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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-29
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There are 199 State kan6 In Nfckke
and three trust companfAs, WITH total n
sources Of 81 ,21S. as; cash capital, ezoSA,
400; aggregate deposits, -. vi, 3W, q
which the savings deposits amount to "a,
959, 572. These latter increased muU tn
81, OO0, 900 since Last July.
Obituary: At HarrotlsburR, KY, CAp
tain Wellington Harlan, aged 90. At Yar
nallton, KY. Lewis Ramsey, aged "a Al
Lockport, N. Y. Samuel Pound At o.
wego, N. Y, Dewitt c. Littlejohn, who wa
speaker of the New York assembly in 1885
'57, $50. go and 81. in his 18th year. He wa
q member of the Thirty eighth congress
and took the One Hundred and Tenth regi.
ment to the front in the war of the rebel
lion as its colonel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Franz, of Mascou-
tab, ILL.,, found out that they had made a
mistake when they were divorced and wers
Immediately remarked.
Charles Boyer committed a burglary at
Cincinnati at 5 o'clock in the morning and
began five years sentence for the crime
in the aftern DON.
Thomas Neill Cream, the convicted Lon
don prisoner, has confessed that from 1874
to 1881 he made a practice of poisoning dis
sOlute girls in Canada.
Ohio's wheat crop is estimated at 4o, 0OO.-
600 bushels,
nitroglycerine factory near Lima, O.,
exploded, killing Andy Schultz, Benjamin
Bowling and Henry Schnafel, and fatally
injuring Tom Mathie Benjamin DOVE
had a leg blown off. A farmers house
1,SOO yards away was wrecked, and plate
glass at Lima, three miles off, was broken.
The Prussian army contains five women
who are regimental chiefs.
New Zealand has enacted a suffrage law
which allows women to be registered with
out personal attendance at the polls
Miss Frances Z. Willard is referred to by
a London paper as AN American Lady agi-
tator."
In New York lives a society woman who
has an album containing photographs Of
all her costumes for the past ten years
The empress of China carries with heI
5000 dresses when she travels. These fill
600 boxes and are taken care of by 1900
coolies.
The committee of safety of San Francisco,
which has played an important part-in
rather arbitrary and lawless style, however
in the history of that city has been called
to the front it is said to see that a fair cleo
ton is held
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-29
Fatal Casualties Reported.
STOPPED FOR WANT OF FUEL.
The Fire Under Controi-S1ore Fatslitie.
Looked For.

| The Fire Under ControI-STore Fatalities
Looked For.
At l o'clock the fire was pretty well under
! control or rather it had burned to the
limits, the river marking the southern
| limit of the burned district. Only the three
! fatalities already mentioned have been re-
ported. Undoubtedly there will be more
In the thickly settled blocks where there
were only frame dwellings it is hardly pos
sible that all could escape. People who
! were in the vicinity of jackson and CHI
i cago streets as mere lookers-on were nearly
surrounded by the fire While they were
watching its southwark progress young
lady came running down alley in that
section crying that her sick father was in
the house and she must get him out.
Saved Her Life by Force.
To save her life she was forcibly dragged
from the place. Possibly kind neighbors had
assisted the sick father out in the absence
of the daughter, but if they did not the
old gentleman must have persisted. There
was tremendous fright given the resi-
dents and property owners in the north
portion of the Third ward and in the
Seventh ward, when for a few minutes,
the wind seemed to blow from the south
west. Had it continued for any length of
time from that direction the fine passenger
station of the Northwestern railway would
have gone, and many large fiat buildings
and residences. There would have been no
river in that direction to check its progress
and it might have swept the entire lake
front.
Wild Scenes During the Disaster.
All the evening men, women and chill
dren crowded the streets endeavoring to
save their property from the doomed dwell
ings- Beds and crockery were thrown pell
nell from the windows and piled up in the
streets. Men rushed frantically from store
to store in the wholesale district appropri-
ating wagons or carts with which to re-
move their goods. Citizens from all parts
of the city assisted in the work, and men
dressed in expensive clothes and wearing
silk hats could be seen by the score push
ing or pulling express wagons or huge de-
livery trucks loaded down with furniture
of all kinds. The streets south of Wiscon-
sin were filled with a pushing and scram-
bling mass of humanity, nearly every one
being loaded down with household uten-
sis.
Printers ACT Firemen.
A reporter whose home was one of those
burned, seeing the direction of the fire, hur-
and save what he could of the furniture
Though he had but four blocks to go be-
fore he reached the place. the building was
on fire when he reached there, his mother
having been carried out by neighbors. The
flames were burning fiercely in the block
south of the new home of The Sentinel and
there seemed to be but little hope of saving
the printing press. Embers and blazing
fragments of paper and cloth were being
carried through the air by the high wind.
Finally force of printers was stationed on
the roof and armed with pals of water
succeeded in saving the building.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-29
BEGINNING OF THE CONFEDERATION

Terribly Rapid Spread of the Flames
How They Made Their Way.
The fire broke out near the corner of
East Water and Detroit streets at about
$50 O'Clock and the alarm was Immediately
sent in, but owing to the terrible high
winds, which swept easterly toward the
lake, the buildings in this vicinity were
speedily consumed and the fire spread with
bewildering rapidity. Flying cinders
dashed and sped on through the night
air like a mammoth pyrotechnic display.
Scattering in their flight they landed upon
the roofs of the large manufacturing estab-
lishments, the pride of the city, and in a
few minutes building after building was
Quilted and huge walls cracked and tot
tered to the ground.
Rode on the Wings of the Wind.
The firemen exhausted their efforts and
battled manfully, but it was impossible to
get the mastery of the fire fiend, which
rode on with the violent wind almost di-
rectly east, tapping up block after block.
In SUCH an alarming situation all effort
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-29
KILLED HIS DRUNKEN FATHER.
A Boy of Is Years Confesscs to Being .
Parricide.

Parricide.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Oct. &C. n Ba
ker, district passenger agent of the Kansas
City. Fort Scott and Memphis railroad was
shot and killed by his son Francis. aged Is
at his home in the suburban town of Ions
dale last night. The boy gave himself up
to the police, and said his father was beat
ing him over the head with heavy stick
Pleads Unintentional Homicide.
He got hold of a shotgun for the pur-
pose of fighting his father. who was drink
ing, and shot him unintentionally. He
stated that his father was in the habit of
abusing his family when drunk.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-29
That Deadly Odorless Gas

CHICAGO, Oct. s9.-Stiil another has been
added TO the long and growing list of deaths
in Hyde Park resulting from gas asphyx.
iation. The eighth case was reported to
the coroner last evening. she victim being
Herbert Parker. an Englishman, Is years
Of age and dyer by trade. He was found
dead in his room at 1861 Wabash avenue
Thursday night
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-29
Was Lively While II Lasted.

ST. PAUL. Oct. 29.-Robbers entered the
station at Dwight, N. D., Wednesday and
commanded Express Agent Lewis to hold
up his hands. Lewis was sitting on a nail
keg. which he grabbed and dealt one of the
robbers a blow on the head. The other
robber began firing. Lewis wife seized
&, 400 off the table and ran. O. J. Wake
field, a bystander, was shot in the head.
The robbers escaped without booty.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-29
An American Pilgrimage.

ROME, Oct. 29.-Mgr. Satolli, papal dele
gate to the United States, has reported to
the Vatican that the plan for pilgrimage
of American Catholics to this city in cele
bration of The pope's episcopal jubilee has
been Endorsed "with touching enthusiasm"
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-29
lNosScRlsABLY MAGNIFICENT.
Graphic Description of the Scene While
the Fire Was Fiercest.

the Fire Was Fiercesf.
During the progress of the blaze the scene
was indescribahly magnificent The sky,
which had been covered with gray, Ieaden-
like clouds. was lighted up until the hues
it assumed rjvaled those of the finest sun
set The flames seemed to reach TO the
very skies. Although it was rapidly grow
ing dark the east side of the city was as
light as day, so bright was the blaze. The
electric lights assumed blue color and
seemed more like will-o -the-wisps than the
lights which usually illuminate the city.
From the oil company's building where
the fire started, flames leaped out in all
directions
Spread from Building to Building.
The iremen fought like demons, know
ing that if the fire once gained a start,
ing to the fearful wind, nothing could save
that part of the city from destruction But
their efforts We're in vain and tongues of
flame shot from the roof of the building
and reaching across the street set fire to
the neighboring structures. From build
ing TO building the flames spread until the
whole block was blazing. Then for tiIr-=
the firemen seemed to gain all advantage
and the flames disappeared and were Sue
ceeded by dense clouds of black smoke.
Dynamite of no Use.
This was but momentary, and the fire,
which seemed to have gained fresh head
way during it's temporary lull, broke out
with increased fierceness Flames shot QUA
in all directions and clouds of smoke, car
ried by the hurricane, landed on the roofs
of buildings blocks away. Then the fire
men saw that their only hope lay in cutting
off the blaze in advance. Procuring dyna-
mite, they blew up a number of buildings
in the path of the flames. But this was of
no effect. The fire leaped the small barrier
as though none existed, and the men found
themselves working in the midst of fur
mace.
Effect of the Intense Heat.
Immense stone and iron buildings crum-
bled in the intense heat as though they
were of paper. Walls were falling all
sides, and in spite of their efforts the fire
giving up the fight on the burning build
ings, they went to the surrounding dis
tricts. where the river afforded a natural
barrier to the sweep of the flames. and
fought 1t from all sides. Even then their
efforts were not entirely successful, and
the fire continued to burn steadily to the
south.
Movement for Relief.
There will undoubtedly be much suffer
ing and restitution. Many poor people
have lost their all, and measures have
been already adopted by the German and
other societies to relieve the distress E. p
Bacon president of the chamber of COM
merce, last M yht called a meeting of citi-
zens to be held this morning in the board
of trade building to arrange plans for
raising money and aiding the poor.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-29

BERLIN, Oct. 29-Snow has fallen in the
Blacl. Forest district to a depth Of four feet
and railway traIHc is biocAaded.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-10-06
EDWIN BOOTH huRT.
Fails In a Faint at His uotel in Lakewood,
n. j.


LAKEWOOD, N. j., Oct 6.--The condi-
tion of Edwin Booth, who is wiutering
here, is giving his friends great anxiety.
Yesterday he met with a serious fall, and
he is now confined to his bed.
Mr.. Booth was out riding, and upon re-
turning 70 his room in the Laurel House
he complained to his daughter Of feeling
dizzy and faint. He also said that he had
a pain in the head. Before his daughter
could lay aside the work that she had in
her hands the actor fell in a swoon upon
the floor.
In falling Mr.. Booth struck his head
against the edge of the mantlepiece, in
flicting bad but not dangerous cut over
the right eye In falling he also received
a stunning blow upon the head.
Mrs Grossman became frightened, and
at once summoned help. The actor was
carried to his bed, where his wounds
were dressed by the house physi-
clan Mr. Booth has been in ill-health
for some time, and it was thought that
the change of climate would do him good.
The accident coming as it does, on top Of
his illness, is causing his family as well
as his large circle of friends much
anxiety.
Mrs. Grossman said that her father
was troubled with vertigo, and thinks
that his fall was due to that. She says
that fortunately he received no serious
wounds and she hopes that he will be out
in few days.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-10-06

of the poets condition. Bulletins were
fastened to the rustic gate.
As the morning advanced manyImen ar
rived at Aldworth from London and
joined the watchers outside the gate.
Many persons came and went after drop
ping their cards in the basket. Hun
dreds of kilograms and letters of inquiry,
coincidence and sympathy were brought
from all parts of Great Britain and the
Continent.
Toward evening most of the watchers
went to Haslemere or London, leaving
only the reporters at the gate. At night
fall the windows of Aldworth were
lighted, and the large bow windows oppo-
site the terrace steps were thrown open.
Those outside thought that the poet was
dead, but this impression was corrected
by the late bulletins.
Dr. Dabbs says that Tennyson's acute
illness began on Sept. 27. He was chilled
while driving, and the severe cold which
he then caught developed rapidly into
influenza.
Alfred Tennyson was born in Lincoln
shire in 1909. In 1888 he published his
first volume of poems and in 1881 sue
ceeded Wordsworth as poet laureate.
His principal works include the Morte
d. Arthur, In Memoriam, The Princess
Idyls of the King, Enoch Arden, The
Holy Grail.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-10-06
A RACE ON THE SOUND.
The Richard Peck aud Puritan Have al
Exciting Contest.

The Richard Peck aud Puritan Have an
Exciting Contest.
New YoRK, Oct. GA race down Long
Island Sound yesterday between the
side-wheeler Puritan of the Fall River
line and the twin screw boat Richard
Peck of New Haven resulted in a victory
for the cutter.
The Peck left New Haven at midnight.
She had quite crowd of passengers ON
board who manifested a great deal of in
terest in the contest.
The Peck ran slow from New Haven to
Stratford shoals where she was 10 meet
the Puritan, which left Fall River at
$3.50 p. m.
At 2:30 a. M the Peck sighted the
lights of the Puritan and ON the latter's
coming abreast of her, all steam was
crowded on both steamboats, and the race
began.
The Peck took the course along the
Long Island shore and the Puritan
steamed about a quarter of a mile from
her further out in the Sound.
There was a light breeze from the
north and the water was smooth.
The passengers on both boats crowded
the decks and the interest was intense
The speed of both boats was about
twenty y-three miles an hour, their usual
rate being twenty.
After few miles neck and neck
the Peck began to forge ahead, not rap
idly but steadily until the white hull of
the Puritan was n mile astern.
The race was to end at Sands Point,
and when the Peck passed that point
she was a mile and half ahead of the
Puritan.
The Peck arrived at her dock here at
6:45 a. m. and the Puritan ten minutes
later
The total distance covered by the two
boats in the race was fifty-six miles.
The chief engineer of the Puritan and
the other officers of the Fall River line
deny that the Puritan and the new Peck
had race, but the captain, the chief en-
gineer and all the officers of the Richard
Peck and of the New Haven line say that
there was race, and that the Puritan
was beaten by a good mile and quarter
in the thirty mile race.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-10-06
LORD TENNYSON is DEAD
The Poet Expired Peacefully
Early This Morning.
HE WAS CONSCIOUS TO THE END

His Death Due TO an Attack of Gout, Conn
plic.,trd with tho Iunueuza-An Eng
land Mourning His Principal Works
Made Poet Laureate in 1881
LONDON, Oct. 6.-Lord Tennyson died
at I :35 a. m.
Early in the evening Lady Clark left
the house and took a carriage to be driven
90 London. She said that all hope was
gone. Tennysons mind was unclouded,
and he knew that his remaining hours of
life were few. He had talked TRANQUILITY
of his death with his wife and his son
Hallam. He seemed to be perfectly hap
py and free from pain. Lady Clark spoke
with tears as she told of the scene at the
bedside.
All hope Of Tennyson's recovery was
abandoned between IL and 12 o'clock
Tuesday night The gardener yesterday
fastened with a stout rope the, rustic
gate at the front entrance TO the grounds
around the house and tied basket to the
latch. He explained that Lord Tennyson
was very near death, and the family
wished to secure perfect quiet by the ex-
clusion Of ali visitors from the grounds.
The basket was for the cards of friends
or admirers who might come for the news
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-10-06
A BOLD ABDUCTION.


AT Maxtown, O.
CINCINNATI, o., Oct. 6.-At Maxtown,
In the northeastern part of Franklin
county, yesterday, there occurred des-
perate encounter between three men and
three women. A young man named Sam
uel Bangs has for some time been paying
attention to Miss Leila Bennett, who re-
sides with her three brothers, sister,
and her elder brothers. wife.
Miss Bennett did everything possible to
discourage Bangs, and expressed great
indignation at his persistency. Yesterday
morning Bangs, accompanied by his
brother Edward, and a man named Ounce
Van Tassell, appeared at the home Of the
BENEFITS. There was no one there but
the two Bennett girls, Edna and Leila,
and the wife of A. E. Bennett. The la
dies suspected that the fellows meant no
good to them, and when they raped at
the door, instead of opening it, locked it,
and also locked all the other doors and
windows, and all three fed to the upper
part of the house.
The men secured ladder, and climb
ing TO an upper window smashed it in
and entered the room. Edna Bennett
procured shotgun and fired upon the
intruders. The shot struck Van Tassell
in the breast, but before she could fire
again the gun was taken from her and
thrown out of the window. The two
Bangs boys then seized Miss Leila and
forced her out of the window, down the
ladder and into the wagon.
They then drove away at full speed,
and have so far eluded capture. The
Bennetts are prominent and respect
able people and the whole neighborhood
is out in arms against the abductors.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-10-06
ANDREW CARNEGlE'S GIFT.
Corner Stone OF the Memorial Library at
Ayr Laid.

Corner Stone OF the Memorial Library at
Ayr LAID.
LONDON, Oct. 6-In Ayr yesterday
presented to this town by Andrew Car
negie, was laid with elaborate cere-
monies.
Almost the whole town took holiday
and despite the hostility of the working
people to the affair, an immense crowd
gathered round the site of the building.
The procession from the Town Hall to
the foundations of the buildings was led
by the city officials, Mr.. Carnegie and
Mrs Carnegie.
Mrs Carnegie laid the corner stone and
the Mayor, after delivering a speech of
ELUSIVE thanks, presented Mr., Carnegie
with the freedom of the city.
As Mr., Carnegie stepped forward, hat
in hand to reply, he was greeted with
round after round of cheers so loud that
a few groans and cries about Homestead
were hardly audible. Mr.. Carnegie spoke
at considerable length. Part of his re-
marks was as follows:
II feel more strongly bound than ever
to devote the remaining years of my life
less to aims ending in self and more to
the service of others, using my surplus
wealth and spare time in the manner
most likely to produce the greatest good
to the masses OF the people. From these
masses comes the wealth which is en-
trusted to the owner only as admins
trator.'
Mr., Carnegie received from the city a
magnilicently illustrated volume OF
"Views of the Land of Burns"
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-10-06

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The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-10-06
rHEePlscoPAL CONVENTION.
Bishop Neely Made Assistant Presiding
Omcer--Yesterday's Proceedings.

Bishop Neely Made Assistant Presiding
OfHcer--Yesterday's Proceedings.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 6.-The sessions of the
Protestant Episcopal convention will be
held daily from a. m. to 5:30p m. The
House of Bishops assembled yesterday af-
ternoon and reelected Rev. DR.. William
Tatlock of Stamford, Conn, secretary.
Bishop Neely of Maine, was elected
chairman of the house and it will be his
duty to preside in the absence of the
senior bishop, Right. Rev. John Williams
of Connecticut.
The assembling of the House of Depu-
ties brought together distinguished
body of clergymen and laymen. Among
them were Chief Justice Melville ".
Fuller of the United States Supreme
Court who is a representative from the
diocese of Chicago; DIR. Seth Low, Pres't
of Columbia College, New York, and ex-
Mayor of Brooklyn, one of the deputies
from the Long Island diocese; ex-Gov.
Henry P. Baldwin, of Michigan, from the
Michigan diocese; Erastus Corning,
Hamilton Fish, J. Pierepont Morgan, the
banker, and W. Bayard Cutting of New
York.
Rev. De Joseph Carey of Albany placed
in nomination for president the Rev. DIR.
Morgan Dix of Trinity Church, New
York. A number of delegates seconded
the nomination. The rules were suspended
and the secretary instructed to cast the
vote of the House for Mr., Dix. Taking
the char DR.. Dix thanked the convention
for its valuable testimonial of esteem il
his reelection for third term, and spoke
of the important work to be transacted
! during the session.
Rev DR.. Hutchins was unanimously re
elected secretary, and appointed as his
/ assistants Rev. Henry Austice, of Western
| New York Rev E. w. Worthington, OF
Ohio; Rev. Carroll NJ Davis, of Missouri
! Rev. w. Q. Prout, of Albany.