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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-11-10
WEST AND SOUTH.

At the penitentiary annex in Column
bus, O., Charles Nelson (colored) who
killed Grocer James Zimmerman at
Bowling Green on June 8, was electro
cuted.
Not being able to effect reconcilia-
ton with his wife, who left him last
summer, Marion Tyler. of indianapolis,
shot her at Scottsburg, Ind, and then
shot himself.
The death of DR.. T. D. Witherspoon,
president of the Louisville theological
seminary and an eminent Presbyterian
divine, occurred in Louisville, KY.
The North Carolina supreme court
has taken hand in the uprising of the
whites against negro voters. w - 4.
Flames at Little River, Kan, de-
stroyed 10 houses and hotel.
Miss Kate McAtee and Mrs. Florence
George, both of Washington, were
killed by the cars at Langdon, Md.
,-~ In St. Louis the city council passed
curfew ordinance providing that chill
dren under IS years of age shall not
be permitted on the streets Of the city
after eight o'clock at night.
ii Because of an alleged insult John,
Bailey, prominent farmer residing
near Muncie, Ind, was shot to death by
Miss Levina Black. a neighbor.
At Mishicot. Wis. John Bahls and
his wife. an old couple. were murdered
and Ernest Messermann. Il tramp, was
under arrest for the crime.
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DAVID A. WELLS DEAD.
Noted Economist Passes Away at His
Home in Norwich. Conn.,,
After q Brief Illness.

Norwich, Conn.,. Nov. 7.-David A.
Wells, the noted economist, died at his
home here at $3.50 o'clock Saturday
afternoon. He had been i'll for two
weeks with a complication of diseases.
David Ames Wells was born at Spring.
field, Mass, June II, 1928. He graduated
from Williams college in 1847 and entered
the field of Journalism as assistant editor
Of the Springfield Republican. From 1S4i
to 1852 he spent in study at the Lawrence
scientific school Of Harvard university, in
which he subsequently became an assistant
professor, later publishing series Of SCI
entific books. He was long prominent in
public life. In 1866 he was appointed spe-
cial commissioner Of revenue, an office
created for him, and later, under his direc-
ton, the bureau Of statistics was formed.
In 1867 he went to Europe as American
commissioner to inquire into competitive
industries. In 1872, after completing q work
of inquiry into the taxation LAWS OF New
York state, he accepted lecfbreSMnon
political science in Yale. He served AEdeNa
e. 81 81 is taaaas
fol- congress- Prof. syvGAS III .1fl15ie8 M
able work IA the fields 81 rzffrSadsS Ind
canals. In 1859 he was awarded Sd
medal at the Erench expiration foxhh 6ns
triRution to economic liietaAufe.S He wa.
the author Of nnmber sf'books on tariff
and financial uueSti0nS.1' E%s "
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THE EAST.


In New York the Joint Traffic asso-
citation, the most powerful railroad
trust ever formed, was dissolved.
In the business section of Haverhill,
Mass, fire caused loss of 100000.
Cotton sold under five cents pound
for the first time in the history of the
New York cotton exchange.
John Frawley and Charles McClos-
key were killed and IL other men were
injured, two fatally, by the explosion of
boiler in the Oil City (Pa.) boiler
works.
A joint resolution passed the Ver-
mont legislature approving President
McKin1ey's demands for the retention
of the Philippines.
En- route from New York to Whining
ton. N. c., the steamer Croatan was
burned at sea off Cape Charles and five
persons lost their lives.
An offer has been made by Mrs. Rus
sell Sage, of New York, of 100000 for
the building of a military sanitarium
in Chronicle, Ala.
Charles Burke, of Buffalo, and Jaw
staley, of Grand Island, lost their lives
in the Niagara river by their boat
swapping.
At the age of 70 years David A. Wells,
the noted economist, died at his home
in Norwich. Conn.
At the Exeter colliery of the Lehigh
Valley Coal company at West Pittston,
"a, seven men were killed and three
fatally injured.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-11-10
GOVERNMENT OF CUBA.
1y Determined What Its Form
Shall Be.

Washington, Nov. THE govern
ment of Cuba has given the admins
t-ation much concern and it's form is
lot yet definitely determined upon.
Since issuing the order designating the
troops to 60 to Cuba there has been
considerable talk at the war depart
ment about the probable commander
Of troops in Cuba and the organization
Of government, civil and military.
The probabilities now are that Cuba
will be designated as one department
and placed under the command of one
officer. The general impression seems
to be that the officer will be Mai. Gen.
Wade, now chairman of the Cuban mil
itary commission, whose duties as a
member of this commission has fitted
him for the Office. The president and
Secretary Alger have great confidence
in Gen. Wade and believe he combines
the military and civil qualities neces-
sary for the supreme command in Cuba
when our occupation is complete.
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CAUSES PAINFUL IMPRESSION,
Check to French Government
at FashOda.

Paris, Nov. THE newspapers here,
commenting upon the announced in
tention of the French government to
cause the Marchand mission to evacuate
Fashoda. say they must wait for the
declaration of the minister Of foreign
affairs M. Delcasse' before pronounc-
ing an opinion on the subject. But
they point out that this check has
caused painful impression through
out the country.
The ministerial policy announced by
the premier, M. Dupuy. in the chamber
of deputies Friday, has been generally
we'll received. The cabinets policy of
Cancellation and it's decision to end the
attacks on the army, are approved, and
the chambers Endorsement of this pol
icy also meets with approval.
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FACTS ABoUTsNAvHs

~
The oldest iron vessekin the world is
the Michigan, built in$1s44.
The American navy has practically
been built since 1883.
Battleships> are covered with armor
OF nickel-steel from five TO seven inches
thick.
The boilers Of the lows have q heat
ing surface Of eight acres, and hold 30
tons Of water.
! A battleship has on board an electric
plant capable Of lighting . town of
5000 inhabit ants.
Behind the heavy armor Of . battle
ship there il padding of either corn
pith OF cocoa husks.
The guns Of q battleship can carry
from six to twelve miles, hurting q
shot weighing half a ton.
Battleships are for heavy work;
cruisers are commerce-destroyers
monitors are useful only for coast de-
tense.
The Indiana could, lie outside Sandy
Hook and throws1, 200 pound shots into
New York at the rate 1T four . min
ute.
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FROM WASHINGTON.

The treasurer of the United States in
his annual report says the net ordinary
revenues of the government were $685.
321, S35, an increase of $50, 597, $50 over
the previous year, while the net or.
binary expenditures were $443, 36s, 5s2.
an increase of ST. ,594,423 The result
ing deficiency of $38,047,247 exceeds
that of the preceding year by $19,994,-
1893.
A gas explosion wrecked the supreme
courtroom and the rooms Immediately
adjoining it on the main floor of the
capitol in Washington and fire i'm
mediately followed, practically de-
stroying the library and records of the
court from 1892 and 1882. The loss is
over $1,00O,0OO.
On February II next the third ma.
tional congress of mothers will be held
in Washington.
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Mr.. Hanna, American consul

Mr.. Hanna, American consul at Porto
Rico. says that young men seeking
work or positions of any kird should
not come to Porto Rico. No American
should come expecting to strike it
rich, and no persons should come with.
out plenty of money to pay board bills
and have enough to take them back to
their homes in the United States This
is a small island. has a population of
about 1000, 900 people, and is the most
densely' populated country in the world.
Theres&are several hundred thousand
working Porto Ricans ready to fill the
vacantjobs at low price,"
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LATER NEWS.


Admiral Schley has cabled the navv
department that Capt. Snow has ar
rived at San Juan and that he has re-
lievcd the admiral of the command of
the naval station there.
The Third regiment Missouri volun-
teers were mustered out at Kansas
City.
Owing to the constant rains which
have fallen recently, the streams in
the province of Matanzas, Cuba, have
overlooked, flooding over / 1000 acres in
the Rogue district of that province.
The land inundated had Just been
planted with sugar cane and fruit
trees. after three years of neglect, and
the disaster has again plunged the in
habitants into the deepest misery; r
The yellow fever at Havana is in
creasing and is causing the American
officials /. good deal of anxiety.
The first lynching in many years in
Central illinois took place at Lacon,
when 100 miners took F. w. Stewart, a
negro, from tho county Jail and hanged
lliuA to d tree. Stewart was charged
with aasa"lting Mary OBrien.
The Turkish troops at Retimo, Island
OF Crete. having refused to leave that
place, the Russian admiral in those
waters. following the example of Ad-
m'raI Noel. the british commander
there: forcibly conveyed them on board
d transport.
The: Spanish premier. Scnor Sagasta,
was questioned as to whether it was a
fact that the Spanish government had
addressed note to the: powers asking
the later If they would support Spain
II. protesting against the intentions of
the United States toward the Philip
pine island. He replied that such a
note had not yet been dispatched.
Navy department officials feel IL long
way from. certain that the Mari;.
Teresa is really at the oceans bottom.
would sink caused her to be aban-
dored. 1t is probable that a searcher
wilt DC sent ont to learn the ships fate
for IT. IS felt she may now he a derelict.
Reports from Paris indicate that if
Dreyfus is released riot and bloodskcd
follow.
The big summer hotel at Itaska,
Wis. and it's contents were DESTROYED
by fire.
A young son of Frank Franks, of
Baraboo. Wis, was dragged to death
by :; COW he was leading.
The damage to the Capitol building
at Washington Ivy the recent explosion
is not as serious as first reported. The
rooms will be repaired by time con-
grcSS meets.
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Not least among the resources Of the
Philippines issa curious natural prod
uct. Several vegetable growths appear
to possess The facnty of secreting min
eral concretf Fins; III all respects re-
sembling certain familiar precious
stones. The famous. James Smi thson
was the first to giXe ang real attention
to these famous p1ha ems, butneither
scientist nor merch ant has followed his
lead. One OF the jewels. the bamboo
opal, rivals the best stohes in its deli
cate tints of red and green---it is the
rarest and thousand stems may be cut
up before single specimen is found.
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LYNCHED A NEGRO.
A Mob Takes a Brute from Officers I'm
Florida, Puts Him to Death and
Burns His Body.

Jacksonville, Fla, Nov. 7.-Arthur
Williams, a negro under arrest for the
murder of Miss Elina Ogden, at Well
borne, Fla, On Friday, made a COMES
sion Saturday night, duplicating two
other negroes, Buck James and Monroe
Leggitt. At II o'clock Saturday night
the constable and his guards were over
powered by crowd of incensed citi-
Gems and Williams was taken from their
custody, Hdd]ed with bullets and a fire
built upon his body. James and Leggitt
are now under arrest, but it is likely
that they willgo the way of Williams.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-11-10
A WEEKS HISTORY
The Important Happenings Of a
= 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
WAR NEWS.

WAR NEWS.
The navy department is making ar
rangements for the establishment of q
naval station at Honolulu.
Bound for Manila the cruiser Buffalo
left Brooklyn with 700 bluejackets, who
will replace the men in Admiral
Dewey's feet who have served out their
terms Of enlistment
Evidence connecting Gen. Weyler, of
Cuban fame and memory. with the
wholesale footing of the Philippine
treasury has been unearthed in Manila.
The steamboat Panama, which was
reported to have been wrecked off Cape
Maysi, Cuba, entered Havana harbor.
. The government will take no further
steps to raise the rest Of the Spanish
warships destroyed by Admiral
Schley's fleet off the coast of Santiago.
With the Fifty-frst regiment of Iowa
volunteers on board the transport
Pennsylvania sailed from San Fran
cisco for Manila.
At joint session of the peace COM
missions in Paris Spain rejected the
United States proposition regarding the
Philippines, but the Madrid representa-
tives did not withdraw from the con-
ference. Premier Sagasta, in an inter-
view at Madrid. practically admitted
his country must finally yield. The
United States is prepared to resume
hostilities at any moment and admins
tration officials declare the navy and
army in better shape than at any time
during the war.
Admiral Cervera's flagship, the cruis-
er Maria Teresa, raised at great ex-
pense at Santiago by Lieut.. Hobson and
added to the American navy, foundered
off San Salvador in a storm and went
to the bottom. Those on board were
saved.
Dispatches from Madrid say that
Spain will sign the peace treaty under
protest.
Carrying COS men and officers the
transport City of Puebla sailed from
San Francisco for Manila.
While passing through Washington
en- route from Porto Rico to Columb
the Fourth Ohio infantry was paid the
compliment of reception at the white
house.
In Havana yellow fever is rapidly on
the increase and is causing great anx-
iety among the American officials.
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MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

Mark Twain is said to show the ef-
fects of his recent efforts and to be
aging rapidly. 80 - ;: 2.
Husbands and wives travelling to-
gether in Norway. Austria and Hun
gary pay only one fare and half on the
railways.
Lieut.. Jules G. Ord, son of Gen. E..
o. C. Ord. who was killed in the battle
of Santiago, was great grandson of
King George w.
Mrs. Fred Douglass. widow of the
colored orator, is to go on the lecture
platform to deal with the history of
the race in this country.
Rudolph Neumann, general agent of
the Alaska Commercial company, while
inspecting the Sitka mine Unga fell
200 feet to the bottom of the shaft and
was instantly killed.
facturers and Joberrs of Thrashing Ma
chinery met in indianapolis in annual
session and elected as president j. E..
Brown, of Mansfield. O..
The authorities found nearly $4,000
secreted in the home of Oscar Osborne.
who was murdered near Richfield, O.,
by robbers while trying to make him
tell where his money was hidden.
Sister Ellen Joseph. (colored), an in
mate of the convent of St: Francis, Bal
tinnore. Md. is the, oldest nun in the
United States, both in point of age and
length of service. She is said ID be 1O7
years old.
Joaquin Miller, the poet, who is
building bis own tomb in the California
woods, has used only flint and his ma
sorry will last for centuries. In the
rock be has cut the words: ITO the
Unknown" =, g.. .,..e,,sl =. ..,,.
The funeral of Mrs. S. C. Harris. in
Atlanta. Ca. was made.a public affair
owing to the fact that the dead woman
bad earned the title Of Mother Of At
lanta" in 1912. BY bearing the first
child born in that city. :
Fifty-seven officers of the regular
army have sons in the service. and two
generations of the same family are even
more freq uent. in the navy. The Sell
fridge family .furnishessthree genera
tions-from lieuteradf rs an admiral.
The life ineuranIce companies doing
business in Canada have agreed here
after not to accept risks Oh the lives Of
married women, unless they happen to
be the breadwinners of the family: or,
10 other words. wholly independenttof
.heir husbands. 81. s.s ..s
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GERMANY AND THE SULTAN.


Berlin. Nov. THE Frankfort lei
tung says II learns from weiI-in-
formed source that Emperor WiIIism's
visit to Turkey led to an agreemen: by
which Germany undertakes to support
the integrity Of the sultan's Asiatic pos
sessions, for which Germany will re-
ceive commercial and Industrial priv
ileges.
The paper adds that it il believed this
agreement il tantamount to an armed
alliance between the two countries
A number Of rumors as to the real OBJ
jects Of Emperor Williams visit to Con-
stantinople and the Holy Land have
been in circulation ever since the inten-
ton Of his r,ajesty to visit the orient
was announced, about . year ago.
These alleged purposes included i'm
Portant railroad concessions to Ger
many, the ceding Of territory in Syria
20 Germany for colonizing purposes,
the ceding Of the Port of Haffa, in Pal
estine, the ceding of the Island Of
Rhodes to Germany, and the granting
to Germany Of the right to plant a large
German colony along the whole frontier
at Tripoli. This last agreement, IL was
added, was intended to protect the sui
tan against French encroachments
across the Tripoli-Tunis frontier and
would also avoid granting Germany a
concession in Asia Minor, which, it is
added, would induce Russia to demand
compensation.
On the other hand, it has been an
nounced that some of the powers have
notified Turkey that she will not be
permitted to cede any territory to Ger
many; and Russia, it was announced
from Berlin on Saturday last, was ar
irving at an understanding with Aus
tria and France to provide against the
accomplishment of certain German
plans in the orient
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London, Nov. 1.-THE Berlin CORE
spondent Of the Observer says: The
violent Language of the Cologne Ca
zette regarding the American demand
upon Spain for the surrender of the
Philippines, which #. declares means
the squeezing Of a fallen foe to the last
drop of blood and wound suIly the
4ame off victory" Dies not reflect the
Relicy of the Germangovernment. The
demand u regarded as an election
;1sneuversA Under 10 circumstance.
.<ill Germany haza. d her good rela-
lions with the United States for the
sake of The Philippinea
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John Martin and Osa Woodward were
Instantly killed by falling powders in
q mine at Joplin, Mo.
The doors Of the First national bank
at Flushing. O., were closed. ].
A mob lynched Arthur Williams (col-
ored) at Melbourne. Fla. for the muir
der of Miss Elivia Ogden.
The death of Mrs. John Noble, aged
10s years, occurred ut her home in
Marysville, Mich. Her husband died 4
few days ago at the age Of 104.
In a railway wreck near Union Pa
cific Junction. Ia. William Hoover was
killed and several persons were serious
ly injured. :.
After quarrel James McDowen, Of
Marblehead, O., shot and killed his wife
and then committed suicide. <
White and negro miners resumed
hostilities at Pana. ILL.,. and several were
shot. 4: r..
In Detroit, Mich, the roof of the new
Wonderland theater fell in, killing ii
workmen and injuring many others.
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Capt. D. c.. Woodrow, of the United
States navy, has in his possession the
flag foated by the Virginius on it's ILL
fated filibustering trip to Santiago in
1873. 1t was taken from the vessel by
the captain himself. December rs, 1873.
just before the ship sank while being
brought back to the United States.
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One of the most remarkable races il

history has ended in New York in a
victory for the American bark Saranac
which beat the British bark St. Mungo
in a long race of 10000 miles from the
Philippines. Notwithstanding the
fact that they steered different
courses, the saranac going by way of
Barbados and St. Helena, and the St.
Mungo by Ascension, they arrived at
New York within a very few minutes
of each other
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A prominent Spaniard, a long resi-
dent in Havana and a man of unusual
observation and intelligence, at
tributes the strength of the United
States to the strength in mind and
body of the American women. He
says: ''Give 100000 American women
as wives to the young men of Spain and
the nation in a quarter of century
will take it's place again among the
greatest nations of Europe"
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Spain must get out of Cuba by the
LIST CT January next. She has been in
the island little over 400 years, and
she might have sta:d in until the end
of time perhaps if she had behaved her.
self. A greater and more enlightened
nation assumes control of Cuba when
Spain leaves, and the history of the
island henceforth will be different.
Whether as American territory or un-
der an American protectorate Cuba
hereafter will be better place to live
in than it has been at any time since
its first Spanish settlers arrived on the
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Hon. Thomas B. Reeds COMPRESSION
nj career has had enough excitement
in it to satisfy the demands of the most
ardent politician. He has been elected
IL times, by majorities ranging from
III to 1O,539. His smallest majority
was in the year 1880, and since then he
has always instructed the barber not
10 give him a very close shave.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-11-10

J. w. johnson, the president of the
University of Oregon, who died short
time ago, was a remarkable instance
of man who had to fight his way
through the world. When he was ten
years old he did not even know the al
pha bet, but he became seized with de-
sire to learn, and finally worked his
way through Yale, graduating fifth in
a class of 100, and attaining before his
death very prominent place in nation
al educational circles,
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The people of Connecticut are angry
because the name of that state is to be
given to a monitor and not to battle
ship. Yet the secretary of the navy has
aimed to please them. Connecticut
should be contented with its present
allotment of honors. 1t has Yale, the
Waterbury watch, raises all the finer
grades of pure Havana tobacco, and is
represented abroad by Mark Twain.
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Pay on StocIxhoide...

Omaha, Neb., Nov. q Saturday the
Trans Mississippi andInternational Ex.
position associations was paying back rs
cents on every dollar of stock that was
subscribed for its construction. After
this is accomplished enough money will
remain in the treasury to more than
pay the remaining IS per cent. and ful-
fill all obligations,
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Death Came Suddenly.

Milwaukee, Nov. IA Sentinel spe-
cial from Eau Claire, Wis, says: Delos
r. Moon, president of the Northwest
ern Lumber company for 10 years and
a resident of Eau Claire for 40 years,
died suddenly Saturday of heart dis
ease, aged GO. Mr.. Moonswas rated a
millionaire. He leaves wife, five sons
and two daughters. e.
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Since the United States government

Since the United States government
was formed 10000 white men, women
and children have been slain in Indian
wars and ARRAYS and about 10000 In
dians, at all expense to our govern
ment of $so7, o73, 1858. TO this immense
sum must be added the civil cxpendi-
lures of the government on behalf of
the Indians, which, between 177G and
1890, amounted to $3.50, ,Os2, making
total of 81, 7,O17,74O for civil and
military expenses in connection with
the noble red man,