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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-12-11
THs KINGS MANOR HOUSE.
where the United State. 4. Represented
In Old York.


One of the checkered, ivy grown bits of old
York as IL was under the TudOrs and Stuarts
Is the kings manor house, which Is in part
the building where the wealthy abbots Of St
Marys dispensed pSincely hospitality. Little
OF the abbatial palace remains except the
wide and heavy staircase. Here successive
monarchs were received, and here Charles III
held parliament Now, after instructive
vicissitudes, IL is a school for the blind; and,
As such, the county memorial Of the immortal
phiianthropist William Wilberforce Sixty
blind children here receive education and
instruction in useful handicrafts Ouadran-
gular Of form, and OF architecture in which
the Jacobean preiominates. 1t Is waruingly
suggestive OF coughs, colds and rheumatisms,
which, strange TO say, are not there in I'M
usual number. Royal and noble coats Of
arms, which task all the pedantry % heralds
10 explain, adorn the principal entrances and
some Of the rooms
The Thursday concert OF the inmates is In
progress as we enter The performance OF
the blind organist and the tones OF the lead
ing female vocalist-of singular purity,
pitch, precision, and compass-somehow or
other sound like voices OF the receding past.
An unconscious undertone, lamenting ire
coverable loss and breathing unutterable
yearning for completeness Of life, enters into
the melody. IL plaintively appeals TO what
Is tendercst and most Christlike in the au-
dience, and meets fullest response from the
most highly gifted natures
The United States are graciou,ly repre-
sented here by raised and dissected maps,
books In the Boston raised and In the New
York point type, and writing guides, pre-
sented by the American Printing House for
the Blind at Louisville, Ky. wool work
articles aud books presented by Mr.. Anag-
nos, superintendent Of the Perkins Institu-
tion and Massachusetts, School for the Blind;
and by a pathetic lace collar worked by the
deaf, dumb and blind Laura BridgmAn. AL
these lent added interest 20 the jubilee Of the
institution In 1855.
One Of the many historic rooms-now used
as a dormitory for blind boys-that display
the taste and magnihcence Of the builders
contains curiously grotesque Tudor fire
place, still intact. This was Lord Hunting.
don's room, and ''is probably the place in
which Stafford held his court Of star cham.
Der. Richard Wheatley In Harper's Maya.
yina
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-12-11
WHY the 90 d, Ace Covered.

WAY url.r the canopy DO sturrkeepers
cover fruits and confectionery with wire
g4-e- said au huur.' 4-riculruri,t t. hi.
cty cousin who s-ap, % STORE Are they
afraid tua apples sod. iuuruIr OF the basket,
yr d' they think 'He .U,-tult- viii of their
own aHs1ri huI tHHIr wgy TIA urwspap-r
office -a ns o. h# .H band when the foreman
h'wI- flF eIpy .II fleruuds were not pro
trctHd tlH % s,lers w.u.I Iu-- uv petty thefts
NOR" than tleg mu'.n bg short wHght and
heavy psp.r was OBJ. answer The man
frum ur south kHpt h., Eve, pf-.u Tor a short
time while standing near cn~r uf cuufrc-
tiunerF UL.ot was uu- aardsd Il seemed As
" every boy aud -ir. nu, came iufp the store
was ot opinion taHt tl- candy wa, designed
iIf free lis'riburI'u. and 70 great many grown
-. pie hs,rsI themselves o. "a couple "a earn.
mvi-. H few nuts or q cHuuE ~ mnIaS..s
candy While waiting Tor their -y-uiu. pau.rs
ct dsridiu- what brand ui cigarettes would
bsst match their nrS ties w hen / know
my customer. sHii the merchant. Il charg.
them extra uu what they purchase. and get
even that way WHAT the transisnts get
away With charge up 70 profit aud loss -
Rochester P1-t-Express
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-12-11

CHICAGO, Dec. lL-Postoffice Inspector
Fleming, with the aid of E B. Sutherland
and Officer McDermott, at the Harrison
Street station, placed under arrest last night
a bold swindler whose name is George
Quicker, with several aliases Quicker, who
Is veteran Of the Union army, was working
up a scheme to rob his old COM
rades and the officers were looking
for him Sutherland Is also a veteran,
and knowing Quicker pointed him out to the
officers several days ago. Quicker heard of
this and prepared himself for fearful re-
venge. When Sutherland and the officers
went 70 arrest the scoundrel he suddenly
drew bottle Of nitric scid from his pocket
and attempted TO throw it into Sutherlands
face. Then he tried to draw pistol, but the
officers were too quick for him and got the
drop on him Happily but little of the acid
reached Sutherland's face, but his left arm
was rather severely burned
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-12-11

GEN. CLINTON b. FISH. into whose
hands fell all the public ana private cor
respondence Of jefferson Davis when bis
plantation in northern Mississippi was
captured 10 1863, gave q reporter his
views Of Davis political character as
shown therein. Gen. Fisk declares that
a spirit Of loyalty to the union was
breaihed throughout the letters which
Mr.. Davis wrote in the stormy period be-
tween 1850 and 1856. and specifies the
endorsement which was on the back Of a
letter written - him In the autumn OF the
latter year by committee Of Maine dem
ocrAts. These people urged him rs Sec
Rotary OF war "a cripple the military es-
adjustment Of the United States by every
means in his power and at the same time
increase the lighting strength Of the
southern states. On the back of this Mr.
Davis wrote Not to be entertained for
"A moment "
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-12-11
salvation by Work.

The human race has been saved by having
20 work. IL digged its way out Of its prime
val pit by work. When IL discovered its ma
kedness and had To lie clothed, it worked for
its raiment; when IL appreciated the respon-
sibilities OF fatherhood 20 he the feeding and
rearing OF the young. It worked under the
impulse Of an affection that was refined
above the instincts Of tho brute The rela-
ton OF husband and wife was made possible
and proper only by the willingness to work,
that IL might gather to II the necessaries OF
existence and finally be adorned by the
promptings OF intellectual as well as physical
wants. II Mother Eve is responsible for all
this we lift our hat 10 her and offer the sim
cerest respect TO her great memory She did
more for mankind than Adam and all Of his
male descendants San Francisco Alta.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-12-11
BOSTO On CITY ELECTION
Hart Wins b. 5000 M.Jority-strict Con
structioi of the A Australian Law

s'@ y Ssooc toh
structioh of the Australian Law.
BosroN, De-. lin 24O OF the $50 pre-
precincts Of Boston Hart. Rep for mayor
has q, e45 volts, to q, $50 for Calvin DEM.
On this basis Harris plurality in the city
viii be about 1000
The new common council will stand IS Re
pubhcans, % Democrats, as against 81 Re
publicans and SO Democrats last year. Vote
on license: Yes, % 1856; no, 1875
Had % Bounce the Baby.
The election was conducted under the Aus
tralian system and several thousand women
voted One woman, with a small, round
faced baby in her arms, asked for a ballot
and then started to step up to the shelf TO
mark 1t. One Of the election officers saw the
act and look Of inquiry came over his face
IL that infant remained in the woman's
arms there would be violation Of the law,
which says no one shall be permitted to see
how voter marks his Tor herr ballot
Though the infant was unconscious the
woman had 70 rslinquish possession of the
baby tempora lily. In letting her go within
the rail one a 4 OF violation had been com
United; n furt 1er transgression OF the Law
could not be allowed A representative OF
the school con mittee held the infant, and the
mother cast an unseen ballot
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-12-11
LEssE MASON. a negro Of Aledo. 9

JEssE MASON. a negro OF Aledo, and a
graduate Of the high school OF that town,
has written a couple Of communications
to the Aiedo Democrat. addressed TO the
.eolored people, in which be urges them
20 assert their political independence. and
cease TO be the voting chstiels OF the re-
publican party He shows thst the re-
publican party deserves no credit for
freeing the slaves, because the emAnci-
patton proclamation was issued purely as
war measure, and gave the coufeder.
Ates the privilege Of laying down their
arms within ninety days and retaining
their slaves Every republican president
since Grant has been elected by the coll
ored vote, and Mason declares that II the
negroes were to withdraw In body from
the republican party 1t could not elect
smother president in a hundred years.
His address is strong document. and
will DO doubt .rt good many intelligent
COlorpd men % thinking
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-12-11
The Crow a- a Traveller.

A street tAxidermist with a stuffed crow
attracted the attention Of several hundred
people on Clark street last Thursday. The
crow, he said, is q great traveller. He is a
social sort OF bird, too. You don't often
Sc a lone crow. He generally hes a mate.
but most generally he has several OF them.
Crows like 10 keep together better than any
Of the feathered tribe, unless IL Is Wild geese
and partridge They always migrate to-
gether, but unlike most migratory birds.
they don't 20 south-not always They quit
the highlands and the woods early in the sea.
son and haunt the river edges, flying from
shore to shore At night, when the weather
Is cold, they fly 90 the nearest woods 10 roost.
The hawk and ths owl, though 20 il alone.
You hardly ever $50 pair Of either. They
ny low VI el>s very high. The hawk Is a
higher dyer than the owl They are ALWAYS
looking for something 10 destroy, and never
migrate Ia any dir,ctiOu long at a time.
They seetn to Lee uncertain which way 10 go.
1ss-s tsl fstN- tA.t- si.tssss,
Tribune
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-12-11

Should ever serve on jury II would he Il
difficult matter to get me 10 vote man guilty
where "A mere question Of identity Is involved
and the testimony was conflicting A dozen
men might swear that they recognized per
son leaving n house under certain circun
stances, but would want stronger proof than
that There is hardly day passes that do
not hear Of some amusing episode in which
Harvey, tae insurance actuary, is mistaken
for Professor Bill Clark, Of Capt. Dan Able
being mistaken for Judge j. H. Terry, and no
less than six times within fortnight have /
been halted upon the street by people who
plistook me for Or. Vernon, the dentist. One
gentleman rode aif the WY down town with
me on the cars one morning recently without
discovering his mistake until explained mat
ters TO him at the end OF our journey.-Law-
yer, In St Louis Globe-Democrat
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-12-11
WILL FIGHT THE SUGAR TRUST.
Knights " Labor TO Boycott tho Product
of the Trust Rshneries.

knights of Labor to Boycott tho Product
OF the Trust Rshneries.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 1.-The knights Of
Labor are about TO open their warfare on the
sugar trust, and within month expect to
fire on it. The action resolved upon is
neither more nor less than general boycott
on sugar trust sugar. The plan is first to
learn what refineries are in the trust, what
their brands are, and what wholesalers buy
them; then similar information as to the
non-trust refineries i 70 be secured Then
the knights, assisted by the Farmers ALI
ance and other organizations, are to notify
their retail grocers rs 20 what sugars are
trust sugars and what are not, and 10 assert
their determination to cease buying certain
brands and kinds By means OF their secret
organization through the labor men employed
in the refineries and by means OF the co-Opera-
ton Of the non-trust refineries, 1t IL expected
that this secret work will he fruitful at the
start II Is also expected that in many states
quo-warranto proceedings Will be begun TO
revoke the charters of 6le trust on the ground
Of their illegality and oppression of the
masses
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-12-11

WASHINGTON CITY, Dec. 1.-THE senate
yesterday indefinitely postponed the bill pro-
viding for organization Of national banks
with less than $4,000 capital. Turpie then
made speech in advocacy Of his antitrust
bill, one featureof which is confiscation of the
property of trusts. He declared that trusts
were the giganticsin of the age. Evarts intro.
duced a bill providing for holding the
Worlds fair at New York. Petitions were
presented asking the passage Of law pro-
hibiting speculation in farm products, and
for q law to secure honest elections for menu
bers Of congress Gibson. Chandler intro
duced bill to secure the same object. A
secret session was held at which the nomina-
lions Of r. P. Porter Is superintendent of
the census and Green B. Ram a. pension
commissioner wGs confirmed.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-12-11
TRODDEN TO DEATH.
Frightful Panic in a Johnstown,
Pa, Theatre.
TwELvEvICTIMs OF A DEATH TRAP

An Alarm of Fire Drives the Audience i'm
Mad Rush to the Door with Terrible
Results-Twelve Corpses Taken from
the Building and Six Persons Serious
ly wounded-Panic-stru Outsiders
Cooled on by the Firemen-The Death
Roll In Full.
PTrrsBURG, Pa, Dec. ia special from
Johnstown, Pa, to The Times says: An
alarm Of fire was sounded last night at 1890.
IL was in DR.. wakefields stable in Kern
Vile The ~Uncle Toms Cabin" was playing
in the Park Opera house, and when the
alarm was sounded, the whole audience Of
600 people jumped to their feet and made a
dash for the stairway, and fearful jam and
crushing was the result.
Twelve People Killed.
The following were killed: E Bigler, Miss
Clara Burns, Mrs hester, George Horner,
Charles Friant; George Stonaker, OF Mt
Pleasant, Pa; John Carl, William Miller
(coloredD, A. Fleishour, Isaac Folor, Lizzie
Clayconlb and an unknown woman.
Six Persons Seriously Injured.
Seriously injured: Charles Vaughn, John
Weimer, Albert Owens, Mrs. Lister, Mrs.
Flatt, and Richard worthington, and about
twenty more slightly injured, such as sprains
and bruises
Caused a Double Panic.
When the panic occurred large number
OF persons, thinking the FIRE was in the Opera
house, tried TO get into the building, making
another panic, and it was necessary for the
hremen to turn the hose on the crowd to
were terrible, and it was shocking to see small
children knocked down by big men and
trampled upon.
Always Been n Death Trap.
This theatre has always been noted as a
death-trap, and was condemned twelve
years ago, but the other theatre was washed
away in the food and this one has been in
Use. The manager tried to quiet the crowd,
but il was of no use One man jumped from
the third story window and was seriously
injured, and many more would have jumped
but for few cooler heads.
Grave Charge Against the Police.
1t is reported on good authority cha,
the police dubbed several to death.
The killed and injured were all taken &c
Henderson's morgue where they were identi.
fed Coroner Evans and jury viewed the re
mains Of the dead, and rendered decision
that the victims came TO their death by be-
ing crushed and nlangled in Parke's Opers
house.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-12-11

The picture gallery Of tue future Is likely
u be un apparatus for exhibiting "a succession
VI instantaneous Photographs a. a moving
picture OF the person represented, this appa.
ratus being so genreI with the photograph
thht a. the latter gives the Individuals speech
me FORMER viii reproduce his gestures aud
facial expression. By such means an absent
actor, Tor example, might be- brought before
an audience, or when present he might wit
hess the reproduction Of his own acting This
combination Of photograph and photograph
a suggestion lately made 20 the French
academy by NJ. G.. Gueroult, but experiments
with similar arrangement were made about
year and q half ago 10y NJ. A Bandsept, Of
Brussels Exchange.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-12-11
DESPERATE CHICAGO sURaLARs.
They Seriously Shoot One Onioer an
Break the Arm of Another.

They Seriously Shoot One onioer and
Break the Arm of Another.
CHICAGO, Dec. 1l.-oflcsr William Davis,
Of the police force, was passing saloon at
$500 l-e Wabash avenue yesterday morning
at O'Clock when he noticed the door open
and man standing in IT. Hestopped and asked
what he was doing there. The reply was that
hewas waiting for the proprietor The officer
remarked that 1t was pretty late for the pro-
prietor, when the man called another who
was inside The latter came 70 the door and
Immediately shot Davis In the jaw, shatter-
Ing the bone, the ball ranging downward
Into the neck. Davis fell unconscious, and
the miscreant fired another shot into his
back The robbers then fed, and shortly
afterward Davis was picked up by another
officer and carried to the hospital Dstec-
tectives were Immediately sent out ON the
hunt for the robbsrs
Another Ornoer Wounded
Detective Thomas was walking along Wa
bash avenue shortly after the above occur
renee when he saw the burglars running.
He stopped one OF them and received q ball
In his left arm, breaking the bone Not
withstanding the wound he managed to
draw his pistol and sent the six bullets it
contained after the flying burglar, but both
Of them got OF for the time
One of the Robbers Arrested
The search was kept up all yesterday and
she police sucoeeded in arrssting one Of the
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-12-11

AMONG the startling statements in re.
gard to pensions submitted by Secretary
Noble in his report. is the one to the ef.
feet that over one thousand million dol
lars have been paid in pensions since
1861, and that there are now pen6ing
four hundred and seventy nine thousand
pension claims. The secretary asks for
over ninety.seven millions for next year.
and in reporting eighty nine millions as
paid this year, be states that a million
and half Of that sum was received by
pension attorneys.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-12-11
DOES DEATH END ALLY
A Significant Utterance from the POI
81 AgnostIcism.

A Significant Utterance from the Pope
II Agnosticism.
NEW YORK, Dec. lin commenting on q
brochure writ en- by a lawyer Of this city, in
which he und rtakes TO prove by circum-
stantial eviden &c the existence of a life here
after, Col Robert Ingersoll, among other re-
hections, give the following passage:
If we admit the existence Of a God of in
finite wisdom and compassion, we may say
that there lst be a world better than
this; but how do we account for one
worsel That is to say, IL injus-
tice triumphs here, why not therei II
honesty goes without bread in this world,
why not in an Jtheri Certainly God will be
no better ther than now. Still, it may be
possible that God OF infinite love and COM
passion will 50 reward those who suffer
through suffering itself-that all that hap
pens will BE- consistent with compassion.
Ii may be that we hive no more,
that we 60 back To the unconscious dust, and
yet the heart will always say, Perhaps
there il another life
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-12-11
How's Thisl

We offer one hundred dollars reward
for any case of catarrh that cannot be
cured by taking Halls catarrh cure.
+. j. CHENEY & Co, Props,
Toledo. Ohio.
We. the undersigned. have known +.
J. Cheney for the last fifteen years, and
believe him perfectly honorable in all
business transactions and financially able
to carry out any obligation made by their
firm:
WEST q TBuAx. Wholesale druggists.
Toledo. o.
WALpISs, KISsAN & MARVIN, Wholesale
druggists, Toledo, o.
Z. h. VAN HGsEN. Cashier, Toledo Ma
tionrl bank, Toledo, o.
HaD's catarrh cure Is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucus
surfaces Of the system. Price 70 cents
per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-12-11

Discriminate In this uso Of a and an. A
should be- used before words beginning with
an nsptrated h, when the accent falls ON the
second syllable, aud not au. Say "a histor-
ical novel, "a heroic act The plea for this
usage among u.s. although IL may not always
De euphonious, Is based on the fact that
an America the Is properly aspirated,
while Ia England, where the h is often SUP.
pressed, an Is generally employed. The arti-
Gle should be repeated In such sentences as.
the emile had an elegant handle and rough
iookihg blade" arough looking blade; ''it
mad rough looking handle and elegant
biade AN elegant blade 1t was a rough
ana 'nelesant remark - an inelegant remark.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-12-11

TnE lates, republican policy Of free to.
bacco is little more than the Chicago
Tribune can swallow just yet. But IL
will come 10 IL In time. IS II now sup
ports great manS things that year or
two ago il denounced. II it follows its
own precedents within few months il
will be among the strongest advocates Of
the supremacy Of the spitioon
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-12-11
GRANGE AND UNION.
Important Gatherings of the
Tiller and Toiler.
THE EIGHT HOUR DAY PROPAGANDA

Il. Advocates In Council At Roston--In-
diana Farmers Negotiating with the X.
OF l. A Despsiring Lecturer - The
knights Putting ON Their Boycott
Armor to Fight the SUGAR Trust-More
Trouble at Spring vaIiey-strike and
Lockout In the Leather Factories
BosroN, Dec 1.-THE chief and most inn
portant piece of business which will come be-
fore the American Federation OF Labor,
which opened its fourth annual convention
In this city yesterday, will be the eight-hour
question. During the past year agitation
meetings have been held all over the coun-
try, and reports on the progress Of the move
ment will be received from all sections. The
Federation will take no radical steps TO
bring the eisht-hour work day in force at
once, but will do all in its power, and never
rest until the eight-hour work day is an es-
tablished fact all over the country IL is
proposed to bring about this result quietly,
without disturbing business or causing a
general strike. One year Of agitation was
decided ON as the first move to obtain the
desired result, and what the next move will
be remains 10 be seen.
The Federation I'm session.
There were large number of delegates
present when the Federation was called to
order, Samuel GOmpers, the president, in
the chair. Shortly afterward Governor Ames
and Mayor Hart entered, aud were received
with applause. Both gentlemen made well
coming addresses The governor, in discuss
ing the relations Of labor and capital said
that in considering the same Il believe you
will bear in mind that these relations are re-
ciprocal, and that TO shift the center Of power
too far in either direction is to invite disas-
ter" The mayor thought that the eight-hOur
movement could not be confined 10 one class.
President GOmpers then made an address
Mandatory Of organized labor. The remainder
OF the session was devoted 10 routine business.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-12-11

COOLIDGE, Kan, Dec. lin deserted
cabin on an abandoned ranch just west OF
here, in Colorado, herder Monday made
discovery that probably means a double
murder. Lying just inside the door was the
body of man with bullet-hole in the head,
while in the hDuse was the body of a woman
with her skull crushed. Near by lay a
bloody AK. The bodies were recognized as
those OF a man and woman who had passed
through the town two weeks ago 1t is sup
posed they were murdered for their team.