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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-06-09
THE MARKETS.
hicagO.

CHICAGO. June S.
Following were the quotations Oh the board
of trade TO-DAY: WLeat-No > July, opened
9S1sc, closed aSc; September, opened 9i4c,
closed 9il@c; December. opened and closed
96i4c. COrn--No. June, opened eOc. closed
GOl4c; July, opened 5Ss4c, closed 59c;
September, opened 5sssc, closed 57lsc Oats
No. June, opened -, closed, 1850; July,
opened Alec. closed 44c; September, opened
and closed $3.50. Pork-June opened SlOa5.
closed Sl0i2li; July, opened Sl0.65, closed
Sl052l@; September, opened Sl09O, closed
SlO..1la. Lard-.Iune, opened S6l71kc, closed
S6.l2l@.
Live stock-Following were the prices at the
Union stock yards to-day: HOgs-Market
rather active on packing and shipping ac-
count, best grades &c higher; other qualities
unchanged; sales ranged at S2.jOd4.AO pigs.
S4.1SGi.55 light, Si.2ug4.30 rough packing
S4.20G 40 mixed, and S430G 4.GO heavy packing
and shipping lots.
Cattle-Market rather active on local and
shipping account, and prices fairly well
maintained; quotations ranged at $3.50
$40 for choice TO fancy shipping
steers, S50g5.iO good to choice do,
S4.SG4.9O common to fair do, S3.5064 25
butchers steers. S26013j0 stockers. s275
cows, Sl.5093.50 bulls, and S2.5004.5O veal
calves Sheep-Demand fair and prices
steady; quotations ranged at S315d5.OO west
erns, Si.0eG5O natives, and S5.OO18.75 lambs.
BuIter-Alarket steady. fancy
separator, 17@l71sc; fine creamery, l6al6ksc;
fine TO good limitations, 14dl5c; dairies, fancy.
fresh, l+1l5c; No. dairies, l21l4c; No, 2, ll6
l3c; No ladies, 13G14c; No. 9, 10H1ec: pacf
ing stocks, fresh, l0G1lc; grease, 566c. Eggs
Southern stock, loss off, l5c per doz: northern.
loss off, l5Gl513c. Live poultry-Old chickens
slac per Id; spring, sl.5o95.OO per doz. 17also
per lb; roosters, 5lac per ID; turk
eys, mixed. Sc; ducks, TG9c. Pota-
toes-Rose, 759S5c; Hebron, SlmGl O5;
Peerless, sD695c; Burbanks, Lea. Is; mixed
sSd@Oc; New Orleans, S250a4.00 per Dbl; 81. .75
@2OO per sack; California. 81 25d2 80 per sack.
rawberries-Illinois, fair to good, sl25ll so
per 24-qt case; soft stock, Sl.00 80
New York.
NEW YORK, June s.
Wheat-No. red winter cash Sl.O9l.d.
l.Oe1e; do June Sl074; do July. sl0Jss; do
August, Sl.G}as; do September, SlOeIs. Corn
No. mixed cash, 64Isc; do July 6i56c; do
August, 6tc; do September, 63c Oats
Dull and irregular; No. 2 mixed cash, 4sl6c:
do July, 5014c. Rye-Neglected Barley
Neglected. Pork-Dull; new mess. $1,000
l2So Lard-Dull: July, S6.47; August, $685..
Live Stock: Cattle Trading dull for all
grades; poorest to best native steers, q. .S0dB e
per 100 lbs; Texans and Coloradoes. s3.5efa 81
bulls and dry cows, S3.3O1475 Sheen and
i.ambs-Market firm and active; sheep, S.6Oa
6o per 100 lbs; lambs, s7.s7,<oS5O Hog
Nominally steady; live hogs, s4.S0@5.ss per 10
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-06-09
ABBREVIATED TElEGRAMS.

Four St. Bernard dogs, each valued at
81. .OOO arrived at New York Monday.
Professor X. Garner, the noted scientist,
claims to have discovered that monkeys
have language.
An earthqake shock Sunday in north
ern Italy did considerable damage in sew
eral small villages.
The Manufacturers National bank, OF
Lynn, Mass, capital 100000, has been
authorized to begin business. e.
The treasury department Monday pur.
chased 532, 500 ounces of silver at from
S097S to s0.9S cents per ounce.
Evan E. Shelby was hanged by mob at
Wickliffe, Ky, Sunday night for muir
der committed three years ago.
The steamer Taramung, employed in the
Australian ,asting trade, has foundered,
and it is feared that all on board were
lost. 80
The Chilian government has applied for
one acre of space on which to erect build
ing for that government at the Worlds
fair
The Red river is out of its banks in
Texas. Several people have been drowned,
and there has been large destruction of
property.
Bishop knight, of Milwaukee, died Mon
day from the effects of an attack of paraly-
sis. He was elected bishop only two years
ago, and was 20 years old.
An English missionary and a customs
officer have been murdered by natives at
Wasfeh, China, and European residents
are appealing for protection.
Ben Butler is triumphant again. The
United States circuit court at Boston has
released his famous client-Mrs. Clairetta
,Inbn "a writ of ba ahaaz
Mrs. John Gorgenfrie who has had four
husbands, is suspected, at Rome, n. Y,
of poisoning No. 4, and also of getting rid
of two of the earlier ones in the same man
ner.
The hanging of Sepoy deserter from a
| native regiment, who was one of the
| leaders in the recent rebellion in Munee-
| poor, took place Monday in the public
| square at Muneepoor.
A mad dog entered a German school at
Pittsburg Saturday. and in a minute ev-
cry room was clear of pupils and teachers,
| and the dog was in possession. He was
| locked in a room and shot.
One of those athletic chestnuts, a six
| day-go-as-you-please walk was begun at
1906 p. NJ. Monday in Denver. Guerrero,
| Hart, Cartwright, and all the old tramp
ers were in the bunch that started.
Lester L. BRISTOL, an electrical inventor.
is missing from his home at Jersey City
/ Heights, with his four little boys He
was distracted when he left home over his
| failure to make his latest invention work,
| and his wife fears he has committed sui
eide and taken the boys with him.
The appropriation for the census office
is said to be neatly exhausted, and despite
the fact that the work is not nearly COM
pleted 1000 clerks are to be dismissed be-
fore July l. 1t is also stated that Super
intendent Porter will present the presi-
dent a compendium of tie work in July
and resign his position.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-06-09
The st. Paul Club Goes to Duluth

DULUTH, Mimi, June 9-After July 4
the st. Paul club. of the Western assoeia-
ton, will make Duluth its home, the fran
chise having been bought by j. w. Ander
son, of this city, few days ago
ST PAUL, June 9.-Manager Watkins
states positively that nothing has yet been
decided on regarding tranfer of the st.
Paul franchise
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-06-09
Miraculous Escape of Passengers.

CHICAGO, June 9.-While a Wabash
avenue grip train was crossing the Illi-
nois Central tracks at Sixteenth street
last evening an Illinois Central train,
which had been standing a short distance
from the street, suddenly backed down,
crashing into the last car of the grip train,
and almost completely wrecking it. The
twenty passengers in the car, half of
whom were women, miraculously escaped
l3Dbrlrr
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-06-09


make home happy by
Griggs courier., 1891-06-19
chattsl Mortsage ssle.

a., county Of Foster state Of North Dakota. mort
~agor, did on the 5th day of September, 1859,
maze his certain chatlel mortgage 10 j. A. Law
of county Of Gsss and
the a.' sth dav Of September ssSi ISL 10 ses"re sS
the following Indebtedness to vii: Two certain
prolni' Q y n0tea Wig; one note dated Sept. 5th
1889 fol $4,000 with interest at tte rate Of .12r
cent. per umum until o 1. on no dated s pt
lsper cent. per annum un,l' paid. and WHICH
mortgage was duly filed in the cfice Of the
register Of deeds Of Fcstor county state Of Nor b
Dakota, on the 10th day of Sept. 1889. at II
o'clock, a. M; and certified copycf said chat.
tel mortgage filed in the office of register #
June. 1891. NJ ii O'Clock, a. M; and
Whereas. default has been made in the condi-
ticns contained in aaid mortgage as follows to.
wit: By neglecting ard emitting to pay the
s,Ms.
mortgage at the date Of this notice the sum OF
A2l2 20 for principal and interest and the sum Of
s. attorneys fees urOvi ed in said mortgage in
ease Of foreclosure thereof.
Now there isrs: notice u he leby given. that hv
Lawrence, The present owner thereof, / will sell
for cash the following described chattels de.
scribed in said mo tRage at city livery barn
in Ccoperstown, In the county Of Gricgs,
state of North Dakots, ut the hour Of 200 O'Clock
to-wit: One dark bay horse; one bay horss; one
COW five years old, light req. and increase; one
COW seven years old, dark red, and increase; one
COW three years old, liz ht red, and increase; cne
COW three years old. brown, and increase; cne
calf, color red heifer. months old; one calf col.
or red steer, months old; one calf, color red
steer. months old
Il. E. WARNER, Agent for mortgage,
Iver jacobson, Attorney for mortgage.
Griggs courier., 1891-06-19
Cheer for the Ailine,

A physician who has noted the dreari-
ness Of the typical waiting room for pa
tients and its evil effects on people al
ready in an unhappy frame of mind from
bodily ills has devoted some time to
making his reception rooms as cheerful
and lively as good taste will permit In
place Of bare, white walls, with an odd
print OF two upon them, a bookcase con-
tanning dry medical works and a stand
filed with stiff looking bric-a-brac, he
has an abundance Of we'll executed
paintings or prints, the subjects OF
which are of an interesting and cheerful
nature. The center table is covered
with copies Of the latest novels, illus
trated magazines and files Of the humor-
GUS weekly papers. The furniture in
cludes several large easy chairs, so rest
full that when once settled in one of
them person is reluctant to get up
again.
''It costs something to do all this, :"
said he, "but it is certainly good in
yestment. Waiting in dull, cheerless
room is very trying to the nerves, and
most visitors to doctors Office are nerv.
GUS and irritable. Like all reforms,
however, it is carried to excess by some
physicians. know several who have
the walls Of their reception rooms COM
pletely covered with oil paintings, so
that the room looks like badly crowded
picture gallery. But the idea is good
one and is rapidly gaining ground. -
New York Telegram
Griggs courier., 1891-06-19
Prehistoric Vault.

Some rude masonry was disclosed to
view while cutting the lot of ID. A. Pur-
Vance. on North Jefferson street. Hunt
ington. Ind, to Il proper level. About
six feet below the natural surface of the
earth a pile of stones was encountered
which seemed to have been laid with a
purpose They formed an irregular
hemispherical mass about 9 feet in diam
eter and 8 feet high. beneath which were
formed layers of tagging, each layer
formed by tagstone 6 inches thick, 6
feet wide and s feet long. Below the
mass of masonry and the fagstones was
an empty vault. The stones were of the
limestone variety, and were kind that
is never found in this vicinity unless
they have been brought here. What the
structure had been intended for is 4
mystery. but it is thought to have been
the work of the mound builders.-Cin-
cinnati Commercial Gazette.
Griggs courier., 1891-06-19
Costly Litigation.

A case involving seventy-fve cents
claimed by man in Toledo to be due
him from another Toledoan for COW feed
has just been appealed from a Justices
court in that city to the Lucas common
pleas. The plaintiff says he will spend
his last dollar to collect the money by
process OF law, and the defendant says
he will sacrifice every cent he has in the
fight to resist payment. The result will
probably be that the litigants will spend
several hundreds, perhaps thousands, of
their own money and involve the county
in the expenditure of a large sum, all to
crafty their personal i'll feeling. There
ought to be a provision Of law covering
such petty cases, making the decisions
of justices final. It is an outrage on the
taxpayers to permit the appeal of such
insignificant cases to higher court,
where valuable time is consumed by
them that should be devoted to more i'm
portant matters, and the county is in
volved in great expense simply to
crafty the personal spite Of obstinate
litigants. .-Sandusky Register.
Griggs courier., 1891-06-19
The Place to Wear n Watch.

Half a hundred girls have been no
ticed lately in the Fifth avenue stages
and on the west side Of that thorough
fare to have little chains, with charms
or lockets attached, hanging from thei1
collars, either directly in front or little
to the left side. Not many days since s
daughter Of Eve, who was convinced
that more was there than met the eye
determined to fathom the mystery. Te
that end she made frequent journeys il
the stages and haunted Huyler's till hA1
pocketbook grew emaciated, all to nc
end. The little chains dangled tantaliz
ingly before her eyes, and no one told
her why. At last, finding herself alone
in stage with a girl adorned after the
manner described, she summoned up I'LL
her courage and asked the stranger tc
satisfy her curiosity.
The girl calmly produced a tiny watch,
and laughingly said it was the very latest
thing to wear them in the collar, "and
far more convenient it is," she said,
''than to poke them in front of ones
dress and have to unfasten two or three
buttons whenever one wants to know
what time it is." The questioner med
itatively felt of her serviceable but un-
calmly, old fashioned turnip and decided
that it would necessitate putting stifay
wired Medici collars on all her frocks
were she to attempt following the latest
fad.-New York Recorder.
Griggs courier., 1891-06-19
MI. rtlaen,. plsputed VIII.

Two judges have decided in favor of
the Tilden will and two judges have de-
clared against it. The case will soon be
argued before the New York court Of
appeals, which will finally decide wheth-
er New York is to have the $4,000, 900
library or whether Tilden's great bequest
is to be absorbed by his nephews.
No man doubts that it was Mr.. Til
denis purpose and intention to found a
great public library with his money.
He carefully executed trust for that
purpose, and died in the belief that the
bequest was SO well guarded that his
heirs could not have it set aside by any
quibble Of the law. And yet a purpose
SO plain and un1nistakable has been de-
clared invalid by two judges, who inter-
pret law which is described as 1.-the
perfection of common sense"
It is this extremely technical interpre-
tation of the laws provisions on the part
Of law judges that justifes the presence
of lay judges on the bench of New Jer-
sey. Among the lay judges of the New
Jersey court of appeals there would not
be two opinions regarding the intentions
of Mr. Tilden in the testament he exc
cuted prior to his death. They would
unanimously decide in favor of the will.
And so, in fact, would our law judges,
who have on some notable occasions
demonstrated that with them law is, in.
deed, the perfection of common sense
Newark journal.
Griggs courier., 1891-06-19
A somnambulist ON a rrestle.

George Wilson, fourteen years old,
living in Rockport, had a narrow escape
from death at an early hour Tuesday
morning. The boy lives with his parents
on farm by the side of the river, about
200 feet from the Nickel Plate trestle
bridge, the farm having a roadway lead
ing to tho bridge. The boy is subject to
sleep walking. Early Thursday morn
ing he got out of bed while in solnnam-
bulistic condition and walked down
stairs, passed his parents room. and out
on the farm.
He came to the trestle work and start
ed to walk across. Deputy Marshal
Stanton happened to be at the other end
Of the bridge and saw a white figure.
small in stature. rapidly approaching.
he stepped to one side until the boy had
passed, and then started to follow him.
Fearing that if he caught hold Of him
he might be frightened into a fit Of
sickness. he called him by name several
times until the boy awoke. He stood
for several minutes wondering where he
was and almost tainted with fright.
Stanton then walked up to him and the
boy recognized him. The bridge is
nearly sixty feet i'll height and there is
nothing to walk on but ties.-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Griggs courier., 1891-06-19
Governor stephens, Last Act.

Governor Alexander Stephens-dying
q few years ago-persisted in having all
business matters brought to his bedside.
There was on the table petition for the
pardon of a distinguished criminal; the
petition was signed by distinguished
men. There was also on that table a
letter from poor woman in the peni-
tentiary, written and signed by herself
alone. "Dying," said the great governor.
ssYou think that because have been i'll
80 many times and got well that shall
get we'll now, but you are mistaken; l
will not recover. Where is that letter
by that woman in the penitentiary?
think she has suffered enough. As near
as can tell she has no friends. Bring
me that paper that may sign her par
dom"
A gentleman standing by, thinking
this too great q responsibility for the
sick man, said, Governor, you are very
sick now, perhaps you had better wait
till tomorrow; you may feel stronger
and you may feel better" Then the eye
OF the old governor flashed, and he said,
II know what am about" Putting his
signature to that pardon he wrote the
last word he ever wrote, for then the
pen fell from his pale and rheumatic
and dying hand forever. How beauti-
ful that the closing hours of life should
be spent in helping one who had no
helper!-Dr. Tal1nage in Ladies' Home
Journal.
Griggs courier., 1891-06-19
Attended His Own Funeral,

The late Captain Ben Wakefield, Of
Biddeford, once attended his own fu.
neral, being one of the few MEN who
have had thai privilege. He had gone
on a fishing trip down on the Grand
banks, and had been away from home a
good while without his family hearing
from him. The same season had proved
very disastrous to a number of other
fishermen who went out from there.
abouts, and the vessel Captain Ben was
in had her share Of hard luck, and the
report reached home that she, with her
crew, was lost.
Time passed and Captain Ben did not
return, until at last his family gave up
all hope that he had been saved, and a
day was set for the memorial services.
The services were held in the church ai
Cape Porpoise, the minister had offered
prayer for the absent fisherman, who
was supposed to have found his grave in
the sea. and was just beginning his SER
mon when Captain Ben walked into the
church.-Bangor (Me.) Commercial.
Griggs courier., 1891-06-19
Dr.. MoDaniel's Smoking Tree.

DEs uACAJsSll6lB SIOOkInR 1F30s
Among the people of Norcross DR.. Nc
Daniel, in his yard, grows an ordinary
mulberry tree.
Mrs. Mcdaniel, while sitting on the
veranda, saw puff of smoke emerge
from one of the limbs. She rubbed her
eyes to see if it was not an optical delu-
sion, but when she looked again she saw
another puff Of smoke spring from an
other limb.
She called to her husband that the
tree was on fire. The doctor came out
and was no less astonished than his wife,
for the whole tree was putting smoke. Il
came out in jets from the limbs like a
boy smoking cigarette. The doctor
climbed into the tree, but could see
nothing unusual about it, not place in
the bark being broken. The smoke was
oozing from the bark and could be plain
ly seen as it foated off on the breeze
There was no odor to it whatever, but it
was white in color and looked like to-
bacco smoke.
DR.. Mcdaniel called in his neighbors,
and they too were mystifed. Soon the
news Of the smoking tree spread, and
people from all over town aocked to the
doctors home. From 4 o'clock until 6
the tree continued to emit puffs of smoke
while a crowd of about $50 people
watched it.-Atlanta journal.
Griggs courier., 1891-06-19
An Opal Worth a Million.

The most famous opal in history was
that which was worn in a ring by the
Roman senator Nonlus, in the day Of
the triumvirate. Its size equaled that
of a medium sized hazel nut. Yet its
beauty and brilliancy rendered it mar
vel among the dilettani of Rome, es-
pecially when it was known that the
goldsmiths and 'smoney changers" had
set its value at 81, 900, 600.
Mark Antony made overtures to
Nonius for its purchase, intending, it is
thought, to present it to Cleopatra, but
the senator refused to part with it, and
Tor fear that it would be taken from him
by sheer force sought safety in fight.
Here history loses all trace of this "a
NOUS gem, there being no record of its
transference from Nonius to any Of his
tamily.-St. Louis Republic.
Griggs courier., 1891-06-19
College Songs a. They Really A,

college Songs rs They Really Are.
The Weld Glee club ought to begin to
make itself heard now. The nights are
getting quite balmy, and all the yard
lwellers sit in their open windows long.
ing to howl "More! More!" when the
sweet strains of "The Mulligan Musket-
GERS, "Lizette," etc., float through the
yard
New members should be elected to the
w. q. q. A few men who can hold the
air and don't care about singing teno,
would be great acquisitions. There is
one man now who persists in singing
first tenor in every song, and it would be
very painful if he didn't happen to strike
the right notes occasionally, entirely by
accident. Such things will happen,
though.
If somebody would learn the words to
something he would confer favor, be-
cause there is certain queerness in
thirty or forty voices all saying. ''Pom.
pom-pom-pom-pom." These songs with
out words are very passe; you really
ought to learn few verses for them
Harvard Lampoon.
Griggs courier., 1891-06-19

/
some Of our schoolboys have opportu-
mites to learn history without taking
much trouble about it. In large school
there may be pupils Of dozen nationali-
ties-Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Norwe.
gian, French. German. Hebrew, Irish,
Finnish. Russian-and each of these has
its own national days, as we have ours
on the Fourth Of July and the Twenty
second of February. An American boy
of inquiring mind will naturally want to
know what those national days are, and
what they commemorate.
Suppose we take the Seventeenth Of
May for an example, when all the Nor
wegian children like to be absent and
nave a good time somewhere. This is
the national holiday of the Norwegian
people. What happened on that day that
the people Of Norway should hold it in
such honor?
A we'll informed Norwegian boy will
answer that on May II, 1914. the people of
Norway declared their independence. ;"
During the Bonaparte wars an attempt
was made to unite Norway and Sweden
on terms that would have been degrading
to Norway reducing her to the rank Of
a subject province. The people rose
against this threatened indignity. and
declared their independence.
It happened that the king of Sweden
was Bernadotte. one of the Bonaparte
1narshals. a man of much ability and
some real insight into the nature of
things He proposed to Norway kind
of union that she could accept without
loss of self respect; union under one
king, indeed, but also under one consti-
tuition. each state being sovereign within
itself. and each governing itself in all
matters, local and domestic.
This constitution expressly declared
that Norway should remain forever ''free,
independent, indivisible and inalienable.
The union was, in fact, an application
Of the federal or home rule principle.
This constitution was adopted Nov. 4,
1871, but the day celebrated and beloved
by Norwegians is May II, when they de-
clared that they would not be joined to
Sweden except in an equal and honorable
union.-Youth's Companion.