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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-02

j. j. Bushnell, of the Upper Iowa
University at Fayette, has been elected
president of the state oratorical associa-
ton.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-02

The Usage Ne,0s has been sold to f.
G. Ellsworth, formerly of the Cedd1'
Falls Globe, and c. r. Graves, of the
RjcerjIIe RecOJ0er
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-02

j. West caught "water dog" while
fishing through the ice Saturday last.
The dog" was presented at this office
and was on exhibition for few days.
1t was nearly foot long, and resem-
bled a catfish. On either side of its
head when in the water large spOngy
red ears protrude and which resemble
those of the water spaniel. These are
drawn under the gills when the ami
NAL is out of water. The water dog
has four feet and tail like tadpOle.
Lansing Mirror.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-02

James Clark, of Waverly, twelve
years old, was shot through the foot
while hunting, Saturday. Amputa-
ton will probably be necessary.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-02

Judge Hobson will convene court al
CrescO next Monday
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-02

Will Williams, son of the lady who
runs the Williams House at Austin,
Mimi, shot a man at Austin Monday
evening through the neck and heart,
killing him instantly. He hired a rig
and escaped across the line into Iowa,
and has not been captured at this writ
ing
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-02

Charles City has abolished slot ma
chimes
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-02
FROM OTHER COUNTIES.
Items of General Interest Gathered
From the Press of Iowa and
NeighbOring States.

Lawler has extended its corporate
limits
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-02

Call and be convinced that it will
pay you to trade at the s
H. F. KOTH & Co.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-04-07
A WEEK HISTORY
The Important Happenings Of g
Week Briefly Told.
IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION
All the Latest News of Interest from
8 Washington, From the East, the
q &E West and the South.
THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES
FlFTY-FIFTHz CONGRESS.

Proceedings of First Regular Session.
A discussion on the Cuban question
took place in the United States senate
on the 31st ult., after which IS pages Of
the sundry civil appropriation bill were
disposed of. Senator Lodge (Mass.)
introduced bill for the acquisition of
one or all of the Danish West India
islands-St. Croix, St. Thomas and St..
John-as a coaling station. In the
house Mr.. Wheeler (Ala.) introduced a
bill appropriating $5oo,o0o to feed the
Cuban non-combatants who have been
concentrated in cities, and Mr.. Hull
lla.) introduced bill increasing the
medical force of the army by the addi-
ton of Is assistant surgeons.
Senator Quay (Pa.) offered a resolu-
ton in the United States senate on the
LIST providing that the committee on
foreign relations be and is hereby in
structed to report on or before the 5th
inst. bill for the recognition of the re-
public of Cuba. The bill providing for
the purchase of the Danish islands in
the West Indies for coaling stations
was Indefinitely laid aside. Adjourned
to the 18th. In the house the naval ap-
preparation bill $3.50, o,0O0) was passed
with an amendment providing for three
first-class battleships, ~ fast torpedo
boats and IL torpedo boat destroyers.
Adjourned to the 18th.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-04-07
FROM WASHINGTON.

Government receipts during March
were $32,959,750, loss of about 3d.
100000 as compared with March, 1897.
The expenditures aggregated $31 1884,
444, an increase of nearly $4,000, 900 over
March, 1897.
The statement of the public debt is
sued on the LIST shows that the debt
decreased $1,3s7,s65 during the month
of March. The cash balance in the
treasury was $s53,79s,46S. The total
debt, less the cash balance in the treas
ury, amounts to $1,0OS, 716,351.
Gen. Schofeld has taken charge of
the national volunteer reserve, and
plans for speedily obtaining an avail
able standing army of 100000 men
were made at meeting of the military
committee.
1t was announced at a cabinet meet
ing that SPANS answer to the ulti-
matum of this government was unsatis-
factory, and policy which seems GER
tainly to involve hostilities was de-
cided upon. President Mckinley will
send message to congress explaining
the status of affairs and asking the CO.
operation of the legislative body in
dealing with Spain. One of the signif-
cant happenings of the day was an Of
fer of mediation by France, but it was
automatically declined by the presi-
dent.
In Washington the opinion held by
public men and diplomatists is that the
crisis will reach it's climax this week
and that the question of war with Spain
or peace will be determined within the
next seven days. The disposition to
hurry the president seems to have dis
appeared in congress since members
realize that his message must be doc
ument that is to justify congress in it's
action, whatever his recommendations.
Louise Brewer, wife of Justice Brew
er, of the United States supreme court,
died at her home in Washington, aged
60 years.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-04-07
LATER NEWS.

John D. Host, clerk in the general
delivery division IF the Chicago post.
Office, was arrested for stealing letters.
1t is estimated by the department. that
Host has stolen at least fifty thousand
letters addressed to the leading bust
ness houses in Chicago during the past
few months.
The bishop of Havana has rendered
to Gen. Blanco his entire personal for.
tune, as we'll as the church treasures
in the island, to be used in defense of
Spain.
Claims against Spain aggregating
SIG, 900, 900 for damages and losses in
cident to the war in Cuba, have been
filed with the state department by ci:i-
zens residing and interested In that
country.
Fully 5000 union carpenters in Chi
cago have struck, suspending all work
except upon public buildings.
The Ohio senate committee, by a
strict party vote, has found Senator
Hanna guilty of using improper means
to secure his election. There will be
minority report exonorating him.
ne OdCtleSnlp texas mas Deen Or
dered to sea to meet the San Francisco
and New Orleans, en- route from Eng
land, so there may be no danger of in
Perception from Spanish cruisers in
case of war.
The municipal election at Cleveland,
O.. resulted in favor of the republicans
by an increased majority.
Upon receiving an order from Wash
ington to buy ten vessels, the naval
auxiliary board at New York pur-
chased the following for auxiliary
cruisers: Caracas and Venezuela, of the
Red D line: Kansas City, of the savan-
nah line; Yorktown Jamestown and
Princess Ann, of the Old Dominion
line; Elsoland and three others from
the Morgan line.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-04-07
FOREIGN lNTELLIoENcE.

Isl# 5T0nGsA1lNl llyJ ClklSENNSEst5
IN Berlin Prince Bismarck celebrated
his eighty-third birthday at his home.
In South Wales collieries 40 1000 min
.rs struck for higher wages.
The death Of Arthur Orion, who be-
came notorious through his fraudulent
claim to the Tichborne estate and bar
onetcy, occurred in London, aged 60
years. 81 NJ Il q.
Mexico's government will prevent
any raising Of troops by Spaniards, as
has been contemplated. along the from
tier. ...5 s @ 4 /. 8 ~
It is said the pope has sent an urgent
message to the queen regent of Spain
asking that the Cuban war be brought
to an end in the interests of progress
and Christianity. -, -. 81 b. =
All consuls in Cuba have been or
dered to repair at once to Havana, there
to be in readiness for instant departure.
A report that the Spanish torpedo
f1otilla had arrived at Porto Rico was
untrue. The f1otilla is at Cape Verde
islands, where it will remain until fur
Their ORDERS ...t r: -.
Ex-Congressman Amaza Norcross
died in Paris, aged ~ years. He was a
resident of Fitchburg, Mass.
While temporarily insane Mrs. Glover
cut the threats of her six children at
Hobart, B. c., and then drowned her
self.
In Paris the court of cessation has
quashed the sentence of one years i'm
prisonment and 5000 francs fine I'm
posed upon NJ. Emile lola.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-04-07
WEST AND SOUTH.

On June Is Minnesota democrats will
hold their convention in Minneapolis.
The death of Alice Mitchell occurred
in the insane asylum at Bolivar, Tenn.
She became notorious for numbering
Frieda Ward on January 25, 1893, in a
fit of jealousy growing out of pervert-
ed affection.
Ex-Gov. John P. St. John, of Kansas,
the prohibition nominee for president
in 1884, has renounced the cold water
party and joined the populists.
w. C. Brann, editor of the Iconoclast,
and Capt. M. T. Davis killed each other
in duel at Waco, Tex. r, f.
The death of Eliza Spriggs, negress,
occurred in Hampstead, Tex, aged lis
years. @s
BY the breaking of ]evee Shawnee
town, Ill.,, a place of 1900 inhabitants,
was practically wiped out of existence,
and it was reported that $50 persons
were caught in the sudden food and
drowned. Hundreds of others were
swept into the Ohio, clinging to the
roofs of houses or floating on pieces Of
board. The food extends four miles
inland, and people were fleeing for their
lives from all lowland hamlets.
Missouri popufists will hold their
state convention in St. Louis on July I.
By the upsetting Of boat NJ. Whren-
dorf, his three children and sister and
brother-in-law were drowned in the
river near St. Francis, Ark. 1 . r.
Near Comprehensive, KY, a boiler ex-
plosion killed four men outright and
fatally hurt another. s5
Near Spottsville, KY, John Harris
and his wife and child and two men
named Hicks were drowned by the cap
sizing of q boat. !
Mary Ann Mcbride (coloredD died in
Mount Carmel, Ill, aged 102 years.
In Chicago Robert Jones confessed
that he was the murderer Of Jennie
Cramer, g young girl Of New Haven,
Conn, in 1881, for which James and
Walter Malley. nephew and son res
spectively Of q New Haven mill ionaire.
were indicted, tried and acquit
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-04-07
THE EAST.

In the United States there were 22O
business failures in the seven, days end
ed on the LIST, against PSI the week
previous and EGO in the corresponding
period of 1897.
At the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the list aggregated ST.
106,05s,142 against $1,084,339,916. the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1897
was 1913.
An inmate of the almshouse near
New Brunswick, N. j., Noah Raby, cele-
brated his one hundred and twenty
sixth birthday.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-04-07
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

| A Christian Scientist in New York has
committed suicide because she was in
poor health.
Over 600 young women are at present
enrolled in the various departments of
the Swiss universities.
Miss Martha Culver, who lives near
St. Paul, is said to have killed more
wolves than any woman in the north
west.
j. Waldere Kirk, the king of dudes, -
was held up and robbed of money and
jewelry to the value of $4,000 in St.
Louis.
James Doel, the oldest living actor,
has just celebrated his ninetyfourth
birthday in Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire,
England.
Instead of importing, India is begin
ming to export coal at the rate of about
100000 tons monthly. The principal col
lieries are in Bengal. 49,
Irving McDougall Garfield, son of the
late president, resides in Boston, is q
years of age and has just won his first
law case in city courts. - y
Lynde Bradley, an expert electrician
in Milwaukee, has perfected plans for
the use of the X-ray on board of war
vessels and on the field. ~
Many cases have been discovered in
which rich New York women hired
proxies to go to Oklahoma to imper-
senate them in securing divorces.
The Railway Age predicts that the
total expenditures in new railway
building in 1898 will be not less than
$50,0OO,OOO, and may well exceed $780,
100000. d H.
The New York conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church decided in
favor Of equal representation from
each annual conference. The vote was
11S to- 80. {. &, i-...= +. i / IS s*
"A rope: seven miles long and AZ
inches in circumfe ference, weig Ching near
~ 60 tons, has just been made for use
in district subway in Glasgow, Scot
land. /. 5 q. a.5t
Prof. j. w. Hoffman, of the state col
cred college at Orangeburg, 8. G., who
was elected i fellow Of the American
Geographical society the other day, is
the first colored man to be so honored.
Rev. J. Avery Sheppard, one ofsthe
best known Episcopal ministers in Cal
ifornia, died in Santa Rosa, aged SO
years. He was ia Mont gomery, Ala,
when the confederate congress held its
first session and delivered the opening
prayer. 4,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-04-07

A very easy way to account for the
first natives of the new world is to adopt
the theory that the aborigines came
from Asia to America. The American
museum of natural history will in a
short time send expeditions to visit and
live for a time among the tribes of the
northwest corner of America. This
study Of their modes of life and COM
parison of their implements and skele-
tons will be carried through at least
ten tribes, and proofs of their descent
from tribes that came over Behring sea
TO this continent may, or may not, be
established.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-04-07
MARKETS..
Minneapolis, April 4.

Minneapolis, April 4.
Wheat-No. 1 northern, 81 to 97hc;
No. 2 northern, 95h to 90; May,
9616c,
Corn-No 3, $3.50.
Oats-No. 3, white, 25 to 25Ac.
Cattle-Steers, $3.50 to 3.75; COWS,
$500.
Hogs-$2.5 so to 80.
Sheep-Muttons, So. 10 to 8. so; lambs,
S4.25
Poultry-Turkeys z to &c; spring
chickens, 7 to Sc.
Butter-Creamery, extras, II to 18c;
creamery, frsts, Is to 16c; dairy, fancy,
Is to Ice; dairy, choice, Is to lac.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-04-07

Just as woman thinks she has demon
strated her fitness for position in the
front rank of human progress some
thing always seems to interfere with
her calculations. There is, the case of
the Indiana young woman who ex-
ploded dynamite cartridge with a
hairpin as an example. If accidents of
this kind can happen, what is woman
to do in case of war? Does anyone ex-
pect that she will consent to 20 into
battle without hairpins?
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-04-07

''Lo, the poor Indian does not apply
to the Usage tribe. A report just issued
by the government shows that the
Usage Indians, numbering 1929 men,
women and children, own /, SOC, 900 acres
of valuable land, have 100000 in
trust with the government. which
brings them five per cent. interest, and
have leases with cattlemen for the use
of pasture lands, which bring them
from $4,000 to $4,000 year, without
counting the rentals from agricultural
lands. But with so much money they
have become lazy and idle and are in a
state of rapid degeneration. az
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-04-07

Late news from the Klondike indi-
Gates that this winters output of gold
will amount to $o,ooo,ooO. Even this
large sum will prove disappointment
to many. and it certainly shows that
the large majority Of the thousands
who managed to get through to Dawson
City last fall failed to find pay dirt
Some of them will persevere, but in all
proba bility the exodus from the gold
fields will be very large
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-04-07

Some one has discovered that the
color of sin is not scarlet, as the good
book would have us believe, but pink.
On the theory that the men who ages
ago wrote the Bible knew what they
were talking about, this "discovery'
will doubtless be looked upon as proof
positive that the world is growing bet
ter. If so, the more pink the better,
even to pink teas
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-04-07

There is a chimney 10 feet high
running up from the separating de-
partment of the assay Office on Wall
street, New York. 1t was built in 1854.
Its inner lining of fire brick was found
last fall to be in bad condition. Some
months ago the work of replacing the
lining was begun, and few days ago
it was completed. From the old fire.
brick So standard ounces of gold and
$50 standard ounces of silver, together
worth $1,000, were extracted.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-04-07

Among the cigarmakers now work
ing at West Tampa, Fla, is man
named Ricardo, who ten months ago
was worth 100000 or $5,ooo,o0O. At
that time he was a resident of Cuba,
owning great deal of property in Ha-
sana, besides much tobacco land. Short
ly after Weyler's arrival in the island
he was accused of giving aid and COM
fort to the revolutionists. He was ban
ished, his property contiscated and now
he earns $40 per month.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-04-07

A paper read before the London Sta
tistical society, giving the eight prin-S
cipal causes of insanity and the per-
centage of cases occurring from each
OF them, declares that love affairs are
responsible for only tritie over one in
a hundred cases. Of the other causes
drink is set down for about third Of
all the cases; "a like proportion is
ascribed to domestic troubles and men-
tai anxiety; old age and adverse cir
cumstances13int the 100; while only four
in the 100 are set down as due to re-
ligious excitement. Thus religion and
love are the feeblest il their operation.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-04-07
Cost Of the Iowa Assembly.

Des Moines, a., April 4.-The general
assembly passed 81 bills, not including
all of the appropriation bills; five joint
resolutions, the support-fund bills and
the legalization acts. The assembly ap-
propriated $317, 035 for state institutions
extraordinary expenses, $121, 42s.95 for
general purposes and additional bills
for support of state institutions
amounting to $77,5oo. The sum of
4O,751.s7 is what the session cost the
taxpayers of Iowa.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-04-07

The launch of the Kearsarge and Ken
lucky is notable from the fact that it is
the first instance of two great battle
ships launched the same day from az
American shipyard. They will be the
two most powerful ships in the United
States naVV
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-04-07

The coast line of the United States,
according to the coast survey, embraces
Sis miles, including 2,349 miles on the
Atlantic, 1856 on the Gulf of Mexico
and 1910 on the Pacific.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-04-07

AS the strawberry is more than 90 per
cent. water, and the basket far out
weighs the water, there is just enough
of the strawberry left to form what
chemists call a trace. And yet the
strawberry is pleasant vernal delu-
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-04-07
READY TO FIGHT.
Big Force OF Naval Reserves Fully
Equipped and Waiting for the
Call to Arms.

! New York, April 4.-Reports from all
parts of the country show that the
1850 men of the naval reserves are
equipped and ready for duty. The only
active work now going on is the en-
listing in the battalions that are not
up to their full complement. In every
other respect the naval reserves are
ready for an immediate start to the
front. Kits have been overhauled and
| packed, arms and accoutrements tested
and FURNISHED, and examinations in tao
| tics passed by the men. Every man is
either at headquarters or within i'm
mediate call. y
Springfield, ILL.,, April 4.-Gov. Tan
ner Sunday evening received request
from the war department at Washing
ton to have the naval militia of Illinois
| in readiness to meet any call for their
services from the national government.
He at once issued orders to Commander
Harrison to issue orders to battalion
and division, commanders instructing
them to recruit their commands to the
maximum strength allowed by law,
to institute drills every evening and be
ready to take special trains on receipt
of orders to move. IL
The force will in all probability 20 di-
rect to Florida, and will be commanded
by Edward H. Harrison, Al graduate
from the naval academy in 1882. The
Chicago force consists of 400 sea sailors;
200 men from Moline, who are river
men; 100 from Quincy and 100 from
Alton, also river men, commanded by
Commander Porter. Commander Har-
rison is the ranking naval officer in
this city. The entire command of 800
will commence drilling here imme-
diately. u PIG
Detroit, Mich, April 4.-sGov. Pingree
Sunday night received q dispatch from
Assistant Secretary Of the Navy Roose-
velt requesting that the Michigan naval
reserves be fully equipped and made
ready for inst ant service in case Of call
from the government. Gov. Pingree at
once wired .Adjk Gen. Irish directing
him to procure such uniforms and
equipments as ARE necessary to fill out
the requirements Of the reserve in pre-
pairing for active duty. The Detroit and
Saginaw divisions of the Michigan naval
reserve includes 200. officers and men,
their full quota being $50. Their arma-
ment consists st four s-inch breech load
| ing rifles and q Gatling guns
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-04-07
Want ware. Re.tore.,.

Marlborough, Mass, April 4.-The
boot and shoe factories Of this city
have notified the shoe manufacturers
that it is the desire Of the shoe workers
that the reduction Of five per cent. in
wages, which has been operation for
nearly year. shall be discontinued on
Nav 4
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-04-07
But One of the Crew Saved.

Nantucket, Mass, April "A large
two-masted schooner foundered at
point about ~ miles east-south- east of
Sankaty Light during the night. An
underwriters agent sent assistance
early Saturday morning, and the boat
returned Saturday afternoon bringing
one survivor, who was taken from the
rigging. r,. ) j. = -4z.=- r. = O.:
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-04-07
Send for Calling Guns,

st. Paul, Mimi, April 4. - Adjt.-Gen-
Muhleburg received an order from the
war DEPARTING It. requesting him to ship
east the two Calling guns and breech-
loader furnished the two companies of
artillery in this state. The war officials
desire to have the guns for coast de-
Tense. 8s 50 g IS
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-04-07

There is maxim: ut is sweet to die
for ones country" 1t is still better to
live for it, and bless it by good works
in every field to which you are called.
There are heroes in the home, as we'll
as on the battle field, and they should
always be in harmony. Heroes can
never be expected upon the battle fields
when there are not heroes and heroines
in the homes of the land. The one Gre
ates the other
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-04-07

All the lumber in the world will soon
have been utilized in constructing ships.
In that glad day peace will be universal,
because nowhere on earth will there be
any kindling to split.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-04-07
8Anoth,e.lr.t 7Rodlv,' Fonn.a =

Chicago, April a The body Of W. Al
Olmstead, president Of the Q 1mstead
Scientific company, was recovered Sat-
urady from the ruins Of the Wabash
avenue fire. olmstead IS, the thirteenth
victim 81 the IRE.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-04-07
Will Demand Shorter Hour.

St. Louis, April 4.-The National
Brewers union has begun movement
for shorter hours of brewery workers.
The brewers of Chicago will start the
movement on May /. The number of
hours that will be demanded will be
nine, and the movement will be general
throughout the United States.