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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-03
WANTS MORE TRACKS
Terminal Company Before tbs
Council With Another
Application.
DESIRES TO CROSS THE LBvEE.

Privileges Also Asked on the River Front
Between Seventeenth and Eighteenth
Streets. Which Would Practically Render
Improvements There Useless-Aldermen
Not Friendly to New Move.
One of the obvious reasons for the
opposition on the part of the Termi-
nal company to the Improvement of
the Rock Island levee, which has SO
long been apparent, came to light
this afternoon, when at a special
meeting of the city council, resolu-
ton was introduced by Aid. Boney
johnson, on behalf of Promoter Blair,
practically asking the municipality
to deliver up to the latter's corporation
the Rock Island river front. The
resolution, which was at once re-
ferred to the street and alley COM
mittee, was accompanied by blue
print. and asks permission to con-
of all tracks at present exist
ing on Second avenue from
the west line of Seventeenth street to
the east line of Eighteenth rect, and
at the latter point to eros 4south-
easterly direction and con, It with
the Burlington tracks. 1t also asks
the privilege of building a single track.
beginning at point about the center
of the block between Seventeenth and
Eighteenth streets, to run in a north
westerly direction across the levee to
the warehouse that the company
proposes erecting just west of the
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ENEMY OF FARMER.
Such Was William Payne When
He Voted for the Ware.
house Bill.
ENACTED BY LAST LEGISLATURE.

Printed In the Statute Books of the state
of Illinois, Destroying Competition and
Placing the TiIIer of the Soil at the Mer-
CIV of a Monopoly.
Smyrna times., 1898-09-21
Quinine In Java.

Although for some years Java has
been the principal country for produc-
ing cinchOna bark. writes Sidney B.
Everett, United States consul at Bata-
via, to the State Department at Wash
ingtOn, yet the actual manufacture of
sulphate of quinine here has only Just
begun; it nevertheless deserves pass
ing notice. His attention, he SAYS,
was first called to the matter by an in
voice being brought to me on January
18th, to be certified for a shipment to
the United States, of 10000 ounces of
sulphate of quinine. This is the first
shipment on record and marks the be-
ginning of a new and very profitable
era in the trade relations between
Java and the United States.
Since then, there have been other
shipments, and up to the present date
there have been shipped, or rather in
voiced for shipment, to the United
States, $500 ounces of sulphate of
quinine, valued at S1l, 1896. 55, and more
will follow
Their is at present only one factory
for working the cincona bark in Java,
and it has been running very short
time; but, in spite of drawbacks, its
owners are full of energy, and the sue
cess of the enterprise is probable.
Just now, he says, things look espec-
tally bright, as the war has resulted in
a rise in quinine quotations. Quinint
from this factory which the latter part
of april was at $615 per unite, has
risen by the middle of May to 1874
Smyrna times., 1898-09-21
Trouble at Manila.

The situation in the Philippines,
where Spanish power has been sup
planted by Dewey's little squadron
and force of 10000 Federal troops
under General Merritt, is scarcely re-
assuring at this time to sincere pro-
moters of peace and international ac-
cord. We hold in the islands only
what we have conquered wit, Ma
Mia, with its harbor and the adjacent
territory within range of our war ships
guns. All the rest of LuZOn Island is
in the hands not of Spaniards, but of
the Filipino insurgents. Their leader
claims to have 81, 600 armed men in the
field, and to be able to increase
this force on OCCASION to 100, 900 men.
These men are fighting for indepen-
dence for the Philippines; and in their
campaigns against Spanish power
since Montojos squadron was sunk in
Manila Bay they have encountered
practically no resistance. The insur-
gents claim to have provisional gov
ernments in twenty eight provinces of
the islands, and they hold as prisoners
of war more than 5000 Spanish troops
captured in the course of their military
operations.
If these conditions be Accurately de-
scribed in the reports from Manila, the
reckoning of the United States in the
Far East must be with the insurgent
leaders and those whom they repre-
sent, not with an effete European
Power which has practically aban
doned all claim to the island.
Smyrna times., 1898-09-21
ALGER DEFENDED.
Former Confederate Colonel Takes Excep-
tiOns to Criticism.

The speech of John w. Hawkins,
Esq, at Dover, wherein he said he
would rather be called thief (refer-
ring to the steal of Kent county, than
murderer, (referring to President
Mckinley letting soldiers die in
camps) has prompted a citizen to hand
us the following to show the real con-
dition of things as they exist in the
army.
The attacks of the yellow journals
on Secretary of War Alger are arOus-
ing the Indignation of the old soldiers,
both Union and Confederate, all over
the country. Colonel Youngblood,
Third Auditor of the Treasury, has re-
ceived the following letter from w. r.
HOughten, the biggest lawyer in Ala
bama, strong Democrat and ex-COn-
federate officer:
"Dear Mr.. Youngblood: Opposed
politically to Secretary Secretary
Alger, | despise the efforts of men and
newspapers to make capital out of the
sickness of the soldiers.
Could he get statistics of former wars
he could show clean bill.
Reliable men who belonged to
Bragg's army state that when he re-
turned from Corinth, in 1862, 30, 600
out of $4,000 were sick.
"My regiment, the Second Georgia,
went to Tybee; thence to Brunswick,
Medicines were then plentiful and so
was food (that was 1861. Our boys
mostly had wealth behind them and
transportation was good, yet over fifty
per cent. were down at Brunswick
Thence we went to Falls Church, Va,
and lost many men by typhoid; thence
to Centreville-high, dry, good water
A colonel, who was a martinez on SAN
itatlOn, police of camps, ETC., had sew
enty-fve per cent. down with jaundice.
Similar conditions or worse existed in
all the regiments [ know.
Ever since then it has been a COM
mon remark that if men are suddenly
called into camp life they must 90
through sweat before they become
hardened, and some are sure to die.
Your friend, w. r. HOUGHToN.
Colonel Youngblood served through.
out the war on General Longstreet' S
staff. In commenting on this letter
Colonel Youngblood said that he knew
from personal observation that the
statements it contained were correct
Smyrna times., 1898-09-21
Civilization Advances.

If nothing else results from the war
the Introduction of American methods
the methods of civiliZatiOn-into
Cuba and Porto Rico will be enough.
Into those two islands, given up for
centuries to ignorance and supersti-
ton, and to the brutal and grasping
misgovernment of Spain, the public
school and modern sanitary methods
are to be introduced. Post offices are
to be established, street are to be
cleaned, good water systems are to be
built, more school houses are to go up,
honesty in public office is to take the
place of dishonesty, freedom of speech
is to be made possible, and all those
things which tend to advance civiliza-
tion are to be encouraged.
There can be but one result: the peo-
pie will become healthier and more en-
lightened, self-respect will be cultiva
waited, and honesty in business will be
the rule and not the exception. AL
ready these agencies for the enlight-
ment of the Cubans and the Porto
Ricans are at work. The two islands
will be improved in every respect.
The moral tone of the people will be
raised. Their health will be pre-
served so far as science and medical
knowledge can make it possible. Fair
dealing will take the place of trickery,
along all lines new ideas will be in
culcated in the minds of the masses.
All these things are to come as the
result of driving Spain out of the
Western Hemisphere. The war of
humanity is to be continued upon
basis of peace for humanity, and the
world will be better for the United
States having made all this possible.
In the Philippine Islands, as we will
take it, the same benign influences
will be at work, and the nations of the
old world will soon be forced to con-
fess that what was Spain's material
loss was the moral gain of the whole
world. Wherever the English Ian
guage is spoken the condition of the
masses is steady improved. That is
why the war with Spain was not
fought in vain. More school-houses
and fewer castles will bring about a
long deferred reform.
Smyrna times., 1898-09-21
BOTKIN CASE READY FOR THE
ACTION OF GOVERNOR BUDD.
Nearly Forty Affldavits Sent.

Chief of Police Lees has carefully
compiled the evidence he will submit
to Gov Budd in the Botkin case. He
has gathered between San Francisco
and Dover, nearly 40 afidavits bearing
on the murder of Mrs. Dunning and
her sister, Mrs. Deane, by means of
poisoned candy sent by mail.
The requisition from Gov. Tunnel
of Delaware for the delivery of Mrs.
Botkin to Detective McVey of this
State is accompanied by warrent
sworn to by Hon. John B. Pennington,
father of the murdered women, charg
ing Mrs. BOtkin with the murder of
Mrs. Dunning and Mrs. Deane. Be
sides the warrants there are numerous
affidavits from Kent county, establish
ing the murder of the two women.
Other afidavits give in detail the cir
cumstances of the case, nearly all of
which have heretofore been pub
lished.
says that he believes the handwriting
on the envelope of the anonymous
letter which reached his wife in July,
1898, was that of Mrs. Botkin. He
could not identify the writing on the
box which contained the candy, as he
had not seen it.
The only new point is contained in
the affidavit of David Green, drug
clerk, who declares that, during the
latter part of May or early i'll June, he
sold 25 cents worth of arsenic to a
woman who said she wanted it for the
purpose of bleaching straw hats. Her
appearance, he said, esembled that OF
Mrs. Botkin. Mrs. Botkin and the
attorneys for the defense claim that an
alibi can be established covering
the period dating from the day Green
says he sold Mrs. Botkins arsenic
to the day she was arrested in Stock
ton.
Detective McVey, whorepresents the
State of Delaware in the BOtkin case
has protested to Chief Lees agains
the latter making public all the evi
dence so far obtained for the prosecu
tion in the case. Chief Lees says tina
he will make every detail known t,
to Gov. Budd in spite of the protest
of the Delaware officials.
Smyrna times., 1898-09-21
Hundreds Killed in a Cyclone.

A boat from the island of st. Vim
cent, hundred miles west of Barba
does, reported that st. Vincent had ex
perienced the most violent and de.
structive cyclone ever known there,
Sunday week. Kingston, the capital
of st. Vincent, is totally destroyed.
1t is estimated that 300 lives have
been lost in that island and that 20, 600
people are homeless. The bodies of
the dead are being buried in. trenches.
Thousands are starving or are being
fed at the public expense.
Every small house is down and many
large ones have been destroyed. The
demolished buildings include churches
stores and almost all the estate build
ings. Three large ships are ashore on
the windward coast and many smaller
vessels are stranded.
The storm developed almost unprec-
edented violence, and was accompanied
by a tidal wave and tremendous
rains. There were landslides, and
many houses, bridges and cocoa estates
were destroyed, and at least twelve
lives were lost.
Advices from the West Indies indi-
cate that the first reports of the devas-
tation wrought by the hurricane was
not exaggerated; many ships were
wrecked and others blown out to sea
hundreds of the people are going into
towns for shelter and food; the author
tiles in the islands are appealing fol
aid.
Smyrna times., 1898-09-21
NO SALES ON SUNDAY.
B. F. B. WoOdaII Agitates a Reform In
Milford.

Milford people no longer purchase
cigars, soda water and ice cream on
Sunday. Formerly a person could
purchase any of these articles, but now
the only store opened on Sunday is
the drug store. Drugs can be bought
on Sunday, but nothing else.
If man goes into the Office of
hotel and asks for a cigar he is told:
Every sorry, but we cannot sell on
Sunday" If he enters a drug store
and asks for cigar he is given the
same answer. How is this, he asks,
and the answer is: "Mr. Woodall has
notified us that we must not sell on
Sunday" Whether Mr.. Woodall is
acting upon his own responsibility or
whether he is acting for an organiza-
tion having Sabbath observance in
view does not appear to be definitely
known, but it is known that Mr..
Woodall has notified people that they
must not sell on Sunday or he will
prosecute them, and there is we'll
defined idea that he will keep his
word. Some assert that he is acting
for the New Century Club. Certain
it is that he is acting.
Mr.. Woodall, who has caused such
CONSERVATION among Sunday sellers,
is B. F. B. Woodall, well-known
farmer and fruit grower, who Lives
outside of Milford. He has taken part
in the meetings held for the purpose
of preventing bribery at elections and
also appeared before the recent legis
lative committee to investigate dis
elimination in freight rates.
OF course those who have been sell
ing on Sunday do not like the actor
of Mr.. Woodall, and some of then
assert that he should leave Milford mat
ters' alone because he is not residen
of Milford. Others declare that he i
doing a great public good. What il
thought about the matter does not ap
pear to worry Mr.. Woodall. Whel
he hears of man selling on Sunda,
he calls upon him ON the following
Monday and tells the offender that
he repeats the offense he will be prose
cuted, and it is not repeated.
Smyrna times., 1898-09-21
Hard and Soft Coal.

There is an acute agitation in the an
thracite coal region. Business is SER
iously depressed, owing to the compe-
tition of soft coal. Even the railroads,
or some of them, which traverse the
anthracite region and carry its output
to market, have taken to useing soft
coal for their engines, because it is
cheaper. The anthracite people re-
sent this, and some of them go so far
as to propose retaliation by boycotting
such roads.
Hard coal mining and soft coal min
ing are equally legitimate business.
Toward them both the public should
be we'll disposed. But in the manner
of use of the products of the public,
and ESPECIALLY this local public of New
York, is deeply interested. 1t does
not matter how much soft coal is minee
and used on railroads and in city furn
aces without devices that insure per
feet combustion of smoke and gas.
Smyrna times., 1898-09-21
DEMOCRATIC STATE NOMINATIONS.

The Democratic State Convention in
Dover last week, re-nominated L. Irv-
ing Handy for candidate for Congress,
VIM. M. Ross for State Treasurer,
DIR. L. A. H. Bishod, of Dover, for
Auditor of Accounts.
State Central Committee:
From New Castle county-Jo
Biggs, John Pyle, E. B. Frazer, Clar-
ence R. Clayton and Colen Fergu-
son.
From Kent Wilson L. Cav
ender, Robert J. Reynolds, David
Rees, E. L. Clark and W. G. Har-
desty.
From Sussex county William L.
Records, H. G. Pennington, E. F. c.
Maull, Everett Hickman and E. d.
Hearne.
A Wilmington paper says of the con-
ventiOn:
''By the mastery hands of John
Biggs and Patrick Neary, the silver
men were kept within bounds and the
party platform was one of the lowest
ever brought forth by the Democratic
party of Delaware. John G.. Gray the
great apostle of silver, on reading the
platform as promulgated from the
hands of the committee said a
hot time had had been experienced
in getting the article in proper
shape to put before the Convention.
The silver men wanted silver plank
inserted but the gold Democrats sue
ceeded in keeping that Objectionable
feature out and straddle was given
instead.
Mr.. John G.. Gray felt so bad about
the matter that he offered an apology
to his silver friends before commenc-
ing to read the remarkable article.
The resolutions declared anew its de-
votion to the principles of the Demo
cratic party which had been handed
down from the days of Jefferson and
Jackson. The Governor was praised
for his wise and conservative admins
tration of the affairs of the State. The
patriotism of the Senators and Con.
gressm9n were commended as we'll as
their course in procuring the 5000, 900
appropriation for dredging the channel
of the Christiana river.
The administration of President Nc
Kinley was condemned as no Delaware
Democrat can see any good that the
head of the Nation has performed since
his inception into Office. The Dingley
tariff act was also condemned as il
tended to increase the burdens of the
people by excessive taxation and they
demanded that it be at once removed
Even the war revenue act was con
demned as the surplus is piling up un
til the cash balance is now more thai
$500, 900, 900. The mastering out o
the Delware Regiment was hearth,
endorsed and Governor Tunnell's &C
: ton commended in his recommends
4 ton of the same to the President. Th'
l Republican party of Delaware was de
: nounced for falling under the foul an
t malign influence of a corrupt politica
s adyenturer who had used methods tina
) no honest man would use to carry hi
: ends. The plow was adopted as tn
n party emblem. Captain Daisey want
y ed to place a battleship at the bottom
g of the ticket but the plow alone wa
if adopted.
Smyrna times., 1898-09-21

the Senatorial boom for anybody so it
is not gold Democrat, things are liza
BILE to get decidedly mixed up by the
time Senator Gray's successor is named
by the next legislature
SENATOR KENNEY ARRAIGNED AND
PLEADS NOT GUILTY.-United States
Senator Richard Rollins Kenney ap-
peared in the United States District
Court Wednesday morning, with one
of his counsul, Levi G. Bird, and
pleaded not guilty to the indictment
charging him with conspiracy with
William N. BOggs to secure money
from the First National Bank of
Dover. Mr.. Bird waved the reading
of the whole indictment and plea of
not guilty was entered. At Mr. Birds
request, he was allowed ten days in
which to file demurrer to the indict-
ment. Bail was fixed in the sum of
S., 900 and Francis E. Kelley became
the bondsman. The case is in the
district court, whereas the Indictment
for aiding and abetting under which
the Senator was tried in July is in the
circuit court, and fixed for trial at the
next session of the court in October.
United States District Attorney Lewis
G. Vandergrift announced that he
would have the new case certified
into the circuit court. By agreement
between NJ. Bird and the District At
torney, the trial was fixed for Tuesday,
October 35th, at 11.30 a. m. The Sen.
ator's counsel said that his client
wanted it tried the first day of the
term which would make it a week
earlier, but Mr.. Bird preferred the
later date. Instead of having Senator
Gray to assist him at the trial of Mr.
Kenney, Mr.. Bird will have Johr
Biggs, Esq, as Mr.. Gray will be il
Paris with the Peace Commission.
| GORDON Is COLONEL OF THE DEL
AWARE REGIMENT.-The First Della
ware Regiment is not to be mustered
out, the President having decided OF
retaining 100000 men, and will b
sent to Porto Rico. Governor Tun
nell Thursday decided on the officer
whom he will appoint for the Firs
Delaware Regiment to succeed ]
Pusey Wickersham, who resigned a
colonel, and Charles NJ. Stevenson
who resigned on Wednesday as lieu
tenant-coIneol. The new officers wi
be: Colonel, Walter H. Gordon, no.
major of the third battalion; Lieuter
ant Colonel, Theodore Townsend, no,
major of the second battalion; Major
to succeed Major Gordon, Captai
Evan G. Boyd, of Company G. Th
appointment of major to succee
Major Townsend will not be mad
until Lieutenant-ColOnel Stevenson
resignation is accepted, and MajC
: Townsend succeeds him. Edwar
e Brown of Company G, will succee
a Captain Boyd, and Lieutenant Watso
!, will be advanced to first lieutenan
g Major Gordon, who will succeed
o the command, was military instructC
= at Delaware College at the outbreak
t the war, and he was offered commi
g sion as major in the First Delaware |
e Governor Tunnel. At the the tin
he ranked as lieutenant in the Eeig
teenth Regular Infantry. He is
'' West Point graduate and his home
s in Louisiana. Major Townsend, WI
g will succeed to the lieutenant-cC
s. onelcy, is editor of the Milford ChrO
TT icle. Captain Boyd, who will becor
IS a MOTOR, is mayor of New Castle, al
3 he received his commission when t
le regiment was filled to its quota.
Smyrna times., 1898-09-21
A CRITICAL Time.
During the Battle Of
Santiago.
SICK OR WELL A RUSH
NIGHT AND DAY.

The Packers mt the Battle of SatiaRO de
Cuba were all Heroes. Their Heroic Ef-
forts in Getting Ammunition and Rations
to the Front Saved the Day.
P. E. Butler, of pack-train No. 3,
writing from Santiago, De Cuba, on
July 23d, says: "We all had diarrhea
in more or less violent form, and when
we landed we had no time to see doc
tor, for it was case of rush and rush
night and day to keep the troops sup
piled with ammunition and rations.
but thanks Chamberlain Collie, Chol-
era and diarrhea Remedy, we were
able to keep at work and keep our
health; in fact, sincerely believe that
at one critical time this medicine was
the indirect saviour of our army, for if
the packers had been unable to work
there would have been no way of get
ting supplies to the front. There were
no roads that wagon train could USE
My cOmrade and myself had the good
fortune to lay in supply of this medi-
cine for our pack-train before we left
Tampa, and 1 know in four cases it
absolutely saved life"
The above letter was written to the
manufacturers of this medicine, the
Chamberlain Medicine Co., Des
MOines, Iowa. Eor sale by Clifton
Raymond, Smyrna; t. l.. Mason,
Clayton, Del.
Smyrna times., 1898-09-21

temperance CHSOn.
All history shows that an error enter
tanned and acted on will bring calam-
lty in proportion to the greatness of
the error. The popular notion that a
little alcohol, especially in the lighter
liquors, as wine, beer and cider, is
harmless, has been acted upon for gen
erations by the human family. The
harvest of this popular error is the
drink tragedy which is darkening
lives of high and low, blighting homes
OF all grades, weakening the moral
fibre Of society, and thereby imperil-
ling a government of the people. All
public schools in every State but four
III the United States are under tenn
perance education laws. To see to it
that every child i'll your public schools
is getting the warming knowledge con
corning the danger of beginning the
use of these character r-destroying.
death-dealing substances knowledge
which is his legal rights your duty,
citizen. If you thus act, as surely as
truth will dispel error and its conse-
quences, the near coming century will
see the end of the drink curse.
Smyrna times., 1898-09-21

Washington papers are rejoicing
over decreasing death-rate, and point
to it as evidence that completion of the
city's sewerage system and the extern
sion of the water service are having
til cir expected effects on health condi-
tions. The presence of large popula-
ton of negroes, ignorant of and indif-
ferent to sanitation, is an obstacle to
improvement in this line, but it is be-
lieved that the vital statistics of the
District show that substantial progress
has been made.
Smyrna times., 1898-09-21

SOLDIERS DESERVING. A soldier
fresh from Camp Meade at Middle
town, Pa, said that soldiers are de-
serting the camp in great numbers.
Many of them, he said, fear that they
may have to do garrison duty in some
of our recently acquired foreign terri
tory. "The stories in the newspapers
that the troops are all anxious to con-
tinue in the service are all wrong" he
said. ''These yarns are gotten up by
the officers and given to the papers as
the sentiment of the men under them.
We get only $13 month, while the
monthly salaries of the officers are
many times greater than ours. These
officers want to remain in the army be-
cause of the good pay they receive.