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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-07-07
A WEEKS HISTORY
The Important Happ enings Of q
Week Briefly Told.
IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION
All the Latest News of Interest from
I Washington, From the East, the
~ West and the South. 4.
THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES
FROM WASHINGTON.

A leave of absence for 80 days has
been granted Rear Admiral William T.
Sampson, commander-in-chief of the
North Atlantic squadron. : a.
In Washington it is stated that ne
gotiations are pending with leading Of
ficers of the Cuban army to convey their
forces to- the Philippine islands and
place them under the command of Mai.
Gen. Otis to campaign in connection
with the American troops against the
rebellious Filipinos.
The war department has established
a censorship of the news. 60 5st.#|&.
Adjt. Gen. Corbin directed Gen.
shafter to dispatch every available
transport to the Philippines at full
speed with the troops he has on hand,
regardless of organizations.
Treasury officials are now confident
that the deficit for the present fiscal
year will not exceed $9O,00O,OO0.
The secretary of the treasury report
ed at cabinet meeting that the annual
deficit would be about $S9,250,0OO, in
stead of his estimate of $12O,OO0,OOO
made in the last final report.
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WEST AND SOUTH.

By the overturning of skiff five la
borers were drowned in the Mississippi
river mile above Clarksville, Mo.
BY the collapse of steamfue on the
steamer St. Paul near Elsah, ILL.,, five
men were fatally scalded.
South, west and central Texas were
visited by terrific transforms and many
hundreds of acres of farming land were
under water, and much cotton was bad
ly damaged.
At the age of " years Judge James
D. Cleveland, one of the oldest men,
bers of the Ohio bar, died at Cleve-
land.
During a heavy gale the steamer
Margaret Olwill foundered in Lake Erie
off Lorain, O., and nine persons were
drowned.
At Muskegon, Mich, Mayor James
Balbiornie was assassinated by ]. w.
layer, disappointed office-seeker,
who committed suicide by taking poi
son.
In the last six months about 1900
miles of new railroad track have been
constructed in the United States.
In Cincinnati the national North
American saengerfest opened with a
grand concert.
There is not a single case of yellow
fever in Havana, most remarkable
condition for the place. 3 - -
Estimates of the Indiana wheat crop
are that the yield will not exceed 17,O0o,-
600 bushels. ...m
Rev. E. Y. Mullins, of the, Newton
Center (Mass.) Baptist church, has
been elected to the presidency of the
Southern Baptist theological seminary
at Louisville, Ky. = >.
The Baltimore & Ohio railroad, after
being in the hands of receivers for over
three years, has been restored to the
stockholders. IT,. .,.-.,n - =
In Chicago, ILL.,, Leonard Roeder cele-
brated his one hundredth birthday. He
was in the Mormon and Black Hawk
wars and is in good health. ~
AS divorce mecca North Dakota is
thing of the past, the law requiring
years residence having gone into ef-
feet.
While on train at the Fredonia mine
near Carterville, ILL.,, colored miners
from Pana, ILL.,, were attacked by min
ers and the wife of one of the miners
was killed and 20 other persons were
wounded. The negroes then set fire to
Union City, settlement of the strik-
ing miners, and 100 families were left
homeless.
A negro named Will Ables, who at
tackled a Mrs. Edgarton, was hanged at
Bax1ey, Ga.
Near Mount Vernon, Tenn, William
p Wilkes, a farmer, cut his wife's
throat and then his own.
At Birmingham, Ala, Frank Cook
(colored) was hanged for the murder of
John Blackburn, railway conductor.
At Cape Nome, Alaska, German
whose name is not given stole $4,000 in
gold dust from miners cabin and was
hanged by mob.
The great carnival in Milwaukee end
ed with a splendid pageant, the most
beautiful and spectacular of all the
carnival attractions.
At Bay City, Mich, Spencer o. Fisher,
an ex-congressman and formerly a
wealthy lumberman, filed a petition in
bankruptcy with liabilities Of $75O,O00
and assets of $1,000. Il.
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THE EAST.

Charles Littlefeld (rep.), elected rep
resentative in congress from the Sec
ond Maine district to succeed the late
Nelson Dingley, has plurality of $685..
At New London, Conn, Harvard won
all Of the boat races-three victories
over Yale in three hours.
Joseph S. Thompson, D. D. (colored),
pastor of the Macedonia A. NJ. f. church
at Camden, N. j., dropped dead in his
pulpit.
For the murder of his wife, Joseph
5. Hollinger, aged so, was hanged in
the Dauphin county (Pa.) Jail.
At the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during
the week ended on the 3Oth ult.. aggre-
gated $1,636,324,137, against $1,61s,215,-
955 the previous week. The increase
compared with the corresponding week
in 1898 was AL.
In the United States there were 181
business failures in the seven days end
ed on the 30th ult., against 17s the week
previous and 254 in the correspond
ing period of 1898.
The fourteenth annual worlds stu
dents conference opened at Mortified,
Mass.
In Pittsburgh, Pa, Maj. Gen. Miles
addressed two big labor mass meetings.
At haywood, L. l., Charles NJ.
Murphy, of the Kings county wheelmen,
rode mile on bicycle, paced by To-:
connective, III 81 As seconds.
The famous novelist, Mrs. Emma D.
Elizabeth Nevitte Southworth, died at
her residence in Georgetown, D. c.,
aged 70 years.
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A CONCESSION.
The VOlkE Rad of the Transvaal VIII
Be Asked to Confirm an Agreement
Satisfactory to Britain.

London, July 1. - The Digger News,
the Boer organ in London, prints dis
patch from johannesburg, announcing,
on reliable authority, that the volksraad
will be asked on Monday to confirm an
arrangement made by the executive
council, acceptable to the British high
commissioner, Sir Alfred Miner, and
the British government. 1t is believed
the arrangement grants seven-year
retrospective franchise to Uitlanders
resident in the Transvaal before 1890,
who. will be Immediately admitted to
burghership, with other notifications
in the naturalization laws.
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DEATH OF MRS. sOUTHwoRrH-
The Famous Novelist Expires ut Her
Home I'm WnshinEton In Her
Seventy-Ninth Year,

Washington, July Mrs. Emma D..
E. N. Southworth, the authoress, died
at her residence in this city at $3.50
o'clock Friday night after an illness of
several weeks. About a month ago
Mrs. Southworth was Frustrated by the
heat and the infirmity of advanced age
Being in her seventy-ninth year,
rendering her unable to recuperate
from the attack, she grew rapidly
worse, until few days since it was seen
death was inevitable. She was attend
ed by her son, DIR. Southworth. She
had lived for many years retired life
in picturesque mansion of the old
fashioned type, located on a hill in
West Washington, overlooking the Po-
tomac and the hills of Virginia.
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The growth of the United States in
the important element of iron produc-
ton in the past IS or 20 years is one of
the marvels of the age. In 1880 this
country's output of pig iron was 1885,
l91 tons. 1t was 11,773,934 tons in 1893,
an increase of 2o7 per cent. Great Brit
ain produced 7,721, 1893 tons of it in 1880
and s,631, ISL in 1898, the gain in her case
being ILL., per cent, Germany produced
2,72o,oS3 in the first-named year and
7,215,927 in the last, her increase being
1914 per cent. These countries are the
three leading iron producers of the
world. r.
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BIG CARNIVAL ENDS
Close Of the Mfdsum ner Festivities
in Milwaukee Marked by
Fine Parade.

Milwaukee, July IA fitting finale
to Milwaukee's midsummer carnival
was the gorgeous pageant of 90 floats
which moved from the secret den on
the outskirts of the city downtown and
through the principal streets It has
required large corps of artists several
months to prepare the designs. and not
until Friday night was the secret I'M
folded to the full But the feast that
awaited the hundreds of thousands of
carnival patrons amply repaid them
for their long wait, and, Judging from
the enthusiasm all along the line, ex
pectations were more than fulfilled
The floats rivaled in richness anything
ever seen in the west. The subjects of
the floats embraced nature and the eTe-
ments, the emotions and stories of
myth and fable. The figures on the
floats were represented by the Turner's
society of Milwaukee. Following is 3
descriptions:
The first float represented his royal high
ness MonteZuma. with his courtiy attend
ants, Aztec warriors and high priests Of
fering incense to the sun god
Next came THE Beginning Of Time
which was followed by DAWN" Light
and ''The Chariot of Night
Home Of the North Wind was the next
showing the realm of Boreas string en-
throned in the midst of his pinnacIes OF
perpetual ice and snow. Attendants blow.
ing trumpets and beating on AeoIian harps
created the North Wind
Float No. was a grand representation
OF Storm" showing the progress OF
North Wind until &c became mingled
with the various elements. and befus
lashed into a frenzy OF fury, left death and
devastation in its wake
THE Rainbow of Promise and THE
Prismatic Fountain" We're next introduced
followed by most realistic pictures OF
summer and ''Midwfnter"
"Denzens Of the Deep The Queer, Of
Folly and THE Spirits of Evfr- were
next prettily portrayed. Following these
came the Queen Of the Prairie a time.
honored picture
Next in order came the Sleeping
Beauty, "Titania and Bottom" Beauty
and the Beast, Legend Of Seven swans
and, lastly, ''CfnderelIa's Arrival at the
Ball."
Following the pagent there was q
promenade concert in the court of hon
or, the Al Fresco, lawn fete on the
grounds of the Deutscher and Calumet
clubs and dancing in the cIubhouses
With these festivities concluded the big
carnival was a thing of the past
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Cincinnati, July 4. The North
American Saengerbund has decided to-
hold it's next saengerfest at Buffalo
IN 1901.
The concert Friday afternoon had the
advantage Of ideal weather. and attract
ed q large audience The programme
was varied one. The orchestra, made
up Of the Cincinnati symphony orches-
ira, reinforced by so men from the
Thomas orchestra of Chicago, and di-
rected by Louis Ehrgott- of Cincinnati,
had four numbers, the interesting Don
Juan overture, by Mozart; Saint Saens'
symphonic poem, the Weber-Beriioz
"Invitation to the Dance" and Wag-
ner's Kaiser March
The Milwaukee music verein, Mr.. Eu-
gene Luening, conductor, sang two
numbers: ''Come, o Come, Yelled
Beauty" by M. Hauptman- and Die
Prayer Studenten," by L. LEM The
other choral numbers were by the
United Singers of st. Louis, who sang
Two list gott," with volume BETTING
their full numbers, and they responded
to an encore. The soioists were Miss
Sarah Anderson. Mrs Marshall Pease
and Mr.. George HamIin.
The audience at night was over IT.
600. In addition to this tine orchestra
and chorus numbered nearly 1000, MAX
ing an assembly of about $4,000 The
spectacle was one to prove an abound
ing love of song Hundreds of devoted
music lovers stood throughout the
evening, unable to obtain seats The
programme was one of the most inter-
esting OF the week 1t presented the
Sangerbund mass chorus of 3, 500 men,
in which the singers are numbered by
thousands, in number of attractive
selections. Indeed the great chorus
held the stage the greater part of the
evening. All the chorus numbers were
majestic, but the preference was given
by the audience to Der FruehITng Am
Rhein," by Brew. It was repeated by
sheer compulsion. The chorus num-
bers included Hans Sits Festhymme.
Pache's ''Es Steht Fine Naechtege
Linde," the old WeIch air 'WohI Durch
Die Nacht." Menge's ''Da Stunde Kan"
and r. Kieserling, Jr.'s, ''Wenn Nicht
Die Liebe War" 1t was a most striking
contrast to bring sinzfezvo to fol-
low the mass chorus, as was done when
Corinne Moore Lawson. of Cincinnati
sang recitative and aria from MIYe-
lille, by Gounod. Yet the single voice
showed such purity and sweetness as
to raise the question whether the pro-
posed Punishment of soIoists from fu-
ture Saengerfests will meet with pop
ular approval Mrs. Lawson was given
An ovation
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-07-07

America made great fuss over Kip
ling "a little while ago, and now Great
Britain is doing the same thing with
Mark Twain. This Anglo-American
sentiment is a great thing for visiting
litterateurs. To be sure, Kipling was
sick, but so will Clemens be if the ban
quets continue. There is no more rough
ing it for one innocent abroad, for the
Connecticut Yankee at the court of
King Arthur has one of the most con-
spicuous places in the nights at the
round table.
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MINOR NEWS ITEMS +

Admiral Dewey's cabin is stored with
remembrances from admirers.
Two sisters, the Misses White, have
formed law firm in Grant City, Kan.
NJ. Waldeck-Rousseau, Frances new
premier, is the most famous orator OF
the French bar.
Daniel Fawcett Tiemann, the oldest
ex-mayor of :. New York city, died at
the age of IS years.
Senator Vest, Of Missouri, is the sole
survivor of the senate branch of the
confederate congress-
Congressman Ketchanl, of New York,
has served&sin 13Scongresses and has
never made a speech.
Mrs. Celestina Nigro, of Philsdel phia,
celebrated her oneshundredth birthday
by dancing threewaltzess y 81 j
Edwin G. Donnell, the 16-year-old
granddaughter of Horace Greeley, has
invented a wireless telegraph of his
own. & B.
Savings made BY thrifty wives Il may be
taken by their husbands creditors, ac-
cording to the decision of London
judge; 90, 81 p 7s&2 aaS4s go
.. Miss Marie Williams, otWiehita, has
organized a&society of women who will
marry none but men who fought with
Funston. e-ac "a
Leopold Won Blumencron, aged IS,
who is employed on the Vienna Frcm-
denblatt, isSthe oldest working newspa-
per man in the world.
Proba blythe richest person in Cuba
is woman, Mrs. Rose Abien. She owns
millions and vast estates, but is demo
cratic in taste and favors the United
States.
Nansen, the; Arctic explorer, is now
fired with an ambition TO try the ant
arctic regions, and he hopes tohaye an
expedition organized and ready to start
by 1902. | 80 II !,
The car Of Russia oncereadsthet text
book on railways written by Prof. Had
ley, president-elect of Yale, and ordered
it translated for use in the state uni:
versities. *i,'1S2
Chicken raising, carpentering, milk
ing, electrical engineering and other
useful pursuits will soon be placed in
the curriculum studied, by the school
girls IN Brooklyn, N. Y. = ]
( There are not far from 100000, geo
Mussulmans under British power, max
ing Great Britain the greatest Moham-
medan power on earth. About s0,oo0,-
900 of these are in India and the bulk
|of the rest are in Africa.
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DR i \ Yl'FfJS Is IN PORT.
TIE Noted Frenchman Is Landed
st Quiberon.
Taken By Train and Carriage to
Rennes and PIaeed In Prl.on-
Large Bpt Ord erly Crowd Wit-
nesses His Arrivals.

Rennes, July Capt. Dreyfus ar
| rived here early this morning. The
man whose Imprisonment on DEVILS is
land has stirred the whole world was
not landed at Brest, as official announce
ments had led the people to expect. In
stead, he was brought by the French
cruiser Sfax to- Quiberon, and from
there was taken by train to Bruz. The
distance from SBruz to Rennes- about
eight miles---was covered in carriage,
Capt. Dreyfus, being accompanied by
high police official. A Ten gendarmes,
riding in a wagon, followed the car
rage, and the other guards followed
on foot. $SSss.s a. E&+S.s
/! Large Crowd Collected.
In spite of the early hour at which the
party arrived at the prison there was a
large crowd waiting to get glimpse of
Dreyfus. There was no disorder. The
authorities admitted Friday evening
that they expected Capt. Dreyfus to
reach here early this morning. They
would not say, however, by which route
he was coming. The alertness of the
police was accepted as conclusive evil
dence' that the, famous prisoner was
soon to arrive. The conclusion was
reached, that, he would be brought by
some route least expected in order to
avoid any hostile demonstration.
News Reaches Paris.
Paris, July 1.-Reliable news has
reached Paris regarding the arrival of
Capt. Dreyfus at Rennes. A strong west
wind began to blow at midnight, and
fog was reported on the coast of Brit
tany, so that it was considered impossi-
BILE to- discover the approach of the ves-
sci. 1t was thought probable, there
fore, that Capt. Dreyfus had been land
ed unpcrceived. -. -.
y Dreyfus't Condition Is Bad.
Reports received from reliable sources
in the last few days represent Capt.
Dreyfus as being in a rather bad state
of health. It is expected here that the
trial will occur the middle or end of
July. Maitre Demange, Capt. Dreyfus'
lawyer in 1894; Maitre Mornard, who
pleaded for Nine. Dreyfus before the
court of cessation, and Maitre Labor,
NJ. Zola's advocate in the novelist's ia
nous trial-the three most distin-
gulshed members of the Paris bar
were in consultation Thursday. The
result is the two first will go to Rennes
to-day to. see Capt. Dreyfus. The pris-
oner's two lawyers will decide whether
or not his physical condition will per-
NIT an immediate trial.
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E. G. Larrabee, of Salem, Mass, has
just completed picture of President
Mckinley which is composed of 20 diff
ferent kinds of wood skillfully inlaid,
the woods used coming from Cuba,
Porto Rico, the Philippines, the Ha-
waiian islands and other places with
which the administration is identified.
The portrait is to be presented to the
president by it's maker through Con-
gresham Moody. 1t lisa good likeness,
and the work is very cleverly done. No
less than ten pieces of wood are inlaid
in the button on the coat alone. Yetno
one will call Nc. wooden man.
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The fact that 2O,o0o,o0o people in
Russia will lack food on account of the
failure of the wheat crop in that coun-
try is one of the tragedies of the time.
No country in the world except China
has seen so much hardship of one sort
and another in recent years as some
parts of Russia. The expulsion of the
Jews from Russia few years ago, and
the failure of the wheat crop about
the same time, and the consequent
deaths of thousands of persons from
starvation, are oalamities which are
well remembered,
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Gen. Miles in Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh, Pa, July 1.-Maj. Gen.
Nelson A. Miles, who is in the city as
the guest of "All Organized Labor"
had'a busy time Friday sightseeing,
holding. receptions and addressing
meetings. In the morning the. general
was taken through the Homestead
armor plate works, and other mills; in
the afternoon he held public reception,
and in the evening he addressed two
large audiences in the Grand opera
house and Avenue theater. Preceding
the, evening entertainment, Gen. Miles
was escorted through :, the principal
streets by several of the local military
organizations. The route of parade was
lined by thousands of people anxious
to see and cheer the, distinguished
guest. ,;f
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The editor of an Iowa paper must
have received an unusually poor collec-
ton Of bad manuscripts and poems, for
he exclaims: "While Mark Twain is
writing book that will not be pub
lished for 100 years, other writer's are
wasting their energy on matter that
will not be published any sooner
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Bad News for Farmers.

Minneapolis, Mimi, July 1.-Prof.
Otto Lugger, of the state agricultural
college, said Friday: II have bad news,
and here is the messenger that brought
it, Opening his hand the professor
disclosed dead grasshopper: He said
it was one of the migratory White
mountain fellows, and that his coming
northwest 80
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The Central News of London says
that an Irish member of parliament has
received a letter from New York finan-
cier offering to promote and organize
a movement for the purchase of Ireland
from England, if it could be learned
that England would sell. The New
Yorker says that hundreds of millions
could be raised for the purpose, and
adds: "All things are possible in this
age, and nothing is too big for us to
undertake on this side of the water"
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He IS A WONDER.
n'cSchst murphy, Paced by Loco
motive. Goes a Mile in
81 4-5 Seconds.

NEW 1OrK, July l.-CharleS M. MUIR
ply, of the Kings County wheelmen,
rode mile on bicycle, paced by a To-
connective, in 81 As seconds Friday. His
course was a two-mile board track on
a, siding of the. Long Island railroad.
Murphy followed an engine and day
coach, the latter being provided with a
hood, which acted as wind shield for
the rider. The board track was laid
near haywood, l.. L., and extended from
that station two miles east, and was
as nearly perfect to level as skill
could make it. Fully 5000 people saw
Murphy make his daring ride.
Those on the back platform who
watched Murphy all through his won
derful ride stated that. the riders ham
die bar had knocked against the rubber
buffer at least six times, and each time
the conclusion sent him back fully six
feet, but Murphy always had strength
enough to regain this distance. During
the last quarter of mile the rider COW
cred the ground for the greater part
fully a wheels length outside of the
hood, but as he passed the finish he was
close up:' just then two, strong men
on board the train reached down and
seized the rider by either arm and lift
ed him aboard the car in safety. Their
action undoubtedly saved Murphy's
life, because he was then in such weak
condition that had he been allowed to
remain on the wheel he would have
been unable to control it, and serious
if not fatal accident might have hap
pened. -
Murphy rode 2s-inch wheel, geared
to 100, 6h crank hangers, and the
weight of the machine was 2O1a pounds.
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ATTACK, THE NEGROES.
q VOlley at Train Laden with Col
Orcd PeOple-WOman Killed,

Murphysboro, ILL.,, July AT nine
o'clock Friday morning Conductor Will
liam Bryan's train, on the johnson City
branch of the Illinois Central, bearing
AZ negro miners from Pana, was shot
into by a crowd of miners at Lawder, in
Williamson county. One negro woman
was killed by bullet through her
heart. The negroes were brought by
Sam L. Brush, superintendent of the
st. Louis and Big Muddy mines, near
Carterville, to work in his mine, where
there is now strike. The miners, so
in number, were armed with rifles and
were hidden in the grass behind the
country depot. When the train stopped
the leader, who was an italian, got on
the platform and commanded the ne
groes to get out. Conductor Bryan in
terfered, but was stopped by a re-
volver in his face. The train began
to move and the miners poured in
a whitening fire. Conductor Bryan
yelled to the negroes to throw them
selves on the floor. All escaped serious
wounds save the woman, who was killed
instantly. Half mile further and the
negroes were unladen and placed under
charge of guards. They were then
marched to the mine. Intense excite
ment prevails in the Carterville coal
field and bloody riots are expected, as
the feeling has been intense for weeks
Springfield, ILL.,, July 1.-Secretary
Ryan, of the United Mine Workers of
America, has received a message from
Thomas Jeremiah, of Carterville, say
ing that the negroes there are setting
fire to the houses of the union miners,
and urging the secretary to come at
once. He left on an early morning
train