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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-29

v. L. and Wash Roose have been CON
victed at Rushville, Ills, of the murder Of
Peter Fox
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-29

500 Pants worth 1915 to $500 for &3 90
this week
Children's Suits worth 800 to s., = 30
90 this week for
Underwear Worth 75c go this week for 400
All wool Socks worth 35c, this week for OOc
overcoats worth $1,000 to sl2.oogo 75O
this week for
Overcoats worth $3.50 to $l65O go 1900
this week for
Children's Shirt Waists worth SOC, go Or
this week for
Our Prices are always
the Lowest,
Or Money refunded.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-11
The Water Supply of India.

The British authorities in India are
advancing slowly but surely towards a
solution of the great problem Of the
water supply. Only few days ago an
account was published of the opening
of the great Bombay reservoir and wa
terworks, and now the completion Of a
similar enterprise at Baroda is reported.
The reservoir there is a lake with an
area of five square miles, containing
when full 1 300, 900, coo cubic feet of wa
ter. The dam creating it is nearly three
miles long, was begun seven years ago,
and was finished in 1890, in time to store
the monsoon water of that year. Now
the whole supply system is finished and
properly filtered water is delivered In
abundant quantity to the entire popu-
lation. The sanitary benefits of these
engineering improvements can scarcely
be overestimated.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-11
Want the Democrats Ousted.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.-For terri
tory that does not enjoy the elective
franchise the District of Columbia is in
politics to a considerable extent. A
few days ago word was passed around
that the district Republicans would he
looked to for $4,000 contri-
button to the national campaign fund.
The district Republican leaders refuse
to comply unless the President orders
the removal of the Democratic chief of
police, Maj. Moore, and other Demo-
Gratis holding district offices. The pros
pect now is that the Democrats holding
Office in the district will be relieved.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-11
SEA SERPENTS.
Scientists Who Believe in These Marine
Monsters.

Scientists Who Believe in These Marine
Monsters.
Prof Agassiz was firm believer in
the existence of sea-serpent Of excep-
tional proportions, and spent neat
deal of time collecting material bear
inc on that subject, says the Philadel-
phia Press. He was especially interest
ed in anything appertaining to the sea
monster which made such stir along
the Atlantic coast in 1856. This SER
pent appeared first at Nahant, Mass,
and was followed along the coast for
miles by the excited citizens of Nahant,
Lynn and Swampscott, many of whom
made affidavit to what they had seen.
Sir Charles Leyeu, the noted geolo-
gist, thought it altogether probable that
some of the primeval monsters may
have survived until these latter days;
and, like the renowned professor above
mentioned, spent months and years col
Letting and arranging sea-serpents lore.
Prof Busby says: 81 have with my
own eyes seen a sea-serpent not less
than one hundred and eighty feet in
length flashing the waves Of the bay of
Bengal. | know that | was
wide awake at the time and that the
object l saw was not kelp, marine gel
atm or any other inanimate sub
stance. | believe in sea-ser-
penis because have been near enough
to one (the one just mentioned) to see
its horrid teeth
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-11
VIRGINS PROGRESSES
Canada's Prophet saws Mars Will
Cause COmmotiOn Oh Earth
This Summer.
He Thinks the War Planet More De-
sirable 10 Live on than
Ours.
accounts for Intense Heat and In
creased Volcanic Action Of the
Present summer.

OTTAWA, Ont, Aug. 8.-Dr. Wiggin,
che weather prophet and astronomer,
thinks Mars must be a far more de-
airable world to live in than our own,
because there is only small region
aear the poles where any winter
exists, and it has such dense atnos-
phere that the temperature is not eX-
cessive even at the equator. LAS it is
many millions of years older than the
earth" he said, 81 judge that its in
habitauts must be much more inteili-
gent than we are, and probably they
live for hundreds of years. [
would infer this from the fact
that noxious vapors do not exist
Sn it's atmosphere to cause cpl
denies, for its volcanic agencies ceased
many millions Of years ago. AS its at
traction of the earth is now the great
est possible, our atmospheric density is
slightly increased, which accounts for
the great heat of the present summer.
This will also increase the violence Of
Mount Htnas eruptions, and we wiz
have increased volcanic action and hui
nudity Throughout the world"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-11
TO OPPOSE CARNEGIE.

Four Large Steel and Iron Plants Pooled
Against Crushing Competition.
WHEELING, w. Va, Aug. 9.-The de-
tails of big steel and iron combine
have just been completed here. To-
day the Wheeling Iron and Steel COM
pany, composed of the Labelle, Ben
wood and Tophill companies and the
Wheeling steel plant, will take for
NAL possession of all the property of
the four concerns. The combined cap
ttal is more than S,0OO,OO The COM
sany will be the largest in the Ohio
'alley, next to the Carnegie. The pro-
jectors of the company state that the
combine was made necessary by the
efforts of the Carnegie Steel company
TO crush it's smaller competitors.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-11
= MODEST CLAIM,
The Lost Valise Tlat Suddenly Became
Naiuab bic.

Not long ago travelling man put his
valise on q baggage truck on an Indian
apolis. Decatur s Western station while
he went to buy ticket and when he
returned the valise was gone Some
one had stolen it, According to the
rules of the company Superintendent
Boyd told him to make an itemized
statement of the contents of the valise,
and this was done That statement
was, in the language Of Mr.. Boyd. "a
daisy, Cuff buttons worth twelve dol
lars pair: collar buttons at four dol
lars each. and among other things 8
suit Of clothes that he said his wife had
sent him from New York and which he
had never worn. The entire bill was
for one Luldred and forty dollars, and
though the company believed it was
being imposed upon the account was
sworn to and it was in for the payment.
MIR Boyd delayed matters as long as
possible in hopes Of some clew, and he
thinks himself lucky that he did. One
day the valise was found in a ravine
near the station, where it had been
thrown by the thieves, and Superin-
tendent Boyd made an examination of
its contents. He says the cuff buttons
listed at twelve dollars could be bought
anywhere for fifty cents Il p~ir The
four-dollar collar buttons were common
bone afairs that sell al two for FIVE, =
and the nov a-,it Of clothes was not
there at all. Instead was a letter writ
ten by the mans wife in which she re-
GREETED that she could not send him his
new suit because the tailor had not I'm
ished it but she would send it in ten
days. which would be three days later
than the date on which the valise was
stolen. The total value of the valise
and its contents was about six dollars.
As the loser had sworn to the one hun
dred and forty dollar statement he did
not press any further his claim against
the company when he learned that the
valise and It's contents had been recov-
Embellishments News.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-11
New York.

NEW YORK, Aug. 8. = WHEAT-Receipts,
$4,000 bu; sales, l,575 900 bu; moderately ac-
tive, steady; September, $3.50; December,
sahc; May 1890.
RYE-Dull, steady; Western, 72@75c.
BARLEY-NominaL
CoRN-Receipts, $4,000 bu; sales 1,175oOo;
active; August &C., September, &c. October.
$500 No. 2, 6lD62c
OATs-Receipts, LOO bu; sales, 5000 Blu;
very dull September, 59Ac; Western, 38041c.
BEEF-Dull, steady; extra mess, S65007 So
PORK-Quiet firm: new mess, S13 80 31400;
old mess. S12750l3.
LARD-DuIl, higher; So 10 nominal.
BUTTER-Receipts 1866 pkgs; quiet, firm;
Western dairy, 14@18c; Western creamery,
10@231ac
EGGs-Higher, fair demand; Western, 171s9
1sc.
CoFFEE-Very dull; spring months points
higher. Rio spot steady, l325@131ac for No z.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-11
Drowned at a Picnic.

WORCESTER, Mass, Aug. 8.-A boat
overloaded with ten Hebrew picnickers
from this city was overturned on Lee S
pond. Leesville, near this city last
evening. None of them could swim
and George F. Briefly and two other
young men jumped into the water and
pulled all but two of them ashore.
The drowned are Annie Bernstein,
aged IS years, who had just came over
from Poland and was visiting here;
Ida Harris, aged 5, daughter of Daniel
Harris of Harris & Potasinsli, clothing
dealers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-11
ENGLAND AS A WAR POWER.
Ben Butler Says She Always Hires OtheE
People to Do Her Fighting.

People to Do Her Fighting.
Great Britain never had more than
25, 600 soldiers from her own islands be-
tween the four seas, on any battlefield,
and those were at Waterloo, while we
had in our late war more than that
number to starve or die of wounds or
sickness in a single prison Does any
one believe, asks Ben Butler in the
North American Review. that England
will ever forget that at the close of our
war we disbanded quite 10000 of sol
Cliers and that 500, 600 of them are vet
alive to take hand in any war in which
the honor Of our country is assailed by
Great Britain? / have said, and per-
haps may be criticised for it, that she is
not a warlike nation. Her government
is continually making war on small ma
tons and hiring some one else to do the
fighting.
If there is anything on which England
can pride herself for prowess in war it
is her navy. But she cannot forget that
until almost within the present genera
ton that navy could only be supplied
with sailors sufficient to man it by drag
cling them from their homes by press
gangs. The marquis of Salisbury seems
to have faith in bonds in settling
difficulties. between England and this
country. Be it so. England has given
this country bonds in untold millions
that she will keep the peace and be of
good behavior. The first gun fired in
the Behring sea by one of her vessels
would be war as much as the first gun
fred at Fort Sumter and as the battle
Of Gettysburg War abrogates all
treaties of amity and commerce. War
permits the cOnfiscation of all property
of one belligerent found on it's shores
or within jurisdiction of the other.
Every debt, demand, certificate of
stock, due from an American would be
at once forfeited and confscated
Every rood of our land owned by Eng
lish syndicates or subjects would belost
to her. 1t would seem as if we could
find the means to carry on the war by
selling her property in open market and
using the proceeds; and when we hear
the shells from her fleet, if we should
do so, breaking the plate glass in Broad
way, we should be comfortably remem-
bering that great deal of it belonged
to English people. Stopping the ez-
port Of cotton for three months would
starve Manchester and it's worknen and
would be of advantage to US, as cotton
is very low in price and we could use it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-11
LIVE MOCK.

CHICAGO, Aug. S.-The stimated receipts Of
cattle were $4,000 There were sales of choice
to extra steers at $52505.5O and a little poor
stuff was closed out at 81 .2501 So though prices
between S205 took most of the natives, and
81. 5O03 were the prevailing prices for Texans,
Western range cattle were dull and easy at
81 5004,50 The supply of calves was not suffl-
cient to meet the demand and they sold higher
quoted at So 50Q575
HOGs-From sc TO 10c more was added to the
value of hogs, prices moving up to S5.SG 86 25
for very common to extra grades. There were
not many trades at over S615, neither were
many of the offerings so poor as not to be sala-
bic at over IS. IS. The demand was sharp, and
by 10 o'clock about every hog had been
weighed.
Sales OF sheep were at quite as good prices
as were paid last week, and the better grades
of lambs were steady Common lambs were
not wanted at former prices, and thin sheep
were very slow. Quotations were So 5005. 80
for sheep and "A 5O96 so for lambs. Culls we're
quoted at 1.50Q325.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-11
Murderer Kinney Recaptured.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Aug. s.-Detec-
tive Cobb of Jacksonville, Fla, passed
through Nashville, last night with
Howard Kinney, who is charged with
murder. Kinney was in jail at st.
Marys and with several other prison.
ers escaped last January. Detectives
have been on his trail for several
months. He was located several miles
from Harrodsburg, where he was dis
guised, working as farm hand. An
Indictment was found against Kinney
while he was in Kentucky.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-11
What Is known About Fish.

Pliny. the great naturalist, who lived
at about the time Of Christ, reckoned
the whole number of known species of
fish at ninety-four. Linnaus, the great
Swedish investigator of the eighteenth
century, could classify four hundred
and seventy-eight, and he is known to
have been the greatest ichthyologist Of
the age in which he lived. The prog
ress made in that particular branch
since the time of Linn@us seems all the
more wonderful, for now, since the ex-
petitions of the Challenger and others,
thirteen thousand species show up in
the catalogues of the fish specialists.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-11

Weak Vision Frequently Produced by the

Weak Vision Frequently Produced by the
Use of Drugs.
Methods for identifying the eyes
have long been in vogue among women
of fashion, and not a few resort to those
which ultimately injure the organs and
the general health. Atropine is a most
common drug for making the eyes look
large and lustrous, but the continued
use of it so wealzens and paralyzes the
muscles that weak eyes come on early
IN life. An eminent oculist claims that
the widespread disease of weak eyes
among women is largely due to the
tampering with these organs for max
ing them more beautiful than nature
intended. The extremes to which some
will go in the matter is illustrated o
an English woman who was arrested in
the streets of London for drunkenness.
It was found later that she was simply
suffering from the toxic effects of
atropine, which she had instilled into
the eyes to dilate the pupils for a more
brilliant appearance. She was deter
mined to be beautiful, and to accom-
plish the purpose she ran the risk of in
juring her eyes for a lifetime. A late
fad among women of our cities is to
darken the under eyelids with paint to
give a more attractive appearance to
the eye. This paint is often made up
of injurious principles, which in time
make the flesh around the eyes old and
wrinkled. 1t becomes cracked, and then
paint becomes essential all of the time.
The simplest method, if one will darken
the eyes, is to use ordinary lead pencil.
The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette says
charcoal crayons are also harmless, but
the paint prepared for this work cannot
alwauS he t1,1lStnd
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-11
STOLE RARE BOOKS.

The Rev. william "A. Carr Confesses to
LoOtin& Wooster University Library.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 8.-A great
sensation has been stirred up at Woos-.
ter university over the discovery that
several thousand dollars worth of rare
books have been stolen from the uni
versity library and that over two hun
dred Of the missing volumes have been
found in the possession of a former
student who is now licentiate and as
such has been preaching for some
months. The offender is the Rev. Will
lam A. Carr of Lithopolis.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-11
Work of the L A. w.

New YORK Aug. s.-Among the
most important work accomplished
during the last week by the racing
board of the League of American
Wheelmen is the suspension, pending
investigation, of F. c. Graves, one of
the best riders of the team that repre-
sents the Springfield Bicycle club at
all the tournaments. He has been
called upon to answer charges that
affect his amateur standing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-11
His POOR SERVANT.
What Noted French Author Wrote OF
Himself.


Himself.
When HOnOre de Balzac, the novelist.
stated in early life his wish to become a
literary man. his father, who had des-
tined him for the bar, was shocked and
disappointed. Still, he gave the boy two
years in which to prove his fitness for
literary life, and Honore was accord
ingly installed in an attic near the IL
brary where he proposed to work
His mother believed that little hard
ship would soon bring him to his Senses.
but the correspondence which he there
upon began with his sister shows that
the man who was afterward to attain
distinction in his chosen work could al
ford. as youth, to scorn such trifies as
waiting upon himself In the very first
letter, he confided to his sister the news
that he had taken a servant. Tie writes:
"Hc is named Myself! And a bad
bargain he is, truly! Myself is lazy,
clur-~y. thoughtless. His master is
hunG-y CT thirsty, and often eno1z,,ll.
Myself has neither bread nor water to
give him; he doesn't even know how to
shield him from the wind which whis-
ties through the door and window As
soon as | am awake / ring for Myself,
and he makes my bed. Then he sweeps
the room, and clumsy he is at it.
"'Myself!
Ives, sir
Look at that cobweb with the
big fly buzzing in it till am half-giddy
with the noise, and the fluff under the
bed, and the dust on the window panes!'
THE lazy beggar gazes at me and
doesn't stir, and yet, in spite of all his
defects, can't get rid of that unintel-
lgent Myselfr'
And the same stupid Myself it was
who afterward enriched French itera-
ture with a series of wonderful works.
Youths Companion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-11
A Young Man Gone Wrong.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Aug. 8,-A spec
ial from Chattanooga, Tenn, says: w.
E. Lowe, who came here from Nash
vile three years ago, was last night ar
rested on the charge of embezzlement.
He was confidential book-keeper and
collector of the Bradt Printing COM
pany, and it is alleged he stole from
them by making collections and fail
ing to account for them. He also used
his position to obtain Endorsements to
his individual notes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-11
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manager was defeated by Guy In
three straight heats in special pacing
race at Davenport, Iowa.
President Harrison as soon as Con-
gress finally adjourned left for Loon
lake to join Mrs. Harrison.
Unanimously the House committee
on ways and means reported adversely
on the sub-treasury scheme, holding
1t TO be unconstitutional.
In Cuba the sentiment in favor of
annexation to the United States is in
creasing, but the patriots are fearful
of filibustering expeditions.
Allegiance of the Irish party to Glad
stone will be confined to home rule leg
islation, but the members are confident
they will get what they want.
Nineteen heats were decided in the
Grand Circuit meeting at Buffalo, each
one in under 2:20. In the 2:27 pace
Robert J. got a record of 2:09A and
FLYING Jib one of 2:10A.
Newton Clapp, a deputy United
States revenue collector, and Repub-
Ecan, shot and killed Gray Cloud, the
Democratic member of the Legislature
from Claiborne county, at TazewelL
Cause, an election row.
Janeway & Co., of New Brunswick,
n. j. have entered the new combine
recently formed in the wall paper trade
under the name of the United States
Wall Paper company. William Jane.
way has been elected director.
ST. Louis has been selected as head
quarters of the International Brother
hood of Painters, instead Of Baltimore.
Support has been withdrawn from the
Brotherhood Journal. The offices Of
secretary and treasurer have been COM
bined. Weekly sick benefits have bssa
reduced to IS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-11
Politics in japan.

Feminine interest in elections is
strong enough in our own country, but
the most enthusiastic American woman
would hardly follow her convictions SO
far as her Japanese sister. Mrs Ishjina
Sazayemou, living in the Nagano dis
trict, was SO affected by her husband
voting for the wrong candidate that
she dressed herself in white as sign of
mourning, retired to store room and
cut her throat with q sword
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-11

KoKoMo, Ind, Aug. GA tie placed
on the track of the Lake Erie & Vest
ern railroad in the northern part of
this county last night caused the
wreck of freight train. Four cars.
one being loaded with hogs, left the
tracks. The obstruction was probably
placed ON the road for the midnight
passenger train, but the freight came
first. No one was hurt. This is not
the first time that an attempt has been
made to wreck passenger train near
this city on this road
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-11
KILLING POWER OF TIE RIFLE.

An English Laborer's Thigh Perforated
at Distance of 1850 Yards.
A German army officer struggling
with prisoner catches up military
rife and shoots his opponent through
the head. After passing through two
thicknesses of skull the bullet pene-
trates the partition Of a railway car
rage and imbeds itself in the flesh of a
passenger. But this is nothing. A
laborer near the English practice camp
Of Aldershot was recently struck at a
distance of 1850 yards, or one and one
half miles. The bullet, after passing
completely through the upper part of
the thigh, buried itself in the ground.
Theoretically it was evident that the
penetrative energy of these new bullets
ought to be capable of passing through
several men in succession, and expert
ments with the cadaver as target
shows this conclusion sound. Now,
argues the New York Sun, as the ira
jectory of these projectiles is very
low one, the space within which men
will be subjected to such dangers in the
field has been greatly extended. 1t Is
thought that fire may be opened from a
distance of 1900 yards. 1t is found on
trial that good marksmen can make so
per cent. of hits against targets of suit
able dimensions at 1850 yards. With
smokeless powder and the consequent
facility Of Distinguishing clearly at long
distances the aim may become mo- : ac-
curate than has heretofore been known.
These considerations have led to call
of an international conference of mill
tary medical men, with view to adapt
ing hospital service to the new exigen-
cies of the field.