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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-25
GLADSTONE AND HeuIeoLANo.
The G. o. VI. Approves the Deal with
Some Reseryafious

The G. o. NJ. Approx the Deal with
Some Reservations.
LONDON, July 25-In the house of COM
mons last night Ferguson, under foreign
secretary, in moving the ratification of the
cession of Heligoland, declared that Eng
land had obtained an ample equivalent
for the island Heligoland was, in fact.
useless to England. Gladstone supported
the governments motion. and paid trib-
ute TO Lord Salisbury for effecting the
agreement with Germany. which, he said.
was conceived in spirit of regard for the
best interests of England.
Some Little Objection, However.
He blamed the government, however,
for not having first secured an agreement
with France in regard to her claims in
Zanzibar, but it was difficult TO comment
on this occasion without causing embar-
rassment to the government. which he de-
sired to avoid. He thought it matter of
regret that the offices of prime minister
and minister of foreign affairs should
ever he combined in one person, as the
two together required what was beyond
less the incumbent possessed the powers
of a Napoleon or a Cromwell. He would
not vote against the bill
Refused to Order "CIoture."
After further debate Smith, the govern
ment leader, moved ''cloture" The
speaker refused to order the debate closed
on so important question without allow
ing the amplest discussion. The speakers
ruling WAS greatly applauded by the Lib
erals. The house then adjourned.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-03-29
THE LATEST.

THE difficulty between Turkey and
Great Britain arising from the firing
upon British vessel by the garrison at
For tao has been satisfactorily
arranged. Tho Porte has apologized to
Great Britain for the outrage, and will
punish those who were responsible for it.
A QUEER suicide at Algiers was that of
Jules Renaud, young French artist,
who had been following Amelie Rives-
Chansler, the authoress, in fit OF in
sane passion for her on reading "Quick
or the Dead"
THE Governor Of Maryland has in
formed the Legislature that defalca-
ton existed in the accounts OF Steven
son Archer, the State Treasurer. Archer
was reported on his deathbed.
THE Sherman Antitrust bill was
again before the Senate on the Goth, a
number of amendments being tackled
on to it. The Wyoming Statehood bill
was debated in the House.
THE Worlds Fair bill was received by
the Senate on the Goth and referred to
the special committee having that sub
ject in charge.
THE annual boat race between Oxford
and Cambridge took place on the
Thames at London on the Goth and was
won by oxford with lead Of one length.
Cambridge had been the favorite and
for three miles Of the distance led Ok
ford.
ACTING upon the advice OF Michael
Davitt the dock men OF Liverpool met
their employers and agreed upon terms
IT is reported that the Gar will short
ly abolish constitutional government in
Finland, so as 10 make the Province
con form to tho rest of the Empire.
TmE International Baseball League
will consist OF only six clubs this year.
THE Conservatives won victory in the
Ayr district Of Scotland by electing Mr..
Somerwell to the place formerly flied
by Liberal.
THE roof of q freight car was blown
1ff on a high viaduct near Lanesboro,
Pa, and fell on two workmen. seriously
,njuring them.
REPRESENTATIVE LAWYER Of Illinois,
has introduced in tho House bill grant
ing q pension of $4,000 year TO tho
widow OF General Crook.
Four engineers and four firemen OF
the Philadelphia & Reading railroad
have been discharged for drinking.
They threatened suits for defamation
of character.
/
Two heavy freight trains on the
Grand Trunk railroad collided near
Battle Creek, Mich, the other day.
Eighteen cars and two engines were
wrecked and much merchandise ruined
by oil.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-03-29
THE WEST.

JOHN HANCOCK, on trial for the al
legged Church murder" thirty years ago
at Provo Utah, has been found guilty of
murder in the second degree for killing
Mrs Jones and her son.
TIE last homestead claimant at King
fisher, Ok, has filed his REIMBURSEMENT
The city is thus practically free from
adverse claims.
THREE bargcs with $4,000 bushels Of
coal, two other barges and fuel boat
struck the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad
bridge pier at Cincinnati and were sunk.
THE passenger department Of the
Transmissouri Association met at Chi
cago on the cath to discuss the question
of restoring rates west Of the Missouri
river, but no agreement could be reached.
GOVERNOR HILL has served papers
upon Sheriff Flack, of New York, calling
upon him to show cause why he should
not be removed from Office.
GEORGE w. PECK, the humorist, has
been nominated by the Democrats for
mayor Of Milwaukee, Wis.
RUDE JOHNSON, his wife and child
were killed recently near Guthrie, Ok,
by their house being blown down by the
wind, the debris then taking fire.
THE court martial on Lieutenant
Steele ended at Chicago on the a4th.
The court reserved its findings.
HON. SIMEON w. KING, United States
commissioner, was castigated by an
irate widow named Kent on the steps Of
the First Rational Bank at Chicago re-
Gently. The woman claimed that he
had maligned her.
A BOLD attempt was recently made at
Oscoda, Mich, to abduct Florence
Nightingale, aged eighteen. She was
gagged and bound when rescued by q
Mrs. Black as her assailants fed.
PROF. RICHARD OWEN and another
man drank embalming fluid at New
Harmony, Ind, recently, supposing it to
be mineral water. Owen died and the
other was reported dying.
A TEANsrER named Brown and two OF
his neighbours children were killed in a
wagon at West Berkeley, near San Fran
cisco, recently while crossing railroad
track.
By the wrecking of Northern Pacific
passenger train near Knox, Mont, Mes.
senger Miles was killed and eight per
sons injured. The cars were all burned.
DURING a fierce gale the other morn
ing incendiaries started two fires in Bis
marck, N. D.. several small buildings
being destroyed.
THE smelters of Leadville, Col, have
adopted resolutions protesting against
the imposition of duty on silver lead
ores from Mexico and declaring that to
shut out Mexican lead would result in
closing up all the smelling works.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-03-29

THE directors Of the Chicago. Rock
Island & Pacific road, ut meeting In
New York, declared their usually quar-
terly dividend OF per cent
THE suit at New York Of Miss Isabelle
Brady against Thomas Miskill to re-
cover $4,000 damages for alleged breach
Of promise to marry, ended in verdict
for the plaintiff Of six cents damage.
THE New York Court of Appeals has
decided adversely TO Kemmler, con-
demned to suffer death by electricity.
JAMES j. SLocUM, the Eastern base
ball player, was sentenced to death in
New York City recently for the murder
OF his wife.
The Flacks, father and son, charged at
New York OF conspiracy in obtaining a
divorce, were found guilty by the jury
with recommendation to mercy.
THE Massachusetts, House OF Repre-
sentatives refused 90 to Of to adopt a
resolution protesting against the impo-
sition Of duty on raw hides.
JAMES TUTMILI. reputable and pious
citizen for several years Of Mont Claire,
n. j., turns out to be q burglar. He
and his wife were arrested and the pro-
ceeds OF many robberies found in their
dwelling.
STEPHEN F. SHERMAN, ex-manager OF
tho Associated elevators ut Buffalo. n.
Y, has been convicted Of stealing $3.50
bushels Of wheat.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-03-29
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The State Department has received
advices from the Consulate at Nuevo
Laredo OF the importation of 60 900 tons
of American steel rails into Mexico.
The Consul says that this is the first
case in which American rails have been
able to compete with the European ar
ticle in that market.
THE Supreme Court has refused to
grant q rehearing in the case of the Chi
cago gas trust. The effect Of the decis-
ion is to declare that the trust is an ille-
gal organization.
GENERAL ROBERT C. ScHENCK, the ex-
Congressman, soldier and diplomatist,
died at Washington on the 2Sd. Hewas
born at Franklin, o., October 4, 1909.
The President has issued q proclama-
tion warning all persons against enter
ing the waters Of Behring sea within
the dominion of the United States for
the purpose of violating section 1896 Of
the Revised Statutes which relates to the
killing Of otter, mink, marten, sable or
fur seal or other fur bearing animals
POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER
mas IGCclNcQ u COuSCACuCC
of $500 from an unknown person in
New York City. The sender said he
had once defrauded the Government, but
had since become q Christian.
CHIEF MATEs and ex-Chief Bushy-
head were before the Cherokee Com
mission at Washington recently. A
willingness was indicated to sell the
Strip, the main trouble being the con-
ditionR
TIE new Extradition treaty with
Great Britain was promulgated on the
S5th.
SECRETARY NOBLE has rendered de-
Uision In the case of John A. Walker and
ofhers involving the question Of the as
1iRnnbElity Of the right to make sol
1iors additional homestead entry. The
EocIptaEy decides the question in the
nsgslive
CHAIRMAN Cooley, of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, is suffering from
, severe cold and has gone to Florida to
recover his health.
TIE dynamite guns on the cruiser
Vesuvius have been reported TO the Sec
rstaFy Of the Navy As above the require
,nenta
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-03-29
THE AOuTH.

MANY prominent citizens Of New Or
leans have formed a league to prevent
the extension OF the charter Of the
Louisiana Lottery Company.
The district attorney OF jackson,
Miss, has made an affidavit against ex-
State Treasurer Hemingway, charg-
ing him with embezzlement Of the State
funds. Hemingway was arrested and
gave SIS, 900 bonds.
A DESTRUCTIVE cyclone passed over
the village of EdgemOor, near Chester,
S. c., on the ed. Fourteen houses
were blown down and q negro named
James Miller was killed and several
persons seriously injured.
THE village of Point of Rocks, Nd,
was almost swept away by fire on the
morning on the Esd.
The northbound Louisville & Nash
vile express ran into an open switch at
Nashville, Tenn, the other morning.
killing two colored men, injurinG sew
eral persons and wrecking several
freight cars.
THE remains Of General Crook were
laid to rest at Oakland, Nd, on the gath.
Two men were killed and three badly
injured by the explosion Of a saw mill
boiler near Wickliffe, KY.
SEVERAL villages were damaged and
two or three lives lost by the tornado
which passed over South Carolina on the
20d.
JAKE KILRAIN was relieved Of his jail
sentence at Richburg, Miss, by Colone
Rich purchasing his services, the Law
allowing a contract to be made for the
labor Of prisoners.
The young wheat about Gainesville,
Tex. is reported almost entirely de-
strOyed by grain plant lice. Entomol'
oEists say that no remedy is known.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-03-29
ALLIANCE AIMS.
Close OF the Conferencc-whAt the Alliance
Men Demnnd.


Men Demand.
TOPEKA, Kan, March 27-The con-
ference Of county presidents OF the
Farmers Alliance, after a two days SEES
sion, adjourned last night. Among the
most important demands agreed upon
was that for immediate relief from the
usury law, and strong protest against
alien ownership Of land. A resolution
was passed declaring it to be the sense
Of the Alliance that 1t was not conducive
to the best interests OF the people to call
. special session of the Legislature, in
asmuch as no relief can be had by tho
enactment OF redemption law.
The Alliance declares in favor OF
constitutional convention; relief can be
had only by constitution OF the peo-
pie, for the people and by the people OF
the State.
The Kansas Senators and Representa-
lives in Congress are urged to sup
port measure similar to the Stanford
bill, which provides for loaning money
to farmers on real estate security in
stead of having to secure the same
through National banks; that the State
should secure the Government and the
counties should secure the State. 1t was
also resolved that the Government should
expend the surplus and place 1t in the
hands Of the people where it belongs.
One of tho objects expected to be ac-'
complished Is the building Of double
track railway from Colorado to some
point east of the Mississippi river. with
a view to its final construction to the
Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf of Mex
leo. The cost of constructing this road
should be made the basis on which fares
and freight rates on all other roads
shall be based. The Alliance invites the
cooperation of all other organizations
in carrying out the objects Of these reso-
buttons.
The Kansas Congressional delegation
is censured for proposing impracticable
legislation in behalf of the old soldiers.
A resolution was adopted requesting
President Clover to appoint member
from each Alliance district to look after
the interests OF the farmers.
The State organizer reported 1000 Al
liances in the State, and new ones being
organized so fast that it is almost inn
possible to keep track Of them. There
are over 1000 members in the State
to-day. The business of the State Ex-
change was reported as very satisfactory,
supplies being purchased for all the SUBJ
alliances in the State.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-03-29
ANOTHER cREVASSE.
Bad Levee Break seventy Miles Above
Vlcksburg, Miss.

Vlcksburg, Miss.
VIcKsBURG, Miss, March a1.-The
levee in front of Skipwith, Issaquenna
County. Miss, about seventy miles
above Vicksburg, broke at one o'clock
yesterday morning and at night the
crevasse was said to be 400 feet wide
and cutting rapidly, while the water in
the town was up to the caves OF the
houses and people were reported as
swimming for their lives. The telephone
line was washed down by the crevasse,
but is being repaired.
The water from the crevasse will
food an immense tract of country south
and east OF it, embracing part of lssa-
quenna County, Sharkey south of Roll
ing Fork and all of Warren County north
of the Yazoo river.
Superintendent Sharp, of the Missis-
sippi railroad, said he believed the
riverside division OF the road would be
flooded six miles west of Rolling Fork,
thus cutting Greenville off entirely, but
that by raising the track at Katzmair he
thought the main line would be safe.
Other eminent authorities say the main
line, which is only ten or twelve miles
from the crevasse, will be flooded and
trains stopped in less than forty-eight
hours, though the water may not cross
Deer creek, where the banks are very
high.
A great number of fine plantations
will be fiooded-in fact none but the
highest lands on Deer creek and the
river front can escape south of line
drawn from Skipwith to Rolling Fork.
d. Mayer & Son, the largest planters tc
the valley except the Richardson's, have
chartered the steamers Elliott and Sar-
gent to bring down their stock from
Mayersville. Both vessels left about
noon yesterday.
As usual the crevasse was entirely un.
expected, there having been no unfavor.
able reports from Skipwith since the
high water began.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-03-29
PILED IN A HEAP.
Two Engines and Ten Cars Go to Smash on
the Central Branch.

Two Engines and Ten Cars Go to Smash on
the Central Branch.
ArcHIsoN, Kan, March 27.-Two Gen.
trail Branch freight trains collided while
running at high rate Of speed mile
west Of Centralia Tuesday evening. En-.
gineers John Steele and Eugene Clark,
both of this city, together with their
firemen, jumped and were uninjured.
The engines dashed together and ten
freight cars piled up on top Of them,
making q very bad wreck. Both the
engines are in a very dilapidated con-
dition and must be entirely rebuilt.
Only four of the freight cars were
loaded and they were all the property
of other roads. The collision was due
to the failure of the telegraph operator
at Corning to notify the west bound
train to sidetrack at Centralia for the
east bound train, which was an extra.
There is no truth in the rumOr that sew.
eral hundred sheep were killed in the
wreck. The accident was unfortunate
for the road, which is crowded with bust
ness and in need Of many more engines
than IL now possesses
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-03-29


Mr. GLADSTONE, replying 10 an address
from Armenian residents Of Moscow,
says that he sympathizes with the suf-
ferings OF their people and believes that
England should render assistance.
THE Argentine Republic Ministry and
President have decided to reduce ex-
penses by $40, 900, 900 this year and next
and to introduce many reforms.
IT Is announced that the management
OF the Wabash Western railroad was
once more vested in Jay Gould and that
he had full control Of the property.
Owning 10000 shares himself, and with
the assistance of Russell Sage's holdings
and numerous proxies which he secured
from Europe, he gained his point
IT is reported that the Gar who was
inclined to show mercy toward Nine.
Tszechb rikova, has been influenced by
the Minister of the Interior to consent
to her exile to Siberia. She was the
author OF pamphlet on the subject OF
Siberian prisons, q copy Of which was
struggled into the Cars apartments.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended March - showed an average in
crease OF O.S compared with the corre-
spending week OF last year. In New
York there was decrease Of as.
THE people of Bremen, Germany, pro-
pose to spend Is, OOO, 900 marks on their
harbor
NJ. RIBoT, French Minister Of Foreign
Affairs, has informed deputation of
the Paris Chamber OF Commerce that the
Government was carefully observing the
progress of legislation relating TO the
tariff at Washington and would do what
ever it could in the interest OF
French manufacturers and exporters.
IT is said the Car is contemplating
sending English-speaking Russians to
this country for the purpose of counter
acting the impressions left on public
sentiment by Remnants lectures on ST.
berian prisons.
The Emperor Of Germany has APP
pointed Count Eulenburg Prussian Min
lister of the Interior: DR.. Miguel, Min
lister of Finance: Baron Heune, Minister
of Agriculture, and General Won Goltz,
Minister of Public Works.
The dock laborers OF Liverpool, En-
gland, have struck again.
The glass manufacturers Of this coun-
try are finding great trouble in securing
supplies OF soda ash owing to the strikes
in England. Half the factories may be
closed soon.
AN epidemic of suicide has prevailed
in St Petersburg for many weeks. Re-
Gently lady of the court poisoned her
self and then NJ. Perirel, attache OF the
French legation, followed suit.
SOME of the Western railroads, it is
reported, have obtained counsel's opin-
ion that the clauses of the Interstate
Commerce act with reference to pooling
and long and short hauls arc unconsti-
tutional.
The papers Of Athens are jubilant
over an intimation from the Greek Con-
sui in New York that there is possi-
bility of the abolition of the American
duty on raisins from Corinth.
The machine department of Kich's
shipyard at Lubbock, Germany, has been
destroyed by fire.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-03-29
An Errnnnnna Rennrt.

ALBUQUERQUE, n. NJ, March GA
dispatch from Las Vegas says the report
Of the divorce and remarriage Of the
millionaire cattleman, Wilson Wadding-
ham, was erroneous
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-05-08

Turkey is anxious to resume again her
nominal authority over Egypt, and is nego-
tiating for the withdrawal of the British
troops, who for some years have played the
role of debt collectors on behalf of foreign
bondholders Other countries are compelled
to undergo recnrreut periods Of disaster, but
the land Of the Nile has had no respite from
misfortune since the days when the Pharaohs
held the Jews in captivity. The history of
Egypt is one long unbroken record Of tragedy
and oppression. Nearly every dominant ma
ton Of Europe and Asia has camped on the
fertile plains Of the unhappy land and held
the natives in bondage. Might and greed
have wrung from the luckless tiller of the
soil the last copper his ceaseless labor has
brought him, and the work of spoliation still
goes on as briskly today as in the centuries
past Egypt under the English protectorate
has not Jared badly. but when she again
passes beneath the Turkish yoke the fellaheen
will probably answer with an emphatic mega
tive the query, lis life worth livingr
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-05-08
AMeaIcANIzINe oF MsMNos.
The Extravagant Price Paid for spanish
Sheep Many Years Ago.

The story OF the development in Spain of
the cultivated "merinon sheep is an interest
ing one America did not obtain these fine
sheep until this century. Our so called ma
tive sheep were brought over by the early
colonists. the first to jamestown, in 1909, in
small tiocks Of unknown but coarse breeds.
In Massachusetts they throve particularly
well, and in 1915 that colony passed laws TO
encourage sheep raising.
In l7e5 the Society for the Promotion OF
Agriculture in South Carolina offered a
medal for the first flock of ''merinos" kept in
the state 1t was not till 1873. however, that
the Hon. William Foster, of Massachusetts,,
struggled three fine merlnos, valued at 81, 500,
from Spain To friend in Boston-only TO be
thanked for the delicious mutton be had sent
homel
About 1902 the ram Dom Pedro was i'm
ported 10 a farm on the Hudson river, and a
pair OF Spanish merinos were obtained also
by Seth Adams, of Dorchester, Mass. after
ward Of Dresden. o. In 1902 Col. Humphrey,
United States minister to Spain, sent TO his
farm in Derby, Conn, considerable flock,
and from the wool Of this stock President
Madison's Inauguration coat was made in
1909 The "full bloodn wool brought as much
as 50 pound, and pairs of these merinos
were sold at 5000 A merino craze was the
consequence. IN lSl0-ll LOG cargoes, aggre-
eating Is, ,6l sheep, mostly Spanish, arrived
in the United States. largely the purchases of
William Jarvis, of Vermont, consul at Lis
bon, from the fine hoeks confscated and sold
by the Spanish junta.
During the embargo of the war of 1872
'.full blood wool reached s.. pound, but
in the collapse which followed pure merino
sheep sold as low as 81 head, and many Of
the best hocks were dispersed One Stephen
Atwood, Of Ohio, buying from the Humphrey
flock in 1918, bred carefully for half a cen
fury, with such success that in 1858 one Of
his rams yielded fleece of thirty-two pounds
In 1919 Edwin Hammond, OF Vermont, who,
like Whitney with his cotton gin, has added
untold millions 10 the wealth Of his country,
bought an Atwood ram, the famous Old
Black, and from the Hammond flock the so
called American merino' was developed a
foot shorter in the neck and six inches in the
foreleg, yet weighing twenty-five pounds
more than its Spanish progenitors Of a half
century back.
In 1896 mania for Saxony merinos
swept over the country, but our stock is still
chiefly Of Spanish descent, there being prob
ably million pure merinos Of that blood.
One american merinon fleece on record
showed $50 per cent. Of the weight Of the
animal, and the ram Buckeye, shorn at the
estate shearing" in Michigan in 1884, pro
dueed fleece Of forty-four pounds. These
enormous ieeces, however. are apt TO be so
full Of ''yolk,n or natural oil, that some have
been known to leave less than quarter OF
their weight in secured wool; whereas it is
commonly reckoned that unwashed heeces
should yield one-third and washed fieeces
about one-half of their weight in secured
wool-R r. Bowker in Harper's.