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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-05-12
WEST AND SOI1TH.

For revealing secrets of her past life
to her child Mrs. Augusta Styles shot
and killed her mother, Mrs. Catherine
Schultz, in Chicago.
At Thompson, Ca, Bill Embree, ne
gro, was hanged for the murder of Ellis
Martin (colored) a year ago.
During April the receipts at the Ha-
vana custom house were $500, 900.
At Greenville, Tex, John Little was
hanged for the murder of George
Stonesipher, whom he robbed.
In sawmill near Hopkinsville, KY,
an explosion killed the owners, Barrett
Mcknight and Ef1ie Mcknight, and
John White.
John Blorick shot and MORALLY
wounded Lizzie Diedrich because she
would not marry him and then fatally
shot himself in St. Louis.
The officers of the supreme court of
Cuba have been selected by Gov. Gen.
Brooke, Antonio Gonzalez de Mendoza
being chief justice.
The president opened the famous Ute
reservation in Colorado for settlement
gion.
In an oil tank near Morgantown, W
Va, 10000 barrels of oil were DESTROYED
by fire from lightning.
At her home in Chicago Mrs. Lucinda
Pratt celebrated her one hundred and
third birthday.
Over the South Park road the first
train into Dillon, COL, for four months
ran through solid walls of snow and
steamed into the town.
Julia Hedges died in Indianapolis,
Ind, aged 100 years. Her husband,
aged 106 years, survives her.
In San Juan Gen. Henry will enlist
400 Porto Ricans in the United States
army for service in their native coun-
try.
An eastern syndicate has bought the
Yerkes street railways in Chicago for
about $20,0OO,0O0.'
A bout all the men in Wallace, Idaho,
have been arrested for participating in
the riot of miners at Wardner.
In Hutchinson, Kan, John, Moore,
who killed his five children and then
burned the house over them, was found
guilty of murder in the first degree.
At Mount Victory, o., Deputy Sheriff
Frank Morrison was shot dead by Ike
Bird while trying to arrest him. After
the murder Bird killed himself.
In Oklahoma a tornado did great
damage in several towns and at Can
ton j. H. Ware and his wife and child
were killed.
In Cuba the average weekly revenue
collections for the past five weeks have
been $2S4,692. p = .-. sz,
In Louisville, KY, jury composed
exclusively of white men returned q
verdict awarding George Dining (col-
ored) $50, 900 damages against six mem
bers of mob. that burned his home in
Simpson county. :. =. - = = IS Z:
In st. Louis 50 houses were unroofed
and other damage done by. tornado
and several persons were injured.
President McKinley's policy in the
Philippines was heartily approved at
two largely attended meetings in Chi
cago. l5s;, . sss,
In New Orleans the Louisiana. indus.
trial exposition opened with q peace
Jubilee. So III & S, ,sf
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-05-12
The Big Drainage Canal.

Chicago, May 6.-Secretary of War
Alger, in his official capacity, has given
permission to the drainage canal COM
mission to turn through the canal the
waters of Lake Michigan whenever the
canal is ready for operation. In co1i,-
pany with Gen. John NJ. Wilson, chief
Of engineers of the United States army,
Gov. Tanner, the members of the board
Of trustees in charge of the construc-
ton of the canal, the secretary of war
Friday made tour of inspection of the
canal and expressed himself as greatly
impressed with the magnitude of the
undertaking.
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MINOR NEWS ITEMS,

Queen Victoria has seen every throne
in the world vacated at least once and
some of them several times.
Gov. Roosevelt, of New York, in de-
nying pardon to wife beaten, has de-
clared himself in favor of the whipping
post.
The government has decided to estab.
lish a military post at Pyramid harbor
in Alaska. This harbor is on Chillzat i'll
let, near Chilkatvillage.
Scientists of Europe are much inter.
ested in new cure for consumption
discovered by Prof. Vincent CervelIo, OF
Italy. 1t is said to be a success.
The total mineral production of Cali
fornia for 1895 is valued at $27,2s9,O79
The gold product is placed at SIS, 906,-
476, slight increase over 1897.
Commissioner General Peck has Sc
cured 5000 additional feet of space at
the Paris exposition, to be devoted to
the display of American bicycles.
Brig. Gen. Thomas NJ. Anderson, who
has returned recently from the Philip.
pines, has been assigned to the COM
mand of the department. of the lakes.
F. Gov. Stephens has signed bill re-
curing that all BARRIERS working in Mis-
souri, procure licenses and providing q
state board of inspection to pass on APP
plicants.
The National Afro-American Council
has issued proclamation calling upon
the colored people of the United States
to set apart Friday, June 2, as day OF
fasting and prayer. 55, -
The chewing gum trust is now an &C.
complished fact, under the name of the
Consolidated Gum company, incorpo-
rated under the laws of New Jersey and
capitalized at Sc, 100000 ~.
The military order of the Loyal Lee
gion Of the United States held its annual
election in New York and Rear Admiral
Winfield S. Schley, United States navy,
was chosen commander. ...
+ The United States cable steamer
Hooker sailed from New York for Ma
Mia to connect by cable all the prin-
cipal points in the Philippines. The
Hooker was formerly the Panama, one
ofsthe first prizes captured in the Span
ish war. -.ss5.5.
B Nebraska citizens cabled $3.50 to the
surgeon Of the First Nebraska regi-
Iment, Manila, to be used as hospital
fund for the sick and wounded Ne
braska soldiers, the regiment having
suffered more than any other during
the campaign. ~
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-05-12

Havana is rapidly becoming Ameri-
canized. Instead of bullfght on re-
cent Sunday there was baseball game,
and interest in the match waxed So
warm that close decision by the UNI
pire in the eighth inning almost pre-
cipitatcd riot. The police took hand
in the affair, revolvers were drawn and
murder would have been done had not a
detachment of the Seventh cavalry ap-
peared on the scene with loaded guns to
quell the disturbance,
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LATER NEWS.

The navy department has selected a
successor to Admiral Dewey to COM
mand the Asiatic station. Orders were
issued detaching Rear Admiral Watson
from command of the Mare Island navy
yard and ordering him to report to
Admiral Dewey at Manila to relieve
that officer when he feels that he can
be spared there.
The insurgent forces have been divid-
ed, one body under command of Gener-
al Mascardo going to the west of San
Fernando, and the other commanded
by General Antonio Luna moving to
the north. Both of these leaders Law
claim to the supreme command of the
Filipino army.
The Brotherhood of Railway Train
men is in annual session at New Or
leans, La.
The Louisiana Industrial exposition
at New Orleans was opened to the pub
lie the Sth.
The Des Moines & Northern railway
has been consolidated with the Chica-
go, Milwaukee & St. Panl system.
According to a high official of the
Vanderbilt lines, the details of big
| railroad trust, which is to include all
the lines between Boston and Chicago,
are being worked upon, and the con-
solidation may be completed within a
few weeks.
Twenty of the leading plow manu-
tacturers have formed a combine, with
capital of over Sos, 600, 900.
A train of forty loaded ore cars on
the Great Northern road was dumped
into the Nemadji river by the collapse
of bridge between Saunders and
Allbuez bay, Wis. Engineer Thomas
Quinn of $40 Westminster street, St.
Paul, was killed. Fireman Harry Mil
Ter of Superior was seriously in ured,
receiving a crushed leg and internal
INJURIES.
Fire destroyed Russell & Co. thresh-
er engine plant at Massilion, O. Loss
100000. One fireman was killed bv
falling walls.
The president and Mrs. Mckinley
have left Washington for vacation
Of week or ten days at Hot Springs,
Va.
The deliverance of Orleans by Joan
of Arc was celebrated at Orleans,
France, the>sth. Archbishop Ireland
was the orator of the occasion.
Gov. Stanley of Kansas has addressed
to the governors of Western states
pressing invitations to attend the an
nual convention of the annual conven-
ton of the Trans Mississippi CONNER
:ial congress, which will be held in
Wichita, May 81 to June 3, inclusive.
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snow Blockaae Broke1,

Denver, Col, May 5.-The first train
over the South Park road into Dillon
in four months ran through solid walls
of snow Thursday and steamed into
the town amid the blowing of whis-
ties and the ringing of bells. The
snow blockade had been broken. Work
is now progressing toward Leadville,
and the entire South Park line from
Denver to the big camp will be opened,
it is said, early next week.
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THEIR VOICE IS FOR WAR.
Patriotic Gatherings In Chicago In.
dOrse Policy OF the Administra-
ton In the Philippines.

Chicago, May s.-Three big mass
meetings were held in Chicago Sunday
to voice approval Of the policy Of the
administration with reference to the
Philippines, and to protest against the
sentiments expressed last Sunday at
the ''anti-expansion'' meeting in Gen.
trail Music hall. The meetings were
held in the Auditorium, Central Music
hall and the First Methodist church,
and in spite of the inclement weather
there was an aggregate attendance of
probably 10000. The presiding officers
Of the three meetings were Judge Oil
yer H. Horton, ex-Judge John Barton
Payne, and Thomas B.. Bryan. At the
Auditorium, as at the other two gath
erings, every mention of President Nc
Kinley or Admiral Dewey brought forth
thunders of applause. The speakers at
the Auditorium were William Dudley
Foulke, of Indiana; Bishop Samuel Fal-
lows, Congressman Deliver, of Iowa;
ex-Congressman George E. Adams;
Judge Richard S. Tuthill and Rev. DR..
P. S. Henson. Most of these also spoke
at, the other meetings.
Resolutions were read by Gen. John
C. Black and were adopted unanimously
at all the meetings. The resolutions
emphatically endorse the policy of the
administration with reference to the
Philippines; recite with sorrow the fact
that the chief encouragement to the in
surgents has been from some misguided
fellow-citizens; and to them must be
ascribed much of the bloodshed and
ruin which has followed; they declare
that our government has sought by
every honorable way to secure cessa-
ton of hostilities, and point to the fact
that these efforts of peace have been
constantly rejected by the insurgents
until it became manifest even to them
that they were waging hopeless war;
they declare that it is the duty of all
| citizens to share the burdens of the
government rather than to embarrass
it's efforts and thus prolong the con.
f1ict of arms, and that until the close OF
hostilities 1--WE know only our country
its army and navy and it's executive
and pledge to them while our flag shall
be in battle our unfaltering support. >
The resolutions continue:
''The government of the United States
should be, and We believe will be, true to
its principles in the disposition of all aues-
| tons that may arise in the future in our
relationship with the people of the Prilip.
pine islands, We regard the great issue OF
the hour to be the success of our country in
! the performance of the duty which it owes
| to civilization. Until this is assured-until
q IN l.
terms to offer but the American terms al
unconditional Surrender
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-05-12

The fact that three American colonels
have fallen in the Philippines while lead
ing their regiments would not seem to
indicate that the officers in the Ameri-
can army are of the kind that stay in the
rear and let the men do the fighting. 1t
must shock the naughty English and
European army officers to read the ac-
count of the death of Col. Stotzenburg,
killed while running ahead of his regi-
ment, or the account of Col. Funston
climbing across the wrecked railroad
bridgeover the Bagbag riverat the head
OF /; squad who had volunteered to risk
their lives in an attempt to cross.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-05-12

May will always be u memorable day
in American annals. The news of May /,
1893, was a revelation to the world. 1t
showed that Ia third Of a century of peace
had not affected the courage and capa-
bility of the American people. 1t proved
that when the opportunity offered the
United States could present naval he
roes who could stand in the same class
with Perry, Decatur, Farragut and Mel
son. May was the beginning of a Sc
ries of victories which quickly extended
no the landoperationst that were the won
der Of the world. The day will probably
some time be made q national holiday.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-05-12

Four hundred dollars square foot,
or $4,000 per running foot, was Of
fered and the offer refused for the cor
ner lot on Broadway at the southerly
side of Wall street, New York. In other
words, $1,2oo,o00 was offered for the
premises and lot Sc Broadway, "a feet
wide. This is the highest price ever Of
fered per square foot for land in North
Amcrico
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-05-12

ALondon paper tells of a paving stone
in that city which weighed 500 pounds
and which, while wedged in on all sides
by other stones, was lifted up by a mush-
room. The United States department
of agriculture has, by experiments,
found that the force of growing
pumpkin was sufficient to lift 80 tons,
provided the weight is so placed as not
to interfere with the growth or natural
DEVELOPMENT of the vegetable.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-05-12
sultan win Pay.

London, May 4.-The Constantinople
correspondent Of the Daily Chronicle
says: The sultan has authorized tho
American minister Oscar 8. Strauss)
to telegraph President Mckinley that
bis majesty has promised to pay this
American claim for $4,000 for losses
sustained by Americans in Turkey dur
ing the Armenian massacres IN 1895
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-05-12

The news comes from St. Petersburg
that the cars ministers propose the
change of their calendar from the Julian
to the Gregory, the idea being to make
the Russian dates the same as those of
the rest of the world. AS it is now, Rus
STA is just IL days behind the rest of the
world. The Julian calendar is the old
style calendar of many, many years
ago, and Russia is now the only country
that retains it
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-05-12

The government has decided to mount
the largest gun ever forged in the world
at Sandy Hook. It is not only the long
est and the largest gun ever made, but
it is the most powerful. Weighing 1876
tons, it was cast at the Watervleit arse
nal, and has attracted the interest of all
nations. 1t will be mounted under a
turret which will have thickness of
80 inches of chilled steel, and the ag-
gregate cost of the turret, gun, emplace-
ment and machinery will aggregate So,
h()0 600
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-05-12

Adam Peshta, a Hungarian violinist,
arraigned in the court at Wilkesbarre,
Pa, on Tuesday, confessed that he had
20 wives, and that all are living. If he
had lived in Utah the people there would
want to send him to congress, but in
Wilkesbarre it is different, and the
judge just gave him six years in the
penitentiary to think matters over, and
at the end of that time to answer to fur
Their indictments,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-05-12

The new baseball" as reported in
Cincinnati, has in it "nailers," smash
ing doubles, ""haby rollers" 'grassers,"
laced hits to CENTER" etc, etc. Baseball
is becoming more complicated than q
New England dialect story.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-05-12

There have been 81 speakers of the
national house. Sixteen of these were
from Pennsylvania or states east of it,
II were from states south of the Ohio
river and east of the Mississippi, and
only four were from all the remainder
of the country. Of these four, three
were from Indiana and one from Ohio
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-05-12

The United States fish commission,
after extensive experiments in an effort
to raise oysters in Great Salt Lake, has
given up the task. with the exclama-
ton: you can lead an oyster to the
water, but you cannot make him grow"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-05-12
Conxr1e..rm n e Wed.

Laramie, Wyo., May The wedding,
of Hon. w. II. Mandell, congressman
from Wyoming, to Miss Ida Harris, the
only daughter Of Dr.and Mrs. William
Harris, will occur on Saturday morn.
ing, May IS, at Laramie, the home Of
the bride.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-05-12

The $2o.50 bicycle is just as deadly
as the SIS chainless when it carries the
hump-backed scorcher with his mind
wrapped up in his necktie.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-05-12

The emperor of China is making q
play for the agricultural vote of the
empire. He has learned to manipulate
the trolleys over span of celestial
plow horses.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-05-12
FoRE1GN .IN,TELLIGENcE.

Mai. Arguelles and Lieut.. Bernal, the
Filipino ENJOYS, have abandoned the
pretense, under which they came to
Gen. Otis, that they represented Gen:
Antonio Luna, and announced that they
came as representatives of Aguinaldo
himself. The conferences thus far have
been fruitless. The American forces
under Gen. Hale were driving the ene-
my toward San Fernando. ~ e % -, I I
The troops of Maj. Gen. MacArthur's
division entered San Fernando and
found that the place had been evacu-
ated by the Filipinos, and that the town
was burning. President Schurman, Of
the American Philippine commission,
cabled to President Mckinley the belief
of the commission that Aguinaldo was
about ready to surrender. - B.. . x
=. The newly appointed Spanish minister
to the United States, the Duke d ARGOS,
left Madrid for Washington. =.
The French minister Of war, M. de
Freycinet, resigned in consequence of
i'll treatment received from the cham
Der of deputies.
Gen. Guerra, who started q revolution
in Venezuela last February, is now a
fugitive.
Burglars robbed the branch at Dres-
den, Ont, of the Canadian Bank of Com
mcrce Of 100000.
Advices from Manila+say that to clear
the Filipinos out of Bacolor, about five
miles southwest of San Fernando, will
be the next task of the Americans. The
rebel general Mascardo has force of
5000 men there. we'll armed and pos
sessed of plenty of ammunition.
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St. Louis, May s.-A short, violent
windstorm swept through the western
part OF st. Louis early Sunday even
ing and unroofed number of houses.
blew down a circus tent that was Just
being erected and delayed street car
traffic for about two hours Several
persons received minor injuries. It is
estimated that the damage incurred
throughout the city will reach $50, 600.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-05-12

Exports of American manufactured
goods during March amounted to $780,
O25, 533, an,average of ST 100000 for each
working day.
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Defeat of French Celebrated.

City of Mexico, May The great ma
tional holiday commemoration of the
defeat of the French at Puebla during
the war of Intervention was celebrated
all over the country. In this city sew
eral hundred people witnessed the mill
tary procession, which included all the
troops of the garrison and some from
other places, and the famous rural
guards, Mexico's crack cavalry corps.
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Treaty Entered Into,

San Francisco, May s.A letter from
Tonga, Friendly islands, dated April II,
says that q treaty has been entered into
between Great Britain and the islands.
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Sergt. Charles Hampton Smith, Of
company D, United States marines, who
was the first American killed on Cuban
soil in the war with Spain, was buried
at Westminster, Md. 8
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Relieved Of HIS Command.

Washington, May s. - Col. Alfred
Mordecai, ordnance department, has
been relieved from command of the
Watervliet arsenal, Watervliet, N. Y,
and assigned to the command of the
Benecia arsenal, Benecia, CAL, reliev-
ing Col. Lawrence I. Babbitt, who has
been assigned to the command Of the
United States powder depot at Dover,
MI
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-05-12

San FTanscisco, May 8.-By the cap
sizing of q boat on Belvidere point Sun
day afternoon Frank j. Grimm and
Herbert G. Edwards were drowned.
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Approved by the President.

The report closes with the following state
ment: 1.-The court with deep sense of the
responsibilities devolving upon it has la
believes that it has fully covered all the
matters referred to it for investigations
That the calling of more witnesses from the
large number suggested by the major gen.
eral commanding, including all those who
have taken part in the operations of the
war, would only have resulted in additional
testimony on the same lines as those pur-
sued, without throwing further light upon
the Questionsi involved"
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Kills Himself.

St. Paul, Mimi, May 8. - John C.
Wagner, who has carried bullet in
his head since the Custer massacre in
1876, committed suicide with morphine
alta hotel in Saltwater Friday night, his
dead body being found Saturday. He
served in both the confederate and fed
eral armies during the civil war.
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q. HAwLEz, Publisher.
The famous Bonanza gold mine near
Eaker City, Ore, has been sold to the
Standard Oil company for s., O00, 900.

A Montreal paper says that 10000
Canadians have removed from the prov
ince of Quebec to the United States this
Snrinp
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Famou. PARK to BE Closed,

Toledo, O., May s.-Mayor Jones IA
nous Golden Rule park, which has
helped to make the mayor famous, will
be closed. It is the intention of the
mayor to erect large factory at that
nOint ;-saE 5s.$ hs5@ t.
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HONOR tor Kinlinr.

80 HOnOF TOT K1p11n8.
Montreal, Can, May s.-Rudyard
Kipling has been offered and has agreed
to accept the degree of LID. from
McGill university. a ~