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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-09
CHAPTER ii.
THE NEMESIS OF THE NIGHT.


A woman, pale and painting, nerved
to desperate deed, comes stealthily
through the darkened hall She shivers
as she hears the wind go by the house,
riding the storm with loud discordant
cries, and then she pauses, parting the
portieres and stands with cleaning eyes
against the purple pail of the velvet
hanging. Her face is white, her raven
tresses hang unconined. She clutche,
the curtain and glances fxedly at the
unconscious man busy at his task. The
portieres culver with the nervous ten
sion of the slim, white hand. She stands
a goddess of wrath uprisen, nemesis OF
the night
ut must, it shall be doner' she NUT
tiers; there is no other way" and, fear
full, she watches the man in the circle of
the light, trembling lest he turn and see
her. Then she again RECEIVERS her cour-
age. What would you think, John
Mountford, did you know that stood
behind you and with this in my hand?"
and she smiles as she holds up a curious
ly shaped knife, sharp and keen, with a
fantastic handle of ebony. The man
turns uneasily, as if he feels what is to
happen. His wife glides past him upper
ceived to the kitchen to open the sardines
with his pet razor.-New York Evening
SIM
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-09
THE BROKEN BLADE.
CHAPTER l.
THE MAN IN THE CASE.

THE MAN IN THE CASE.
Outside the twilight deepens, darker,
darker, dark, and at last the dismal.
gloomy day is dead and the dismal,
gloomier night reigns in its stead.
Mountford Manse is hushed like
house of death, and the night wraps it
like a shroud. The wind that means
mournfully through the grim and naked
boughs of the bare and leafless elms
seems fit accompaniment to the gloomi-
ness of the scene, and mourns mid the
caves with a wall like the plant of the
banshee, the, crier of death ordained.
A student lamp in the one room light
ed up casts weird circle of light
through its muffling shade. Lighted by
its rays man, young in years, but pre-
maturely gray, his forehead scared with
those lines that trace the finger touch of
care, sits deep immersed in his papers.
AT last John Mountford rouses from
his work. ugh! What night it is.
1t seems as if all the cares and dark
deeds of the past had risen from their
graves and were all abroad tonight.
feel a premonition, dread of some
thing, l know not what. But pshawl
Away with such thoughts-Madelaine,
Madelaine!'
But the echoes of his own voice re-
turned to him along the dark and vault
ed passageway. The scampering feet Of
a startled rat battered across behind the
wainscot and the house is silent once
again, and John Mountford turned once
more YEARLY to his task.
And the world called him happy A
lawyer of repute. The owner of broad
lands, the husband of beautiful woman.
TIL world had called him happy. The
wo that knows so much.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-09
A DMINIsTRAToR's NOTICE.

~ Estate Of Jennie Gibbs, Deceased.
is,raJrix of Inc estate of Jennie Gibbs.
- OF the county of Rock Island. state
VI IAnols deceased, hereby gives notice that she
~ appear before the county court OF Rock
Nahd county, at the Office of the clerk OF said
Soutl, IN the city of Rock Island, at the Decem-
~ .erin, on the first Monday in December next,
aaWwalch time all persons having claims against
f a.t estate are notified and requested TO attend;
lOfthepurpose Of having the same adjusted. AL
prisons indebted to said estate are requested to
"4Ae immediate payment to the undersigned
oaIed mis- 1+th day OF October, A. D., 1871.
ANNIE NJ. WORKMAN, Administrators,
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-09
De Rigueur.

Chollie-Er-aw-Miss Figg, may l
dare to offeh my heart and hand to the
fairest of her sex, the wose without a
thorn?
Miss Laura-Mr. Sophleigh, you are
the fourth to propose to me in those very
same words.
Chollie-Ya-as All of ouah fellahs
use that fawm of pwoposal, don'tcher-
know.-Indianapolis Journal
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-09
Almost Too Much.

Teddy-How old are you, Aunt Milly?
Aunt Milly (who owns to thirty-fiye)-
Oh, Teddy-almost hundred.
Teddy-Auntie, | can't believe you
I'd believe you if you'd said fifty.-Har-
per's Magazine
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-09

Wool-Why is it that they charge
now for the waters at Saratoga?
Van Pelt-Give it up; but did hear
that one of the big hotels had a milkman
as manas er.-Truth.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-09
Almost Killed Him.

Cholly-Did you heah about poor, deah
Cecil? The poor boy is at the point of
dweth.
Reginald-Why, no. Whateveh is the
mattah?
Cholly-His beastly cad of a furnisher
actually twied to sell him a ready made
tie.-Clothier and Furnisher.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-09
He Was Hungry.

Mary" said Mrs. Hicks to the new
waitress, "what has become of those
red wineglasses?"
"Oh, num-" replied Mary with a
frightened sob, 1.-The cooks cousin was
here Sunday, and he ate 'em all up. He's
the glass eater at the museum, num-
EDoch
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-09
Valuable Information.

A military band was playing in the
park. During one of the pauses an anna
teur stepped up to one of the musicians.
"Haw, my good man, would you mind
telling me what that is you have been
playing last"
Number nine, sir. Mosque de Fer.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-09

"Now stop teasing me. Don't you
know that the placard says, DO not an
noy the animalsT "-Harper's Young
People.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-05-07
ALMOST A LYNCHING.

Indignant HOosiers Take Measures to-
Break Up Gang of TOughs.
For several months the citizens of Haugh-
Vile, across the river from Indianapolis,
have been greatly incensed at depredations
committed openly by a gang of colored
toughs in their vicinity. John Devine, an
old colored man, was robbed and beaten by
Ike and John Abbott, who had but recently
been released from the wOrkhouse The
assault Devine was Immediately made
known to the town marshal, and
after an exciting chase the offenders were
captured and placed in jail Later in the
evening citizens held an impromptu indig
nation meeting and decided to take the
matter into their own. The crowd broke
into the jail, and taking John Abbott
therefrom, placed a rope around his neck
and led him to the woods. He cried for
mercy, protesting his innocence, and while
the vigilants were fully intending to lynch
the miscreant cooler counsel prevailed and
it was decided to make him confess. Twen-
ty hickory switches were cut, and after
Abbott had received seventy-five lashes on
the bare back he broke down and confessed
that his brother had planned the robbery.
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spoke of the soldier in the most touch
ing manner, reviewing his brilliant
record from the beginning of the war
until the time of his death.
The chorus sang "America," when
Commander Freeman arose to initiate
the particular ceremony of the day-the
breaking of the ground for the mOnu-
ment Before turning up the sod Com
mander Freeman said that Greece had
it's heroes, men who won fame by a
single act, or gave their lives to carry
out a noble purpose. The world is full
of monuments to the great and good of
generations past-every nation has its
sacred shrines. Rome thus kept alive the
memory of her magnificent conquests and
victories and the men who achieved them.
England is full of memorials to her distin
guished rulers, generals, poets, aud phi
lanthrOpists But the sacred shrines of
America are dearer to US than any other.
We hold with reverence the cOnsecrated
soil of Mount Vernon, lest we may dis
turb the ashes of our beloved Washing
ton. We bow our heads in silence and
lift our hearts in gratitude at the resting
place of him whose hOmely features and
loving, loyal heart will never fall from
memory. Our eyes fill with tears as we
Garfield. Almost every city and
town has it's monument to the brave men
who fell in the battlefield, died in the
hospital, or wasted away in the sitting air
of the death-dealing prison, said Com
mander Freeman. But we come to-day
to perform the preparatory work for a
monument to the grandest soldier of
them all-Ulysses S. Grant. Born in
comparative poverty, he made his way
step by step to the highest honor which
this nation could bestOw. Without
brilliant genius or gifts of oratory, he
furnished inspiration for others and
pushed right on in his purpose until the
goal was reached. His ashes rest here,
but our broad land is his burial place.
We call him ours, but the nations of the
civilized world We'd with each other in
showing him honor.
ave gather" sad the speaker, mot
simply as the representatives of the
hundreds of thousands of living and
dead whom he led to victory, but of the
entire nation, the men who wore the
blue Now, in the presence of the Al
mighty God and these witnesses, we, the
representatives of the Grand Army OF
the Republic, break the sod preparatory
to laying the foundation of the monu-
ment which shall stand as slight eX-
preston of the love of this nation for its
great chieftain and shall tell to all the
world that the United States of America
does not forget her heroic dead.
At the close Of his remarks Command
er Freeman took the spade in his hands
and with it tossed up the earth. This
ended the ceremonies and the crowd dis.
peroed.
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Frost in Northern Minnesota.

past few weeks perpetrated number of
hold rOhheries.
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PRELATES FALL OUT.
Bishop McQuaid Says He and His Do
cese Have Been Maligned.

Bishop McQuaid Says He and His Do
cese Have Been Maligned.
Bishop McQuaid of Rochester has issued
a pastoral letter, in which he says; ~For
over ten years this diocese and it's bishop
have been misrepresented and maligned in
a manner shameful by the Catholic Union
ind Times, a weekly newspaper pub
lished in Buffalo by the Buffalo Catholic
Publication Company, with the fullest
appreciation of the right reverend bishop
of Buffalo" The bishop AYERS that the
paper referred to "labors to foment insub
ordination among priests and people, it
keeps alive unchristian feelings between
the two diOceses, it disturbs the peace of
this one, it is constantly recurring source
of scandal to many, running into sin and
shame" Therefore the bishop protests
against the circulation of the paper in his
diocese and threatens severe measures if
his letter does not prove effectual.
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IN MEMORY OF GRANT.
GROUND BROKEN FOR A NOM
UMENT TO THE SOLDIER.

Martial Music and Sweet Voices or Chill
dren HallOw the Occasion - Glowing
EulOgies by General Horace Porter and
G. A. r. Commander freeman.
Ground has been broken for the monn-
ment which is to be raised at Riverside
Park, New York, where rests all that is
mortal of the great hero of the rebellion,
Gen. Grant. The ceremony was per-
formed amid the plaudits of thousands
of citizens, the blare of trumpets, the
beating of drums, the booming of can
non, the melody of children'S voices, and
the eloquence of orators.
There, upon the hillside, gathered the
members Of the Grand Army of the Re-
public and a number Of other bodies,
who, ranging themselves around the
tomb, paid reverence to the memory of
him whom all nations honored while in
life. On the Hudson River, decorated
with bunting, lay anchored opposite the
tomb the warship Yantic, and at two
o'clock her guns commenced to belch
forth salute Of twenty-one guns, which
were fired at intervals of thirty seconds.
On the platform near the mound were
gathered the members of the Monument
Association, the members of Alexander
Hamilton Post, G. A. R., the leading
members of the various Grand Army
posts, and the orators who had been Sc
lected for the occasion.
Before the regular ceremonies COM
menced Lawson w. Fuller, at the head
of 800 children from the Sheltering Arms
institution and drum and fife corps
playing "America, marched past the
tomb with flags dropped Each child
carried a bouquet of forget-me-nots,
NHyhi hn Nbo
Marine Band played an overture, after
which the Rev. DR.. Clark Wright, chap
lain, Of Department Commander Free
mans staff, offered prayer, and a chorus
sang "The Star Spangled Banner
Commander Freeman presided and in
few well-chosen words introd uced Gen.
Horace Porter, the orator of the day.
After sketching his career to the out
break of the rebellion and pointing out
the marked literary ability shown in his
dispatches and memoirs. Gen. Porter
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-05-07
RAVAGED BY FIRE.
Many Places Suffer Severe Losses-A Min
nesOta Town Wiped Out

Many Places Suffer Severe LOSSeS-A Mill
nesOta Town Wiped Out.
Lyle, Mimi, was visited by fire. The
total loss on property will reach $3.50, 600.
The fire broke out in vacant hotel. Two
depots, two hotels, two elevators, Lund 81
Lundland's store, John MIXERS store three
saloons, Knudson's hardware store and
several meat markets and barber shops
were burned Three business buildings are
left. Lightning struck the Touring mills
at AuI1ville. Mo. There was no insurance,
and the loss is estimated at $4,000. A
fire started in the sawmill of III. S.
Southland at White Gravel, Mexican Coun-
ty, Pa. The mill and general store were
consumed with loss of $50, 900. OF skidded
logs 100, 900 feet were burned. At Scranton,
Pa, fire destroyed the barns of the Scran-
ton Electric Street Railway. Thirty cars
were damaged. The total loss will reach
$500, 900. The fire was caused by the care
less handling of light by car-OileE- At
Hastings. Neb., fire destroyed George Siler's
furnishing house; loss, $23, 900; insurance,
$4,000. At Chatham, Ont. Norwood's
grain elevator and Tighe & Stringer's prod
uce warehouse, with their contents, were
bnrned; loss, 100000; partially insured
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FUNERAL OF Won MoLTKE.
Crowned Heads Bow Before the Remains
of Gernany's Great General.

Crowned Heads Bow Before the Remains
of Germany's Great General.
The funeral services over the remains
of Field Marshal Count Won Moltke took
place in the ballroom of the general
staff building, in which building the.
veteran died, and where his body had
been lying in state. Emperor William,
the King of Saxony, the Grand Dukes of
Baden, Saxe-Weimar, and Hesse, the.
principal members of the royal families.
of Germany, together with the leading
German Generals, were present. The.
services lasted forty minutes.
The casket containing the dead Field
Marshars remains was then carried with
much Ger amony to the hearse, which was
drawn by six of the Emperor's horses.
After passing through streets lined with
troops and packed with spectators, the,
remains arrived at the Lehrte station
and were placed upon railroad car
draped in black, which was there in
waiting.
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SWINDLED A WOMAN.

Sharper Makes Off with Maiden Lady's
Hoard-A Portion of 1t Recovered.
A peculiar case of misplaced confidence
has come to light at Lexington KY, where
woman was robbed of over $1,100. A
couple arrived and registered as George Fl.
Kaiser and Emmy Kaiser. They occupied
the same ROOM Next day they engaged
board by the week, and unregistered as
George Kaiser and wife. Finally Kaiser
went out by himself and did not return,
and the supposed wife informed the police
that Kaiser was not her husband, and that
he had taken 81, $50 of her money with him.
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PROSPECTS BRIGHT.
Winter Wheat Promises the Largest Crop
known for Years.

Winter Wheat Promises the Largest Crop
known for Years.
A bulletin issued from the Government
office at Washington says.
The weather has been specially favorable
for all growing crops throughout the grain
regions of the Northwest and the central
valleys. Excessive sunshine and warm
weather favored farm work. and early sown
wheat in Minnesota and Dakota is in excel
lent condition. The light frosts which oc-
CURED during the week in the central val
legs did not prove injurious. In the winter
wheat region, extending from the Ohio Val
ley westward to Kansas and southwark to
Tennessee and Arkansas all crops are re-
ported in excellent condition; wheat and
grass growing nicely and much corn
being planted. The warm, clear
weather has caused very rapid evapora-
tioH, and although there has been
an excess of precipitation during
the season, there are many localities in
the central valleys where additional rain
would prove beneficial. and the indications
are that these rains will occur during the
early part of next week. In the cotton re-
gion cool nights have retarded growth, and
crops are generally in need of rain. Ore
gon reports normal weather conditions and
wheat prospects most excellent, but rain to
the east of the Cascades would be benef-
cial. California reports that high winds
and hot weather damaged the grain crops
materially in the latter part of the week.
Frosts in the coast counties have slightly
damaged the fruit prospects. Haying is in
progress in southern California; prospects
nod
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-05-07
STRIKERS SHOT DOWN.

Fatal ARRAY Between Striking Coke Men
and Officers Near UniontOwn, Pa.
Near Uniontown, Pa, another collision
has occurred between the coke strikers and
deputies the result being one striker dead
and one seriously wounded. Superinten-
dent Gray and Pit Boss Callaghan went to
rescue two OF the men who had been at
work. and were being held at house by
the strikers. They were set upon and
stoned, and the deputies came to their aid
One of the strikers tried to take gun from
one of the deputies, when shot was fired
by the strikers. superintendent Gray then
ordered the deputies to fire, and in the vol
ley which followed John Mahan, a striker,
fell dead, and another, whose name is not
known, received a mortal wound.
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LOOKS BAD FOR THE STRIKERS.
Pittsburg Operators Threaten to Import
1000 Negroes and Italians.


1000 Negroes and Italians.
The expected sensation in the Pennsyl
vania coke districts is the promised impor-
tation of 1000 workmen from the East,
many of them to be negroes and Italians.
The operators have little to say, except
that they must run their plants somehow.
Citizens generally are indignant that
steady skilled labor seems about to be
driven from the field by this threat
ened invasion of ignorant and by no
means desirable laborers. Some 800 evic-
tions will be made in order to make room
for the new men coming into the region;
but labor officials say they will be able to
prevent the bulk of them from going to
work. Rev. Father Landing, a power
among the Catholics of the region, severely
denounced the labor leaders and socialistic
element from the pulpit He also created
a sensation by repeating his advice that
the men return to work. At the Polish
celebration he also reiterated those views.
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THE best way to remove the smell Of
paint is to first render the room as near
" as possible air-tight by closing the
windows, doors and other openings.
Place vessel of lighted charcoal in the
room, and throw on it two or three hand
fuls of juniper berries. After twenty
four hours the smell will have entirely
disappeared. Another method of doing
the same thing is to plunge handful Of
new hay into pail of water and let it
stand in the newly painted room.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-05-07
TRAGEDY AT AN ELECTION.
An Officer Shot Dead at LeadviIle by q
Man He Was About to Arrest.

At Leadville. Col, one Of the most excit-
ing school election contests that ever oc-
CURED in this State took place. The
Patriotic Order Sons of America and the
Catholics took opposite sides in the fight
Hundreds of ladies were at the polls, and
the excitement was intense The floor in
the main building sank six inches and quite
a panic occurred, but luckily no one was
badly injured. Trouble occurred in the
Adelaide district. John Burns, a Deputy
Sheriff, had some trouble with a man named
Ragland. He was about to arrest him,
when Ragland fred twice, instantly killing
Burns.
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PROVOKED THE REBELLION.

The British Slaughter of Women and Chill
dren in India Was UnintentiOnaI.
A dispatch from Calcutta says that the
evidence collected from the Muneepoors
captured by the British troops goes to es-
tablish the truth of the charge made by the
usurping rajah that the British troops, in
attacking the palace, had killed several
women and children, thus provoking the
rebellion and consequent massacre. 1t is
believed, however, that the killing of the
women and children was unintentional.
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STILL MORE TROUBLE.
MURDERED A DEPUTY AT A
COLORADO ELECTION.

Four Negroes Roasted in a Car-Kil1ed a
g-ROIIer''-PIay Ahead for the Navy
Several People DrOwned-TrOubIe in
Africa.
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Mr. SYDNEY J. HICKsoN. an English
naturalist who has spent some time on
the Island of Celebes, has made some
extensive observations of the corals Of
the Malay Archipelago. In regard to
The food of corals, he is inclined to the
belief that many of them may be vege-
table feeders. No doubt the water in
the vicinity of mangrove swamps is full
of the debris of leaves and wood, which,
sinking to the bottom, must enter the
mouths of the coral animals. 1t is sug-
gested that this may explain the vigor-
Gus growths often seen near extensive
swamDS
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STRIKE FOR EIGHT HOURS.

Ten Thousand Men Employed in the Build
ing Trades at Pittsburgh Out.
Five thousand carpenters, 1,700 bricklay-
ers, 1000 stonemasons, and 1900 planning
mill hands quit work at Pittsburgh, deter
mined to stay out until their employers
concede the eight-hour day. Under the
lockout policy adopted by the Builders
Exchange, every man employed in the
building trades will be drawn into the fight,
making total of over Is, 600 men who will
Law down their tools.
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Bank Robbers Captured.

The three men who attempted to rob the
Oak Creek Bank at Valparaiso, Neb., have
all been captured. They are all farmers.
Banker Johnson, whom they shot, is in
precarious condition.
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MAY WORK THE SHIPS.

Secretary Tracy Planning a Series of
Naval ManeuVers for the Summer.
A Washington special says: Secretary
Tracy is thinking seriously of employing
thirteen vessels of the navy during this
summer III a series of naval maneuverings.
All of these vessels are in the waters of the
North Atlantic. 1t is expected that Rear
Admiral Kimberly will be placed in COM
mand of the fleet.
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Probably q Murder.

The body of William Mills, who disap-
peared from his home a month ago, has
been found in Marsh Creek, about a mile
from St. John, N. B. The night he disap-
peared cries were heard in the vicinity
where his body was found, and he is be-
lieved to have been killed.
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Boers or the Warpath.

Dispatches from TransvaaI. South Africa,
report that 10000 Beers are on the point of
invading Mashonaland or Manicaland. and
the authorities of Transvaal are unable to
fulfill their promise to prevent any further
encroachments on British territory.