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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-13

ing remnant of the present session,
loaded as it is with urgent business.
The improvement of the British meth>
DDS of administering criminal justice is
on obvious, practicable and honorable OBJ
iect of newspaper enterprise. But the
effect of the revolving facts uncovered by
the Pail Mall Gazette will not stop there
According to the warnings lodged in his
torical example, such disclosures cannot
fail to have sinister bearing on the next
general election, unless the conservative
party, ductile at this juncture to the I'm.
pulse of its shrewder leaders, COMFORTS
itself with singular circumspection and inN
diligence toward the divulgers OF the
scandal. The England evoked into po~
litical existence by the new franchise act
is widely different England from that
which watched with sullen but impotent
adherence the reckless debauchery of
George ". Henceforward. armed with
the ballot, the humblest British subject
knows that he is master of his fate, and
it behooyes statesmen to remember that
the charges made and substantiated by
the Pail Mall Gazette the charge that
London harbors a hideous conspiracy for
abducting the chaste daughters of poor
men to glut the bestial desires of rich and
high placed libertines-is one of those
terrible indictments that infiame the cool
est blood and light the torch of revolu'
tions
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-13

New ORLEANS. July IL. Considerable ex-
element and Indignation was created Rt the
exchange Friday by the announcement that
dispatches had been sent to Chicago and
New York reporting twelve cases of yellow
fever in this city. The rumor is entirely
without foundation Two cases have boon
reported by the board of health-that OF a
child who died month ago, and a your
creole, who has fully recovered Notwith-
standing the diagnosis of the DOCTOR people
do not believe the latter case one of yellow
fever, as the young man was q native who
had passed through several epidemics, and
was considered exempt. He had never been
around the shipping of the city. An item in
the evening papers offers reward of $l0G
for the name OF the person who sent the dis
patches. No case Of yellow fever exists in
fha nff
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-13
THE CHEYENNES
SEEM DESTINED TO MAKE TROUBLE
IN INDIAN TERRITORY.
Gen. Sheridan Ordered to tho Front-The
Outbreak Must BE Put Down Even
IL the Indians Are Ex-
terminated.

WICHITA, Kan, July b. Dispatches
from the territory leave little doubt that
the situation there is more menacing than
has been admitted by the authorities, and
prompt action by the department is
necessary to prevent an outbreak.
Agent Dyer under instructions from
the commissioner of Indian affairs,
undertook to make census of the Chey-
snnes but was stopped by the "dog"
soldiers who threatenel with death any
who sh ould report for enrolment, at tbs
same time placing two of tffeir number as
guards over the agents Office They
stopped work on the farm AMI threatened
Dyer with death if he persisted in carrying
out his orders They openly declared that
Dyer must go, as he restricts their liberties.
Dyer has simply been trying to keep them
at work. After midnight Wednesday Il
party of painted dog" soldiers rode into
the agency and called for tho agent. They
were told that he had gone over to Fort
Reno, and after a short council the Indians
rode away. Their spokesman was tho same
man who cut the telegraph wires at the can
Torment The officers at Fort Reno say
that it il their intention TO bring all these
disorderly bands into subsection, and they
are awaiting the arrival of reinforcements
that have been ordered, as greater force
must be concentrated at Reno or the can
Torment.
Mr.. Hallowell, one of the four agency
farmers, employed by the government tc
teach agriculture to tbs Cheyennes, Arapa
hoes and Comanche Indians arrived in thi'
| city direct from Fort Reno He says he
considers trouble inevitable The Bent
| brothers, half Cheyennes, and sons
OF old Col Bsnt, of plains fame say the
| Indians expect an effort to be ma 10 by the
government to disarm them, in which event
they will sell their lives as dearly as posi-
Bile. Tho Bents, who own Il large amount OF
personal property, are disposing of every
thing. The Ind ans are in want Of nothing
| in the way of ammunition Not only the
BentS, but the head Indians are selling theii
| ponies. Wolf Robe, the chief of the "dos
| soldiers" has abandoned his crop, aaI taker
all his movable property away. In coming
up to the state line Mr. Hallowell chanced
upon 800 Cheyenne ponies being herled FOL
An emergency The young men who hal
lately taken to farming had, under the in
fluence of their chief, also abandoned theil
| fields.
WASHINGTON CRY, July Is. The Indian
sronhlas as Iookal M y, from WASHINGTON
are beromins NOR, .erious Can Sbar;day
aft hare far Fort Rooo II The genera
.t,sir,d m haat ths scana of the conflict A
telegram has been sent 10 the officer in com
mand which says the outbreak must be sup
pressed even if the Cheyennes are wiped GU
of existence. Gen. Miles is expected to Grriy
in Indian territory not later than tine frs
of paIt well The hon, i. axnrssssd tina
ho NAV hs aba IN oniat the tistmbanc,
| -, -. hloolho1 II l. ,,,.I I-,, Al
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-13
GOOD RIDDANCx.

Hon. Edward +. NOyes, of Ohio, has
relieved the president from Notifying
situation by declining the office of gov
crnment director of the Union Pacific
railroad; but very few persons would have
been surprised or displeased if the presi-
dent had sooner ended the embarrassment
by summarily revoking the commission.
IL was blunder at the outset, committed
doubtless through inadvertence on the
presidents part; to have perpetuated or
defended it would have been an inexcusa
bic folly. If it was deemed expedient
and right to put republican member in
TO one of the vacant places in the Pacific
railroad directorate. certainly the eXecu>
tive choice did not with full knowledge
and deiberation fall upon the visiting
statesman concerning whom the select
committee of the forty nth house of rep
reseutatves, after investigating the cleo
loral frauds IN 1876. made this scathlng
report:
That due effect was not given 10 the
vote of the electors appointed by the state
of Florida ut the presidential election of
1876. by reason of false and fraudulent
returns for the said electors by the can
vassing board of the state, whereby the
choice of the people of that state was
annulled and reversed, and that The action
of the board of state canvassers in makN
ing the returns was cOuntenanced and
encouraged by, among others, Hon. Ed
ward +. Noyes, who has since been APP
pointed the minister of this country to
| France
This indictment was signed by Con
gressmen Clarkson N. Potter, William r
Morrison. Eppa Hunton, W. S. Stenger
John A. Mcmahon, j. C. s. Blackburn
and WIN. NJ. Springer. Their full re
port, moreover, in its logical view of tn,
sworn testimony collected by them, dem
onstrated beyond all doubt or cavil tina
NOyes the intimate friend of Rutherford
b. Hayes, went to Florida ostensibly Il
see fair count" but really to supervis,
the Justification of the returns and Il
make pledges and promises which wer,
nothing more or less than brides Thu
testimony is too cOpious to be repro
duced here, but there is no need t.
republlsh it, The mind and conscienc,
of the nation have long ago &C
cepted the proofs as conclusive
For his share in the conspiracy Mr.. Noye
was subsequently appointed minister Il
France, his coparcener Lew Wallace We
made governor of New Mexico and after
wards minister to Turkey. while John A
KassOn got the Austrian mission. A.
the Florida officials also who assisted il
cOnsumating the fraud were lavishly re
warded by the pharisaic Hayes
Of course these facts were overooke
by President Cleveland when he hastil
nominated Moves to Office at the sugges
ton of Governor Hoadly Had Mr.. Man
ming, Mr.. Whitney or any other cabine
officer been consulted it is not to be be
lieved that the egregious error would hav
been made. However, the incident
not without its value in showing no,
deep and far reaching is the popular de
testation of every man who took an &C
tive part in stealing the presidency elgh
years ago.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-13
The CLEVELAND Strikers Ouiet.

CLEVELAND, Ohio June IL. Everything
quiet in wards Fourteen and Eighteen,
he headquarters Of the strikers. People
,ut there are indignant at the arrest of the
our strikers for standing on the sidewalk.
These men had abandoned their procession
and had thrown away their clubs at the
command OF the authorities, and were ar
'ested for violating the sidewalk ordinance
while other portions OF the sidewalks were
crowded with politicians and mill bosses
Tie roll ing-mi strikers will hol3 meeting
At ? p. M, to hear the report of tho commit
tee sent to Pittsburg to ascertain the exact
wages paid in the mills there.
The strikers who were arrested Friday ap.
peared in the police court Saturday morn
ny. They were three Poes-John Pavoika,
Thomas Bcziek, Frank Stutsk,t, alias The
Butcherr-and Martin Hoffman, a German.
They constituted rough appearing
quartet, and seemed rather pleased
with the notorietv they had attained
| by reason Of their arrest. They
were charged with violating the sidewalk
ordinance. Judge Hutchns lectureI them
severely, remarking that while he had nc
authority to call out the eating gun bat
cry to deal with the mob, who through
! bloodshed, he wouli deal with them when
brought before him in court They were
| fined $40 AMI costs each. Hoffman ana
Bezdek, the latter the one who led the as
Sault on the screw works, were Immediately
rearrestel on the charge of melting riot
| Their cases will be heard MOnlay.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-13
AMONG THE STRIKERS.
THE LABOR COMMITTEE AND MILL
OWNERS MEET,
And Try to Settle the Difficulty at Bay
City-The Result Anxiously Awaited
interesting; Labor News
from Other Points.

DETROIT, Mich, July 3.-A Bay City
.pecial to Tho News says: The labor COM
Al ttee and committee of saw-mil owners
met in the common council chansber Satur-
lay morning at 10 O'Clock The former was
given fifteen minutes in which to report any
proposition by which the strikers would re-
turn to work. The committee retired and
soon reported set of resolutions, which
were TO the effect that the strikers would
resume work if given ten hours a day at
eleven hours wages They also asked that
no employees be discharged because of the
trike, and that wages be paid every two
weeks. Both committees then adjourned
until 2 o'clock. Meantime the miil-owners
will consider the proposition of the labor
,r;, and will decide what is best
20 be done. A mass-meeting has been
called for o'clock at Madison park,
70 consider the result of the conference
| committee work whatever it may bs. Ow-
ng to threats on the STREET that unless the
altbloeks would be Shut down entirely,
that the water works woull be taken posses
sivn OF by the strikers, posse Of deputy
'heriifS have watched the building the past
two nights, but no such movement as sug-
,eSbeu Dy threats hhS DAen alueWpCeu
DETROIT, Mich, July ia special from
East Saginaw says all the mills on the up
per part OF tho river remain shut down
Strikers numbering so visited the mills at
Milwaukee and Carrnilton Saturday morn
ng and induced the men to quit work.
Virgins x Cooper, of South Saginaw, at
tempted to start up, but could not get force
enough. At c. X. Eddy, mill Friday night
)ne man who was left to keep steam up and
watch in case of fire was driven off and the
Tres extinguishei in the mill
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-13

A YOUNG man IN Brooklyn, after con,
sulting his watch, dropped it into his
pocket, when he was startled by an ex.
plosiOn, which was followed by many 9th
ers in rapid succession. Before he could
remove his clothing i; had been burned
through to the flesh and painful wound
inflicted. The hand in which he held The
watch was also severely burned An tx
animation proved the explosion TO hav,
been caused by -chloraie of potash tablets
which he was in the habit of carrying
nited by the watch being dropped quicLl
upon them.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-13
BOOKS.

Lee s. Shepard, the Boston publishers.
have Just issued an instructive volume
for amateur sportsmen, entitled the
Hunters Handbook" 1t contains a
description of all articles required in
camp, with hints on provisions and
stores, and receipts for camp cooking
No one should start out on a camping
expedition without copy of this valua-
BILE work. Price so cents.
The Reading Club and Handy Speak
er" is also published by the same firm
The selections in prose and poetry are OF
serious, humorous, pathetic, patriotic
and dramatic nature. Fifteen cents bugs
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-13

Four young medical students at st.
Louis resolved to go on u spree ut ~ lit
tie expense as possible. They got u
cadaver from the picking vault, and
dressing it up, secreted it near their ia,
vorite saloon and boldly entering the es
tablishment began the carnuSul In the
course of the evening they ran up bill
of twelve dollars. While the bartender =
attention was occupied at another end Of
the room, two of the students sneaked
ont, brought in the corpse and seated it
at table. They then left one by one
until the dead man alone remained To
the corpse the winner applied for pay
ment of the score, and, receiving no re
Spouse, he jerked the chair away from the
stiff" aud threw it one the floor. At
this juncture two of the festive students
who had been watching the proceedings
through rear window stepped in anC
charged tine bartender with the murder o.
their friend, and picking up the body
hastily left the saloon in apparent anger
leaving the bartender mystitied and hor-
ror,3tricken
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-13

IT is very amusing to observe the frcn'
zy of some republican organs over the
Mormon insult to the flag on the 4th OF
July. The Mormons insulted and defied
the government and its laws for twenty
years with impunity under republican
administrations, bat the moment they
resent the law under the democratic adj,
ministration the organs shrek. Means
while. however, the democratic admins
tration goes on prosecuting the polyga-
mists and making it so hot for them tha
they will either abandon their evil prac
tees or emigrate to another country.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-13
THE LONDON SCANDAL.

The disclosures now making by the Pal
Nall Gazette are of too seriOns d nature to
be hushed up or laughed down, says the
New York Sun. They prove the exist
ence in the most distinguished strata of
London society not only of sporadic and
secret vice, such as might be detected in
all great cities. but of vice epidemic, Zero
cious, and unbrIdled by respect for DIES
cency or terror of the law, of vice rams
pant and organized into permanent
conspiracy for the furtherance and per-
petualion of revolving crimes. 1t is not
the occasional indulgence of vagrant ap>
petite of which this newspaper accuses
multitude of eminent and hitherto rep
utable persons belonging to the so-called
aristoctatic class. 1t is the deliberate aud
systematic commission of execrable of
lenses which in court of justice would
be visited with grave penalties, and one of
which, century ago in England, would
hoHO uOCH puuloI6u Will utuLu.
But why proceed, it may be asked,
against such offenders through the news
papers, when the courts are open to the
victims of their reputed crimes? The
question would be pertinent and unan>
swerable here in the United States, where,
happily, the huge machinery of justice
can be set in motion at touch from the
humblest citizen But they know little
OF the myriad potent ways in which the
traditional ascendancy of the British ars>
tocracy makes itself felt ON every spring
and wire of the administrative system;
they are i'll qualified to measure the broad
gulf that still yawns between the England
of today and the England of republican
aspirations, who suppose that for any
outrage short of actual homicide it is easy
for the lowly sufferer to infiict swift retri-
button on culprit in high places. 1t is not
easy, it is VIGOROUSLY and iniquitously
difficult, for the fathers and brothers OF
poor working girls in England to smite
the opulent abductor or titled ravisher
with the engine of the law. SO notori.
GUS and so shameful is the miscarriage OF
English criminal procedure in this partic.
ular; go hard is it for poor men TO starr
against powerful transgressors its cum,
brous, intricate, and antiquated mechan-
ism, which even when started can be de.
tiected and retarded in thousand crook,
ed and clandestine ways, that a sweeping
renovation of the whole apparatus has
long figured among Radical demands
and, thanks TO the appalling revelations
OF the Pail Nall Gazette, is now the burn
ing question of the hour. We have M
right to doubt the newspapers assurance
that public spirited resolve to forward
that reform was The primary object of it,
disclosures; and we see no reason to dis
credit the report that-upon seeing thu
evidence laid before him by its editor
Sir r. A. Cross, the new home secretary
although the representative of Tor,
government, presumably the staff ant
shield of the privileged orders, regretted
that he had not taken measures to expe-
dite bill for the thorough readjustment
of criminal procedure even In the wan
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-13
Father, Mother, and Three Sisters Dead.

Father, Mother, and Three Sisters Dead.
Mr. David Claypool, formerly Sergeant
alarms ofthe New Jersey Senate and now
Notary Public at Cedarville, Cumberland
Co., N. j., makes the following startling
statement: "My father, mother, and three
sisters all died with consumption, and my
lungs were so weak raised blood. Nobody
thought l could live. My work ship
smithing)was very straining on me with my
weak constitution, and was rapidly going
TO the grave While in this condition
commenced using Mishler's Herb Bitters,
and it saved my life. Because it was so
difficult to get it in this little place, and |
had improved so much, stopped taking it
for time, and the result is that | have
commenced going rapidly down hill again.
Somehow, Mishler's Herb Bitters gives
appetite and strengthens and builds me up
as nothing else does, and / must have a
dozen bottles at once. Use this commu-
nication as you please, and if any one wants
to be convinced of its truth, let them write
me and | will make affidavit to it, for /
owe my life to Mishler's Herb Bitters"
Thesecret of the almost invariable relief
and cure of consumption, dysentery, diar-
rhra, dyspepsia, indigestion, kidney and
liver complaints, when Mishler's Herb
Bitters is used, is that it contains simple,
harmless, and yet powerful ingredients,
that act on the blood, kidneys, and liver,
and through them strengthens and invigor-
ates the whole system. Purely vegetable
in its composition; prepared by regular
physician; a standard medicinal prepare
ton; endorsed by physicians and drug
gists. These are four strong points in favor
of Mishler's Herb Bitters. Mishler's Herb
Bitters is sold by all druggists. Price 81. 90
per large bottle. bottles for $500.
Ask your druggist for MIsHLFR's HERB RITTFRs
If he does not keep it, do not take anything else hut
send postal card 60 MIsHIFR HERB BfrrERs Co.
BIS Commerce Street. Phiiadephia
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-13

LONDON, July l3.-The Pail Mall Gazette,
in leading editorial Saturday afternoon on
the subject OF its revelations, says:
We are going on, undeterred by the wall
of the Ri. Hon. Mr.. Bentinck. and the much
more serious menaces of personal violence
by the more frankly brutal conSpirators
of silence 1t is only natural that the latter
should seek to silence our unwelcome voice
by the simple and eflicacious methods of the
h,udgeon and torch.
The editorial concludes by appealing to
the pupits to speak out amt ask church.
goers to send The Gszette postal-carls
detailing their opinions Of the result
of The Gazette's work. an promises to pub
lish these verdicts The paper also asks dis
reputable women and others possessing in.
formation respecting the subject OF the rev.
citations to send statement; containing what
they know to Tire Gazatte promising tC
treat all such correspondence eonfientially
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-13
VIII Fight Rather Than Inv Tax.

LONDON, July IA dispatch from Le-
rida, Spain, says serious riot has occurred
there on account of the opposition of por-
ton of the populace to the payment of GER
tain taxes. The governor, who endsavored
to pacify the rioters, was stoned by them.
The mob then became more demonstrative,
and threatened to burn the town by
the use OF petroleum. The military were
then called out to restore order, and fired on
the rioters, killing three of thom. One sol
der was also killed Many of the rioters
were wounded. When the dispatch con
tanning the intelligence left Lerida the shops
there were closed and the streets were held
by the soldierY
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-13
The Labor bureau.

WASHINGTON Cry, July H. No attention
has been paid to the labor strike, that have
occurred recently in various parts of the
country, although the bureau may at some
future day devote itself to an examina-
ton of this phase of the labor problem.
The efforts of the inspectors at pres
snt are largely directed 10 the ascertain
ment of the labor unit: that is to say, the
exact cost of the labor necessary to produce
the great staples of manufacture, the pig
iron product receiving especial attention.
From present indications it is expected that
the bureau will lie able to make compre-
hensive report to congress within a few
weeks of the reassembling of that body.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-13
eRAVING TIE CHOLERA.
No" Alfonso, King of Spain, Visited tb,
Cholera Stricken District.

LONDON, July l5 the attempt of KIN.
Alfonso of Spain, TO initiate the hero,
conduct of King Humbert OF Italy, 10 visit
ing Ia cholerg-=tricken subject turn, oul
to he the biggest piece OF buncombe of tie
age, Private advices from Madrid stat.
that Alfonso EXPIRE sod his determination t,
visit Murcia, at a time when it was the
worst infected lace in Spain, but tho cabi-
net hotly protested against the visit, saying
that the kings health was too delicate, and
threatened to resign. On July Alfonso
slipped away, accompanied by his premier
and minister of the interior, AMI went
incog to Aranguez, twenty weight miles from
Madrid The cholera was raging there, but
Alfonso saw none Of it. He never left the
train, but during the short time he stayed
there he remained in clo.e car, his two
ministers pouring disinfectants over him all
the time. All the refreshments he had on
the trip were brought from Madrid. even to
the water he drank. The fact of the visit
becoming known. the cortes adjourned to
meet him on his return, and he was received
7t-thA stations with great acclamations.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-13
Chicago Rioters Acquitted.

CHICAGO, July Is. Justice White had a
very large and interesting crowd in his
courtroom Saturday afternoon. There were
Ill mon arrested during the West Division
Garments strife arraigaed charged
with riot, They were chiefly
American latorerS Nine were
charged with mahciously obstructing the
car tracks There were very few striker.
among the number. Several o. the prison
ers were discharged, there being no prose
cution. About 100 OF the prisoners were
fined nominal sum, and the fines were sus
nan1ei