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TIE Steamship SnrnIa.

LONDON, Sept. 3. = The Allan line
steamship Sarnia. which was picked up in
midocean by the steamer Montevidean
and towed to Queenstown, arrived at
Liverpool to-day. Her cargo will be dis
charges and the vessel docked.
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ONE DEATH THE RESULT.
A Train Held Up by Bandits Near
Mound Valley, Kansas.
THE EXPRESS MESSENGER KILLED
AND PASSENGERS ROBBED.

One Person Known to Have Been
Killed and Eighteen Others Seri-
ously Injured by the Wreck of a
Runaway Motor Train at Cincinnati
Two Cars Jump the Track and
Run Into a Building, Smashing
Them Into a Mass of Ruin-Not a
Soul Escaped Unhurt.
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n1Rrcrrnl AGA1N TO TILE FORE

New YORK, Sept. 3-Patrons of the
Grand Circuit meeting at Fleetwood Park
were treated to another record br reaking
performance yesterday afternoon when
Directum trotted third heat in 2:091 over
a track that was a second slow after the
heavy rain of yesterday. BY this mile
the black colt had again lowered the race
record for trotting stations as well as the
four-year-old mark which he himself had
placed at 2:O94 three days ago over the
same course. Summary:
Salisbury's blk. b. Directum. by Di-
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THROWN FROM A CART.
A Lady's Narrow Escape from Death
at san Joses

SAN JOSE, Sept. 3.-Miss Kate Barker,
who resides on Thirteenth street in this
city, attended the ball game to-day with
Thomas Dougherty of Campbell. After
the game they drove out into the street in
a cart. Dougherty got out OF the cart and
left the young lady holding the lines.
While he was away the ball players, who
were waiting for their carriage. began
playing catch. and a ball struck the horse
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ANTI-CHINESE AGITATION.
Two Mongolfans Made Away With
Near RedIands-Baida at selma.

Two Mongolians Made Away With
Near Redlands-Baid at Selma.
REDLANDs, Sept. 3.-Two Cinnamon,
who started this afternoon for Col. Bur-
toms ranch, four miles east, were stopped
at Grafton by two armed men and taken
east down the valley. What was done
with them is not known. This day has
been quiet Plans are contemplated for
issuing warrants for arrest of all China
men here tomorrow.
RAID ON CHINESE AT SELMA
SELMA, Sept. 3.-Some time ago the
citizens of Selma gave the Chinese laun-
drymen notice to leave by the LIST of
September. No force was to be used,
and the Cinnamon were preparing to
leave peaceably. Friday night a mob of
vineyard hands and tramps, led by 7. r.
Vincent, manager of the Stroud vine
yard, came into town and made raid on
the Cinnamon. The raid was without
the sanction Of the people OF the town
The officers tried to stop the mob before
1t had done any damage, but 1t was too
large for them.
broken into. The money tills and trunks
of the Cinnamon were broken open and
ritled. Clothing, cigars and other goods
were stolen.
The mob marched through town, TAX
ing seven Cinnamon with them toward
Fresno, when Constable Spencer ordered
a stop, and no heed being paid to his
order, he opened fire with Winchester.
Six shots were fired, one of them grazing
Ninzent's forehead and another going
through the hat of one of the gang. The
mob broke and ran, part of them going
on toward Fresno with the Cinnamon.
The officers secured help and teams and
overlook them near Fowler.
There are now eleven men under ar
rest and warrants out for several Others
The Cinnamon claim to have lost about
$1,000 in coin, besides other property.
THE MEETING A FARCE.
SAN BERNARDINO, Sept. 3.-An anti
Chinese meeting at the city park this
afternoon was something of a farce. After
some difficulty was had in finding a man
willing to fill the chair, and some few re-
marks from citizens in favor of law and
order, the meeting dispersed. From
present appearances this will be the end
of the Chinese troubles here, which orig
mated with a few hot heads and ends in
talk. Still there are few who are will
ing and ready to back up their talk with
deeds of violence.
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Queen VIctorIa,g FavorIte Horso.

Jessie, the Queens favorite old riding
mare, was found placidly standing in a
solitary loose box, warmly wrapped in
rugs. her own natural coat being like
very thick, soft, black plush. With her
splendid coat, silky name and tail, lofty
crest and soft, mild eyes, she looks
worthy of her royal mistress. Jessie's
pedigree is not given, but she was bred
near Balmoral. She is about fifteen
hands three inches in hight, black as
coal, and with peculiar white markings
on forehead and back. She is now 26 or
q years old, and, until within the last
twelve months, has carried her majesty
for many years. The Queen is stated to
be very fond of Jessie, who, although
now from old age past work, is invari-
ably sent to the castle for inspection when
her majesty is at Windsor.-Idler.
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ITls InInries wore Fatal.

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 3.-Dr. A. H. Vail,
who accidentally shot himself recently,
died this afternoon at his home near En-
cenitas. Deceased was well known in
the southern part of the State.
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Ex-Mfnister Blount.

WAsHNGToN, Sept. 3.-James H.
Blount, exMinister to Hawaii, reached
this city late this afternoon, in response
to telegram to come to Washington to
see President Cleveland. 1t is under
stood here tonight that the purpose of the
President in bringing Blount from his
plantation near Macon, Ga. is to again
offer him the Hawaiian mission, or give
him some other foreign mission. This
rumor was denied tonight to Associated
Press reporters.
Small Attendance at the Fair Grounds.
CHICAGO. Sept. 3.-At the Worlds Fair
to-day there were 1922 people, of whom
25, 439 paid admission. The greater num-
Der of people who are in the city to visit
the exposition spent the day at the city
parks and other places of interest. 1t is
confidently expected by the management
that the coming week will witness more
people at the tair than on any preceding
week. Midway Plaisance claimed the
attention of those who visited the fair to-
day.
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BRUTAL MURDER.
A Steamboat Man Killed by a
Rancher at Chico, Washington.
BOTH BARRELS OF A SHOTGUN
FIRED INTO HIS HEAD.

A Probate Judge of Phoenix, A. T.,
Arrested on Charges of Forgery
and Embezzlement-Gre Damage
by q Storm at RIverside-Sacra-
mento Printers Badly Beaten by
the Frisco Typos in a Game of Base
ball at San Francisco.
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1t is proposed to build an immense
bridge over the Mersey River in England,
connecting the cities of Liverpool and
Birkenhead. According to descriptions
in the Liverpool newspapers the bridge
will be of the arched suspension type, in
three spans, the roadway being sus-
pended from an arch instead OF the usual
chain
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NO DEATHS AT PORT ROYAL.

AUGUsTA IGa.l, Sept. 3.-Mayor Price
of Port Royal, S. c., has sent communi-
cation to the agent of the Associated Press
in this city, denying the story that many
lives were lost in that city and the entire
town was swept away by hurricane on
August 9th. He says not a single life
was lost, and business houses and resi-
dences were only damaged to the extent
of about So OO0
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Cabinet Crisis Imminent.

RIO JANEIRo, Sept. 3.-A Cabinet crisis
is imminent in Brazil.
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Homer mentions brass money as in use
lisa B. c., among the Greeks.
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TERRIBLE EFFECTS OF THE STORM.
Fully One Thousand Lives Reported
to Have Been Lost.

CHARLESTON IS. c., Sept. 3.-Reports
from the storm-strickeD districts increase
in horror day by day. Fully 1850 lives
were lost and the living are begging for
bread. Although badly damaged by the
storm Charleston is doing everything to
help the sufferers. Contributions of
money, provisions and clothing are asked
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-21
MUSIC WITH MEALS,

One Respect In which Oklahoma Hotel
Keepers Are Up to Date.
The hotels of Oklahoma up to last fall
were few and far between. Having tried
several with little satisfaction, a party
of hungry ''tenderfeet" was directed by
a commercial traveller to little place
on corner The commercial man said
it did not look inviting, but it was clean.
That was an inducement the party had
not heard of in that section, and it
.rrned in for supper. The dining room
was one in which the family lived. A
folding bed stood in one corner. An old
lime bureau was opposite. A box stove
was in the way, and about it were
several old fashioned rockers. A few
family pictures hung from the wall,
with the old, old motto, invoking the
blessing of the powers celestial on the
household. The party asked for supper
and was told to be seated until the meal
was prepared. Two girls, delicate and
with much WEAKNESS in their faces,
spread the table. When the meal was
brought on, they simply said, Supper is
ready" and disappeared.
The party gathered about the meal,
and it was agreeably Disappointing
While it was being devoured- is the
best word to use, even at this distance
from the table-the two girls came into
the room, accompanied by their mother,
a woman whose hair was white and
whose face was a study. There must
have been time when she was beauti-
full. They came in as if they had been
billed for the occasion. They went to
one corner of the room, and then the
party discovered that there was one Of
those old time melodeons in an out of the
way place. The mother took her place
at the keys, and as the mournful melo-
dies responded to her touch the daugh-
tiers sang, Nearer My God to Thee"
Nellie Gray" and then "Lorena"
Think of ''Lorena" on a melodeon in
Oklahoma! The party having finished
supper, one of them paid the bill, and
then the music ceased. 1t was "a uues-
ton which no one of that party was ever
able to agree upon, or they had not up
to last accounts. Was the music of that
night for the purpose of entertainment
or to forestall the possibility of dupli-
eating any of the orders? = Chicago
Tribune
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-21
A Problem That Is a Problem.

A group of gentlemen were gathered
about the desk engaged in earnest en-
deavors to figure out a mathematical
problem brought over b. prominent
young member of the New York bar,
who stands to lose 500 on wager if
his own solution is wrong. Here it is:
A column of troops % miles longis or
dered to a point % miles distant. A
courier starts simultaneously with the
rear of the column and reaches the head
thereof. Returning, he meets the rear
of the column at the point where the
head originally was. Both the troops
and the courier are to travel at uni
form rate of speed. How many miles
does the courier traverse?
1t looks simple. The young New York
er said it was simple and that it didn't
take mathematical sharp to figure that
the courier journeycd even 80 miles The
man who made the bet with him was q
Philadelphia, and he called in Professor
Thunder, a teacher of mathematics, sail
to be the greatest expert in the Quaker
City. The professor figured st it awhile
and said it was plain that the courier
j
more he wouldn't undertake to sly off
hand.
The man from Gotham was not salts
fed with the Philadelphia professors
conclusion, so on reaching Washington
he hunted up Professor George Hill, the
clerk to the house irrigation committee
and and expert in mathematics, who in
turn referred him to Professor Wood
ward of the coast and geodetic survey.
His answer was sent in and appeared at
the bottom of a long sheet of algebraic
equations. 1t was CO.'S miles. And still
the New Yorker is not satisfied. Before
giving up the 500 he is going to have the
opinion of the professor of mathematics
of Columbia college 1t will take no less
an authority than that to shake his be-
lief in the correctness of his own cipher
ing, which, he admits, was not done with
the help of quadratic equations.-Wash-
ington Post.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-21
COLUMBlA'S EMBLEM.
Blazon CoIumbia,s emblem.

BlaZon Columbia's emblem,
The bou1Iteous, golden corn!
Eons ago OF the great suns glow
And the joy of the earth twas born.
From Superior's shore to Chilli,
From the ocean of dawn to the west,
With its banners of green and tasseled sheen
1t sprang at the suns behest,
And by dew and shower from its natal hour
With honey and wine TWAS fed
Till the gois were fain to share with men
The perfect feast outspread,
For the IA -est boon to the land they loved
Was the corn so-rich and fair,
Nor star nor breeze DER the farthest seas
Could find its like elsewhere.
In their hottest temples the meas
Offered the heaven sent maize
Grains wrought Of gold in silver fold
For the suns enraptured gaze,
And its harvest came to the wandering tribes
As the gods own gift and seal,
And Montezuma's festal bread
Was male of its sacred meal.
Narrow their cherished fields. but ours
Are broad as the continents breast,
And lavish as leaves and flowers the sheaves
Bring plenty and joy and rest.
For they strew the plains and crowd the
wains
When the reapers meet at morn,
Till blithe cheers ring and west winds sing
\ song for the garnered corn.
The rose may bloom for England,
The lily Tor France unfold,
Ireland may honor the shamrock,
Scotland her thistle bold,
But the sh ED of the great republic,
The glor- of the west,
Shall bear a stalk of the tasseled corn,
OF all our wealth the best.
The arbutus and the goldenrod
The heart of the north may cheer,
And the mountain laurel for Maryland
Its royal clusters rear,
And jasmine and magnolia
The cres- of the south adorn,
But the wide republics emblem
Is the bolnteous golden corn!
Edna Dean Proctor in Century.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-21

The Chicago Herald states n self
evident fact as follows:
During the tariff battle William Ii.
Springer should be at the head of the
committee on ways and means. His
service in congress, his knowledge of
the question at issue, his ability as a
leader, constitute his qualifications
Tor the post. But above and beyond
this, he is western man. 1t was
the west that won the fight against
Mckinleyism, and it is to the west
that the democracy must look not
only for its immediate strength, but
for its recruits in the future. Mr..
Springer is imbued with the western
spirit of revolt against the federal
protectionism with which some of the
eastern democratic states are tainted.
He is the logical leader in the cam
paign for tariff reform, and the west
will not be satisfied unless he shall
be given the post.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-21

Mr.. Peterson says he is c-u-r-e-d
and as well as he ever was DR..
Wilson SAYS he is Cured. Write
and ask Mr.. Peterson if it is not so.
To the Public.
DR.. Wilson has reported a case
like the foregoing, each week or two,
for the past three years in the tri-
city papers. In the case of Mr..
Peterson, DR.. Wilson would state, he
has lived in Rock Island county for
over 80 years. He is director of a
fire insurance company, and is also
connected with the management of
Augustana college. Is he a man to
be relied on? Let the public Judge.
Within the past three months DR.
Wilson has published the statements
and pictures of a number of minis
tiers who say under their own sigma
lures that they have been CURED
at the Scott Medical Institute, Can
they be relied on as telling the truth?
Let the public Judge.
DIR. Wilson has noticed senseless
TRADE against him by a Young firm
trying to do business in the tri-cities.
Some three weeks ago Dr. Wilson in
serted in the papers statement to the
effect that he would notice this baby
firm no more in print. Today he
says the same thing. 1t is no pleas
ure for us to work for nothing.
DR., Wilson has business interests
ut stake in this state. The blowing
firm" have nothing to lose here
nothing that can be touched-there-
fore we decline to ozark where we
can not bite
DR.. Wilson wishes to announce
to the general public that his diplo-
ma is registered with the county
clerk in this city and shows he has
practiced medicine years before
either of this great firm" entered
practice,
Should we condescend to answer
this great firm" in the manner in
which they assailed the Scott Medi-
cal Institute, we could bring forward
proof, which we have held in our
possession for months. that
would make them beat hasty re-
treat from our city, or wish they had
never opened this discussion.
DR.. Wilson's plan has always been
''let our patients talk for u.s." And
when he has to elbow his own horn"
for the sake of deceiving the public,
he will take down the sign Scott
Medical Institute" and close his bus
mess.
Does this look reliable? Let the
public judge.
Treatment, So month.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-21
Disro1ed In the Street.

There is young colored damsel in
Washington whose soul is at present
filed with wrath because of the sum-
mary action taken by society woman
to whom she had been handmaiden.
With ways that are dark and tricks that
are vain the young woman proved her
self conversant by making away with
articles of value. Among these was a
silk dress OF which her mistress had been
especially fond. Though accused of the
theft, the woman stoutly denied it and
took her dismissal, vehemently protesting
her innocence. Not long afterward, as
the daughter of Ham was sailing down
the street IN all the glory Of the stolen
garment, she came upon her mistress
rapidly walking toward her with the
look of great purpose in her eye.
Retreat was impossible, as was fail
ure to comply with the astonishing de-
mand that she then and there divest
herself of the gown. AS the alternative
was to be Immediately handed over to
the police. the perturbed young woman
did as she was bid with all speed posi-
BILE, and in as brief time as it takes to
tell the tale she stood with her ebony
projections exposed to public view while
in an opposite direction her former mis-
tress walked away, bearing in triumph
the stolen rroperty.-Kate Fields Wash
notion
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-21
Mixing Melodies.

What on the lips of the intellectual
doubter" would have been only profane
sarcasm was irresistibly funny because
of its innocence, when Lewis, his i'm
agination fred by the first opera he had
ever witnessed, inextricably mixed up
Moody and Sankey and 1.-The Mikado'
as follows: The day following his at
tendance at the latter performance he
burst upon the scandalized maternal
vision attired in imitation of his admired
Ko-Ko in patchwork crib quilt and a
feather buster in his hands waving &C
centuation 20 each syllable as he capered
about chanting:
The will of the Lord be done. be done,
And so you had better succumb. cumb, cumbi
Washington News
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-21
How Not to Exterminate the Indians.

Let us not vigorously crowd the Indi-
ans to abandon tribal organization. If
this is done before they are ready for it,
they will surely lapse into degradation.
Let them remain in compact bodies on
reservations to help one another over the
change and do not compel them to COM
mingle and compete with the white race
in a struggle in which they must be hope
lessly doomed. Slowly by law and by
instruction teach them the value of our
property laws. Do not force citizenship
upon them, but let them sue for it. We
should hold ourselves ever ready to grant
it, but let them first discover its benefits.
If such a policy is maintained for two
generations more, the problem will be
solved-the remnant of the Indians will
be saved and absorbed in modern en-
hghtenment.-Major J. W. Powell in
Forum.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-21
YOUR HEARING.
Is it Gradually Growing Duller?-
Catarrh Causes it-Stop
~ Now

Mr.. Peterson's case illustrates the
danger of allowing these troubles to
run on, and should be carefully read
by everyone.
A very large per cent of these cases
of deafness and roaring noises is due
to the extension of catarrh to the
eustachian tubes and inner ears
Manv of the most remarkable cures
that have been accomplished by the
physicians of the Scott Medical In
stitute have been in the restoration
of hearing lost or dulled from ca
tarrhal extension. 1t is folly to wait
for trouble like this to get well it.
self. 1t don't get well, but always
gets worse, until frequently the hear
ing is entirely destroyed. A thor
ough course of treatment with a ca
pable specialist, who goes right at
the cause of the trouble and removes
it, is the only hope.
DR.. Wilson and his medical asso-
ciates cure all cases of deafness
caused by catarrh.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-21

PEOPLE are now beginning to de-
mand ''summer reading" and ask for
literature as light and gauzy as their
summer hannels. But still the ire
futable fact remains that man who
likes Shakespeare in January likes
him just as well in July, and man
who is fond of ''Old Sleuth''in August
Is just as fond of him in December
A man does not regulate his literary
taste by the thermometer.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-21

NEW YORK papers are asking that
steps be taken to govern bicycle rid
ing. The two wheeled vehicle is
now so commonly used that the priv
ilege given to riders is beginning to
be abused. Reckless bicycling is as
dangerous to pedestrians as reckless
driving. If wheelmen do not want
their sport to become unpopular they
viii join in framing regulations.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-21

No ONE objects to the bicycle rider
who has due regard to the rights Of
Others in the streets. Always, if she
rs feminine, and when he doesn't
bend his back double, if he is mascu.
line, the considerable cyclist is O
pleasing sight But those fellows
that scorch through city thorough
fares with an air of having bought
the town need to be regulated with q
stalW6rt club
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-21
Just Like n Man.

Mrs. Stocks-f we move into that
cheap house, we'll lose caste
Mr.. Stocks-Dou't care if we do. It's
the best we can afford without running
hopelessly i'll debt, and besides it's COM
Portable place anyhow.
Mrs. StocLis-Huh! Just like a man.
Only so you can be comfortable and pay
every little bill as quick as it comes in,
you don't care what the world thinks
New York Weekly.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-21

No SIGHT ever seen by man is more
striking or more impressive than
those tiny shells that bore genius
and inspiration across the Atlantici
When the caravels that did this are
placed beside some of our big lake
ships thoughtful minds will wonder
If, after all, the world contains to-
day genius to be compared with that
OF the middle ages. The little
cradles" of Columbus should receive
u royal welcome.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-21

RUDYARD KILLINGS father is no
longer a Britt i officeholder at La
hore- He de! grated the town, in
ms book, as ''hell with the lid on, ="
and very naturally the inhabitants
proceeded to make it extremely hot
for Rudyard's sire.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-21

The only thing in America that has
made Princess Eulalia change color
thus far is the wild yell of the New
York stock exchange men. Wait till
she hears the Niagara Falls hack
men If she doesn't fairly run away
then, she will break all records of
GOODNESS for visiting notabilities.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-21

TIE Massachusetts senate has been
setting the praiseworthy example Of
holding night sessions. There is no
reason why legislatures should not
get in some of their very best work
after dark.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-21

JAPANESE children are taught to
write with both hands. A Jap would
be good sort of a fellow to have
around newspaper Office when tho
staff was short-handed and the fore
man was yelling down the tub for
s.cOpyn
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-21

The Dominion of Canada has an area
of 1857 900 square miles and comprises
one-sixteenth of the land surface of the
globe. 1t is the largest of all the British
possessions, Australia, the next in size,
containing s,944, 62S square miles.