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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-12-02
The Civil Service.

On the 18th of February last, trans
mitted to Congress the first annual re-
port of the civil service commission, to-
gether with communications from the
heads of the several execu tive depart
ments of the government, respecting the
practical workings of the law under
which the commission has been acting.
The government results therein fore
Swallowed have been more than
realized. The system has fully an
swered the anticipations of its friends,
in securing competent and faithful
public servants and in protecting the
appointing officers of the government
from the pressure of personal Emporium
ity and from the labor of examining the
claims and pretensions of rival candi-
dates for public employment. The law
has had the unqualified support of the
President and of the heads of the sew
eral departments, and the members of
the commission have performed their
duties with zeal and fidelity. Their re-
port will shortly be submitted and will
be accompanied by such recommends
ton for enlargiRg the scope of the exist
ing statute as shall commend them
selves. to the executive and the commits
sioners with its administration.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-12-02
Poesoface Department.


The report of the Postmaster General
.acquaints yop with the present condi-
ton and needs of the postal sarEice. ct
.discloses the gratifying fact that the
mass of revenue from the reduction of
the rate in letter postage, as recon-
mended in my message of December,
1882, and effected by the act of Mach 3,
1888, has been much less than was gen
orally anticipated. Ny recommendaEion
of the reduction was based upon the be
lief that the actual falling off in receipts
from letter packages for the year IN
mediately succeeding the change of the
rate, would be So, 100000. Ithas proved
to be only 1925, 600. This is a trust
worthy Indication that the revenue Will
soon be reduced to its former volume;
by the natural increase of sealed cor
respondenee. confidently repeat,
therefore, the recommendation Of my
last annual message, that the single rate
postage on drop letters be reduced to
one cent, wherever payment of two
cents is now required by law. The
double rate is only exacted at offices
where the carrier system is in opera
ton, and, it appears that at these
Offices the increase IN the tax
upon local letters defrays the
cost not only of It's own collection
ana delivery bpt the collection and'de~
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-13

rnan rney dIo the day when they first d.v,-
ped the pick and shovel. Hundreds of trades
people in these small towns are in danger of
bankruptcy. Their miner customers are
unable to pay their bills, and in turn they
cannot satisfy the claims of the
wholesale houses. A speedy ending of the
strike is their only salvation. Here in the
city several thousand idle glass workers
crowd the street corners. The chimney
houses are all idle; only the bottle and win
dow glass factories are in operation. One Of
the results OF all this depression is the COM
paratively immense number of houses unoc-
cuplcd or about to be vacant
Families unable to satisfy the de-
manls Of their landlords are begin
ming to double up" and Cecupy loss preten-
tiouS apartments. One of our best-informed
real estate dealers said to-day that there were
at least 3,0oJ for rent signs displayed in
this city, The iron trade, Pittsburg's great
est industry, is far from being in a healthy
condition. Many manufacturers who sue
ceeded i'll avoiding stoppage during the
great panic are now running their works
half the time only. Thursday the Edgar
Thompson Steel company notified its employees
that unless they grant Il concession in the
matter of wages the works will be shut down
Nov. l. This company employs 5000 men,
and it would be death blow to the borough
of Braddock, just outside the city limits in
which the works are situated. The throwing
| out Of employment of such large body of
men would also have a disastrous effect on
the city proper
LATER-Fhe report that the Edgar
Thomson Steel Co., of Braddock, Pa, had
notified their employees that unless they ac-
cept reduction OF wages the works will be
| closed, is, upon further investigation, found
| to be incorrect They employees of this COM
pany are working under special agreement,
entirely satisfactory to all interests
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-13
Too Good IA story TO Spoil.

WASHINGTON CITY, Sept ia story has
been teiegraphed hence in several directions
in which it was stated that Friday last man
of clerical appearance, calling himself the
Rev Horace Weston, of Syracuse, N. Y,
called upon TreasurerW yman and represented
to him that parishioner of his had confessed
to him that he had defrauded the govern
ment out of 1900 The Rev. Horace
Weston, the story states, had been COM
missioned to make restitution. He handed
the treasurer two S1,00O-bills, which
Mr. Wyman sent to the cash-roOm,
with memorandum, telling the
messengers to bring $400 back with him.
The messenger is reported to have returned
and to have whispered that the bills were
counterfeits. While Mr.. Wyman was in the
cash-room to ascertain the truth of the re.
port, the clegyman, who was left
contemplating an old painting over Wy
mans desk, departed and nothing has since
been seen of him. The story has q
few inaccuracies Iu the first place, the de-
partment was closed last Friday; secondly
there is no oil painting in the treasurer's
room; and thirdly, Mr. Wyman says there
is not a single word of truth in the entire
yarn, and that no such episode has occurred
in the building
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-13
PRESIDENT ARTHUR ILL.
Alleged To Ese a Very Sick Nan-Con-
fined TO His He'd.

WASHINGTON CITY, Sept. 13.-The fact
has become known in this city that President
Arthur is a very sick man, confined to his
bed at the Fifth Avenue hotel, New York,
and efforts are being made to conceal his
true condition. As far as can be learned here
the facts are that the president is suf-
fering from number of complaints,
principal among which is the effects of the
intense heat during his visit to Geneva, since
which time he has been completely prostrated
Private advice5 received here confirm these
statements and add that Postmaster General
Gresham was summoned to the Fifth Avenue
hotel Thursday to see the president and on
his arrival there he was told that bhe preSi.
dent was to i'll to SEQ him. Enquiry
at the executive mansion later showed
that no information had been
received there. A telegram was sent Thurs
day to ascertain the future movements of
the presidential party, and the reply simply
directed that their mail should be sent to the
Fifth Avenue hotel. 1t is further stated that
the presidents physicians and the president
are both greatly disappointed at the failure
of mountain and sea air to improve the presi-
dents general health, and that the doctors
have protested against his return to Wash
ington or resumption of official business for
some time to come
WHICH Is TIE TRUE STORY?
Referring to the report that President
Arthur, from heat and other causes, was
seriously i'll, Mr. Phillips, the presidents pri
| vate secretary, said Friday afternoon: "Tht
president is as we'll and hearty as he evel
WaSn
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-13
SEE NAPLES AND DIE.
A New Applications of q Well-Known
Saying.
Slight Decrease I'm the Death Rate
The Kings BenevOIence-Meet-
ing of Mighty Magnates-
The Nile War, Etc.

NAPLES, Sept. 13.-There has been
slight diminution in the death rate from
cholera during the past twenty-four hours
ended Friday morning, as compared with
the previous twenty-four hours, and the
number of new cases also shows Il falling off.
The panlcky feeling has not abated. The
butchers have mutinied and refuse to work,
they having become alarmed at the
death OF several of their com
rades The municipal authorities
have opened number of butchers shops
and secured workmen The city of Turin
has donated 200 cattle to be distributed
TO the suffering people of this city, and other
cities and towns are initiating TURNS ex
ample.
During the twenty -four hours ended Fri
day m'I,.ing 767 fresh cases Ct cholera, and
2oS deaths are reported.
A King humbert was passing the prison
the inmates raised a loud shout praying to be
Set at liberty.
Among those dangerously ill with the cho-
lerG Is n son OF King Kalakaua of the Sand
wich Islands.
EoME, Sept. l3.-Italy has abolished quar-
ahtlna against the cholera on the French
iiohtiel hHiB HuHDerU mas given SOOUJU
IN relief to the cholera sufferers at Naples
Wooden huts arr building to shelter the
poor and sick at Naples. Public assistance
is given to small dealers who have been
Ruined by the epidemic The shops close at
O'Clock. The city everywhere presents a
mournful appearance. A strong gloom pre-
walls. King Humbert declines to leave the
city.
MADRID, Sept 13,-The establishment of
local quarantine or lazaretto is forbidden
throughout Spain, except by express
| authority of the government. The cholera
is not spreading. Two children died at the
lazarettO. The disease is suspected to have
been cholera. At Elche eight fresh cases
and four deaths have been reported since the
last account, and at Noveldo seven fresl
| cases.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-13
Origin of Ammonia

Ammonia is obtained in large quanti-
ties by the putrefactiOn of the urine of
animals Encyclopedia Britannica.
Every housekeeper can test baking
powder containing this disgusting drug
by placing a 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, 1884-09-13
TAINTED.

Chemists of the nation charge the Royal Baking Pow
der Company with the use of the powerful drug AM
MONA in their Powder; that article of food should
be tainted by this unsafe drug that it is unfit for ap
pearance in any human Diet that its long continued use
in any form will derange the BLOOD that it is only found
in the natural food and drink of man incidental
impurity.
That NATURE ABHORS and expels it excre-
ment.
That in Baking Powder it has not the virtue of
a necessity.
If the charge is unjust would it not be act of JUS
ce to themselves, well polite concession to the
deeply interested public sentiment answerthe charge?
To immediately To answer honestlys Oily
evasion won't do Oily dignity, oily plausblity, oily
noncommittal won't do. Rdicule won't do. Come for
ward in manly way and give the public evidence that
jusies its
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-13
The NTahdf Heard From.

CAIRO, Sept. 1S.-Later dispatches confirm
the report of the substantial victory of the
Mudir of Dongola at Ambukol over the
rebels from Kordofan Recent advices re
port FL Mahdi in South Kordofan with an
army of $4,000, and that detachment of
has been sent to reinforce the army besieging
khartoum
CAIRO, Sept IA dispatch from Ma.
Chernside says that it is reported at Wady
Halfa that Gen Gordon has attacked Ber-
her
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-13

SOUTH BosToN, Va, Sept ia deadly
rencontre occurred near Whitenell Wednes-
day night between John Dixon and jackson
Davis. A Baptist revival has been progress
ing in the neighborhood, among the visitors
to which was Ella Alton, who received at
tention from the young men. She inadvert-
emily made an engagement with
both of them for Wednesday night and each
went to her house to escort her to church.
She settled the matter by accepting Dixon's
escort After Dixon had taken the girl
home the men met on the road by agreement
Both were armed with knives. Dixon left
his rival lying on the road and fled. Davis
worst wound was Il stab in tue stomach
which is mortal.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-13
A CITY TO LET.
Very Gloomy Picture of she Indus
trial Deuression at Piftsburg.

PITrsBURG, Pa, Sept. 13.-Not since the
manic Of 1873 hos there been such gloomy
outlook for Pittsburg and the surrounding
hamlets of which this city is the center, and
from which major part of the supplies are
procured. All the coal mines along
the Youghiogheny and Monongahela
,;vars have now been idle
for three months, and there is not the sllght
est prospect of resumption The sou
strikers stand no better chance of winning
in their bitter fight for the price demanded
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-13
THE LOSSES BY FLOOD.
Subsidins Waters Enable the Esti-
mnIe a he Made.

MILWAUKEE, Sept. lS.-The Daily Jour
nails Eau Claire, Wis, special says; The
water fell four feet since midnight. Large
pieces of booms and tramways and
parts of buildings continue to float
by and during the night what
remains of two whole blocks at the west ap-
proach to the Kelsey street bridge was
swept away. A rough estimate for Chip
pewa is: Valley dams and mill property,
$500, 900; bridges, $500, 900; real estate, $780,,
600; city OF Eau Claire private etc, $780,
600; total, 81 200, 600 Th,s i very low es
innate. 1t is reported tlat the village Of
Durand is all gone
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-13
THE PE,qT. ST LADY IN ROCK ISLAND.

Remarked to a friend the other day
that she knew Kemp's Balm for the
Throat and Lungs was superior remedy,
as it stopped her cough instantly when
others had no effect whatever. So to
prove this o. Grotjan will guarn
tee it to all. Price 30 cents and 81
Trial size free.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-13
Those Homicidal Cannibals.

LONDON, Sept. 13-An animated discus
sion is going on in the newspapers regarding
the killing Of the boy Parker by the sur
vivors of the wrecked yacht Mignonette in
order to keep themselves alive. The balance
of opinion decidedly favors the view that it
was case of justifable homicide. The pris-
oners were brought into court Thursday on
the chare of murder, and were loudly cheered
when released on bail.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-13
AHusband,s VIIiainy.

MONTREAL, Sept. lS.-A most remarkable
case is occupying the attention of the supe-
rior court here 1t is the petition of Mrs.
Peter Lyman, wife Of the guardian of the
ROYAL Canadian Insurance company, to be
released from the insane asylum. From the
evidence it appears that the lady has been
confined for four years by her husband
who. in the meantime, lived with another
woman, using his wife's private income
Four doctors who have testified all agree
that her confinement is a disgrace. She Is
perfectly sane, and should be immediately
released. The poor woman was kept during
all this time among pauper inmates and never
once visited by her husband.
Streams in the Petersburg (Na-) district
are drying up because of the protracted
drought, ard mills are doing less than hall
their usual work. The city of Petersburg /:
threatened with water famine.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-13

BERLIN, Sept. lS-The papers here state
that arrangements have been made for the
three emperors to meet at Count Henckel's
castle, near Nattawitz in Prus-
sian Silesia. The Emperor Will
lam will start for the meeting place
Sunday evening. Prince Bismarck, Count
Herbert Bismarck, and Gen. Albedyll will
accompany him.
ST. PETERSBURG, Sept I'm. Degiers,
the Russian prime minister, has started for
Poland, to be present at the meeting of the
three emDerOrs
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-13

BosroN, Sspt. iS.-At o'clock Thursday
afternoon the sloop yacht Minnie, of New
port, came to anchor off Highland light. The
two men composing her crew landed at the
light in dory which was somewhat stove in
coming through the surf. The men obtained
the assistance of the life saving station men
to patch their boat. By the time the neces-
sary repairs were made it was dark, but the
two men rowed away in the direction which
they thought their vessel lay. In the morn
ing the yacht still lay at anchor one mile
from shore and with no one aboard The
men may have been picked up by passing
vessel They said they were from Portland.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-13
a Scandal af CIeVpIauI.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 13-Society here
is excited over the eIopement of D. J.
Rocks, well-known builder, and Mrs
Thomas Quine, wife of contractor Rocks
was man of considerable wealth, and leaves
a wife and four children. Mrs Quine leaves
husband and two children, 1t is thought
the parties are in Chicago They were ac-
companied by a married couple named Rob
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-13
Hard Coal Market.

Pea coal 500; CRATE and egg, S7.75;
range, nut and No. $500 per ton,
screened and delivered; all best quality of
Anthracite coal Blacksmith's coal. Con-
nellsville coke and charcoal at 1908 Sec
ond avenue diff f. e. FRAZIER.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-13

BALTIMORE, Nd, Sept. ia mob
Wednesday night attacked the residences
of three Hebrew families on Watson street,
in the eastern section of the city There
were about a dozen men in the
party, who at midnight stoned the
windows of the dwellings, of Bernard
Abrahams, Jacob Americ, and Edill Cohen.
All tho assailants live in the neighborhood,
and while stoning the Jews houses and
smashing windows shouted, Let's clean out
the - Jews" Several of the men have
been arrested The Hebrew people are very
respectable and the attack was an un-
warraltable one
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-13
A bad Brood.

VIENNA, Sept 13.-The police have dis
covered band of forgers, consisting of a
father and seventeen children. The whole
party are connected with the Anarchists.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-13
PROTECTION.

Every housewife can try the "Royal," or any other
brand of Baking Powder, by placing the can top down,
there she will smell AMMONIA After which she can
change for Prices Cream that has nothing base in it.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-13

ures in the United States in the past week,
as reported to Dun & Co, number: United
States, 1872; Canada, Is; total, 23O, as against
a total of 2I3 last week
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-13
NOTICE.

FOR SALE-Five shares of Electric Light
Stock, at discount Enquire at this office
FOR SALE-old papers for sale IN any quantity
at this office, cheap.
FOR SALE-Sixty lots in my addition to Rock
Island One fourth down, balance in yearly pay
ments, with six per cent interest. b. Davenport
m13d3m
FOR SALE-At my office, on Eleventh street.
the best quality of coal. Also dry oak cord wood,
stone and sand. Orders received by telephone al
car house. d. G. Dohlman, agent. m13d3m
WANTED-Two intelligent young ladies of
good address to go TO St. Louis. Employment
light and respectable, paying from 81 to Sc per
day. All expenses adyanced,-best of references
required. Address Pearce Giles, Davenport, la.
10 o1w
WANTED-Men on salary or commission to sell
Shetland and ZaCatiCas ponies, all eolors, little
beauties, just the thing for ladies and Chidren,-
largest herd of fancy ponies in America. $3.50
per month until Jan. 18th We also want fifteen
young men to herd stock raising on the rancho.
illustrated group of spotted ponies, general de
scrptive list, prices terms, particulars etc, for
30cents silver. Address Proprietor, Don Carlos
Horse Rancho, Leon Syringe, Bexar Co. Texas.
july-22u
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-13

When you want reliable fire, life cy-
clone and tornado insurance at low rates
call on W. L. Coyne. corner Seventeenth
street, and Sd avenue. d3m
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-13

FOR SALE-Five shares of Electric Light
Stock at discount. Enquire at this office
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-13

FOR SALE-old papers for sale IN any quantity
at this office, cheap.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-13
5 Per Cent. Of AMMONIA.

find
MATERIALS entirely AMMONIA which
including Royal" which
as Five Cent. of this unnecessary substance"
Prof CHARLES E. DWIGHT,
Chemist Labraory Wheeling W. Va.
14th. 1884
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-05-23
DEATHS HOLOCAUST.
Burned to Ashes While Quietly
Sleeping.
THE AWFUL FATE OF THE ocHMAN'S
Alarm House Near Portsmouth, O., Takes ire
in the Night and Three of Its In
mates Doomed by the
lnsatiate Flames.

PORTSMOUTH May 22.-The city and all
that portion of the county lying in the
neighborhood of Dry Run, on the west side
of the Sciota river, is in a state of excite
ment over horror that must have occurred
at an early hour this morning. The par
ticularS are meager as only two children
were saved, and owing to the excitement
their accounts somewhat incoherent. As near
as can be ascertained the Ochman family, the
father of which is a renter on the farm OF
Henry Williamson, retired early, leaving a
lamp burning on a small stand in a lower
room, the upstairs being used for sleeping
purposes. \ small dog was
in the room with the lamp and
il supposed that in some manner 1t upset
the stand on which the lamp stood. The
fire spread without discovery until the
whole house was enyeloped in flames. The
two children who escaped. boys OF = and
H. were awakened by the light and jumped
from the window. II is not known whether
the father and mother and young lady
daughter were suflOcated to death or
whether the floor fell in. burying them in
the flames The bows ran to the nearest
house nearly half mile away and gave the
alarm. The ncighborS gathered quickly
but could render no aid. The family was a
very respectable one and the calamity has
thrown gloom over the entire ncighbo:-
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-05-23
M, T.. General Conference

PHILADELPHIA, MAY 22-The fact that
the newly elected Bishops, including VIM
Taylor, the Missionary Bishop elected yester-
day, were to be consecrated, drew very
large attendance of spectators to the MethO-
dist General Conference this morning
Bishop Merrill presided and DIR. j. 5. Mer-
rill, of Central Illinois, led tie opening de-
vOtiOnS.
The Committee on Expenses of Delegates
asked instructions of the Conference as to
how they were to settle with the delegates
Dr. Curry moved that the committee be in.
Structcd to pay the whole amount of eX-
penSeS of each delegate, the Book Concern
to supply whatever deficiency there might
be. Mr. Oliver Hoyt said he had grown
tired of sitting and listening to these slurS
at the laity, and he hoped the
Conference would repudiate the whole
thing. Lay delegates had as much
right to have their expenses paid as the
ministerial delegates and so far as the lay
men eating up the funds of the preachers,
he knew aS "a fact that great number of
lay delegates were paving their own eX-
penSeS 1t was the laity who furnished the
funds in the first place Dr. Curry said it
was lawful, just and proper to pay the dele
gates expenses out of the funds of the Book
Concern The previous question was called
for. the amendment Of DR.. Curry adopted
and the committee was instructed to draw
upon the Book Concern for any deficiency
in the funds for paving delegates expenses
William Mast was elected editor of the
Christian Apologist, and Henry Lubhort ed
itor of Haus and Herd. both bv a show of
hands. Anumber of reports of committees
were received and ordered to be printed, and
few minor ones were adopted.