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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-28
Preacher sued for Divorce.

milwaukee, March IS. - Mrs. Anna
Elizabeth Mathews Richardson has be
gun suit for divorce against Rev. Henry
Lewis Richardson, pastor of the Con-
gregational church al Racine. alleging
cruelty. The plaintiff is daughter of
Rev. Sherburne :. Mathews. the retir-
ing pastor OF Hanover Street Congrega-
tional church of this city. They were
married June s Of last year
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-28
Reautx Il. Blood Deen.

Clean blood means a clean skin. No
beauty without il. Cascarets, Candy Ca.har-
tic clean your D.ood and keep it clean, by
p1rities from the body. BEGIN today to
Danish pimples, boils, blotches, blaekheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets,-heaHty for ten cents All drug
ests, satisfaetl0p guaranteed, I0c, 25c, SOC.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-28
Trouble with Negro Miners.

Birmingham. Ala, March 2S.-Negro
miners made an attack on the camp Of
the whites at Dolomte, about twelve
miles from here. shorty after midnight
this morning. The white men returned
the fire and several of the negroes were
wounded. none seriously. Sixteen of the
rirg-leaders are in the hands of officers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-28
President En- Route Home.

Thomasville Ga, March 2S.-PTesi-
dent and Mrs. Mckinley and party left
here at 3:l2 =. m. yesterday for Wash
ington. where they will arrive a little
before p. m. today Miss Ruth Hanna
drove the president to the station where
a crowd of about :, 600 persons had con-
gregated. Senator Hanna was the last
10 bid the president goOd-bye.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-28
winter Has Been Hard on wheat.

Springfield, Mass, March 2S.-The
New England Homestead has compiled
a special report from information re-
ceivcd from correspondents in the entire
wheat belt of the country which shows
that the winter has been most severe in
the whole territory usually devoted to
wheat
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-28
Appointments in the Census Bureau.

Washington. March %. - Professor
Walter F. Wilcox. of Cornell university,
has been appointed chief statistician of
the census bureau. and William p Pow
ell. Of this city, will conduct the exam
nation of applicants for positions under
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-28
one tore yiotim a, Omaba.

who was injured in the Patterson block
fire in this city last week. died yester-
day in terrible agony. She leaves a
husband, and child only a few months
old. Mrs. Shriner is the fourth person
to die as result of her injuries in the
fire.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-28

Kitty Wannemac.er, aged Is years.
was shot and fatally wounded at San
Francfsco by her foster brother, Joseph
Miller. 10 years old, while the young
man was playing highBaymau.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-28
Death of an Insane Bishop.

St Louis. March 2s.-Bishop Peter
Duggan died at St Vincent's Asylum
for the Insane yesterday, aged "A years.
He had been a patient at the institution
tTeuty-nine years.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-28

Lines east of Peoria carry through
coaches and sleeping cars on night
trains to principal cities.
X. STOCKHOUSE,
Gen'l Pass. Agent,
Rock Island, Ill.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-28


ing of the Time the Beef should Keep
Sweet - His Washington Agent Is
Equally Positive About the Matter
Never Agreed That the Meat Should Be
Sweet for Seventy-Two Hours.
Washington. March 2S.-The court of
inquiry which is investigating the
charges against the canned and re-
frigerated beef supplied the army last
summer began its sessions here again
yesterday at p. m Two important
witnesses expected to be heard are Gen.
Miles and Gen. Eagan. the latter Of
whom will be recalled, probably 20 tes-
tify as to his understanding of the
contract for refrigerated beef and give
reasons for buying canned meats ut
Chicago over the head Of Colonel Smith.
purchasing agent there. E c. Swift,
vice president of the Swift Packing
company. was the first witness who ap-
peared. He is a resident of Lowell.
Mass, and gives especial attention to
the eastern interests of the company.
He assisted in preparing the contract
for supplying beef for Cuba during the
war. coming TO Washington for that
purpose first on the 2cd of June.
Went to See General Eagap.
Swift stated that he started to Wash
inSton in response to a request from
General Eagan when it appeared that
his firm had made the lowest bid for
refrigerated beef The conversation
with General Eagan on this occasion
was somewhat general. relating to the
conduct Of the business. He was here
only day. and was told before he left
that the contract would be awarded to
his firm. General Eagan had. however.
stated at that time that he could not
go into details with him until he could
make some necessary investigation as
ond visit TO Washington on the 29th OF
June. when the contract was submitted
TO him. He had then made some OBJ
jeotions to the terms OF the agreements
as presented to him.
How He Understood the Contracts. |
One of these objections was 10 the
terms which he thought might require
the company to deliver beef by lighter. F.;
complaining that the company could f..
not reasonably be expected to deliver !
except at such points as had railroads |
alongside the wharf 1t was also under I
stood that beef was to be supplied only
to the port towns, the inland points tC ,
be furnished with BERT killed in the !
They were TO keep on hand a !
sufficient supply for seventy-two hours |
this time to be extended |
twenty-four hours under special ex- /
actions Shore refrigeration was con-
in all the conversation, and
With the understanding that this was
to be had the company had agreed
hat the quality of the beef should be
for three days and nights.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-28

Produce: Butter - Extra creamer-
les. 2O1z a21c per 10; extra dairies, lsc;
fresh packing stock, I1Q12kc. Eggs
Fresh stock. 12c per dozen. Dressed
Poultry-Turkeys. 9M13c per ID; chick
ems, Skql01zc; ducks, sGlOc; geese, 6g
SIC. POtatoes-CommOn to choice. 5l9
&c per blu. Sweet Potatoes-Illinois.
s150d2.25 per Dbl. Apples-Common to
fancy. s3.5Oa5.OO per Dbl.
Chicago Live Stock.
Chicago. March y.
Hogs-Estimated receipts for the day.
80. coo: sales ranged at $3.20d365 for
pigs, $3.55@3.S0 for light, $3.50G360 for
and sS.65QS s21z for heavy packing and
shipping lots. Cattle-Estimated re-
ceipts for the day. $1,000; quotations
ranged at S5.30G5.75 choice to extra
d455 for fair to good s3s5a4.35 common
to medium do, S3.1544.O0 butchers
steers. s4.1O@5.4O fed western steers,
cows. S26O@4.7O heifers 81 7O@4.9O uIls.
oxen and stays, $S.40G4-S0 Texas steers,
and $4.O0H6.9O veal calves. Sheep and
10000: market active: est lots ruled
steady: common 5d1Oc lower; quota
tions ranged at S3.50d5.00 westerns.
s3.25G5.00 natives. and s4.50Q5.so lambs.
Milwaukee Grain
Milwaukee March q.
Wheat-Higher; No. / northern, 12S4c;
No. northern. 6s5s d7Ic. Oats-Firm;
29aSO%c Rye-Higher; No. 1. Soc.
Barley-Steady; No. ., z6jzH47c; sam
pie, 42d4611c.
Local Markets.
COrn-35c63sc.
OatS-29cI3Oc.
Hay-Tinothy 30; wild. 81 50Gss
Straw-s4. 50lLs5.
POtatoeS-eOc-
Butter-Fair TO choice, I5c; fresh creamery,
20c.
Eggs-I25kc
Chickens-Spriog. &c per pound.
Ducks-7c per pound
TUrkeys-Aliye, lGc per pound
Coat-Soft. i0c-
Cattle-Bufchers pay for corn fed steers
4Mcd5c; COWS and heifers, 31zc14c; calves
sc6I5c.
Hogs-S14 ca35Ec.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-28
;. L. FOSTER, NJ. d.
Physician and Surgeon.
DR.. S. II. MILLER,
Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist,

All diseases of horses and cattle treated on
approved principles. Surgical operations per
formed In u scientific manner Dogs treated.
1926 Fifth avenue. Telephone on 1857. once
and infirmary. i6l5-l6i7 Fifth avenue (James
Haucker's stabIe), opposite No IRE house
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-28
THE MARKETS.
Chicago Grain and Produce.

Chicago, March 27.~
Following were the quotations on the
Board of Trade today:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-28
THE TRAVELLERS GUIDE.

CHICAGQ, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC RAIL
y wsy-Tickets can Do porchased OF esgsAss
checked at II d p Twentieth eireet depot, OF
Il d cepot, corner Fifth avenue and Thirty
dret street, Franz Il Plummer. Agent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-28
EAGAN CONTRAD|CTED
On the Issue of What Was the
Meaning of the Refrigerated
Beef Contract.
OF SWIFT, OF BOSTON.

Insists That There Was No Mishnderstand-
ing of the Time the Beef Should Keep
Sweet - His Washington Agent Is
Equally Positive About the Matter
Never Agreed That the Meat Should Be
Sweet for Seventy-Two Hours.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-28

Immediately after applying it you
feel its soothing, warming, strength
ening power.
It quiets congestion; draws out
Inflammation.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-28

Passenger trains lesve II q (Aoline
avenuo) depot i've 90 minutes earlier than time
given. Trains marked daily, all other trains
daily except sunday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-29
EQUIPMENT COMING.
Kansas National Guard Uniforms Are
On the Way

Since S. NJ. Fox was appointed adju-
tant general by Governor Stanley, he
has been working persistently to adjust
ordnance accounts which have been
juggled. mixed up and complicated by
the national guard in Kansas during
the past few years.
The ordnance department at Wash
ingtOn has been called upon several
times for a settlement of the accounts
tive records. Col. Fox has finally after
matter and has received from Washing
ton the official announcement that the
settlement has been accepted and the
ordnance supplies have already been
shipped to Topeka.
This means that the K N G. will
soon be equipped again. Since the or
ganizatOnS were disbanded at the out
break of the war there has not been a
sufficient supply of ordnance to equip
the guard which is being reorganized
The settlement which Mr.. Fox has made
clears away this difficulty and the
equipment of the new companies will be
completed when the shipments now in
transit reach the adjutant generals de-
partment.
Mr.. Fox procured the settlement from
information which he has collected
from scraps of paper and deficient rec
ords Had he been una Bile to work out
a settlement of these badly-mixed ac-
counts the state would have been COM
PEELED to pay the difference between
the accounts held in Washington and
those recorded here
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-29
OUR next WAR.
Admiral Dewey Says 1t Will Be
With Germany.

New York, July pa dispatch to the
Herald from Trieste says:
Your correspondent had a conversa-
tion with Admiral Dewey on board the
Olympia. In reply to my remark that
Germany had intended to interfere at
Manila, he said:
Yes, Prince Henry of Prussia is
man Of the type of his brother, the Ger
man Emperor
And Admiral Won Diedrichs?" he
was asked
He was relieved from his Manila
post in accordance with an arrange
ment of long standing and because his
time was up, not as a concession made
in friendliness to the American govern
ment- Germany's policy is to prevent
other powers from obtaining what she
cannot acquire herself"
After we had spoken of Samoa as ev-
idence of her policy the admiral said.
I'VE need large and thoroughly
equipped navy that can cope with any
other power. England is our natural
ally and differences such as those about
the Venezuelan boundary and the fish
cries do not interfere with a friendly
understanding existing between the two
nations. Our next war Will be with
Germany"
DEWEY VISITS SIMPERIAISSTABL
Trieste. July 29-Admiral Dewey. ac-
companied by Captain 3 P Lamber-
ton, commander of the United States
cruiser Olympia and Flag Lieutenant
Thomas Bromby and Consul Door, visi-
ted the imperial stables at Lopizza to-
day
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-29
Eleven Year Old Daughter of a
Texas Farmer
Discovered by Her Father Sus-
pended by the Neck.
LIFE WAS EXTINCT.
Whole County Aroused By the
Terrible Crime.
Officials and Citizens Looking
For the Perpetrators.

Chicago. July GA special to the
ChronicI- from Dallas, Texas. says:
Fannin county, located IS miles north,
of Dallas, is in a state Of Indignation
over a terrible crime. An 11-year-old
white girl, the daughter of Alonzo New
ton, farmer was found by her father
hanging lifeless from a tree near the
family home. The child was left alone
in the morning when her father went to
his work
Newton Immediately aroused the
neighborhood. News was sent to Bon
ham. the county seat, miles distant.
and Sheriff Rulings forces, the police
of the city headed by Chief Jackson and
the citizens have searched diligently for
a clew to the crime. The search was
continued all day and Justice John
Steele, acting coroner, mas been holding
an official investigation. The people OF
Fannin county are terribly aroused and
a lynching, perhaps two of them may
be the outcome.
woman of questionable character.
who is believed to have desired revenge
on the child's father, and a young white
farmer, reckless character, who has
been in Jail for misdemeanors, are un-
der suspicion.
Neither Sheriff Ribbling nor City
Marshal Jackson would give the names
of suspected persons. Sheriff Ribbhng
said:
This is about the worst crime that
mas ever Deen committed IN hannln
county, and I am determined to bring
the guilty parties to justice, but I can
not afford to take such precipitate ac-
ton in the matter of making arrests as
will place the additional crime of lynch
ing against the name of the county. AS
soon as it is safe to make arrests
shall do so. There is not much use in
my judgment, of further search by the
officers; Watchfulness and caution is all
that is needed now. 1 do not feel that
it would be judiciOus for me to talk a 8
to our theories concerning the crime.
They are based on good information
and developments, however"
City Marshal Jackson was equally
discreet in his statements. He said he
was satisfied the guilty persons were
under surveillance, but discretion would
have to guide the officers. He said he
never knew public feeling worked up
to a fiercer degree than it was among
the farmers in the section where the
crime was committed. He would not
state anything about the woman under
suspicion, but said that the principal in
the crime was a man well known to the
peace officers at BOnham.
The statement comes however, from
neighbors of Mr.. Newton that a woman
is known to have openly declared that
she would have revenge on him for Ger
tain alleged grievances. The officers
decline to discuss this part of the cur
rent gossip.
The little girl was hanged by a rope
procured from her home and her hands
and feet were tied with strong cords.
Her face was ghastly with the distor-
tions wrought by strangulatiOn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-29
PROMISES OF WEALTH.
Stories Read Like Tales From
Arabian Nights.
Many Topeka People Have Made
Investments.
Real Estate SWindIe Believed
To Be Back of All.

There is good reason to believe that
the Trego-EIlis gold fields constitute
one of the most colossal fakes of the
age.
Numerous assays have recently been
made by reputable chemists which
show not a single trace of gold. Both
Prof E c. Franklin of the State uni
verslty and Prof J. T. Lovewen of
Washburn college have made assays
Prof. Lovewen has just completed over
fifty different assays without finding
any gold. Both men are reliable and 1t
is doubtful if they could be mistaken
A peculiar circumstance in this con-
nection is the fact that when the boom
was first started Prof. LOvewel re-
ceived samples Of the shale in which
he found gold in paying quantities
Since the selections have been made
by careful men with witnesses he has
found no gold. 1t is rather strange that
he should have found gold in the shale
first sent to him by those interested in
booming the gold fields and none in
that collected subsequently from the
same points in the territory
No less than a. half dozen Denver
chemists have made assays and they
have failed to find gold. The Florence
mill run was a practical failure. This
was made about month ago and was
Beam.
The men behind the scheme who have
apparently deluded many of the best
people in Topeka live in Colorado. But
little is known of them in Topeka and
what is known is not of a very fiatter-
ing character. 1t is told that Beam, the
man in charge of the mill, and who pre-
tends to be an assayer was once given
a jug handle broken up and he found
$40 40 per ton OF gold in the pulverized
baked clay.
w. B. jackson and Prof. Alvin Phil
lips are two Denver men who have
charge of the affairs of one of the COM
panieS in Denver so far as the practical
being erected there under their super
vision with capital supplied by s :. OFT
and others of this city. Denver people
have little confidence in either of these
men who have never failed to find
gold in TregO county shale.
1t is believed that the great majority
of the Topeka people interested in the
fields" are acting in the best of faith
that they have simply been taken in by
sharpers One Topeka man is said to
have invested $4,000 in the venture and
any number have put more or less
money into the scheme. 1t is possible
that the venture may turn out as peO-
pie hope but the appearances are de
cidedly against such a result
Biologists say that gold has never
been found in a formation such as that
in the Ellis-TregO districts but that it
would be possible for the execution to
be discovered. There is much excite
snent and many people are likely to do
something they may regret.
A mill is now being built in Denver
and the Topeka people have been pin
ming their faith on this mill. If the run
from this mill for certain length of
time Will show gold in paying quantf-
ties they will feel safe but if it fails as
1t probably will in the end their money
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-29
FLED TO THE HILLS.
Engineer Runs Away After a
Collision of Trains.

Denver, Col, July ga special to
the Times from Cheyenne, Wo., says:
A light engine going west on the Union
Pacific in charge of Engineer John
Mack and Fireman Victor Koneld. this
morning collided with No. overland
eastbound passenger train one and one
fourth miles west of Walcott. Engineer
Mack of the light engine, jumped and
is said to have fed to the hills. Fireman
Koneld was killed. Engineer Walter
Marsh of No. 4, a resident of Laramie,
was fatally injured, dying a few min
utes after being picked up. Two railroad
mail clerks were slightly injured. Both
engines and mail car We're demolished.
wrecking train is at the scene of the
wreck. Walcott station is the first sta
tion west of Ft. Steele.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-29
WORK A BOYCOTT.
Cleveland Strikers Have Mer.
chants Terrified.

Cleveland, July 29-The boycott in
augurated by the strikers continues to
spread and attempts are now being
made to cause it to become effective
against the soldiers on strike duty in
the city.
A prominent grocery firm with whom
a contract had been made for supplying
food to the troops failed to deliver the
same today at the time specified. In
explanation the firm stated that they
preferred on account of the boycott not
to furnish the goods. Adjutant General
Axline was furious when this infOrma-
ttOn was conveyed to him. AS the re-
suit of a threat on the part of General
AXline to take summary action against
the firm the supplies were quickly
forthcoming.
The strikers have a number of spot
ters at work who promptly report the
names of merchants, or their employees
who ride on the Big Consolidated cars
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-29
RATHER oHANaEAB1E.
Census Director Keeps Politicians
Guessing.

The Republican politicians are Won
dering what will next take place in the
official deliberations of w. r. Merriam,
census director at Washington Since
Gen Merriam was brought down from
the northern woods he has had the
politicians greatly excited owing to the
frequent changes of mind in which he
indulges.
The action of Mr.. Merriam in the
Fourth district supervisorship case is
now the subject of considerable specu-
lation among the brethren. Gen. Mer-
riam accepted the mendatiOn of
Senator Baker and notified c. S. Briggs
that he was appointed to the position.
In the same letter Merriam asked
Briggs to send him at once his official
signature, after which the recommended
tions would be sent TO the president.
Mr. Briggs complied with the request
He was supervisor of the census in the
Fourth district two days. Then Mr.
Merriam named d. W. Eastman of
EmpOria,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-29
AMERICAN WAR SHIP
Will Reach San Domingo by the Md
die of Next Week.

Washington, July ga ceblegram
has been received at the navy depart
ment from the commander of the Ma
chias now at st. Thomas, W. l., stating
that in conformity with the depart
ment'S order he would sail from that
port for San Domingo. She proba bly,
will stop at San Juan, p. r., on the way
ii land Commander Snow who is to
take charge of the naval station there.
The commander of the New Orleans
also announced his readiness to start
for San Domingo today, so that before
the middle. of next week the American
navy Will be sufficiently represented in
San Domingo to protect American in
terests Of all kinds should there be a
revolution.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-29
JUST IN FUN.
Now Seems that Newt Ury Will Ac-
cept Position of Stamp Counter.

Newt Try of Fort Scott has been
making fun of the $75 per month ap-
pointment as stamp counter in Topeka
which was recently conferred upon him
at Washington. Try has also been
pretending that he will not accept the
place; that he is too busy and has too
many good prospects in sight in the
mining district to let go for political
office with such small salary attach
ments.
However, Ury has filed his bond and
position Notwithstanding the fact that
he has been inclined to poke fun at the
job. Ury's supposed declination of the
place has started a dozen men after
cry indication that he will accept the
place
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-29

will be gone but they will be prevented
from losing more. In the meantime
much damage may be done, however,
to innocent people who have not taken
the trouble to make Investigations.
It is believed that far back of all this
excitement is a scheme for one of the
greatest real estate booms in history.
The shale in the so-called gold fields is
practically inexhaustible. 1t has been
estimated in the promoters that each
quarter section will produce about $25.-
coo 00O, 900 of gold. This is sufficiently
Elusive to set thousands of people wild
enormous Some one would profit by
such a condition, but it would hardly
be the people who would rush into the
country. It wauld be those who unload
their real estate.
A very large number of Topeka people
have made investments to a great ex-
tent in the Trego-Ellis gold fields. Some
have drawn out after making careful.
expert Investigations. A number of
these gentlemen have bought or leased
large areas of land; some have put in
considerable money; some have sent
experts to go over the field and secure
assays of the shale and as a result have
Withdrawn the amounts they pledged
or kept out altogether. One gentleman
put in a thousand dollars, but when
developed absolutely no gold decided
to pocket his loss He was convinced
that he had been deceived, but was de-
termined to throw no more good money
after bad as he explained it. So far as
is known the following is the list of
Topeka people Interested;
Col. c. K. Holiday, f. Burleigh John