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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-03
The Fox Feigued Death.

There i one man in this great state whose
superiority in his peculiar line of effort is
never disputed-and that's Dan Cannon of
Canton, the celebrated teller of fox stories.
There lives not in all Maine person having
sufficient lardihood 10 match himself against
Dan Gam non in this art
Boys, says Dan, Il wuz out huntin a fox
on old Canton Maountin one day | heard
my haouni er bayin' down on the west side
NV the maOuntin, and knew he wuz chaSin'
the fox and that eff | stood still abaout where
wuz the fox would circle raound thar bime
by.
$50 sot daown behind a stone wall and
waited. The haound KEEP circlin' nearer and
nearer and afore long see the fox runnin'
up the maountin right straight fur me- l
waited til he got up to within fifty yards and
then aimet my gun over the wall.
well, boys, afore | could fire | see that
fox tumb right over heels in the air. He
laid thar ez stiff as a corpse For, boys, he
wuz corpse. | went up to him and he wuz
stone deao. How'd he diei Why, be see me
and knew 1t wuz Dan Cannon pintin' his
old gun at him and he wuz skairt TO death.
Yes, boys actually skairt ter deathl
''Well, ] peeled his hide off and left the
carcass thar. | hadn't gone more'n 200 yards
away when | happened ter lock back and see
that fox runnin' as tight as he could jump,
without his clothes onl The darned critter
had played it on me after all But, hang the
luck! that afternoon II hunter from Hebron
came along and shot him Ef he hadn't done
that the fox's fur would ha growed out agin
by the next fall and should ha' got 81 25
more off 'rIm him, sure. Lewiston Journal
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-03
Where Work Is Pleasant.

Neglected Wife-Why don't you go to
workl
Husband Ia meier do welh-I amt got no
tools.
Neglected Wife-Deacon Smith offered YOU
80 to fix his fence, and you have a saw. and
a plane, and a hammer and nails What
more do you wantl
Husband-The saw amt no good, and l.
amt got no file to sharpen it Ole Smith kin
fix his fer ce hisself
Same husband ten years later)-Histl
Say, wife, I've escaped from the peniten-
tlary- Gin me some other clothes, SO | kin
light out tgin.
Whe-Ay, myl How did you get outa
Husband-l dug forty feet underground
with two tined fork, then cut my way
through two feet of stone wall and ten inches
OF boiler iron with saw made out of tin
dinner plnte.-New York Weekly
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-03
Is Copsumu,,on Ipcurahe7

Read the following: Mr.. c. Fl. Nor
ris, Newark, Ark, says: WAS down
with Abscess of Lungs, and friends and
physicians pronounced me an Incurable
Consumptive. Began taking DR.. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption. am
now on my third bottle. and able to over
see the work on my farm. 1t is the finest
medicine ever made"
Sesse Mlddlewart, Decatur, Ohio, says:
Had it not been for Dr. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption | would have
died of lung troubles Was given up by
doctors. Am now in best of health. "
Try it. Sample bottles free at HartZ &
Bahnsen's drug store.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-03
ELECTRIC RTTTERS.

This remedy is becoming so well known
and so popular as to need no special men
ton. All who have used Electric Bitters
sing the same song of praise.-A purer
medicine does not exist and it is guaran-
teed to do all that is claimed. Electric
Bitters will cure all diseases of the liver
and kidneys, will remove pimples. boils,
salt Iheum and other affections caused by
impure blood. Will drive Malaria from
the system and prevent as well as cure
all Malarial fevers.-For cure of head
ache, constipation and indigestion try.
Electric Bitiers-Entire satisfacfi2lSe> 90
auteed or mcney -Art
.e@ats and 800 per bottle at HART &
Bahnsen's drug store.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-03
ZGail1s5~
MZWzUYEE1
M0 Sz14UL I
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FAST IL TRAIN with Vestluuled trainr he
tween Chicago Milwaukee, 81 Paul and Mime
apolis.
IRA NS-C0NTINE NTAL ROUTE between Chi
cago, Council Bluffs, Omaha and the Pacific
Coast.
GREAT NATIONAL ROUTE between Chicago
Kansas City and st. Joseph, Mo.
300 NILES OF ROAD reaching all principal
points in Illinois, Wisconsin Minnesota, Iowa
Missouri and Dakota.
For maps. time tables, rates OF passage and
freight, etc, apply 10 the nearest station agent
OF the Chicago. Milwaukee 4 s.. Paul Railway, or
to any railroad agent any where in the world.
ROSWELL MILLER. AV.H.CARPENTRR
General Manager. Gen'l Pass. 4 4. Agt.
" For information in reference to Lands and
Towns owned by By the Chicago. Milwaukee 4
~. Paul Railway Company, write TO H. q Han
gen. Land commissioner Milwaukee. Wisconsin
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-03
Horsahesn that Costs Money.

New Y ORR, July THE second annual
sale of Rancho del Paso yearlings, the prop
erty of j. b. Haggtns, of California, took
place at Hunts Point yesterday. Over 100
colts and fillies were catalogued to be sold.
The most valuable animal sold was colt
foaled April 20, 1888, ont of Maud Hampton,
by imported st. Blaise (the winner of the
English Darby of 1888 This colt was
knocked down to Mr. Scott Quinton for
500, 900. Senator Hearst paid $40, 600 for a
bay filly sister to Dewdrop) by Falsetto,
out of Explosion A bay colt by Ban Fox
out of imported Queen, was purchased by
Scott Quinton for 81, 600 The total amount
realized on the sale was Sl13, 400, an average
of 81, 1913 for the ninety five animals sold
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-03
Block Coal Miners Vote No,

BRAZIL, Ind, July 2.-The striking
Indiana block coal miners comprised in ten
districts centering in Brazil rejected by a
popular vote yesterday a proposition to
accept the operators offer. and the strike
against & Is cent reduction will continue
The proposition voted down was one secured
last week by the state board of charities,
and was to the effect that the operators
would prove by their books that they had
not realized more than q per cent and a
fraction ast year on their investment, if the
miners would go to work
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-03
100 LadIAR Manran.

And 100 men to call on any druggist for
free trial package of Lanes Family
Medicine, the great root and herb reme>
dy. discovered by DR.. Silas Lane, while in
the Rocky mountains. For diseases OF
the blood, liver and kidneys it is a posi-
tive cure. For constipation and clearing
up the complexion it does wonders.
Children like it. Everyone praises it.
Large size package, so cents. At al
druggists.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-03

CHEEKY Words

From gentleman of Texas to his own
people. and all others over the country
Hear what he says:
have been practical druggist in
Tyler for number of years, and in that
time have had occasion to examine. try.
and notice the effect of nearly all the
highly recommended preparations or pat
ent medicines on the market, and as |
have suffered untold misery myself, the
past number of years, from severe form
of infiammatory rheumatism, and could
find nothing to cure or relieve me, l had
almost drawn a conclusion that all pat
ent medicines were more or less frauds
until about one year ago, | was in
duced by friend now living in Tyler. to
try preparation known as B. or Bo-
tanlc Blood Balm, and after a long per-
suasion on his part. | finally made up
my mind to make one more effort to rid
myself of the terrible affiiction; and it
now affords me the greatest pleasure of
my life to state to the citizens of Smith
county that am entirely cured, with no
traces of the disease left, and all effected
by the magic healing properties of B. B.
b., which | consider the grandest, purest
and most powerful blood remedy known
to man. l have been subject to in>
1ammatory attacks since ten years of
age, and mp to the present time have had
four. The last spell came on me in
November, 1885. over year
ago. at which time was
confined to my bed for eight weeks. pass
ing the nights IN misery, with no sleep
except when produced by narcotics and
various opiates. The week previous to
using b. b. B. up to that time had only
eaten six meals, and could scarlely sit up
without support; but after using three
bottles | was able to relish my meals and
to walk up town. and after six bottles
had been used. thank heaven, | was en-
tirely cured, and not the slightest pain
felt since that time. When | returned to
business in February, my weight was AS
pounds. but gradually increased until my
regular weight was again attained. 210
pounds. The noticeable fact in what !
have So cheerfully stated is. that this un-
paralleled and remarkable discovery, b
B. B. cured me in mid winter, at the
very time my sufferings and misery were
the greatest. | take it on myself as
practical druggist to heartily. cheerfully
as well as conscientlously, recommend
this glorious blood remedy to all sufferers
of rheumatism or blood troubles, and not
only myself, but the firm of Mckay &
Adams, who handle it, will cheerfully in
dOrse its superior merits
NJ n
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-03
Faces at Washington Park.

CHICAGO, July AT the Washington
park course yesterday the money was won
on the following horses: Kate Malone,
mile, "a; Bill Letcaer, u mile, 1929; Abb
lene, u mile, 1:0224; Bonita, 1k miles, 1:55;
Ernest Race, l mile, l:421li Glockner,
mile, r<31l; Tom Hood u mills, 1:i31S.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-03

READING, Pa, July 2-Tbe plant of the
Reading Iron Works company, which four
months a 90 failed for upwards of 81, 600 900,
was sold at public sale yesterday The
property was bought by W. p Bard, of
Reading, for $50, 900, subject to a mortgage
of S6000J0. Mr.. Bard made the purchase in
the interest of the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad company who will put the works in
nnaratioI shortly
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-03
SuIl van Takes a Little Exercise.

BELFAST, n. Y, July 2.-As an illustra-
ton of ths condition of John l.. Sullivan the
pupiIist the following is given as
two hours exercise that he took yesterday,
the day being an "off day" The slugger first
put the heavy ball for fifteen minutes, then
bounded the bag for forty-five minutes. As
soon as this was done he took the skipping
rope and skipped 100 consecutive times
without 4 miss, which occupied another
hour. The big fellow started for the South
vnstprdaN
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-03
RuCKLEN's ARNICA sALYr

The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers. SAT- rheum, fever
sores, letter. chappeG hands, chilblains,
corns and all skin eruptions. and posi-
lively cures piles, or no pay required. II
is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction
or money refunded. Price 25 cents per
box. For sale by Hartz & Bahnsen.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-03
An Important Element

OF the success of Hoods Sarsaparilla is
the fact that every purchaser receives q
fair equivalent for his money. The fa-
millisr headline, 100 Doses One Dol
lar" sto en- by imitators. is original with
and true only of Hoods Sarssparills.
This can easily be proven by any one
who desires to test the matter. Fol-
real economy, buy only Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla. Sold by all druggists.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-03

Who of us are without trouble be they
small or large? The blessings of health
are best appreciated when we are sich
and in pain. A hacking cough. severk
cold, or 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 for
children. Price 30 cents
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-03
Anticipated.

First Iramp-Well, you are putty well
used upI When they got after you, why
didn't you take to your heelst
Second Tramp couldn't, pard. You see,
the dog took to 'em. m.-Burlington Free Press
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-03
Sure Pop.

Bashful Young an-Ahem-Sally y--ahem
Sally telcouragingly)-Well, Georgei
sally, do you suppose your ma would be
willing TO be my motherin-lawE'
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-03
A Correct Conclusion.

Detective-Was your cashier right or left
handedi
Bank President Right, | should say
nothing BE- could get his hands on is left -
Omaha World
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-03

A-They call him colonel What did
he command during the war? B-He
commanded a small salary as sutler 5
clerk.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-03

Teacher-What is an unknown guam
tity? Coal dealers son-What you get
when you buy ton of coal
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-03

Oldmansion-Have you a telephone,
Biggs2 Biggs-No, am not on speak
ing terms with the company. Their
rates are too high.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-03

and MCKAY & ADAMS, Tyler. Texas.
Send for our book of wonders, free.
1t treats of all blood disorders. ADJ
dress, BLOOD BALM Co., Atlanta, Ga.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-03
Depot, Moline Avenue.
j. r. COOK, Agent. Rock Island.
CHICAGO. BURLINGTON & QUINCY
MI. YOUNG. Agent.

CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-03

AVOID ALL IMiTA-
TONS. THEY MAY
BE DANGEROUS.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-25
Governor Waterman Expresses Himself
Men aud Things.

Sovernor Waterman Expresses Himself
on Men aud Things.
SAN BERNARpfEo. May 24th- Governor
Waterman arrived here this afternoon from
San Diego, and was seen BY reporter. In
regard to the San Quentin investigation, he
said:
Il am not through with it yet, and will
not tor some time, having been compelled
to adjourn the inquiry ca account of other
business. find the condition of San Quen-
tin excellent All the talk about
corruptness is groundless. The prison
was never under better management.
Everything about the place is clean and
neat. and the food excellent. Warden
McComb looks after the different depart
ments in a satisfactory manner and is care
full in the expenditures. The iuvestiga-
ton was unnecessary, and know it, but
being forced on me | will take it
through. Shsnahan, who cried so much
about intriguing. would not come forward,
neither would Thomas. | sent officers to
the depot after the latter bat he would not
return, and had no process TO compel him
to- The EgdRstfo said that the $4,000 ap-
propriated is being thrown away Not cent
is being squandered, and no more than il
absolutely necessary will be ased in getting
to the bottom'of the matter. l do not in
tend to see the peoples money wasted, and
guess the people realize that fact by this
time
AS regards Mr. Maslin, he is a Demo-
erat, bat | retained hiA because
he is man of ability and a
more conscientious gentleman l never met.
All the talk about corruptness is manu-
factured out of whole cloth, and the in
vestigation is unnecessary. 1t is the same
as the Yosemite iuvestigation-a useless
sum of money spent, and for nothing"
The Governor will remain here until the
first of the week, when be leaves for sacra-
nRptO
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-25
DEATH OF A NOTED WOMAN
Deaf, Dumb and Blind from Two Years
of Age.

BosToN, May 24th-Laura Bridgman,
who was deaf, dumb and blind from two
years of age and made widely famous by
Charles Dickens in his American Notes, I"
also by many public references to her won-
derful intelligence, died to- day at South
Boston Asylum, where she has long dwelt,
aged 60.
Laura Brijgman was a blind deaf mute, born
in Hanover, n H., December 2i, 1929. Until
two years old she possessed all the faculties By
illness lost her sense of sight. hearing and
smell, and her taste was much impaired. At S
she entered the Perkins Institute, Boston, and
soon became familiar with the building and
wandered about it at will. DR.. S. G. Howe
undertook to instruct her, task never
before accomplished with one so affiic-
ted. He had to operate through the
sense of touch. He gave her articles TO handle
with their names embossed in raised letters
and by repetition she came to understand that
the raised parts bore relation to the character
of the object. Then the raised letters were
given ID her separately 10 feel next, arranged
as al first on the knife, or spoon, or hammer
Then she was guided to disturb and then re-
arrange the letters. From this process, by un-
ideas through raised letters. Finally, the
doctor gave her type and a board with
holes 70 receive them, and thus she would
compose" words. Through this means
she was taught the manual alphabet,
and SO on progress was made. until this
girl, blind, deaf, without the sense of smell or
taste, learned to write, TO think orderly, to
play the piano, 10 conquer in mathematics, to
do needle work and household duties . She
became deyout, patient, loving, jealous of her
own and others rights and very tasteful in all
things. ,She learned to make her own clothing,
to run sewing machine. 10 read from raised
letters and work so prepared, and really came
to enjoy life quite as much as other people !
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-25
wREoKrp By RonnERs.
Train Thrown Down Embankment-
Number of Persons Injured.

ST.. LOUIS. May 24th.-The west-bouud
train on the ST Louis Il San Francisco
Railroad was wrecked seventy miles west
OF st. Louis. NoG passenger escaped un-
hurt. Forty-five are known to nave bsen
seriously injured, though 40 deaths are yet
reported.
The train was running at high rate of
speed when suddenly, without warning
the track gave way. The locomotive, bag
gage car and i've coaches went over the
embankment. The trainmen aud those
only slightly injured at once set TO work to
prevent the additional horror of fire, in
which they succeeded, and then turned
their attention to the more unfortunate in
jured. In q short time forty-five passen-
gers, all badly hurt, had been released from
the debris
A temporary hospital was improvised at
Sullivan and the most serious injured taken
there, while others were brought 10 st.
Louis on a special train. L was about mid
night when the accident occurred and most
OF the passengers were asleep. There is
curve ia the road at the scene of the acei-
dent and the creek is crossed on thirty
foot embankment.
The trainmen who arrived here say that
the spikes and ash-plates had been removed
from the track, for the evident purpose OF
wrecking the train. The suppositien Is
that it was done by train robbers, though
no attempt to rob the train was made. and
it is presumed that something scared them
of or that they threw the wrong train.
No deaths have as yet resulted from the
effects Of injuries received by the passen-
gers, though several are in precarious
condition. General Manager Morrill, has
offered a reward of 81 900 for information
whick will lead TO the detection of ths
nptx- % \ 4 L y.
from the hsh-plates aad thus caused the
wreck
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-25
INQUEST ON BISHOP.
Investigation of the Mind Headers De-
cease in New York.


New YORK, May 24th.-At to days ses-
sion of the inquest in the case of Washing
ton Irving Bishop Mrs. Bishop, mother of
the deceased, testified that on one occasion
her son had been for SIX days as if dead.
but she held to the belief that be was alive,
and on the seventh day he rose up and was
himself again.
This, Mrs. Bishop said, was when he was
a boy, and he had had several similar ex-
periences since. She further said that he
had horror of the surgeons knife while
in these frances, aid always carried paper
about his person explaining this feeling.
She said she saw this paper with him an
hour before he left Philadelphia on the
fatal evening.
Although she came on at once when no.
titled of his illness, they would not let her
see him. but said that the doctors were
with him. She had a presentiment that
they would cut him with their knives be-
fore they would LET her see him. She ar
gued with them to no purpose and said ::
He is simply in trance, and they do not
understand his case" Witness said that
on Tuesday morning she was brought to
the undertakers and there shown the BODY
of her murdered boy
Miss Ida O'Reine Jones' who had known
Bishop for fifteen years, told of trance of
Bishops, in which the physicians had pro-
nounced him dead, and of his recovery
half an hour after he had been laid out
DIR. Briggs corroborated Mrs Bishops
testimony regarding his attendance on her
son in 1873 and stated that the doctors
who were with him had pronounced him
dead, though he would not he convinced,
having had charge of similar cases.
Adjourned until Monday.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-25
CRAFTY BISMARCK.
He Wants Samoa TO Pay for the Lost
German Vessels.

WAsHIS9foN, May Ath. = The intsT-
change OF kilograms between the Depart
ment of State and our Commissioner at
Berlin are growing very numerous as the
Conference draws to a close, and some in
formation Of difficulties in the way of
settlement occasionally becomes public
1t is stated here upon the best authority
that the only difficulty standing now ia
the way OF the final settlement is the q1es-
tioH of indemnity, and in this matter
Prince Bismarck 6 demands are said to
have been exorbitaut He has insisted
that in addition to indemn nifty for the kill
ing ofthe German soldiers and despoiling
of the German plantations, also for the loss
of the German ships of war by the
great hurricane He bases this claim
upon the ground that if the
action of the Samoan Government
had not compelled the German ships to do
police duty ian unusual thing for foreign
vessels to do in harbor of friendly ma
tion), the catastrophe would not have hap
pened.
Bismarck's purpose is said to be TO sad
die Samoa with SO great debt that she
must repudiate and come to Germany with
concessions, asking for repeated renewals
of her Indebtedness, thus giving Germany
the same power over the islands that Eng
land has acquired over Turkey. OF course
the Americans have opposed this demand
stoutly and maintained that Samoa should
pay merely nominal indemnity. The
matter is still unsettled, and is the subject
OF much cabling back and forth.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-25
DISCOVERED IN TINE.
A Plot for a General jail Delivery
Fooled.

JERSEY CITY On. j., May 24th.-A plot
was unearthed this morning for general
delivery of the conyicts confined in the
Hudson county penitentiary at Snake Hill.
The attention of two deputy Wsrdens be-
ing attracted by suspicious conferences of
five long term prisoners, search was made
of the cells occupied by these convicts.
The investigation resulted in the discovery
of nineteen files, six knives, five saws, ten
drills, a pair of compasses, and other arti-
cles. The files were smuggled into the
prison from the outside, and the other tools
were made by the convict blacksmith, now
at liberty. A set of keys made of lead were
found in the pocket of one of the convicts
involved, which would have readily opened
the doors of the cells and that of the corri-
dors. The men were at once put in close
confinement, and for some time will SUBJ
sist on bread and water. Other prisoners
are believed to be implicated and search
ing investigation is now in progress.