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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-23
ALUMINIUM VASTLY oVERRATEo.
Some Interesting Things About the Metal
Peculiar Properties.

Some Interesting Things About the Metal
Peculiar Properties.
Aluminium, as the discoverer spelt it, or
aluminium, as it is often carelessly pro-
nouneed is, like all mythical and expensive
elements, vastly overrated. 1t furnishes very
rapidly, only, the rust being white it is not
very offensive. It cannot be used for any
thing where it comes in contact with salt;
pot of aluminium would be perforated by
the salt of common soup if only used for
few months; spoons would be rough and per
fOrated in the space OF a year; nothing ex-
posed to salt air or water could be made OF
aluminium. When pure, its greatest tensile
strength is only little more than that OF
ordinary zine, that is, only about one-haf
that of steel. Its hardness is about that Of
soft copper, and it is just about as nasty to
turn, file and drill as copper, without having
the strength, pliability and malleability Of
| copper Its conductive power for electricity
| f0s the same weight is that of copper, hence
telegraph and telephone wires might be made
| of it, if both have the same price-l6 cents
| per pound.
Its peculiar chemical properties preclude
the use of soft solder with the usual soldering
| fluids; it can be soldered, but at the points OF
| contact, and solder aluminium becomes very
weak and unreliable. Its peculiar melting
point 900 dogs. c. precudes the use Of hard
solder tmelting point 100 dogs c.. 1t is very
sensitive to impurities Half of per cent.
Of silicon or iron, renders it as brittle as pot
terry ware. As clay banks contain about
aluminium II per cent, silicon % per cent.
iron per cent, the balance being water and
-. 49,
sidering the chemical properties of the i'm
purities that aluminium cannot be isolated
pure from common clay for less than 81 G
pound, this being the lowest price of ths
chemicals needed vessels, coal, etc, for thI
purpose. If only as much as e of per cent
of silicon remains it cannot be rolled ant
drawn into wire, but silicon and aluminium
are very hard TO separate completely.
There is no market TO speak Of for alumni
mum at 81 pound. Most of the aluminium
now used Is beaten into white foil and USE
for silyering sign letters etc 1t is used TO
opera glasses, galvanic needle indicators, AM
a few scientific purposes. 1t has been
source Of great revenue to the chemica
credulity and mysticism upon moneyed non
chemists. Probably fifty companies are ex
listing in the United States from which som
sharp witted chemist obtains a living and th
investors large amount of hope at first, bu
considerable experience later. do not b.
lieve that one pound of aluminium has We
been made in the United States that has nc
cost the maker at least $500. The only fat
tories are in France, and if they sell 1t fo
SIS a pound it certainly costs them sl4 t
make and sell it. Beware of aluminium IL
ventions.- Springfield Union.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-23

interest
yourself in life insurance.

yourself in life insurance. You will find
the renewable term policy of the Provi-
dent Savings Life Assurance society of
New York to be the best, the cheapest
and the fairest. Avoids the unnecessa-
rily high cost of level premiums and the
uncertainty and insecurity of assessment
insurance. Net cost for SIC. 900 for year
1887. Age %. $107 90; age 80. 1871 80;
age 40, $4,000; age so. $199.80.
LIEBERKNEcHT & OLMsTEAD,
Local Agents,
No. 1912 Second ave-, Rock Island.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-23
ANTICIPATED.

she fields have all been reaped and cleaned full
oft,
The reapers gone before, their work well done
We grope amid the stubble hero and there,
Hoping for something new beneath the sun.
We seek In vain for living growing grain,
But meet instead, dead straw and witheret
leaf;
Or II In JOY we seize full ripe ear,
We find 1t has been dropped from out sheaf
Louise Phillips in Pioneer Press
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-23

In the pursuit of the goo1 things OF
his world we anticipate too much; we
eat out the heart and sweetness Of world
ly pleasures by delightful forethought OF
them. The results obtained from the use
of DR.. Jones Red Clover Tonic far exceed
all claims. 1t cures dyspepsia, and al
stomach, liver, kidney and bladder
troubles. 1t is perfect tonic, appetizer
blood purifier, sure cure for ague and
malarial diseases. Price, so cents, Of
druggists.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-23
Five Harvest Excurslons.

The Burlington route, c.. B. & @. R.
R.. will sell from principal stations on its
lines. on Tuesdays, September 18th
and 25th, and Oct 9th and Esd, harvest
excursion tickets at half rates to the
farming regions of the west. southwest
and northwest. For tickets and further
inform alton concerning these excursions
call on your nearest c.. B. & @. ticket
agent, or address P. s. Eustis, Gen. Pass.
and Ticket agent, Chicago.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-23

Who of us are without trouble be they
small or large? The blessings of health
are best appreciated when we are SIGH
and in pain. A hacking cough, a severb
cold, OF any throat or lung disease are
very troublesome; but all of these may be
quickly and permanently cured by DR.
Bigelew's Cure. Safe and pleasant fol
children. Price 50 cents
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-23

We desire to say to our citizens, that
for years we have been selling DR.. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption, DR..
Kings New Life Pills, Bucklen's Arnica
Salve and Electric Bitters, and have new
er handled remedies that sell as well, or
that have given such universal sstisfac-
ton. We do not hesitate to guarantee
them every time, and we stand ready to
refund the purchase price, if satisfactory
results do not follow their use. These
remedies have won their great popularity
purely on their merits Hartz & Balm
sen, druggists.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-23
Syrup OF flRs

Is nature's own true laxative. 1t is the
most easily taken, and the most effective
remedy known to cleanse the system
when bilious or costive; to dispel head
aches, colds and fevers; to cure habitual
constipation. indigestion. piles, etc.
Manufactured only by the California Fig
Syrup Company. San Francisco, Cal.
Hartz & Bahnsen, agents, Rock Island,
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-23

Hypocrisy is sort of homage vice
pays to virtue. Drive out the vicious
blood with Warmers Log Cabin Sarsapar-
lila, renew it with new and virtuous
blood and there will be no hypocrisy in
your strong and healthy nature. Best
blood remedy and cheapest.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-23

A Baltimore cenfectioner. says: I've
had rheumatism in my arm for six
months, and Salvation Oil made an entire
cure of it, after using less than one bot
tie. William Schellhas, Jr., IA Penn.
sylvania avenue. Baltimore. Md.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-23
SONG FOR MUSIC.

Count the flashes in the surf,
Count the crystals in the snow,
Or thu blades across the turf,
Or the dead that sleep below!
These ye may count yet not know
While sleep or while slunber-
Where my thoughts and wishes go,
What her name, and what their number
Ask the cold and midnight sea,
Ask the silent falling frost.
Ask the grasses on the lea,
Or the mad maid, passion crostl
They may tell of posies tost
To the waves where blossoms blow not,
Tell of hearts that staked and lost,
But Of me and mine they know not.
Edmund Gosse.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-23

Jane Shaw, of Portland, Me-, secured
divorce from her husband by proving
that he went to a temperance meeting six
nights in week. and to church twice on
| SUNDAYS.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-23

The occupants of an Astoria. Ore.,
hostelery fish from their bedroom win
dows and haul In their suppers from the
surging water about the hotel founda-
tiOpa
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-23

A swimming dress to enable the swim
mer to blow up mines and hostile boats
has been tried in the German navy. 1t is
a sort of modified Paul Boynton affair.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-23

A lady was recently elected superin-
tendent of the pubic schools of st.
Johnsoury, VT, and another fair scholar
has been chosen to fill the chair of Greek
in college at Fargo, D. T.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-23

Various Japanese towns are building
waterworks, the TOXIC works havin
proved so successful.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-23
DIR. ]. W. IRELAND. v. s.,

GRADUATE OF THE ONTARIO VETERlNA-
Try College. Toronto, Canada and member OF the
Illinois Veterinary Medical Association; office FIRST
door east of Lorton's sale stable, Davenport
Calls by telephone or otherwise promptly atIcao-
cd to-
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-23
EXECUToR's NOTICE.

Estate OF Elizabeth johnson, Deceased
The undersigned, having been appointed Ex-
eeuter of the last will and testament Of Eliza
beth johnson, late of the county of Rock Island,
state Of Illinois, deceased, hereby gives notice
that he will appear before the county court Of
Rock Island county, at the Office of the clerk OF
said court, in the city OF Rock Island at the De-
cember term, on the First Monday In December
next, at which time all persons having claims
against said estate notified and requested to at
tend for the purpose of having the same adj ust-
ed. All persons indebted to said estate are re-
quested to make immediate payment to the I'M
dersigned.
Dated this 18th day OF October. A. D., 1888.
JOHN JOHNSON, Executor.
j. T. kENw0RTHY, Atty 16-d6w
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-23

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or guitar in 20 lessons what requires year. Al.
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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-23

Is one which is guaranteed to bring
YOU satisfactory results. or in case of fail
ure a return of purchase price. On this
safe plan you can buy from our adver,
tise druggist bottle Of Dr. Kings New
Discovery for consumption. 1t is guar
anteed to bring relief in every case, when
used for any affection of throat. lungs or
chest, such as consumption. infamma-
ton of lungs. bronchitis, asthma. whoop-
ing cough. Group. ETC., etc. 1t is pleas
ant and agreeable to taste, perfectly safe.
and can always be depended upon. Trial
bottles free at Hartz & Bshnsen's drug
store.
BUcKIKN's ARNIcA sALvE.
The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains
corns and all skin eruptions. and posi-.
lively cures piles, or no pay required. Il
is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction
or money refunded. Price Is cents pei
box. For sale BY Hartz & Bahnsen.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-02-01
RAILWAY ITEMS.

WIN. l.. TREsTER, of Lancaster county.
Neb., has brought suit against the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railroad company for dam
ages for running its trains across his
premises. He was the plaintiff in suit
lately decided by the Nebraska supreme
court, wherein it was held that the Mis-
souri, Pacific. being a foreign corporation,
could not exercise the right Of eminent do
main, or acquire title to lands for right of
way, depot sites, etc.
The New York Engineering News says
that the number of miles Of new track laid
in 1887 in Illinois. Wisconsin. Minnesota.
Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska was 3,205. an
increase of eleven miles over 1886.
TRAFFIC on the Canadian Pacific is
again seriously impeded by SHOWS.
A COMMITTEE of Knights Of Labor ap-
peared before the attorney general of Penn
sylvania and asked that quo warranto be
issued against the Reading road with
view Of forfeiting its charter. They allege
that the company has violated the state
constitution by engaging in the business Of
mining coal.
A YEAR or two ago an Iowa grain dealing
firm made contract with the Central Iowa
Railroad company for certain rebates on
shipments Of grain. When receiver was
appointed for the road the Arm had claim
OF $4,000 for such rebates, and filed petit
tion of Intervention to have the receiver pay
the amount out Of the proceeds Of the sale.
The case was taken into court, and Judge
Gresham ruled that the contract was void,
for, while it was made in Iowa, it was in
tended to be enforced In Illinois, where the
state laws prohibit discrimination by rail-.
roads.
TIE resolution introduced in the house
BY Representative Anderson, Of Iowa, to
authorize the institution Of judicial pro-
ceedings against the various Pacific rail-
road companies, contains In the preamble
~ charge oS mismanaeeinan and : fraud
Ulont manjpulAtiOn of the affairs so1 ~
poepAnles ebodlea Ii ths Henlsy lssela.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-02-01
AT THE SOUTH.

SPECIAL dispatch says that the Mis-
souri, Pacific railroad shops at Sedalia
were closed recently for alleged repair
The belief is prevalent that steps are being
taken to remove the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas road from the Gould system and
put it in the hands Of the receiver.
CORA LEE, of Springfield, Mo-, has been
acquitted of the murder of Sarah Graham,
for which Graham was lynched.
THREE negro prisoners, who We're in Jail
for murder, at Plymouth, N. c., were taken
from the county Jail by masked men, con-
veyed to the woods on the outskirts Of
town, tied to trees and then shot to death.
A TRAMP identified as George Pippers,
who made fortune in the early days of
the Pennsylvania oil discoveries, and then
squandered over $50O,0O0 in Wall street,
died recently in Sancoxie, Mo-, from ex-
posure. Since losing his money he has
tramped all over the west and southwest.
OFFICIALS of Pike county. KY, have
applied to the governor for troops to de-
fend the people against the Hatfield gang.
Troops were refused, but the people were
given permission to arm themselves. The
sheflH OF IKE county invaded west Nlr
ginia to capture the outlaws, but the state
authorities drove him back into Kentucky.
The examination of Barney Swinney,
the leader of the gang that made the un-
successful attempt to rob Wabash train
near Missouri City recently. has beg,in.
Swinney is evidently the leader of gang
that has been in similar scrapes before, and
will probably rest behind the bars for n
time.
DAVID WHITMER, the last surviving wit
ness to the authenticity of the Book of
Mormon, died at his home at Richmond
Mo-, the other night, after lingering ILL.,
ness.
JOHN I. ALLEN, at one time state treas
urer of Texas, who died recently, bequeath-
ed his fortune, valued at $3.50, 200, to the
city of Galveston for the establishment Of
an industrial school.
The sub committee of the Oklahoma
commission, which was instructed to send
invitations to a conference convention to
be held February 8, met in Kansas City re-
Gently, and prepared circular, copies Of
which will be sent TO 500 representative
men of Missouri. Kansas, Arkansas, Colo
RADIO and the Indian Territory.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-02-01
FROM THE EAST.

IT is said that the printers at the gov
ernment printing Office have determined to
ask congress to increase their pay from
$3.50 to - a day. An effort is now being
made by the compositors to make this q
union matter, and if successful the de-
mand will be urged upon congress with
great vigor. 1t is said, too, that the pro-
gramme as laid out provides for a strike in
the event Of the failure of the legislative
branch of the government to accede to
their demands. The Typographical union
IN that city is the most powerful in the
ceeded in everything it has undertaken,
and no private house could exist a month
unless its composing room was controlled
by Columbia Typographical union.
A NEW YORK telegram states that the
storm Of the 26th was the most severe in
the Mohawk valley known for years. The
New York Central abandoned all its trains
on the Hudson River division at 6 o'clock
in the evening on account of the snow
blockade The wind, which blew at the
rate of sixty miles per hour, swept the
light snow across the tracks in such
quantities that resistance to it was USE
less. There were three passenger trains
stalled in the snow between Albany and
New York, and fully score Of freight
trains.
AN extensive and systematic coal steal
has been discovered at Bainbridge, Ross
county, Ohio, small town on the Ohio
Southern railroad. A carload of coal
would at times disappear in a single night.
and the peculations became SO extensive
that the railroad company employed detec-
tives to unearth the thieves. The result
has been the arrest Of fifteen prominent
citizens OF Bainbridge, including the mar
shal, hotel proprietor and Presbyterian
preacher.
THE snowstorm Of Tuesday and Wednes-
day, the Gath and 25th, was general in the
north, extending from Dakota to New
England. At some points in New Hamp-
shire and Vermont from thirteen to
eighteen inches Of snow fell, and travel
was greatly impeded.
The foreman Of the Carbon Limestone
quarries, near Youngstown, o., placed .
quantity Of dynamite on stove in shanty
occupied by himself and Ave Italians. The
result was as usual, and the foreman was
killed and the Italians terribly mangled by
the explosion. Il takes hard knocks to
teach some men that dynamite is an ex-
plosive.
SINCE the present international revenue
system went into effect, September 1, 1861,
up to June 3, 1857, there had been manu-.
featured in the United States 1,606, ,665, ,182
gallons Of distilled spirits, and 296. 7l9, ,762
gallons Of fermented liquors. The aggre-
gate tax collected amountssto ~, l63, ,6o6.
Coz. C. w. MorLToA, o. New York.
died rscsntly of apoplexy,
TIE Island of NAntuckss, % ~ Aassa.
sAAssttS sAsvs. = eempisesly iee.eouad
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-02-01
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A SOLDIERS ROMANCE.
How = Dakota W0msn Landed = soldier
In l.eavenwOrth.

How = Dakota Woman Landed soldier
In Leavenworth.
An interesting romance was developed at
the sitting of United States court martial
at Fort Yates, d. r. Recently a woman
arrived at the fort looking for her alleged
husband, who she said was private SOL
dier in the Seventh United States cavalry.
stationed at that place. She very soon
singled out a young man Of good standing
in the regiment, as her faithless husband.
She tried to get money out Of him by
threats Of exposing him AZ a deserter from
the Eleventh infantry, in which she failed,
as he refused TO have anything TO do
with her. Incensed ut his treat
ment she went before the adjutant
and made complaint that her al
legged husband was deserter, and claimed
the standing reward Of $50 for informing.
A court martial was called, and the eyi-
dence showed that the derelict husband
was formerly member Of the Eleventh
United States infantry, stationed at Fort
Niagara, where he took mp with the woman
and fed from his regiment. The woman
remained with him till his money was an
gone, when she sought other pastures.
The soldier drifted south and enlisted 10
Kentucky in the Seventh United States
cavalry, whence he was sent TO Fort Yates.
He was convicted Of desertion and sent to
Leayenworth for term Of seven years.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-02-01
m THE WEST.

A HUGE aerolite fell the other night with
terrific noise on Aaron Marshall's farm in
Sargent township, near Newman, ILL.,.
burying itself distance of eight feet in
the earth. The indentation is triangular
in shape, measures over twenty inches on
a side, and emits a sulphurous odor. The
walls are burned hard and smooth, aud
particles OF the earth look like burned
brick. The concussion was felt for miles
around, and was mistaken by many for an
earthquake shock.
A TELEGRAM from the general passen-
ger agent of the Burlington and Northern
road says that the Burlington has given
notice of withdrawal from the Western
States Passenger association in order to
be in position to meet competition.
AN application for an injunction COM
pelling all breweries at Clinton and at
Lyons, Iowa, to cease operations is on the
docket Of the district court, in accordance
with the prohibitory law The prohibi-
tionists hare gathered courage from Gevs
ernor Larrabees message and will next
take up the case of the saloons.
A ST. PAUL cable car got away from the
gripman at Shelby avenue lately. ran off
the track and was smashed to pieces. Two
or three persons were fatally injured and
fourteen badly hurt. Z. M. Sanders, of
the Northwestern Fuel company, was fatal
ly injured; boy named John Roberts had
his arm broken; Mrs. Sceeme, of st. Paul,
Miss Cherston and Mrs. Leamans, Of Mil
waukee, were among the injured.
MRS. MEcKIE l.. RAwsoN, wife Of
Banker Rawson, of Chicago, who was
shot by his stepson, has been indicted by
the grand jury as accessory before the fact
to an attempt to commit murder.
CRUDE petroleum was discovered near
Carmi, ILL.,, by party of prospecting coal
miners. Oil is gushing from the earth at
the rate of fifty barrels an hour, and is
pronounced by Chicago experts equal to
the best Pennsylvania article.
ANOTHER blizzard occurred mp north re-
Gently. At Neche, d. T., the thermometer
went down to go below. and the wind blew
40 miles an hour. At Brainerd, Mimi,
there was heavy fall of snow. In the
vicinity Of Sioux City, Ia, no snow fell
but the south wind filled the cuts so that
trains on the Illinois Central and the st.
Paul and Milwaukee lines were pulled off.
SOMETIMES it pays man to be civil to
his family. At Sun River, NJ. r., "Nosey"
Smith was hanged by vigilantes for shame
fully abusing his daughter.
A CARTHAGE, ILL.,, telegram states that
four young ljIes of the Hamilton public
schools have en- expelled by the princi-
pal, Rev. J. A. Souders, because they had
attended ball. The entire community
has taken sides in the matter. and bitter
quarrel is expected to be the result