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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-01
TELLS A DIFFERENT STORY.
About that Little Row Twixt France and
San Domingo.

About that Little Row Twixt France and
San Domingo.
NEW YORK, April 1.-The story brought
from San Domingo Thursday by passen-
gers on the steamer Saginaw to the effect
that the president of San Domingo had
broken into the safe Of the French bank is
not generally credited here. Among those
who disbelieve the story is F. L. VasQuez,
the San Domingo consul general. Mr..
Vasquez explained that an internal mis-
understanding had occurred between his
government and France over the settle
ment of a supreme court decision in favor
of the president, in his personal capacity,
who had sued the French bank in San
Domingo City for S62, 600.
Bank Ohicials in Contempt.
The bank officials declined to obey the
orders of the supreme court, and upon its
threat to enforce its decree appealed to the
French consul, who protested and called
for the support Of a man-of-war then in
port. This was the situation of affairs ten
days ago. The consul generals mail by
the Saginaw Thursday contained the gov
ernment's reply to this protest of the
French consul. 1t was in effect that the
government of San Domingo could not in
terfere with judicial DEGREES of the supreme
court, unless refusal so to do would pre-
cipitate a conflict, and if the government
receded from this position it would only be
under strong protest. NJ. Vasquez's COM
munication, which was only semi-official,
stated further that the matter was yet in
allowance.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-01
Wisconsin Legislation.

MADISON, April 1.-The senate found
that the anti-Pinkerton bill wasn't "anti"
enough and has recalled it for future de
liberation. The bill to investigate the
Australian laud transfer system was sent
to third reading. The house adopted a
joint resolution fixing April 20 as the day
for final adjournment. A bill was passed
for a commission to locate Wisconsin
troops at Chickamauga. Labor day was
made legal holiday. The governor has
appointed General Z. Z. Bryant. of Madi-
son, state fish commissioner. The senate
amended the Pinkerton bill so as to
prohibit a man from protecting his own
property with his own employees. Spens-
ley called it :. bill to promote lawlessness
and anarchy" but it passed, 81 to 5.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-01
STATE OFFICERS lMPEAcHED.
Nebraska to Have the JOY of n Great
State Case.

Nebraska to Have the JOY of n Great
State Case
LINCOLN, Neb., April 1.-The two houses
of the legislature met in joint session yes
ter6ay and without preliminary debate the
resolution pending from Thursday provid-
ing for the drawing up of articles of inn
parchment against the board of public
lands and buildings was taken up and
passed with but four dissenting votes. A
committee of five, comprising Senators
North and Lowley and Representatives
Van Housen, Barry and Cotton, was ap-
pointed to prosecute the board before the
supreme court. The general impression
seems to be, now that articles of impeach-
ment have been prepared, that it will neces-
state the appointment of three new Off
GERS.
Accused Not Afraid of the Issue.
The men accused of rascality asked their
friends in the legislature to withdraw op-
position to tie impeachment, as they say
they only want fair trial to prove all the
charges false
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-01
The Editor Was the Quickest.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, April News has
reached here from Wetumpka of the shoot
ing and fatal wounding of S. l.. Jenkins, a
convict guard at that place, by Tyler Good
wyn, editor of The Wetumpka Reform Ad-
vocate Editor GOODWIN published a card
rejecting upon Jenkins and the latter
went to Goodwin for a retraction. Good
wyn refused TO retract. and both men
pulled pistols and exchanged shots Jenk-
ms was struck by bullet in the abdomen
and will die. Goodwin accidentally shot
and killed the sheriff of Elmore count =
several months ago.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-01
QUITE FAVORABLE.
Figures on Failures for the Past
Three Months.
COMPARISON WITH OTHER YEARS.

Fewer Than Since 1882 With the Excep-
tion OF One Year-Asseta Make . Good
Showing and Give an Increase of IL
Per Cent-Where the Disasters Were
Most Felt-New England and the Middle
States the Heaviest SufYerers-The Rec
ord for Canada.
NEW YORK, April 1.-Business failures
throughout the United States during the
past three months, as reported to Brad
streets, number 5, ,O64, a smaller total with
one exception than has been similarly re-
ported for eleven years. In 1SS. 9, 146 busi-
ness failures were reported to Bradstreet's
during the first three months of the calen-
dar year, and in the first quarter of 1855
the total was 3, ,O53, but in like quarters in
other years since 1882 the aggregate num-
Der OF business failures has exceeded the
total for the first quarter of 1898. Last
year there were 8, 207 failures during Jan
uary, February an March, ana in the cor
responding period of 1891 the total was
S,401.
Good Showing to Assets.
The total liabilities of individuals, firms
and corporations failing during the past
quarter aggregate S39, 424 ,S5S, as compared
with SIS, SOL, 149, an increase of s., sec. 900,
about = per cent. while the falling off in
number of failures thus far this year as
compared with last is a triae over per
cent. Total assets of failing traders for
three months this year amount to $50, 15O,-
OS3, an increase of about IL per cent, show
ing relatively large increase in available
assets than Indebtedness and pointing to
some failures having been precipitated
through embarrassment of others.
The Situation as to Sections.
The falling off in the number of fail
ures during the last quarter as compared
with three months in 1892, is conspicuous
in the middle and southern states, al
though there was a slight increase in the
New England states. In the west, north
west, on the Pacific coast and in the ter
ritories there were moderate gains in the
number of failures The improvement as
to the number in the middle states is large
1y due to the falling off at New York city,
where there were eightysix fewer failures
than in the first quarter OF 1892 account
ing for one-half the decrease in the num-
Der reported from the four middle states.
New England Suffered the Most.
While the New England and Middle
states showed an improvement with re-
spect to number of failures, they furnish
ed increased liabilities, which accounts for
the total net gain in liabilities of about s.,
500 or per cent. There was trif1ing in
crease in liabilities in southern states and a
small increase on the Pacific coast, but
these were more than offset by reduced
totals in western states, in the northwestern
states and in the territories.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-01
INJURED A LARGE NUMBER.
Railway Wreck at Leadville in Which
Many are Hurt.


Many are Hurt.
L.EADvILLE, April by the spreading
of rails the Rio Grande passenger train
east-bound was badly wrecked in this city
last night and large number of passen-
gers, injured though none fatally. The in
jured so far as reported are: t. n. Nye,
New York, shoulder broken; j. I.
Cahill. Los Angeles, thigh broken;
c. II. Walling, Sheppard. Mich,
leg broken. The following were variously
cut and bruised: Mrs. T. f. Haywood,
Sacramento, Cal: Mrs. J. B. Wilson, Aus
tralia; J. B. Dalton; Annie Lynch. New
York; Mrs H. Martin, Denver; J. Z. Hey
worth, St. Cloud, Mimi; Mrs. +. Satler
San Francisco; Mrs. 7. A. Guthrie; II. /.
Higgins, Leadville; Mrs @. Wilson, Chi
cago; Mr.. f. T. Perry, st. Louis; the Pike
family, of Chicago; J. r. Wallace, Mercer,
Pa. y majority of the passengers were
members of Phillips excursion party
bound from California for Chicago and
eastern points.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-01
CAUSED BY ONLY TWO FAILURES
The Total Increase of Liabilities Reported
Figures from the Dominion.

The Total Increase of Liabilities Reported
Figures from the Dominion
No better illustration may be given of
the comparatively favorable nature of this
quarters report of business failures as
compared with 1892 than that one failure
in New England and one in Pennsylvania
in different lines will account for the total
net increase of liabilities this year, com
nared with last. With these two failures
excluded. notwithstanding the embarrass-
ment of several widely separated banks
and an increase of 90 per cent. in liabilities,
of the IS per cent. fewer traders failing at
New York city, the grand total of liabili
ties would have been smaller for the first
quarter of this year than in a like portion
of 1892.
Canada Makes a Better Showing.
There We're 33 fewer failures in the Do
minion of Canada during the past three
months than in the like period in 1892, the
total being SEQ this, against 559 last year.
Aggregate liabilities have fallen off
trifie, amounting to 4,7SS, 600, or : per
cent. less than they were last year, while
the decrease in number of failures is G. per
cent. Total assets aggregate s., 407, ,105, or
10 per cent more than in the like quarter
last year, showing a relatively greater de-
gree of solvency this year.
Ontario Was the Weak Spot.
There were five fewer failures in the
province of Ontario this year, but the
liabilities there are 19 pef cent. larger than
year ago. In Quebec there are fifteen
fewer failures with only about oper cent.
of the liabilities reported last year, Nova
Scotia also returns fewer failures with a
marked reduction of liabilities. while Mani
toba reports only one failure more than
last year, with slight increase in aggregate
Indebtedness and the northwest territories
one more than last year with dispro-
portionately large increase in liabilities.
British Columbia reports a noteworthy re-
duction in number of failures, but an in
crease in total debts.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-01
A scheme of the Ranks.

DETROIT, April There has started
among the national banks of Detroit a
scheme to escape taxation which it seems
likely may spread all over the country.
Every national bank of Detroit is in it.
Last year the Preston National pank paid
taxes Oh 81 ,000,oo6 capital stock. This
year it has invested all of its capital in
United States bonds, which are not taxable.
This is the result of the mayors "fight on
corporations
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-01
MARYLAND TOWN WIPED OUT.
Fire Lays Waste 200 Houses-Several Per-
sons BadlN Burned.

WILMINGToN. Del, April 1.-The chief
of the fire departmspt of tbs city yes
terday received word that the town of
Galena, about 500 inhabitants, near Ches-
tertown, Md, was on fire and requesting
assistance. a later dispatch was received
saying the town had been wiped out.
About 200 houses were totally destroyed
and several persons severely burned while
fighting the fire No lives were lost. The
houses, which were frame were neat and sub
stantial and built close together. The town
contained several shops operated by w. \.
Hyland, a manufacturer of agricultural
implements and had large school house.
The largest retail store in Kent county is
located at Galena and is owned by Thomas
HOrsey,
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-01
Depends Upon a Postmaster

TABLEcuAH, i. T.. April The bill for
the ratification of the amended treaty for
the opening of the Cherokee strip was IN
troduced in the national council yesterday.
The bill meets with general favor and Will
undoubtedly pass if the appointment of
Watts as postmaster at Muldrow is witu-
drawn. Uni. IS that is done there will be
no sale of the strip.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-01
GRAIN, ETC.

GRAIN, ETC.
WheaI-14iL TIC.
Corn -4065iGc- =
Oats 30dt32c.
Hay-Timoihv. s12. 90; upl md, sI0NiI: sltupb
$500; haled. SI0.OoGtlI 90.
PRODUCE.
Buttcr-Fair TO choice, 2Ge1e &c; creamery, zee.
Eggs Fresh. IiaI5.
Poutrv-Chickens. Iaxc; turkeys 12L
ducks, 12nc; geese, 10c-
FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.
Apples-s4 90 per Dbl.
Potatoes-S5Ig3c.
Onions-s4 per Dbl.
Turuips-6"c per bn.
LIVE STOCK,
Cattle-Butchers pay for corn fed steefs
404nc; cows and neifere, 2x03Lc calves
415c.
Hogs-1d7Hc.
Sheep-4GL5c.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-01
Alleged Louisville torger Arrested.

LOUISVILLE. April IA. r. Sutton, of
the wholesale whisky brokerage firm of A.
r. Sutton & Co, and who has been sus-
pected of the recently exposed whisky for
gerry OF warehouse receipts amounting to
S225, 900, was arrested last night and placed
irni iail
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-01
RECORD of Bank Cl..rinE..

NEW YoIsK, April 1.-The total bank
clearings for the past week were 8, ,o5o, $685.
$50. an increase over the previous week of
Il per cent.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-01
Ontario Was the Weak Spot.


LANSING, Mich, April 1.-The checklist
boy in Michigan is now under guard at the
reform school here. In June, 1891, he es-
capped from the school. On Tuesday the
sheriff at Alma had him, but he escaped.
robbed store that night and got away
Thursday Superintendent Wood, of the
school, sent an usher through the building
with couple of young gentlemen who de-
sired to see it. An old timer recognized in
one of them William A. Jackson, the hero
of Alma robbery, and he was nabbed
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20
VICTORIA AS A PROMPTER
Hor Majesty's Amusing Attempt to Hell
Ellen Terry With Portis's Lines.

Her Majesty's Amusing Attempt to Help
ellen Tory With Portis's Lines.
A delicious story, for the accuracy OF
which correspondent Of the Pail Mall
Gazette can vouch, is going around,
anent Mr.. 1rving's and Miss Ellen Ter
rvs visit to Sandringham. It appears
that all was going beautifully with the
"Merchantof Venlce''-her majesty seat
ed In front, stick in hand and all atten-
tion-until Miss Terry's time as Portia
to deliver her great speech about mercy.
We all know how she does it, advancing
toward the Jew and making marked
and peculiar pause before delivering
her Grafton. The kind queen, who was
all attention and had probably been
carefully instructed in her OVID youth
by the duchess of Kent or her good
governess in Shakespeare tit bits"
was eagerly following the gifted actress,
but mistook the pause for some sudden
failure OF memory. So the queen began
prompting her quite low: 1.-THE quality
of mercy" etc.; but Miss Terry did not
take the cue, and her majesty then re-
peated rather more loudly and encour-
agingly: THE quality Of mercy is not
strained" This was almost too much
for Miss Terry, but with a violent effort
to suppress her twinkling merriment
she controlled herself and gracefully
accepted her cue from our gracious soy.
ereign. Good Queen Bess, we know,
used to shout at the preachers and cor.
rect them openly in theology when they
preached before her, but this is proba-
bly, the first time that an actress has
ever been honored by having q queen
and empress as stage prompter.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20
THE EAST.

For the murder of their father Thomas
Morgan and his three sisters, Jennie,
Rebecca and Caroline, of Waynesburgh,
Pa, have entered the western peniten-
tiary. The sentences imposed by the
court are: Thomas, twelve years; Rebec-
ca, ten years; Caroline, ten years, and
Jennie, three years.
). The late Col. Elliott Shepard, of New
York, left an estate valued at 81. $3.50, 900.
BY the wrecking of the whaling
schooner Leon Swift, of New Bedford,
Mass, at the island of Mayo, Cape Verd
islands, the first mate, Edgar M. Grape,
of New Bedford, the second mate and
nine men were lost.
In Somerset and Blair counties in
Pennsylvania the loss by prairie fires
was placed at 100000.
Mrs. WILLIAM A1NswoRrH and two of
her children were burned to death in a
fire in tenement house at Williams
burg, N. Y, land five other persons were
more or less seriously injured.
In Camden, N. j., John Hill, COL
ored lad of II years, was hanged for the
shooting on October Is of Joseph Dod-
son, also colored.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20
FROM WASHINGTON.

TRE report of the statistician of the
department of agriculture for April
makes the average condition of winter
wheat TIA, against s1.2 last year.
ADVANCE sheets of the report of the
chief of the bureau of statistics for the
exports of breadstuffs for the nine
months which ended March 81 show
that tho total exports were only $145,-
os2, 766, against $3.50, 159, 913 for the same
period Of last year.
AN unofficial list of members-elect of
the house of representatives of the
Fifty-third congress, as compiled by the
clerk of the house, shows that the DEM
ocrats will have 220, the republicans
127 and the third party 8.
In the United States business failures
to the number of 200 occurred in the
seven days ended on the 14th, against
223 the preceding week and 226 for the
corresponding time last year.
AT the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 14th aggregated ST.
210,901, 192, against $1,19s, 742 ,949 the
previous week. The increase as COM
pared with tho corresponding week Of
1899 was GO.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20
NEavE-JARR,ho JocuLARlr,Es

The SHY Slang With which Too 1Ga,y
People lntsrlard Their Tsik.
There is nothing In the world which
produces the sense Of mental naases
more completely or II moro certain to
turn the intellectual stomach than the
use Of certain jocularities Of speech
with which many people think at to
sdorn their conversation, says the Lon
Ion Spectator. The people who seem
70 find 1t impossible to speak of an un-
married man except as "a gay bach
Flor" with whom the sea il always 'sthe
briny" or the ''herring pond" and Q
horse "a fiery steed," who eternally talk
about ''Sunday-go-to-meeting" clothes,
Ind who have such phrases as mo ex-
ira charge" ''agitate the tintinnabula-
tor" "the noxious weed" 1.-The pipe of
peace, :" forty winks" and 'tbraving tho
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. It is difficult to say whether
these cant phrases-that is q perfectly
proper description Of them are
~AOAS OAAOuS WHICH U6CO CO0SClOO0lV
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-
lon 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 q 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 little one," or
who speak of ''jappanning their trotter-
cases." might fairly be shot at sight.
When some excellent mother of largo
and heavily facetious family catches up
and uses almost unoonsciously such
phrases az getting outside square
meal" ''the clerk of the weather"
''she's no chicken" or put on your war
paint" and when even tho father me
chanically talks of ''performing his alb
lutions," the sense of pathos overcomes
all others.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20

THERE is man by the name of Pey-
ton living in New Jersey who claims
the title of Father of Centennials. It
is said that the suffering public owes to
him the original suggestion of all the
centennials beneath which it has
groaned, from Bunker Hill in 1875 to
the worlds fair now impending over
Chicago. And now this insatiate
wretch is connecting an international
celebration of the birth of Christ to be
held at Jerusalem in 1900. It is too
much. Let some friend and lover of
humanity quietly and unobtrusively
strangle the centennial fend before it
is too late
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20

PErRoFF NARAsCHINE, one of the men
implicated in the assassination of
Alexander H., has just died in Siberia,
after nine years of hard labor in the
mines. 1t was never proven that Mar
aschine had any direct connection with
the assassination. Upon his death-bed
he confessed that he had been selected
to throw the bomb at the emperor, but
declared that he refused because of his
wife and eight children who were de-
pendent upon him for support.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20

LUCKY persons who walk abroad now
with their eyes open may chance to
light upon an embryo oak. The acorn
will be found split in three at the point,
and within one may Gee the swelled
kernel, pink with life and just ready
to sprout. If carried home and placed
in damp earth, SO that the openings of
the shell may be visible, the kernel
will put forth its little shoot, and the
infancy. of the oak may be watched.
The unfolding of the young oak is of
marvellous interest, and patient man
NAY think it worth while to set out the
tiny tree and see it we'll started on its
way to giant oakhood.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20

FROM Bangor to New Orleans and
from New York to San Francisco the
press has begun a campaign against
filth, that the country may be spared
visitation of cholera if there be virtue
in the accepted preventive measures,
the first and most important of which is
cleanliness. The severe winter lust
passed left the streets and alleys of
every city in deplorable condition and
with the spring thaws the death rate
has increased everywhere, due solely to
disease germs liberated from accumu-
lated filth. Let the crusade be kept
up until this country has had such q
housekeeping as never before.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20
CURRENT TOPICS.

TIE girls in Savannah take their hats
of in the theater.
A MR. HlaHNorE sings in church
choir at Nicola, Mo.
LONDON bus lines charge double fares
Tor women in crinoline.
OF the 1863, 900 teachers in the United
States, 240, 900 are women.
A PAPER has been started in Atlanta
called the Swapping Turtle.
oNE'HALF the population of Mime
sofa and tho Dakotas is foreign born.
WOMEN are to be admitted to the
pulpit of the Sweden borgian church.
A NAN In Hackensack, N. j., was
recently sentenced to sixty days i'm
prisonment for swearing in public.
BLOCKS sixty feet long without q
break are found quite frequently in the
onyx 4uarries in Lower California.
AN Englishman in Philadelphia says
he hasn't eaten bread for twenty years.
but he eats meat four times 4 day.
A SALISBURY IN. C) farmer state.
that hogs watered exclusively with
well water will be free from cholera.
A PETR1F1ED mound builder has Ar
rived at Topeka from Oklahoma. Faith.
er Baker pronounces it = genuine speci-
men.
FISH In the Royal Aquarium in St.
Petersburg are still alive after hav
been on exhibition for more than $50
years.. 81. ~.
DAVID McCoY, Of California, who Ia
reported to be 10s years Of age, is said
TO be the Oldest war veteran in this
country.
Teas has Deaf Smith county, about
the only instance Of nickname havinr
been fixed upon IN important political
division
a MISSOURI man has applied for =
divorce after ton days Of married life
because Of tho pugilistic inclinations Of
the bride.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20
FASHION FANCleS.

INNER Innings of stiff material arr
put into many Of the spring dress skirts.
VERY few of the newest skirts have
any great amount of fullness at the
waist.
GRADUATED puffs, varying from four
to ten inches wide. trim some of the
new skirts.
SOME new dresses Of woolly-lookina
camels hair are trimmed with ruf3les OF
black satin ribbon.
RIVAL factions in Paris are contend.
ing for the supremacy of flowers or rib.
bons rs millinery trimming. with odds
for the flowers