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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-09-08
WEST AND SOUTH.

At Topeka, Kan, the Kansas Loan
and Trust company failed, for $4oo, 900.
. In convention in Milwaukee the So
cial democracy of Wisconsin nominated
state ticket headed by Howard Tut
tie for governor.
Fire destroyed IA buildings at Rapid
River, Mich. :,l..g... ~ssa. g. il. ,#..
Dynamite exploded prematurely
while blasting rock at Stinesville, Ind,
Killing John w. Williams, John Grub,
Buck Wampler and Edward Watts and
fatally injuring Ben Fyffe, Milton Hike
and Willie Liford.
For this year the southern cotton
crop is estimated at II ,19o, 1894 bales,
valued at 1920, $50, 900. VA
Z I At the age of 81 years MILFORD Wood
ruff, of Salt Lake City, president of the
Mormon church, died in San Francisco.
! The death of Col. T. C. Topper, a re-
tired officer who won distinguished
honors in the civil and Indian wars, oc-
cured at his home in Cleveland, o..
aged 60 years. @ ..,
4 Twin daughters of Mr.. Prater, aged
seven, and a baby girl were burnett
to death at Speegleville, Tex.
In the pulpit at the High Street
Methodist church in Springfield, O.,
Rev. James Stephenson, Of Jamestown,
O., dropped dead from heart trouble
at the beginning of his sermon.
q In Baltimore Frank Waller went 494
miles on q bicycle in "A hours, making
q new record. Il
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-09-08

lie education, and Gen. Zurlinden. The
cabinet will meet to-day expressly to
deal with a request from Nine Drey-
fus for revision of the proceedings
of the court-martial that condemned
her husband.
AS the cabinet is now practically
unanimously in favor of revision
partly because the ministers are aware
that there is no other method of salts
flying public feeling-the outcome of
the meeting is almost a foregone con-
clusion. 1t is' not thought that NJ.
Cavaignac's retirement will involve
the resignation of other ministers.
The fact that Gen. Zurlinden has been
in conference with M. Faure is taken
to mean that he will succeed NJ Cav
aignac at the war office.
According to LIE Soir, NJ. Faure, who
received NJ. Cavaignac Sunday, strong
1y urged him to withdraw his resigna-
ton. The paper also asserts that at
the council to-day the president will
endeavor to prevent decision in favor
of revision.
In her letter to M. Sarrien, the min
lister of justice, Nine. Dreyfus says she
addresses him again, since he alone
has the right to demand revision on
the ground of new fact" She argues
that Lieut.. Col. Henry's admission of
forgery deprives. his dispositions and
acts of all weight, and concludes her
appeal by calling upon NJ. Sarrien to
"listen to the voiceof public opinion
and put an end to the punishment)o of a
loyal and innocent man."
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-09-08
A LITTLE OF ALL SORTS

Some one has exported a ton of Irish
turf for an Irish fair at San Francisco.
The thickness of the hair varies from
the 2soth to the 6ooth part of an inch
Tea is very cheap in China; in one
province of the empire good tea is sold
atty d. q pound.
A hive of :, 1000 bees should produce 50
pounds Of honey every year. and null
tiply tenfold in five years. .
The healing of the Lee-Metforh
wounds is, as rule, very rapid, and
good cases seem, under treatment, to
heal In from seven to fourteen days.
Official reports show that the rich
gold prospects found in Alaska cover
an area of 100000 square miles, being
$50 miles wide by 600 miles long.
The cost of keeping up the drinking
fountains and cattle troughs in Lon
don is s1.7oo per annum. A single
trough in busy thoroughfare costs
e so. $500 s,E
Smoking . pipe Of medium size, says
statistician, q man blows out of his
mouth every time he fills the bowl 700
smoke clouds. IL he smokesfour times
z day for 90 years, he blowsout 20, 49,
GOO smoke clouds.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

In the Bertram shipyards in Toron-
to, Ont, fire caused aloss Of $3.50, 900.
Near Paris Lieut.. Col. Henry, one 81
the chief witnesses against Capt. Al
bert Dreyfus, killed himself. He had
made confession that the document
which he offered at the trial had been
forged to aid the army in the prosecu-
ton of Dreyfus. y
X Well posted officials in Europe pre-
dict war. between France and Germany
as q result of exposures to be made in
the Dreyfus case and war between
Great Britain and Russia over compli-
cations in the far east. M
In France NJ. Cavaignac, minister
of war, has resigned because of a
disagreement with his colleagues, who
desire revision of the Dreyfus casei
Two shocks of earthquake at San
tiago de- Cuba shook every housed in
town with unusual force.
Under Sir Herbert Kitchener the
Anglo-Egyptian forces defeated the
dervishes in great battle at Omdur-
man, on the Nile, the losses on the
British side being 200, while thousands
Of the dervishes were killed or wound
ed.
Fire destroyed the chintz factory
ofGartaide G. Co., at Melannay, France,
the loss being 100000 francs.
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intervals in the .arious city hospitals,
police headquarters and the coroner's
office. The highest point reached by
the thermometer to-day was at two
o'clock, when the mercury registered
81 degrees. The humidity averaged IS
PER cent.
Up to midnight Sunday there had
been reported to police headquarters
43 deaths and AZ prostrations from the
heat. The average temperature for
the day in degrees was 81, as against
&c for the corresponding date. last
year. The maximum mperat ure was
SO, but the heat was heightened by the
humidity, which was so per cent. all
day long.
Philadelphia, Sept. 5.-There were
nine deaths from the heat Sunday in
this city and about 25 prostrations.
Sunday, for the first time since the
present hot spell, did the thermom.
eter show any signs of falling. For
the past three days it has lowered be.
tween 90 and IS, but the maximum
reached Sunday was 81 degrees. The
wind reached velocity of about %
miles and aided much in alternating
the suffering from the heat.
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FROM WASHINGTON.

The statement of the public deb.
issued on the list shows that the debt
decreased $34,7s9,711 during the month
of August. The cash balance in tn:
treasury was 1927, $40. The total
debt, less the cash balance in the treas.
ury, amounts to $1,012, S7O,717.
The annual report of the commits.
sioner of pensions will show that the
number. of pensioners on the rolls June
30, 1898, was 993,714 and the amount
paid for pensions during the fiscal year
ended June 30, 1898, was $144.651, $40.
On August 81 the total circulation OF
national bank notes was $3.50, sos, 1924,
being an increase of $481,745 for the
month and decrease of $3,329, o0e
compared with the same date last
year.
The government receipts in August
were $41,7s2,7 o7, an increase of $22..
'S5,655 over August, 1897.
In the United States treasury the
gold reserve reached the highest point
in it's history on the I'd, with a total of
$219, 32O,372.
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REVISION CERTAIN.
French Cabinet Almost Sure to Re-
open Dreyfus Case-AIinister or
War Cayaignac Resign 80 81

Paris, Sept. !. M. Ca7aign &C, minis
ter for war, has resigned. The resigna-
ton is due to.a disagreement with his
colleagues, who desire revision of the
Dreyfus case. The following is the let
ter sent to NJ. Brisson, premier and
president of the council. b
FL II have the honor to send you and beg
you to transmit to the president Of the
republic my resignation as minister Of
war. There exists disagreement between
US which, being prolonged, would paralyze
the. government at time when it most
needs full unity of decision. ,fT@@ u s
i remain convinced of the guilt Of Dizzy
rus and as determined as heretofo to
combat revision of the case. do not
intend to shirk the responsibilities Of the
present situation. but / cannot assume
them without being in accord with the
chief of the government to which have
t. honor to belong" ~ i,s#&@4 f!gf9-:.'~.
The public feeling is running, if pos
sible, even higher. Day by day the tide
IN favor of revision is setting strong.
The resignation of M. Cavaignac seems
to make revision assured. A certain
feeling of Impotence that no decisive
step has yet been taken is noticeable.
Such complete upheaval of the Drey-
fus case has been made by M. Henry's
confession that this was probably in
evitable. NJ. Cavaignac's arrest of
Henry came like thunderbolt, but
when the public had recovered from the
first shock it naturally expected the
government to go forward on the only
honorable path-namely, revision of
the Dreyfus case. 81
Owing to the resignation of NJ. God
efroy Cavaignac, of the ministry Of
war, President F'aure returned to
Paris Sunday morning and conferred
with NJ. Del Case, minister for foreign
affairs; NJ. Bourgeois, minister of pub
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-09-08
LATER NEWS.

Ss
The British and Egyptian forces now
| possess Khartoum.
General Jaudenes, ad interim gov.
ernor OF the Philippine islands, reply
ing to the governments request for in
formation as to the true situation of
affairs in the archipelago, reports that
Ito assure the re-establishment of
Spanish sovereignty over the islands
would require permanent army of
90, 900 men, fleet, and endless quanti-
ties of Materials
No., accompanied by rain and hail.
The rolling mills and five other houses
were wrecked.
Gen. Numez says many of the Cubans
are still short of food.
There have been several labor
strikes at Manila, the demand being
for excessive wages.
The German government has asked
that the same tariff decreases granted
France in the recent treaty shall be
accorded Germany, under the most IA
vored nation clause.
The steamer City of Seattle arrived
at Victoria, B. c., with $500, 600 in
gold. She had sixty passengers from
the Klondike region.
The war department is getting up a
statement to show that sickness and
no means confined to tropical ATTITUDES
and southern climates.
At Cohoes N. Y locomotive struck
trolly car loaded with people killing
Is and wounding 10 others. The cars
entering the city from Lansingburg
were crowded with passengers return
ing from Labor Day picnic at Renns-
salaer Park. a pleasure resort near
Troy. Car No. 1872 of the Troy city
railroad was the victime of the disas-
ter. 1t came over the bridge about
1885 o'clock laden with a merry party
of people fresh from the enjoyment of
the day.
The election in Arkansas resulted
overwhelmingly in favor of the demo-
Gratis.
Rev. J. P Mcintyre, chaplain of the
battleship Oregon will be courtmar-
tailed for savage citicism of Admiral
Sampson, Captain Evans, and other
officers of the fleet
There were deaths from the heat
in New York the 5th.
The Carnegie company secured an
other great victory over it's COMPETE
tors at Pittsburg, Pa. The Cambria
Iron company, at Johnstown, must
cease to operate it's bessemer steel pro
cess. The court says it infringes upon
the Carnegie patents.
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MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

The British empire embraces 10000
islands.
Orange production of the Pacific
coast this seasonh has been the greatest
in CALIFORNIA; history.
In South Africa there is a great de-
mand for donkeys, as they are proof
against climate, plague and flies.
Church professions are prohibited
in Mexico. Even a priest cannot legal
~ walk the streets in his churchly gar
ments.
Little Importance is attached in
Japan to the cars peace note, as it is
believed to have been dictated by
financial distress.
A company to establish permanent
exhibition of United States products
i'm London and Paris has been organ
lied in New York.
The leading merchants of Kingston,
Jamaica. favor Andrew Carnegie's sug-
gestion of trading the British West
Indies for the Philippine islands.
Gen. Cassius NJ. Clay, who has begun
suit for a divorce from his child wife.
has bought hersa farm and says he will
provide for her as long as he lives.
The Trades Union congress at Bris-
tol. England, has presented souvenir
cigar cases. cigarette. cases. match
boxes and TASKS to the American dele
gates. a.. -.
It is estimated that during his pom
titicate Leo XIII. has amassed $50, OOe.-
600, including presents of precious
stones. gold and silver tosthe. value of
SIC, zoo, 900. .~.1:.1a s,t,..sr4i~,.. ~.!s~r.
Gen. A. NJ. F. Randolph, for many
years supreme court reporter and
well-known over Kansas, was found
dead in bed at Topeka The cause is
thought to be heart failure, = a.''s
The custom house receipts for the
port of San Francisco for the m on til Of
August amounted to &$567,273.49, tile
largest receipts for assingle mouth in
the records of the department.. Tho j
Prominent members of the Royal
Arcanum in Brooklyn, N. x. have
taken the initiative in movement to
present. Admiral Winfield Scott Schley.
who is q membert of the order, with
$1,000 sword. 5l.Etk ksFE s!ffs Il
President Mckinley has appointed
G. D. Woodward as one Of the commits
sioners to represent this government
at the Paris exposition. Mr.. Wood
ward is q professional Columbia uni
versity and is well known in art and
literature. s., 4. ''.ss.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-09-08
/ MICHIGAN TOWN SUFFERS.
Fire Destroy Property at Owosso
with an Estimated Value
& 81 800, 900.

n Owosso, Mich.. Sept. owosso Sat
friday night suffered $500 900 fire. At
$50 fire was discovered in the rear end
of Woodwsrd's furniture factory. and
in. short time the whole institution
was in flames. The fire was beyond
control before the Eremen got to work,
and after destroying the warehouse,
kilns and lumber yard Of the furniture
factory Jumped across the street to
the Owosso Brewing company. The
three large buildings of this institu-
ton were soon enveloped in flames.
The fire next spread to the implement
store of Grow & Faynes, William Jop-
ling's livery barn, Jacob Barrie's meat
market and several small buildings
near at hand. At. midnight, despite
the strong wind glowing, the. fremen
sot the flames under control and
stopped their spread. The loss on
Woodward's furniture factory will be
fully $150,00o with 100000 insurance.
The Owosso Brewing company's loss
is about $50, 900, With $11 900 insurance,
Twenty-Five thousand dollars. it is be-
lieved, will cover the loss among. the
smaller 'instituti.Es.
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Died to Escape Arrest.

=, Saginaw, Mich, Sept 5.--Charles F..
Rice, alias Edward Lause, was dying at
the central police station when u dep
uty United States marshal arrived there
to arrest him. Rice had been held on
complaint of assault and battery made
by his wife, but according to local and
post office detectives he had been de-
frauding accident insurance companies
by means of false injuries and had
served time in an eastern prison for
similar crimes. Rice left letters say
ing that he was an innocent victim Of
persecution who took morphine to end
his troubles. H. ~; e.. .. -
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THE EAST.

At the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during
the week ended on the I'd aggregated
$1,269, 1881 ,94s against $1,249, 6O7,O 12 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1897
was 1874.
In the United States there were III
business failures in the seven days
ended on the I'd, against 179 the week
previous and, 191 in the corresponding
period of 1897.
At Windham, VT, George w. Dimicl;
and wife lost their lives in fire which
destroyed Mr.. Dimick's farm buildings.
On the I'd 30 deaths and 80 prostra-
tions from heat occurred in New York
city. All over the country intense heat
and many prostrations in the past five
days were reported.
The accidental jibing of the sail of a
pleasure yacht on Presque Isle bay,
near Erie, Pa, swept overheard Mary,
Della and Ella Pardine and Jessie
Moore and they were drowned.
In the National league the percent
ages of the baseball clubs for the week
ended on the 4th were: Cincinnati,
500; Boston, .632; Baltimore, .622;
Cleveland, .58S; Chicago, $50; New
York. 54s; Pittsburgh, 496; Phila-
delphia, .495; Louisville, 1926; Brook
Ign. 1894; Washington, .351; St.
Louis. .261.
In New York city so dead and over
100 prostrations is the record of the
heat on the Sd.
Near Stamford, Conn.,, Frank,
George and Mabel Ferguson, aged "a,
10 and IA years, respectively, of Brook
Ign, N. Y, were drowned by the up
setting of a rowboat.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-09-08

The resignation of Col. Como, chief
officer of the military staff of Capt.
Gen. Macias, in Puerto Rico, becomes
significant when coupled with the fact
that his action is due to his desire to
remain in Puerto Rico, instead of re-
turning to Spain when the Spanish
troops are withdrawn from the island,
IN accordance with the conditions of
peace. That means he desires to re-
main under the protection of the
American flar
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-09-08
A WEEKS HISTORY
The Important ,Happ enings 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. ID
THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES
WAR NEWS.


In Fernandina, Fla, the hospital
snip Olivette, which had been lying
near the quarantine station, sunk
through some mysterious agency. All
on board were saved. !.
In the transport Mexico Gen. Shat.
ter and his staff arrived in New York
from Cuba.
With all we'll on board the transport
st. Paul arrived at Manila.
With 2,279 soldiers from Santiago on
board the steamship Covandanga ar
rived at Santander, Spain.
Orders were issued by Adjutant Gen
eral Corbin for the mastering out of 10
volunteer organizations, numbering
over 10000 officers and men.
The government has returned the
auxiliary cruisers St. Paul and St. Louis
to the International Navigation COM
pany. w..
Gen. Brooke issued an order assum-
ing command of the troops in Puerto
Rico.
Many of the wealthiest natives in
the Philippines called upon Consul
Wlldman in Hong-kong and urged
that every possible effort be made for
the annexation of the Philippine is.
lands to the United States.
The torpedoes placed at the en-.
trance to the harbor of Havana have
been raised without accident of any
kind.
The president spent five hours in
Camp Wikoff. Montauk Point, bare.
headed most of the time, visiting the
sick in the hospitals and inspecting the
we'll in their environments.
loughs.
Up to the present time the war de-
partment has issued orders for mus.
tering out nearly 100000 volunteers.
and this will be done as soon as the
men have had their 80 and 6O-day fur.
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The newspapers of Spain, in discuss
ing the probable terms of peace to be
arranged by the commissioners who
meet in Paris, make but one demand,
and that is that the remains of Chris
TOPPER Columbus be returned to Spain.
The remains are now in the cathedral
at Havana. Columbus died in 1906 at
Seville, and was buried there, although
in his will he asked that he be buried
on the island of San Domingo. Thirty
years later his son was able to carry
out his fathers wish and the discov-
erer of American was laid to rest in
the cathedral of San Domingo. - e.
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The Daughters of the American Rev.
olution feel that they share in the dis
tinction accorded to DR.. Anita MCGEE.
whose appointment to the army med
ical staff, with rank of lieutenant,
marks the first woman who has ever
held such position in the American
military. She was regularly sworn in
as assistant surgeon, and by order of
the secretary of war is entitled to wear
the uniform of second lieutenant
If she choose. The war department
gave her charge of the selection of
women nurses, and she placed 700 of
them in the field. ..
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-09-08

DR.. Patrick Manson, whoever he is,
announces in an eastern paper that
mosquitoes carry malarial fever. The
physicians have us jumping sideways
to get out of the way of microbes, boil
ing our water to avoid certain death,
and now we will have to be on the
lookout for MOSQUITOES,
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Us n the Mississippi river near Fort st.
Philip the United States steamer.Jo ohm
Meiggs Of the snagboat service was
blown up, and Capt. Starr. Sergt. Need
ham, Ralph Rogers, Pat Corless, n.
Jackson and ]. D. Malone were killed.
Near Columbus, Ca, three children
OF Mary Ring died from being bitten
by rattlesnake, and fourth child
fell into a spring during the excite
ment and was drowned. &7t.E y e54 w
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$ .TraRedy in Indiana

Newport, Ind, Sept, 5.--Two miners
at Geneva, William Scott and Aaron
Nelson, became involved in a quarrel
over the searching of some houses for
stolen clothes recently, which led Mel
son to kill Scott Saturday evening. He
used a revolver and shot him several
times. Nelson fed and escaped arrest.
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John Burns, of Boston, has returned
from visit to Juan Fernandez. the ia
nous island home of Robinson Crusoe.
He visited the large cave where Rob-
inson Crusoe made himself safe from
savage barbari ans, as he supposed,
when he discovered the footprints of
Friday in the sands. The cave runs
back in the mountains for at least so
teet. 1t does not start from the water,
but has it's mouth somewhat inland.
1t is largely grown over with bright
green leaves and is attractive even to
this dav.
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MANY VICTIMS OF HEAT.
Awful Record Is Reported from New
York City and Philadelphia for
Saturday and Sunday.

New York Sept. 5.-Fifty dead and
ever 100 prostralions in one day is the
record of the heat in New York city
Saturday. The sun beat relentlessly
N the swcltering city all day long.
Night followed almost like day, and
the deaths from the heat reported at
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The total loss of the American army
and navy in the recent war is reported
to be % officers and 236 men killed and
81 officers and 1,4O6 men wounded. an
aggregate of 1852. In the civil war the
union army alone lost 4,142 officers and
62,916 men killed. and in addition 49,
O12 died from wounds,
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1t is said that in Mexico the BRIDE
groom always furnishes the trousseau
of the bride. This is expensive some
what in Mexico, but it would be triv-
ial matter in the Philippines where
beads and shells are cheap.
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The war department has decided that
in! the future all of our annoyed cruis-
ers and battleships, and possibly all of
our cruisers, will have to be fitted with
"fre-proof" wood. This. fre-proof
wood is new thing, but it has been
demonstrated to be practical. The
process of fire-proofing consists in elm
ination of the volatile and fermentable
constituents Of the wood, and the sub
stitution therefor of fire and heat re-
sisting ingredients which are forced in.
to the pores Of the wood. Moderated
BY this process, a secret one, is free
from ia ility Of either wet or dry rot.
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purposes

Mrs. Harriet r. Stafford, of Cottage
City, Mass, is the possessor of the orig
inal sta.s and stripes, the flag of the
United States irigate Bonhomme Rich
ard, the first displayed by Commodore
Paul Jones in the famous engagement
with the British Scraps. The flag is
five feet seven inches wide, and was
originally about is feet long, but relic
hunters have shorn it of at least six
faof