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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-04-14
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-04-14

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The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-18
SPORTING NEWS.

Harvard tackles Princeton next.
Cleveland wants $500 for Young
and Childs.
Lucky Baldwin has arrived in San
Francisco from the east
John Purcell, the worlds champion
at heavy weight hammer throwing, is
dead
Thursday night comes the tug of
war. Griffo and Tracy meet in the
Coliseum then.
Anson recently offered s., 800 for the
release from Indianapolis Of Jack
Mccarthy
Cincinnati gave Rhines, Schriver.
Mccarthy, Gray and 81, 500 to Pittsburg
for Hawley and Elmer Smith.
Chicago, through AnsoIR values four
of its players at $35, ,0G0 Presumably
they are Lange, Dahlen, Griffith and
Callahan.
Washington, without a. left handed
pitcher, asked Freedman to set a value
on Seymour. The New Yorker wanted
$5, 600.
1t is said to be about settled that
Sam Morton, the old Northwestern
League manager, will have charge of
the Indianapolis team next season.
One hundred and twenty-five dollars
in cash is offered in prizes by the
League of American Wheelmen for
photographs of bad country roads. The
competition for these prizes remains
open until June 1, 1898 1t is not con
fined to members of the L. A. w, but
is open to all alike.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-18
DAILY NEWS OF SPORT.
IL. ). U. Managers Make Three
Propositions.
Nebraska Given Every OppOr-
tunity for Another Game.
Topeka Not Represented at the West
ern Association Meeting Today
at Cedar Rapids.

Lawrence, Nov. 1S.-With a view Of
securing a game with Nebraska at all
hazards the managers of the K. S. q.
football team have made Nebraska the
following liberal proposition with the
understanding that the game is to be
played in Kansas City.
The first proposition is that Nebras-
ka give Kansas $500 and take the entire
gate receipts; the second that Kansas
give Nebraska $500 and take the gate
receipts, and the third is thataNe ebras ska
take 80 per cent and Kansas 40 per cent
of the net gate receipts.
These three propositions were tele-
graphed to Manager Curry yesterday,
but he would not express an opinion
regarding them.
1t is not improbable that Manager
Curry may accept one of the three prop
ositiOnS submitted by Kansas, in which
event the game would come off on De-
cember 4. The people of Nebraska are
as anxious to see the two teams meet
AGAIN as are the residents of Kansas,
and the fairness of the Kansas offers
should convince the NebrasxanS that
if Manager Curry really wishes to test
tablish the champions for 1897 there is
no possible way for him to gracefully
retire from the field at this late date
He must either accept or reject the
Kansas propositions or show to the
public that Nebraska is afraid to again
meet the jayhaWkerS.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-18
CoRBErr ON FOOTBALL
Worse Than Pr-zs Fighting-Wou1d
Not Play it at All.

New York, Nov. 1S.-Jim Corbett wit
messed the Harvard-Yale foot ball
game, and criticised as follows in the
World:
''An games that require courage.
strength and endurance must be rough
to a certain extent. You cannot show
your powers of endurance unless those
powers are pushed.
In comparing foot ball with the
form of sport with which I have be-
come more or less prominently identi-
fed, L wish to say that as a mere ex-
hlbltlon OF brute force, boxing contests
cannot even start with foot ball. They
are not in the same class.
4 have met the best men that have
come into the prize ring within the
last ten years, and 1 am not afraid to
meet them again, but all the Kings
horses and all the Kings men could
not draw me into a foot ball game. I
have too much regard for my limbs.
1 could not afford to take the chances.
I have stood in the grand stand at the
Polo grounds and seen men and WOm-
en- who hold up their heads in horror
at the mere mention of a prize fight
applaud vigorously when a player of
the side antagOnistic to their Sympa-
thies was carried off the field crippled.
They thought that his loss would en-
able their favOrites to win the game.
The better the man, the more serious
his injuries, the louder they cheered.
There was no more sympathy for the
injured men in the hearts of those peo-
cient Romans who watched the glad
iatOrial contests for the victims torn to
pieces by the wild beasts but these are
the men who howl against boxing con-
tests.
They calculate every chance of in
jury very carefully. They train their
sturdy bodies to meet resistance at ev-
cry point where they know from exper-
ience that it is likely to be eXerted.
They are in the pink of physical condi-
ton. They know their superior
strength and it gives them pleasure to
exhibit it. They glory in their brute
force and strain it to its utmost with
out any idea of brutality-using the
word in a literal Sense-ever entering
their minds. No weakling is allowed
in a college foot ball team.
These men won't want sympathy
that is mistakenly wasted on them.
The chances of injury are very small.
and if a man is wounded in a contest
of that kind, he glOries in his scars.
Our college students cannot fight duels
as they do at Heidelberg, but they are
equally proud of honor scars received
on the foot ball fields. That reminds
me. 1 never yet saw a man who had
been in two or three hOtly contested
games of foot ball who did not come
out with some scar or other that he
would carry all his life. On the other
hand, I have been in a good many
boxing bouts and I defy anyone to find
a mark anywhere on my body to show
it. 1 have been hit pretty hard, too
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-18
NOTE ON A BIRD.
Telling of Starving Boy is Now Be
Heved Genuine.

Richmond, Ind. Nov. 1S.-Ten days
ago a sparrow was captured at the
home of c. B. Hunt in this city and
about its leg was tied note purpOrt-
ing to have been written by one Clar-
ence Proctor. The writer said that he
was starving to death in an old cabin
near New Paris, Ohio, a small town six
miles east of Richmond. A search
was instituted, but the boy was not
found.
A day or so ago a letter was received
by Marshal CalkinS. of New Paris,
from Mrs. Rosina Proctor, of India
napOlis, who states that she had read
of the peculiar circumstance. She
said her boy, Clarence Proctor, was on
his way from Toledo to Indianapolis,
and that she had not heard from him
since he started. description of the
lad was seen and several people in New
Paris remember of having seen him
there.
The search has begun again with re-
eneWed VigOr.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-18
1T Is A CONSPIRACY.
The Importation and Deportation of
Chinese a Great Money Max
ing Scheme.

Auburn, N. Y, Nov. &c. ]. Brown.
assistant United States attorney. who is
conducting the trial of cases in the Uni
ted States district court here is author
ity for a remarkable story in connection
with the smuggling of Chinese into this
country. Mr.. Brown said that the cost
of deporting Chinese has been very
great and has been on the increase,
which is also the case with the snug
Cling of the Chinese. The government,
Mr.. Brown says, lays the blame for the
greater part of the Illicit traffic on the
employees of the Canadian Pacific rail-
road and Attorney General AcKenna,
it is stated, will institute an action
against the corporation. The govern
ment AYERS, according to Mr.. Brown,
that the railway employees cOnSpire
with government officials to break the
law. A bill of costs is being compiled,
and as each deportation costs $500, the
total will be very large. When this is
done, Mr.. Brown says, the action will
be commenced. If it can be proved
that any other railroad has been a par
ty to breaking the law, an action
against it will also be brought.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-18
SPANS AUTONOMY PLAN.
Makes Cuba Independent in Almost
Al but Name.

Madrid, Nov. 1S.-The Spanish cabinet
last night discussed Cuban autonomy, the
principal basis of which is the enjoyment
of all the rights accorded by the Spanish
constitution without any curtailment
whatever; the identity of political and
civil rights for Spaniards and Cubans,
without distinction of race or color, and
the creation of a Cuban chamber, all the
members of which are to he elected by
popular vote; a Cuban senate to be ere
ated later on.
The chamber is to be empowered to vote
the budget expenditure. make laws con-
trolling public service, establish customs
tariffs and decide the relative responsi-
bility of the executive officers.
The motherland will have exclusive con-
troll of international affairs, military and
naval matters and the organization OF the
tribunals.
Spain also retains the direction of the
political and civil laws of a national
character and retains control of the ex-
penditures of the same character.
The executive power will be vested in a
governor general, with deputies appoint
ed by himself.
Both the governor general and his dep
uties will be responsible to the Cuban
chamber
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-18
NEARLY 100000 ENGLISH
Are Represented on the Arbitration
Petition 20 be Presented to
the Sanata

Washington, Nov. 1S.-W. r. Cremer
the well known English advocate of in
ternatiOnal arbitra ton, is in the city
for the purpose of presenting the mem
bers of the senate a monster petition
from the trade Organizat ton people of
England in favor of adoption of a
treaty upon the subject. Speaking of
his mission, Mr.. Cremer said:
The petition which I have brought
with me on my present visit is differ
ent from those I brought on my for
mer trips. Those We're signed by per-
sons in official life only, while that
now to be presented represents en-
phatically a peoples movement. The
signers are over 1000 elected officers
and represent 275O.O0O members of the
prOVident, industrial and trade Organi-
cations of the country. The petition is
a perfectly unique instrument, and I
do not think any such expression of
opinion has ever been elected from the
industrial classes before.
The presentation of this petition to
the senate viii show that the common
people of Great Britain are in favor of
the principle for which it stands and
will disarm any suspicion that it is a
scheme favored by the official classes
only"
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-18
MRS. LEASE SAYS NO.
Declines the Offer of a Summer Resi-
dence in Minnesota.

st. Paul, Mimi, Nov 18.-When Ig-
natius DOnnelly in his paper proposed
to raise a fund for the purpose of clear
ing the mortgage from the home of
Mrs. Lease, of Kansas, A. r. Holston,
a leading Polk county (A1inn) POpuIist,
suggested that it would be a graceful
act to buy and present to Mrs. Lease
a residence in CrOOkStOn, that county,
with the request that that lady made
that her home in the future. Mr.. HOl-
ston wrote to a number of his friends
in the POpulist party, and in a few days
had returns from enough to assure the
purchase of as fine an establishment as
there is in the city.
Mr.. Donnelly urged Mrs. Lease to ac-
cept the offer. She objected owing to
the severity of the climate, and Mrs.
Lease was then asked to make Crook
stOn her summer home and lecture in
the east or on the Pacific coast during
the winter, thus avoiding the severity
of the climate. This offer was also de
clined.
This answer of Mrs. Lease has caused
the abandonment of the plan, but her
friends at CrOokstOn propose to do
large share toward the work of lifting
the mortgage from her Kansas home.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-18
FLORIDA OPENS HER DOORS
All Quarantine Restrictions Have
Been Removed

Jacksonville, Fla, Nov. 18.-The end
of all interference with railroad traffic
by yellow fever restrictions has practi-
cally been reached.
Matters are now virtually in a nor
NAL condition. The quarantine regula-
tions in Florida have been so far mOdi-
fed as to permit passengers from all
northern points to enter the state with
out trouble of annoyance.
The Louisville and Nashville railroad
and Plant system, which practically
hold the key to the Florida travel
from the northwest announce the re-
sumption of through sleeping car serv-
ice to Jacksonville and other points
via Montgomery.
This restores business with Cincin-
natl, Chicago. st. Louis and elsewhere
to the usual plane.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-18
MANS TNHUMANTTY.
Worse Than Cuffs and Blows is the
Harm Done the Stomach.

1t is unfortunate for mankind that
there are men who, for the gain of money,
viii adulterate food intended for the
human stomach Savage blows are
given to the health by harmful articles
placed in food to cheaper, or add taste
or color.
think that we are made to suffer tenn
porary illness and perhaps permanent
disease brought about by authorizations
in food that was purchased for pure
All grain wheat or cereal coffees''
thus far tested that have a distinct
coffee taste, are cOncOctions made up
of part low grade coffee or coffee es-
sence and sold to people for pure Ger
cal coffee
The original Postum Cereal Food
Coffee is believed to be the only pure
article of the kind that is palatable.
The pleasant flavor of the middle
grades of Java is obtained by the pro-
cess of manufacture discovered by its
inventor after many months of expert
ment.
Counterfeiters arose who found it i'm
possible to produce a cereal coffee with
the taste of Postum and therefore have
universally resorted to mixture of
low grade coffee to produce it.
True, thousands of people put one
half to twO-thirds Postum in their cof-
fee when unwilling to part with the
narcotic effect of coffee; (this we can
not prevenD but they know what they
are mixing, which is quite a different
affair than to use a cereal coffee you
expect to be pure, and find that the dis
honest maker has put in a portion of
the very article the user of cereal cof-
fee seeks to avoid.
The great Physicians. Food Experts,
Athletic Trainers, Lawyers, Editors
and brain workers in general are in
large numbers using Postum Cereal
Food Coffee, for the benefit derived in
nourishment and health. A ten days
trial will begin the work of renewal of
health, and if properly prepared so
that it comes to the table black. rich
and delicious, it will never be aban-
doneds
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-18
The PACE THAT KILLS!

A distinguished German physician de-
cIares this to be the age of Nervousness,
and thinks the civilized race is deteriorat-
ing under it Our lunatic asylums are
filing up at a frightful rate; women who
should be plump and rosy are pale and
emaciated; school children, Instead of be-
ing Joyous. active, vigorous, are debili-
tated. overworked and unhappy; business
men are engines of perpetual WORRY and
victims of insomnia; social life is a nerve
destroying whirl of excitement; cities are
clamorous with distraction of railroads.
traffic, manufacture and all hustling af-
fairs that destroy repose and murder
quiet. Everything is at high pressure.
Headlong, mad activity is the law of cir
cunstances-
famous for curing Nervous Disea ses where
other remedies had failed. They Will
make you strong and well try them.
Fifty cents and 81 per box at druggists.
or sent direct Write US for testimonials
of. cures. Eureka Chemical & Mfg. Co..
La Crosse Wis
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-18
INDooR BASEBALL.
First Practice Game was Played in the
st. Louis Coliseum Yesterday.

St Louis, Nov. 18-The first prac-
t1ce game of base ball was played at
the Coliseum yesterday afternoon.
Two teams, composed of the best local
and amateur professional players. Bill
ly Kuehne, the Minneapolis third base
man. captained one team, and Frank
Pears the other
Jake Bene, Costigan, Bader, RicIs,
Stamm and others made up the Sport
ing News team; Pears, LalIy, Kuehne,
Genins, Crooks and Whistler on the
other. They played nine innings and
the score was Il to 13 in favor of the
professionals. The game abounded
with fast work and exciting situations.
AS it was the first indoor game ever
played in ST. Louis, there was lot of
fumbling and misplays due to the pc
culiarities of the indoor game. But
the game is fast and exciting and the
players are immensely taken with it
and predict for it an immense success.
The first public game will be played
on Thanksgiving evening in the Coli
scum.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-18
CYCLE MEN IN A POOL.
Tney Will Try to Fix the Prices and
Control the Output.

Toledo. o.. Nov. 1S-A prominent BIZ
cycle manufacturer OF this city today
announces that a pool has been formed
of ten or twelve of the leading manu-
facturers of medium grade bicycles.
and practically control the output. It
Is said that the following concerns will
be in the combination:
Smell Cycle Fittings company, Tole-
do: Kirk Manufacturing company, To-
ledo; Western Wheel Works, Chicago;
A FeatherstOne & Co. Chicago; St
Nicholas Manufacturing company,
Chicago; Indiana Bicycle company, In
dianapOlis; Schleuter Manufacturing
company, Cincinnati; Crawford Manu-
featuring company, Hagerstown, Md.
Reading Manufacturing company
Reading, Pa, and Acme Manufacture
ing company, Reading.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-18
HURRY FOR BIG GUNS.
Two Big Establishments are Working
Night and Day.

Philadelphia, Pa, Nov. 1S.-F'or more
than two months people living in TiOga
and NicetOwn have commented upon
the fact that the big Midvale steel
works have not had d shut down even
for Sunday, and that the jarring noise
of the big trip hammers has been as
penetrating at midnight or in the ear
ly hours of the morning as during the
day.
Sickness has been the only plea that
would permit any of the several hun
dred employees to enjoy a days rest,
and three relays OF men have been al
ternately kept at a high tension All
this unusual eXertOn, it leaked out to-
day, is due to a hurried order of the
government for an increase of arma-
ment.
The order placed with the Midvale
steel works is for so 10-inch disappear
ing guns and ten 12-inch mOrtarS- One
of the big guns contracted for with the
Aiidvale works is a 1O-inch wire gun
which Will weigh so tons, and is eX-
pected to hurl 500 pound shell with
a muzzle velocity of SIS feet per sec
ond.
The greatest length of this gun is
S715 feet, and it will be employed in
coast defense.
An open gate of the main building at
the Midvale disclosed to the view
three unfinished castings of the
ten inch pattern To one side of the
furnaces, upon temporary wooden
mOuntings, We're two weapons appar-
emily ready for transportation. The
highly polished steel reflected the
faces of the wOrkmen who stood
around.
While the work of constructing guns
has been pushed so assiduOusly at the
N1idVale works. equal activity has been
waged at the big works Of the South
wark Foundry and Machine company,
where the war department has a con-
tract for ten 1O-inch disappearing gun
carria ges and ten 12-inch mortar car
Tiages.
The Southwark company has COM
3iVered them to the government. There
fs enough work on the unfinished con-
tracts at both the NIidvale and the
Southwark companies plants to keep
busy the full force of men at each
place for several months. There Will
be no shut down at either place for
the holiday vacation.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-18
MINERS UNION OBJECTS.
Causes a Football Game to be Called
Off ct Butte.

Leadville Col. Nov. 1S.-Somewhat of
a sensation, was created in local foot
ball circles owing to the receipt of a
telegram, from Butte Mont, in regard
to the football match to have been
played there Saturday.
Arrangements had been completed be
tween a team of Colorado players and
the Butte's for the match but a tele-
gram from the manager of the Butte
team states that the game must be
called off, owing to the objection of the
Butte Miners Union to several of the
to the union The players objected to
are members in the National Guard
and the act of the union is supposed to
arise from the fact the militia was sta
toned at LeadvilIe during the recent
strike.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-18
AMERICAN HONEY WELCOME
But Americans Themselves are Not
Wanted in Cuba.

London, Nov. 1S.-The Times COM
menting this morning on the Cuban re-
form scheme, says:
TT remains to be seen if Senior Sag
asia has the courage to face the dan
gers of the Catalonian disaffectiOn by
granting to the Cubans control of the
customs. The difficulty in the way of
accepting American Intervention is
still greater, involving not only the GER
tain ruin of the cabinet but grave dan
ger to the dynasty and to social order.
Spain is probably willing to admit
American capital into Cuba on fair
terms and to grant large trading con
cessions. The essence of Spanish poll
cy, however, is to exclude foreign in
f1uences and to maintain the privileged
position of the mother country. How
far the Spanish government will recede
from this position it would be rash to
Dredict -
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-18
5rnssy, ,8nA,S ,S&oyovven
KANSAS CITY, MO.
JILTED AND ROBBED.
A Russian Countess Kills Herself in
the Edin burgh Police Station.


Edinburgh, Nov. 1S-In police station
here last evening a woman apparently
about 20 years Of age and fashionably
dressed but in the deepest mourning, who
said she was the Countess Teresa Ulfeld,
a Russian, adding that she had come to
Scotland fortnight ago via Copenhagen,
and that she was in mourning for her
dead lover. complained to the police Of
hcer on duty that she had been robbed
money. The countess was apparently in
great distress. and as the officer turned
round to enter her complaint in the sta
ton blotter she shot herself through the
temple with revolver.
Only a few shillings were found on her
person. An examination Of her rooms IN
the hotel where she had been stopping
developed the fact that all her c0rre-
spondence had been torn up in such small
pieces as to render it almost utterly inn
DossibIe to reconstruct it. She had given
her address as the Cloister of St. Marie,
Moscow. Two photographs were found
among her effects. One was that of
Young officer in the Russian army and
was signed Alexander Romanoff." It
is supposed to be that of the fiance. The
other photograph was that Of a Span
ish officer who had visited the countess
since her arrival in Edinburgh The
hotel people say the deceased countess
was well educated and had evidently
been accustomed to move in the best So
ciety.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-18
HARvARD-U. OF P. GAME.
Sale of Tickets for Saturdays Game
Has Been Unprecedented

Philadelphia, Nov. 1S-The advance
sale of seats for the University ofPenn-
sylvania-Harvard football game
which takes place on Franklin field on
Saturday, has been unprecedented. The
indications are that over 25, 600 persons
will witness the great struggle.
Tickets for the north and south
stands have been entirely disposed of
sold so rapidly that the management
have found it necessary to erect a new
east stand. This will have a seating
capacity of about $500 and will make
the total seating capacity of the grand
stand something over 1000.