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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-28
FIRE STOPPED THE TRIAL
Court House Burned at Tipperary-A
Significant Incident.

Court House Burned at Tipperary-A
Significant Incident.
CORK, March 2S-A thrilling scene &C.
Cured yesterday while the judge was
summing up in the TipFerary riot tr al.
The court house was crowded, when a
barrister present noticed the reflection OF
flames in the glass of the dome overhe; d.
He at once gave notice as quietly as posi-
bic to the Judge, who, without any display
IT excitement, adjourned the proceedings
During the exit the police maintained
perfect order, and the room wnicn had
been packed was emptied without ii panic.
heavy wind prevailed, battling the eff
forts OF the tiremen, and the me lied lead
poured down IN n stream from the roof.
Cheered the Fall of the Flag.
The court house was DESTROYED, includ-
ing the municipal council chamber, and
many documents, some dating back sew
eral centuries, were consumed. BY great
effort and risk some of the more valuable
documents were saved. The union lack
sank with the flagstaff amid the mass of
fames, and the crowd cheered it's fall.
The roof crashed in and the walls fell
with imminent peril to the bystanders,
who escaped injury, however. l. appears
hat the fire was caused by heated flue
emitting the woodwork of the roof. The
5rlal of Tipperary rioters remains uufin-
she'd
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-28
KNIGHTS srooP TO CONQUER.
'iking Clothing Cutters Ordered Back
TO Work for Purpose.


to Work for Purpose.
ROCHESTER, n. Y, March 2s-At the
cioohing workers meeting yesterday to
consider what course to pursue with refer
ence TO the lockout, the opinion of the
national executive board was submitted
10 the meeting and created great sensa-
'ion- 1t is as follows: After hearing an
expression of opinion from the officers of
the local assem- bles interested, we recon-.
mend that all locked out members of the
Knights of Labor apply to their for
neF employers for their former positions.
we take this position for two reasons:
nrst, that any employee that is refused en-
ployment has reason of an action AGAINST
the employer who so refuses, which will
De pushed to the strict letter of the law
with the understanding that we have a
clear case of conspiracy.
Seems To BE ONLY nm Armistice
oecohd-Ihe reason we take this I'M
precedented move is because we desire to
give the consumers of Rochester clothing
the opportunity to know the kind of men
VINO consplred against American working
men and women of the city OF Rochester
ana as 1t will take several weeks to notify
tue consumers of Rochester clothing, it
would be Improbable and inadvisable to
remain out of work during that time"
Inc men against whom the executive
board thinks there will be discrimination
are the officers of the local assemblies. 1t
Is on behalf of these men that the board
proposes to commence suits for damage in
case they are refused employment.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-28
III. weather. We NAV F,n,ct

wAsHINGroS CITY. March ss-The following
are the weather indications for twenty four
hours from p m yesterday: For Indiana
Fair and warmer weather by Saturday
night; north westerly winds For Illinois
Fair weather Saturday; warmer; winds be-
coming southessterly. For Lower Michigan
Light rain snow; warmer by Saturday
night; variable winds. For Upper Michigan
Fair, warmer weather by Saturday night:
northeasterly winds For wisconsin-Fair
weather Saturday: slightly warmer; north
easterly winds. For Iowa-Fair. slightly warm
er weather; southeasterly winds
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-28
A Great CoIiiery DeIuged.

PLYMOUTH, Pa, March 2s.-Dodson col
lery, one of the greatest in the coal fields,
owned by John Shenk g. Co., of New York,
is in danger of total destruction. Water
is breaking into it from abandoned work
ings The mine is connected with vast
number of old works. The water has
gained such Roadway that the work OF the
pumping machinery seems TO be of no
avail. The suspension of the colliery
means total loss of work to 500 men and
how
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-28
The Skeleton Was There.

Sure enough, it is said, the diggers did
unearth a skeleton near the place indi-
Gated: but Immediately afterward they
struck barrier of solid rock, through
which they are now slowly and laborious-
ly blasting their way with giant powder
1t is a curious fact that the story of such
a buried treasure has been handed down
as a tradition from the first settlement of
this section, and many people living in
the region are watching the diggers with
excited interest, half believing that the
old decrepit seeress has, in fact, revealed
the location of the treasure cave.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-28
1t Made Parnell ChuckIe.

rival of Parnen at the Imperial hotel in
Sligo Thursday evening, the Healyites.
including Maurice Healy, Sexton and
Tanner, secretly removed their luggage to
another hotel from the Imperial, and also
left themselves. When Parnell and his
friends were informed of the fact at break
fast yesterday, they chuckled consider
ably, and Parnell asked the waiter if the
Healyites had paid their bills
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-28
STRANGE DOUBT OF IDENTITY.
Is This Bust of George Washington or
Samuel Adams?

Boston, March 2S.-The governor yes
terday sent a message to the house con-
tanning the report of the commission APP
pointed some time ago to determine the
identity of the bust which has a niche in
Doric hall. There has been controversy
over the bust for some time, some persons
claiming that it represented the features
of Samuel Adams, while others claimed
that it looked more like Washington. The
bust has stool in the state house for the
best part of century. The commissions
report is to the effect that the weight of
evidence is in favor of George Washing
ton a. the original, and they recommend
the substitution of Washington's name
for that of Adams.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-28
A Maniac's Fatal FusiIlnde.

DUBLIN. March 2S-At Strathgaddy,
County Donegal, an insane man made his
way into hall in which a charity ball
was being held. On an attempt being
made to remove him. the mainaic drew II
double barreled pistol and discharged
both chambers of the weapon A girl,
who was one of the guests of the evening,
was shot in the back, and is now dying
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-28
Natural Gas from a Tree.

LEBANON, Ind, March S.-While a
party of timber cutters were saving down
a tree on the Lane farm, two miles east of
this city, a smell resembling natural gas
came from the tree where the saw was
penetrating. a match was applied and
flame five feet high burned for twenty
minutes. Upon examination che tree was
found to be hollow
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-28
John PIankinton Very III.

MILWAUKEE, March 2s-John Plankin.
ton, the foremost citizen Of Milwaukee,
who has been Frustrated for over a year as
the result of paralytic stroke. was at
tackled in his enfeebled condition by
pneumonia. and yesterday his friends
gave up hope of his recovery. His physi-
clan announced that his condition was
critical. lie would venture no opinion
as To the outcome beyond this
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-28

LANSING, Mich, March 2s.-The Doran
bill, fixing the amount of specific taxes
to be paid by the mining companies dur
ing the next two years, was killed in the
senate yesterday, and in its place was in
troduced a substitute bill requiring that
mining and smelling companies shall
come under the general taxation laws
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-28
VIII Work Nine Honrs.

Boston, March 2S-The men employed
in paving the streets of the city have been
granted the request recently made by
them that nine hours shall constitute
days work. The contractors conceded
the request willingly and the men are
iuhilant.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-28
Strike on a Philadelphia PAPER.

PHILADELPHIA, March 2s-At s:25 last
night the non-union men in The Press
office Joined the union and at that hour
they went out on strike. There were per-
haps dozen men left in the composing
room. The Press folks have asked Will
mington, Del. for men and also two of
the Philadelphia papers, who employ nom
union men, to help them out.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-28
mr.. Howard Crosby Dying.

NEW YORK, March 2S-Dr. Conrad, one
of the medical advisers of DR.. Howard 5.
Crosby, stated at 1910 this morning that
Mr.. Crosby had been gradually sinking
since p. M, and there were very little
hopes, though he might live through the
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-28
DIGGING FOR BURIED TREASURE.
A skeleton Unearthed, But No Pay Dirt
struck, So Far.

MIDDLETowN, y. Y, March 2S-Five
miles down the Delaware river from Port
Jervis, and on the farm of Joseph Bosler,
Of Montague township, New Jersey, there
is party of men at work digging for a
supposed hoard of virgin gold of the value
of several millions of dollars. An old and
decrepit woman who claims to have clair
voyant powers is directing the digging.
She told the diggers that deep in the earth
where they are now at work is cave in
which ages ago'a great Indian chief stored
immense golden treasures, which have
never been disturbed, and that as a sure
indication that they were digging in the
right spot they would come upon the old
chleftain's skeleton few feet below the
surface
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-28
o.. conv,ct Kills Another.

IONA, Mich, March % Charles Per
rim and Charles Meyer, conviots employed
in the engine room at the state house OF
correction, became involved in quarrel.
Perrin kicked Meyer in the stomach Kill
Ing him instantly.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-28
Heavy Snow in MARYLAND.

CUMBERLAND, Md, March 2s.-fester-
day saw the heaviest snowfall of the sea-
son. 1t had been falling for twenty-four
hours and continued undated. Nine
inches had fallen. Electric light and
telephone wires are down all over the
city. and travel by railroad is greatly
;..,,,odad
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-28
Beats the Record for Biramy.

LONDON, March IS "A handsome En-
glish woman named Eveline Neal has
been arrested for inveigling forty-three
men into marriage. She advertised as
wealthy widow. Her last victim was a
vIscount, almost ruined by gam bling
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-28
A Sensation-Loving Doctor

LONDON, March 2S-Sixty-six families
IN Vienna, having been compromised by a
medical publication of a certain Dr.
Grechen, have commenced suits at law
against him. 1t is asserted that twenty
claim that they have lost all chances
Of marriage through the fact that the
doctor fully described for sensational pur-
poses the diseases from which they are
suffering
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-28
QUARTER OF A MILLION SICK.
Nine Hundred Deaths in One Week at
Chicago.

Chicago.
CHICAGO, March 2S-The deaths re-
ported from pneumonia and kindred all
ments for the week will be about 900,
probably the largest number ever re-
corded in this city. A careful estimate
iustifies the statement that nearly 25O. 900
people in this city are under medical
treatment. Every branch of business is
crippled by the prevailing sickness. DR..
j. ID. Hammond said yesterday: "The
present epidemic of the grip is as bad rs
a season of cholera so far as the number
of people affected is concerned. Every
doctor that know is overrun with bust
ness
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-28
MEDICAL.
CopYaiChr 1850

- HfVNfDt FfthH
of your money, if you get neither
benefit nor cure. Risky terms for
the doctor, but safe and sure for the
patient. Everything to gain, moth
ing to lose. There's Just one medi-
cine of its class that's sold on these
conditions-just one that could be
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery. It's a peculiar way TO sell
it-but it's n peculiar medicine.
It's the guaranteed remedy for all
Blood, Skin and Scalp Diseases,
from n common blotch or eruption
to the worst Scrofula. 1t cleanses,
puriiies and enriches the blood, and
cures Salt rheum, letter, Eczema,
Erysipelas, and all manner of blood
taints, from whatever cause. 1t
costs you nothing if it doesn't help
You. The only question is, whether
you want to be helped.
"Golden Medical Discovery, is
the cheapest blood purifier sold,
through druggists, because you
only pay for The good You get.
Can YOU ask more?
The Discovery" acts equally
well all the year round. Made by
the Worlds Dispensary Medical
Association, at 663 Main Street,
Buffalo, n. Y.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-28
e.n,ett mortgages a Building.

NEW YORK, March 2s.-The Bennett
building on Nassau street has been mort
gagged by John Petit to the New York
Life Insurance company for $4,000.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-28
Cen. Brarr.s Alleged Illness.

Los Angeles, Cal, March 2s.-Gen.
Bragg said yesterday that he was not In
his usual good health, but at no time
since his arrival here had he been serious
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-28
The Markets.

CHICAGO. March 1.-To-day being Good
Friday all the exchanges were closed aud
no quotations were given out.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-12-11
STATE ExHIBITs ~ 4HE F4Is.

A spirited discussion is in progress in
Chicago over the question whether state
exhibits shall be massed in state build
ings or distributed throughout the
grounds in the various departments.
The national board holds that all arti-
cles p. esented for competition must be
in the departments to which they be-
long. The state commissioners, es-
pecially OF the western states, antag-
onize this idea and with good reason.
There can be little use for a
state building costing anywhere from
$40, 600 to $50. 600 if the state exhibit is
to be distributed about in departments
of the general show. With the com
paratively small states. like Nebraska,
which are behind the older states in the
manufactures and the arts, no exhibit of
any value to the state is possible except
in a separate building or massed in some
particular and restricted locality.
However, on the other side, the
national board argues with some
| strength of reasoning that the Worlds
fair is au international exposition and it
must not be made PROVINCIAL to conserve
the local interests of American states.
The foreign visitor will look at the fair
from the cosmopolitan standpoint and
will not be disposed to compute the ag-
gregate exhibit of the states in making
an estimate of the magnitude and re-
sources of the United States.
Unless the commissioners modify their
ruling the only thing exhibitors from
the states in the Mississippi valley can
do will be either to duplicate their ex-
hibits, having one set in the proper
competitive departments and the other
in the state building, or abstain entirely
from etfocts to secure premiums. The
decision of the managers on this question
will be awaited with interest.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-12-11
orr eRrAr rAarrF Reforms R.

Mr.. William j. Bryan was elected to
congress from this district on the single
issue Of tariff reform. Mr.. Bryan
plumes himself on his free trade
speeches which regaied the ears of tho
farmer with visions Of the political mil
iennium when death and axes would be
unknown. Mr.. Bryan was not merely for
tariff revision; he held that's tariff was II
tax no matter upon what 1t was levied,
and he was opposed to all compromises.
In his campaign %harangues on free trade
he vent further than Henry Watterson
or j. Sterling Morton eve dared go.
The opportunity for Bryan to give
his cherished free trade principles
practical effect presented itself in the
election of a speaker of the house OF
representatives.. The man who, of all
others, stood for that principle was
Mills of Texas, Mills was recognized
all over the land as the Henry of
Nevarre Of radical tariff reformers.
He had fought against protection and
held up the colors of free trade in
season and out Of season. He was
endorsed by Grover Cleveland, who
represents the aspirations and hopes of
free traders on both sides Of the
Atlantic.
Everybody in Nebraska expected
Bryan would give his ardent support to
Mills. But 10 and behold, our incipient
tariff reformer turned his back on Mills
and voted from first to last for the
flexible Mr.. Bill Springer. This was
carrying free trade pigs to the wrong
market. Why did Bryan vote for
Springer2 Simply because Springer
had promised to jump the precious
youth from Nebraska over the heads of
older democratic members into the
ways and mean committee.
The Nebraska free trade and tariff re-
form contingent has suffered IA severe
shock, from which it is not likely to re-
cover. Their idol dropped from the
high pedestal on which they had rover
emily placed him and now turns out to
be like other professional politicians
'That keep the word of promise to our ear
And break it to our hope"
Mr.. Bryan has taken a tumble on the
political skating rink the first time he
tried his reform skates.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-12-11
Do,,T MSS THE OPPORTUyITY.

Fully twenty thousand Omaha people
who should have patronized the art eX-
hibit have neglected the opportunity.
Almost if not quite as many visitors
have been from the outside as from the
city. The display of paintings and
works of art and mementoes is the best
ever made in Omaha.
The exhibit on its own merits should
have drawn thousands where only hun
dreds have attended. In any other city
of the size of Omaha it would
have created a furore and
would have assured the promoters
a large surplus, instead Of entailing
upon the art association u deficit. 1t is
d duty as we'll as a privilege to patron
ize this exhibit. Our people owe it to
the cause of art to encourage the enter
prise of the Western Art associa-
tion. The great public can have
no conception of true art except
through exhibits of this character
and the association instead of receiving
an Indifferent support should have been
so heartily sustained that next year 1t
might venture upon u more extensive UNI
dertaking.
We owe the art association a cordial
cooperation, too, because it is striv-
ing here to build up a college
of instruction in the fine arts which
with a proper show Of interest on the
part of our citizens will become an at
traction of as much value to the city
directly as is Brownell Hall school for
young ladies. The profits of this exhibit
are all to go to the benefit of the school
OF art.
The managers have concluded to OK
tend the time OF the exhibit until Sun
day night in order that those who have
not yet contributed admission fees may
have the privilege.
Let our citizens wake up and show
their appreciation of the efforts of the
art association and it's friends and give
the exhibit an attendance for the last
three days which shall net a handsome
,,,NEI
Omaha daily bee., 1891-12-11
IRRIGATION SUGGESTIONS.

The views of President Harrison re-
garding what the government should do
in connection with the irrigation pro-
blem will be c~oncurred in by everybody
who has given the subject Intelligent
consideration. He realizes the i'm
portance of the matter and the urgent
necessity for legislation that will pre-
vent the water supply available for ir-
rigation from falling into the hands
of private corporations. He insists,
in common with the secretary of
the interior, that the government
should part with its ownership of the
water sources and the sites for reser-
voirs, whether to the states aud terri
tories or to individuals or corporations,
only upon conditions that will insure to
settlers their proper water supply upon
equal and reasonable terms. He regards
the granting of franchises of enormous
value without recompense to the state
or municipality from which they pro-
coed, and without proper protection of
the public interests, as n crying
evil of present legislation, and suggests
that this fault should be omitted in deal
ing with n subject that will before many
years affect so vitality thousands of poor
people.
The honest promoters of irrigation
will find no fault with these views of the
president. The policy suggested will
not interfere with the proposition to
cede the public lands to the states
Il, t,,,,n lAAc nnt tn,nh that
at all, but simply contemplates
the retention by the government OF the
right to resume control OF the water
supply whenever the privileges granted
should be abused, or, as suggested by
the secretary of the interior, there
should arise a conflict of interests be-
tween states threatening to lead to
actual violence between their respective
populations-a state of affairs by no
meal unlikely to happen when it
Is remembered that the rivers
and streams running through the arid
regions pass from states to states or ter
ritories. Still another reason for such a
policy is to prevent the irrigation of
vast districts falling into the hands of
monopolies without sufficient protection
for the people,
The attention given to this problem in
the message of the president and in the
reports of the secretary of the interior
and commissioners OF the general land
office, together with the efforts that
are being made in the west
to keep the subject prominent in public
Omaha daily bee., 1891-12-11

under the fostering influence Of friendly
legislation. I'LL
The assumption by the Treasury de-
partment of the direct control and man
agement Of Immigration, the secre-
tary says, has proved to be a
beneficial change, giving to tho
service uniformity, method, and
greater efficiency. The secretary states
that al analysis of the arrivals during
the last fiscal year shows that an in
creasing proportion of immigrants is
coming to us from those classes and
those countries or Europe whose people
are least adapted to and least prepared
for citizenship in a free republic, and
are least inclined to assimilate with the
general body of American citizens. The
application of existing laws has very
greatly diminished some of the spe-
citic abuses at which they were
aimed, but it has not prevented a
large increase in the total volume OF
immigration and a distinct deteriora-
ton in its average quality. The secre-
tary very prope4ly observes that the
i'SoOiOh uluOlhB hIHStoVA O 40
peculiarly one which ought to be treated
independently of partisan politics, and
it may be added of national prejudice
also. He thinks the process of sitting
immigrants should at least begin abroad,
to be completed, and not commenced,
at the United States port of arrival.
AS to the entrance OF alien
immigrants across the Canadian border,
the remedy will be found either in
securing an international arrangement
for a uniform system of foreign or sea-
port inspection, or, failing that, of
making our own inspection at the
border as effective as possible, as a part
of our own general system. With
regard to the exclusion of the Chinese,
the secretary expresses the opinion
that any legislation will fail
of it's full purpose SO long as
the Canadian government admits
Chinese laborers to Canada, whence,
armed with Canadian permits to leave
and return to Canada at pleasure, they
are at liberty to invade our territory
along its entire northern frontier.
The first report of Secretary Foster is
a thoroughly practical document, aud
its presentation of the condition of the
financial department of the government
will be reassuring to the country.