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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-09
DEATH OF LOVELY MARY ROGERS.
4 Horrible aud Mysterious Crime Com
n,tfted

4 Horrible aud Mysterious Crime Com
mitted.
That brings the story back TO the life,
death. and spirit life of Mary Rogers.
One day-it was the 9th of July, ISL
her dead body was found on the shore Of
the North river at Weehawken. Around
her waist was tied rope, and to the other
end of that rope was tied stone The
dead girls face was terribly battered
Her wrists were tied together aud around
her neck was tightly tied piece of lace
torn from her clothing, part of which was
missing After suffering unspeakable in
dignities in a desolate spot at the foot Of
Weehawken hill. near the duel ground
where Aaron Burr killed Alexander Ham
iltoC, she had been dragged TO the river
and thrown into the water -
The Perpetrato or Never Discovered.
Although the crime aroused all this
part of the country. and the utmost eff
forts were made. the identity of her MUIR
derers remained mystery Dozens of
suspects were arrested and among them
WIS John Anderson, proprietor of the
cigar store in which she worked, but he
with all the others, was released. The
murdered girl is immortal though, for
Edgar Allen Poe wrote of her in his story
of Marie Roget" Time went on and
John Anderson became immensely rich.
1t was he who hit upon the scheme of
wrapping cigars and tobacco in tinIoil,
and this brought him mis- millions.
His Widow and the VI ediutn.
After he died his widow, who was a
spiritualist, became intimate with a
medium named Mrs Williams, who be-
longed to a spiritualistic society at Fifty
SIKH street and Broadway. Mrs Ander-
son gave her a brownstone front house on
Fort y-eighth street, between Seventh and
Eighth avenues. She also published a
book, at cost said to have been about
Sc, 600, in which she told what had hap
pened, or was said 20 have happened in
Mrs Williams dark cabinet.
Freaks of the Old Cigar Seller.
Before he died. old John Anderson did
many strange things He often put iron
shutters on the windows of his house near
Tarrytown because of fear he had that
strange men were in a conspiracy to blow
him up with dynamite. Many of his
business and financial transactions
were considered peculiar. For
forty wears he said he WAS
haunted by the ghost of murdered Mary
Rogers, the cigar girl, which, according
to his oft repeated story, held frequent
conversations with him, and advised him
in all his financial affairs This advice
he said he always followed These things.
say the lawyers for the plaintiff, will all
be brought out in the present trial. which
is before Judge Robertson, in part III. of
the supreme court.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-09
FIFTY YEARS DEAD.
The Ghost of a Crime Comes
UP in Court.
MURDER OF A BEAUTIFUL GIRL

Revived After Many Years, by "A VIII
Contest Case Interesting Recital of
the History OF the Matter-The Mystic
rious and Atrocious Takin. on of Mary
Rogers, the Beautiful Cigar Girl''-
Her Employer Haunted.
NEW York, Dec. 9-For more than
half century murdered Miss Mary Rog
ers has been in her grave Now, when
the beautiful cigar girl and her awful and
mysterious fate are all but forgotten, her
ghost appears as the central figure in a
lawsuit involving hundreds of thousands
of dollars The case at issue is that
brought by Mrs. Laura V. Appleton, wi e
OF Edward j. Appleton, against the New
York Life Insurance company and Others
for a one-iifth interest in the Plaza hote J.,
at Fifty-ninth street and Fifth avenue
How is the spirit of Mary Rogers con
nec,ed with this suitf Here is the an
swer: In 1871 John Anderson kept a
cigar store at the corner of Thomas and
Broadway, and Mary Rogers worked for
him, selling cigars to the customers. who
came out OF their way for miles to be
Haited upon by the "beauiiful cigar
girl
Anderson Leaves Peculiar VIII.
In after years John Anderson became
possessed of the city lots at Fifty ninth
street aud Fifth avenue, and on these lots
the Plaza hotel now stands When John
Anderson died. a millionaire ten times
over in Paris just ten years ago. he left a
peculiar win bequeathing the vast bulk
OF his property, including the property
where the Plaza hotel now stands, to one
Of his children, John Charles Anderson,
while 10 his other child. Laura, the
present plaintiff and to his grandchildren,
he left comparatively small b quests In
the course of time John Charles Anderson
sold those ten city lots to the firm of Fife
& Campbell, builders, who erected tie
hotel The New York Lie Insurance
company advanced much of the mon V
necessary to put up the huge building.
Enter Daughter of the Deceased.
Its mort gage was afterward foreclosed
and the hotel passed into the possession
of the Insurance company. Now comes
the daughter Of John Anderson seeking
to recover one-fifth of the value of the o.
tel, so in reality the legality of John An
derson'S will is the point at issue, and
therefore Charles Anderson is more con
cerned over the outcome of the suit than
il the real defendant, as, when he sold
those ten city lots to Fife & Campbell, be
gave a guarantee that he would assume
the responsibility for the result of any
legal contests over the owners hip of the
land. But how did old John Anderson,
the millionaire, come to make his peculiar
wilis
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-09
THOUGHT he HAD A BOMB.
A Group of Brokers Stricken with Sud
den Nervousness.

Group of Brokers Stricken with sud-
den Nervousness.
NEW YORK, Dec. 9 A man whose gray
head was partly bald walked up to a
group of brokers in the corridor of the
Hoffman house at $50 o'clock Monday
night and begged for cent The brokers
paid no attention to him. The old man
took from his pocket package
done up in white paper, and the
brokers moved away nervously. The old
man went up to the other guests and
begged for a cent, and Detective Jacobs
went outside and brought in a police
man, who took the beggar out at arms
length The prisoner had put the pack
age in mis- pocket meanwhile. Sergeant
Tins picked it ont at the Thrtieth
street station. 1t contained three stones
about IS big as a mans fist.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-09
A REMARKABLE CASE.
Marks of the Crucifixion on the III lnds of
aWomau.

LOUISVILLE, Dec. . -Martin f. Coomes,
a physician of high standing here, has
made report in the case of Mary Stuck
en- borg, the woman on whose person are
exhibited every Friday the marks of the
crucifixion. He carefully observed the
phenomena He cannot account for the
appearance OF the marks, but he believes
them of natural origin. He saw the spots
in the voman's hands appear, bleed, and
disappear II also observed the marks
of the cross on her brow and on her shout
der. The investigation will be continued.
Other physicians made observations, al.
though not so extended at the time, with
DIR. Coo mes, and concur in his report.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-09
La Grippe Strike. Topekn.

ToPEE A, Dec. 8. The grip epidemic has
struck this city in full force. The local
board OF health estimates that there are
1000 cas- IS. There is hardly an Office or
business house in the city which has not
been affected by the epidemic. Yesterday
sixty -fivs men from the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe shops were treated at the
city disp ensary.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-09
The New York Legislature.

ALBANY. Dec 0.-The general opinion
among the politicians and lawyers as
sembled here is that the assembly will be
sixty.five to sixty-three, the Democrats in
the plurality. The senate will either be
tied or Republican by one majority. This
opinion is from unbiased observers.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-09
ILLINOIS CHANGERS IN SESSION.
Some Talk Ab"ut the Years Crops-op
posed To Third Party.

Some Talk About the Years Crops-op-
posed To Third Party.
SPRINGFIELD, His, Dec. 9-The annual
meeting of the Illinois State Grange began
at the state house yesterday, with perhaps
200 delegates in attendance. The address
of Grange Master Thompson dealt largely
with crop statistics 1t is stated that dur
ing he past year the average price per
bushel of wheat was 81 cents The total
crop in the state was worth about S15, 900,
600, and the net profit on this was less
than 1900 600
Loan Association scheme
Master Thompson is opposed to the new
Peoples party. lie recommends the in
dorsement of the action of the national
grange in favor of the negotiation of a
loan from loan associations sufficient to
float the entire mortgage Indebtedness OF
the members of the order. The master
also recommends the co operation of the
state grange in the building of the ma
tioual temple at Washington and the
establishment of grange headquarters at
the Worlds fair.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-09
silk Mills Damaged by Fire.

PATERSON, n. j., Dec. 9-The John
Dunlop silk mills, which were occupied
by six manufacturers, were damaged
100000 by fire yesterday. The loss in
partially covered by insurance.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-09

Women are not slow to
comprehend. They're quick.
They're alive, and yet it was
a man who discovered the one
remedy for their Peculiar all
mentS.
The man was DIR. Pierce.
The discovery was his Fa-
vorite Prescription the boon
to delicate women.
Why go round "with one
foot in the grave" suffering in
silence misunderstood when
there's a remedy at hand that
isn't an experiment, but which
is sold under the guarantee
that if you are disappointed
in any way in it, you can get
your money back by applying
to its makers.
We can hardly imagine a
&oman's not trying it. Pos
sibly it may be true of one
or two-but we doubt it.
Women are ripe for it.
They must have it. Think
of a prescription and nine out
of ten waiting for it. Garry
the news to them!
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-09

ST. PAUL. Dec. 9.--The town of New
Richmond, Wis, forty miles east OF here,
on the Chicago and Northwestern road, is
in a blaze, and may be wiped out of ex-
istence
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-09

he great Chicago Dry Goods House. closing out their immense Stock
general MERCHANDISE any sacrifice the business
me following an exact copy of telegram received by NCABE BRO
on Monday evening last:
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-09
"crank we1rnnch on Md, island.

"Crank" Weyrauch on Wards island.
NEW YORK, Dec. Oscar Weyrauch,
the book binder who wrote a threatening
note to Conrad Harris, retired wine
merchant. was transferred to the insane
asy lum on Wards Island yesterday. Just
before leaving the pavilion Weyrauch be-
cane so violent that it took five men to
sublue him
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-09

The seat Of sick headache
is not in the brain. Regu-
late the stomach and YOU
cure it. DIR. Pierce's Pellets
are the Little Regulators.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-09
Aprears in IminoI. aud COS klekea.

ALTON, Ills, Dec. 9-Monday after
noon a well dressed stranger walked into
the office OF the Illinois Glass works in
this city and asked for the millionaire
proprietor, William Elliott Smith He
was not in. and the man was asked what
he wanted. lie replied to Charles
Lewis that he wanted 81, 600 900. Mr.
Lewis said he had not that much
Char ge on hand, but would giys
him all NE ,ssd, and, seiZing the stranger
by the nape Of the neck and the seat of
the pants, he threw him out the door. a
few well directed and jGdiciously admin
istered kicks caused the stranger to
change his mind as to wanting the money
and he took his painful departure in an
cas- wardly direction.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-09
-,r. Hairs assairant Indicted.

formally filed in general sessions yester-
day against John George Roth. the crank
real estate agent who fired at Rev. DR..
John Hall, of the Fifth Avenue Presby-
teilan church. The Indictment charges
assault in the first degree. Roth is still
confined in the pavilion for the insane AZ
Bellevue hospital.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-09

Chicago, 527, Dec l891To L. S. McCabe Rock Island H..
You will make immediately for goods at our closing
Stock going very fast H. B. ANSINC. for Storm &Hh
Mr. McCabe took the IS train the evening CHICAGO
next morning The following but partial list of the results of his m
100 lbs best quality knitting all coors ball.
90 pieces of black and cream Hercules trimming braid l2c yard
300 gross agate buttons, 1-2c gross
gross white vegetable ivory buttons or undercotg) dozen
y dozen 500 yard spool cotton DC spool ess than half
yardS)
q pieces $40 yards corset jeans drilling SIC usual price O
so dozen ladies' ribbed l4c each
s}} dozen misses grey ribbed vests IL 1-2c each
Mems japanese silk handkercefs elegant initials worth G&t
adde's embroidered silk handkerchief 0c 48c SOC worth W
$50.
90 pairs wool silver grey blue grey delicate light grey bed blanket
all at S257 pair, worth $3.50 and S. Co., remember all S
21O pieces silk pot edge MORE ribbons all No 2 yard M
price l8c.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-06-05
LITTLE OF EVERYTHING

Free Visiting Cards. How to
get them inquire Of Fred Small, city sub
scription agent, of the DAILY LIGHT.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-06-05

SoCKLEss SIMPSON is genuine
Kansas product. If understood, COM
pretended, appreciated and properly
labelled anywhere 1t should be at his
own home. This labelling has been
done to order by the Topeka Daily
Capital, and it is done up brown, this
is the way it serves up Jerry:
GERRY Simpson has withdrawn per-
manently to the obscurity from which
he was expelled by the misfortunes of
the last campaign. He was little tin
god in Topeka while the legislature
was in bloom-a little tin god in socks
Then he went east and the weary
orientals, always ready and anxious
for new show, took him in hand and
monkeyed. with him until the stucco
was rubbed off his ugly mug and the
sawdust began to trickle out of his
arms and legs, and then they threw
him away. He will now proceed to do
the only congressional business he is
fit to do, which is to draw his pay;
and the people, his constituents,
will go on growing more and more
surprised that they ever gave him
their votes.
Jerry has bells and collar now, he
can travel without danger Of being
lost.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-06-05
Fast Tyne Setting.

A type setting con test has been held
at Toronto which developed some
quick motions. Till, of the Empire
sIthe winner. During the q Is
hours work he set 40, $50 ems. or All
average of 1900 per hour. Kerr, OF
the World finished second with 43, 100
and Jones, of the Mail, with AZ, 400
The winner was presented with SIG
gold medal, suitably engraved, and
$50 in cash. At the conclusion of the
contest the men gave an exhibition
for hours, during which Till SET
800 ems, Kerr $500, Wilson $500 and
Jones $500.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-06-05

Worlds Fair Visitors Will not Miss it..
The exhibit which the South Amer
lean republic of Colombia will make
at the Worlds Fair will be very
notable and interesting one A COM
munication received at Exposition
headquarters describes its character,
in part, as follows:
S"Colombia's Worlds Fair building
will be modelled after her national
capitol at Bogota. The exterior will
be in initiation of sandstone, of
which it is built, while the
interior will be partitioned and
ceilings throughout with the precious
hardwoods of the country, comprising
more than q hundred varieties, both
rough and polished; an exhibition in
wood alone, a parallel to which has
never been presented by any other
country in the world. The interior
will be filled with the products of the
country-cotfee, cocoa, rubber, ivory,
nuts, wax, gums, fibres, etc.-while
the mineral exhibit will dou bile g be
the richest ever shown in the United
States.
Within the building Indian
women will be seen weaving the
much appreciated Panama hat from
fiber prepared on the spot, all hand
work, yet stripping and weaving the
fiber in threads as fine as linen. An
,Algaparteria' (manufactOry of hemp
sandals) will be seen in full opera
ton, while the 'petate' Ia fine palm
fiber matt will be turned out by the
native hand loom manipulated by
cty fr1l nf no
Hammock make rs will braid the beau
tiful grasses of Colombia into artistic
work, all of which can not fail to find
appreciative purchasers, thus leading
to commerce in these useful and
valuable articles. These latter ex-
hibits will be made by private par
ties but will have a place within the
Columbian building, because they
present an interesting and important
feature of her industries so exclusive
ly Colon bian that her exhibit would
not be complete without them.
"Other exhibits by private parties
will be made, the principal of which
and probably the most valuable and
interesting will be the recently dis.
covered antiquities in solid gold,
weighing an aggregate Of forty
eight pounds, consisting of helmets,
idols, birds, animals, ornaments, ETC.,
valued at more than $4,000. These
objects all curiously and delicately
hand wrought, the work of people
who lived ages ago, but whose history
is ost to the world. These antiq-
uities were discovered buried in
vaults or tombs deep in the ground,
supposed to have been the burial
place of king or cacique. This ex-
hlbit will be under the direction OF
Lieut.. Lemly, of the United States
army to whom great credit is due for
his successful efforts in having divert.
ed 1t to the United States, where it is
hoped, 1t may find q permanent place
in the national museum"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-06-05

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Price soc; Sold by Adolph Dreiss.
$685. .
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-06-05

Daily San Antonio Light the
cheapest and best afternoon paper in
Texas. Delivered by mail Or carrier
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-06-05

WANTED-Every Republican
In Texas to subscribe for the DAILY OF
WEEKLY SAN ANTONIO LIGHT. the only
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-06-05

For refrigerators and ice chests,
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Have you lost, found or wan
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-06-05

WANTED--Ioo, 900 Live Yank-
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-06-05
A MOST REmAakAsLEA RTIcLs.

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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-06-05

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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-12-08

Agents for the celebrated
strongest light weight wire mi,
barb that is licensed. You are
every user of unlicensed wire.
Farmers can load their goods VI
by electric cars.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-12-08

"A movement is on foot for the
organization of an Ohio State Passen.
ger Committee similar TO to the one
in existence in the State of Michigan.
Ii the new organic atom is formed it
will relieve part of the work from
the Central Traffic Association. Steps
will be taken by the different Ohio
roads to bring the matter to an issue
at once. The new plan would be ac-
ceptable to the Central Traffic Asso-
citation, for it would take great deal
of the latter's lands. The majority of
the Toedo roads are anxious to have
the new organization formed.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-12-08

reporters to-day was fine. 1t wa:
fresh, however, and all we're able 10
paItake OF it, without frszzling the
blue ribbon badge which is a conspicu.
Gus part of their toggery.
Not a single variety bears the
name of adams Apple" and 1t is
hence supposed that MT single dele
gate Is In any danger Of temptation
they should see the girls in Evange-
line.
Robert Bailey and r. Dunlap
now attending the Horticultural
meeting at this place, are represents.
tive fruit growers OF the Kingdom of
Galloway. The former was a schoo'-
mate OF a BAz)o repre- .entative at
West Minister College in 1869.
j. N. Allen, of Liberty, is a
pie SAINT voiced, handsome and intel
llgent gentleman and can tell a
.'prickly pear" from those of the
Bartlett variety without hesitancy-l
that Is 10 ssy that what he doesn't
know about disease as connected with !
fruit Is not worth mentioning.
DIR. Allen is generally equal to
an emergency. Last right after the
reading of his paper and during the
discussion following, Major Holsinser,
who understood the doctor TO state
he would at once kill all pear trees
attacked with blight, arose and said
You are a ply ician. are you not?'
"l's sir, replied DIR. Allen. "Wen,
would you kill your patients to get
them out Of the way" The doctor
wouldn' stand the profession to be
bul doZed in that way and very
promptly responded: "Yes sir, if it
would save the remainder of the COM
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-12-08
THE MAN THE PRINTER LOVES

| HE MAN The PRINTER LOVES
There is man the printer loves,
and he is wondrous wise; whenever
he writes the printer man he dotteth
ill his Is. And when he's dotted all
of them with carefuinsss and ease, he
punctuates each paragraph and eros.
es all his Is. Upon one side alone he
writes, and ever rolls hi, leaves and
from the man of ink a smile and mark
''insert" receives. Aud when a
question he doth ask-iaught wisely
he had been-he DOH the goodly
stamp, for postage back, out in. He
gives the place from which he writes
his address the printer needs and
plainly wri es his honored nsme, so he
that runneth reads. He writes, revises.
reads, corrects and re-writes all again
and keeps one copy safe and sends
one to the printer man. And thus
by taking little pans, at trihing care
aud est, assures himself his manu-.
script will not be burned or lost.
So let all those who long to write,
take pattern by this man, with let
black ink AMI paper white, do just the
best they can and then the printer
man shall know and bless them as his
friends all through LIES journey as
they so, until that journey ends
Rural World.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-12-08
AMONG THE OZARKSD

Is the title of an attractive and
highly interesting book issued by the
passenger department of the Kansas
City. Fl. Scott, & Memphis r. r. Co.
The book pertains entirely to fruit
raising in that great fruit belt of
America. the southern slope of the
Ozarks, and will prove of value not
only to fruit growers, but to every
farmer and home-seeker in other
states, looking for q farm and home.
Tho book will be mailed free to any
address, j. E. LOCKWOOD,
Kansas City, No
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-12-08
HAS MADE ONE CREDIrABLE
RACE

Richard T. Gentry, of Petit.
county, is candidate for the demo.
cratic nomination for state treasurer.
MIR. Gentry is vel known, active
young democrat and spoken Of in iav.
CRADLE terms. He has male one race
and most creditable one, too, and
that he will prove an aggressive can
dida'e may be expect d. He pur-
poses 10 make manly fight for the
Nevada Democrat.