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Iron County register., 1893-03-16
How 10 Fix Alien Land Owners.

In assessments under the single tan
all values created by individual use or
Improvement would be excluded, and
the only value taken into consideration
would be the value attaching 70 the
bare land by reason Of neighborhood.
etc, to be determined by impartial
periodical assessments Thus the farmer
would have no more taxes to pay than
the speculator who held : similar piece
Of land idle, and the man who on city
lot erected . valuable building would
be taxed no more than ths man who
held similar lot vacant.
Iron County register., 1893-03-16

don says:
We propose to abolish all the taxation
which now bears upon labor, Improve
ment and thrift, which increases the
cost of commodities and enjoyments,
and fines men for adding to the COM
mon wealth.
We propose to increase taxation %
land until the whole annual value 4
taken for the public benefit, and, nu-
ally. to make the people themselves tn
laudlor18
Iron County register., 1893-03-16

low, without in the least knowing
what it is all about; and he is very
much bewildered and discomposed
thereby. There begin to lie sundry
threats of violence. also. But these
proceed mostly from men whose own
homes are not beyond reproach.
"Less turn loose and hang him.
cries one of al idle group of loungers.
But the bystanders jeer him derisiveiy.
There are also few-a very few-dis-
senting voices; and there lacks a lead
era fact which explains much mac
ton in other cases besides this!
hear of Mrs. Crabtree as confined to
her bed with no one to nurse her but
her cruel husband; and heroically re-
solve to go and take care of the poor
woman even at the risk of my life if
need be.
But as arrive at this decision I am
suddenly taken very ill; and conse-
quently I lose sight of the Crabtree
case for a time. On my recovery hear
no more and conclude that the affair
has died q natural death for lack Of
fuel, or of busy tongues to fan the
fame.
Several weeks afterward. being in
town, go one Sunday evening to the
little church where p number of my
neighbors attend services, and where
some of them are members.
The services arc in progress when
enter It is very warm. Palm-leaf
fans are being piled vigorously. There
seems to be no sermon. ut is q kind
of prayer-meeting." think. as find .
seat Another hymn is sung, and then
the pastor rises to make few re-
marks. He begins by reading that love-
" chapter of First Corinthians in which
charity is so exquisitely defined.
saChnxity suffereth long and Il kind:
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-15
Legislation for Michigan

LANSING, April 15.-The house knocked
out the omnibus normal school bill, which
contemplated the establishing of three
new normal schools in the state. Bill ap-
propriating $4,000 for each of the years
1898 and 1894 for current expenses of the
Michigan Mining School at Houghton,
and S25, 600 Tor a new engineering building
passed the house. The Bishop and railroad
pass bills were agreed to in the house COM
mittee of the whole. The senate confirmed
the appointments of George H. Morse, of
Carson City, as labor commissioner; J. A.
Hubbell, of Houghton, and Thomas B.
Dunston, of Hancock, as members of the
board of control of the Michigan Mining
school; Colonel A. T. Bliss, of Saginaw, as
receiver of public moneys from the gov
ernment in aid of the Soldiers Home, and
General r. A Alger, of Detroit, and Dun
can. of Calumet, as members of the board
of control of railroads
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-15
ROACH ASKS AN INVESTIGATION.

But His Democratic Colleagues Propose
Another Plan.
WASHINGTON, April l5.-The feature of
the senate session yesterday was the re-
quest of Roach that his reputation be in
quired into by a senate committee. He
said he had desired this from the first, but
had been dissuaded The Democratic sena-
tors, however, refused to permit the pas
Sage of Hoar's resolution, George and
sthcrs arguing that the senate had no
right to investigate anything except acts
that were connected with an election to
the senate. VOORHEES, said the state was
the sole judge of senator's reputation.
The resolution for the Martin inquiry
was agreed to. An executive session was
held
There was a substitute proposed for
Hoar's resolution which provides for an in
quiry whether the senate has a right to
investigate such a case as that of Roach.
The probability is that the Republicans
will insist on roll-call on the substitute
and, the judges of the District court of ap-
peals having been nominated, that the sem
ate will adjourn today.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-15
SOME MORE OF OUR CIVILIZATION.
A Burning at the Stake i'm "a Georgia Com.
muuity.


ATLANTA. Ga, Apri! 15.-Bob Burnett,
a country merchant who slept in his store,
near Fort Gaines. Ga, was murdered
Thursday morning by negro, who en-
tered the store for purposes of robbery.
The murderer was captured in the after
noon and taken back to the scene of his
crime, where large mob had collected.
He confessed the murder and at once prep
arations to burn him alive were made A
fence was torn down and the rails piled
around fat lightwood stump and the pris-
Cner tied and laid OF top of it. Kerosene
was poured over him and on the pile of
wood.
The negro begged piteously to be spared,
while the crowd yelled with fury and de-
light. Some one touched a match to the
wood and the flames shot twenty feet into
the air. Amid the cracking of the flames
and the screams of the victim, pistol shots
rang out ON the air and a dozen balls per-
forated the body of the helpless wretch.
The negroes formed majority of the mob
and did most of the work of preparing the
bonfire. Negro men and women with long
poles stood around and heaped the chunks
on the roasting flesh. The victims name
is unknOWn.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-15
Nominations and Combinations.

WASHINGTON, April 15.-The president
yesterday nominated Richard 81. Alvey, of
Maryland, chief justice, and Martin f.
Morris, of the District of Columbia, and
Seth Shepard, of Texas, associate justices
of the court of appeals of the District of
Columbia: Lucius Q. c. Lamar, of Miss
issippi, recorder of the general land office;
Charles H. Miller, of Illinois, surveyor of
customs for the port of Galena, Ill. Alvey
is distinguished lawyer 67 years old. Nor
ris is 60 and has an enviable reputation in
the same profession. Shepard has also a
first-class legal standing. Lamar is the
eldest son of the late Justice Lamar.
The senate confirmed Daniel NJ. Brown
ing, of Benton. Ills, commissioner of In
dian affairs, among Others
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-15
ABBREv IATED TELEGRAMS.

Mayor-elect Harrison, of Chicago, has 70
turned from Baden, Ind, to his home in
the Windy City.
Among the nominations recently made
by the president is that of Alexander w.
Terrell. of Texas, as minister to Turkey,
A collision of cable cars in the LaSalle
street tunnel at Chicago resulted in the Sc
we're injury of Frank Mack, Annie Boas,
Max Boas and an unknown woman. There
was frantic time for few minutes.
The total bank clearings for the week
were 81 ,32o, ,98l, ,192, of which $524, 132, ,254
was outside of New York city. The in
crease over the preceding week was 90 per
cent.
J. III. b. Hibbett and wife, of Chicago, reg
! istered at Fishback's, a cheap hotel in
Louisville. Next day both were found
dead in bed. The wife left a note saying
she had given her husband morphine and
whisky and then taken it herself.
David Preston, of Montreal, died from
blood poisoning brought on by the use of
a corn touring solution.
The relics and ancient documents of
Maryland will not be sent to Chicago to
aid the state display at the Worlds fair.
So decides the commission in charge of
them.
Oscar MicheIer, a cable car gripman of
St. Louis, was fined SIS for jumping on his
mothers coffin and throwing the corpse
naked out of the window.
Ypsilantis loss by the storm foots up
500, 900.
Obituary: At Brooklyn, y. Y, Post
master George J. Collins, aged 81. At
Boston, Charles Longfellow, son of the
poet. At Westwood, O., w. Werk. At
New York, Charles Smith Weyman, Of
The Sun, aged 60.
Professor Frank II. Hall, superintendent
of the blind institution at Jacksonville,
Ills. having offered his resignation the
place is TO be filled by President Short, Of
the Illinois Female college, a young ladies'
school of the Methodist church.
Simon Clark 6 Co., grocers at Duluth.
have made an assignment. The liabilities
are $3.50, 900 and assets 100000.
Suit has been brought against the Stand
ard Oil company by the city of Toledo for
81, 900, 600 damages. The city has been try
ing to construct municipal gas pipe line
and charges the defendants with conspiracy
to prevent the issue of bonds, constructing
plant, etc, by securing injunction in the
courts. 4
Rey. DR.. Morgan Dix declines to be q
candidate for bishop of Massachusetts,, to
succeed the late Phillips Brooks
Heavy rains have quenched disastrous
forest fires that have been raging in the
mountains of Pennsylvania during the last
week. In Somerset county the loses will
be more than 500, 600. In Blair the burned
area is thirty-fve square miles. 4
An interesting discovery has been made
in Rome of an ancient Benedictine monas-
terry. from the ruins of which large terra
Gotta vase full of gold coin was dug up. ,
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-15
A Woman Arrested for Arson.

WEST SUPERIOR, Wis, April 15.-kath-
crime Hoeffer, owner; John Schultze, lessee,
and Jacob Steinhelb, bartender, of the
Barge Works hotel, were last night arrest
ed charged with arson. Mrs. Hoeffer was
released on SIC, 90 bonds The hotel was
fired first Monday evening, but the flames
were extinguished. Tuesday was the
day of the heavy wind. That night, accord
ing to the confession of Schutze, another
attempt was to be made. He weakened be-
cause he feared many lives would be lost.
The second attempt was made Wednesday
morning.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-15
MILAN AND QUEEN NATALIE
Held Responsible for the Action of Thei
SON.

Held Responsible for the Action of Their
Son.
The course taken by the young king will
generally be attributed to the influence OF
his father and mother, eX-king Milan and
Queen Natalie, who have recently been
reconciled after many years of discord.
Queen Natalie has never forgiven the re-
gents for her expulsion from the country
in May, 1891, an event which was accom-
panied with considerable violence and
which evoked chivalrous resistance on the
part of her supporters, two of whom were
killed by the troops.
The ReconciIed Family Supreme.
Ex-King Milan has felt that the regency
was menace in some degree to his dy-
nasty as well as to the influence which he
desired to exercise in Servia. The recon-
ciliation, as well as the approach of young
Alexander to the period at which he would
be entitled to assume the reins without a
regency, has made the house of Obreno-
witch virtually irresistible and left its an
tagonists without any standing sufficient
to oppose the power of the reconciled
family.
How the Coup Was Carried Out.
The details of the coup are as follows:
The young king presided at the banquet
and after the third course rose and said:
Gentlemen, for four years you, in my
name, have administered 1.-THE kingly pow
er. thank you heartily for the trouble
you have taken. l now feel able to ad-
minister the power, and will exercise it
from this moment / beg you, therefore.
Immediately to hand me your resigna-
tions"
Couldn't and Wouldn't Resign.
NJ. Ristics replied that he could not and
would not comply with the kings request,
which was contrary to the constitution.
The king thereupon left the room and the
arrest of the ministers followed. Last
night the kings assumption of power was
celebrated with torchlight procession
and general illuminations
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-15

concern amoug the cabinets If revolu-
tion should be started it would give Russia
a preteXt she has looked for and hoped for
to establish herself IN Servia. Then the
dogs of war would be loosened. and all Eu-
rope would be involved.
Very Young for His Responsibilities.
1t is difficrlt to prophesy the future of
the king. That he has courage and deter
mination has been sufficiently demon
strated by tie events of Thursday night
unless it should turn out that he was sim
ply a tool in older hands-but that a
youth of Il should possess the wisdom,
frmness and patriotism required by his
difficult position would be indeed extraor-
dinary
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-15
TIE LocnIInarkets.
GRAIN, ETC.

GRAIN, ETC.
Wbeat-T4G 76c.
Corn-.0I46c.
Oats-c0I32c.
Hay-Timothy. SI2 90; upland .SIOScI1 ;slougb
5000; bsled. Sl0OOGi1.O.
PRODUCE.
Batter-rsir 10 choice, 2cGle2t; creamery, tsec.
Eggs Fresh. 14G
Poultry-Chicken., 12Hc; turkeys I2h
ducks. 12hc; geese, l0c.
FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.
Apples-s4 90 per bbl.'
Potatoes-SJG,f3c.
Onions-S4 20 per bbl.
Turnps-6Oc per bu.
LIVE sTOCE,
Cattie-Butchers pay FOR corn fedt steefs
4d4xc; and neifeIe, 2nG3LC: calves
4Gtsc.
Hogs-Td11so.
Sheep-4ll5c.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-15
FIRE IN A DEADWooo MINE.

One Thousand Men Out OF wofK and a
Cave-in Expected.
DEADwoOD, S. D., April 15.-The under
ground workings of the Deadwood Terra
mine, one of the great Howe stake group,
is on fire and is burning fiercely. The fire
started in the 20O-foot level and flooding is
impossible. People are moving because if
the fire eats away the supports there will
be a cave-in. 1t is impossible to predict
whether the fire can be extinguished.
About / 900 men are thrown out of work
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-15
sheehan,s Cali on Cleveland.

April l5.-Pursuant to an
appointment made last Saturday Lieuten-
ant Governor Sheehan and Senator Muir
ply called upon President Cleveland yes
terday evening to discuss the federal ap-
pointments in New York state. They
were in consultation with the president
for nearly two hours. After returning to
the hotel the New Ycrkers maintained
profound silence and gave no clew as to:the
results of their errand.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-15
ALEXMDER'S COUP
Dramatic Change in the Gov.
errment of Servia.
DARING DEED OF A YOUTHFUL KING

And One That May Set All Europe by the
Ears-Natalie's Son Bounces His Re-
gents and Takes the Reigns Himself.
While the Army and Populace Applaud
The Move Credited to Natalie and
Ex-Kin2 Milan.
LONDON, April 15.-The coup d'etat OF
the youthful king of Servia yesterday was
a performance that might make story in
a modern Arabian Nights. There was a
secret plot, a quiet occupation of all points
of vantage by the friends of the head plot
ter; a banquet to which the men who were
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-15
Getting Weary of the Turbulence.

BRUSSELS, April 15.-The authorities
are taking vigorous measures to
prevent a continuation of the dis
turbances growing out ofthe univer-
sal suffrage agitation and to bring
the ringlea iers to exemplary punishment.
The Garde CiviQue, which is a sort Of civil
appendix to the military, is patrolling tho
streets and order at present prevails.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-15
Burkhardt Needs To BE Wary.

LITTLE ROCK. Ark, April 15.-Burk-
hardt, the informer on Hickey, is safe in
the penitentiary and does not want to be
released simultaneously with Hickey-f
Hickey should go free. The latter has
said that if he ever gets free and meets
Burkhardt he will cut him to pieces.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-15
Will Not Reinstate Them.

CLEVELAND, O., April l5.-The engineers
and firemen who lost their places on the
Lake Shore during the recent strike asked
Yesterday to be reinstated. 1t is stated
that the company declined to comply with
the request.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-15
The Cutters and Their Emplox.r.

NEW YORK, April 15.-The conference
between the clothing manufacturers and
cutters has adjourned to meet again on
Thursday afternoon next. The manu-
facturers practically won the first bout in
the fight, the cutters withdrawing the
bone of contention throughout the strug-
gle, namely, that the manufacturers
should employ only union men
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-15

with loud acclaim
by the people apd
there was no dis
turbance anywhere
except the turbu-
lence of great joy.
Salutes were fl d
te edemms sting and
<wha1er er t b e
young monarch ap-
'peared he received
an ovation. What
will be the outcome
in Europe is a
m a tt er of grs e
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-15

to be the victims
were invited ut
terly unaware of
the entertainment
provided for them,
and the grand
transform tion
scene when the
doomed que 5 IS
were arrested and
hustled to quar-
ters prepared for
them in the pal
ace; and the chief
o { t II e W h OF e
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-15

WASHINGTON, April 15.-It is reported
here that Thurber. private secretary of the
president, is slated for early retirement.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-15

committee, died Thursday from the effects
of bite received in a fight election day
with Gus Vogel, a Republican politician
and an ex-member of the Republican COM
mittee. The wound was ON the lobe of the
ear. Erysipelas set in and ended fatally.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-15
SoDes,ruc,,on .t saline.

YYsILANTI, Mich, April 15-The 10
port that gained circulation here that the
town of Saline had been struck and wiped
ont by cyclone proves to be unfounded.
Later reports from the town say that no
damage was done there
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-15

scheme was a boy of less than Il. In spite
cf the fact he announced at the denoue-
hlent that he had attained his majority
and proposed to run the Servian govern
ment himself.
Quite Dramatic Affair.
The young king will not be u until next
August, while the law of Servia fixes
his majority at IS. The persons arrested
are the regents. NJ. Ristics and General
Markovitch and the members of the min
istry. Everything was ready; proclama-
tions was prepared declaring that the
regents had placed the constitution in
Jeopardy, dissolving the skuptchina, and
ordering new elections; also declaring that
the king would see that the rights of citi-
Zens were respected. The hour of the
coup was midnight and everything con-
nected with it was dramatic to degree.
The Populace Was Pleased.
The populace and the army, it seems, are
willin'. Indeed without the friendship of
the latter Alexander could not have sue
ceeded. His coup was received Yesterday
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-15
Bit q Mans Ear and killed Him.

ST. LOUIS, April 15.-John Buttermore,
member of the Democratic city central
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-04-04
NEavE-JARRINe JocULARlTIEs.

The Silly Slang with Which Too Many
People Ipterlard Their Talk.
There is nothing in the world which
produces the sense of mental nausea
more completely or Is more certain to
turn the intellectual stomach than the
use of certain jocularities of speech
with which many people think fit to
adorn their conversation, says the Lon
don Spectator. The people who seem
to find It impossible to speak of an UNI
married man except as "a gay bach
elor," with whom the sea is always ''the
briny' or the herring pond" and
horse ga fiery steed, " who eternally talk
about Sunday go-to-meeting" clothes,
and who have such phrases as mo ex-
ira CHARGE" "agitate the tintinnabula-
tor" ''the noxious weed, " ''the pipe of
peace forty winks" and Drawing the
elements" forever on their lips, are ca
pable of producing a sense of disgust in
those who care to see language kept
bright and clean which is absolutely In
tolerable. 1t is difficult to say whether
these can't phrases-that is a perfectly
proper description of them are
more odious when used consciously
or unconsciously-tha is, by people
who believe them to be funny and in
tend that their hearers should consider
them funny, or by those who have
merely caught them up and repeat
them like parrots, and without any in
tention, good or bad. In our own opin-
ion the use of "common-form" ocular
tiles is most offensive in those who
think of them as wit, though most pain
full in persons who use them uncon-
sciously and as mere methods of ex-
pressing their meaning. We feel that
those who try to force laugh out of
such expressions as my downy couch
or Committing matrimony," who
squirm into a smile as they ask if
there isn't room for a little one" or
who speak Of 'jappanning their trotter-
cases." might fairly be shot at sight.
When some excellent mother of a large
and heavily facetious family catches up
and uses almost unconsciously such
phrases as getting outside a square
meal" ''the clerk of the weather.
shes no chicken" or put on your war
paint" and when even the father me-
chanically talks Of performing his alb
lutions," the sense of pathos overcomes
all okhaYa
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-04-04
HE HAD HIS REVENGE.
How q Schoolboy Got Even with til
Teacher who Had Elogged Him.

How schooIboy Got Even with the
Teacher who Had E1ogRcd Him.
The last time that l saw ex-President
Hayes alive was at the time that the
National Prison association, Of which
he was the president, held its annual
convention in Boston, says a writer in
the Globe of that city. l can see and
hear now how he enjoyed story that
Rev. Fred @. Wines, secretary of the as
ISOLATION, and son Of its founder, was
fond of telling at the family expense.
1t was at the reception to the delegates
and others given at the fremont house.
had been talking to Mr.. Wines, and
turned to introduce some one to him,
and presto, his name was gone from my
mind. was making clean breast Of
my stupidity about names, and then
Mr.. Wines said he would tell again the
story which he found fixed In peoples
minds his name that queerly enough, as
II Is one Of the best advertised names in
the country, they seem prone to forget.
His father, to make good short story.
was once the principal Of boys coll
lege. One day he had occasion to
"trouncer a boy, and the lad took his
scathing revenge by writing In big let
ters upon the front door after the plate,
which was inscribed "Wines''--'sand
~kss5k ~ .-4.-----. --.---v~e....
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-04-04
GAMING IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
Chess was tho Forbidden Game of That
Time.

Chess was the Forbidden Game of That
Time.
Gambling was the curse of the noble,
as 1t has always been the curse of every
class trained to win and to desire, but
with scant outlet for it's energies. The
knights in winter gambled pretty near
ly all day. We remember, says the
Contemporary Review, how the servitor
of Milun, entering castle in the morn
ing, finds In the great hall two knights
playing chess, so absorbed that they do
not see him y when Easter
comes,'' say the knights to Milun, I'VE
will recommence our tournaments, but
until Easter there is no rival to their
games OF chance except the eternal
game of love.
Chess was the baccarat, the poker of
the middle ages. In vain the king for
babe it in 1859, in 1898, and both before
and after. with every game of hazard.
But who was to enter the snowed-up
country castles to tell tales of knights
and ladies playing the forbidden game2
The women were almost as bad as the
men. Never play chess, save for love, :"
says the Knight de la Tour to his
daughters, me soyez jamais grant
jouaresses de tables And he proceeds
to tell them melancholy tales of land,
of money, and of women's honor spent
over the too enticing board But, alas,
good knight, the days are i'll to pass in
winter timel