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The Worthington advance., 1901-01-18
AROUSES INDIGNATION.
Fate OF Three Peace Comm is&ioners
Captured by De Wet-One
IL Shot.

London, Jan. lathe war office has
received the following dispatch from
Lord Kitchener:
Pretoria, Jan. 14.-About 1.400 Beers
crossed the line. attacking both Zuurfon-
tein and Kaalfontein stations. but were
driven off. They are being pursued by
a cavalry brigade"
Lord Kitchener reports also several
skirmishes at different points. with
trif1ing British losses, and adds:
Three agents of the peace commission
ers were taken as prisoners to De Vets
laager, near Lindley, January 10. One.
who was British subject. was logged
and then shot, The other two, burghers,
were fiogged by De Vets orders.'
London, Jan. 14.-The brief report
of the fate of the three members of
the peace committee, who were sent
to see Gen. De Wet. excites the deep
est Indignation on all sides. One or
two papers express a hope that Lord
Kitchener has been misled by false
Kaffir reports, but it is generally felt
that he would not have reported the
matter to tce war office without un-
doubted evidence.
The Daily Mail heads the report
with the word Murder" and declaims
against any further attempt to coax
the enemy into submission. "De Wet
has placed himself outside the pale of
humanity" says the Daily Mail, land
not proclamations, but large reen-
forcements must be our watchword" :"
All the papers appeal strongly to
the government TO hurry forward re-
enforcements, since it is evident that
the Boer leaders have now become
desperate, and conciliation is quite
useless.
The Worthington advance., 1901-01-18
MANY PERISHED.
Over 100 Person. Frozen to Death
In the Recent 'Blizzard in
Russia. -

London, Jan. 14.--ne Odessa corre-
spondent of the Daily News wires that
12o people were frozen to death in the
blizzard.
The Odessa correspondent of the
Daily Mail sends heartrending
story of the sufferings of railway pas->
sengers snowbound while on the way
to Odessa. The blizzard, he says, ragged
continuously for more than 100 hours
over the whole of southern Russia.
He describes the gradual arrival of
trainsat tRazdyelnaia, with hundreds of
passengers, from the north, who had
entrained six days before. ''They had
been showed in for five days." he
continues, ''and fighting among them
selves for the scanty food supplies
provided at the railway buffets.
Women and children were weeping
with hunger, while gangs of men bat
tied with snowdrifts which were IS
feet deep in some places, and that,
too, without snow plows, although
these would have been useless even if
they could have been found.
Finally some 5000 passengers had
assembled at Razdyelnaia. A regi-
ment was sent from Kieff southwark,
and 5000 troops went northward from
Odessa with shovels. On the third
day the reliving parties succeeded in
cutting passage for a couple of
trains, which started with 1000 per-
sons, after mad rush, the weakest
going to the wall. The trains proceed
ed for IS hours, and were again stuck
in the snow, unable to go either for
ward or backward. The blizzard con-
tinued. Demoniacal fury and pande-
monium prevailed, the passengers
cursing the railway management,
fainting and weeping. The trains
wer buried, and ali passed a horrible
night. When morning came peasant
volunteered to walk six miles to the
nearest station with kilograms be-
seeching assistance, supplies, frewood
and water having been exhausted.
Finally, driven to desperation, 60
passengers, with Count Kapnist, de-
termined to walk to Odessa. Count
Kapnist, with 40, reached point
where he was able to secure sledses,
and all arrived at Odessa, though un-
certain as to the fate of those they
had left behind. Meanwhile Gov.
Schuva.off had organized train sledges
with supplies, which, after herculean
efforts, relieved the two trains. It
was found that many passengers had
their arms or legs frozen.
Eighteen thousand troops are now
engaged in the work of clearing the
line. The storm has abated. and it is
announced that the beslged trains will
get through to Odessa this evening.
No mails have been received here
for six days. Corpses have been kept
unburied for eight days, as it has been
impossible to inter them. The con-
duct of the railway authorities is loud
" condemned.
The Worthington advance., 1901-01-18
LATER NEWS.

The city council of Chicago adopted
an ordinance closing all theaters, halls
and other places of amusement or
gatherings in that city until such
buildings have been inspected by the
building department and pronounced
safe.
Four deaths from bubonic plague
occurred on the steamer Highland
Prince, which arrived in Shields har-
Dor, England, from the River l'lattc.
Two talented Berlin artists, Herr
Guido Frohberg and Herr Won der
Wonde, were drowned while skating
on Lake Schwielow.
A bill making kidnapping capital
offense has been introduced in the
Tennessee legislature.
United States Ambassador White
will present President Mckinley's con-
gratulations to Emperor William on
the occasion of the celebration of the
bi-ccntennary of the Prussian king
dom Jan. lS.
WIN. Neufeld, who murdered his
mother in New York last August, was
put t" death in the electric chair in
Sing Sing prison.
The republicans of the Massachu-
sctts Legislature unanimously nomi-
mated George f. Hoar to succeed him
self III the u. $. senate.
There is a famine in the province of
Shen 81, China, and it is said 5000, COO
people are facing starvation.
A special from Chofeld, Utah, says
that 500 coal miners struch for in
creased wages. This is the first strike
of miners in the history of Utah.
Miss f. $. Brown and Mrs. Mary El-
lcrton, living in Burlington, Iowa.,
stuffed SIS. 700 in paper money into
some dolls for safe keeping and COW
cred the dolls with pile of decorat-
ing paper. A leak in a gas stove near
by set fire to the paper. and burned
the dolls and the money, which was a
gift from an eastern relative.
Cen. Macarthur reports the surren-
der of Delgado, commander-in-chi of
lloilo province, Panay. He also re-
ports that other surrcnders are expect
cd during the next few days.
The anarchists Of Patterson, N. j.,
aud elsewhere arc much incenscd over
the seizure by tho government of four
packages of registered matter adj
dressed to La Questinc Sociale, an Or
gan of the anarchists, published in
that city.
While two wedding parties were
sleighing in Austria they were at
tackled by wolves and both married
couples devonred.
The Worthington advance., 1901-01-18
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
West and the South.
THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES
F1FTY-s1xTH CONGRESS.

CAC AeSAAAn CVNWNGSSs
Discussion of the army reorganiza-
tion bill occupied the time in the Unit
ed States senate on the 10th. In the
house the day was devoted to further
consideration of the river and harbor
bill.
That feature of the army bill allow
ing the president to increase the size
of the army passed the United States
senate on the 18th. The house reap
portionment bill was also passed. A
favorable report was made on bill
providing a penalty of 20 years i'm
prisonment and a fine of $4,000, or
both, for train robbery. In the house
40 private pension bills were passed,
among them being one to increase the
pension of Gen. A. V. Rice, formerly
member of congress from Ohio, from
$50 to $1OO month.
No legislative business of Importance
was transacted by the United States
senate on the 18th, the session being de-
voted to services held in memory of the
late Senator Cushman K. Davis, of Min
nesota. In the house the time was oc-
cupied in discussing the river and har-
Dor bill
The Worthington advance., 1901-01-18
WEST AND SOTH

After being viewed by several thou
sand persons the remains of Philip D.
Armour were buried in Graceland
cemetery in Chicago.
The death of w. Fl. Redman, speak
er of the Iowa house in 1888, occurred
at Newton. He was civil war vet
eran.
Vice Preside1t-elect Roosevelt has
been given the freedom OF Colorado to
hunt for game.
In Kansas City, Mo-, Mrs. Philip H.
Kennedy shot her husband dead be-
cause he sought an a1nulment of their
marriage.
In the Wisconsin legislature Gov.
La Toilette read his own message and
recommended revision of the election,
taxation and antitrust laws.
At Camilla, Ga, Will Hines, a ne
gro, was hanged for the murder Of
Minnie Walker (colored).
The death of DR.. George j. Smith,
the oldest surveyor and civil engineer
in Nebraska, occurred at Omaha.
While hunting near Atlanta, Ca,
a man discovered large cave of e,s-
cellent rock salt.
Elizabeth Parigin celebrated her
one hundred and fourth birthday at
her home in Richmond, Ind.
In Galena, ILL.,, George Duerrstein
fatally shot Lille Bergman because
she refused his attentions and also ia
tally wounded her sister.
\ After being pronounced dead, Mrs.
Cyrus Taylor, of Brazil, Ind, cane to
life.
Mary B. Smith died at Los Angeles,
CAL, at the age of 1o6 years.
In Chicago five persons were killed
and so injured in a panic during per-
formance in Turner hall.
Near Meeker, COL, Theodore Roose-
velt killed his first mountain lion and
saved the life of DR.. Gerald Webb.
The death of Frederick Wickham, OF
the Norfolk Reflector, the oldest editor
in Ohio, occurred at the age of SO
years.
Dispatches say that in the grip belt,
which extends across the United States
from New York to the Rocky noun
tains, 100000 persons are suffering
with the disease.
With the bodies of 63 soldiers the
steamer Californian arrived in San
Francisco from Taku. China.
In Chicago Frank Brill won the ma
tional contest for individual bowlers.
In Chicago O. NJ. Ellefson, who tasted
"a days at the command of a voice.
supposed by him to be supernatural,
broke his fast on a command from the
same source.
Conductor Wing and Brakeman Ring
were killed in freight wreck at Belle
vile. Ill. '.- -
s. R. Cockrell,, chief. justice of the
Arkansas supreme court from 1884 to
! 1893, died in Little Rock, aged 50 years.
The Worthington advance., 1901-01-18
FROM WASHINGTON.

Before the supreme court Attorney
General Griggs argued that our is
land possessions are the property of
the United States and not a part of
them.
Last year the coinage was $141,351,- ;
960, the largest on record.
The death of Gen. Beekman Du
Barry, U. S. A., retired, occurred at
Washington.
Joseph Y. Paige, of Albany, N.Y., chief
clerk of the comptroller of the cur
rency, died in Washington, aged 81
years.
The Worthington advance., 1901-01-18

Theodore Cooksey Ward, aged 1os
years, who resides with his son and
daughters on a farm at Charlotte
Hall, in St. Mary's county, Nd, and
who holds the distinction of being the
oldest white man in the state, in
speaking of the century that has just
closed, said: swell, it was a wonder
full age, but with all the marvellous
inventions do not think the human
race is any better of than it was 100
years ago. Too much greed for wealth
these days, and people are not IS hon
est as they used to he, and more con-
adence could be placed in them.
The Worthington advance., 1901-01-18

In California every country road is
to be named and every farmhouse will
be numbered. This is one of the good
things that will come with the general
introduction of the rural free delivery
of mails. With the new idea in vogue
it will be as easy to direct letter or
a person to place in the country as
it will to house in the city.
The Worthington advance., 1901-01-18

While frequent appeals are being
made in the United States for the
preservation of forest lands other
countries are giving the timber ques-
tion serious attention. M. Melard.
chief of the French forestry bureau,
points out in a report that the con-
sumption of timber in the world is
greater than the production of the
accessible forests, with the obvious
result that the governments must
soon take measures to preserve their
timber lands. Sweden, Norway, Rus
sia, the United States and Canada are
beginning to feel the scarcity.
The Worthington advance., 1901-01-18

A New York stationer says the sale
of pens has decreased one-half during
the past two or three years owing to
the universal use of the typewriter.
He adds that he would not be sur
prised if in a few years some of the
big pen manufacturers go out Of busi-
ness. The pen may be mightier than
the sword, but the typewriter is
mightier. than them all.
The Worthington advance., 1901-01-18

A cold wave has struck Europe, and
in France, Germany, Austria and even
Italy blizzards have made things un-
pleasant for people entirely unused to
such things. Europe has had more
severe winter weather during the last
few years than in many decades be-
fore, whae in this country the winters
have been generally milder. II looks
to observers as though the earth had
become somewhat twisted on it's axis
and that the climate had also become
twisted. That is a popular theory,
at any rate, and it il by no means an
unreasonable one.
The Worthington advance., 1901-01-18
Large Number Drowned.

Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 14.-A spe-
cial to the Times from Tacoma, Wash.
says: In December an overcrowded
passenger steamer, plying on. West
river, lost her rudder, and was carried
on the rocks near Canton, sinking in
few minutes. Of 500 passengers on
board $50 were drowned through be-
ing unable to reach the deck and jump
overheard. Others jumped and were
rescued by passing boats.
The Worthington advance., 1901-01-18
is WIDESPREAD.
ThOu~ands of Victims of the Epi-
lemtc of La Grippe in the
United States.

Chicago, Jan. 14.-Special reports
show that more than 500, 900 persons in
the grip belt, which extends across the
United States from New York to the
Rocky mountains, are suffering with
the disease. The epidemic is greatest
in the east, with a wide bulge in the
belt in Pennsylvania. Illinois is also
extensively afflicted. The western coast
is comparatively free, and some of the
southern cities, where it is dry and
clear, are practically exempt.
The Worthington advance., 1901-01-18

Nearly all articles formerly in
leather are now made of paper, such
as suit cases, travelling bags, ETC., and
so successful is the imitation that q
man who had himself been in the pa
per business for nine years bought an
article of this kind recently under
the conviction that it was leather he
was purchasing.
The Worthington advance., 1901-01-18

Beer-poisoning at Manchester, Eng
land, few weeks ago, resulted in
the death of 81 people. Examination
traced these deaths to the use of pure
sulphuric acid in making glucose.
"Process butter" is now, according to
testimony given at Washington,
washed with sulphuric acid to remove
the rancid taste. Is there no relief
from the adulterations of food and
drink? The laws are not half severe
enough upon such offenders.
The Worthington advance., 1901-01-18

A revised edition of Webster's In
ternational dictionary contains $4,000
new words and meanings collected
during the past Is years, the addition
filling 23S crowded pages. Many new
variations of old words are in the
list. Half the new words are scien-
tific, but many are familiar acquaint-
ances, such as kop, veldt, trek, khaki,
kinetograph, jolly (as verb), ticker,
jamboree and kissing bug.
The Worthington advance., 1901-01-18
Assets of Chosen Friends.

Indianapolis, Ind, Jan. 14.-Receiver
Clark, of the Chosen Friends. published
an inventory and appraisement of the
assets of the order, including money in
the bank and other assets not yet re-
duced to possession. The total ap-
praisement, as made by Charles E.
The Worthington advance., 1901-01-18

An experiment farm is to be start
ed 200 miles from Mania by the United
States Philippine commission for the
purpose of ascertaining what seeds
and plants from this country can be
successfully cultivated in the far east
ern islands. The University of Cali
fornia will send from its experiment
stations the required seeds and
1,1o &c
The Worthington advance., 1901-01-18
VIII Soon BE We'll.

Washington, Jan. 14.-President Nc
Kinley was so much improved in health
that he was able to go outdoors in car
riage for short time. It is, expected
that a few more days will see him
again able to attend to business as
usual. ..:,. :. =. : .
The Worthington advance., 1901-01-18

Two Lives Lost,

Madrid, Jan. 14.-Fire which broke
out at an early hour Saturday morning
in Mucientes, province of Valladolid,
and which for time threatened half
the town with destruction, has been
extinguished~ No great damage was
done, apart from the loss of two lives.
The Worthington advance., 1901-01-18
KILL. wife, SON and Himself.

Albany, n. Y, Jan. 14.-Louis Cur.
rier, aged 40 years, at an early hour in
the, morning cut his wife's throat.
broke his son Archie's head with a
baseball bat, took dose of paris green
and then cut his own throat from ear
to ear with a razor. All three are dead.
The Worthington advance., 1901-01-18
Biz Shipments of Coal.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Jan. IA. Fully
5000, 900 bushels of coal are on the way
south and before the present rise in the
Ohio is checked 100000 more will
probably be shipped. The fleet now
on the way is made up Of 1917 boats and
"a barges. : II. -, t,t.= .:.ss'2 .
The Worthington advance., 1901-01-18

The total value of trade in toys has
grown to tremendous proportions. Ac-
curate figures are not attainable, but
experts estimate that the American
people buy annually between $15,000,-
600 and SIC, ,OOO, 900 worth.
The Worthington advance., 1901-01-18

The secret of American industrial
success is the superior skill and pro-
dustive energy of the American work
ing men and women. The greatest
of English statisticians admit that in
these respects Americans are in a
class by themselves. When these quail
tiles are combined with inventiveness
and the best mechanical appliances
the economic development of the
United States is no longer surprising
The Worthington advance., 1901-01-18

Gen. John G.. Parke, who died in
Washington the other day, was the last
officer to command the army of the
Potomac. Meade was spending few
days with Grant at City Point, when
Kyd Douglas, on the morning of the
goth of May, broke through the fed
eral line, of which Parke thus had to
take command. The battle of Fort
Steadman, one of the most brilliant
of the war. was also fought under him.
The Worthington advance., 1901-01-18
OVERCOME BY THE DEBATE.
Mr. Clubman Tried . New Blu6 on
His Better Half, But 1t
Wouldn't Go.

"Scuse me for being so late, m-m:my
dear, but fact is we was having a. dis-dis.
chussion on whether the cons -tooshun fol-
lows tn fag," relates the Cleveland Plain
Dealer, "or tn f-f-fag follows cons'too:
shun."
"oh, you were, were you: Well, what did
SThsss it. What did we decide? Jim
AS SSsm'th r. says that flag dent f{foloy any
Thass what jim says: Joe JOEY banss aT SAYS ss: that
cons tooshun is morn hund red yearsh old
and when it goes anywhere it oug ght ito be
t-t-taken in a hack. Jim says It couldn't
by no possible means follow anysing Good
crack, wasn't it? Joe's got g-g-great
"And what did you decide:"
who: Ne? Mean me, my dear? Why,
l JUS said that the best way to solve per-
round flagstaff, an then let 'em 90 into it
togesser. Thass tn way. Watcher thing
'|Well, I think if you don't pull off your
shoes and follow them with the rest of
your garments, and then wrap the blankets
tightly around you, there'll be enough kinds
OF trouble raised in this family to wreck
1t Excels Everything.
"The Chicago and Florida Special the
first soiid Pullman train ever run, Chicago
to Florida, consisting of magnificent Pull
man sleepers, Dining and Observation Cars
goes into service January 18th. Only one
night out; 80 hours to st. Augustine via
Big -Four, Penna. Lines, Monon:C H. & D.
System and Fla. East Coast Ry. Full
particulars at ticket Offices any of lines
named.
The Worthington advance., 1901-01-18
Eaten hy Wolvea-

London, Jan. 14.-The Bucharest
correspondent of the Daily Express
says that five Roumanian soldiers.
while going home, were attacked and
eaten by wolves, after desperate
strupple.
The Worthington advance., 1901-01-18

Alleghenia is the name bestowed
on one of the planets recently discov-
cred in the solar system by Berlin
astronomer. The great Photographic
lens used vas made in Allegheny, Pa.
The Worthington advance., 1901-01-18
Sherlock Holmes.

"What will you gimme on this?" asked
the musician.
The pawnbroker took the battered tuba,
fingered the keys, noticed the wire netting
across the big end and asked:
"Say, does fe!er have much fun trav-
elm with them one-night burlesque COM
panies: Press.
The Worthington advance., 1901-01-18

- .|Do you think ?'' asked the landlady,
"that death ends all" "Not for four or five
days, in the case Of turkey said the saw:
star by sheer brutality.-Indianap polls Press.
The Worthington advance., 1901-01-18

The last chief Of the Omaha Indian
tribe, No Knife, died at the home of his
son, Mathew Tyndale, near Pender,
Neb., at the age of 115 years.
The Worthington advance., 1901-01-18
Cixar Trust Form d =.

Trenton, \. j., Jan. 14.-The Ameri-
can Cigar company, with capital of
$1O,000,000, was incorporated here Sat-
urday. James B. Duke is among the
incorporators. The company is under.
stood to have been formed for the pur-
pose of taking charge of the manu-.
featuring department of the American
Tobacco company's business.
A Poem by the Pope.
Rome, Jan. 14.-The Osservatore Ro.
mano publishes Latin poem written
by the pope and dedicated to Christ on
the occasion of the beginning of the
new century.
The Worthington advance., 1901-01-18

It seems incredible, yet 1t is 4 fae... that
a man can be knocked down and he'd up
at the Same time. News.
Z Most people who try to neighbor with
you want it all their own way:-Washing-
ton Qa.) Democrat. q
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-13
DON'T HURT SOME,
But Coffee Certainly Ruins Some OF
the Most Highly Organized People.

lone year I lived where the water
was bitter with iron and l could not
bear to drink it, so l began drinking
coffee three times a day.
Gradually | noticed an uncomforta-
BILE feeling in the stomach, and more or
less constipation. In few months
began to lie awake at night long after
l had retired.
This increased, until ! never thought
of going to sleep before three or four
O'Clock in the morning, and then only
after getting out Of bed and walking
the floor for an hour.
I was talking of my nervous state
with a friend, who suggested that per
hans it was the coffee I had been
using. She felt quite sure it was, and
stated that coffee would not stay on
her stomach at all, but as she felt she
must have a hot drink for breakfast,
she had been using Postum Food COT
fee. She said she didn't like Postum
particularly WE'LL and at breakfast the
next morning l didn't wonder, when
tasted the fat drink that the servant
brought on.
The same day ] was invited to take
dinner with another friend, Mrs. Fos-
ter. I had visited her often before and
knew she made delicious coffee, so
yvhen she asked how liked her coffee.
said. ut is just as fine as usual She
invited me to have another cup. but
/ said, II would not dare to take the
second" "Oh, you can drink as many
c,,ns Of this as YOU like; 1t won't hurt
YOU. This is Postum Food Coffee. We
have been using II a year now, and the
little children have all they want and
our family have never been as healthy
as in the past year" Postum" said |
5,,,h,f,,tt,, "NNhy the Postum / had
,bts morning didn't taste any more
itke this than dish water" Perhaps
IL was not made right" said my friend,
~ have known more than one person
10 be turned away from Postum be
cause II was poorly made. There Is
no secret IN IL: only allow u 10 boli
long enough 10 bring out the taste, and
there you are. ] have been using Pos
tum since. and am entirely cured OF my
trouble. I canEOt say TOO much Tor
it," Grace A. Foster, omaha, NED
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-13

A woman who has travelled much,
says the New York Times. was COM
menting on Californian hospitality the
other day. She said: II have never
seen people who treat strangers as the
Californians do in any other portion OF
the world.
Sacramento was the first city Of the
state which my daughter and en-
tered. Having few hours 10 wait
before taking a train. we strolled out
and encountered little Girl with an
armful OF magnificent roses. u was
the middle Of winter, and I remarked
on the sight 20 my daughter. The girl
heard me and exclaimed