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The Worthington advance., 1897-08-05
FOUND GUILTY.

Charles w. Spalding at Last Con-
vtcted by a Chicago Jury.
Chicago, Aug. 2.-Charles Warren
Spalding has been declared guilty of
embezzlement. A verdict to this effect
was returned before Judge Horton Sat-
urday, and the only thing that stands
between the former president of the
Globe savings bank and term in the
state penitentiary is the Intervention of
the supreme court. The length of his
Imprisonment depends upon the Glenn
ency of the board of pardons. Under
the indeterminate sentence law he can
not serve less than one year nor more
than Is. His conviction was not at
tanned before two other juries had de-
clared him innocent of the same crime
in cases that were practically the same
as the present. 1t was the third at
tempt the state had made to secure IL
men who would believe that Spaldine
became guilty of embezzlement at the
moment when, as treasurer of the state
university and custodian of it's funds,
he hypothecated it's bonds to raise
money. The particular Indictment un-
der which Spalding was tried charged
him with embezzlement in the hypothe-
eating of 80 Macoupin county bonds on
IA, 1896, with the First ma
tional bank to secure loan of $25, 900.
This loan was also secured by his own
note, and the aggregate value of the
bonds was 5000.
The Worthington advance., 1897-08-05
Think Trade Improves.

Chicago, July 3o.-The Wholesale
Grocer publishes answers from job
bers all over the country to questions
regarding trade. The replies were from
jobbers in ~ states and show an in
crease OF so per cent. in the volume of
business for the first half of 81 as
compared with the same period last
year; 80 per cent. report the volume
about the same, and 20 per cent. note a
decrease. The question if definite inn
provement in conditions was recog-
ltlz nized was answered affirmat lively by
20 per cent. Sectionally 81 per cent. Of
the jobbers in the southern states, 65
in the eastern, 20 from the western and
95 per cent. from the central states said
"Yes, ," to the Improvement question.
The Worthington advance., 1897-08-05
New jersey Towns Flooded.

New York, July 3o.-The heavy rains
of the last few days have flooded Rah-
way, Fanwood and other places in New
Jersey. At Railway the people who live
in the low-lying parts were taken from
their houses in boats. The towpath of
the Delaware & Raritan canal at New
Brunswick is submerged. Canal traffic
between that city and Trenton has been
suspended and the factories along the
banks have been compelled to shut
down. A bad washout occurred on the
Raritan River railroad near Milltown.
where an embankment 80 feet high fell
across the tracks. The low-lying sec
tions of Newark Jared very badly and
several factories on the river front were
unable to operate on account of the wa
ter in the boiler-rooms.
The Worthington advance., 1897-08-05
.Epitome Of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
! FROM WASHINGTON.


The president has amended the civil
service rules so that no removal shall
be made from any position subject to
competitive examnat ton except for
just cause and upon written charges,
and has included within the classified
service the employees of all custom
house Offices.
For the year ended June 80, 1897, the
total receipts from internal revenue
were $146,619,50s, q decrease over the
previous year of $211, ,1O6.
Tariff act copies for circulation have
been received at the document rooms of
the senate. The law makes pamphlet
of 70 pages.
President Mckinley has appointed a
board of engineers to make surveys and
examinations for deep waterway
from the great lakes to the Atlantic
tidewaters.'
In the United States there were 236
business failures in the seven days
ended on the 3Oth, against 227 the week
previous and 2s1 in the corresponding
period of 1896.
On account of increased imports in
anticipation of the increased tariff du-
ties imposed by the new tariff act the
loss to the government is estimated at
$32, ,666, ,427.
The Worthington advance., 1897-08-05
HE SEEKS THE TRUTH.
Government Expert Dunham on Il
the Gold Fields.

Government Expert Dunham on for
the Gold Fields.
Washington, Aug. 2.-Expert Samuel
c. Dunham, of the federal bureau of
labor, left here Saturday for the gold
belt of Alaska, where he will make an
investigation and report in time for
the projected spring migration. Mr..
Durham is well equipped for the work,
having spent much time in the mining
camps of the west, and for IL years he
has been one of the corps of experts of
the labor bureau, being engaged in the
investigation of special problems. He
has been instructed by Commissioner
of Labor Wright to make a critical in
quiry into the opportunities for busi-
ness, for investment of capital, employ
ment of labor, wages, cost of living,
climate, best means of reaching the
gold fields and kindred subjects. He
will 60 direct to San Francisco and will
sail from there August ., taking the
Juneau overland route and reaching
the Klondyke region about the middle
Of September. He will watch the win
ter and early spring work and is ex-
pected to send material for special re-
port, which it is hoped will be pub
lished about March 1.
The Worthington advance., 1897-08-05
BLOOD Is SHED. ),
Nonunion Iron Workers Killed 4
ScOttlale. Pa.

eSS.A sAasAVAA A1Ou workers tA11leO NJ
Sc0ttdale, Pa.
Scottdale, Pa, Aug. William Cum
mings, the leader Of the nonunion men
brought here by the. Scottdale Iron and
Steel company to take the places of the
strikers, was shot and instantly killed
Saturday night in front Of the CONNER
cial hotel. Cummings and three com
panions, all nonunion men, encoun-
tered number of strikers as they came
out of the barroom, and war of words
ensued. Some one fired revolver and a
dozen shots followed in quick success
sion. Cummings dropped dead with a
bullet in his right temple aud his three
companions fled to the mill, hotly pur-
sued by an angry crowd. When the
nonunion men reached the inclosure
the deputies on guard surrounded
them and the mob was forced to re-
treat. Reports as to how the shooting
occurred are conflicting. James Dolan,
one of the nonunion men who were with
Cummings, was arrested and other ar
rests will follow. The situation is .ery
much strained and no one can predict
the outcome.
Coroner Owens held an inquest over
the remains of Cummings. A large
number of witnesses were examined.
but the only one who gave positive
testimony was Constable Longanecker,
who testified that he was standing with
in few feet of the parties when the
shooting took place, and plainly saw
the flash and smoke from the revolver
beside William C. Hubbs. The Jury
found Hubbs guilty and he was at once
arrested. Hubbs was a roller in the
employ of the Scottdale Iron and Steel
company before the strike. and is one
OF the best-known young men in the
town. While opinions differ as to the
effects of Cummings death, it is gen.
orally believed that the trouble will
end the rioting and bloodshed. and
that both sides will be more guarded
in their actions.
The Worthington advance., 1897-08-05
LATER NEWS.

| ndAA DrOs., Oh Muncle, 1nd., large
fruit jar manufacturers, are preparing
to introduce machines for blowing fruit
jars. This will let out large number
of workmen.
Gen. Weyler has ordered Eduardo
Garcia, correspondent of the New York
Sun, and George Eugene Bryson, OF
the New York Journal, to leave the
Island of Cuba.
The Granite Ware works at East St.
Louis. ILL.,. were obliged to close for
lack of coal.
A band of moonshiners attempted to
enter the house of Frank Simmons, at
Conrad, Ala, and the leader, Dudley
johnson, was killed.
During :,an electrical storm at Web
ster City, TO-, not less than 25 buildings
were struck by lightning. Minnie
Lupus, aged 2. and Carl Lupus, aged
years, were killed.
The monthly statement of the public
debt for July shows that the debt in
creased $6. 790, $50 during the month.
The corn crop of Kansas will not be
over so per cent of last year.
Mort steward, blacksmith OF Wins
low, ILL.,, while throwing up bricks to
be shot at, was accidentally shot and
killed by James Trickle, near Monroe,
Wis.
The steamer Queen. which arrived at
Tacoma from Alaska, brought word
that the Northwest Territory police are
meeting all people bound for the YOU
llr@. a. D.sk
compelling all who have not a years
supply of provisions to return to the
coast.
The Northern Transportation 4
Trading company has let contract to
Moran Brothers of Seattle for the inn
mediate construction of three new
river steamers to ply on the Yukon
river from St. Michaels to Dawson
City, and for tug to be used in tho
vicinity of st. Michaels.
The Worthington advance., 1897-08-05
THE EAST.

The seventeenth annual camp meet
ing of the National Temperance society
began at Ocean Grove, N. j.
In New Jersey heavy rains flooded
Railway, Fanwood and other places and
did great damage to property.
Gen. Sheridan's chief of scouts dur
ing the war, Capt. John H. johnson.
died in Brooklyn, N. Y, aged 81 years.
Freight trains collided at Depew
Junction, N. Y, killing George Ellens-
bee, engineer, and Charles Eddy, fire
man.
Estelle and Mamie La Point, aged ten
and fourteen years respectively, were
drowned in Mill river at Northampton,
Mass. Their home was in Fort Dodge,
la.
At the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchange during the
week ended on the 30th aggregated ST.
043,06s,003, against $1,O97, ,646,291 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1896
was 28.7.
John H. Love, of Mount Clair, one of
IAO OCoO-hAO"A PAy oAS1eSuS III 4NC" OCI~
sey, fell dead while assisting in surg
ical operation.
In the National league the percent
ages of the baseball clubs for the week
ended on the 1st were: Boston, 200:
Baltimore, .667; Cincinnati, .653; New
York, SOB; Cleveland, $50; Philadel-
phia, .476; Pittsburgh, .463; Chicago,
.440; Louisville, .435; Brooklyn, .425;
Washington, .372; St. Louis, $50.
At Scottdale, Pa, William Cum
mings, the leader of the non-union
miners, was shot dead in quarrel with
union men. w. C. Hubbs was arrested
for the crime. There was no material
change in the strike situation.
In an interview in New York Gen. A.
W. Greeley, the Arctic explorer, said he
thought Prof. Andree, the balloon voy-
ager, would never be heard from.
Advices received from the New Eng
land, middle and western states say
that the hay crop will be the largest in
years.
At Ridgewood, L. l., Frank Donohue,
of Fort Wayne, Ind, % years old, a
slack-wire bicyclist, fell from the wire
and was killed.
At her home in Morristown, N. j.,
Mrs. Christiana French celebrated her
one hundred and third birthday.
The Worthington advance., 1897-08-05
FOREIGN INTELLlaENc;E.

r
In dense fog of New wfoundland the
steamer Scandinavian cut in twain the
barkentine Florence, of st. Johns, and
four seamen Of the latter and the cap
tain's wife were drowned. %%@s~ n
The republics of Guatemala, Costa
Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and Saliva
dor have signed treaty to 60 into ef-
feet September Is. The union is named
the "Republic Of Central America" and
the countries forming it will take the
name of states.
The outposts of Havana were at
tackled by large body of rebels, who,
before the Spanish troops could be
gathered to resist, swept through the
suburbs, carrying all before them.
Advices from Constantinople say that
the signing of the preliminaries of
peace awaits only the reply of the
Greek government fixing the dates for
the payment of the indemnity.
Near Napier, N. T.. the steamer Tas-
mania struck a rock and sank and six
OF the crew were drowned.
Germany and Russia having coun-
seled Greece to submit to the condi-
tions imposed by the powers, M. Ralli,
the premier, replied officially that
Greece would never entertain the idea
OF financial control proposed, and that
she would help herself.
One hundred and fifty persons per-
ished in the recent floods at Kertch in
the Crimea.
In Silesia and Bohemia floods caused
loss of many million marks and over
100 persons were drowned.
The Worthington advance., 1897-08-05
DETERMINED TO DIE.
Desperate Attempt at Suicide of
Cleveland Man.

Desperate Attempt at Suicide OF a
Cleveland Man.
Cleveland, O., Aug. 2.-Thomas Cush-
ing, molder, aged 33 years, Sunday
afternoon stood before the mirror in his
room at boarding house and cut his
throat with razor. When taken to the
operating room on the third floor of a
hospital, he made rush for window
and threw himself out, falling so feet
to the. roof of the engine-room. His
body crashed through the skylight,
struck an iron bar in it's descent and
rolled to the floor of the engine-room.
Cushing is still alive but it is believed
he will die.
The Worthington advance., 1897-08-05

The anxiety of some medical men at
St. Louis that murderer sentenced to
be hanged should die a sane man re-
suited in his death before the time for
his legal execution had arrived: He
had received an injury to his. skull
which had rendered him insane. The
medical men were greatly shocked to
think that the law should hang an in
sane man and they proposed to perform
an operation which would restore his
reason. The operation was a success,
but the man died. Tender-hearted peo-
pile are thus consoled by the knowledge
that II the murderer had survived the
experiment he would have been hanged.
The Worthington advance., 1897-08-05

A well-known physician says exces-
sive tea drinking skaters the nervous
system, weakens the brain, Injuries the
appetite, disturbs the digestive organs
and causes cold feet, but the people will
go right on drinking tea.
The Worthington advance., 1897-08-05
A HOME WRECKED.

Cyclone DemOlishes a Residence on,
an Illinois Farm.
San Jose, ILL.,, July 31.-Death and
desolation followed rapidly in the wake
of cyclone which swept across this.
section of the country at seven o'clock
Friday night. Seven persons were
killed outright and three seriously in
iured. The house and barn of DR.. A.
G.. Mcdowell on the outskirts of the
town were demolished by the fury of
the wind
The Worthington advance., 1897-08-05

The new gold discoveries in the north
may not add to the gayety of nations,
butitmakestroublef for the philologists.
The difficulty is to know how to spell
the name of the region which has sud-
denly become famous. There appears
to be no rule governing the matter, and
therefore it is go-as-you-please.
Klondike, Clondike, Klondyke and Clon-
dyke are the principal variation AS
tho simplest way is always the best,
Klondike seems most likely to find ia
vOr
The Worthington advance., 1897-08-05
FELL FROM A GREAT HEIGHT.
Terrible Fate Of a Trick Bicycle
Rider Mt a Brooklyn Park.

terrible Fate of a Trick Bicycle
Rider at q Brooklyn Park.
New York, Aug. IA man known as
Prof. Arion, but whose real name is
supposed to be Mcdonald, was killed at
Ridgewood park, Brooklyn, Sunday
night. AS part of the entertainment
which was being given during Hes
sian festival the professor was adver-
tised to ride bicycle on wire strung
about IS feet from the ground. When
half way across the wire the professor
lost one of his pedals, causing the BIZ
cycle to topple over. The bicyclist fell
to the ground, bringing with him an
electric wire which he carried with him
for the purpose of giving an electrical
display. In the fall he fractured sew
eral ribs and sustained internal in
juries. He died soon after his removal
to hospital.
The Worthington advance., 1897-08-05
WEST AND SOUTH.

While bathing two cousins named
Anderson were drowned at Foster, Ia.
Joseph Dollar and John johnson
were killed by falling timber in niue
at Athens, III.
In a mountainous region 20 miles
south of Ashland, Wis.,, gold in paying
quantities was discovered.
Rev. E. L. Eaton, nominated for gov
ernor of Iowa by the prohibitionists, is
ineligible for the Office, not having lived
in the state the required two years.
In session in Detroit the United
States League of Building and Loan
Associations elected as president L. w.
Sanborn, of Galesburg, Ill.
At Floresville, Tex, Maximo Mar
tinez was hanged for killing Jesus
GARLIC and wife and Juanita Acosta on
June 6.
Flames destroyed over one-half of
the business portion of Hillsboro, Kan.
At Toledo, O., the Glaw-Anderson BIZ
cycle race for the female championship
Of America was won by Lizzie CLAW, of
Chicago.
Mrs. Wallace J. Scoby and her son
were burned to death at Grand Rapids,
Mich.
Near San Jose, ILL.,, a cyclone did
great damage to property and A. c. Nc
Dowell and his grandson, Miss Jessie
Groves and Mrs. Samuel Brownlee and
her three children were killed.
In Rock and Noble counties, Mimi, q
hailstorm destroyed 100000 acres of
crops.
EAt Thorntown, Ind, train wreckers
threw an express train from the track
and Engineer Seth Winlow and Fire
man B. Crickmore were killed and two
other persons were fatally injured.
% In the Danville iii. district miners
are in destitute circumstances, over 400
families being without means.
= At Livingston, Ala, John johnson
(coloredD was hanged for the murder OF
A. F.. Clarke. a white man, and "Pig''
Newell was executed at Selma, Ala, for
murder.
Dispatches show an improvement OF
business without exception in every
northern city of Importance.
Fifty per cent. of the small grain was
ruined by hailstorm in the vicinity OF
Rock Rapids and Sioux Center, Ia.
Albert Schultz shot his wife at Wa.
tertown, Wis, because of family
trouble and then killed himself. The
woman may live. . ..
Margaret Lelong arrived at her home
in San Francisco from Chicago on bi.
cycle, being the first woman to ride a
wheel from Chicago to the Pacific
ocean. 2sl.a.. j. -.s.5. ...&r.. 4
Grant Hammond and wife and Alb
ner Morris and wife were drowned in
the Wabash river near Carlisle, Ind.
while bathing.
B Fire destroyed factory ''B' Of the Pi
oneer Fireproof Construction com
pany's plant in Ottawa, Ill, the loss be
ing $1OO,0OO s#. i..sfs
b At Asheville. N. c., the First national
bank went into voluntary liquidation.
On Main street, within a few blocks
Of the business center Of Joplin, Mo-, {
rich lead mine has been struck.
The Worthington advance., 1897-08-05
MINOR NEWS EMS.

A $6,000,000 steel bridge is talked Of
to connect Boston with East Boston.
The old house in Florida. Mo-, in
which Mark Twain was born was de-
molished the other day.
Trondhjem, the ancient capital of
Norwegian kings, is celebrating the
nine hundredth anniversary of it's foun-
|dation.
The city directory of Washington, D.
c., contains 40 George Washingtons,
Il Martha Washingtons and 10 Mary
Washingtons.
Careful estimates denote that the
Delaware peach crop will not exceed
100000 baskets this year, against 3,o0o,-
900 baskets last season.
During the last especially hot spell
work was suspended in the granite
quarries at Concord, N. H., because the
stone had become so hot.
Yang Yu, the Chinese minister to this
country. was the first diplomatic rep
resentative of China to introduce his
wife to Washington society.
The surviving members of the Vir-
ginia secession convention are to write
out their recollections of it's sessions
at the request of the Virginia Historical
society.
Missourians are becoming exasper-
ated over the practitioners of medicine
who have bogus diplomas, and the state
board of health is taking decisive meas
ures against them. , .. -
All the doctors in the new hospital
for women in London are women.
There are five surgeons among them,
and out of 80 major operations there is
record of but two deaths.
John Brown has been an employe OF
the Philadelphia post office for SO years,
and Charles Sumner has been letter
carrier there for nearly "a years, all
that time on the sameroute. fs5.4
Rev. A. "A. Brockway, honorary secre.
tary of the Egyptian Exploration So
ciety, has just returned to Syracuse, N
Y, from Egypt, where he discovered q
boat built more than 4,5o0 years ago.
| A naturalist says he has seen in New
York on the hats of women the feath'
ers Of 173 different kinds Of wild birds
| including 40 species, of which 80 are
protected by law under fine of $25.
Il Bishop Creighton, Of the Church Of
England, wore . miter and cope at 8
recent confirmation in London, and
was the first Protestant bishop to ap
pear in this attire since the reforma,
ton. r77.z-5-= ~
The Worthington advance., 1897-08-05

The death of Mrs. Aldrich, of San Die
go, CAL, removes another of the women
who are widows of revolutionary SOL
diers. A few years ago there were no
less than 13 such drawing pensions
from the government. Now there are
but six, and it cannot be long before the
last one is gone, for they are, of course,
all very old. Mrs. Aldrich was born
in 1900, OF not till 1s years after the
British evacuated New York. Her hus.
band was, therefore, at least 40 years
her senior. tits only such discrepancy
of ages which would permit woman
whose husband was one of the original
patriots to survive to this day. J., =
The Worthington advance., 1897-08-05

AS Europe's wheat crop in 1897 will
be from 1oo,ooo,o0o to 100000 bush
els smaller than that of 1896, and as the
reserves of wheat on hand at the pres
ent time are lower than they were at
this season in the past eight or ten
years, the wheat market for the next
six or eight months is likely to be
strong. This is a decidedly fortunate
circumstance for the United States
wheat grower. He will, from present
crop indications, have from $4,000, 900
to 100,O0O,O0O bushels more to sell than
he had in 1896
The Worthington advance., 1897-08-05
A SAD FATE.
Two 1ndianians, with Their Wives
Drowned Mt Carlisle.

Two Indianians, with Their Wives,
Drowned Mt Carlisle.
Terre Haute, Ind, Aug. 2.-Carlisle,
a town about 30 miles south of here,
is in mourning. 1t was tragic Sab
bath for the quiet place, four of it's
inhabitants meeting death by drown
ing. The dead are Mr.. and Mrs. Grant
Hammond and Mr.. and Mrs. ,Abner
Norris The Hammond and Morris peo-
pie were seen to go in bathing, and later
their clothing was found on the river
bank. It is believed one of the women
was seized with cramps, and the others
were drowned in trying to rescue her
Fierce War In Africa.
Cairo, Aug. 2.-The Egyptian intelli-
gence department has received word of
heavy tribal fighting up the Nile be-
tween the dervishes and the Jaalins.
The dervishes, under one of the gen
erals of the khalifa, defeated the Jaalins
in pitched battle and occupied Metem-
neh on July l. The losses on both sides
were very large. The Jaalins are said
to have lost 1000 killed.
The Worthington advance., 1897-08-05
MARKETS.,

Minneapolis, Aug. 2
Wheat-No. l northern, s111 to SEC;
No. 2 northern. " to 7711c; Sept. 721<c.
Corn-No. 4, 2315c.
Oats-No. 3 white, 20 to 21c.
Cattle-Steers, $500 to $3.75; COWS,
$2.75.
Hogs-$3. 90 to 1926.
Sheep-Muttons, So. 10; lambs. IS. 65.
Butter-Creamery, extra, 13 to 14c;
creamery, frsts, 10 to 12c; dairy, fancy,
10 to 13c; dairy, choice, 9 to 10c.
Poult-y-Turkeys, to &c; spring
chlckens, IL to 14c.
The Worthington advance., 1897-08-05

An eastern scientist has discovered
that "love is disease" He doesn't say
whether it is contagious, or whether
the treatment will come best under
"similia similibus curantur," or some
other "bus." Science, with its "sur-
vival of the fittest," will get at the bot
tom facts doubtless if it keeps on and
escapes a lunatic asylum.
The Worthington advance., 1897-08-05

There are no remaining public lands
in any of the states of New England, in
New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West
Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro-
lima, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky or
Texas. There are 25,000,000 acres of
public land in Ohio, 37,OOO,O0O in Flor
ida, 100000 in Alabama, 2s,000,000 in
Louisiana, 36,ooo,ooO in Michigan and
34,OO0,00O in Wisconsin,. The other pub
lie lands are in the western states and
in the territories. s&..
The Worthington advance., 1897-08-05

In Florida. the land of the hungry al
ligators and phenomenal snakes, the
idea of humor differs slightly from
other states. The other day man
there asked two boys if they wanted to
see something funny. On being told
that they did he called them into his
room and there cut his throat in their
presence. Unfortunately the account
does not tell how the boys enjoyed the
froa{