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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-13
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Meeting of the Northern illinois
Teachers Association at
Rockford.
A NUMBER FROM HERE TO ATTEND.

Board Recommends That All Go Vino Can
Convenientiy do go Contract for the
Heating ana ventilsting Plant for the
Remodslsd Building Let to AIisp, Myers
& Co.-sop:. Young's Monthly Roper.
A resolution was adopted at last
evenings monthly meeting Of the
board Of education recommending
that the teachers of the Rock Island
public schools attend all educational
gatherings that they can convenient
ly, and pointing out that the annual
meeting Of the Northern Illinois
Teachers association would be held
at Rockford, III, Friday and Sat-
urday. April 20 and 80, and all in
structors from here be privileged to
attend, providing they can do 80
observation-disclosures with their duties.
1t is understood quite q delegation
will 60 to Rockford from here.
The contract for furnishing the
heating and ventlating plant for the
remodeled High school was awarded
to Allen, Myers G. Co., representing
the Buffalo Forge company. Of Buff
falo. N. T., for $6.397. The board
decided on combination OF direct
and indirect heating with the fan
system.
There were three bids on the High
school heating plant as follows:
Davis company, $1,000; Davenport
Steam Heating company. s6.s75;
Allen. Myers & Co., 1897.
Supt. B. G. Young submitted his
monthly report, in which he SAYS:
"During the month the high record
OF attendance and punctualitv has
been fully maintained; in fact there
has been a slight improvement in
both, Notwithstanding the fact that
the average daily attendance has
been increased from 2,79S to 1885.
Since the spring vacation there has
been an enrollmen. of new pupils az
gregating 1877, nearly all of whom
have entered the first grades of the
schools. These additions have made
the attendance in those departments
very large, necessitating in several
cases the shifting of pupils from one
room to another, and in one case,
where this was not practicable,
making it necessary to give the
regular teacher an assistant. The
matter was presented to the com.
mittee on teachers and government,
OF schools. aud after due considera-
ton Miss Banding was appointed as
assistant to Miss Freeman in the
Hawthorne school. where she has
been for o1e week doing efficient
service. The county teachers insti.
tute was held during the week oil
March 2l-25. The attendance of the
city teachers was very general and
the work Of the institute wss helpful
and inspiring. 1t lis my opinion tha,
the general interest Of the schools
would be better served il the insti.
tute and the spring vacation were
arranged to come during Easter
week. This would make it possible
for teachers and pupils to attend the
Lenten services without conflicting
with the school attendance"
Bills Allowed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-13
Have You Had the Grip:

If you have. you probably need q
reliable medicine ike Foley's Honey
and Tar to heal your lungs end stop
the racking cough incidental TO this
disease. For sale By T. II. Thomas.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-13
Hosiery.

Some forcible va-ues: Children's
black ribbed, cotton Hose, values
15c to Csc, according to size,
at, all sizes. IUC
Ladies' fast black Hose, lac kind,
at three pair for 25s.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-13

Kidney diseases are the most fatal
OF all diseases. Foley's Kidney Cure
a guaranteed remedy or money re-
funded. I. II. Thomas sells it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-13
Laces and Embroideries.

600 yards fancy cotton Lsces, short
lengths. per piece 19c.
5000 yards Embroideries divided into three
lots AS follows:
Lot Is and &c Cambria Embroideries. 81.
and &c yard.
Lot els and CSC lne Edgings and Skirt
Flouncings. ~ &c n yard.
Lot S-i2n and i5c fine Edgings and Skirt
Flouncings, per yard only &C.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-13

Nursery stock for sale. F1uit, or.
namental trees ami 1ows's. Corner
of Third avenue and Zig hen b street,
ock Island.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-13
A Run Down Condition.

81 have taken Hoods Sarssparilla
for that tired feeling and a general
run down condition Of the system.
81 emed to be tired oil the time
Hoed's Sarsaparilla gave me relief,
and has proved great medicine to
purify the blood and build up the
strength" Sarah f. Peak, Virgins,
III.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-13

Hoods pills are the only pills to
take with Hoods Sarssprilla. Cure
all liver ills.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-13
THE C|TY'S NAMESAKE
The Rock island Steamboat
Launched Successfully
at Seattle.
CAPT. KNAAOKs STORY OF AFFAIR

Has Been Bestowed Upon Us In the Fsr
West and Of More 10 Come In OarryiT 6
Into the New Coun,ry Oar Manicipsl IT,
tle-Othsr Interesting News.
The ARGUS this morning received
the following entertaining letter from
Capt. W. c. Knssck, at Seattle, giving
the details OF o most interesting
event in the launching Of the steam
boat Rock Island and the circum-
stances attending the same:
Seattle, Wash, April S.-Wedues-
day morning at 4 o'clock, at high
tide, the Rock Island slid into the
waters Of Puget Sound. The launch
ing was q complete success. without
hitch or the least accident. There
we're no spectators at that early
hour, and she was christened the
Rock Island without much ceremony,
in honor OF our prosperous city. We
are doing ourselves proud by having
launched the first boat built in Seat
tie for the Yukon river. Oar second,
or our prospecting boat, is well under
way. She will be christened the Rock
Island No. 2. We expect to leave
here for st. Michael the 10th OF May
and have chartered o tugboat
for that purpose. The tug HIS
recently arrived from tbs Atlantic
coast, and is without question the
finest seagoing craft Of that kind on
the Pacific coast, and l made special
effort to secure same for our expe
dition. Today was informed by hel
captain that Uncle Sam wants to buy
her and use her for a patrol aud dis
patch boat. The wires have been
Kept hot all day between here and the
Atlantic coast, where the owners o.
the tug reside. l cannot tell what
the outcome will be.
Encouraging Alaskan Reports.
Regarding Alaska l will say tina
reports keep on coming in encour
agingly. We have engaged Yukor
guide, who comes down the river Il
meet US and guide us up for the frs
time. 1t is our aim to be one OF the
6rst boats to reach Dawson City
We saw some time ago in The Argus
which is q welcome visitor ct oul
camp, that it was supposed DIR
Merryman spent the winter in Seat
tie. Such is not the case. Mrs
Merryman arrived here the Other
day aud had several letters from tn,
doctor, who was at Circle City at tn,
time of writing, which was in No
vember. The letters did rot reacl
here till The latter part OF March
the fact being that the mail hat
TO come out over the pass. He de
scribes the country as being all RICH,
the only objection he had az the tim
that work was too short. He state
there Is no doubt about there bein,
lots Of gold in the country, and b
being determined and staying
couple Of years. a person could max
a fortune all right. He writes he
hale and hearty, and expects to 20 q
Dawson City some time this winter
SO very likely is there by this time
The rush into Alaska over the pas
has let up to certain extent.
seems that everybody is now waitin
for the opening Of the Yukon river
Yours truly, WILLIAM KNAACK.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-13
Bills Allowed.

The board allowed the following
bills:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-24
TEDDY HAS ORDERS.
Rough Riders Will Start For
Cuba Tomorrow.

San Antonio, Tex, May 24.-By We'd
nesday noon Roosevelt's regiment of
rough riders will be on the way to
Cuba Colonel Wood received a tele-
gram from the war department today,
asking how soon the regiment would be
ready to march. Colonel Wood answer
ed with characteristic brevity. lat
once" From the railroads it is learned
that the regiment probably will leave
at noon on Wednesday. The regiment
will go to Galveston, where the govern
ment now has three transports to car
~ troops to Cuba. Immediately upon
receipt of the telegram Colonel Wood
began to lay in supplies for the jour-
ney. When the news became known
there was great JOY in the camp of the
rough riders. Men shouted, threw UP
their sOmbreroS and Rugged each other
in a delirium of joy. Every man in the
regiment has now had a trial of his
horse.
Troop K, to which most of the New
Workers belong, was the last to try a
mounted drill, having mounted their
horses for the first time this morning.
Several of the animals were inclined to
be gay and frisky and several of the
boys are nursing bruises and cuts. Will
liam Tiffany was thrown from his horse
but was only slightly injured. Will
Quad probably has the widest horse
taur. Woodbury. Kane, now a Heuten-
ant, has a splendid black stallion, which
he has mastered thoroughly. BarrOwe
received a bad twist of his right ankle
while mounting his horse. The only
other New Yorker to be a victim of a
kicked on the left leg by a frisky bron-
cho Craig Woodsworth's horse ran
away and came near dashing headlong
into Colonel ROOSeVeltS tent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-24
NAMED TODAY.
President McKinley's Long List of
Military Appointments.

Washington, May 24.-The president
today sent the following nominations to
the senate:
War appointments in signal CORPS
To be colonel, Lieut.. Col. Henry c.
Dunwoody, signal corps, U. S. A.
To be lieutenant colonel-Capt. Jas.
Allen, signal corps, U. S. A.
Captains to be ma5ors-Richard p.
Strong, Fourth artillery; George P.
Schriven and William A. Glassford of
signal corps.
First neutenants to be majors-J. E.
Maxfeld, Frank Green. Samuel Web
Michigan, civilian.
To be captains-First Lieutenant
George Squirer, Third artillery; First
Lieutenant Eugene T. Wilson, Third ar
tillery; Second Lieutenant J. E. Brady,
Jr., Nineteenth infantry; Otto A. Ne
smith of California; John w. Mcconnell
of Illinois.
To be first 1ieutenants-Leonard B.
Wildman of Connecticut; ]. J. Ryan OF
Texas; William F. Rodgers of Connect
icut; Norman H. Camp of Idaho; Rich
ard Richards of Illinois; Julien P.
Wooten of Georgia
To be second Observation-Disclosures l..
Clarke, James R. Steele, Basil o. Lee
noir, James B. Mclaughlin, George G.
Burnell, Victor Shepherd and William
F. Talbot, sergeantS in signal corps;
Charles H. Gordon of California; A. j.
Rudd of Minnesota; VIM. w. Colt of IL
inOis.
State-P. Morrill, Griffith of Ohio to
be consul at MatamoraS, Mexico.
Justice-DeWey c. Bailey to be United
States marshal district of Colorado.
War-Subsistence department-Lieut.
Col. Charles Albert Woodruff to be as
sistant commissary general subsistence
with rank of colonel; Major Henry G..
Sharpe to be assistant commissary gen.
eral of subsistence, with rank Of lieu
tenant colonel
Corps of jor Charles w
Raymond to be lieutenant colonel; Capt.
William Black to be major; First Lieut.
Mason Mathews Patrick to be captain;
Second Lieutenant Geo. P. Howell to be
first lieutenant.
Cavalry arm-Second Lieut.. Edwin
B. Winans, Jr., Fifth cavalry, to be first
lieutenant; Capt. Edward Goodwin
Eighth cavalry, to be colonel of Seventh
regiment, U. S. volunteer infantry; Maj.
Eli Higgins, Sixth cavalry, to be colo
mel of the Eighth regiment U. S. infan-
try; A. S. Reaves of Tennessee to be
colonel of Third regiment U. s. volun-
teer infantry.
To be assistant quartermaster, with
rank of captain-Giles H. Holden of
Minnesota; Chester B. Worthington of
Iowa.
To be commissaries Of subsistence
with rank of captain-Eben R. Fenton
of Michigan; Martin M Marshal of
Iowa; Robert H. Beckham of Texas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-24

of the Associated Press that he does not
desire the office, but accepts it on pa
triotic grounds. The new minister
adds:
Every Spaniard is bound to devote
all his powers to the defense of his
country"
1t is believed that Senior Gomazo, the
present minister of public instruction
and liberal leader, will replace Senior
Puigcerver, now minister of finance,
who has absolutely declined in the
cortes to agree to an income tax and
who is consequently expected to resign.
Senior Gamazo favors the proposed i'm
post.
1t is said that the concentration of
Spanish troops in the neighborhood of
Gibraltar is due to an increase in the
British military preparations.
The Liberal, Premier SagaSta's organ,
says that the diverging interests of the
powers preclude for the present any
definite, prompt, diplomatic action Civ
ing Spain powerful European backing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-24
NAVAL FORCE GROWING.
The Buffalo Will Soon Be Ready for
War.

New York, May PA dispatch to the
Tribune from Newport News, says:
The dynamite cruiser Buffalo, form
erly Ell Cid of the Morgan line, and later
the Nictheroy of the Brazilian navy,
will arrive at the shipyard either We'd
nesday night or Thursday morning. The
officials of the Newport News Ship
Building and Dry Dock company have
just received notice to this effect. 1t
is possible that the arrival may be de-
layed in case she experiences rough
weather.
When the Buffalo arrives she will be
stripped and converted into an auxil
larry cruiser. The navy department has
finally decided that the Vesuvius can do
all of the dynamite work necessary, and
that the Buffalo can render better ser
vice with a battery of twelve 5-inch
guns. In addition to this main battery,
the Buffalo will carry a secondary bat
terry of ten 6-pounders, two Pinch rapid
fire rifles and several Calling guns.
The armament of the Buffalo will be
much more powerful than that of her
sister ships, the Dixie, the Yosemite, the
Yankee and the Prairie, she is al
ready armored and her decks are pro-
tected with greater strength than the
decks of those ships.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-24
DEATH OF MISS STEWART.
Passes Away at 7:5o Last Evening
at Her Parents Home.

Florence Mary Stewart died last
evening at 7:30 O'Clock at her home,
corner of Seventh and Harrison streets.
She was the daughter of DR.. Mary E.
Stewart. and was a beautiful and &C
cOmplished young lady. For over a
year she has been dangerously i'll with
Inflammation of the stomach. Several
months ago she went to Texas in the
hopes of benefitting her health, but was
brought back several weeks ago at the
point of death.
She was 20 years of age. Something
over year ago Miss Florence Stewart
was given a certificate in piano forte
from Bethany college. She was ambi-
tiOus and expected to complete her
musical education in the east. The
sickness which ended her life has been
coming on for several years. She was
a member of Grace Cathedral and also
belonged to the Y. P. s. c. F. of the
First Congregational church, near her
home. The funeral will be held We'd
nesday afternoon at 4 o'clock at Grace
Cathedral. Dean ]. W. Sykes will con-
duct the services and the pallbearers
will be selected from among the mem
bership of the Y. P. s. c. E of the
First Congregational church. The bur
ial Will be made in Topeka cemetery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-24
SPAIN BUYS SHIPS.
Said to Have Secured the Havel, a
6,876 Ton Steamer.

Madrid, May Pat is reported that
the Spanish government has purchas-
ed another vessel to be used as an ar
mored cruiser.
AS cabled to the Associated Press,
from Bremen yesterday the North Ger
man Lloyd steamer Havel, has been
sold to a firm at Hamburg and sailed
presumably for the Mediterranean The
purchasers, it was added, do not ap-
pear to be ship owners.
A report was current last week that
the HaVel had been sold on account of
the Spanish government. She is a steel
vessel of 6,S75 gross tonnage and has
developed a speed of between Is and 10
knots in passages between New York
and Southampton. She was built in
1880, at Stettin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-24
TODAY'S MARKET REPORT.
Furnished by the Associated Press to
the State Journal
Chica go. May "A.

Chicago. May "a.
WHEAT-The exceptionally fine wea-
Their, the brilliant promise for the grow
ing crop both at home and abroad, to-
gether with lower cables, caused a de-
cline in wheat today. Northwestern re-
ceipts were liberal, S5S cars. against SS3
cars last year. Chicago received 6S7 car
loads, against II the previous year. The
Russian wheat shipments for the week
were 3,272, 900 bushels, compared with 8. S0o,-
600 bushels the previous week and 3,424.OOO
bushels last year. Liverpool cables were
2G294d lower. Reports from a dozen or
more counties in the northern Texas
wheat belt state that fully half the, wheat
crop was destroyed by the tornado last
Friday. Only seven days of the May
ported continues to take all the lots
arriving, paying about the May price for
No that might be turned into contract
by the mixers July opened 1c lower at
a0 tb 5eld off to dG e. 5ssn u 10 g
877Sc, up to Ss1sc, down to S77sc, then back
OATSSOats sympathized with corn. Re
ceipts, 466 cars. July opened Ac lower at
255sc, sold down to 25asQ1ac, then up to
CoRN-The corn bears had the weather
on their side today again. Receipts, $50
advanced to 34?s@a4c, declined to a41zQ5sc,
and the trade rather small. Hogs were
SC lower, although receipts, 1890. were
less than expected. July pork opened 1215
s1207h and fell off to $11.02]4. Lard for
July was 1oa121se. off at $6-25Q6; 271z and
sold down C. to s. 221E July S, ribs began sc
BARLEY-Cash, No. 3, 40d50c.
RYECasn. sec; May, 6s15c; July, Sic.
TIMoTHY-May, $50.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-24
NORWAY WITH SPAIN.
Consul at London Clears a Vessel
Which Will Furnish Cervera Coal.

London. May A-The Daily Chronicle
publishes the following with reserve:
A vessel flying the Norwegian flag and
sailing with Norwegian papers has been
fitted up in Lodon a coal hulk on
an elaborate scale She has been fitted
from one end to the other with electric
lights and has been, in fact. altered from
stem to stern to receive and discharge
coal in large quantities. Some days ago
she was cleared by the Norwegian consul
in London and proceeded to Cardiff, where
she Will take on $500 tons of coal. Then
she will be cleared, our information goes,
for a neutral port and will proceed in
TOW of a tug to Cape Verde. to act as a
receiving hulk, to which Spanish war YES
sells will go for coal.
She will lie up in a bay off the African
mainland. where her presence will be I'M
noticed and will be refilled from time to
time by fast steamers coming from vari-
Gus continental ports.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-24
MRS. M'KINLEY DRIVES
President Has a Quiet Morning
Cabinet in Session.

Washington, May 24.-President Nc
Kinley had an opportunity to devote
more time to reading the newspapers
today, for there were few early callers.
Mrs. Mckinley took advantage of
clear summers morning for a drive
about the city, accompanied, as usual,
by several of her friends. Up to 10
o'clock the congressional contingent,
intent on personal interviews, included
only Senator Burrows of Michigan and
Representatives Butler of Pennsylvania,
Grout of Vermont and Chickering of
New York.
Soon afterwards Senator Platt had
conference with the president. and be
tween that time and the assemblage of
the cabinet, at the regular Tuesday ses-
sion, a number of other senators and
representatives were in consultation, al
most all of them in relation to war ap-
pOintmentS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-24
WITH ARMS FOR cUBANs.
Expedition Commanded by General
Morlet Sails on the Florida.

Washington, May 24-OfficiaI informa>
ton has been received at the Cuban lega-
ton in this city of the sailing last Wed
nesday from Tampa of the first importa MT
dition. which sailed in the steamer F,lori-
da. was organized and commanded by
report, sent as the expedition sailed. has
just been received here. This report
states that General Morlet has improved
the opportunity to recruit about 400 men.
almost all of whom have seen service I'M
der Gomez, Maceo and Garcia. Every
one of them knows the island from one
end to the other and is possessed of in
formation rega riding Spanish fortified lions
and camps. With the expedition under
General Moriet is no less person than
General Julio Sanguilly. whose release
was wrung from Weyler during the CleVe-
land administration.
The expedition was far more important
than the number of men taken along
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-24
GEN. OTIS IN CHARGE.
Kansas Troops at San Francisco Will
Now Be Drilled.

San Francisco, May 24.-An order has
been issued by General Merriam, COM
handing the department OF California,
transferring all troops now here, with
the exception of the Third artillery,
Fourth cavalry and the First Washing
ton volunteers to General Otis COM
mand, as the preliminary step in the
thorough organization of the forces des-
tined for the Philippines
General Otis and his staff are now
actively engaged N arranging for the
work, and within a day or two his head
quarters will be moved from the Phe-
general and his staff will go into camp
with the troops, living under canvas
with the others, and his first work will
be the organization of the troops into
brigades. Then the men will be thor
oughly drilled before their departure
for the Philippines.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-24
Arrested a "Party Named THOMPSON

A young man named Thompson, who
arrived with his wife from Wichita last
night and is today engaged in selling
patent clothes cleaner, was arrested last
night suspicion of being F. T. Holland
of Wichita, who the police looking
for. Holland eloped with a Wichita girl
a few days ago, and when Detective Kes-
son discovered that Thompson was from
Wichita he at once made up his mind
that he was the man he wanted and took
him to police headquarters before Thomp-
son had time to make an explanation. BY
the aid of his wife, who followed the Of
hcer and her husband with her marriage
license and a bundle of letters. Thompson
convinced Kesson that he was mistaken
and was released.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-24

GREAT LAYERS. High grade Black
Langshans, winter layers: setting OF Is
eggs for co cents. 1912 Arch St, Topeka,
Kan. James Kerr, Jr.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-24

would indicate. The Florida carried a
warlike cargo In the hold were piles Of
boxes containing less than 10000
Springfield rifles with enough ammunition
of the right caliber to make them effect
i've. There were rapid fire guns of the
Hotchkiss type for the insurgent artillery
forces with plenty of shells. These arms
will enable General Garcia, for whom they
are destined, to not only equip 10000 addi-
tional troops, but to supply his own men
with the ammunition for which they have
been in such urgent need. He will also
be able to form and equip several bat
terieS of light artillery with rapid fire
guns a weapon which has always proven
effective in the hands of the insurgents
Besides the large consignment of guns
and ammunition the Florida carried sup
plies of food, clothing and medicine for
the insurgent army. There were also 20
mules for the formation of pack trains
to carry the supplies from the coast.