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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-06-13
Notice..

From the great increase in the
pumPage of water by the city water
works during the last week, and the
heavy strain the pumps have been
put to during this time, it is evident
that the ordinance governing the use
OF water is being grossly violated.
The ordinance permits of the sprink-
ling of lawns and streets for those
who have paid for the same. from 6
to o'clock a. m. and 6 to 8 O'Clock
p. m, except in case of fire.
Final notice is now given that any
person detected violating the above
provisions, will have their supply of
water turned off, and subjected tn
other penalties which the ordinance
prescribes.
THOMAS j. MEDILL, JR., Mayor.
Rock Island, June IS. 1894.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-06-13
MCIntyre-ReCk Dry Goods c.
Sole Agents for Butterick Patterns-the best in
Arguments


are OF small avail unless supported IT,
lac.s' we have few dozen too many adies'rr; solid
rem aprons. and propose to reduce ST. ana child
by siashing prices right and left Their I'M; 'is week
bargain offerings through the entire line III NAM
rect especial to the following: Jul We d.
II dozen ladies' fancy aprons worth lec atac
dozen pretty styles worth up &c, a. ~,
hsndsome styles Of aprons worth up o,ieaa
osrRan assortment worth up SIC, at onl, 20,
All these lots are nice, clean new .,ood,
superior manner. Other and better vain. .na'e ina
fully low prices. "eS al wonder.
In chiidrens dress aprons we show the bss.
ment IN Rock Island at the lowest price assof,-
make inns sale doubly interesting we will 1 ~, to
from the price of every childs apron sold f 'sauct
DAY morning to Saturday night 162 per car. Mon
sixth. You will have over 40 STYLES to sell a'-one
Full assortment of newest wrinkles in La,
waists, chemisettes. collars and cuffs all r llfled
quality and at the lowest possible prices Ttt.oF
this sale is to miss the best offering Of the -. Mss
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-06-13
Women Fight With Knives and Pistol,

HUNTINGTON. w. Va, June 13.-At
Breeder, forty miles south of here, five
young women got into a fight and knives
and pistols were used Mrs. Lizzie May
nard was killed and Jennie Morris NOR.
tally wounded. 1t is thought the affair
originated from jealousy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-06-13
Made an Assignment.

MILWAUKEE, June 13.-B. NJ. Holmes, q
lumberman who operates mills at Oge-
nav, Mich, made an assignment to
Henry Fink before Court Commissioner
Harper. MIR. Fink's bond was fixed at
$l0b,UCO
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-06-13

have consulted Madam Hutchin-
son and by her wonderful powers.
she has made me happy. Consult
her at 231 Twenty-first street, corner
Third avenue. Ladies', 50 cents;
gentlemen, 81.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-06-13

Is right upon u.s. great problem is how to keep
cool. McIntyreReck will help you solve it, and at
very small cost.
The Shirt Waist is of the most sensible and
comfortable of garments for women's hot weather
wear. and when the cost is slight we shall make
it, every woman should have q couple.
peae absolutely
scour price 39c Better get while
shoulder
more thsnw ne
epca' II could 81 . and 81 r. stylish
rapc waists in black plain with polka dot only &c. No
the price when are gone.
To thoroughly shape up our Ladies' Wrapper de-
partment, this week will devide the stock into
three lots at moving prices.
lot lat SOC and 69c-
Lot Sat s9c-wappe high 81 e.
Sat 81 a3wrappes worth si5o IS 81 and 81 s.
This is good opportunity to secure wrapper at
less than the material costs The big wash goods sale
will be continued this week with additions and
sharper cuts in prices. If you want the incest
mer dress for the least possible money wash
goods department is the place for you to buy
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-01-24
REPRESENTATIVE.
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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-08-02
sLEEPLEss LARVAE.

voraclty Of the Young Of Some Of the
Vegetable Feeders. - '''.' '.
Prof. Lintner, New York's state en-
tomologist, Is Of the opinion that the
larvae stage Of many species Of in
sects Is ono Of the sleepless activity,
tho grub feeding necessarily from tho
''moment Of ito birth" He says that
- IL doubtful. II some species ever sleep
or take . moments rest. The vora-
ciousness and rapid growth Of these
creatures may be better understood by
making statement of two facts: A
certain aesh-feeding larvae, (which
simply means the infant state Of .
carrion beetle whose scientific name
would be Of no particular interest, says
the st. Louis Republio) will consume
in twenty-four hours two hundred
times his own weights parallel to
which, in the human race, would be an
infant consuming one thousand five
hundred pounds of nutriment on the
flrst day of its existencel There are
vegetable Observation-Disclosures,
during their progress to maturity, in
crease in size ten thousand during the
Arst thirty days Of their lives. To
equal this remarkable growth . ma
ture man would weigh scarcely len
than afN tQuA
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-08-02
An Interesting Sight.

An interesting sight was witnessed
by the visitors at Niagara Falls re-
Gently. It was the annual migration
of crows toward the south. This
usually occurs in early winter, but this
wear, for some unknown reason, did
not occur until the 1st of March. The
crows passed southwark by the mil
lion, and for two days the air was
black with them, and the noise of their
cawing was almost deafening. When
they got to the falls the lit in large
numbers on the ice bridge and set up
wild cawing. The sound echoed
against the walls Of the gorge and
made q tremendous noise. When they
we're rested they arose with loud
whirring Of wings and continued their
fight. Many few into the falls and
were drowned.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-08-02
Tho Naval Powers.

An official report of the instantly
available battle ships Of the six great
powers shows that of arst-class vessels
England has Is, France 9, Russia 8 and
the Triple Alliance 10, Of which are
Italian and German. All the English
vessels steam 16H knots and upward,
being 1871; none Of the French is over
1872 knots; while of the Russians
are under 10, the third reaching 1913.
In second-class ships England leads
with 10. France has 8, Russia 4 and the
Triple Alliance IL, of which Germany
owns and Austria 4. Here there Is no
such superiority Of speed on the Eng
lish side, Earee being under 1S knots,
while no French vessel goes 20 low a.
that figure and all the Russians steam
II knots and over.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-08-02
rae HOUSE 81 LORDS.
Rsssonnsl ana Powers Of Great BEttsin'a
IN. Unpopular LSsfslstivs Brsnsh.

Rsssonnsl ana Powers Of Great BFitsin'a
III. UnpopalaE. LSgtslstivS Branch. S
The English house Of lords Tor peers)
consists Of the whole peerage Of Eng
land and of certain representatives OF
tie peerages OF Scotland and Ireland;
but, according to the st. Louis POST
Diipatch, many of these last have also
English titles which give them seats in
the house. As, for instance, the duke of
Buccleuch. q Scotch peer, sits as earl
of Doncaster, and the duke of Leinster,
an Irish peer, as Viscount Leinster.
According to the latest official list, ex-
elusive Of twelve minors and one baron,
whose claim Is not established, tho
present house Of lords 10 composed a.
follows: Five princes Of the blood, two
archbishops, twenty-one dukes, twen-
ty-two marquises, one hundred and
fifteen earls, twenty-five viscounts,
twenty-four bishops, three hun
dred and four barons, sixteen Scot
tish representative peers elected for
each parliament, and twenty-eight
Irish representative peers elected for
life. In all, FIVE hundred and sixty.
All peerages are now hereditary, but
until 1860 there were occasional crea-
tions of life peerages. In that year,
however, It was decided that such peers
could not sit in the house, and since
then none have been made. Peerages
are lost by attainder for high treason,
and an attainted peerage can only be
restored by act of parliament-not by
the crown. The house of lords may
originate legislation Of all kinds ex-
cept money bills, which must come
from the house of commons. The for
mer has also veto power upon the
legislation of the latter, and can throw
out any bill from the lower house, no
matter how large majority 1t has re-
ceived there. It is this veto power
which, more than any and everything
else, makes the house Of lords unpopu-
lar with the great mass of voters. i
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-08-02
STRANGE DISCOVERY IN AFRICA

Balsac's Dressing Gown In the WARDROBE
Of tho King OF Dshomey.
Unlooked-for things have been found
In unlikely places, says the Illustrated
London News. but there has probably
been no discovery more remarkable
than that of Balzac's dressing gown In
the possession of the king of Dahom ey.
Monarchs are rarely literary, and his
dusky majesty, one would think, was
the very last Of them to have set much
value upon the personal relic Of q nov
elist, however distinguished. Never
theless, the French found 1t In the
royal apartment at Abomey. There
were some ingenious theories founded
upon this circumstance. One OF the
amazons, it was thought. might have
been a novel reader, and had sent to
Paris to secure the interesting memen-
to, and, on the affair coming to the
knowledge Of her sovereign, had
fastened to say she had purchased 1t
for his own shoulders. For, indeed, he
always wore II upon state occasions. 1t
was not q dressing gown, such as
literary persons in this country are
wont to wear (of second-olass flannel
worn at the edges), but Of purple vel
vet embroidered with gold. Az q mat
ter Of fact, It had been-given to Balzac
by some Of his admirers and after his
death had been bought by dealer In
curiosities, who had placed It,, with
other snowy articles, on the West
African market It is sad to think how
q plain tale will put down''-that is,
destroy tho materials Of q fine TO
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-08-02
STOPPED THE DUEL.
The Cool Man Objected to Being Riddlsd
with Ono Bullet.

The Cool Man Objected to Being Riddlsd
with On~ Bullet.
'.Down in my neighborho once upon
q time," said Congressman John Allen,
of Mississippi, recently, ''there was bad
feeling between two lawyers. A chal-
lenge was sent and duly acknowledged.
The hour was appointed and the two
men met in a secluded spot. One OF
them was great sufferer from St.
vitus' dance, the other was cool and
collected. AS they faced each other,
the afflicted man began to tremble
from head to foot, while his pistol de-
scribed an arc with varying up and
down strokes. His opponent stood firm
as q rock, waiting for the signal to fire.
Before it came, however, he laid his pis-
toll on the ground, walked into thewoods
and cut q limb of tree, with fork
in the. end Of it. This he brought back
and stuck in The ground in front Of his
antagonist. Then, turning to the SEQ
ond, he said: 4 must request you to
ask your principal to rest his pistol in
that fork What for?' asked his OPP
ponent's second. WELL replied the
other, Il have no objection to running
the risk of one shot, but certainly do
decline having one bullet make hon
eycomb of me. If that man was to
shoot while his hand is shaking the
way, it ia now, he would fill me full Of
holes at his first shot, This was too
much for the seconds, and, by mutual
agreement, q truce was patched up
andtno shots were exchanged"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-08-02
ONE WAY TO TREAT BEARS.

Out In Arizona Man and Bear Live To-
Eether In Amity.
Ur in the Sierra Ancha mountains OF
ella county there are plenty OF hears,
great big bears as big as urJyear-old
steers, and with claws on them that
leave a mark like q butchers cleaver
in the snow. There are not many pep
pie in the Sierra Anchas, though some
years in the month Of May, few peo-
pie 60 up among the pines and plant
potatoes. And the potatoes they
harvest before the snow comes in the
fall are the finest In. the world. Well,
these potato farmers all have an mex
haustible fund of bear stories. OF
course, there is plenty of other game
the residenters principally live on Wild
turkey and deer meat, and esteem
bacon and beef in the light of delica-
cies. But as to bears. The potato
farmer will prop himself against tree
in the woods at night, gaze into the
huge fire Of pitch pine deadwood and
between puffs of his comforting pipe
tell story som ething like this: 4. e.
"Ye see, was a-goin' over the sad
die near Mount Lookout, not notion
like and all of sudden heard ahead
of me kind Of sound Ikea horse
was startled. An right thar before
my eyes was the biggest, wooliest bar
ever seed in my born days. Why, he
was about as big as the cabin built
that year over near the head o. Coon
creek. Well, was skeered'clean out OF
my boots, and the bar appeared to
wonder what I was doin' occupyin'
that trail. Well. we surveyed each
other for few minutes, when I
stepped of politely to one side into
the timber, and the bar went "f down
the trail" a.. H. Er s.
"Why," exclaimed q Phoenix Gazette
man who heard this story; didn't you
have gum"
"Why, OF course; never stir out with.
out my old Winchester 49, @
"Why didn't you shoot him. then?" %
"Good Lord, youngster, do I look
like blame fool? I hain't lost no
bar. Bars all right, only you just let
him alone when you meet him on the
trail and he'll return the compliment.
Nobody shoots bears in that country.
Bear and human live together with
mutual respect, If not amity, and
neither side cares to break the truce
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-08-02
MORE POWERFUL THAN STEAM.
Marvellous Force Obtained from Musical
Vibration.

Marvellous Force Obtained from Musical
Vibration.
I, for one, believe, says Boston
Transcript correspondent, that we are
on the eve Of q great era Of applicable
force, and that the wasteful methods
Of steam and electricity will be rele-
gated to desuetude such as has over.
taken the stage coach.
The grounds Of my belief are based
not wholly on hearsay, but chiefly on
. curious experience. A few days ago
q young man living In the vicinity Of
Boston took me to his room and
showed me an apparatus which he had
himself constructed with amazing in
genuity and skill. The fundamental
primum mobile Of this simple machine
was musical vibration. have no right
to describe the apparatus, but the force
produced in On Incredibly brief interval
Of time by means ofs fiddle bow was SO
enormous that there seemed to be no
way Of measuring it, and the chief diff
fculty in the way of practical applica-
ton lay in the regulation Of this
force, which, If directed full upon q
human DcluS, CDe 1nVeutOT OeA1oVeu,
would instantly vaporize his body. A
single drop of water confined In hol-
low stoll tube was resolved by small
fraction Of this possible energy into q
motor capable of running an engine, If
properly applied.
It is well known to all scientific men
that a cubic foot of atmospheric air
contains latent If one might use the
term), or in suspension, force enough
to kill q regiment. Musical vibration
seems to set free a portion of this en-
erey, and its resources ore infinite. II
once they can be regulated it will be
the simplest and most inexpensive way
Of doing all manual work, for It will
require nc heat.
The young man who thought out this
wonderful series of apparatus is self
made, not having had great advan-
tages Of education; but for pure genius,
I think. whether as practical in
ventor or as a theoretical experiment.
or, he will take high rank among tho
great of the world.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-08-02
MOTHERS CURSE.
Nm. Gamusls Called Down Vengeance o.
n th6 Heads Of Her Sons Enemies,

Nm, QoWusls Called Down Vengeance o.
!, - Heads Of Her Sons. Enemies.
Mira Zerelda Samuels, mother OF
those notorious bandits, train robbers
and ex-guerrillas, the late lamented
Jesse and the still living but reformed
Frank James, is reported lying seri.
ously Ill, with but slight hope of her
recovery, said the Buffalo Inquirer, in
. recent issue.
"I'n never forget" said a gentleman
recently, 1.-The scene when she caught
the first view of Jesse's dead face in
that little undertaker's shop In st.
Joseph, where the body was removed
soon after Bob Ford killed the notori.
GUS outlaw. {.
''she had aged years in the short
twenty-four hours since her boy fell Z
victim to the treachery Of one he had
bSriended. She seemed stunned by
the tragedy. Here, for twenty years
and more, she had lived in the full
knowledge that every hour Of each day
might bring her tidings that one or
both Of her boys had met with 9 VIC
lent death, but when it came tho shock
well-nigh shattered her reason.
1.-THE ice box in which Jesse's body
lay was opened, and for full two min
utes the gray-haired mother looked on
the face Of her dead son; then all her
vigor seemed to return, her bent figure
Strengthened up, and in tones which
could be heard half a block away she
began such q TRADE of abuse against
his slayers as never could have imag.
ined mortal mind capable Of framing.
whether it was in answer to her
prayers am not prepared to say, but
certain it is that Charlie Ford never
knew an instant of peace from the day
that Jesse was shot. Unlike Bob, he
did not even pretend to conceal his
real feelings under an air of bravado.
Both boys were in mortal terror every
minute until Frank surrendered that
he would cross their path unexpectedly
some day and that their lives would
pay the forfeit. Bob hid this fear by
assuming clustering boldness, which
at times he was FIR from feeling. His
was the stronger character of the two.
Charlie, on the contrary, passed his
nights in restless sleeplessness and his
days in terrified expectancy of ven.
geance. Even the short period Of SO.
curity which he enjoyed while Frank
was in custody afforded no lasting
peace for him. As soon as Frank was
released the old terror returned with
renewed force, and so preyed upon hia
nerves that he soon became mental
wreck. It drove him to suicides grave
at last"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-08-02
mo History of Dol English Canal.

There is 9 canal in England which
cost eighty thousand pounds to CON
struct, and was recently sold for one
hundred pounds. It is known as the
6tort Navigation, and dates from the
reign of George III. In 1873 firm OF
brewers obtained 1t for fifteen. thou
sand pounds, as they found that when
their malt was carried quietly BY canal
q saving in value was effected, as
against the transit in trains, the diff
ference being considered about equal
to the rent of malt-house. The pres
emit proprietor had been for a long time
In the service of the firm. and the nav
igation Of the canal was handed over
to him for one hundred pounds, as Q
token Of esteem. by his employer
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-08-02
THE FUTURE or LONDON. i
lncresSs u ths sPopuiatlon Or the CRY
,s Receives No serious Check. tM

lacFeaSs u the Population OF the CRY
s Resolves No serious Check.
The favorite' name Of Goblet for
London-''the VENTS going to b
truer than it ever, has been II we can
trust some remarkably interesting St..
tiatics just issued by the London coun-
ty council, says the Westminster
Budget. One question discussed is
whether London is or is not being
checked in its rate of growth. On q
first glance at the registrars figures
with regard to London itself it ap-
pear. i as though it were, for before
1ssl-01 London population was increas-
ing every ten years at rate varying
from 10 to 81 per cent. but in the
decade ending with 1901 the rate of in
crease had only been 10 per cent.
docs this mean," asks the committee
of which Mr.. Costelloe is chairman,
''that> London has reached the turning
point and that In few years the in
crease will become a decreased" The
committee finds that it does not. 1t
appears that the true reason for the
apparent diminishing rate Of increase
is that the building space in London is
gradually being appropriated, and that
the people, aided by improved railway
and tr ANYWAY and omnibus accommo-
dalton, are betaking themselves more
to outside London residences. Even In
greater London this is noticed to a
smaller extent. The rate of increase
in population, while still very rapid
In greater London, is beginning to
show tendency to become slower, and
it is discovered that the Londoners
are moving still farther out into the
home counties Then there are specu-
lations as to what the size of London
will be fifty years hence or less upon
the milder suppositions.@ II we do not
add any more to the population than
the amount per decade that has been
added since 1881 it seems that we
should have population in 1941 of
close upon l0,00O,00 II we allow for
q growth at the rate of the natural in
crease of births over deaths there will
be nearly II ZOO, 900 in London in that
year. If we reckon that London will
grow at the average rate Of the last
three decades we shall be over $4,000,
900, but if inner London and outer
London go on together growing at the
rate they have been growing for the
last three tens of years we are to ex-
pect London population in 1941 Of a
trifing 17,50O,0o0. If we look at the
matter in another way and ask what
population greater London will con-
tain when it has STAINED throughout
the mean density of well-known areas
we get the following appalling figures:
II greater London were only peopled
contain population Of. :. 10000
II 1t were poopled on au average as
densely a. Fulham Ii now the popu-
lation would be. ........ ....0O0O,OW
II It were peopled ct the rate OF st.
Georges, Hanover square, the total
would rise TO. H.. .SUVOVsVV
Whitechapel is now three times as
densely peopled as St. Georges itself.
The moral ia obvious.