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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-14
DROPS OF WATER.

Mr.. Joseph Bicknell, No 642 Main street, Cam
bridgeport, Mass, writes. April %, 1888; 81 have
been terribly afflicted for number of years with
gravel and kidney disease. My urine contained
brck-dust deposits, and at times could not pass
my water except in drops and with great pain :;
and have had to get up as many as fifteen times
during the night. tried several physicians but
they doLe me no good, but friend of mine, who
had used Hunts Remedy i'd me to get bottle
and try it. He had been cured of a severe case
similar to mine, and that others had used Hunts
Remedy in Cambridge and pronounced it medi-
cine of real merit. After being repeatedly urged
purchased bottle, and before had used all of
it passed stone ss large as pea, followed by
smaller ones. have used in all ten bottles. and
ithas completely cured me. My kidneys are in
excellent condition, and for one of my age, (6s)
xty-eight years, can truly say / feel like a
young man with strength and vitality NY family
use the remedy, and would not be without it. and
never fail to recommend it to our friends and
neighbors in Cambridge and Boston. You are at
liberty to use my name in praise of the best kid
ney and liver medicine, Hunts Remedy
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-14

Margaret Gilman. an old lady living in
New York, was troubled about her soul
She placed 81, 300 in the hands of Henry
McArdle, instructing him to pay funeral
expenses of herself and husband then DC
years old, when they should die; to erect
a monument and expend the remainder oil
the money in having masses said for the
repose of their souls She died eight
days later and her husband two months
afterwards. Both died intestate Michae
Gilman, as next Of kin, demanded Nc
Ardle to account and pay over to him thG
money received from Mrs, Gilman. Judg'
Freedman, in the superior court, decided
the trust was invalid and such money al
remained should be paid to Michael Gil
man. Considerable comment has beer
excited by the decision.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-14
A PHILANTHRoPIsT BANKRUPT.
Orange Judd. Of New York City,
Forced to Make an Assignment.

New YORK, July 13-Orange Judd, the
noted philanthropist apd ex-publisher, has
made an assignment for the benefit of his
creditors. A NJ Bogard & Co, note brokers,
recently disposed of $4,000 worth of his
paper Judgment was entered on $1,000 of
these notes.
Judd has not for some years been connected
with the publishing house which bears his
name, but has been living in retirement He
has been engaged in a great member of phil
anthropic and financial enterprises. Some
time ago he built a hall for the Wesleyan
university, of Middleton. Conn, and also es-
tablished the first agricultural experimental
farm in America. He also gave largely to
churches and Smdayaschools He lost heavily
when Conrad Poppenhausen's Long Island
railway schemes went under.
The business failures throughout the United
States and Canada, as reported during the
last seven days to r. G. Dun & Co.'S mercan-
tile agency, number 759, as against 1873 Last
week. Thirty-three of these were in Canada
and the provinces, leaving l26 as the quota OF
the United States. The distribution WAS as
follows; New England, Is; western states, AZ
middle, l5s southern, Is; Pacific states and
territories, IL; New York, T.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-14
HIS AWFUL DEED.
Terrible Tragedy at Dwight, uls.--.
A Crazy Man Kills His Wife
and Children and Then
Himself.

DWIGHT. Ill, July 1S.-Andrcw White, for
merly a wealthy property owner Of Chicago,
butchered his wife ana two children, and
blew out his own brains. Years ago, after he
had accumulated large fortune, Mr.. White
retired to a stock farm near here. On this he
had lived most of the time since, His steady
attention to business, and his consequent men
tai strain affected his mind to such an extent
that he had to he carefully watched by
his family. He grew gradually worse, until
his strange freaks were so unbeatable that
he had to be sent to aprivate asylum. There
he acquired the strange and fatal hallucina-
ton that his imprisonment was due to de-
sire on the part of his wife and children to
get hold of his fortune. He communicated
the fears to the warden of the institution.
| and was subjected to a rigid medical examin-
alton, in which such conclusive evidence was
deduced that he was declared hope
| leSsly insane. He was continually
inventlng means to escape to eX
ecute vengeance upon his family.
He succeeded in obtaining his liberty through
| the careleSSness of his custodians and made
his way TO his former home near here on his
mission of vengeance. He purchased large
| Smith q WeSson revolver in a neighboring
village, and, reaching the house in the middle
| Of the night, he watched till morning, when
he advanced to the front stoop and called out
| tn his wife to come down and welcome him.
The family consisting of the wife and two
children, aged 10 and Is, rushed at once to
ward the porch, rejoiced to hear the familiar
voice and supposing that the husband and
| father had been released from the asylum in
| possession of his faculties He allowed each
to cares him, moment after, without the
least agitation, he drew revolver from his
pocket, and looking his wife in the face he
| shouted;
"You want my money, my fortune, d
you; take that"
Re sent bullet crashing through her
brain. She fell dead on the porch Then he
Turned and buried bullets in esbrains of his
hoy and girl
He laid down the revolver and gazed for a
moment upon the fearful deed he had per
petrated The horror Of the act seemed to
restore his reason, and with Il desperate cry
he fell upon the corpse of his wife, kissed it
and wept over it. His hallucination return
ing, he dragged the bodies of the dead ints
the dining-room and laid them out on the
table-the wife first, the boy next, and the
| girl laSt-and then committed suicide
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-14

Francisco banker Ralston, who committed
suicide some years ago, was picked up in a
basement in Chicago nearly dead from the
effects of large dose of laudanum, taken
with suicidal intent The woman is a con-
firmed opium-eater and one of the most
abandoned wrecks in the city. She was once
coveted and admired bella in society. This
is her second attempt at suicide.
Miss Maggie Kendrick, pianiste of
Fargo, D. T., had been married to VIM. j.
Kendrick five years, but on account of in
compatibility of temper resolved never to
live with him again, she keeping the Gus
tody of their daughter. The father went to
Fargo accompanied by an attorney, and
watching his chance abducted the child and
started east. They were stopped and arrested,
and Kendrick held in $500 to answer.
|. THERE'S trouble in Chicago mitten-
knitter's household, caused by the upright
eous affections which the head of the house
has developed for his forewoman, charming
little brunette. 1t is said that one child has
been born to the guilty pair, and there are
prospects for another. The man in the case
proposed to his wife to take her and his in
amorata to Utah and keep, them in separate
houses, and she declined. There is talk Of
tar, feathers and fence rail in the neighbor.
hood.
The subjects embraced in the civil
service examination at Washington are
photography penmanship and copying, arith
metic fundamental rules, fractions and per-
centage, interest, discounts, elements of book
keeping and of accounts, elements of the Eng
lish language, letter-writing and the proper
construction of sentences, and the elements OF
geography, history, and the government of
the United States The examiners, as each
subject was taken up, distributed among the
candidates papers having the question to be
answered written at the head Upon this
paper the applicant, after answering the
questions propounded, wrote his number
The time occupied for examination of each
class is about five hours
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-14
THE NEWS IN BRIEF

Randall says be is q candidate for
speaker of the house, and for no other Office.
John c. New SAYS the Republican
national convention should be held in Indian
apolis
Jay Gould, C. W. Field and Russell
Sage swore in New York court that they
were each worth 5000 600 above his debts
Joseph Sleinhart, of New York, aged
10, shot his l6-year old wife and then himself
The wounds are not believed to be serious
The growing wheat in California is
reported to be badly damaged by sirOcoo,
or hot wind which has prevailed in that state,
In the convention of colored men at
Austin, Texas resolution commencing the
Republican party was almost unanimously
tabled
Gov Foster, of Ohio, in an interview,
said: "0hio never went Democratic when 9
full vote was polled, and we will poll a full
| vote this fall.
A girl named Matte Davis was SER
iously wounded in a Coney Island shooting
gallery, supposed to have been accidentally.
The man who did the shooting was arrested.
A fire in the Illinois State University
| at Bloomington destroyed the new building,
| and with it the museum, worth $780, 600; the
collection of fish; and the library of II, 600
volumes, The loss is estimated at si50, 900,
President Converse. of the American
Ranid TELEGRAPH company. saws it is not
ne that his company wants to lease its lines
IT, the Western Union, but that the latteI
made an offer which was not even considered.
He said negotiations are closed indefinitely.
| Mrs Ianrtry and Gebhardteontinue
tn excita the curiosity of the xolines Of Iona
Branch Nv living IN a parlor car instead d
going to a hotel. An ATTEMPT was made tt
! get rid Of the curious crowd. but Gebhardt
was dsfed and the audience remained sur
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-14
DAMP DEVASTATION.
Rain, Wind and Hall On Tour OF the
Country,

GALRsBURG, ILL.,, July 1s-This city was
visited by destructive storm, which lasted
upwards of twenty minutes. The rain fell in
torrents, and the hail, which was very large,
together with the wind, caused great destTuc-
ton Nearly all the window-lights facing
the north were broken The streets are
covered with fallen trees. All large build
ings suffered severely The railroads also
sustained considerable losses. The damage
cannot be less than several thousand dollars.
Halt dozen persons are reported injured,
but none seriously.
HARRIsoNRURG, Va, July IA most
damaging food prevailed in this place. Two
angry clouds met Just north of the town, and
rain poured down in torrents Blacks run, a
small rivulet running through the town, be
came mighty river, spreading over some Of
the principal streets. Shocks of wheat from
neighboring fields, hogs, chickens, fences
small houses and endless drift came pouring
through the main thoroughfares. Many pri-
yate houses were flooded and greatly dam
aged. 1t is impossible to estimate the dam
age. Pavements, sidewalks, foot bridges, ETC.,
were swept away and the streets greatly dam,
aged. The whole population was out on the
streets till past midnight.
ALBANY, N. Y, July 13-A disastrous
hail wind and rain storm prevailed -four
miles west of this city Fields under cultiva-
ton were devastated, fruit trees were stripped
of their fruit, and there are washouts on al
sides
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-14

The watering season round New York
is very dull. The weather has been very
hot and it might be supposed the daily
fight of exhausted and sweltering metro.
politans to the Coney Island resorts and
the neighboring coast and mountain at
fractions would largely exceed that Of
former years. But it is not so. The
boats and trains are not crowded as they
oaght to be; there is no great throng at
the favorite resorts the New Workers pre-
fer to syelter in their own houses; and the
vast system of arrangements for carrying
the population to the beaches is not taxed
to more than half its capacity. One ex-
PLANTATION of the fact is that business in
the metropolis is very dull and the people
have not the money to spend in watering
place indulgences; another is that the
beach hotels have discouraged their own
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-14
Stage Notes.


Mile, Rhea will summer at Newport.
Henry Jarrett, of Jarrett & Palmer, is
| ia Paris.
Louise Sylvester is at present in New
York City. .f'-.
Miss Bertha Foy will summer at Bridge
port, Conn.
Minnie Madden will star in 'Juniata'
| next season,
j. B. Studley will shortly go to Europe
for pleasure trip.
English and Scotch papers call Minnie
Palmer ''the new Lotta-"
All Burnett, the humorisr, opens sea,
son 10 London this month. =
Bishop, in Strictly Business" scored
quite success in New York
The Richmond Sisters are performing
at the Oxford, London, England.
Clara Louise Kellogg will pass por-
tion of the summer at Saratoga
Mr.. J. N. Gottbold will be leading sup
port for Tom Keene, next season.
Sarah Bernhard is 10 appear as Fedora
at the Gaietv, in London, shortly
Mrs. Langtry starts for Europe on the
gath inst, to be absent two months.
Horace McVickeI is enga ged in filing
time for Edwin Booth for next season.
ADELAIDE Cherrie was at Coney Island
last week, making small bets on the races,
Fred Barton has reengaged as stage
manager with Lawrence Barrett'S COM
pany.
Clara Morris is resting at her summer
home, Riverside, Wesctaester county
New York.
Mile Marie Zoe will play the French
Spy throughout the United States next
season.
Harry Dixey will star next season in
"Moneybags, under John Stets0r's man
agement.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank MordauRt have
adjusted their differences and are again
living together.
Mckee Rankin's company will open
the Grand Opera House, Milwaukee. Wis
on August %.
Chas. H. Duprez will put a minstre
company of sixty or seventy performers
on the road next season.
John A. Stevens begins an engagement
with his play of Unknown at the Surrey
theatre, London, July 18th,
Fred Warde has added st. Mare to his
repertoire. This was one of the late E
L. Davenport's best characters.
Den Thomson is summering in
Swansea, the place where the scenes OF
his play. Joshua Whitcom6, arc laid
Lizzie Randall is the name of a new
candidate for stellar honors next season
She will start in the Lody of Lyons,
Mile. Pauline Canissa who has beer
quite Ill of late by advise of her ply
sician, gone to Europe for her health.
Blanche DeBar has been a resident OF
| Baltimore some time, but next season
she again be seen behind the foothghts
MIR. Fred, G. Aaeder is engaged upon
society drama for Mrs. Lantry, writing
it from suggestions given by the fam lily
herself
Charley BowscF has been engaged b.
Frank Sanger to start next season a:
Snaggs. the Landlord, il "A Bunch 0
Keys"
The Only Leon has been engaged a
of the principal attractions for the San
Francisco mipstrtls in New York, mex
season.
NJ. B. Curtis has been asked to pla,
Shy lock 10 a London theatar and ne i.
seriously contemplating the accepFanc
OF the offer
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-14
did Wonders for Me. u

The above words are from Mr.. Lewis Keen. No
Highland Avenue, Maiden, Mass, April, 2sth,
1888. He saws: Il have been troubled for years
with kidney and liver complaint followed by
gravel, wi severe pains in my back and groths
I had great trouble in passing water, ii being
scanty, and accompanied by terrible burning, the
vessel being coated with brick-dust deposit was
recommended to use Hunts Remedy by friend
who had been completely cured of similar
trouble. purchased bottle at the druggists
and commenced to improve at once l have used
but two bottles, and it has done wonders for me;
no more kidney trouble, no mere pain. II has
given me new life. and I would Rot be without
Hunts Remedy at any price. It is all that it is
recommended to be, and cheerfnlly give This ties
timony for the beneftOf the many sufferers from
kidney disease and gravel
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-14

The whisky owners and the banks
which have put up money on whisky col
laterals will beg il vain for sympathy if
they are unable to find loop.hole for the
safe evasion of the law by the exporta-
ton device. TWAS the deliberate conclu-
sion of congress- that it was against the
public interest to grant an extension of
the bonded period, and it would make a
farce of law if the desired extension could
be secured by so transparent an evasion
as that of the owners of the bonded whisky
project. If the law is unfair it should bc
amended and revised on its merits, and il
can work nothing but harm to obtain by
quibbling interpretations what congress
has formally and Intentionally refused.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-14

To-day throughout the world wher-
ever throbs the pulse of Ffenchmen, the
tri-cOlOred flag will be unfurled, and an
thems be lifted up to heaven in honor of
the mother country and of the Goddess of
Liberty. This is the day selected by the
French republic rs the anniversary of the
nation, the 18th of July which common
crates the fall of the Bastile, an event
insignificant in itself as a feat Of arms,
but which will ever remain memorable as
a turning point in the political history OF
the world and as destroying a barrier,
which morally more than physically i'm
peded the onward march of progress and
civilization tOWard the ideal goal of per
feet liberty.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-14

The provision market has broken
down, Beef and pork are not only cheap
but there are lots Of hogs and cattle com
ing in in good condition. Since packer.
and heavy dealers have acquiesced in the
decline butchers and marketmen should
not be bashful about letting customers
have the benefit of the lower prices.
Sometimes it takes long while for con
sumers to realize anything out of the big
gest kind of break in the market. bnt if
prices go UP they hear from it right
AWAY
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-14
CrMARRoN, N. M, july s. Iss3.
The Drought In RED River valley,

MINNEkFoLfs, Mimi, July u. - The
drought in the valley of the Red river in
Northern Dakota and Manitoba continues.
There has been no rain Of any account for
several weeks. What have been fattering
prospects of a great wheat harvest in
one of the most fertile wheat regions
Of the northwest have suddenly changed
TO prospects of almost a com
plete failure of the wheat and other
crops The drouth extends from northern
Minnesota through large portion of Dakots
and into the British Province of Manitoba
The farmers throughout all that region ar,
very much disheartened
The drouth also extends west to the valley
of the James River, though the prospec
there is not quite 50 bad as in the Red Rive
valley.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-14

Kansas City saloon-keepers mean bust;
ness They will conform strictly to the
law both in regard to high licenses and
closing on Sunday. They, however, are
determined that if compelled to close
Sundays, they will see that the Sunday
law is enforced against all other business.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-14

A few days ago Private Beckelman, OF
the Fourteenth New York regiment, was
drummed out Of camp at Peeksville BY
order of Colonel Austin. Beckelman has
brought suit against the Colonel for $25,-
COS damages. 1t may be good thing
for the Colonel that he had his laugh
when the affair first commenced.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-14

Why can't the greerbackeFs sec that
they are an unusually superhuous factor
in the Iowa problem this year? If they
want to accomplish anything practical let
them take a header and disappear from
politics That is the only possible way
for them to DO any good.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-14

During a heavy thunder storm at Ur-
derhill, Vermont, Friday, school house
was struck by lightning All the children
were more or less injured The floor OF
the school room was torn up, and the
walls and ceiling wrecked. The lightning
rendered one girl deaf. A boy had the
sole torn from one shoe, and the upper
from another Lightning ploughed great
holes in the school yard. The trees close
BY were also struck.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-14
EirN At Sea

HAVANA, July l3.-An English steamer
has Just arrived with the intelligence that the
steamer Niagara, of the New York and Cuba
mail steamship company, which left New
York on the 18th for this port, had beer
burned off the coast of Florida. The pas
sengars were all saved and brought here by
the above mentioned English steamer.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-14

Harrison, the boy preacher, is at the
Clear Lake. Iowa camp meeting If
there ever was man who deserved arrest,
Harrison is the fellow. Five or six
women were rendered insane at Decatur,
last winter, by his teachings.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-14

business by excessive charges and forced
their customers to avoid them Whatevoc
may be the real reason, it is certain that
the beaches down the bay have lost a
large share Of their gayety and animation.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-14
BASE BALL


CHICAGO, July 13.-On the third day Of
the session Of the Patriarchal Circle, the ques-
tons under consideration were the changes
relative to secret work, and the election of
supreme officers,
The meeting for competitive drill, to which
nearly all the outside temples have entered,
was held at Base Bali park. The prize ban
ner given by Occidental temple No. |, OF
Chicago, was awarded to the best-drilled
temple.
At $50 in the evening the band contest took
place at Battery d ArmorY
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-14
Turfand Diamond.

BRIGHTON BEACH, July lS-The race rec
ord is as follows: First race, q mile; King
Ernest FLY first John Letiford second, Gran
lite third; time, lis.
Second race, one mile; Barney Aaron first,
Lilly Dale second, Laura G. third; time las
Third race, l mile; Plunger first, Swift
second, Hotachimie third; time i;44
Fourth race, mile; Red Fox first. Egyp-
tan second, Little Butterfield third, time
I44
Fifth race, mile, Annie G. first, Joe
Cooper second, Jim Fisk third; time 1853
BASE BALL,
CHICAGO, July l3.--League games: Buff
faIo e, New York 8; Cleveland 8, Philadel-
phia ~ innings; Detroit T. Boston 81 IN
l,inpS
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-14
Railway Commission Appoint,

WASHINGTON, July 1S-Tbe president ap-
pointed Byron Andrews, of Washington;
William H. Bridgeman, OF Stamford, Conn,
and Dudly F. Phelps, of New York City, a
committee to examine and report upon
twenty-five miles of the Northern Pacific rail
road, on the Missoula division, in Montana
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-14

Storms were general all over the coun
try Thursday night. Thousands of dol
lars worth of crops were destroyed. and
much suffering will be caused.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-14

ST. LOUIS, July l3-The total loss by fires
in this city for the first six months of the
year is $40, sos; loss TO insurance companies,
es2e, s0z. This is only about half as great as
tina loss for the corresponding time last yer.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-14

No senator has as yet been chosen in
New Hampshire. 1t seems as though
Rollins Withdrawal didn't harmonic very
much.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-14

The gas mains are all flooded and the water
works damaged. The loss to property Will
aggregate over 100000 !.
Several washouts occurred on the line OF
tie Great Western railroad near this place.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-14

WASHINGTON, D. c., July lS.-Since the
lst Of January the number of postmasters
commissioned averaged 1850 per month, q
large increase over any previous year
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-14
Jews Tortured In Rasssn.

ST PETERSBURG, July l3-Several Jews
have been tortured and murdered in the
tOwE of Ostrog, in the government of Volky