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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-01-23
gar. American Tobacco. Manhattan,
Peoples Gas and Federal Steel were


Peoples Gas and Federal Steel were
weak.
The stock market this wcel. was treat
ca 10 daily average OF n million shares
dealt In. making allowance for the short
session OF Saturday, and on three days
the dealings were In excess OF a million
Saturday was q fitting close OF the re-
inarkable week. the highes: prices Of
recent years being attained In many
STOCKS. There were various Potential in
lluences at work, the most important OF
which being the continuance OF easy
money. very favorable trade reports and
especially the improvement In the iron
business, large railway earnings and the
government foreign trade statement for
the year, showing an excess of 1921 .2Gl,-
600 OF exports over Imports for the year.
against s357.O91 900 In 1897, which was
the highest record before last year. The
exports were the largest and the I'M
ports the smallest since 1885, although
the consuming population is about one
third larger than ut the time. More
over December exports were the great
est OF any month In our history.
The Vanderbilt stocks were all very
strong. New York Central lead with an
advance of 1Sh on talk of an issue OF
New York Central bonds to take In
Northwest and Union Pacific. Pennsyl-
vania's advance Of AS was on gossip
as to the probabilities concerning the
per cent. dividend on the stock. Ad-
vances In the Paclflcs ranged up TO SI
per cent. in Union Pacific preferred. Ex-
ceptions were Southern Pacific and Pa
ciilc Mall. which were easier. A. re-
ported agreement with q rival concern
to charge Identical prices for the refined
article was a pretext for squeezing the
shorts in Sugar over points. American
Steel and Wire stocks were manipulated
both ways on its plan of acquiring new
companies and ended with gain OF 10is
for the common and Is for the preferred.
New York Air Brake fluctuated wildly
rising &c points and dropping over 10,
with n subsequent recovery. making the
net gain 10A.' Among other specialties
10 SHOW strength were Tennessee Coal
and Iron, Metropolitan and Manhattan,
the latter rising 81. 1t was said that
new blood was to be infused into Man.
haitian, but this was denied by the pres
ent management.
Railroad. bonds exhibited marked
strength. with the inquiry embracing
gilt-edged as well as usually neglected
issues. The material improvement. in
the hiGh-grade stocks prompted cxten-
slve trading IN bonds where opportuni-
ties for enhancement in values seemed
favorable.
U. S. new As. registered. and the IS
advanced "a: the old As registered. the
new is coupon and the IS registered 4 !,
and the IS II per cant. In the bid price.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-01-23

OIL CfTY-Credit balances 81 10; GER
tii'cntcs-markct opening bid 81 1874 for
cash: no othSr bids or offers. No sales,
Shipments, GS,S5O barrels; runs, DISCO
barrels.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-01-23

CAN'T be In perfect health wlthou,
pure blood. Burdocl Blood BittCrs
makes pure blood. Tones and invigor-
ntcs the whole system.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-01-23
Metals.

NEW YORK-piE Iron firm: southern
$40 2'Mll 20: northern $40 25GpI2 %.
Copper stcndy: brokers 15hc. Lead
steady; brokers 81 90. Tin plates steady.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-01-23
Wool.

NEW YORk-Wool steady; domestic
fleece lTQ22c; Texas 1lGlic.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-01-23

Sunday trains between Uhrchsvlllo and
Cleveland. Other trains daily except Sun.
day.
Electric cars between Bridgeport and
Wheeling, and bridgeport and Martins
Ferry and Bcllalrc :
Consult agents for general Information
ns to hest routes and passenger rates 10
ull points.
~ n. G. CAIlREL. G. P. A.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-01-23

HHE MoNoNGAH ROUTE Is TUC
- ~ short Line between Falrmont and
Sure Connections. When travelling r. or
from Clarksburg or West virginia nnh
pittsburgh railroad points. see that Your
tickets read Via the MonoSahein River
nnilrond. Close Connections Mt Fn!rmont
with i. g. o. trains. and ut Clnrksh,Jrr.
win H. \ o. and W.. V. n p. trains. TIrk,
cts VIZ this route on snlc at all u, & @
ana W., Y. =. r. r. stations, "
HUGH G. DOWLES. Cont Sun,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-01-23

A LII KINDS OF PLAIN AND FANCY
~ Printing. An entire now limo OF sam
pies OF Bal! Programmes. Tickets and In.
Job Printing ONCE.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-01-23
BrcGdStuf1S and Provisions.

All assessments paid.
Fourth assessment paid.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-01-23
Articles.

Cash quotations were ms follows:
Flour dull; winter patents 50 COCA 70;
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-01-23
& Elm Grove Electric Railway,
Cars will run as follows, city time:
WHEELING TO ELM GROVE

Extras from Wheeling to Park and Re-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-06
ADog md N Telephone.

At the Redhill railway station pas
senger recently came to the station
master in great grief. saying that her
little pet dog had been left by accident
on the platform at Reigate and would
likely be either crushed by locomotive
or lost. The courteous official telephoned
through respecting the poodle. and the
answer came Immediately that dog of
that description had just been brought
into the police station. The receiver
was put to the dogs ear. and the lady
was asked to speak to it. She did so.
The effect was electrical The dog bark
ed a cordial recognition of the voice and
by its antics expressed a great desire to
jump into the apparatus and traverse
the wire in order to get to its mistress
all the sooner.-Birmingha (England)
Mail
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-06
The Art of Doing Nothing.

One mark of the modern man is his
inability to idle When he has to work
for his living, he will grumble lavishly.
telling you that leisure is what he
longs for; that an idle life is his unat-
tainable ideal But let him come into
a fortune and you will see. Does he use
his new affiuence in the only reasonable
way, making soft places for himself
wherein he can idle happily Not he; he
runs to and fro about the city like the
Scripture dog. risking the portion Of
goods that has come to him among the
outside brokers, or he tries the muscles
of his stomach on yacht, or he deliv-
ers himself. bound hand and foot, to
the tyranny of the racing stables. or he
becomes a philanthropist, or throws his
unconquerable energy into amateur
photography.
To dweller in the sheepfolds the
question comes urgent, insistent, When
does man come into this his birthright
of antlike industry? When does this
inability to idle grow on him2 In the
time Of his lambhood he will do any
thing. everything, to insure his doing
nothing. To attain this object he will
spare no patent pains. no anxious
thought He will achieve his end even
in ''prep." with the eye of the shep-
herd upon him. and it will be perceived
that to do nothing when talking is i'm
possible and staring about, an expensive
luxury, requires a talent amounting al
most to genius. Mall Gazette.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-06
He Got the Votes.

A congressman is thus quoted by the
Washington Star:
1.-The first race I ever made for con-
gress resulted in my defeat by less than
so majority, and if one of my friends
had not been too jealous / would have
been elected. There was a precinct
where expected to receive 100 votes.
and feared there would be some fraud
inf the precinct that would injure me,
so got an old man who had never par
ticipated in politics. but who had al
most paramount influence in the dis
trict, to take charge of my interests
there. instructing him TO see that every
friend of mine voted and that the votes
were counted.
when the returns came in, had
not received a single vote in that pre-
cinct. and the next day bulky envel-
ope was handed me containing 100 bal
lots. together with letter from the
man 1 had left in charge saying that he
had seen every friend of mine and taken
up their ballots so that none would be
missed, and as he wouldn't trust the
judges of elections he had sent them to
me himself so 1 would be sure to get
them Since then have seen to it that
men in charge of my interests were not
only honest. but knew something about
politicS -
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-06
only Two Men Know the rrrcx.


There is one expert in Philadelphia
VINO. it Is safe to say, stands entirely
alone in his specially. He is James
Toughill. who has charge of the piling
of coin bags at the subtreasury. Not
only does he have charge of the piling
of the bags, but he does it all himself
for there is secret connected with this
work that is known to only one man in
the country besides the Philadelphia ex-
pert
1t does not seem at first glance to be
very difficult task. but those who have
tried it and failed can be counted by
hundreds, while the first man to do the
work properly without knowledge of
the secret having been impaired to him
is yet to be named Not so many years
ago there was only one person in the
country who could do the work. Where
he obtained his exclusive knowledge no
one knows On a trip to Philadelphia he
met Toughill and the two became fast
friends. As a mark of his esteem the
original expert taught Toughill the art
of piling up money securely. and that is
as far as the knowledge has been ex
tended
The work consists of piling up bags
containing 1000 silver dollars each as
high as the vault will permit When
built by the experts this silver wall is
as solid and substantial as if built of
bricks and mortar, and it is well this is
80. If one of these walls should be con-
structed on wrong principles it would
surely fall, and fall usually means Sc
rious injury TO some one Many men
have been hurt in attempting to learn
the art, and now Toughir and his
friend, who is in the west, occupy the
field alone. Philadelphia Record
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-06
Sunday Trading.

A German shcpkeeper went one Sun
day morning to customer in order to
demand the payment of long neglect
ed account. The police heard of this
and regarded it as a violation of the
new law against trading during the
hours of worship. The offender was
cited and fined. He appealed to the
kammergericht, and was discharged as
innocent. What the law expressly for
bids, said the kammergericht. is any
public or open labor or trading within
the prescribed time.
On the police Interpretation two men
who talked incidentally about their
business relations on Sunday morning
on their way to church might be arrest
ed as violators of the law, which would
be palpably tyrannical and absurd. This
recalls the good old tale of two Sabba-
tartan farmers who hit upon casuisti-
cal method of doing trade on the Lord s
day without breaking the fourth COM
mandment. "What would you give for
that calf" asked one. eff it were not
the Sabbath2'' eff it were not the
Sabbath would give you so much,'
naming the sum. Tomorrow, then,
we will consider it bargain. Lon
don News
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-06
william BLACK. Characters.

Sir Wemyss Reid notes that William
Black seldom allowed himself to be
drawn into conversation about his work.
One of Reds recollections runs thus:
lone day, in the farof past. was
walking along the sea front with Black,
at Brighton, when he said abruptly and
with reference to nothing that had been
passing between us: We are not all en-
gagged in running away with other
mems wives There are some of us who
are not the victims of mental disease or
moral deformity. do not even know
that anybody of my acquaintance has
committed murder or a forgery. Yet
people are angry with me because l do
not make my characters in my books
odious in this fashion. I prefer to write
about sane people and honest people.
and I imagine that they are. after all.
in a majority in the world. %
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-06
Didn,t Lose His Head.

Prince Louis Esterhazy, military at
tache of the Austrian embassy at Lon
don, was travelling alone in an English
railway. when an elegantly dressed wo-
man entered the carriage. Presently she
dropped her handkerchief and employed
other expedients to start conversation.
but without avail for the prince tran
gully smoked his cigar and took no no.
tice of her. At last as the train ap-
preached a station the woman suddenly
tore her hat from her head, disheveled
her hair and as the train came to a
standstill put her head out Of the win
dow and shriekea for assistance
The railroad officials hurried to the
scene, and to them the woman asserted
that she had been terribly insulted by
the prince. The prince did not stir from
his seat, but continued TRANQUILITY smok-
ing his cigar, and the station master
exclaimed, What have you got to say
to this charger"
Without the slightest appearance of
concern the prince. who was seated in
the farther corner of the carriage, re-
piled, ''Only this, and with that he
pointed to his cigar. which showed a
beautiful gray ash considerably over an
inch in length.
The station master was wise in his
generation, and on perceiving the ash on
the princes cigar he touched his hat
and said quietly. That's all right,
SIR" and arrested the woman instead
San Francisco Argonaut.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-06
Adventure win !. nicer.

Colonel R.. an English officer station
ed in India, met with singular adven-
ture while tiger hunting in which he
lost an arm The colonel had wounded
a tiger from an elephants back The
tiger charged. and the elephant, taking
fright, bolted through the jungle. To
save himself from being Drained and
swept off by overhanging branches.
Colonel r. seized stout limb and, rails
ing himself, left the elephant to go on
alone Though the forest To his dismay
he found he had not strength and agil-
ity sufficient to swing himself up to sit
on the branch. In vain he strove to
throw leg over and so raise himself
Looking down. the sportsman discov-
cred that the tiger had spotted him and
was waiting below. The horror of the
situation can be imagined-the enraged
tiger and the helpless, dangling man
knowing he must fail into those cruel
jaws
How long he hung there he never
knew. He shouted and shrieked in an
agony of fear He eased one arm n lit
tie and then the other, then hung de-
spairingly by both-till at last tired ma
ture gave way and he droppedi
He remembered thrusting one arm
into the tiger jaws, and then conscious
ness left him. His life was saved by the.
arrival of friendly rifle barrel held
close to the tigers head and through the
subsequent amputation of the mangled
arm by a skillful surgeon.-Youth'
Companion.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-06
Publication Notice.
Sweeney & Walker, Solicitors

sweeney & Walker, Solicitors.
State of Illinois,
Rock Island County.
Foreclosure. General No 1888.
In the Circuit Court. To the May term A. d.
1899.
Black Hawk Homestead Blu lding, Loan and
savings Association Perry V. Weaver
ling, Martha j. Weaverling, Thomas Smart,
Annie Bailey. Alice e Cohen, Allen ID. Co
ben Joseph Cohen, William Cohen, Edw ard
Cohen, Annie Cohen. Maggie Colpurn.
To the above named defendants Thomas
Smart aud Edward Cohen and each of them:
Affidavit that you. the said Thomas Smart
are nonresident of the st tie of Illinois, and
that you. the said Edward Cohen. have gone
out of the state of Ilinois, that summons
cannot be served upon you, having bren filed
in the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court
of said Rock Island county, Illinois, notice is
hereby given to you. and ed CHI of you, that the
above named complainant has herelofore fled
in said court its bill of complaint ag aiust you on
the chancery side of said court, and tn st the
said cause is still pending therein at undeter-
mined, and that said cause has been continued
for service Until the next May term of said
court. to begun and holden at the court house
in the city OF Rock Island in said county and
state. beginning on the first Monday in May A
ID. 1899, at which time and place you will ap-
pear. plead, answer or demur to said bill of
complaint il you see 6t
lated at Rock Island, Illinois, this 31st day of
March A. ID. 1899
GEORGE w. GAMBLE, Clerk
SWEENEY s. WALKER.
Solicitors for Complainants.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-06
Notice of Publication Chanoery.
State OF Illinois, !

State OF Illinois, t
Rock Island County, 90
In the circuit court to May term, 1899. In
chancery.
Cora Murphey Howard ]. Murphey.
Affidavit of the non-residence of the de-
PENDANT, HowardJ Murphey, having been filed
In the clerks office of the circuit court of said
county, notice Is therefore hereby given to
the said nonresident defendant that the COM
plainant filed her bill of complaint in said
court on the chancery side thereof on the
23d day of March, 1899, and that there
upon summons issued out of said court,
wherein said suit is now pending, returnable on
the first Monday in the month of May next,
as is by law required. Now, unless you, the said
nonresident defendant above named. Howard
j. Murpbey, shall personally be and appear be-
fore said circuit court. on the first day of the
next term therof, to be holden at Rock ISL
and in and for the said county, on the LIST
Monday in May next, and plead, answ err
demur to i'd complanants bill of com
plant, the same and the matters and things
therein charged and stated will be taken as
confessed, and decree entered against GU
according to the prayer of said bill. - 80
GEORGE w. GAMBLE, Clerk.
Rock Island, Illinois, March 3D. 1859.
STURGEON g. MARSHALL.
Complainants Solicitors.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-06
THE WITCH'S CURSE.
AoLooMY LEGEND OF THE TOWN
OF sUcKSPoRT, ME-

The Imprecations and Prophecy of
the Condemned Woman ON the
scnfoId Recalled by n Strange
Flemish on Col. Bucks Tombstone.
Close by the country road on the out
skirts of the sleepy old seaport town of
Bucksport, on the Penobscot. down in
Maine, is small family cemetery.
Within the Enclosure. with its high iron
fence, in the quiet and almost gloomy
shade, sleep the Bucks, the blueblooded
and aristocratic clan which first settled
the town and bequeathed it their name
and a legend
OF the many moss grown tablets and
monuments the largest and most con-
spicuous is tall granite shaft in plain
sight of the highway. On one side is
the inscription:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-06
Type. of Husband. to Avoid.

There are two distinct types of hus-
bands who do more harm than they
would be willing to admit-the man
who permits himself to become a gem
erous figurehead in his own family.
rarely holdisg a conversation with his
wife or children. good naturally re-
spending to any extravaganza for the
sake of peace. and the man who. though
conspicuous in the church and COM
munity, tyrannizes over his family in
small things until. for the sake of peace,
they deceive him on every hand
Frances Evans in Ladies Home Jour
nal
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-06
Publication Notice.
State of Illinois.

State of Illinois, IS.
Rock Island county,
In the circuit court of said county, to the
May term, A. ID. 1899
Carl j. Mueller vs. William Ferguson. Simon
Dexter. Jessie A. Dexter. Lucy a. MatIock,
Maria @. Dutton, Carrie Cummings, George
Matlock.
Anidayft OF non-resdence of Maria G. Dut-
ton, Carrie Cummings and George Matlock,
defendants in the above entitled cause. having
been filed 10 the clerk Office in the circuit court
of said county notice Is hereby given to the
said nonresident defendants that the com
plainant filed his bill OF complaint in said
court, on the chancery side thereof, on the
18th day of March, A. ID. 1899, and that thereupon
a summons was issued out of said court,
wherein said suit Is now pending, rcturnablc
to the first Monday In the month OF May
next Is by law required.
Now unless you the said nonresident de-
PENDANTS above named shall personally
be and appear before said circuit court
on the first day of the next term thereof, TO
be holden at Rock Island In and for the
said county on the first Monday In May
next and plead, answer or demur to
the said complainants bill of complaint, the
same and the matters and things therein
charged and stated VIII be taken as confessed,
and the decree entered against you according
~ GEORGE W. GAMBLE Clerk
Rock Island, Illinois. March rs. 1929.
McErIRY & McEHIRY.
Complsinant's Solicitors,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-06
Publication Notice-In Attachment.

State of Illinois.
County of Rock Island. %
Circuit court of Rock Island county May
term, A. ID. 1899
Joseph L. Haas VS. Henrietta M. Benscr in at
tachment.
Public notice is hereby given TO the said
Henrietta NJ. Bcnser. that a writ of attach
ment issued out of the Office of the Gle OF
the circuit court of Rock Island county dated
the sth day of March, A ID 1859. at the suit OF
the said Joseph l.. Haas and against thu estate
of the said H. nrietta NJ BenSer for the sum
of twelve hundred and eighty-ei0ht dollars
and twenty cents directed to the she rin of
said Rock Island county, which said writ has
been returned executed.
Now. therefore, unless you the said Henri
eta NJ Benser shall personally be and sppear
before the said circuit court OF Rock Island
county on the first day of the next term thereof
70 be bolden at the court house in the city of
Rock Island In said county. on the first day OF
May. A ID. 1899 give special bail and plead TO
the said plaintiffs action judgment will be-
entered against you, and In favor of the said
Joseph l.. Haas, and so much OF the property
attached as may be sufficient to satisfy said
Judgment and costs will be sold to'satisfy the
same.
GEORGE w. GAMBLE clerk.
CHARLES BUYoRD, Plaintiffs Attorney.
March 18th, a. ID. 1899.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-06
EXECUTORS Notice.


Estate of George Vogler deceased.
The undersigned having been appointed ex-
ecutrix of the last Will and testament of George
Vogler. late of the County of Rock Island
state of Illinois. deceased. hereby gives notice
that she Ill appear before the county court OF
Rock Island county, at the county court ROOM
in the city of Rock Island, ut the June
term, the first Monday in June next
at which time all persons having claims
against said estate are notified and requested
to attend for the purpose of having the same
adjusted All persons indebted to said estate
are requested to make immediate payment to
the undersigned.
Dated this Goth day of March. A. d. 1899.
AGNES VoGLER, Executrix.