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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-11
Grasshoppers in New Mexico

KANSAS CITY, July 1l.--Henry Smith,
of Springer, \. NJ, is in this city. In an
interview Thursday night he said that the
grasshopper pest in New Mexico and Ari-
iona was becoming serious. Mr.. Smith
owns large ranches in View Mexico and
Arizona. He says the grasshoppers have
stripped them of nearly every vestige OF
vegetation, and have done great damage.
Other eattlemen, he says, make the same
complaint. The pests work their devasta-
tions in spot varying in size from a
quarter square mile to four mikes square
MIR. Smith says the pests are moving
slowly eastward, and by fail will reach the
Kansas and Texas lines
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-11
A MADMAN'S DEED.
Shocking Slaughter Discovered
Near Ellis, Neb.
AN INSANE MANS HORRIBLE WORK.

Six Members of Family Found Dead
With Bullets in Their Brains by the
Sister of the Lun attic Who Committed
the DEMONSTRATING Confession of
Wisconsin Woman-Her Sons Noble
Self-sacrifice-Lively Time With Bel
Iigerent Tramps-Other Criminal Oc-
currences.
OMAHA, Neb., July IA special from
Ellis, Neb., says: Mrs. DR.. Allen, of Bea
trice, Neb., went to Ellis, Neb., on Friday
night, July 3, to visit her brother, John
H. Puterbaugh, a farmer living mile and
a half from Ellis Repeated knocks at
the door failed to obtain response. Mrs.
Allen entered and horrible sight met
her eyes. On the door lay her brother,
Puterbaugh, with a bullet hole through
his head and an empty revolver lying be-
side his dead body.
Further Horrible Discoveries.
Mrs. Allen called to her driver and the
two made further Investigation On a
bed lay Mrs. Puterbaugh dead Beside
the wife and mother lay the 2-year-od
babe. On lounge in another room lay
the body of Puterbaugh's 10-year-old son.
Upstairs were found the bodies of Puter-
baugh's two daughters, aged Is and Is
years. Each one had been shot through
the head and evidently while all but
Ptterb augh were asleep.
Only One ,ef the Family Left.
Tits believed bbaB PuterbaughF himself
committed the terriSle deed, probably in
a fit of insanity. He was a well-to-do
farmer, without any known trouble, and
insanity is the only motive that can be as
cribed for the deed. One son, aged Il
years, was saved from the slaughter by
being absent from home at the time
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-11
FIGHTS WITH FORTY TsAMPS.
They Tackle the Snyder Family and Get
the W orst of it.

COLORADO CITY Col, July 11.-Forty
tramps struck town a few days ago.
Thursday night they robbed beer saloon
of thirty-one kegs of beer and porter.
After hiding ehen in the hills they entered
houses boldly and carried away everything
of value they could lay their hands on.
When the police raided their camp a gen
eral fight followed, in which a number
were seriously injured. Later in the day
the thieves attempted to raid the house of
a man named Snyder. The family opened
fire and the tramps scattered. Twelve
members of the gang were captured and
each exhibited evidences of the markham
ship of the Snyder family.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-11
A DANGEROUS PLAN.
The Deepening of the Inlet to the
Moline Pool.
CDfavOrabie sanitary Conditions
Likely to Result From the
course Adopted.

The papers of Moline are up in arms,
and not without cause, over a proposed
change ia the plans for deepening the
inlet 10 the Moline water power pool. By
an appropriation of congress in 1899,
$40 600 was ordered expended for the
for the purpose of deepening the inlet to
the water power pool. Last month Capt
Lyon, commandant of Rock Island ar
senal, went TO work in accordance with
instructions from headquarters to pre-
pare plans and begin work. His plan.
which has been described, was 10 build
the Golfer dam from the upper point of
the wing dam around an area about 400x
400 feet in size, leaving the inlet open for
a considerable distance on the south shore
so as to let the current pass into the pool.
He then submitted these plans to Gen.
Flagler, chief of the ordnance bureau.
who thereupon telegraphed from WASH
ington to stop work until further orders
were received from him. Capt. n. S.
Shaler on his recent visit to Rock Island
arsenal brought these orders, which in
cluded plans radically different from
those previously adopted by Capt. Lyon
and briefly stated was this; comm enc
ing at the upper point of the wing, build
the Golfer dam $50 feet in a northeasterly
direction so as to divert the current 10
the north, and when near enough the No
line shore to be in still water, continue
the structure straight across to the foot
of Twenty-frst street.
The natural consequence of this would
be q gigantic cesspool extending the
whole length of Moline and the upper
part of Rock Island, involving the grav-
est unsanitsry conditions. In Moline the
people are greatly agitsted over the mat,
ter and vigorous protest has been tele-
grsphed Col Flsgler. In Reck Island,
too, which would, if anything, fare
worse than Moline-ss the simple opening
OF food gate at stated times, would
LuC
check above into the dead pool
above the Rock Island lumber
company's mills, where it would be held
ia stagnation-the authorities have not
been idle and Mayor McConochie and
Health Commissioner Eyster have writs
ten Col. Flagler of the danger to the To-
cality which would ensue from the plan
he endorses. The only way of insuring
protection to health is the continuance
of the current which would carry off the
We can but believe that when Col.
Flagler realizes the danger Of carrying
out such plan as suggested, he will al,
ter it,as he has always proven a friend to
this community. He knows the situation
and must, or refle ction. consider how
seriously the sanitary welfare of the two
cities would be affected. This is of
primary Importance.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-11
MOST MIRACULOUS RESCUE.
A Brave ard Level-Headed Engineer
Saves His Own and a Child's Life

Saves His Own and ChiId's Life.
Concord, \. H, July 11.-As freight
train Thursday afternoon was going west
from Pittsfield on the Suncook Valley
railroad, the engineer, Charles J. Hutch
ms, saw, a short distance ahead, little
child on the track. 1t being impossible to
stop the train before reaching the child
he Went forward to the pilot in the hope
of grasping and rescuing the little one
A sudden lurch of the locomotive threw
him on the road bed and the locomotive
passed over him. The engine knocked
down and passed over the child
also, who, when discovered by the
engineer under the moving train, was at
tempting 70 crawl out between the wheels.
Hutchins, hanging to the under side of
car, reached through the truck frame,
caught the child and and holding it safely
was dragged by the train until it was
stopped. The child was unhurt, but the
engineer was slightly bruised.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-11
Ayery Confederate Suicide.

WATERLOO, Ia, July ia well-dress-
ed stranger, apparently about Is years
old, committed suicide by shooting him
self with a revolver at his room in the
Central house in this city yesterday, after
having taken large dose of raudanum.
In his pockets Were s54. IS in money and a
book in which he apologized Sor the
trouble he was making and told the land
lord to have him buried in a cheap coffin.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-11
Navy Yard EMPLOYEES ArresNesl.

NORFOLK, Va, July ia big sensa-
ton was created at the navy yard yester-
day by the arrest Of Paymaster's Clerk
Van Nranken, of the general store house,
and II. W. erosion, clerical employee of
the same establishment, on the charge of
stealing composition metal and other
goods from the government valued at Sl0.-
900. Both men are leaders in high society
i'm this section
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-11
Washington Park race Record.

CHICAGO, July 1.-THE winning horses
at Washington park course yesterday
we,s: German, q mile. lis; Chimes,
mile, 1:4R; Poet Scout. rs miles, 1:57:
Guido, X miles, 2:o7s4s Philora, mile,
Lac; Balgowan, 1 mile, l:41s4; Take No
tice, mile, I:42L.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-11
Examiner Drew rtust 60.

PHILADELPHIA, July blank Exami-
ner Drew has not yet handed in his resig-
nation as requested by the comptroller of
the currency. 1t is said he has written
a letter to the comptroller asking that he
be allowed to continue in the service,
Word has been received here from Wash.
linton that the comptroller had informed
MIR. Drew that the department insists on
his resignation
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-11
STOKE from Messenger BOYS.

NEW YORK. July 11.-Charles Brown, of
Sixteenth street, Philadelphia, was re-
manded at the Tonbs yesterday on the
charge of wholesale petty thefts from lit.
tie messenger boys. His tbefts aggregate
$1,000 He worild give the boys mes
sage to deliver promising to pay them 10
cents and holding their packages until
they returned. He would be gone when
the boys got back,
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-11
Terrible Work of the Lightning.

NEW ORLEANS, JHT ia special from
Clifton, Bos4ne eosaty. Tex. says the
house of S. p Anderson, ffseen n14es Yves.
of that place, was struck by lightning, and
Anderson's wits and three daughters. all
that were IN the house at the time, were
killed. The building was burned to the
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-11

MILWAUKEE, Wis. July 11-Articles of
incorporabion have been prepared in this
city and yesserday were sent to Madi son
for the organization of the Interstate
Electric Railway company. The Dew COM
pany announces T. intention 20 build and
operate an elevated electric railway be-
tween Milwaukee and Chicago Tie
trains viii carry only passengers and
mails, and are expected to run eighty-five
miles an hour.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-11
Isit President Marsh?

MILAN, Tenn: July lit rs reporte d
that one of the def Iufters of Philadelphia
has been seen near here Theman spoken
of is about 10 years Of age and neatly and
stylishly drecsed. From the PUBLISHED de
scrfptions it is supposed to be Marsh. the
absconding president of The keystone
bank. The Stranger was heavily armed
and well supplied with money
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-11
Light Necr, Reci.tration.

COLUMBUS, Miss, July 11-Ouly small
number of voters have registered in obedi-
eHce to the new sonstit utioa Of the s.
600 voters In this county, less than 1.5JO
have registered. The negroes seem to
have lost all interest IN the right of fran
e4ise, as only forty-foEr have registered IN
this county
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-11
Fatal Thras. w.sh AN Umbrella.

NEW YORK, july 11.-William Hobbs, a
waiter in Third avenue restaurant, died
yesterday in Bellevue hospital from the
effects Of thrust in the eye with an UNI
brella, inflicted upon him by aa unknown
assanant on Wednesday night
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-11
Reports Abe.,t Blaine's Health.

BAR HARRoR, July 1.-THE report that
Secretary Blaine was dangerously sick as
published in a western paper, is utterly
false and without foundation Every one
who sees Mr.. Blaine riding aud walking
about the streets say that he is steadily
improving and there Is every prospect
that he will be well man by the end of
the summer
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-11
For Sale or Rent.

Saloon and fixtures, together with ice
house and dwelling in good location in
Hampton, In. Enquire corner Twelfth
and Iowa streets. Davenport Iowa.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-04
Gen. ERSleston Dead.

WICHITA, Kan, May ss-Brig. Gen
B. B. Eggleston died yesterday morn
ing at the ripe age of "a. The deceased
was one of the prominent figures Of the
war. At the opening of hostilities he
enlisted in the First Ohio cavalry and
his brilliant service gave him rapid pro-
motion He was brigadier-gen-
eral under Gems Upton and
Wilson and chief of cavalry for
the department of the south and after
the surrender of Atlanta was made mill
itary governor of the place Gen Egg
gleston was prominent in Mississippi
politics after the wiz.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-04
Abbo< Volts Silver Anniversary,

ArcMsoN. Kan, May 2a-Rt Rev.
Abbot Innocent Wolf, the twenty fifth
anniversary of whose ordination was
celebrated at St Benedict's Abbey
yesterday. was the recipient in the after
noon of q congratulatory cablegram
from Pope Leo The two men are
personally acquainted and both belong
to the Benedictine order. Abbot Wolf
also received cablegram congratula-
tons from the Benedictine monastaries
in Europe and numerous kilograms
from prominent Catholic prelates Of the
United States He received presents
valued at several thousand dollars.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-04
C1fppfnr.

A child's party is no longer a simple
joyous &C casion fos romping and laugh
tar. In not distinctly fashionable up
town neigh orhood cards were out the
other day for a child's party from 5
o'clock until 9 o'clock in the evening.
ALI the little girls wore 1ow-necked
dresses with short sleeves and long
gloves to match. Their shoes and stock
ings also harmonized with their little
gowns. They were amused by a mas
ter of ceremonies, who arranged
dances. told funny stories and per
formed some sleight-of-hapd tricks
n. Y. Sun.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-04

QUEEN VICTORIA has decided that the
Duke of Flies daughter (the recently
born granddaughter of the prince of
Wales) is to have only the rank and
title to which she is entitled as the
daughter of duke. The queen came
to this decision in spite of the fact that
the legal advisers of the crown con-
Cured in the opinion that the prince of
Wales granddaughter should rank as a
princess of the royal blood. The
queens decision, however, is final
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-04
German
Syrup

Martinsville, N. J., Methodist Par
sonage. my acquaintance with
your remedy, Boschee's German
Syrup, was made about fourteen
years ago, when contracted Cold
which resulted In a Hoarseness and
a Cough which disabled me from
filling my pulpit for a number of
Sabbaths. After trying Physician,
without obtaining relief cannot
say now what remedy he prescribed
Il saw the advertisement of your
remedy and obtained a bottle. I
received such quick and permanent
help from it that whenever we have
had Throat or Bronchial troubles
since in our family, Boschee's Ger
man Syrup has been our favorite=
remedy and always with favorable
results. have never hesitated to.
report my experience of its use to-
others when I have found them
troubled In like manner" REV.
w. II. HAGGARTY,
of the Newark, New A Safe
Jersey, Me. Confer
ence, April IS, go. Remedy.
~
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-04

PRINCE LUCIEN BoNAPARrE, the sa-
want, who lives in England and has
been practically a widower for the past
forty years. can scarcely be said to have
been bereaved by the recent death of
his wife, who passed away on the same
day that Prince Napoleon did. The
prince married Marianne, the beautiful
daughter of the sculptor, Conchetti,
nearly sixty years ago, but the union
was not happy and the couple finally
separated, the princess, however, de-
clining divorce, although her consent
would have been paid for with a for
tune.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-04
Have an Idea of Frank View.

WICHITA, Kan, May 31.-A well
known horse thief named Frank View,
alias Frenchy, recently arrested in the
Sac and Fox reservation, was jailed
here yesterday. The Jail officials have
an idea that the prisoner knows some
thing of the outlawed Dalton brothers
and their comrades, and may even have
been connected with the recent train
robbery at Wharton, L L. View, it is
alleged, has limited that he could tell
something worth hearing about the
naIfonS
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-04

The papal encyclical has attracted
but little attention in Berlin where the
labor movement is altogether under the
control of socialism. The socialists
claim to expect to have a majority in
the reichstag after the next general
election. The encyclical is not alto
gether satisfactory to the weather.
class among the German Roman Cath
olics who consider that the pope lends
too much encouragement to labor agi-
fatiOn
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-04

INSPECTOR RATHBoNE has been ad-
vised of the sentence of Henry Miller,
the stage robber, to ten years in the
California prison He is regarded as
one of the most desperate and danger
Gus men who has ever engaged in this
business on the Pacific coast He has
been concerned in numerous robberies,
for some of which he served various
terms in Jail It is said he robbed the
stage twice in Texas and it is positively
known that he committed six robberies
in California
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-04
ADDITIONAL DIsPATCHER

CLEARING house returns for the week
ended May 80 showed an average de-
crease of 21.5 compared with the CORE
spending week of last year. In New
York the decrease was 2S.S.
The international peace congress at
Milan, Italy, has approved a motion
that the difficulty arising from the New
Orleans lynching ought to be referred
to the international institute at Ohnet
for arbitration
MRS. SHEEDY and Monday McFar-
land, a negro. who were on trial at
Lincoln. Neb., for the murder of the
woman's husband. have been acquitted.
THE negro desperate Murray, who
killed Deputy Sheriff Robinson in Fer
nando. Fla, some time ago, has since
killed Marshal Alvarez and a negro
known as Prince Albert, who were at
tempting his arrest near Hampton.
PRESIDENT DA FoNsEcA, of Brazil, is
lying in a critical condition at Petropo-
lis. town twenty-five miles north of
Rio de Janeiro, from an attack of asth-
ma
SIR ANTOINE A. DoRIoN, chief justice
of the Quebec queens bench court and
formerly leader of the Quebec liberal
party, is dead He was for many years
one of the most prominent figures in
Canadian public life.
| SAC and Fox Indians have expressed
dissatisfaction with Agent Patrick, who
formerly lived at Ottawa, Kan.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has finally de-
termined not to appoint the nine new
circuit judges until next December. He
says no member has yet been selected.
Political belief, it is understood, will
not be the dominant requisite for APP
pointment to these positions.
LAST December the Hughes Lumber
Co. and d. w. Hughes, of Chattanooga,
Tenn, made an assignment involving
nearly $500, 600 of liabilities Final set
Element has now been made on the
basis of 100 cents on the dollar and in
lterest The big lumber mill is to re-
sumo operations
PRESIDENT HARRISON and members
lof his cabinet attended decoration day
ceremonies at Philadelphia The presi-
ldent delivered two speeches to a large
humber of persons at Independence
hall and Laurel Hill cemetery.
DECORATION day services at Grants
tomb, Riverside, n. Y, were married by
had weather. John S. Wise, of Vir-
lginia, delivered the address
THE home of Henry Phillips, at Tay-
lorstown, w. Va, caught fire and Phil
Hips and his wife and three-year-old
lchild were burned to death and a ff-
lteen-year-old boy SO badly scorched
THAT he died in a few hours Phillips
had been drinking during the night
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-04

RICH Jewish merchants of st. Peters
burg propose to follow the example
of the Jewish merchants of Moscow
and abandon the city entirely to
the Russians They are calling in
all the money they can, much
to the disgust and embarrassment of
their Russian debtors, many of whom
may have to go into bankruptcy. In
this way good deal of private capital
is leaving Russia for Berlin, Paris, Lon
don and other places The police do
what they can to stay the exodus of the
wealthy, but without avail.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-04

THE Chicago. Burlington & Quincy
has just completed what is said to be
the most elaborate time service system
in existence A code of signals giving
the exact time will hereafter be sent
automatically over the entire Burling-
ton system at 4 o'clock every day from
the central Office in Chicago. The per
Torrance begins three minutes before
and after eleven connections are made
an ingenious piece of mechanism fin
ishes the work. Three thousand tele-
graph instruments from Chicago to Den
yer and the BLACK Hills and from ST.
Louis and Kansas City to st. Paul sig
mai the seconds in unison with the big
clock in Chicago.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-04

THE London Times Rome correspond
ent gives gloomy view of the finan-
cial and political situations In Italy.
He presents facts and figures to show
that constitutionalism in Italy is falling
into degradation and that the state is
becoming bankrupt Patriotism has
declined since 1870 and everything is
given mp to personal ambition and a
struggle for existence. In case of a
crisis the Catholic vote would probably
be thrown again and reactionary gov
eminent put in charge.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-04

MRS JANNA HINNICKs, a German
Immigrant, II years old. who arrived in
Baltimore on the steamship Muenchen,
was debarred and ordered returned
under the terms of the immigration law
which excludes all aliens afflicted with
q loathsome or dangerous contagious
disease. She was suffering from an
aggravated form of lupus or tubercle
OF the skin. A son of Mrs. Hinnicks
lives at German Valley, Ill, and tele.
graphed that he was willing to support
his mother, but the law is mandatory
in this direction, leaving no discretion
in the matter to the department.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

The action of Eugene Kelly, Of New
York, in transmitting SIS. 600 to Justin
Mccarthy for distribution among the
evicted tenants in Ireland is to be re-
viewed in court.
COLLEGE students and police had
quite fight at Iowa City, Ia The
boys were celebrating a baseball vic
tory.
THREE men were killed recently by
foul air in a we'll at Centralia, Wash.
The military at Spandau, Germany,
forced $50 penniless Russian emigrants,
who were journeying to the coast with
the intention of embarking to Brazil,
to return to Russia
THE Hebrew sabbath will probably
be abolished in Russia The holy synod
of the orthodox church is considering a
plan to that end.
CONSIDERABLE rioting was reported
in Paris over the strike of the omnibus
drivers
The English derby was won by the
favorite, Sir F. Johnston's Common, q
brown colt by Isonomy out of Thistle,
who won the g. 900 guineaa
GEORGE ENNIS and Charles Waldron
each about Is. of Aberdeen, were
drowned in the Ohio near Maysville
Ky. They were boating, when the
skif was swamped by waves from the
ferry boat Gretna Green.
The revenue cutter Rush. under
sealed orders, has left San Francisco
for Alaska waters.
THE late millionaire, John T. Parish
of New York, left $3.50, 600 to variou.
charitable institutions
TwENTY-sEvEN Mormons in Arizons
have been indicted by the United State.
grand jury of the territory.
The Charleston has arrived at Callao
Peru. The Itata was not sighted
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-04

THE executive mansion at Washing
ton contains, among its most prominent
attractions, portraits of the ex-presi-
dents of the United States. To this
gallery of the country's greatest men
has Just been added a life-siZed oil
painting of ex-President Cleveland
made by New York artist named
Johnson