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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-31

L,oR RENT-CoNvENIENT FLAT OF
n five rooms at 1879 Third avenue. Apply
10 v. Dauber.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-31

Licensed % Wed
Joseph Arthur Martin Hillsdale
Miss kitty A. johnson HiIlsd sls
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-31
EoE RENT.

L,oR REST--A 5RooM COTTAGE, so2
- kighth avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-31
} ART OF ADVERTISING.

The Shire widest Advertisers prove
That best of business shapsrs,
To keep trade on . constant move
Are always daily papsfs--Efchange
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-31

LIOR RENT-A 5ROOI HOUSE ON
y Fourth avenue and Eleventh street APP
ply ut 1lO3 Fourth avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-31

Ingram carpets good new full patterns worth asc
our prce I5c carry over 800 rolls of different makes
from 1c Sc 2c 35c 4oc 5aHc $50 5Sc and up the
highest grade that made frame Body Brussels from
Use up.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-31

LNOR sALE-DOST PAY FANCY PRICES
~ for building lots when you can get desir-
able Locations within II minutes walk of the
honrt the city at from SIPS to 500 For fur
Their Information apply to z. j. Burns under
the Harper house.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-31
MISCELLANEOUS.

7 oST-A WHITE SILK WAIST IN SPEN-
II Ger square. F nder return to THE ARGUS
once and be rewarded.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-31

I ,oST--A DARK RED WALLET CONTAIN.
II ing - bill and some valuable papers
FINDER please return wallet and papers TO
Reldy Bros. and keep the money.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-31

WANTED-TO LOAN MONEY Or Ola
w nonds. watches, jcwelry, hard ware,
muscal instrJments. bicycles. clothing, dry
goods. furniture, etc. Highes. cash prices
paid for second hand goods of all kinds also.
The above goods for sale e. half the usual
store prices. Al busiress transactions stric lily
confidential. His ncg number and location,
1dsi Second Avenue. Don't forget IL. ]. w.
Jones.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-31

"ATED-SALESMA SALARY PAID
w weekly; experience unnecessary; perma-
nent. Brown bros. Co, Chicago.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-13
HEARING WILL BE GIVEN PARTIES
INTERESTED In SECTION 22
OF THE TARIFF.
TEAS FROM THE ORIENT
AFFECFED BY DISCRIMINATION
WHEN CARRIED ON CANA
DIAN ROADS.
CARRYING TRADE OF UNCLE SAM.
More Than Half OfIt Done in Britt
ish Vessels, and But One-Tenth
by American Seameh.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.-Attorney
General McKenna, and Solicitor Cen
eral Reynolds are making a careful
study of the questions involved in the
construction of section % of the new
tariff act, and it is expected that an
opinion covering the subject will be
sent to Secretary Gage early in the
coming week. The main question at
issue is whether teas and other goods
shipped from China and Japan by YES
sci to Vancouver, and thence in bond
by rail to the United States, are sub
1ect to the discriminating duty i'm
posed by section %. It is stated at the
treasury department that very large
proportions of the teas and other pro-
oucts OF China and Japan, are so
shipped to New England and other
Eastern cities at a less rate than
is charged by the American lines
OF railroads from San Francisco. The
eastern exporters Of these commodi-
Ties therefore are said to be opposed to
any construction of the act which
would impose the additional 10 per cent
duty. The Boston & Maine railroad
company has asked to be heard on the
question pending its final determina-
ton, and the attorney general will hear
them Saturday. 1t is understood that
either ex-senator Edmunds or Former
Assistant Secretary Hamlin will appear
In behalf of the company. 1t is also
probable that some of the American
transcontinental lines will be repre-
sented at the hearing on the other side
of the question.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-13
WHAT is CURRENCY REFORM.

There are few newspapers in the
country whose antics on the currency
question are more incomprehensible
than those of the Boston Herald 1t as
serts itself to be a friend of sound
money" 1t was as urgent and ardent
as any journal in the country in OPP
posing the election of Mr.. Bryan, and
in exposing the dangers of the single
silver standard. 1t pretends to be in
favor of currency reform" Yet 1t is
as positive in opposing the retirement
of the greenbacks. Referring to the
Indianapolis conference and the sup
posed plans of Mr.. Gage, it says:
The known desire of the Indianapolis
people to retire the greenback weakens their
popularity, for allegiance to the greenback
is today almost a test of party loyalty in
Republican circles. We have always thought
that great mistake was made at the In
dianapolis conference in tying the move
ment for currency reform to demand for
the withdrawal of government notes to make
room for bank notes. That demand is both
unsound and unpopular, and its prompt aban-
donment would open TO the currency reform
ers a practicable door which is now closed
| to them
1t would confer a favor upon large
number of people if the Herald, which
is not an obscure sheet whose opin-
| ions would be of no value, were to
outline to us what, in its view, con-
| stitutes currency reform" If the
greenbacks are good money, then there
seems to be no stopping place between
the use of $346, 100000 of them and their
use universally, instead Of metallic
money and national bank notes. The.
greenback is pure fiat money. 1t is a
mere promise to pay which is never
paid; and, under the federal law re-
quiring these to be issued as soon as
redeemed, never can be paid. If it is
| right, and if it is expedient for a gov
eminent to maintain this kind of
| forced loan to the arbitrary amount of
$346, 100000, we can see no reason why
it should not add to that so on 100 per
| cent, or any other amount So much
| for the logic of the case.
Practically speaking, We all konw
that financial panics and the difficulties
of the treasury are enormously in
The fact that they must be redeemed
over and over again in gold as often
as presented puts the treasury at the
mercy of the brokers, and leaves no
| relief open save the continued issue of
bonds or a suspension of specie pay
ments. That danger will present itself
over and over again as often as
| periods of depression, which are sure
to happen, recur. What advantage
there can be in maintaining a stratum
| Of fiat money in our currency, whose
| only use is to originate or aggravate
| the worst evils from which we can suf-
| fer, passes the average comprehension.
How any currency system can be ere
| formed and still leave in it the green
| back element, an everlasting object
lesson in unsound finance and a. per-
petual menace to the treasury and the
people, is a question which the position
Of the Herald seems to US to REQUIRE
that it should explain and defend
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-13
KLONDIKERS ORGANIZED.
Regular Military Expedition Being,
Made by Gold Hunters.

SEATTLE, Wash, Aug. ia large
and we'll equipped party for the Klon-
dixie arrived here from New England
today. The members are organized on
military basis, the captain being
Arthur e. Seymour, son of a well
known mind reader. Each member of
the party contributed $1,000 and each
agrees to share alike in all the ex-
penditures and profits of the expedi-
ton. The party was the first to leave
Boston for the new gold. fields and
their departure from that city on Aug.
4 was the the occasion for a real
demonstration, thousands of people as
sembling at the railway station to see
them off. Mr.. Arthur E. Seymour. of
Haverhill, organized the party and is
chief. Mr.. J. G. Williams, of Charles
town, a member of the party. is
seventy-four years old and a Califor-
mia forty-niner. He will instruct his
company on mining and the usages of
mining companies Their outfit is one
of the most elaborate and costly. There
is nothing extravagant about it, but
every necessary article is there and
every one is of the best possible quail
ity. The party numbers twenty-one
persons. Their passage was engaged
by telegraph some days ago on the
steamer Humboldt, which is due to sail
from Seattle for st. MichaeFs next
Sunday morning and their tickets
guarantee them arrival at Dawson
City before the river is frozen up.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-13
AN OLD CONTROVERSY.

In letter, published in another col
umn, Mr.. ]. M. Rogers raises anew
an issue Of the last campaign which
it is scarcely worth while to discuss
again at the present time. 1t was
well understood then, and is now, that
the grave objection to the portions of
the Chicago platform referred to was
not to its verbtage, but to the
expressed public intention, as declared
by the speeches of Altgeld, Tillman
and others in the convention which
ratified this platform. For example,
as we have said over and over again.
there is not only no more objection to
a declaration against arbitrary inter
ference by federal authorities in local
affairs" than there is to one in favor of
the right Of free speech. Neither is
there any more reason for incorporat-
ing that declaration in a political plat
form than for placing in it condem-
nation of the SUSPENSION Of the right
OF habeas corpus. No interference by
the federal authorities in local affairs
is countenanced or known. The rea-
son why this plank appeared was fully
explained at the time, and was intend
ed as reflection and condemnation Of
Mr.. Cleveland's policy in restoring Or
der during the Chicago riots, and a.
vindication of Altgelds anarchism as
against the courageous and patriotic
course of the president. AS we say.
there is no conceivable advantage in
threshing over this old straw again.
except to clear away the obscurity of
misrepresentation that may easily be
made.
Mr.. Rogers, we think, is fully aware
Of the circumstances under which the
Chicago platform was adopted and
their bearing upon party doctrine and
party prospects. The G l o b has put
itself on record in the matter of gov
eminent by injunction. 1t is opposed
to any unwarranted exercise of au-
thority of this description by the
courts, and has shown how men upon
WuOLu II DedrS call nulllfy 1t,
as the strikers have done in Pennsyl-
vania, by observing the law and keep
ing the peace. 1t believes that the
supreme court of the United States
should be held inviolate from partisan
attack; and, in that connection, is un
able to discover why any vicious in
reference with the composition or in
dependence of the court in 1861 or 1866.
or any other year, would be an ex-
cuse for it's political perversion in 1897
or 1901
It is generally admitted now that,
If the sections Of the Chicago plat
form referred to, which were little dan
gerous in themselves, but stood to the
country, under the interpretations
placed upon them by TilIman and Alt
geld, for something that threatened
the rule of law and order, had been
eliminated, the result might have been
very different. The same sections, with
out the same coloring given to them by
the men in question, might be con-
strued not only as harmless, but as
patriotic.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-13
AMERICAN CoMMERCE.
Ninety-One Per Cent of 1t Carried
in Foreign Vessels.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.-According
to the records of the treasury DEPART
ment British vessels are carrying over
% per cent of the merchandise of the
United States, both imports and ex-
ports. Examination of figures for the
first six months of this year show the
total imports in vessels have been OF
the value Of $432, 6S9,9S and of domes-
tic exports in vessels, $452, 300, 900. The
percentage of imports carried in Amer
lean vessels is 1886, and in foreign YES
sells, 1856: Of imports in vessels the
British have carried 55S9 per cent:
Germans, 11.49; French, 5.46; Dutch,
$50, and all other foreign, S.51, of do
mestic exports, only $40 being in Amers
lean bottoms, 91.S1 being carried in vess
sells Of other nations. British vessels
carry 6S.23 per cent of the value of
exports by vessels: German, 8.92;
French, 2.19; Norwegian, 2.98, and ali
other foreign vessels, 9.54
The value of imports carried in
American vessels for the six months
ending June 80, was $66, 42S, 149, and Of
that carried in foreign vessels, 1885,
26l,8 32, and the value of exports for the
same period carried in American YES
sells was S37, 113, 16S, and that of foreign
vessels, S415,6S7 ,237. During the first
half of the present year the value of
imports in cars and other land We
hicles was $2O,O6S,1 49, and of exports.
$27, 297, 61S
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-13
HELP 1T ALONG.

We are glad to see that public-spir-
tied citizens have taken the necessary
steps to provide for the attraction and
entertainment of visitors in st. Paul
during fair week The movement
ought to have been originated long
and abundant support to do all that is
to be done in the short time now re-
naming. The people who come from
all parts of the Northwest to these
ton on the fair grounds spend their
evenings in one or the other of them.
They will go where there is most to
amuse them; and Minneapolis has long
had under way extensive plans for
identifying the city and for a street
carnival entertainment. 1t is not yet
too late for st. Paul to make such
preparations as will give every one of
our visitors a good time and send him
away with the highest opinion of the
hospitality and wide-awakenes of st.
1uA, OuI IiSAC 10 hOt d AAiOihiChI ~ Nc
lost. We hope that the gentlemen who
ask financial assistance for the under
taking will be met in a generous spirit,
and that all will be done which can be
done to set the city in array for en-
tertainment and to bring here and send
away pleased and rejoicing the crowds
who are going to move down upon the
Twin Cities in about three weeks. Let
every man be ready to do his part in
a work that is for the interest and
credit of the whole city
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-13
Chippevvas Want More Cash.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.-There is pros
pect that the government may be called upon
through congress to make some additional
payment to the Chippewa Indians on account
of the timber sales cthe reservations in
Minnesota. w. f. Campbell, of White Earth,
who is here representing the Chippewas, has
filed with the commissioners of Indian affairs
a claim for about 100000 as the alleged differ
ence between the sales of timber made by
the government and the claimed actual
amount of timber, according to the show
ing made by Special Indian Agent George J..
as shown by the Wright. report, aggregated
several million feet, and as the basis OF the
law for the disposition of the timber is that
pewas, the Indians also set up the claim that
the timber was Sold without their consent.
and they put in Slaim Dior the cost of the
estimate of the timber.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-13

upper, one of Canada's Tory protec-
tlonlsts, run foul of the Dingley act
when he landed in New York city the
other day with his pockets stuffed with
silver candlesticks and other jubilee
trlnkets, brought back as presents to
friends, as he was compelled to pay
some $50 duty on them. And Upper
Junior TUNED and scolded about the
outrage of taxing few little trinkets,
out he and the friends for whom the
presents were intended got a lesson in
free trade that they will not soon I'M
learn. Seven years ago it was tin plate
that was most Instrumental in over
throwing McKifileyfsm This time
nothing in all the schedules will be so
eHect1ve in smashing Dingleyism as is
the provision in regard to tourists eff
1ects. 1t is making influential free
traders every day right in the center
or protectionism.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-13
AT THE THEATERs.


Without doubt f'Incog'' is one of the most
ingenious of native farces. That it possesses
intrinsic merit-and the intrinsic value of a
farce is measured. by its laugh-producing
quahties-was Enthusiastically demonstrated at
the metropolitan opera house last night, where
the GlHen-Neil company convulsed large
audience with presentation of this farce
by no means as snappy and brisk as could
be wished. But in spite of the evidences of
unfamil1arity with the lines which caused
some OF the best scenes to drag the farce
trlumphed, and the company basked in its re-
Hected light. This is not to say that an az
gregat1on of professional tyros, or rather of
tyros in the profession, could give an enjoy
able performance of this play, for the Giffen-
Nell company does not belong to that cate
CORY. Without the efforts of capabIe nlavers
neither lncog' nor any other farce comedy
or tragedy can be successfully presented
Ihere are capable players in this organiza-
ton, and they atoned in a large measure for
the pauses that were filled by the pron1n-
ter's voice. So, all in all, Mrs. Pacheco's de.
hghtful farce Jared WELL
lhere are three mistaken identities in
1ncog,' and thus the foundation and insnir-
alton of farce are broadened and intensified
The ludicrous combinations that ensue when
the wife OF Incog No. hangs upon the necks
of Ineogs Nos. 1 and at various times and
places are only equaled by the confusion
that arises when the fances of Incogs 1 and 2
successfully fall upon the necks of all three
much to the amazement and horror of each
other and everybody else. The tangle very
naturally winds up in lunatic asvlunn
where all three Incogs are brought face to
face in the presence of the women who have
kissed them all.
James NeiI, Herschel Mayall and Robert
Morris were Incogs Nos 1, 2 and re-
spectively. Their representations were breezy
and spontaneous and their make-ups sufi-
GENTLY similar to warrant the other dramatis
personae in installing them for each other.
making due allowance for dramatic license,
The complexion of one. however, was more
forfd than either of the Others This little
discrepancy, however, can be easily effaced
]. B. Everham's conception of the character
of the irritable Gen. Stanhope is quite cor
rect, but his performance will improve as he
becomes more familiar with his lines. So
will Mr.. NeiI's.
Kate Blancke as the fearful wife of Incog
No. 2, Edythe Chapman as the betrotbed of
Incog No. 1, and Anne Blancke as the
fance of No. 8 were entirely adequate, and
apparently familiar with their lines Edward
Tittman's characterization Of DR.. Hartman
the insanity expert in charge of the santa
rum, was creditable. Same bill the re-
mainder of the week.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-13
wATERsFoUTs AT CLEVELAND
Do Some Damage in the City, But
Cause No Fatalities

CLEVELAND, O., Aug. IL = A
strange phenomenon was seen by resi-
dents of this city at about o'clock
this morning. Five dark and enormous
water spouts were seen far out in the
lake moving in an easterly direction.
One of the whirling water spouts went
traversing the distance from the west
ern horizon, where they were first
sighted by the lookout at the life saw
ing station to the eastern horizon,
where it finally disappeared in fifteen
minutes The largest spout struck the
shore at the foot of Coe street with
terrible force The large gate of the
Avery Stamping company was twisted
from it's hinges and the large timbers
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-13
PHYLE FINDS TROUBLE.
Base, Ball Pitcher Mixes Up in n
Street RrawI

Pitcher willie" Phyle, of the local
base ball team, did not accompany
the team on the present trip because
Of game leg. but he was sufficiently
recovered from his injury last night
to get into a street fight in which
he came out second best with enough
cuts and bruises to again put him on
the sick list. 1t was a go-as-you-
please sort of an encounter and canes.
played equally as important parts as
hsts. When the fray was over evil
lie was very much disabled in ap-
pearance and bled copiously from sew
eral cuts about the head, looking like
anything but the dapper young man
who was hired to win applause at
Lexington park. Jack Barnett Witness
ed the fight, and though at one time
Phyle had two adversaries to attend
to, he took no part in the mix"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-13
UNCLE SAM CANNOT sMUCGLE
Barred From Bringing in Canadian
Stone for Breakwater.

WASHINGTON, Aug 12.-Unless the
treasury department can be brought to
modify it's construction of the tariff
law in respect to the duty on stone
imported for government use, one of
the largest engineering works now in
progress in this country, the construc-
ton of the breakwater at Buffalo, will
be brought to a standstill. The con-
tract calls for stone from the Ca
madam quarries across the lake, but
the collector at Buffalo notified the
war department that he must assess
duty on the stone. The engineers have
no money to pay this duty, and so the
work must stop unless the treasury
officials relent. The stoppage would
involve serious loss to the government.
for the contractors have their laborers
and plant on the ground and might
secure heavy damages for demurrage.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-13
SCIENTISTS WILL ELECT.
Prof. Putnam, of Cambridge. Ia
Slated for President

DETROIT, Mich, Aug. 12.-The NOM
mating committee of the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science met tonight at the Hotel CadfI-
lac and decided to present to the gen
eral session tomorrow morning the
names of Prof Frederick Warde Put
nam, of Cambridge, Mass, for presi-
dent, and Prof L. o. Howard, of
Washington, D. c., for permanent sec
rotary. The treasurer, Prof. r. S.
Woodward, of Columbia college, N. Y,
holds over. The next convention of
the association will be held in Boston,
1898. Interest in the work does not
abate A long list of the technical
papers was disposed Of today. To-
days speakers were H. P. Parmalee,
Warren K. Moorehead, Alice Fletcher,
Prof. F. w. Putnam, William Wallace
Tooker, Harlan J. Smith and Others
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-13

litical offenses is abolished, and the
press is relieved from state censorship.
The treaty goes into effect when rati-
fled by two states, a fact already ac-
complished. and the president takes Of
flee Sept. IS. The presidency falling
first to Costa Rica will induce her to
sign, and Guatemala will doubtless fol-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-13
Purchasers Lose Their Claims

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.-Acting Secretary
Ryan. of the interior department, TODAY re-
in the matter of forfeited lands of the Mobile
and Girard land grant in Alabama involving
about 100000 acres. The lands of the uncom-
pleted road were forfeited under the general
forfeiture of railroad lands but the law con-
tanned provision protecting bona fide pur-
chasers of lands which had been patented to
the company. The decision today denies that
right and holds the forfeited lands as re-
stored to the public domain.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-13
The Pension List.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 12-Northwestern
pensions were granted yesterday as follows:
Minnesota-Original, Horace Pickit, Fergus
Falls. Widow Sarah A. Morgan, Appleton.
South Dakota-Original, Dennis Foley, Meuno.
Wisconsin-Origlnal Gustav Wolf, Cross
Plains; Daniel Depke, Princeton. Supple
mentary, Hover Hoverson, Folsom. Restora-
ton and additional, Antoine Molsener, Med
ford: Honora Franey. Green Bay; Mary A.
Hudson, Oakland; Emma Liesch Alma; mi
nors of John Kloor Mcmillan; Maria Magda-
lene Thon, Mcmillan.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-13

scattered in every direction. A box
car on the track at the side of the
shipping house was drawn sixty feet
one way on the track and then blown
to the end of the track III the opposite
direction. Windows were broken and
several large sections of the roofs,
from surrounding sheds were blown
off. Then the force Of the Whirlwind,
for such it was, seemed to spent it
self No one was injured.