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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-03-16
HAYWARD ATTORNEYS HOPEFUL.
Discovery of New and Important Evidence
in the Case.

Discovery of New and Important Evidence
in the Case.
MIME APoLIs, March 1.-The attorneys
for the defepse in the case of Harry T.
Hayward, now under sentence of death
for the murder of Catherine GinS, are
more hopeful for their client than at any
time during the last few weeks. They
assert that new evidence has been discov-
cred of a character that substantiates
several important matters not made full
use of in the trial for the reason that cor.
roboration was lacking 1t was discovered
that the street car conductor, Hayes, of
whom SO minute description was given
by the east side ehotelkeeper. cunningham,
is in a fair way of being run to earth.
Mr.. Erwin was convinced all through the
case that if Hayes was not actually the
mysterious third man to whom he per
sistently referred, he at least had an inti-
mate relation to the case in some way.
An additional and important matter
has come to light from the Investigation
of a letter received by Henry Johns, the
St. Paul attorney. This letter was from
q well-knOwn lawyer, who asserts that
Miss Cling was pointed out to him by a
friepd one evening in st. Paul, and that
at this time she was accompanied by the
same iron gray haired individual that
bobbed up SO many times in the case.
The attorney asserts his ability to prove
by the friend who was with him that
night, now absent from the state, who
the man is who was in Miss Ging's COM
many
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-03-16
CURIOUS PHENOMENON AT SEA.
Captain Reports Seeing What He Calls q
Reef, Rapidly Moving.

hects ANdPiuiy uoSinSs
PORT TOWNSEND Wash, March 10
Captain Charles A. Peterson, of the
British bark Darra, which sailed from
Puget Sound for Sydney last August
and is now at Shanghai, has sent
the following letter to the branch hydro
graphic office here: "On the 3Jth of De-
cember last, while my vessel was in lati-
tude 40 north, longitude 62.5O east, men
working in the rigging reported reefs to
the westward. l went up with glasses
and found for about eight miles the water
was milk white, with detached patches at
the north end with clear blue water be-
tween them. The ship was lying in a
dead calm with CLASSY sea. AT noon
the reef was clearly visible. and at ? p. IN.
it passed, travelling at the rate of one and
half miles per hour, rushing past the
ship as il she was lying moorei broadside
On In n strong tide.
"The sea was covered with a belt of
white foam, n mile and a quarter broad,
and in it We're all kinds of rubbish from
nut husks. All kinds of deep water fish
rs well as four distinct sorts of fish found
in the shallow water near the reefs were
playing around the whole reef or what
ever it was passing by us. At D p. IN. the
foam belt was out of sight to the cast
ward write fully on this. as it proves
how easily man might report false dan
ger. Had we had breeze before noon
and sailed from it l would certainly have
thought Il reef existed"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-03-16
The SHAKESPEARE PENSION CASE.
Likely To He Made n Test OF the Laws and
statutes Bearing on the Matter.

WASHINGTON, March I6-Assistant At
tCrncy General Whitney has advised Com
missioner of Pensions Lochren that there
may be some question as to the sufliciency
of notice given General William Shakes
pearc, of Kalamazoo. on the order of re-
duction of his pension. The notice which
was sent said it appeared from the evil
dence in the case that the pension was
not for disabilities from gun shot wounds
in both thighs, so as to entitie him to s12,
and that il would be therefore reduced To
$50 pcrs month. Commissioner Lochren
SAYS that the case will stand for the pres
ent as if no proceedings had been taken.
As this is hkely To be made n test case
the commissioner thinks it best to leave
no question by which il may be decided
against the government on n technicality
Commissioner Lochren has not given the
case his personal attention heretofore, but
will take Immediate charge soon. The
case is likely to become as famous as that
of Judge Long, of Michigan, whose case
will come up for hearing in the district
court Of appeals on May l.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-03-16
:AvORABLE FEATURES DOMINATE.
Longest LIST Of Increased Prices for Many
Months-Business Facts.

Observation-Disclosures Facts.
NEW YORK, March l6.-Bradstreet's
says: There are fewer new and favorable
ones, but in most instances they out
weigh the latter, which point to a contin-
uance of small volume of business and
quiet demand. In addition 70 increased
competition here by Australian woods de.
mand for the raw staple has fallen off and
word is received that American dress
goods manufacturers are using consider
able Australian mixed with the Aneri-
can staple. The dry goods trade con-
tinues depressed, production being in ex-
cess of demand, cotton goods being moved
generally only at concession
On the other hand prices present the
longest list of increases within a week for
many months. Among the prominent
are tine advances in Bessemer pig iron
10 and I5c.; 316c. on cotton; wheat, 25zc.;
Indian corn, &c; oats, &c; pork, 81 25
per bbl lard, 59c., and sugar, 1-l6c-
Higher quotations are also reported for
leather and hides, with demand more
active and the falling of in stocks of pc
troieum is made n basis for higher prices
for that staple. Material improvement in
the iron and steel industries is indicated
by the advance in Bessemer, by higher
prices for manufactured iron at st. Louis.
large orders placed for southern pig iron,
and the receipt of orders for consid cradle
lots of rails at Chicago.
This is significant among the favorable
features Of the week, but at the south
gains are shown IN sales of leaf tobacco
ard in the demand for naval stores.
Among eastern industries makers of
II. a. x..rH-
maintained. Quotations are unchanged
for wool, lin, iron ore, coke. lumber,
coffee and live cattle, while concessions in
prices are rumored to have been made on
coal contracts and are apparent for print
Cloths steel billets, copper and eggs.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-03-16
KoLAszewskI is ExcoMMUNIcATEo.
Polish Priest Who Founded an Indepen-
dent Church Under the Ban.

CLEVELAND, o, March l6.-Rev. A. +.
Kolaszcwski, the Polish Catholic priest,
has been denounced by Rome and the
action of Bishop HorstmanE in excom-
municating him Endorsed. The official
documents, direct from the propaganda
at Rome, bearing the signature Of the
pope, communicating koiaszewski, are
now IN the hands of Bishop Horstmann.
The matter has been in the hands of the
Roman court for some months past.
Both sides have presented their argu-
mcn,s and kola>zewski was declared
guilty. He is now outside the pole of the
Roman Catholic church, and cannot be
reinstated except by the pope personally.
Rev. Kolaszewski is at present pastor of
an independent Polish Catholic church,
organized by himself after his suspension
by Bishop Horstmann.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-03-16
BLOODY REVENGE.
Two Lives Taken as the Sequel
to a Quarrel.
AFEW sAwLOGS CAUSE A DISPUTE

That Results in q Man and His Wife Being
Shot to Death by Two Italians-Murder-
ers Escape, but Later Conclude to Trust
the County Jail Rather Than the Chance
OF = Lynching in the Woods-woman
Fatally Hurt in a Hold-up.
CARLTON. Mimi, March l6-An awful
tragedy has occurred at McGregor, about
thirty miles west of here. A family of the
name OF Jeanette, consisting of fathVr,
mother and four children the Oldest IL
years and the youngest a nursing babel.
lived in cabin and kept a small store.
Two Italians who were clearing up a
homestead near by had trouble with Jea-
nette over some saw-logs, which resulted
In a quarrel. The Italians, Nick and An
gelo Cristello, brothers, left the Jeanette
cabin in an angry mood and returned
next morning to renew the quarrel with
Jeanette They were armed with a Win
chester rifle and Zulu shotgun, and Nick
Cristello shot Jeanette with the shotgun,
tearing a gaping hole in his side, and An
gelo shot Mrs. jeanette with the Win
chester. blowing the top of her head Off
killing both instantly. The children were
in bed at the time
Surrendered for Fear OF Lynching.
The murderers escaped to the woods
and were lost sight of, but the sheriff Of
Aitkin county at once formed a posse to
go in pursuit. The cabin presented a
sickening sight, blood and brains being
spattered all over the walls and floor.
The children were shivering with terror
About noon the murdcrers came back to
McGregor and said they were going to
Aitkin to give themselves up, but the
local officers held them there until the ar
rival of the sheriff, who at once took them
to Aitkin to the county Jail. Tho
Jeanettes were n much respected family
in the neighborhood, and intense excite
ment prevails. The news spread like
wiidfire, and the principal reason for the
murdercrs' return was that they We're
afraid of being lynched by some of the
woodsmen who were in camps few
miles from the scene of the murder.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-03-16

CLEVELAND March 16-A sample of
the illuminating gas recently discovered
in New York, which can be delivered to
consumers in cans, has been received and
partially tested at the office OF the Cleve.
land Gas Light company of this city.
Secrotiry Beardsley, OF the company, SAID
that the gas burned steadily and gave an
excellent light. The material from which
it is made is lime and coal dust welded
by electricity into IA sort of dark brown
ish porous substance. The gas Is gcner-
atea by placing this substance in water.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-03-16
coLoRAoo's ITALIAN SLAUGHTER.
King Humberts Diplomats Taking Car
Not to kuf.ie Your Uncle sam.


WASHINGTON, March 16.-The Italian
government is acting with extreme
moderation and consideration in the mat
| ter of the killing of five of its citizens at
Walsenburg. There has been nothing in
the nature of protest lodged with this
government nor a demand for indemnity
and reparation. The only communication
received from the Italian government,
save the verbal request from the Marquis
| Imperiali that proper protection be af-
forded to the other Italians at Walsen-
burg, came in the shape of short and
dignified note from Baron Fava, the
Italian ambassador.
1t enclosed to Secretary Gresham a copy
of the report of DIR. Cuueo, the Italian
consul Mt Denver, stating the facts attend
ing the killing and the names of the vic
Tins all five being, according to the con-
sui, Italian subjects and not naturalized
American citizens. In transmitting this
report the ambassador expresses the hope
that the Colorado authorities will take
the necessary steps to secure the prompt
punishment of the guilty parties. This
note and report will be communicated to
the governor of Colorado by the secretary
OF state and that is as far as he can go in
the matter at present.
| When congress meets again, however,
it is probable that the president will feel
constrained to request that an appropria-
tion be made to indemnify the families
and relatives of the murdered men for
their slaughter. In the case Of the killing
of the Italians in New Orleans four years
ago the state department took the ground
that an indemnity could not be demand.
cd, but nevertheless it felt bound to yield
in comfy and equity, and on these
grounds recognize the principle of an
indemnity. 1t will make small differences
from n legal standpoint whether the
Slaughtered Italians were or were not
guilty of the murder OF the saloonkeeper.
For by the terms of our treaty with
Italy they should have had a fair trial be
fore the regular courts before being put
to death 1t is just such a position that
the United States has taken in the case o.
Aguerra in Cuba, where the Spanish gov
ernment was Obliged by our protest 6,
Withdraw him from trial by court martha
and submit mis- case 10 the civil tribunals
and the unfortunate incident at Waisen
burg may seriously embarrass the stat,
department in its efforts 10 protect Amer
lean citizens in foreign countries
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-03-16

WINCHESTER, Va, March l6-Thorn-
ton IL. Parker, the negro who attempted
to assault Mrs. Mary Melton, lady liv-
ing near Middletown, Va. on Tuesday,
March D, was tried before Judge Atkin-
son, found guilty and sentenced to be
hanged April ~. The hurry eas the re-
suit of a threat to lynch the negro, which
only the presence OF troops prevented.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-03-16
Probably Poisoned by Accident.

CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis, March 16.-A
horrible discovery was made by party of
ren hunting in the neighborhood of In
gram. The dead bodies of Ed Duffney,
John Hanson and another man were
found in an old lumber shanty. From
all appearances they had been dead a
number Of days. The men were wolf
hunters, using poison to kill the animals.
The supposition is that in preparing sup
per they accidentally got the poison mixed
with the food
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-03-16
HOLD-UP IN WILD OKLAHOMA.
Section House Robbed, Man Severely Shot
and a Woman Fatally lScaten.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, March l6.-A special to
The Republic from Guthrie, .. T., says:
News of n bold and daring hold up and
robbery comes from Washita Near dusk
the section house and men We're robbed
by two highwaymen. Section Foreman
Woods was shot, the ball entering the
right cheek and coming out at the right
ear. 1t is not thought that the wound is
dangerous. Mrs. Woods was also beaten
over the head with a six-shooier receiv-
ing wounds which are likely to prove
fatal The booty obtained consisted of
S122.15 in money and railroad checks and
three gold watches. The robbers told
their frightened victims that they were
the remnants of the Cook gang. \ posse
is after them.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-03-16
Murder In the First Degree.

WAPELLo. Ia, March l6.-The case of
the state VS.. stephen Courtney for muir
der of County Attorney Jarvis last Au-
gust resulted IN a verdict Of murder in
the first degree and imprisonment in the
penitcntiary for lie at hard labor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-03-16
Ininei. Legislature Takes Another Rest

SPRINGFIELD, Marsh l6.-Only six SEN
ators were in their seats and an adjourn
ment was taken until Monday evening
at o clock Lowenthal, Of Cook, intro
duced a bill in the house which, If il be-
comes a law will abolish the Office of
printer expert, principally, as stated, be-
cause the printing is way behind. Ad-
lOurnel
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-03-16

The fact that Hoods Sarsaparilla.
once fairly tried. becomes the favor
lite spring medicine speaks volumes
for its excellence and merit.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-03-16
Crew of the Maex,. DalIing Saved.

BELFAST, March i6-The British bark
G. ). Henry, from Brunswick, has ar
rived here, having on board the crew OF
the American schooner Maggie paiing,
Captain Dai.ing, rescued AT sea
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-03-16

OF the meuiclne she WIS eOunuIy cuttN
Yours truly. Rev. 7. H. STiNPSoN.
For women suffering from any chronic
female complaint r or weakness: for women
who are rundown or overworked at the
change from girlhood to wunsanhood: and,
later. at the critical '.change of life
"Favorite Prescription Is a medicine that
safely and certainly builds up, strengthens,
regulates, and cures
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-03-16
MARKET QUOTATIONS
Corrected Daily by Slater Montrose
1920 Second Avenue.

Stocks, Bonds, Grain and Provis-
ions bought and sold. Private wires
to Chicago and New York.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-03-16

The ARGUS delivered every seven-
ing at your door at 10c . week.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-03-16


Dear Sir-For some six
or seven years my wife
had been an invalid. Be-
coming convinced that
il WIS her only hope,
we bought six bottles OF
DIR. Picrce's Favorite
Prescription ard Gold
en- Medical Discovery"
To the surprise of the
community and the Joy
of myself and family. in
one week my wife COM
menctd to improve, and
long before she had
taken the last bottle she
was able to do her own
work tshe had not been
able TO do it before for
seven years.. and when
she hsd taken the last
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-03-16
MINISTERS ENDORSE IT.

Dnnrnhd Forsyth Co.. y. c.
DR.. RV. PIERCE: Dear Sir-For some six
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-03-16
LOOK A LITTLE OUT
Is Good Advice to Spain Just at
This Juncture.
GRESHAM DOES MORE THAN PROTEST

The 'Haushty Castillian" Informed That
American ships Arc Not Practice Targets
for Spanish Guns, and n Peremptery
sCease Firing Uttered-A Document
That Lacks Nothing in the Way Of vigor
Sent to Minister Taylor.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-21

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That was his name when he first came to
Redding Springs, afterward known and
still known as Shasta City. And what
splendid mass of splendid men in those old
days, men gathered there as in battle
charge against the golden spurs of knlghtly
and imperious Mount Shasta. Even llst
of the "cities" and towns would tire you,
and each town was theater, colosseum;
Middletown, Centerville, Squawtown.
Midtown, Horsetown, Texas Springs ana
a dozen more, all there within an hour
ride of Shasta City. The miners were men
of Laconia. hey could and often did put
lot into one little word.
And now if you are going with me INTO
the California Sierra please leave behind
your dialect dictionary. There Is not,
there never was, any dialect in the mines
there. What we have of that vicious and
cheap stuff in our California literature
stepped into it right out of Dickens. In
the Oregon Sierra the miners were not so
clean cut. There they were, many OF
them, pioneers of pioneer parents, and
once had some dialect, but the man from
the Eastern States who started the Califor-
MIA mines was as a rule, from the richest,
brightest and best family Of his region, and
was the bravest and brightest and best
educated member of that family.
To break still another lance against this
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scenery, gorgeous even If appropriate cos
tunes and appointments lessened the effect
of the drama proper and impeded its ma
tural action.
The realistic details of the stage setting
of to-day would have been intolerable to
the Greek. He demanded sublimity, gran
ueur, chaste severity of treatment-one
thought, one idea, alone being presented.
Such presentation was possible where
the Greek idea of art controlled the au-
dience, but equally it was impossible in
the absence of that art.
We have very little knowledge of Greek
comedy. 1t is introduced to us by Aristo-
planes century after Eschylus.
AS Rome, the magnificent absorber, bor-
rowed all things from Greece, it followed
that she would adopt the Greek drama as
her own. But the severe lines of the
Greek were not palatable to the Roman,
who had begun to love color. The merely
intellectual expression of the drama failed
in its new home. Human woes, simulated
by the most intelligent actors, did not sat
isfy the Roman appetite for realism. The
moral atmosphere of Rome was out of har-
mony with the purity of the Greek method !;
so Roman adapters introduced modified
creek work-a combination of the tragic
and comic. But even this failed to satisfy
the Roman thirst for stimulants calculated
to excite all their passions. The arena
gratified their debased senses, and in the
gladiatorial contests the Roman found his
own nature best presented. The drama of
the arena displaced the classic works of
Greece.
Rome was not prolific in dramatic poets.
Terrence, Plautus and Seneca are her in
tellectual gifts to the dramatic world,
while Roscius and Esopus were her princi-
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enough. Quite right. The gold was there
The eagle bird, in all his wide-winged
glory, was there, too. What mattered the
face and the date?
1t was q good deal like that with Thomp-
son after he ceased to shoot and be So
ciable. The gold was still there what was
left of him. You could hear his fiddle at
his cabin door away up among the man
zanita bushes on the hill at the head of
Gamblers Gulch. You could see the tall,
bent man shuttle down on his huge feet
like sledrunners to the store once each
week; and once each springtime, as the
seasons surged by, somebody planted
California poppies in a corner of the grave
yard back of town and made the place
look restful and quiet like, so that the
quail might pipe and call there and not
feel afraid; but that is all that was now
seen or known of Thompson.
The facetious postmaster once had let
ter for Thompson with only the initials OF
his Christian names, and so he spoke of
him as big Foot Thompson"
'The shoe fits him. said the rag-tag-
and-bobtail end of town. And so Benia-
min Franklin Thompson was soon all worn
off and lost to right forever in Shasta City,
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is a right comedy to mark their be-
havior."
After all. the audience thus described
differs very little from a theater party of
to-day.
Notwithstanding the denunciations of
the church, and the voice of the law.
which threatened to "make rogues and
vagabonds of the players" the native
force of dramatic work helped it to out
live all attacks upon it.
And now the drama had a home.
"Blackfriars" furnished Shakespeare and
Burbage and their brilliant company OF
players with licensed habitation The
Globe (Shakespeare's summer-house), the
Rose and the Swan followed. Under
Elizabeth and James the drama and the
player progressed. Under Charles | the
restrictions were limited. During the
Puritan or Cromwellian epoch the stage
was abolished, but with Charles II it was
restored. Its restoration was disgraced by
productions which shame us to-day by
the natural ebullient reaction following a
period of unnatural repression.
From Betterton to Edmund Kean there
is a long list of distinguished actors, most
of whom belonged to the declamatory
school. The list EN- braces Quin, Elizabeth
Barry, Barton Booth, Mrs. Oldfield, Robert
Wilks, Peg Wellington, Colley Cibber,
Ryan, Rlch, y Brlen, Mrs. HrltcnarQ, Mrs.
| O'Neill, Kitty Give, Sam Foote, Charles
Macklin, Mrs. Bethany Miss Farren, Mrs.
Arlington, Sarah Siddons, John hemble,
George F. Cooke, Master Betty (the boy
Roscius) and Mrs. Jordan.
| The declamatory school reigned supreme
! until the advent OF Kean, who somewhat
modified its tendency.
| The first thirty years of the acted drama
carry us from "Ferrex and Porrex, or Gam
mer Gurton's Needle" to Marlowes ED
ward H.; another thirty years gives us
the first folio of Shakespeare. From
! Shakespeare to Kean there were periods
of elevation and degeneracy in matters
dramatic, corresponding to the vicissitudes