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The Worthington advance., 1899-11-03
WEST AND SOUTH.

D. A Sayre &, Co.'S bank, the oldest in
Lexington, KY, closed it's doors with
liabilities of $4,000.
At New Albany, Ind, Anna Judge
(colored), aged nearly 100 years, was
burned to death by the explosion OF
an oil stove.
Throughout the Great Dismal swamp
in Virginia forest fires were raging
and millions of feet Of standing timber
have been burned.
A mob lynched John Goosby (col-
ored) at Reagan's Mills, Ca, for kill
ing John Robinson, his employer.
An infuriated mob chased John Alex
ander Dowie, of Chicago, the apostle of
"divine healing" and score of his eld-
ers from Hammond, Ind.
The governor of Illinois has issued
his proclamation declaring Thursday,
November 80, to be a day of thanks
giving and prayer in Illinois.
At Leadville, COL, Judge William G.
Parker was shot dead in his courtroom
by Michael Muller. The deed was en-
tirely unprovoked.
A strike begun by the 1000 coal
miners at Spring Valley, ILL.,, on Octo-
ber II has been called off. -.
George Winemiller was fatally hurt
and four others were badly injured in
football game at Lima, o.
Engineer Kearney and a brakeman
were killed and IS loaded freight cars
were destroyed in wreck on the Bal
timore & Ohio railroad near Cassels, O.
Fire destroyed the sheep pens at the
stock yards in Kansas City, Mo-, 600
sheep being cremated.
Fire swept away the business portion
OF Wakarusa, Ind, thriving town. :,
Transports City of Peking and Gen.
tennial sailed from San Francisco for
the Philippines with troops.
In Baptist church he built 70 wears
ago near Elizabethton, Tenn, Stephen
B. Lewis celebrated his one hundredth
birthday.
In San Francisco the Twentieth Kan
sas regiment was mustered out.
The famous inventor of the Morgan
thaler typesetting machine, Ottmar
Mergenthaler, died of consumption at
Baltimore, Nd, aged 45 years.
The death of Nahum St. Martins oc-
CURED at Two Creeks, Wis.,, aged 1O7
years.
Near Atwater, ILL.,, a hand car was
run down by an engine and John Nor
vil,' George Cramer and Samuel Allen
were killed.
Heavy rains and winds for four days
did extensive damage throughout the
province of Santiago de Cuba.
Fire nearly destroyed New Boston,
a suburb of Portsmouth, O.
In Alabama leading republicans met
at Birmingham and adopted resolu-
tions indorsing the administration of
President Mckinley and his foreign
policy in particular, and demanding his
denomination and reelection.
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Cleveland. o. Oct 27-Contraets en-
tered into and pending indicate that am
effort will be made next year 20 carry
down the lakes by boat 17-75s- SEQ tons
of iron Gre which Is far IN excess oS
anything yet attempted The vessels
necessary for this are being engaged
As the total shipment of all eommossf-
ties down the lakes this year has been
about 1890. 600 tons. there Is every
prospect that the shippers of grain ard
lumber will be compelled to use the
railroads
The Worthington advance., 1899-11-03

A New York woman has gone into re-
form in a novel way. She thinks the
way pies are now made is disgrace to
civilization and she proposes to give
Americans real pie-the kind your
mother used to make. The intention is
all right, but the fact is, when a man
gets old enough to talk about the pies
his mother used TO make he has lost
the: appetite he had in his youth, and
that was what made the old-fashioned
pies taste so good. Pies will never taste
to him as they tasted when he. came
from school and drifted into the kitch-
en- for "sumpin to eat"
The Worthington advance., 1899-11-03

The lesson in, geography last year was
the islands Of the Pacific. This year it
isAfrica. People who have not.studied
the map of that continent for some
years will find it greatly changed. There
is no longer any unknown territory"
The French, Germans, Dutch and Eng
lsh have divided the country pretty
thoroughly among them, with few
small slices left for the Italians and
Portuguese. A study Of the various di-
visions shows thatin the mat ter Of ter
ritory the British are considerably in
the lead, and the chances are. that their
boundaries will he increased. 55#
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When the great vineyards ard wine
establishment of E. E. Myers in the
Santa Cruz mountains were threatened
recently by forest fire a syphon was
placed in one of the big wine watts, and
10000 gallons of wine were used in fight
ing the fire. Mr.. Myers says that $4,000
worth of wine was used in fighting the
fire, but that the property saved was
worth 20 times that amount. This
opens up new field for the use of
American wine as fire extinguisher.
The Worthington advance., 1899-11-03

The Washington Humane society has
passed a. resolution regretting that the
committees of arrangements in New
York and Washington for the reception
of Admiral Dewey ''disregarded the hu-
name sentiment of the people of the
country in providing docked horses for
the carriage used for the guest of honor,
thus giving countenance on conspicu-
Gus occasions to senseless and barbar-
Gus fashion which it should be the duty
of all right-thinking people to discour-
app0 -
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Huron, s. d., Oct. 30.--A coal famine
is threatened in this part of the state.
There is already a shortage of 1000
tons and wholesale dealers find IL next
to impossible to get their orders filed.
One reason for the shortage lies in the
fact that it is wellnigh impossible to
get cars, owing to the heavy business
being transacted by the roads
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Hurricane at SANTIAGO.

Santiago de Cuba, Oct. 3O.-After five
days of continuous transforms ter
rife hurricane from the southeast
swept over Santiago Sunday, causing
much destruction. Twelve houses were
wrecked and others badly damaged.
The unprecedented rainfall continues.
Telegraph wires are down and it is inn
possible for vessels to enter or leave
the harbOr
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Lord Woiseley, field marshal of the
English army, has had a remarkable
career as soldier, and his advancement
has been wonderful. His army history
may be summarized as follows: En-
sign, 1852; captain, 1855; major, 1858;
lieutenant colonel, 1859; colonel, 1865;
deputy quartermaster general, 1867;
assistant adjutant general, 1871; major
general, 1878; quartermaster general,
1880; adjutant general, 1882; general,
1853. For his services in Ashanti he re-
ceived $125,0O0, and for his conduct Of
the Egyptian campaign he was given
500 600.
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The Californians are still picking
wealth out of the ground, but instead of
that wealth being in the form of pure
gold, as was the case in their fathers
time, it now comes from the orchards
and vineyards. According to the esti-
mates of experts the farmers of Cali
fornia will this year receive for their
products upward of 100000, or an ad-
vance Of more than $3,50o,0oo over last
year. The stats is still an Eldorado.
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The Engineering News has taken an
automobile census,and finds that there
are now 10000 of the new-fangled ma
chimes in Europe, 5000 of them beingin
France, and third of that number in
Paris. The News says that there are
now 500 automobiles in the United
States, but that Americans have their
orders in for 1000 machines, and hun
dreds of others would purchase the ma
chimes if they could get them without
waiting several months for the factory
to fill the orders.
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Slain by a Waterman,

Lincoln, ILL.,, Oct. 3O.-John Peter, a
recently discharged private Of company
D, Thirty-ninth United States volun-
teer infantry, and native of Oakland,
CAL, was shot and instantly, killed by
w. c. Mowry at two o'clock Sunday
morning while, with a gang of bur-
glars, he was attempting to enter a
general store at Beason.
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Ex-Gov. Andrew H. Burke, of North
Dakota, now inspector of United States
surveyors general and district land Of
foes. was New York waif. and when
a child was sent west to a good home
In Indiana by the Children's Aid So
ciety. In the same party of children
was Gov. John G. Brady, of Alaska.
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Walter Wellman, the journalist and
arctic explorer, recently returned to
New York from his 16-months' trip in
the arctic. Sixteen months ago he left
New York to start on his arctic expedi-
tion, a magnificent specimen of Amer
lean strength and manhood. He re-
turns a nervous and physical wreck.
hobbling around on crutches. And
what did he accomplish? Nothing, ex-
cept to find out for himself that the re-
ports of very cold weather in the arc
tic regions are perfectly true.
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Columbus, o., Oct. ao.-A special to
the Dispatch from East Liverpool, o.,
says that deal is in progress which
involves a gigantic combination of gas
interests in the Ohio and Beaver river
valleys. While the statement cannot
be definitely made as yet, it is believed
that the combination is practically
already.
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Price of Flour Roised.

New York, Oct. 3o.-An advance of
ten cents barrel in all patent brands
of flour is announced by the United
States Flour Milling company. The
same increase has also been made by
other large flour manufacturers. The
advance is stated to be entirely'on ac-
count of the rise in freight rates.
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The governors of the 13 original states
are each to furnish a tree to be planted
at Valley Forge by patriotic associa-
tion. Gov. Wolcott, of Massachusetts,,
has sent tree grown near Plymouth
Rock on land surveyed by Emerson and
1ThOrean
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In fixing the new boundary line the
Alaskan modus vivendi throws the Por-
cupine country on the American side.
There is not much demand for porcu-
pines at present, but it is an industry
that can be nourished, and hence
IN
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A colored youth recently sentenced
blythe district court at Little Rock, Ark,
to serve 115 years in the penitentiary,
was given the comforting information
that by good behavior he could reduce
his time to GO wears.
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e The death Of Florence Marryat (1lrs.
Frances Lean), the well-known author
Fess, occurred in London.
/ WithsAmerican troops the transports
Tacoma aud Sheridan arrived at Ma
Mia. ..
Gen. Young's troops drove q force Of
iFilipinos from theirs trenches near the
Tuboatin river. The Americans lost two
killed and one wounded. Ruperto San
,tiago, one OF the wealthiest Visayans,
who had taken the oath Of allegiance
to the, United States and who posed as
a friend of Americans, was arrested at
1loilo, charged with organizing revo-
lutionary j,lnta!s@ @Ha#t3@2 .1a~1tE%sf
The latest advices from South Africa
gave promise of battle at Ladysqnith.
The situation was causing. great alarm
in London, where the impression pre-
vailed that the British forces in Natal
were at disadvantage Mafeking was
bombarded by Beers and at last ac-
counts was still besieged, and the water
supply had been cut off. Further de-
tails of the engagement at Dundee
0AAo" lAO O4AC1SA 4ClICdt W nave DcCu a
rout. -. ,il,:. !. g.. -
In the San Pablo mine near Gavi-
lanes, Mexico, a cave-in caused the
death of five miners.
A Manila dispatch says that Gen.
Young scattered the insurgents north
of San Isidro, and Capt. Evans struck
robber band on Negros and killed
ten, wounded many and captured 20
prisoners. Refugees report that Agui-
naldo is moving to Bayamburg with
1900 men instead of attacking Gen.
Young.
In Venezuela Gen. Hernandez has
started a revolution against Gen. Cas-
tro, who recently ousted President
Andrade and assumed control of the
government.
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Two Miners Killed,

Cripple Creek, Col, Oct. William
Van Why and John Lambert were
killed in the Joe Dandy mine. As they
were being hoisted the cable broke.
dropping them to the bottom Of the
shaft.
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GEN. HENRY DEAD.
Recent Military Governor Of Porte
Rico suerumbs to- Pn~umonfa
af yeu Tork

View York. Oct 27.-Bri-- Gen- Cur
recently governor of Porto Rico died
of pneumonia at his home IN this city
1t four a. III. Gen Henry contracted
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VNtsps ~ rru~vsIsmh

Cleveland, o., Oct. 30.-The registra-
ton of voters gives a total of s4,542.
Last fall the total was $500. The to-
tai registration in 1896, when Mckinley
was elected, was 72,073.
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FOREIGN .INTEI,LIGENCE

The meeting Of the British and the
Beers in decisive battle probably will
come soon, the battle-ground will be in
British territory, and the Beers will
be the attacking force. Three columns
Of the Beers were advancing upon Lady
smith. ,s ss. rs ss,s /. as5s5s .j.s.4s
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Springfield. III. Oct. s.-esov TaH-
ner has issued hfs procsanasfon dcs Iar-
ing Thursday. November 80, 60 be day
Of Thanksgiving and prayer and calling
on the people Of Illinois 20 properly OBJ
serve it az such.
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Baltimore, Nd, Oct. 30.--Oftmar
MergenthaleT, the inventor of the Iino-
type typesetting machine, died of con-
sumption. He was born in Germany ON
May 10, 1854.
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Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Tucker, of Cor
dele, Ca, have rather an unusual family
record. They have 21 boys and II girls
in their family, aged from one to thirty
one. There is nothing like having few
children around the fireside.
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London, Oct. 3o.-Lord Rosebery has
been elected rector of Glasgow univer-
sity by S29 votes to SIS votes cast for
Lord Kelvin.
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New York, Oct. .3o.-Janowski has
agreed to play Lasker for the chess
championship of the world for $2,O 900
side and in contest of ten games. The
contest will be played in January next.
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Strike Is on.

Charleston, W. Va, Oct. 3o.-The
strike of coal miners in the New River
district has been officially declared off.
The strike started six weeks ago for an
advance of five cents a ton. The ad-
vance was granted by only 13 of As
mines in the field. 1t is not thought
the di-trict will be fully at work again
before January, as many miners have
left during the strike for the west.
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Will Oppose Grand Trunk p1,n..

London, Oct. 3O.-Some Of the British
bondholders are organizing an opposi-
ton to the reorganization plan of the
Chicago & Grand Trunk railroad.
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support from the Worcester public that
the Civic clug feels justified in paying
young women to take charge of them,
and one principal and an assistant have
been engaged for each. the former at
81 day, the latter at so cents. Miss
Rose Callahan of Millbury street kim
dergarten, who has taught both years
in the summer playground. is the prin-
cipal at Lamartine street, with Miss
Annie S. Mellen of the Quinsigamond
kindergarten as assistant. Miss Annie
L. Burgess of Cambridge street school,
with Miss Collamore as assistant, is at
Thomas street, while Miss Katherine
Taft is the principal of Shrewsbury
street playground, with Miss Burke of
Thomas street school for her assistant.
Miss Juliet Casey of the Quinsigamond
kindergarten will spend three days a
week teaching the older children how
to make the simpler forms of paper
flowers. Special attention will be given
to sewing; the girls will begin with
samplers, after which they will progress
to patches, button holes and the more
complicated branches. Benjamin
+. Marsh has given all the
sand that will be needed, enough
to fill three square, yards in each play
ground, and what materials have been
further needed for the plays and games
and the sewing have been covered by
the S125. An exhibition will be held in
the fall of the samplers made by the
girls through the five weeks of the play
ground, and as each teacher is to keep
an account of her work, there will next
year be enough material to begin his
tory Of the summer Fairgrounds Of
Worcester.
Besides the Fairgrounds, which open
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JUDGE UTLEY'S COURT.
The Case Against the Alleged Chicken
Thief Put Over.

In the central district court yesterday
morning, Roy Hall, arrested Friday
afternoon by Inspectors Stone and
Fisher on Waldo street as an alleged all
round chicken thief, came up for a
hearing, but his case was continued
until July to give the police chance
to get at Roy's previous record.
John e. Russell colored, was fined $40
for drunkenness. Radius Robinson, ar
rested Friday night by officer Thayer
on Madison square, was brought before
the court as a suspicious person, but as
there was no evidence Forthcoming to
show that the prisoner had done any
thing out of the ordinary, he was dis
charged.
Bernard Quinn, an ex-member of the
Millbury strset Malokers, fell from
grace Friday evening, but on making a
promise to the court that he would abb
stain from the use of intoxicating
liquors, his case was filed
John Condor, another citizen of Wor-
cester charged with getting drunk,
promised to take the pledge and his
case was filed for future reference.
Other cases of drunkenness were dis
posed of as follows: Henry Connors,
George w. Riley, Andrew Bowen,
Michael ]. Flaherty, Thomas McNiff,
Hugh Mccain, $40 each; Patrick Kelley
and David Donovan, on file, and Thos.
Cushing, four months in the house of
correction, appealed.
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stance. The course of study is compre-
hensive, including not only the theory
and practice of scientific charity, but
also study of penal and corrective
institutions in New York city, as well
as those for social Improvement. Two
classes of students are received-work
ers in philanthropy who seek to enlarge
their knowledge of methods and grad
uate students of colleges and universe
ties who desire practical view of social
conditions. Lectures are given by spec
1alists, among whom are Jacob RiiS,
author of How the Other Half Lives -
and Miss sZilpha D. Smith, general Sec
rotary or the Associated Charities of
Boston. A week is devoted to private
charity, to child-saving work, to medi-
cal charities. to public charities, to mu-
nieipal activities and to prison reform.
New York institutions will be visited
by the students of this unique school.
Several Worcester persons who have
had large experience in the care of the
poor, the disbursement of public or pri-
waite charity, or the distribution of large
amounts in philanthropy have been
asked for their opinion concerning this
school. Hon. Stephen Salisbury was not
inclined to be enthusiastic over it. ''If
sincere, earnest people. conduct it," he
said, "its results might be, very salts
factory, but there is so much humbug
perpetrated in the name of nhilan-
thropy. For my part, doubt the
amount Of good it would accomplish
The philaDthropical work one does, the
charity one 0arries on is. so largely a
matter of personal taste. One person
gives himself to this cause, another to
that, not because these are intrinsic
ally the most worthy or needy, but be-
cause they happen teefeel an interest
in them, to like them best. What effect
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l never went to a school of sociology,
but received my training with the we-
men who started the movement. We
all help along. Sometimes /
am asked by some fellow worker on
the Pacific coast what we think of soup
houses in Worcester and what the re-
lation between liquor and pauperism
is here. You see, we are all experiment.
ing, and the experiments that are con-
Quoted in one city help another city.
Beside, it is such a help after you
have been immersed in practical char
ity to have the idealizing touch of Il
little of the theoretical kind. 1t lust
revives one.
II know these people and know that
their school must be good. 1t marks a
step in advance when it is realized
that you can't do charity work with
out studying it. We are dealing with
humanity. We are not tinkerlng mp q
shanty, but building cathedral. 1t
takes time and patience. approve Of
this school thoroughly. / shouldn't
want it here-there isn't enough ma
terial here for it. Such a school is for
professional charity workers, not anna
tours, and we haven't enough OF the
former here. But have wished that
course of study might be carried on
for our volunteer workers, and should
like to start such one in the fall, Tor
not more than ten persons. What a
power those ten would be, and how
far they would put US ahead.
Training is worth while here as
elsewhere. l believe in professional
training as much for the clarity
worker as for the lawyer or physician.
Is it not as necessary for the handling
of lives as of bodies?''
Freeman Brown, who is the city al
moner of Worcester, thought that al
though a school Of philanthropy might
be excellent in its place, it had no
bearing upon the kind of work he did.
'All the persons and institutions con-
nected with it," said he, belong TO the
voluntary kind of philanthropy. They
do philanthropy because they are inter
ested in it, choose to do il. Now we
do it because we must. The statutes OF
| Massachusetts say that every city and
| town shall assist it's poor, therefore
we must do it. No sentiment enters into
our operations. If any poor apply, we
| must respond, The worthy poor we do
| not distinguish from the unworthy, ex-
| cept in the case of permanent aid.
which we sometimes withdraw. While
| graduates of this school might be ad-
| mirably fitted for this kind of philan-
| thropy, they would stand no chance in
| the office of the overseers of the poor,
| which is under the civil service. When
| a vacancy occurs among the clerks,
| three names of persons who have sue
| cessfully passed the civil service ex-
| aminations are presented to the board,
| who select the one they prefer. The
men who compose this board are not
| trained philanthropists, but keen bust
ness men. This school is in a line with
| the Associated Charities, the object Of
| which is to prevent crime and poverty.
| Our sole object is to relieve poI erty.
| From this you see how distinct our
work is from the objective point of
| this training school and of the Asso-
! ciated Charities, and how untouched
our policy would be by anything of the
| sort aimed at by It,"
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would "A course of study at such a
training school as this have upon such
persons?
This school seems to aim at being
what i may call a clearing house of
charities, and If successfully conducted,
might become such. But If our Asso-
ciated Charities as at present organized
were only supported more cordially, 1t
would be all in this direction that could
be wished. 1t is a great pity that peo-
pie in Worcester are so languid in their
support OF the Associated Charities; in
Boston, understand 1t is not So There
the Associated Charities is not contin-
uously hampered for lack of funds.
There people realize the great work
that is being done for the poor, and
also the amount of annoyance they are
saved by its activity, and they support
1t handsomely. If people everywhere
would do the same, should think the
Associated Charities would answer
without the need Of training schools in
philanthropy"
DR.. Eldridge Mix. superintendent OF
the City Missionary Society, said:
Worcester has not the way-down,
crowded tenements, some Of them
sheltering 1000 souls, that New York
and Chicago have. Things are better
here, and we have practically no slums,
Shrewsbury street and parts of the ISL
and being our worst districts. Our main
work here Hes and must continue to lie