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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-12

The safety of the spirc is not in the thin
ness Of the top, but in the solidity of the bot
tom. Ivan Panin.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-12

Of the fifteen students sent by the gov
eminent of Siam to receive professiona
training in England. four are young
women.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-12
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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-12

London has 100 frst-class clubs, with
3 membership of 100, ,0G0.-
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-12

A campaign against public meetings in
the open air has begun in London by 8
Watch committee.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-12
CONSTIPATION

IS called the Father of Diseases because
Ithere is no medium through wnich disease so
often attacks the system as by the absorption OF
poisonous gases in the retention of dec yed and
etfete matter in the stomach and bowels II il
excreted from the blood to produce Nature'e owr
cat1 rite, and is generally accompanied with sucl
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-12

The Telephone Exchange of Stock
holm, Sweden, is equipped with Ameri>
can apparatus.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-12
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cure. Guarantees issued only by Marshall &
Fisher, Harper house drug store, soc agents,
Rock Island Ill.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-12
Loss # Appetite,
Sick Headache,
Bad Breath, Etc.

The tire eatment of Consti, ,aton does not consist
merely in unloading the bowels The medicine
mRs, not only act as purgative, but be tonic as
well. and not produce after its use greater cos
tivene<s. To secure n regular habit of body with
out changing the diet or disorganiziug the sys-
tenn
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-10
HEROES SACRIFICED.

Story of the Wreck of the Schooner FL
nance OFF SheIbourne, n. s., and the
Loss of Three Men in Trying to Save
Their Comrades.
HALIFAX, N s., Feb 4-The wreck of the
Gloucester schooner Finance Wednesday ON
Blanch Island, off Shelbourne, furnishes
thrilling story of human heroism. The
schooner was attempting to reach Shell
bourne when she was struck by the
tail end of the great snow-storm.
The gale was furious and she
was borne helplessly on to the rocks.
Beginning Immediately to break up, the
only chance for Captain Winter and his
fifteen men from death was to get line
to the shore. This was almost certain
death, but Fred Bryant, of Bath, Me-,
volunteered, and fastening the rope
under his arms leaped into the surf. A
huge roller caught him up high in
the air, and in sight of his companions
dashed him in with fatal force directly on
to the bare rocks. He was evidently
stunned, for he fell heavily into the sea
and was drowned. Then George John
son came forward, but he suffered
the same fate. James McKiver, powerful
young Englishman, then volunteered. He
took the line and jumped overheard Then
he had terrible struggle with the waves,
but finally, with his shoes, coat and
other clothing stripped from him by
the raging water, he reached the island.
With his bleeding feet exposed he planted
himself in the snow, and holding taught
the line. brought every soul ashore, and
then, while being congratulated by his
comrades, fell dead, making three lives
offered up heroically
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-10
FROM WASHINGTON.

THE survivors of the Thirty fourth Con-
gress held reunion at Washington on the
I'd
THERE were $50 business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
ON the Sd, against 26S the previous seven
days
PRESIDENT Cleveland on the Sd approved
and promulgated revision of the civil
service rules, which makes an off1ce-holder
who leVies political assessments or attempts
to coerce the opinions OF their subordi-
mates liable to discharge. Several other i'm
portant changes in the rules are also made
AT twenty-six leading clearing houses in
the United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 4th aggregated
1886, 81 458 against 1851, ST., 933 the
previous week. AS compare with the CORE
spending week of 1887 the decrease
amounted 2 2 per cent
The Government decided on the 4th to
arm all of the postal employees in charge of
mail matter on exposed Western routes
the object being to put a stop to mail rob-
berries
In the United States the fire losses during
January last were $13. 32O,SS5, against
81, 912, $50 in January, 1887. In the first
two days of this month nearly $4,000, 900
worth OF property was destroyed
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-10
FATAL SMASH-UP.

Broken Frog Eastern Railway
Causes a Loss of Three Lives-A Bakers
Dozen Hurt.
BUFFALO N Y, Feb. g. Three people
were killed and thirteen hurt in a smash-up
on the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio rail-
way at Steamburg station halfway be-
tween Salamanca and Jamestown, at IL
O'Clock yesterday morning. The lightning
express-the fastest train on the road
was half an hour late and tore
through the little town at terrific
rate of speed While passing a freight
train which had been sde-tracked the en-
gine of the express struck a broken frog
over which it passed safely, but the day
coach left the track and crashed into the
freight caboose. the sides of both cars being
torn to splinters. On that side of the coach
sat Miss Hattie Abbott, aged 20, and two
relatives, Mrs. Cyra Battey and Miss
Bessie Battey, all three of Sheffield,
Ill Miss Abbott was killed al
most instantly. Mrs Battey was
dangerously injured internally, and Miss
Battey was slightly hurt There were about
q dozen passengers in the car and not one
escaped injury O.W Mcneil, of Covington,
Ky, received bad scalp wound, and ME-.
Klmball, of Bradford, Pa, was seriously in
jured. In the caboose of the freight train the
crew sat eating their dinner. Four men were
on the side next the express train. Two of
them-Conductor George Ellis and Brake
man James Dean, both of Acknowledgement
killed Brakeman II. Shaffer, also of Mead
vile, was terribly injured and can hardly
live, while the fourth man miraculously
escaped without a scratch.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-10

Compiled From Late Dispatches

FIFTIETH CONGRESS-
THURSDAY. Feb. 2-The bill to increase
the pension of the totally helpie ss to $72 per
month was passed in the Senate Mr.. Plumb
spoke in favor of his resolution regarding
inefficient mail service in the South and
West Mr. Kenna CIV. Va) spoke in favor
of the Presidents message and in reply to
Mr.. Sherman's (O.) recent speech, and was
answered by the Senator. Adjourned to
the 9TH. In the House bill to prevent the
transmission through the mails IS second
class matter of cheap literature, and re-
curing 1T to be transmitted as third-class
matter was passed. bill was introduced
Tor the organ izaton of the Territory of
Alaska
FRIDAY Feb. 3-The Senate was not in
session. In the House bill was re-
ported which prescribes the death penalty
for willfully casting away a ship with in
tent to defraEd the underwriters The
Committee on War Claims has agreed to re-
port favorably the bill 10 reimburse the sew
erai States for interest on money expended
by them on account of raising troops en-
ployed in aiding the United States in sup
pressing the late rebellion.
SATURDAY, Feb. 1.-The Senate was not
sess on. In the House the consideration
of the Lowry Viii e contested election case
occupied the session, Mr.. Cochran Dem. J
New York. making a strong speech in favor
of Mr.. White, who is Republican, retaining
his seat No vote was taken.
MONDAY, F. b. g. In the Senate the
Inc was mostly occupied by Senator p ait
Conn in a speech critic zing the Presi-
dents message and characteriz;ng it as q
free-trade document The bill to amend
the postal laws so that newspapers now
sent free of postage to persons residing
within the county of public ton nay be
sent to persons living in other counties
when they receive them at post-offices
within the county of publication was
passed In the House Speaker Carlisle re-
sumed his duties The Lowry White con-
test was decided in favor. OF White, the
sitting member, by a vote of 1877 to
lO5, forty-seven Democrats voting with the
Republicans. Bills were introduced to refund
United States four per cent. bonds into
two and Oue-half per cent bonds; to di-
vide the surplus money in the Treasury on
the LIST of January, 1888, among the sew
eral States and Territories, to be used in
aid of the common schools; to extend the
commerce of the United States, and to pro-
vide full reciprocity between the United
States and the Dominion of Canada; to pro-
tect the consumers Of butter by requiring
wholesale dealers topay an annual tax of
$500 and retail dealers to pay an annu !
tax of 81. Also to repeal the oleomargarlne
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-10
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,

In various parts of England and Scotland
sharp shocks of earthquake were felt on
the Cd
AT Kanturk, Ireland, eight persons were
sentenced on the I'd to two months I'M
prisonment at hard labor for attending
meetings Of proclaimed branches Of the
league.
On the Sd DR.. Derby, chemist. his wife
and six children were found dead in their
dwelling in Manchester, Eng. 1t was sup
posed that they were poisoned by the man,
who was made desperate by poverty.
In Rome on the Sd Mgr Adam, of CALI
ifornia, presented the Pope a photograph
of Gabriel, an Indian Catholic, lao years
old, for whom he asked a special blessing
By an explosion in a gunpowder factory
at Hanau, Germany. on the 9th four persons
were killed.
SOLDIERS fired upon riotous striking min
ers on the 4th at Huelva Spain. and fifteen
of the miners were killed and many others
were wounded.
NEARLY one hundred Irishmen were ar
rested under the Crimes act in Ireland dur
ing the week ended on the 4th.
PRINCE BISMARCK in a speech before tho
Reichstag on the 9th in Berlin said he be-
lieved the assurances of the Gar that there
would be no war, but Germany must be
prepared for any emergency.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-10
WEST AND SOUTH.

Two MEN had their eyes blown out at a
stone quarry near Paris, Ky, on the I'd by
a premature blast
The Indianapolis Sentinel. the Democratic
organ of Indiana, was sold on the I'd to a
Fort Wayne syndicate for $75, 1000
IHE Wisconsin Union Labor party will
hold State convention in Oshkosh July "a.
JOHN GREENWOOD, charged with killing a
man named Wilson seventeen years ago,
was arrested on the I'd 1T Livingstone. Tenn
The Wisconsin Fish Wardens in their re-
port on the ID show that in 1887 the num-
Der OF pounds of fish caught in Lakes Mich
igan and Superior was 1906, 746; value,
$252, go
FIRE on the I'd destroyed several busi-
ness blocks, including the post-office and
Gazette Office. 1t Courtland, O.
Two CARLOADS of potatoes, corn and food
were Mt to the K mss sufferers from
Pierre, D. T., on the 2t
The discovery of gold in Alaska was re-
Gently report d.
On thes3I Mrs Margaret Arnold died at
her home near Pancoastbrrg, o., aged Ill
years She leaves two sisters. one in Iowa,
aged LOG years, and the otheg IN Dakota,
srad 1903 YEARS
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-10
LATER

AT the annual meeting in Des Mo1nes on
the 7th of the Iowa Temperance Alliance
the secretary stated that eight of the
eighteen district judges reported crime
lassened by the Prohibition law; seventy
one counties reported the law a success and
fourteen said it was failure; the effect in
business was said to be good by twenty one
reports and bad by two, and twenty-four
saloons We're reported to be in operation,
| against three thousand when the law was
| passed
| A PITTSBURGH laborer named O'Neill shot
and killed his wife on the 7th and then IA
tally shot himself through jealousy
RICHARD K. Fox, the noted sporting man,
was arrested liz New York on the 9TH,
| charged with violation OF the law in en-
courag ng prize fighting.
F. GRoTE & Co, of New York, manufact-
urers of ivory goods, failed on the 18th for
SAL, 900
| The house of Thomas NJ. Norton, at
Anderson, Ind. was blown to pieces by
natural gas explosion on the 7th. instantly
| killing Fenton Rogers and badly injuring
Mrs. norton and her daughter
| WILLIAM BALL shot and killed Miss Eva
| Everett on the 9TH at her home near
| S,ewartsvil1e. Mo-, because she refused to
marry him, and then killed himself
JUDGE SAGE. of Cincinnati, decided on the
| 70h That bank directors are not CT mnally
| liable for the acts of cashiers unless their
| connection with the crime is definitely
! shown
| CLEMMIE g., W. J. Gordon's famous trot-
| ting mare, record 2:15, and valued at
go, 600, died on the 9TH near Cleveland, O
| 1--WE brothers named Wis3 were arrested
| r nj Eai1- III tbS oh
| of numerous robberies.
| ADyICEs of the 7th from Shanghai say that
nearly two million persons were utterly des-
titute through the Hoang-Ho floods
| FILLS were introduced in the United
States Senate on the It'll providing that all
| soldiers who served at least ninety days in
the late war; and Were honorably mustered
out or discharged, shall receive the same
! bounty as it they had served their full terms
| Of enlistment; granting bounty of 800 for
| each years enlistment to seamen who
enlisted in the navy between March /, 1861,
and March 5, 1868, and to amend the
mining laws of the United States so that no
| person shall acquire more than one mining
| claim on the same vein. In the House the
Diplomatic and Consular bill, appropriating
| S., 403, S67, was reported; also bill 70
provide for Fourth Assistant Postmaster
| General Bills we're introduced to limit
the hours of labor of letter carriers; to set
Tie and adjust the claims of any State
! for expenses incurred by it in de-
tense OF the United States; to dispense with
proof of loyalty for bounty for wars prior
to 1861. Bills were passed providing for
| the punishment of bank examiners for MAX
ing false reports or suppressing facts in
| their reports; to amend the law prescribing
the death penalty for willfully casting away
| vessels so as to allow punishment by fine OF
imprisonment il there Is no loss Of life.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-10
REMARKABLE ACCIDENT.

"A Broken Telephone Wire Causes the
Death of a Man and a Horse, Willis
Several Persons Receive Severe Inter-
hai saccHs. e
BUFFALO, N. Y, Feb. GA boy named
Taylor was driving a grocery sleigh along
Washington street, and just passing Eagle
street early Sunday morning, when the
horse stepped on a telephone wire which
had become crossed with an electric-ight
wire, and was instantly killed As the
horse was falling the boy touched
his whip lightly to him and re-
ceived q severe shock. throwing him to the
ground Isaac houlton, a colored porter,
running on the Michigan Central and liv-
ing at Detroit, who was passing at
that time went to the drivers as.
sistance, and, touching the fatal wire,
was instantly killed The body was
put into an ambulance and taken to the
hospital in hope of revivlng life, but to no
avail A number of spectators who drew
around to help were given shocks through
handling the body of the dead man
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-10
THE EAST.

HENRY STRAUs died on tne I'd at Newton
N j.. aged one hundred and nine years
He was negro, born in Louisiana. and had
in his possession certificate of his birth
On the I'd three hundred wire-workers
of the Cambria (Pa) iron works, who
struck against ten per cent reduction,
returned to work at the old rates
The Philadelphia brokeress Mrs Hen
bricks, charged wi h swindling customers
there out of 500, 900, was arrested at Md
dletown on the I'd
NEW YORK advices of the Sd were to the
effect that the outlook for spring business
throughout the country was never better
and that trade was constantly on the in
crease, with an easy money market.
STRIKING miners at Shenandoah, Pa, at-
tackled non-union workmen on the Sd. a
riot followed and in the fracas three men
We're wounded, two fatally.
AT Shenandoah, Pa, another riot occurred
on the 4,h between the men working in a
Read ng mine and the strikers, and several
persons were badly beaten
On the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio
road train was thrown from the track by
broken frog on the 9th near Steamburg,
N. Y, killing four men and one woman and
injurng i've others more or less severely
On the 9th an international six days
walking match, with forty eight contest
ants, commenced in New York City.
In several lodging houses in New York
smallpox was discovered On the 4th, and
hundreds had been exposed to the disease
AN explosion of mine gas occurred on the
4th at Slope No, l at Nanticoke, Pa, and
four men were fatally burned
On the 9th the wife of Dr. Oliver Wendell
Holmes died at the family residence in Bos-
ton, aged sixty-nine years.
JOHN G. CROWLEY, who occupied a prom
inent place in society in Boston, was on the
9th said to be defaulter to- the probable
amount of $75, 900, mostly IN trust estates
AT Titusville, Pa, Mrs Sarah Stein, aged
seventy nine years, accidentally hung her.
self while putting up a clothes-line on the
9Th.
GEORGE J. HIIL's residence near Bolivia.
N. Y, was destroyed by fire on the 9th and
Mrs Hill and two small children persisted in
the flames Mr.. Hill was probably fatally
burned
JUDGE HAND, of Pennsylvania, rendered
a decision on the 9th that the disagreement
of jury in a murder trial precludes sec
ond trial for the same offense, the prisoner
having been once placed in jeopardy This
is contrary to all precedents.
THE failure of c. G. Farwell & Co., boot
and shoe manufacturers at DAnvers, Mass,
for 5000. 600. occurred on the 9th
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-10
20 MAXWELL'S FATHER.
He Arrives from England and Begins His
Efforts to Save His Sons Neck.


New YORK, Feb S.-Among the passen-
gers on the steamship Aurania Monday was
Mr. N. s. Brooks, the father of the prisoner
Brooks, alias Maxwell, who is under
sentence of death at ST. Louis for the muir
der of Mr. Preller. He was met at the pier by
a lawyer, and from the conversation be-
tween him and Mr.. Brooks it was evident
that another attempt would be made to
save Maxwell from the halter. This effort
will probably take the shape of an appeal to
the Governor of Missouri for pardon or
Communication of sentence. He is under
stood as being disposed to blame the Su-
preme Court for what he regarded as "one
Of the most unfair and unjust judgments
ever passed in civilized country" One
source of regret in the mind of the father
is that his son did not tell the whole truth
of the matter imme lately after the death
of Preller
WASHINGTON. Feb s.-The father of Hugh
H., Brooks alias Maxwell, is in this city and
will make application to the Supreme
Court for rehearing Of his sons case,
which will prevent the issuance of the
courts mandate for this term.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-10
DAKOTA.

| The number actually knownat to have died
! from the effects of the recent Storm &C
cording to the Press and DakotaiGn is 1O4
Many were still missing, and there were
| others whose hold upon life was very un-
| certain.
The remains of George Patrick, a school
| teacher near Mandan, were recently sent
| to Peosta near Dubuque, Ia, where his
! mother and sister live. Patrick and five
| pupils were caught in school-house out
| on the prairie when the last blizzard ragged
1t was death to leave the frail building,
| and for three days and nights they suffered
from cold and hunger. The brave man
| when rescuing party reached the school
house they found that teacher and pupils
had died together
Advices from Pierre say the Sioux In
dams have elected twelve delegates, one
from each tribe. to represent the nation at
Washington on the proposition to open the
reservation.
| The Huron Board of Trade recently sent
car load of corn to the Kansas sufferers
| A few afternoons ago two cowboys, named
Arthur and Potts, attempted to run the
town of Buffalo Gap, when the citizens
euIHcu out III Iull IOTC6 anu Killed DOGn OIL
them. Who fired the fatal shots no one
knew nor wanted to know
| Another vein of coal has been discovered
| on the line of Wells and Sheridan counties
The vein is ten feet thick and twelve feet
| wide 1t is predicted that $3.50, 900 will be
spent in prospecting for coal in the vicinity
| OF Mitchell the approaching season
The bodies of the two Hutchinson boys
lost on the 18th of January, were found
the other day on the prairie five miles south
of Gary. They travelled with the storm
| until becoming exhausted. When found
they we're locked in each others arms as
though they were sleeping in bed
Nellie Guernsey's school in Yankton
County was in session when the recent
blizzIrd arrived She ordered the children
to remain in the building and then started
across the prairie in the midst of the storm
to the nearest house, half mile away.
There she procured a supply of provisions
and returned with it to her imprisoned
charges at the school-house Providentially
the two journeys were made in safety and
the school children were enabled to pass
the night in comfort At the house where
the provisions were procured were four
men, but not one OF them could be induced
TO accompany Miss Guernsey back to the
school-h0usa
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-10

CAPTAIN GEORGE b. LEAvIrr, of
Deering, Me-, who has passed two win
tiers at Point Barrow, in the Arctic
Ocean, thus describes the climate there:
"ln the summer months, which are
July and August only, butterflies and
bumblebees are common here. These
nre not the only insects to be found at
this point; flies are plentiful. and mos
qmtoes are so numerous and large
that they drive herds of deer into the
water for shelter from their torment.
This may seem little drawn for an
Arctic story, nevertheless it is strictly
frnp.N
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-10

1T is injurious to rub the eyes while
infamed by the cutting winter winds
and the dust raised thereby, and equal
ly so to battle them and go out i'm
mediately again in the air. as then
there is danger of catching cold. A
prominent optician declares that most
of the eye troubles Mt this season are
caused by imprudence in rubbing and
bathing. He also says that in rubbing
the eyes the tear-line from the outside
to the nose should be followed, though
the majority pass the fingers from the
inside out which, he asserts, affects
the sight.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-10
A POISONOUS DRINK.

Several Persons Partake of Detection
Sold Them for Whisky-One Death Re-
suits and a Number Are Dangerously Ill.
DIXON, Ill, Feb. 4 "A salesman claiming
to represent the grocery house of John Dev-
lin & Co., of Chicago, has been selling gro
ceries and liquors in this section Among
the goods sold was large quantity Of
whishies, which were to be shipped
as groceries, as it is said Thursday Abra-
ham Morrison. of Pine Greek, died, and sew
eral others are reported to be dangerously
Ill from drinking the liquor The stuff is
said to be mixture of fuseI oil and alcohol,
diluted Steps will be taken by the author
titles to investigate.