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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-07
ABsHEvMTeD TeLeeRAMs.

Diet Fenssea, of Brazil, proposes to
Danish every body who declines to give an
adhesion to the republic.
Joseph kistler, of West McGregor, Ia,
blew out his brains rather than to be ar
rested for selling liquor.
Eight hundred men struck against re-
duction of wages in Jones & McLaugh-
Inns mills at Pittsburg
Weis Bros, Wholesale dry goods, of
Galveston, Tex have failed, with liabili-
ties estimated at $500
Paul ID. Carpenter. son of the late Sena-
tor Carpenter. of Wisconsin, has Joined
the Roman Catholic church.
A drunken woman threw a lamp at
Patrick Mcguire at New York, and he
was burned so badly that he died.
Senator Frank Hiscock denies that he
has been rendered the position in the cab
met vacated by Secretary Proctor.
If the prohibitory law is repealed in
Iowa two large breweries which were
closed at Sioux City will be opened
again.
Acting Secretary Spaulding has ordered
that machinery intended for making beet
sugar be admitted into the United States
free of duty.
The strike at the St. Louis Stamping
companys mills, the Nledrln ghaus plant,
has been declared off. and the men have
gone to work.
The District of Columbia has decided to
ask congress for an appropriation of $50,-
900 to enable it to make creditable ex-
hibit at the Worlds fair
1t is believed in Tennessee that as soon
as the released convicts are "roupded up"
they will bs returned to Briceville under
military protection and the stockade re-
built
There are 16i important steam naviga-
tion companies in the world, of which the
English own sixty four, the French
thirty-five and the Germans twelve. In
the United States there are fifteen.
At San Francisco Mrs. Calvin Somers
charges that the late Judge Edmunds was
bribed to assign land case to Judge
Levy. and that the latter was also bribed
to decide the case for the defendants.
The supporting columns for the For
estry building, at the Worlds fair, are to
be trunks of trees with the bark on.
Chief Buchanan has requested each state
to furnish three trunks of trees for this
purpose.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-07
TIME TO BE DOING.
Gotham Must Act for the Great
Exposition.
A CALL FOR ACTIVE COOPERATION.

The Times Says That the Day of Apathy
Is Past and the Metropolis should Come
Forward with Substantial Aida Prop
osition That the Empire City People
Take All the Remaining Stock, and why
1t Should Be Done at Once-work on
the Fair Site.
NEW YORK, Nov. 7.-Under the caption
OF New York and the Worlds Fair The
Times says editorially:
In commenting upon the report to their gov
ernment of the British commissioners, who
have visited Chicago, The Times took occasion
to point out that the whole country was now
committed to the fair, and the failure of the
falr or anything short of a positive and pro-
nounced success would be q discredt to the
whole country. and not to Chicago alone.
There Is particular responsibility resting
upon New York the result of particular
interest Next to Chicago itself New York
city would benefit more largely by a success
ful fa.r than any other city in the country. As
the chief port of the country it 1evies tribute
upon nearly all imports and nearly all ex-
ports.
New York Levies the Tolls.
The foreign trade of the country cannot be
increased without paying toll to this city, and
the main object and result of a successful
Worlds fair is to stimulate foreign trade. 1t
tained only with difficulty in the face of our
existing commercial legislation, and is not very
likely TO occur except with such articles as
have escaped the Argus eyes of Mr.. Mckinley
and his political and commercial advisers.
Nevertheless, the fair can be permanently sue
cessful only by extending our foreign trade,
and New York will profit by any such extern
sion much more even than Chicago itself. 1t
Is natural that such considerations should thus
far have dropped into allegiance. When there
was real pu bic interest in the fair among
New Workers, it was interest in a fair in New
York.
Some Reflections on Provincialism.
The discussion at the and of which the fair
went to Chicago, was more or less rude and
acrimonious and left New Workers rather dis
gusted with the whole proceeding. as well as
with its outcome. This irritation gave way to
an apathy that has lasted until the present
time, and that the west in general, and Chicago
IN particular, has begun to resent. In fact, the
loneliness of the west about eastern action
and eastern opinion is very great. Undoubted-
ly it is provincial state of mind. and recalls a
similar state of mind in the eastern states a
half a century ago, when we were sensitive
to European criticism. Our provincial thin
ness of skin produced soreness that amounted
at one time to very serious factor in politics,
resulting as il did in a settled hatred of Eng
land, which was the native land of most of the
supercilious tourists who enraged us-of all of
them indeed. whose criticisms were written in
our own language.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-07
SECTIONAL JEALOUSY.
What Eastern Apathy May Lead to-A
Remedy Suggested.

What Eastern Apathy May Lead to-A
Remedy Suggested.
Now, nobody cares what the British tourist
thinks about America, which feels herself very
well able to take care of herself, and the ma
tional sensitiveness has become sectional
senstiveness. 1t is as likely to lead to as seri-
Gus results in national politics as the national
sensitiveness threatened in international pol
itics whenever any controversy arose between
Great Britain and ourselves, as in the question
of the northwestern boundary. The whole
west is greatly interested in the success Of
the fair. and the holding aloof of the east will
intensity such sectional jealousy as already
exists. and will result in bitterness of feeling
that may have deplorable practical results
Eastern Apathy Resented West.
That eastern apathy is resented in the west
every reader of western newspapers knows,
and it shows very strongly in a negative way
by the warm western appreciation of any
practical evidence of sympathy with the fair
that has been furnished by well-known indi-
viduals in the east, such as Mr.. Depew and
Mr. William Steinway. That this sectional
feeling is sentimental does not make it at all
less important; and the interest of this city in
the success of the fair, as we have just been
shown, is an extremely practical interest.
The "Nub' of The Times Article.
1t happens that a way is open by which the
"solidity'' of the country and the interest of
New York in particular in the fair may be
manifested. The stock of the Chicago fair is
now in the market. Exactly what amount is
still disposable we not informed. At any
rate the amount is by means as great as the
stake of New York In the success of the fair.
1t should all be taken here, and taken at once.
The chamber of commerce is perhaps the nat
ural organ of the business of New York in a
case like this, which involves primarily the
foreign trade.
Would Be an Olive Branch.
The chamber in conjunction with the Pro-
duce Exchange. the relations of which with
Chicago and the agricultural west are es-
pecially close. and with the Stock Exchange.
in which the whole system of inland transpor-
tation is represented, should be able to absorb
all the remaining stock of the Chicago fair.
Nothing would go further than such action to
insure the success of the fair. 1t is not an un-
important consideration that nothing would
go further than such action to dissipate local
jealousy and sectional iii-will
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-07

were put in condition for planting flowers
and shrubs in the spring, and three miles
Of park road were built. Since the World 8
fair directors took possession of Jackson
park 1,123,073 cubic yards of earth have
been moved.
State Buildings Lagging.
Only one department of the Worlds
fair work can be said to be tagging That
Is the erection of state buildings. Much
appointed in the different states to put
mp these buildings at the fair. Although
many of the states made appropriations
for their buildings more than six months
ago. not one of them has yet let a con-
tract or done anything on the exposi-
tion grounds toward getting their head
quarters ready
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-07
THE MARKETS.
Chicago.

CHICAGO. Nov. 6. 7
Board Of trade quotations for toiay were
as follows: Wheat-No. 2 November, opened
s434c, closed 95ssc; December, opened 95c,
closed 915sc; May. opened sl.c234; closed sl.Oisz.
Corn-No. 2 October, opened 5414c, closed
5434c: November, opened 46Ac, closed 47c;
year, opened 4414c, closed 445sc. Oats-No.
November opened 3Hsc, closed 3l3c; Deem
3Esc. closed 334c. Pork-December, opened
and closed SS.iU; January, opened and closed
S1L3s May. opened and closed Sl1.65
Lard-December. opened S6lS4 CLOSED
s6l5
Live stock-Prices at the Union Stock
yards ranged as follows: Hogs-Market
active on packing and shipping account; feel
ing steady at late decline of Thursday; sales
ranged at s2.40G3.1o pigs, s3.45a390 light,
S361G3.s0 rough packing. $3.6lG425 mixed,
and s3.sJG4-3o heavy packing and shipping
lots.
Cattle-Market rather active On local and
shipping account, feeling rather weak; prices
favored buyers; quotations ranged at &6.00162S
prime to shipping steers, S4.3kG5.S0 good to
fancy do S3.0014.0 20 common to fair do. s.. .601Z25
butchers steers, Sls0G2.6J stockers, S2.0Odt3.l0
Texans, S25eG4.6D rangers Se.501S-25 feeders,
Sl.5093.5O cows, 81 l25g2.'5 bulls, and g. 501500
veal calves.
Sheep Market fairly active, and prices un-
changed; quotations ranged at S3501l70
westerns, S3.53G5,l0 natives. AMI $35oG50
lambs
Produce: Butter-Fancy separator, sc per
Id: dairies, fancy, fresh. 23d25c; packing
stocks, fresh. l4Gl5c. Esgs-Fresh candied
loss of, &c per doz; ice house stock. 1S1lsI<c.
Live poultry-Old chickens, 1l9dsc per lb.
spring. &c: roosters: &C; mixed turkeys, 91lOc;
ducks, mixed. 9lI11c: geese, s5.50135) per doz-
Potatoes-Home grown. 40G50c per sack; Wis
cons:n and Michigan common, atG25c: good to
choice. 3Dsl33c per bu. sweet potatoes, Illinois
Sl.2JGl.50 per Dbl: Jerseys, 81. 0l2..5. Apples
Common. sl25d151 per Dbl: good. S1..5G2.0D:
choice to fancy, S2.251l2.50. Cranberries-Cape
Cod, fancy, S6.5od1p per Dbl: Jerseys, $500
$40.
New York.
NEW YORK, Nov. 6.
wheat-No. red winter cash. s1.Ooyx:
| November. Sl.o6; December. Sl.G7S4; Janu-
usry, Sl.0sM. Corn-No. mixed cash. s3c;
November, 6.5sc: December. 5s3sc; January,
sc Oats-Quiet but steady: No. mixed
| cash. 39a39l2c: December, sc; January. 39tsc-
| Rye-ln more demand and firmer; SL0lGS
| l.t3la for the whole range. Btriey-StrOnx;
| western for export. saaLS:. Pork-Moderate-
| ly active and steady: new mss easier, SlG.5
| l-ard-Quet; December. $6is January, s6GI
Live stock: Cattle-Trading dull and COM
mon cattle sold at slight decline; poorest
| 10 best native steers. S3.3l15.75 per loo IL Q;
| Colorados, Sj.351425; bulls and dry cows,
| Sll5GI3.s5. Sheep and Lambs-Sheep steady;
lambs dull at a decline OF Nc per ID: sheep,
| Si.Je5425 per loo lbs; lambs, A75lt5. 40.
| Hogs-Nominslly steady: live hogs, SA09a
| l.7J per 100 lbs.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-07
surIy British Radicals.

LONDON. Nov. 7.-When the fire oc-
Cured in the palace OF the Prince of
Wales at Sandringham the mayor of
Kings Lynn, Norfolk, the nearest town,
responded to call for help by sending the
fire brigade Of that town to aid in sup
pressing the flames. This was . violation
of the local bylaws, which prohibit the
brigade from leaving the stown limits.
The radicals of the vicinity have raised
an issue on the mayors action, and are
seeking to have him formally censured.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-07
FIENDIsH REVENGE OF A WIFE
She Pours Boiling Water on Her Sleep
ing Husband.

MEMPHIS, Nov. Pony Saunders, q
well-known saloonkeeper and politician,
died in st. Joseph's hospital yesterday Of
injuries inflicted by his wife. Last
Wednesday Mrs. Saunders, suspecting
her husbands infidelity, went to Pearl
Willis house and found him in the
woman's room. She gave Pearl terrible
beating. Mrs. Saunders then returned
home and when her husband came in
heated kettle of water Mr.. Saunders
went to sleep and was awakened by his
wife pouring boiling water on the lower
part of his body. He was horribly
scalded and taken to the hospital. He be-
came delirious and Thursday jumped
from the second story of the building
breaking both legs.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-07
DAsTARoLY MURDER OF A GIRL.
Shot Dead Because She Would Not Marry
the Miscreant,

ST PAUL. Nov. 1.-Andrew Kohler, who
has been courting Winnie Dree for some
time, and been refused several times by
her. last night appeared at her home and
demanded an interview. When alone
with her he drew a revolver and said
"You must take your choice-me Oh
death.r She thought it was a joke, and
laughingly said: "rll take death in mine" I"
He fired, the bullet piercing her right
breast, killing her instantly. Kohler fed,
and is being pursued by the police.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-07
Rev. Hughes ON American Morality.

LONDON, Nov. THE Rev. Hugh Price
ical conference in Washington. dwells
upon the existence of Sweating" starvs-
tion, and immortality in American cities.
In which respect he says the American
| cities are equal to the English cities.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-07
The President Invited to Savannah.

WAsHISGToN. Nov. IA delegation
from Savannah. Ga, headed by Senator
Colquitt and Mayor McDonough, called
on the president yesterday, and urged him
to visit Savannah, Ga, during the coming
winter. The delegations appeal was
strengthened by telegram from A. E
Buck and other prominent Republicans
urging the president to accept. The pres
ident said he would visit Savannah as
requested If he could possibly do SO.
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-05-07
A CURIOUS CLIMBER.
How Rattan Grows from Which Furniture
Is Made.

How Rattan Grows from Which Furniture
LIS Made.
Every one knows the pretty, light
and graceful chairs and other articles
of furniture made from rattan, but
every one does not know that the ex
tremelY tough and flexible wood called
rattan is that of climbing palin-tree.
This curious climber (which is more OF
a vine than tree) is one of the singu-
lar characteristics of forest growth in
the Celebes and other Malayan coun-
tries; Starting with a trunk as thick
as a mans leg, it winds through the
forest, now wrapping tall tree in its
folds, like some gigantic snake, and
then descending again to earth and
trailing along in snake-like curves I'M
til it can find some other stately tree to
fasten and climb upon in its pursuit OF
light and air.
The forest is so thick and jungle-iiic
that it seems impossible to follow the
course of any one of these serpent
climbers; but there is little doubt that
It last the successful aspirant, which
stooped and cringed SO long be-
low, will be found shooting up Nike
flagstaff dozen feet or more above
the tree which has helped it RISE
A. nse of the rattan, which is UNI
known to those who have not seen It in
its native forest, is a water carrier.
The thirsty traveller has at all times
tnmblerful Of cool refreshing water al
bis command by cutting off six or eight
-. ~ fha
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-05-07
THIN PRETENSES.
Tho Transparens Coat of whitewash
which Quay Has Given Himself

The Transparent Coat of whitewash
which Quay Has Given Himself
The real, acknowledged head of the
republican party is Matthew Stanley
Quay, United States senator from Penn
sylvania. He managed the Harrison
campaign in 1883, and managed it so
well that he steered the little man from
Indianapolis into the presidential chair.
How he did It is now unnecessary to re-
fer to. He as set up in consequence Of
his victory as tho manager, par excel
lence, of his party and as the only one
worthy to conduct the next presidential
campaign Since that victory, Mr..
Quay has been called upon to explain
certain charges, which were of very
serious nature. If these charges were
true, Mr.. Quay should now be occupy
ing a cell in state prison, rather than q
seat in the senate. The changes were
put forward in the most definite form
In the columns of newspapers. which
invited, may, urged. the accused head Of
the republican party 70 sne' them for
libel, in case the charges should not
prove true. Republican leaders in his
own state called upon Mr.. Quay to
make some answer TO these terribls
charges = state elsotion took place
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-05-07
QUAY ENDORSES HIMSELF.
The Pennsylvanis Statesman Poses as q
Saint and Martyr.

The Pennsylvania Statesman Poses as a
Saint and Martyr.
The defense made by Senator Quay
is more dignified in its tone than might
have been expected, but in its subject
matter it is SO vague that it can hardly
be called a defense at all. Confronted
by specific charges of malfeasance in
connection with the Pennsylvania
treasury, Mr. Quay has changed the
subject to his whole political career,
and has entered a general denial that
he ever did anything wrong in his po-
litical life. His statement might have
been appropriately called Matthew
Stanley Quay's assertion of his good
opinion of himself from the earliest
times to the present day.
The only incid1nt in connection with
which he did not claim immaculate and
snowy purity of soul was his associa-
ton with Dudley in the blocks OF five
business, and that omission was no
doubt an oversight. When Mr.. Quay
breaks silence, it is only to tell the
country that he can see no reason for
not considering himself a saint and
martyr. This may seem sufficient from
his standpoint, but from any other it is
almost ludicrous to call it "a defense. !"
It does not even amount to an apology,
and IL gratifying only as a sort of an
acknowledgement of public jurisdiction
over public indictments for breaches Of
public trust.
But even in this view Nof it, it is al
together likely that his case would
have been better had he taken for him
self the advice he gave Beaver and kept
to the end the silence he only broke to
give himself his own Endorsements
ST. Louis Republic.
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-05-07
THE HoMINe PIGEON.

Its Utility and the High Rate of Speed to
!" Which 1t Attains.
The homing pigeon is the one kind of
his race that has distinctly utilitarian
existence. During the Franco Prussian
war they were the only means Of COM
munication Paris had with the outside
world when all the ingenuity of man
had failed. Since thatZperied the
French and German war departments
have established extensive Government
lofts for the breeding and training of
these truly remarkable birds. A prop
sosition has also recently been made to
supply our outgoing European steam
ers with trained homing pigeons, to be
used at a distance or not exceeding 500
to 500 miles from New York; SO, should
any thing happen within this distance,
almost instantaneous word could be
brought to land; SO far, however, the
matter has not taken definite shape. In
build the homer" somewhat resembles
the English carrier, but has not such
heavy wattles, and much smaller and
more curved bill;, he is not SO long in
the body, and is much broader across
the back. The eye is particularly large
and brilliant, and the bird has an
alertness of manner and intelli-
gence of look that is wanting
in other varieties. In color they are
light blue, with two heavy black bars
across each wing, the throat and breast
being of an iridescent blue and green
mixed. There is also the black, blue
checker, red-checker, red, silver and
white. The interest in these birds in
this country is very great, and the an.
nual races excite much attention, val
liable prizes being offered for competi.
ton, the Homing Pigeon. Association
also holding a show of its own every
year. The bird was originally devel.
oped in Antwerp, and from thence i'm.
ported into this country. Our fanciers
here have, however, outstripped their
European rivals in the matter OF speed
and endurance, as our American bred
birds have demolished all foreign rec
sords for long-distance flying. The av-
erage speed of the sshomcrn is about
mile a minute-243 miles in 232 minutes
being the best on record. The average
fight for twenty-four hours of these
homing pigeons is over 500 miles. Mont
gomery flew 1851 miles, but took thirty
odd days to get home; naturally much
of this time he was lost somewhere, de-
layed by storms or head-winds, and
may have actually flown twice chat dis
lance, but he was never heard OF from
the hour he was liberated until he re-
turned to the home loft month after
ward. -Harper's Weekly.
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-05-07
OPINIONS AND POINTERS.

The so-called reciprocity treaty
relieves the Brazilians of some of their
taxes, but it doesn't take dollar off
those that Americans must pay. IN. Y.
World.
The Syracuse Standard raises the
remarkable proposition that public
men become, whether truly or falsely,
accused only of that of which they are
supposed to be capable" In no other
way can the reputation of Cleveland for
courage, of Harrison for toeing in, OF
Reed for rutfianism, of Depew for die
ton and of Bill Chandler for curvilinear
ethics be explained. Brooklyn Eagle.
ALI the republican organs sound
the praises OF reciprocity, and all the
mill bosses are for it. and the same
blessings which these disinterested and
philanthropic people used to declare
would flow to the farmers out of the
blessed little. home market they now
declare will come out of the .'magnifi-
cent trade policy of that grandest of
statesmen" Jim the Penman. To the
organs and to the mill bosses rose by
any other name smells Just as sweet
Chicago Times.
The threat Of making the force
bill "a rider" in the same appropriation
bill to which free coinage is attached
as an amendment is characteristic
piece of plutocratic bulldozing. These
fellows threaten force bills against cur
rency reform stariff reform or anything
else that interferes with them in their
privileges. Let them go on with their
force bills. The democratic party is go
ing on with its reforms, and it VIII. pot
be intimidated by any such threass
St. Louis Republic.
The defeat OF the force bill means
the elimination Of the sectional issue
from the next presidential campaign.
1t would be ridiculous for the republic
ans to ask votes in 1892 ON the ground.
that II victorious, they would enact
some legislation regarding the south
ern question, " when they had failed In
1891 to pass, i law which they Ind prom
ised in 1888, and when the r-susal to
keep that pledge was heartil.r endorsed
BY the chief republican newspapers IN
number Of the great republican states
at the west The next national cam
paign will turn on other issues than thu
hlQodx shirt IN, y. Post