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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-03
BLAINE TALKS TO CANADIANS.
Doesn't Talk American Politics. Except an
American Soil.

DETROIT, Mich. Oct S-Mr. Blaine, &C
companied 10y Walker Blaine, and Gen Adam
E. King, of Baltimore, arrived here at 8
o'clock p. m. yesterday via the Michigan
Central route The trip from New York
was without incident except a serenade at
st. Thomas, Ont, the railway center Of the
Canadian Southern division, where q delega-
ton of citizens. with band of music, paid
their respects from the platform in front Of
the station. Mr.. Blaine appeared at the door
of his car and was introduced to the crowd
by Division Superintendent J. B. Marford.
He said:
Il feel some embarrassment in addressing
a Canadian audience in the midst of the po-
litical campaign now in progress in the
United States Though earnestly interested
in the Republican cause l am too loyal
an American citizen TO say anything against
Democratic president except upon the soil
OF my country. l can only say that feel,
as do all the people Of the Union, that the
ties and sympathies between the United
States and Canada are very strong; that
both are more interested in the progr ess Of
the new than of the old world; that, as de-
scendants Of a common race, and represent
ing, in value at least, three-fourths of the
American continent, their relations ought &c
be intimate and close. Whether they will
ever be closer will depend upon Canada
Whatever movement toward that end may
be made must come from her, and be of heI
own volition
Here the train moved OF TO an accompani
ment of music and cheers.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-03
PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS.



WASHINGTON CITY, Oct 3 the senate had
a long debate yesterday on the resolution in
structing the epidemic diseases committee to
report additional legislation to prevent the
introduction OF infectious diseases TIE re
solution was finally referred Hale stated
that the house and senate conferrees on the
general deficiency bill disagreed on five
points-appropriating the balance OF the late
Chief Justice Naite's salary to his widow; ;
extending the laws to No Mans Land;' APP
preparation for a womens home in Utah, for
the benefit of those seeking to escape from
poiygamy, being three of them. The sen
ate agreed TO insist on its disagreement The
conference report on the resolution in aid OF
the yellow fever sufferers was agreed to- A
resolution was offered requesting the presi
dent TO negotiate treaties with England and
Mexico to prevent the entrance of Chinese
into the United States. Hlle's civil service
reform committee was authorized to sit dur
ing recess and after an executive session the
senate adjourned.
McCreery presided in the house in the alb
sence of Carlisle The senate bill was passed
allowing those who have abandoned home
stead entries to make others, with amend
mer Is permitting the homesteadsr to leave
his claim for one year. when, by reason Of
drought, etc, he can not support himself
thereon; reducing certain lands to the uni
form price OF SL25 per acre; and per
hitting homesteader to enter additional land
up to 169 acres when the first entry is les'
than that amount the conference report
on the resolution to aid the fever sufferers
was adopted, 1t appropriates Si0I o09 to he
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-03
For Republican Farmers TO Read.


Senator Allison, Of Iowa, prominent
candidate for the republican nomination
for the presidency, in The late Chicago
convention, but who was forced out of
the contest by the railroad attorneys who
controlled that body, because he was
from granger" state, thinks the pres,
ent tariff does not protect the farmer.
On the oath of March, 1870. he said
The agricultural interest, it will be
seen, is much the largest interest in its
aggregate product as well as in the num-
Der of persons employed | believe no
one will claim that this large interest Is
directly protected 1t is true that under
customs laws there is a small duty upon
wheat, barley, oats and other agricultur
al products, but il does not afford any
protection to the great wheat and grain
producing regions of the country The
gentleman from Ohio Mr.. Wilson |. in
discussing this question. stated that the
cost Of wheat in New England is about
$40 per bushel, while in Illinois, Iowa
and Wisconsin the price is about So cents
per bushsl The Canadian wheat is the
only wheat that comes IN competition
with our own. Canada being nearer
New England than the wheat growing
states more than makes Mp the duty in
the reduced cost of transportation.
What is true of wheat is equally true
of other grains. Therefore the farmer
has practically no protection at all, and
whatever benefit he derives is from what
the home market furnishes for home pro
ducts. Unfortunately for the farmer, the
market price of wheat is fixed by the
price which the surplus will bring abroad
or the price of wheat in London or Liver
pool. At that market, where the surplus
is sold, and which fixes the value of the
whole crop, he comes in competition
with the grain produced In the Crimea in
Hungary, and in the region of the Baltic,
from fields cultivated by what is known
In comparison with our own, as pauper
labor.
But | am told we must so legislate as
TO furnish home market for all cur ag-
rlcultural products, and this can only be
done by high tariff ANY one examining the
subject will see that our agricultural pro-
ducts Increase more rapidly than our pop
ulatiOn, so that if we do not export these
products in their natural condition, we
must do so by converting them into man.
ufactured articles and export these arti
cles. But this cannot be done under 9
high tariff, for all nations will buy man
ufactured products where they are the
cheapest, and the nation selling the
cheapest will control the market This
rule excludes our highly taxed manufac,
lures made from highly taxed material,
from the markets of the world, although
we have natural advantages possessed b.
no other nation"
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-03
HOME RULE AND PLAQUES.
Morgan Doubts the PracticabiIity of Ma
tianal Quarantine Laws.

WASHINGTON CITY, Oct 3-While the
matter of inssructing the committee on
epidemic diseases to report additional legs-
lation for the control of plaques was up be-
fore the senate yesterday, Call read letter
from DR.. Reed, suggesting spirits of am
monia as cure and preventive of yellow
fever. A discussion followed between Call
and Blair as to the men most capable of in
quiring into the facts Call sugges ted the
academy of sciences Blair said he never
knew of the academy doing any thing, and
suggested that committee of congress
might summon experts
Morgan said there was great difficulty in
the government assuming to enforce quarau-
tine laws in the states. The city of New
York, for instance, would never consent to
have a federal commission go there and take
charge of an epidemic He would propose
that each Of the eight southern states which
had been ravaged by yellow fever should
vote 500 600; that the governors of these
states should appoint commission; that
that board should select a president and
form joint commission; that the commits
sion should have free access to the fund, and
use any part of it wherever yellow fever
might appear There would be no difficulty
in congress voting subvention to that com
mission
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-03
TIE PROSPECT FRIGHTENING.
One Day Without a Death at Jncksonvili
-KelipI MnaSureS.

One Day Without a Death at jacksonville
Relief Measures.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Oct. 3.--For the first
time in many long weeks the board OF health
reports not one death from yellow fever for
twenty-four hours New cases reported are
rs. or these 80 are white and 66 colored
Total cases to date, 2,S23; deaths, 264 The
number of ration tickets is being rapidly re-
duced, and all abuses ferreted out and cor
rected as fast as possibe e. The finance com
mittee reported the receipt of ST. 95 yes
terday
Dr. Powell, of Starke, Fla, sent for a
physician yesterday TO go TO Temple mills,
near there, and see if s Temple, proprietor
Of the mills, had yellow fever Dr. Porter
volunteered to go, and a locomotive was
placed at his disposal but the quarantine
regulation of the towns along the road pre-
vented bis geing Word was received later
that his presence was not needed.
Surgeon General Hamilton yesterday
wired Dr. Porter that convalescents from
yellow fever having certificates to that effect
gned by the president of the board of
health and countersigned by surgeon Porter,
OF the medical bureau, can leave Camp
Perry after quarantine detention of three
days there; all persons absolutely destitute
of means for travelling will be furnished free
transportation thence to any points desg-
mated by them where they will be among
friends capable of self-support.
Mr.. Edwin Martin, editor of the Times
Union, went home last night sick His ply
sicans report no decided symptoms of yellow
fever and at 10 O'Clock be was resting COM
>
paper under almost unsurmountsble difficult
ties has undoubtedly produced prostration.
from which it is hoped he ill rally in a few
days. Col j. j. Daniel died at $50 las t
night.
Great interest is taken by medical men in
the theory of incubation as a preventive of
yellow fever Dr. Nuuez de Villavicensia
claims to obtain the virus OF the dis sse,
and says he has treated numerous cases dur
ing epidemcs in Iexico, Panama, and else
where, being successful except in one or two
instances. He holds that the "microba' is a
vegetable organism, not animal He ex-
hibits dried specimens of bodily secretions
containing the elements of the disease. By
moistening these and inoculating with the
fluid he claims to make the subject proc
against the fever. Tue doctor halls fir on
New Orleans
At Fernandina the situation is net alarm
ing. At Sanderson there are two new eases
F. j. Pons, Jr., and a colored servant.
There is no change at Gainesville or Me.
Clenny.
Mrs, c. D. Davis, a nurse from Pailadel-
phia, was taken down last night. There are
some rumors of trouble among the negroe.
on account of free relief being shut off Oct
9, but nothing definite can be ascertained.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-03

changed to the Chicago Commercial and
Savings bank, and the place OF business
changed 10 Chicago. From that time
the business was carried on in this city
under that title until March l, 1873, when
the name was changed to the Garden City
Savings bank, and then on Aug.
10 to Traders bank OF the S200,0O0
of the capital stock, which was di-
vided into 2,00J shares, Mr.. Rutter owned
1900 shares and Mr. Tallman the other 500
These two men constitute the bank, and it is
said they conducted the institution more to
have employment than for any other reason
"Old Hutch" shed some light on the cause
of the closure yesterday morning when he
Strengthened himref up and said: "The
bank had very little trade. The wheat deal
had no effect on it. The institution was one
supported by Mr.. Rutter, man of wealth,
just because he did wish to be idle The
failure will, in my opinion, injure no one.
Even the assets of the bank are not as much
as the liabilities, all obligations can be set
tied from Mr.. Rutter's estate
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-03

CHICAGO. Oct. 3 AT IL O'Clock last night
the steam barge John Breeder. living at the
foot of Illinois street. was discovered to be
on fire, d an alarm was turned in. Hook
and Ladder company No 3 was first to re.
spond. A ladder was placed against the
side of the barge. and three firemen mounted
it. Their weight pushed the vessel away
from tue dock, and one of the men, Matth as
Kettern, fell into the river between the
barge and the dock, and was either drowned
or crushed to death The other two jumped
and t.cspd The fire was extinguished
after causing a trifling damage.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-03
Condensed NEWS.

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Louis Ernst was caught IN the piston roo
OF an engine at Dayton, w. tuesday, anu
had his brains dashed out
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-03

CHICAGO, Oct ST the feeling does not
improve between Mr.. Yerkes, the president
of the North and West Side railway com
panies of this city, few hundred Thousand
of the citizens will have to take Shanks' mare
on their trip to the business district. The
men have made demands for more
paw and change in the running schedule,
and it is reported have decided to strike to-
day, tomorrow. or Saturday, accord ing to
which paper you get your informa ton from.
Mr.. Yerkes is said to be willing to change
the schedule, but not to increa Sc the pay. II
is certain that strike is almost inevitable
vary snnn
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-03

Once. While a Journalist, He Edited Two
Opposing Daily Papers in Holland-The
Amusing Story of His ENperience-A
Huge Journalistic Joke.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-03

In nominating Hon. VIM. Prentiss for
congress and R. J. Cabeen for member of
Inc board of equalization yesterday, the
united Labor party did wise thing.
hoth men are in thorough sympathy
with all measures looking to the better.
,ff.ss.4 OF me condition of the working
classes, and if elected will accomplish as
much in that direction as would their
own representatives.. With united OPP
position in the entire district, things look
decidedly shaky for Bro Gest.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-03
FRESH START AT DECATUR.
Favorable Weather Gives Yellow Jack a
Chance to Work.

Chance to Work.
NASHVILLE. Tenn, Oct. "a special to
The American from Decatur, Ala, SAYS:
The situation here yesterday morning was
anything but encouraging. The weather
was considerably warmer, and a light rain
Monday night made yellow fever get in its
work at lively rate. One death occurred
Monday night. young colored man, and it
is thought that DR. W B. Black will not
live. -Four well.developed new cases are re
ported, and two others are thought to be
yellow fever Eighteen cases are now under
treatment, and two of them will die Among
the rev cases is Capt J. B Stewart, who re-
turned Monday from Haueevile, where he
attended his son Bob, who died Sunday
evening His case, it is thought, will I've
light one. The majority of the cases on
hand now are colored. DIR. G. NJ. Stein
berger, an expert in yellow fever. who was
sent out by the United States government
reached the city Yesterday.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-03

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Oct 3 In Sparta,
White county, yesterday, Sheriff Lance tried
to arrest joan l. Potts, deputy United
States nlar ual who killed Gus Geer last
year. Fiem i'otts brother to John. entered
a protest; and he and the sheriff walked
away armlu-aru. Sheriff Lance saw that
Flen Potts had a cooked pistol IN bis free
hand, anl Immediately jerked the weapon
away from him. and shot him IN the face
john Potts tl5'n fired at Lance, but missed
him Fem lu.iS vail die
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-03

MINNEAPOLIS, MINI. Oct, > The Jour
nails Toronto special, says: A letter from
Erastus Wiman saws that it is not unlikely
that resolution Will be reported for the
concurrent action Of both houses Of congress
dec airing it to be the duty of the president
to open negotiations with Great Britain,
looking to political union between the Eng
liSh speaking nations on this continent. The
condition attending tins invitation of Canada
is understood 70 be that the United States
will assume the debt Of Canada-S30O, 900, =
900 The letter was followed by request to
Withdraw it. but it was disregaried and the
letter was published.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-03

PORTSMOUTH, N. H Oct The U. s. s.
Constellation from Norfolk, Va, for this
navy yard. while entering the lower ha rbor
Monday night ran into the schooner Nathan
lei Lank, carrying away the latter's jib-
boom and head-gear The ships stern fouled
schooner E. C. Allen, carrying away the
Aliens cat-head and fore-rigging While
the three vessels were fouled the schooner
Daniel Harris, in attempting TO anchor, col.
lided with the Constellation and lost her jib-
boom, fore top mast aud fore-rigging. The
ship had two holes stove in her starboard
quarter. The blame of the collision is at.
tributed to the man-of. war.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-03

LONDON, Oct. 3-Mr Archibald Forbes
the famous war correspondent, has written
to The Daily News expressing his conviction
that the Whitechapel assassin contracted
disease from women of the class of
his victims. lost his situation, and subse-
quently suffered from a specific and incur
able madness. The criminal, MIR. Forbes
thinks, is a medical student, demented from
the causes mentioned.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-03

QUEBEC, Oct 3 Senator Gibbs Ross, a
large ship. owner and lumber merchant, died
here yesterday morning, leaving fortune
estimated at between SS.000000 and $40 =
COG, 600 He owned forty-five sailing yes
sells, over 100 square miles oil timber lands,
and immense blocks of real estate He was
the largest shareholder in the Quebec
& Lake St john railway, and was the pro
moter of n scheme TO bridge the st. Law
renee al OnAbac
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-03

CHICAGO, Oct 3.-Dr. McGlynn, the noted
ex-Roman Catholic priest. arrived here
yesterday. In an interview he said that as
the Roman Catholic church would not let
him serve her, and as he would not be a
clergyman in any other church if he lived to
be 1000 years, old be was at work for
the United Labor party. None
of the proposed reforms. however, were pos
sible until we have the Australian system Of
secret ballot. Said be: 1.-THE old STAKEHOLDER
was right. The only way to have peace be-
tween capital and labor was for capital to
own labor. and then would ensue the peacs
of the lamb within the ion." He lectured
to large audience last night at Central
Music hall on the single tax idea.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-03

WAsHIEeToS Cry Oct 3.-The following are
the weather indications for tbirty-sx hours from
d. NJ YESTERDAY For Iowa-Fair weather;
cooler Wednesday morning followed by warmer
Wednesday night variable winds becoming
southerly. For Illinois, Wisconsin, and upper
Michigau-Fair, cooler weather, with frosts, fol-
lowed by warmer Wednesday night; variable
winds For lower Michigan aud lndiana-Fair,
cooler weather, with frosts, followed on
"Wednesday night by warmer; northerly winds
becoming variable.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-03
IRON MEN FROM MINNESOTA
Call ON Cen. Harrison and Distribute Me-
tallic Campaign Arguments.

tailic Campaign Arguments.
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct 3-Twenty five men
from the Vermlllion iron range in lower
Minnesota called on Gen. Harrison yester-
day morning at his residence. they brought
nth them several hundred soecimens of
iron ore taken from the Vermillion mines,
which, with small tags attached. reading
@protect our wages and we'll buy your pro-
Visions" were distributed at railway stations
along the route from Minnesota to this city.
Ths general received the visitors without
any formality, and several min
utes were spent in conversation about
the iron and lumber resources and the
industrial interests Of the region represented
by the visitors
A little after noon delegations from Fulton
and Marshall counties Indiana, numbering
nearly 900, visited the general. The recep.
tlon took place in Pfaffiin hall, where, after
the introduction speeches, he made brief
speech in which he said that it seemed to hin
that the Mills bill had been framed for the
purpose of separating from the protective
column the great body Of agricultural voters
but that every class of labor was favorably
affected by protective tariff The genera
than held Misunderstanding reception
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-03

DULUTH. Mimi, Oct 3-There are over
$50 cases of typhoid fever in this city. and
the epidemic appears to be growing AT st.
Luke's hospital there are thirty eight cases,
and many of them serious. AT st Mary's
there are fifty ght cases, while numbers of
isolated cases are scattered around the city
Several deaths have occurred The chamber
of commerce has requested the immediate
presence of DR.. Hewitt, president OF the state
board of health, in the city to examine its
sanitary condition.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-03

OTTAWA Dat, Oct. Attorney General
Longley. Of Nova Scotia, is here comforting
with Liberal politicians with the object Of
promoting closer trade relation between
the United States and Canada He is very
decided in his utteralca- ami feels that an
nexation viii he the upshot of the whole af-
fair. Annexation, he thinks, will he brought
about in five years
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-03

NEW YORK 0et. SIT has Just been
learned here that the British ship Earl
Wemyss. from San Francisco May 10Th for
Queenstown, and the ship Ardenchapel,
which left Liverpool July Sl>t for Calcutta,
collided at sea or Pernambuco on Aug, 18th.
The Earl Wemvss sank, The wife of Capt
Colquhoun, his three children, aud nineteen
of the crayy were drowned
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-03
he SUGAR TRusT Al WORK.
1t Orders he Close of Two Refnerirs and
Makes l 600 Men Idle,

Makes l. 900 Men Idle.
NEW York, Oct. 3 -There is excite
ment among the employees of the sugar re
fneries in Williamsburg, Long Island. An
order Was issued Monday by Theodore A.
Havemeyer, president If the sugar trust,
calling for the closing of the two refineries
of the firm of Decastro 4 Bonner. This firm
is one of the largest in the country
Fully 1893 men viii be thrown out Of EN-
ployment when this order goes into effect,
whic f., it i, expected, will happen to-day.
The closing viii be for an indefinite period.
Coming. as this does, close upon the shutting
down by the sugar trust Of the Bay State re-
finery in Boston, it has caused very uneasy
feeling among the men.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-03

TUsCoLA, Ills, Oct 3-Marshal Lewis
went to the home of mis- mother in-law, Mrs.
W. D. Goldman, yesterday morning, and at
tempted to carry off his child. which she had
kept for q year Mrs Goldman resisted.
The father became enraged and beat the
aged woman so severely that she is in dan
gerous condition ever since. Lewis is held
for trial
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-03

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 3,-Judge Hoffman,
of the United States district court, refused
yesterday to issue any more writs of habeas
corpus to Chinese who arrived by the
steamer City of New York Saturday. There
are 30, re return certificates issued at this
port still outstanding
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-03

COLUMBUS, o, Oct 1t seems probable
that Judge Thurman will issue no letter of
acceptance, owing to his speech of accept
ance to the notification committee. and the
extended expression OF his view in his
speeches during the campaign. While be
has not said that be would not write letter.
he has frequently remarked that he did not
see the necessity of any letter from him. He
will leave tor Washington on FRIDAY.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-03

Blue SPRINGS, N-b. oct. 5-Ye-trrday
afternoon Mrs Ptaf,ahprger stranglei
her Two clliiren. aE~i and =
wears. and then shot herself through the
heart She left letter ia Hcr husband who
was absent al the tina, saying that she felt
herself becoming crazy. aud seeing M future
for her children bad resolved to Kilt them
al lnn.--.lE