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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-07

Troy, N. Y, May 5.-At a secluded
spot not within police jurisdiction, William
Carter and Henry Dunn squared as old misun-
Outstanding in combat marked by shocking
lepravity After having barred their chests
they rushed at each other without ceremony
once chnehed, the men for twenty minutes
fought furiously, biting and scratching at
every opportunity. Suddenly Dunn dropped
his head upon Carter's chest, and, seiz-
ing the flesh with his teeth, held it
until Carter actually dragged it from his
mouth, and gaping wound was made, and
the blood squirfed out as Carter fell. His
father witnessed the fall and raised him up,
shouting LET him kill you, Bill, but don't
yeu weaken" Carter encouraged by his
fathers words, sprang upon Dunn and bit his
arm until lac cried for mercy. Exhausted and
bleeding, Carter then swooned Dunn was de-
clared the winner. Neither of the pugiiists is
able tosleave his house. They both bear un-
slightly marks of the sickening fight.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-07
Bound to Win.

''Sirn he began, as he found him at
the Rector Street station of the Eleva-
ted road, -four years ago you predicted
that the wheat crop would fail /
bought heavily in futures and lost"
EXACTLY | admit that
was mistaken. replied the prophet.
Three years ago you predicted that
oats would go down to twenty cents. ]
sold futures and lost again.
so you did-exactly. l remember
that missed it in oats"
Two years ago you prophecied hard
pan on railroad stocks. waited to
buy, and lost opportunities to double
my money"
That's so-that's SO. They didn't
go down as / had anticipated"
''And, siri'' continued the accuser in
a solemn tone, last year you prophe-
cied that there would be general war
in Europe, and | sold securities at a
loss.
Exactly exactly" blandly replied
the speculator, Il own right up that
I've missed it four times handwriting,
but i shall hit it sooner or later. | now
predict a great rise in beans for next
fall; buy my beans, sir-buy cart loads
and car loads of beans and hold 'em for
boom of fifty per cent. Good morn
ing, sir. Wal 81. NetOs
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-07

sistant on thequesuons OF law re- ang TO the
duties of the board; but on the contrary, your
board and its predeces 5ors, referred to in your
letter, have over and over again requested such
opinions and often been informed during the
last ten years you could not have such opin-
IONS and those letters should be on file in
your office, and ought to have been in the
ernor lncloses the attorney generals opinion
on the subject which will, he says, @show them
that they had better get secretary and actuary
with a better memory, or at least who can use
it more effectively in relating fact"
Mr.. Sanborn, the secretary, in reply, sent
the governor the following: Understanding
that your excellency has been unable to find
any opinion of the attorney general or
his assistants a question of law re-
permit me TO remind your excellency that you
transmitted TO the present legislature early in
the session the fourth annual report to this
board, containing opinions of two successive
attorney generals relating to the boards duties
Lest you may not have the volumes at hand
send them herewith, the pages in question be-
ing marked for ready reference"
In explanation of the two references in San
born's letter, Assistant Attorney General Shop
ard says the first opinion" referred to is not
an opinion at all, and does not pretend to be.
The second opinion, on page l37 of the report,
g In reply to an inquiry made through his
excellency the governor, as appears on its face,
and ii IL, therefore, a matter of fact, a re
quest from the governor, and not from the
state board.
Dr. Walcott chairman of the executive COM.
mittee of the state board saws the reaue t
from the board for ltga! opinion had Lever
been refused, and cites communications from
attorney general and ass iStant attorney general
In proof of his statements.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-07
Butler and the Board
What the Governor Proposes to do
with that AImsh0use----An Ex-
change of Compliments

Boston, May 5,-The governor has
offered to guarantee to run Tewksbnry aims
house on his own system if the legis-
lature would appropriate sum equivalent
to so, 000 year If any of the appropria-
tons remained unexpended he would turn
the residue over to the state treas
ury If the expenses exceeded the amount ap-
propriated he would pay the excess out of ms
own pocket To show that the institution
could be properly cared for he would allow q
committee of the Republican state central com
mittee to inspect the institution from time TO
time.
1t is reported that the governor intends re
moving the whole board of health, charities,
and correction before Tuesday. A letter from
him to the board, in reply to the recent COM
munication of the board explaining its action
IN applying to the attorney general for an
opinion regarding their authority to assume
the duties of trustees of the TewksbuFy aims
house, says @Your board never has received
any opinion the of attorney general or his as
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-07
Oodfish Balls or Death.

There was a Singular case up for trial
ia the Justices court the other day at
Sawtooth. The question to be decided
by the Justice was whether restaurant
keeper is justified in shooting man for
refusing to eat his Goldfish balls. The
Judge of the law and justice decided
yes. The case was as follows: The pro-
prietor of Sawtooth restaurant placed
plate of. codfsh-balls on the table of a
young man. and a regular boarder, who
had seated himself for a grub. The
boarder was calmly and peacefully stow
ing away the victuals, but didn't take in
any of the Goldfish balls.
The observation-disclosures approached
him, and said in a commanding tone of
voice: "You eat them Goldfish balls"
II don't like Goldfish balls, " replied the
boarder.
you eat them Goldfish balls, tell
your
81 tell you won't; I don't like 'em''
81 tell you once more to eat them
Goldfish balls. If you don't I'll sh, 1t
you;" and the restaurant-keeper started
for his pistol. The boarder saw he had
to do one of three things-eat the cod
fish balls, refuse again and be filled with
leaden bullets, or skip. He skipped
just as his coat-tail was vanishing out
at the door the irate restaurant-keeper
blazed away, but missed him. The
boarder had him arrested. The Justice,
in his dignity, decided that the propri-
etor of hash-house was perfectly justi-
fable in shooting at boarder with in
tent to kill for refusing to eat his Goldfish
balls. Idaho World.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-07
ARKANSAS OUTLAWS.
The Latest SCANDAL in Plymouth
GnnrPs9.

BROOKLYN, May 5-Mrs Eli John
son has decided TO fight back against her nus
band who accuses her of having been improp-
erly intimate with Henry A. Hgley, the veal
thy commission merchant, whom Mr.. johnson
has sued for 800 600 for seduction, etc Mrs
Johnson to day began suit in the city court for
absolute divorce on the ground of cruel and
iuhuman treatment. 1t is only fair to the lady
to say that most of the congregation of Ply
mouth church thoroughly sympathize with
her and believe that her relations with Mr.
Higley which admitted to have been
friendly, were pure and innocent 1t is said
that Mr. johnson is tryin; to bring about a
reconciliation, but that Mrs. Johnson will not
entertain any proposition of that kind.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-07
Ehe New N erh senate and the Gov
ernOr.

ALBANY, N. Y, May 5.-The 1egisla-
ture adjourned sine die to-day. The governor
called the attention of the senate to their fail
ure to confirm his nominee for commissioner
of emigration, and said that their captious OPP
position to the execution of the best remedia
law of the present session of the Legislature
perpetrates the oppression of emigrants and
the continued practice of unblushing pee
ulation. Il have endeavored," he says, "to
cooperative with the senate in supplementing
the passage of the law by putting the machin-
ery in motion for its execution, and may per-
haps be allowed to express The hope that its
operation may not be defeated II it is, re-
sponsibIIity must rest where it belongs.
Grady tIammanyl moved to refer the commu-
nication TO the committee on grievances, but it
was finally referred to the committee on
finance, while the nominations for quarantine
commissioners, harbor masters, and port
wardens were consigned to the committees on
commerce and navigation and finances
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-07
sitting Bulls May Moving.

CHAMBERLAIN, ID. T., May 5.-The
steamer M J. Beehan arrived last evening, and
left at O'Clock this morning. She had on
hoard l 80 tons of freight, and had as passen-
gers the Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, with about
I5O other Indians, the remainder of his once
powerful band They are gong to Grand
river, and Say they going TO be white folks.
lie Claims however, to own all the land west OF
the Missouri. and claims to he the big chief.
lie laughed at the idea that he would sell any
of it to the white man The government has
set them free. The steamer took of from
here sixty tons more of freight She is bound
for Bismarck.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-07
WIIIruiHda aud nerI.oyer

SCRANTON, Pa, May 5.-The girl who
with James McGrotte when he was suffo-
Gated in the Scranton house Sunday night has
been identified as Ida Bell the willful daush-
ter of snug farmer in Scranton county The
girl lies still unconscious in the Laekawanna
hospital. The train which bore McGrotte' 8
body WAS stopped by telegraph some miles
from here and returned for an inquest The
jury returned verdict of death "by accident
and misfortune"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-07
High License.
The Hove on. the saloons in iowa and
Elsewhere

Dies MONIES, May 5.-The agreement
of the saloon keepers here to lock up all the
saloons till the council reduced the new license
from 81 900 to $500, which went into force
Wednesday, was broken yesterday by l.
Iaon-keeper, and now the clerks Office is be-
sieged by others Over twenty have taken out
license already, and several more are in line
waiting to do likewise. Tt is thought that
about forty saloons all told will pay the license.
There were sixty-six saloons here under the
old license of $50. At the city of Boone
where the saloons all locked up because of the
new 500 license, and demanded of the council
a reduction, answer has been made by the coun-
oil that they are more inclined to make it 600
than to reduce It
BOONE, Ia, May 5.-This city has
been without saloons since Tuesday, May /,
none of them having takensout license. The
matter was brought before the common coun
ell at its meeting May 3, and the saloon keepers
offered to take out licenses if tho fee was re-
duced from $500 to $500, but the council re-
fused to act in the matter, and the fee rema ms
at $500 The saloons all opened yesteTda,
morning, but confine their business to the sails
of cider, pop, lemonade, and other non-intoxi-
eating drinks.
VIRGINIA, Ill, May 5.-At the meet
ing of the city council Thursday the vote to
increase saloon licenses was lost, and, there
FORE they remain at 5000, at which amount the
We saloons will probably continue to do bust
ness.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, May 5.-The com
mon council, after another heated and pro
tracted discussion. passed an ordinance fixing
the rate of license at $75, and continuing in
the hands of the mayor the power of granting
and re voking licenses.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-07

The first instance where physicians
are mentioned in the Bible is Ii. Chron-
icles xvi, II, Is. 1t is not f1attering to
the faculty, And Asa in the 30th and
ninth year of his reign, was diseased in
his feet, until his disease was exceeding
great; yet, in his disease. he sought not
to the Lord. but tothc physicians. And
Asa slept with his fathers.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-07
Fair Langtry.
Her American TOur Drawing TO q
Giose - What She Thinks of Her
American Cousins.

American Cousins.
New York. May 5.-Mrs. Langtry's
American tour is drawing to its close, and to-
nights performance at the Fifth Avenue thea
ire viii probably be her last public appear
ance IN New York for year. To Herald re-
porter Mrs Lan2try yesterday afternoon talked
of the pleasures of her visit here, aud the hap
Ply Impression sine had OF New York and Amer
lea generally.
"Haye you been pleased with your trip
through the country"
ct has been delightful and l have been so
happy, excepting in some few towns where
they said nasty things about me in the news
papers. | really love America" Mrs Langtl
added, with rapture"
"Nhere will You go when your season is
over?"
81 give nay last performance on June at
Worcester, Mass. think, and then / shall
start my holiday trip. l mean, certainly,
to spend some time in Newport and Saratoga,
and am looking forward immensely TO seeing
Newport"
~ ill you spend the whole summer in Amer
ica?"
Il should like to. but l am going to Europe
late in July, and intend studying for some time
under the late Adelaide Nelson's master III
Pans"
And what impression has the American
woman made upon you Mrs. Langtry? What
so Won think of herr"
Really, this question has surprised me
that do not know what to say; but if You
tlIInk it will really be of interest will try and
tell you what think. In the first place, l
think American women have very pretty faces,
bright and winning. One secs more pretty
faces here than III England. Then think
they have beautiful HAIR and very pretty hands
and feet"
TO SEE THE FIRE ladies.
Mrs. Langtry, accompanied by Lent Gov
Beverly Robinson, of Ontario; Freddie Geb
hardt, and other admirers visited the head
quarters of the fire department last night She
sounded the gong and the horses were hitched
in ii Sc seconds, and before the party left
alarm from Fifth avenue and Twelfth street
gave practical illustration of fire work
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-07
ChIItiren Crernnted.

RoNDoUi, n. Y, May 5.-Fire this
morning destroyed five dwellings, two barns
and several sheds Two children of NJ Cohn
David, aged L. and Rosa, aged I2-were con-
sumed in the flames Their bodies have been
found.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-07
Striking Head Lines

Are used to call attention to the fact that this is an
advertisement of the CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE
& ST. PAUL RAILWAY.
It's EIGHT Trunk Lines traverse the best pOr
tions of Northern Illinois. WISCONSIN. MINNESOTA,
DAKOTA and Iowa
Located directly its lines the cities of Chi
cago, Milwaukee, La Crosse, Winona, St Paul,
Minneapolis, Madison. Prairie Gu CHEN. Mason
City Sioux City Yankton, Albert Lea, Aberdeen,
Dubuque Rock Island, Cedar Rapids and Council
Bluffsa as well as innumerabIe other principal bust
ness centres and fayorite resorts, and passengers
going West, North, South East are able to nse
the CHICAGO MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAILWAY to
the best advantage.
Ticket Offices everywhere are supplied with
maps and Time Tables which detail the merits of
the line and agents stand ready to furnish infor
nation and sell tickets at cheapest rates over the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railway.
s. MERRILL, A. Y. II. CARPENTER,
General Manager Gen. Pass. & Tiki ct.
j. T. CLARK, GEO II. HEAFFORD,
Genl Sup't. Asst Gen. Pass. Agt.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-07
DIsoRDERLY STRIKERS.

VIENNA, May 5.--Little progress
seems to have been made towards adjusting the
grievances which caused the bakers assistants
here TO go on strike Last night a thousand
strikers engaged in q riot al the assembly
rooms. Furniture was destroyed and windows
were broken. The rioters threw up bar
rica(le in the street, to enable them to resis .
the police, who had been summoned to queE
the disturbance, and who had difficult time
in subduing the Infatuated mob Sinulta-
neously with this outbreak a demonstration
was made in another part of the city by 900
more strikers, who attacked q baildng
cupied by the Bakers associs ton, the doors
and windows of which they broke. Both
partiee of the rioters Were finally dispersed.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-07

DUBLIN, May 5.-Fitzharris will be
tried by a special jury as accessory to the
murder of Burke and for the murder of Cav
endlsh. An entirely new jury panel has been
summoned
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-07
POWDER EXPLOSION.
THE NIHILIsTS.

ST. PETERSBURG, May st is be-
lieved that the authorities at Moscow have
been invested with power to arrest number
OF persons who have been acting suspiciously
III that city, and to detan them until the cor
onatlon of the car has taken place.
Much ill-feeling exists III some of the regi-
ments of the army, owing to the fact that re-
wards ale being offered TO men to induce them
to deuounce any OF their. comrades who
known to be nihIlists
GuERRILLAs FIGHTING THE CHTLIANs.
LIMA, April 3.-Colonel Canto has
had two engagements with Caceri's forces at
Balconiello and Pampas de Sicaya. In both
casea he routed the enemy capturing cannon
and forty rifles. The ChilIans had / killed and
l. wounded, aud the Monteneros so killed.
Cacerl l- at Iarta. His troops are democrat
led
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-07
Phipps, of Philadelphia
The Jury Finds Him Guiity, and He
Is Much Ahected---Other Grimes
and Criminals.

and Criminals.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, May 5.-The
jury in the trial of Phipps, the defaulting ex-
superintendent of the almshouse, this morning
rendered verdict of guilty The Indictment
for forgery, and the penalty viii not be
less lhan three years in the pententiary. The
prisoner much affected, and his former
confederates are worse scared than evor
SHOT ON A TRAIN.
CLINTON, Mo, May William Mich
OILS, travelling salesman for the machinery firm
of Cockrell & Co, of Dallas, Texas was shot
AMI killed this evening by Charles h Adams
east-bound passenger train, as 1t was APP
preaching Montrose, twelve miles from here
1t Is thought that Adams Is crank, and had
been drinking. He Is said to hall from Carroll
ton Ill
CONVICTED OF FORGERY.
PHILADELPHIA, May 5.-The jury in
the case of Ellis H Phipps, ex-almshouse
superintendent, charged with forgery, after
beis out all night, returned "a verdict OF guilty
this morning
ARKANSAS OUTLAWS.
ST. LOUIS, May ). -Advices from
Van Buren, county, Ark, say that section of
country is being held in terror by two escaped
conyicts, named ,Slmes Miller and Thomas
Katharin, who have made an almost inaccessi-
bic part OF the Boston mountains their refuge,
and from which they emerge, and commit all
manner of depredations ON property, not even
stopping at murder These acts have CON
tinned until almost the entire population of
that region have become aroused. At last ae-
counts party of twenty men, including some
OF the best citizens of Van Buren, county, under
command of Colonel Richard Poe, had started
ont to hunt down the outlaws Should they be
found they will be killed on sight; but as Miller
and Katherin are well armed aud most de5per-
ate men, it is feared that some of their pur-
suers will be slain before they exteTmi-
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-07
Meat Market.

E. SCHNEIDER, dealer in all kinds of fresh and salt
ed meats, No. 1917 Second avenue, Rock Island, Ill
oct1Sd1y
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-07
CHICAGO. BURLINGTON & QUINCY.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE 4 ST. PAUL.

Trains No. Z, S, and 10 are Maquoketa Branch.
Trans and 4, Accommodation for oxford Juuc-
tion; l and ,, Passenger, for Celmar.
h ID. W. HOLMES, Agent
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-07

4 TToRNEY AT Law, Solicitor in Chancery and
IL Notary Public, Abstracts, Loans and coilec-
tions. Office, Buford's Block, I'd avenue, over
Bakers Jewelry store. nov-20-dly
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-07

I ENWW
Elegant Day Coaches, ParIor Cars. with Recita
ing Chairs tseats free), Smoking Cars with Re
fvolplng Chairs, Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars and
Ekne IaLnousG b q G. Dining Cars run daily TO and
rom Chicago Kansas City, Chicago q Council
Ebluffs, Chicago II Des Moines. Chicago, Sc. 10,
tween Chicago. Lincoln a. Denver. Through cars
Ibetween Indianapolis & Council Bluffs via Peoria
An connections made in Union Depots It rs
known asthe great THROUGH CAR LINE.
Finest Equipped Railroad in ths
T. J. POTTER al Vice. Presit and Gent Manager
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-07
OVER THE SEA,
Earthquake in Persia--An Explosion
at Portsmouth, E;ngland--Foreign
News Notes.

LONDON, May "a dispatch has
been received from Tabreez, Persia, reporting
that that city had been visited by an earth
quake, which destroyed a great many houses,
and caused the death of large number of
persons.
POWDER EXPLOSION.
PORTSMOUTH, May 5.-An explosion
occurred IN the government powder magazine,
situated on Priddy's Head, in Portsmouth har-
Dor to-day The building WAS completely de
molIshed. 1t IL reported that nine persons
were killed, and i number wounded
koon--Lator information from Portsmouth
states that the explosion IN the powder maya
zines on Priddy's Head was caused
by the accidental ignition of some
powder during the filling of quantity of
shells The loss of life is happily not so great
as Al first reported Only two persons were
killed outright; five, however, are in dying
condition.
p. ma dispatch just received from
Portsmouth states thai four of the persons in
lured at the powder explosion have died, maxi
ing The total number of fatalities O.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-07
w. r. MAGILL,

DENTIST. Office, corner OF Second Avenue and
IL Eighteenth street. Room 8, over Rock Island
National Bank. Rock Island. Illinois. nov-22-d6m
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-07
"BUR,LlINGTON ROUTE /"

GOING M0RTH AND SOUTH.
Solid Trains Of Elegant Day Coaches and Pull
man PALACE Sleeping Cars are run daily % and
from st Louis, via Hannibal, Quincy, keokulz,
Burlington. Cedar Rapids and Albert Lea 20 st
Paul and Minneapolis. Parior Cars with Reclining
Chairs TO and from st. Louis and Peoria and 10
change of cars between St. Louis and Des
Moines, Iowa. Lincoln Nebraska, and Denver,
Colorado.
It's universally admitted TO be the
World for ali Glasses OF TraVel.
PERCEVAL LOWELL, Gen. Pass. Ag't, Chicago
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-07
ROCK ISLAND & PEORIA RAILWAY.

The I 10 P. Ia, IFalIi Inahes cIost CohIttLloh
at GalVa with the q. b. & @. for points west;
irving at Galesburg at :25 p. m. Burlington 6:4O
p. III. Keoknk 10:25 p. m; Quincy 1905 p
also making close connection at Peoria with l. Il.
& W, and =. p. 4 w, roads for all points east
and south
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-12-06
The Laws Of Trade.

"Twenty-three dollars for that ERE
stove!' she exclaimed, before a Wall
Street NeDs man, as she held up her
hands in horror.
"Yes'm-twenty-three."
"But iron is down."
eyes"
"I've seen in the papers during the
last month where as many as six big
iron companies have failed"
"WellP' ,,o-
"That ought to make stoves cheaper
and l know it. -.
madame, in the last two months
death has laid his hand on as many as
twenty-five young 'uns in this town"
Eyes, poor things" r.
"But are nursing g-bottles any cheaper
than three months agop''
'N-o," she slowly admitted.
"Of course not, madame. The laws
of trade are immutable The best T
can do is to throw in horse-radish
crater if you take the stove at twenty
three dollars" xxi
The Georgia Legislature after
having tried for years to pa, dogs
law, has remitted it at lntiesaeralsey-.