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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-10-06
A COUNCIL HELD.

Bear Island Indians, However, Fail to Put
in an Appearance.
Walker. MIMI, Oct. 4.-There will
be no trouble at Bear Island for a day
or so.
The council between the authorities
and the Indians called for noon yester-
day was adjourned until noon today.
At noon yesterday it looked as though
the Indians would stay away from the
administration building at the agency,
but towards 4 o'clock they began to
put in an appearance, and at that hour
the council was called to order by Col.
A. M. Tinker, inspector of Indian
agencies, and for one hour the Indians
were given an opportunity to explain
their position. and to make known
what grievances they might have.
The council was attended only by
agency Indians and few from Pine
Point, the latter being generally rec
oguized as agency. The Bear Island,
Cass Lake and Otter Tail Indians kept
away, Notwithstanding the fact that
the heavy wind which has been blow
ing on the lake for several days had
subsidized sufficiently to permit of pas
sage to the agency in their canoes.
United States Marshal O'Connor late
last night received a message from Gen.
Beacon stating that 80 infantry men
accompanied by himself would leave
Fort Smelling today, arriving here the
same evening: There is little doubt
now that visit is to Bear Island
Tuesday night or Wednesday.
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A SOUTHERN TRAGEDY.
Party of Men Attending a Sale Fired
On from Ambush-Four Killed
and One Wounded,

Chattanooga, Tenn, Oct. "a spe-
cial from Murfreesboro to the Times
says: An awful tragedy has occurred
in the north portion of Cannon county
about 80 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. 4
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 Hollings-
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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LITTLE FACTS ABOUT PEOPLE.

Clarence Greenhouse, chancellor of
Corea, is Californian.
Congressman William Alden Smith,
OF Michigan, was a newsboy in Grand
Rapids 20 years ago.
Garrison Y. Shall, convict in the
Connecticut state prison, knows all of
Shakespeare's plays by heart, having
learned them during the las: Il years
of his imprisonment.
Esterhazy's justification for all that
he has done in the Dreyfus case is en-
braced in his maxim: ~ soldier should
place his conscience as we'll as his
sword at the disposal of his superior
officers"
3 The longest courtship on record was
that of Robert Taylor, postmaster at
Scarva, Ireland. He courted his lady
love for so years, and married her in
1872, when his age was 1OS. He recent
" died, in his one hundred and thirty
fourth year.
Thomas Hardy is said to have adopt
ed the following form of reply, type
written, to all requests for autographs:
Sir: Mr.. Hardy will be pleased to
sign any of his books you may forward
Tor the purpose"
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A partial list of the principal loser
is as follows:
KILLED HER MOTHER,
Pittsburgh, Deranged Through
Grief at Her Futher's 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: Il 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 I 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 ali of her youthful beauty. From
a 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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BEGINS ITS WORK.
Secretary Hay In Informed That the
Peace Commission In 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
1t 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 foug ht 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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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
$39,77s.o7o and the expenditures 1884,
223, 1921.
The statement of the public debt is
sued on the list shows that the debt in
creased $54,6os,4ss during the month
of September. The cash balance in the
treasury was $94o, 1o5,524. The total
debt, less the cash balance in the treas
ury, amounts to $1,067, 479,205.
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A RULER SLAIN.
semiohiciaI Report OF Death Of Chi-
mas Deposed Emperor-Assas-
sination IL Suspected.

London, Oct. ga late dispa tch from
Shanghai says it is semiofficially an
nounced that the emperor of China COM
mitted suicide on September 81. A
prior dispatch from Shanghai says tel
egrams furnished by the taotaI, or To-
cal governor, to a Chinese paper there,
allege that the emperor committed sui
eide on September Fl, after signing the
DEGREES which placed the dowager en-
press at the head of affairs in China.
This, it is added, is understood to mean
that the emperor was assassinated.
Another dispatch says the announce
ment of the death of the emperor is
confirmed. The reports as to the means
employed in his taking off differ. One
story has it that he died by poison and
another that death was caused by
strangulation, while third states that
he was subjected to frightful torture,
a red hot iron being thrust through his
bowels.
All the English-speaking secretaries
and the principal members of the Chi
nese foreign Office, it is further an
nounced. have been seized and banished.
The general opinion here is that the
emperor has been done to death by the
dowager empress, who, it now appears,
was once barmaid in Chinese liquor
shop. The emperor of China is known
to lately have shown leanings toward
Christianity, and it was recently re-
ported that he had burned the Confu-
clan classics in the palace.
A prominent resident of Picking, DR..
Dudgeon, who is the only foreigner
that ever dined with Yin, asserts that
the dowager empress is not opposed to
progress. He adds that she was re-
sponsible for the installation of the
electric light in the palaces and intro
duced a railroad and an electric
launch into the palace grounds. She.
is also held to have favored other west
ern ideas.
Washington, Oct. "a brief mes
sage was received at the state depart
ment Sunday from Minister Conger at
Picking concerning the situation there
lie says nothing concerning the re-
ported death of the emperor, but
states that a feeling of anxiety exists,
adding that he does not consider the
situation especially critical a present.
The state department officials do not
discredit the report of the emperor's
death, and some of them do not hest
tate to express their acceptance of the
| report of his assassination. The Chi
nese minister, however. discredits the
entire report of tragedy.
Picking, Oct. g. During the celebra-
ton Saturday of the festival of the
moon the drunken crowds which had
gathered upon the streets threw mud
upon all Europeans who made their
appearance. AS precautionary
measure the Russian legation ordered
an escort of Cossacks from Port Ar
thur. The British minister also or
dered here guard of 25 marines from
Wei-hai-wei,
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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 nominated for governor
to head an independent democratic
ticket at 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, .507; Pitts
burgh, .486; Louisville, .464; 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 $10,-
600 worth of bonds.
In Manchester, N. H., N. A. & j. Saw
yer, wooden manufacturers, assigned
with liabilities of $1,00o.0oo.
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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4 WEEKS HISTORY II
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.


A dispatch from Paris says Premier
Sagasta will ask the United States to
pay $4oo.ooo,ooo 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 transportation
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 62 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 IN
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
1t was decided by the war depart
ment to send officers to Cuba to inves.
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 Rice
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 private conference
with President Mckinley.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-10-06

Insane over 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 $1,000 900.
Near Murfreesboro, Tenn, John Hol-
l;ngworth, murderer, ard some of his
friends killed five men.
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. ~ )
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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 a real estate, loan and insurance
business, failed for $135, 900.
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 the 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 80, assistant su-
perintendent of the Ohio state hospital
for the insane at Toledo, died of n.y.
drophobia in a Chicago hospital.
Miss Elizabeth Stephenson, of Mar
lnette, mas Deen CHOSEN 10 chrlSten
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
orado forest fires continue to spread
and threaten many towns with de-
struction.
Fire swept away the business por-
ton of Ipswich. S. D., except one
block. $50 =. -'l.s -~, 49,.
Rain and snow have checked the
progress of the forest fires in Colorado.
At indianapolis, Ind, Robert Lesn
shot and killed his wife and then killed
himself. Domestic troubles were the
cause. ss5 rs. s.5 4
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MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

Mlnnesota's state fair has closed
with cash balance Of $1,000 on
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 Allahab bad. India, with
$4,000.
Prof. j. 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'distributeda mong 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-
ton of lead in the United States from
all sources during the last six months
of 1898 was 1918 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-
fish colossal ship-building plant at
New York. The syndicate will have a
capital of over $100,000,o00 and expects
to control ship-building in this hem
isphere.
Patrick Kelly, boiler-maker in At
1anta, 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
glass of liquor and speech instantly
deserted him. #
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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.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-10-06

There is one locality in the world
which has thus far resisted the inva-
sion of the bicycle, and that is Alden, on
the Red sea. The United States consul
there. in reply to the inquiry relative
to the bicycle industry in that far off
quarter, reports that owing to the
rough streets and hills and the heat, to
which no one can expose himself on
the wheel without danger, as we'll as
to the fact that the natives are too
poor to buy wheels even if they wanted
them. there is no prospect "of de-
mand in this market for bicycles of
any description or make"
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In one respect Gen. Joe Vince

In one respect Gen. Joe Wheeler's ex-
perience will be like Washington's. He
will be elected to congress by a 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.
It is as deserved as it is rare.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-10-06

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. Accordil g to the
train records 37,997 people were trans
ported, the largest number being on
September S, when the total reached
1892. According to these statistics
the Baltimore & Ohio South Western
carried about 30 per cent. of the travel.
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Driven Out of Town.

Washington, Ind, Oct. 3.-Sun-
day $50 Pana (Ill.) 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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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-
ture similar to ours. In a similar way
many years ago Argentina paid Horace
Mann large sum to go there and SUI
perintend the organization of public
school system. The Argentina govern
ment evidently knows where to go for
progressive ideas.
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MARKETS.
Minneapolis; Oct.

Minneapolis; Oct. 8.
Wheat-No. 1 northern, SO to 60c.
No. northern, 50 to 5Sc; Dec. soc.
Oats-No. white % to 23c.
Corn-No. 3, CSC.
Cattle-Steers, So. 80 to 400, COWS,
So. 70.
Hogs-$3.75 to 3.85.
Sheep-Muttons. 81. 10 to 4. Is lambs,
$5.25.
Butter-Creamery, extras, II to 1sc:
creamery, firsts, 16 to TIC; dairy, fancy,
IA to 15c.
Poultry-Turkey, to &c; spring
chickens, Z to &c.
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Terrific Floods In Japan.

San Francisco. Oct. 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, 49,
597; river. banks broken, 70. .
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Speaking of questions of diet, the
Christian World says: IF a 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

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 a purely American de-
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-10-06

Residents of Ponce are changing the
pronunciation of the town to one syl-
liable Ponce" because that's United
States, and they want to be like us. At
the same time, people of the United
States are changing their pronunciation
to "Pon-tha," because that's Spanish,
and they want to appear we'll educated.
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An Alleged Embezzler Dead,

Cleveland, o., Sept. 2e.-Horace
Steele, who was indicted several years
ago for ENLIGHTENMENT 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.