bank at Chicago
on the SOth ult. by Judge Freeman
The directors assert that all of the
1000 depositors will be paid in full
There is due depositors and Others
1866, ZOO.
A bill prohibiting the carrying o.
concealed weapons has passed the
Texas house of representatives and 6
bill has been introduced prohibiting
the manufacture or sale of pistols il
that state.
w. n. Culp, of the general freight
and coal department of the Louisville
& Nashville railroad, died at Mobile OF
the 31st ult. of heart trouble. He wa!
46 years of age
Andrew Pagan, colored, the alleged
leader of gang of negro miners a
Birmingham, Ala, who formed a con
spiracy to wreck trains, and who threw
the Southern railway Washington ex
press off the track on McComb trestle
near that place, on December 90, wa
found guilty The penalty is ten year
in the penitentiary.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-02-03
OH thWS.
Items of Inter 81 .ro \ All sec,i ms
of TIE State.

CoLUNBUs. Jan. 2S--The following
statistics are taken from the annual
report of the board of managers of the
Ohio penitentiary:
Number of prisoners in the peniten-
tiary at close of fiscal year, 0,OS6: aver
age population for the year, 2,1T4, com
pared with 2,0s5 for 1895, with 2,Ol6 for
1894, with 1,796 for 1898, with 1,726 for
1892, with 1896 for 1891, with 1855 for
1890. There were 1911 new prisoners
received and 1850 discharged during
the year. There were 80 female pris-
oners on hand October 81, 1885,
The financial transactions for the
year were as follows: Earnings, piece
price labor, S1O9, ,9O9. So; contract labor,
$44, TOAST; surplus labor, $24 945.1 IS;
United States prisoners keeping, Sl6.-
1876. 43; state and miscellaneous, $685.
251. 20; total, $3.50, ,947.2l. The expend-
itures were: Per diem OF managers,
81, 900; salaries of officers. $2S, ,352 55;
salaries of guards, s9054T, so; current
expenses. $3.50, ,9O7,75; total, $2SS, ,SO7. so.
There have been l,ll6 prisoners pa
rolled since the passage of the act May
4, 1895 The mortality among the
convicts, which during the fiscal year
of 1S94-5 was within a small fraction oi
II in 1000 of the prison population
was reduced to less than 13 in 1000.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-02-03
LATER.

THE Bonsfeld wooden ware works,
in Bay City, Mich, the largest institu-
ton of the kind in the world, will re-
sumo operations in day or two, put
ting on 300 employees.
AT St. Louis, Mo-, on the lst Mrs.
William Frye prepared dish of corn
meal pudding for supper. All the fam
lily ate and all were i'll within an hour.
An hour later one of the children died
and the others cannot recover. The
parents are in dangerous condition.
M. MARTINI, the inventor of the rife
bearing his name, died at Frauenfeld,
Switzerland, on the 1st
THE Kalamazoo (Mich.) high school
building was destroyed by fire on the
Ist. The cause of the fire was an ex-
plosion of gas. Loss $4,000; insur-
ance $4,000 During the progress of
the fire four firemen were badly in
jured by falling wall Fred Winslow
is probably fatally injured.
A DISPATCH from Yokohama says
that the trial of Mrs. Carew, charged
with causing the death of her husband,
Walter Raymond Carew, secretary of
the Yokohama United club, by admin
istering arsenic, has ended in her con-
viction and she was sentenced to death
on the 1st. The sentence is subject to
revision by the British minister.
JOHN NJ. WILSON was appointed chief
of engineers by the president on the
1st, to succeed Gen. W. p. Craighill,
who was placed ON the retired list at
his own request.
THE monthly statement of the comp
troller of the currency shows that the
circulation of national bank notes dur
ing January decreased $56S, 1906, as COM
pared with the corresponding month
last year. During the year ended jan
uary 81, 1897, the increase in national
bank note circulation was $21, 800, 500.
IN the senate on the lst o resolution was
offered by Mr.. Chandler and was referred to
the committee on privileges and elections, in
structing that committee to investigate the re-
cent presidential and state election In Della
ware and report TO the senate whether re-
publican form of government existed in that
3 ate. The Nicaraguan canal bill was taken
up and an unsuccessful effort was made TO
have day and hour fixed for o final vote Mr..
Villas quoted Senator Sherman's statement
that the canal could not be constructed by an
incorporated company and must be built, II OF
all. by the government. The house refused TO
consider the bill proposed by the committee on
interstate and foreign commerce TO prohibit
ticket scalplng. The following bills were
passed: To prohibit the carrying from one
state to another OF obscene literature or arti-
cles designed for indecent or immoral pur-
poses; to restore to his former rank In the
navy and place on the retired list Commander
John N, Quackenbush; authorizing the entry
Of public lands containing petroleum under the
mining lawA
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-02-03
EAST.

The exports of merchandise from
New York in January were about 4
per cent. larger than last year, and i'm
ports Is per cent. smaller than last
year, when the excess of exports was
over SIS, 100000.
A powder magazine at the Crystal
Ridge colliery, one and half miles
south of Hazleton, Pa. exploded on the
26th ult Herman Rickert, the night
watchman, was the only person in
jured.
While watching the employees at the
Millyille IN. j. electric light station
test new battery on the SOth ult.,
epjamin Madliff seized hold of live
wire and fell dead after receiving a
shock of 1900 volts.
The Norfolk & New Brunswick IN. J.)
hosiery works, which have been closed
for several months, will reopen on the
Gd. All of the old hands, 600 in num-
ber, will be given work.
On the night of the 3Oth ult. at Belle
fonte, Pa, four young people were seri-
ously injured and II more or less hurt
In coasting accident. Fifteen young
men and girls were coming down
steep grade on big sled when it col
hded with tree, piling the occupants
with terrific force on the stone curbing.
At his home in Tarrytown, N. Y,
James w. Halsted, aged so years, died
on the 31st. ult. He organized the
Guardian Life Insurance Co., in 1859,
and later was connected with the New
York Life Insurance Co.
The death of Bishop Jacob F. Oeller,
Of Waynesboro, Pa, bishop of the Ger
man church of Pennsylvania, occurred
at the John Hopkins hospital in Balti-
more on the 3Oth ult
The postmaster general has made
public the statement of postal receipts
for the quarter ended December 81. 1895,
AZ compared with the receipts for the
corresponding period of 1896, which
shows decrease Of about $50, 900 and
Il taken TO be an indication of general
business depression.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-02-03

The block at the corner Of Seventh
avenue and Thirteenth street, Beaver
Falls, Pa, burned on the S0th ult.,
causing loss of $40, 900.
The United States cruiser Brooklyn
struck sunken rock in the Delaware
river on the SOth ult. and was seriously
damaged, her lower compartments Tor.
ward being stove in.
The old trust of the coffin manufac-
turers of the United States has been re-
vived and prices will be advanced from
10 to 90 per cent. in consequence.