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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-21
BUILT by THE GOVERNMENT.
The Battle Ship Maine and Her Trial
Which is Awaited with Interest,

Considerable interest attaches to the
forthcoming trial Of the battle ship Maine
arrangements for which are now being per-
fected at the Navy Department. The
Maine is battle ship Of the second class,
and may be generally described as an ar
mored cruiser. She is a heavy vessel and
is not expected to make very quick time, as
time is now reckened In the navy. The
special interest in her performance is due
to the fact that she was bull: by the gov
ernment, with the exception Of her engines
and boilers, which were constructed under
contract by the Quintard iron works of
New York. The Forthcoming trial Is for the
purpose of seeing that her machinery de-
veiops the horsepower required by the con-
tract, ns mely: 5000. For every horsepower
In excess of that number, her contractors
Will receive premium Of 500, and for
every horsepower less than that number
they VIII suffer a penalty Of like amount
In the event that the engines do not de-
Velop horsepower of 1900, the machinery
Will be rejected outright. There are four
warships Eow under construction by the
government the Maine, the Texas, the
Raleigh and the Cincinnati, and of these
the Maine is the first TO be completed. Her
trial will be interesting for the purpose of
contrasting work done by the government
with similar work done at private Ship
yards
The Maine belongs to the heavier, more
powerful class Of naval vessels, and her
great guns are expected to do great damage
In case or Use, while her unusually heavy
armor will be expected to keep her vital
parts s: fe from an enemy's fire. She will
leave the New York navy yard in a few
days on preliminary trial conducted en-
tIEeiy by the contractors, who were given
special permission by the Navy Department
10 that effect She will not be gone more
thah two or three days. and on her return
she Will be promptly prepared for the for
MAJ orncial trial by government officers to
determine the question Of the acceptance or
rejection of her machinery. On this latter
occasion she will be officered and manned
py government officials. The crew will con-
sist Of about 100 men,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-21
HELD UP IN NEW YORK.
An Eighth Avenue Surface Road Ca,
stopped by HOOdlums.

Stopped by HOOdlum
NEW YORK, September 2l.-An open car
on the Sth avenue line, this city, was held
up late last night in true western style. As a.
car was coming down the street near Abb
ington square, a gang Of about forty hood
lums, some black and some white, rushed
cut Of side street and crying fire stop
ped the car horses. The driver, thinking
that fire engines were about to rush across
the track. did not attempt to go on, an1 sew
erai of the young toughs took advantage
of his hesitation to grasp the horses heads.
holding them while their companions pro-
ceeded TO rob the twelve passengers on the
car. One man was robbed of a gold watch
and chain and a woman of a pocket book
containing 81. while several others were
relieved of smaller sums. When the police
arrived the young toughs were in retreat
and only two of them were caught
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-21

Presidential Portmasters Appointed.
ing postmasters and the announcement was
made at the White. House this morning:
John B. Garibaldi. Merfed. .CaL James b.
Coe, Clay ton. ILL.,; Edwdrd E. Gaddis. Bald
win, Kan; William L. Marsh, Rich Hill,
Mo-; George c. Damon. Jamaica, N. Y;
Stephen l.. Rockwell. Jordan, N. Y; Rob-
ert p. Cormack, Delhi, N. Y.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-21
EMMA LEON's STRANGE STORY.
The Explanation of n Tragedy I'm ST
Louis.

ST. LOUIS. Mo-. September 2l.-Sebastian
He1zei is dying tere under circumstances
which puzzle the police. The wound was
inflicted by a woman giving the name of
Emma Leon. Her story is a strange one.
She says that few days ago she visited
friend. Mrs Mary Foster. who at the
same time was entertaining her brother. a
Mr.. Gof, and his son. During the visit
the Leon woman claims she was fright
fully beaten by the others and ESCAPED in
a battered condition
This morning recognizing theeboy on the
street she followed him to his home within
which she saw the man Goff. A little later
Com. she says came out, when she shot
and fatally wounded him. Yet the man
gives the name of Henzel. The police are
investigating, but believe the Leon woman
crazy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-21

nEhe1 SOm.
naent on Criticism Of His Report
NEW YORK, September 21-Superinten-
dent of Police Byrnes, when asked today IL
he cared to say anything about the criti-
cism of him by DIR. Parkhurst in the Eight
zenith Street Methodist Church last night
made this reply, which he insisted should
be given word for word or not at all:
Yes; I have seen the statement by the
Rev.Dr. Parkhurst, and his criticisms on my
report to the police commissioners. So far
as those criticisms go he had a perfect right
to criticise me, as any other citizen has.
Further than that have nothing TO say"
DR.. Parkhurst in his address found fault
with superintendent Byrnes for philosophis-
ing on the subject of the social evil, or on
any other question, instead of doing his
duty In enforcing the law against dsorderiy
conduct. adding: Mr.. Byrnes and his fol-
lowers are here for execution, not for legis-
lating."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-21
Treasury Recefuts.

Treasury Receipts.
National bank notes received for redemp-
tion today, $39S, 143. Government receipts
From internal revenue. $249, 100; customs,
$J03, coo; miscellaneous. ,004.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-21
YELLOW FEVER ON BOARD,
A Ship From Cuba Quara ntfncd OF
Galveston.

GALVESTON, Tex, September 21.-The
British steamship Cambria, now lying
twelve miles from the city, viii! be in
spected tomorrow by State Health Officer
Swearingen. The Cambria left Havana
September 13, and during the trip Ed
ward Mcdowell, her boatswain. died pre-
sumably from yellow fever. On careful
examination, the cause was proven to be
yellow fever and the vessel has been kept
isolated.
The vessel will be ordered to the national
disinfection station.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-21

10 Information at the State Depart
ment to Justify the Report.

ment 10 JUSTIFY the Report.
Secretary Gresham informed a Star re-
sorter today that no information had reach
ed the State Department to justify the pub
Eshed report that President Peixoto of
Brazil Is increasing the strength of the
army with view of repeating the coup
detat OF Napoleon III by declaring himself
dictator In November. and preventing the
inaugurating of mis- successor. Although
the Secretary did not say so, his manner of
treating the subject showed clearly his dis
belief of the report.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-21

@ proof Of f6e paooins Is
IN fife eating. Tesferoap's
Star eonfoineo 3S columns
Of oeoerfisemenfs, maoe up
% III separate announce
menfs. t8ese advertisers
Boas6f pu8&eifp-nof merefp
space.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-21
REPRESENTATIVES, MILLIkEN
Wants His RrOther RestOred to XII,
Place in the Treasury.

F1HCe III Ine 1TtHBuTy.
Representative Milliken of Maine. who has
Just been reelected to Congress as a re-
publican by over 10000 majority, visited
Secretary Carlisle at the Treasury Depart
ment to request the reinstatement of his
brother. who has lost his place as chief of
a division in the Office Of the supervising
architect.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-21
Esv York 0aBcs, 4s Potter Building.

The E-ening Star II served to subscribers In the
city by carriers, their account, at 10 cents
Pc week, 44c per month. Copies at the counter
cents each. By mail-anywhere In the United
mouth.
Saturday Quintuple Sheet Star. $1.00 per year;
with foreign postage added, $500.
Entered at the Post once at Washington, d. c.,
as second-ciass mail matter.D
DAn mail subscriptions must be paid In advance
Rates Of advertising made known on applica tion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-21
DEATH OF PRESIDENT NUNEZ
Announcement of the Demise of Colombia's
Executive.
The Ablest and Most Patriotic states.
man In the Republic-No Trou-
bile Expected.

COLON. Colombia, September 21.-It is
officially announced here that DIR. Rafael
Nunez. president of the republic of Colom-
bia. died on Tuesday morning Of gastric
fever.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-21
THE EVENING STAR

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TOILET ARTICLES

comprise a world of neces-
saries in which King Soap
holds sway. His Majesty OF
the Mushroom never looked
more royal than he does in
our stock, that omits nothing
desirable in soapdom.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-06-21

Slump in the potato market and GO
cents "A bushel is all we can pay.
BARTLETT < CAIRNS.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-06-21

REMEMBER c we "s . ss as s % .. s sasds
Tor Commencement a reasonable price. ~ gloves
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-02-05

The two bridges on the Drury Toll
road were completed Friday. One
of the structures is 120 feet in length
and the other $50 feet. both having
q roadway Is feet in width. They
are built in a very substantial man
ner, having what is known as an
1S0O-pOund floor system and 1000
pound trusses, making them capable
of resisting a pressure exceeding 100
pounds to the square foot. The
bridges were built by the Ray 1mple-
ment company. of Burlington. the
iron being furnished them by the
Groton Bridge company. of Groton.
N. T., and were put in at cost ex-
ceeding $1,000. The Ray company
secured their contract for building
these bridges in last October and
finished them precisely on the day
on which the contract called for their
completion. No doubt the work
would have been completed much
sooner had it not been for 4
couple weeks delay in receiving
iron from New York, where the
strike on the Lehigh Valley road in
terfered with traffic for about fort
night. Engineer Baker, of Daven-
port. will examine the bridges, and
advise the Toll Road company rs to
accepting or rejecting them, but as
they were built according to the
plans submitted to Mr.. Baker before
work commenced, and which met
with his approval. the bridges will
undoubtedly be accepted. Three
fourths of the Drury toll road is al
ready macadamized, and with a cov-
ering OF gravel this highway will be
complete. The toll road and the
bridges are not yet open to travel.
and will not be until the whole work
is finished.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-02-05
COUNTY BUILDING .

2-Joseph Lindstrom to Samuel
Blackwell lot 81. Moline Water Power
company's add. Moline. 81, 800.
Jacob Stewart 10 Henry Daebel-
liehn, lot 3. Stewards add, South
Moline, $1,000.
Joseph +. Smith to Ed Verhieke,
tract by metes and bounds, sci s, IL,
1w, $500.
Probate.
Feb. 2.-Guardianship of minor
heirs of John Jacob Furst. Bond of
jefferson X. Mardis as guardian filed
and approved and letters issued to
him.
Estate of John Pears. Otto John
son. August Freed and Henry Rund-
quist appointed appraisers.
Estate of S. W. Wheelock. Claims
allowed as follows: German Savings
bank. Davenport, $1O.2li.59: Batav-
ian bank, La Crosse, Wis, 1861 SO;
First National bank of Davenport.
$l.165.77; Levi Mccain, S5,IO3 .O5
Moline National bank, 81, 6S7. 81.
Moline State bank. $12. 7O0.S5: First
National bank of Moberly, Mo-, 81
1850: Rock Island Savings bank,
q, $3.50; Rock Island National bank,
-, 2S0'S5: First National bank of
Moline. $2.6' 3.54; Peoples Savings
bank of Moline, 81, 603.54.
Estate Of Mary Hardin. Letters of
administration issued to Mary Ann
Hitler. Bond fled and approved.
Estate of Anton Rueth. Thomas
Campbell. Mathes Backman and John
I. Campbell appointed appraisers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-02-05
BRIEF MENTION.

Pork-Gilmore's-pork.
DR.. Myers has moved his Office to
No. 1916 Second avenue.
Money to loan on real estate secur-
ity. Apply at jackson 4 Hurst's.
II you want to borrow money on
real estate. apply at jackson q
Hurst's.
The stage Of water at the Rock Isl
and bridge at noon was 4.25; the
temperature IS.
Spend your money and then draw
the interest. is the proposition made
by McCabe Bros.
The Russell Comedy companv will
present Little Nell' at Harper's
theatre this evening.
They talk OF having a hard times
barber shop at Davenport, where a
shave will cost but a nickle.
McCabc Bros. will make money.
spending both pleasure and profit
for you this week. See their plan.
Architect George p. Stauduhar
wears nevcr-ceasing smile today.
A little girl has been added to his
family circle.
For the entire four nights of the
Russell Comedy company at Harper's
theatre one S0-cent ticket will admit
two persons. There will be change
of bill nightly. commencing with
Little Nell" tonight.
Rev. j. 4. Duff, of Chicago, a
strong preacher and successful evan
gelist, will begin a weeks gospel
meeting this evening at the United
Presbyterian church. The public is
cordially invited to hear him.
Ladies! We call your attention to
the fact that the Boston has the lat
est in ladies' shoes. The large but
ton dress shoe. congress gaiter, imi-
tation button. etc. Please call and
examine. All widths. The Boston.
DIR. Coffee will be at the Harper
house Tuesday. and all next week.
II you suffer with any trouble with
your eye, ear, nose and throat, or
need glasses, 60 and see him. Re-
member his rooms will be crowded.
and You had better make special en-
gagements.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-02-05
ABBREVIATED TELeoRAMs,

lhe movement to erect 4 monument in
honor of Prince Bismarck in front of the
new reichstag buildings at Berlin is being
pushed forward. and it is hoped that the
cornerstone Will be laid on April I.
The report Of the capture of Nictheroy.
in the Rio Janeiro harbor, is not con-
firmed and is believed to be false
An organized gang Of moonshiners has
been found in Sewer county. Ark. Frank
Park testified against them and they as
fascinated him. He lived long enough to
give the lame OF one of hts murderers, S.
5. Sims.
Laborers employed on the relief work in
the parks at Pittsbrrg contributed $40 Of
their small earnings for the assistance of
one of their number who lost leg by &C.
citent and who was the sole supper. Of his
mot her.
George Cul!ins, q near GAINESVILLE. O..
Pat in his spare zine visiting q young wom-
ar. His wife LED party OF whitecaps to
the young womaa's house, and while the
whitecaps beat Cuilins Mrs Cullins
Whipped the young woman.
z babe week old was found in car at
the Union station. ST. Louis. 1t was COZ
fined in n sacEe!, was neatly dressed and
provided with q nursing bottle
There is a movent among Ohio Odd Eel
lows. started by letter from Indiana,
to assisted the widow of Schuyler Col
fax. who is said to have been left penniless
by the wrecking Of the Indianapolis Ma
| t;onal bank.
Pastor johnson, of the Swedish Lutheran
church at Rockford. Ills, wants to excom-
municate lot of his parishioners who
danced at a charity ball.
Maggie Truelock of Decatur, Ills, the
young woman who while playing cards
accidently shot and killed her lover. David
Lambert. is not expected to live. her heart
being broken by the tragic death Of her
lover.
Chris Evans and Morrell, the California
bandit and his partner, are now alleged to
! he in the neighborEood of Visalia. and to
have defied the officers to capture him. He
has sent word to saloon man at Visalia.
saying that he proposes to visit him
General Lewis Richmond. of Rhode ISL
and, is dead. He went into the First
Rhode Island regiment as a private and
earned his title legitimately by his bravery.
He was 20 yc irs old
A hurricane blew down q church at Gate
City, a suburb Of Birmingham, Ala, killed
Estelle Jones and fatally hurt Mrs James
Niles. Charles Olsen was badly hurt and
Mrs. Pritchard had a leg broken and was
internally injured. a number was less
seriously wounded.
The United States district court at Port
land, Ore, has decided that proxy mar
riages are valid when the contracting par
ties are Chinese
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-02-05
,ceLAMplc eMlcaAx-e

me Exodus beginning to SsDAno OeFa.
Gus Aspect to the Arctic 1slana.
Since the political agitations OF Ice.
land in 1885, which disturbed and dis
couraged the population, things have
been going materially from bed to
worse. We are occasionally called upon
to listen :, jeremiads about Icelandic
starvation from those whose sentiment
for the 1celanders 10 more active than
their information 10 exact, and the
English public has becume suspicions
of cries Of ''Wolf!' But the present
season, with its excellent weather ard
good supplies of food, has not shown
any reaction against the draining away
of the people.
This summer no fewer than 600 per.
sons emigrated to America, bringing
tho population below that limit of 20, :
900 to which it had already dwindled.
The island now contains, it is believed,
fewer inhabitants than it did in 1870.
before the temporary rise in Icelandic
prosperity. The emigrants are largely
of the farm laborer class, and there is
a growing complaint that portions Of
the country are going ont of cultiva-
ton becanee there is no one to work on
the land.
Canada is beginning to attract the
Icelanders to lis northern provinces,
and during the last six months three or
four Canadian agents have been visit
ing every township in the island,
preaching the attractions of the new
country. The government has even gone
SO far as tn introduce a bill proposing
to discourage emigration, or in any
case to put stop to the propaganda Of
these Canadian agents, but it is doubt
full whether this measure will pass the
althing, and nothing seems able to
modify the distaste which the Icelander
has formed for his venerable but arid
acres.
A speaker in the althing the other
day remarked that bill preventing
lcelanders who were doing well in the
west from writing to their friends at
home would do a Thousand times more
service than an attempt to persecute
touting colonial agents. Saturday Re-
view.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-02-05

The city of Santander, the late VIC
tim of n dynamite explosion at its
docks, continues panic stricken, and
there has been a general exodus of its
inhabitants since they became aware
that no less than 400 cases of dynamite
are still submerged under the waters Of
the harbor. According to the opinion
of experts the nitroglycerin in the dy-
Mantle is bound to explode, sooner or
later, by reason of the infiltration Of
the water. Too much praise cannot be
accorded to the divers who are now, at
the risk of their lives. engaged in rails
ing the explosive, which is being taken
out to sea and sunk. -Santander Dis.
patch.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-02-05
Castoria,

"Castoria II an excellent medicine for chill.
Srea. Mothers have repeatedly told mo Of its
good eject upon their children"
On. q. G. OsGooD,
Lowell, Mass.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-02-05
Notes to Contractors.


Sealed proposals will be received
at the city clerks Office, Rock Island,
ILL.,, until Monday. Feb. B, 1894. at s
O'Clock p. m. for the building Of q
scale house and pavilion for the city
OF Rock Island, Ill. Plans and spec-
ihcations on file at the city clerks
Office.
All bids must be accompanied with
. certified check in the sum of 500.
payable TO the order of the CITY Of
Rock Island, ILL.,. which shall become
forfeited to said city in case the bid
der shall fail 70 enter into contrsct
with approved surieties, to execute
the work for the price mentioned in
his bid. and according to the plans
and specifications, in the event that
the contract shall Ike awarded to him.
The city reserves the right TO re.
jcct any and all bids.
Rock Island. Ill.,, Jan. IL, 1894.
I. j. MEDILL. JR., Mayor.
A. ID. HUEsING, CITY Clerk.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-02-05

~Castoria Is the bes: remedy for childrcn Of
which am acquainted I hope the day is not
Ia distant when mothers will consider the real
interest OF their children, and use Castoria in
stead CT the variousquack nostrums which arc
destroying their loved ones. by forcing opium.
morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful
agents down their throata. thereby sending
ahs@ 70 premature grsves."
On. J. r. KNcHE0R,
Conway, Ark.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-02-05

n futu C lamp renewals heretofore
tu' nished at the expense of the Brush
CON Panys electric light consumers,
will he furnished free, when the
burnt ont lamp is returned to the
comrany's Office unbroken.
PEOPLEs' POWER Co.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-02-05
Notice,

Notice.
Hie hest cash price paid for grease
and 6cad hogs at the Farrell Fertiix -
ing and Rendering works.
&. +. WIvILL.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-02-05
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