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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-02-06
Petition to Probate Will.
State of Illinois.
Rock Island County. -

State of Illinois,
Rock Island County, -
County court, Rock Island county anua
term. 1879.
In the matter OF the probate OF the last will
and t. stament OF Eve Mcikinstry, deceased.
In probate.
To al persons whom this may concern-Grect-
ing:
Notice is hereby given, that on the 18th day of
January, A. ID. 1899. petition was fled in the
county court of Rock Island county. Illinois
asking that the last will and testament of Eve
Mckinstry. deceased he admitted to probate.
The same petition further states that the fol-
lowing named persons are al the heirs-at-law
and legateeS: Mrs Sarah Fletcher. Everett,
Pennsylvania; Mr. Louisa Churchill Rock
l. and, IL; Mrs Mary Colburn- Rock Island -
Miss Caroline Wilson. Rock Island Ill; Miss
Maggie Wilson Rock Island Ill; George Wit
son, res 'dencc unknown Mr. Diana Hart New
ark Ohio and other unknown heir o. Eve
MckinStry- deceased. iOu are further mott
fed that the hearing of the proof Of said y 10
has been set by said court for The -th day of
February, \. D. le.. 1t the hour oi ]" o clock IN
the forenoon 1T the court house IN ROCK
Island. in said county, y hen and where you can
appear IL you see nj. and show cause n any
you have, why said Will should not be admitted
~ probate
HENRY e HUBBARD. County Clerk
Dated at Rock Island January l1tn- 1879
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-02-06
A nuSPnPnfS.

The Heart of Maryland, a strong
yet simple story, was played to de-
lighted audience ut Harper's theatre
last night. The people accepted as an
assurance of n complete production
the announcement that the company
was touring under the direction of the
author, Bavid Belasco, and they were
not disappointed. The acting of Lionel
Adams, as Col. Allan Kendrick, and
Miss Alma Kruger, as Maryland Cal
vert, was superb, and the balance of
the cast was correspondence compe-
tent. The scenery was elegant. The
play is laid in Maryland in the days
of the conflict between the north and
south, and recites the ends to which a
faithful woman, Maryland Calvert, will
90 to prevent harm falling on her lover,
Allan Kendrick, who ut the outbreak
of the war leaves his home and Joins
the Union forces. His father is COM
mander of the Confederate army. The
son becomes colonel in the north.
He is captured and imprisoned in the
old church at Boonesboro, Md. He is
assisted to escape by his lover, who
leaps and catches and swings on the
Taper of the bell to prevent its sound
ing the alarm to the pickets that a
prisoner has escaped. There were
several curtain calls, the audience
being large and appreciative.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-02-06
The Coming Woman

Who goes to the club while her hus-
band tends the baby, rs well as the
good Old-fashioned woman who looks
after her home, will both at times get
run down in health. They will be in
trouble with loss of appetite, head
aches, sleeplessness, fainting or dizzy
spells. The most wonderful remedy
for these women is Electric Bitters.
Thousands of sufferers from lame
back and weak kidneys rise up and
call it blessed. 1t is the medicine for
women. Female complaints and ner-
vous troubles of all kinds are soon re-
lieved 10y the use of Electric Bitters.
Delicate women should keep this rem
edy on hand to build up the system.
Only 30 cents per bottle. For sale by
HartZ & Ullemeyer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-02-06
| aGrippe is
Contagious.
Atmosphere Impregnated With
Germs.
Disease Proved beyond Question to Be
Infectious-Is Rapidly Conquer
ing the Country.

LaGrippe is a contagious disease.
Its specific germ has en- positively
identified, and it is transmitted from
person to person either by direct con-
tant or by inhaling the germs while
they float in the air. 1t is a danger
Gus disease, lowering the vitality and
wasting the resistive power so that
pneumonia. heart disease, nervous
prostration aud insanity find easy vic
Tins No specific is known that will
kill the Grip germs, but it may be
driven out and its effects overcome by
the prompt use of DIR. Miles Restora-
tive Nervine.
..LaGrippe lett my nervous system
so racked and shattered that / could
not sleep, and for two months was I'M
der the influence of narcotics. Physi
clans and friends gave me up TO die;
but in two days after l commenced
taking DR. Miles Restorative Nervine
/ began to improve, and in a month s
time i was entirely cured. 1t is the
greatest health restorer on earth"
ID. W. HILTON. Louisville. Ky.
All druggists are authorized to sell
DIR. Miles Nervine on a guarantee
that first bottle benefits or money re-
funded. Be sure and get DIR. Miles
Nervine. Booklet on heart and nerves
sent free. Address
DR.. MILES MEDICAL Co.,
ElkHart, Ind.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-02-06
BRIDGE SPAN GIVES WAY.
A Serious Accident at Muscatine Sstur-
day.

day.
Muscatine was divorced from Drurv
township, Rock Island county, Satur-
day afternoon by a strange accident,
and 100 farmers with their teams,
who were in the city, had to drive
down the river to an ice bridge two
miles south, in order to get back to
their homes in Illinois. In the mean
time thousands of people had been
attracted to the common center, about
rs they were here couple of years
ago when the ice swept out the draw
span of the uncompleted government
bridge.
1t was the second span from the
Illinois shore that went partially
down. 1t is short, 100 foot span,
and had free play on roller At one
end to allow for contraction and eX-
pansion from cold and heat. 1t stood
upon caissons filled with cement and
sank in cement, but in the nine years
that the bridge has stood it is calcu-
lated that the piers must have been
slightly displaced by the action of the
ice. At any rate, the span contracted
so much Saturday that the end slipped
of the caisson and down it went.
On the Span at the time were Pat
rick Curry and Frank Nicholas, OF
Muscatine, driving wagons heavily
loaded with wood. The span dropped
n few feet at the end, stopped, then
sagged again, stopped, and then with
crash dropped onto the ice and into
the shallow water beneath. Curry and
Nicholas had time to save themselves,
ani besides Curry's broken nose and
bruised face sustained no injuries.
The damage will be Immediately re-
paired. The span is intact, with only
Il floor beam broken. 1t can be raised
and replaced in the course of two or
three weeks.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-02-06
Drink Grain-O

After you have concluded that you
ought not to drink coffee. 1t is not Il
medicine, but doctors order it, be-
cause it is healthful, invigorating and
appetizing. 1t is made from pure
grains and has that rich seal brown
color and taste like the finest grades
of coffee and costs about one-fourth
as much Children like it and thrive
on it, because it Is a genuine food
drink containing nothing but nour-
ishment. Ask your grocer for
Grain-O, the new food drink ID and
% cents.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-02-06
CATARRH OF STOMACH.
\ Pleasant. simple, but safe and Efectua
Cure for it.


Cure for it.
Catarrh of the stomach has long
been considered the next to incura BILE.
The usual symptoms are full or
bloating sensation after eating, ac-
companied sometimes with sour or
waterv risings, a formation of gases,
causing pressure on the heart and
lungs and difficult breathing; head
aches, tickle appetite. nervousness
and a general played out languid
feeling.
There is often foul taste in the
mouth, coated tongue and if the in
terror of the stomach could be seen it
would show Shiny, infamed condi-
ton.
The cure of this common and obsti-
nate trouble is found in treatment
which causes the food to be readily,
thoroughly digested before it has
time to ferment and irritate the deli
cate mucous surfaces of the stomach.
To secure a prompt and healthy diges-
ton is the one necessary thing to do,
and when normal digestion is secured
the catarrhal condition will have dis
appeared.
According to DIR. Harlanson the
safest and best treatment is to use
after each meal tablet, composed of
Diatase, Aseptic Pepsin. little NuX.
Golden Seal and fruit acids. These
tablets can now be found ut all drug
stores under the name of Stuart 5
Dyspepsia Tablets, and not being a
patent medicine can be used with per-
feet safety and assurance that healthy
appetite and thorough digestion will
follow their regular use after meals.
n. j. Booher, of 271O Dearborn
street, Chicago, writes: ."Catarrh is Il
local condition resulting from Il neg
lected cold in the head, whereby the
lining membrane of the nose be-
comes inflamed and the poisonous
discharge therefrom passing back
ward into the throat reaches
the stomach, thus producing
catarrh of the stomach. Medical
authorities prescribed for me for
three years for catarrh of the stomach
without cure, but today | am the
happiest of men after using only one
box OF Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets.
cannot lind appropriate words to eX-
press my good feeling. l have found
flesh. appetite and sound rest from
their USE"
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets is the
safest preparation as well as the
simplest and most convenient remedy
for any form of indigestion, catarrh
of stomach. biliousness, sour stom-
ach, heartburn and bloating after
meals
Send for little book mailed free, on
stomach troubles, by addressing
Stuart company, Marshall, Mich. The
tablets can be found at all drug store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-02-06

Any Old Subscriber Who Pays soc on Sub
scription Either on Back Account or in
Advance Gets Chance to Guess-New
Subscribers Who Pay in Advance May
Guess AIso-ConsoIation Prizes.
In order to be always up and doing
THE ARGUS proposes to give To some
old or new subscriber absolutely free,
handsome new Modern bicycle of 1899
pattern on a plan that will insure
satisfaction to all.
The contest opened Feb. 4th and
will close three weeks from that
date, Saturday evening Feb. 25th at
o'clock.
1t will be known as THE ARGUS PRIZE
Puzzle CONTEST, and the bicycle VIII
be given to the first correct answer
received after the puzzle is published.
which will appear in The ARGUS of
Saturday evening. Feb. IL, 1899.
This is done in order to give everyone
a chance to comply with the con-
ditiOns which are as follows:
ANY new subscriber who pays soc
for 5-weeks' subscription to THE
ARGUS in advance will be given a
ticket emitting such subscriber to a
guess in the contest, or one guess for
every soc so paid on subscription.
Any old subscriber who pays soc on
subscription will receive ticket
emitting them to a guess in the same
manner. or more guesses at the rate
of one guess for every SOC paid on sub
scription. In this manner all patrons
of the paper share and share alike.
In either case, however, the money
must be paid at or sent to The ARGUS
office. No guesses will be given for
money paid to carriers.
The Guessing.
In the issue of Saturday evening,
Feb. IL, prize puzzle containing a
square filled with black dots will be
printed. To the first correct answer
as to the number of dots in the puz-
zle the bicycle will be given, every
answer being marked with the time
received and precedence given to the
first one that is correct. The puzzle
will be such that no one will be able
to estimate the number correctly in
side of several hours, so that all will
have n good chance to get the wheel.
In order to make it more attractive,
Il 6-months' subscription free will be
given to all who estimate it correctly,
but are too late to get the bicycle.
All contestants will be required to
send in their estimates on Il blank
form that will he furnished at The
ARGUS office to all who are entitled to
guess.
You can pay at any time, get your
blank ready for your answer and
make up the reply when you please.
If the wheel is won by lady, a
lady's bicycle will be provided.
If no one estimates the mum Der
of dots correctly the wheel will be
given to the one who comes nearest
to it.
a detailed description of the bicycle
will be given later.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-02-06

Mr.. S. A. Fackler, editor of the Mi
canopy (Fla.) Hustler, with his wife
and children, suffered terribly from
Ia grippe. One Minute Cough Cure
was the only remedy that helped
them. 1t acted quickly. Thousands
OF others use this remedy as a specific
for la grippe, and its exhausting after
effects. Never fails. For sale by T
III. Thomas. A j. Reiss and NJ +.
Bahnsen, druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-02-06
More Patients.

Fifty-two patients from the Elgin
ASYLUM arrived at the Watertown
asylum Saturday night. These come
here under the new assignment of
patients made since the completion of
the new ward. More are expected
next week.
Henry Ames. formerly newspaper
man in Moline and other cities, is jani-
tor and night Waterman ut the asylum
at Watertown.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-02-06
Gone to Stay.

Moline, H., Jan. 80, 1S99.-NIrs. l..
Gilfoyle, of this place. says her boy
had a great deal of trouble with sores
breaking out on his body and limbs,
and he could not get rid OF them.
They would heal, but would soon
break out again. She began giving
him Hoods Sarsaparilla, and the
soreness bealed, and she has seen no
signs of their breaking ont since.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-02-06
The Most Fatal Disease.

1t is not generally known that more
adults die of kidney trouble than of
any other disease. When the first
symptoms of this disease appear. no
time should lie lost in taking Foley's
Kidney cure, which is guaranteed or
money refunded.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-02-06
ChamberIaIn,s Cough Kennedy in Chleago

Hisgen Bros, the popular South
Side druggists, corner of SiXty-ninth
street and Wentworth avenue, says:
I'VE sell great deal of Cham ber-
lain's Cough remedy. and find that it
especially among children for severe
colds and Group" For sale by all
druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-02-06

Coughing Injuries and inflames sore
lungs. One Minute Cough Cure
loosens the cold; allays coughing and
heals quickly. The best cough cure
for children, perfectly harmless. For
NJ F. Bahnsen. druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-02-06
Don't Tobacco Spit and smoss IOsr Life Away.

To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
netic. full OF life ne, We and vigor, take No-To
BAG, the wonder worker. that makes weak men
strong All druggists, SOC or sl. Cure guaran
teed Booklet and sample free Address
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-02-06
There Is No D.? About 1t.

No question indeed with those who
have used it, but that FOley's Kidney
Cure is absolutely reliable for all kid
ney and bladder disease
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-02-06

BY the undersigned association forthe arrest
and conviction OF any incendiary In any OF the
associated towns
PROPERTY OWNERS FIRE ASSOCIATION
Rock Island, LII.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-02-06
HONOR FOR MISS LYFoRD.
Rock Island Lady rendered State Scholar

Rock Island Lady rendered State SchoIar-
ship in Dread Institute.
Miss Carrie Alberta Lyford, of this
city, has been honored by Gov. John
L. Tanner in being appointed to the
state scholarship offered by the Dread
institute, of Worcester, Mass.
Miss Lyford is the daughter of
Deputy County Treasurer A. E. Ly-
ford
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-02-06

Educate Your Bowels with CascRret5a
Candy Cathartic. c. - CONSERVATION forever.
tcc. 25c- IL c. c. c fail. DR. fund mone-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-02-06
FIRE-BUGS! $500 REWARD.
Reward of 5000

The premium payers OF the state are main
tanning a fund By popular subscription from
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-02-06
A BICYCLE FREE.
The Argus to Present One to
Some Old or New Sub.
scriber.
AN OUTLINE OF THE PLAN.

Any Old Subscriber who Pays soc on Sub
Advance Gets a Chance to Guess-New
Subscribers Who Pay in Advance May
Guess Also-ConsoIatiOn Prizes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-02-06

Send for little book mailed free, on
stomach troubles, by addressing
Stuart company, Marshall. Mich. The
tablets can be found at all drug store.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-03-24

cided the climate was not favorable
for them.
The products of the society's lands
and mills We're much more than the
community needed for its own use,
and much was sold in Pittsburg aud
neighboring towns The receipts all
went into :he common fund, which in
time grew to great amount.
When Christ did not come at the
death of Father" Rapp, disappoint-
ment was keen. Jacob Henrici, who
was elected senior trustee and patri-
arch of the society, predicted that
they would not have to wait much
longer. He encouraged the members
to more ascetic religious life and to
more diligent toll.
At the entrance to the "Great Gar
den" stands the "Great House."
Father Henrici spent his last days in
the house. The "Great House" has
been subject of controversy in the
case before the courts. 1t is alleged
that DR.. Cyrus Teed was introduced
to the society and preached his doc
trines in Economy, with a view to
transferring his colony there and
making it part of the Harmony So
ciety. Duss, the petitioners allcge,
'built fine house before Father
HenricIs death for the accommodate
tion of Teed and some of his principal
followers" This raised rebellion
among the Harmonites and resulted
in the withdrawal of some of the mem
bers, "who received certain sums of
money at their departure" This dis
satisfaction, it is said. caused the
abandonment of the iced scheme.
SO the Harmony Society, born in
peace and good will, seems doomed
to go to pieces i'll the courts, unless
legal delays can postpone adjudica-
tion some years, when there is apt to
be left of those interested only-John
| Duss.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-03-24

Now but seven remain, six aged
women and one bent man, and they
have little concern for the disssension
community. They think and talk
chiefly of when they will be laid to
rest in the Orchard" as they call the
society burying ground, and of Joy
they expected to realize long ago-that
of meeting their Lord. For days,
weeks, years, they have eagerly
watched for the second coming of
Christ. 'He has delayed His coming
to us, but we shall soon go to Him, "
the serene faced sisters whisper to
one another as they walk out together
on pleasant days. The wrinkled man
rarely speaks to them more than to
say, "Good day, sisters. God bless
you" for men and women in this an
cient community have always 6welt
apart.
Now comes John Duss, the pres
ent patriarch" and prospective heir.
Duss is virtually child-the only
child-of the society. His mother
took him to Economy with her in
1862, when he was two years old. His
father, who was then in the Federal
army, died of n wound received in the
battle of Gettysburg. The mother
went to Economy to accept employ
ment as nurse. She remained in
the service of the society until early
in 1876.
John was sent to the Soldiers
Orphans School, at Phillipsburg, in
1873, and remained there until 1876,
when he returned to his mother and
entered the service of the Harmony
Society. The mother took him to
Germany for few months visit. They
returned to Economy, and in 1873
young Duss was given position as
teacher OF German in the Economy
school. He remained there about n
year, and then entered Mount Union
College, but did not remain long. He
received an offer to teach in the Kansas
State Reform School, in Topeka, and
as his limited means would not have
permitted him to complete his college
course, he accepted.
John Duss was always enlarging
his interests, however, and when he
saw chance to buy fine farm of 100
acres in Webster County, Neb., for
S12S0, he took it, and devoted con-
siderable time to agriculture.
In 1883 Duss, who in the meantime
had married, returned to Economy.
He claims this was at the earnest
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-03-24

election to the Board of Trustees, and
his wife was also admitted to the
Society. At the instance of "Father"
Henrici the Dusses took up their
abode in the "Great House." Al
though under the same roof, the
lived apart, in accordance with the
doctrine of the community.
The election of Duss and his wife
and the elevation of the former TO
power created dissensIon to the society.
Several of the members withdrew,
claiming that Duss exercised undue
influence over Father" Henrici.
Thus dissension, so long excluded,
got foothold, and now threatens to
totally disrupt community which
would have soon been dissolved by
death.
On the death of "Father" Henrici,
Duss was elected patriarch" and
thus the youngest member of the So
ciety became it's head.
There has been practically no change
in the town i'll the last sixty years SO
far as its buildings are concerned.
The Temple, which is thronged
each Sunday by tenants of the society,
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-03-24
ROMANCE OF A FAMOUS
COMMUNIST COLONY.
Who Will Get the Immense Fortune of the
Harmony Society?

Seven aged and infrm pe0i cling
ing to life by an almost worn out
thread, are all that stand between one
young man and n fortune estimated at
four millions. John Duss is the for
tunate mortal, and he bids fair soon to
be the sole survivor and heir Of
quaint communistic society which has
nestled in peace on the banks of the
Ohio for nearly century.
Away back at the birth of the nine
teenth century George Rapp, a youth
OF some education and originality of
thought, became SO obnoxious to the
Prussian government through his ad-
vocacy of communistic doctrines that
he was forced to leave his native coun-
try. Determined to seek land where
he would be free to carry his ideas in
to practice, he chose to emigrate to
America, where political and personal
liberty seemed to have secured firm
foothold. He landed at New Orleans
in 1902, and for several years seems to
have explored the almost unbroken
wilderness of the Mississippi Valley
for q suitable site for settlement. He
reached st. Louis, and from there
turned his steps eastward. By this
time he was followed by a band of in
trepid spirits, attracted by his en-
thusiasm.
Finally Rapp located in Posey
County, Indiana, and established
settlement along the lines of his COM
munistic IDEAS. The settlement was
named Harmony. Posey County
proved unhealthy, and few years
later Rapp led his followers into Penn
sylvania. They first settled in Batter
County. where second Harmony"
was founded. Then Rapp heard of the
fertile tracts and the beautiful site for
town overlooking the Ohio in Beaver
County, and the society moved to the
present town of Economy, Penn, in
1886. Here the society thrived. In
the course Of years hundreds of habita-
tions rose, and to-day busy mills, over
flowing granaries aud fertile fields are
numbered among the possessions of
the society.
Zone for all. and all for one," was
the motto of this little band of COM
mur lists. On being admitted to the
Harmony Society new member was
obliged to cede all his moLey and
worldly possessions to the commun-