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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-31
IN THE SENATE AND HOUSE.


Two National Chambers.
WASHINGTON CITY, Jan. 3l-The first
business of the senate Monday, as usual, was
| the receipt of numerous petitions for Pro-
hibiton. The proposition to reduce letter
postage was reported adversely A bill was
| introduced for forest protection. The con-
stitutional amendment to change the date of
| the presidents Inauguration and termination
of the short session Of congress from March
4 to April 80 was reported favorably. Plumb
introduced a resolution for an investigation
of alleged inefficiency in the postal service
Morgan and Blair made speeches against
and for the educational bill. At 4:30 the
senate went into secret session and at SEQ
ad journsd.
The house passed the bill authorizing a
bridge across the Missouri river below st.
Charles, Mo- Among the bills etc, intro
duced were the following: To prevent aliens
acquiring public lands; authorizing the APP
pointment of clerks to members of congress-
to take the tax off salt and oleomargarine;
for bounty on exported wheat, corn and
flour; to prevent trusts, combinations, etc !;
for the issue of fractional silver certificates;
for the further coinage of silver and re-
demption of national bank notes; for survey
for a waterway from Lake Michigan to the
Mississippi The reports in the Lowry
White contest, from Indiana, were
presented, the majority declaring for a
new election, and the minority favoring the
contestee. A letter from the public printer
was read denying the charges of delay in
public work, and after some debate a resolu-
ton was adopted for an investigation of the
office under the present head, and under Mr..
Rounds, deceased. The senate amendments
to the bill appropriating for agricultural ex-
pertinent stations were concurred in, and the
house ad iourned
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-31
PRINTER eeNEolcT's DEFENSE.
1t Results In an Order for a COmparativ
Investigation of the Office.

1t Results In an Order for Comparative
Investigation of the Office.
WASHINGTON CITY, Jan. 3i.-The letter
read in the house Monday from Public Printer
Benedict, in answer to the recent animal
versions on his conduct of his office and a
resolution callni5 Ii hin Tor niiorinauo /
us to the discharges of employees nlada / Y
him, explains ard justties these disc :,rs,
defends the administration of his Office, AID
emphatically denies the charge that the con.
gressonal work of the office is largely in ar
rears He declares that during the forty.
five days of the Fiftieth congress the print
ing ordered by congress had increased 46 per
cent over that ordered during similar pc
riod Of the Forty-ninth congress, but states
with a working force of 800 less employees
than were on the rolls of the office at the be-
ginning of the Forty ninth congress.
The letter gave rise to short debate, dur
ing which Cutcheon offered a resolution pro-
viding for the appointment OF a special COM
mittse to investigate the present administra-
ton Of the printing office Finally a sub
stitute for this, offered by Springer, was
adopted, which extends the investig SO
as to cover the administration of the present
public printer and that of his predecessor,
Rounds, who is dead Reed of Maine thought
it would not help members to get their docu-
ments quicker to investigate a man who is
dead, and appealed to Springer to withdraw
his substitute resolution, but the latter would
not do so, saying that he w"-'
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-31

sFRTNdFIEl D, ills, Jan. 81. The opposi-
ton to Congressman William NJ. Springer's
denomination was formally organized Mon.
day evening at a secret meeting composed of
prominent members of the Democratic party
from several Of the counties OF this congress
sional district The subject of breaking
down the combination OF Mr. Springer H.
W. Ciendenin, the postmaster, and Col
henry Davis was thoroughly discussed. 1t
was decided TO present the name OF B. +.
Caldwell, former memhsr of the legisla-
ture, and the present president OF the Farm
ers' National oank Of this city, as well as a
well-known farmer and stock man, to the
next congressional convention The gentle
men present say they are in earnest, and
propose TO do everything in their power TO
prevent Mr.. Snringers denomination
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-31
Pleading win the Jnrr,nen.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jau.3l -Interost in
the tall sheet cases seems to be increased by
the conviction Of Coy and Bernhamer, and a
number of kilograms have boen sent to gem
tletnen living in the same counties with the
jurors urging them TO see the jurors in the
interest Of the effort now making to secure
clemency from the judge a special agent
started TO Drkllb county Monday to secure
the signature Of Juror CIrlonier 10 an afii-
daVlt, but the messenger was recalled when
advised that juror may make an uili Law it
under our law sustaining his verdict, bat in
no case will he he permitted to make one i'm
peaching it, J. is generally believed that no
further proceedings would bs had il Woods
would agree tosubjoct Coy and B,rnhnmer
only to fine, but so far the court has re-
fused to intimate what lie will DO
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-31

CHARLESTON, W. Va, Jan. 81. The ven,
delta between the Hatfields, of Logan
county, this State, and tho McCoys, of Pike
county, Kentucky, is settled for the present.
The agent whom Governor Wilson sent to
Logan county some days ago returned Mon.
day afternoon and reported the belligerents
on both sides disbanded and the trouble
ended. Governor Wilson has countermanded
the order calling out the militia, and ordered
the Golf and Auburn guards, who were en-
route for this city for the purpose of going
to the frontier, to return to their homes.
Governor Wilson SO notified Governor Buck
ner of Kentucky
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-31

OTTAWA, Ont, Jan. 3i.-A meeting of the
cabinet was held Saturday to consider re-
ports received from the Canadian commits
sioners attending the Washington conven-
ton. As matters now stand before the COM
mission, the Dominion government deem a
satisfactory or, in fact, any settlement of
the fishery side of the negotiations beyond
possibility, their only hope being that til re-
suit OF the convention may lead up to a
broader basis upon which all questions in dis
pute between the Dominion and the United
states may be amicably settled, and a salts
factory arrangement for more extended
trade relations between the two countries ar
rived at
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-31
OBJECTED MURDEROUSLY.


Young Man Assasslnated by the Father
and Brother of His Sweetheart.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, Jan. 3l.-About $40
o'clock Sunday night, William Estes IS
years old, shot and instantly killed William
Bl akely, a young man about the same age,
at Wallace, a small town ten miles south of
this city. Young Blakely had accompanied
Miss Anna Estes, the l6-year-old daughter of
Peter Estes, to the Christian church. The
girls father and her brother, who did the
killing, both objected to her keeping COM
pany with the young man, and three weeks
ago the girl, in quarrel with her father
over her lover, had left home, and was
living with friend in town. After church
the father tried to induce the girl to go with
him and leave her lover, but she refused to
do SO, and started with him from the church
The two were confronted at the church gate
by William Estes, brother, who drew a re-
volver and shot Blakely in the mouth, the
ball lodging in the head. The father, who
was standing in the church door, then drew
a revolver and shot Bakely in the shoulder,
and che son, who was only few feet from
him, deliberately walked up to the body and
fired into Bakely's head, killing him in
stantly. The parties are well to do, and ex-
element runs high. Father and brother
have both been arrested and are in Jail in
this city. The girl was Frustrated by the
shock, and may become insane.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-31

TOPEKA, Kan, Jan. 31.-The report of
the agricultural department was issued Mon
day, showing the product and status of
crops for the year 1851 The yield was as
follows: Winter wheat, S,6l6, pa bushels;
spring wheat, 5e2 PSI bushels; corn, rs, 49,
544 bushels; rye, 1924, S35 bushels; barley,
4l4,54O bushels; GA S, 46, 727, AIS bushels;
buckwheat, 63, AIS bushels. During the year
&C. 432 acres of sorghum were planted, and
2,731, 100 gallons of strip were made, valued
at 81, lO3, 9I5; 60, l2i bushels of sorghum seed
were planted for forage. the value OF which
was 81, 7St, 555 There is in the state "a, ga,
l43 bushels of old corn, and l, 737, 800 bush
els of wheat on hand
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-31

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John "t'co' Eiward Williams and Ell
Waru h'hpe''y were arrested at Baltimore
1U cnnrSeu WIN cutting th' throat OF
"e'cn "ouSeheePor' rose ohahey'
hoo9rt r. DAVIS, OF Chattanooga, con-
victed OF mnrierlng his wife, was sentenced
10 tour years IN the penltentihry Monday.
Tue ui'iFuer was most brutal one
me natural helrs oil Mrs. Stewart have
CONFINED ana VIII begln SUIT To break the
VIII oil the great merchants widow giving
most OF her property to Henry Hilton,
Colonel T. s. Williams, a prominent law
yer OF Palestine, Tex, was shot and killed
sunday morhing by George d. Hunter, son
OF widow whom Williams, it Is said, had
insuited.
An official of the Pittsburg fire depart
ment says there is evidence that not less than
twenty-five incendiary blaz,s have been
started in that city during the past three
months.
The recent snowstorm in New England was
the worst in twenty five years The rail-
roads of that region aud IN New York
and Pennsylvania are gradually overcoming
the blockade
On the person of a tram who had for
months been accommodated at the station
house and generally supported by charity. a
bank book showing a credit of over 500 was
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-31
Davitt Advises the Tenants.

DUBLIN, Jan. 9i.-Michael Davitt, speak
ing at Rathkeale Sunday, advised the
tenants Of Lord Guillamore not to accept the
offer made to them to purchase their farms;
because heavy burdens would soon accrue
and mortgages would turn the farms over
again to other hands; and also because Lord
Guillamore had evicted two tenants from his
estate Davitt said that he considered those
men who took the farms thus made vacant,
cowardly, 81 my reuegades. They were
social lepers, contact with whom should be
considered stigma. The cardinal object Of
Irish agitation was the total uprooting of
landlords and landloriism.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-31
cRAzED BY POISONOUS FOOD,
An Irish Family Fight Like wild Beasts
with Shocking Results.

DUBLIN, Jan. Si.-The family of a farmer
named Doyle, consisting of father. mother,
an imbecle son and three daughters in
habiting an isolated house near Killarney,
became insane Sunday evening from the
effects of eating poisonous food. During the
night they fought one another like wild
beasts tearing their clothing and cutting
their flesh horribly. The son was found dead
in the pig stye Monday morning, his body
nearly naked and his face entirely eaten
away by the pigs, while the others were
found in asemi-nude state, still fighting in the
house They were removed to an asylum,
where they were pronounced incurably in
sane. The father, it is thought, will die from
the effects of his mi ries
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-31

WnKEsBARRE, Pa, Jan. 3L-The evic-
ton cases of the Stout Coal company against
a number of tenants who are on strike in the
Lehigh region were decided by Judge Wood
ward Monday in favor Of the tenants Their
leases provide that in case of non-pay OF
rent, the tenants were to confess Judgment
in an amicable suit of eiectment. The judge
decided that suit of ejectment is not an
amicable action, and that the tenants could
not confess judgment in that way; therefore,
the writs of dispossession were null and void
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-31
1wn .ln1nII. ,-n,,n..,. .nnrr.aseh.

RAPID CRY, OAK, JAu. 81 Two cowboys
namsd Arthur and Potts rode into Buffalo
Gap, some fifty miles south of here Sunday,
and after getting drunk, inauguratei a free
for-all shooting tournament taking every
thing and any thing as the target A con-
stable who attempted to arrest them was
brutally beaten with a revolver Another
citizen who went to his assistance was seri-
ously, though not fatally, hurt Citizens
then took a ha nd and in the general melee
that ensued one of the cowboys was in
stantly killed and the other so badly
wounded that he cannot recover.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-31
stIII After the Railways.

DIES MONIES, Iowa, Jan. 3l-The senat'
committee on railways has decided to favor
bill cutting passenger fare to Pa and !
cents per mile. A resolution providing fol-
the taxing of testimony on the subject OF
railways for the information OF the legisla-
ture, was tabled on the ground that the
members are already expert on that subject
The house was engaged on the railway ques
ton Monday, also. A resolution to refer
all rail way bills to the judiciary COMMITTEES
to report on their constitutionality was
tabled A local option bill was offered pro-
viding for 81, 90 license for saloons in
cities of 10, 90 or more population Twenty
one committee clerks were sworn, nineteen
of them being women.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-31

WASHINGTON CITY, Jan 81. - Percy
Brown, an aged grave-robber, has been ar
rested here for robbing graves in the prom
inent cemeteries of Washington City. He
and his sister Maude, each past ~, live in a
subterranean apartment near the capitol
and have been jointly engaged in this work
for many years She says they we're born
in Russia, of wealthy parents She became
the wife of president of the Royal Medical
college, and thus became familiar with dis
secting rooms and the arts of the trade she
now plies She and her BROTHER whose
home has been for years almost within the
shadow of the capitol, have despoiled, she
says, probably 500 graves.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-31
They Thought 1t Was An Earthquake.

BosToN, Jan 3l-A special dispatch from
Providence, r. l., says that city, Bristol,
Warren, East Greenwich and other bay side
towns were badly shaken up Sunday night
by dynamite explosion in Newport harbor.
In many places the shock resembled an
earthquake, and reports from various points
speak OF it as a genuine earthquake, the cause
not being generally known. No other cause
for the shock was known here until Monday,
when it was learned that in Newport harbor
efforts were being made to clear the harbor
of the unparalleled ice fields.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-31

SHELBYvILLE, Ills, Jan. 3l.-About six
weeks ago p W, Mitchell, formerly a prom
inent business man of this city, departed for
Geneseo, where he intended paying his
brother a visit He has failed to arrive at
his destination, having been last heard from
at Chicago Every effort has bsen made to
ascertain his whereabouts and grave fears
for his welfare are entertained
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-31
Railway Passengers In Peril.

WINNIPEG, Man, Jan. 3l.-No through
trains have arrived over the Canadian Pacific
since Wednesday last. A whole train load
of passengers are said to be blocked up in the
middle of the mountains, and fears are enter
tanned for their safety, as their supply of
provisions was not very large The Cana
dian Pacific has stopped receiving through
wheat shipments, owing to the blockade on
the north shore Of Lake Superior
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-31
Two Millions Burned on broadway.

NEW YORK, Jan. 31.-The first great fire
on Broad way in years broke out Monday
morning, destroying a vast amount of bust
ness property, and making idle 400 people.
1t began in the store Of Henry Rogers, and
before it was stopped ten firms had been
burned out, and the stocks of nine other
firms damaged by water. The goods de-
stroyed were mostly millinery, clothing and
fancy goods, and the total loss foots up 81, -
800, 600, with insurance of about 81, 900, 900.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-31
Gibbons Advises the Pope.

LONDON, Jan. Sl.-The Chronicle prints a
dispatch from Paris which states that Car
dinal Gibbons has written another letter to
the pope urging the vatican not to condemn
the writings of Henry George. who the car
dinal says simply follows the theories of
Herbert Spencer and John Stuart Mills and
that it will be best to allow them to die a
M
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-31
Only During Her yyidowhood.

WASHINGTON CITY, Jan. 81. Mrs. Loga MS
pension bill was agreed to Monday by the
house pensions committee with an amend
ment The bill as introduced paid pension
to her during her natural lifetime" The
change would simply bring the ca 50 under
the law, which suspends the payment of
widows pensions on the remarriage of the
party receiving such pension. Three men,
bers of the committee will make minority
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-31
Sent to a Long Sleep.

WASHINGTON CITY, Jan. 1.-THE PROPOSE
tion of Lawler to repeal the oleomargarine
tax was sent by the house Monday to the
agriculture committee, much to that states
mans disgust, as he wanted it referred to the
ways and means. Its reference to Hatch's
committee means its permanent slumber in
a pigeon hole
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-31

PROVIDENCE, r. l., Jan. Jl.-John Sweet,
of Johnson, and Leroy Barrett, of the North
End, fought four rounds of a prizs fight
Sunday night, at Manton, this state The
fight was for the gate receipts, and in the
fourth round, when Barrett was getting the
better of Sweet, it was discovered that the
stake holder, who was friendly to Sweet, had
decamped with the money. The fight then
came to a close
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-31
Beck is for Cheap Postage.

WASHINGTON CITY, Jan 3l.-Sawyer re-
ported to the senate Monday against an in
vestigation as to the propriety of reducing
local letter postage He said that while the
service was being conducted at loss his
committee would not favor further red uc-
tions of postal rates. Beck declared In ia
vor Of the reduction Of local letter postage,
regardless of the question of the postal rev.
enueS.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-31

WASHINGTON CITY, Jan. 3l.-In the case
of the Western Union VS.. George #. Hall,
on writ of error from the United States
circuit courtfor the Iowa Southern district, the
supreme court Monday decided for the tele-
graph company. Hall sued for damages on
account of the delay of message, ordering
the purchase of ~, 900 barrels Of petroleum.
The supreme court decided in substance that
Hall must prove that he lost profitable
purchase by the delay, and as it was clear
that he did not he could not recover
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-31

CHICAGO, Ills, Jan. 1.-The long agony
in base ball circles here was ended Monday
by the announcement that Fred Pfetfer the
second baseman of the Chicago club who
has so long been holding off from signing a
Chicago club contract for the season of 1888,
has put his signature to a contract in Presi-
dent Spaulding's office. His salary, it is said,
will be President Spalding's tigure5-a slight
advance over the amount he drew last
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-31
TEN MILLIONS IN PRESENTS.
Seven Thousand Cases Containing Pope.
InhiIea GIfla=A IIItIn EIrl,s TrIhnIe

Jubilee Gifts-A Little Girls Tribute.
BALTIMORE, Md, Jan. 3l.-The Suns
Rome correspondent writes that up to date
1000 cases containing presents for the pope
have been received at the vatican. The Ital-
ian government has insisted upon opening
every package received at the main railway
terminus and inspecting the contents. The
value of the presents aggregates $40, 900, 600
Among other gifts received by the pope and
with which he was much pleased, on account
of the sincerity of the child, was red ban
dana handkerchief with his name stitched in
one corner of it. from little girl
in the Spanish diocese of Savoy
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-31

PARIS, Jan. 81. "A German named Brandt
alleged to be a spy in the employ of thu
German government, entered the office of LIE
France Monday and penetrated to the ed
itorial rooms, where he tried to shoot the
editor. NJ. Nicol with revolver. He was
seized and disarmed before he could dis
charge his weapon, but not without a Sc
we're struggle Brandt declared that he
wanted to shoot NJ Nicol in order to avengs
the attacks of La France upon Germany.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-31
ALewis-Muldoon Hippodrome.

CHICAGO, Jan. SL-Evan Lewis and Will
lam Muldoon wrestled at the Casino here
Monday night; that is they were advertised
to wrestle, but the affair was simply an ex-
position of the different holds, locks, etc, in
the Gil eco- Roman style, neither contestant
trying to throw the other As no one had
his wind banged out of him by a smash
against the floor, the audience was heartily
disguised.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-31

is most distressing, not only to the per
son afflicted if he have any pride, but to
those with whom he comes in contact.
II is delicate matter to speak of. but it
has parted not only friends. but lovers
Bad breath and cstarrh are inseparable.
DR.. Sage's Cstarrh Remedy cures, the
worst Cases, as thousands can testify,
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-31

VICTORIA, b. c., Jan. 3l.-Ah Fat was
hanged Monday morning for the murder of
Chinese woman, Chuey Whey He de-
clared his innocence to the last He spent
most of Sunday night reading the Chinese
version of the New Testament, but said he
would die in his old faith. He walked to the
scaffold with firm steps, and before being
pinioned knelt toward the four points of the
compass and repeated in loud voice prayers
in his aative tongue. Death was instantane-
Ou4
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-31

SIOUX CITY, Ia, Jan. 3l.-John Areus-
dorf, the alleged murderer of Haddock, will
not go to Milwaukee. He and Paul Leader,
another of the defendants in the murder
case, will engage in the business of bottling
beer in South Sioux City, little town on
the Nebraska shore, opposite Sioux. They
began building Monday.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-31
schaefer,s Remarkable billiard Run.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Jan. ST. a match
game Of billiards between Schaefer, the
wizard, and Carter Monday night, Schaefer
made the largest run on record, scoring 2S4
points in the seventh and last inning, balk
game. The largest run ever made by
Schaefer before was 80 points
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-31

VAUDEVILLE, Me-, Jan. 81. Sunday even.
ing at Centre Sidney, a town adjoining
Augusta, a man named Edward Wentworth,
40 years of age, was fatally shot. He was
very cruel to his family. aud Sunday even
ing after beating his wife struck hisdaughter
and was choking her. The wife interfered
when he leaped up exclaiming he would kill
them all. He started to get his revolver,
but a son grabbed the pistol and it was dis
charged, the ball penetrating the fathers
chest, killing him instantly.