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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-07-25
CDRDOYA CHAT.

CORDovA. July 21.-Mr. aud Mrs.
William karr, who came awheel from
Brooklyn. Iowa. are visiting relatives
and friends here
Miss Georgia Marshall is visiting
with relatives at Milwaukee.
4. d. Benway, Of Lincoln. Neb.. is
here for short stay with relatives.
The to Sn authorities are having a
new sidewalk laid from the school
house to the cemetery.
}. l.. Johnston. of Chicago. is
spending few days with friends at
the Williams camping grounds.
Mrs. W. c. Heany and granddaug-
tiers, Marie and Fannie. departed
Tuesday morning for 2-weeks' visit
at Chicago.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Cool and the
Misses Ruth Phillips aud Ella Nor
cross attended the b. Y. P. U. con-
vention at Milwaukee.
The teachers for the public schools
have bfen elected as follows for the
ensuing year: w. II. Plymire. Mrs
F. Hollister. of Milan. for intermedi-
ate, and Miss Nellie Ssllows for pri-
| mary.
While A. Burton was going home
from town Wednesday evening his
horse became frightened and ran into
William Dale's buggy. throwing Mr..
Burton from his cart. He was p,cs ed
up unconscious and has been in q
CT teal condition ever since.
Many spent very pleasant even
ing at Woodward's camping grounds
Friday last. Capt. Albert. of Rock
Island. gave a very interesting talk
on the history OF his life in Russia
and S IBERIA. and also produced some
beautiful stereopticon views Of those
lands
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-07-25

constantly and going home in the evening
he carried it carefully with him. At night
it stood on a little table close TO his bed
side. where he could see it readily when he
awokc The longer those who knew him
watched this queer performance the more
mysterious did it seem and the more lively
was their curiosity.
One day about year ago some fellow
laborers thought to play u joke on Lehr by
removing the curious little can when its
owner was not looking and hiding it.
When the usually quiet and reserved man
discovered that the precious object WIS
gone, it changed him into something like
a mailman. The two culprits, alarmed by
his excited state, confessed their joke and
returned the can II it had not been for
the interference Of others. Lehr might
have gone to the gallows for that day :
work. Before help reached them both men
had been felled by a crowbar and as il
was thought then fatally injured. They
recovered afterward, but the inciden;
showed more clearly than ever the inten
sity of Lehr' feeling about the mystcriou;
can.
1t now appears that the can contained
the ashes of his dead wife. At her death
she had requested that her body be cremat
ed. Lehr carried out her wish, and heart
broken at her death. determined never u
be separated from the ashes This &C
counted for his constant care Of the tin can
or u-n, as 1t proved to he.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-07-25
CoALVALLEY CULLINGS.

Coal VALLEY. July 19.-Prof. n.
Thornton. of Geneseo Collegiate il .
stitue, made calls among his friends
here last week.
Miss Irene Peters is visiting in
Bureau county.
Miss Jane Anderson visited few
days with her parents.
Misses Anna and Helen Pryce are
visiting at Mankato, MINI.
Rev. ID. +. Robertson, Of Milan,
filed Rev. Browns pulpit Sunday.
Mrs Thomas Paul and son. Will
liam. are visiting Mrs. Reuben Lewis
There was lawn social in the
grove of the Presbyterian church the
18th.
Rev. Charles H. Brown attended a
meeting of the presbytery at Seaton.
Mercer county.
The oat crop is generally cut. II
is not a good one. being stricken
with rust. and is lightly headed.
A lad who was employed on the
farm Of Mrs. James Killing in Rural
is missing, as is cash and valuatles
amounting to about $50 from the
house. The boy was 10 years old
and had been working but three days
at Killings when be took advantage
of the family entrusting the house &c
his care while they we're attending
church and ran sacked it and skipped
The boy was followed to Rock Isl
an where be said he lived, but NJ
trace OF him could be found.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-07-25

When she was Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-07-25

In order to give everyone an op-
portuuity to see the grand crops in
the western states aud enable the in
tending settler to secure home, the
Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul rail-
way has arranged to run series Of
harvest excursions TO South and
North Dikota. Cd TO other states in
the west, northwest and southwest
on the following dates: July 81,
Aug. and IS. Sept. 1, Is and 20
and Oct. G and 20, at the low rate of
two dollars more than one fare for
the round trip. Tickets will be good
for return any Tuesday or Friday
within 81 days from date of sale.
For rates. time of trains and further
details apply to any ticket agent OF
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railway
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-07-25
convenient cause known as heart fail

convenient cause known as heart fail-
Cre''
Like his wifs, Or. Palmer was Frustrated
with grief. He wore a very deep mourn
ing band on his hat and those who saw
him at the grave Were struck by the depth
and sincerity of his feeling.
In five years Mrs Palmer bore her hus-
band five children, and II WIS remarked
that, while all We're strong and unusually
vigorous, all but one. the youngest, died at
the age of 6.
Again Palmer ran short of money, for
the drink habit was added 10 gambling.
He convinced his wife. who loved him
through all, that it was her duty TO insure
her life for 1000 in his favor. There
was no need for him TO insure in her favor
as her income from her fathers estate was
ample for her wants.
Up to this time despite her troubles
Mrs Palmer had been remarkably
strong, healthy woman. but one month
after the policy had been allowed she began
to fail
And now the doctors devotion to his
wife, always conspicuous. became more
marked He took her to London, to Paris
and Berlin and had the best doctors look
into her case, but the wisest of them shook
his head and confessed himself baffled.
Professor LoWe,isteih Oh beriln recalled
afterward that he took lDr. Palmer to one
side and asked him if his wife was not Sc
cretly addicted to the use Of poisonous
drugs.
For" he said, II can only explain the
symptoms by supposinS the constant use
OF arsenic.
DIR. Palmer said that he was himself
chemist; that he was III constant attend
ance on his beloved Vile, ana SO declared
this supposition impossible.
Within six months Mrs. Palmer wa:
dead, and was buried beside her mother al
| Rudccley, where her husband again gave c
public exhibition OF his capacity for grie
and tears.
The insurance company paid the policy
| and despite his deep mourning band DR.
Palmer began again TO NOW, with even ;
| wider swath, down the meadows Of pleas
| urc.
After this he insured his brother Waite
| for SITS, 900. He had already made him
| drunkard. to the breaking of his father
| hart william took Walter to his OWL
house after the insurance was effected
Walter died in few months, and tn
insurance-the companies We're differcn
each time-was paid And still this mon
strous imposter avoided even the SHADOW
of suspicion
| Palmer lost GO 900 on the races to mai
named John Parsons. He induced Parson
| To insIIr, for that amount in his palmer 5
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-07-25
To Onsr . Reward of 100 Dollars

To Oher . Reward OF 100 Dollars
for q case of catarrh that cannot be
cured. creates the suspicion that the
article so advertised is a humoug.
Do you know OF any such reward be-
ing paidg Ely Bros. do not promise
rewards in order to sell their we'll
known Cream Balm" They offer
the E:ost effective fnedicants, pre-
pared in convenient form to use.
and at the lowest possible price. so
cents per bottle. An honest and
g effective remedy. which is absolutely
free from mercurial or other harm
full drugs.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-07-25
HIS WIFE'S ASHES.
Louis Lehr Carried Them Constantly In .
Tin Can.

Tin Can.
For several years Louis Lehr, a laboring
man of Memphis, carried with him con
stantly can looking much like an ordi-
nary paint or oil receptacle, with top
which was screwed on, but so far as any
one knew was never removed. If he had
been seen with the can only once. twice or
a dozen times. it might not have attracted
attention, but when those who knew Lehr
found that this commonplace object was
the constant companion of his life, night
and day, they began to wonder what it
contained Some of them asked him about
it, now jokingly and again seriously, but
he never had any satisfactory answer to
give. The first thing when he got up in
the morning Lehr got the can. He carried
it to the various points about the city
where his duties called him. He stood ii
while he worked where he could see ii
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-07-25

"Mystic Cure" for rheumatism
and neuralgia uSes in ! to 8 days.
Its action upon the system is re-
markable and mysterious. 1t re-
moves at once the cause, and the
disease Immediately disappears. The
first dose greatly relieves. Is cents.
Sold by Otto Grotjan. druggist. Rock
Island. and Gust schlegel 4 Son, 220
West Second street. Davenport.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-07-25
Buckleu's ArnicS Solve

The best saivs il the world for
cuts, bruisss, sores, ulcers, salt
rheum, fever sores. letter. chspped
hands, chilblains. corns and all skin
eruptions, and positively cures
piles or no Pay required. 1t 10 guar
antsed to give perfect satisfaction, or
money refunded PRICE IS cents Fer
box For sale bv Harris 3 Ullemeysr.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-09-26
To Purify London.

The Society Of Arts in London is con
sidering the novel proposition of u p
plying the great city with sea water.
The details of the project, which seems
feasible, are briefly as follows: A spot
on the seacoast between Briton and
Worthing remarkable for the purity of
the water would be made the point of
supply. A reservoir large enough to con-
tain 10, 0 900 gallons of water would
be constructed at this point, from
whence the water would be forced by
pumps into another reservoir on the TOP
of Stryning Round Hill. The water
would then, by force of gravitation,
flow to London. Once in the metropolis
the value Of the flow for municipal pur-
poses, 1t is said. would be equal to three
times that Of fresh water. The brine
would prevent decomposition Of street
refuse. and by flushing the sewers and
washing the cutters and alleyways with
it London would be fresher and sweeter
than it has been since the last big con-
%fagration. Its supply to the schools,
hospitals and baths would be of meal
culable value to the health Of the city.
-Grand Rapids Democrat.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-09-26
Notice for pubi!cat,on.

AND OFFICE at Helena. Montana.
Lang. IS. 1896. Notice is hereby oiyen
tnat the following-named settler has lied
notice OF his intention to make final proof
IN support OF his claim. AID that said proof
VIII be made before the clerk OF the district
court at Hlr%inla City. Montana. on Satur-
day. Oct. 3.1S98. viz Charlie. OIeson fo- n
T.. number 4lS7 tor the southwest Il north.
west quarter and west - southwest IL
section l.. and northwest II northwest IL
section 20. township = south. range ! west.
he names the following witnesses to
prove MS continuous residence upon and
Fern. " iliiam Walker. John D.. Rork ;r
slmon z. Grim, all OF Laurin. Montana. 10y
W. f. cox,
~, Register.
'ilst publlcatlon Allg %. 1896 40
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-09-26
Sherif's Sale

DY virtue OF an execution. issued out of
~ the district court OF the Ninth judicial
district OF the state of Montana. in aud for the
comfy OF Ga!latin. in an action wherein G.
Main and r. H.. Winchester. partners under
the firm name and style of Main 4 wiz
chester. were plaintiffs and s. Ii. Crockett
was the defendant. upon q judgment reud.
cred the oath day of December. A. u. 1891.
tor the sum of MIN Hundred Seventy.eight
and S5-lN dollars. with interest thereon At
the rate OF ten per cent. per annum. till
paid, and costs and accruing costs amount.
ing to the sum OF $21. so. I have LEVIED up-
on all the right. title, claim and interest Of
said defendant. s. H. Crockett. of. in and
to the following described real estate. TO.
wit: the Evlyn placer mining claim con-
tanning one hundred and sixty acres. more
or less. situated on the Gravel Range so
called. near the head OF Warm Spring
Creek and about two miles in an easterly
direction from what is known "a Itomev's
lake on said creek. which said Evlyn placer
mining claim is more particularly described
in the notice OF location thereof az recorded
at page 211 OF book : of placers. records OF
MADISON county. Montana. which record ID
referred to and made a part hereof, said
property standing on the records of Nsdi.
son county in the name OF Fl. S. Gilbert, S, Z.
Buford. Preston Jack. and .. Baker, and of
which the said defendant. S. Fl. Crockett.
claims to be the owner.
Public notice Is hereby given. that on
Saturday. the 3rd day Of October. A. D.
1886. at one O'Clock p. M. OF said day. in
front OF the court house door of the county
OF Madison. | will sell at public auction, tor
lawful money OF the United States. all the
right. title. claim. and interest, of said de-
fendant s. h. Crockett. of, in and to tho
above described property, or so much there.
OF as may be necessary to satisfy said judg-
ment, with interest and costs. cash in hand
to the highest and best bidder.
JOS. |. HAINES,
Sheriff.
Dated this 18th day OF Sept. 1896.
First publication Sept II. 1896. 4S4
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-09-26
Notice Tor Publication.

AND OFFICE at Bozemar. Montana.
IL August 81. 1sa6.
Notice is hereby giveu that the tollowino-
named settler has filed notice OF his lnten-
non to make 1inal proof in supDort OF his
claim. aud that said proof will be made be-
lore clerk of the district court at virginia
S1ty. Montana. on October -. 1876, viz:
Boyd CummOck. II. F.. No. 1852. tor the
southwest IL northwest IL. north 10
southwest IL and northwest IA south
east IA OF section ,. township ; south. rauge
l west.
He names the following witnesses to
prove bis continuous residence upou and
cultivation OF. said land. VIZ:
Thomas Shirley. John Ormistou. George
Cummock. Jasper Vincent. of Meadow
Creek. Montana.
Any person who desires to protest against
the allowance OF such proof. or who knows
OF any substantial reason, under the law
and the regulations OF the interior DEPART
menf. why such proof should not be allow
ed. Will he given an opportunity at the
above mentioned time and place TO cross
Examine the witnesses OF said claimant, and
to offer evidence in rebuttsl Of tina. SUBJ
mitted by claimant.
c. L. BLAKELEY.
Register
First publication Sept. >. 1896. 400
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-09-26
Notice for Publication.

AND OFFICE nj Bozeman. Montana.
IL September 3. 1896.
Notice Is hereby given that the following
named settler has flied notice of his iuten-
ton to make final proof in support OF his
claim. and that said proof will be made be-
tore clerk OF the district court at Virginia
CIV. Montana. or October 10. 1896, viz:
David \. Jones. II. + No. 1l46 Tor the
r II S W IA end : L. : T. Ia of section
q. township , $. X. T..
he namesthe following witnesSesto orove
his continuous residence upon and cultiva.
ton OF. said land. viz:
trastus Paugh, George II. Watkins.
alexander NJ. Bower, Alton G. Bower. of
Ennis. Montana.
Any person who desires to protest against
the allowance OF such proof. or who knows
OF anv substantial reason. under the law
and the regulations OF the interior depart.
ment. why such proof should not be allow
ed. will be given an opportunity at the
above mentioned time and place to cross.
examine the witnesses OF SAID claimant, and
to offer evidence in rebuttal of that submit
ted by claimant.
9. Z. RLAKELEY,
Register.
First publication Sept. Il. 1896. 436
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-09-26

soil, to rise from it in nCxious exhaIa-
tiona, and to contaminate the streams of
water that might flow near by. Great
cemeteries were supposed to be a serious
menace to the health Of cities. and one
OF the strongest arguments in favor Of
cremation has been that thus all these
evils would be entirely abolished.
Without entering into any controversy
regarding the respective merits of in
cineration and inhunation it may be
said that this old notion of graveyards
was i'll founded. Nature reports the re-
suits of a most careful and elaborate in
v~estigation Of the subject which was re-
Gently made by DR.. Losener. In the ex-
periments the actual conditions attend
ing ordinary burial were adhered to as
faithfully as possible, both as regards
the depth Of the grave and the Enclosure
OF the body. The duration of vitality of
the various %pathogenic bacteria was
carefully observed, and was found to
vary considerably. Thus the microbes
of cholera lived only % days, and those
OF pneumonia a similar period. Typhoid
bacilli. of which there has been an espe-
clal dread in connection with ceme-
teries, persisted after 96 days of burial,
and those of tuberculosis after from 80
to 1873. Tetanus bacilli are supposed to
live and propagate indefinitely in the
soil. and indeed after 1854 days they
were found in a highly virulent condi-
tion, but after 361 days they could no
longer be detected. The germs of an.
thrax alone survived a year and more,
and may we'll be reckoned the most per-
sistent of all.
Attention IA also paid to the posi-
BILE spread of the germs through the ad-
jacent soil and into streams of water.
Generally speaking, they did not spread,
or none OF them but those of anthrax.
The last named were found in the soil
at some distance from the body and also
IN water. None of the others was to
be found, not even a few inches from
the infected carcass. It therefore seems
safe to conclude that burial is in gen.
eral a sanitary method of disposing of
dead bodies, and that cemeteries are
not to be regarded as centers of infec-
ton or c%ontagion. A field in which.a
host Of cholera patients had been in
tered would in a months time become
perfectly fit for use as a garden or a
pleasure ground. OF course, for other
reasons, many people will prefer incin-
GRAFTON. But this one oft repeated argu-
ment against cemeteries may now be al
together dismissed.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-09-26
The Pulpit and Municipal Reform.

A Hartford clergyman wrote letters
to 40 men Of prominence in various
walks of life asking them to reply to
the question, SIS it wise for clergymen
to discuss in the pulpit municipal re-
form?" Thirty-seven replied in the
negative and only three in the afirma-
tive. Yet there is no doubt that splen-
did work has been accomplished in this
way by some clergymen. 1t is their
cheap imitators who are responsible for
the feeling in the other direction. Our
conviction upon the matter is that it is
the business of the church to work for
better men and for a better world, and
In so far as municipal reform tends to
this end clergymen are only doing their
duty when they earnestly champion it.
-Brookton mass. } Times.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-09-26
UBL LIBRARIES,

Massachusetts Towns Set an Excellent Ell
ample In an Important Matter.
There are only "a towns in Mas
sachusetts which do not possess a public
library, and in a short time, consider
ing the rapidity with which public H.
braries are now multiplied. there will
probably not be a single town in the
commonwealth which will lack a H.
brary of its own Massachusetts un-
douhtedly has by far the best record in
this respect of any state in the union.
A library in a country town is proba.
bly, a greater factor in the enlighten-
ment and the intellectual progress Of
the people than a library in the city.
The people of the country have fewer
diversions than their contemporaries in
town and can consequently give more
attention to reading. There are always
IN every town, no matter how small it
may be in population, a number of stu
dious and thoughtful young men and
women whose minds crave the nutri-
ment that can only be supplied them by
books. These young men and women are
the real nobility Of the nation, and from
their ranks are to be recruited the infu-
entail and vital forces which are to
mold the destinies of the next genera
ton and shape our intellectual and
moral course in the future.
This kind of young men and women
would probably obtain books in some
way, even if there were no public IL
braries in their towns. But these public
Libraries make the process of self en-
~lightenment and development much
easier for them. In this way they do an
incalculable good, and it is to be hoped
that the time will sometime come when
there will be no locality in the country
where good books may not be easily OBJ
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-09-26

nopes-ln a word, the character-of its
more active and aggressive denizens.
In the main. work in city building must
be with the builders. If they want bet
ter houses, more economical admins
tration, cleaner streets and better edu-
cational advantages they can have them
when they cooperate heartily to secure
them. Materially we are in accord as to
what is most imperative, and the vari-
Gus objects now within the immediate
purview Of those interested in the future
city are practically the same the world
over.-Rev. DR.. Dana.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-09-26
Re- ublicatlon.
Application for a Patent.
NNO.3 2IU.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFIC
HalRn1 Mnltnna Iul.- 81 Lon

UNITED MATES LAND OFFICE.
Helena, Montana, July Sth. 1896
N0IICEis hereby given. that Vardaman A.
'Cockrill, Gas required by General Land OF
nee letter of April 10. 1896. filed in this otfies,J
whose post0thce address is RoZeman, Montana.
has this day re-lled application for a patent
10 tor iaoo linear feet OF the William Fly lode
mining district. Madison county. state Of Mon
lana, and DESIGNATED by the United States sur
veyor general for Montana as survey number
4o6s, as per official plat and field notes duly
HE'D In this office, in sectIen-, township z
sonth. range , west, which claim is recorded in
the Office of the recorder of Madison county,
Montana, and described AS follows to.wit: Be-
ginning at corner number l q pine post five
inches square. So feet long. set = feet deep.
marked l-4O6S, from which the POtosi initial
point bears north 70 degrees 80 minutes west.
6222.4 feet. thence south 81 degrees, SO minutes
east. 600 feet, thence south Il degrees, l6 min
utes west, 1900 feet, thence north SO degrees, -
minutes west, GOO feet. thence north 81 degrees,
10 minutes east. 100 feet to place of beginning,
containing an area OF 1887 acres claimed. No
adjoining claims known.
w. F.. cox,
j. v. BOgert, Reeister.w
Attorney for claimant.
First publication July Is: 1895. s9-lO
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-09-26
NO DANGER IN EARTH BURIAL.

science Proves That Disease Germs Soon
Lose Vitality In the Earth.
archaeological science has freed the
world from another bogy-to wit, the
pestilential character Of graveyards,
says the New York Tribune. 1t has long
been imagined that the places in which
human bodies we're literally returned
"earth to earth were veritable breed
Ing places Of disease. The germs of tho
naaladies that had caused the death Of
the bodies and innumeeable other germs
and poisons generates BY the processes
q decay were spnnnsed to permeste~th