davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-02-20
Why street Car Drivers Are Healthy.


"Do you know what makes us street car
drivers SO healthyF' asked one of that guild
as his horses were dragging a lettering car
along Madison street the other evening.
81 suppose it is because you get plenty Of
good, pure air to breathe" was the reply of
the smoker.
"Well, that has something to do with it.
but the main thing is that We have to be
regular. Everything, you know, is done by
time table. Now, for instance, l have to be
at Garfield park at just O'Clock in the morn
ing to catch my car, or somebody else goes
out on it and lose my day. Then make
just SO many trips before dinner and so many
before supper all according to time table,
so that brings my meals right on the tick,
you see. When l get through at night I'm
always ready to go to bed, for 1 am tired,
and then, too, have to be up in the morning
SO early that must have my sleep. Now,
you SEQ, I'm about as regular as a clock,
and so are all the other drives who keep
their jobs any length of time, and regular
living is what makes a man healthy. There
is only ono drawback to this business"
"And what is thatf'
Eve don't get exercise enough. Chicago
News-
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-02-20
Sneeziup Catarrh.

DlMPLEs, Blackheads, chqpped and oily skin
1W prevented by CUTICuRA MEDIcATEp SoAr
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-02-20
LOCAL NOTICES.

Insure in the Boylston Insurance Co. of
Boston, Mass, organized 1872 Assets
nearly 81 100000. E. w. Hurst, agent,
Office over Rock Island National Bank.
E. E. Parmenter, attorney at law
Makes COLLECTIONS, loans money and will
attend to any legal business intrusted to
him. Office postotlice block, Rock Isl
and, Ills. ds&w1y
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-02-20

Accommodation trains leave Rock Island Gt6:N
a. IN. and 80 p. M. arrive att :G5 a. IN. and 3;2C
pm.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-02-04
CABLE CAR ACCIDENT.
st. Paul Inausurates the Running of Cable
Cars With a Serious Accident.

80. Paul Inausurates the Running of Cable
Cars With Serious Accident.
ST PAUL, Mimi, Jan. 2S.-For months a
topic of vivid local interest has been as to
when the st. Anthony Hill line of cable
cars would be opened, the horse cars being
quite inadequate to supply the rapidly in
creasing population in that part of the city
Shows have covered the tracks, aud minor
accidents have caused repeated postpone
mentS, but yesterday the cars first began to
run with some regularity, and the public
was allowed to make use of them, and a
most serious accident signalized the occa-
sion. About half way up the Third street
hill the line turns into Selby avenue at an
obtuse angle, and from this curve to the
top of the hill the grade is sleeper prob
ably one foot in four Some days ago an
experienced civil engineer pointed out in
published Interview the danger of locating
curve at the bottom of so long and steep
an incline, but the officers of the road de-
clared it perfectly safe.
At 1:30 yesterday afternoon a grip and
passenger car, both heavily loaded with
passengers. started down the hill. 1t was
in charge of Conductor North and Grip
man Johnson The grip had been inspected
before it left the end of the line, and seemed
IN perfect order. But about midway down
the hill the grip failed to hold the thread,
and the train rushed down to the curve,
reaching which it had attained speech of
twenty miles an hour. The grip car did not
leave the track, but the passenger coach
whipped off, turned over and was dragged
some distance. Many of the passengers
jumped off, but the majority of those in the
closed car could not do SO and all of them,
twenty or more, were more less hurt.
The only fatality SO far known is that of
Merville e. Saum ers, assistant treasurer
of the Northwestern Fuel Company, who
was standing on the rear platform of the
passenger car and with another man was
thrown against tree when the car flew
the track. He was horribly crushed and
died soon after being taken home.
Many Of the passengers were seriously
iniured
St. Landry democrat., 1888-02-04
TARIFF REFORMERS.

Large Meeting in Philadelphia Composed
of Both Political Parties The Plat
J form.
| PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 2S.-The tariff meet
| ing which was held at the Academy Of Mu-
SIC last evening ''to enforce and indorse the
| recommendations OF President Arthur and
! President Cleveland for reform" was one
OF the most successful demonstrations of
the character ever held in this city. The
Academy was filled to the top gallery, and
! most OF those present were business men.
The meeting was called to order by William
NJ. Slngerly, proprietor of the Philadel-
phla Record, who introduced Mr.. Wilson
WEIGH, OF the Commercial Exchange,a as the
president Of the meeting. Ex-Secre-
tary Of State William S. Stenger was
elected secretary, and the $50 bust
ness men who signed the call for the
meeting were constituted vice-presdents
Upon the stage were over 200 well known
Philadelphia citizens of both parties,
among them Ex-Governor Henry M. Hoyt
and his successor, Ex-Governor Robert
Pattison
The following platform was adopted:
Tax reduction is necessity. There can be
no successful defense OF fiscal policy which
takes more money out of the pockets of tax
payers than is necessary for the economical ad-
mlnistration Of the Government. The remedy
for excessive revenue is revised taxation. Pres
ldent Arthur recommended to this end the aboli-
Ilon OF the tobacco tax, an enlargement Of the
free list and simplification and reduction Of
duties on cotton, iron, steel, sugar, wool and
Woolens. President Cleveland recommends free
raw materials of manufacturers and such other
tariff reduction on the necessaries of living as
shall afford the greatest possible relief of the
public burden.
believing that substantial reduction Of the
tarlH duties is demanded, not by mere inds-
crimlnate popular clamor but by the best con-
servat1ve opinion of the country. including that
which has in former times been most strenuous
TOT the preservation of our National industrial
defenses, and that such reduction should be not
only due recognition Of public sentiments and
measures OF justice to the consumers, but one
conducive to the general industrial prosperity
ana beneficial to the special interests affected,
it is hereby resolved:
flrst-That existing duties upon raw mate
rails which are to be used in manufactures
should be removed
Second-The the duties upon the articles
used or consumed by those who are least able
TO bear the burden of taxation should be re-
moved.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-02-04
PERSONAL AND PoL1r1cAI..

/ VIscoUNT DAs NoGUIERAs, Minister tron
| Portugal, died at Washington on the 24th
He had been Minister to this country fol
the past ten years.
| COLONEL CHARLES WILLIAM MoULToN
brother-in-law of General and Senator
Sherman, died in New York City recently
aged ffty-seven.
JOHN T. ALLEN, Secretary OF State o,
Texas under Governor Hamilton, died re
Gently, leaving his estate worth $3.50, 900 te
the city of Galveston to found an indus
trial school.
The Republican convention at New Or
| leans nominated the following State ticket:
| For Governor, 81. G.. Yarmouth, Plaque.
mine; Lieutenant Governor, q. G. Minor,
Of Terre Bonne; Secretary Of State, J. 8.
Patty, Of st. Mary; State Treasurer, An
drew Nero, Of Orleans; State Auditor,
James Forsythe, of Catahouta; Attorney
General, General w. G.. Wylie, Of East
Carroll; Superintendent of Education, B.
r. Flanders, OF Lafayette
THE Constitutional Prohibition resolution
has been passed by the Massachusetts
House by vote OF 100 to 10.
A RECEPTION was given by the PresideIt
and Mrs. Cleveland at the executive man.
sion on the Goth to members of Congress
and the Justices of the District and United
States Courts. Mrs. Cleveland was as
sisted by Mrs. Fairchild, Mrs. Whitney and
Mrs Don wi. Dickinson.
i HON. j. M. PATTON, a Representative In
the Mississippi Legislature from Smith
County, died on the 26th, of pneumonia.
Senator Seat and several other members
Of the Legislature were also lying i'll with
pneumonia which was very prevalent in
jackson.
THE Spanish Consul General at New
York denies emphatically the truth OF the
stories OF trouble in Cuba.
THE Manitoba Legislature has adjourned
to March /, to allow the new ministers to
hold their elections.
II. G. MINER, nominated by the Louisl-
ana Repu blicans for Lieutenant Governor,
has dehned to permit the use OF his name
BARTLEY O'BRIEN has been nominated
for Congress in the Eleventh Michigan
district by the Democrats and Labor party.
Z A LARGELY attended meeting OF tariff re-
formers was held at the Academy OF Music,
Philadelphia, on the 27th. ITO enforce and
endorse the recommendation OF President
Cleveland for reform, The principal
speakers were Congressman Breckenridge,
OF Kentucky, and Congressman Frank
Hurd
THE House Committee on Elections has
disposed Of the Indiana contested election
case by ordering a report declaring the
seat vacant on the ground that White, the
sitting member, was ineligible, while
Lowry, the contestant, did not have ma
lority OF the votes cast.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-02-04
TO REGULATE THE TELEGRAPH.
Provisions of Senator Spooner's Bill to
Regulate Telegraph COMPANIES.

Provisions of Senator Spooner's Bill tc
Regulate Telegraph Companies.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-A bill introduced
by Senator Spooner yesterday, to regulate
commerce carried on by telegraph, defines
IN It's first section the term "telegrapt
company" as used in the bill, to mean per
sons or corporations engaged in Interstate
telegraphy for hire, or in telegraphy be-
tween foreign country and the United
States.~
Sections 2 and declare that all charges
for telegraph service shall be reasonable
and just and that it shall be unlawful for
any telegraph company to give any unrea-
sonable preference or advantage to any
person, company, corporation, locality or
class OF business, or to subject any persons,
places or business to unreasonable dis
elimination. Every telegraph company
shall afford reasonable equal facilities to
connecting lines and shall not discriminate
in their rates and charges between connect
ing lines.
Section makes il unlawful for any tele-
graph company to enter into contract
agreement or combination with any other
telegraph company dividing between them
the greater part Of the net proceeds of such
companies.
Section makes it unlawful for any tele-
graph company, directly or Indirectly, by
any special rate, rebate, drawback Or other
device to receive from any persons or cor
poration any greater or less compensation
for any service than it charges or receives
from any other persons or corporations for
doing like and contemporaneous service.
Section requires telegraph companies
to publish their rates, and to file with the
Interstate Commerce Commission sehed-
ule thereof, and to notify the Commission
ten days beforehand of any proposed
changes, subject to penalties for disJbedi-
ence.
The companies may be compelled by
mandaSus to comply with these require
sec,lens and provide that telegraph
compahss violg-5g thassSvisions Of the
bill shal1Re liable tp s persons injured
thereby for dagSk, which may be
recoveredA eitssf ~ suit before. the
Commission Or xhef courts. In suits
Tor damages thN telegraph company is
required to prpduce its books, and its
officers are required to answer any ques-
tions propounded to them, no matter
whether of eliminating nature or not,
uttheir testimony shall not be used against
them in any criminal suit.
The remaining sections of the bill give
the Interstate Commerce Commission ju-
risdiction over Interstate telegraph busi-
ness, fix penalties for violation of the act,
authorize the Commission to inquire into
the business of telegraph companies and
TO investigate complaints under substan-
tally the same provisions that complaints
alleging infraction Of the Interstate Com
nerce law are now examined into by the
Commission.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-02-04

In the London Divorce Court re-
Gently, in the case Of an English
woman named Turner. who had mar
ried an American named Thompson,
and had had the marriage annulled by
an American court, the judge held that
the woman having married an Ameri-
can and lived with him in America
was entitled to the same laws as her
husband; and, therefore, the decree
pronounced in America was binding in
England without further decree from
an English court
St. Landry democrat., 1888-02-04
NO-MAN'S-LAND.
Senator PIumb's Bill to Annex It to the
State of Kansas.

Senator Plumb's Bill to Annex It to the
State of Kansas.
WASHINGTON, Jan. Ex-senator Plumb
has introduced a bill in which he proposes
to dispose of the Mans Land, problem
by attaching the much-disputed territory
to the State of Kansas as part and parcel
OF that Commonwealth. In the language OF
the bill. 'sThe southern and western bond
aries OF the State of Kansas are extended
so as to include the tract Of public land
bounded on the east by the Indian Terri
tory, on the south by the State of Texas, on
the west by the Territory of New Mexico
and on the north by the States of Colorado
and Kansas, which is hereby constituted a
part OF the State of Kansas, subject to all
conditions and limitations provided in the
act admitting Kansas into the Union, pro-
vided that this act shall not take effect un-
til the State Of Kansas shall have assented
to the provisions of the same; and If the
State of Kansas shall not by act of its
Legislature consent to the provisions of
this act within two years next after the
passage hereof, the same shall cease and
be of no effect.
''That il this act shall be duly accepted
by the State OF Kansas, the said lands en-
braced IN the provisions of the foregoing
section shall constitute part of the Judi
cial District of Kansas, and for the accom-
modation of litfgants at least one term each
year of the United States District Courts
shall be held at Garden City, Kan,
on date to be fixed by the Judge
Of said court. The Clerk, Marshal
and district attorney for said district Of
Kansas shall perform the duties pertaining
to their offices respectively for said court,
and the clerk and marshal shall each ap-
point deputy to reside and keep their
office at Garden City, who, in the absence
OF the principals, shall do and perform all
the duties appertaining to their said offices
respectively
St. Landry democrat., 1888-02-04

PRESIDENT CARNoT, it appears, had
an escape from being murdered the
other day. Aman presented himself at
the Elysee and insisted on delivering a
letter into the Presidents own hands.
He was arrested and taken to the
police station and a loaded revolver
was found in his pocket. His name
was Gresel and he evidently was a
illnatic
St. Landry democrat., 1888-02-04
THE hundredth anniversary I

THE hundredth anniversary (Janu-
ary 22) Of the birth Of Byron was the
theme of enthusiastic articles in all the
Greek papers, which expressed in the
wSrmest terms the gratitude of the
Hellenic Nation for the inestimable
service Of the English poet to the cause
Of National regeneration and inde-
pendence at Mesolonghi, where Byron
met his death. The statue erected to
him was covered with wreaths of spring
flowers and evergreens.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-02-04
ADD1rroNAL D1sPArcHrs.

| The Muskegon Lumber Company o
Muskegon, Mich, on the 3Oth closed pur'
chase of 10000 acres of choice timber
lands in Arkansas. The average price
paid per acre was 1926.
| BEN EDWARDS, colored, who so grossly
assaulted white girl living near Amite
City, La, was taken from jail on the night
| of the 10Th and lynched.
MARSHAL T. BROWN shot and instantly
killed Taylor Bowling at Kingston, Tenn,
on the night Of the 29th. During the day
Bowling had been arrested by Brown, and
when he gained his freedom he said he
would kill Brown on sight. He went to
Browns residence and attacked him, when
Brown shot him through the head with a
pistol.
SEVERAL merchants Of Helena and quite
large number of day laborers are caused
to mourn by the abrupt and unceremonious
departure of one Of the late sub-con-
tractors of that portion of the levee of the
cotton belt district No. /, which the gov
ernment was undertaking to construct.
TOMMY CUNNIFF, of New Bedford, Mass,
on the 10th ran 100 yards in a nude condi-
tion for wager Of $40. The thermom-
Time, 0:32.
KNoxvILLE's old board of mayor and
aldermen, six Of the new members being
Democrats, on the 9th elected the Rev. j.
G. Lawrence colored Republican, as
member Of the Board Of Education. This
has caused the widest excitement through
out the city, and trickery is claimed by the
friends Of T. L. Fisher, the opponent of
Lawrence. Republicans are happy and
the Democrats red hot over the result.
On the plains of Lazaro, near the City
Of Mexico, duel took place on the 2sth
between Senior Ermili g. Caution, thitry-
third degree Mason and editor of the
Scottish Rite Organ, and Gen. Toledo, a
prominent Temp1ar. The quarrel grew
out of fight between the Scottish Rite
organ and the Cruz Templari, and involved
the Templars.
!. Il. RICHARDSON, Of Leavenworth, Ks,
was sent to the penitentiary for three
years for assaulting his wife with intent
to kill her, and the woman was sentenced
for eighteen months for perjury in trying
to shield her husband on his trial. They
were taken together TO prison.
The Choctaws are greatly exercised over
their net proceed claim against the United
States government for property which had
10 be abandoned in Mississippi and Ala
bana when they were removed west.
Ar Plymouth, N. c., on the 2sth, three
negro prisoners were taken from Jail by
masked men, conveyed to the woods on the
OF the town, tied to trees and
Jhen shot to death.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-02-04

a PUBLIC test took place at the Ches-
ter (Pa.) rolling mills recently Of the
new device for the saving of fuel and
improving Of iron. The process is
sihply the spraying of fine coal, re-
tneed by the cyclone pulverizer to a
powder, into q chamber attached to the
furnace, IN which the combustion is 50
perfect that all the waste hitherto oc-
curing in smoke and ashes is entirely
obylated. The general result showed
q saving OF between forty and fifty per
cent, Of coal, . saving Of fifty per cent
ssn Time Of heating the farnace and d
greatly improved quality Of iron.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-02-04

LETITIA MCCULLOUGH, widow of the
tragedian, John Mccullough, died re-
Gently in Philadelphia after an illness
of three weeks. Since the death of her
youngest son, William johnson Nc
Cullough, in February, 1886, so soon
after the death of her husband, Mrs.
Mccullough had not been in good
health. A cancer in her left breast
was the cause of her death.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-02-04
MISCELLANEOUS,

SEVERAL overdue vessels arrived at New
York from Europe ON the 26th after stormy
passages.
The passenger depot of the New York
Central railroad at Niagara Falls, N. Y,
was destroyed by fire recently. Loss, $25,
00O
| BISHOP IRELAND, Of st. Paul, delared ia
Washington the other evening that the COR
ner stone of the new Catholic University
would be laid in three months.
| HERR BLEICRRoDER, the great German
! fnancier, has arranged to take e3, 600, 900 OF
the new Mexican loan, paying sl4, 900, 600
for them.
| QUITE lively riot was caused in st. Paul
the other night by an attempt of young
| men to break up an American Gospel Army
| meeting. The ringleaders were arrested.
Four hundred miners about Ironwood,
| Mich, have struck for three months back
pay.
PINKERToN detectives recently arrested
James Barrows in Alabama, whom they
claim was the leader in the late train rob-
berries in Texas. Two or three other ar
rests were made in Erath County, Texas,
about the same time, and hopes were enter
tanned that the gang had been effectually
broken up.
AREcErvER has been appointed for the
Excelsior Electric Company of New York.
Liabilities about $4,000.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) for the
seven days ended January 26 mum bered for
the United States, 26S; Canada, 49; total,
317, compared with 3l4 the previous week
and 271 for the corresponding week of last
year.
The Secretary of the Treasury has in
l.
ly determined that the importation of neat
cattle from Great Britain and Ireland under
certain prescribed conditions will not tend
to the introduction or spread of Infectious
or contagious diseases among the cattle of
the United States.
The House Committee on Commerce has
ordered favorable reports on the bill to
bridge the Missouri river at st. Charles
and at Jefferson City, Mo.
THE Sioux Indians have elected twelve
delegates to represent the Nation at Wash
ington on the proposition to open the reser-
walton.
One man was killed and four badly in
jured by an explosion of gas in mine near
Wilkesbarre Pa, on the 9th.
The opening of the ST. Anthony Hill
Cable line at st. Paul, Mlnn., was signal
lISQ ny d 1aIal accident Oh the HEGn. Inc
grip failed to catch the cable, when the
passenger car dashed down the incline,
overturning and killing Merville L. Saum-
ers, assistant treasurer of the Northwest
ern Fuel Company. About twelve other
persons were seriously injured
The balance of trade with the world for
the year 1887 was in 'favor'' of the United
States to the amount of s6,5i3647.
REPORTS from Berks, Lebanon, Schuyl-
kill and Lehigh Counties, Pa, say the snow
had drifted so that the public roads were
abandoned. The farmers were turning out
in bands of from fifty to one hundred to
open the roads.
The Federal Bank of Toronto Ont, has
decided to wind up it's affairs.
ONE man was killed and two others
fatally injured In Jersey City, N. j., re-
Gently by collision between coal cars in
the LackaWanna yards.
MAIL train dashed into number of
men clearing the track Of snow near Holy |
oke Mass, on the 9th. killing three and |
fatally wounding another.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-02-04

PROBABLY the most expensiyely-
dressed man seen in Pittsburgh, Pa,
for many day was Toy Sun, San
Francisco merchant, who went through
there recently on his way to Washing
ton. His garments were combina-
ton of silks, satins and laces, and five
large diamonds did duty for buttons.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-02-04

The Fire Insurance Association of
New York, Brooklyn, Jersey City and
Hoboken, representing seventy-five
.companiesAnet recently and suspended
all rules as to rates of insurance and
payment of commissions. This re-
suited from the course of certain nom
association agencies. and knitting war
of rates was expected.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-02-04

THOMAS S. GARDNER, the proprietor
of the Chicago Farm Journal, who was
arrested last April by the United States
postal authorities for fraudulent use
of the mails in conducting a lottery
and gift enterprise, has been found
guilty in the United States District
Court and fined five hundred dollars.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-02-04

The surgeons were unable to extract
the bullet in Louise Michels head. Lu-
cas-, the crank who shot her. at Hayre,
France, recently, says if he has killed
an Anarchist queen the Revolutionary
party will disappear.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-02-04

The civilians residing on the island
upon which is situated Fort Westmore-
land, in Queenstown harbor, having
made bonfires of tar barrels to cele-
brate the release of Mr.. O'Brien from
Tallamore jail, the British Govern
meAt decided upon their eviction, and
sorderssWere issued for their ejectment
Tnrfh,vith
St. Landry democrat., 1888-02-04

{ ATToRNEY-GENERAL GARLAND has
published denial of the report that he
Is to run for Senate to succeed Senator
Berry, of Arkansas.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-02-04

PAULINE LuccA, the prima donna,
shas announced her intention of taking
up her abode in Vienna and giving
singing lessons.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-02-04

QUEEN VICTORIA is to receive the
first bar of gold taken from the newly
discovered Gwynfynydd mine at Dol
gellv, Wales.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-02-04

The Greek Minister at London has
been ordered to Washington to secure
the abolition of the duty on currents.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-02-04
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Prince of Wales has received a
present of q table ten foot around,
made of the hide of rhinoceros.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-02-04

JOHN JACOB AsToR has contributed
one thousand dollars to the pension
fund OF the New York policemen.