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Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-07-26
THE SLUGGER SULLIVAN.
How Near h" Came to helms; Perforated by
Bullet.
Boston Herald

1
Boston Herald.
The story of the trouble between John
l.. Sullivan and Patrick Coaklev in this
city last week has not baen accurately
told. From all that can be learned
Coakley was playing pool with some
friends in Mckay's saloon when Sullivan
and his friends entered. Coakley asked
Sullivan tOjOin him in a drink and Sui
livan refused. When Coakley had lin
ished his game of billiards he was about
to retire, when Sullivan asked him to
take a drink Coakley remarked
mo don't care to do that, but I',l plav
you one game of pool for a bottle of
vine" IL 90 you;" remarked Sullivan.
The balls were placed, and Sullivan won
the break or first shot. He failed to
pocket ball, and Coakley followed
with stroke which resulted in two balls
pocketed. Sullivan play ed again without.
effect, and Coakley followed with run
of several balls, whereupon Suliivan's
chuns displaced the balls that remained
on the table and broke the zane up.
Coakl0y then put his cue in the rack.
and Sullivan followed him up telling
him he was "a fraud,""a sucker" &c.
Coakley told John L. that he knew
better than that.
Sullivan answered that he had known
Coakley when he kept little "gin mill"
at the south end, and when he didn't
put on so many airs as he did now, and
didn't have cent
Coakley told John l.. that the state
ment was untrue, and that he had plenty
OF fmoney before Sullivan was born; more
over, he had befriended Sullivan when
he was in hard lines, in fact. when he
didn't have shirt to his back" SulIi-
van thereupOn bacame exceedingly
wroth, made an aggressive movement
toward Coakley, and continued his abuse.
Coakley warned him not to step a foot
forward, and drew a revolver. Mckay
had seized Sullivan meanwhile and
pushed him toward a billiard table.
Thoroughly aroused by what had taken
place, Coakley called Sullivan an Irish
- -" and followed the epithet with
the remark: IF anyone called me that
I'd kill him" Sullivan had now made
another forward movement, SO that Me-
Kay did not fully shield him, and i'm
mediately Coakley raised his revolver
and pulled the trigger
AS his arm went up, tho barrel of the
revolver was grasped by a bystander,
and the hammer, falling with force,
made an ugly wound, but saved the
mans life, for, if the hammer had fallen
without striking his hand, he would
have been killed instead of Sullivan, as
the muzzle of the gun" was pointed in
the direction of his abdomen when the
hammer fell.
Here the trouble ceased, Lut those
who know Coakley say that he will al
ways be on the alert for Sullivan, and
if the champion ever lifts a hand or
makes an aggressive movement toward
him he will surely kill him if he gets
"the draw"
Men in the gambling fraternity saw
that Sullivan was not justified in acting
as he did with Coakley, but that the
pugilist's mind had been poisoned against
the gambler by stories of banco men
and petty gamesters whom Coakley
would not allow in his place of business.
1t is needless 10 say that all had been
drinking
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-07-26
They Were In Doubt.
Yankton Press.

A long striped snake crawled into
basement saloon yesterday, and was in
the middle of the room before anybody
saw it. The inmates stood aghast and
speechless for several seconds, when one
OF then, pointing his finger at the object
managed to articulate:
"Do any of the rest of you see that?"
They responded in chorus:
ayes, we all do"
"It's a great relief to me to know it,
said the first, "for / thought was going
to have another attack of malaria"
'Me tool" responded the chorus and
then they fell on the snake with billiard
cues and killed it.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-07-26
Mr.. KEENE'S CUP TO GO BACK.
Queen victor'a's Present Denisd d Resting
Place i'm America.

Place I'm America.
Collector Robertson announced few
days ago that under the law he should
proceed to sell at public auction the
golden cup valued at e500 which was
won by James r. Keene's Foxhall at As
cot in 1882. The Gun had been held for
one year, the prescribed limit, for the
non-payment of customs duties, which
amounted to about 81 800.
Mr.. Keene refused TO pay what he con
sideIed an exorbitant duty on trophy
won by an American horse and declared
that lie would appeal the case to Secre-
tary Folger. Yesterday Collector Robert
son received the following from Secretary
Folger:
NJ. James r. Keene has asked per.
mission TO forward the cup won by Fox
hall at Ascot to England wilhGut paw
ment of duty. AS the article in a com
mercial sense is not otmerchandise you may
grant the request, providing il is re-ex-
ported within thirty days.
Collector Robertson said that under
the strict Interpretation of the customs
law the cup should have been seized and
sold Tor the non-payment of duties, but
he was pleased that vigorous measures
had not been adopted on the matter
Mr.. Keene received the congratulations
of his Wall Street brethern over the new
turn of affairs.
The cup weighs eight pounds and is of
solid gold and will hereafter he on ex-
hibition at the London Tattersalls be-
cause Uncle Sam was tribe too grasp
ing.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-07-26

New York Sun: Mr.. Philip Hamilton,
the youngest son of the great Alexander
Hamilton, died at POuehkeepsie on
Wednesday, we do not know his exact age
but it must have been considerably more
than eighty years. The last time We re-
member seeing Mr.. Hamilton was about
the year 1854, when he came into the
Tribune Office late one night to inform
us that, although he was HuhFer Dem
ocrat, had been sheltering fugitive slave
from Maryland in his house for two three
days, and desired that some person
should be sent to him who would pilot
the man safely on the way to Cangda
Mr.. Hamilton requested that his part in
the transaction should not oe made pub
lie, and this is the first time that we have
ever printed it. Ii inspired MS with the
belief that he was man of excellent
heart, and this belief we have lever seen
any reason to change.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-07-26
A Variation Of the Usual Frog story.
Louisville Post.

Louisville Post.
A wagon ofthe Talmage Lake Ice Com
pany delivered large cake of ice to Mr..
John Lepping. A servant split the piece
open. ard in the centre was large frog.
The animal was large black one of the
species known as the Michigan frog and
weighed two pounds or over The man
who delivered the ice said that it was
part OF lot that had been stored away
by the Talmage Company in their ice
house for over four years, so that the
frog had been a prisoner in this cold
dungeon for all that time. His frogship
was quite lively when relieved from his
PRISON, and hoped around as vigorously
as any of his tribe. Ed Early % the
hook ard ladder company on FL ghth
street ;ook charge of him, and will to-
day give him to the firemen engine
house No. 7, who will put him in their
fountain.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-07-26

In the Friends annual meeting at
Newport, one of the younger members
of the association protested against the
custom of men and women sitting apart,
but nothing was done toward abolishing
it although the sentiment of the meet
ing is said to have been strongly against
separation.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-07-26

o. n. KNOX.

With the swallows homeward flying,
Flies my heart, dear land, TO thee;
For thy quiet fields I'm signing,
For the home / may not see.
Oh, 'tis summer there! the roses
In the quiet garden blow;
There my children gather pOsies,
As gather'd long ago.
England, England when I'm dying
May my face be turn'd to thee;
When in foreign earth I'm lying,
Plant an English flower by me.
Pail Mall Gazette.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-07-26

The Rev. DIR. Washington GLADDEN. de-
clares that no man can honestly heapup
such fortunes as have been gathered by
some ofthe gre.;t financial b ldits ofour
own time. This is true en- u such for
tunes are, the greater part of Iheln, moth
ing but loot; and the Ten who have "a b.
cred them are nothing but thieves and
robbers"
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-07-26
STUDIES IN CRIME.
Iehn Wilson'S Career Of Sin in Scot
land, America, and on the Seas.

pyng By Starvation and Neglect.-"Csn-
sibal Piekard's Crazy Deeds In Southern
Aris.ns.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-11

East Fifty first street On the discovery OF
the marriage Inspector Byrnes sent out the
following general alarm to countermand the
one sent out Tuesday night: "Victoria
Morosini and E. j. Schilling are married;
they cannot be arrested"
1t is said Schilling is of no
BILE BIRTH but poor, and Miss
Victoria, it is stated met him first at Del
mOnicoS, where he was a waiter, The sup
position is that he went into MorOsinis EN-
ploy as coachman in order to be near the
young lady. She has, it is said, magnificent
voice, and the probabilities are that unless Mr..
Morisini relents and takes them back she will
go on the stage as an opera
singer, as she has often desired
to do. The young lady, it is said, had
thous ands of dollars worth of diamond jew
elry, which she took when she fled from
home. She had many suitors She fire.
quently went out driving, accompanied by
Schilling, and on account of his close at
tention to her, he was discharged She al.
ways defended him against attacks by mem
hers of the family.
The marriage was pc erformed by the Rev.
Mr.. Hauser, German Methodist, in his
house in East Fifty fifth street, about s
o'clock Tuesday afternoon. In answer to The
clergyman's question, the bridegroom gave
the name of John Ernst Hulskamp, which in:
dicates that "Schilling," under which
he worked for Mr.. Morosini
was an assumed name. He said he
was 81 years old and born in Germany The
bride gave her name as Victoria Agnes P
Morosini. She said she was born in Staten
Island; that her fathers Christian name was
Giovanni and that her mothers name was
Julia. Halskamp said he was anxious to
catch the night boat for Troy (which leaves
at o'clock, and had a boy
called, when he sent for g
carriage After waiting little while be
became nervous, got up, and left with his
wife on foot The parties being of FIJI age,
the bride giving her age correctly as "A, Mr..
HauSer had no reason to suspect there was
anything wrong
Inspector Byrnes said the couple did not &C
to Troy and that he knew that he passed last
night i'll this city, He declined to tell where
they staVed
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-11
Fire Losses.

PTTTsBURG, Sept. 1l.-Fire Tuesday even
ing destroyed the wholesale rag warehouse OF
Joseph Benedict & Co. and portion of the
stock of Martin, Blatt & Co, wholesale tea
dealers on Second avenue Benedict & Co )
loss is about $4,000; insurance, SIS 900
Blatt & Co.'S loss $1,000; insurance $500
Loss on buildings about 100000. Spontane-
Gus combustion is the supposed cause. David
Lewis, a fireman, was probably fatally in
jured by falling floor.
New YORK, Sept. IA fire in the three
story brick building at 9S Walker street,
caused a loss of $4,000. The principal losers
are n. A. Elsberg, manufacturer of embossed
silks.and velyets; loss, so, 1000; insured. H.
T. Williams, dealer in housekeeping dry
goods; loss, SO, 900; insured
MITCHELL, D. T., Sept. IA fire in the
center of the town Tuesday night destroyed
the Letcher brick and stone building, the
drug store of L. o. Gale, and the general
store of P. T. McGovern, with number OF
smaller buildings. The total loss is esti
mated at S125, 900. Letcher & Co.'S loss is
$4,000; ?. T. McGovern's, S25,000; L. O.
Gale, 1000; Fox & Witte's photograph
gallery, 5000, and other losses amounting
to s25, 200. The insurance covers about one
third of the losses
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-11
OfInterest to Smol.ers.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Sept. 11.-Exhaustive
reports on the tobacco crop from 500 CORE
spondents of The New England Homestead,
covering all the seed-leaf tobacco growing
sections of the United States, indicate that
the crop now nearly harvested is the best that
has been raised for years. The total average
may be slightly less than 1888, but the pro
portion of Havana leaf has greatly increased.
Fully two-thir}S of the entire seed
leaf crop is of that variety, the balance being
common. The tobacco counties of Ohio, H.
linois and Indiana are the only sections re-
porting unfavorably. The actual offers
show that Havana is likely to command good
prices. From Is to 90 cents per pound has
been offered in New England for Havana, Il
to 80 in New York and in one instance in
Pennsylvania as high as 40. In Wisconsin
IS to 20 has been refused for Havana, the
growers expecting higher price. The large
crop, however, will make it a dubious policy
to hold for extreme prices.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-11
DISTINCTIONS REVEL.
Ruin Cuts a Swathe Through Min.
nesota and Wisconsin.
The Cyclone Ravages Clear Lake,
Marine and White Bear
Lake.
Several Lives Lost and Many Families
Left Destitute The Destruction
Of Property Very Great--In-
cidents Of the Storm.

ST. Paul, Mimi, Sept. ll--A special
from Clear Lake Wis, says: Late Tuesday
afternoon a cyclone struck this place and
awful devastation was the result. The
greater portion of the town is in ruins and
three lives were lost. The scene after
the storm passed over was horrible in
the extreme. Men, women, and children
were running about in perfect frenzy of
excitement and fear. Here and there people
could he seen coming out of their cellars
almost para!yzed with fear One house
was taken from its foundation and turned
completely around large barn was
blown away, leaving only the floor and man
gers, with the horses peacefully eating
their supper. A little child was taken
in the arms of the tempest and landed in the
branches of tree but slightly injured One
large frame house was blown completely out
oil sight; not one particle of house or furniture
could be found, though search for mile was
made III the track of the storm The family
had fortunately taken refuge in the cellar
Many families are left destitute, not a vestige
OF their worldly possessions remaining.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-11
THE WESTERN UNION.
Report Showing the Receipts for
Three Months.

NEW YORK, Sept, 11.-The quarterly re
port of the Western Union Telegraph COM
pany for the quarter ending Sept 50, has
just been published. 1t shows the net re,
ceipts Of the quarter based upon
nearly complete returns for July, par,
tiali returns for August and esti-
mating the business for September
will be about 81, $50, 600; surplus on hand
July l, 4,l57 46S.s 50; total, s5,907, 46S 80
From this amount is deducted payments for
interest on bonded debt and sinking fund in
amount Sal 900, leaving a balance of
S., 500, 46S. 80 From this is deducted 81 ,S99,-
SO, for the payment of a dividend of z
per cent on the capital stock, leaving sur
plus after paying the dividend of s4,403,-
65S 50
The committee making the report
recommend that quarterly dividend of Ia
per cent pc paid on and after Oct. Is next,
to stockholders of record, the books to close
on Sept 20 George Gould was elected vice
president in place of Augustus Schell, de
ceased, and Samuel Sloan was elected mem
ber of the executive committee in place Of
Mr. Schell
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-11
A Veteran Explorer.

When the Israelites were in the wild |
erness they rested many years at
Kadesh-barnea. To locate this exact
spot has been for a century the desire
of Biblical geographers. A dozen
points have been suggested and adopt |
ed, with great doubt and dispute be-
tween scholars. About forty years ago
an English clergyman, Rev. John Row
lands, e good traveller and Arabic
scholar, went to a spot in the desert
south of Hebron, unvisited by any
other explorer, and identified ft as the
long-desired location. He wrote to a
friend, his letter was published, and
aroused a geographic war. Some au-
thorities accepted Rowland's location,
others rejected it. Thereafter in
Vulnerable explorers have sought to
reach Rowland's fountain of kadesh
without success. Some declared it
imaginary. Others said he had mis-
taken another and well-known site for
a new place. A dozen important loca-
tions, dependent on this, remained in
dispute, and Rowlands was widely dis
credited. He made no answer or publi-
cation, and seemed to have disap-
peared. In 1881 Rev. DR.. II. c.
Trumbull, of Philadelphia, succeeded
in rediscovering the lost fountain
of Rowlands, and in an exhaustive
and invaluable book, conclusively
identified it as the site of kadesh- -barnea.
SirAe DIR. Trumbull's visit several ex-
peditions have endeavored to reach the
spot and failed. 1t might be ranked as
the most inaccessible, as it is one of the
most important, of all ancient sites.
Meantime the silent Mr. ROwlands.
whose name has been banded about
among the geographers. has been a
quiet clergyman in country parish in
England, troubling himself not at all as
to who believed and who disbelieved
him. He knew where Kadesh was, and
now that he is Seventy-tive Years old,
he writes to DR.. Trumbull from Jerusa-
lem pleasant letter from which it ap-
pears that he thought the other day
while in Egypt on trip that it would
be good plan to take some of his
yonng people to kadesh. So he started,
as in the old time. and went to Sinai,
and then directly over the desert to the
inaccessible fountain of Kadesh, which
only he and DR.. Trumbull have seen,
and so on to Jerusalem. His letter, not
intended for publication, is as cool as il
Kadesh were a mineral spring in En-.
gland and he had never heard of any
trouple in getting to it. Mr. Row'ands
is a wonderful man. and puts other and
younger explorers innumerrble to
sha c.-N. Y. Journal of Commerce.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-11

WHITE BEAR LAKE, MIMI, Sept. I1-A
cyclone struck White Bear lake at about
O'Clock Tuesday afternoon. 1t swept track
less than u mile and a half wide There was
the usual funnel-shaped conformation of
clouds, slightly green in color The sheds of
the Duluth railway were demolished,
and hundreds of trees were blown
across the track between White Bear
station and Dell Wood There were people
who asserted that there were two storms
one from tho southwest and one from the
northwest They met at White Bear and
clashed, after which came trouble There
were three sailing parties on the lake at the
time. Two boats managed to land Bill
Stiles, boatman at the Leip house
pier, was in charge of the
boat, which was caught The siS
We're reefed, and the boat was headed to the
hurricane, while every passenger laid down
in the hold The storm, which drove the
water twenty-five feet in the air, filed the
boat with water, but she did not capsize or
sink and the party had narrow escape
Every other boat in the lake went over and
several sank at their moorings,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-11
minncsota,s prohlbition Queen.

New YORK, Sept. IA large, well-pro
portioned woman, with closely cropped hair,
pleasant features, and clear, well-modu-
lnted voice, was introduced to a fair-sized
audience i'll the tomple on Claremont avenue,
Brooklyn, as Mrs Laura G. Fixen, Min
nesota's Prohibition queen She spoke
against Blaine, Cleveland, and saloons,
and i'll the cause of temperance and St john
a doa't tind Blaine, Logan, or Cleveland or
Hendrick, here" said Mrs Fixen, slapping
her hand on the Bible, "but do find pro
hibition ali through it, and especially in St
John Cheers ] You must either support
saloons or destroy them That is the queS-
ton, and it is easily answered by another
question, which asks: How do saloons bene-
fit education, morality, industry, or domestic
happiness"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-11
Schurz mt Milwaukee.

MILWAUKEE Wis, Sept 11.-Carl Schurz
delivered an address in English Tuesday
night in the west side town hall The hall
was packed full and there We're several hun
dred persons on the outside unable to gain an
entrance. This crowd was addressed by
Thomas c. Pound, the recent bolter Schurz's
audience was very enthusiastic. Schurz, in
opening, referred to his treatment of Boucker
and his friends on Saturday night in an ex-
planatory manner He said that he had not
used Boucker unfairly nor had he spoken
over his allotted time when the time of
Boucker's Interruptions was deducted His
speech was devoted almost entirely to a re-
view of Mr. Blaine's public record.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-11

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, Sept. 1.-THE
Republican convention met again at 2:3O
and nominated fusion ticket for state
officers, as follows: Nicholas Ford, governor;
II. M. Starkloff, lieutenant governor; James
c. Thompson, state treasurer; James Sands,
auditor; David Murphy, attorney general;
David Wagner, judge supreme court
The nomination" of Ford for governor
was not nomination outright, but an in
dorsement of his nomination by the Green
hackers The platform indorses the national
docment and candidates and condemns the
Democratic administration of state affairs
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-11
AT Marina.

STILLw ATER, Mimi, Sept. IA report
received here from Marine Wednesday morn
ing says that fifteen or twenty houses were
wrecked by the cyclone Tuesday evening,
and that a number of people were
injured. Nearly all the doctors of
this city are out there. The house Of David
Lyman, four miles above here, on the
road to Marine was blown down, and some
of the inmates injured. Only small por-
tiom Of the storm struck Saltwater, striking
some Of tdr tents at the fairgrounds and
tearing them into ribbons
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-11
Five Workmen Terrihly Hurned.

BROOKLYN, N. Y, Sept. 11.-One of the
kettles used in boiling the material used in
the manufacture of Japan, in the Japan
works on Sanford street took fire wednesday
afternoon Four workmen attempted to
shove it under high brick chimney, when
it exploded, the men being covered with the
boiling fluid James Hopkins was burned to
a crisp. The others, Sidney Myron, John
Monahan and John Conway, are believed to
be fatally burned. George Jeffries, another
workman standing near was badly burned
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-11
The Netting on Cleveland.

. NEW YORK, Sept. 1.-THE World says
betting men want investments on the follow
ing basis: One thousand dollars to $3.50 that
Cleveland is elected; the same amount that
he will carry New York state by $4,000 ma
jority; 81, 900 even that he will have 10000
majority in New York state; $1,000 to $500
that he will carry the empire state. Men
and money are to be found at the Centennial
hotel, 2Sl3 Third avenue, New York.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-11
Origin Of Ammonia

Ammonia is obtained in large 9uanti-
ties by the putrefaction of the urine of
animals Encyclopedia Britannica.
Every housekeeper can test baking
powder containing this disgusting drug
by placing can of the Royal" or"An-
drews' Pearl" top down on hot stove
until heated, then remove the cover and
smell
Prove it by the above test jn26dwtf.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-11
A GREAT DISCOVERY.

That is daily bringing joy to the homes
of thousands by saving many of their
dear ones from an early grave. Truly is
DR.. Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton, Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis
Hay Fever, Loss of Voice, Tickling in
in the throat Pain in the Side and Chest,
or any disease of the Throat and Lungs,
positive cure. Guaranteed. Trial
hotties free at Hartz & Bahnsen's Drug
Store. Large size 81 90.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-11
A WeH-Known Fenian Dead.

DUBLIN, Sept. l Dennis Duggan, tho
well-known Fenian, who was one of the res
cuing party that sailed in the Catalpia and
liberated the Fenian prisoners at Freemantle
Australia, is dead He has been i'll for some
time, and his friends in America recently
raised a fund to send him home to Ireland
in order that he might die IN his native land