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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-04

show Big 10 Bobby Bennett, PaP'
"a Retrospect by 10. Evans.)
How big is Bobby Bennett, PAT
hear SO much about.
They called him little giant once,
Did he turn the rascals outf
He must be great; hear them say
He bosses all the state
And lots that people never knew
He carries in his pate.
The workingmen and &. of L.
He carried right along;
He muet be wise, he must be great,
He must be wondrous strong.
My simple lad, you merely see
The surface Of the man;
You do not see the hidden springs,
Or know the cunning plan
By which he weaves his little web,
And casts his magic spell.
But, there are those who under tand-
Your father knows him well;
III draw his picture for you.
But remen Der what I say
Don't breathe word to anyone.
1t might give Bob away.
He is not great In stature, boy,
He is but little man.
His face 10 mild and open.
And his mouth is but span.
modest little whisker runs
Around his mobile face,
And lends an air Of dignity
While summing up case.
In public estimation
He stands very highly now;
His fingers grasp the city's teat,
And he thinks he owns the COW.
And who. you ask, has placed him
On pinnacle so highS
The workingmen have put him there,
And I'm going to tell you why.
There was time when Bennett strove
TO help his fellow men;
He labored hard, with fluent tongue,
And welded well the pen.
The workingmen are never slow
To recognize friend,
And should he ask favor
They helping hand will lend.
And go, they made him alderman,
And In the K. of L..
The Offices they gave to him
have not time TO tell.
They sent him, as their delegate,
To represent their will;
They owed him love and loyalty,
And they gladly paid the bill.
They made him-or, he got there
Master Workman Of the state;
And he was not fairly satisfied
Till they made him magistrate.
But Shakespeare says, There is a tide
In the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the proper time,
Decides the future then"
And such a tide came quickly
In the life OF little Bob,
Which ''nipped his prospects in the bud,'
And proved sorry job.
He used the high position
That the Workmen had bestowed,
To bolster up the enemy.
He travelled, wrote and bowed
Against the friends of labor.
His voice was first to shout.
We know not the conditions,
But we know he sold US out.
The republicans have cot him,
Since last he turned his coat;
Now he asks the honest workman
To rev ard him with his vote.
The workman may be sinple,
His education scant,
But the man who stabs him In the back
Can never more implant
The seeds OF confidence and love.
OF harmony and trust,
Though he be q skillful gardener,
the seeds will turn to dust.
so think the friends OF labor
VIII prove they are not blind,
And Bobby's strength and greatness, boy,
Exist, but in your mind.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-04

Florida claims to have supplied Calls
fornis with 10000 00 young orange trees
since the 1st of last September.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-04

The ladies' friend. Ponds Extract No
household should be without it. Book
Of directions around each bottle.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-04

The body il more susceptible to benefit
from Hoods 6srsaparilla now than ct
any other season Therefore take II now.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-20
BERNICKES LONG CHASE.
he Spent a Fortune Trying to Find His Run
away Wife, and then Tried Theft.

CHICAGO, March 19.-Herman Bernicke
was arraigne6 in the Police Court, this
morning, charged with burglary, having
been caught IL the act of stealing box of
carpenters tools. To the magistrate he
told the following story, which he declared
to be as true as gospel:
Thirteen years agoI left Germany for
South Australia. had good wife and
five as pretty children as ever man was
blessed with. / had some money and put
1t into sheep ranch, and was very success
ful, and In four years had as big ranch
as any in my county, and was worth not
far from 10000 1t seemed that was too
happy, and it could not last. The first mis-
fortune that came to me was the loss of
three of my children, who died within a
month of Australian fever. The blow had
hardly fallen, it seemed, before the other
two were taken from me In the same way"
The wanderer stopped short in his nara
tive and wiped the tears from his eyes.
nAA1h, nA1h, Judge" he began again; that is not
my wife's love. She began to hate me, and
i began to 60 crazy, / believe. One day /
woke up and found that was alone. My
wife was gone, but not dead. Worse than
that, she had elOped with a man whom
thought TO be my dearest friend on earth.
i was driven TO desperation. / sold my
farm at sacrifice and started in pursuit. l
hired a detective. and we tracked them to
San Francisco, The rest of the story is not
worth much, for / have not caught them
yet. l hunted them from town to town,
lost the trail, almost had them at Vancou-
Yer, but they slipped away. AT Boise City, /.
l., was compelled to dIsmissmy detective,
as my money was running low. From there
! followed the guilty pair through Montana
into Dakota and down to st. Paul / was
on the point of arresting them there when
they slipped away, having bribed the Off
ce- who was after them. and. as / thought,
can 2 to Chicago. In this. however, was
mistaken, as they went to st. Louis. When
/ got here was penniless, and it was to
get money TO continue the pursuit that
stole the tools. l would have cornered
them in ST. Louis Judge as friend of
mine had them well located. but / suppose
everything Is all up now, and will give
up the chase. I'm ruined. and guess am
nearly mad"
The court thought it would be mercy to
send the man to the Bridewell. as he seemed
TO be on the verge of collapse. He fined
Bernicke s., and the Australians chase
ended
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-20
The Societe des Metaux Gives Notice That 1t
Cannot Meet Its Engagements and Will
Demand Appointment of Receiver.
Mr.. Edmund Yates Writes Entertaining
ly of the New British Minister.
Revolutionists Celebrate the Anniversary Of
the Paris Commune and Howl for Blood
Efforts to Save Stranded Iron-Clad.
THE COPPER COLLAPSE.

Indications that the Trouble Is Not Ended
Fears that Other Banks Are Involved.
PARIS, March IA pessimist feeling pre-
walls regarding the position of the credit
houses, especially of the Banque de Paris,
which is much discussed. 1t is reported
that the bank is deeply involved in the
copper troubles, and is not expected to pay
a dividend for the past year. Moreover. it
is stated that the directors of the concern
announced, at the bankers meeting last
evening, that they were unable to subscribe
for the relief of the Compton d. Escompte,
having themselves loaned a large sum on
copper warrants. The decline of SOciete
des Metaux shares is attributed to report
that the concern had definitely suspended
payment and operations. Nevertheless,
there was large amount of buying and re-
purchasing in the copper-mine market to-
day, the demand for Rio Tintos being espe-
cially strong.
The Paris correspondent of the News
writes: 'Tbe Societe des Metaux has given
notice of it's inability to take deliveries OF
copper from the mines, and will tomorrow
declare a suspension of payments, and de-
mand the appointment OF judicial re-
ceiver. 1t is rumored that the share,
holders of the Compton d'Escompte will
institute an action against the directors
for misapply ing the concerns funds to
their own or their friends uses, or for Gull
pable concealment of its position on the last
balance-sheet, which did not explain the
copper liabilities"
The capital of the new Compton Nation
ale will be 40. .OO0. 900 francs, the company re-
serving the power to increase 1T to oO,OOO,-
600. The stock will consist of $4,000 shares
of 500 francs half of which is to be SUBJ
scrlbed for by the financial group and the
other half to be reserved for the original
holders of shares in the Compton d. Es-
cOmpte
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-20
LONDON ANARCHISTS.

British Revolutionists Celebrate the Com
mune by Shriel<ing for Blood.
London Special to st. Louis Republic
The London celebra ton of the anniver-
sary of the Paris Commune tonight con-
sisted of small crowd of boozy, beery,
pot-valiant, squalid. frowsy, sodden White
chapel outcasts, who shrieked and fought
in small hall in their district under the
eye of single policeman.
Better not 60 in, sir" the policeman
said, as entered the door of the small
hall at SO Commonwealth road. There
amt no danger, but its very unpleasant"
1t was the fumes of scores of dirty pipes
and a thousand other causes that made the
air almost unbearable. About two hundred
people, a fourth of whom were lushed, soggy
Whitechapel women, were in lOw-ceil-
inged hall, while a long-haired Pole was
screaming an address from the platform.
He cursed and swore with frantic bias
phemy, and called upon his hearers to arm
themselves and wade to liberty through
blood. Whenever he uttered the word
blood" the muddled and maudlin crowd
setup shrek of "Bloodw "bloodw "blood"
that was deafening. All of the women and
most of the men had sOiled red badges and
handkerchiefs, which they waved in the
air as they shrieked blood" in chorus.
Then they would sink back into drunken
indifference till the word blood" was men
toned again. Two women and q man lay
In senseless stupor on the floor, with the
crowd treading on them. One woman's
rags did not half cover her.
An illiterate Englishman pushed the Pole
aside and began 60 harangue the people
from the platform. 1t was the most shame
less, rbald and obscene harangue imagina-
bic. In the midst of it woman in front of
me struck another woman with q piece of
broken beer-glass. and they began to fight
like cats. Faces were cut and bleeding.
No one paid the slightest attention, except
the policeman, who looked indifferently on.
Presently one of the women ran sobbing
from the hall, with her face streaming with
blood. Another woman started after her,
when man on my right made a sign to the
policeman, and she was restrained. Then
my neighbor plucked my sleeve. and we
went out into the air together. 1 recognized
him as second in command to Inspector
Littlechild.
Don't let that nasty scene deceive you,"
he said, shortly; lit does not mean that So
cialism is dead in London. 1t means that
it is more intelligent. They've leftoff shout
ing in public, and begun to work under
cover. This thing tonight proves it,"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-20
THE LAND GRABBERS.
ROugh-and-Tum Encounter with Troops,
in Which the Latter Are Victorious.

ST. LOUIS, March ia special to the Re-
public from Wichita, Kan, says that the
Oklahoma boomers having fed to the
woods upon the appearance of Lieutenant
Carson and his body of soldiers. scouts were
sent out to hunt them down, but instructed
to not resort to violence. In what is known
as the Crutch Country, northeast of Okla
homa station, quite large party of BOOM
ers had gathered around VIM. Breck.
Among the number were his daughter, O
relative, Samuel Anderson and an old man
named VIM. Adams. Their property had
been destroyed in former raid, and they
cherished bitter animosities against the
troops. Their hiding place was discovered
by an Indian scout aud reported TO Lieut..
Carson, who sent detachment after them.
AS soon as the boomers saw the
troops coming: they made prepara-
tect themselves. When surrounded
and called upon to surrender, they began
parleying, and made threats which exas-
perated the soldiers, who charged the
armed, and having orders to avoid con-
flict, they diSmOunted, and by an adrOit
movement part of the boomers were re-
lieved of their arms. Anderson and Adams,
however, held out and made desperate
resistance with their guns The former re-
ceived terrible blow from the butt of
revolver and the latter was struck in the
mouth. After being disarmed the boomers
fought with clubs and stones, but were soon
compelled to surrender. Several soldiers
receivedlslight wounds, but none serious.
There has been great excitement among
the boomers since the conflict, and while
all express determination to make similar
resistance, they are seeking safer hiding
places.
KANSAS CITY, March ia Times special
from Oklahoma City reports. everything
quiet there this evening. The United States
troops are still driving out the ''boomers."
The only foundation for this afternoons
sensational reports as to q conflict between
the soldiers and the invaders is that Lieu
tenant Carson was knocked down by a
boomer, yesterday, the offender being at
once arrested. The Kansas United States
attorney has no jurisdiction over Okla
homa, that territory being in charge of the
United States attorney at Ft. Smith, Ark.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-20
Chained to the Deck of the Merrimac.

RICHMOND, Va. March 19.-Private
James X. Bolton, an inmate of the con-
federate soldiers home. near this city, tells
startling story of the finding in the hold
of the old confederate ram Merrimac of the
skeletons of two men. Bolton was a men,
ber of the johnson battery during the war,
and was wounded at Brandy Station. He
is now almost in a dying condition. He
declares that the discovery of these skele-
tons has preyed upon his mind for years.
According to Bottoms story he was engaged
as wrecker in 1873 The person with
whom he was engaged at that time was
employed in getting the old copper off the
Merrimac. While engaged in this work
Bolton says that on one occasion he dived
into the fOrecastle of the confederate gum
boat. There he found the skeletons of two
men manacled to the floor. He supposes
that they were members of the crew who
were incarcerated for the violation of some
rule of the navy, and, when the craft was
sunk, were forgotten by their comrades and
went down to their watery graves.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-20
THE STRANDED SULTAN.

An Effort to Save One of England's Big Iron
clads Now Aground in the Mediterranean.
NEW YORK, March 19.-The Times says:
The running ashore in the Mediterranean
sea of the heavy British iron-clad Sultan
has been kept as quiet as possible by the
British Admiralty, for the loss of one Of the
finest war vessels in the British navy, and
that, too, in sea so well tracked as the
Mediterranean, is supposed to reject SER
iously on the British service. Private in
formation received yesterday shows that
tsiere are now some hopes evirced in Off
,ial circles for the recovery of the Sultan,
and to accomplish this feet of seven war
vessels has been dispatched to the scene of
the disaster, all under the command of the
Duke of Edinburgh. The iron-clad Sui
tan is a vessel of $3.50 tons displacement
and carries battery of nineteen guns.
She was attached to the Mediterranean
Earnest Rice, and carried a crew, all told,
of 427 men. She was last commissioned on
April 20, 1882, and since that time had been
actively employed on duty up the Mediter-
ranean, participating in the bOmbardment
of Alexandria. She last left England on the
Captain Rice. While making a passage
some time ago, between Malta and Gibral-
tar, she ran aground at COminO. one of the
Maltese islands, midway. between Malta
and Giso. A heavy sea being on at the
time it was then thought it was all over
with the iron-clad, but she managed to
hold together until the sea went down suf-
ficiently to enable all hands to leave her.
Her great structural strength seemed to
defy the. fury of the seas. for, though
holds together. The Admiralty have now
determined to work her off if such a thing
is possible, and save to the British navy one
of their finest iron-clads. The Duke of Ed
inburg has consequently put every man in
the rescuing fleet on his mettle, and from
the advices received there is expressed a
strong hope that the Sultan will soon again
he aflOat
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-20
DON'T

nON'T tkink this is an advertisement, 1t Is merely
IL some information to the travelling public.
nONT sleep with your head TO the engine, you viii
~ get to your destination just as soon II you lie feet
first.
nON'T forget that the Bee line runs elegant sleep
IL ing cars betw cen Indianapolis and st Louis on
night trains. These cars stand on spur.track west
end OF Union Station, and can be occupied as early
as $50 d. M
nON'r smoke cigarettes in the smoking car, other
~ passengers are only human.
nON'T think you viii have to pay extra for riding
~ on the fast trains of the popular Beelne, our
rates are the same via inferior lines.
nON'T stick your head out of the car window, 1t
IL may soil the car
nON'T take journey without first consulting a
IL Bee-line ticket agent. he give you pointer.
nON'T loan money to strangers. but borrow from
Dthem IL you can.
nON'r forget that we are the only line running
IL through sleeping cars into the cities of New York
and Boston, over the great four-t track New York
Central railroad.
noN' forget that we reserve sleeping car berths.
Land sell tickets to all points In the East and
West at No. Bates House, and l3s South Illinois
It g. PECK, Pass Agt
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-20
Business Embarrassments.

Co., successors of Utter & Chamberlain,
spice millers, assigned to-day to Samuel
Smith. jr. Assets, SIS. 900 to $4,000; labili-
ties about $40 Preferences were given
aggregating $11,000
Boston, March 19.-Charles III. North g.
Co., the second largest pork-packing firm
tonight. The liabilities cannot yet be
given, but will probably be $75O,0O0.
NEW ORLEANS, La, March 19.-W. G.
Shepard is suing for an extension of credit.
The schedule filed shows assets, S13, 900; La
bilities $4,000.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-20
Providing for a monster Fish-Hatcberv.

DAYTON, o., March 19-John Gay, of
Washington, inspector of stations for the
United States Fish Commission, and Cyrus
V. Osborn, president of the Ohio fish COM
mission, left this evening for Sandnsky. to
site for government fish-hatchery. The
proposed hatchery will be for 1000 jars,
which will be four times larger than any
other fish-hatchery in the world. The
scheme is colossal, contemplating that the
government will supply with fish eggs all
the hatcheries of the States bordering on
the great lakes
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-20
WHEN INDICATIONS.
WEDNESDAY-Fair and slightly warmer
weather.
THE WHEN'S WAY.

The different customs of advertising in diff
ferent cities are interesting and curious In
Philadelphia the dry goods dealers advertise
literally through the week. but 20 very slight
day issues of the daily newspapers are among
the most widely read in families. In both New
York and Boston, on the other hand, the great
dry goods establishments do their largest adver-
tising OH Sunday, and apparently find 1t profit
able. Last Sunday the advertisements OF dry
goods alone I'm each of the leading Boston dallies
aggregated some forty columns, while in no Phil
adelphia paper did they reach four columns.
THE WHEN is like that country school teacher
who asked by the examining board If the earth
round and some likes 1t fat; teach both ways"
THE WHEN goes its way, and, speaking from
experience, it knows perfectly well the way it is
going.
Busy now with lots Of things. Come in and
see.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-20

WOOSTER. o., March 19-David Barkey.
the Milton township boy who is convalesc-
ing from an attack of rabies, is now able to
sit up. He is very sore all over his body,
but this sensitiyeness TO touch is ascribed
to imagination, as he handles himself with
apparent ease. The patient converses with
visitors, who are still numerous. A we'll
known Eastern physician has written for
the treatment Of Barkey in detail. in order
TO use il in his practice, and scientists are
writing for data to be used in experiments.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-20
A Vain Appeal to Milan OF Servia.

A Vain Appeal to Milan of Servia.
LONDON, March 19.-It has come to light
that Emperor William of Germany ad-
dressed an autograph letter to King Milan
of Servia, shortly before the latter's with
drawal from the Servian throne, beseech-
ing that erratic monarch not to abdicate.
The letter addressed Milan in an extremely
familiar manner, and was altogether, it is
said, such a note as one young man might
write to another who was his intimate
friend. Among the arguments employed
cited the case of his father, the late Emper-
or Frederick whose unexampled heroism in
the face of death forbade his dropping the
reins of government while life lasted.
Even this noble example, howeyers failed
king
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-20

the corps diplomatique are more thorough
~ at home than in Cromwell place. The
kindly hospitality of Lady Pauncefote and
her popular daughter is always keenly APP
preciated, especially by new arrivals. Sir
Julian Pauncefote is always on the best of
terms with the foreign secretaries and at
taches. There was a time when he could
hold his own with the foil against all
comers, and in Washington he may possibly
find time to return to his favorite exercise.
The temporary closing of the little house
in Cromwell place must necessarily cause
widespread regret.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-20
RiOtOuS EmigrantS.

LONDON. March 19.-The North German
Lloyds' steamer Graf Bismarck from Buenos
Ayres has arrived at Bremen. She reports
that on her outward passage the Belgian
emigrants comprising her complement of
passengers rebelled against the quality of
food served to them and some of the mutt
neers threw their food into the faces of the
officers of the ship. They then attempted
to capture the provision-room by storm
by the crew from obtaining possession of
it. During the fight the mutineers cut one
of the boats adrift. The rioting was finally
quelled and the leaders of the mutiny put
in irons
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-20
Time for the Sultan to Settle.
L L. IL D.

LONDON, March 19-In the House of Com
mons, to-day, the Right Hon. Sir James
Ferguson, Parliamentary Secretary for the
Foreign Office, announced that certain seri-
Gus questions between England and the
Sultan of Morocco had not been settled,
and that portion of the British channel
squadron had consequently gone to Tan
gier.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-20

but the resolution was not put. Herr Tisza
declaring that the manner in which it had
been received completely satisfied him,
In the vestibule, a man. supposed to be
lawyer, insulted Herr RohOnczy, Liberal
Deputy. The latter fired a revolver at the
is not serious. The shooting caused great
excitement among the students, who had
assembled in large numbers outside. but
they dispersed quietly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-20

advices. per the steamship City of Peking,
concerning the loss of the Spanish steamer
Remus, among the Philippine islands, Jan.
80, say that AZ lives were lost out of 100 peo-
pie on board. The Remus was engaged in
the coastlng trade, but at the time was
taking out orders to their various stations
on the Philippine islands and struck reef
near Point BIliarm. about two days voyage
from Manila. sinking in thirty live fathoms
of water. The surviving officers and passen-
gers were picked up by the gunboat Argus
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-20
Foreign Notes.

The Cologne Gazette states the Prussian
government has granted a subsidy of 6,000,-
600 marks to aid in the construction of a
canal connecting the Elbe and Trave rivers.
The Zurich police have discovered an es-
tablishment for the manufacture of bombs
on an extensive scale. Two more Russians
have been arrested for connection with the
manufacture of the explosives.