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Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-08-11
THE KEYHOLE WAS LOADED.
A Railway Electrician Puts Up Job on
the Superintendent.


HARTFORD, Aug. 11.-George A. Wad-
dell, of New York was recently employed
as electrician of the II. and w street rail-
way. He did not get along well with Su-
perintendent Shepard. Last week Wad-
dell built room about y feet square in
the car house and put upn sign to the
effect that it was his laboratory, and the
superintendent was ordered 10 keep out
Of the room, as well as every one else.
Mr.. Shepard had key to the room.
Lost His Job by His scheme.
On Saturday afternoon Mr.. Barrett, of
the Barrett Storage company, heard Wad-
dell say to a man that if the superinten-
dent tried 20 get into his room again he'd
get something he wouldn't like. Mr.. Bar
rett made an Investigation, and found
that Wadde!l had rigged up an electric
current through the keyhole of the door,
so that as soon as a key was inserted tie
person holding it would receive a shock of
500 volts. WaGdell was discharged, and
has left the city.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-08-11
FATAL STEAM PIPE EXPLOSION.
Two Negroes Blown to Atoms and Two
Other Men Fatally Hurt.

ST. Louis, Aug. n-An explosion Of
one OF the steam pipes on the steamer
Idlewild occurred Sunday night as the
boat was nearing st. Genevieve. Sam
Jackson, colored fireman, and another
negro, also a fireman, We're blown to
atoms. Charles Adams and Marshall
Carter, deck hands, and John Grebel a
colored passenger, were seriously injured,
the two former probably fatally. They
were brought to the city by the steamer
Crystal Ci-y and sent to the Marine hos
pitaL. The cause of the explosion is un-
known
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-08-11

MINNEAroL1s, Aug. 1.-THE Ninneap-
oils Base Ball club has been disbanded.
President Hach released the players yes
terday morning. Poor business conse-
quent upon hard luck is the cause Of this
action. Hach said he could quit even
now, but TO continue to the end of the
season would mean a loss of s.. 900 for
him. The players now belong to the
Western association for ten days There
is some hope of the club playing the sea-
son Our
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-08-11
The Irish Local Government Bill.

LONDON, Aug. n.-In a speech at Ply
mouth yesterday Chief Secretary Balfour
outlined the ideas of Irish local govern
ment which the government proposed TO
embody in bill. He repudiated the view
expressed by Morley that il was small
home rule bill. He argued that local gov
ernment should not be withheld from Ire
land for two reasons-the first a senti
mental one, because it had already been
given TO England and Scotland; the sec
ond, because it had been repeatedly prom
ised to Ireland.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-08-11
NEIDRINaHAUs REPLIES TO FOSTER.
He Says He Cannot Obtain Tin-Plate
Workers in This Country.


Workers in This Country.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-Acting Secre-
tary Nettleton has received letter from
+. G. Neidringhaus, president the St
Louis Stamping company, in reply to
Secretary Fosters recent letter in rela-
tion TO the employment of foreign skilled
labor for the tin-plate industry. Mr.. Nei-
dringhaus claims that for the successful
operation of shis new industry in the new
mills Of the company 1t is necessary to
have a number of skilled laborers fresh
from the business as it is conducted in
Europe today. The foreign labor needed
will not amount to 10 per cent. Of the
whole number employed. All the COM
pany needs is some tin-plate rollers and
other skilled laborers from abroad to run
some patent machinery. 1t has adver-
tised for this sort of help, but cannot OBJ
tain it in the home market
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-08-11
A Curious Cause for a Strike.

MILFORD, Mass, Aug. 11.-Yesterday
all the quarrymen working for Darling
Bros, numbering about 100. quit work be-
cause several delinquent members of the
union, who had been suspended for nom
payment of dues, were still employed by
the super who also, it is al
legged, refused to de duct said dues from
the wages of the delinuuents
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-08-11
PloMed Up $1,000.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Aug. ia young
farmer named Edwards, while plowing
near SutherlInd Springs the other day,
found an ircn pot partially buried in the
ground wbicn was filed with gold doub-
looms, valued at 81 900. There has long
been a tradition in the neigh ghborhood tha t
Santa Ana buried treasure there on his re-
treat after the battle of San Jacinto.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-08-11

OMAHA, Aug. I.-Guy c. Barton, pres
ident of the Omaha and Grant smelter
was arrested yesterday charged with vio-
lating the eight-hour law. He will be
tried and receive jail sentence; he will
then apply TO the supreme court for a
writ of habeas corpus on the ground that
the law is unconstitutional This will be
made test case.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-08-11
Pi1arro,s Remains Removed.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-THE newspapers
of Lima, Peru, contain elaborate accounts
of the removal of the remains of Francisco
Pizarro, who lead the conquest of Peru,
from vault under the altar of the cathe-
dral at Lima to the chapel of the viceroys
in the same building. The remains We're
subjected 20 a careful examination and
the body was found to be admirably pre-
served, although it is $50 years since
PiZarro died
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-08-11

rolled in the puh,ic schools of the states
named and the amount and per capita ex-
penditure for each pupil, as well as the
per capitas of total expenditures. The
number of pupils enrolled in the states
mentioned is as follows: Georgia, 942, 495;
Illinois, rs ,3l9; Maryland, lS4, PSI; Michi-
gan, 425,G2; Minnesota, PSI, $50; Missis-
sippi, 32l,g ,gS7; Nevada, 1887; North Ia
kota, 1858; Rhode Island, 81, IA; South
Carolina Al oi4. Wisconsin 80 30
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-08-11

WASHINGTON, Aug. IL The ce1sus
Office yesterday issued bulletin on public
school matters for the states of Georgia,
Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota,
Mississippi, Nevada, North Dakota,
Rhode Islan6, South Carolina, and Wis
eQpiipt lh2Eipg The number Of pupils en-
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-08-11
Blaine Makes a Call on Tracy.

BAR HARBoR, Me-, Aug. 11-Secretary
Blaine, Mrs. Blaine and Mrs Damrosch
made call on Secretary Tracy on the
Dispatch yesterday. They were there
nearly an hour, after which Blaine called
on John K. Mclean, of the Cincinnati En-
quirer. He remained with Mclean long
time
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-08-11
One Hundred Big Guns.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1l.-Acting Secre-
tary Grant,of the war department, has ap.
proved the recommendation of the board
of ordnance and fortifcation that the
contract for the 100 high power guns
be given to the Bethlehem Iron compan-,
of South Bethlehem, Pa. The aggregate
amount of money involved in the contract
is So $50. S7335. There are to be 25 S-inch,
50 l0-i1ch and 25 Pinch guns completed
in twelve wears
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-08-11
Chief Justice f uIIer at Chicago.

CHICAGO, Aug. 1l.-Chief Justice Fuller
is in the city. Yesterday he called upon
Judge Gresham, and spent half an hour
with him. Justice Fuller will remain in
Chicago some time before he returns to
Washington. He has been on visit 70
the Pacific coast. He doesn't seem to have
any presidential boom along.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-08-11
killed by Lixhtning while Asleep.

HoUGHToN, Mich, Aug. ia terrific
electrical and rain storm Sunday did con
siderable damage at Hancock. Oscar
Harjoja was killed by lightning while
sleeping. Lightning struck several build
iugs at Calumet, bat no one was in
jured.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-08-11
Mrs. Cooke Gets the Money.

WASHINGTON, Aug. ia treasury
draft for S6S7.35, the salary for April,
May, June and July of Mrs. Susan Gale
Cooke as secretary pro ten. of the board
of lady managers OF the Worlds fair, was
Monday forwarded to Mrs. Cooke at Chi
cago.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-08-11
The Population of Iowa.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-THE census Of
flee yesterday issued bulletin giving the
complete population Of Iowa by minor
civil divisions to be 1,9l1, ,s96, an increase
of 2Si, PSI over 1880. OF the ninety-nine
counties in the state, twenty-seven show
decreases. In the larger number Of coun-
ties. however, satisfactory increases are
shown.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-08-11
or Chicago Race Tracks.

CHICAGO, Aug. 1.-THE winning horses
at Hawthorne yesterday were: Powers,
= mile, l:l3i.; Marie X, I mile, 1881:
Dungarven, X miles, 2:O4: Burnett. q
mile, los Z Argenta, l mile 20 yards,
1859
At Garfield park: Zeke Hardy. = mile,
1:325 :; Ira F. Bride. ! l-l6 miles. 1885,:
Doncaster, - furlongs, l:O9;.: Gunwad,
mile, 1:i,; Ulster. :, mile, l:O9
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-08-11

CHILLICoTHE, O., Aug 11-George
Duhlmeye- got drunk Sunday, and re-
turning home began beating his wife. Po-
licemen Hall and Won Kennel were called,
and IN attempting to arrest Duhlmeyer
both were shot by him. Halls injuries
are considered fatal, while Won Kennel is
but slightly hurt. The latter shot Duhl-
meyer in the leg before he cou Id subdue
bi
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-08-11
DECOYED TO THEIR DEATH.
A Bender Family Unearthed in a Vienna
Snburh

suburb.
VIENNA, Aug. IA series of horrible
crimes has just been unearthed IN this
city. A couple named Francois and
Fasalie Schneider. living in an isolated
house in one of the suburbs, We're in the
habit Of decoying servants to the place
by means OF advertisements Offering
them situations in the county. Hav-
ing got their victims to the house they
murdered and robbed them. burying the
bodies III the cellar. The police were put
on the lookout by servant who had been
assaulted 10y the Schneiders, but had
been fortunate enough to escape alive.
An investigation followed, and seven
bodies were found buried under the house
occupied by the murderers. The Grimm
ais are under arrest.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-08-11
Horrible Crime in Texas.

VICToRIA, Tex, Aug 11.-Miss Mary
Hensoldt was found murdered in her room
on the lowert part of Main street, where she
lived alone She had evidently been out
ragged. She was helpless imbecile.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-08-11
silver Goes below One poiIar,

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-THE treasury
department yesterday purchased 696, 20
ounces of silver at from 50 g92 to So g95
per ounce.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-08-11
Cites Chicago as an Example.

He cites the case of Chicago, where he
says the children in the public schools are
not quite double the number Of those in
the religious schools, which he considers a
remarkable fact in view of the greater cost
OF sending children to the private schools
The friends of the governments free, or at
least partially free, education proposals
are preparing a strong reply to the mem
orandum. Nobody can imagine where he
got his figures
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-08-11
AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
An Enelishman Says They Are Giving
Way to ParochiaI schools.

LONDON, Aug 1.-THE memorandum
on the American public school system pre-
sented TO parliament by College Inspector
Fitch, though pronounced by those IA
miliar with the subject to be inaccurate
and prejudiced, is hailed with delight by
the opponents of free education. The re-
port declares that the system in vogue in
the United states results in irregular at
tendance ana is steadily receding in the
public estimation. Professor Fitch de
clares that the public schools are gradu-
ally giving way to private and religious
schools
Arizona republican., 1891-10-04
MILITARY ACTIVITIES.

NUMEROUS assertions from the army are alarming the Italian government. The causes are arrears in pay and poor food.
 TIE French army has 131,00O horses, 15, 900 of which are substitutes. The appropriation for them this year is S4OO, 900 more than it was last year.
 BESIDE the warships for which the minister of war has contracted in foreign countries, all the Russian ship yards, as Novoye Vremya reports, are busy building war vessels of various sizes.
 A NEW steel cuirass, impcnetrable to the bullets of rifle and covering the breast only, will be introduced in the Austrian army, and perhaps throughout the armies of the triple alliance. It can be folded up and packed in an ordinary knapsack.
 RUSSIA has been experimenting with movable pigeon loft, from which dis patches are sent by pigeons to various parts of an army camp. Army officers are also training falcons to catch pig cons. so that in case of war the former can capture the enemy's messenger birds.
 TIE largest steel cannon ever made in this country has arrived at Sandy Hook from the Watervliet arsenal, Troy, where it was forged. It is 40 inches long, weighs 52 tons, and has a bore of 12 inches. It throws projectile weighing l,OJO pounds, and each charge will cost S260
Arizona republican., 1891-10-04
THE UNVARNlSHED TRUTH.

SELF conceit is harder to cure than cancer.
 ROMANCE is one thing, but making an honest living and paying your debts is another.
 "KNow myself, is good advice, but 'lInow about your neighbors," is the general practice.
 TIE man who finds out that he has made a fool of himself has learned something valuable.
 IT won't help your own crop any to sit on the fence and count the weeds in your neighbours field.
 IT is hard to get people to see that anything is wrong upon which they have set their hearts.
 MANY a man who thinks he can rule the world changes his mind when a hornet gets after him.
 How MUCH easier it is to sit by the fire and resolve to do good than it is to go out in the cold and do it.
 IT is better to know when to say yes and no than to know the meaning of every word in the dictionary. Rams Horn. -
Arizona republican., 1891-10-04
BUT THAT WAS LONG AGO,

One day twas long ago, meta a maiden, fair 60 see, maiden fair and dear to me: But that was long ago. She was SO fair, know;
 How fair she was l cannot say, But fairer than morn of May; But that was long ago. And we did VOW, | know
 That some day we would wed, Following where sly Cupid led But that was long ago. The years wont slowly by: know not where they went, Into what other forms were blent Perhaps into a sigh And then VIC met, know; But all tho hopes of youth had fled, And all the love of youth wac dead: But that was long ago And not word, I VOW,
 Ofall the past by us was said We each some other one had we'd But that was long ago T. Thomas Fortune, in Springfield Mass. Republican.
Arizona republican., 1891-10-04

THE REPUBLICAN Is pleased to contribute in public matters, but all notices of festivals fairs, meetings of societies, suppers, entertainments and mention of marriages, births and deatns beyond the regular announcement will be charged for at regular rates
Arizona republican., 1891-10-04

ALI CONTRACTS and bills for advertising pay able monthly. sertion and cents per lino each subsequent insertion
Arizona republican., 1891-10-04
THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN,.

THE REPUBLICAN has double the circulation of any other daily newspaper in Arizona, and is the only one taking full press dispatches
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-11-04

come upon us sooner but for the extra.
ordinary demand In Europe for bread.
stuffA growing out Of huge famines and
big wars, and but for the dazzling and
magnificent discovery of gold mines in
California, by which hard money, sui.
fcient to buy IN empire, has been
called into existence and exported to
Europe. If ws could stop the import
of the foreign articles, the gold would
cease to flow out to pay Tor them, and
money would then again become more
abundant, labor would then again be
in demand, shoes, clothing and other
comm ODDITIES would then again be in
demand, and men would then cease to
starve in the streets of our towns and
cities. If it be not stopped the gold
must continue to go abroad, and EN-.
ployment must become from day to day
more scarce, until where there are now
many thousands we shall see tens Of
thousands of men everywhere crying:
'Give me work! Only give me work!
Make your own terms-my wife and
children have nothing to eat"
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-11-04
Miss Marsden'S Mission.

Miss Field, the travelling companion
of Miss Kate Marsden among the Rus
sian lepers, has returned and is giving
thrilling accounts of the perilous jour-
ney to Omsk accomplished by the two
women. 1t seems that herb which
gives promise of being an efficacious
remedy for leprosy has been discovered,
and it was to find this herb and to ex-
anime into the condition of the wretch
ed lepers that Miss Marsden undertook
the 1900 miles journey. Part Of the
distance was travelled by the two wom-
en- lying fiat on their backs on their
luggage slowed in the bottom of an
open sledge. Their shelter at night
WAS sought in huts where there were
DO beds their food was of the plainest
description and their recreation visiting
the sick and prisoners in hospitals and
prisons, which are abundantly recruited
from the exiles constantly Oh the
march toward Siberia
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-11-04
IN WOMAN'S BEHALF.
THE WAGES OF WOMEN.
Facts Brought to Light at Meeting Of the
Britlsh Association.


Facts Brought to Light at Meeting Of the
British Association.
The economic section of the British
association at its recent meeting took
under consideration the relative wages
of men and women, and discussed the
matter thoroughly in the hope that some
conclusion could be reached, some basis
of fixing the pay that women ought to
get where they do the same kind Of
work as men. AS might have been ex-
pected, no definite conclusion was
reached. although the matter was very
thoroughly discussed, and great deal
of interesting information obtained. In
the first place, it was shown that the
popular belief that women do not get
the same pay as men for the same quail
ity of work is mistake They are paid
quite as well in many branches. In
art and literature they receive
the same compensation, and
among the greater singers the
women have probably received
more In the trades or professions they
get the same pay when they organize
and insist upon it. For years the Lam
cashire cotton mills paid female labor
less than the males, until the WOMEN
organized and struck. Since then the
mill owners have not considered the
sex of their employees, but the work
done. A similar strike was that of the
women teachers in Wyoming and it was
similarly successful Indeed, within
the last few years the salar-
les paid female teachers have
approxlmated closer and closer to
those paid the men, until now
in a majority of the states no differ
ence between them is recognized
When, however, it comes to
factory work the women get
less, generally because they do less
Their work is usually different from
that done by the men, simpler, lighter
and easier. Again in regard to type
writers, clerks, telegraph operators and
the like, the smaller pay is due to infer
Tor work. This Is especially the case
with typewriters and clerks, due to the
fact that when the women go into
these branches they do so temporarily,
expecting to leave them soon for some
thing else, where as the men adopt
them generally as permanency. 1t is
this temperatures which makes
much of women's work-especially
where they enter into competition with
men-inferior. and is the cause of their
receiving lower pay. Whenever they
go into any trade which they intend to
keep up permanently, they get the same
pay,and they dose, moreover, when they
are thoroughly organized and insist
upon their rights. But when 1t is a.
mere makeshift, something to be follow
ed year or so until they are married,
the work is inferior and the pay small.
These are the conclusions reached by
the British Association, after ha wing
discussed the matter for several days
IN. 0. Times Democrat.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-11-04
Practical Philanthropy.

Mrs Alice Lincoln is the owner of .
of small houses at the north
end of Boston which she rents to poor
people. She enforces stringent rules
of cleanliness and sanitary living
among her tenantry, many Of whom
have an hereditary aversion to soap
and water Encouraged by her sue
cess Mrs Lincoln is now trying to in
duce moneyed men to buy . certain
short street and erect thereon neat
homes for the poor, which would in
sure to them at cheap rates not only
greater breathing space and opportu.
nifty for expansion. but . degree Of gen.
teel comfort which Of itself would in.
spire them to look upward and to feel
more ambition. Mrs Lincoln is the
daughter of Mrs Towne, well remem.
bered for her philanthropic and gener.
Gus deeds, and, therefore, comes natur.
ally by her broad vision of the claims
of others Mrs Towne bought and
preserved for a public woodland drive
a number of miles Of forest on eithel
side of her home in Essex
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-11-04
In DAYS Gone DY.

There was time when it WAS con-
sidered part of woman's duty to
spin the thread and weave the cloth for
the use of the family, to wash and iron
her husbands linen, and to have no
thought about the cellar and pantry,
the kitchen and her accounts Times
have changed. The inventiopof labor
saving machinery of all kinds has left
women with hours of leisure upon their
hands, and the employment OF tina.
leisure has led them into new fields to
the creation of new industries and to
taking the place of men in the depart
ments of the old, which they are ca
pable of filling Chicago Graphic.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-11-04
MORE SYSTEM DESIRED.
A Comment on the Lack OF Method In the
Way Women Work.

Way Women Work.
A newspaper in commenting on the
lack of method in the way women
work, says:
From remote generations men have been
taught to do their work by rule. No man hires
laborer without engaging his time for Ger
tain nun Der of hours. The man servant knows
distinctly when and what time he must devote
to his work. The female servant alone is ex.
pected to do her work in happy-go.easy way.
At one time she is seriously reprimanded for
what is overlooked at other times The trouble
with servants is largely due TO want OF order in
laying out their work and making them adhere
rigidly to IT. The average maid-of-a ll-work has
some reason in rebelling against her position
when her work depends, as 1t often does upon
the whimsical fancies OF the mistress, who
drives her from one thing to another without
system or order.
There is q grain of truth in this, and
women are finding out that the work
of running house must be brought
under more system than it has been in
the past; but the hap-hazard methods
complained of are not essentially femi-
nine. The conditions under which
women work have fostered this way Of
doing, and household work can never
be brought under the rigid discipline Of
the workshop because people can not
live by machinery. She is the best
housekeeper who can get best control
of conditions so as to minimize the
friction of the various occupations
that go to make up the sum Of house
work.
A frail, delicate woman, with four or
five young children, small number of
rooms only an incompetent maid of all
work to rely upon for help, and hus-
band who expects all the comforts that
he had in his bachelor days, should not
be criticised for lack of method because
her house is a good part of the time in
disorder. Give the same woman a
house roomy enough to have place for
every thing, help enough to give each
one time for doing thoroughly the task
allotted to her, and leaving the house.
wife time to think of something besides
the necessity of saving some expense at
every turn, and the lack of method
might not be so prominent feature of
her household. By faulty training, and
too large demand upon time and
strength, women have been forced into
the unsystematic ways complained of.
More leisure and more mental training
will correct the fault, and the next gen.
Grafton of housewives will have a
chance to retrieve the reputation OF
women in this spect.-Springfeld
Mass Republican.