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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-25
Death Of THE CHAMPION MIssR
] Old Woman Accumulates IA Fortune
Which Il Fad Girl Will Spend.


Which Fad Girl Will Spend.
NEW YORK. March 25-The widow
Pm, - wears old. starved to death in
-,'e four weeks ego. She left a fortune
$4,000. She was Il thorough. bred
-se- without rival Twelve years ago,
r-sa her husband died, she had only n
f hundred dollars. She invested her
l-1.g judlciousiy, and set about getting
i -r with unsurpassed energy. She
-.ael, begged, and did the hardest
4 luUaI labor whenever an opportunity
4 offered to her. Her savings were al
/ Sc IDENTICAL with her earnings. for her
VIZ cost her only 50 annually. She got
t, food from the refuse heaps at vege
Ole markets and from the garbage OF
.5.> and restaurants.
Would Steal Rather Than Buy.
Size gathered the fuel for her fire at the
IS where the freight ships were load
aud emptied. Every morning, rain or
he, she appeared at tue wharves with
+ coal basket on her arm. When una
e 10 fill her basket there she pilfered
F desired supply from neighboring coal
Ffls, and by this practice got herself sew
+. times into the Liste police courts.
+, tall her only son, an unsuccessful
ser. died of hunger, leaving one girl of
fy-arS TnIsyoung woman is the sole heir
6tle fortune. She is one of the frivolous
llracterS of Liste. and is said to be max
Z great pre- paratiOnS for the speedy dis
patton OF her grandmOther'S hoard
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-25
Crushed Under His Engine,

DENVER, Colo, March ga fast
freight train, on the Union Pacific for
Cheyenne, was ditched near Brighton,
early yesterday, and Fireman Burt was
INSTANTLY killed by being crushed under
the overturned engine.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-25

AUGUSTA, Me, March 25.-The house
Yesterday, by vote of 7G to 90, passed the
Australian ballot bill, thus sending it to
the governor the senate having passed
the bill last week
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-25

The funeral of Gen. Joseph Z. Johnston
took place in Washington City Tuesday.
The funeral was private one, and took
place from ST. Johns Episcopal church
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-25
Nothing Venture. Nothing Gain.

cnionttiN' March 25-The Tories and
tgbrtSs.s OF Sligo finally resolved last
sectio '""V they would abstain from the
aaoonn Ihe McCarth yites cheered the
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-25
MOI Es FROM THE LEGISLATURES.
Proceedings of the SoIons of Illinois and
Other States.

SPRINGFIELD, Ills, March % The SEN
ate yesterday passed the bill requiring
corporations to pay their employees week
ly. Bills We're introduced: Placing ex-
press companies under the control of the
railway commissioners. who shall fix their
charges; providing that SURPRISES in the
state treasury of money paid by counties
cities or villages, which has lain there
year shall be refunded. The bill to cede
TO the United States certain lands at Rock
Island was passed. and the bill to repeal
the Merritt conspiracy law made special
order for 1hnrsdnY
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-25
Accepting the Direct Tny.

In the house the bill to give Chicago the
right to lag a tax to build library and
q. \. Il. memorial hall was passed. a
resolution providing for inquiry into the
alleged immortality of professor of the
Southern Illinois Normal university was
jumped on from both sides of the house
and defeated. \ joint resolution in &C
cordance with the terms of the direct tax
refunding act passed by congress was
adopted SO that Illinois can get her share.
\ number of bills were introduced
New-York tribune., 1891-09-23
THE Production OF HOPS.
IT HAS BECOME AN IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL
INDUSTRY.
New-York, Sept. II, 1891.

IT HAS BECOME AN IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL
INDUSTRY.
Washington. sept. 90 CspeciaD.-T1e Census ofcs
has in press bulletin showing the production OF hops
in the United states Hops are grown for commercial
purposes in seventeen States. In the year 1883
5O2O2 acres of land cultivated in hops producing
39.163,27O pounds. NewYorS heads the lit VITA
3e,670 acres, yielding o0O63029 pounds. Wasllnyoa
has 5.113 acres. with crop OF 83132oO pounds;
California, 1914 acres producing 6,5f7,335 pounds;
Oregon, 3.I3o and 3.e13,7@s pounds. and Wis
consn 967 acres with 42s. .547 pounds. These hve
States. known the hop producing states. produced
90 IL per cent Of the entire crop OF the United States
New York with 73 per cent of the hop acreage pro
duced 81 IA per cent of the hops grown in the United
States. The highest average yield per acre was in
California. 1645 poOnds Washington averaged ls25
pounds per acre. Oregon .155 pounds. New York 547
pounds and Wisconsin 443 pounds. The increase since
1850 in the crop OF California 5,03,261 pounds 1t
Oregon 1885. $50 pounds and of Washington 161OOOi
pounds In the same time the in the crop Of New
York 565902 pounds and that Of Wisconsin 1,53o
$50 pounds The bulletin also contains statistics OF the
hop crop Of the year 1850. presented for the purpose
of comparison of yield and value with those Of 1859.
The total yield i'm 1890 3G,357 sJ4 pounds, being
23O5416 pounds less than in 1859. The cash realized.
however for the crop Of 1890 $l1 I02I24, while
the crop Of 1889 sold for only S4,056.497 This
great difference resulted from the low price in 1859
and the high price in 1s90 The average price
pound was about 10 cents in 1889 and 30 cents In
$780,
Wisconsin has retrograded In rank as a hop pggowins
State from a producttn of 463O,1oJ pounds in 1869
and 1,0GG,627 pounds in 1879 10 1851 pounds IN
1899 Tie three Pacific Coast states have rapidly in
creased in importance in hop production, follows:
1862 640971 pounds; 1870, 2,3Gl, 725: 1850, l3A74
34i The increase in the consumption Of malt liquors,
which REQUIRE hops in their manufacture in the UEtd
States from 344 6OJ,455 gallons in 1879 to 779cgI,
426 gallons in 1882 being increase Of per caha
consumption from 100 gallons TO 1903 gallons In
period If ten years furnishes striking Illustration d
The principal cause hich ias made hOpT0Wirg ore
Of tie important agricultural industries OF The Cnia
New-York tribune., 1891-09-23
POPULAR OBSERVATIONS.
DO THUNpERsToRMs COOL THE ARP

mn TutrNDERSTORAfS COOL THE AIR?
TO the Editor OF L ne Irl u II .
Sir win you or some Of your readers kindly ex-
nain important changes that must rave taheh p"oe-
say within the last twenty or thirty years-n the con-
N,,or ~ the atmosphere remember distinctly that
in my childhood and early youth everybody relocen
in the coming of a thunderstorm during hot and Gp-
nressve weather because 1t was clear and cool
The air while now q disturbance Of that kind In
vardabIy leaves the air hotter, closer ana more
uuggvp than before. Is there any theory the
subject and, if so, Will yon obnge BY pEnE %eEq 81 III
Brooklyn, n ". Sept. 10, 1901.
without explicit data proving the contrary, IL
is safer to hold that thunderstorms do not diner
TODAY from what they were thirty or nfty OF
even a hundred years ago. Whoever VIII make
n written note of each case for several months,
especiay in summer will find that there Is no In
variable rule about the ensuing fall of temperature
hut that it is pretty sure to come somewhere De-
tween half an hour and three days after Nlgor'
GUS thunder shower. The notion, entertained Dy
many welLinformed people besides our CORE
spondent, that this type Of storm is cause oil the
refreshing change so often observed is erroneous
To regard it as an effect would probably be much
more correct The opinion is widely held by good
authorities that thunderstorm usually results
from tn movement of a layer of cold air overhead
in upon lower warm, moist stratum, thus pro
ducing more rapid decrease in temperature as
one ascends than is normal. This cold layer
eventually reaches the earth it is only its 'front.'
overlapping the warmer atmosphere, which Is Iac-
cording to this theory involved in the production
of these storms The interval which must elapse
before it dominates the weather at the earths
surface would thus depend largely on two things
first, the extent of that broad Of low barom-
eter in whose southeastern quadrant such dis
turbances usually occur, and whose rear or west
ern portion is colder than the front; and second
the rate of progress which that low area is making
in its generally eastward journey around the
globe. If the depression is narrow and is mov-
| ing rapidly the change of temperature is apt to
come promptly but if the low area-pcrhapS 500
or 900 miles across-keeps almost stationary for
two or three days, it is useless to hope for mme-
diate relief lie chances with any given thunder
storm can best be estimated by reference to
| weather chart, based simultaneous observa-
tiOns over wide extent of territory to the west
| ward and showing the distribution of atmospheric
| pressure. Without some such guide, the ordinary
observer at particular place can get little idea OF
| the prospect for change.-Edl
New-York tribune., 1891-09-23
THE BAROYET's Battle.
From The Antl-Jacobin.

from Inc AntJaCODH
The Countess OF Munster has written novel entitled
a scotch Earl" the nominal hero OF which certain
Lord InvergOrdOn Is III tIate and vulgar
that reviewers seem u think him impossible.
Most people have heard the story OF the lady who told
rhackeray t0 his face that Sir Pitt CTawley I'm
possible, and was assured by the great novelist that
nOtwits his Impo,sbllity he the Only char
accr In Vanity Fair who had been studied from an
actual original. The fact is that both life and litef-
ature full Of what has been happily called the
accredited Incredible Mrs Piozzi for example tells
a true story OF man OF title who might have been
either Earl Of InvergoIdOn a Sir Pitt Crawley.
This gentleman WOolstOn Dixie. lived the spot
where Richard III lost his life and one day he was
presented to Queen Caroline OF Anspach. That royal
ady endeavored 10 make herself agreeable by showing
that no one who approached her was a quite unknown
person ard so, when tie bsronets name men
tioued. she sad oh sir II has been related to me,
your connection with Boew0rth Field and the memorable
battle fought there To her surprise the gentleman
flew into a most uncomfortable rage. assuring the
Queen that what she had heard totally false and
that he would find way TO be revenged upon his
calumnlatOFs. The Queens astonisliment may be
imagined, but the explanation simple The his
tOric site had been e Of encounter between
Sir WOOlstOn and tinker In which the tinker had the
best Of IT, The bsrOnet's ghbors called the FRAY tine
Battle OF Boswoith; and the poor man. never having
heard OF any battle but his own. made sure that the
Queen llad somehow heard OF his ignominous defeat.
and twttung him upon IT, What would the re-
viewers say OF this story II. noveAa
New-York tribune., 1891-09-23
DAMAGE BY HIGH Winds.
A TORNADO IN THE NoRTHwEsT-MANY HOUSES
IN MAINE BLOWN DOWN AND
WOMAN KILLED.

Garry. S. ID, Sept. 22.-News has just reached
this city that tornado Saturday struck the
northern portion OF Duel Comfy, s D.. aud passed
into Lac qui Parlc County. Minn unroodng buildings
blowing down barns, and scattering grain stacks. No
lives reported lost.
Bangor, Me- sept. 22.-Reports began TO reach
here yesterday OF the damage wrought by the heavy
storm Of last week in portions Of this county. At
south Atkinson the tcwn-house blown down, while
barns and other outbuildings did not stand for a
moment under the heavy wind On Atkinson Fast
Ridge Asa Hanson suffered large loss. His house
was moved entirely of the underpinning, and large
bara hcnnery carriage-house and woodshed COM
plctey wrecked
At Atkinson Pond an elm tree three feet in di-
ameter was broken of. A bridge blown into tho
woods and wrecked. There hardly barn or
house or other building in that region which not
in some manner damaged. In Orneville the Hall
Homestead WAS struck by the storm, and when the
wind struck the house it moved thirty feet from
az fou,dati0a The chimney fell, striking Mrs.
HALL innlctipg injuries from which she died IN few
hours Tho buildings about The house were blown
oyor The storm appeared In the form OF a water
spout, and caused many thousand dollars Damage
New-York tribune., 1891-09-23
NOTES OF THE WORLDS FAIR.
ESGLAND's SITE FOR A BUILDING sEL0IED-
EUROPEAN woMEN's WORK,


EUROPEAN woMEN'S WORK,
Chicago Sept o2.-EnGlaDd chose the site yesterday
for her Government building at the Worlds fair'
C;ermany's selection will be announced during inc
week. The English announced their choice yesteruay
afternoon to the Grounds and Buildings Commll'ee'
They have decided the prettiest spot In JACKSON
Parl-the ground now occupied by the stone paVihoh'
right on the lake. and commanding msgnlncent Vie"
of the exposition buildings and grounds IN every
direction. The grant of the site was connrmed oy
tho committee The Exposition directors fenctate
themselves that so great nation has shown ils III
terest in the Worlds Fair by making preparations dV
This early date to erect its own building
The foreign commissioners had Talk yesUeiuas
with Mrs Palmer, president OF the Boan OF LauN
Managers The commissioners suggested 10 Mrs'
Palmer that the exhibits of womens Work IN EUROPE
,vould have much more value If they were oouec'eu
under the direction of special committees composed
entirely of women appointed by their respective gov.
ornments. sir Henry Wood particularly emphaslzeu
the added interest IT woud give the exhibits OF women
IL they were allowed to organize separately ana nave
the entire management of their own displays.
J1uon the assurance of the commissioners that mel
reouest would carry great weight Mrs Palmer saIu
~ Jrould ask each foreign Government 70 ProVlue
nCb committee as had been suggested, 10 co-oPerdt
oTRciaIy in the developments in womens "orA MI
Europe
New-York tribune., 1891-09-23
EXpoIt value per

This table shows that the export value Of barley in
August 1891, IL cents per bush less than in
August 1890; OF corn II cents per bushel more; OF
cOrnmeal So cents a barrel more of oats
cents a bushel less of oatmeal cont pound more ;
Of rye 80 cents a bushel more of wheat 10 cents a
bushe more and of wheat flour, "a cents barrel
The total value Of the exports of all the products
named for the month Of August. 1890, S1O.721-
2I9 for the month OF August, 1891, ii S26, $685.
jlO increase SIS 132,3O0 The total value Of xorts
Of the same products during the eight months ended
August 81 1890 1O3 49, 562 for the eight months
ended August, 1891, il $113 13,5G3,1oS increase
$40 06s. .566 II appears therefore that the exports
for the seven months ended July 81 1891, were
s. O93754 less than for the pondng period OF
last year. If the value per bushel, barrel or pound
Of the breadstutfs exported last year had been tie
as that Of the breadstufs exported IN August,
1890 the barley would have yielded 1921 10 more
than it did the corn would have Welded S323G28 Is
less: the cornmea S11 ,5l3 O4 less: tie oats S12.
gs4 O2 more: the oatmeal S7,437 30 less: the rye
So6l 740 less the corn 81, ,704 103 81 less the wheat
flour 27 $50 80 less. IN other words if the farmers
miiers and shippers of the United states had realized
the same prices for breadstufs in August 1901 that
they obtained in August 1890 the total value of the
exports for last month would have been less by the
considerable sum OF $685., 6,l4O "a.
New-York tribune., 1891-09-23
ELECTRICITY FOR HAY FEVER.

TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: a reader of The Tribune would like to
say in regard to hay fever that she has been
almost entirely cured by the use Of electricity.
The nasal passage too small in the first place.
became almost entirely closed by hay fever and
torture the result. Four years ago her
physician began to burn the passage with chronic acid
and continued that treatment for months; after
ward he began to cauterze with electricity as often as
once a week and sometimes oftener. Two years of this
treatment opened the passage and hay fever has be-
come much modified. The treatment Of electricity
while painful Is trhe in comparison to severe nay
fever. hbADH''
NeW.York Sent. 13, 1891.
New-York tribune., 1891-09-23
Lindsde, W. Va, Sept. 13. 1901
Urging THE USE OF THE METRIC SYSTEM.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir. DIR. B. A. Gould, president OF the Ainerioa"
Neurological society," writes from Germany that al te
o,nopennal session of the Geographical lnternauoha
Congress held IN Berne August 10l7 there were aoou
osO delegates and representatives from all countries
At this Congress was passed the following reSoiuuo
on August ID; ,,.
"The Geographical Congress entreats hnghsu%inen %
of science TO desist in future from the use OF teir
ancient units of weight and measure in scienuhc anu
technical publications, and to employ those OF tne
metric system only
This resolution was passed with immense enthu-
siasrn the applause and cheering lasted for nearly
five minutes and the vote unanimous
In connection with this allow me to state that the
American Neurological Society has prepared petition
asking Congress to pass the following act:
"That on and after July 1, 1899, the metric system
Of weights and measures authorized by the act Of
Congress approved July IS, 1868, shall be used ex-
clusvely in the customs service of the United sates
Such petition we desire TO circulate widely among
those desiring to sign It, and we ask each slgner 10
mail it to his Representative in Congress.
The American Neurological Society has prepared n
simple and excellent chart Of the metric system which
for ii the cost price 10 cents in stamps Address
Secretary Of American NEUROLOGICAL Society. No. a
East Forty -ninthst., York City. Copies OF the
petition can be had at the same address.
JOHN K. REES Secretary Am Met. Society.
New York, sept. IL, 1891.
New-York tribune., 1891-09-23
EFFECT OF THE MCKINLEY LAW SEEN AT HAvRE.

EFFECT OF THE MCKINLEY LAW SEEN AT IIAVRE.
To the Editor Of The Tri b mo
Sir: The following few Of many pertinent con
cusons derived from the original invoices Of all mer-
chandlse shipped from the Havre, France, consular
district dncuding consular agencies at Honheur,
Rennes St. Nalo and Cherbourg) during the first eight
months of the operation of the Mckinley bill:
l. Only one-half of per cent but had duty changed
comparing tafs of 1883 and 1890 Showing most care
ful revision of the schedules
Q Fift1-six per cent Of all dutabe goods had duty
reduced. and mark thsl 80 92-1OO per cent of such
reduction came from articles (as trOpcaD not produced
in the United States.
g. While the reduction on the SO per cent was less
than the increase on the remaining Al per cent still
tho net increase Of duty only 1-100 per cent OF
total value and mote this 81 41O0 per cent of this
net Increase from duties on farm products, liquors
and ornaments . ,
or all this merchandise, 73 641O0 per cent entered
United states ports fee Of duty, while, had the same
total merchandise sought entry at French ports, Only
81 3s-IOO per cent would have been admitted duiy
free If all had been shipped 20 British ports only
40 16-I0O per cent would have been there admitted
free Thus that which was admitted free in United
states ports 24-l00 times as much as was so
admitted in French ports and | s3lO0 times as much
as was so admitted In the ports OF free rade Great
Britain o. f. WILLIAMS, United states Consul
Havre, France, Sept. 10, 1891
New-York tribune., 1891-09-23
Kingsbrldge, N Y, Sept. II. 1891.
TO COMPLETE AN ELEVATED BELT LINE.

TO the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: Much has been said of late In reference to
giving the elevated railroads additional room in the
Battery Park to enable them to more readily accom-
modate the travelling public.
Instead of that, why should they not adopt a
method that will enable them TO run more trains
and not stop to switch any OF them. Have them
connect One sunderland twenty and Third
ave- by a double track with Eghthave. and One-hun-
hity-ffthst make circle around the city.
start trains as from Onehuudred and fifty ffthst.
and Eighth-ave; 60 down Eighth, Ninth and Sixth
aves as now and keep up Third and over to
Eighth-ave., and then go down and around again.
Start on the inner track from One-hundred- and fifty
Hfth-st and Eghth-ave and go over to and down the
Third and keep on mp Ninth and Sixth and Eighth to
Onc-hupdred- nd fifty -Gfhst., and go down and
around that way. Two circles around the city. M
switching: no stops, and at least Onequarter To
third more trains JOHN Y. BANGS.
New York, Sept. 10, 1891
New-York tribune., 1891-09-23
GOOD NEWS FOR FARMERS.
ENORMOUS INCREASE IN THE EXPORTS oF
BRF1ADsTUFFs IN AUGUST.

BRpADSTUFFS IN AUGUST.
Washington. Sept % (specaD.-The official returns
NJ tbe exports of breadsus for the month OF August
which were made public recently by the Rureau OF
statistics show decided and most satisfactory change
in favor of domestic producers, as compared with the
month Of August 1890 and also for the eight months
ended August 81 1891, as compared with the CORE
sponding period Of Nst year. Not only has there
been large increase of the quantities of rye and wnea
exported but also a substantial advance in the ex-
mort values of those products we'll as OF wheat -four
corn and cornmea although the quantities OF the lat
ter exported show decrease, which was wholly
due in the case of corn and meal to the short corn
crop of 1890 and the fact that this years crop has not
vet been harvested. The number Of bushels Of corn
exported in August, 1891, 1,202,309; in August
1890 it was 2 807, ,341 decrease, 1,G05033 bushels
The exports of cornmeal fell off from 27 ,844 barrels
in August $780, to 90, $50, barrels in August 1891
decrease OF 1885 barrels Of barley from 55,925 bush
els TO 81 010 bushels; Of oatmeal, from 1,9S09o9
pounds to T4372O pounds, and Of wheat -four from
s5e.735 barrels TO S39,795 barrels The exports Of
oats increased from III bushels in August 1890 to
1s5.439 bushels In August 1891, or 156,772 bushels
OF rye from 143 4s2 bushels to 572 ,497 bushels.
72ooI5 bushels and of wheat from 5.330,5o7 bushels
total value of the exports Of each Of the products
named above for the month Of August, 1891, and the
declared export value per barrel bushel of each in
August, 1890, and August, 1891, are shown in the
foIloNinP