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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-08-25
CRIMINAL CURIOS.
Barbarous Treatment of a
Theatrical Troupe.
ATTEMPT MADE TO DROWN THEM,

Together with the Police and Good Citi-
zens Who Came to the Rescue-Two
Horrible Cannibaiistic Performance
A Leading Citizen of a Montana Town
in a Had Box-Total Depravity in Des
Moines-Feats of Ferocity.
HUNTINGTON, W. Va. Aug. 25-While
the Sunny South variety troupe were per-
forming on the floating theatre at Ceredo
Saturday night the audience, which had
all along been disorderly, made an open
attack on one of the performers at the
close of the first act. Two members of
the company went to his aid but were
overpowered and terribly beaten. The
whole troupe then went to the rescue,
while the two policemen of the town dep
utized half dozen citizens and tried to
quell the riot
Thrown into the River and Stoned.
The audience drove the police end per
formers off the stage and all were thrown
into the river, while crowds on the bank
began to stone the half drowned and
bruised victims, who vainly begged to be
allowed to come ashore. Finally the po-
lice got ashore aud began shooting into
the crowd, one Jim Fry being badly
wounded While this was going on the
members of the company got ashore when
they were again attacked, four or five be-
ing knocked senseless with clubs or
stones Finally all were rescued by the
citizens, but the company is badly used up.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-08-25

WASHINGTON CITY, Aug. 25. The SEN
ate did not meet until noon Saturday and
then proceeded ut once to the delivery OF
eulogies on the late Senator Beck Among
the speakers were Blackburn Ingalls,,
Vest, Allison and Evarts
The house set apart Thursday and
Saturday next to labor legislation, and
then, after attending to some routine
business. proceeded TO the discussion of
the lard bill. The opposition, among
whom was Mason of Chicago, opposed the
bill as unnecessary, while those advocat
ing its passage said that all tn 1t was re
quired by it was that products shall sell
for what they are, and compound lard
shall be so called The bill was read the
third time and ordered engro ssed, and
then, on the vote on its passage, nc
quorum voted and the house adjourned
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-08-25
ABBREVIATED TELsGRAMS.

1t is figured that the Old Colony rail.
way accident will cost the company $500,
600, not counting the loss on rolling stock.
The medical officer of Clonal,ilty, Ire
land, reports 1900 cases in which starva-
ton will occur unless relief peedily ar
rives.
Jack the Ripper" has been at work
at Palermo, Italy and several women and
children have been murdered and mutt
lated.
The complete list of the people who
were killed instantly or died later. victims
of the cyclone at Wilkesbarre, Pa, con-
tains sixteen names.
The official report of the registrar of
vital statistics shows that TWEEN 5y- seven
persons have died in London during the
past year of starvation pure and simple
There are about 4, 900, 900 people in Lon
don.
1t is reported that war has broken out
between Hayti and Dominica, the Hay
items having been the aggressors. A fight
has taken place in which the Haytiens
were repulsed, and twenty-three men
killed.
Congressional wiseacres are figuring out
whether the law known as the "ant trust"
law-although not intended to do so-=does
not cover the matter of strikes like that of
the New York Central. Ii is entitled IAN
act to protect trade andcommerce gains
unlawful restraints and monopoles."
Kaiser Wilhelm bid au revoir to the czar
Saturday night and steamed away for
Germany.
A 4-and acknowledgement boy at Stoke
upon-Trent, England has developed n
character that entities him to be str lngled
at once. He has deliberately drowned
three children of about his own age by
pushing them into the water
PostofTice Inspectors Fleming and West
last week took in Hollis 5. Cutter, postal
clerk on the Grand Rapids and La Crosse
railway for rObbing the mails The steal
ings had been going on for year, and
thousands of dollars must have been
taken.
Sir Edwin Arnold, the British poet is
reported as having turned japanese and
given credit - tsOi AN invincible determine
Con TO wed young maiden of that
country whom he has been teaching Eng
lish
The Iowa African Methodist Epis copal
conference has adopted resolutions calling
for the passage of the national election
law
Harvey A. Smith, farmer living near
Mulvane, Kan, was fatally trampled Sat
urday by vicious stallion.
The private banking house of Clifton
r. Barrett, Louisville, has failed. "Blew
in" too much money ut poker.
Judge Magee, of Pittsburg, recently or
dered a murderer under sentence of death
to be sent TO a lunatic asylum, rs he was
insane. The sheriff says he will hang the
man unless the governor interferes, the
judge to the contrary notwithstanding
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-08-25

scores on the Diamond.
The following are the latest scores on
the ball field: League: Boston CIevelan
game postponed-wet grounds At Phil
Observation-Disclosures Z, Pittsburg o:
batteries-Smith and Schriver, Espor and
Wilson. At Brooklyn-Brooklyn 4. Chi
cago 3; batteries-Lovett and Clarke.
Hntchison and Kittridge At New Y ,rk
New York, :. Cincinnati 5; batteries
Sharrott and Murphy, Rhines and Har-
riDgton
brotherhood: At Decentralization 10
Buffalo o; batteries-Daley and Murphy.
Doe and Hailigan. At Philadelphia-PhiI.
adelphia IL, Chicago 10: batteries-San
ders and Milligan, Barston and Boyle.
At New York-New York 6, Cleveland 5:
MISUNDERSTANDING and Brown. Gruber and
Brennan. At Brooklyn-Brooklyn Q. Pitts
burg s. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and Daily.
Tener and Quinn
Western: Saturday At Kansas City
Denver 4, Kansas City 8; at Milwaukee
Lincoln 1, Milwaukee g. (Sunday) AT
Nil waukee-IAncoln 0, Milwaukee s: at
81 Paul-(First game) Minneapolis 9. St.
Paul 3; Second game) Minneapolisia. St.
faui D; at Sioux City-Omaha 0. Sioux
City l.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-08-25
BOREAL ZEPHYRS.
They Come Down by Way of
the Dakotas.
NEW YORK HAS AN AUGUST SILVER

And the Beautiful Snow Makes a Rather
Previous Effort in Pennsylvania-sum-
mer Resort People Going to Balls I'm
Furs and Overcoats-A Very Sudden
Tumble for the OuicksiIver-A Drop of
FL Degrees in 3 Hours.
NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-It was as cold
yesterday as it has ever been in this city
| in the month of August, at least as far
back as the signal service records run. At
| o o'clock in the morning, according to
| Sergeant Dunn's official thermometer, the
| temperature was 81 degrees. The signal
service records here began on Jan. l, 1871.
The thermometer registered 81 degrees on
Aug. "a, 1885 The next lowest tempera-
| ture was IS degrees on Aug 81, 1873. This
is the usual drop in the thermometer
| which, which, for some mysterious reason
| that meteorology has not yet fathomed,
| almost invariably takes place at the same
time in August each year. The fall in
| the temperature was about a day ahead of
| time this year, as it generally takes place
| on Aug. %.
A Visitor from Dakota.
| as stated, is below the average Sergt Dunn
| told reporter last night that the cold
| wave came from the northwest, where it
| developed last Friday morning over North
Dakota. On Thursday morning it was
central in South Dakota and Minnesota,
and reached its maximum in its entire ex-
| tent at st. Vincent, Mimi, where the
thermometer registered degrees below
freezing and frost fell throughout the
entire northwestern region On Saturday
morning the cold covered all the central
valleys and lake region, and it was spread
over the Atlantic coast as far south as
Virginia.
Big Drop in the Mercury.
In this city the mercury in the signal
service thermometer made the eXtraordi.
| nary drop OF twenty one degrees in fifteen
hours. Temperature began to fall Satur-
day afternoon at o'clock, when the Their
| mometer registered ~ degrees The mer-
| curry fell rapidly until it reached its low
est point ut 81 degrees at 6o'clock YESTERDAY
! morning. Then it began to rise slowly. 1t
touched 63 degrees at 9 o'clock last night,
| and was still going upward. People who
| were out of doors on Saturday afternoon
| did not need an official explanation of the
fact that it grew cold very suddenly. A
brisk northwest wind whirled down and
chilled everybody. At night folks slept
under blankets, and yesterday they came
out of doors wearing their fall undercloth
ing,
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-08-25
SENATOR INGALLS, THEOLOGY.
He Asserts the Immortality OF the Soul
and Existence of a Creator.

and Existence of a Creator.
WASHINGTON CITY, Aug 25-The senate
did nothing Saturday except listen to
eulogies on the late Senator Beck As is
always the case when he speaks on sub
ject, the Grafton of Senator Ingalls, was
one of the most notable. He said in part:
"To exist is exultation, to live forever is
our sublimest hope. Annihilation, ex-
tinction. and eternal death are the fore
bodings of despair. Nations die and races
expire; humanityGtself is destined to ex-
tinction. The last man will perish and
the sun will rise upon an earth without
an inhabitant With the disappearance
of man from the earth all traces of his ex
istence will be lost. The great
globe itself, all which it inherits, shall
dissolve. and like thisu nsubstantial page
ant, fade and leave not wrack behind
An Omnipotcnt Intelligence.
"There is an intelligence SO vast and en-
during that to it the flaming interval be-
tween the birth and death of universes is
no more than the flash of fireflies above
the meadows of summer; a colossal power
by which these stupendous orbs are
launched in the abyss like bubbles blown
by child in the morning sun, and whose
sense of justice and reason cannot be less
potential than those immutable statutes
that are the law of being to the creatures
he has made, and which compel them to
declare that if the only object of creation
is destruction, if infinity is the theater of
an uninterrupted series of irreparable ca
lamities, if the final cause of life is death.
then time is an inexplicable tragedy and
eternity an illogical and indefensible ca
tastrophe.
The Promise of Jesus Christ
This obsequy is an affirmation
to those who survive that, as our depart
ed associate, contemplating at the close
OF his life the monument of good deeds he
had erected, more enduring than brass
and ioftler than the pyramids of kings,
might exclaim, with the Roman poet.
Non omnis mortar, so, turning to the
silent and unknown future, he could re-
ly, with just and reasonable confidence,
upon that most impressive and mo-
mentous assurance ever delivered to the
human race: He that believeth in Me,
though he were dead, yet shall he live;
and whatsoever liveth and believeth in
Me shall never die"
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-08-25
Powderly Goes to Albany.
TALKING OF MORE TIE-uPs.
All Railways That Handle "Centra
Freight To he Struck Against.

| All Railways That Handle Central
Freight To he Struck Against.
ALBANY, N. Y, Aug. S.-That which
| is likely to spread the strike on the Cen
tral to other roads is the handling by the
latter of Central" freight. Central"
freight is freight. thatS-ss.' 1casscssss.e..<'
l.kAsscver the New York Central in any
direction as far as the latter line can take
1t, and then turned over to connecting
line to carry the remainder of the way to
its destination, the connecting line, of
course, being paid for its service, not by
the Central, but by the shipper, although
the Central may act as the shippers agen t
IA the matter. On account of handling
Central" freight the Delaware and Hud-
son has another strike on its hands like
that of last week. But now the railway
officials say they will serve shippers by
handling Central" freight or know why
they can not.
In consequence of this question of
handling Central. freight the situation
here last night was more critical than at
any stage since the strike began. Despite
the fact that no action has been taken at
Terre Haute it is altogether probable
that by noon to-day every railroad run
ming into this city will be tied up. These
roads are the New York Central, West
shore, Delaware and Hudson, Boston and
Albany. and Fitchburg roads The Gen.
trail and Delaware and Hudson are now
partially crippled. The unions threaten
to shut down every road that handles
freight that comes here over the Central
tracks
What the Railway Officials Say.
The railway officials say that they will
consider every man discharged who does
not report for work to-day, and proceed to
employ non-union men. The D. and II.
did little business yesterday. 1t is the di-
rect connection for fhespoyth for the Gen.
trail, the West Shores No Rennsylvania
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-08-25
THE BASE BALL SITUATION.
Attendance Reports Generally "Fakes''-
Figure. on the Game

CHICAGO Aug. est is stated by a
good authority on base ball matters that
there is nothing in the world more uncer-
tain than the correctness of the figures
given out by the two rival base ball az
gregations As the daily attendance at the
games. The assertion is boldly made that
they are padded" worse than the Mime
apoiis census returns, and are utterly use
less as basis for outsiders to make cal
culations from. 1t is fortunate that the
figures upon which predictions as to
which club will win the pennant are based
are impossible of alteration. As to this
feature of the game Boston seems Just
now TO have a good show for both flags.
II is second, and not bad one in the
League and first in the brotherhood.
Where the CIubs stand.
The following tables show the position
OF the clubs with reference to head of the
list.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-08-25
BRAWN'S BATTLE.
Proceedings of the Federation
Council at Terre Haute.
THE LIMITS OF ITS AUTHORITY:

A Grievance Wanted i'm Order to Perform
Effective work-More Trouble Prom
Used at AIbany-Powderly's Comments
on Webb and Arthur-The Strike at
the Chicago Stock Yards Likely to
Make 5000 Men Idle-Webb Endorsed
by Manufacturers-No of the Situa-
ton.
Saturday-trom a. IN. to 10 D. m-the
twelve men who are supposed to have the
traffic interests of the country by the tail
were in secret conclave at the Terre Haute
house; and all day long that place was
thronged by reporters and others with a
mind to find out what was going on. 1T
took Chief Sargent nearly all day to pre-
sent the mass of facts, etc, he had gath
cred in New York. and when the twelve
adjourned they left the matter OF strike
or other assistance-or no assistance-to
be given the knights of Labor in the
hands of a committee of three-Morrisey.
Downey and Debs. This committee did
not announce any plan Saturday, and yes
terday the only one at work was Debs,
=,
writing report, it is presumed, which
will be considered to-day. At s p IN. yes.
terday the committee was in session con.
sidering the report
What the Federation Cannot Do.
There is probably some mistake in the
public mind as to what the Federation
can do. it being taken for granted that
II inc ,l,,I
man connected with it, grievance or nc
grievance. This is not so. Neither of the
bodies federated can he ordered to strike
unless one of them has grievance which
the employers refuse to redress. That is
the constitution and the strike cannot be
ordered for the whole Federation except by
a unanimous vote of the council The
question is consequently complicated But
if the council finds that it cannot order
out its men without overriding the consti-
tuition, it will, without question, come to
the relief of the knights in some other
way that has yet to be determined
What 1t Can Do.
There are three courses open to the
Federation. 1t can call out its members
and thereby increase the numerical pro
portions of the attacking army-provid
ing there is grievance; it can present a
bill of grievances of its own TO Vice
President Webb and his associates, and
thus harass the enemy on its flank; or it
can make the cause of the knights its
own, by affording them material assist
ance and sustenance, as long "a the strug-
gle continues. What it will do is not to
be told at this writing. A telegram sent
to Powderly by Sargent Saturday at IL
p. m, was non-committal to a degree. 1t
simply-after stating that no decision had
been arrived at-promises that the inter
ests of the knights will receive due Con
sideratiOn.'
A Semi-Official Announcement
1t Was semi-Otficially announced last
night that the result of the meeting OF
the supreme council would be made public
by noon to-day.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-08-25

The west can no longer lay exclusive
claim to cities which spring into life in a
day. When the census returns are CONS
plete several towns in the south which
perhaps had 900 people ten years ago.
will now show a population of 10000
Such city is Admission. Ala, which had
of 1880, hut now has H. 0S
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-08-25

VIM. Hutchinson, of Benton, Illinois.
while dealing in cattle and horses in Texas
last September, was taken with very
severe attack of cholera morbus and
diarrh9s. coming. he supposed, from a
change of drinking water A local drug
gist advised him to take Chamberlain q
Colo. Cholera and Diarrbea Remedy.
The second dose, he says. effected a com.
plete cure. and he now takes pleasure in
recommending it to others. For sale at
20 and so cents per bottle by
HARTz & BAHNsEN.
Mathew. Armstrong, Of Crofton, Ky.
now in his seventeen year. says he has
been troubled with diarrhoea every sum.
mer as far back as he can recollect. He
has in his time used many medicines, but
none equal to Chamberlan's Collie Chol.
era and Diarrhoea remedy. This remedy
is prompt in its effects, can always be de,
pended upon and when reduced with
water, Is pleasant to take. Children do
not object to taking it. For sale by
HARTz s. BAHNsEN.
DIR. A. T. Doll. who has been in the
practice of medicine at North English,
Iowa. since 1868. says he often prescribes
Chamberlsin's Collie. Cholera and Diar,
rhoea remedy. because he knows it to be
reliable. For sale by
HARTz & BAHNsEN.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-08-25
mnntington,- FIRST American slim.

NORFOLK Va, Aug. 25.-The interest.
ing ceremony of notwithstanding steam
ship and raising over her the flag of the
United States was performed Saturday at
Newport News The steamship San
Benito. formerly the English ship Kim
berry, stranded on the Virginia beach two
years ago. She was purchased by Mr.. C..
r. Huntington anu has been completely
rebuilt at the Newport News ship yard,
at cost Of 500, 600 Papers hayalbr7.:.T,- -
sued to her an American ship. This il
the first achievement Il the new shin vard
at Newport News.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-08-25
One nd lle unnInn. rni..- :. ..n

New York, Aug - VIM. .Hanlon
aged 80 fell from trapaze mt the
Academy of Music Saturday night. owing
10 the breaking of the guy rope. He
struck two unoccupied seats in the Or
chestra, narrowly missing the occupants
of adjoining seats Tie was seriously in
jured, but not fatally. The accident
caused great excitement ana brought the
performance to an iabrupt close, the au-
dience refusing tha managers offer to
continue. Hanlon il one of three brothers
In the Hanlon- Volterfcom bination
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-08-25
OUR GLORIOUS CLIMATE.

Some Little Eccentricities, Considering
that it is August.
MLToN, Pa Aug. 25.-The temperature
that was up in the eighties Friday after
noon, with occasional flashes of lightning.
changed shortly after midnight, and by 5
O'Clock Saturday morning there was a
quarter of an inch OF snow on the avn
ings of the stores in the business part of
the town. The early freight trains on
both the Philadelphia a Erie and the
Philadelphia x Reading roads were COW
cred with about a haif inch of snow
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-08-25
BlackIistins statesm en-.

Albany, n. V, Aug. 25.-The executive
board of the State Workingmen's assem-
bly, and the legislative committee of the
same met yesterday afternoon to prepare
their annual record of the att tude of the
members of the assembly of the last set
sion in regard to the various bills whose
passage were advocated by.working peo-
pie. The result was that fifteen members
We're" blacklisted' for voting against labor
1.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-08-25
Struck by "A snow SqualI

EAsToN, Pa, Aug. - Carrier Buss,
who drives the mail between Etston and
Saucon, says that on Saturday morning,
while passing through lower S,ucon on
his way to Easton, "A snow-squall prevailed
for FIVE to ten minutes, the flakes falling
chick and fast
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-08-25
Depew Satisfied to STAY Away

PARIS, Aug 25.-Chauncey NJ Depew
arrived here Saturday night. He is in no
hurry to return to the United States and
will not return before the middle of Sep
TENDER He says he has been fully in
formed of the Central strike Further
than this he would say nothing
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-08-25
Leading Citizen in Bad Rn.ine.s

BUTTE, Mont, Aug. 25-Charles War
field. "A leading citizen who has resided
here for long time. was arrested here
yesterday by United States Marshal
Fursy, charged with being the leader of
the eight masked men who held up the
Butte and Helena stage coach between
Boulder aud jefferson City in November,
1884 The hold up" was not for booty
but to release Con Murphy and several of
his gang, who were supposed to be on the
stage in custody aud on their WAY to
Boulder for trial. In the attack on the
stage Sheriff Cameron was wounded
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-08-25

CHINA's solitary railroad is eighty
miles long, and cost 5000 mile II
some shrewd Yankee could only get
control of it he would bond and stock it
for about five times that figure
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-08-25
Tramped Hi, Babe to Death.

Dies MONIES, Ia, Aug. 25.-Robert Pen
niston and Mrs. Roth, a couple of charac-
ters who live together on the east side,
were found in their house in drunken
stupor by the police Their infant child
was in the throes of death, with the mark
of a bootheel on its forehead and seriously
injured in the shoulder. The two were
airnStpI
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-08-25
Killed by a CsntraI Train.

PoUGHKEEpsIE, N a., Aug. 25.-John
Lake and James Dorsey, well-known resi-
dents of this city, were struck by New
York Central train while walking over a
trestle just above the station, and thrown
distance of thirty feet Lake was killed,
but Dorsey escaped with slight injury.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-08-25
DlNED ON HIS FAMILY.
Shocking Murder Committed by n Mon
tana Lunatie.

tana Lunatie.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Aug 25.-A Liv-
ingston, Mont, special to The Tribune
says: A man who gave his name as Ar
lington reported to Sheriff Templeton
about O'Clock yesterday afternoon that
rancher named Quinn, living twelve
miles west of Livingston, had killed his
wife and five children with broadaS
The man was crazy, and when discovered
was sitting in corner of the room eating
from the arm of one of the children.
All the Bodies MutiIated.
The bodies of all were horribly mutiated.
the arms and legs beng severed from
their bodies. The eldest girl, of about Is,
was cut almost in two. Several men
went TO the house and tried to capture
him. but he would allow no one to ap.
proach him. and was killed by one of the
men in self defense.