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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-12-09
B.ok,a Arm ana Mashed Finger

Herman Schumacher, OF 1902
Thirty first street. a switchman EN-.
plo,ed in the Rock I-laod railway
cumpany's yards. was knt cked of q
box car this morning and sustained
n fracture OF the left arm. His in
iuries were attended to by DIR. s. c.
Plummer.
The 5-year-oid son Of William
Eobb. Of Forty.sixth street. while
coastiug on his sled Saturday after.
noon, had his left hand so badly
mashed that il was necessary to am
putatc the third finger.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-12-09

The person who disturbed the cou-
gregaiion last Sunday BY coughing is
requested to call at NJ F. Bahpssn's
drug store and get . hottie Of Foley's
Honey and Tar $50 cents) which n.
ways gives relief.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-12-09
A Mans Property

Depends largely on the health of his
wife. She should maintain her
health and promptly correct any
weakness by using Zoa-Phora. Sold
b. T. H. Thomas and Marshall &
Fisher,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-12-09
MAY BE DECIDED TODAY.

Hospital.
Commissioner Medill, OF the West
ern Insane hospital. left last night
for Springfield to attend the meeting
OF the trustees there today, when it
is believed the question Of site for
the institution will be finally disposed
Of. At late hour this afternoon no
advices had been received from
Springfield as to the commissioners
action.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-12-09

Holiday number) Full Of bright
sketches-prose. poetry and illustra.
tions-by bright writer's and artists.
Entirely original, new and entertain
ing. Mailed free to any address on
receipt OF six (6) cents in postage
stamps. Write to George H. Heat
ford. publisher, AIS Old Colony
building, Chicago. Ill.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-12-09
Christmas Mufflers.

Christmas Mufflers.
Quick and sharp attention wanted to the best dis
play of Mufners in Rock Island. This week 10 dozen
fancy plaid MuHiers you'd think S5c. but say lsc
Very special values for this weeks trading in fancy
and plain Mufers 25c, S3c 48c. &c. Sc and up
$780, Early buyers get the best bargains.
Christmas Kid Gloves.
Elegant assortment to select from. Easily the best
values at 75c. 81. $122 We sole agents for the
Peerless Maggioni Francesca. the original r. Centem
er & Co. Kid Gloves which offer this week at the
introducing price, $l.S2
The Babies.
this
silk APPS edged. at ony9Sc.
Cccheted pink and blue
values Soc and sSe, orth and
GOT Boot worth haR
Infants cashmere Cl1aks nicely lined CSC.
Big Mitten Values
At l5c e. 70 md
At 10 three lines Of Mitens sid seWh-re
Al sc I" H. big Of styes single
best To- Nit
ten value In this Market Large line chdrenS Aens
Dolls Books, Toys. Etc.
10 Dolls Books Toys etc will and lsadefsi low
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-12-09

Never cut banana According to
Spanish superstition, it brings i'll luck.
In preparing always slice or jag it with
q fork. Using the knife cuts through
the cross, aud in that Land it is deemed
q sacrilege. Besides it gives the fruit
what the French call taste Of the
knife
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-12-09

Look out for colds at this season.
Keep yourself well and strong by
taking Hoods Sarssparilla, the great
tonic and blood purifier.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-12-09

Generally fair weather today and
Tuesday; warmer; winds southerly
Today's temperature %.
+. j. VALE. Observer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-12-09
MCInfyre-ReCk Dry Goods Co.
and Second Avenue, Island Ill.,
Now for Christmas.


Now for Christmas.
The contagious holiday spirit pervades the entire
store Tokens of Christmas are bursting into view
on every counter. in every aisle. reminders of the
happy season 20 near at hand which finds responsive
throb in human hearts tho world around. We can
talk OF but few things at time in this space. Every
day sees new things arrive. things depart and
wise is the one who begins while shopping is
easy. before the last grand rush.
Handkerchiefs
1000 handsomely embroidered Handkerchiefs the
usual 25c kind this week 15c and 18c.
Thousands of beautifully embroidered Handker-
chiefs at Csc. 35c aud 48c. All exceptional values
At &c we will sell the usual dollar embroidered
Handkerchiefs.
1.20O sheer Handkerchiefs lace trimmed 1Oc value
SC.
$500 very pretty coiored b,rdered Handkerchiefs.
this week &c.
1900 Hamburg printed Handkerchiefs, handsome
German scenes of Christmas festivities only 4c.
Christmas Dress Goods.
Special Offering in handsome Dress Patterns for this
week at $3.50 Mark the price, Most useful for holt
day gifts.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-02
WITNESS FOR THE PEOPLE
II. E. Shook Saw Durrant and
Blanche Lamont Approach
Emmanuel Church.
rs CONFIDENT OF THE DATE.
Testimony of the New Witness Con-
sidered of Vital Importance by
Captain Lees.

The prosecution in the DurTant case has
at last found witness whose evidence it
believes win establish beyond all room for
doubt that Theodore Durrant accompanied
Blanche Lamont to Emmanuel Church the
fatal afternoon in April.
He is Harry E. Shook, assistant man
ager of the Golden Gate Undertaking Com
pany at 2429 Mission street. He believes
he met Durrant and Blanche Lamont to-
gether on Bartlett street, between Twenty
second street and Emmanuel Church, at
about O'Clock the afternoon OF April 3.
Some days ago Captain Lees received a
note from : Mr.. Percy, who is the secre-
tary of the Junior Order of American Me-
chanics, stating that he had heard Mr..
Shook say he had met the young couple,
as related.
Captain Lees sent Detective Seymour to
interview Mr.. Shook last Sunday, and the
information obtained then is considered
of the greatest Importance by the police.
Mr.. Shook is a member of Emmanuel
Church and an active worker in the En-
deavor Society and was we'll acquainted
with both Blanche Lamont and Durrant,
as he met them often at services and at
church gatherings. He could not there
fore be mistaken in his Identification of
either. The reason he has not come for
ward as a witness before is that for a
long time he was not positive as
to the exact date on which he
saw the couple together, and although he
felt certain it was April 8, he was unwilling
to be witness until he could fix upon
some incident by which he could recall it
with certainty. He fixes the date now by
meeting he attended few evenings prior
to April g. and believes he can account &C
curately for the intervening time. He also
fixes the date by the errand on which he
was bound at the time.
He was on his way to call on Miss Daisy
NJ. Wilson concerning a money matter in
connection with a society to which they
both belonged. Miss Wilson lives at 205%
Bartlett street. While walking along Bart
lett street, near Twenty-second, Shook
claims to have passed the couple as they
were nearing the church. He fixes the
time by remem boring that he left his place
of business, only few blocks away, at a
few minutes before o'clock.
Shocks is said to have conversed several
times since on the subject with members
of the church and other friends, and has
compared notes with Miss Wilson in the
effort to arrive definitely at the date.
Miss Wilson declined to be interviewed
last evening, saying that Mr.. Shook and
the police are in possession of all the in
formation she had and that she preferred
they should do the talking.
Captain Lees was eiated last evening at
the discovery of this new witness, from
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MERRY BATTLE COMING,
The Buckley Forces Feel a Life
and Hope Unknown in
:. :. /. ~. - Years.
FACTIONS SHARPLY DIVIDED.
Their Strength VIII Be Measured at
-:..:~: Metropolitan Hall This
- Evening.

A hot meeting Of the local Democratic
general. committee at Metropolitan Hall
tonight viii probably measure the politi-
cal strength with which the party's ''Old
Man of the,S Sea ,, the sightless ex-boss, has
returned TO bestride its neck.
1t is. only probable that the meeting
tonight will. measure Buckeyes present
strength in:the party, for there is no def
mite forecast: of what will be done or at
tempted: to be done tonight. Perhaps the
Buckleyites will not stand up Just yet TO a
pitched battle with the powerful and more
respectable element of the party, which is
now: in. con troll of the machine and which
will resist to the death the efforts of the
Buckley faction to wreat it from them.
Buckley has surely returned, and he
will not retire to the bowers of Ravens
wood at any mild request OF reorganizers
and purifiers. He is not laundering at
the gates of power at all. He has gently
seated. himself at one end of the wires that
radiate Just now from the corner of Bush
and Stockton streets, and with his master
fulshrewdness and powers of organization
he:is:at work by his methods of old.
He has come like an apparition to the
faction in control. There was no an
nouncement that Buckley was about to
stretch: forth his hand in an effort to con-
troll the local machine. Six weeks or so
ago he. became a more frequent visitor at
the Occidental. Club, and the pulse of that
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-02
LATEST BERKELEY Items.
College Professors and En-
ployeS Get No Coin on :.
Payday.
City Trustees VIII Be Asked to Call
for Bonds Of 100000 for
Schools.

BERKELEY, CAL, Oct. To-day was
university payday, but the salary war
rants did not come from Governor Budd,
and as result 10 employees, all the way
from the president to Jimmie" the
ianitor, must stand off their grocerymen
for few days longer. A string of pro-
1esSors, instructors, assistants, gardeners
and lanitors kept the door between the
corridor of South Hall and the secretary s
office squeaking all day long as they fell
into line with looks of ardent expectancy
on their classic countenances, but they got
no coin. About $4,000 month is paid
over the counter in warrants to the uni
yersity people, which averages about 500
apiece, and delay in getting their allow
ances causes IN many cases more than a
slghb disappointment, to say the least.
Two months ago when similar hardness
took place one of the rising instructors adj
mitIed to friend that he had paid his
last Decent piece for a baby rattle, and be-
cause OF this had to borrow dollar to pay
his way home
All these things are not to be wondered
at when SIX days are the shortest possible
time in which check for one of the pro-
fessors can reach him after the payroll is
prepared. Toward the close of every
month the list of active employees and their
allowances IS made out at the secretary s
office IN Berkeley, itemized and sent to the
hnance committee of the Board of REGENTS,
consisting of Messrs. Halladie, Miller and
Holman. They audit it and send it back
to the secretary, who sends the roll to
President Kellogg The secretary gets it
again and sends it to the Governor, who
signs each requistion, even to the armorer's
petty expense bill. Secretary Bonte then
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lift horses head at the finish of race as
few such light boys can, and thus help
the horse to win.
81 saw the boy first at the recent meet
in Kansas City. He was riding for Henry
SImons, a wealthy Jewish horseman, who
had string of twelve horses. The third
day of the meeting Wilson was mounted
on Fanny Hunt. The betting stood II to
1 against the little mare, but liked the
horse and I liked the boy, so l backed
them to win over $500. Then / went to
the boy and said: See here, if you come
in first will give you $20.'
sat the start, Wilson got off second. In
obedience to instructions, he held the
mare in, falling back to third place. There
he stayed till the last sixteenth was
reached. Then he gave the mare the
whip and forged ahead, going under the
wire with half length to the good.
1.-The race cracked the association
pookies. They turned their boards around
and offered no more odds that day.
Simons, his master, lost, and, furious at
losing, took the boy into stall and began
to beat him. | was just coming up to pay
the lad the $50 then, and arrived in the
nick OF time to save the youngsters hide.
He gets $12G0 year and special fee for
every race he wins. He has already won
eight races for me, though he has been in
my employ only five weeks"
Wilson was born in Memphis, Tenn.
He ran away from home in 1891 and went
to work in the stable of Jim Brown, a noted
horseman of Jackson, Tenn, who was
killed a short time ago at Chicago. His
first race was run for J. T. Doyle, when he
landed May Blossom second at st. Louis
last Noyem Der.
He then went to work for Bill Smith of
East st. Louis, and his fourth mount won
him his reputation. He was riding Win
field, 1T Nashville-a so TO 1 shot. The
fayorite ''Toots" was ridden by "Soup"
Perkins, noted jockey. 'Toots" took
the lead at the start with Winfield second.
This order was kept till the eighth post
was reached when Winfield went to the
front winning the race for Smith and $100
for the game little rider.
Another big race won by Wilson was the
Christmas handicap, at East st. Louis.
The betting was s to 1 against his mount,
Heraldlne, the other twelve entries being
about even. The boy was given $50.
Altogether, Wilson won eighteen races
for Henry Simon. For Bill Smith he won
two. His other winnings have been on a
few mounts outside of his employers
stables. He makes his first start in this
City on Saturday.
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the trial, but whose identity has not as yet
been learned. 1t reads as follows:

SACRAMENTO, Cal Sept. OF. 1895.
Dear SIR: Wednesday P. NJ at o'clock took
Powell-street car at Washington street to
Market. / sat on the east side of car inside,
going north, near the end. At Clay and Powell
Mr.. Durrant and q lady, who l learned was
Miss Blanche Lamont, got on the dummy on
east side The lady sat next to the window
end of the seat, he on her right. She had three
hooks on her lap. He had his left arm on the
back of the seat. They rode to Market street,
transferred to the Valencia car 81 about 3:12
P. NJ Miss Edwards got on at Clay and sat OPP
posite of myself.
lett the PoWell-street car on the right side
from the dummy. / had to raise bar OF the
seat to get out of the car and walked behind
the couple to the Valencia-street car. l sat in
side of the car and saw their faces plainly on
both cars. | know Durrant by sight; he had
ON dark clothes, black soft hat. / noticed
She had on a dark basket-cloth dress, cape and
straw hat, with feathers, and a ribbon bow on
1t on the right side.
Do they want this evidence in rebuttal? 1
thought they had enough, and as was going
away did not want to be mixed up in 1t. left
April 20. A lady writes me that the State
wants this evidence l conyersed of this to
patients in my office between April IA and 20.
do not live on Powell street, near Sacramento.
l shall be in the City soon. / talked with Con-
ductor West three times since. He has a scar
on his face between the chin and under lip.
looks like a cut; he is about 5 feet inches,
hazel eyes, brown hair, and wore conductors
badge 107 April 3, Wednesday.
THE DOCTOR WHO KNOWS.
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fixes his signature to the lot, when they
are sent to San Francisco again to be
signed by Treasurer Sloss
Then they come to Berkeley once mora,
! and upon the signing of vouchers by the
employees themselves they become legal
tender. No coin passes over the un1yer-
sitv counter, and so the checks must be
cashed elsewhere. Sucn is the course of
the little slip OF paper through the agency
OF which the State employees at Berkeley
are enabled to get their daily bread.
High-SchooI Matters Discussed.
A joint ses sion was held last evening be-
tween the Board of Education and the
committee on sites from the Town Board
for the purpose of framing set of resolu-
tions to be presented to the Board of
Trustees at their next meeting pertinent
TO the question OF erecting new high
school building.
Various pieces of property which might
be suitable sites for the proposed new high
and grammar school buildings were dis
cussed at length, but no action was taken
regarding them.
II was decided to ask the Board of
Trustees to call for 500, 900 under the bond
system, $4,000 of which should be ex-
pended Cd high school building and site
and $4,000 be put into grammar school
buildings for West Berkeley and Dwight
Way.
a Building Burned.
A two-story dwelling house on Blake
and Milvia streets, belonging to j. N. Will
Jams of the Four-mile House at Claremont,
has burned to the ground through an I'M
known cause. The single inmate admit
ted having cooked his dinner last evening
in the house, but said he turned out the
light in the oil-stove before leaving for the
night, and in consequence could give no
idea as to. the origin of the blaze. The
property was insured for $500.
Athletic Executive Committee.
The athletic executive committee of the
university has decided to retain instead of
relinquishing the honor OF electing the
president of the Western Intercollegiate
Association, and will take Immediate
action in that direction. This is an honor
which falls to the college winning the
championship of the Western Intercol-
legiate, and. as the victors of '95, the Uni
versity of California will have the distinc-
ton of naming man for the office. 1t is
probable that some one now at Berkeley
will be chosen. Colonel Edwards, Profess
sor Clapp, Arthur North, '96, and Captain
Koch, '96, have been mentioned as suit
able men for the position.
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whose testimony he expects the peoples
case to profit so much. He said:
II have believed for some time that
Snook was in possession of vitality impor.
tant information, but we have been unable
hitherto to get at the facts, owing to his
Discrimination to talk until he was GER
tain of the date. There is no doubt as to
that now, however, and think the defense
will find 1t difficult to combat the evidence
he Will give. He is young; there is moth
ing the matter with his eyesight and he
knew the parties well. l think his test-
mony will settle all doubt about Durrant' S
taking the girl to the church."
To-day's session of the trial will be de-
voted to the examination of the students
OF the senior class of Cooper Medical Col
lege who were classmates of Durrant.
They have all been summoned and will be
called to testify to-day.
The object in calling the whole class is
that the defense wishes to settle the dis
pute concerning DR.. Cheney's rollcal!.
Following are the students who have
been subpenaed:
NJ. 0. Austin, E. Barry, w. L. Blodgett Mrs
r. NJ. G. Boydo, G. w. Burgess, E o. CampbelI.
A. N. Carpenter, R. II. Carter, Miss NJ s. Case,
F: Il. Church, C. V. Cross w. H. Crothers, c.
W. Dodge, NJ R. Dow. C. A. Dukes, Miss NJ A.
6: F. Graham, F. P. Gray, E. c. Gregory, II.
Gum. G. E. Hablutzel. X. Haida, G. A. B. Hall
f. A. Harlow, f. w. Harms, Miss E. c. Harri-
son, E. E. Hill, Miss C. M. Holmes, James "
Hughes, John V. Hughes, ]. R. Jordan, r. Kod-
ANA, B. f. Korts, E. A. Kusel Miss M. J. Ma
hard, W.. A. Meirdierks, l. G. Moor
II. E. Morrison, r. W Murphy, n. M. Nelson. J
II. OConpor, A. c. Olmstead, H Partridge, B.
Peters, w. II. Powell, A. D. Prentice, R. Z.
KeeGe oh Miss l. NJ Kicker, F. B. Robinson, W
Schlageter, W. R. Seroggs, Z. L. Sexton, K
Sage, w Som bunit, E. C. Van Dyke, H. f. Wal
ter, H.. s. Waters, W. ii. Wentworth, w. H.
W1nterberg, w. w. Wymore, S. Wythe.
II. J. Mccoy was seen last evening rela-
tive to his having been cited to appear for
contempt OF court for uttering threat to
L. j. truman, one OF the jurors. He said ::
II met Mr.. Truman on the car think
1T was coming down from the noon recess
last Thursday. / know him very well, and
we are very good friends. Unthinkingly
said: If you don't hang that fellow, i'll
hang YOU | saw in a moment / had
made a mistake, for I was talking to a
juryman. OF course, I was only Joking
and didn't think what / was saying. I did
not mean anything at all, and it was
merely foolish slip of the tongue. was
sorry the moment after that / said such a
thing, and am now. He made no reply
and l said nothing further on the subject
II was very much surprised when I was
notified this morning of the action of the
court, as did not suppose Mr.. Truman,
knowing me as he does, could possibly
have taken me seriously"
Last evening a letter was received at
HE CALL office purporting to have been
written by the mysterious medical man
who has bobbed up at intervals all through
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afterward sold at an advance OF thousands

afterward sold at an advance of thousands
of dollars.
Mrs. Chaigneau, young Kennedy's
grandmother, also asserted that she had
not received cent of a $4,000 legacy left
her by her daughter, Mrs. Edward Ken
Eedy Sr., and also that $1,000 bequest had
been left to another daughter by Mrs.
Kennedy. and that the legatee under that
clause had not received a penny.
A report was filed by young Kennedy yes
terday, the same having been prepared by
J. J. Roach, his attorney. in which the
former modifies many of the statements
made to Attorneys Linforth and McPike
and also repeated in the presence of
others.
This report prepared by Attorney Roach
for young Kennedy makes it appear that
the latter was either carried away by his
feelings in the matter or was not in full
possession of the facts he discussed so
freely. After setting forth the circum-
elder Kennedy in 1873, the provisions of
the will as already published, and the
appointment of Theron r. Hopkins and L.
IL. Blood as executors of the estate and
also custodians of the trust established for
the children and to be held until the
youngest heir became of age, goes on to
state that after the probating OF the will
the executors filed an inventory and APP
praisement OF the property of the said es-
tate, from which it appeared that there
were belonging to the said estate at the
time of the death of said Edward Ken
nedy the following pieces of land in said
City and County:
A piece of land on Gold street, appraised
at $35, 900; property on the northwest cor
ner of Pacific and Front streets, appraised
at 600; piece of property on Pacific
street, $10,0 900; property on the corner of
Hyde and Bay streets, $500; property on
Francisco street, $1,000; property on the
corner of Bay and Hyde streets, $4,000; IN
divided interest in piece of land known
as Point Penas, in Monterey County. APP
praised at $500; making a total of $63, 800.
That Edward Kennedy at the time of his
death was largely indebted and his execu-
tors were compelled to sell all of the per-
sonal property of his estate, together with
the property situated on Gold street, for
the purpose of paying the debts and liabil-
tiles OF the estate; that on the 18th day of
January, 1877, q decree of distribution was
made in the said estate giving one undi-
vlded one-half of said real estate to the
Blood and Hopkins in trust for the benefit
OF the children, and the other undivided
one-haf was distributed to Amelia Marie
Kennedy; that in addition to the said real
estate there were distributed to the said
trustees the sum of $176 81, and the same
amount to Amelia Marie Kennedy. \
The sum of 1852 81 divided between the
trustees and Mrs. Amelia Marie Kennedy
is represented as being all the cash on
hand, after disposing of the personal and
some other property, to pay the debts of
the elder Kennedy.