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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-27
THUMPED MACUNE.
An Alliance Man Who Is Handy
at Slugging.
A STAGGERER BETWEEN THE EYES.

And a Knock Ont on the Mouth the Re-
Spouse to an Imputation on the As
sailant's yeracity Result of the Row
Between Leaders of the Mississippi
Aliiance-Macune Victorious in the
Convention, but yanquished in the
scrap-McAIlister Expelled.
DURANT, Miss, Aug. 21.--A fist fight
occurred in the Office of the West House
here last night, between w. 5. McAllister
and DR.. c. w. Macune, editor of The
National Alliance economist, of Wash
ington, both of whom arrived on the even
ing train from Starhville, where they had
been in attendance upon the state Ali
ance meeting. Lecturer McAllister yester-
day was expe led by the Alliance because
of his oppos: ion to the sub-treasury
scheme, and of his exposure of the alleged
official corruption of DR.. Macune, .who
had great deal to do with the treatment
N eted ont to Mr. McAlhster.
Macune stated that McAllister was
bonght by Wall street, and was eXertina.
his influence to destroy the Alliance. On
tie train last evening from Starkville a
friend questioned DR.. Macune and repeat
Ell -hCAlilsIcr : charges 10 nm, to which
DR.. Macune replied: If h says | sold
out to Pat Calhoun he has lied This
reached McAsiister just before reaching
here, and upon meeting DR.. Macune Mr..
Allister demanded an explanation. DIR
Macune shook his head and walked off,
saying: Il have nothing to say 10 you,
sir"
Blow Between the Eyes.
MICA lister moved arOuOH IL, Of
him, saying: D you, you have got TO
meet the issue you have raised against me
with misguided ignorance" DR.. Macune
replied: What else could / do but treat
your statement as did," McAllister like
a flash struck DR.. Macune between the
eyes, causing him to stagger toward the
floor. When Macune began to recover
McAllister squared himself and struck
with all his power. Then they clinched.
Another One in the Mouth.
McAllister, recognizing the superior
strength of his antagonist, wrenched loose
and again struck DIR. Macune, this time in
the mouth, causing him to fall He was
caught by the hotel propr ietor, J. c. Hill.
DR.. Macune then placed his right hand on
his hip pocket, as if 70 draw = 7ist7'. wta-,
McAilistcr drew himself up, saying: Now,
you let her go, Gallagher at the same
time facing his antagonist. DR. Macune
then threw up his hands, saying: y am
done DIR. MaCune's face is badly
bruised
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-27
The CorOner's Inquiry.
SPECULATION ON THE CAUSE.
Evidence That There Was Some sort OF
Explosion.


c. c. Shelley, proprietor Of printing
establishment which occupies the fourth
and fifth floors of the building adjoining
the Taylor building on the east, in an in.
terview with reporter yesterday said: Il
was in my office when the crash came and
eight of my employees were working ut
the case by windows directly overlooking
the Taylor building As soon as heard
the noise started toward the sound ard
not over five seconds elapsed before was
in full view of the catastrophe By the
time / reached the window the atmosphere
high up above the building was full of a
dense luminous fog, unlike dust, but more
like the vapor from gas or volatile oil.
suddenly touched off. / also heard a re.
port similar to that of gun before the
walls toppled over.
La Only Needed Shock to Fall.
In few seconds more flames shot up
from the ruins, accompanied by SMOKE
which follows the sudden ignition of
naptha or benzine. am satisfied that an
explosion occurred, and the testimony of
my employees to the effect that the roof
appeared to rise several feet and then go
down seems TO corroborate what heard.
believe in the first place that the build.
ing was weak and was overburdened With
weight. Several of ~the No. Hoe litho-
graphic presses, which are twice as heavy
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-27
King Kelly Comes High.

BosToN, Aug 27.-Manager Bancroft, of
the Milwaukee club, said yesterday that
Kelly came to him Tuesday and told him
what he had done in the matter of Jump
ing his contract. Kelly said that he was
to get $50, O00-s15, 600 down, besides a
ticket for Europe for himself and wife
Kelly left yesterday for Cleveland, where
he will join the Boston League team.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-27
IngersolI's Secretary Recovering.

CRoToN LANDING, n. Y, Aug. 27.-I.
Newton Baker, private secretary to Col
Robert G. lngersoll, who was shot on
Saturday, Aug. l, by Orville E. Ander-
son, has recovered sufficiently to be taken
to the Catskill mountains. When leav-
ing for the mountains lie said he felt as
well as ever. but that the bnllet wound
N his arm was somewhat painful.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-27
Kansas Republican Learue.

TOPEKA, Kan, Aug 27-The State Re
publican league met here yesterday The
convention elected J. w. Bailey, of Meme
nah, president, and adopted resolutions
ildor>inC President Harrison. condemning
tn Peoples party. which is to be fought
~ every school district, and favoring tie
free coinage OF all the American silver
nra1uE-
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-27

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 27-After one of
the most saEguinary battles in the history
Of the Patriotic Order Sons of Americi,
the national camp at its secret meeting
yesterday defeated the proposition TO adj
NIT COlOred mem hers
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-27

WASHINGTON, Ind, Aug 2T-Rose
Gentry, 16-year-old girl, was abducted
by two men who carried her from her
fathers home at Petersburg, bringing her
to this city. A warrant is out for the ar
rest of Ike Little, late proprietor of the
McCarty hotel, and man named Me-
Gillsey.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-27
Death of a Missouri Jurist.

CARRoLLToN, Mo-, Aug. 27.-Robert D
Ray, late chief justice of the supreme
court Of Missouri, died here yesterday
Death vas due to la grippe
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-27

CHICAGO, Aug 21.-United States Sen
ator Hansbrough said at the Grand Pacif
yesterday: Il have it on the very best of
authority that Mr.. Blaine very recent y
told a cabin et officer-w hos- nare | uo
not care TO mentiou-that he would not be
candidate Tor the presidential uomina-
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-27
THE WORST KNOWN AT LAST.
Total Number of Recovered Bodies sixty
One-Seventeen Yet Missing.

Total Number of Recovered Bodies Sixty-
One-Seventeen Yet Missing.
The worst is known about the Park
place disaster. Sixty-one bodies have
been taken out, and the announcement is
made that there are no more in the ruins.
AT O'Clock yesterday afternoon Acting
Fire Chief Reilly said that the search tor
the dead in the ruins was completed and
that no more bodies remained there.
Work was at once stopped and the labor
ers employed in clearing out the debris
were discharged. The verified list Of the
missing shows thirty-five persons unac-
counted for The number of unidentified
dead taken from the ruins is eighteen
Allowing that eighteen of the missing
persons are represented by the unknown
dead, it will be seen that there are seven
teen unaccounted for They are not in
the ruins. And the question now is:
Were they entirely consumed?
List of Identified Dead.
The list of the dead identified up to the
present time is as follows: Charles
Breitner, Gustav Caury, Leonard r. Cole,
A. Derschopki, Adam Dohlen, Liz e
Dowd, William B. Ellis, John Faarn,
Jennie Flower, John Gibbs, Frank Hacb.
Annie Haegney, Jacob Heidenrch, Morris
a luB, JOuu VI. tllllS, l.Dftle
Helm, John Ryland, Arthur Kittle,
George Liebc, Robert H. Marks, Sarah
Mcmahon, Annie Muller, Peter Miller.
Albert Z. Middleton, Andrew Peterson.
Maggie Quinn, Mary Reddin, Gustave
Reich, William Schell, -Schmallba
Conrad Schmidt, NJ. II. Shaddock, John
Steinke, Michael Slattery, Gustave
Steiner, George Sullivan, Ferdinand W.
Trip, Annie Tully, Otto Walser, Henry
Williams. Mary Williams, Lizzie Wood,
Gustave Zickert.
The Coroner's Inquiry.
Coroner Hanley said yesterday that he
would impanel jury today to hold an in
quest in the case of the victims OF the coll
lapsed building. He intends to select
architects, builders, printers, and at least
one chemist as jurymeu. He intends to
hold the inquest next Tuesday, and will
make a searching inquiry. The subscrip-
tons to the relief fund already reach
Si,435. Mrs. ID. Jones Grain. owner OF the
collapsed building, subscribed 81, 600 of this
amount
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-27

Wyoming lot. It's the coming city of Wyom-
ing. Has waterworks, electric lights, Touring
mills. Located in the garden of wyoming
Produced the prize potato crop of the United
States in 1890. FOR maps and further infor
nation apply TO
MANN & THoM. Buffalo, wyo
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-27
THE TALE IS TOLD.
Full Extent of the Park Place
Horror Known.
sIXTY-0NE OORPsEs IN ALL FOUND.

Seventeen Missing Who May Have Eeen
Entirely Consumed - Work stopped
and the Lsborers Discharged-Forty-
Three Dead Observation-Disclosures at
the Morgue-Two Witnesses who Be
lieve the Disaster Was the Result of
An Explosion-A Relief Fund Started
List of the known Dead.
New YORK, Aug. 27-The slow and
tiresome work of searching the ruins in
Park Place for the dead was continued all
Tuesday night and yesterday up to O'Clock
p. m. Between midnight Tuesday and
6;3J a. m. yesterday eight additional
bodies had been recovered, all nearly past
identification from mangling and putre-
faction. Four hours later four more
bodies had been recovered, one that of a
woman not in the least disfigured, but
: with her hands raised as though she had
died while praying. This completed the
work in the cellars of two of the buildings,
and the debris was abandoned there and
labor concentrated in the cellars of Nos.
~ and -.
The Corpses at the Morgue.
At an early hour yesterday small knots
of discorsol2tc men and women gathered
around the morgue and made inquiries
about their missing friends. The odor
that arises from the morgue causes many
to keep at a good distance. The black
wagons arrived about O'Clock bringing
four male bodies, and there was a rush to
identify them. These bodies were put with
the twenty-four that were yet unidentified.
Out of total of fifty-four bodies at the
morgue there were eight FEMALES. The
first body identified yesterday was that
of Mary Reddin, of Brooklyn Then Dem
mis- Sullivan identified the body of his To-
year-old son George. Body No % was
identified as that of Morris A Harring, of
Jersey City. He was at luncheon in the
restaurant at the time of the collapse
Was the Bride of Death.
Jennie Flower the young woman who
was to have been married on Sunday. the
day after the disaster, was identified by
her steptather. Lizzie Dowd aged %
years was identified by Mrs Main The
body OF. William G.. Schell, photographer,
aged % ears, was identified by his mother.
The body of Louis Rosenield, of Rosen-
field & Co., was identified by his partner,
by bis watch and chain and lockct TIE
scene around the little building yesterday
was even more pitiful than at any time
yet. Crowds blocked the streets, and the
entrance TO the gloomy place was con-
stantly filled, making it difficult for the
attendants to get in and out. The moment
the dead wagon arrived there was = rush
by inquiring friends bent on getting some
clue to missing relatives and dear ones,
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-27

Takes 1000 people to buy
DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy,
at 20 cents a bottle, to make
up $500.
One failure to cure would
take the profit from 1000
sales.
Its makers profess to cure
"cold in the head" and even
chronic catarrh, and if they
fail they pay $500 for their
over-conhdenCe,-
Not in newspaper words
but in hard ash! Think of
what confidence it takes to
put that in the papers-and
mean it.
Its makers believe in the
Remedy. Isn't it worth a
trial? Isn't any trial prefer
able to catarrh?
After all, the mild agencies
are the best. Perhaps they
work more slowly, but they
work surely. DR.. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets are an ncts0e
agency but quiet and mild.
They're sugar-coated, easy to
take, never shock nor derange
the system and half their pow
err is in the mid way in which
their work is done. Small
est, cheapest, easiest to take.
One a dose. Twenty-Five cents
a vial. Of all druggists.
, 1891-02-14
THE FACTS IN TWO CASES
THE mILUioNAIRE's wlFE AND THE
FARMERS WIFE.

Marion Harland Thinks They Are Too
Ambitious. and Writes Strong Words
condemnIBg Their Desire and That of
Their Husbands to He Smart"
Copyright by American Press Association
They were as far apart in education
and social station as If they had belonged
to different races and had lived in differ
emit hemisphere
They were as heal akin in circum-
stances and IN suffering as if they had
been twin sisters, and brought up under
the same roof.
The husband of one wrote Honor
able" before his name and reckoned his
dollars by the million. He was, more
over, a man of imposing department,
bland in manner and ornate in language.
AS riches increased he set his heart
upon them and upon the good things
that riches buy. He had four children,
and he erected (''built" was too small
a world a palatial house in a fashionable
street.
Each child had a suite of three rooms.
Each apartment was elAborately deco
rated and furnished. The drawing rooms
were crowded with ~bric-a-brac and
monuments of upholstery ingenuity. 1t
was a work of art and peril to dust them
every day. He developed a taste for
entertaining as time went on and honors
thickened upon him, and he mistook,
like most of his guild, ostentation for
hospitality. Every dish at the banduets
for which he became famous was a show
piece. He sweIled with honest pride in
the perusal of a popular personal para
graph estimating the value Of his silver
and cut glass at $780, 900.
The superintendent, part owner and
the slave of all this magniicence was
his wife. She was her own housekeeper,
and employed besides the coachman,
whose business was in the stables and
upon his box. three servants. There
were twenty-five rooms in the p~alatial
house, giving to each woman servant eight
to be kept in the spick-and-span array de-
manded by the masters position and
taste. As a matter of course something
was neglected in every department, the
instinct of self preservation being in
nate and cultivated in Abigail, Phyllis
and Bridget. Even more as a matter of
course the nominal mistress supplement-
ed The Deficiencies of her aids.
The house was as present and forcefuI
a consciousness with her as his Dull
cinea with David Copperfield at the
period when 1.-The sun shone Dora, and
the birds sang Dora, and the south wind
blew Dora. and the wild flowers in the
hedges were all Doras to a bud" No
snail ever carried her abode upon her
back moro constantly than our poor rich
woman the satin lined, hot aired and
plate Widowed stone pile with her. The
lines that criss-crossed her forehead, and
chRnneled her cheeks, and ran down.
ward from the corners of her mouth
were hieroglyphics standing in the eyes
OF the initiated for the baleful legend
, 1891-02-14
FAN SHAPED L


fan by spreading one upon it as a pat
tern the size you may desire. Then sew
en- squares should be cut two inches and
a half square. A light piece of cotton
wadding should be laid over the fan
piece and the squares. This may be
oelicately sached with orchid powder or
white rose. If skillful with the brush
and water colors paint a spray of eli
mats or trumpet vine like the design of
the illustration upon the satin before
covering the fan piece with it, though q
rich design stamped and embroidered Is
equally as effective.
The satin may be applied with muci-
lsge, paste or with the needle, and should
be of bright color-a rich gold or Grim
son-to properly display the photographs
placed against it. The yellow is very
attractive as r background for trumpet
flowers, the heavy greens of the leaves
and rich reds leaving the yellow parts of
the flower to be colored by the satin it
self. The squares are then nicely COW
cred with bits of plush to match the
satin, on which lettering in dull red
makes piquant description of the photos
they are to support. The fan and these
bits may be lined with thin silk or col
ored cambria. The squares are easily
sewed in place, a V the top and end one,
which may be pasted against the fan or
fastened by means of skdllful stitchery.
A ribbon girdle is fastened at the top to
suspend it from a hook on the wall or
the knob of a mirror, while a double case
of this sort-that is, two fam with back
to back-may be hung from a gas jet or
chandelier and affords ample capacity
for all ones friends.
EMMA MoFFErT TYING.
, 1891-02-14

The Woman About Town" of The
New York Evening Sun is Miss Helen
Watterson, a young woman from the
west" Besides the witty and thoughtful
u]tterances of Thew oman About Town.
she prepares much other matter for the
paper, writes specials, reads MSS. and
does general office work. As a conversa-
tionalist Miss Watterson is delightful.
She possesses a keen sense of humor and
has always something bright and fresh
10 say ON every topic.
Miss Wattersoa is a quiet dresser and
has a preference for sober browns and
soft grays. She lives with Mrs. Abby
Sage Richardson.
, 1891-02-14
HOUSE AND HOUSEKEEPING.


When she drove abroad il her luxurious
chariot, behind high stepping bays, jung
ling with plated harness, or repaired in
the season to seashore or mountain, she
was striving feebly to push away the
tons of splendid responsibility from her
brain.
One day she gave over the futile at
tempt. Something crashed down upon
and all around her, and everything ex-
cept inconceivable misery of soul was a
blank.
Expensive doctors diagnosed her case
SIS nervous prostration. When she
vanished from the eyes of her public,
and u high salaried h~ousekeeper, a
butler, a nursery governess and an extra
Abigail took her place and did half her
work, in the satin lined shell out of
which she had crept, MANNED and well
nigh murdered. it was announced that
she was under the care of a specialist
at a retreat"
A retreat Heaven save and pardon
Us for making such homes part and
parcel and a necessity of our century
and our lan1I
Our honorable's consort never left it
until she was borne forth into the securer
refuge of the narrow house that needed
none of her c~aretaking. Upon the low
| green thatch lies heavily the shadow of
a mighty monument that, to the satir-
lists eye, has a family likeness to the
stone pile which killed her.
The second lease" is that of a farmers
wife, born and bred among the hills be-
yond the shelter of which she had
Travelled but once, and that on her we'd
ding journey. She came back from the
brief outing to take possession Of her
W house-prideful phrase to every
young matron.
1t was an eight roomed farmstead,
with no modern c~onveniences. That
meant that all the water used in kitchen
and dwelling had to be fetched from a
wel twenty feet away; that there was
no drain or sink or furnace; that station
airy tubs had not been heard of, and the
washing was wrung by hand. The stall
wart farmer Calculated to live in hay
ing, harvesting, planting, plowing,
thrashing and killing times. Whatever
might have been the wife's calculations,
she toiled unaided, cooking, washing,
ironing, scrubhing, sewing, churning,
butter making and bringing up a fam
ly," single handed, with never a Great
ure to lift an ounce or do a stroke for
her while she could stand upon her feet.
When she was laid upon her back
ar unusual occurrence except when there
was a fresh baby-a neighbor looked in
twice a day TO lend q hand, or Mrs.
Camp was engaged for a fortnight. 1t
was not an unusual occurrence for the
nominally convalescent mother to get
dinner for six linen folks with a g.
weeks-old baby upon her left arm.
Her husband was energetic and fore
handed" and without the slightest ap-
proach to intentional cruelty looked to
his WIFI to keep up her end of the log"
He tolerated no w-astefulness, and ex-
pected to be well fed and comfortable;
and comfort with his Yankee mothers
, 1891-02-14

Washington is q paradise for the wo-
man who loves to show her independence.
Every day of the year women tourists
arrive, stop at n of the big hotels,
and start out to see the town. Wash
ington has the most famous woman law
yer, the best known woman's dress re-
formers, and nj end Of women who make
their way in the world in the public de-
partments, in professional life and as
proprietors of hotels and boarding
houses, to say nothing of the many wo-
men who go there to push their claims
upon the government with energy and
persistency more than masculine. Wash
ington is becoming noted, too, as a city
of rich widows, who, practically alone
in the world, manage large estates and
carry on extensive domestic establish
ments. The carping critic and cynic,
the sneering curmudgeon, the doubling
Thomas, who pirate of woman's resem-
blance to the vine and her inability to
do for herself, should by all means go
to the Capital City and see what he shall
see,
, 1891-02-14

He desisted, and after some further
agony the outfit was completed, and the
salesman, as was proper, turned to her
and asked where the articles should be
sent. She gave the address of the little
house in the suburbs, and then the sales
man asked:
What name, pleasel7
Miss j no-that isl mean"
and her bushes got in the way of any
further utterance.
He g~roaned and the salesman smiled.
See here" said he, taking the sales
man aside, lyon do all those things up
and I'll pay the bill. I'll give you my
name and address. and some time next
week I'll give you the tip when to send
the stuff up. See?"
1t must not be thought for an instant
that this narrowing experience preluded
any discomfort after that day mex
week" when the kitchen goods were de-
livered at the little house. Not at all.
Like all veracious romanceS, this state
ment of fact ends with, And so they
were married and lived happily together
ever afterward."
FREDERICK r. BURTON.
, 1891-02-14

Southern women and girls seem to be
taking the literary, journalistic and
business world of New York by storm.
An energetic young lady, Virginia H.
McRae, originally from Wilmington. N.
C., has established The Phonogram in
New York. 1t is a handsome monthly
magazine, and is to be the official organ
of the Photographic companies in the
Union. Every other business interest
has its own trade journal, and there is
no reason why Miss McRae's magazine
should not be highly successful. 1t is
Endorsed by Edison, who contributes to
the first number. 1t was a plucky thing
for q young woman to do all out of her
own brave spirit-this starting a maya
zine in the big city of New York-and
all women everywhere will hope she
will make it a shining success. She her
calf Is its business