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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21
THE TRIENNIAL CONCLAVE.
Dreadful Crush Sunday Afternoon Mt the
Religious Services in the Pavilion
An EnnnaSfno SDann

Dreadful Crush Sunday Afternoon ut the
Religious Services in the Pavilion
An Imposing Scene.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. p.
Even the weather is doing its best to make
the Eastern Knights feel at home. The
thermometer Sunday morning was II. At
the religious services Sunday after
noon at the pavalon there was a terrible
crush, and for many almost vital
crush. There were 5000 in the building
and 1000 left outside, who continued to put
forth every effort to obtain entrance. AL
though large police force was present it
was unable to control the crowd, the greater
number of officers being employed in carry
ing off fainting women and children. The
interior of the pavilion was so hot that be
fore the services was half over the people
commenced streaming out only to make way
for others anxious to stream in EX-
pressiOns of thanks were repeatedly heard
from those who had managed to get
out at not being crushed to death.
This is the first evidence of any mis-
management on the part of the committee,
who permitted twice too many tickets to
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21

The officers of the Pennsylvania Agri-
cultural Society have abandoned the State
Fair which was to have been held in
Philadelphia this year, because of the i'm
possibility of erecting the needed build
ings in season for its opening. The
society has leased ground In the city for
ten years and intends to erect iron framed
buildings upon it, specially adapted for
the purposes of the exhibition.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21
Terrific Rain Storm.

TORONTO, Can, Aug 81
A terrific rain-storm, accompanied by
thunder and lightning, visited the north
western part of Ontario Sunday. At Lis
towel the water was two feet deep in the
streets. Several buildings and bridges
were carried away, and the destruction to
property generally is very great. At Wing
ham the nveT rose twelve feet. The rail-
way bridge and track were washed away,
and the country road covered four feet with
water A large quantity of standing grain
was DESTROYED
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21
A Negro Abduction Shot Down by an lrate
Father
CEDAR FALLS, Ia, Aug. u.

CEDAR FALLS, Ia, Aug u.
George Hensen, a negro barber, by the
aid of his white wife, abducted young
girl named Celissa Codner a cousin of the
woman. The girl escaped, and on telling
her story Henson was arrested just as
Hensen had left the court in company with
Deputy Sheriff Edgington, after the pre-
liminary trial Saturday, Nathan Codner,
the father of the victim, passed his arm be
hind the officer and shot Hansen so that he
died in half an hour. Codner was arrested
at once. He confesseS the shooting, and
says 'he don't care, he had Just as lief die,
but he wanted satisfaction out of that
niognrn
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21

pe lssuea. me scene inside was imposing,
the floor of the pavilion being mass of
handsome uniforms and flowing plumes.
The exercises were conducted in the usual
knights Templar order, opening with the
professional hymn, Onward, Christian
Soldiers rendered in such grand style as
to quicken the pulses of all who heard it..
The services terminated at five O'Clock,
each commandery seeking its own head
quarters,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21
They Blew Out the Gas.

CHICAGO. Aug. p.
A man and woman, who registered as NJ.
Crowley and wife, were found at $50
o'clock Sunday, at the West Side CONNER
cjal Hotel, Madison street, in an unconscious
condition caused by escaping gas. A physi-
man in dangerous condition. They went
to the hotel Saturday night at nine O'Clock,
and were assigned torOOm 80, on the second
floor As they did not appear for breakfast
nor dinner, the proprietor became alarmed
and forced open the door. On retiring the
gas had been blown out and as all ventila-
ton was closed the couple We're asphyxiat-
ed. The woman, apparently forty years
old, was taken to the hospital, but cannot
recover.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21

Concerning government postal tele-
graph system, the late Zach" Chandler,
United States Senator from Michigan,
once wrote to friend as follows:
The general purposes of the telegraph
system and of the mail system are the
same, viz: To transmit intelligence from
one part of the country to another
The telegraph already supersedes the
Use Of the mail us a medium of communi-
cation to a great extent, and the telegraph
will continue to make still greater inroads
upon the mail service. cutting off the
revenues of the government from the lat
ter service, virtually allowing the tele.
graph CON panies to get the cream of the
business and the profits, too, unless the
government controls both systems
1t is only question Of time. The
government has, under the constitution,
rs good right to transact intelligence by
telegraph as it has to transact it by mail.
Who would for one moment think of the
proposition to have the government turn
over the business of carrying the mails to
private corporations.
1t is true that an express company will
carry letter and see that it is delivered
to the proper person, but they will charge
% cents for doing exactly what the gov
eminent will do for cents.
So with the telegraph system; when the
time comes that the government has the
control of the business, a great reduction
in rates will follow, and the people will
only wonder why the government did not
sooner exercise its prerogative right to
take hold of and carry on the system OF
telegraphy in the interests of the public.
BY cheapeDing the rates we popularize
the system, and, as railroad car is an
improvement on the stage coach as a
means of transportation, so will the tele-
graph be very extensively used as means
of communication in preference to the
slower method of accomplishing the same
purpose through the mails.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21

CHAMPAIGN, H., Aug. q.
The sorghum crop, which is very i'm
pOrtant interest here, is in diseouraging
condition. The stand is poor, stalks small
and the growth slow. The Champaign
Sugar Company controls about 500 acres,
and feel great concern about the lateness of
the season. The broom corn crop is anOth-
er large interest here and is in no better con-
dition. Growers report that the crop will
inevitably be short
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21

Joe Payne, negro, having confessed
to the murder of Towns Sayle, Young
merchant at Oakland, Miss, on the 26lh
of July, the people of the town held a
court Thursday, at which tn mayor
presided, and the verdict of the assem-
hlage was death by hanging. Payne was
Immediately executed, and the people
d'snarsed
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21
Norvin Green.

New YORK Aug. 81.
DR.. Norym Green, President of the West
EN- Union Telegraph Company, arrived
home Sunday in the steamship Alaska DR..
Green had a cordial welcome from many
personal friends and officers of the Western
Union Telegraph Company. After a short
talk with General Eckert, the acting Presi-
dent, Dr. Green expressed himself well
pleased that the strike of the operators had
been brought to a close, and in hearty terms
thanked General-Superintenden Tinker and
Superintendent IlumStone and other officers
of the company for their able management
Of the trnuhlnnS Question
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21
Apaches Still Committing 0u,rauas.

DEMING, n. N, Aug q,
A wealthy Mexican named Bayispe of
Sonora, was killed on August 4, and his
young wife and thirty-six horses were car
RED Off by the Indians. ID. c. Leroy, an
American cattle man, offered one thousand
dollars for rescue party to enter the Sierra
Madres with him to take Charley McComas
from JUS band, but could get none of the
Pueblo Indians to assist him.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21

Mr.. Mckee Rankin the actor weight
900 pounds who has been required by
the Union Square theatre management to
reduce himself twenty FIVE pounds in
order to fit him for the part of the lover
in storm Beaten" is now to that end
living on not-fatteuing food and taking
Iaborious physical exercise.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21

Official returns from 100 out Of III
counties in Kentucky show the following
vote for governor: Knott. democrat,
1919. 1911; Morrow, republican, $500
Kpotts majority 1851. In 1879 these
same counties gave Blackburn 40, IT'S ma
jority The remaining eight counties in
1879 gave a democratic majority of H.
40
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21
Harvest Work to Begin in Dakota.

FARGO, ID. T., Aug. r.
To-day harvest will be inaugurated
throughout the Red River Valley One
hundred and thirty-fve harvesting machines
viii be put in operation on Dalrymple Farm,
and many others will start from twenty-five
to thirty each. The crop will be fair and
the grain of first-class quality.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21
NEVER GIVE UP.

If you are suffering with low and de-
pressed spirits, loss of appetite, general
debility, disordered blood, weak con.
stitution, headache, or any disease of a
bilious nature, by all means procure a
bottle of Electric Bitters. You will be
surprised to see the rapid Improvement
that will follow; you will be inspired
with new life; strength and activity will
return; pain and misery will cease, and
henceforth you will rejoice in the praise
of Electric Bltters Sold at fifty cents a
bottle by Hartz & Bahnsen.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21
They Were ALI Killed.

ALBUQUERQUE, N. NJ, Aug. q.
At Estancia Ranch, Saturday, joel ?.
Whitney, of Boston, and his brother-in-law,
A. Fernandez, attempted to serve a writ OF
eiectment on Manuel OteTO A fight ell
sued and Otero and Fernandez were shot
dead and Whitney MORALLY wounded, and
has SINCE died
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21
Bay Stale Democrats.

BOSTON, Aug. q.
The Democratic State Convention has
been called to meet at Springfield Septem-
Der 26, one week after the Republican Con
vention The usual order has been the re-
verse of this, and is thought to have been
changed in Difference TO Governor Butler
who wishes to hinge his own candidacy on
the wisdom OF mWisdom of his opponents
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21
THE IRISH oBsrRUcTIoNIsTs.

LONDON, Aug. q.
Yesterday mornings Times commenting
on the language used of late in the House
of Commons by number of members for
Ireland, and particularly that of Healy, in
his response on Saturday last to Gladstone's
remarks when the former declared there
was state of war between England and
ireland, says: "Sterner demeanOr on the
part of the House will before long be neces-
sary in view of these revolving excuses"
TIE MOTHER OF THE LATE KING.
Advices from Hue, AMMAN, state that the
mother of the late King Tudue, who always
prevented her son from openly rupturing
the relations between AMMAN and France,
has, by order of the new ruler of the coun-
try, been forbidden to quit the palace.
IN THE HOUSE.
The House of Commons continued in ses-
sion until an early hour Sunday morning.
The Irish Trainway bill passed to third
reading. Parnell had been assured by the
Government that only $50 600 will be de-
voted to immigration purposes.
PARNELL.
As soon as the Irish Convention is over
Mr.. Parnell will visit Cork, Glasgow New
Castle and Liverpool and, should time per
nit, may change his mind and visit Ameri-
ca. He will, at all events, return in time
to be in his place in the House of Commons
when the next session begins.
OLIVE LoGAN's HUSBAND DEAD.
The death of Hon. William Writ Sykes,
United States Consul at Cardiff, is an
nounced. He died at Cardiff Saturday, in
| the fOTty-seventh year of his age, and had
been in office seven years, having been APP
pointed from New York in 1876. Mr..
Sykes was the husband of the American
actress and lecturer, Olive Logan. Although
he has been i'll for some time his death was
unexpected. 1t is understood that the re
mains will be taken to America for inter-
ment.
COMMANDMENT OF HUE.
PARIS Aug. 81.
1t is affirmed that the bombardment of
Hue by the French was begun Saturday.
Admiral De Many, Minister of Marine and
of Colonies, has ordered six gunboats to be
constructed for TOnquin.
CHAMBoRD STILL LIVES.
Count de Chambord is not dead yet. Con-
trary to all expectation, both of his friends
and of his physicians, he survived what
seemed his death struggle and still lives.
His condition can, however, be called al
most nothing more than bare existence, for
his weakness is so great that he is liable to
pass away almost at any instant His mind
seems to be giving way, and at times seems
sadly disturbed. There is, however, slight
hope that he will yet recover. The chances
are very great against such thing
BUNGLING EXECUTIONS.
MADRID. Aug 81.
The Military Journal gives narrowing
account of the execution of four sergeants.
Three volleys were required to finish them,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21
Coming North.

MEMPHIS Aug. 81.
The Porter Guards and large delegation
of citizens left Sunday morning for Chicago,
Dubuque and Cedar Falls, where the Guards
will take part in the annual encampment of
the Iowa troopS.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21
Stone Cutters Compete Tor a $1,000 Stake.

Boston, Mass, Aug. FL
In a stone-cutters' contest at Beaver Brook
Saturday for 3 900, between jeremiah Sui
Ivan, of Hudson, and John Morgan, of
Portland, craftsmen, between whom there
has been considerable rivalry, Sullivan won,
drilling 221 inches in ten hours TO 2l3 for
MORGAN, the tools being identical.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21
California Wheat.

SAN Francisco. Cal, Aug. 81
The Grain Exchange Committee have
issued statement showing the wheat yield
of the various counties of California the
present year to be s., 900, 900 bushels, an
increase of $4,000, 900 over last year. The
total barley yield this year is $4,000, 900
bushels an increase over last year of 9, $780,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21

On next Friday, the Gath, the corner
stone Will be laid of the Garfield monu
ment IN Golden Gate Park, San Fran
cisco. In recognition of the event, Gov
ornor Stoneman las issued a proclamation
making it a legal holiday throughout the
state
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21

Some of the peculiarities of the times
are universally recognized, even by the
most ordinary mortals. Said a plucky
little fellow to huge blusterer:-'1
don't care if yon are as big as a church
debt; you can't scare me-
The Rev. C. W. Powell, pastor of
the Flatbush O.. y Methodist Epis-
copal church and who also breaches at
Sheepshead Bay, uses a tricycle. in attend
ing to his pastoral duties, even when
making calls among the members of his
flock
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21
Takinu The Veil.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Aug. p.
The ceremony of initiating forty-eight
young ladies as nuns took place at Noue
Dame Convent Sunday. The services
took place in the little chapel connected with
the convent, and were presided over by
Archbishop Hess. Only the officiating
priests, the Sisters of Notre Dame, and the
i,,,,,,,di ,ta friends ~ unr nuN1uaIVo, were
present.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21
Two Suicides in a New York Town.

WEsTFIELD, N. Y, Aug 81
DR.. J. B. Campbell, a prominent physi-
elan, committed [suieidel Sunday by TAX
ing chlorat The act was caused by drink.
Wilder Rixford, farmer in comfortable
circumstances, soon afterward shot himself
in the right temple, the ball entering from
the left ear. No causk for the act is
known.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21
The Law DiSreqarded.

- ST. LOUIS. Aug. 81.
The liquor and cigar shops in this city
quite generally disregarded the Sunday law
Governor Crittenden has just returned from
aprOlonged Western trip, and is represent
ed as highly indignant at the course taken
by the saloon-keepers, and declares that the
law shall be enforced
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21

FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
THE VERY LATEST NEWS BY CABLE.
The Daily Report From the AsiatiC
PIacue-De ChambOrd's Condition
Proceedings in Parliament
Other News.
VICTIMS OF THE CHOLERA.

LONDON, Aug. 2l
The cholera carried off 80 victims Satur-
day. This is the smallest number known
for weeks, and more hopeful feeling pre-
walls through stricken Egypt. Five of these
deaths occurred at Cairo, while in Alexan-
dria according to official reports, the vic
Tins of the scourge numbered thirty-two.
One of the deaths at Alexandria was that of
a British soldier Another death from the
plague occurred in Beyrout, Saturday,
while several new cases made their appear
9ncp
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21

Salmi Morse, Thursday, in New York,
assigned his lease of the theatre he built
for the production of his Passion Play.
The lease, with privilege of renewal runs
for five years, and the annual rental is
sis 600
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21

The Indian Bureau has awarded Strange
Bros, of Sioux City. Iowa, the contract
for supplying. stock cattle to the Grow
Indian agency, Montana, at $3O,O0O.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21

A man named Darling lives in Fargo,
ard when anyone calls to him on the
street every young lady within thee
blocks bushes and looks around.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21
Tuesday August 81, 1888.

DAILY,............ % Genus Per naoi'..,
advance. So o. will be charged.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21

League games Saturday: Cleveland, y;
Chicago, ,. Providence, 9; Philadelphia, A.
New York, 4; Boston, .. Buffalo, 3; De
trOit, ,.
The following is the record of the various
81. -
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21
MADRID Al


PHILADELPHIA, Aug. q.
1t is stated that the Standard Oil COmpa-
ny has absorbed the Underwater Pipe Line,
the latter company transferring to the Stand
ard the entire control of the transportation
of crude petroleum, and practically also a
monopoly of the trade in refined oil. The
price paid for the g stock, goodwill and
fixtures of the Underwater Company is not
given.
NEW YORK, Aug. 81.
President Sumner, of the Tide water Pipe
Company, denies the Philadelphia report
that his company has sold out to the Stand
ard Oil Company. Notwithstanding his de
hal il is thought by parties here, who are III
position to know, that there is some truth
in the story.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21

AS the troops marched past the Doales one
wretch staggered up, begging for mercy.
lie was shot also. The shooting party was
composed of fellOw-mutineers who had re-
turned to their duty at the call of the Col
onel during the pursuirof the rebels. The
men who We're executed left young widows
and children and belonged to respectable
families. The provinces are now all quiet.
CAsAMICCIoIA BEING REBUILT.
ROME Aug. p.
The P0pOI0 Romano says the town of
Casamiccola, on the island of Ischia, which
was recently destroyed by an earthquake, is
rapidly being rebuilt. Already one hun
bred and tifty-four houses have been erected
and occupied 1t has been decided to name
the streets in the town after the King and
Queen of Italy. At FariO, another of the
desOlated towns, houses have been erected
for accommodating fifty-two families,
POLITICAL ALLIANCE.
MADRID, Aug. 81
The Madrid newspapers are discussing the
expediency of forming an alliance between
Spain, Austria and Germany, in order to
check the influence of the French democracy
in Spanish politics.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21

DIVORCES No publicity; residents of any Stale
DDcsertion, Non support. Advice and appiCa-
ton for stamp. ". H. LEE, Atty $50 B'wy ny
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21

W POTTER. EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-21

socK ISLAND ......... 80. ILLINOIS.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-10-24
UTAH.
Items from saIt Lake.

SALT LAKE, October 23d-This evening
Charles Francis Adams and other Union Pa
cifc Directors arrived in Salt Lake from
Idaho, where they have been inspecting the
Oregon short line. They will inspect the
Salt Lake and Nevada, branch of the
Usion Pacific, which they propose extending
to Nevada and California at no distant day.
A freight war Is prevailing between the
Union Pacific and Denver aud Rio Grande
from the Missouri river to Salt Lake. The
latter road was the first to cut rates, drop
ping to 80 cents ON all classes of freight.
The Union Pacific met it, and dropped to %
cents hundred. The cut will probably not
last long, and merchants are making the best
Of it.
DIR. J. M. Williams, an old army surgeon,
who cana to Salt Lake with General Con-
nors command, died in this city to-day of
apoplexy. He passed through some trying
ordeals in endesvoring to exercise the rights
of an American citizen in Utah. For daring
to claim land in the neighborhood of this city
as a pre-emptor under the United States
law. he was tied in a sack and was about to
be thrown into the Jordan river. when he
told them he would like to have a chew of
tobacco before being drowned like cat. His
cool manner dashed them for moment, and
they psrleyed with him. He told them he
would fight them single-hsnded with any
weapons they might choose, but they de-
c,ined, telling him he was too good a man to
be thrown into the river in a sack, and let
him go on condition of his leaving Utah.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-10-24

heading of report" In the case before
the Court, the paper did not present the
affidavit as filed in Court, but "a para
phrase of it, and SO the publisher was
held for libel. We are not informed in the
report of the case, whether the paraphrase
distorted the affidavit, and misrepresented
it. We must assume that it did, for the
Court certainly would not have held that
a synopsis Of the affidavit. adhering to the
truth, would have been unprivileged. But
if we are to understand the word para
phrase in its plain sense, the Court GER
tainly erred for to paraphrase is "to
restate the text expressing the meaning of
the original in another form, generally for
the sake of its clearer and fuller exposi-
tion." It is not the law that publication
of Court proceedings must be made "in
full ia order to be privileged. To hold
that it is, is to cripple the press most aeri-
ously, and to abridge its privileges. 1t
is, therefore. to be assumed that what the
Court terms paraphrase was not
truthful recital, nor making clearer the
meaning of the original