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is SPOKANE REALLY ILL?
Sporting Men In This City DO Not Believe

sporting Wien IN This city DO Not Believe
II.
The Western cracks OF the turf seem to be
going To pieces. Proctor Knott. invincible az n
two-year-old, has been physicked and dosed
with medicine until his backbone is fairly limp
and his courage has left him.
Now Chicago dispatches state that Spokane,
the brown colt who won the Kentucky Derby in
such magnificent style. has also gone amiss.
This news il received with genuine regret by
racing men in these parts, for Spokane would
have been one Of the best threc-year-Olds Of the
year.
Spokane was a candidate for the American
Derby To be run at Chicago. He was u warm
faVorite, and .Nuah Armstrong, his owner. lIas
been nursing him very carefully.
On Monday Spokane was given a trial at Derby
distance, a mile and u holt. He il reported TO
have run in very fast time, but pulled up very
lame at the finish.
In contradiction to this Mr.. Hundley, Of
Montana, who il interested in Spokane, says:
" don't believe the colt has broken down,
for ii he had I'm sure Mr.. Armstrong would
have notified me.
Besides. you never heard Of a big race that
didn't have its. accompanying rumors about the
fayorite breaking down"
that from what he knew there was no trnth in
the report.
1t is to be hoped there is not.
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COUNTY CLERK REILLY A BENEDICT.
on to Canada with a Beautiful Bride-Tbe
Wedding Mt Saratoga.

SARATOGA. JUNE 6,-Thu marriage Of Senator
Edward +. Reilly, County Clerk Of New York, to
Miss Cora l.. Mitchell, daughter OF Caleb w.
Mitchell, a well-known citizen OF Saratoga. is
the event Of the week here.
1t was one Of the most brilliant weddings ever
held in ST. Peters Church, which was hand
somely decorated and crowded to the door with
q notable company.
At high noon the bridal party entered the
church, led by the uShers, J. J. Hening. Will
IAN A. SwAnton, Edward Z. Mccall and William
A. Sweetzer, OF New York, and MI. Mccormick
and James WEIGH Of Saratoga.
The bride. n charming and beautiful girl wore
Q robe Of old rose silk with hat to match and her
bridesmaids, one of whom was her sister, Miss
Maggie Mitchell, were similarly attired.
Father. McMenomy, the rector, Oficiated
assisted by the Rev. Father Fitzgerald. Daniel
j. sullivan, of New York city, was beat man.
There were many handsome presents at Mr..
MitChells residence, notably an oak chest con-
taining3 complete tilyer service, the gift Of
County Clerk Reilly to his bride.
The. happy couple left on the .. 30 train for
Montreal
Senator. Reilly became engaged to Miss
Mitchell last Fall, and in order that az Comfy
Clerk he might leave New York for the wedding
and honeymoon, a bill. was passed through the
Legislature and signed by Gov. Hill, enabling
Deputy-County Clerk Scully to act as County
Clerk in his absence.
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The girl was SO hOrritied iha. she legged
her father TO give her time To ste what could
lie done.
Her husband was away. The father came
again and again. had long md private inter
views with his daughter, and one night they
LETT the house together.
The q ri left II note for her husband be-
hind her-lcaving HIM 80 think the worst.
Her father had made n proposition TO her and
band should know she wRs Iiefs daughter.
and 10 h~lRckmniIed by that thief for tn" rest
1T his life.
THE man. il seems, wanted an accom-
p'icC to help Inn ~ II series of great jeNel
robberies which he had long been "Ontem-
plating.
lie did not tell the girl thiS-he only sail
that ii she would come aud H." his daughter
again he would no. trouble her husband.
Mad with horror, her brain half turned.
The poor girl consented.
THE first plot was n successful one. II
was the jewel robbery in which tue assistant
was ohloroformed AM over II thousand
pounds worth of Jewels obtained.
- He says that his daughter had not the
slightest idea what he WAS going TO do. But
when he brought her into the room and told
her 20 take the Jewels TO he light. she was
too terrified tu do anything but obey.
"lhen followed the crime, and 10th fed.
She grew rs fearful of arrest ~ the man, for
herr at the case and recognize her 10y the
dc.Cript.on
"Flum that moment ,he was completely in
tlc mans power, ana when Ls told her a.
take n separate lodging near him She did So.
and by his command took some jew elry to
| pawn on the day she WAS arrested.
"He rays that at this time she was 80 be-
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never have come ont into the world again the
same woman that You knew and loved. h
would have felt that this was a great bar be-
tween you. and that she must have done you
an injury had she returned, a convict, to be
your wife again"
My poor girl, my poor wronged girl.
cried the man, his eyes filling with tears; "at
the very time that the law was releasing me
from her, as IL guilty woman, she was dying
hroken.hearted i'll the prison to- which she
had gone to save me from shame
There are some grlefs which are too sacred
to dwell upon. Such Il grief was that OF the
man who heard too late the true story OF the
wife whom he had believed TO be faithless to
him. But all griefs weld in n measure to
time, the great appsoler, and the day came At
last when Ink Amy's father could sit and
think calmly 4 tAe past.
And at that he was supremely thank
ful 10 the PROV enCe which had led him in
such a mysteri J way to rescue the prison
baby and TO lei i to love il as his " child
Icing before he sally knew thatit was so.
He has placeda beautiful monument 70 hlg
wife in the cemetery to which he Obtained
permission 10 move her, and there is O lovely
garden planted around it.
And sometimes, when the day is bright aud
warm, lie takes his little girl with him to the
cemetery and tells her to lay the sweet posy
of flowers which he had gathered for her
in their little garden upon the marble monu-
ment.
And then, kissing the little one by the last
RESI- ng-place o; his lost wife; he takes her
hand. and they 20 quietly home together, and
In the clasp of that little hand he finds Ht
once his consolation for the past and his hope
for the future.
1.-THE END.l
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HOT CHASE AFTER A MONKEY.
RUNNING THROUGH THE STREETS ,PUR-
SUED BY A YELLING MOB.

The Little Animal Escaped from It's Owner
aud started Out to See the CIty-BaIna
C0rnered IL Takes Refuge In n Private
HOWse-The Owners Grief and the Ant
mails PerVCrseness.
Auguste Robinson is an e1citable little
Frenchman, living in a French hotel at 29
West Third street. Some time ago a friend
living in Colorado wrote to him that he had
q nice monkey that he wanted TO dispose of.
Robinson thought lie would like TO have q
pet of that kind and ordered the monkey
sent to him.
II was received in due time and Robinson
amused himself and some of the other board
ers by making the monkey:perform tricks.
Wednesday morning Robinson was plunged
in grief. The monkey had escaped, He
looked high and low, but could find no trace
of the animal until q small boy told him il
was in q stable on Mercer street, near Fourth
street.
He started of on q monkey hunt, and
trailed the animal TO his lair in the feed loft.
but there the scent ended, for the monkey
kept ont Of sight.
file set II trap for him, but when he went
to look at the trap the bait was gone, but
there were no traces of monkey.
This morning the monkey made its way TO
the street. Instantly there was n circus. A
khllR u DOOlIIuChb CuhScu tuo ullllu uOhh
Fourth street to Wooster.
Some one told the ~iorlorn Robinson Of
the animals wanderings and he started in
pursuit. At the corner of Fourth and Woos-
ter the monkey doubled Oh his pursuers
and ran down 10 Greene street and Washing.
ton place.
Suddenly the monkey ran along Washing
ton place and stopped a moment in front of
No. IS.
One or two stones came flying along, and
the monkey evidently Thought II the best
policy 10 get out of the way. He ran down
to the basement area way and was cornered.
Robinson was about to coax him out. when
the monkey leaped through one OF the small
glass windows on the side of the door.
The occupants of the house heard the noise
and thought there was a fight.
Officer Mundny. of the Fifteenth Precinct.
came along. and upon learning the cause of
tho dis urbnnce, concluded to 60 III and
catch the animal.
frightened and refused to 90 downstairs; so
the policeman and the owner Of the animal
went lown together.
Robinson tracked the monkey to the kitchen
and corncred him in the sink. He tr.e TO
coax the monkey down, but he wouldn't
come.
Come here, Lisette: ali. my dear :" said
he. bnt the animal caught u glimpse of the
big policeman IN the doorway. and jumped
through the bars of n rear window in prefeI-
ence 10 being arrested.
The chase was continued over the rear
fences. and when the housekeeper suggested
that the monkeys owners go to I'LL the
houses and warn the occupants To keep their
windows closed. he nearly tainted from
fright.
You would have me pay for 5000 worth
OF window glass before night, " he gasped.
when THE EvENING WORLD reporter left
the Frenchmnn and the big policeman were
still chasing the monkey.
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distinct to those who stood beside her bed,
and then sine gave a long, deep sigh, and
died.
The child, by the direction of Capt.
Danvers, who had interested himself greatly
in the case, was taken the next day 20 Mrs,
Winslow, who took the poor little motherless
prison baby 10 her breast, and wept many
womanly tears over it and promised to love
il as though it had been her own.
Mr.. Smith, the dramatist, came almost
every day 20 see it, and the child took TO him
aud was never so happy ny when II was upon
his knee.
The child had been christencd Amy.
When Mr.. Smith discovered the child's
name il gave him n slight pang, for Amy had
,omantic name, not the name in which the
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A month after this interview with the stage
carpenter of tine -- Theatre. the prison
ably was in Mrs. Winslow's house.
The poor mother had justified the prognos-
|~icAtion of the matron and had passed away,
D be tried for her earthly crimes before the
ll-merciiul Judge.
They brought the baby to her as she was
Eiug. She opened her eyes and looked
earniDRly at the face of her baby girl. The
lid recognizing her said. MINIMUM, "
Il smiled.
lhe dying woman motioned TO them to put
child near hos.
they placed Ms little face close to hers,
she pressed her clammy lips TO its soft,
lite cheek.
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q. H. -ConRressman Mo CNrthy's residence is
1877 Henry street.
Alrr. Bel. -''Exposition " is the French word
for the show. while - exhibition +" il its eqniva-
lent in English. Either word may be used prop
erly here.
Bertha COfhU. Apply at the Montehore
Home. 5Ol East Eighty-fourth street.
Juo. X. Darts. There is a school snch az You
inquire about near FoIty-ffth street and Fifth
avenue.
H. M.:-The Eiffel tower is the highest build.
ing on the earth.
Sued yO,' ms. Unless yor vacated the rooms
by the first of the month you are liable for the
full months rent.
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The Wanderers Ran.nn.

lFroH me Detroit Free Press.I
First Tramp-Goin' in hat house over
there. pard?
Second T~ramp-Itried that house last week.
! amt goin' there any more.
First Tramp-'Fraid on account o. the
dog
Second Tramp-Me pants are.
First Tramp-Pants are what?
Second Tramp-Frayed on account o. the
dog.
The evening world., 1889-06-06
Corporal Tanners Activity.

IRON Tcnds %Sirtings.l
CRIPPLE am entitled to a pension, but
I'm not going to apply for one.
~Friend-You are very generous.
Cripple-No, Pm not. Pm on the make.
In q few months an eX-Federal soldier with
out q pension, even if he isn't a cripple, will
he such O rarity that I'll get 6 thousand
dollars aweek in a dime museum as q freak.
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C'ui Bono

First Workingman-Let's 60 to the Art
Museum.
Second Workingman-Closed on Sundays,
you know.
Third Workingman-Well, let's take a ride
in the stage, up Fifth avenue.
Second Workingman-Don't run on Sum-
days.
First Workingman-Gad! then let's 70 in
Van Bier's back door and fill up.
The evening world., 1889-06-06
The Appreciated Party.

VTOWI = NeU IOFN WteNTB.I
Mr.. Bouillon-Yes, sir, l am a professional
cook, and it gives me pleasure to think that 1
belong to a profession that is fully appreci-
ated. When IA particularly palatable dish is
set before you. your gratitude goes out to the
cook, does it not?
Mr.. Bllnks-Well. to tell the truth, my
gratitude generally goes out to the waiter.
The evening world., 1889-06-06
Why He Wanted to Move.

TFToW IshdI SVHH0s'I
Jack Borrowit-I think I'll have to move
next week. Mrs. Pancake.
Mrs. Pancake-Why, Mr.. Borrowit, haven't
/ always treated you with the greatest con-
sideration? If your money wasn't ready, I've
been willing to wait a day or two.
II know it. ma'am, hut you've put in the
room over me a family with two small chill
dren, and next door a man who plays the
banjo,
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Out II uniting.

My dear fellow, you can't imagine how I
felt the first time I caught sight of a squirrel
"a real, live squirrel! My heart jumped into
my throat. What Joy! What emotion 1
raised my gun to my shoulder, took aim and
fired: The gun went off all right -
- Yes; ! hope you didn't miss"
And SO did the squirrel"
The evening world., 1889-06-06
A PRISON BABY.
BY THE AUTHOR OF "'OsTLER JOE."
SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS.

Dinmore Smith yGsa female prison. He is much intmesedm baby whose mother is con
stonhela at many peculiar acts brought out on tibet trial. On making INVESTIGATIONS he learns
hat the man arMde an aHomphe Of the woman is hr hthe.a although IGrrnSedt state
ID court what relation they We're. SunthsF nnre EXPRESSES adohIe Ito adopt teba whose ather
u unknown the young mother pfscs to talN ohei"
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f%ession to say I've been engaged for the
West End stock. don't you know"

Tim Cronin, of variety renown, has been
no ute asking Tim what he Is going to do.
He doesn't know. Nobody knows. The
secrSt, is looked in the dramatically scaled
bosom of MIR. DAILY.
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This represents Miss Eva Godolphin. az
she stands before the picture. The Last
Agony OF a Victim of the Inquisition." That
gentleman watching her is the unhappy artist.
As a matter OF fact, though. she is only going
over in her mind the scene of yonno Tiohts
foot's proposal to her the previous night.
The evening world., 1889-06-06
Coming EYenIn.

Coming Events.
Musical and strawberry festival by the ladies
of the choir and SundR y-scbOol of 81. Charles
Borromeo Church. june IL. IL and 10.
Architect Lodge $40, f.. and A. NJ, twenty
seventh anniversary festival, Washington Park.
June Z.
The evening world., 1889-06-06

If You DO Not Get Proper Strength
from your food use CARRIERS LITTLE NERVE PILLS.
The evening world., 1889-06-06

A yacht contest that will create general in
terest will be that between the Katrina and
Titania. The 1itania is very fast in a light
breeze and has n versatile Inc knowing skip
per in Veteran Capt. Half, who sailed the
Volunteer against the Thistle.
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The Little Animal Escaped from It's Owner
aud started Out to See the City-BaInE
COrnered IL Takes Refuge In n Private
HOWse-The Owners Grief and the AMI
malls PerVcrseness.
The evening world., 1889-06-06

The nine-day go.as-you.please twelve-hour.
a-day race at Coney Island commences juno
20. The programme includes many attrac-
tive aud novel features. Among the events
are a ive-mIle run by Fred Carlton, the boy
runner, against time; ive-mile race for New
miles, for the Police Gazette gold medal five
mile race for $3.50 a side and the champion
ship OF America. between T. +. Delaney and
+. Mccarthy, and a one-mile race for fat
men. These entertaining contests occur on
separate evenings.
The evening world., 1889-06-06
TWO STYLES OF FIGHTING.
SULLIVAN AND KILRAIN EXP0NENTS OF
DIFFERENT BOXING SCHOOLS.

Louis Jester Wants to Box McAuline Ten
Rounds-FirSt Meeting of the Actors
Amateur Athletic Observation-Disclosures
Centred In the Coming Katrina-TitanIa
Yacht Nncc.
The evening world., 1889-06-06

Oarsman George Hosmer has a very good
opinion of the Harvard crew. He says Its
Improvement since the beginning of the sea-
son has been phenomenal.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-05-17
Died at Dubu0ue.

A great many in Rock Island were
shocked last evening when the announce
ment came that Henry r. Smith. the
former Rock Island citizen, had died at
his late home at Dubuque. Last week he
was in Rock Island for the purpose of
consulting DR.. Gait about heart and kid
ney complications. He was then in q
frail condition. but none who saw him
suspected that dissolution was so near at
hand. Mr.. Smith came to Rock Island in
1868. taking position under DR.. Stiles,
who conducted a carriage making estab-
lishment in the building now a part of
Christy's cracker factory-and the pros
prietoIship of the institution afterwards
became Stiles & Hooper and Hooper &
Smith. and finally George A. Balm & Co.
Later Mr. Smith became travelling sales
man FOR Stewart & Montgomery. Three
years ago he removed to Dubuque and
has been q commercial traveller for the
Westphal d Kinds Hardware compa.
ny, of that city, since He leaves
with a wife, who was formerly Miss SUIT
ton, of this city, two daughters, Nettie
and Eva. He belonged to the Masonic
fraternity of Rock Island. The deceased
had many esteemed friends in Rock Isl
and.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-05-17
More Of the Streckfus- Tremann
Trouble.

Editor ARGUS:
Please state the following in you paper
about The Treman-Streckfus case. The
way in which the trouble started was
this: Mr.. Streckfus sent his little girl
over to my shop for five cents worth of
surloin steak, which is impossible to cut,
so gave her piece of shoulder steak
and she went home with it. She WAS not
gone long before she returned and said
that her Pa did not want this kind So
took the meat back and gave her a piece
of round steak instead, which she took
home. and shortly afterward Streckfus
came over and asked me if that was all
the excuse / had that l could not
sell five cents worth of surloin steak,
and / told him that anybody with
common sense could see that / nor any
other butcher or dealer could cut five
cents worth of sirloin steak Then he
said that the meat was not good which
remark l answered by saying it was, and
with this he called me liar and / told
him MOI to call me liar again. and then
without warning he struck me twice
with his fist and once with his umbrella.
The I'M brella, which is broken, can be
seen at the shop, where he dropped il
and ran out the door. Streckfus canno,
truthfully say that tried to strike, or did
strike him in any way.
JOHN W. TREMANN.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-05-17

the head to the tip of the nose. and
thirty-six inches from tip to tip of its
horns.
The Merchants Electric Light company
has arranged to supplant its United
States dynamos for supply light in Rock
Island and Davenport with the Westing-
house system, two 75O light incandescent
dynamos of this pattern having been
shipped from Pittsburg for this purpose.
The old arc dynamo will be retained for
lighting the city of Moline and the Rock
Island motor circuit
Coroner Halves has received from JUS
tice John E. Wray. of Drury, the papers
in the inquest case the coroner author
lied Mr.. Wray to conduct. The inquiry
was to the death Of the unknown child
discovered there, as stated in the ARGUS
at the time. The jury, composed of
Byron Drury, j. D. REYNOLDS, William
W. Walton. F. W. LeQuatte, Il. s.
Boney and Charles Mills, returned ver>
dict that the infant came to his death by
fracture of the skull No further de-
tails were reported, and the coroner ac-
cepts the finding very reluctantly.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-05-17
Happily Remembered,

Mr.. Michael Collins and Miss Anna
Bremm. mention of whose marriage was
made in last nights ARGUS, were happily
remembered by their relatives and
friends. Among the many handsome
gifts they received was five SEQ gold
pieces from the groom's father. M. Col
Inns, to the bride, handsome chamber
set from Timothy Collins; refrigerator
from John Collins; an ornamental eight,
day clock from Miss Ella Collins; a silver
castor from VIM. Hickey, and numerou:
costly gifts from Misses Mary. Maggie
and Kate Bremm, Maggie and Nora Muir
ply and the Misses Cassidy, Cronin and
Mccarthy.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-05-17
Court Cuttings.

The Blakemore damage suit went to
the jury last night, and this morning a
verdict of 81, 900 for the plaintiff was re-
turned. The result is somewhat discour-
aging to City Attorney Haas, being as il
is his first case as the legal representative
of the city. On the first hearing of the
case City Attorney McEniry practically
won, the awarded damages being only 81
The case of John A. Tollman s. Co.
VS.. Henry Fiuegel ct al. was then taken
up. before a jury composed of J. W.
Corken, Jr., ]. R. Huber. Andrew Bratt
Matthew Lannen, Chas. Weauder, Peter
N. Nelson. Gottlieb Dierolf, Charles
Carlstedt, John Evans. John s. Corns, A
G. Moline. The suit is on note
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-05-17
A BAD BREAK.


Cor gressman Gest Puts His Foot In
1t In Settling the Illinois City Post
ofice---Removing One Republican
for Another.
There is considerable bad blood boiling
in the political pot at Illinois City, and
Con gresham Gest is accused Of stirring
ituo. A prominent citizen and repub.
lican, too, has written the ARGUS letter
showing the way public sentiment is run
ming on the subject. The facts seem to
be that Mr.. Gest. in his ambition to make
a cb ange, has simply removed one repob-
lican, the most popular one at that, and
subs tltuted another. When the demo
crat C incumbent resigned some time ago,
he did so in favor of republican who
was eminently satisfactory in all Qualifi>
cations to the republican party in that
sect on. Mr.. Gest was petitioned by
them to retain him, but he nevertheless
removed him. and in so doing has very
evidently put his foot in the soup. The
letter alluded to explains matters, how
ever. 1t is as follows:
Editor ARGUS:
ILLINOIS CITY. May 15.-The posts
office contest which has been going on at
this place for some time was brought to
a close today by removing it to another
building under the management of J. H.
LeQuatte as postmaster. The circum-
stances of its removal in the face of the
opposition brought to bear against the
act, has so surprised the citizens CT this
vicinity that we thought it best to give a
brief statement of the case for publicity
in the ARGUS.
At the close of the last administration
the democratic postmaster resigned his
commission in favor OF G. c.. Crabtree,
a republican and soldier (of three years
service in the late war; In due time the
authorities forwarded his commission and
MIR. Crabtree became postmaster, giving
general satisfaction both to the depart
ment and to the patrons. Bear in mind
the above transaction was contaminated
direct with the department. In the
mean lime Mr.. LeQuatte, another repub
lican, applied for the Office through our
in his efforts by Maj. James M.
Beard sley. of Rock Island, George
Brown. of Milan, and perhaps Others
As soon as these facts were made known
to the people here, and being aware of
the great mistake which would be made
in making the change, they set about to
defeas it. First, letters were addressed
by the oldest and most respected citizens
In the community to our representative,
showing the mistake about to be made,
and earnestly entreating him to let the
office remain where it was. Then an ap-
peal by petition was made by republican
voters and patrons of the Office-over fif>
! ty in number-for its non removal, but
| all in vain; for, as first stated, in the face
of all of the opposition that has arisen
against the act, it has been consummsted.
Now, inssmuch as the postoffice is the
peoples and for the people, they were led
to believe that they ought to know what
| is for the best interests for themselves
| and for the postoff1ce and ought TO be
heard and recognized by the authorities;
but it has not been so in this case and it
! is saio that book of remembrance will
be kept and the proper ones held respon-
sible for this transaction.