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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-29

Chicago, Nov 2s.-Careful estimates
Of losses to shipping and vessel owners
on the great lakes for the record break
tnE year Of lS9S places the probable
figures at S25O0.CC0. The year 1895 had
hitherto held the record. with a total
:oss o: a little over 81 600. 900.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-29
MADE SHORT WORK OF HIM.

Kentucky Mob Promptly Lynches One
Fiend and Is Looking for the Other.
New Madrid, Mo-, Nov. 29.-J. L.
Loins, prominent farmer across the
river in Kentucky, was IL rdered and
robbed by two negroes. One of them
was captured and lynched. The mob
is looking for the other.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-29
A Four Master Ashore.

Halifax. y. $. Nov. 29.-An un-
known four-masted vessel is ashore at
the entrance to the harbor. One BODY
has been washed ashore.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-29
Tennessee Bows Reach ManiIa.

Washington, Nov. ga cable
from Otis, at Manila, says the trans
port Zealandia has arrived here with
the 1st Tennessee. No casualties.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-29
To Transport spanish Troops.

Bremen, Nov. e9.-The CamPania
Iransatlantica has chartered three
German steamers to be used for re-
patriation of Spanish troops in Cuba
in December.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-29
Another Illinois Soldier Dead.

Washington, Nov. 29.-Gen. Wood
reports from Santiago the death of
Private Thomas, of Company X, Sth
Illinois, of dysentery.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-29

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money if it
fails to cure. Csc The genuine has
l. B. O. on each tablet.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-29
Blocked Ten Miles.

New York. Nov. 29.-The main line
of the Long Island railroad is still
blocked for i distance of 10 miles
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-29

If YOU have catarrh. don't daily
with local remedies, but purify and
enrich your blood with Hoods Sarsa-
parilla
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-29
Two stori.sof the Cnuse.

There are two versions as to the
origin of the casualty. According to
one = lighted cigarette stump was
tossed by a careless workman OF a pile
of powder: according to the other, a
child while extracting a charge used a
hammer on the butt end Of a cartridge
which btpzt,-0Rcsing the greater eX-
plosion. Whatever the origin the ex-
plosion was awful in its effects. wreck
ing the building and manglinE and
burning the workers. In some cases
clothing was set on fire. in others the
flesh was frghtfully torn. Mothers
shrieked for their children and children
for their mothers. 1t was a scene of the
widest horror.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-29
FORTY WERE VICTIMS
Awful Powder ExpIos,cn in the
Midst of People Working
on Old Cartridges.
MOST OF THEH poYs AID GIRLS.

/ Three Are Dead and Fifteen Others Not
Expected To Live Havana S?eculator
Buys a Lot of Cartridges for the Powder
in Them and Somebody Makes n Terrible
Mistake Disaster Causes = Scene of
Horror and Agony.
Havana. Nov. 2e.-An explosion Of
dynamite cartridges yesterday near the
Reina battery killed and wounded forty
persons. The presence Of the cartridges
known to have been brought recently
from the artillery depot-in an out OF
the way house where they were stored
roof high has not Deen expIaiue-. Most
of those employed in emp;yirg the
cartridges-ev.Gent'y their only d-ty on
the premises-were boys arE girls un-
Ger Il years of age. and they formed
the greatest proI OF on OF the victims.
Suspicion of IA Criminal Motive.
The employment of children in such
a dangerous occupation and the exist
ence of such a large quantity OF ox-
plosives within the city limits are both
in contravention Of the mun'c pal reSu-
lations. Whether there may have been
some Interior motive in storing these
explosives there cannot be answered.
but the casualty suggests the probabili-
ty that there may have Eeen other SINH
lar deposits where the localities are
unknown to the authorities.
Tons of Powder and CARTRIDGES.
1t now APPEARS that man known as
Jeronimo Smith had acquired several
hundreds Of thousands OF cartridges.
many of an old pattern. at the various
military dcp3ts here, for 4 mere song,
and was arranging to curn his invest
ment to account by removing the gun
powder from each pT1jecGle with q
view to later sale at 4 p-oEt. To this
end he hir-d about fifty boys and girls
with q few men and women, to do the
work. The cEpIc 81 n took p ace shortly
after S o'c,CCk yesterday morning in a
frame building. At the moment more
than forty persons were at work empty
ing the carr ges. Several tons of gun
powder already lay in the main rooms |
of the house. while other rooms wera |
literally packed with more than 600 600 |
cartridges.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-29
Cutters win Hunt for the Shin.

Arrangements have been made with
the government to dispatch the revenue
cutters Dallas from this port and Wood
bury from Portland to hunt up the
steamer. The Dallas will cruise along
the south shore as far as Provincetown
and the Woodbury. will make a long cir
cult from Portland around Cape Ann.
II neither of these steamers succeeds in
locating the missing vessel there is lit
tie hope of her ever being seen again.
The passenger list is aboard the Port
land, and at present there is no means
OF knowing the names of those on board.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-29

the SIahchc-Ier.: a do~n-east lL,nDer-
man, while one tug and three barges
known to have been between Cape
Cod and Boston are unaccounted for
and probably lost Every Hfe-saving
crew performed deeds OF heroism in
rescuirg crews from strarSed vessels
and tugboat captains risIIed life and
property in their endeavor to save life.
Worst Disaster of the storm.
Boston, Nov. 29-The managers OF
the Boston and Portland Steamship
company stated last night that there
are grave doubts as to the safety of the
steamer Portland. which sailed from
here Saturday night. Every harbor
between here and Portland on the north
shore has been heard from. and one of
the south shore. and in no case has the
steamer been seen. The only remaining
harbOr which she could have reached is
Provincetown. on Cape Cod. and news
from that port is anxiously awaited. as
II is still impossible to reach that port
by wire She had a total of 81 souls on
board.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-09-21
STRANGLED TO DEATH,
Brooklyn Has New Murder Mys-
tery-TwO Men Arrested.

New York, Sept. 21-The police of the
Bedford avenue (Droolslyn) station have
a case of murder and robbery under in
vestisation. Andreas Cassaquc, an Ital-
ian laborer. with his Wife, Loretta, oc-
cupied apartments on the third floor Of
the four story double decker tenement
253 North Sixth street. Mrs. Cassaquo
says that shortly after midnight she
was awakened by the noise of some one
moving about the room and saw the
forms of two or three men. Upon at
tempting to rise, she declares. one of tn
men seized her by the throat and at
tempted to choke her. She succeeded in
releasing herself sufficiently to rap on
on the wall and shout for assistance.
Her cries brought several inmates Of
the house to the apartments.
On a light being procured her nus
band was discovered lying on the floor
in an unconscious condition. An alarm
was sent to the Fifth precinct station,
and Captain Martin Short, with Patrol
men O'Malley and Doherty, responded.
An ambulance was called from St. Cath
crimes hospital, when an examinat ton
showed that Andreas was dead, having
been beaten and choked.
Mrs. Cassaque told the police that
when she and her husband returned at
Q o'clock there was $500 in cash conceal
ed beneath the pillows of the bed. The
money was gone, and It is supposed that
this was the incentive for the robbery
and murder.
The police have arrested Michael Sic
gel, 20 years old, of 10 Stage street,
and John Thomas, Is years old, of 81
North Sixth street, Hungarians, who
were seen running from the building
about the time Mrs. Cassaque made her
cutlery. The prisoners firmly protest in
DOcpnra
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-09-21
POISONED At A sO1IABLT.
Fifty-Hve People Ill From Eating
Canned Reef--Enur Mlx Die.

Niles, Mich, Sept 21.-Nearly one
tenth Of the entire population of Pl,in-
well, little village in Al!egan county,
Is Ill from eating canned pressed beef
at a church sociable.
Fifty-flve persons were poisoned 20
are dangerously Ill and four are ex-
pected to die, the doctors having ex-
pressed no hope of their recovery.
Those in danger are Mrs. Ethel Clancy,
Mrs. j. M. Travis, Mrs. John Bishop
and l.. w. Souls.
The ladies Of the Presbyterian church
gave a supper in the church parlors
and about 100 guests were present, all
of whom had supper and partook Of
canned beef.
So far s. cares of poisoning have baCn
reported, and in each case it has besn
learned the patients had eaten of the
beef. Some We're violently Ill, and it
was thought at one tina at least a do
en- would succumb to thu poison.
Steps are being taken to make q rigid
investigation into the food, the Coz tors
believing either the meat was disease
or the combination of tin and beef re-
suited in poisoning.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-09-21
jamaica Blalncs England.

Kingston, Jamaica, Sept 21.-At a
public meeting called for the purpose
of discussing the possibilities of rails
ing funds for the relief of the sufferers
from the recent hurricane which swept
over the West Indian islands, the arch
bishop of the West Indies declared that
the condition of Jamaica was such that
it was not possible to do more than
emphasize an expression OF sympathy
with those who were in need of help
Any substantial relief he added, COM
pretending the re-establishment of the
original conditions in the devastated
islands must. in his opinion, necessarily
take the form of imperial assistance on
a large scale. Public opinion here in
dorses the sta tements OF the archbishop
and especially holds Great Britain re-
sponribln for the industrial crisis VIII CHI
renders the other West Indian colonies
impotent to give the suffering islands
subst antial aid.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-09-21
FOUNDEROF THE RED CROSS
Who Spent n Fortune and q Lifetime to
Establish This Movement.

Who Spent n Fortune and Lifetime to
Establish This Movement.
ITO Mr.. Henri .Dunant, Swiss gem
tleman, belongs the honor of inaugHrat-
ing this movement" writes Belle NJ.
Brain, telling "The Story of the Red
Cross in The Woman's Home Com.
panion. "Being in Italy at the time OF
the battle of Solferino, June "a, 1859.
he visited the battlefield. Appalled, by
the needless and terrible suffering, he
remained many days, doing all in his
power to relieve it. During these terri
BILE days Mr.. Dunant conceived the idea
of a system of organized relief whereby
aid could be given under such circum-
stances. Returning home he published
little book called 'Recollections of
Solferino' that aroused great interest
His appeal touched responsive chord
in all hearts. Being invited to address
the General Society Of Public Utility
Oh the subject, he unfolded to them his
plans From that time forward he Ia
bored indefatigably to win adherents to
his cause, writing articles, delivering
addresses, travelling from place to place,
consulting officials high in authority at
the European courts. ~ BY tho pro-
vision of the Red Cross treaty surgeons,
nurses, ambulance trains and all hos.
pital supplies are considered neutral,
provided they display uniform badge
and flag, accompanied by their national
flag.
"In compliment to Mr.. Dunant and
the Swiss government the protective
sign and flag agreed upon was red
Greek cross on white ground-the re-
verse of the Swiss flag. Turkey alone
has objected to this. Her soldiers, in
their intense hatred of the Christian
symbol, refused to work under a banner
with cross, and they were allowed to
use red crescent in its place.
"Mr. Dunant is now about 10 years
of age. Having spent half his fortune
in establishing the Red Cross and hav-
ing lost the other half in unfortunate
business ventures, he lived for many
years, poor and forgotten. i'll plain
district infirinary in Switzerland of
which he himself was the founder.
Now, however, through the pensions
granted him by the dowagor empress of
Russia and the federal council of
Switzerland and tho generous gifts Of
money sent him by the citizens of Stuff
CART, Germany, he is spending peace
full old ago in comfort and plenty
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-09-21
Dueytsts XIII Each other.

st. Louis, Sept: zl-Word has been re-
ceivpl here of desperate and fatal du-
ell between Mate Park Davis and the
night Waterman on board the steamer
Mayflower of the Diamond 10 line
which left here Monday night for Mem
nhis. Both men are dead. For some
time there had been feud between the
two men. Last night when the boat
was tied up at Mugs Landing, one mile
from Creston, Mo-, the quarrel between
them broke out. The Waterman attack
ed the mate with a knife. For some
minutes the struggle lasted, both par
Elephants struggling about the boat, to
the horror of the passengers, who We're
unable to interfere, until the men sank
exhausted and died SIZE by side on the
blood shattered deck.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-09-21
TO Nominate Colonel As.Or.

New Yovk, Sept. 21.-Some of the Re-
publican LEADERS, of the Thirteenth con-
gress district announce in positive
terms that Colo mel John Jacob Aston Is
to be nominated for congress In that
district. The district Is now represent
I'd by Richard c. Shannon Republican,
who has declined to be candidate for
renou'nat'cn. The leaders of tie reeu-
lar Republican zation will control
the Thirteenth district convention, but
the ants tho control the Twcnty-sev-
enth assannln'y district, are equally en-
thusiast'c III support Of Colonel Astor.
There was some tnl,7 OF nominating Mr..
Astor IN the Twelfth district but 1t Is
said he will! make TIE race to succeed
shannon in the Thirteenth.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-09-21
Geo-ue GOuld'a Taxes.

Trenton Sept. 21.-The state board OF
taxation has dismissed the complaint of
the Somerset county board OF freehold
ers against the assessments made in the
county OF Ocean. The board by vote
Of to / decided that the real estate
and personal property in Ocean county
was substantially all assessed and at
substantially it's true value. Major
Carl Lentz made a minority report, in
which he held the assessor of Lakewood
township was not energetic enough in
his duties. Major Lentz reasons that
George Gould's personal property sfoIld
have been assessed at $500, 900 instead
Of 5000, 0o0 Assessor Robbins in his
statement before the board explained
that he ha i made the assessment from
the best information obtainable, he not
being able 10 see Mr.. Gould personally
on account of the latter not being at
Lakewood during the taxing season.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-09-21
Closing prices:
General Markets.

Now Org. eDt. ~.
FLOUR state and western str'diar at old
prices; winter patents, 23.,ia3oi; winter
strainlts, g. iOa3.E5 minnesota patents, $3.50
aA.Cl: winter extras, S22.'oa','0.
WflEAT-No. Q red ruled firm all the norm
ing on small northwest receipts ANA stcadicr
cahl,s G; May, 6sIsatsl9c.: September. 7la1l1ac.
RYE Steady: state, &c.; No. = western,
4S1lc., c. i. f.. Buffalo.
CORN - No. Q quiet, b. steady with wheat;
December. 3isac.
OATS-No 2 dull and fcaturelcss; track.
white, state, 23a3jc.; track, white, western, ::3a
Sc.
PORK-Easy; mess. $s.15a9.s5 family. Sll5O
al2
LARD Steady; prime western am,S50,1a
nominal
pJrTTER- Firm; state dairy, llalSlac.; state
crea,norv '5a2Ol@c.
CHEESE Firm; large, white, 134asc.; small
white, i.;atc. 49,
EGGS Firm; state and Pennsylvania, Ec;
western, lIc ~
sJrGAIi-Raw firm; fair refining, l3-lca
n3sSc.; centrifugal, 96 test. ESQ., refined
crp,. crushed 5 l5-l6c; powdered. 5'4c.
MOLAS-ES- Firm; New Orleans, 23sas'c.
RICE-Steady; domestic, 5loadIc.; Japan,
55S,tGlsc. ,o .,
HAY Quiet; shipping, '5ai1c.; good to
choice, 40aGOc
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-09-21
NEW YORK MILITIA.
The CID Rational CVHrls 10 Itcs:i.le
Their FurCtlo,ta as Suc,,

AAiV t'u S'I'E'.S ID IL c1 sls1e
Their Functlo;sa as Suc,..
Albany, Sept. 2. -- "Gl.e New York
volunteer + 3i:;;eit O., I-ll'cl We're rails d
In the national guard and which have
returned to their home cities and given
furloughs, will resume their functions
as national guard organizations when
their furloughs have expired and they
nave been mustered out Of the United
states volunteer service. The new ma
tlonal guard organizations that were
raised to take their places will be dis
banded when this time arrives"
Many questions have arisen in the
various localities of the state as to the
rights of the new national guard or
gantZations, in view of the re turn of tie
volunteers, whose places they We're
raised to fill, and inquiries ut the adj
jutant generals Office brought forth the
above statement. On April % Adjutlnt
General Tillinghast issued an order for
the recruiting of new national guard CT
CARNATIONS to take the places of those
which made up the volunteer reg m ants,
and paragraph of that order reads:
ALTHOUGH under the state law origi-
nal enlistments must be for five years,
these new organizations will be dis
banded, the officers will be rendered
supernumerary and the enlisted men
honorably discharged when those en-
tering the United States service re-
turn"
The process of dissolution OF the new
and reformation of the old cannot be
begun until the volunteers furlouRhs
have expired and they have been mus
tered out, because they are not under
state control until that time.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-09-21
WfhcImina Opens States General.

The Hague, Sept. -l.-,tEeen Wilhel-
nina, accompanied by The queen moth
err, opened the st"tcs general. In the
speech from the throne her majesty
dWelt upon the nnume"abe proofs Of
patriotism and IF ction 70 ths d NIFTY
manifested since her accession to the
throne, the recollection of which, she
added can never lie cffaced from her
memory. The nugsn also said she had
received the car" disarmament pro-
posal with peculi"r sympathy The
queen, in her sp2~th, al-o promised the
Introduction of q number of social
measures.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-09-21
w. cf the Letter Boom.

chicaeo, sept. 21.-Joseph Letter ana
1ohn u Wilson have given quitclalm
deea TO Levi u. Letter for the properties
~ a. .r5 90 Washington street and lo9
70 rs Acams street for nominal con-
..sa,,tion Of 81. The deeds bore reve-
.to,,,rs amounting to 5000, indicat-
, nue ,s,uation of 5000. 900. Joseph Lei
.ar ,,ansrerred these properties to MI
t,Ji,.,an some time ago for the use OF the
I,,i.,9is trust and Savings BANK 10
..ni'h ba owed money. Presumably
w., irdehtednes having been paid, Mr..
: n,.or conveys the property to his IA
Their to apply on the larger Indebtedness
to him.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-09-21
Zurlfnden Gets Old Office.

Paris, Sept. 21.-The cabinet council
has reappointed General Zurlinden to
the post of military governor of Paris,
which he occupied previous to accept
ing the portfolio of minister of war,
made vacant by the resignation of M.
Cavaignac. General Zurlinden recently
resigned from the ministry of war, as
he did not agree with his colleagues as
to the advisability Of appointing COM
mission to examine the documents in
the Dreyfus case, with the view of pos
sibly reopening it.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-09-21
v-.p,,obn's Wheat Crop.

st. Paul. Sept. 21-A Winnipeg spe-
cial to Ihr Dispatch says: Manaser
rhcmnscn OF the Ogilv'e Milling comra-
nv has lust returned from inspecting
the vrect crop and says: "A. result
- WY. TIN .l11 forced to admit that the
yo,,a, r-,ent cstin,ate Of the crop will be
exec e1el by over 1000 go bushels' ! es-
innate the crop of wheat for Manltona
this year at 80 ooo,oo0 bushels' ana az
lowing 60oo.0o0 bushels for the NORM
west Territ ,rics, this gives us a total
ron Of wheat ne7ry double that OF last
ve-. and the gre,tcst in the history or
the west"
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-09-21
Accused of Robbing Soldiers.

New York, Sept. 21.-Matthew Rooney
who has been employed as a teamster
at Montauk Point and who lives at One
Hundred and Elghty-seventh street and
Amsterdam avenue, was arraigned in
the Harlem police court on charge Of
stealing government blankets from the
soldiers at Camp Wikoff. When Magis-
trate Kudllch heard the complaint, he
turned the prisoner over to the federal
authorities, who were represented by
Lieutenant c. w. Parker of the Second
engineer corps, United States volun-
teers.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-09-21
.John Shermc n III.

washington, Sept. 81. Hon. John
sreru,n is i'll at his residence In this
oit,, from an acute attack Of bronchitis.
He has been in bed for about a "eeh'
but progr. ssad favoraoIy uht.' '"o uaS
ago. when there was s!ieh' ie'"p1
He is now reported az peihs De'.e.'
though somewhat weak ana WI"
tie fever. His condition IS not resarueH
as at all dangerous, and the Lope Is eX-
nressed that he will soon recover
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-09-21
e,,,sb .hips Under Our Flag.

Manila, Sept. 81. - Twenty Spanish
vessels. including 10 steamers, have
counleted tFsir transfer to the Amerl-
ran fag. and a majority of them have
oov proceeded on coastng voyages.
There IS some uncertainty regarding the
native crews and the Filipino vessels.
r. ie rpnorter; that they have been COM
mItttns questionable acts. and the BIOS
ton Raleigh and Manila have sailed
rrdar orders to protect commerce. The
British gunnoat Rather has gone 10
zebu. There are rur'ors thst the lnsuf-
yents are attacking Zebu and l.ollo.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-09-21
r,.,n Ireland Awaiting AlIer.

1lnoxville, Tenn, Sept. Il. : Every.
thing is on the qui vive at Camp Poland
in Expectation of the visit of Secretary
A,,-or The review will cke place III
tho morning. The secretary and T'eftH
Win ncecd at once to Camp Pol@n1 on
tha,r arrival here. Erigadier General
Roeyer is expected kere on the zeth 10
t,te commend of the Third BRIGADE
ua has been at home sick.