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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24
Dead Men Arc voted sometimes

From the Oil City Blizzard.l
1t is of little practical benefit to candidate
to send confidence circular appeals through the
postoffice to people who are dead, but it shows
his friendliness and good will.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24

GENERAL RossER, who was famous for
his parting certain races in the Shenandoah
Valley 25 years ago, is trying to retain that
fame by showing what fool he still is.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24
TO PREACH PROHIBITION.
Ex-Master Workman Rankin Engaged to
Lecture Mt Steelton.

HARRISBURG, February %. - Ex-Master
Workman Rankin, of D. A. No. g. X. of L., is
highly appreciated in Dauphin county. The
ladies of the w. G. T. U. at Steelton have Sc
cured him for seven consecutive nights. COM
mencing Friday. March /, to present the bene-
pie of that place. The great steel works there
employs 1000 men.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24

ZERO weather has been scarce article in
Pittsburg for two or three seasons, which
makes it all the more trying to have it jump
upon us as it did yesterday morning.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24

NEW BRUNSWICK, Nj :, February g. s-Ex-Mayor
Martin A. Howell, one of the wealthiest business
in the city died this morning after tort ill.,
ness. He was born in 1904
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24
One bismarck silenced.

From the New York Worid.l
The United States Government finds it hard
to checkmate Prince Bismarck, but we have
successfully taken in Bismarck, Oak.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24
Where Executive Ability Failed.

From the indianapolis Journal
An Atchison woman, with a family OF girls.
reared them up with the fixed determination
that not one of them should ever marry Mis-
sourian, Democrat or a man named John,
and the very first one to go married all three.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24

SECRETARY BAYARD's foreign policy
for the past three months has made an
equal display of white feather and white
wash
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24
Better Wait Till They Foot the Bill.

From Texas Siftings.J
Don't let's be in hurry about annexing
Canada. Montreal is going to spend 100000
in barbor improvements, which will save US
that much money if we can only wait.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24

organized on the basis of two quarter kegs
of beer to every bar of secular music played.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24

AS was noted the other day, there is ten
dency observable in the latest fashions, and those
promised for the spring, in ladies' bonnets and
hats to become lower. How universal is the
hope among men that the lofty theater hat,
which has made countless thousands mourn,
will never arise again! HEPBURN JOHNS
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24

IwoULD not be surprised if the atom of con-
yersation reported aboveeontains some expla-
nation of the mysterious failure of SO many
invitations to make a safe passage of the
mails.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24

"WHY did you give your husband that letter
to mail, he'll be sure to forget it?' said nice
old lady to her daughter yesterday.
That's why gave it to him. 1t is an invita-
tion to that dreadful Mrs Blank. I've got to
send her an invitation for my reception, but I
don't want her to come"
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-29

A horse and buggy from Sniders livery
barn was being driven rapidly up Third
avenue at II o'clock Saturday night con>
tanning relatives of Mrs. L. d. DImick,
when it struck an obstacle in the way of
unprotected planks near Seventeenth
street and the buggy was overturned and
the horse freed himself and ran to the
barn. No serious damage was done. al
though great carelessness was shown In
leaving the boards in the street without
Signal light or other means of warning.
Mrs. Joseph Huntoon, of Moline. ex-
pired suddenly at the residence of Mrs.
Hasbrook, 24O5 Seventh avenue, Saturday
evening while on call. DR.. Cowden
was called. but death, the result of heart
disease. had ensued before he reached
her. Mrs. Huntoon was born in New
Ipswich, N. II Oct. IS, 1922, and her
maiden name was Sylvia Tenney She
was married Oct. II, 1889, and came to
this county with her husband in 1871.
She was the mother of three sons and
three daughters, five of whom are living:
Edgar N, Joseph G., George H, Mary
L. and Fannie A. The funeral occurred
in Moline at o'clock yesterday after
noon.
One of the laws that went into effect
July l. makes il the duty of the board of
| education in every city, and the board OF
| school directors in every school district,
| to appoint one or more truant officers,
whose duty it shall be, TO carefully in
9uire concerning all supposed violations
of the compulsory education" act and &c
enter complaint against all persons who
shall appear guilty of such violations. II
shall also be the duty of these truant Of
| ficers TO arrest children between the ages
of seven and seventeen who habituallN
haunt public places and have no Lawful
| occupation. and also truant children who
absent themselves from school without
leave. These trusnt officers are to b.
paid by the board of education or direc
tors appointing them out of the distribu
table school fund.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-29
ARRESTED FOR ARSON.
Louis ETH Charged With Firing
Schneider's Grocery store sunday
MOrntnO

Schneider's Grocery store Sunday
Morning.
Lawrence Eihl, Jr., young man
twenty-five years of age. who has been
in the employ of Conrad Schneider, the
grocer, at the corner of Third avenue and
Twentieth street, was arrested at the
home of his father. 220S Fifth avenue
yesterday morning. on the charge of in
cendiarism, and locked up until this af-
ternoon for preliminary examination.
The complaining witness is Mrs.
Weihlund, a widow whose cottage is
situated Immediately in the rear of Mr..
Schneider's store, aud who claims that
about daylight yesterday morning she
observed Eihl enter the yard. walk into a
little shed back of Schneider's store. re-
main there few minutes and then
came out and walked away hurriedly.
Soon after she observed flames in the
she'd and at once aroused Mr..
John Albrecht and other neighbors, and
they subdued the f1ames.' though an
alarm was given which brought out the
Rescues as well as the Gables, the latter
| indulging in it's first run with its rig and
| making excellent time, Eihl coming cow
on the cart as member of the company
1t was apparent that fire had been
kindled among some cases of glassware
packed with straw, and it is a wonder
| that the entire stock was not consumed
Eihl, upon being arrested, protested his
innocence, and to an ARGUS reporter, who
visited him at the Jail this morning, insist
ed that he was not guilty, asserting tina,
he had been laying off few days with s
sick father and had sat up Saturday nigh
and was in his own yard when the fir,
bells rang and hurried to the Gable hos,
house to turn out with the company.
Mr. Schneider was seen this morning
and said he could not understand VIII
Eihl should do such a trick, if he did Dc
1t. That he had let him off few day
because of his fathers illness; had had NJ
trouble with him and expected him bacl
to work that morning.
The preliminary hearing is in progress
this afternoon. 1t is rumored that Eth
had Il grudge against some one else in tn
same block, and that it grows out of
love affair. and that it was at them b
aimed and not his employer and that thi
will be developed in evidence.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-29
Harvest Excavations

August 6 and 90, and September 10 and
"a, and October 8. the c., r. l. & P.
railroad will run harvest excursions to
Kansas. Nebraska. Missouri, Arkansas
Indian Territory, Texas, New Mexico,
Arizona, Wyoming, Utah. Idaho, Iowa,
Minnesota, Dakota, Montana and Colo.
RADIO. Tickets will be sold on dates
mentioned above and will be good fol-
thirty days from date of sale, and they
will be good for stop over either going Oh
returning at any point west of the Mis-.
souri, river at any point beyond St. Paul,
and in case of tickets to points on lows
Falls division of the B., G. r. & N. rail
way or Pacific division of the M. g. st
L. railway, stop over will be allowed al
any point beyond the Mississippi river.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-29

first class 50 acre farm, with good improve
ments, in Bowling township, cheap.
A No. ] one hundred and sixty acre farm, with
frst-class improvements, cheap.
A nice bluff property, large grounds. shade
trees. fruits. eJc. cheap.
Two three the bluff, fine land for
building gardening.
FOnr and oue-half acres of land on the bluff
nicely located for lots.
Some OF the best lots in Dodge's addition
easy terms.
A good lot on the bluff in Rodman's sub diyis
ion. cheap.
siol viii buy a fine n acre lot just outside city
lin te. on bluff.
1850 VIII buy over acres with house, barn,
etc. on bluff.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-29
AN AWFUL AFFAIR.
Mrs. Lutte ID. Dimick's Desperate
Deed.
she Pursues Her Husband TO a Dis
reputable House. and He Is Shet ana
Probably m ortalIy WOunded---The
Affair and W hat Led to It,

Lutte D. Dimick was shot through the
body by pistol in the hands of his wife
In the disreputable den known as "the
toboggan," on he east side of Nineteenth
street just below Second avenue shortly
after 10 O'Clock Saturday night. He was
then put into his buggy. which he had
left at the door. and driven to his rooms
over Dimick's carriage repository building
on Third avenue opposite Union square.
where Drs. Trlesdale and Cowden were
summoned to attend him. They found
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-29
FIVE Harvest Excursions.

The Burlington Route. c., B. Il Q
r. r, will sell from principal station,
on its line, on Tuesdays. August 9th snC
Goth. September 10Th and oath, and Oc
tober Sth, harvest excursion tickets a
half rates to points in the farming re
gions of the west, southwest and north
welt. For tickets and further informa
ton concerning these excursions call OIL
your nearest c., B. & Q. ticket agent. o.
address p. S. Eustis, Gen'l Pass. anC
Ticket Agent, Chicago, Ill.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-29
BURLINGTON ROUTE.
&. A. X. Excursion One Fare for tho
Round Trip.

From August 21st to 2sth, 1889, in.
elusive. the c. B. & Q r. r. will sell a
half rates, or one fare for the round trip
tickets to Milwaukee and return from al
points on its lines on account of the Ma
tional G. A. r. encampment at Mil
waukee. These C.. b. & Q. excursion
tickets will be good to return August
9th to September 5th, inclusive; but by
special arrangement, an extension tC
September Both may be obtained by APP
plying prior TO September 81, to the
agent at Milwaukee having the matter in
charge. Between Chicago and Milwau-
| kee the tickets will be good for passage
| in either direction via the Goodrich line
of steamers, the c., NJ, & st. p. Ry., OF
the C. &. W. Ry. Tickets and further
| information can be obtained of c., B. &
Q ticket agents. or by addressing P. S
Eustis, Genl Pass and Ticket Agent
| Chicsgo.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-29
ALASKA
REFRIGERATORS|
ANOTHER CASE LAWNS,
AZ ner ward. 10 wards for Is cents.

In competition with the Leading Refrigerators of the
United States received the highest award for economy
of ice using ONLY 1217 as much ice as its best compel
itor and II much of its would be competitors
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-29

The liver and kidneys must be kept in
good condition. Hoods Sarsaparilla is
great remedy for regulating these organs
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-29
Weather Forecast.

L. s. SIGNAL OFFICE !
Washington. d. c.. July2S (
For the next "a hours for Illlnoi;
fair and cooler.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-29

Kansas raised last year one-fifth of the
silk cocoons produced in the United
States.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-10-18
Isle he could not hear the loudest note. He

music he could not hear the loudest note. He
wrote of it:
IF had not somewhere read that man
must not Of his own free will depart this life
should long ere this have been no more, and
that through my own act"
He had recovered a measure Of cheerful
ness when his brothers came to trouble him,
and soon succeeded in alternating his friends.
He fell in love, and became excessively anx-
ious to have his hearing restored that he
might marry, SO the physicians tortured him
terribly with blisters and other applications.
His health again broke down and he onged
for death. He loved a lady of rank far above
his own, and was consequently cruelty disap-
pointed All this time Germany was con-
stantly in agitation, often in the turmoil of
war and painfully Inundated till Bonaparte
was overthrown, and then the great musician
had a year or two of peace Then the widow
of his brother caused him to be involved in a
tedious lawsuit, and her licentious conduct
sunk him to the very depth of abasement.
Yet during these stormy years his great SYM
phones and other immortal works were COM
posed. His final sickness was long and his
sufferings terrible, and there is only too much
reason to believe that he was sadly neglected.
He died March 26, 1927, and it remained for
an American, Alexander w. Thayer, to col
lect all the facts and write the first complete
life of the great Beethoven.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-10-18
VIEW OF THE ISLAND.

many exiles from Port au Prince, transients
and malcontents generally. The basis prin-
ciple of Hayti law is that "a white man has
no rights that a Haytian is bound to respect"
and as the agents of the company differed
from the employees in color, language and re-
ligion it is easy to see how, when dispute
rose about work hours and wages, it soon ran
into race fight"
The underlying trouble is admirably set
forth by Froude in his late account of his
travels there thus: 1.-The Americans have no
particular right in Hayti, and are as little
liked as we English) are, but they are feared,
and they do not allow any business Of a seri-
GUS kind to go on in these waters without
knowing what it is about. Hayti is the most
ridiculous caricature Of civilization in the
whole world. Doubtless the whites are not
dsinterested witnesses, for they are treated
as they once treated the blacks. They can
own no freehold property, and exist only on
tolerance. They are called white trash.
Black dukes and marquises drive over them
on the street and swear at them, and they
consider it an invasion OF the natural order
of things. No one can tell the future fate OF
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-10-18

lived till his noted grandson was old enough
to remember him, and was always regarded
by the latter as the founder of the family.
His son Johann made failure early in life
and became a drunkard; his wife was lady
of high character and long kept the family
in sort of respectable condition. Their son,
Ludwig Won Beethoven, was born in the old
house in the Bonnestrasse, Dec. II, ITO. AS
long as the good old grandfather lived the
family did not want and the boys musical
ability was allowed to develop in natural
and boyish way. But when the older Bee
thoven died, Johann became possessed with
the idea that his son was to be musical
prodigy"-the young Mozarts had lately as
tonished the world-and at the age of five
Ludwig was driven by threats and punish
ment to cruel tasks. 1t is reported that when
the father came home at midnight from his
place in the theatrical orchestra he some
times took the little fellow from his bed and
made him toll over the piano TIL daylight.
In short he had apparently destroyed the
child's spontaneous love of music when wiser
persons got control and after a rest Ludwig
talent revived.
At the age of Is he published three sonatas,
and soon after obtained place in the cleo
tors choir; then the elector died, the choir
was dissolved, ana LuuWlS nau 10 tOll Tor
years as a teacher to help his mother support
the family and earn enough to finish his edu-
cation. In 1857 he reached Vienna and
played before Mozart, who was much pleased
and said to the bystanders: Pay heed to
this youth-much will one day be said about
him in the world" He had but just started
in his new career when the fatal illness of his
mother called him home, and he was again
compelled to a long service at teaching and
other work which he disliked. He won, how
ever, some fame and means at Bonn, and in
1892 left it never to return Thenceforward
Vienna was his home.
He was destined to many more troubles.
He refused to accept the prevailing canons of
music and insisted ON developing methods of
his own. In consequence he won his way
only by most intense labor and native genius,
and in 1913 produced the first of his noted
works-the ''Trios for Piano, Violin and
Cello" Haydn was present at the first per-
Torrance and condemned the Trio in c.
minor. Beethoven emphatically insisted that
! it was the best of all, and it is now so regard
/ ed Haydn objected to its publ cation, de
claring that the public would not understand
it; Beethoven vehemently declared that if it
was not published the others should not be,
30 they remained unpublished for years
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-10-18
ALL ABOUT NAvASSA.
The Island In the Sea Which Was Lately
the Scene of Race Riots.

The Island I'm the Sea Which Was Lately
the Scene of Race Riots.
When the intelligence was flashed over the
continent late in September that the blacks
of Navassa had risen in instruction and
murdered four Americans, there was a gen
eral inquiry as to the place, and many
learned with surprise that there are still some
islands in the West Indies not ruled by any
one in particular. Indeed, there are few
rocky points over which no nation has ever
formally assumed jurisdiction. Navassa
nominaly belongs o Hayti, but the Haytian
government long since abandoned all pre-
tense of government there, having conceded
all property rights in the island to the Ma
vassa Phosphate company, of 90 South
street, Baltimore, and 10 Cliff street, New
York.
The island lies just off the extreme west
ward point of Hayti and has no value what
ever, except for guano deposit about mile
square. The workers in this deposit, few
fishermen, the clerks and agents of the COM
pany and those who minister in various ways
to the spiritual or bodily needs of the others,
form population Of about 500, their support
depending entirely on the works of the fer.
tilizer company. The workers are Haytian
negroes, and they have lately been joined by
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-10-18

design which secured the frs, nrize. and the
divisions will he as follows: The vault, oe
mausoieum, will be below ground; above this
the central hall. then the sarcopharus, and
the memorial hnn Above ~
The committee also ann ,uice that they ex-
pect to have all things ready for laying the
corner stone during the Worlds fair In 1892
They certainly do not intend TO be hurried, or
to give out their plans any faster than is nee
essary. Meanwhile the public impatier-c tc5
found vent in suggestions for giving the re-
mains of the great commander fna! resting
place at Washington or West Point, and a
movement has been inaugurated looking to
the action by the Grand Army Of the EepuD-
lie, as an organization, towards erecting the
monument. Now that active progress is re-
ported, and date set, it is probable public
Impotence will subside
As might have been expected, the report Of
the committee at once renewed the old dis
cussion as to the proper burial place of Gen.
Grant. There seemed to be special reasons
why West Point or Washington city should
be chosen. Galena as his last residence be-
fore he became president had some claims,
and st. Louis as his residence early in
his military career asserted her rights.
Chicago also claimed right to sue
coed to the claims of Galena if the
latter should be thought too small a
place. All these pleas were set aside on one
ground-that it was probably the desire Of
Gen. Grant, and certainly that of his family,
that his remains should lie in New York, and
that the great city should lead in erecting
his monument
Nevertheless, many other places have hast
ened to honor his memory in marble, and as
they have one by one done so the criticism of
New York's ''unaccountabe slownessn has
increased On the l4th of last month, at
Leavenworth, Kan, a noble statue of the
great leader was unveiled under the direc-
ton of Gen. Wesley Merritt, and in the pres
ence of many thousand people, representing
all sections of the country. The statue is of
bronze, nine feet in height, and standing on
a granite block five feet square, which in
turn rests upon base seven feet square.
In the north and south sides of the pedestal
beautiful bas reliefs are inserted. One pre-
sents the general on horseback at the battle
of the Wilderness, overlooking the scene Of
carnage. The statue represents him as he
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-10-18

"mausoleum" or massive tomb-using those
words in the popular and not the artistic
sense. The committee awarded the prize for
the general beauty of the design, but declared
against the extended facade, retaining only
the central monument, as the whole bore
rather close resemblance to the tomb of Vic
tor Emmanuel in Milan.
The design which received the fifth prize is
more like what people generally understand
by monument, its height and extreme sim
plicity making it very imposing. Itprovides
for monument 100 feet square at the base,
and above that a perfectly plain. quadrangle
lar shaft rising to height Of 2S5 feet and
surmounted by the Goddess of Liberty and
attendant figures. 1t is probable, however,
that the monument will follow generally the