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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-16
She Couldn't Recover.

A long haired, hairy faced, large foot
cd native Of the Grand River swamps,
after having made fires in winter and
swept out in summer in a country law
yer's Office for seven or eight years, was
by an indulgent court admitted to the
bar. He located at k, little coun-
ty seat, and began trying to practice.
A young woman whom an old gentle
man had taken in her infancy to his
home and reared as his own child sued
his estate for the value of her services
during the time she had lived in his
family.
The widow was executrix, and en-
ployed our Grand river tyro as counsel,
along with a fairly good lawyer. In
looking up authorities on the case, the
good lawyer read one to his co-counsel,
which held in such cases that the de-
cedent stood in loco PARENTS to the
child, and services could not be recov-
cred for unless there had been a special
contract for pay" And this seems to
be the law in most of the states. The
Grand riverian made the opening argu-
ment, and undertook to quote from the
authority III question to the probate
court, why, sir" said he, ''this old
man was a locust in parenthesis to this
girl, and she can't recover in this suit. ~
Green Bag.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-16

of his insurance business to Hurst s. Don
aldson and the latter part OF the week
will cave for Chicago, which city is to
be his home hereafter. Ed. has hosts of
warm friends in Rock Island who will
deep regret his departure from the city.
but who Sc best wishes viii attend him in
his future business associations.
Articles of incorporation of the 'Iway
Athletic and Sporting News company
were filed with the Scott county recorder
SATURDAY. The incorporators are @.
Newton Wilson. dward Collins. Charles
Waldenburg, R. w. Cram and A Cat
tell, Jr. These will constitute the board
of directors until the first annual election,
and the first three gentlemen named will
he res pectiyely president. vice presiden,
AMI secretary of the new corporation
du ing the same length of time. The
csplta stock of the company is placed at
$4,000. divided into shares of 80 each.
1t will take hold of the present weekly
journal. Toblique, issued by Messrs. Viii,
son & Wsldenburg. which on June will
appear under a new title.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-16
Frightful Shipwrecks.

Staunch ships strike and founder, ;he fierce
winds and mounts mons waves sweep noble
mariners ''hearts OF osk'' to shIpwreck and to
death, yet that does not prevent the lubberliest
landsman from risking his life on the stormy At
lantic in the role of tourist commercial traveller
But if he shall reach his destination safeyhe will
scarcely have escaped some of the qusims of sea
sickness, unless he lakes with him Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters. thai inimitable specific for nau-
sea. Bad water on long trips are threat TO the
voyager, but this may be deprived in great
measure Of it's disord sring effects upon the stom-
ach, bowels and liver by the Bitters. Against the
preudica effects Of malaria bad diet fatig and
exposure 1t is also eficacious. 1t everte, more
over, rheumatism and kidney complaint. DOM
travel on sea or land without 1t.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-16
COUNTY BUILDING



May 12-Peter Simmon to Nancy
Wright. WI lot 2, block s. Edwards add
Moline, $4,000.
SA Lynde ct al to Ann Tobin, lot g.
block 8 c F Lyndes addition. Rock ISL
and, $3.50.
Emma D Velie to Henry Eberle. lot IS
block 2, Velie's add, Rock Island, $3.50.
A w Wadsworth to E a Guyer. tract
in nw} sw4. 4. II, 1w, So. 800
S E Roberts ct al by commissioner to
Simeon E Roberts, set and ne3 25, II,
4w, snd lott 5, block 105. and lot 10
block IS, Andalusis, 81 ,647.
Circumstance & Guyer to George W
Walker, lots and 4. block 4. Columbia
Park, Moline. $500.
Villa jackson to Otto Brimberg, lots
and 6. Aldsy's Second addition to Eas,
Rock Island to Moline.
Otto Brimberg to Gust Brimberg, andi.
vided lots 5 and 6. block 2, Alday's
Second addition to East Rock Island &c
Moline, 81.
Davenport & Rock Island Railway
company to Gust Brimberg, lots and 6,
block 2. Alday's Second addition East
Rock Island to Moline, 81
Ignstz Huber ct al to G V4nHoor-
back. lot ID. Huber s. Peetz's ad iition to
Rock Island, 500
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-16
Ingenious Mr.. Jones.

Now, Jones he writ story of blamed supe-
rior kind
In fact, a stronger story would be pretty hard
to find.
He read it to his friends, which the same it
greatly moved;
In private Jones himself admitted it couldn't
be improved.
But with the periodicals his story seemed to
fail,
Each time it came a-riding back on the next
returning mail:
And the editor of The Monthly Snore turned
up his nose in scorn,
And sent note advising Jones TO stick to hoe
ing corn.
Then Jones, he cursed, these worthy men in a
way that was a sight;
He freely charged they'd not the brains to last
them over night,
And of The Shores conductor he took occa-
sion to assert
That the critter didn't know enough to ache
when he was hurt.
Yet still the story wouldn't sell, though offered
far and wide,
But Jones was not the fellow long to stand upon
his pride;
'She's perfect but I'll alter 'er," the rising
author said;
For literary man, Jones has a decidedly long
head.
So Jones he tossed aside his coat and tousled
up his hair,
Pulled off his cuffs and got his pen and dropped
into his chair,
Yanked down his perfect story from its place
upon the shelf
And rewrote it in a dialect lie couldn't read
himself.
Then to the brilliant Monthly Shore he sent
the same new,
Within two hours these glorious words were
spread in Jones view:
Dear Mr.. Jones, we greatly like or Rob's'n's
Jimp1eck,'
And beg that you herewith will find inclosed
our cashiers check"
Yes, Jones he writ story!-and he kept on
writing more
Till he's got the job of editing the able Month
ly Snore;
But he keeps 'em all in dialect that never can
be read
For a literary man Jones has decidedly long
head
New York Tribune.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-16
Doing the Trick.

81 say, old Chappie, how is it you con-
trive to be invited out everywhere dur
ing the carnival?"
"This is how the trick is worked. set
out report that / intend going out of
town for that period. Folks then say to
themselves, We can invite him sure
enough, for he won't come in any case.
Of course l stay at home and accept all
the invitations "-Kuche.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-16
How 1t Affected Him.

Speaking of marriage, Mr.. Larimer,"
remarked Miss Manchester, although
the conversation had not touched that
topic, 81 read the other day of a civil
magistrate in New York city who mar
ried fourteen couples in twenty min
utes."
Indeed" replied Larimer; ''that was
at the unprecedented rate of forty-two
knots an hour. "-Pittsburg Chronicle.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-16
He Couldn't Survive 1t.

Another magazine suicidey'
"a rejected poet?"
''No; the editor himself. While he
was absent in Europe genuine poem
got in the maga zine and the blow killed
him. Atlanta Constitution.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-16

After the grip Hoods Sarssparilla vii
restore your strength and health, and ex
pei every trace of poison from the blood
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-12-04
The suooeas Bur1larized

The steamer Success, lying at the
Land Company's old wharf, was bur-
glarized Friday night. The cabin and
pilot house were broken into and every
thing movable of value was taken.
The burglar secured the compass glass
and all the instruments, the booty alto
gether aggregating over 800 In value.
An unusually large number Of va
grants and tramps have been seen
about here Of late. On the same night
that the steamer was robbed Officer
Marshall arrested and locked up two
tramps found hiding under DIR. Hop
kins old drug store. -Four tramps were
run out Of town the same night. A
few days after the robbery Of Keeler's
shoe store seven tramps were found
sleeping in a small shack near the elec.
trio light company's plant, packed like
sardines In box.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-12-04

SEATTLE, Dec. IA terrible accident
occurred in the New York building,
corner Of Second and Cherry streets, to-
day at about 1890 p. m, by which
Darius Horton, the janit0r of the build
ing and a nephew Of Dexter Horton,
was crushed to death beneath the ele-
vator, which he was probably oiling.
About 1890 the occupants Of the build.
ing were alarmed by an unknown w0-
man, who rushed wildly from floor TO
floor, shrieking that man had been
killed under the elevator. Her cries at
tracted number of people, among
whom was the young wife Of the dead
man, TO whom ne had only been
married about year and who heard
the cries from her room on the third
floor. She rushed down stairs and on
hearing the awful news tainted and
was carried up stairs to their rooms. The
body of Mr.. Horton was Immediately
token from under the elevator and laid
out i'm the entrance where a large
crowd had gathered; thence the body
was taken TO the morgue at Bonney 4
Stewards. The elevator boy, Joe Ellis
was badly frightened, but managed tc
give the following account Of the affair
F" left for dinner at about IL o'clocl
and was relieved by Mr.. Horton, witt
was TO run the elevator during my ab
sence. When | returned, In about I
half hour, found the elevator ON tn
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-12-04

HELENA, Dec 3-Tommy Gavin, the
night barkeeper at the Opera House
saloon, was killed last night by gam
bier named Bloom, because he would
not loan him s.. The barkeeper pro.
tested that he had but one dollar and
offered him that amount, when Bloom
started to abuse him. A fight ensued
and the gambler fired three shots, the
last shot entering Gavin's back just as
he was receding. Bloom is under
arrest
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-12-04
oholera's Reappearance Feared

WAsHINGToN, Dec. S-Surgeon-Gen.
eral Wyman, of the marine hospital
service, in his annual report recon-
mends as a measure Of safety to the
country, that during the Columbian
exposition immigration be suspended
for at least one year from January lst
next. This recommendation is based
on the prediction Of sanitary experts
that cholera Is almost certain to re-
appear in Europe next year. 1t is
almost certain that the secretary of the
treasury will adopt the proposition as
part of his general plan for a national
quarantine service.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-12-04
A Broken shaft

LIVERPOOL, Dec. "a dispatch from
Kinsalc, on the north coast Of Ireland
says that the British steamer Lake
Huron, from Montreal, passed there
German LlOyd's steamer spree, which
sailed from Bremen for New York on
November 22d and which is some days
overdue at her destination. The Spree
has suaft broken.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-12-04

WASHINGTON, Dec. president
Harrison spent the entire day revising
the proofs of his message to congress
and held "A conference with the MEM
bers of his cabinet on topics in his mes
sage relative TO their respective de-
partments. The message and docu-
ments will he sent to congress next
Tuesday
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-12-04

CHICAGO, Dec. "A telegram from
Toxic, Japan, was received today an
nouncing the death last Thurday Of
Mary Allen West, sub-editor Of the
Union Signal, the organ of the Wom.
EMS Christian Temperance Union. She
had been engaged in temperance work
in Japan for nearly year, The cable-
gram gave no particulars. Miss West
formerly lived in Galesburg.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-12-04
Chinese May BE Educated Here

WAsHINGToN, ID. G., Dec. 3-The
treasury department has decided that q
Chinese boy may enter the United
States for the purpose Of receiving an
education, provided he has permission
from his government.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-12-04
A Reoeiver,s Statement

PORTLAND, Dec. 5-W. b. King, re-
ceiver Of the Alnslie Lumber company,
has filed a statement of the assets and
liabilities Of the company, and an ac-
counting of his receivorship for the
three months ending October 3lst In
round numbers the Indebtedness
amounts to about SjjO,OOO, and the
asset to something over $500, 900.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-12-04
Osborne Holds the Fort

CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 3-The gov
ernorship situation remains unchanged.
Osborne still retains possession of the
governors office. The state board Of
canvassers say they will canvass the
vote for governor and issue certificate
10 OsbOrne.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-12-04
NO. 70

ground floor with one Of Mr.. Horizons
arms sticking out 50 that could not
close the door. That is all know
about it. But | suppose Mr.. Horton
must have gone under TO oil it, or fix
something and the elevator slowly set
tied upon him." Mr.. Horton was well
known in this city. His first wife died
in California and he had been married
TO his present wife less than a Yenr.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-12-04
The Point Iona Reported WRECKED

PORTLAND, Or, Dec. at is reported
that the schooner Point Iona Is
wrecked Off the mouth of the Columbia
river. The wire to Astoria was down
at noon and the report could not be
confirmed or denied.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-12-04
TO vanoouver Without rransser

Best equipment, direct route. shortest
time, via Il. u. q II. G. r. r. and Cana
dian Pacific Railway 10 Vancouver. New
Westmins er and intermediate points.
Trains leave New Whatcom daily at 2:20
.. m. Tickets on sale at Maple street de-
pot at the following greatly reduced
rates:
To Vancouver. .................. ESQ
To Vancouver and return. $40
To New Westminster. ter................. 2.30
To New Westminster and return.... 4.35
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-12-04
A Fine Church Burned

SCRANTON, Pa, Dec. 3-The Elm
Park Methodist church, just completed
and which has cost S25, 900, was burned
this morning.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-12-04

Fresh Eastern oysters at Crelghton'
No. / Grocery.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-12-04

Continued on fourth poge.)
The Forrest City times., 1892-08-19

SHERIFF DERRICK of Lee county has offered to withdraw from the race in the interests of democratic peace and harmony, provided Mir. Harring- ton will do the same. This shows what manner of democrat Mir. Derrick is. We will now see what sort of stuff Mir. Harrington is made of. With nothing to guide us save a personal knowledge of the man, we venture to say he will do as much to restore har- mony and save Lee county as any man within it's borders. If this is not true, we are more grievously mistaken in him than we have ever been in any man.
The Forrest City times., 1892-08-19

IT has heen long time since the Arkansas republicans had as much fun as they enjoyed last Saturday, when their state central committee met in Little Rock and ''resoluted. :" Like our friend Featherston's little party of 'populites," the republicans can extract a large amount of comfort and assuage lots of anguish by "reso- luting." In fact, the acme of happi- ness in the estimation of these people is in "resoluting" against the Demo- cratic party. Last Saturday the com mittee in Little Rock charged che de- mocracy with fraud, reciting various specifications. including among them the defalcations of Churchill and Wood run. They failed, however, to mention the good old days of robbery, murder and arson under republican rule; of white women whose feet were roasted in order to force them to divulge the hiding places of valuables; of white men (democrats) shot and hanged and maimed in cold blood to gratify the personal malice of Clayton's faithful; of a bankrupt treasury and monstrous debt left as legacy to the democratic taxpayers of the state. The Republi- can party of Arkansas is & "nervy" in- stitution to preach of fraud on the part of any person or party.
The Forrest City times., 1892-08-19
A Party of Many Faces and Many
 Shapes
Arkansas Gazette.

Arkansas Gazette.
 The Peoples party of Conway couu- ty indorsed the St. Louis platform, Here is the 18th plank of that platform I've demand that the government is- sue legal tender notes and pay the union soldier the difference between the price of the depreciated money in which he was paid and gold"
 Not finding ihe declaration popular at home, the Arkansas Peoples Party State convention did not endorse it, although it is the only demand" adopted on it's merits at St. Louis, where the organization first assumed national shape. It is party of many faces and many shapes.
 There are some ex-federal soldiers in Conway county, and therefore that demand was put in the local platform in the hope of securing their votes in the election for Carnahan, who ignores the whole matter.
 Wherever the "soldier" plank is deemed popular it is passed. Wherever it is deemed unpopular it is either ig- nOred, or an unblushing denial is made of its presence in the national platform.
 Without principles. without the slightest regard for truth, the leaders and journals of the Peoples party are ready to deny today what they will vigorously assert and maintain tomor- row. Their signs read: If there's anything you don't see, ask for it.'
 There is no doctrine they are not ready to both endorse and denounce. under favorable circumstances. They are both for and against the "soldierh plank. They are both for and against the Mckinley tariff. They are both for and against the force bill. Everything depends on locality.
 But there is one thing they dare not denOunce. They dare not denOunce the Republican party Powell Clayton controls in Arkansas.
The Forrest City times., 1892-08-19
Carnahan Aios Whipple.


 An associated press dispatch to the St. Louis Republic says:
 The worst piece of political dishon. esty that ever revealed itself in Arkan- sas has just been discovered at Salem, Fulton county. When the republican state convention met the Peoples par ty and their platform were made the subject of the bittereSt ridicule by the. leading members of the convention By an overwhelming vote 1t was de- cided that the party should nominate a straight ticket and have nothing whatever to do with the Carnahan par ty. Whipple was nominated as the republican candidate for governor by exclamation. He entered the canvass, and in ali his speeches he iauded the great deeds of his party and vigorously condemned those of the democracy. Everywhere it was proclaimed that the principles of the Peoples party were antagonistic to those of the re- had had any understanding with each other was strongly denied.
 On July l4 J. T. Hall of Salem, Full ton county, wrote to Col. Whipple re- Questing him to visit that town ani deliver an address to the republicans of Fulton county. The charge had and the Peoples party ticket had an cans of Fulton county desired to hear governor whether or not there was any truth in accusation. Col. Whip pie found it inconvenient to attend the 1 vno nooftny .lt S.llono aud in hto to Mir. Halls letter explained why he was unable to go there, and wherein Carnahan's presence would accomplish all that he could do were he there in person. In other words, he gave Mir. Hall to understand that Prof. Carna- han and his party were assistant re- publicans and that any good that the party of Powell Clayton in Fulton county could do to assist Carnahan would be esteemed a favor and would result the same as if bestowed upon him. The following is copy of Whip. ple's letter to Hall:
 Law Obice of Wllliana e. Whipple, State
 Bunk Building, Lttle Rock, Ark,
 July IS, ISSs-T /. Hall, Esq. Salem, Ark.
 Dear Sir-Yours of the iIth receired. Sh0uad tke 70 Ot present on We 0ccdS10n referred to, but tt is thought best tor nee to yisit the North,cest- Fdyetteuille, Benton and Eureka Springs-this week. Col Fyshback soiu not % there. I join him again at Batesrille, Newport, etc. re- gret caaaot Dc srith yoi, but Cdrnahan ioiu meet Fishback, and I think aid us materially indirectly. Yours truly,
 William c. Whipple.
 It is the most stupendous, unblush. ing acknowledgement of political du- plicity of which any party was ever guilty. It proves that the reconstruc- tion radicals and workers of the Peoples party have entered into con- bine to delude the honest farmers and persuade them into voting either for Carnahan or Wbipple in the hope that one or the other might secure plural ity of the votes, 60 that demoracy's s candidate for governor may be de- feated. In principles the two parties are diametrically opposed to each other; in perfdy. hypocricy and dis honesty they are united.
The Forrest City times., 1892-08-19
We Shall Meet Again."

George ID. Prentice.
 The fiat of death is memorable. No appeal for relief from that great law which doOms us to die. We flourish an d fade as the leaves of the forest; the flowers that bloom and wither and fade in d day, having no Trailer hold upon life than the mightiest monarch that ever shook the earth with his foot steeps.
 Generations of men appear and disappear as the grass, and the multi. tude that throng the world today will disappear as footsteps on the shore. Men seldom think of the great event until the shadow falls across their own pathway, hiding from their eyes the faces of loved ones, whose loving smile was the sunlight of their existence. Death is the antagonistic of life, and the thought of the tomb is the skeleton of all feasts. We do not want to go through the dark valley, although its dark passage may lead to paradise; we do not want to go down into the grave even with princes for bed-fellows. In the beautiful drama of Ion the hope of immortality so eloquently uttered by the death-devoted Greek finds deep response in every thoughtful soul. When about to yield his life sacrifice to fate, his Clemanthe asks if they should meet again? To which he re- spends: "I have asked that dreadful question of the hills that look eternal of the clear stream that flows for eyer-of the stars among whose fields of azure my raised spirits have walked
The Forrest City times., 1892-08-19
OUR populite friends who 'resoluted"

OURpopulite friends who ''resoluted" so emphstically in regard to tele- gram to the Memphis Appeal-Ava- lanche concerning their midnight meetings of negroes in this and ad- joining counties, had their resolutions published in last Sundays Appeal Avalanche, and pursual of these resolutions would lead the uninitiated to believe Mir. Featherston a very large-sized saint, in spite of his force bill record and the theft of Gates seat. But people here know better; and they also know the report of the midnight meetings was true.
The Forrest City times., 1892-08-19
Fish Ton Thousand Years old.

In making railroad tunnels, cuts, etc., and in sinking wells and pits in Ne vada, Utah and Arizona, salt strata are often struck at varying depths, sometimes as much as a hundred yards beneath the surface. Hundreds of fish, perfectly preserved, are found in blocks of this pure rock salt. These salt fields are supposed to occupy what was once the bottom of lake 90 miles long, Is miles wide and many hundred feet deep. The fish found resemble the pike and pickerel species, and are wholly unlike the fish found in the lakes and rivers of that region at the present time. The specimens found are not petrified, but are as perfectly preserved in the flesh as though but recently fro zeR in a block of ice. When taken out and exposed to the heat of the sun they become as hard as blocks of wood. Oc- casionally workmen at the salt works located in 'the basin" have attempted to eat these antediluvian relics. Men of learning who have investigated the matter, say that these salt preserved fish are at least 10000 years old.