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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-30
FAIRBANKS ACCEPTS.
Synopsis of Republican Vice Presi-
Dental Candidates Letter Ac-
cepting the Honor.

Indianapolis, Ind, Sept. 22.-Sen-
ator Fairbanks letter of acceptance
has been given to the public through
Hon. Elihu Root, chairman of the noti-
fication committee. In it the republic
can vice presidential nominee sticks
closely to g. treatment of the various
planks of the republican platform, and
outlines the policies of the party in the
future by what it has done in the past
seven years: In commenting upon the
work of the state department during
that time, he refers to the conclusion
of 30 different treaties, among which
he mentions the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty, superseding the Clayton-Bul-
wer convention; the Panama canal
treaty; the trade convention with Chi
ma and Cuba, and the Alaskan boun-
Diary treaty. These treaties, he be-
lieves, point to the efficiency of repub-
lican diplomacy.
Senator Fairbanks finds but one is
sue which the democrats have raised.
That is the tariff. He does not believe
the voters of the country, either the
employing classes or the employees,
wish to cut the tariff schedules to such
an extent as to bring foreign labor in
to competition with American labor.
He says the republican party, as the
inaugurators of the protective system
under which America has expanded
industrially and commercially, is the
only party to be entrusted with the
regulation of this important subject.
Other planks which he deals with at
considerable length are those relating
to the maintenance of the gold stan
dard; the regulation of trusts and the
enforcement of the Sherman antitrust
law, and the interstate commerce laws,
charging the democratic party with
having done nothing towards safe
guarding legitimate interests in these
directions. He refutes the charge Of
extravaganza in government expendi-
lures: applauds the presidents course
in dealing with the insurrection in
Panama and in the government of the
Philippines.
The complete letter is document Of
some 1000 words.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-30
BOILER ExPLODES.
Disaster in a Southern Cotton Mill
Wrecks Structure and Kills
Four Men.

Raleigh, N. c., Sept. 24.-The boiler III
the gin department of the mammoth cot
ton mill, Erwin No. 8, at Dukes, on the
Cape Fear & Northern railroad, about
% miles from Raleigh, exploded with
terrific violence at 7:15 o'clock Friday
morning, instantly killing four men,
scalding another so badly that he will
die. and partially wrecking the engine
room. Several persons were thrown
down by the shock of the explosion, but
their injuries are not serious. The dead
are: Henry c. Fowler, of Burlington,
general superintendent of the mills; Lee
Hurst, fireman; H. G. Braswell, George
Mclean (cOloreD.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-30
MET ON a SHARP CURVE.
Disobsdience Of Orders Causes Fright
full Wreck in Tennessee-Sixty-
six Persons Killed.

Knoxville, Tenn, Sept. 26.-Sixty-
six persons were killed and 125 in
jured (many of whom will die) in a
head on collision on the Southern rail-
way 10 miles east Of this city at 10: Is
Saturday morning. The engineer of
the west-bound train, SO investigation
shows, was directly responsible for the
disaster. He deliberately disobeyed or
ders. Why, will never be known, for
he was crushed to death beneath his
engine and his fireman suffered q like
fate. Hodges, little station, was to
be the meeting point Of the two trains.
The west-bound received orders to
take the sidetrack at the depot and
await the east-bound train. The en-
gineer received his orders and placed
the slip Of yellow paper in q little
frame hanging in the cab where It
would be constantly before him. There
are but two possible explanations Of
his failure to follow orders; he may
have gone to sleep or the still more
remote chance of him being suddenly
stricken blind.
The crash came on sharp curve,
between high banks. When the first
impact came the passengers on the
east-bound train were hurled from
their seats and thrown toward tho
front end of the cars. Then, in an in
slant, before they could regain their
feet, the cars commenced to telescope
and close up as a hatrack is COM
pressed. AS the jaws of wood and iron
came together they killed and manned
the helpless, huddled masses of hui
manity. Dozens of bodies were simply
crushed out of all semblance toEhuman
form, limbs were torn off, and bones
broken by the hundred. In one car
was found woman pinionedf by a
piece of split timber which had gone
completely through her body. A little
child, quivering in deaths agony, lay
beneath the woman. The child died
ten minutes later. Within q few feet
of the little one lay a woman's head,
while the decapitated body was several
feet away.
In one car but two persons escaped
alive. Congressman Henry r. Gibson
from the Second congressional district
of Tennessee and one other man,
whose name is not known, were the
fortunates The congressman was en-
route to Russellville. Tenn, to deliver
a political address and was reading his
address when the collision occurred.
Whom ho roaliznd what had hannene1
he found his legs pinioned fast, but
to extricate himself.
A large number of people were going
from Knoxville to Newmarket to at
tend the funeral of w. R. King, a
prominent citizen of that place, who
died Friday. James King, one Of the
dead, was a brother of w. r. King,
and five members of the King family
in all were killed. while several rela-
tives, though rot Of the same name,
were injured.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-30

The United States now produces an
almost endless variety of farm crops.
but their number is likely to be in
creased in the near future. We have a
region in Arizona and Southern Cali
fornia which is believed to be capable
of growing the date palm, and the gov
eminent is now making efforts to Sc
cure varieties from date growing coun'
tries. We now use about $4,000, 900
pounds Of dates which 1t would seem
could be grown here quite as well an
IN foreign Countries. This country's
tsmperature 10 not hot enough for GER
tain varities Of dates.
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Vesuvius at Work.

Naples, Sept. 24.-Vesuvius, is becom-
ing more active. The crust around the
crater has broken away and produces
magnificent furries of red-hot ashes and
sparks of fire, which rise occasionally in
immense columns to height of 700 feet.
The eruption Friday was the most spec
tacular witnessed in the last ten years.
A great stream of lava was discharged,
threatening wide destruction.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-30

The rifle with which the Japanese
armies in Manchuria have been doing
such execution upon their Russia enc
mics is made in the arsenals of Japan
and was invented by a native, Col.
Arisaka, after whom it is name. It is
a combination Of the best features OF
the Mauser and the Italian Mannlich.
er, adding thereto certain original
ideas of Col. Arisaka. The rifle has
a caliber of 6.5 millimeters, weighs
nine and half pounds and carries
a cartridge weighing % grams.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-30

OF minor manufactured articles OF
United States origin which, owing to
lack of shipping facilities, are not i'm
ported direct to Spain, there is also a
very substantial increase to record.
Notions Of every description, ice
cream freezers and United States rub.
Der overshoes are visible everywhere.
With regard to rubber overshoes, al
though looked upon as outlandish Gu
riosities when first introduced couple
of years ago, they are now in univer-
sal use and considered Indispensable.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-30
Wife's Fatal Error.

Des Moines, a., Sept. ga special
to the Register and Leader from Mount
Ayr says: Mistaking him for chick
en- thief, Mrs. Peter Lewis, of Block
ley, Ia, fatally shot her husband
early Thursday morning at their farm
house. He died few hours later.
The Lewis farm had been repeatedly
raided by chicken thieves and when
Lewis returned Unexpectedly from
watching sick neighbor Mrs. Lewis
thought him thief, opened window
and fired on him.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-30

The municipal authorities at Barcel.
los, a small place on the Cavado river,
about Is miles north of Oportu, Portu.
gal, are willing to grant 3o-year con-
cession to a company for the erection
of an electric light and power plant.
One of the stipulations which will be
expected of such a company will be
that it furnish the municipality with
100 16-candle power incandescent
lights and six 5O-candle power arc
lights for the sum of $500 milreis
($1,62O) per annum.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-30

A preliminary report to the chief OF
the bureau Of statistics of the depart
ment of agriculture shows the total
acreage of rice in the United States
this season to be about 643,400 acres,
distributed as follows: North Caro-
lima, 1900; South Carolina, 33,300;
Georgia, 5000; Louisiana, $500, and
Texas, 234,200 acres. The rice acre
age OF the country has increased SO
per cent. within the last five years and
is now four times as large as it was
Is years ago.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-30

Large additions are rapidly being
made to the area of irrigated land in
Colorado. The secretary of the inte-
rior has withdrawn from entry large
tract of land in the canyon of tho
Grand river, in that state, known as
the Kremmling reservoir site, for the
purpose of storing waters in reclama'
ton enterprise in the lower valley O;
the Colorado river, Of which the
Grand river is a tributary.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-30

The imports of Australia and New
Zealand in 1903 are valued at $500 &c.,
900 and the exports in $462, $4,000. In
the import trade the colony of New
Zealand participated to the amount OF
s63,94O,O0O and in the export trade to
the amount of $75,050,OO0. The bal
ance fell to the six states comprising
the commonwealth of Australia. The
latter also exported $17,375,706 net In
coin and bullion.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-30

DR.. Degrave. French specialist, has
made a declaration which has caused
considerable emotion among the fair
sex in the gay capital. he says that
the fashionable straight-front corset
is ruinous to beauty, because it is I'M
healthy, and that women wearing this
style of stays sooner or later fall vic"
Tins of dyspepsia, sleeplessness.
anaemia and other troubles, and no
body suffering from these ills can long
keep a pretty face.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-30

The archbishop Of Canterbury. now
on visit to this country, occupies the
highest social position in England next
to the crown and the immediate de-
scendants Of the king. He takes pre-
cedence after the prince of Wales and
his son and above all dukes, earls, WIS.,
counts; above the lord chancellor, the
premier and the secretary of state, and
all ministers from other countries to
the court of St. James.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-30

In general, it may be said that Mex"
leo is no place for man without cap
ital. It is new country, in the sense
that it possesses great natural re-
sources as yet undeveloped. but most
uf these can be developed only by the
aid of capital They have been ex'
plotted for nearly four centuries just
as far as transportation facilities and
individual methods of industry have
permitted.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-30

The steam turbine principle has
been adapted to a centrifugal high
pressure pump The action is reversed,
however, the water entering at what
would be the exhaust end, gradually
accelerating as 1t passes through the
several fixed and movable vanes, un'
til 1t acquires high velocity at what
would ordinarily be the outlet end.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-30
Selects q Candidate.

Detroit, Mich, Sept. 23.-The re-
publican state central committee on
Thursday chose John E. Bird, Of Adri-
an, as the republican candidate for at
torney general. This action was made
necessary by the recent nomination Of
Charles A. Blair, of Jackson, for SUI
preme justice. Mr.. Blair was the par
tvs candidate for attorney general.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-30
A Valuable Cargo.

New Orleans, Sept. 23.-The French
port Thursday from Santos, via Rio
de Janiero, with 1887 bags of coffee
valued at 100000.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-30
Claims Self-Defense.

Des Moines, Ia, Sept. A.-Marshal
Dan Ellis, of Lineville, Ia, instantly
shot: and killed Bill Wallace, hotel pro-
prietor, Friday. Ellis claims that the
killing was in self defense and has sur
rendered himself to the sheriff.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-30
Enormous Losses.

Portland, Ore, Sept. 23.-Timber-
men who have visited Columbia coun-
ty report that recent forest fires in
that section have destroyed timber to
the value of $4,000, 600.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-30
Victim Of PARALYSIS.

New York, Sept. 26.-Louis Fleisch-
mann, the millionaire baker and phil
anthropist, died here early Sunday at
his home in West Seventy-seventh
street, of paralysis. Mr.. Fleischmann
as 68 years old.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-30
OMAHA WINS.
Captures Championship in Western
Baseball League-situation
in Other Organizations.

The Western Baseball league season
ended Sunday, with the Omaha club
as leader.
The following tables show the
standing of clubs in the National,
American and Western leagues: Ma
tiOnal league:
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-30
Nominated for Congress,

Connorsville, Ind, Sept. 26.-Demo-
Gratis of the Sixth congressional dis
trict Saturday nominated U. Stokes
jackson, of Greenfield, for congress by
reclamation.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-30
TO ISSUE HAGUE CALL.
President Roosevelt Will Invite Pow
ers to Second Peace
Conference.

Washington, Sept. 26.-President
Roosevelt at an early date will ask the
nations of the world to join in Sec
ond congress at The Hague for tho
promotion of international arbitration.
The president made this announce
ment Saturday afternoon in a speech
to the delegates of the Interparliamen-
tary Union, who had just presented to
him the resolutions adopted by the re-
cent council in st. Louis.
In the addresses that preceded the
formal presentation of the resolutions.
great stress was laid on the fact that
the action of the United States in re-
ferring the Venezuela controversy to
The Hague tribunal, together with the
life of the international organization.
For this reason it was deemed most
fitting that President Roosevelt should
take the initiative in reviving The
Hague conference.
II feel, as am sure you d." said
President Roosevelt, in his address &C.
cepting the task, "that our efforts
should take the shape of pushing for
ward toward completing the work al
ready begun at The Hague and that
whatever is now done should appear
not as something divergent therefrom,
but as a continuation thereof"
The presidents acceptance of the
terms of the resolution and the an
nouncement of his purpose to promote
the peace of the world by inviting ali
nations to participate in second
peace conference, whose work should
be supplemental to that Of The Hague
conference, was received by those
present with enthusiastic applause.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-30

The largest station for wireless
telegraphy is being placed near Pisa,
Italy. On Its completion, by the end
Of the year, it is expected to afford d.
rect communication with all countries
in Europe, as we'll as the United
States and Canada, and with all YES.
sells on the Mediterranean, Indian and
Atlantic oceans.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-30
Body Washed Ashore.

London, Sept. 23.-The body of Charles
B. Spahr. of New York, formerly editor
of Current Literature, was washed
ashore Wednesday near Broadstairs,
Kent, England. The remains were fully
identified by the American consul. Mr..
Spahr disappeared from an ocean liner
near the coast recently and the finding
of the body partly clears up the mys-
terry.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-30
Again the Nominee.

Denver, COL, Sept. 22.-Alva A. Ad-
ans, of Pueblo, was for the third time
nominated for governor by the state
democratic convention.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-30
In the Interest Of Science.

New York, Sept. 24.-Dr. George s.
Conant, aged 81 years, who died here
Friday of diabetes, is said to have willed
his brain to the medical faculty of Cor
nell university that further investiga-
ton may be made of theory that his
disease could be traced to the brain.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-30
Will Oppose Speaker Cannon.

VIII Oppose speaker Cannon.
Paris, ILL.,, Sept. 23.-The democrats
of the Eighteenth congressional dis
trict nominated Colson V. McClena-
than, of Danville, to oppose Speaker
J.,G. Cannon in the coming election.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-30

Worlds Fair Attendance.
st. Louis, Sept. 26.-The total ad-
missions to the worlds fair is 1884,
S48.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-30
SCHOOL GIRLS
MEET AWFUL Fate
PLUNGED INTO VAULT OF FILTH
BY COLLAPSE OF FLOOR IN
AN oUTHOUSE.
Of Thirty Little Ones Who Took the
Terrible Fall, Nine Are Taken
Out Dead-Frightful Disaster Near
Cincinnati.

Cincinnati, Sept 24.-School closed
Friday at Pleasant Ridge, seven miles
north of Cincinnati, with the first quar-
ter Of the session, when nine, possibly
ten, schoolgirls were suffocated in a
vault during the forenoon recess and
score of others narrowly escaped the
same horrible death.
Floor Collapses.
On opposite sides of the spacious
ground in the rear of the school build
ing are two outhouses. When recess was
given about 80 of the smaller girls were
in the clubhouse assigned to them when
suddenly the floor gave way, precipitat-
ing them into a vault Of filth. This vault
is IL feet deep and walled up with stone
like we'll.
The girls fell eight feet from the floor
ing before striking the filth, and the
struggles of those who were on top kept
at least nine underneath until they were
dead. The frame shed over these vaults
were about 20 feet square, without win
dows and with only one narrow door
way, so that only one little girl escaped
from the door, She ran into the school
building and told the teachers what had
happened. Principal T. L. Simmerman
and the seven other teachers rushed to
the rescue. The ladies gave the alarm
about the vicinity, while Principal Sim
norman secured ladder, on which the
drenching girls climbed out, most Of
them fainting as soon as they reached
the surface. The teachers were soon re-
inforced by the entire population of the
town, the police and fire departments
rendering most effective service. Those
able to climb out on the ladders them
selves were rescued by Principal Sim
norman, who finally tainted. Then 9TH
ers went into the vault and kept bring
ing out dead bodies until the vault was
cleared. The firemen drained the vault,
so as to be sure that the rescue was COM
plete.
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The Victims.

The dead are:
Loretta Finke, aged -, daughter of
Henry Finke, of the Schroth Packing
company, Cincinnati.
Emma Steinkamp, aged 10, daughter
Of John Steinkamp.
Amelia Hesse, aged nine, daughter of
Herman D. Hesse, dairyman.
Martha Buhr, aged eight, father dead,
mother, Ella Buhr.
Edna Thee, aged ten, daughter of John
Thee, blacksmith.
Lillian Witham, aged 10, daughter of
w. A. Witham, farmer.
Hazel Glover, aged eight, parents
dead; lives with grandmother, Mrs.
Wolf.
Fausta Card, aged II, and Chairman
Card, aged nine, both daughters of Will
liam Card, of the firm of Mccullough &
Sons, Cincinnati.
The Bowbells tribune., 1904-11-18
Up to Date Machinery-

The farmer and the creamerymar
must have up-to-date machinery il
they are to get the amount of good
out of their products that it is possible
for them to receive. In the great
world of manufacture it is found that
the men that stick to the poor, slow
obsolete machines are outdistanced by
the men that put in the best and most
complete machines possible. The
first stick to the old machines be
cause they are cheap, but their profits
are soon eaten up by the decreased
amount of work they are able to do
The farmer that uses a hand separa
tor or even an artificial cooler for
cooling the milk wants to know that
he has the best. To this end he
should educate himself as to the real
merits of rival machines. He cannot
take the say-so of an agent, for every
agent is bound to speak we'll OF the
machine he is engaged to sell. The
farmer has machine in his COW. Toe
many are willing to get along with a
milk producing machine that is able
to do only half work. The best COW
machine will cost more than the poor.
est, but the profit generally lies in the
high-priced machine.
The Bowbells tribune., 1904-11-18
Roots and Silaue.

Roots are good for COWS and so Is
silage. In the United States silage is
far cheaper than roots if we compare
the cost of the dry matter in each
Careful estimates have been made OF
the amounts of nutrients in the form
OF roots and in the form of silage that
can be produced on an acre of land
1t has been certainly proved that
twice as much nutriment can be pro
duced in the form of corn as in the
form of roots. Then, too, it costs less
to raise an acre of corn than it does
an acre of roots. The corn is planted
cultivated, cut and made into silage
by the use of machinery, while beets
have to be raised largely by hand
work. Labor is very expensive item
in the United States. In some parts
of the Old World. where labor is
cheap, the cost of raising roots is
comparatively low. Raisers and users
OF roots in those countries come tC
the United States and try to do the
same thing, but soon give up the at
tempt. This is why all the admoni
tions to raise roots for COWS seem te
fall to the ground without bearing
fruit. 1t is matter of finance. 1t is
by far more economical to get succu
lent feed from silage than from,
roots.
The Bowbells tribune., 1904-11-18
Eggs in Winter.

Some writer has said that II eggs
could always be produced as abund-
antly in winter as in summer poultry
would always be profitable. 1t is hard
to agree with the statement. If eggs
were naturally as abundant in win.
ter as in summer there would be no
reason for high prices in winter. The
reason why eggs are high is because
they are scarce. But for the good
of the poultry industry and of the gen.
eral public eggs should be produced
about equally in all the months of the
year. The average price might be a
little higher but the buyer would have
compensation in the fact that his
eggs would always be fresh. Doubt
less the time will come when fowls
will produce eggs abundantly in the
winter, but it will be after a multitude
of men learn how to take care of
fowls properly. AS it is, fowls are so
generally neglected that Nature takes
her course. Most fowls, no matter
how neglected. will produce eggs in
the summer time, but cannot be de-
pended on to do the same in the win.
ter time. This proves that it is a
matter of care only and management.
For the present the man or woman
that will so care for their poultry and
SO manage them that the bulk of the
eggs will be produced during the time
when eggs are high in price will be
making a large profit for themselves