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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-11-18
WAS AN INNOCENT MAN LYNcHeD7
State Attorney Who Prosecuted the Indian,
Contradicts Chief Justic Corliss.

CeAtc Attorney VINO, prosecuted the Indian.
Contradicts Chief Justic Corliss.
st. Paul, Nov. 3s.-A Bismarck, N. D..
special to The Pioneer Press says: E.
s. Allen, states attorney Of this county
who assisted in the prosecution Of Cou.
DOT, says in relation to the statement O,
Judge Corliss, Of the supreme court, tina,
Coucot was innocent Il challenge
Judge Corliss to produce any documen,
or any evidence showing that Coudo,
was an innocent man. When Judge
Corliss says that the conviction was in
the face Of the strongest kind OF evil
dence Of alibi he is giving his opinion
as to facts. and not law. The records
chow that the veraci.y of DR.. Ross tes.
tlmony was not only questioned, but
that the testimony itself was thoroughly
impeached
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-11-18

Msirii. Nov. is-weyler arrived
atCoruana toGsy. Captain General
Rivera announces the complete paci.
uca,ion ot the rhtlipine islands
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-11-18

Ches'er. Ia. Nov. is.-The steam
er. But Car. from New Orleans.
was burned TO the waters edge here
and sank. All o. board escaped.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-11-18

BY giving early s,,ez ion TO cold
whether slight or severe. A cold
quickly disappears when DIR. Bells
fine-1sr. Hcrey is taken. Thi. rem.
edv makes weak iangs STR ns. Is
cents az all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-11-18

After an exposure. or when you
feel eold coming on. take q dose OF
Foley's Honey aud Tar. IL never
falls For sale BY T. II. Thomaa
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-11-18
'smp-,i,sr rri.o,... rusp.d ov.,.

Washington. Fov. is-The state
department. announces that the Com
peti,or prisoners we're turned over tc
Consul General Lsa Monday. and
will be sent 10 New York today.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-11-18
John Now Has IRE world.Rc,,,,

London. Nov. is.-TEe new torpeac
destroyer Crane had her osicia, trial II
Stokes bay yesterday. She made :. 4;
knots per hour.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-11-18

The mission Of Hoods Ssrsspsrilla
is 20 cure disease. and thousands OF
'es'imaoials prove it fulflls it. mis-
sion we'll
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-11-18

Arnold's Bromo Celery cures head.
aches; 10. Is and 80 cents. Reiss'
drug store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-11-18
FINAL TRIAL TRIP OF THE IOWA.

catfieship Reported TO Have Behaved a.
Wss Expected.
New York. Nov. Is-The United
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-11-18

referred TO is that under the favorab!,
influences prevailing the seal expert!
agreed upon a report.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-28

of March drama are on hand. Most of
the cabinet family are here; and others
are arriving on every train. The hotels
are booking their last rooms and private
houses are renting out spare chambers
at surprising prices one of the hotels
has engaged it's smallest suite for 800 for
three days. Prices from now on will rise
steadily.
But if Washington is ready for the
President there is one class of merchants
that is ready for Washington. These are
the fakirs, the sidewalk merchants who
wait not for Mckinley and his group, but
for the crowd. They are doing business
to-day. But on Inauguration day they
will make fortune
The most enterprising of the fakirs is
man who, with basket of the plaster
Venus de Medici, is selling his wares free
ly as "Lifelike busts of Mrs. Mckinley"
He takes good care that the police do not
see him, and when the blue-coated off,
GERS come around. they find him carrying
peaceful looking basket through the
streets, while his expression is as bland
and contented as that of the happy pur-
chasers who are hurrying away with Mrs.
McKinleys 'lifelike busts"
PITY they wuz all damaged" COM
planned one of the purchasers, but il they
hadn't been we couldn't have bought 'em
for twenty-five cents"
Another fakir who avoids the police is
the shell man. This gentleman carries
his table around his neck. When the leaf
drops he is a sandwich man recommend
ing such and such a bicycle. When the
table is set up. il has the alluring three
shells upon il. and the elusive little pea
Pick the little pea his voice sounds
around tho corner. and minute later he
hurries because the copper is upon him
A fakir who is doing a good business Is
the man with the banners. Each bears
the face of Mrs Mckinley. with each
banner he sells a song book. The outside
cover does not say so, but the merchant
loudly proclaims; This song was writ
ten by President Mckinley. IL is entitled
My Mother Was a Lady. For sale for
only hve cents with a banner of Mrs Nc
kinley. lie sells the book readily.
But the most successful fakir Of ali Is
the coin man. When the Presidents en-
CINE Is heard In the distance. YOU see a
single man shamefacedly step out and Law
"A nickel upon the track. Another follows
suit, and another and another. Soon the
track IS flecked with nlckels and dimes
enough 60 furnish souvenirs for many
generations to come.
When the great train rolls over the coins
they are stamped fiat and out Of shane
The man VINO laid down the half dollar
gets dime I'm exchange. as big as a
saucer, while the nickel man gets the half
dollar Many get nothing. The engine
sweeps the coins away like char and they
might as well have taken wings for ali
they can be found.
Now the work OF the falSir comes in. lie
has been there before and he knows
Stauoning himself a hundred feet beyond
the engines stopping place he bides his
time. The shouting multitudes and the
hurrahs have no sound for him. lie Is
waiting for the silvery crunch. Soon he
Is rewarded. Right into his very lap the
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-28

ana sculpture, the lights coming and go
ing in her intellectual face"
Both of President Tylers wives were
well-favOred women. The first Letitia
Christian, was one of the bellies of Eastern
Virginia The second, married near the
close of the presidential term, was a Miss
Gardner, well known to the present gem
Grafton of Washingtonians She was ed
ucated abroad and was the loveliest wo-
man of her day, 1874, when she married
President Tyler.
Mrs. Sarah Polk was born with gold
spoon in her mouth. She was the richest
and most accomplished woman that ever
entered the white house. An English
novelist made her his heroine, thus de-
scribing her Her hair is very black,
and her dark eyes and complexion remind
me of the Spanish donas." And a grace
ful writer of the day said
Modest yet all a queen should he.
love to keep thee in my mind.
Abigail Fillmore followed her. and of
her an enthusiastic writer said: ''She is
commanding in person, for she is nearly
six feet tail and of exceeding fairness of
complexion and delicacy of features Her
light luXuriant hair fell in flowing curls
around her head"
Mrs. Franklin Pierce was the only white
house lady whose personality had little
chance to assert itself. On the way to
Washington a terrible railroad collision
son. His head was crushed under beam,
ana from this tragic death she never re-
covered
But such gloom as there was in ,he white
house was speedily dispelled by the arrival
of Harriet Lane, the niece of James Buch-
anan, young woman with whom the
young Prince of Wales fell violently In
love. After his return home from his
visit to America he had Victoria write
letter TO the President, in which she says
The Prince Consort and ] particularly
wish to be remembered to Miss Lane"
Mary Todd Lincoln lived in a trying
time. But her enemies were compelled to
say Of her that she dressed magnifcently
and was a handsome woman. Her face
used 20 cheer the President when her ton
que did not.
Julia Dent Grant. Lucy Webb Hayes.
Lucretia Rudolph Garfield. Mrs Cleve-
land. Mrs Harrison and now Mrs. McKin-
ley are too well known TO need description.
The first of this list declared herself 1.-THE
homeliest woman that ever entered the
white house" but the fourth accepted her
belledom with grace All were cookbook
ing women, and absolute beauties COM
pared to the hgh-cheeked GueIphs and
stupid Hohenzollerns
Thanked by Dolly Madison and Mrs
Cleveland, the woman's portrait gallery
of the white house presents a line Of faces
that are the most charming of history.
Frank Harris.
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WHITE HOUSE BEAUTIES.
MORE HANDSOME WOMEN HAVE
RULED AS "FIRST LADY"

Washington. Feb. 2S. r. Whether our
Presidents have been men Of opportunity
or men of determination. they have GER
tainly had chosen, or thrust upon them,
very pretty wives. And. IN looking into
a gallery of white house danes side by
side with one of English queens. one is
struck by the loveliness Of the former in
comparison with the uglness of the later.
Martha Washington was one OF the most
attractive OF an women. for not only did
her first husband, Col. Gusts, leave her
large property. but nature had given her
a certain bewitching rustic beauty She
had nut-brown eyes and hair, n WELL
shaped tiny figure and the most engaging
manners.
Her successor IN the white house was
scarcely less gifted. for Abigail Adams
was Of the frail, ethereal type OF face that
gains the name Of "bcnuty' at sight She
was not unlike Mrs. Mckinley. who has
always been called a very pretty woman
one writer giving "A peu-picture OF her
four years ago, says: Il must allude
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-28

''the colors," shlvering in the early sleet,
yet thankful after all to be patriotic One
gets very much so over here amid bar
porous" foreign customs. One ceases to
wonder that foreigners criticise America
when we so willingly criticise Paris.
1t is in new house dresses that the work
of stringing the flags is done, and you
pause to admire the pretty gowns which
are doing duty for morning and early af-
ternoon They are not the marveOusly
elegant creations that appear few
hours later as tea gowns" But they
are, instead, neat house toilettes that can
be worn into the street should the decora-
teur run few yards short, or, wish to
take trip to another American colony
house 70 compare notes on home decora-
ton.
The distinguishing feature of these flag
dresses, one that is noticed upon them all,
Is the little jacket that Is worn with them.
This is invariably a bolero, but there are
so many notifications Of The bolero that
II appears different every time.
In the Latin quarter there is a family
OF young women studying art and many
other things They are living the life OF
the American girl abroad, having roval
after the style of THE new woman.
These young women-there are three OF
them-were busy few mornings ago fly
ing the American colors from their little
balcony to be ready for McKinley's day.
As they were expecting guests that in
cluded some of the finest professional peo-
pie IN Paris, they were gowncd in their
best. Each wore a spick-and-span new
gown, sent home from the modlste's as the
first sample of what would be worn this
spring. All had boleros.
One Of the young ladies wore a corded
Madras the cords running crosswise. with
little star-like figure. Corded Madras
il quite thin. though not as thin as canvas
cloth. and it needs a fine lining to set il
Off well
The Madras cord was in black and
brown over lining OF brown silk Per-
haps before going further II would be best
20 remark that none OF these Innings are
OF the real silk. There come silky sub
stances, looking like the real. that are
used for lining these open-work dresses.
There are several different kinds. any be-
ing good that looks like silk and Is not too
heavy. They come in plain colors. In
shaded ones and in black and white. This
material Is cheaper than silk and wears in
COnceiVabiy better. Few persons having
tried these substitutes for silk will use any
other IL Is fortunate that this Is SO, for
IN these days OF silk Innings IL would be a
sad thing were all compelled to pay silk
prices" for dress Innings; and this I'm a silk
season when everything outside must be
trimmed with &C.
Around the bottom Of this gown was a
band Of maroon velvet The same trim
ming bordered the hand and made crush
belt for tho round waist. The collar was
crush one Of maroon velvet, with out
standing loops Of the same
a little bolero Of maroon velvet was slip
ped on over this waist. II had a tiny
cording OF gold braid running around the
edge, was sleeveless, and. in fact, was only
a tiny shoulder covering. But il made
the waist look very tiny besides setting
OF the bust line we'll
Modistes say that the bolero jacket will
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-28

Paris. Feb. 1s-It would really be funny.
If it were not so pitiful to see the efforts
being made in the American colony in
Paris to decorate the town" for the
national holidays. Washington birth
day brought out all the American flags
obtainable. but more were needed for the
Inauguration and when Mr. Mckinley
takes the oath" he will be honored on
this side Of the water. as wen as a home,
hy having number of flags strung up for
him.
Unfortunately. "an's not gold that gilt
ters," and there are a great many flags
sold as American Stars and Stripes" that
are strangers to Uncle Sam. Fancy
long strip Of bunting with one edge dark
blue. fiecked with yellow stars, and the
other edge a mass Of blue and gold stripes.
upon a white ground. Yet it is unques-
tionably the Stars and Stripes
In every drawing-room they are putting
up the best flags obtainable-for the gen.
Uine American ones are sold out-and on
every veranda they are out lacking up
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nickels and dimes come tumbling. They
are flattened and distorted, but so much
the better. He gathers up his pockets
full OF them and those that have escaped
mItilation he pounds with hammer.
little later, while the President is being
sworn in, he is selling the crushed silver
pieces as souvenirs of the Presidents
train. Each one a silver dollar will let
'em go for 70 cents
The button fakir, too. is very plentiful.
He is reaping his fortune in advance.
''Good-by, Baby Ruth Come Again,
Mrs. Cleveland. whats the Matter with
Mrs McKinley" and I'm the Next
President" are great favorites. This Is
the Happiest Minute of My Life"
Swear In" and That Is Cherry Tree
Truth" are selling like hot cakes, which,
by the way, are meeting with a regular
sale in the shape street waffies
Mckinley is sold under glass as a new
Photographic process, with face brilliant
ly colored, and his wife with pink cheeks,
blue lips and snow white nose, is beside
him, almost as popular
The oldest sale is the Inauguration day
umbrella. 1t always rains here when the
President takes the oath in the corridor
and the crowds must watch him in the tor
rents. The fakirs are selling Inaugural
ton day umbrellas from racks built for
them; and a curious fiag-like appearance
they present. Each panel is covered with
a different color-red, white and blue-in
succession, and all is of the coarsest of
waterproof cotton. Whether they will
continue waterproof remains to be seen.
Everybody buys one, for the weather has
been cloudy, and at the first drop of rain
the fakirs unfurl the umbrellas and urge
one upon you.
Washington monuments of George
town stone with the date of McKinley's
election and Inauguration are finding a
fair sale. They look slender, but are
warranted for one year" Some one
holder and more curious than the rest
asked the merchant selling them what he
meant by that statement. why. that
the paint won't rub off and that-that you
can't lose en-" replied the unabashed
gentleman.
The societies coming into Washington,
and they are arriving by every train, are
buying Mckinley canes. These have a
little glass on one side into which you look
and see the faces of Mr.. and Mrs. McKln-
ley pressed together, cheek to cheek. 1t
is doubtful if they ever had their pictures
taken thus, but there they are now.
The street fakirs include the street ca
terers. One of these, selling Mckinley 5
homemade gingerbread, took in so many
nickels that he was obliged TO fill his
| bakers apron with the coins.
1t is good for trade they say, and good
for Washington; but everybody will be
glad when the Presidents train comes
rolling in and the fakirs go walking away.
Eldredge M'Ewen.
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finished around the edge with a chenille
bordering of black.
A skirt CT fine tweed was worn by
another of the three, with large plaid in
green and gray. The lining was of the
green, which was turned up over to make
facing, The waist was of tiny green
ana white stripes in Madras cloth over
1t was worn little green silk bolero that
came to the waist line in the back, but
was quite short in front The front had
a double-breasted effect, the bolero hook
ing at one side At the neck there was a
little ruflie in black chiffon.
There win be many evening dresses for
the entertainment of Inauguration night
and these will be almost entirely made of
thin goods. canvas cloth, open work cree
pom. open-hgured silk and lace over some
faVorite color. Two small guests to the
studio were dressed in silk, both boy and
girl. The little lady wore a dress of dah-
lia-coiored silk brocaded in black. The ma
terial was Of the very heavy corded kind
that wears like iron. Though made after
a dress pattern il was to wear outside OF
a white house slip. A big white Bedford
cap went with il and a black sash made Of
bias silk.
The boy was dressed in suit of white
cloth with a silk face, with cap to match
and collar Of white and blue silk.
1t is suggested that the house gowns of
spring can be made from the left-overs Of
the previous season. Take dress of tan
so popular last spring. and treat 1T to
skirt trimming of wood-brown velvet. ar
ranged in points half way up the skirt.
Put vest Of yellow silk in the front and
drape over It a covering of beaded net lace
Then, as a browning touch. put on small
bolero jacket Of wood-colored velvet. and
YOU have a very nice little gown made
from a leftover. and one that can be worn
all the spring indoors Nina Goodwin
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-28

again 10 Mrs. Mckinley's iower-like face
Washington Irving described Dolly Mad
ison and her sisters, Mrs Cults and Mrs
Washington, as like the merry wives of
Windsor" Mrs. Madison he says,
was "A fine. pretty, buxom dame with
smile and a pleasant word for every body
Though born in North Carolina, Dolly
Madison was one of the Paynes OF Nir-
ginia, family famous for its beautiful
women. She was married to James Madl-
son when she was % years old. She was
a that time n young widow with A child
Al the time of her death she was "a very
gay old lady with much rouge on her
cheeks but lovely of character.
Less is known of Elizabeth K. Monroe
than OF any other white house lady. The
records say Of her that she was dignifed,
stately, and the possessor of face upon
which beauty was undeniably stamped.
OF Louisa Katherine Adams it was said
OF Louisa Katherine Adamsp it was said
that she established the ERA of good feel
ing" in London. While her husband was
minister to England she set a hospitable
table, to which all were invited, and at
which she discoursed on music, painting
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-28

flourish this year as the balloon sleeves
did year ago. The balloons. by The way,
are not out of style. They were 50 be-
coming that women still wear them. and
dresses a season old can be worn as
though fashioned this year-if they have
a bolcro. The newest balloons are quite
modified, and all the fuiness is at the
top
Another of the dresses was
Of crepon with queer lit
tie circular figure wrought in it
These figured crepons are immensely pop
ular. You see them made into outside
capes and house dresses, even into tea
gowns.
This little crepon dress had a skRt of
stone colored crepon with black figures
and a waist of Quaker gray cloth Of finest
texture. There is a new thin cloth. We
used TO call it nuns yelling. Now It is
crepine. II IS silky. soft and graceful and
is taking the place of the perishable chif
fon for waist fronts.
The bolerO worn with this was slashed
up the back. making very graceful points
that relieved the plainness of the back.
The front was cut precisely similar and
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-28
INAUGURATION FAKIRS.
THE CAPITAL oVERRUN WITH
SIDEWALK MERCHANTS.

Enough In One Day TO Last Four
Years-The Venus de Medici Sells
Freely For Mrs. Mckinley and the
Shell Trick Fascinates-PennSyI
yania Avenue wreatbed in Smiles
Over Its Jays
Washington, Feb. 26.-Washington is
ready.
The inauguration could take place to-
morrow if the great engine, blazing with
bunting and gay with huttering flags
would roll into the depot, sending Wash
ington quivering under her wheels. But
until it comes putting and snorting into
the station, Washington will hold it's
breath with expectancy.
The principal actors in the great fourth
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-28
THE SACRIFICE OF
VIOLA BRANDON.

Continued From Seventeenth Page.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-28

Wei. well, the matter is taken, ou uI, I
my hands now, at all events: II Vn oSnlg
were 1T to die. That IS ths Ms
VIOLA. i beg ,la of YOU QUITO 10 send clergy1s.
TO me here. - And now, goodoy' ~
God bless you, always" s,af
a moment or two later Viola canl,e ssnir
gering from the room. her hands clasi n
her temples. With unseeing eyes
glanced from face to face OF those 800
bled In the kitchen; then, as l,aunce ,,shif
brooke sprang forward a long, ~
cry escaped her lips, and she sank
ing into his arua
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-28

to the desire Of my life. The
thought ran through me like fire. and.
dashing into the Hollow, / struck the fall
len man on the head with the cudgel +
held IN my hand. lie sank back with a
groan and died. . / rushed from tho
spot, and returned hours later and over
heard your interview with Master Hubert
You know all that followed ;
But you do not know the remorse that
has torn me asunder ever since .
bound TO your vows-that accltrsed mar
rage would never have ruined your life
had decided on that weeks ago. : .
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-28

The agitation recently in progress in
France in favor OF the liberation of tho
Pole BerczewslSi, who, in 1867. was sem
tcnced TO life imprisonment for shooting
at the czar In the Bots de Boulogne at
Paris has led 10 the discovery that the
man who has been langushing for thirty
years in tho penal colony Of New Gale
d1nia he's now become insane, and that
his release. therefore, would be of no ben
eft whatever to him.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-28
HOUSE DRESSES FOR M'KINLEY.
Women of the American Colony Are Buy
ing Flags and Gowns in His Honor.

Many
Inauguratlon Ceremonies Abroad