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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-02-03
HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR EACH MAN

General Gomez is preparing for the
trip to Havana.
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-10
PRESIDENT LousET ATTACKED.
Mob of ROynII.ts KevIIe Him at the Races.

Mob of Royniists Revile Him at the Races.
Paris, June President Loubet, ac-
companied by the premier. NJ. Dupuy,
and the chief of the military house.
hold, General McBailloud. was hooted
at the Auteul races this afternoon.
As the President drove out there he
was closely followed by Madame Lou
bet in second landau. They drove
along the Avenue Des Champs Elysees,
the crowd bowling respectfully. but on
arriving at Auteuil they We're met by
violent demonstration. evidently or
ganized and directed against the Presi-
dent.
There was storm of boots. yells
and cries of Panama" "a bas Lou
bet" and "vive rarmee.' \ few
shouts of "Nive Loubet'' We're drowned
in the clamor.
A strong force of police kept order
and arrested many of the disturbers.
including Il man who tried to force his
way to the Presidents carriage.
During the grand steeplechase many
blows were struck. and several police
were injured in their endeavors to pre-
vent an invasion of the presidential
stand.
At the crisis of the excitement. while
shouts of "Nive rarmee" and "Niye
de Rouledc" We're heard on all sides.
Count Christiano rushed toward the
President brandishing a stick and di-
rected blow against him. striking his
hat.
The crowd rushed upon Christiano,
who only escaped severe handling by
being taken under police protection.
President Loubet remained all the
while quite unmoved. talking with the
premier. while the officers of his mill
tary household Were defending him
against violence.
Police Inspector Grilliere had his
head seriously wounded in the melee,
and President Loubet has since deco
rated him with the Cross of the Legion
of Honor in recognition of his devotion
to duty.
On returning to the Elysee palace, NJ.
Loubet received many sympathizing
callers.
1t seems certain that the demonstra-
ton was organized by the Jeunesse
Royaliste. the Ligue Des PatriOtes and
the ant-Semites. the rallying signal
being carnation in the buttonhole.
Most of the persons arrested repre-
sent some of the hest families in
France. Comte Christiano is held on
the charge of attempting to strike the
President. Comte D'Aubigney DAISY
is charged with wounding Police In
spector Grilliere and another police
man.
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-10

very interesting refrigerating plant
has been installed in the great market
buildings in Vienna, which, although
there are other and as important
plants elsewhere. possesses features
that render it worthy of notice. AS the
plant is intended merely to maintain
low temperature, without reaching
the freezing point. thus providing stor
age rooms cool enough to insure the
proper preservation OF meats and other
market articles, and at the same time
avoiding the objections Of too low tenn
perature. the indirect system is
adopted. cooled air being distributed
through the storage chambers by 4
forced circulation. The refrigerating
machines used In this especial case op-
crate with carbonic acid gas, the gas
being compressed to liquefaction and
producing cold when it is allowed to
expand.
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-10
EMERSoN'S WIcKEDNEss.
julia Ward Howe Warned Him Abou
the Devil.

julia Ward Howe Warned Him Abou,
In her bepighted New York girl
hood Julia Ward Howe was taught to
regard Ralph Waldo Emerson as a
wicked man and she would have de-
clined his acquaintance If he had not
been introduced to her in a way whicn
made that impossible, says the Boston
Transcript. But having once been in
troduced. in the course of a trip be-
tween Boston and New York some flf-
ty-nine years ago. and then having had
her hard judgment of this wicked man
sottened little by seeing him carry
ing q poor child on his shoulders, she
consented to make him the object of a
little missionary work. So she said to
him earnestly: You seem to forget,
Mr.. Emerson, that the devil Is going
around all the time. seeking whom he
may deyour!" "Oh, no, Miss Ward,
he said, II don't think l forget 1t, bu,
don't you think the angel ought to be
stronger than the demon?" This ques-
ton seems to have been in the nature
of a "sticker" to the young lady from
New York and she discontinued her
missionary work for that trip.
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-10
VIII Exercise the M,,,,,a.

Governor Roosevelt is going to give
the New York state militia new ex-
perience this summer. Instead Of al
lowing them to remain in camp AS
usual he is going to march them across
country from one end of the state OF
New York to the other. and they may
expect to see some very lively times.
II will be no boys play. During the
late war it was demonstrated that the
volunteers knew how to make camp,
but were very weak on the march, and
Governor Roosevelt proposes to correct
that defect in the militia of his state.
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-10

William Henry Preece, chief cleo
trical engineer of the British govern
ment, recently read paper before the
London Society OF Arts upon etheric
telegraphy. Referring to the expert
ments conducted by Prof Marconi,
he said that both the board OF
trade and the postofiice department
had informed the officers OF the Mar
conf company of readiness to make a
test OF his system between the South
Sand Head lightship and Dover. In
spite Of these offers the Marconi COM
pany had preferred to experiment else
where, and to prove what was not
necessary to be proved, to-wit, that it
Ia possible to signal across the straits
Of Dover. The result is that two years
after the practicability of such sig
mailing had been shown not one single
Independent circuit exists. The oper-
atoms of the Marconi company, added
Mr.. Preese, are concentrated more
upon the operations OF the stock ex-
change than upon the establishment OF
useful circuits.
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-10
" NESTEHt! ~ Ell
Max. the Ecss sailors ia the Best Nay,
The American.

Max. the I.css Sailors In the Best Nay,
The American.
The brilliant record men in the nlv.
in the recent war has set the authori-
ties to thinking. with Tie result tia
a brisk effort is to be made to turT
some hundreds Of the western farme =
into sailors for Uncle Sam. The Hart-
ford. the famous old man-ot-war now
serving as recruiting ship, is noH
at Mare, Cal, and as soon as possible
will be fitted up for long cruise. Re
cruiting officers are to be sent out ali
through the western states, setting
forth in terms as alluring as may be
the unparalleled felicity of threa
years on the briny deep with Dewey
as your lord. with the chances thai
more Of the sturdy young sons of tn
plains will come forward than can at
present be accommodated. Captain
Henry Hawley who has been assign Il
to the Hartford. speaks enthusiastical
ly Of the abilities of the boys he is
to get. We intend to make the cruis
OF the Hartford as attractive as pos
sible, and we will do everything TO
make the service of the landsmen
pleasing. We will have good band
of music on board; will step at the
most interesting ports en- route, and
in other ways do what we can to in
duce the western boys to adopt the
service as their profession. We tried
this scheme once before, and with very
gratifying results. l have been in
formed by commanders who have had
recruits on board from Kansas, Ne
braska. Missouri. Illinois and otheg
western states that they made the mes.
temperate and intelligent lot of sail
ors ever shipped by them. They are
well-behaved quiet and orderly, and
what they lack in seafaring knowledge
they make up in zeal and industry
When we only had to supply 12O0g
men for our ships we found it difficult
to get good sailors. but now that the
force has been increased TO 1880 our
troubles have grown in proportion. I
have hankering for western men
and hope to corral lot of them be
fore l am through"
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-10
Mishaps of q Nervous Man.

A Philadelphia real estate man, wher
going through vacant house the Other
evening to see that all was we'll, heard
a slight noise behind him. Turning
slightly, he saw the form of a man
AS the broker was not armed, he did
not like the idea Of meeting burglar
in combat, and, besides. he is very
timid, so he rushed to the door and
fumbled with the lock, all the time
yelling at the top of his lungs. When
he got the door opened he looked back
and then saw that the burglar" was
really his own reflection in the large
drawing-room mirror. He had nc
sooner made this discovery than he
was seized by two policemen, who were
attracted by his screams, and it took
nearly half an hour for him to explain
that he was not housebreaker him
self.
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-10
pHEYFus GOING BACK.
Granted i. New rrial-rhe After Results.


Paris. June 4.-The Cabinet council
this morning decided that the French
second class cruiser Sfax, now at
Fort de France. Martinique. should
proceed Immediately and bring Drey-
fus from the Isle of Devils to France.
The cruiser is expected to arrive at
Brest about June 26th, when Dreyfus
will be handed to the military author
ties and lodged in the military prison
at Rennes. His conviction having been
annulled by the united chambers Of
the Court of Cessation, his military
rank and title are restored to him. He
will occupy an officers cabin on board
the Sfax and will be allowed on deck
from / to / o'clock every afternoon.
The papers point out that the Court
of Cessation voted unanimously for
revision and only debated the process
whereby 1t should be carried out.
The decree of the court was com
municated to Madame Drcyfus at the
house of NJ. Hadamard. her father. She
Immediately sent the following dis
patch to her husband:
"The Court Of Cessation proclaims
revision. our hearts and thoughts are
with you. Let us share your immense
happiness. Iendcrest kisses from all
The Figaro says that throughout the
day congratulatory telcgrams have
been flowing in upon Mme. Drcyfus.
NJ. Matieu Dreyfus and Maitre D'Mor-
nard, their counsel.
Count Esterhazy's confession that he
wrote the bordereau has fallen like a
thunderbolt here. 1t is true that his
nnf Iu1 n ha
only doubt about his authorship of the
document is that he admits his guilt.
At any rate. nobody believes that
Dreyfus was n traitor. Those who re.
fuse to admit his innocence now arc
simply bound hand and foot to their
party.
Colonel Du Patty de Clam is confined
in the cell where lie tortured Drcyfus
He showed himself a torturing in
quisitor bereft of conscience. What
an awful awakening there must now
be OF the hidden monitor. Nemesis
has been less haltin. than usual in
overtaking him. General Mercicr flor.
mcrly minister OF war shows nervous.
ness. though not the white feather. He
was advised TO 20 abroad. but lie will
not do so.
~ lfl1ult VI lilt us
case is the eleven supplicatory letters
to President Faurc from DEVILS island.
Dreyfus fancied that General de Bois.
dcfirc and NJ. Faure were his friends
and he wrote to them accordingly. His
whole heart, soul and eXasperated
nerves We're expressed in these let
ters. No wonder that NJ. Faure in
dying supplicated all those whom he
had injured to forgive him. Those"
meant, coming from Faure's lips, Drey-
fus and his family. The late prcsi-
dent suffered himself to be black
mailed into hndering the work of jus
tice and nemesis took him up also
Were he still alive the event of to-day
could not have happened. President
Loubet has stood out against all tam
pering with the judiciary.
NJ. Picquart's memorial was adopted.
though in terms. by the Court of Cassa-
ton. He is still in prison, but will
probably be released next week.
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-10
Price of Iron Going Up.

Chicago, June 2-Because Of what Is
pronounced an unprecedented famine
In iron the prices of all manufactured
goods into which the great staple en-
tiers are soaring to dizzy heights.
The increases range from 10 to 100
per cent. Every class of consumer Is
affected the railroad that buys n
locomotive to the householder who. In
vests in Il lawn mower.
The conditions are said to be ripe
for continuance of the tOpnOtch fig
ures us the consumption shows no
signs of limunition. Steel and roll.
ing mills. blast furnaces and irou
foundries are swamped with orders.
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-10

1t goes without saying that the call
for popular subscriptions to buy a
Washington residence for Admiral
Dewey will be literally responded to.
A large sum will be raised, hand
some home purchased and the whole
country will rejoice that nothing is
lacking in the way Of material COM
fort and fitting setting to ease the
remaining days of the hero of Ma
pila. But after all is said and done
the affair will not be quite to the
taste either OF the people or of the
admiral. 1t is the best We can do.
but 1t is far from perfect. 1t is
called an expression Of gratitude on
the part of the nation. But in fact
emily an infinitesimal traction of the
population will Join In the subscrip-
ton, and in spite of all pretenses the
affair will remain a gratuity bestowed
by a comparatively few men-and that
is thing that nobody likes. Nothing
can take away this favor, although 1t
is certain that both the subscribers
and the recipient wish to regard it
otherwise.
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-10
Charges against irresponsible labor

Charges against irresponsible labor
agencies In Chicago for duping and
gwindling innocent applicants for en-
ployment are becoming numerous. A
man or set of men who by duplicity
get dollars from those out Of employ
ment should be placed in the same
category of criminals with highway
men. There are reputable labor agen-
cies in the city. but there are too many
"sh ster" concerns for the public good.
and the quicker the police close them
up the more generous will bs the
thanks OF the people.
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-10
v,.,or,. Getting Young.

In view of the queens approaching
visit to the continent, Englishmen are
especially interested in her health. 1t
is announced that her hearing has
grown acute and her eyesight keener.
Youthful faculties in old age depend
upon the health. Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters cures Indigestion, constipation.
biliousness, nervousness, as well as ma
laria, fever and ague.
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-10

Wichita. Kan. has adjudged the
street cars of that city public nui-
sance and the courts have ordered the
cars to cease running. The same rule
might apply to some of the Chicago
lines with beneficial results.
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-10
A Forecast Set Aside.

my wife was sorry when her poodle
was brought back
WASN'T she fond of him"
Eyes, but she had told all the neigh
bors that she knew she would never
see him again"
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-10
Cold weather in Austria.

In lower Austria the weather was
80 cold during the last week in March
that thousands of song birds perished.
Deer were emboldened by hunger to ap-
proach farmhouses.
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-10

That senatorial reform conference in
Virginia will never be able to convince
the lobbyists that its purpose to elect
senators by direct vote is not based on
rank injustice.
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-10

The London Globe has evidently for
gotten SIMPSONS magnificent destruc-
tion of that Matanzas mule.-Memphis
Appeal.
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-10

No one is astonished that the east
wants the speakership. and every one
would be surprised to learn of some
thing the east didn't want.
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-10

Lainess travels SO slow that poverty
soon overtakes it.
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-10

st. Louis man ran piece of wood
an inch long under his finger nail re-
Gently. He must have been scratch
Ing his head.
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-10

1t might be well while correcting
your disobedient offspring to remem-
ber that you did not die young.
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-10

Aguinaldo's movable capitals are a
feature admirably adapted to cinemat-
ographe pictures
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-10

No wonder Spain asks for a piece OF
China. She got rocks" of this coun-
try without even asking for bread.
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-10

As love grows older it becomes less
hopeful and more selfish.
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-10

Clothes do not make the man. yet
man may owe good deal to his tai
lor.
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-10

The only trust alleged to be failing Is
Thomas Platt's trust in Theodore
Roosevelt.
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-10

The Indians never use smokeless
powder in their pipes OF peace.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-06-03
THE ALASKAN DISPUTE.
President Mckinley Anxious I
Bring About n Settlen,ant

PRESIDENT Mckinley Anxious to
Bring About a Settlement.
London, May Bottle Washington
correspondent Of the Daily Chronicle.
referring to the Alaskan boundary dis.
pute, says: President Mckinley has
all along been most anxious to bring
about a. settlement. He personally
urged the American commissioners to
make every reasonable concession and
go to the extreme limit of generosity
II necessary, so DESTROYS was he to re-
move all cause Of friction. Secretary
Hay is animated by the same motives,
n the particular reason why he left
the United States embassy in London
to assume the portfolio of secretary of
state was his hope of finally settling
all the disputed questions.
After reviewing the history of the
commissions deliberations, the CORE
spondent says: ITO agree in advance
to cede a port would be making a farce
of reason: The United States has
shown a disposition to make conces-
sions and has offered to buy out the
Bering sea sealers at double what their
property is worth. besides making 9TH
er concessions, while the concessions
offered by Canada in connection are
not very valuable"
The Chronicle, in an editorial review
of the situation, r%eproaches Canada
with blocking the way.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-06-03
NEZ PERCES LANDS.

Only 100 miles southeast Of the fer
tile grain fields of Eastern Washington.
between the Clearwater and Salmon
rivers, lies what was long known as
the Nez Perces Indian country. only re-
Gently thrown open to settlement and
mining. Since the early sixties. when
S:3S, 0OO, 600 was washed out Of the rich
placers of the Clearwater and Salmon
rivers. it has been tradition among
miners that some day great gold dis
coveries would he made in the NeZ Per-
ccs country. The enormous cost Oh
transportation, remOteness from civil
iZation and consequent impossibility OF
carrying OIL large mining operations.
left the rich quartz ledges-the mother
lodes of the places-untouched. AL
most simultaneously with the compile
ton Of the Northern Pacitic's Lewiston
extension from Spokane, came the am
nouncement of the discovery in the
Buffalo Hump range, of immense ledg-
es of gold-bearing quartz which. crop
ping out above the surface, and twenty
feet or more in width, extend in dit.
fcrent directions for many miles. The
rapid. extension Of the Clearwater line
of the Northern Pacific, now building
along the river from Lewiston, Will
throw this heretofore almost %inaccessi-
bic country open to capital and modern
machinery, while American grit will do
the rest. For fuller information and q
new map Of this region, send q two
cent stamp to Chas. S. Fee. st. Paul,
Mimi. or address any General or Dis
trict Passenger Agent Of the Northern
Pacific Railway.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-06-03
The Trekking Wagon.

~o0
The South African wagon is a long,
heavy cart mounted on four wheels, as
a rule, with a sort of canvas tent over
the back half, leaving the front clear
to carry the miscellaneous furniture of
its owner, drawn by sixteen, eighteen
or twenty oxen, %curiously ferce-look-
ing with their immense spread of horn,
sometimes al much as eight feet from
tip to tip and rarely less than six, but
in reality as patient and Woodworking
beasts as n could wish to find. Their
mode of progression is certainly slow,
but there is a strangeness and a fas-
cination about it which may draw men
to it almost as the Alps draw their
devotees. In front there marches the
"voorlooper," generally a small boy
leading the two foremost oxen by a
rein or rope passed through their nos
trils. The driver walks alongside with
the long and terrible whip he uses SO
unsparingly, or else sits on the front
Of the wagon and gets of occasionally
to lash up the whole team with unfail-
ing impartiality. The travelling is all
done at night, starting a little before
sunset and marching until perhaps II
or 70 o'clock; then there is a halt till
a little before the first signs of dawn,
when they go on again till the sun be-
gins to get hot overhead, and then they
lie for the day.-Gentleman's Maya
zine. ~.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-06-03
DEATH. FROM TEA~DRINK1NG.
New Yorker Falls Victim to Excess
sive Use of the Fragrant Fluid.

New Yorker Falls Victim to Excess
sive Use of the Fragrant Fluid.
New York, May 80. - Peter Phelan,
who has been under treatment in Belle
vue hospital since May II. died Sunday
morning from the excessive use of tea.
He was unconscious for some before
his death, which was caused from ex-
haustion. due to his inability to take
food. The primary cause of death
was set down as anaemia, due to tea
poisoning. Phelan was forty years old
and unmarried. He contracted the tea
habit when a child, and finally drank
thirty of forty cups a day. Phelan's
cas has excited much interest among
medical men on account Of it's rarity,
ard Doctors Lefevre and Ritter, who
had charge of him, ARE anxious to
make an autopsy. They cannot do so,
however, without the consent of his
relatives, none Of whom appeared at
the hospital yesterday. The doctors
expect to find that the liver vas at
fected by the poison of the tea, and
that the intestines are in a state Of
chronic Inflammation.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-06-03
cUBANs r SLOW.
Very Few Come Forward for Their
Share of the Gratuity.

Very Few Come Forward for Their
Share. of the Gratuity.
Havana, May 80. - There were 1O1
applications yesterday for shares in the
s .OOO,O 900 which the United States has
offered as a gratuity to the Cuban
troops. Thirty were given $75 each.
The others We're not on the rolls. al
though they had guns which they
were ready to turn in and certificates
Of service. The United States mill
tary authorities consider that the rolls
are very unreliable. Indeed, the opin-
ion is freely expressed that a large pro-
portion Of the names are fictitious,
and that the rolls omit a majority of
the names Of those rightfully entitled
to share in the gratuity. The object of
this apparently is to discredit the en-
tire proceedings and to show the
Cuban public that Il large number Of
the troops refused to take American
money.