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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-02-01
ELECTRIC RAILWAY LINE.
Contracts Let for That from Chicago to
st. Louis.

Contracts Let for That from Chicago to
st. Louis.
ST. LOUIS. Feb. 1.-The contract for
building the Chicago and st. Louis Rail-
road company's line for the entire distance
from East St. Louis to Chicago was let
Monday to Bagnall Bros, of this city, and
Garvey Bros, of Memphis. All of the work
to be done, including grading, bridge work,
and track laying is included in the con-
tract-exclusive of the electrical plant and
exclusive of the twenty-six miles of grad
ing which was let last December, and
which is now approaching completion. The
contractors are men of large means They
agree to take one-half of their estimates in
the bonds of the company at par, and to
complete the road as quickly as possible,
the extreme limit of time being one year
from the date of beginning work.
Experiments on q Short Section.
Work is to begin stimuli taneously at ten
different points at least ten miles apart
DIR. Wellington Adams, the general mana
ger Of the company, says that section of
ten or twenty miles of track will be COM
pleted at once and that an electric motor
car will be operated over it at q rate of
100 miles per hour just as soon as the
track can be brought into the physical con-
dition which will permit of fast running.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-02-01
cHEEREo BOTH THE LEADERS.
First Business Taken Up in the Com mons
Salisbury Speaks

First Business Taken Up in the Com m ons
Salisbury Speaks.
The house was but short time in ses-
sion after the queens speech was read, and
took short recess. When the house reas-
sembled Gladstone, upon entering, was
vociferously cheered. He took the oath as
minister, and was followed by his col
leagues. Balfour, the Conservative leader.
was likewise cheered loudly by the Con-
servatives and Liberal-Unionists. Cod
dington, Conservative, raised an objection
to the action of the government in having
granted the Chiltern Hundreds to Jabez
Spencer Balfour, Liberal M p. for Burn
ley, who is accused of frauds in connection
with the Liberator Building society and
other institutions. Coddington said that
Balfour had committed enough frauds
and should not have had such favor ex-
tended to him.
Chiltern Hunereds a Fiction.
Harcourt, chancellor of the exchequer.
replied that the office of stewardship of the
Chiltern Hundreds was a mere fiction and
the government had neither the right nor
the means to inquire into cases of suspicion
before granting it. A writ was issued for
an election in Burley of a. successor to Mr.
j. S. Balfour.
Balfour Leads the Attack.
At $50 O'Clock George Lambert, Liberal.
rose to move the address He Ispoke to
empty benches, as did also Mark Beaufoy,
Liberal, who seconded the motion The
house filled like magic, however, when A.
J. Balfour, leader of the Unionist opposi-
tion, arose and began a general criticism of
the government. He began with a refer
- l.
that the trouble in Egypt was the result of
the rash utterances of the prime minister
and the chief secretary for Ireland when
they were in the opposition.
Refers to the Irish Question
He then denounced the evicted tenants
commission as so unfairly constituted that
they were incapable of presenting a trust
worthy report. Toward the close of his
speech he demanded that the home sscre-
tary should say whether or not the release
of Egan and Callan, the Irish dynamiters,
was part of policy of amnesty intended to
involve the release all the Irish dynamiters,
and he charged Morley, Irish secretary,
with having used the crown prerogative
for political purposes.
The Grand Old Mans Reply.
Gladstone was cheered loudly when he
rose to answer Balfour. He reproached
Balfour for assailing with inflammatory
criticism bill not yet introduced, and for
doing his utmost to prejudice the minds of
his followers against plan of home rule
of which he was still ignorant. He would
not reply to Balfour's invective against
Morley's administration of Ireland, except
to say that the wise policy of clemency had
been simultaneous with great decrease of
crime. Balfour's attack upon the evicted
tenants commission recoiled upon lhim-
self. Why did he not wait until the COM
missions proposals came before the house,
when be could urge bis objections with
y-.,.ter forcct
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-02-01
IRISH TOPICS LEAD
At the Opening Of Great Bri-
tain's Parliament.
THE ISSUE UP IN BOTH HOUSES.

Gladstone and Balfour Promptly Lock
Horns in the Commons and Salisbury
Opens Fire the Lords-Mercy to
Dynamiters Sharply Condemned by the
Tory Leaders-How Young Chamberlain
Secured Seats for Unionists-Demon-
stration of Unfortunates
LONDON, Feb. IAN amusing feature of
the opening of parliament yesterday was
The spectacle of j. Austin Chamberlain,
the Unionist whip, the son of Joseph
Chamberlain, who drove up to the house
Of commons at an early hour in cab
The young Unionist, who is about 80 years
Did and very like his father, conveyed
with him in the cab store of silk hats,
which he rapidly deposited on the third
oench below the gangway on the govern
ment side, thus securing these places for
the Liberal UnionisUs. The crowd outside
the house of commons was small through
out the morning hours. but increased
toward midday. Prominent members of
parliament were, as usual, hissed or ap-
plauded, according to the sentiment of the
spectators toward them
A Sinister AssembIage.
There was another incident which, though
got connectcu with the ceremonies of open
ing the national legis stature, was an at
tempt to make a very unpleasant connec-
ton between the 'proletariat" and the NJ
z. About go wretched looking victims of
poverty and privation gathered on Tower
Hill in the morning and resolved to make
display of their rags and misery before
the lords and cOmmOners in parliament.
The mob had no settled plan of procedure:
they We're too hungry for that, but one and
all they started in the direction OF the par
Lament houses, the stronger and more res
olute taking the lead /; was pitiful pro-
cessiOn and excited the sympathy and sur
prise of spectators.
Interference of the "Peelers."
The police at first did not interfere.
thinkingl that the gathering would dis
perse very soon, but when it became ap-
parent that the famine-strickeu wretches
really lneant to make scene before par
Lament the police determined to stop
them. A force of constables halted the
procession at the Thames embankment
and told them they could go no further
The unfortunates huddled together to dis
cuss what they would do. One of them be-
S"Ai w auuIcse 1He utheTS. "A stout, we'll
fed policeman pushed into the crowd and
seized thetorator by the neck-the fellow
had no collar
The Club Proves the Trump.
Someof the unemployed got angry at
this interference and tried to fight the
police. A general melee ensued, several of
the riot ers being apparently anxious to be
arrested with the result of getting some
thing to eat The police laid about them
with their batons and one of the crowd was
so badly hurt that he had to be taken to a
hospital. Others were more or less in
Jured. The procession was then abandoned,
1t being made apparent to the crowd that
they would not be permitted to enter the
precincts of parliament
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-02-01
LIVE sToCKANo PRODUCE MARKETS.
Clicsgo.

CHICAGO, Jan. 81.
Following We're the quotations on the board
of trade today: Wheat-January, opened
1295c, closed s25sc; May, opened 76}4c, closed
&c; July, opened 1850, closed ;634c. Corn
January, opened 1856, closed 43a4c; May,
opened 475sc, closed 4734c; July, opened 455Sc,
closed 475sc. Oats-January. opened 3lL4c
closed 3l14c: February, opened 3I14c, closed
Sl14c; May, opened 34s4c closed 345sc. Pork
January, opened Sl96712 closed sI9.32l6; May,
opened S2O.0212, closed l9.S212: July, opened
S200719, closed Sl9.S115. Lard-January, opened
Sll.70; closed Sll.55.
Live Stock-Hogs: Prices at the Union
Stock yards today ranged as follows:
Receipts for the day 1900; quality little better
left over about 4,5D; market opened
active on packing and shipping account and
rather strong at Mondays prices, but ruled
easier later; prices receded &c; sales ranged
at S5.55G7.J0 pigs, S7.3l07.95 light, s77j
G7.9 rough packing, S1.7odS.10 mixed, and
S'.e5GS. 40 heavy packing and shipping lots.
Cattle-Receipts for the day 6,OOo quality
only fair; market only moderately active
on local and shipping account; prices steady at
former prices; quotations ranged at 500
@l6.0O choice to extra shipping steers, S47OA
$50 good to choice do, S4.0tG4.60 fair to good,
SS.+ud3.SJ common to medium do, S300G375
butchers steers, S2.Wd2.75 stockers, S250o
325 Texas steers, S2s0G3-25 feeders. sl.25@27j
COWS, Sl.50d27O bulls, and S3.5O06.50 veal
calves.
Sheep Receipts for the day 6,0q0 quality
fair: market rather active and steady at
unchanged prices; quotations ranged at
S3.Oo0520 per ln lbs westerns, S32ld5. 40 ma
tives. and S4.Iafp6C9 lambs
Produce: Butter-Fancy creamery 2sc per
10; fancy dairy. 2Jl9-'c: fresh packing stock,
l6Gl7c. Eegs-Strictly fresh. sc per doz; ice
house, 24G26c. Dressed Poultry Spring
chickens, lnQllc per ID; mixed lots. 91s6l0c;
turkeys, 13c:. ducks, 11GI2l&c; geese, 9a,l2c.
Pojatoes-Wisconsln Rose, 656I6Sc per bushel;
Hebrons 6jle6ic: Wisconsin Bur5anks, zoe
Michigan Burbanks, 6olJ1lc; mixed lots, 53l5
Sc Sweet Potatoes Illinois, S4.005450. Ap-
ples-Fair to good, S2.25d2.50 per barrel
Cranberries-Jerseys, fancy. Ss.OoG9.OO per
barrel; Cape Cod, choice to fine, Sl0.00lll.0O.
New York.
NEW YORK, Jan. 81.
Wheat - No. . red winter cash, 7s1kc;
January, &C; February, 1850; March, C;
April, C: May. Size; June, sIssc. Corn
No mixed cash, Soc; January, &C; Feb
ruary, 541sc; March, 5Ss4c; May, 5ss4c.
Oats-No- mixed cash, Ss11d,3S34c; jan
uary, &C; February, &C; March, &C; May,
Stssc. Rye-Dull; western and state. 5S959c
on track. Barley-Dull and unchanged;
western quoted at 6OGS1c; six-rowed state
75D77c. Pork-Dull but firm; old mess, Sle25
Q2lOO Lard-Firm; May, Sl2.0O.
Live Stock: Cattle-Market weak; no trad
ing in beeves dressed beef, dull; native sides,
T1sGsc per h. Sheep and Lambs-Market
firm, but no trading. Hogs-Nominally
steady; live hogs, S7.6O0s.l0 per 100 lbs
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-02-01
LEGISLATION IN ILLINOIS.
Progress of the Education Bills in Both
Houses.

Progress of the Education Bills in Both
Houses.
SPRINGFIELD, Feb. 1.-Bartling's bill re-
pealing the Edwards school law was taken
up in the senate yesterday and a Repub-
hcan substitute requiring all children to
attend school sixteen weeks each year was
laid on the table-29 to 10. The Bartling
bill was ordered engrossed. knopf offered
resolution for an investigation as to
whether the late treasurer Wilson had
Kept the pledge of the Democratic party
in 1890 and paid the state the interest he
received on public fluids. An attempt to
suspend the rules and pass the resolution
failed by unanimous vote amid great
laughter. A resolution on the death of
James g. Blaine was adopted on rising
vote, and the senate adjourned as fur
ther mark of respect.
Repeal Bill Goes Over
In the house the bill repeating the Ed
wards law went over. When the bill came
up Paddock moved the Nohe bill as a sub
stitute. Attempts were made to have the
substitute declared out of order, but the
speaker ruled the point not well taken.
The None bill was then laid on the table
15 to a. The repeal bill then went over.
Resolutions in honor of the late James G.
Blaine were adopted with but two dissent
ers-Burke of Chicago and Carson of Ur-
bana. Bills introduced: To regulate pub
lie warehouses and the inspection of grain;
to increase the rate of taxation in cities 3
mills on the dollar, TO be used exclusively
for the purpose of extending electric light
systems already established; to compel the
establishment of waiting rooms and proper
conveniences by railroad companies
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-02-01
The Local Markets.

WheaI-T4d76c. Es2xa
Corn-45046c. >ass
Oats-33G33c.
Hay-Timothy SIC. 90; upland SSal0: slo oh
SO 90; baled. $40 0OGI1 90.
PRODUCE.
Butter-Fair to choice, 25c; creamery 31d33..
Eggs Fresh, 31d35.
Poultry-Chickens, &c; turkeys lskc
ducks, 12hc; geese, 10c.
PRUIT AND vBG1rAHLEs.
Apples-S2 25GS2 rs per bbl
Potatoes-SOGqOc.
Onions-SOGS5c.
Turnips-4oG50c.
LIVE STOCK.
Cattle-Butchers pay for corn fedl eteers
4h@5c; cowe and neifeIs, 2K@3Le; calves
405c.
Hogs-TG7hc-
Sheep-G5c.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-02-01
THE ICE Is GOING OUT.
Much Damage Done at tLouisviIle-River
Craft Swept Away.

Much Damage Done at tLouisviIle-River
Craft Swept Away.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. 1.-The ice gorge above
the city broke Monday night and was pass
ing over the falls all yesterday in crash
ing, grinding mass. Every preparation
had been made for the break, but when the
huge mass came crashing down on the
coal feet ropes and chains were snapped
like strings, and many of the barges were
crushed and sunk or torn from their
moorings and swept over the falls The
tow boat Hotspur was badly damaged. but
the other steamers were safe in the canal
Thirty loaded barges, containing 1000
bushels of coal each, and 1870 empty barpes
were either swept away or sunk. The
loss will aggregate S15O,00O. The river has
risen rapidly and no further trouble ia an
ticipated.
Fire has destroyed the plant of the War.
ners Portland Cement company, at War
ners, near Syracuse, N. Y. Loss, $4,000:
insurance 40, 10
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-02-01
schools AT Miiwaukee CLOSED.

MILWAUKEE,, Feb. The local school
authorities yesterday ordered the closing
of the First, Sixth and Sixteenth.schools on
ends bitter fight between the common
council and health office. Two thousand
children lose means of education for the
time
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-02-01
ANOTHER ATTEMPT ON THE CAR.

Alleged to Have Been Injured by a
NihiIist Bomb.
BERLIN, Feb. IA report of an attempt
1pon the cars life was circulated here
ate last evening. The car and several
mem bers of his suite are said TO have been
injured by a bomb. No further details
were given. At the Russian embassy all
knowledge of such an attempt is denied.
The report is believed to be a canard
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-02-01
An Earthquake Causes Much Damage.

ATHENS, Feb. THE island of Zante
vas shaken early yesterday by an earth
quake. In the town of Zante many houses
we're wrecked and the occupants ran into
The street in their night clothes. The roof
of the prison fell in aud many prisoners
were wounded.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-02-01
Locomotive Boiler Explosion.

FORT SCOTT, Kan, Feb. IA Missouri
Pacific railway locomotive boiler exploded
in the shops here yesterday morning Dan
Myers, who WAS working on the boiler
when it exploded, was blown thirty feet
into :he air and will die. Engineer Tack
was badly injured
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-02-01
A Small King with scarletina.

MADRID, Feb. 1.-The Official Gazette
announces that the king has scarletina. No
brious danger is apprehended by his ply
, 1893-09-20

NJ i s c e | ! a II e o u 8
Sp 'ctator 18th Au2ust.

The award Of the Court in the Behring
Sea Arbitration was given in Paris on Tues
day. The net result is,-(). that America
cannot claim any special control over the
waters of the Behring Sea (2l, that a sort
of game-law is laid down in the interests Of
the seals,-there is to be a close-time, no
fishing within sixty miles of the Pribyloh
Islands, and no taking of the seals by means
of firearms or explosives, or by the use of
steamships and (3),. that certain facts are
found III regard to the seizures of British
vessels made by American cruisers. We
heve dwelt on the matter at length elsewhere
but will note here that on many parts Of the
English case the Court was unanimous that
on the claim of the United States to special
and extraordinary rights in the waters of the
Behring Sea, one of the American Arbitrators
Mr.. Justice Harlan, supported the English
contention; and that it was only in re.
spect of the decision against the Ameri-
can claim to property in the seal-herds
that both American aIbitrators were against
the English view. The arbitrators wore:-
Baron de Courcel (France) Mr.. Justice
Harlan and Senator Morgan LAmerica); Lord
Hsnnen (England)i Sir John Thompson
(Canada); Marquis Visconti .Venosta Qtaly);
and NJ. Gregers Gram (Sweden.)
Very serious religious riots, between the
Mahommedans and the Hindoos, broke out at
Bombay on Friday, August llth, and lasted
till the follow ng Monday. Over thi.ty-6vs
persons we're killed outright, and many more
have since died from their injuries.-i.s, the
casualties were those of a considerable action.
The arrests numbered over "A thousand, and
all the gsols are filled. The riots were,
to a large extent, put down by the European
Volunteers. who were early called out to as.
sist the police. and who were in turn rein
forced by Marines and Blue-jackets from the
men of war ia the harbour. The serious ma
turs Of the situation may be gsthsredErom the
fact that artillery was ultimately stationed -
, 1893-09-20

az to sweep the streets, and that reliance was
placed on the ships being able to command
the native town with their fire. About an
equal number of mosques and Hlnd)o temples
were destroyed and deSecrated. 1t is asserted
that the two Native Magistrates did "litt!e or
no outside duty" and that the respectable ns-
tives, though they did not riot themselves did
nothing to stop the disorder. Meantime, the
fact that for three days a huge mob was surg.
ing through the greatest city IN India, yel.
ling din, Din" is hardly one which fits IN
with the notion hat the brutal Engllshman
supplies the only aggressive element in In.
dian society, and that but for him the natives
would lead lives of what Edward Lean termed
abieot peace and happiness.
The Irish american org~uis tions, at their
annual picnic in Chicago, after listening to
inhamatory speeches from Mr.. John Fltz-
gerald, OF Boston, and Nj. Flnnelty unani-
mously passed a resolution declaring that
1.-The Home-rule Bill will not satisfy th3 Irish
people, but we are afraid that the total re-
lection Of the measure would be worse for
Ireland tlau to accept it as It stands under
protest" The financial clauses, they add,
are manitestly unjust to Ireland. If this Is
the very best the American Nationalists can
say of the Bill, the chances Of its beng ac-
Cepted as ANIMAL settlement are not very nope
full. In truth the old declaration that whatever
was given would only be accepted as all install
msnt, and pro tantO, holds the field,
1t is almost Impossible to follow the de-
tails Of the coal-strike and its many ramifca-
tons, the newspapers publishing the most
confused accounts. In the Ebbw Vale-the
only district in. South Wales in which the
men remain at work-there was on Thursday
a considerable amount of rioting. A body of
strikers, who invaded the valley in order to
induce the men to come out. we're attacked
and seriously msuled. ALI through Wednes-
day night the miners and steelworkers and
other inhabitants Of the vale waited for the
enemy,-watchers being posted and mounted
men being sent out to scout for intelligence.
Thus. when the invaders appeared they were
not unexpected. The strikers held a meeting
on the hill side; and threatened to. return and
take vengeance oil the Ebbw men. This ex-
asperated the latter, and they rushed on the
enemy with the cry. well give them Home
rule pa phrase which, in the county, ap.
pears to have suddenly and significantly taken
the place of the old "Give EN- Hell, and
drove the invaders before them for several
miles. Many of the strikers while being pur-
sued fell on their knees and begged for
mercy.
, 1893-09-20

the centre of the storm passed to the North
Of these Islands the mercury must have
registered as low as $3.50, or a fall Of FIVE
tenthS, One instrument we know registered
a fall of six tenths. The damage to property
at this port has been very inoonsiderable, uut
the strong wind and heavy rain must have
wasted a large percentage of the salt in
exposed situations-Ibid
, 1893-09-20
Dsmerara ArgOsy 2md Sept.

There was quite a lively fracaS between
two Trinidad journalists on the 2lst alt, as
the outcome of which Mr.. Joseph de la
Sauvagere, proprietor of the Obsercer, has
been bound over for nine UlolIths to keep the
peace towards Mr.. VIM. Lockhart, proprietor
of the Daily News. Lockhart's behaviour
was most violent and excited when the matter
oam3 on for hearing. and several times he
came very near being elected from the Court
by order Of the bench,
MIR, Marcellus L. Davis, American Coh-
sul-elect to Trinidad, is a man Of decisive
character. With him it was not a case of
Teni. vidi. pici. He came, be saw-aud he
seized the earliest opportunity of running
away from Trinid Id. In a letter addressed
to his predecessor, Mr.. Pierce, the scared
Consul wrote Il had hardly entered the
tropics until I was driven to suspect that my
constitution could not adapt itself to the
climate"
Mr.. Langmere, the gentleman who recently
came up to take cha ge of the BArinla Gold
Mining Company. had a somewhat novel and
unpleasant experience shortly afrer his arrival.
He was out tracing the boundary lines Of the
claims when he thought he woEli make short
cut through the bush to the camp, relying for
his guidance upon a compass, 10 which a
bunch Of keys was attach d. But the compass
must have been bewitched, for he found
himself at the Falls much higher up the
river. In the meantime search prrties were
sent out to scour the country in the vicinity
ST tue Arakaka, but thev all Ict,r ,ed without
success, and a day ~ TWO afre! wards the
NJ ssing man turned UP move the verse for
ms adventure. Beware Of i compass to which
KEYS are attached
, 1893-09-20
NEW YORK MARKET
From the Louisiana Planter and Sugar
Manufacturer, End Sept.


Refined sugars have continued somewhat
scarce during the past week, and prices have
been we'll maintained. AS indicated last week
the probable fall in price of raw sugars was
realized on the succeeding day by a decline of
o~nessquarter cent in actual sales of about 80,
600 bags occurring on the 25th ult.. at which
date the following prices were ruling fair
refining, SO deg. test. &c.; centrifugals, So
deg, test, SIC. molasses sugar., 80 deg. teet,
go. Since then but very little variation is
noted, and business has continued quiet, with
sellers, more anxious to operate than buyers.
a somewhat better feeling prevails abroad
for beet sugar recently and "a 8 light advance
is announced.
The large Cuban sugar firm. one OF whose
members is reported by our Cuban correspon-.
dent. to have committed suicide, is now re-
ported to have suspended payment owing to
the prevailing financial depression.
The increased activity in the refined
market ia reported to have exhausted most
supplies at Philadelphia. Buyers of this
grade will probably turn their attention
to New York for further goods, and upon
their exhaustion larger MEETINGS will be in
order.
, 1893-09-20

THE SIMPLE AND UNSOPHISTICATED
BRITISH GUIANA INDIAN.
HE views of North Americans
Den,eraro Argosy, 26tb AMgust.
AdoIphus Daniel, a bright and observant
Arrawao Indian, born and reared in British