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The Worthington advance., 1899-07-21
WEST AND SOUTH.

The attorney general of Michigan
says that the one cent per pound state
beet sugar law is unconstitutional.
The Kentucky republicans in COLI
vention in Louisville nominated Will
liam S. Taylor, of Butler county, for
governor, and the platform indorses
without reserve the administration of
President Mckinley.
Another appeal has been issued by
Gov. Scofield to the people of Wiscon-
sin for additional aid for the sufferers
from the New Richmond tornado. He
says $4,000 more is needed.
Rev. w. +. Cowles, aged 80 years, one
of the noted pioneer Methodist minis
ters of eastern Iowa, died in Burling-
ton. .e~
Near lola, Tex, an unknown negro
was lynched for numbering Lemuel
Sharp, white boy. l.
A mob shot to death Abe Brown, a
negro, who murdered and outraged a
Bohemian woman near Gilead, Tex.
The city of Detroit, Mich, is expert
menting with three-cent street railway
fares. -. >~: z ii
In Des Moines a combination of
wholesale grocers of Illinois, Iowa and
Missouri, for the purpose of purchas-
ing goods in large quantities, was ef-
fected.
Sioux Indians were said to be on the
warpath in Wyoming and officials were
in pursuit of Swift Bear and his band
of warriors. = j
John H. Chapman, of Chicago, was
reelected president at the annual ses-
sion in Richmond, Va, of the Young
Peoples Baptist Union of America.
John a. Foreman, founder of El Reno
and one of the pioneers of Oklahoma
and Indian territory, died in FL Reno.
Three Oaks, Mich, has won the
cannon which Admiral Dewey sent
from Manila for the Maine monument
fund.
: William Preston Johnston, president
of Tulane university, in New Orleans,
died in Lexington, Va, aged 67 years.
In the federal court at Fort Worth,
Tex, ten striking miners we're con-
victed of intimidating and terrorizing
imported negro miners. }4sg:n ~ S
At Gainesville, Ca, 81 Smith, farm
eer who killed William Bell, a CONNER
cial tfaveler from Atlanta, was shot
to death in the Jail by a mob. i il
Fire swept away 27 business houses
at Bainbridge, Ga.
At Mason City, Ill.,, Roy Sutton, 20
years of age, shot and killed Miss Leona
Elmere, a girl of 1s years, because she
would not elope with him, and then
shot himself.
james and Clifford Shannon and
Catherine Winsey were drowned in the
Ohio river in Cincinnati by the capsiz-
ing of boat.
In a family quarrel Mrs. George
Treider shot and killed her. mother,
wounded her husband and then killed
herself near sLong Grove. Ill.
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MINOR NEWS ITEMS,

Mrs. jefferson Davis will make her
permanent home in Montpelier, Vt.-
Dewey's town.
Jerome Hall Raymond, the new pres
ident of the University of West Vir-
ginia. was newsboy5in his early life.
The new geyser which recently broke
out before the Fountain hotel in Yel-
lowstone National park has been named
Dewey in honor sofethe hero of Man
lila bay. i H. Z 4, r. 81
Pedro Orizar, II years old, who was
a cabin boy and bugIer on the Spanish
cruiser Vizcaya.# has enlisted in the
United States navy at the Brooklyn
navy yard. - '@'S> e's@ IS n, - 5aosS
At "a meeting of nearly all the whole
sale confectioners of the United States,
held at Frontenac, N. Y::..sit was spracti-
scally decided that ombination could
not be effected.
Yda Addie Storke, the writer, was
sentenced in Santa Barbara, Cal, to one
year in Jail for writing anon ymoust let
tiers rejecting upon certain prominent
people of that city. -"
The Lake Shore e. Michigan South
ern Railroad company t,assplacedsa nor
der with the Brooks Locomo motivesworks
for IS ten-wheel passenger engines, to
be delivered as soon as possible.
Hawaii will import 1000 japanese la
borers ssyear. This will increase the
japanese and Chinese population to
about E65.00O,s as compared with $1,000
Hawaiian natives and 5000 Americans.
e.. The Metropolis Tunnel Railroad COM
pany was incorporated in Albany, N.
y, to build $7,00o,0o0 tunnel to con-
meet Brooklyn and Jersey City under
the two rivers and the Island of Man
haitian. ~
Commissioned Wilson, oof the internal
revenue, has issued$a circular absolute
ly prohibiting banks from fixing
stamps to checks unstamped when pre-
sented and requiring them to return
the same to the drawers. -
Two syndicates. one including the
richest and most: powerful men in
England. the other representing the
largest financial interests in the United
States, have combined to build more
than 1000 miles Of railroad in China. I
The report on the production of cop
per in 1898 has just been. submitted to
the United States geological survey by
Special Agent Kirchhoff. The produc-
ton Of the United States in that year
was 526, ,375,591 pounds,swhich is by far
the largest product ever reported,
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BRINGS MORE GOLD.
Latest Steamer to Arrive from Alaska
Carries an Immensely Pre-
ciOus Cargo.

Victoria, B. c., July 17.-The steamer
City of Seattle, from Alaska, brought
down about 200 passengers and 5000 900
or $700,000 in drafts and dust. The
richest man aboard is J. Larien, of
Montreal, who has been on Eldorado
creek and in the Klondike for number
of years. Another passenger had S13,-
600, which he made on Sulphur creek in
two years. D. w. Hope, of Tacoma,
made $4,000 in 1s months, besides ac-
quiring property. Indeed, most of the
100 miners aboard were in comforta BILE
circumstances. w. Gasford, of Tacoma,
has $4,000. IT.: ~, ..
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THROWS Up The spoNO1


Detroit, Mich, July 17.-Gov. Pingree
sustained another defeat Saturday. His
opponents have put up such stiff fight
against the purchase of the street rail
waysystem that Tom johnson, principal
owner of the street car system. Satur-
day withdrew from the city and de-
oaared the deal on. He, through the
Metropolitan railway, which operates
all the lines, sent q letter to H. 8. Pin
gree, president Of the Detroit Municipal
railway, in which it was said that the
company was satisfied it was not feas-
lble to make the transfer under the con-
ditions existing.
This letter., in which it is intimated
that fares may be raised to fve cents
straight, as the franchise permits, was
received by the governor:
Detroit, Mich, July 15-Hon. n. q. Pin
gree. President Detroit Municipal Railway,
Detroit, Mich.-Dear Sir: We are satisfied
that 1t Is not feasible to consummate un-
der existing conditions the plan Of tfans-
ferring the street railway properties to
your company. We must face squarely the
proposition which the opponents Of the
plan put forward, that our franchises are
running out and that when they do ex-
pire we shall have an expensive plant on
our hands which the opponents Of the plan
say they can compel us to sell ut q ruinous
sacrifice unless we are willing to accept a
new franchise on their terms.
We must so manage the railways In the
meantime as, If possible, to prevent the
loss SO Threatened. Low fares and short
franchises are Incompatible II railways are
10 be run for profit as private enterprise,
as truly so as low rents and. q short-term
lease wnnld a hsx{f Hfsr~p Il . =
Majestic were put up by tenant on leased
land. In bringing our negotiations to an
end we thank you heartily for the courtesy
and fairness which you have shown to US
throughout. Yours truly, res - -
METROPOLITAN RAILWAY CO.,
BY Bernard Clark, President"
: The superintendent says he has re-
ceived no instructions to raise the fare.
The threat in the letter to return to
straight five-cent fares does not cause
much commotion. 1t is realized it is in
Johnson's power to charge five cents
straight, but by doing so the lines would
only further antagonize the people and
rouse them to force the council to make
it expensive for the company in many
ways. besides keeping alive the feeling
on the franchise question.
Judge Speed says that so far as Gov.
Pingree is concerned the whole plan is
to be abandoned. He was asked Satur-
day noon if any new move was in con-
temptation by the interests he repre-
sents before Tuesday. mo further
move will be made," he said.
what will be done after Tuesday
night, in the event that the veto of the
mayor is sustained?''
Nothing will be done. The whole
effort will be Abandoned"
The citizens committee is not taking
it for granted that the scheme has been
downed, but will keep up an organiza-
ton, so as to be ready with its firing
line should the battle be renewed.
The Worthington advance., 1899-07-21

Persons apply to the courts for queer
things, and often the courts grant queer
requests. In Texas, a man having ac-
cused another of alternating his wife's
affections and having brought a suit
for 100000 damages, petitioned the
judge to enjoin the man whom he had
sued from communicating with his
wife. The Judge granted the petition,
out the defendant declared that it was
all invasion of his right of free speech
and communicated with the woman.
Whereupon the defendant was fined
$500 and sent to Jail three days for con-
tempt of court. -
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Took His own Life.

i Peoria, Ill.,: July 17.-Ailt Van Eoen-
ing, state grand master of the Knights
and Ladies of Honor, aged 46 years,
committed suicide Sunday evening by
throwing himself from the steamer
Bald Eagle, three miles above the Cop
peras creek dam. Domestic trouble
is supposed to have caused the act. He
wasalso state official in the \. o. wv.
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SEVEN DROWNED.
PrOspectOrs in Alaska with
Fatal Results.

il Seattle, Wash, July 17.-The schoon-
.er Genoal Siglin, from Cooks inlet,
Alaska, brings news of drowning of
seven men at'Turnagain Arm early in
June. The names of only five of them
are known, as follows: A. B. johnson,
Malone, ILL.,; Louis Peterson, Chicago;
Chris Madison, Chicago; - Porter,
California;; - Hutchinson, Rockford,
Ill. They were crossing the Arm in a
small boat, which was overturned by a
pig tidal wave. i .5..- ..
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asylum.

Prof. Dewar, whose success in lique-
flying hydrogen and other gases startled
the scientific world, has made another
discovery which may be of wide-reach-
ing importance. 1t is a new process of
casting steel, by which he says the
metal will he rendered much harder
and stronger than by present processes.
The principal feature of the process is
that the metal is to be cast in vacuum.
If the plan is successful it is said 1.-The
air bubbles that now cause flaws and
weakness will be done away with and a
never seen.''
The Worthington advance., 1899-07-21
Death Of an Illinois banker.

Springfield ~ July IL. Titus Sud-
duth, president of the Farmers nation.
al bankNaof 'this city, and one Sof Athe
largests1and ownerssand stock raisersi
in Ilnnois, die "a Sunday Son one ofzhis
tenant farms - this county, near rsherz
man, aged 70 years. He was born hear
Mount Sterling, KY and came to this
city with his parents il 1s34.S ssAt>the
time of his death he was the owner Of
$4,000 acres of valuab BILE farm land in the
counties of Sangamon, Logan, Mclean
and De Witt. For the past several years
he has made his home in Normal, near
Bloomington.
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onductorss 81 snd torn,en 81 E}he 1iS

Gondpc ors ana md no 81 nsn 81 HE Big
Consolidated street railway system 81
Cleveland went on another strike.
With 5000 tons Of the new crop 81
tea the steamship Olympia arrived at
Tacoma, Wash, from China and japan.
Fire nearly destroyed the town OF
Wagner, /. T.
The Young Peoples Baptist union
closed it's meeting in Richmond, Va
Denver was selected as the meeting
place next year. S NJ
Eleven men and women going from,
Atlin to Dawson, Alaska, were drowned
in Wind Arm, the dangerous portion of
Bennett lake.
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LATER NEWS.

Three hundred and. seventy-fiye
freight handlers on the Pennsylvania
railroad company's piers at New York,
who struck for higher pay, are practi-
cally shut out, as the railroad COM
pany has announced that there will be
no more night work on the piers.
The supreme court of Colorado has
declared unconstitutional the eight
hour lazy passed by the last legislature.
The law, as enacted, applied only to
miners, smelters and mills for the re-
duction of ores.
With the glass doors of saloon be-
tween them, VIM. Van Allen, a saloon
keeper, and Frederick Gondoff, a trav=
cling salesman, fought a duel to the
death at Chicago. Condor was NOR
tally wounded and Van Allen was shot
through the thigh. The men were for
merly business partners. %52'4*z-
A party of strikers fired on the
guards at the Central Coal and Coke
company's mine near. Bonanza, Ark
The guards returned the fire, and for
a few minutes shots were flying in
every direction, but the strikers soon
retreated. No one was hurt. .~se,s
Gen. D. S. Stanley, acting president
OF the.society of the Army of the Cum
berland, announces that the next an
nual reunion of the society will be at
Detroit, Sept. &c and 81.
Bloodhounds belonging to the Hanna
Stock company of Hanna, Laporte
county, Ind, ran down Harry King of
Kansas City, Mo-, resulting in his cap
ture. The crime of burglary for which
he was being pursued was committed
at Davis station, Ind. .,x
The, American tin plate factory at
Elwood, Ind. , resumed operations Civ
ing employment to 1000 persons. The
pay roll is increased 5000 per week.
The: war department has chartered
the steamer Siam to carry 500 cavalry
horses to Manila. i
A fruit Gamers combine including
eleven corporations and twelve plants
has just been formed in San Francisco.
The oil tank steamer Maverick lying
at Halifax, Nova Scotia, was destroyed
by fire. The crew escaped with diff
Guilty. Loss $500
In a fight with bandits near Cim-
marron, N. NJ, Sheriff Farr and two
deputies were killed.
The city council of Columbus, O., by
vote of Is to has impeached and
removed from Office j. w. Dusenbury,
director of public safety.
The authorities have been warned
aginst filibustering expeditions from
Florida against Central America. .4s.
The Worthington advance., 1899-07-21

George F. Hamlin, who was a state
senator from Linn county, Kan, in 1879,
had a grandfather whose first name
was Europe, and this grandfather had
three brothers named Asia, Africa and
America. Vice President Hannibal
Hamlin was the son of Africa. Europe
was soldier in our revolutionary war.
Asia and America did not become noted
for anything.
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Cleanliness is an excellent habit. 1t

Cleanliness is an excellent habit. 1t
is not, however, an essential to good
health and mental activity. The health
lest man writer in medical journal
ever saw is alive and we'll to-day at "a,
and he took bath only occasionally
once in the Mersey at Liverpool in 1888,
and again in the North river in 1878,
both of which were accidental, the gem
tlculant being slightly intoxicated when
he fell. Almost all people who live to
an extreme old age are found to be
those who are not overfond ofablutions,,
but who otherwise are careful in their
manner of living. - f
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

On board the United States cruiser
Olympia Admiral Dewey arrived at
Suez.,l :-..'s ~ .><'@3 f"'f} - Afi&S I'{si
Off Rottnest island the British ship
City OF York was wrecked and the cap
tain and II men, lost i -.
In storm off Rockingham, Aus
tralia, the British ship Carlisle Castle
was lost and the crew perished. -
At Roubaix, France, in a fight be-
tween a lion and a bull the bull was the
victor. -, -.
An earthquake caused the collapse of
a gallery in a mine near Herne, Vest
phalia, entombing 60 miners. r. .%5,..,s
From St. Johns, NJ F., the Peary ex-
spedition steamer sailed for, Sydney with
supplies for two years and crew of
18 men. ! j., I4,
At Takawa Gori, Japan. a coal mine
became filled with poisonous gas and
100 miners were suffocated..i .utt ag,.
The steamer Holbein, which arrived
in Liverpool, had on board Capt. Will
liam Andrews, who on June 18 started
from Atlantic City, N. j., in %12-toot
boat to cross the Atlantic: - -
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In the naval battles of Manila bay and
Santiago the American fleets, according
to official reports, had but slight
superiority in the number of sailors en-
gagged. Dewey commanded 1,743 men
and Montojo 1874. At Santiago there
were 2,400 men on the American ships
and 2,125 on the Spanish.
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Only One saved.

/ Cincinnati, July 17.-Frank Ray, with
his sweetheart, Catherine Wimsey, and
Clifford and James Shannon, started on
an excursion up the Ohio river in
naphtha launch. ~ The launch had a
small fiat bottom, known as "John
BOAT" in tow. Frank Ray playfully
jumped into this boat and ;all the 9TH
sfs, against his protest, followed. The
boat filled and sank, and Ray alone was
rescued. ssSsl s 81
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Big Cargo Of Tea.

Tacoma, WASH July T.-Steamship
Olympia, of the Northern Pacific line.
arrived Sunday from China and Japan
with 5000 tons of the new crop of tea.
She began dischargmg immediateIy,
and will hasten back with freight that
importers are attempting to rush into
Japan before the new duties become
effective. Several cars of tobacco
await shipment here.
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Alexander Dewitt, who has lived in
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, for the past 40
years, practically on the bounty of his
friends, is dead, and it is found that
he has left fortune of $4,000 OF this
he has bequeathed $4,000 to a nephew
who once sent him SIS and who is the
only relative that ever manifested any
interest in his welfare.
The Worthington advance., 1899-07-21

Since January ! 90 colleges, acade-
mics and seminaries and eight art gal
leries in the United States have re-
ceived gifts amounting to $27,O72,3 1853,
not counting contributions of less than
$4,000. The total for the six months
is not less than $3o,oo0,O00, showing
never before equaled in any country or
DeriO6
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MANNER OF PRINCES DEATH.
Omcfal Messen9er Of st. Petersburx
Tells How the CxaPowitx Came
to His Untimely End.

st. Petersburg, July 1.-THE follow
ing details of the death of the czaro-
witz appear in the official Messenger:
The czarowirz went for . ride on
benzine-rnotor at nine o'clock in the morn
ing of July 10 from Abbas Tuman He
went very fast for two versts and then
turned. A peasant woman passing noticed
that as he turned the machine he slack
ened its pace and was splitting blood. He
stopped and alighted, swaying as he did
so. The woman ran up, supported him and
asked what was the matter. The prince
replied: Nothing The woman offered
him water and the prince made an af'Irma-
tive gesture. She bathed his temples and
mouth. Death then supervened, peace
fully and painIessly. = -
The remains were taken to the palace
The place where he died has been inclosed
by railing"
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The government of Trinidad has de-
cided to adopt Marconi's system of
wireless telegraphy for communication
with the dependency of Tobago. To-
bago is an island in the Windward
group of the West Indies. The distance
through which the system will have to
operate will be "a miles. If man had
said ten years ago that communication
could be established and regularly
maintained between those points with
out the use of wires he would have been
considered a candidate for the insane
aSvlun1
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a business to crow about.

John E. Swearingen, of Edgefield, S.
c., has just graduated from the Univer-
sity of South Carolina at the age of 20,
despite the fact that he has been to-
tally blind since boy seven years old.
He has taken the full classical course
and has made the highest record dur
ing the four years of any man since the
founding of the institution. He was as
sisted by u roommate, but only by the
reading aloud of his studies.
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James Billings, of Brookville, Pa, has
started crow incubator, and is furnish
ing crow heads to New York milliner
for 25 cents each. He places 125 crow
eggs in his incubator each time, within
Is days the little fellows have Matched
and eight weeks later they are behead-
ed. Billings has the only crow hatch
cry in the world, but then it is not much
of business to crow about.
The Worthington advance., 1899-07-21

John DahIgren. convicted of ref,t,sno
dental Offices in Minneapolis was sen
fenced to ten years in the peuitentIary-
An express company carried through
Minneapolis 80, coo pounds of cigar
cites for Japan.
The school house Of st. Johns parish
at st. Paul was struck by lightning
and sustained q. 600 damages.
Herman Goth, a st. Paul bov. died
of lockjaw, the result of injuries re-
ceived on the Fourth.
It will cost $50. 600 to bring the Tnir-
teenth regiment home from San Fran
cisco.
Three houses in one block IN winoua
were entered by burglars in one ni9hs-
In G. w. MiIler's house they secur-s1
sf3, but they missed roll Of several
Thousand.
A young man named Edward Glenn
ems fell from a freight train near the
railroad bridge at Hastings and had
his right arm severed by the ear wheels.
Wind destroyed several buildings at
Hayfield. - :
Lester Carpenter, the three-year-oId
son Of Lester A. Carpenter. member
Of Engine Company No. Is, was kid
naped from the home of his grand
mother in Minneapolis. He was aft
erward found with his mother. who
had separated from her husband.
A factory for the manufacture Of
wire cables has been started at winona
and now they are talking of establish
ing beet sugar factory.
Winona county has 1906 farms. with
126, 600 acres under cultivation.
C. n. Fitch OF Minneapolis was fined
Us for not labelling compound lard
William Baldwin has been appointed
.weigher in the grain department.
The attorney general is preparing &c
bring suit against the Canda Cattle
Car company to- compel it to pay saxes
in this state. The ease will be brought
under the law imposing a tax ON ont
side corporations, which ouerase
through the state as this eompauv
does Its cars are hauled back and
forth through the state, but the ccur
panv itself is not located mere.
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Dewey.s CIaira for Bovntx.

Washington, July II. = Admiral
George Dewey has fled in the court of
claims, through his attorneys, his claim
for naval bounty growing out of the
battle of Manila bay on May 1, 1s9s.
This is the first of this class of claims
filed in this court, and it is anticipated
that there will be between 1000 and
5000 of them altogether.
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A recent computation shows that,
counting only donations of $4,000 and
upward, partial list of gifts to char
liable and educational institutions in
the United States during the last six
years gives an average of more than
$35, 100000 a year.
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1t is estimated that the ''bread-eat-
ing" population of the world will need
during the coming year 100000
bushels of wheat. The best estimates
are that the total production for the
same period will be 1850. 100000 bushels.
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At Wichita, Kan, a bride of two hours
was killed and her husband and brother
seriously injured as the result of that ir-
rcsistibly funny performance, the
charivari party.
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Murdered.

Huntington, W.. Va, July Twill
McNeals, of Monroe county, Pa, was
murdered at Thacker, Mingo county,
Sunday morning by p. X. Hamm.
Hamm is under arrest. f5,.-....s.-s.