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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-10-30
E.xEcUToR's NOTICE.

Estate of Peter Hay, Deceased.
The undersigned, having been appointed Ex.
ecutor Of the Last will and testament of Peter
Hay. late Of the county Of Rock Island, state of
Illinois, deceased, hereby gives notice that be
will appear before the county court ofRock Isl
and county, at the office Of the clerk Of said
court, in the city of Rock Island, at the De-
cember term, on the First Monday in December
next, at which time all persons having claims
against said estate notified and requested to at
tend for the purpose Of having the same adj ust-
ed. All persons indebted to said estate are re.
queeted to make immediate payment 70 the un.
dersigned.
Dated this 18th day Of October. A. D., 1889.
18th d4w WILLIAM HAY, Executor.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-10-30

Ponds Extract, for neuralgia, rheuma-
tism, burns and all inflammation. Its
wonderful curative influence is long main,
tanned. Genuine only in bottles with
buff wrappers.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-10-30

Self made: Briggs-"It is matter of
considerable pride to me that am wholly
self made man. Brsggs-"And TAX
ing the material into consideration, you
have done pretty fair job"
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-10-30
Intelligence Column.

o1E TO sa5O A MONTH CAN BE MADE
- - working for us; agents preferred who
can furnish horse and give their whole time 10
the business; spare moments may be probably
employed ALEC; 8 few vacancies in towns and
cities. b. F. JOHNSON 4 CO, 1909 Main ST.,
Richmond, Va.
n. B. Please state age and business expe-
rience Never mind about sending stamp for re
ply. b. r. J. Co. apl 4-6m
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-10-30

I-2 Gal. Crystal Water Pitchers, 46c
inch COMFORT, 1Oc
inch Bowls with Cover, 3Oc
" 3JC
I-2 Pint Heavy Tumblers. &c
inch Cake SalVers. 23c
Engraved Table Sets. SOC
10 inch Plain Cake Salvers DOC
Sauce Dishes, per dozen. lSc
sun Hinge Lamp Chimneys. No. &c
Engraved - Sc
ParlOr Lamps, fine Decd Shades, complete, SI.46
Electric Lamps, the finest made, complete, 1.65
Other Dealers ask S2.5o.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-10-30
DUNRAVEN RANCH
A Story of American Frontier
Life.
By Capt CHARLES KING, U.SA,
Author o "7he coloners Daughter" From
the Ranks" THE DeSerteT," Etc.

Copyrighted 1888 by J. B. Lppincott Company.
Philadelphia, and published by special arrange
ment through the American Press Association
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-10-30

the stolid rank OF bearded faces for the
friends he knew. Officer after officer
he passed in review until he came to
Stryler's troop, posted on the right of
the cavalry, and there, with a neigh of
recos milton, he fearlessly trotted up to
the captains outstretched hand. Another
minute and two men fell out and made a
Temporary gap in the rank; through this
a sergeant file closer extended his white
glove, relieved the captain of his charge
and led the painting steed away.
The men retook their places; the cap
tain gain resumed his position in front
OF the center of his company, dropped
the point of his saber to the ground and
settled back into parade rest" the band
went on laundering down the line,
countermarched and came back to its
post On the right, making the welkin
ring with the triumphant strains of
Nor bern Route" the trumpets pealed
the retreat" the adjutant stalked his
three yards to the front, faced fierceIy
to the left and shouted his resonant or
ders down the line, three hundred mar
tiaI forms sprang to attention, and the
ourniihed arms came to the carry
with simultaneous crash, ranks were
opened with old time precision, the
parads presented" to the colonel with
all due formality, the manual was ex-
ecuted just as punctiliously as though
nothing unusual had happened; first ser
geantH reported, orders were published,
parads formally dismissed; the line of
officers marched solidly to the front,
halted, and made its simultaneous salute
to tho colonel, who slowly raised and
lowered his white gloved hand in recog-
milton and then, and not till then, was
any one allowed to speak of what was
uppernost in every mind-that Sergt.
Gwyn ,e's horse had come in without
him, and that the animals right flank
was st roaming with blood.
Ten minutes later Lieut.. Perry. Ia rid
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pUBLIO NOTICE.

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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-02-14
FoREIoN INTERFERENCE.

BURNAH adyices OF the 5th say that Man
dalay had been visited by two immense
confiagrat'Jus In the first the flames de-
stroyed 632 houses. a bazar and Budd-
hist monastery. and in the second 500
houses were burned.
CHINA dispatches Of the 5th say that the
severity of the winter was increasing the
distress caused by the famine in Shan
Tung and Manchitria. and it was estimated
that $50 90 persons were starving in
Chen kianG
Tue British bark Largo Bay arrived in
London in a sinking condition on the 9th.
She reported that she was in collision with
an unknown four masted steamer of
Beachy Head and that the steamer was
sunk with all on board, nearly one hun.
dred persons
ADvICEs Of the 9Th report serious riots
at Ching Kiang-FOo. The British consul
late and seven houses belonging TO foreign
ers were wrecked by the mob. A British
mau-Of- war was on the way TO the scene.
II Dublin on the eth Thomas Condor,
member of Parliament for East Tipperary,
was sentenced to two months imprisonment
for melting boycotting.
FURTHER advices of the 9Th say that over
eighty lives were lost by the recent sinking
of the British steamer Glencoe OF Beachy
tttdu III Il tNtlisApi " AAtA AAAt
Tho victims were all sailors the steamer
carving no passengers.
4 FAMINE and epidemic OF typhus fever
prevailed ON the 9Th Mt Daboka, in Hun
gary Many persons had died and the dis
ease was spreading.
On the sth the bark Theodore Behrend was
wrecked at Texel, Eng, and ten persons
We're drowned.
At Pembroke. Eng. ferry boat capsized
on the sth. and nine persons were drowned
THE Indian Department Of Canada in its
annual report on the Sth showed the IN
dian population of the Dominion TO DO
124. 90
OTTAWA tOntl advices of the sth were TO
the effect that the annexation question
would before very long be submitted to the
people of Canada.
THROUGHOUT Great Britain, France and
Germany snow-storms prevailed on the 10th,
blockading railways and interrupting tele-
graphic communication.
NEAR Halle, Germany, eight wOrkmen
were killed on the 10th by passing train.
RESOLUTIONS were adopted at an outdoor
meeting held on the 10th at Sheffield, Eng,
at which 3O.n0O workmcn attended con
demning Lord Salisbury's coercion policy in
Ireland.
Is a blizzard ON the 9TH Mrs. McNulty and
Annie McGuire were frozen 10 death near
their home in the vicinity of Ottawa, Ont
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-02-14
WHAT is GOING ON.

FIVE coiored men have been elected TO the
Texas Legislature
New York has school for educating the
horses used in its fire service.
The remains Of the Confederate ram
Merrimac have been sold for old iron
KENTUCKY has a ten-year-old girl named
Mary Semons, who breaches sermons in
churches in a manner that wins her much
appreciation.
1T Is not alone the Irish who are coming
TO this country. During last year 81, 90
Norwegian and Swedish immigrants landed
at Castle Garden.
OR in Western Kansas church people
have poverty sOcials,' at which cheese,
crackers and water, in lieu Of ice-cream,
cake aud coffee are served.
An Indiana court recently decided that
unless woman IS pleased with her photo
graphs she need not pay for them, no mat
ter if a dozen Of her friends declare that
they Z" look just ike her.'
THE winter fate Of the cock robin is
hard one. In his draD coat, crimson vest
and military crest, ne is used IN the South
at this time to ornament piece Of brown
toast and contrast with a lemon.
THE courts OF California have decided
that a Chinamau's cue must not be cut on
wnen ne IS sent to prison; but they are cut
of just the same. No warden will allow that
a heather pig-tal IS more sacred than
American unplaited hair.
THE attendance at the meetings Of secret
societies in ST. Louis IS on the decline, and
K is beliey ID that unless new methods are
adopted they will gradually dyindle away.
a member SAYS: - Moss-gr0wn entertain
ments no longer draw.
OVER one hundred and sixty women
matriculated at a Philadelphia woman 5
medical college last year. They represented
nearly every nation on the earth, some be
ing from China and others from Australia,
while there were two or more from every
State in the Union.
SINCE the United States statute against
Importation Of contract labor has been en-
forced s,gaInst laborcrs in the Lords field
ministers-th there mas arisen from American
actors a call for legislation to prevent
bringing foreign actors into this couutryi
and right on top Of that call comes another
cry from New York regular physicians for
protection against the influx Of physicians
from abroad.
TEE immigration that has poured into
Southern and Western Florida has made il
a white mans land, wealthy and prosper
Gus, while the 1920 negroes south Of st.
Augustine had grown from 1870 70 1850 20
1890, the L., 800 IS hitss had grown 70 $500,
and are nearl' 1000 to-day. In that sec
ton Of the state the races were nearly
equal eigf cen years ago; the whites are
four to 1ne to-day, and in a numDer Of the
counties the negro population has actually
decreased,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-02-14

FATHER AsHFTID, priest at St Peters
Catholic church. Memphis, Tenn, was
stabbed to the heart and killed by crank
n7med " n Reed on the morning OF the
18th Father Ashheld lad befriended
Reed ar had Just 5, cured his release from
Jail
Dr. L. A Kelley, superintendent OF the
Norfolk, Neb.. insane asylum was shot anu
dangerously wounded on the even ng OK
the 1lth by Michael Soulie- and Albert
FOou Soulier is a brother OF Caroline
SoClier who died from an operation per
form ed Kelley and two other surgeons
IT was learned on the II III that the Gem
etery at Ridgeyi.Ie, ten miles from Des
Moines, Iowa. was pillsged and the body OF
Mrs Mary Graves had been taken from her
grave
on the 10Th in St Loui-. Mo, Benjamin
Brown stabbed nd killed William Hami-
ton They quarrt led over q game Of cards
in which cents worth OF beer was a
sake
NEWS was received AZ san Francisco, Cal,
the 18th. that few DAYS previous at san
Jacinto. in san d ego county, an earthquake
shock was so severe that dance IN large
hall was broken up aud 200 people presen
sought safety bv jumping through the win
dows. Many we're trampled under foot
Others were cut by broAen glass
ANoTHEu att mp was made to burn the
town Of Gary, Oak. The IRE was discover
ed in time 10 prevent great loss.
A sEvEGE shock of earthquake was felt al
Naples. II IL. on the lib, in consequence
OF which Mount NersuYius is in 4 violent
state OF eruption Shocks were felt the
same dsv at Bolton Manchester and other
parts OF England.
GEPcETs from no Janeiro state that the
yellow fever Is making progress and tho
{ ses viii number from thirty to forty pr
day
LUKE PAGs IET, OF Burlington, iowa. an old
resident nj reported shrevd financier was
beaten ous Of 5000 by the bunco game
on the 10Th
! SOPHIA KEsTER. a ser van ia the Mansion
house. Buffalo stepped into an open eie-
vator IA Il on the 18th feE three stories
aud was < He'd.
OK the morning OF the 18th at ChatiS-
nooga. Tenn. a boiler at the brick works
Of Gu Ia, White & Gillespie exploded throw
/ ing hot tar over Charles Falls and his son.
Father was instantly killed and the son
+ fatally injured
TIE body of a woman mutilsted ike the
( White Chapel vict ms was found in q
( wooden chest at Dundee. Scotland on the
18th. Her husband W H. Bury has been
arrested and the police say they havs evi-
dence that connect him with the murders
committed in London
TIE miners who were entombed in q
colliery at Plymouth. England few days
go were all rescued on the 11th Fortu-
nately when the explosion occurred. e Oh
al = small amount Of food In his pocket
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ONE MORE ADVISER.

The IN rsidrut signs the Bill Raising the
Department of Agriculture to the Dis
nifty OF Cabinet Position-Norman j.
Colman, the Present Commissioner,
Named as the Head of the Port folio.
WASHINGTON. Feb. l2.-The President has
signed the bill creating a new executive
department consisting of the Bureau of Ag-
riculture, the geologic and scientific
branches of the Government, and has en-
phasized his approval of the meas
urc by nominating Norman J. Col
man to be the new Secretary. Mr. Col
man has been Commissioner of Agriculture
during the present Administration and be
fore that was an editor of an agricultural
paper in St Louis. He will have the honor
of standing at the head OF a long list OF
Cabinet officers who viii succeed each
other in this new department which has
come to stay and win be enlarged at the
next session of Congress without much
doubt Il has been nearly sixty years since
a new executive department was created.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-02-14
From WASHINGTON.

ALI except thirty-fOur cert iicates Of
members elected 10 the House in the Fifty
first Congress had been received on the
9th. and when the list was completed the
Republican majority wOuId be seven.
THE German Minister at Washington
was notified by Secretary Bayard on the
9th that the United States Government &C
cepted Bismarck's proposition for a re-
sumption at Berlin of the Samoa confer
ence Of 1Ss1.
ON the 9Th Secretary Bayard asked Harold
NJ Sewall. Consul General 70 the Samoan
Islands 10 resign ON the ground that his
views are not in harmony with those Of the
Administration
DURING the seven days ended on the Sth
there were 9ij business failures in the
United States. against 29i the previous seven
DAYS. The total Of failures in the United
States January I To date is ISL, against
] .6sj in ISSS
TREASURY experts who had been engaged
in making an estimate Of the effect of the
senate substitute for the Mills Tariff bill
upon the revenues of the Government an
nOuuced ON tine Sth tha5 the Senate bill
would reduce duties nearly SNee0,Ws
yearly.
Ar tweuty-six Leading clearing houses in
the United states the exchanges during The
week ended ON the 9th aggregated 81 III, =
51l ~, against sl,0l9.6So ~ the previous
week As compared with the corresponding
week Of 49, the increase amounted to @ll.
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HE FAvORS DELAY.
bismarck said to BE DESTROYS of POST
poning the Samoan Conference Until
After the Inauguration.

Bismarck said to BE DESTROYS of POST
poning the Samoan Conference Until
After the Inauguration.
LONDON Feb. IL. -Telegrams from Berlin
indicate that Prince Bismarck is not in
clined TO enter into further negotiation
with the American Government with re-
gard TO Samoan until after the Inauguration
OF President Harrison. Information obtained
from official quarters here indorse the
belief that Lord Salisbury has urged
Count Won Hatfield to permit nego-
tiations between Germany and England
to lie over for the same reason,
the Premier believing that an entirely diff
ferent view will be taken of the Samoan
difficulty by the incoming American Presi-
dent and his Cabinet
A dispatch from Berlin to the STANDARD
says that Secretary Bayards statement that
America had requested that a truce be OBJ
served in Samoa pending the issue of
the conference causes much surprise in
Berlin as the Samoans still continue to oc-
cupy land belonging TO Germany.
BERLIN, Feb 12-The resumption here Of
the sittings of the conference concerning
Samoa will probably be delayed for sever
al weeks. awaiting the arrival of a special
commissioner who, it is expected, win be
sent from Washington.
WASHINGTON, Feb. l2.-Colonel $, Mosby
is mentioned as possible successor to ex-
Consul General Sewall under the Harrison
Administration.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-02-14
EpGERTON Is OuI.
The CiVil-Seryice Commissioner Asked To
Resign lie Refuses, and Is Removed by
the President His Successor.

The Civil-service Commissioner Asked to
Resign lie Refuses, and Is Removed by
the President His Successor.
WASHINGTON, Feb IL The President has
sent TO the Senate the nomination of Hugh
s Thompson, of South Carolina, to be Unit
ed States CiVil-Service Commissioner. in
the place of Alfred p. Edgerton, removed.
Judge Edgerton says that he had re-
ceived no intimatiOn from the President
of any intention to remove him from
Office until Thursday, when he called
at the White House. The President
then requested him 10 resign his Of
fee, in order that it might be filled by
| Mr. Thompson. The President said that
| there was little hope of securing the place
for Mr.. Thompson as long as there
was no suitable vacancy on the COM
mission Hr Edgerton, however, prompt
" declined 10 resign, holding that
his resignation would not be polite,
creditable to himself, or calculated TO help
any other person eliminating that Mr..
Thompson could not be confirmed II nomi-
natedA OF course the President might eXer-
else his prerogative if he saw MT The
President did $40 mt, and when he (Edger-
ton) reached his office Saturday morning
he found a letter from the President remOy-
ing him
Mr. Edgerton says that he can not recall
any differences with the President during
his term of office except those growing out
of what he describes as the fact
that the President is the first mug
wump in the land. while | am a
straight out Democrat He intends to
write letter to the President in day or
two acknowledging receipt of his notice of
removal and perhaps adding an expression
of his opinion upon the Presidents course in
the matter
There are now two vacancies on the com
mission, Mr. Oberly's place having never
been filled 1t was thought that the Presi-
dent had concluded that an appointment in
Mr. Edgerton's place might be confirmed by
the senate, as it would leave vacancy TO
he filled by MIR. Harrison Under the law
one member of the commission must be a
Democrat Mr. EdgertOn has been repre-
scented as being unable to agree with his
I collQaunCS
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-02-14
is 1T JACK THE RIPPER?"
The Husband and Murderer of Another
Victim Confesses His Crime.

Victim Confesses His Crime.
LONDON. Feb. 12.-It looks now as ii the
perpetrator of the Whitechapel murders had
been caught The mutilated body of
a woman was found concealed in a wooden
chest by the police at Dundee Monday.
post-mortem examination showed
that the woman had first been
strangled and that her body had then
been muUilated. the abdomen being ripped
open and the legs and arms twisted and
broken. The victims husband ". ii. Bury,
a resident of Whitechapel, London, was an
rested on suspicion and confessed the crime.
Bury SAYS that he left Whitechapel three
weeks ago. lie refuses to say why he left
there. and acknowledges that he had
no business requiring his attention
in Dundee. He says that he and
his wife drank heavily last Sunday
night before retiring and that he does not
know how he got to bed Upon awakenin
nc says, he found his wife lying upon {
ioor with rope around her neck. Actl
ated by a sudden mad impulse, for which he
can not account, he seized knife
and slashed the body. Upon reason
returning he became alarmed and hastily
crushed the body into the chest in
which it was found, thinking to flee and
make his escape. He found. however, that
he could not leave his wife's remains and he
finally resolved to inform the police The
theory of the police officials Is that Jury 9
wife knew of facts connecting him with the
East End atrocities, and that ste took him
I 10 Dundee in the hope OF preventing re-
/ .'lf-rcncc of the crimes
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FRENCH FIsHER-FOLK.
The Life, Manners aud Customs Of "a re
cutiar rcopIe.

The Life, Manners aud Customs Of ~ Pc
culiar People.
Every one knows how picturesque
are fishing towns in art. The life and
manners Of the people living in these
towns is not less quaint and interesting
than their homes. The scenes described
BY a tourist in France give clear idea
Of the sort of life the fisher-folk Of that
country lead.
The industry carried on by the coast
people on the French forcshores is quite
\ sight Even the little children con-
lrive to make money by building fish
ponds or forming trenches in which 20
gather salt or in some other small in
dustry incidental to saa-shore life.
One occasionally encounters some
abject being cropping about the rocks
10 obtain the whercwithal 70 sustain
life To these people all is fish that
comes to hand-no creature, however
Shiny, that creeps about is allowed to
escape, so long As il can be disguised
by cookery into any kind Of food
for human creatures Some Of tho
people have old lickety boats patched
up with still older pieces Of wood OF
leather; sails mended here and there
till Il is difficult 10 know the original
portion from those that have been add
ed 10 il: nets torn and darned till they
are scarce able to hold a fish; and yet,
that boat aud that crippled machinery
are the capital stock OF perhaps two o.
three generations of family, the con
Germ having probably been founded
half a century ago by the grandfather.
who now sees around him a series Of
hungry generations that il would take
feet OF boats to keep in food and
raiment.
The moment this tide runs back. tho
seashore * at once Ovcrrun with "a
legion of hungry people, who arc
eager TO clutch at whatever fishy frag-
ments the receding Eater may have
left: the shallow pools are eagerly.
hungrily examined, and their contents
GRABBED with an anxiety that belongs
only o poverty.
At SOME place on the coast. how
ever. happier era is dawuing on the
people-the adoption Of fishculture has
led 10 a traffic in oysters that is sur
prising-in Iced. q now life has dawned
on some districts; and where a. ono
time was poverty and sQualor. there Is
now wealth and prosperity y outh's
Companion.
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BELMONT EMBARRASSED.

Our Minister To spain Finds, on Arriving
at Madrid, Obstacles to His Prcsents-
tion at Court, and Is Awaiting Their
Removal.
WAsHINGToN. Feb. 12-Thc Washington
correspondent of the Baltimore sun sends
the following story 10 his paper =" MIR Per
~ Belmont had rather an awkward eXpe-
rience IN his arrival at the court of Madrid
When he prepared himself for pre- entation
to the King he was informed from the
Foreign Office that the Spanish Government
had received no official notification of
the withdrawal OF Mr.. Curry a. the
United States Minister The Spanish
court is nothing if not formal, and in the
absence of this notification the credentials
of Mr. Belmont possessed no significance
Under the circumstances il was not good
form tor Mr. Belmont to remain in Madrid
or in fact, to appear in public He there
fore withdrew to Seville and went into re
tirement until the Department Of State
could forward in formal, official stvic the
notification that Nh Curry had been re-
lieVed -
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wAsHINGroS, Feb 12-The Secretary of
state was yesterday informed by Mr.. Mutsu,
the Japanese Minister here, OF the receipt
of a cable dispatch from Toxic which
announced that the constitution OF the
empire was proclaimed by the I'm
peror in person Monday morning amidst
great enthusiasm of the people. Secretary
Bayard in acknowledging receipt of this
note from the Japanese Minister took occa-
sion to congratulate him upon the progress
OF Japan in the methods of constitutional
liberty. and assured him that no member Of
the family of nations viii rejoice more over
the strength and welfare Of Japan than The
United Stafeg