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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07
THE EAST.

Flames in the business district of
Fair Haven, VT, destroyed property val
ued at 100000.
In New York George E. Todd filed a
petition in bankruptcy with liabilities
of $24S,S16, and assets of five dollars
cash.
In the United States there were 1914
business failures in the seven days
ended on the 31st ult., against 200 the
week previous and 251 in the CORE
spending period of 1898.
At the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during
the week ended on the 31st ult. aggre-
gated $1,9oo,9s2,1s4, against $1,ss4,5o4,-
791 the previous week. The increase
compared with the corresponding week
in 1898 was 6S.5.
In Wilkesbarre, Pa, United States
officials arrested Charles Moss, the
leader of a large gang of counterfeiters.
In Philadelphia Henry Lappin and his
wife, aged As and AZ years, respective
ly, were burned to death in their home.
In the month of March 81 corpora
lions were organized in New Jersey
with capital stock aggregating $1,111,-
100000.
In Boston Rear Admiral G. C. Carpen-
ter, retired, aged IS, committed suicide
in a sanitarium. He had a. brilliant rec
ord.
Hannah Daley died at the county
home at Oil City, Pa, at the age of 102
years.
In the poorhouse at Piscataway, N.
j., Noah Raby, an Indian, celebrated his
one hundred and twenty-seventh birth
day.
In New York the total dead of the
Windsor hotel fire now number Al. OF
these 80 are unidentified bodies. The
number of missing is 43.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

| Five prisoners were taken from the
jail at Carlisle, Ky, to be baptized at
the Christian church:
The New York court of appeals" has
decided that deposits in savings banks
are not subject to taxation. u.s.,
By means Of the x rays large snake
has been found in the stomach Of Mrs.
Henry Young, at Oil City, Pa. 81.
Prof. Walter F. Wilcox, of Cornell
university, has been appointed chief
statistician of the census bureau.
| Within six months Venezuela, as the
result of North American enterprise,
will begin the manufacture of cotton.
Mrs. Miles, wife of the general, is a
niece of Senator Sherman, between
whom and her there has always existed
the warmest sympathy.
The names of the United States trans
ports Scandal and Arizona have been
changed. The former is now the War
rem and the latter the Hancock.
At Lisbon, O., the jury in the case Of
George Brunt, on trial for killing his
colored coachman at East Liverpool,
brought in verdict of not guilty.
Miss Edith Boone has sued Drug
Clerk Farrow for $4,000 at Philadel-
phia, for squeezing her hand so hard
that she sustained permanent injuries.
The Red Cross is now establishing in
Cuba, at the request of the government,
a hospital service to assist in the care of
the sick and homeless people of. the
island
Gen. Guy v. Henry, governor-general
of Porto Rico, was born in an army
wagon at Fort Smith, I. T., where his
father, Maj. William S. Henry, was then
stationed. r. ~"es
Patrick Marion, a penniless wanderer,
returned to his old home at Johnstown,
Pa, and found that he was heir to for
tune of $4,000, left to him by brother
in Mississippi.
Mrs. Jane L. Stanford, widow Of the
California millionaire, has within the
last four months made $1,O00,0OO
through an advance in the value Of her
Central Pacific stock.
All .shipyards on the Delaware are SO
busy with work at present that the
owners report that they are not pre-
pared to take new orders unless work
lis not to begin for some months.
i The department. OF agriculture has
issued formal vertisement inviting
proposals for furnishing field, flower
and vegetable seeds to the government
for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1900.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP.
Detroit Council Takes n Big Step
Toward Carrying Out Intent
of the Mcleod Law

Detroit, Mich, April "a long stride
toward Detroit's ownership of the
city's street railways was taken Satur-
day evening, when the common council
carried out the intent of the Mcleod
law, providing for municipal owner
ship and operation of Detroit street
railways, by adopting resolution ap-
pointing Gov. Pingree, Carl E. Schmidt
and Elliott G. Stevenson as the commits
sion to buy and operate the roads for
the city. This result was reached after
q rather sharp two hours fight, and the
resolution was adopted by a vote of
81 to II. The members of the commits
sion had previously announced that
they would publicly notify the council
of the terms agreed upon before con-
summating any purchase. -
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07

In the dispatch printed short time
ogotelling of the fire in the Old Colonial
church in Boston, it was stated that the
vinegar Bible" came near being de-
stroyed. This Bible is the Oldest in the
United States. 1t was printed in Oxford,
England, by John Barrett in 1717, and in
1888 was presented to the Colonial
church by George H., who was then
king. In the twentieth chapter of St.
Luke, which contains the parable of the
vineyard, the Bible reads "the parable
of vinegar" and for that reason the
book 'has been given the odd name of
"the vinegar Bible.''
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07
4 WEEKS HISTORY
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
g.. West and tho South.
THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES
FROM WASHINGTON.

!, It was decided at a cabinet meeting
to pay no attention to the demands of
the delegates from the Cuban assem-
bly, who are in Washington.
: The recruiting for the regular army
is progressing most satisfactorily, both
in numbers and high class of young
men offering.
Senior Azpiroz, the Mexican ambassa-
dor, was presented to the president by
the secretary of state.
For March the treasury receipts were
over $57, 100000 and the disbursements
amounted to $42,99s, 671, leaving a sur.
plus for the month of $14,O31,6 53.
To settle the entire Samoan trouble
a joint high commission has been prac-
tically agreed upon BY the United
States, British and German govern
ments.
The delegates of the Cuban assembly
were informed by Secretary Hay that
the United States government would
not increase the amount to pay the
Cuban army above the 100000 al.
ready sent to Cuba.
The president has signed an order
abolishing registry fees for foreign YES
sells in Cuban waters.
The statement of the public debt is
sued on the 1st shows that the debt de-
creased $s,39s,s2s during the month of
March. The cash balance in the. treas
ury was $o19, 5e2,os7. The total debt,
less the cash balance in the treasury,
amounts to 81, Jas, sos, 1868.
Mrs. Patsy Marshall (colored) died at
a hospital in Washington at the age of
ia years, according to the workhouse
records.
In March the total coinage at the
minis was 4,572, 072, of which $12,-
176,715 was silver, $2,346,5 $50 gold and
$48, S01 minor coins.
On March 81 the total circulation of
national bank notes in the United
States was $243 ,o52, BIT, an increase for
the year of Sis, 654,298.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07
WEST AND SOUTH.

By the derailing of passenger train
near Parkerville, Mo-, seven persons
were injured.
Fire destroyed the city hall and opera
house at Columbus, S. C.
Thomas johnson and Richard Hale,
white men, and Sam Rives (colored)
were hanged at Troy, Ala, for the MUIR
der of Mrs. Ira Meyers and her daugh-
ter-in-law, Mrs. Meyers.
The steamer Charles Nelson sailed
from San Francisco for Manila with 900
tons of supplies for our troops.
The governor has signed the bill
which legalizes prize fighting contests
in California up to 20 rounds.
The leading citizens of Porto Rico
have organized a political party to be
known as the republican party and have
declared in favor of a gold standard,
separation of church and state and free
trade between the islands and the
United States.
Advices received by commission men
in Cleveland from fruit growers indi-
cate poor fruit crop in Ohio.
The Baptist, Presbyterian, Method
list and Congregational societies have
made arrangements for interdenomina-
tional missionary work in Porto Rico
and other islands.
For the murder of his father Elisha
Swan, 19-year-old negro, was hanged
in Bastrop, Tex.
AS administered by the United States
military authorities the government of
Cuba has yielded for the first quarter
$4,000 as customs receipts.
Silas U. Pinney, for seven years a
member of the Wisconsin supreme
court, died in Madison, aged &C years.
In Detroit, Mich, the common coun-
Gil adopted a resolution providing for
commission of three to buy and OBJ
crate the city railroads. &
In Augusta, Kan, Mary Wilson took
morphine and died because her lover,
Alva Dix, had been killed in the Philip
pines.
Mrs. W. d. Owen, wife Of the secrel
tary Of state of Indiana, dropped dead
in the aisle. of the car while en- route
from Te1arkana, Ark.
At his home in Seymour, Ind, John
81. Reed celebrated his one hundradth
birthday. IA
White caps killed John Sullivan, one
OF the best-known men in Puxico, Mo.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07

Washington, March 2o.-The special
train bearing President and Mrs
Mckinley. Postmaster-GeneraI Smith
and members OF the presidential party.
reached its destination here at exactly
five o'clock Tuesday afternoon. They
were met at the depot by Acting secre-
tary Of War MeikIejohn, Gen. Corbin,
Secretary Porter and other officials.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07

1t is said by American manufacturers
of women's shoes that marked change
in styles has been going on during the
last two years. The shoes in favor are
heavier, with less flexible soles and with
palmer uppers. Outdoor exercise and
recreation for women have resulted in
the demand for more comfortable and
substantial shoes, which. also last
longer and wear more evenly English
women have always preferred COM
paratively heavy shoe, and the laws of
health back up their choice.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07
FOREIGN INTELL1GEN;CE.

a.
Old glory now waves over the city Of
Malolos and the stronghold Of the FIJI
ipinos is now in possession Of heAmer-
lean forces. The troops were resting
and were of the opinion that the war
was ended, save for such guerrilla tac-
tics as may Be employed by the rem
nants Of Aguinaldo's army that have
sought refuge in the mountain fastness-
es. The loss to the American army thus
for has been SO killed and 392 wounded.
In Paris a man named Ozouf attempt
ed to kill President Loubet in the
streets, but instead killed wealthy
gentleman named Tourret. $
At Point Pelee, Ont, James La
Blanche, a young French Canadian,
killed his sweetheart, an Indian girl
named Olga Postamie' and then killed
On the I'd Gen. MacArthur's troops
were still resting at Malolos. All efforts
to locate the main body of the insur-
gents thus far had been unavailing.
Many natives were returning from the
north to Malolos without arms. The
Filipino capital is now at San. fernando,
and Chinese who have been at the latter
place report that Aguinaldo has only
1,400 men left with him. It was evident
that. the native forces were scattered,
with but little hope of reorganization.
The death of Baroness Hirsch, widow
of Baron Hirsch, the, Hebrew philan-
thropist, occurred in Paris. She leaves
several million pounds sterling, chiefly
bequeathed to charities.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07
Death List About Eirhtv.

London, April 3:-The morning pa
pers publish approximate lists of the
saved and drowned passengers on the
steamer Stella of the London &; South
western Railway company, which was
wrecked upon the Casquet rocks, near
the Island of Alderney, last Thursday
afternoon. These show the death roll
to include about 80. :. .s.... ST..
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07

The Daily Record, published at Ridge
wood, N. j., went through an interest
ing experience. With eight surround
ing buildings in flames and the news
paper office threatened with fire, run
way Of CREASED boards was built under
the building, a belt of chains was
passed around the structure, and then
when a long rope was attached to the
belt 500 subscribers of the paper seized
the rope and dragged the building to
point Of safety.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07

Charles Kraus, of Cincinnati, brought
proceedings for a divorce, in which he
pleads that during his courtship of the
lady now his wife she carefully con-
cealed from him the fact that she has
a glass eye, and he therefore believes
he was defrauded and should be given
divorce. She should file Il cross suit and
ask for divorce upon the ground that
only having one eye she did not get
good look at him when he proposed.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07
Big Money for q Husl,nnd

La Sale, N. Y, April. 3.-Henry 81.
Croley, a wealthy farmer of this village,
announces that he will give $4,000 to
any man who will lead his daughter,
Miss Clara Croley, to the altar, the lucky
man to be acceptable to both father and
daughter. The candidate for the hand
of Miss Croley must be honest, sober,
Industrious and bear good character,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07

1t is said that John C. Blight is COM
ing to visit America. His name is ordi-
nary, but when it is known that he is
the only Millionaire in the world it de-
rives added interest. He lives in Kim
berly, South Africa, and is rated as a
Millionaire. Mr.. Blight is 81, heavily
built man, with gray hair. 1t was his
ambition as a boy to become the rich
est man in the world, and strange to
say, he has accomplished his purpose.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07

The bodies of soldiers who lost their
lives in Cuba and Porto Rico and which
were not claimed by relatives will be
buried in the Arlington cemetery, near
Washington, where the graves will be
taken care of as long as the government
stands, and be decorated with flowers
on each recurring memorial day. No
other government has bestowed this
care on it's soldiers who have died
abroad
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07

Factories in this country are now en-
gagged in manufacturing 81 locomotive
engines for the Trans-Siberian railway,
30 for the Midland railway, of England;
20 for Swenden, Is for Egypt, and ten
for French state railways.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07
Debt Shows q Decrea.e

Washington, April 3.-The monthly
statementof the public debt shows that
at the close of business March 81 the
debt, less cash in the treasury.
amounted to 81, 149, SOC, 1868, which is a
decrease during the month of $685.
1928. This decrease is accounted for bv
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07
Early Shipment of Fruit.

Vacaville, Cal, April 3.-The first
shipment of cherries for this season was
made Friday, box from the ranch of
J. 7. Ough going to Chicago. Last year
the first cherries were shipped on April
Is. This promises to be a record break
ing year for apricots, which, with IA
vorable weather, will be in market by
the middle of April. s..e -E@.a. .
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07

Washington. March 3o-A dispatch
received here from Old Point, Va, saws
that Brig. Cen F1agIer, chief of ord
nance, D. 8. A., died at the Hygeia
hotel at 1--WE o'clock Wednesday after
room. Gen. Flagler was born in New
York and was appointed to the military
academy in 1856, from which he gradu-
ated in 1861.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07

4 French engineer, by device which
intensifies the vibration, makes it un-
necessary to stand with receiver to the
ear and talk into the transmitter of
telephone. The invention, it is claimed,
will .revolutionize the telephone.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07
Seekn Redreas,

Omaha, Neb., April 3.-W. f. Bechel,
former auditor of the Pacific Express
company, who was recently acquitted
of the charge OF embezzling $10o, 900 OF
the company's funds, has sued the COM.
pany for $4,000 damages to his health
and good name.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07
LATER NEWS.

The supreme court of the United
States courts decides that the stamr
tax on board of trade sales is legal.
Gen. Otis the Sd telegraphed as fol-
lows: present indications denote in.
surgent government in perilous condi.
ton; its army defeated, discouraged
and scattered, insurgents returning tc
their homes in cities and villages, al
| points which our accommodating par.
ties have reached, and desire protec.
ton of Americans: News from Visayan
islands more encouraging"
One of the worst billiards of the
year swept Missouri and Kansas the
Sd. In southern Iowa there was a
heavy snow fall.
Admiral Dewey congratulates Gen.
Otis upon the work of his army.
The One Hundred and Sixty-frst In
diana volunteers will be mustered out
of service April 25.
John Farley, democrat was elected
mayor of Cleveland, o., over Robert F.
McKisson by a plurality of $500.
Five men working in deep and
narrow ditch at Joplin, No., were
killed by cavern. They wereEburied
under 10 feet of earth.
! The steamer City of Topeka, which
runs between Puget Sound and Alaska,
went ashore on reef at the south end
of Wrangel Narrows, 100 miles south
of Juneau. The passengers were all
taken to Juneau by the lighthouse
tender ManzinillO.
The British government is about to
send an engineering corps of 1,4oo men
to fortify Port Stanley and other points
in the Falkland islands.
The crew of the battle ship Iowa, at
San Francisco have presented Bobby
u. Evens who commanded the Iowa
during the war with Spain with a
handsome sword.
The strike of the unskilled window
glass workers at Pittsburg, Pa, is
practically at an end, the tenders and
shove boys having agreed to go back
to work at the old wages.
Cotton mills generally in the New
England states, operating more than
three-quarters of the total number of
spindles in the north, have begun
work under an advance wage schedule.
Light Battery F of the Fourth and
Light Battery F of the Fifth artillery
are on their way to Manila via San
Francisco.
Germany is to send an expedition to
seize I-Chou, Shan-Tung province Chi
IA, to compel the Chinese government
to grant to German firms some big
commercial concessions
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07

New York, March s0-The United
States transport Crook, Capt. Welcome
arrived Wednesday morning from
Porto Rico and Santiago with SOC pas
sengers and $50 bodies Of soldiers who
died or were killed IN the battles IN
CUBA and Porto Rico. One hundred
and twenty Of the bodies are from Porto
Rico,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07

A Paris paper says that a French
gardener has succeeded in grating the
tobacco plant on potato tubers, and that
the new plant produces the finest to-
bacco leaves above ground, and below
ground the best of potatoes. Next!
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07
Gra,nt nm Advan~e-

Joliet, I'LL, April 3.-The Joliet Stove
Works company posted notices grant
ing a ten per cent. advance in wages to
all its employees beginning Monday.
About 60 will betaffected.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07

The Dismal Swamp canal, which has
been opened for commerce, is the old
est public work in the country, dating
back to the year 1887, when a company,
of which George Washington was one
of the directors, was organized to build
it. For years it was a great waterway
for interstate commerce, but finally it
was allowed to run down until it be-
came unnavigable. The canal forms a
link in the chain of inland waterways
from New York to the Florida coast,
and opens up over 1000 miles of inland
navigation, comprising the many rivers
and streams of the Carolines.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07
Victim Of White Cans.

St. Louis, April "a special to the
Republic from Puxico, Mo-, says: John
Sullivan, one of the best known men in
the community, was shot and killed
Saturday night, supposedly by white
caps. Many rumors are astir, and the
community iYgreatly excited.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07

According to recent discovery
George Washington was not only first
in peace, war and other important con-
tingencies, but he was also one of the
first Americans to wear false teeth.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07

A Chicago court has fixed the fine at
$25 for calling man an ordinary liar
Where the allegation of falsehood is ac-
companied by lot of trimmings the
tax is CORRESPONDENCE increased.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07

A pneumatic tube to transmit mail
between New York and Philadelphia
is under serious consideration, and the
project will probably he introduced in
the next congress.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07

Indians killed in Alaska Is gold hunt
ers from Kentucky, the motive being
robbery. -
Mary Ann Ingerson and John Col-
Inns, the kidnapers Of Gerald Lapiner,
arrived in Chicago from Painesville, O.,
and were placed in jail. n gsE
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07
Ma..ocro,4u .Ianan

Victoria, B. c., April g. Steamer Tar
tar arrived from the orient Sunday
after a'stormy voyage. She brings news
Of the massacre of 20 farmers by abo-
rhymes at Byorsetsu. Japan. &gs5rls .lJs.s
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07

Capt. D. S. Elliott, of company D,
Twentieth Kansas, who was killed at
Manila few daysago, held record for
patriotism of which any man might be
proud. He enlisted for the civil war
when but 16 years old and served from
the beginning to the end of that war.
Last April, before the call for volunteers
was issued, he organized and drilled a
company, which was the first to apply
for enlistment under the call. Two of
Ibis sons, aged 16 and 22respectively, be-
came members Of the company which
their father recommended and were fight
ing by his side when he was killed.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07
To Get More Pay.

Philadelphia, April a.-Notice has
been posted at the Delaware rolling
mill, this city, announcing ten per
cent. increase in the wages of the $50
employees, to take effect April 10.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07
DiHtributes m Estate

Santa Barbara, Cal, April 3. - The
will Of the late Anna S. c. Blake has
been filed for probate. The greater part
of the large estate, which is valued in
the petition at $500 1000, goes to nephews
and nieces living principally in New
England, but many thousands are given
to charities and to close friends or
members Of her household:
5ss Mrs. Fayne MaOre Goes Free.
New York, April s. s Justice Scott, in
the supreme court released Mrs. Payne
Strahan Moore ot1:s her own recogniz-
ance ont chargg Sf larceny Of silver
ware from the aldorf-Astoria.
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