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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-09
VERY DlSGRAcEFUL If TRUE.


PROVIDENCE, r. l., April 9.-The Journal |
publishes story of scenes and incidents at
the polls in the town of Warwick during
last Wednesdays election, showing general
use of money for the corruption of voters by
both parties The report is long gives names
and conversatioug, and states that men stood
openly at the polls and gave the voters checks
which We're afterward cashel-for various
sums, ranging from IS to $la The paper
says the Democrats did not have enough
money and wese driven off the field by the
Republicans, who could bid higher for votes.
Many, it charges, were induced TO vote early
at a low price, with the promise that if the
price advanced they should have the benefit
thereof, and interviews are given with those
who were promised the advance and who
claim that they did not get it, The vote-buy
ing, according to The Journals report, was
by wholesale. 1t is chargedsthat members of
the Law and Order league, church members,
and others high in position were carrying on
the traffic
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-09
UNEARTHING A BIG LAND STEAL.



WASHINGTON CITY, April 9.-The redwood
land frauds in California have for some time
been engaging the attention of the officials of
the interior department Upwards of 700
entries have been pronounced fraudulent,
and suits have been recommended to vacate
the patents. Secretary Villas in a recent
letter to the attorney general recommending
the bringing of suits in "A number of cases
submitted details which show that the parties
who are attempting to capture all the red
wood land are comprised lin a syndicate of
Scotchmen, which Is represented in California
by James d. Walker, who has made con
tract with Russ & Co. to carry out
the plan. The MEANS which are
shown . by numerous .afidavits, are
to secure men to enter the lands, said men
being paid $50 each when the entries are COM
pleted These men have been secured at
boarding houses in San Francisco, many of
them being sailors, their part in the con-
spiracy being to enter the lands in their own
name and then transfer them to the syndi-
cate -Affidavits have been secured from
boarding house keepers who found the men,
from the lawyer who drew the Deeds and the
recorder of Humboldt county, where the
lands are situated, and many Others and they
show u stupendous scheme to grab the valua-
BILE forests of redwood. All the money to
carry ON the scheme came from the syndicate
through Russ & Co.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-09

PrTTsBURG, April 9-The employees of the
Edgar Thomson Steel-works held mammoth
meeting at Braddock Saturday, at which they
almost unanimously denounced, Mr.. Carne-
gie's proposed scale, and also Mr.. Carnegie,
for asking them to work twelve hours. The
vote on the question of going to work on Mr..
Carnegie's terms stood 1900 to 9 against it.
A joint committee of union and non-union
men was appointed to try to reopen negotia-
tons with Mr.. Carnegie, The result of the
meeting has seemingly widened the breach.
and makes a long shutdown almost Ger
tainty. The business men are filed with
CONSERVATION at the prospect, many stating
that they will be compelled to close up their
stores
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-09

CHICAGO, April 9.-One Patrick Dooley,
"A teamster, while very full of tanglefoot
Sunday went into the Chicago a. Northwest
eTn yards and mounted an engine standing
ON the track. Before any one saw what he
was about he had turned on the steam and
was flying down the road like the wind The
locomotive ran two miles then colided with
a switch engine, demolishing both at a cost of
about So. 900, Strangest of all Dooley was
picked up unhurt, and lodged in Jail on a
charge of malicious mischief
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-09

NEWPORT, r. L., April AT the second
election Saturday the Republican legislative
ticket was elected by majorities ranging from
70 to l27. The delegation elect is: Senator
r. S. Franklin, Representatives w, c. Town
send w. r. Sheffield, Jr., w. L. Swinburne,
l. l. Curry, and d. Il. Young.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., April 9.-In the special
election Saturday the Republicans made
clean sweep, electing senator and four rep
resentatives in Newport, a senator and one
representative each in Crahston and West
Greenwich
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-09

INDIANAPOLIS Ind, April 9.-In one town
ship in Boone county, this state, at the last
election the vote on trustee was a tie. The
opposing parties thereupon placed thirty
tickets in a box, half being Democratic and
half Republicans, agreeing that whichever
came out of the box first should win Four
teen Democratic tickets were drawn while
eleven Republican tickets came out and then
by strange turn of fate the other four Re
publican tickets came out in succession, elect
ing the Republ can trustee
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-09

WASHINGTON CITY, April 9.-In pursuance
of the call by Representave Cox, chairman
of the caucus committee, the Democratic
representatives met at o'clock Saturday
evening at the capitol, and remained in
secret session for two hours and a half. As
announced h the call, the principal subject
Of discussion was the admission Of territories
inss the union After debate a resolution
was adopted indorsing the bills for the ad
mission of Dakota, Montana, Washington,
and New Mexico proposed by the territories
committee Just before the adjournment of
the caucus, one member suggested considera-
ton of the existing deadlock in legisla-
ton, but the regular order was called for,
and the pending motion to adjourn, was
carried
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-09

ALBANY, N, Y, April 9-Senator Pierce,
of Brooklyn, has just finished the circulation
a memorial asking the president to name
Judge Rufus w. Perkham of the New York
court of appeals, to fill the vacancy in the
United States supreme court. The petition is
signed by Senators Pierce, Murphy, Lns on,
Collins, Cantor, Stadler, Langbein, Ives, Foley,
Reilly, Van Colt and Russell. Chairman
Murphy, of the Democratic state committee,
is also "a signer, and the signatures Of many
influential men are affixed. The communica-
ton will be sent to Washington.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-09

LONDON, April 9-The Northumberland
miners have decided by small majority to
continue the support of Messrs Burt and
Fenwick, whom they send to parliament.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-09
LOOKING FOR A BIG FLOOD.


Dies MONIES, Ia, April o. The Des Moines
riverat this point is higher now than for seven
years, and still rising tits thought that soon
the entire south part Of the city will be sub
merged.
The Diagonal railroad bridge has been
moved from its foundation and win likely go
down Hundreds of mon and tennis are at
work raising levees.
Reports from up river say many bridges
have gone and much damage has been done
ST. PAUL. Mimi, April 9.-The Minnesota
river is still very high, and numerous bridges
are suffering on account of the flood. The
bridge across the lie Seuer river is disabled
and can not he used, and many wagon bridges
are ruined
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-09

LONDON April 9.-Mr. Joseph Chamber
lain, replying to a letter addressed to him
by gentleman who questioned him on the
subject Of American institutions, says that
mo intelligent American would challenge
the fact that the power of the democracy in
Great Britain is more direct than in Amer
lea. Practically the suffrage here is nearly
wide as in America, but the checks upon
the American democracy exceed anything
in existence here. The parliament of Eng
land is all-powerful, and is directly influenced
by popular opinion. The house of lords is
powerless upon any great question. In Amer
lea, on the other hand, there are many CO.
ordinate authorities. If the people should
require some great constitutional change a
much more lengthy and difficult process
would be necessary to accomplish it in Amer
lea than here"
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-09

SALT LAKE, U. T., April 0-The third day
of the Mormon conference Saturday was de
voted mainly to appeals to saints not to sell
their lands to the gentiles, nor to part with
their inheritance in Zion reserved for them
by God from the beginning of time. In the
afternoon Bishop Whitney read long letter
from President MILFORD Ruff, reciting the
ordinances of blessings and prosecutions of
the saints He urged the brethren not to for
sake their covenants
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-09

PrTTsBURG, Pa, April 9.-The Elha Iron
and Bolt company and. Continental Tube
works, of this city, have found it necessary
to ask an extension from their creditors The
suspension was caused by the depression in
the pipe trade, and the action of some of the
company's creditors who tried to force mat
ters An extension of two three, four, and
five years will be asked for Liabilities,
about $500, 600. The assets are almost double
the liabilities
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-09

ST LOUIS, Mo, April 9-Samuel W.
Brooks, father of Hugh NJ. Brooks, alias W.
II. T. Maxwell, has written long and touch
ing appeal to the American people to help
him save his boy from the gallows. The
elder Brooks gives as reasons for asking pub
lie assistance in this way the in
justice Of his sons trial and the harships of
the Missouri state laws, which operate
entirely i'll favor of the lower
courts to the exclusion of the defendants
chances, the Incompetence of two jurors, the
errors in the criminal judges instructions,
the failure of the court to admit proof of the
accused's good character, the suppression of
evidence, and particularly the frequently de
nounced Dingfelder plot by which an alleged
confession was obtained from Brooks through
a detective iucarcerated in the St Louis Jail
all these points are urged in measured and
respectful but strong language.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-09

WASHINGTON CITY, April 9.-Sundays
Capital says: Mr.. Blaine has engaged his
steamer passage for the United States and
will sail June Is. The convention at Chicago
will meet June 49, and will nominate Mr..
Blaine, who will at that time be about mid
way across the Atlantic His sailing three
days before the convention meets will cut off
all personal communication with him, and
enable his friends to rush lis nomination
through the convention without any question
us to whether he will accept it."
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-09

PIERRE, Oak, April 9-John Robb, post
trader at the Cheyenne agency, who was
quoted week ago as saying he witnessed the
wedding Of Chaska and Miss Cora Fellows, is
hunting for the scalp of the correspondent
who made the report. He says he does not
know the Indian Chaska; that no wedding
has taken place, and that Miss Fellows is
quietly teaching an Indian school at the
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-09
They Cling to the Main. Statesman.

BETHLEHEM, Pa, April 9-The Northamp-
ton county Republican convention met here
Saturday, and passed resolutions declaring
that they favored Blaine for nomination to
the presidency, and instructing the national
delegate from this district to support him
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-09

New YORK, April "a st. Louis spe cial
to The World says: Chairman Barnum, of
the Democratic national committee, Sunday
denied the statements recently made in GER
tain papers charging him with hostility to
Cleveland, and opposition to his renomin a.
ton. He said he was heartily in favor of
Cleveland, and expected to do all he could to
secure him a unanimous nomination
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-09

OTTAWA, Ont, April 9-The Dominion
parliament Saturday, after an all-night de-
bate, defeated by a majority of 81 the resolu-
ton offered by Sir Richard Cartwright Lib
eraD fayoriug UNRESTRICTED reciprocity be
tween the United States and Canada, the
amendment introduced by Minister of Marine
Foster being adopted. This may be regarded
as "a definite pronouncment of the Canadian
people respecting free trade relations between
the two countries. The amendment of Foster
was practically meant to retard any step in
this direction, favoring unrestricted reci-
procity so far as it dos not interfere with the
Canadian national protection policy. In the
division the opposition Liberals voted solidly
for the resolution.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-09

Is continually going on in the human
system. The demon of impure blood,
strives to gain victory over the constitu-
ton, to ruin health, to drag victims to
the grave. A good reliable medicine
like Hoods Sarsaparilla is the weapon
with which to defend ones self. drive the
desperate enemy from the field, and re-
store peace and bodily health for many
years. Try this peculiar medicine.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-09

PARIS, April Some of the results of the
election Sunday are as foliows Doumer is
elected in the Aisne district. Bouangers re-
turn for DordOgne is assured Ferroul is re-
turned for the Aude district, receiving 81 ,5l5
votes. In this district Boulanger received
7,l5l votes, although he was not nominated.
Inc L. impress Goes on Mission of Mercy.
BERLIN, April 9-'The empress has ar
ranged to make tour of the flooded district.
of Germany, and took her departure for
Posen on Monday
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-09

BLOOMINGTON, Ind, April 9-The Repub-
licans of this county in convention Saturday
adopted resolutions unanimously indorsing
Gen. Ben Harrison for president and Col
Robertson for governor
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-09

PARIS, April 9.-Larreate, an artist whose
carisature of Emperor Williams funeral was
suppressed by the Authorities committed
suicide Sunday in the Seine. He was in des-
titute circumstances
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-09

ONE week from tomorrow the republi'
can menagerie will be on exhibition at
the court room. II will rival Barnum's
great and only.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-09

NEW YORK, April 9.-Roscoe Conkling was
better Sunday. DR.. Barker does not vet
pronounce him out Of danger however.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-09
ington City a wen man within a week or ten
days


WASHINGTON CITY April 9-It is rumored
that Minister Phelps, who is on his way back
from England, will not return TO his station
at InnInn
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-09

Solid silver paper knives in the form of
a Damascus sword have crept in among
wedding presents.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-09

Addison Cammack. having made 500
600 in the last two bear raids on Wall
street, thinks he can now afford to take a
fortnights rest at Newport.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-09

AIs sf CITY, April 9-Congress-
man NILS yielding to the advice of his ply
T (l''ns anu the wishes of his friends, left
.oii Ivy Saturday night for Fortress
sojourn for a while to rest and rer,,nerat,
His physicians expect him to return ta wash.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-09

WASHINGTON CITY, April 9.-The result
of Saturdays session of the house was the
agreement TO the conference report on the
house bill authorizing the purchase or CON
domination of lands or material needed in the
improvement on the Tennessee river. The
deadlock on the direct tax bill remained I'M
broken, and the situation was practically the
same as on Wednesday. The house at 1:55
7. M took recess until II As a m. Monday.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-09

ProhibitionIsrs should never wear tight
shoes.
The Penn's Grove record., 1888-10-06

when Baby was sick, we gave her castoriA
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoris,
When she had Children, she rave them CasterIA
The Penn's Grove record., 1888-10-06
How Chinese History is Writtea.

Chinese history Is compiled by a per-
manent commission OF accomplished
literary men, who are always at work
upon it. In 1877 an imperial edict
stated that history ought not to be
written for the Emperor's use only ID
remain shut up in golden caskets and
marble chambers: It ought to be made
accessible to all Off -ials, that they may
know the mind of the Emperors and
the laws of the land. From the Chi
nese standpoint history IS divided into
two parts, n an exact narrative of
events, the other Of what the Emperor
has said and done. THIS division origl-
mates two sets of publlcations-one In
which the officers speak, and the other
in which the L nperor Is spokesman.
In the first the industry of the Bureau
of Hist Dry is run in the collection of
facts, but there is ALWAYS a danger
that the recorder may be under a
strong court influence. Historical cam
dor "a scarcely find a place in refer
lei to nation or persons VIC have
been IN conflict with the court. With
this exception the array of facts thus
recorded is most valuable. The edicts
published In the second series express
the mind of the Emperor. He is al
ways a man who has the advantage Of
good training, and if his Style Is toler-
able and he happens to be fond of
writing his e1icts himself they will all
be transmitted to future times in full.
The scribes, who stand writing when
he speaks, translate his spoken words
into official phrases, and his opinions
and decisions will then pass Into official
history, partly written by himself by
the scribes OF the cabinet.
The Penn's Grove record., 1888-10-06
Story of the Lost Ring.

One evening a lady, while preparing
for bed, laid three rings on her dres-
sing table, where, among other articles,
a small plate of oatmeal had been
placed. During the night the owner
of the rings vas seized by illness, so Sc
we're that for nearly a week she never
remembered her property, which had
meanwhile been taken charge OF by o
nurse. On inquiry, however, there
proved to be only two rings, the nurse
declaring that size had never seen the
third, though she had removed the
others Immediately OF entering the sick
room This not being satisfactory, q
thorough search was instituted, but
without success, and gradually the ring
was forgotten.
Many months afterwards there was
an unpleasant odor In the same apart.
ment, and a brickiayer was summoned.
He raised the hearthstone and discov-
cred the dead body of a thin emaciated
mouse, which, on examination. proved
to have the lost ring firmly fixed round
It's neck. The death Of the mouse had
evidently bsen caused by suffocation,
and the explanation of the whole seems
to be, that, on the evening when the
rings had been placed on the table, the
mouse (which must have been very
young), attracted by the smell of a
meal, had crept up to partake of ibis
dainty. and. while moving about, had
unconsclously pushed its head through
the clrclet Of gold. AS the little crea-
ture grew larger. however, the pres.
sure of the ring must have caused 1t
much uneasiness. and finally strangled
1t altogether. The ~a.tenuated condi-
ton of the mouse was il proof Of how
much its has health had suffered dur
ing the gradual process of stranzula'
tipp
The Penn's Grove record., 1888-10-06

Mrs. PfaffeDberger strangled her
two children, aged four and two years,
and then killed herself, in Blue Springs,
Nebraska, on the evening of the I'd.
She left a letter to her husband, who
was absent at the time, saying that she
felt herself becoming crazy, and, seeing
no future for her children, hid resolved
to kill them and herself.
The Richmond Exposition at Rick-
mond, Virginia. was opened on the
Sd in the presence of 20 900 people.
Mrs. Governor Lee set the machinery
in motion. There was a fine parade
previous to the ceremonies.
Nelson Colbert, colored, shot and
killed Philip Wenzel, Waterman at the
stables Of the Columbia Street Car
Line. in Washington, d. e., on the
evening of the 81. Colbert demanded
pay for working as a hostler, and Wen
eel told him to apply to the superinten-
dent.
The new cases of fever at Jackson.
vile on the Sd numbered %, and the
deaths six. Among those taken sick
was Mrs. C, ID. Davis, a nurse from
Philadelphia. -Four new cases of yellow
fever and two deaths were reported in
Decatur, Alabama, on tie 81.
News from Moisic, 202 miles east
Of the Saguenay, Quebec, is to the eff
feet that the whole population of that
district are on the brink of starvation.
The fisheries this season have failed
and the crops also turned out badly.
The stage from Florence, Arizona,
to Casa Grande, was stopped at Dry
Lake, ON the second. by two Mexicans,
who took the Wells Fargo treasure
box and registered mail pouch. The
robbers escaped.
The Penn's Grove record., 1888-10-06
Woman's Rights in France.

Some millions Of Frenchmen have
received a shock, not an electric nor an
earthquake one. 1t belongs to the
moral order of phenomena, but it has
none the less spread CONSERVATION.
The highest court in France-the Cour
de Cassation-whose function is to
decide knotty questions OF law by q
direct appeal to the moral principles
from which all laws are in theory de-
rived, has declared that a man, having
promised marriage to a woman, incurs
the liability to pay her a pecuniary
indemnity in the event Of his refusing
to keep his promise. The shock is
contained in this decision, for which the
public mind was quite nnprepared. A
breach has been made In a fortress that
was held to be impregnable and ever
lasting, and through this breach it Is
feared the whole army of French
women will march, feathers and rib
bons flying, and that they will refuse
10 lay down their arms-they are no
longer dlstaffs-untll a new revolution
has been proclaimed in favor Of their
sex.
Breach of promise cases in other
countries, especially In England, have
hitherto proved an i~Dexhaustive mine
OF humor to the French journalists.
They have told Us again and again that
the principle of assessing a ~pecuniary
indemnity for sentimental damage may
seem natural enough to John Bull, to
whom time is always money, including
the time spent in unsuccessful love
making, but that it is much too revolt.
ing to the instinct of Frenchmen for 1t
ever to be admitted in judicial practice
here. Revolving to Frenchmen the
principle undoubtedly is, but not so to
FrenchwOmen. They hold that all
weapons that can be used against the
male who profits in many ways by the
unfair division of power between the
sexes are good to keep in reserve.
The Penn's Grove record., 1888-10-06
Sometime.

Sometime you'll think of these summer
days,
DreamIly fading in purple haze
Sometime, with a thrill of passionate pain,
You'll long for their sw eetness over again,
Sometime you'll listen, In silence lone,
q gIlish voice that was all your own.
Sometime, when the starlight is shining
bright,
And the moon drops low in the summer
night,
You will watch for n cleaning figure fair,
White-robed and noiseless, with falling
hair.
Sometime In FOUR dreaming a little hand
VIII liDger in yours at loves sweet de"
mand;
And, gazing deep in the luminous eyes
That made for your light its paradise,
The light, the music and odorous calm
OF this golden-crowned summer will finger
like balm,
Till, starting, I waken TO clasp but air,
And list to fitting football there.
Sometime you'd give all the wise worlds
praise
For one of these vanishing hummer days;
For Just one leaf from the swaying bough-
Sometime you'd clasp it; ahl why not
now.
Ere the lingering light of the perfect days
Had faded. forever. in mystic haze?
The Penn's Grove record., 1888-10-06

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