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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-04-22
LIVE STOCK AND PRODUCE MARKETS
Chicago.

Chicago.
CHICAGO, April a
Following were the quotations the board
Of trade today: Wheat-April. opened
SIC, closed 81. Is; May, opened s54c, closed
SOssc; July. opened S0esc, closed s0,sc. Corn
opened 42JSc closed 4sc; June, opened 3e1sc,
closed SOC. oats-May. opened 2sc. closed
so5sc; June, opened and closed 2s7sc; July,
opened and closed ssIsc. Pork-ApriI.
opened sa45, ciosei ss4-1s; May. opened
ss.j1 closed Ss.4718; July. opened $780,
clio, ed ss.671s. Lard-ApriL opened s6.I7,z.
closed S6.la
Live stock-Prices at the Union Stock yards
today ranged follows: Hoss-Msrket
fairly active, and &c lower; sales ranged At
s3.394.D pigs, s4-99i..O light, s+I5041
rough packing, SL3oT4.65 mixed, S4850
40 heavy packing and shipping lots
Cattle Fairly a,tive; prices 5GlOc higher,
quotations RANGED at 81 40f.5O choice to
extra shipping steers s3oG4S5 good to
choice do sS456s9, fair to good. sso@
3.65 common to medium do, SSooG355 butch
ers' steers, S2so933O stockers Ss.T563. %
Texas steers, SalO0375 fee5ers, SL5013s
cows. SL750i60 bulls aud s:.001i75 veal
calves.
Sheep-Market fairly active and prices
firm; quotations ranged at $5.OG&35 west
erns, SAso15.4O natives, and $5.75lS1.OO lambs;
sborn lots OlJ75c per lu0 lbs bslo W quotations
given above.
Produce Butter-Fancy separator &c per
ID; fine creameries. 2l02Ic; dairies. fancy,
fresh, lSc: packing stock, fresh liEi3c. EGGS
Fresh, l2,<Gl5c per doz Live poultry
Chickens. L per ID; roo,ters, &c: ducks, 2l<
9l3c; turkeys, mixed lots. ELs9l3c: geese,
$500 per doz- Potatoes-Hebrons .6G2Sc per
bu; Burbanks, ssga0c; Rose. J0Q3sc for
seed; Peerless. z56sso comm. on to poor mixed
lots, 20G2c; Early Ohios $40945c for seed
Swess potatoes Illinois. SLT5G250 psr bA
Bermuda potatoes, S650G17Oa Appies-Com-
mon, sL719:D per bbl; good, $32502sos
fancy, S2506275.
New York. 4- :.
New YORK. April Il
Wheat-No. 9 red winter cash, SlGlJ<;
April sS1sc; May, 9ltsc: June. 9gt4c. Corn
No mixed cash. sic; May 47a1c; June,
46c. Oats-Dull; No. mixel cash, S5c; May,
S4a4c Rye-Weak; Si057c. BaIley-Nomi-
nal; season practically over Pork-Dulk
new mess. $lLo1clL5o. Lard-Steady; Mry,
S642; July, S6.5i.
Live Stock: Cattle-Mark firm, but no
trading in beayes: dressed beef steady; native
sides, 69Sc per lb Sheep and Lambs
Sheep firm aud nc per Id higher; lambs, dull
and 1sc lower; unshorn sheep. S7.0o17.50 per
100 lbs; unshorn lambs, SEOJ0s.o0: clipped
do S. .516.S1s. Hogs-No:ninally firm; live
hogs S4.stG,5.5g per 10 lbs
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-04-22

and tactics. If there is single man on
the ticket-from Claude Matthews, the
gubernatorial candidate, down to the end
who does not put Ex-Governor Gray at
the head of his list of political gods, he has
very cleverly succeeded in concealing his
predictions. The convention itself was
one of the most orderly gatherings of the
kind every held in the state. Whatever
feeling existed was not allowed to mani
fest itself on the surface outside the ordin-
ary demonstrations Of enthusiasm or dis
sent
Continuous Eighth our Session.
1t took over eight hours to begin and
finish the task, but the delegates stuck to
their posts, without meat or drink, until
the chairmanas- gavel gave the signal for
dispensing. 1nwas noticeable that there
were more young men in the convention
and among the @workers" than heretofore,
but it was also apparent that the "Old
War Horses were not only still possessed
of vitality, but in command of the forces.
Sentiments of the Delegation.
The speculation as to the position of the
national delegates on the presidential ques-
tion is intensely interesting, and the claim
to the majority is being fiercely disputed.
Some of Gray's friends claim as high as
twenty OF the delegation Tor the indiana
candidate, but this is probably an sxag-
gerated estimate. John Z. Lamb, of the
Eighth district, is claimed by both fac
tious, but his position as he defined it last
night is pivotal. Il shall go to the con-
yention and vote under the instructions of
the state convention which are adopted
today. I am friendly to Governor Gray,
and would like to see him nominated, and
if there is a chance for his nomination
that does not conflict with the instructions
1 shall vote for him, but if not shall vote
for Cleveland"
Figures on How 1t Stands.
While the instructions of the state con-
vention imply an obligation upon the In
diana delegation, it is probable that few
will not obey them, whichever way they
may be given. If the delegation were un-
instructed, to q politician who is capable
of judging things it would be as follows:
Cleveland-Richardson, Jennings, Zoerch-
er, johnson, Nicklaus, Shirley, Chitwood,
Smith, Ayres, English, Foster, Packard,
Chester, Noonan, Catlin. Gray-Houston,
Friehler, Beggs. Pollard, Cullop. Cass,
Boone, Murdock, McGriff, Lamb. This,
with Morss' vote. will give Cleveland six
teen votes, and Gray, with the votes of
Voorhees,, Jewett and Doherty, the other
three delegates-at-large fourteen.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-04-22

tons ioe use. but personal eonsaifasion -
6a1o6 DIN. .. .. fRUTRe
eess Lake Avs.s C6Ssage.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-08-10

all its adJuJant measures, seems like a
dream to the weaker alliances. 1t
o'ertops anything ever undertaken by
the old parties, and they will never be
forgotten in this state. They demon
strate the singular organizing and ex-
ecutive strength of the state lecturer of
Minnesota, who seems to hesitate at no
task or peril.
DIR. Fish was born in New York in
1S45. He is of medium size, weighing
about 100 pounds, fair complexion and
blue eyes. 1t is difficult to imagine this
social. genial man, who is so fond of
young peoples and children's society,
to be the author of the bitterest
invectiveS and most terrible phillip
pics ever used either in journal
ism or on the rostrum- His educa-
tion is profound, extending into
Sanskrit and Egyptology, and quite all
the modern sciences. He is the author
of a textbook on chemical analysis, a
work on the Egyptian pyramids, Don
nelleana" and various pamphlets, but
he probably never undertook a more
gigantic task than the conduct of the
Minnesota campaign for the peoples
party, although the wheat fight has
has been ''in the saddle" campaigning
all the time, flying from hamlet to
hamlet, paying his own expenses when
necessary and often sleeping in sod
shanties.
Minnesota is proud of two men, Hon.
Ignatius Donnelly and Everett w. Fish.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-08-10

upon such q system; and if the same
system continues, America must be the
same labor battle ground that the old
world has for centuries been. We ask
attention to the following Washington
dispatch to the daily Chicago News
Record:
Throughout army circles and at the
war department there is feeling of
uneasiness over the labor agitations
over the country. Secretary Elkins re-
turned to his desk at the war depart
ment this morning, although he had
gone to his West Virginia home for stay
of some weeks. Gen: Schofield stays
close to his deskealthough. the hot spell
would have sent him. to the seashore
some, time ago if it had not been for the
labor disturbances Secretary EllSins
went to the White house shortly after
his arrival toe day and was in conference
with the president for over an hour,
during which time the pending agita-
| tions. ia .Idahoa and Pennsylvania and
the uneasiness of labor in. other local
fties were discussed, As yet there has
been no actual preparation for. the as
sembling of the United States troops,
except in Idaho, where the government
forces are already on the field and num-
erous commands are in readiness to be
pushed forward in case of need. But
the authorities feel that the labor out
break may spread to all parts of the
country at any time, and they are ac-
cordingly on the alert in order to be in
readiness for such an emergency"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-08-10
The Battle Ground.

II is fitting that this terrible opening
battle in the conflict being brought on
by the Communism of capital" should
be fought In the banner high protection
state of the union. and doubly fitting
that it should be at the works of the
Carnegie Steel Co., for Mr. Carnegie is
the ideal high priest of high protection,
as he IS also the self-appointed cham
pion of the cause of the gold-bugs OF
England and America. 1t will be re-
membered how ingenuously he advanced
the sophistry of the English bankers In
his now famous article on. the A. B. C.
Of Money. He stands, as does no other
man outside of active politics, pre-emi.
nently the representative of the in.
famous legislation which has produced
an insolent and arrogant plutocracy on
one hand; and millions of bread-win.
ners, who to-day are suffering pinch
ing poverty through contract..s5n of cpr
rency and other class legislation, on tn,
other. Carnegie types the presen-
financial condition for which Beniamir
Harrison and Grover Cleveland stand
as wen as the economic condition 70,
which the republican wing of the pluto
cratic party is chiefly Responsible
u Z. Bliss, in New Forum. 49,.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-08-10
CONVICT LABOR.
The Peoples Party Solves a Worthy Prob
est Labor.

The Peoples Party Solves Worthy Prob
lem In the Interest of Justice and Hon
est Labor.
a plank in the Missouri state plat
form of the peoples party reads thus:
We favor the construction of a system of
good public roads by the state, and the utiliZa-
tion of the convict labor of the state in pre-
pairing material for and in the construction Of
such roads. -
And the county platform of Pettis
county, Mo-, says: ~
We favor the apportionment of and the en-
plOyment by the several counties of the state
convicts to build and improve our public roads
Because, first it will withdraw convict labor
from competition with honest labor: and sec
ond, because the benefits to the public of con-
vict labor will be immensely greater than from
any other system that could be devised.
The Illinois state platform has this
plank:
Wedemand that all convicts In this state here
after be employed in the winter months in pre-
| pairing material for, and in the summer months
| in making. permanent roads and other state i'm
| provements. -
| Commenting upon the plank in the
! Illinois platform, the Chicago Post says:
| ''At least one plank in the platform
adopted at the state convention of the
so-called peoples party in Danville viii
/ command the respect OF all gOOo cItI-
zens. 1t relates to the employment OF
convict labor. The peoples party is not
without reason in accusing the two
dominant parties of gross and un-
| patriotic negligence of the subject OF
prison labor. As the matter now
stands return to the odious old con-
/ tract system is precluded by consti-
tutional amendment The existing
contracts are expiring and the state
| must soon assume the problem, the last
legislature having lodged it in coward
ly wise. Since enforced idleness is a
thing too horrible to be considered at
all, and since the state must. therefore,
furnish employment of some kind to
convicts, the question seems to resolve
itself into choice between the appli-
cation of convict labor to public works
and return to the familiar and there
fore odious system of labor on state ac-
count We venture that once the su1-
gestion of the peoples party was
adopted there would be no further
trouble with the convict labor question
and the scandal of our public roads
would become a gradually vanishing
quantity"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-08-10
THE CRISIS is COMING.

Strike at the Ballot Box, Men, and Drive
Out the Horde of Plutocratic Robbers.
1t is coming.
The crisis is nearly at hand Now
comes the showdown between capital
and organized labor.
The iron plutocrats have issued the
ultimatum: ''No union men need apply"
To themselves they assign the exclusive
power to organize and oppress.
Labor, they say, must not organize
for protection '''..'.
If they win this fight against labor,
what will become of labor?
Is there any half way house between
freedom and slavery?
Don't all answer at once. ......
Will the honest yeomanry of. this
country bow their necks to the yoke?
Are they ready to bare their brawny
breasts ITO the piercing bayonets of
Pinlertdns army of cut-throats?
No! Mo-! A thousand times no.
BetteT die protecting homes and
babies t fan live to see them starved to
death.
Strikesat the ballot box, men.
Strike, e,hard and clean out the tools OF
plutocracy who have secured control OF
nearly every branch of government.
Drive dut the hook-nosed Shylocks
whose glittering gold has perverted and
destroyed the democratic principles OF
jefferson and republican wisdom ot
Lincoln. ~
Drive 'em out. ...,.
Drive 'em out at the ballot box. '-'.
When that fails, then and only ther
will you be justified in declaring war.
This scheme of public plundering, ta1
eating currency contraction has reached
the end of its rope.
1t must stop now.
A peaceful victory we hope and pray
for, but victory it must be, ever
though the long roll once more b.
heard in the land to awaken down
trodden, tax-ridden people to arms.
There is an end to all things.
We have arrived at the end.
When it comes to struggle betweel
organized monopolies and trusts witt
their edicts to organized labor unions
the unions will win.
Plutocracy might as well take hee,
now and assist in preventing the spill
ing of blood.
I Whitelaw Reid's nomination upon tn
tail of the republican wing of the gol
party ticket is direct challenge t
fight.
Cleveland's nomination upon the den
ocratic wing of the gold party ticket
another slap at the people who cry on
in anguish against the further rule c
the money power.
The turn in the road has bee
reached. ...-,l., .,....i 81
Down with monopoly.
Down with trusts.
Down with the Carnegies
+ Down with the Reids.
Down with the gold party, and fc
the sake of home and the republic crus
Harrison and Cleveland, the two me
above all men who stand as fgure-heat
for the Shyloclzs.
God pity the laboring men of this n;
tion if the fight now being waged
the old party campaign fund raiser
succeeds Denver Road. ~---
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-08-10
PuNoENT PARAGRAPHS.

Mrs. B.-"Dear me! what lovely
closets this fat hast" Agent Madame
those are not the closets. They are the
bedrooms ''-Harper's Bazaar,
-Twynn-"What awful language
that parrot usesr' Friplett-"You see
his cage hangs in the same room with
the telephone
Man is good deal like fish. You
know the fish would never get in very
serious trouble If it kept its mouth shut,
-Yonkers Statesman. :.
Tommy Paw when a man COIN
Enits poEtical suicide does he shoot his
head off?" Mr.. Fi9g-"No; merely his
mouth. s-Ipdiaaapolis Journal
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-08-10
LABOR TROUBLES.

Such Things as Labor Troubles Were I'm
known In This Country Previous to
the Adoption of the British system OF
Finance.
Previous to the adoption in this coun-
try OF the British system of finance,
such things as labor troubles here were
r-iAnown, says the Mount Vernon Ql. !
Progressive Farmer. The American
people read Of them In the old world
and wondered how they could be. But
with the old world system of money,
and the building up of money power
later concentrated into a gold power,
came all the old world evils attendant,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-08-10
NEW METHOD OF CAMPAIGNING.

The "Fish Institutes of Minnesota Are
Doing Great Work.
There may not be many things new
under the sun, but certainly DR.. Everett
w. Fish, state lecturer of the Minnesota
alliance, has inauguratsd a method
which is new and remarkable. 1t re-
quires little nerve and dash to set the
method in motion. A county attorney
who was known to have a great hostil-
ity TO DIR. Fish once heard group of
village people denouncing the doctor
and the peoples cause
"Well,'' said the attorney, 81 will say
this for the doctor, no man ever called
him a coWardr'
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-08-10
A Political Royoott.

The Ventura (CaL) Unit publishes a
most pathetic letter from one Benjamin
A. Rice, of Hueneme, that state. Mr..
Rice has been refused the privilege Of
re- leasing land he has brought under
cultivation, and on which he has
erected humble home His landlord
gives-these good and sufficient reasons
for desiring to be rid of his tenant:
Rice went to Los Angeles last fall as
a delegate to the state convention Of
the Farmers Alliance and also TO Mont
alvo to make a stump speech, and he
goes to church, and I want a man to
stay at home" Let our grand old
parties pass some more resolutions of
sympathy for the evicted Irish tenants
of cruel English landlords. d
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-08-10
a roor rerrormanee

Young Hopeful-Mamma, did you tell
papa I'd got to have bicycle?
Mamma-Yes, bat he said he couldn't
afford it.
Course he'd say that but what did
you do?.
Il argued in favor of it, but he re-
fused"
Argued! Huhi If it nd been any
thing You wanted fur your own self,
you'd cried little, and then you'd
got it, Good News
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-08-10
CHURCHES.

CHRISTIAN.-Pre every sunday a.
~ IL o. clock, n. m, aud 1880 y. m, 10y Eide
J. 4. Nicholson. Prayer meeting every We.
nesday night sunday school at 10 o CLOCK II. ~
every Sunday. Pastors residence ut the par
sonago study at the chapel
AEETHODIST EPISCOpAL-Servicese every
UN4 Sunday at Il 90 u IN. and 80 p. m. SUI
day schoOl every sunday at 10 a. IN. PrayCt
meetinA every Thursday evening n. Z -
Strangers invited. j. NJ. Archer, Pastor.
nRESBYTERIAN.-Se every Sunday al
I IL u. IN. and 80 p. m. sunday School az
10 am.
OtATHOLIC CHURCH Services once every
~ month in the Gobielle building ON North
Main street. hEN. y hAEA' faAtor.
GERMAN BAPTIST BRETHREN-Holdr req
" uIar services at Mingona, Barber county,
the second aad fourth Sundays in each MONTH
At Forrest school house on the second SUNDAY
Cedar Creek school house on the third sunday
BY Elders Shamberger, Smith and Neher.
CT. MARKS MISSION.-Sunday school a.
- $3.50 o'clock on every Sunday afternoon, IL
the G.. A. X. hall. Children please come.
DAPTIST.-Preaching LIST and3rd SundaylI 81
- IN. aud at 800 y. m, every Sunday. sun
day school at 10 O'Clock, a m. Prayer meeting
Wednesday evening of each week. Rev. w. A
Cain, Pastor. Residence on Cor. Lincoln Ave
aud Cherry Streets.
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CIRCULATION.

The Index" has, and can
prove the largest circula-
tion Of any paper in Bar
ber county.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-08-10
IS YOUR TINE ouTs

If this notice is marked with
an x il shows that your time
has expired. Please notify us
of the fact if you want the pa
per continued.
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A. CONSIGNMENT of fall bfoc

"A consignment of full bfooded
"nigger force bills. has been received
from democratic headquarters by the
local committee, and will shortly be
turned loose in Barton county: Keep
your children in after dusk Industrial
Union.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-08-10

bEIPHIA LODGE, No. l40, X. of p, meets or
Monday evening of each week, at the h. OF r.
hall. Visiting Knights in good standlhE INV
ied 10 ATTEND J. NJ. LAHEY, &. &.
A. NJ. HOUCHIN, X. of X. X ;.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-08-10

n " LOREN EDWARDS CAMP, No. l52
., Y y. OF ", meets ON LIST ana 81 Satur
day evenings of each month, III their hall on
North Main street.
j, L. ROMIG, Commander.
II Williams Adfutaut
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-08-10
Some of our exchanges express sur

Some of our exchanges express sur
prise at Gen. Snowdon's naughty inn
perial manner of addressing the Home
stead strikers If they knew him they
would expect nothing better. He is
personally known to the. writer. He is
born aristocrat, and one of the most
contemplate of his kind. In walking
the street he can see nothing below the
second story window, and common peo-
pie are completely below his notice or
consideration. 1t is fitting that just
such man should command the mill
tary forces sent to aid Mr.. Frick in dis
placing union with non-union labor at
the Homestead works Great is protec-
tion. Advocate.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-08-10

X K D ELDRED POST No. ~, meets
II, a, H. I'd 4 4th Saturday in each month
~ the court house in Medicine Lodge, at Pm
All comrades cordially invited.
l.. Il. WILLIAMS, Post Comnanuet'
JOHN w. UPPERMAN, Ad1utant.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-08-10

n II q LORRAINE CHAPTER, No. 81"
", Lis D. Regular Communications, hrs'
and third Monday evenings in caCh monIh.
MRs FRANCIS ELLIS, W. NJ.
MAMIE V. o. BRYAN, Sec. .-...
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-08-10
SOCIETIES.

CYPRUS CHAPTER No. 63, Il. \. NJ, meets
I'm Masonic- -Hnu every "a aud th Thursday.
CHESTER /. Long, II. Z.
NE tB. PECK, Sec'y.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-08-10

Z n TT NKJ Fidelity Lodge No. So
A, ", u, YY - Meets 2d and 4th Friday
night T.. NJ. BYERLgN, NJ. ".
J. W. SINGER, Recorder.
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The Miss souri Force Bill.

The supreme council of the Farmers
Alliance at Ocala gave the force bill its
first black eye and the republican sem
ate, not the democratic house, killed it.
But it was the democratic house that
passed the Oats bill, which was worse
than the Harrison force bill And it
was the same democratic house that re-.
fused to pass the Bland silver bill,
while the repub blican senate passed even
a. better silver bill It was the demo
cratic party in the state of Missouri
that fastened worse force bill on the
voters of this state than was ever the
southern ''force biiP- by attaching the
three per cent clause to the. Australian
system of voting, for. the, purpose OF
continuing the democratic and .repub-
lican parties in power by suppressing.
the rights of the people at the polls in
behalf of the reform movement But
the democratic party leaders are dumb
on the subject when the Missouri
'iforce bill'' is mentioned, and why2
Because it will not bear the light of in
vestigation OF course we have no
hope of the republican party ever doing
us any good. But it is the height of
folly, in the light of recent facts, to try
to make us believe that there is any
hope for relief through the democratic
party.-AfarsiraH (Mo:) Alliance Watch
| ma n --'- . ---~ g
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-08-10

NAoMINo.6 ~, ,REBECCA DEGREE. a. OF.
Meets the "a and 4th We'd. nights, each month.
MRS Il NJ. ALLEN, \. q,
MRS AuG. SCMtDT, Secy.
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nFRICIAI nIRHcTnRY

PRESIDENT. NT............... BENJAMIN HARRISON
United States senators .........B. w. Perkins
of Kansas, .... ....... W. A. PETER
Member of Congress, ,7th Dist Jerry simpson
Judge of 24th judicial - ST.. @. W. Mckay
State Senator, 3sth Di-tri,t. Chester Long
Representative, gOth District..-..F i. W. Hlch"%