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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-10-15
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON
COUNTY.
HAPPY HOME ALLIANCE, No. 6l3,
CT on 700

HAPPY HOME ALLIANCE, No. 6l3,
Sept. 80, '89.
Mr.. ED1ToR:-As [ heard a brother
remark, the other day, in an Alliance
lecture, that he could vouch for the
counties of BERTHE and Tyrrell, but he
could not speak for Washington's
standing, having seen no reports from
her Alliances, l will write you a short
letter to let the brethren know we are
in the land of the living.
Now, brethren, don't think because
we are not making a great fuss, ano
publishing our resolutions, that We
are careless and unconcerned for l say
no. We are as stiff as steel agalnS'
the iute trust and every trust or com
bination, and you may book tu !"
statement. We are going 10
nothing but cotton bagging IN Will
to wrap our cotton, unless II % VL ~
here and there who are weak L
faith and cannot see a tar Oh;
didn't intend to write for the wnolg
county when l commenced anu ~
will confne what l have TO say -
own Alliance. We organized
February with eleven members,
have had to get clear OF some OF 1nJ
and stand to-day with a memoeLsnnP
of seventeen and four appllcat!O
We are going to have a big picnic VI
the Dad dav of October, and we Wan'
some of our lecturing brethren "
come around and give US some goOa
soeeches and enjoy with US a good
Dinner, Now Who will Gomez Let
him who will come write a postal
card to ". G. Weed, our Secretary
as early as possible.
Yours f~raternally,
JAMES A. SPRUILL, Presioen"
Visit our headquarters at the Sta'S
Foir
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-10-15
THE TYPE OF THE SYSTEM.

To make application of this seem
ing depression from my subject | will
conclude this paper by saying that /
have already spoken of the railroad
pool as suggesting the pool in other
branches OF industry, and of the lat.
ter pools al foreshadowings or less
perfect developments of the trusts.
The committee of the New York
Senate IN its report above alluded to
says of the Standard Oil trust: "This
is the original trust. Its success has
been the incentive to the formation of
all other trusts and combinations. 1t
is the type of a system which spread
like a disease through the commercial
system of the country" Now the
Standard Oil trust is the child of
railroad determinations. By railroad
determinations in it's favor it waxed
so great as not only to crush out al
most all effective competition in its
own business, but in turn to dictate
terms to the railroads themselves.
My next paper will relate to the
STANDARD Oil trust" and while it will
not necessarily call for any detailed
recital of it's history, I have deemed
it necessary to lay the foundation for
it by recalling these general facts in
the story of American railroad devel.
opment. WIN. L. WILSON.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-10-15
TRUSTS AND MoNePoLIes.
Their Methods and Mysteries.

Hon. Vim. L. Wilson on the Standard
OIL Trust, the Whtskey IT"'t. the
Sugar Trust Gnd the Cotton Bag
ging 1Tmst-Rails0Gy Manage
ment and PooHs-Prettm-
mary Discussion.
TFron the Baltimore SUM-
We present below the first of =
series of papers on TRUSTS and
Monopolies, especially prepared for
The Sun by Hon. VIM. l.. Wilson, OF
West Virginia. The opening paper
is preliminary in its character, and
deals especially with the railroad
practices out of which grew the first
great "trust." This combination
the Standard Oil Trust-was so clear
" born Of railroad determinations
that it could not be properly treated
without q summary statement OF the
railway practices out of which it was
evolved. The paper is as follows:
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-10-15

aged their road in the interest of its
stockholders, although they laid the
heavy hand Of discrimination on the
local shipper and too often measured
the charges not by the rule of equity
or eqality, but by what the traffic
could bear"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-10-15

Visit our headquarters at the Sta'S
Fair.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-05
MrGuirs - Claiming.

The democrats Of the state are just
waking up to the possibilities Of Their
state ticket. and the likelihood that the
ticket nominated at the coming conven
ton at Sioux City will be elected. The
republicans have been playing both sides
on the railroad question to such an ex-
tent that the people are not satisfied what
position the party of great moral ideas
really intends to assume With good
ticket democrats have more than half a
chance of success. We hear the name of
Hon A. 7. McGuirk, OF Davenport, men,
toned for the office of lieutenant COVER
nor. Mr.. Nee. is representative of
the young democracy. is an attorney OF
talent, and has always been recognized as
one Of its strongest and best workers.
The name Of McGuirk would prove a
drawing card in the eastern part OF Iowa.
Clinton Herald
The ARGUS has before spoken OF Mr.
McGuirk's candidacy for this important
post of honor. and IL is pleasure to his
friends to know that his ability and in
tegrity as we'll as his political services are
likely to be thus fittinglY compensated in
Iowa. II il were in Illinois there would
be no question as to his nomination and
election.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-05
Death nj Port RYron.

Monday evening at Port Byron oc-
CURED the death of Mr.. John Zeigler
aged forty-seven years. four months and
twenty-five days. He leaves a wife and
daughter. His death was caused by
paralysis Of the spinal column. with
which he had suffered from two strokes
previous TO the fatal one. He suffered
in tense agony for number of DAYS be-
fore deaths release. The physician ad-
ministeIed opiates to him. but it did not
have the effect to nllay the pain. Mr..
Zeigler was born in Wurtemburg, Ger
many, April s. 1912, and came to Amer
lea in 1870. landing in Port Byron In
1871, where he had lived ever since, and
where he had conducted shoemaker
shop. His life was insured for $1,000.
which, with few thousand in the bank.
aud comfortable home. the family are
left In comfortable circumstances. The
funeral occurred from his late residence
In Port Byron at 2 p. IN. yesterday. Rev.
Odds officiating. Joha Schafer, county
treasurer. was near relative of the de-
ceased.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-05
Bmprov, ment- In Pnss.nger,ars

The Wagner Palace Ger company is
notwithstanding the equipment of its cars
and making them superior To anything of
the End in the world. One of the great.
est improvements is the lighting of the
cars with gas The New York Central
& Hudson liver Railroad company is
also equipping it's passenger coaches with
gas. About one hundred Of them rum
ming out of New York City have been
so equipped. The gas is compressed in
cylinder under each car. and one filing
OF the cylinder will last the round trip be.
tween New York and Chicago. The gas
Is made from petroleum. and furnishes a
6O~candle power light as against 16-
candle power light under the old method.
Coaches lighted with gas are as light as n
parlor, and passengers can read as well in
the night az in the daytime From the
Rome. N. Y, Sentinel.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-05
The Grand Prerequisite of vigor.

The dual operation of digestion and as
similation is the grand prerequisite o
vigor. To insure the conversion Of fOoC
into rich nutritious blood. il Is only nee
essary TO use with persistence and sys,
tematically Hostetter's Stomach Bittcrs
The fountain head of supply In the ami
nal economy Is the stomach. To regu.
late, to invigorate that organ. and thus
facilitate Its digestive and assimilative
processes, should be the chief aim OF
those troubled with deficit of stamina
Nervousness, inscmania, feeble appetite
these are usually traceable to impaired
digestion. Overcome this and you OF
necessity dismiss its multifarious, per-
picking and harrasslng symptoms The
emaciated can never hope to gain flesh sc
long as assimilation is imperfect. The
Bitters surmounts the only obstacle to an
increase not only of vigor, but of bodily
substance. Conquer also with the Bit
tiers malaria, kidney and liver complaint
| constipation and rheumatic trouble
Thoroughness characterizes it's effects.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-05
Kiner'- EMANCIPATION.

Kiner, OF the Geneseo Ne,os, il Z
sprightly writer hut he will exsggerate
not to say fabricate. Here is how he
speaks Of the serious illness of the two
Milan young men. Brown and Bastlan.
during the Tindal's grove camp meeting
Two young boys at the Milan camp
meeting wandered INTO the woods and ate
plums till thsy could hold no more.
After they got back to camp they were
seized with strange spells, similar to hy-
drophobia. They barked. snapped their
teeth and frothed at the mouth. They
were evidently plum crazy. They SUBJ
sequently recovered.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-05
WORDS OF GRATITUDE.

The Destitute Miners Express Their
Thanks for Rock Islands Relief
Measures.
Last nights ARGUS contained letter
from Secretary Seattle. OF the National
Miners association. to Mayor McCon>
ochie. expressing grateful acknowledge
ment OF the relief sent by Rock Island to
the destitute people in the mining re-
gions Of northern Illinois. This morn
ing the following communication OF the
same nature was received at the Argos
office
Editor ARGUS;
Coal CRY. Grundy County, Ills.
Sept. 8, 1851 write this in behalf OF
the starving miners of this place. to
thank you and your many readers for the
way in which they responded TO the call
from the Hon. Frank Lawler and VIM.
Seattle in our behalf; and TO the commits
tee that worked so hard in collecting the
provisions for us. You cannot tell the
JOY that 1t brought into the hearts OF us
poor miners when we heard that your
gift was at Coal CITY, and II was not
long before we had IL IN our relief store
and we hope that you will allow us to
thank your honorable mayor for helping
us so much. and especially those that
gave us food to eat. We are in bad
condition here yet, for should we start to
work tomorrow. is will be about seven
weeks before we can receive any pay.
and what will we he like 10y that timer
After being idle four months, and
Spring Valley and LaSalle are not going
to work yet. and we hope that the peo-
pie will not sse them starve until we can
help them, and may God bless them all
for their noble work in aiding us at this
time. remain, Yours truly.
ALFRED BROAD,
Treas of Central Relief Com
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-05
The Time to Dodge Old Bins.

He had been standing in front of house
on Second avenue and gazing at the front
windows for long ten minutes, when pedes-
trian halted to inquire:
Anything the matter with that housed"
mo, guess not"
''But you were looking at iti"
''Ycs; it is shut up"
Cant u house be shut upf'
Certainly, but in this case it was very
sudden. am n collector. was up here last
evening to collect an old bill, and the debtor
gave mo glass Of wine and asked me as a
great favor TO call at s o'clock this morning.
was here a quarter of an hour ahead Of
time
What does that sign on the door readT p
"'Gone to the seashore for two months.
That's the fourth one I've lost Just this way
in the last week, and tomorrow | will take
my station at the depot and try and head the
rest oil. Detroit Free Press.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-05
The Ninth Reuniou

The reunion of the Ninth Illinois
cavalry Is now in progress in Geneseo.
or course meeting Of this kind can
hardly be written up till 1t is accom-
plished. Col. Burgh of Rock Island. who
commanded the regiment. informs us that
he was disappointed at the attendance
yesterday; but that he expects more to
day. Tue town is gay with the national
colors. The crowd is net great Some
advertising would have brought out a
good representation of the yeomanry
There was banquet at Capt. Harring-
tons on Tuesday evening, and ball at
Freeman's hall on Wednesday evening.
L. A. Davenport Of Chicago, has com
piled history OF the regiment. Il is a
book OF between four and five hundred
pages .-Gcneseo Netos.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-05
LOCAL NOTICES.

Buy your scoool books and supplies at
Birkenfield's.
Cook wanted-Mrs. Phil Mitchell, ia
Twentieth street.
School books and school supplies at
Birkenfield's.
For sale-A good family horse, gentle
and suitable for surrey or phaeton. II.
]. Lowrey.
A. d. Huesing. real estate and insur-
ance agent. Office No. 1903 Second ave.
nue., Rock Island.
The Crown dining hall, No. 170S Sec
ond avenue, is now ready 10 furnish you
the best meal in the city for 25 cents.
Buy Mercer county coal of E. B. Nc
Kown at his new coal yard corner OF
Fifteenth street and First avenue.
Money to loan at low rates by the Rock
Island Building Association. Tuesday
evening. Sept. 8. 1889. Premium from
Is to 90 per cent. E. III. GUYER, Secy
The Royal Insurance com osny. of Eng.
land, has the largest surplus of any fire
insurance company in the world. A. d.
Huesing. agent. Office No. 1908 Second
avenue, Rock Island.
Modern Houses For Sale
On monthly installments by Guyer &
Sweeney.
Barth Bsbcock, Den fists.
No, 1874 Second avenue. Special atten
ton paid to saving the natural teeth and
inserting teeth without plates.
| For Sale.
Fourteen dry lots on four years time
with six per cent per annum, to any one
wishing to build this summer.
B. DAVENPORT
To the Watch Tower.
Cars run to Black Hawks Watct
Tower every thirty minutes on Sunday
afternoons and holidays, and spcia
trains to accommodate picnic parties
Telephone to the street car barn to com.
plete arrangements for spec al trains.
Surety on Bonds
| Those who are required to give bonds
in positions of trust, and who desire tC
avoid asking friends TO become theil
sureties, or who may wish to reliev,
friends from further obligations as bonds
man, should apply to the agent of thu
American Surety Co.. of New York.
ED. LIEBERKN sCHT,
| General Insurance Agent.
Rock Island, III.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-05
HILLsDALE.
HnLsDALE. Sept. A.

nfbLSDALhs Ocpt. =.
The rain OF Sunday will be boon to
fair going people.
Mrs. Jno. Feaster, of Nebraska, was
visiting here last week.
The Misses Lizzie Bell and Jennie Hill
lis, of Mercer county, were visiting at
Mr.. 8. w. Woodburn's last week.
VIM. Mill, r. Hill, j. F. Mill. Mrs.
Jno. Cain and Hiram Cain all went down
to Rock Island the first of the week.
Henry Quick. an old and experienced
teacher. has been engaged to teach the fall
term of school at Enterprise. School be-
gan last Monday.
The Hillsdale and Plat ball clubs had
game at Starvation last Saturday, To
sulting in victory for Hillsdale with q
score of IL to 8.
At the festival at Bathesdsy last
Thursday night the net receipts were $23.
The festival is reported to have been a
success financially.
B. box cart. You got it a little too late
Jim. That new top buggy took the plum
from you unawares.
Mr.. G. G. Smith. OF Erie, has received
the contract to rebuild Jno. Schall's
barn; Halter Steel Is at present engaged
in repairing and rebuilding the founda.
tons.
The Rev. McCord OF Moline delivered
powerful and impressive sermon at the
U. b. church last Sunday morning. II
was his last sermon on this circuit before
conference. Geo. Wilfong breaches next
Sunday at IL a. m.
w. ID. Camp who seems TO be an un
fortunate piece of creation, had another
accident with his horse and road car,
last Thursday night while at the festival
The horse being tied to barbed wire
fence reared up and fell on the fence in
such manner that she could not get up
until the fence was kicked down. There
was no more serious injuries than few
scratches and broken fill to the cart
II few thousand dollars of the re
publican corruption fund, which was moi
spent last fall arguing TO the laborers
that they would receive 80 day and
roast beef in case of Harrisons election
were sent 10 the starving miners at Braid>
wood and vicinity as redemption fund
IL would alleviate great deal of suffer
ing in the homes of those destitute min
ers who were bssely deceived through
idle and false campaign pledges.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-05
A Great Surprise

Is in store for all who use Kemp's
Balsam for the Throat and Lungs, the
great guaranteed remedy. Would you
believe that it is sold on its
merits. and that any druggist is
authorized by the proprietor of this
wonderful remedy to give you a
sample bottle free? 1t never fails to
cure acute or chronic coughs. All
druggists sell Kemp's Balsam. Large
bottle so cents and 81.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-05
A TTACHMENT NOTICE.

STATE OF ILLINOIS,
In the Circuit Court of Rock Island county, Sep
TENDER Term. A. D., 1883
William Deering & Co vs.. Thomas NJ Crosthwait
and Willlnm II Crosthwait-In All achment
- fupho nouce u hereby given 10 the raid Thomas
Nj. Crosthwait and William F. Crosthwait that !
writ OF attachment, issued out OF the office of the
clerk OF the Circuit court OF said county, dated
the I'D day OF August. A ID. 1889, at the suit OF
the said William Deering & Co., for the sum OF
Fifteen Hundred and Sixty -nine and 6s 100 g ,
500 6S) dollars, and against the estate of the said
Thomas Nj. Crosthw ait and William +. Crosth
wait, directed to the sheriff of said Rock Island
county, which said writ has been returned ex
ecuted-
Now, therefore, unless you. the said Thomas NJ
Crosthwait and William F Crosthwait, shall per
sonaly be and appear before the said Circuit cour
OF said county on or before September 18th, 1899
CT the next September term thereof, to he hold OF
at the Court house in the city of Rock Island, in
said county, on the first Monday of September,
A. ID. 1889 give special bail and plead to the said
plaintiffs action, judgment Will he entered against
you, and in favor OF the said william Deering &
Co., and so much OF the property attached as may
be sufficient to satisfy the said judgment and costs
will be sold to satisfy the same
Rock Island, ILL.,, August %, 1889.
GEO. W. GAMBLE, Clerk
.ADAIR PLEAsANTs, Plaintiffs Attorney.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-05
HAY Fever.

have been an annual sufferer from
hay fever for forty years. 1t recurring
about August 20 each year. For sew.
eral summers have used Ely's Cream
Balm with excellent results. / am free
from any asthmatic symptoms. / hope
many sufferers will be induced to try the
remedy. George carp, Baltimore, Md.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-05
Bright teet

Bright teeth, and lips that glow the while
Give light and color to a smile;
And, infinitely more than this,
Give light and color to kiss.
But both must suffer from the want
or the lifesgiviDg SOZODONT.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-05

Auction sale, Saturday Sept. z at 10
a. m, car load of horses weighing from
nine hundred to eleven hundred
pounds, from three to five years old.
Auctioneer N. Van Tuyl. These horses
will be sold without any by bidding.
LoRToN Bros.
Horse Exchange, Davenport
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-05
County Buildings.

4-Mary E Spencer to Susan Cook, loi
3. J W Spencer's sub div. odt lot 2. John
w Spencer's Sd add. X /, S780.
Susan X. Cook to John w Cook, lot 3.
J W Spencer's sub div out lot q. John w
Spencer Sd add, X /, $500.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-05

A writer in BIackpoods Magazine fig
ures that ancient Rome had probably 4,
900 900 inhabitants.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-05

An Akron plumber found sixteen
dead rats in house which, the owner
said, "smelt Of sewer gas"
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-05

Snowstorms and icy rains prevail
throughout Switzerland, and the noun,
tain passes are partly blocked.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-05

SJo.sl2 "
Making total aggregate snm TO he levied, as
sessed and collected OF Fifty-eisht Thousand
Seven Hundred and Twelve t58, 712) dollars.
SEC. The city clerk shall file "A certified copy
OF this ordinance with the county clerk OF the
county Of Rock Island and state of Illinois on OF
before the 18th day OF September, A d. 1889, 70
that the tax may by him be extendel on the col
lector's books for said year, agreeable to statute
In such cases IN ade and provided.
Passed September 2. 1889.
Approved
WILLIAM McCOyoCHIE,
Attest; Mayor.
ROBERT KOEHIER CITY Clerk
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-05

A Boston company is trying to intro
duce wicker-work collins. They claim,
from sanitary point of view. nothing
can equal them.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-05

James funny, of Boston. IS one hum
dred and two years old and in the full
possession of all his faculties. He wa:
born in Ireland
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-05

A Young barber at Newburg, N. Y,
has been notified by the German consul
that he has fallen heir to $500, 900.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-05

A colored man at Albany, Ga, has
served no less than twenty,one terms in
Jail for fighting.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-05

Near Hogan, Montana, is a large de-
post of petrified clans. There are also
other beds in that section of the territory.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-05

What is more attractive than pretty
face with a fresh, bright complexion
For Ii use Pozzoni's Powder.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-05

Miss Retrousse Saucilyl-When you are
old, Clara, your nose will meet your chin.
Miss Aquiline tcalmlyl-Well, dear, that's
more than yours will ever do unless it goes
around the other way-Scribner's Magazine
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-05
Intelligence Column.

| EoR RENT-ROOMS SUITABLE FOR Of
= hces or dwelling. ]. ID. Taylor Ninth avenue
| Nineteenth street.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-05

EoR RENT-A COTTAGE HOUSE NEAR
l. the residence Of q. Moore, at Sylvan view
enquire of the undersigned g. MOORE
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-05

ROBERT KoEHLER, City Clerk.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-05

LH0R SALE-A good work team, wagon and har-
Z ness. cheap. Enquire OF Theo. Free corner
Twelfth street and Seventh avenue