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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-01-24
is A COMPLETE FAILURE.
Nebraska Likely to Lose Her Deposit in
the Capitol National Bank.

LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. 24.-The failure Of
the Capitol National bank seems to have
been most complete. Bank Examiner
Griffith and his assistants are making a
searching examination, but refuse to talk.
Only few weeks ago c. w. Moshen, presi-
dent of the bank, swore that he was worth
$500, 900 over and above his liabilities, and
B. c. Outcalt swore that he was worth
$200 900 over and above his liabilities.
Their oaths to this effect were taken when
they went on State Treasurer BARLEY s
bonds. The same oaths were taken last
week when they presented their bond as a
bank of deposit for state funds.
Status of the State Deposit.
Leading lawyers claim that Treasurer
Bartley and his bondsmen are not liable
for any state funds that may be lost by the
failure, as the banks bond was approved
by the state banking board, thus relieving
them. Retiring Treasurer Hill had s26S.-
600 of state funds in the bank which he
turned over to his successor. Treasurer
BARLEY reduced this to s2l2 600 by smal
Withdrawals.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-01-24

night. Monday morning the patient was
seized with fit of coughing which ended
when his heart ceased to beat. Heart fail
ure was the cause of death given by the
physicians, He preached his last sermon
last Tuesday evening. His friends in this
city were heartbroken at the news and
could not believe it at first
Was Great Pulpit Orator.
Rev. DR.. Phillips Brooks. rector of
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-01-24
Much Opposition to His Election.

At this convention DR. Brooks was cleo
ted to the bishoplic on the first ballot
But to complete the election the approval
of a majority of all the bishops in the
United States and of the standing commit
tees of the various dioceses was necessary.
In this quarter there arose a strong opposi-
tion on account of the pronounced low
church proclivities of the newly appointed
bishop, and it was only after rather bitter
war of words that the confirmation finally
took place
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-01-24
LIVE sTocKANo PRODUCE MARKETS.


CHICAGO, Jan. B.
Following were the Gu2ta..aa, ca Tie boald
OF trade today: Wheat JANUARY, opened
1896, closed '"'4c; May, 0ptRed .S;4c, closed
1850: July, Opened - -, closed ,s5sc Com
January. opened EP4". closed s25sc: Nav
opened 40 e close. 47t4-; Jaly. opened 4sc
closed 4."a-. Olt>-.'auGary, opened 3lSsc
closed 3J@s =; FebTaary. opened SILSc, closed
5l14c; May, oTc.ioG 49,, closed S4}4a. Pork
January. .opeIci SIS -. closed SIS q:is. Fei,rn
AIRY, opened SlS..ilz closed 1S.a-tE: May. opened
Sl9.l12, closed SlgS:i. Lard January, opened
Sl0.95, closed sll.e.5a
Live Stock-Prices al the Union Stocs; Yards
today ranged Is follows: Market opened
moderately active with pigs; Hghtweights
unchanged ana other grades lOGl5c higher:
sales ranged AT S5.55@7l0 pigs, S7O04
7.65 light S7.40@7.55 rough packing. S7.40G7.7s
mixed, and S,.6O4S00 heavy packing and ship
ping lots.
Cattle-Market quiet; prices without ma
terial change; quotations ranged at S5.4a
oslo choice to extra shipping steers, S4sG0
$50 good to choice do, S4.O014.60 fair to good,
S3.4U93.S0 common TO medium do, sS.O1a37s
butchers steers. S2m1275 stockers, s2.5aa
3.25 Texas steers, S2.s0G325 feeders, sl.e5Q2 7a
COWS, Sl.50@2.70 bulls. and S3.5eg650 veal
calves
sheep Market quiet and steady and prices
ruled unchanged: quotations ranged at
s3.00G,5.20 per 100 lbs westerns, S52l95 40 ma.
tives, and 81. l5D6.00 lambs.
Produce: Butter-Fancy creamery, Sc per
10; fancy dairy, 25@t2sc; fresh packing stock,
lGl9c. Eggs-Strictly fresh, &c per doz; ice
house, 27d,29c. Dressed Poultry Spring
chickens, lGG1lc per H. mixed lots, a1ka1oc;
turkeys, l3c: ducks, ll@1211c; geese, a0I2c.
Potatoes-Wisconsin Rose, 6596sc per bushel;
Hebrons, 65@61c; Wisconsin Burbanks, 7Oc
Michigan Burbanks, 6s97lc; mixed lots, 5sa
5sc. Sweet Potatoes-Illinois, S40od450. Ap-
ples-Fair TO good. S2.2562.50 per barrel.
Cranberries-Jerseys, fancy. SaO09a0O per
barrel; Cape Cod, choice 10 fine, Sl0.001ll.0J.
New York.
New YORK, Jan. 81.
wheat-No. red winter cash, sO16c; Feb
ruary, -; March, s05sc; May, ss5kc:
June. $3.50. Corn-No. g mixed cash, 55c;
May, $3.50. Oats-No. mixed cash, 3ec;
May, $3.50. Rye-Quiet and unchanged;
western and state, 5S464c. Barley-Dull;
western quoted at 60GSoc. Pork-Dull but
steady; old mess, Sl7.25GI7.50; new mess,
1a5OGlS.75. Lard-Dull and unchanged;
January, sll.27.
Live Stock: Cattle-Market dull for all
grades at decline of l0c per 100 pounds; poor
est TO best native steers, S375G5.75 per 100
lbs; Texans, S375; bulls and dry COWS, $l.250
3.sO. Sheep and Lambs-Fair demand for all
desirable offerings; sheep, s4.0oa60O per 100
lbs; lambs, S5.5t96.75 Hogs-Market firm:
live hogs, S7.6oSGs-O per 100 lbs
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-01-24

days with a sore
throat. but his ply
sicians had no ap-
prehensions of the
issue of the attack
until Sunday. when
diphtheretic symp-
t o m S were OBJ
served. Even then
there was only a
little a n xi e ty,
though DR.. Beach
waS at hand all
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-01-24

Among the ancient Jews burial pre-
vailed, as it has done since among Chris
tian nations. The idea of death as tenn
porary sleep has doubtless had much to do
with the strong hold which this custom
has obtained among Christian peoples.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-01-24
Ihat Missing Illinois book.

SPRINGFIELD, Ills, Jan. 2i.-There have
been no new developments in the Pa~ey-
Gore controversy. Pavey took the bank
book out of his private drawer in the tfe
and turned it over to Gore, but says the
insurance boOi; i his private property.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-01-24
DEATH OF BISHOP BROOKS.

Boston's Favorite Episcopal Clergyman
Gathered to His Fathers.
BOSTON, Jan 24-Tbe death of Bishop
Phillips Brooks, which occurred yesterday
morning at $50, was terrible shock to
this community. He had been i'll for few
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-01-24
BENCH AND PULPIT.
Bereased by the Fiat Of the
Grim Destroyer.
JUSTICE LAMAR SUMMONED HENCE.
Bishop Phillips Brooks Called by His
Maker to the Rest of
the Grave.

Both Jurist and Prelate Taken without
Warning, the Jnrist While Seeking Re
His Home in Boston-Great Sorrow in
the Massachusetts Capital Over the
Event-Detaiis of the Two Sad Occur
rences-A Glance Over the Records of
Two Lives Which Have Gone Out.
MACON, Ga, Jan 24-Justice Lucius
Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar died here at
$50 O'Clock last evening. It is terrible
shock to the community. The death was
sudden in the extreme, for although he
had been ailing for some time he appeared
to be gradually gaining in health. He
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-01-24
THE WHISKY. TRUST DISSOLVED.
Greenhut Saws the stock Is Held by Those
Who Can Carry 1t.

Who Can Carry 1t.
New YORK, Jan. 24.-Speaking of the
alleged dissolution of the whisky trust J.
B.. Greenhut, president of the Distilling
and Cattle Feeding company, said last
night: "The rumor that we are going to
issue new stock is absolutely false. No
such issue has ever been conte mplated
1t is absurd. We could not do it without
authority from the stockholders. That
would necessitate calling a meeting and no
snch meeting has been called. That the
pool has been dissolved, though, is fact,
This action was decided upon at meeting
held Sunday.
Cause of the Dissolution.
''As result all the stock left in the pool
at that time has either been sold or is now
in the hands of members who are able to
carry it and who would not think of selling
it at the present ridiculously low price"
Concerning the causes that led to this
sudden change of policy among those in
the pool, Mr. Greenhut had little to say
There was dissatisfaction, was the way
he put it, and he refused to be more expli-
cit. He saiG: Il think that the pool has
done more injury than benefit to the stock
and that it would without any manipula-
tion have reached as high a figure as it has
at any time during the past few months"
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-01-24


month ago and had been visiting at the
residence of w. II. Virgin in Vinevill a
suburb of this city. Yesterday afternoon
at about O'clock Justice Lamar took his
overcoat intending TO so to the city, but
was met at the door by friend, DR.. Llew-
ellyn, with whom he returned to the sit
ting room. At that time and during all
the afternoon he was in good spirits, and
at dinner at $50 in the evening he seemed
to have a good appetite. Dr. Lewellyn
left the house about o'clock and few
minutes later the justice was seized with
violent pains in the heart and died at the
hour mentioned.
First Entry Into Politics.
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar was
born in Putnam county, Ga, Sept l, 1925,
End after his fsther's deashswas taken 10
Oxford, Miss, where he received part of
his education. lie was graduated at En-
ory college, Georgia, in 1s45; studied law in
Macon and was admitted to the bar in
1s47. In 1S49 he returned to Oxford, Miss,
and for year held Drofessorship in the
University Of Mississippi He resigned and
resumed the practice of law in Covington.
Ga. He was elected to the legislature in
1853 acd in 1854 again returned to Missis-
sippi and settled on his plantation in La
fayette, being shortly afterward elect ed to
congress as a Democrat.
Went With the Lost Cause"
He served from 1857 until 1850, when he
resigned to take a seat in the secession con-
vention of his native state He cast his
fortunes with the lost cause" and left the
army with the rank of colonel, after having
shared in many engagements. He was
again a professor in the University of
Mississippi and again took a seat in the
house of representatives; was elected to the
senate March 5, 1877. March 3, 1885, Presi.
dent Cleveland appointed Mr.. Lamar secre-
tary of the interior and afterwards elevated
him to a Seath on the supreme bench.
Been Long in Bad Health.
Mr.. Lamar was perhaps as prominent a
figure as any Chat has occupied seat on
the bench of THAT august body, but for
months back be had been almost too i'll to
take more than perfunctory interest in
the proceedings. His health had been fail
ing for a Longtime. He left Washington
| for the south bout a month ago. He had
then been foH Some time confined to his
house in thaS city and was unable to at
tend all the sessions of the supreme court.
His Death Not Great Surprise.
/ Just before his departure from Wash,
iugton, however, Judge Lamar was
thought to have considerably improved
He took advantage of an improved feeling
and the day before his departure from the
national capital he made calls on two OF
three friends Hhere. 1t was not without
dismal forbodlngs that his friends learned
after his departure that he had been com
PEELED to take one or two intervals Of rest
before arriving here and his death will moi
be in every particular great surprise.
The morning call., 1893-05-19
THE LAW OF THE CASE.

A certain George Reed has published
reply to Mr.. Carnegie's "a B G of Money"
in which occurs the tolowing:
The gold dollar is the money OF rhe United
States; that is, the unit OF value according to
law, aud therefore arbitrarily established.
Mr.. Reed has stated, ignorantly without
doubt. what is not true. The gold dollar
has never been established by law as the
unit of value in the United States. The
Bland act. which authorized the coinage
of 41211a-grain silver dollars, declared them
legal tender for all purposes. Under that
law bonds might have been paid in gold or
silver coin at option Of the treasury.
France pays part in gold and part in silver.
Demands for all gold have not been COM
piled with where large amounts were
called for. The fact that court decisions
have upheld the validity of specific con-
tracts to pay in gold does not affect the
force of the law. Again, the writer who
eeeks to enlighten the world upon finance
says:
The silver dollar OF the United states under
our present system is not money. 1t is but the
representative Of the gold dollar. and is but
The morning call., 1893-05-19
INVENTOR OF THE LIFECAR.

The death is recorded of Joseph Francis,
inventor OF the famous lifecar. Had Fran
els done nothing else in life but bring this
Invention to maturity his name wou Id be
entitled to 90 down TO posteTity renowned,
but in many other achievements he was
remarkable, and he was worthy Of the
shower of honors that came to him. He
was born at Boston in 1901, and at the age
of Is was builder of boats. This occu-
patton took the shape eventually of
lifeboat construction, in which he showed
great skill. In 1888 and subsequent years
he brought to perfection an adaptation of
corrugated sheetiron to boat building,
and in 1S45 launched metallic surfboat,
which was soon to bring him fame. One
of these boats was placed. at his own ex-
pense, on the New Jersey coast. The
British ship Ayrshire was wrecked at
Squan Beach in 1850. and Francis boat,
when all others had failed, was the means
of saving the lives of 200 persons. Only
one man was lost, and that was mainly
through his own carelessness. This life
car is worthily placed on exhibition in the
national museum at Washington.
The rescue of all on board the AYRSHIRE
brought Francis orders from all parts of
0iiC hOIiu' Ic applleu corrugated iron TO
many purposes, and his inventive gifts
were shown in many directions. Numbers
of his inventions were patented. When he
visited Europe he was received with
marked favor. Gifts of medals, diplomas
and jewels were made to him in recognition
OF his services to humanity. He was
kuighted in Russia, and was presented
with snutfbox of gold studded with
diamonds by Napoleon the Third. Doubt
less the compliment be valued most of all
came from Congress. but it came tardily,
as late as 1885, and was only presented in
1890. This was In the shape Of a gold
medal. struck specially at the mint in
Philadelphia. President Harrison made
the presentation. Everywhere throughout
the world there are lifeboats of one pattern
or another on the exposed and dangerous
points where wrecks are most likely to
happen. Life-saving appliances to-day are
numerous and much improved ON the first
designs of Francis. But this true humani-
tartan has an abiding place in the roll of
fame among those who have benefited
The morning call., 1893-05-19
HOW TO DISPOSE OF DEBRIS.

General George B. Tolman proposes a
solution of the hydraulic mining problem,
as follows:
Now in my opinion. the only practicable way
to successfully worK the hydraulic mines of the
Stale, and work them without damage or IN
jury TO any one and at small COST is to build
no dams or reservoirs to cOntine the slickens,
but allow them 10 flow directly into the rivers
as once as they used 10 do. Then issue a license
to all hydraulic miners, giving them The right
to mine upon the payment OF a tax OF a certain
amount per cubic yard of earth washed away
this tax TO be used 10 buy dredgers and sand
pumps, TO build levees along the river banks
where needed and TO pump the sand ana slick
ems from the river beds over the leyees and on
to the now worthless tule LANDS along the riv-
ers, reclaimng them and at the same time
deepening the river bed.
The practicable way General Tolman
suggests is practicable only if the recepta-
Gle for debris corresponds in magnitude
with the amount of debris. How many
thousand acres of tule land there are Gen.
eral Tolman does not state, nor does he
state to what depth debris may be piled on
each acre. Hundreds upon thousands"
is an imposing form of statement, but it
does not carry conviction that the entire
body of tule lands in the State may not be
covered as deeply as the location will per-
init without affording space for q one hun
dredth part Of the debris from the mines
The extent of the area of land in the foot
hills that may be worked proftabiy by the
hydraulic process cannot be known in ad-
vance Of working. Miners stop as nearly
as possible when pay gravel stops. 1t is
known that there are thousands upon thou
sands OF acres that may prove profitable
which range in depth from so to 500 feet.
What proportion of the rock remains on
the ground depends much upon localities.
In some places the gravel is so fine that
nearly all runs off with the water: in
other places a considerable proportion
lodges nearer home. 1t seems to be quite
possible that the amount of debris that
may be turned upon the tule lands under
General Toman's plan will be much larger
than can be crowded in the space between
the present confines of tule lands on
level with the rivers. 1t seems probable
also that all the space may be occupied
while millions of tons of debris are seeking
lower level. THE CALL has no desire to
throw cold water or cold debris upon a
probable solution of the mining problem
that may he offered, but when a mining
engineer comes forward with solution
he should show that it is practica BILE.
The morning call., 1893-05-19
WHERE THE DANGER LIES.

Washington correspondence hadows
the danger that lies in the way of the Geary
act That danger is repeal. II is not an
imaginary danger either. Repeal will be
urged by corporations, which see in the
presence of Chinese a means of control
over their employees; by humanitarians,
who hold that this country should con tinue
to be the asylum of the oppressed; by a
nearly united body Of clergymen. who sim
cerely think that discrimination against
the Chinese will retard the spread of
Christianity in Asia, and by kindred forces.
At the head of these forces will be the
President Mr.. Cleveland will not prob
ably take the responsibility of suspending
the enforcement of the registration act,
but will take the safer ground of working
for repeal. If he should persist in holding
the law imperative he will be exposed TO
impeachment for failure to enforce the
laws. but if he can induce Congress to re-
peal the law no neglect of duty can be
urged against him. Perhaps a conflict be-
tween the forces may as we'll take place
now as ever. The idea that has ruled the
country during the last thirty years is the
protection of American labor. We have
protected American labor against the
products Of cheap foreign labor, and
have admitted that this policy of pro-
lection required that we should also ex-
clude the cheap laborer. Duties laid on
foreign goods would afford the American
laborer but imperfect protection if the
American employer might import the
cheap foreign laborer. The present ad-
ministration was elected on a free-trade
platform. Ii its avowed principles are
carried into practice one form of protec-
tion against cheap foreign labor will be
broken down. II the cheap worker may
send the products of his labor to our mar
ket he infiicts but little more injury upon
American labor by coming himself. The
two opposing policies of protection to Amer
lean labor by taxing the products of cheap
foreign labor and excluding the cheap for
elgn laborer. and of the free admission Of the
products of cheap foreign labor and also
of the cheap foreign laborer, must have a
trial of strength some time. 1t will not be
a fight Of classes, as many may assume, but
of party policies The dominating aues-
tion will be, Which is better for the coun-
try? Employers will not ali 60 in for
cheap labor. There has always been q
large proportion of employers who held
that it was better for the employer to pay
good wages and enjoy the market which
wel-paId labor creates than TO employ
cheap labor and suffer the inevitable
restriction of the market which must fol-
low. The issue is one OF broad statesman
ship. The Stanford idea that what is
good for one man or one corporation must
be good for the country will De tested in
the light of the ghestpopular intelligence
that exists on this Globe
The morning call., 1893-05-19
Gorgeous Tomb of All Spanish Kings
Since the Time of Charles V.

darper5 Magazine
On leaving the sacristy we descended
into the royal tomb or pantheon, for such
is the term given by the Catholic Span
iaids to Christian burial place. This
vault, placed exactly beneath the high
altar of the church, is an octagon room Sc
feet in diameter and SO feet high. Yon
descend into it by means of staircase
whose walls are lined with green and vel
low polished jasper. The walls of the
pantheon are Of polished marble, porphvrv
and jasper, richly ornamented with gilt
bronze capitals, bases and angles. The
whole executed by Italian artists after the
death of Philip ii. AS an inscription in
forms us. the founder of the Escurial bnilt
only simple vault. Philip III began the
present gorgeous structure in 1917. Phiiin
" completed it and moved in the royal
bodies on March II, 1864, after Diego de
Velasquez had with his own hands fixed
in its place the bronze crucihx, by Pedro
Tacca, which he had brought back from
Italy.
The octagon walls contain twentv-six
inches or shelves, on each of which is a
gray marble sarc0phagus or urn of classi-
cal shape. On the left are the kings and
on the right the mothers of kings. from
Charles Y down to our own times. In 1854
Philip IV opened the urn containing the
remains of Charles V and, after looking
The morning call., 1893-05-19
RAILROAD MANAGEMENT.

lu commenting on the extraordinary
speed recently attained by trains on the
New York Central Railroad, the Herald
remarks that American railways COM
pare favorably with English in locomo-
tiyes and cars and in management, but in
roadbeds we are behind" Even this ex-
ception does not apply ali round. The
New York Central, the Pennsylvania
Railroad main lines, the New Jersey Gen.
tral, and a portion of the Baltimore and
Ohio are quite equal to the best ballasted
roadbeds the chief English railways can
show. But generally speaking, the perma-
nent way of tie English lines is much
alike in stability, whether the road is a
prosperous one or not. Before being
opened it undergoes severe official exami-
nation. aud the company must comply
with certain standard Of efficiency in
rails, fishplates, bolts. ties. switches, en-
bankmentS and bridges.
England and the rest Of Europe are