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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-07-29
HAIL DEvAsTArEs NORTH DAKOTA.



stroyed at = Los, Of 100000.
FARGo, n d.. July ?9-Half million
dollars is in round numbers abou. what
devastating hailstorm has cost North Da-
kota. 1t covered more area than any storm
In tho history OF the state. The crops that
yesterday promised a yield Of from twelve
to eighteen bushels arc today u total loss.
The latest estimate from the stricken
country is that $1,000 acres Of wheat are
totally destroyed. milking the loss to the
farmers of the state something like a
half million dollars. As nearly rs can be
ascertained the hail started in the Turtle
mountain country, but the damage was
slight till it reached the southern part of
Benson and the northern part Of Eddy
counties, on the jamestown Northern,
where l5 900 acres Of wheat was destroyed.
A skip was then made through Foster
county, but tho hail struck again in
northern Barnes near Odcll, where a
strip OF country four miles wide was dev.
astated. In southern Barnes. twelve
miles south Of Sanborn. 1t developed In.
TO n tornado, tearing down several houses
and barns and killing a man named Nell
son. Five thousand acres Of wheat were
destroyed in this section. Through La
mour county the damage was tho worst.
Tho crop in several townships in tho
southeastern part Of the county were de-
stroycd.
CHICAGO July a9-Storms, combining
cyclones. cloudbursts, hail and lightning
have ragged generally over tho northwest
and wess At kewanec, Peoria and near
Princeton, Ills. .,cyclonic wind demolished
city and country structures, snapped of
trees and did great damage to crops. Corn
and fruit were ruined In many places.
Wichita, kas.. is partly Inundated BY
water from tho swollen Arkansas river.
A cyclone ragged in parts Of Indiana. Near
Indianapolis considerable damage was
done. At Alexandria the mill of the
Union Iron and Steel company was part.
ly demolished. Wisconsin had taste Of
the blow
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-07-29
A Record breaking Maforitv.

LONDON, July 29.-The following are
the members of parliament elected by the
different parties according to the latest
returns: Conservatives, $40; Unionists
20; government total 40 Liberals, 173;
McCarthyites, IS: Parnellites. l2; Labor
2; opposition total, 255. Net Unionist
gain, 81. Unionist majority, Isl. Only
four returns are now required to complete
the elections. The government majority
is l5i the largest any ministry has had
for q century.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-07-29

anu his wife ana fatally lnJurIng their
three children, who are since reported to
have died. Their home was said to be
kenosha, Wis.
At Barnes Ridge, three miles west of
Three States, lightning struck farm.
house, killing a man and his wife named
Thomas. The wind came from a westcr-
ly direction and with such terrible force
that 1t blew down q huge smoke stack
OF the Three States Milling company's
mill.
Fortunately the chimney fell length.
wise with the building, doing no damage.
The cyclone literally cut a swath through
the woods about 100 yards wide, uproot-
ing trees and in some instances carrying
them considerable distances.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-07-29

Latest scores are: At Clevcland-Bos-
ton 8, Cleveland ,; at Louisville-Balti-
moro y, Louisville 6; at st. Louis
Brooklyn 6, st. Louis .; at Cincinnati
Philadelphia 4, Cincinnati l2; at Chicago
Washington IL, Chicago &; at Pitts
burg-Rain. Sunday At Cincinnati
Cleveland 9, Cincinnati II; at Louisville
Baltimore >. Louisville 1; Mt ST. Louis
Brooklyn 4. st. Louis ?; at Chicago
Washington >. Chicago g.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-07-29
The ~ eA;.,or No May Expo &c.

WASHINGTON. July 2'.-The foliow,a; are
th- weather indications tor twenty four hours
from r. m yesterday: For Lower Michigan
air. warmer weather: winds becum-ng
southesly. For In 1isua and Iiiinois-Eair
sligltiy warmer weaih II; variable wiadS, be-
coming sUuiheriy. For Upper Michigan
and Wiscon in-Fair weather; variable winds.
For lowa-Fair weather. followed by show.
60 this afternoon or evening"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-07-29

IONA, Mich, July 29-Workmen ex-
cavating at the corner OF Main and jack
son streets, where an old store was re-
Gently burned, unearthed four human
skeletons. Ii is thought there has been a
big crime committed. but no one knows
how the bones came there
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-07-29
ROMANCE OF AN ADVERTISEMENT.
Unitcs q Man and Wife After Thirty Years
of Separation.

CARTHAGE, Mo-, July s9-Four months
ago Edmund Ward, OF Denver, Colo, ad.
vertised in Carthage paper for the ad.
dress Of his daughter Hattie whom he
thought was married to a Carthage man.
Mrs. John Henderson, formerly of Car.
thage, now living with her husband at
Perry, .. T., opened correspondence
and found that Edmund Ward was her
father He had separated from her
mother when Mrs. Henderson was child,
thirty years ago. Through the daughter
correspondence was opened between
her mother. Mrs. Fryburger. Of Cleve-
land, .. and Ward. Attor a brief court.
ship by mail they were remarked in
Cleveland and have gone to Denver to
live
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-07-29
Avoid Cure-AiIs.

Zoa-Phora is compounded solely
for diseases of women. In its sphere
it has no equal. For testimonials
and advice, address II. G. Colman,
secretary of the Zoa-Phora Medicine
company, Kalamazoo. Mich, or ask
your druggist. Sold by L. H. Thom-
as and Marshall Il Fisher.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-07-29
Death of Rev. Edward Beecher.

BROOKLYN, July 29-Rsv. DR.. Edward
Beecher, brother of the famous divine,
Henry Ward Beechcr, died at his home,
lSa Macon street, yesterday. He was W
years Of age. and spent the greater part
of his life in the ministry.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-07-29
Heavy Rainstorm in llliu ois.

SPRINGFIELD. Ills. July 29-The heav-
lest rainfall this year in this part of the
state has done an immense amount Of
good in the shape of filling dry streams
and wells, and was beneficial to corn and
pastures. 1t has, however, injured coz.
siderable wheat and oats in stacks.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-07-29
Terrible Steamboat Disaster Rumored.

MEMFHIA July 2e A report is current
in this city that the large steamship Belle
of Memphis, of the Anchor line, bound
from ST. Louis to this city with about
eighty-fv. excursionists on board, has
sunk about sixty miles north Of here and
that forty lives We're lost. The rumor is
barely credited.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-07-29
CYCLoNIC HAVOC IN MISSOURI
Lightning Kills Seven Persons aud the
Wind Cuts . Swath.

CAIRO. July 29-Rsports just received
state that a cy clone passed over the vii.
laSe OF Three States. situated on the
Mississippi river forty-fve miles south of
here on the Missouri side. lightning
struck q shanty boat tied at the bank,
killing the owner. George McClelland,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-07-29
Going Into Voluntary Liquidation.

WEST SUPERIOR, Wis, July 29-The
directors of the Superior National bank
have decided to discontinue business un.
til the arrival of the bank examiner with
a view to going into voluntary liquida.
tion. The bank Will pay all liabilities.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-07-29
CONTEST FOR THE BALL PENNaNT.
Cleveland the Leader with Pittsburg Only
Three Points Behind

CHICAGO, July 29-Baltimore has taken
tumble in the contest Of the National
Base Ball League for the pennant during
tho past week. From first tho Monu.
menta! City has dropped to third, while
Cleveland holds first place with but three
points between her and Pittsburg. The
club standing is given below:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-07-29
s.sIornado Levels Fverythrn-

LAcoS, His, July ga tornado made
a mile swath in the southeastern part of
Marshall county, lereiinS everything in
its path. The dee Is estimated at
thousands of dozk$s Lightning and
hail accompanied the storm. Corn is a
complete loss. Five houses and ten barns
were wrecked
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-07-29

Impure blood is the cause of boils.
pimples and other eruptions. Hoods
Sarsapariila purities the blood, and
cures these troubles.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-07-29
Sustain
Home Industry
On Tap everywhere.
Only Union labor employed.

The Rock Island Brewing Company, success
ors to George Wagner's Atlantic Brewery, |.
Huber's City Brewery and Raibe & Stengers
Rock Island Brewery. as we'll as Julius Junge's
Bottling Works. has one of the most complete
Brewing establishments including Bottling de-
partment in the country. The product is the
very best. Beer is bottled at the brewery and
delivered to any part Of the tri-cities. and may
he ordered direct from the head offices on Mo-
line avenue by Telephone
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-07-29
PRODIGY IN CRIME.
Holmes Certainly the Greatest
Villain on Record.
LIST OF HIS MURDERS LENGTHENs.

The Ouinlans Now Believed To b. Parti-
ceps Crininis, and Even Pitzers Hands
Not Unstained with Blood-Aurder OF
Another Man Suspected and Two More
Women on the Roil-Friends Of the Ac-
cused Man Put in q Word.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-05-18
How the Money Goes.

1t is unsafe to allow any ordinary wo-
man to enter store with money. Sho
has such craving for luxuries, such
contempt for mere necessities, that she
almost invariably purchases the former
and is constantly in need of the latter.
She goes forth to purchase an opera bon
net because she is going to the opera that
very night, but her eye is caught by Il
tea gown, a. bargain tea gown, and she
buys it. That night some man seated
behind Gainesborough with many
plumes swears. She goes out to buy
jacket, needing one soroly, but her or-
ratio fancy is caught by lace trimmed
underwear, and before she realizes it
she is reveling in new nightgowns and
corset covers. She has even been known
to go out to buy writing paper and to
return with nothing but blue and
white cup and saucer. r.-Philadelphia
Times
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-05-18
Salt For Insanity.

A physician, in treating an insane pa
ttent, found it admirable to mako uso of
subcutaneous injections of salt. The pa
tient had obstinately refused all nour-
ishment and the salt was given as an
experiment in nutrition, this treatment
having been made use of some time pre-
viously. To the doctors surprise, some
of the worst symptoms of insanity dis
appeared. Further trials convinced the
faculty of the value of this discovery,
and, according to all indications, there
is in this course the germ of discovery
that will entirely revolutionize the
treatment of the insane. We are told
that the human body consists of about a
dozen elements. When these are present
i'll too great quantity or are lacking, we
are i'll. The great art is to decide just
what element needs regulating. When
this is done, we are restored to health.
New York Ledger.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-05-18
Smoked Cigarettes Thirty Years.

People talk about cigarettes being
unhealthful, but the fact that l am still
alive is proof to tho contrary" said II
middle aged man. II began smoking
them 80 years ago, before they We're
made i'll this part of the country and
when few were imported. 1t is far cry
to the time when there were no Ameri-
can cigarettes, and l feel old when l
look back to it. I ought to add that l
have never inhaled the smoke of ciga-
rettes, which perhaps accounts for their
not killing me long ago l may also add,
in strict confidence, that the reason |
have smoked cigarettes is that cigars
and pipes make me sick New York
Sun
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-05-18
WHY THE MAMMoTHS FRozE.
HOwOrth's Theory With Regard to the
Remains Found In Siberia

Howorths Theory with Regard to the
Remains Found In Siberia
In Howorth's book, entitled "The
Mammoth and the Flood" the author
advances unique theory with regard
to the remains of the mammoth, or hairy
elephant, which is found in such i'm
mense numbers in Siberia. These crea-
lures were so plentiful at one time In
that country that ivory hunters found it
more profitable to go there in search of
that valuable article than to South At
RIGA, where elephants are supposed to be
as numerous as boodlers in New York
Oily. Howorth says that they are inva-
rlably found under conditions which
make it certain that they could not have
lived unless the surroundings and cli-
mate had been entirely different from
those existing at present. The remains
of plants upon which they fed and tho
southern contemporary shells which arc
also frequently found with the remains
point to a sudden and wonderful change
of climatic conditions.
If Professor Howorth's argument is
to be given any weight, the Siberian
plateau is one of the most recent fea-
lures in the known physical geography
of the world. He figures that the pla-
teau was suddenly raised to its present
height, and that, prior to its sudden ele-
walton, it was a warm stretch of low
land furnishing pasturage to thousands
of mammoth brutes The rapid eleva-
tion, according to his deductions, sud-
denly congealed the waters and froze
the gigantic animal bodies through and
through, thus preserving them intact
until the present day. He says that I'M
less these animals had been frozen i'm
mediately after death they would GER
tainly have decayed and disappeared.
In some places, far to the east in ST.
IBERIA, as we'll as in the mountainous
regions of Alaska Oh our continent, the
remains of the mammoth and other great
extinct animals have been found at a
height of 1900 feet above sea level.
Howorth and Falcony both declare this
to be incompatible with their mode of
life-St. Louis Republic
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-05-18
THE WEALTH OF TIE WORLD.
Great Sum of Foreign Securities Held IN
England and France.

The reported valuation of all proper
ty in the United States by the census of
1890 was 500, OBJ, 091, 1877, or 81, 036 per
capita for the entire population. This
enumeration. however, dealt with prop
erty located in the United States and
did not go into the question where it is
owned. If the estimate of Mr.. Robert
Giffen is correct, that $1,000, 900, 600
In foreign capital was invested in this
country in 1880, probably an even lar
ger amount is so invested at the present
time. Deduction should also be made
for the high value put upon waste pub
lie lands i'll the census, with the net re-
suit that the per capita valuation Of the
United States would be reduced to
about $3.50 or 81, $50 for family of
five Estimates made by careful econ
omists, who come pretty near agree
ment among themselves. put the valu
alton of Great Britain about nine years
ago at $50, 900, 900, coo and that of
France at $40, 900, 600, 900. This would
afford per capita valuation of $1,339
for Great Britain and 81, 0S for France,
making the valuation for a family of
five Sc, 900 in Great Britain s., 405 in
France. The figures of France are
placed higher by some authors, and the
total in both countries includes careful
estimates of the large holdings of for
eign securities some of them covering
property located in the United States.
The great holdings of foreign securi-
ties, estimated to amount in Great Brit
ain to about IS, 600, 900, 900, explain to
foreign trade constantly shown by the
British statistics. Great Britain would
long ago have been denuded of her gold
and become bankrupt if the excess of I'M
ports over exports shown by her trade
statistics were a true measure of her
financial col dition. The fact that about
$400, 900, 900 is due her annually in
interest charges upon British capital
placed abroad explains how she can af
ford to import several hundred million
pounds sterling of foreign merchandise
in excess of the domestic merchandise
which she exports France is estimated
to hold $4, 900, 000 600 of foreign securi-
ties, largely Italian and Spanish, and
she also has been able to show large
balance of imports of merchandise over
exports during the last two decades,
while piling up in the vaults of the Bank
of France and distributing through her
monetary circulation larger mass of
coin than any other commercial coun-
try.-United States Investor.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-05-18
Pretty Good Guess.

The New Orleans Picayune says that
teacher, in explaining to her pupils
the difference bteween civilized and un.
civilized races, insisted upon three
things as requisite for civilization
food, clothing and shelter.
The next day she brought the subject
up again by way of review.
"What are the three things necessary
to a civilized man?' she asked.
Several of the children remem bered
food and clothing, but the third requi.
,ite seemed to have escaped their recol-
lection entirely. Finally, after the ques-
ion had been repeated two or three
Dimes, one little fellow lifted his hand
and said
"a wife.
Whether the teacher sent him to the
head of the class we are not informed.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-05-18
GRANDMOTHER.
She Docs Not Keep Pace With the Ad
vance of Medical SCIENCE.

she Does Not Keep Pace With the Ad-
vance of Medical Science.
We all know just what adorable crea-
lures all grandmothers are, and how
they cannot do enough for tho little
ones belonging to their SONS and daugh-
ters. Now, without wishing to appear
ungrateful for these attentions, there
arc some mothers who think themselves
quito capable of caring for their own
babies, and the continual and persistent
contrary opinion of grandma becomes
after q time vexatious rather than help
full.
Even though grandma has brought up
dozen children, and this is her daugh-
ter's very first experience in that line,
it is just as well not to give overliberal
doses of advice, nor is it good policy to
Empty out the medicine the doctor pre-
scribes for baby's cough and substitute
sirup of squills, because sirup of squills
was all that the youngsters of another
generation were dosed with.
The latter medicine may be regarded
by grandma as the most perfect cough
remedy in existence, but tho prescribed
drops or pellets may be quito as effect
i've, and it is but natural that tho
young mother and the physician in
charge should feel a bit annoyed at the
assumption of superior knowledge, how
ever we'll founded it may be.
Babies need as varied treatment as
plants do. What may have answered
splendidly for grandma's dozen might
prove quito the reverse Of beneficial for
the fin de siecle youngster, and even
though a baby is novelty to the young
mother nature will be her best teacher
as TO its wants and cares. Grandma
must remember that she had to be initi-
ated i'll her superior baby training be-
fore she could pose as an oracle, and
would she have been pleased to have
had her authority wrenched from her
% wiser somebody who scorncd her
methods and ridiculed her lack of wis
dom?
When the young mother asks for ad-
vice, it is time enough to give it to her.
She is certain to do so and will appre-
ciate most kindly the valuable hints the
more experienced mother can give her,
but her feelings will be quito the ro-
verse if advice is thrust upon her and
the care of her own precious baby taken
peremptorily out of her hands. Louis
vile Post,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-05-18
THE SIXTH SENSE.

Tho face Of yesterday is not the same today.
An underlined but diff rent spell lies IN the
features play.
1t may be gay or sad, tint Of color more or
less,
A sparkle, or shadow new, the eyes and
cheeks express.
A tone not heard before rings iH some dear
ones voice,
That brings sharp prophetic pain, or makes
the heart rejoice,
One knows not why. One only feels some hid.
den cause must be,
In body or in mind, to work the change not all
do see.
Some few with intuition's ready power can
trace
In man or child these subtle changes Of the
voice or face.
With this sixth sense, almost divine, can see
and hear
The things not manifest to common eye and
Methinls 1t needs Loves list'nng wait and
watchful sight
Faint undertones t. interpret and dim signs
to read Alright.
Love, then, must be this added sense, or sum
of all combined,
And love for ev'ry living thing the power to
mankind.
Good Housekeeping.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-05-18
THE END SEAT IN TIE PEW.
1t Is the Place Occupied by the Protector
of the Family.


of the Family.
"It is common enough" said Mr..
Gratebar, ITO see man sitting in the
aisle end of a pew in church get up on
the arrival of some other member of the
family, step out into tho aisle to let the
late conner in, and then resume his seat
at the end of the pew. 1t seems to me
that | have read that this custom origi-
mated i'll New England in the early
days, when the mon all sat by the aisle
so that they could seize their guns and
get out promptly i'll case of attack by
Indians. We don't have much to fear
from Indians nowadays, but the seat by
the aisle is still occupied by tho head of
the family. He stands in tho aisle while
the others pass in, and then calmly
takes his place in the end seat, at the
head of the line, as sort of general
protector.
"Sometimes in these days. we arc SO
very free from Indians now, tho head of
the family thinks it is safe for him to
stay at home whom he has a headache.
and then the young son takes his place.
imagine that he talks it over with Lis
mother on the way to church, SO that it
is all understood. When they get to the
pew, he stands in the aisle while his sis,
ters and his mother pass in. l fancy that
his sisters are rather~glad when they are
all seated and no longer conspicuous,
but upon his mother S face as she brushes
past him into the pew there is smile
of affectionate pride, and then he takes
his seat in his fathers place and sits
there with fine boyish dignity. New
York Sun.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-05-18
BY PHILLIPS BROOKS.

1.-THE following poem, never before publish
ed. was found in one of Phillips Brooks early
notebooks, In which he iotted down thoughts
and memoranda Transcript
Along the noisy city ways
And in this rattling city car,
On this the drearicst of days.
Perplexed with business fret and Jar,
When suddenly young, sweet face
Hooked ON my petulance and pain
And lent it something of its grace
And charmed it into peace again.
The day was just as bleak without,
My neighbors just as cold within,
And truth was just as full of doubt,
The world was Just rs full of sin.
But in the light of that young smile
The world grew pure, the heart grew
warm
And sunshine cleaned little whilo
Across the darkness of tho storm.
did not care to seek her name.
| only said "God bless thy life,
Thy sweet young grace be still the same.
Or happy maid or happy wife"
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