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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-10-06
A SOUTHERN TRAGEDY.
Party OF Men Attending a Sale Fired
On from Ambush-FOur Killed
and One Wounded.

Chattanooga, Tenn, Oct. ga spe-
cial from Murfreesboro to the Times
says: An awful tragedy has occurred
in the north portion of Cannon county
about 30 miles east of this city in which
five men are reported to have been saw
agely assassinated. John HolIings-
worth killed man by the name of Hig
gins in that county over year ago. A
suit was brought against Hollings-
worth, and judgment taken against
him by the members of the Higgins
family for $4,000. Saturday there was
to be an auction sale of his property to
satisfy this Judgment. and Holdings
worth, it is stated, knowing that that
was the day of the sale, concealed him
self and several of his friends in large
barn on the place where the sale was
to be. When one party of men came to
carry out the proceedings and had gath
cred in the barn Hollingsworth and
his friends fired into them with double
barrel shotguns, killing four men and
wounding another so badly that he will
hardly recover.
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BEGINS ITS WORK.
Secretary Hay IL Informed That the
Peace Commission IL Getting
Along Satisfactorily.

Washington, Oct. 3.-Secretary Hay
has been in receipt of cable advices from
Judge Day, president of the American
peace commissioners, in which he says
that the business of the commission is
proceeding in the most satisfactory
manner. The utmost courtesy has
been shown the members of the COM
mission by the French officials and
every facility for the accomplishment
of their work placed at their command.
It is evident from the tone of Judge
Days communication that he does not
share the gloomy view of the outcome
of the meeting of the peace commits
s;oners which is said to be expressed in
the French newspapers. There is some
doubt, it may be remarked, as to the
sincerity of the expressions, and it is
surmised in official quarters that they
are inspired by desire to influence the
American commissioners toward an
statement of their demands
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The Dominion of Canada by popular
vote has declared for prohibition,
Quebec being the only province en-
rolled on the side of liquor.
A plot to assassinate the king of
Roumania was discovered.
In the joint note of the powers pre-
sented to the sultan demands are made
that Turkish troops and officials be
withdrawn from Crete in October.
Canada's historian William Kings
ford. died at his home in Ottawa, aged
10 years.
Six reformists were hanged in
Picking, China, for alleged conspiracy
against the dowager empress.
Consent has been given by all the Eu-
ropean governments to Italy's pro-
posal for conference for the suppress
sion of anarchists.
Turks and Armenians fought at AL
ashgorb. and so of the latter were
killed.
In Japan floods destroyed over 1000
houses, and $50 persons were killed.
Advices from Shanghai say that the
emperor of China committed suicide
on September 81.
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WEST AND SOUTH.

At Ell Paso, Tex, a well-organized
and successful gang of counterfeiters
has been rounded up.
In Milwaukee Charles Pitteikow, do
ing real estate, loan and insurance
business, failed for $13S,0oO.
In Pana, Ill.,, martial law now rules,
and the streets are patrolled by armed
militiamen. An armed body of strikers
held up train at Tower Hill and COM
PEELED the negroes who were en- route
to Pana from Washington, Ind, to
work in tie mines to return to Indiana.
In Greentown, Ind, an incendiary
fire destroyed the big grain elevators
of Paddock, Hodge & Co. and the Co.
roma mills. Loss, 100000.
Senators Cullom and Morgan and
Congressman Hit, members of the
Hawaiian commission, arrived in San
Francisco from Honolulu.
DR.. F. A. Todd. aged 33, assistant SUI
perintendent of the Ohio state hospital
for the insane at Toledo, died of n.y.
drophobia in Chicago hospital.
Miss Elizabeth Stephenson, of Mar
inette, has been chosen to christen
the new war vessel which is to bear the
name of Wisconsin.
The veteran Illinois politician, Jehu
Baker, has become blind as the result
of a serious illness four years ago.
In Wisconsin, South Dakota and COL
sorado forest fires continue to spread
and threaten many towns with de-
struction. S.>
20 Fire swept away the business por-
tion of Ipswich. S. D., except one
block. t E@@ ~.e.5 49,. IA 6.
Rain and snow have checked the
progress Of the forest fires in Colorado.
At Indianapolis, Ind, Robert Lesh
shot and killed his wife and then killed
himself. Domestic troubles were the
cause. Fl 81 s
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FROM WASHINGTON.

Instructions were given all diplo-
matte and consular officers of the
United States to hoist the flag at half
mast over their buildings and keep it
so for ten days in memory of the late
Thomas Francis Bayard.
Col. John Hay was sworn into Of
fee as secretary of state.
A statement of the government re-
ceipts and expenditures for Septem-
Der shows the receipts to have been
500, 77s,o7o and the expenditures 1884,
223,921.
The statement of the public debt is
sued on the 1st shows that the debt in
creased $54,6os,4ss during the month
of September. The cash balance in the
treasury was $94O, 05,524. The total
debt, less the cash balance in the treas
ury, amounts to 81, 067, 479,2O5.
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4 WEEKS HISTORY
The Important Happenings Of q
Week Briefly Told.
IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION
All the Latest News of Interest from
Washington, From the East, the
West and the South.
THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES
WAR NEWS.

A dispatch from Paris says Premier
Sagasta will ask the United States to
pay $40o.ooO,0oo for the Philippines,
Capt. Gen. Blanco has ordered the
release of all political prisoners now
undergoing confinement in Cuba.
The government has ordered that
ali sick soldiers of Gen. Brooke's army
in Puerto Rico be transported to the
United States.
The Spanish troops in Cuban prov
inces have been ordered to coast cities
to be in readiness for ransportation
to Spain.
The American army will begin it's
movements into the island of Cuba as
early as October IS if possible.
Having reached the age of g. years
Rear Admiral Montgomery Sicard was
retired, but he is to retain his place at
the head of the promotion board.
A report from Admiral Dewey says
that Manila is far from being an I'M
healthy city, and that the climate is
as fine as that of any place in the
tropics.
In the detention hospital cemeteries
in Camp Wikoff, Long Island, impress
sive military services were held over
the graves of the soldiers buried there.
It was decided by the war depart
ment to send officers to Cuba to inyes-
tigate and report upon locations of
camps for the army of occupation.
The death of Rev. Thaddeus S. K.
Freeman, of Logansport, Ind, chap
lain of the cruiser Baltimore, occurred
at Manila.
President Mckinley issued an order
creating the territory of Puerto Rico
into new military department., to be
known as the Department of Puerto
Rico" with Maj. John R. Brooke in
command.
Lopez and Agoncillo, the representa-
tives of Aguinaldo, the Philippine in
surgent leader, called at the white
house and had a private conference
with President Mckinley.
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THE EAST.

In the United States there were 1875
business failures in the seven days
ended on the 3oth ult., against 173 the
week previous and 1914 in the CORE
spending period of 1897.
Henry George, son of the single tax
advocate. was nomina ted for governor
to head an independent democratic
ticket at a meeting of the Chicago
platform democrats in New York.
In the National league the percent
ages of the baseball clubs for the
week ended on the I'd were: Boston,
$40; Baltimore, .655; Cincinnati, SOB;
Cleveland, .55s; Chicago, $40; New
York, .514; Philadelphia, .5o7; Pitts
burgh, 1886; Louisville, 1864; Brooklyn,
.376; Washington, .343; St. Louis, 1854.
Bertha Beilstein, respondent over
the death of her father, killed her
mother in Pittsburgh, Pa, and then
took her own life.
Flames in the Midvale mine at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, caused the death of
five men.
In Philadelphia Lawrence Green
wood, president of the Gainesville
(Pa.) national bank, was robbed of $780,
600 worth of bonds.
In Manchester, N. H., N. A. & ]. Saw
yer, wooden manufacturers, assigned
with liabilities of $1,O00.000.
The death of Caaroline Miskel Hoyt,
the well-known actress, wife of Charles
H. Hoyt, the playwright and manager,
occurred in New York, aged IS years.
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The recent general order of Gen.
Gomez is most hopeful indication. It
shows that the leading insurgent is in
earnest to insure the people of Cuba the
tranquility which alone can come from
the protection of life and property. He
declares that all citizens will be pro-
tected in their properties and expresses
entire confidence and good will in the
good faith Of the United States. He rec
ognizes that independence will come to
Cuba through the assistance of the,
United States. The cause of the in
surgents, he says, was hopeless until II
was espoused by the United States.
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MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

Minnesota's state fair has closed
hand.
Four monuments to West Virginia
soldiers were dedicated on Gettysburg
(Pa.) battlefield.
Lieut.. Col. Brodie, of the rough riders,
has been nominated for delegate to con-
gress by the Arizona republicans.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Peters, of San
Francisco. have studied law together
and were recently admitted to the bar.
Rev. Arson Dodge, of St. Simon's is
land. Georgia. has endowed an Episco-
pal mission in Alfalfa bad. India, with
$4,000.
Prof. ]. W. Johnson, of Oregon state
university. who has just died. crossed
the plains driving an OK team with his
parents in 1850.
Rev. j. M. Riddle. who has just been
installed in the pastorate of the Second
Baptist church in Columbus, c.. was
formerly a slave.
The Chinese emperor has sent to the
Chinese consul in Havana 1000 bags of
rice to be'distributed among his hungry
subjects in Cuba's capital.
Russell Sage is the only living origin
al director of the New York Central
railroad and the only survivor of the
founders of the Fifth avenue bank.
W. H. Riehl, of Cleveland. was arrest
ed at Niagara Falls while on his way to
the falls to commit suicide. The police
had been warned by his son to watch
for him.
The geological survey has received
returns showing that the total produc-
tion of lead in the United States from
all sources during the last six months
of 1898 was 156,113 net tons.
The official call for the twenty-fifth
annual convention of the National
Woman's Christian Temperance union
has been issued. The convention will
be held in St. Paul, November 11-16.
Andrew Carnegie is said to be the
head of syndicate which will estab-
lish colossal ship-building plant at
New York. The syndicate will have a
capital of over $1oo,ooO,ooo and expects
to control ship-building in this hem
isphere. IT.: 4
Patrick Kelly. a boiler-maker in At
lanta, Ga, three weeks ago took a
total abstinence oath. praying to be
struck dumb if he broke it. The other
night. surrounded by friends, he drank
q glass of liquor and speech instantly
deserted him.
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InsaneSove religion, Mrs. s. i. VIII
liams poisoned her two children and
cut her own throat at Detroit, Mich.
Fire wiped out eight blocks of the
best portion Of Colorado Springs, Col,
including the Antlers hotel. The.loss
is s.. 900, 900.
Near Murfreesboro, Tenn, John Hol-
lingworth, murderer, ard some of his
friends killed five men.
b Over 100 persons are missing in the
burned-over sections in the northern
part of Wisconsin and many bodies of
others have been found, but all so badly
burned that identification is in most
cases impossible. l., asH
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General Manager Rawn, of the Balti-
more & Ohio South Western railway
has prepared detailed statement of
the number of people carried :nto Gin
cinnati on the occasion of the thirty
second annual encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic, Septem-
Der tc IL inclusive. According to the
train records 37,9e7 people were trans
ported, the largest number being on
September S, when the total reached
s,322. According to these statistics
the Baltimore & Ohio South Western
carried about 30 per cent. of the travel.
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MARKETS.

Minneapolis; Oct. 8.
Wheat-No. l northern, 50 to Coo.
No. northern, 81 to 5Sc; Dec. soc.
Oats-No. white % to 23c.
Corn-No. 3, csc.
Cattle-Steers, 49, 80 to 400, cows,
So. 70.
Hogs-$3.75 to 1856.
Sheep-Muttons, 81. 10 to 4.25 lambs.
$5.25.
Butter-Creamery, extras, II to 1sc:
creamery, firsts, 16 to tic; dairy, fancy.
IA to 15c.
Poultry-Turkey, to SC; spring
chickens, z to &c.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-10-06

Since the recent railway accident in
London the railway people have made
up their minds to adopt the American
cow-catcher in front of engines. The
late disaster was caused by truck fall
ing in front of an engine. A cow
catcher would have swept it off the
track. John Bull is gradually accept
ing and adopting American ideas. The
cow-catcher is purely American de-
vice.
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Speaking of questions of diet, the
Christian World says: IF man finds
that he can think better, pray better
and see further on changed diet or
restricted diet, let him take to that,
in Gods name! Only, for his souls
sake, we would beseech him to avoid
making the Pharisee's fuss over it, and
reviling his neighbor who sees different
ly." This is sound sense. The crank is
harmless. but the crank with a mission
is nuisance
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-10-06

In one respect Gen. Joe Wheeler's ex-
perience will be like Washington's. He
will be elected to congress by unani-
nous vote. All parties-republicans
populists and democrats-have united
on him. Congressman are occasionally
elected without any opposition. This
happens in districts in which one party
is so much stronger than the other
that opposition would be useless. All
parties participated in nominating Gen.
Wheeler and all will vote for him. Such
a tribute as this is seldom paid to any
public man in this or any other country.
1t is as deserved as it is rare.
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LATER NEWS.

Henry George, Dr., declines to run
for governship of New York on the
free silver ticket.
Admiral Dewey has been directed to
send the warships Baltimore and Pc
trel to China.
Major General Merritt, who COM
manded the American troops at Ma
nilla, has arrived at Paris.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-10-06

The president of Argentina has Of
fered Hon. j. Sterling Morton, of Min
nesota, a very large salary to come there
and organize department of agricul-
many years ago Argentina paid Horace
Mann large sum to go there and SUI
perintend the organization of a public
school system. The Argentina govern
ment evidently knows where to go for
progressive ideas.
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Col. Earl Hobson, of Bowling Green.
Ky., cousin of the naval hero, was
made colonel for his conspicuous cool
ness and courage at the battle of Pitts
burgh Landing, when he was not quite
20 years old,
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Terrific Floods In japan.

San Francisco, Oct. 1.-The steamer
Gaelic brings news of terrific storm
which swept over Japan on September
6. The wind did great damage to ship
ping. Rivers soon became torrents,
flooding many sections. A summary OF
the loss of life and property follows:
Deaths, $50; houses swept away, 1854;
houses overthrown, 1,195; partially
wrecked, 11,460; houses inundated, 15,-
597; river banks broken, rs. u.s. w..
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DECORATED by the mica do

San Francisco, Sept. 2s.-Dr. NJ. G..
Harris, elder Of the Methodist Episcopal
Japanese mission Of the Pacific con.
ference. has been decorated by the
emperor of Japan with the order al
the Sacred Treasure.
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An Alleged Embezzler Dead.

Cleveland, o., Sept. 29.-Horace
Steele, who was indicted several years
ago for embezzlement and the wreck
ing of the gainesville savings bank, of
which he was president, died at the lat
ter place Wednesday. He was so years
old. The case against Steele never
reached trial, his attorneys always
offering physicians certificates to
show that he was physically unable to
appear when the case was called,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-10-06

John Bright predicted that in half
q century not gun would be fired in
the world without the consent of the
Americans. This would be hard on the
European whose neighbor owned a cat
with operate aspirations.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-10-06

American geography classes of the
future will have an easy time in de-
scribing the productions of the United
States. almost every thing" will
cover tho subject.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-10-06

European nations may acquire our
superior guns and armor plate, but
they cannot acquire by purchase our
man behind the gun. He belongs to US,
and there is none like him.
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DR.. Nancy Guilford Arrested,

London, Oct. 3.-Dr. Nancy Guilford,
the midwife of Bridgeport, Conn, who
is wanted by the American police on
the charge of having been connected
with the death of Emma Gill, has been
arrested. @
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-10-06
? Aguinaido Declines Paw

Manila, Oct. 3.--The national assem-
bly, at Malolos, at recent sitting,
voted Aguinaldo civil list of SIS 900,
but Aguinaldo declined to receive any
thing until the army should have been
paid. ls= !: y !. .2..
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A Refrigerator Trust.

Grand Rapids, Mich, Oct. 3.-The or
ganization of the refrigerator manu-
featuring trust is said to be under way.
1t is to have $6,oo0,0oo capital and to
include all the big concerns in the
country. There are 80 factories in diff
ferent parts of the United; States, each
with more or less valuable patents,
and the plan is said to be to buy these
concerns outright and bunch the man
agement.
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Driven Out of Town.

Washington, Ind, Oct. 3.-Sun-
day $50 Pana Oily miners came here
and joined the union home miners.
They organized masked and went to
the shacks where negro scab miners
live, corralled them and drove about
so ont of town. One negro refused to
go and was shot. The police could do
nothing. A fire alarm was turned in
and the citizens called out and several
deputized, but the trouble had then
ended. If there is a new outbreak
there will likely be much bloodshed.
The miners have hidden somewhere
near town and may be preparing for
an attack on other shacks.
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Hon, Lyman Cook Dend.
Killed His Brother.

Burlington. Ia. Oct. 3.-Hon. Lyman
Cook, president of the First national
bank and pioneer of Iowa, is dead.
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KILLED HER MOTHER.
Terrible Crime of n Young Lady in
Pittsburgh, DeranEed Through
Grief at Her Fathers Death.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Oct. 3.-Bertha Bell
stein killed her mother Sunday and
later put four bullets into her own body
from the effects of which she cannot re-
cover. The only explanation the girl
has given for her terrible deed were
these words: II was tired of life. 1t
held no pleasure for me. I wanted to
die, and did not want my mother to live
and fret over my death. For that rca-
son l killed her." Frederick Beilstein,
the father of the family, was one of the
best-known residents of Allegheny.
He died suddenly in December last
from apoplexy, and since then Bertha,
who was 20 years old, is said to have
lost all of her youthful beauty. From
lighthearted, happy girl, she became
a quiet, depressed, Respondent woman.
Hence the friends of the family think
she was temporarily insane when she
committed the awful crime.
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Ashland, Pa, Oct. 3.-While Michael
Thompson, a half-witted young man,
was chasing his mother about the din
ing-room at his home in Mahony Plane
Sunday afternoon, his brother Thomas
seized shotgun and shot Michael, in
stantly killing him. Thomas surren-
dered to the authorities. .s- -,,.-.
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Deed of a Dixsipated Husband.

Omaha, Neb.. Oct. "a special to
the Bee from Essex, Ia, says: Walter
j. Yates on Sunday shot and danger
ously wounded his wife and her friend
Mrs. E. j. Brown, and then shot him
self through the head. Domestic in
felicity, caused by Yates dissipation,
brought about the tragedy.
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Nevada Cavalry for Manila.

San Francisco, Oct. 3. Gen. Marcus
P. Miller has decided to recommend to
the war department that the Nevada
cavalry be included among the troops
to go to Manila. The, troop has never
been mounted, but this will make no
difference, as the transportation of
horses to Manila has practically been
abandoned by the war department..
Madam Carnot Dead.
Paris, Oct. 3:-Mme. Carnot, widow
of President Carnot, who was assas-
sinated by an Italian anarchist at Ly-
ons on June "a, 1894, died at the Chat
eau de Presle, -
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MOB LAW AND lYNCHiNG.

The bloody record of the pas
week in Greenwood county has
made a chapter in the history OF
the State unparalleled for the past
two decades. Following so close
ly on the heels cf the EAgefeld
lynching, the septu pie affair at
Phoenix bears startling signii-
icance. The killing OF Mr.. Eth
ridge was a wanton. unprovoked
outrage, and it asjust and natur-
al thatit should call for vengeance.
But the ends Of justice could Ger
tainIy have been met in a legal
way, if the law against murder is
anything else than a bowling farce.
Of course the community was
horrifed aud the friends Of the
murdered man righteouSly incens-
ed. 1t is always so when man
is killed without Il shadow of an
excuse. But every man has a
right to equal protection under the
law, even though ne be n negro.
Because negro kills white man
it does not justify a wholesale and
indiscriminate butchery of the
race. Mob law seems to be The
only way to handle some crimes,
but in this case it was not neces-
sa-y When three or loW hun
dred men in county commit
murder it must tend fcarfully to
lowe. the m9saif Of society. Ey-
cry man in that lyrchin9 CrDW0 y
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SHOULD EXPLAIN.

We have heard Of no explana-
tion from Senator McLaurin as TO
Mr. n. a. DUnning's claim that he
furnished the Senator with speech
es that the latter delivered in
Congress. Possibly Dir. McLaurin
thinks this charge too absurd 10 be
seriously considered. There are
many friends OF the Senator,
however. who would like to have
him throw some light on the mat
ter; and, while We do not doubt
that he can fully vlndicate himself,
we think it due his constituents
that he speak out and refute these
slanderous charges.