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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-04
Gents Furnishings.

Every up-to-date man in town
should now visit this department.
Our sincerest endeavor now and here
after will be to keep this department
up-to-date. Our buyers arr
now east and are sending us daily
some of the choicest styles the fur
nishing market affords. Call and see
us. 1t will pay you, and we want
your trade.
We have Just opened beautiful line
of neckwear, strictly new and
very pretty patterns
price &c 10 sue
We have secured the agency for the
popular Mcdonald shirt, and are
now displaying 50 different styles.
in silk, madras and fine percalcs,
selling all the way
from ............... SOC to 81
1t will pay you to come early and
select your choice in patterns.
If you are a Woodman we can interest
you in n novelty suspender. 1t is
beautifully designed with the NJ.
w. A. emblem and the number of
your camp neatly stamped on
buckle, per pair. ......... CSC
Unlaundered shirts, reinforced back
and front, made of good quail
ity muslin and linen ......... $50
Negligee shirts, madras effect in
stripes and checks, with tic. soc
Mems checked percale shirts white
collar band and attached
cuftS. <4SC
Mems white Numbered shirts with
colored bosoms, 75c value SOC
Our 25c and 35c lines of neck
- to % per cent off on all winter
underwear.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-04
COAL VALLEY CULLINGS.

Coal Valley. March. Miss Lima
Lees, of ,Joslin, spent Sunday with
her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Paul spent
Sunday in Cable.
Miss Name Martin spent Thursday
and Friday in Rock Island.
Frank Webster, of Cleveland, is Wis
iting his sister. Mrs III. Il. Martin.
William Peers has returned from
Kansas, where he has been working.
A large company of friends sur
priscd James Clegg Thursday evening.
Mrs. r. l.. Wilson visited friends
in Rock Island the fore part of last
week.
Washington's birthday was celc-
hrated by the pupils of the Coal Val
ley public school.
y number of the Valley people at
tended the Standardization wedding
nj Cable Tuesday.
\ course of lectures on the Catholic
religion is being conducted in the
town hall by Father Lentz.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-04
ANDALUsIA ON THE MOVE.
Abode Switching Fever Strikes Lower
End OF Town Full Force.


End of Town Full Force.
Audalusia. March David Old
ham, of Iowa, is visiting his brother,
a. G.. Oldham.
Many of the young folks attended
a dance at Joe Dunlap's last week.
Misses Lizzie Smith and Edna FINLEY
attended dance at Reynolds Friday
Gus Bull, of Buffalo Prairie. and
were married Wednesday.
Andalusia is all on the move. Mr..
Bridgeford and family, of Aledo, are
occupying Charles Hayes store build
ing: George Richards and family Will
move into j. ID. Walton's house. in
the west side of town; Rasmus John
son will move into the house vacated
by George Richards: j. ID. Walton
will move into the house vacated by
Rasmus johnson; y. L. Phillips will
move into the house vacated by j. ID.
Walton; Alonzo Nicewarner moves
into Phillips vacated house; Guy
Gilbert moves on the farm
formerly owned by William Mosher;
Will Steckman, present occupant of
the farm, will 90 to Milan to live;
William Mosher will change his place
Stropes will move into William Mosh-
er's vacated house; Charles Schafer
will take his mothers farm; Fred
Schafer moves to south of Edgington;
John Schafer will occupy the NitZ
place: Mr.. NitZ will move on the
Charles Brusso place: Charles Brus-
SOS parents will take possession of
the house occupied by Ira johnson; Ira
johnson will move into the Milton
Buffum place: Milton Buffum expects
soon to 90 to Dewitt, Iowa, to reside;
.. X. Anderson will move into the
Huntley residence; Joseph Simmons
will move to near DE Witt, Iowa; Joe
Hobart will probably change his place
of residence to Iowa; William Hobart
has moved into Iowa; Mrs. Burtis has
moved into the Truckenmiller house;
Ole Bull will move TO his fathers
place in Blu ffalo Prairie; Ed GlaZier will
occupy the Walter Lloyd place near
Zion church; Charles Assay will live in
Glaciers house; James f. Kane will
move into the house occupied by
Ole Bull; Mrs. Dunbar and daughter |
will move into the upstairs of the |
Baptist parsonage; Vester Mosh-
err has moved into the house |
owned by Schafer, opposite 6:
e. Oldham's; Mr.. Reynolds, the |
button factory foreman, contemplates |
moving into the house vacated by |
Vester Mosher; Andrew Simmons |
will perhaps move where Mr.. Rey
nolds is now living: Tom Bopes |
will 90 to Chicago to live; |
Jerry Simmons will move to Iowa; |
the Coolies have moved east of Milan:
MIR. Samuelson and family will move |
on the Sherman Mosher place vacated
by the Coolies; b. +. Ballard will oc-
cupy the Moves farm near Taylor
Ridge; Link Steckman will move
from the Davis house. If there are
any other moves to be made we have
forgotten them.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-04

Fourth avenue. Rev. a Thomas, pastor
Broad way Presbyterian, corner of Twenty
| MARQUIS. pastor. Services at IO:i5 a N. and
| 40 D IN. sunday school at $50 a m Young
! Central Presbyterian. second avenue, b. :
| tween Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets. Re-.
Ira w Allen Jr; pastor iu Preaching at 1913
nE 70 The md evening Iae Christian Con,
United PresOytsil an; mira avenue ard F,u--
teenth street: Rev. D. l. McNary, pastor.
Preaching at 1915 a. m and 7:3o p m Young
peoples meeting at 6:i5 p IN Sunday schoe
Rock Island, Rev. L w. Allen If. pastor: sun
day school at =. N. Christian EndcavOr
meeting at p. m Services every Tuesday at
Clsoqth Park Chapel. PresbyteE,an; Eln street
pastor; Sunday school at 2::0 D. m
Memorial Christian, Rev. T. w. Grafton. pas
Morning jrbjeci: The Mind OF the Master
evening Sunday Labor the WOrkinEman :
Waterloo. Sunday school ut 9:l5 u M \. T.
Twenty nintn street Sunday School, Chris
tian Seventh avenue and 1w enty-ninth street,
Rev. T. w. Grafton, pastor. Sunday school t
2:30 p. m Charlc5 >. Wang'in, superintendent B;
Miss Eta TANNER: secretary. Prayer meeting
Wednesday evening at "a.
Salvation Army BARRACKS, 1909 second ave
enue services as follows; knee ore! al 4. a.
meeting at 3 p. m, salvation meeting a. I'D
pam.
First Church of Christ, Scientist. Twenty
third street betW Seventh and Ninth ave-
nues Services at 1045 a m aud 80 u.
SUBJ ect: substance. Suncay school fOiiowS
the morning service. Wednesday evening
meeting at 7:30 Reading rooms open every AZ
ternoon, except Sund ~, from to
Y. NJ Z. A. Building, corner of Third avenue
and Nineteenth street Services at $3.50 p. IN.
Free Pills.
Send vour address to III. f. Bucklen
&c Co., Chicago, and get a free box of
DIR. Kings New Life Pills. A trial
Will convince you of their merits.
These pills are easy in action and are
particularly effective in the cure of
constipation and sick ache. For ma
laria and liver troubles they have been
proved invaluable. They are guaran-
teed to be perfectly free from every
substance, and to be pure
" vegetable. They do not weaken by
their action. but by giving tone to
stomach and bowels greatly invigor-
ate the system. Regular size % cents
der box Sold by Hartz q Ullemeyer,
druggists.
To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Candy 25c
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-04
CORDOyA CHAT.

Cordova. March Frank Wilson
spent Sunday at home.
W. III. Vandeburgh is home for Il
short visit.
Miss Lizzie Black, who has been
very i'll for the past month. is recov-
eripg-
Mrs. james Tew is visiting h er
daughter, Mrs. j. Schneider, at
Thomson.
The NJ. w. A. camp initiated three
members Friday night and voted upon
six new applications.
Charles Kenyon and Miss Ella En-
wright were married Tuesday at the
home of the brides father, L. En-
wright.
Willie, the 16-mOnths-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. James Green. died Sat
urday evening of spinal disease. The
funeral was heldeat Mondavat the Bap-
fist church, Rev. Davis officiating.
Miss Maggie Green and Mrs. Mitchell,
of Davenport, attended the funeral.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-04
Rev. Am brose, of Chicago,
will deliver lecture on The Fool in
Dn1itic.
Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion OF the ear.
There is only one way to cure deaf
ness, and that is by constitutional
remedies. Deafness is caused by an
infamed condition of the mucous
lining of the eustacn ian tube. When
this tube gets inhamed you have a
rum bling sound or imperfect hearing,
and when it is entirely closed deafness
is the result, and unless the infiam-
nation can be taken out and this tube
restored to its normal condition, hear
ing will be destroyed forever; nine
cases out of ten are caused by catarrh.
which is nothing but an inilamed con-
dition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give one hundred dollars
for any case of deafness Caused by
catarrh) that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh cure. Send for circu-
lars, free.
F. J. CHENEY & Co.. Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by druggists, IS cents.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-04

Pneumonia follows la grippe, but
pneumonia cannot follow the use of
Foley's Honey and Tar. Pneumonia
is striking down hundreds of those
who thought they were cured of la
grippe. Foley's Honey and Tar. taken
during or after Ia grippe, is guaran-
teed TO prevent pneumonia
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-04

Before the discovery of One Minute
Cough Cure, ministers were greatly
disturbed by coughing congregations.
No excuse for it now. For sale by L.
II. Thomas, A. j. Reiss and NJ. F.
Bahnsen druppists
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-04

There are plenty of cheaper brands
of coffee than IT 4 T." brand; but
none better. Ask your grocer for it,
il will please you.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-04
CrOCkery Department.

Our incandescent Gas Burner is the finest
thing for strong white light that. has yet been
cent electric lamp but gives much greater light
There chimneys to be breaking. Globe
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-04

Arnold's Bromo Celery cures head
aches; 10, Is and so cents. Reiss'
drug store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-04

Educate Your Bowels with Cascarets.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
ioc, sc. II C C c. fail, druggists refund money
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-04

To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic- 10c or 25c
~ 2 q C fail 70 cure druggists refund rnnnsr
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-04
Linen Department.

We have just received a large ship
ment of Turkish towels, which will
be placed on sale for this week at spe
cial prices:
20x47 extra heavy Turkish towels,
note the size, al special price
24x47 bleached or unbleached soft
finish Turkish towels, special
price, each ......... I29C
24x54 bleached and unbleached extra
heavy Turkish towels, note
the size, each ..........I7 NC
Wash rags, bleached and un-
bleached, special, each ...... IC
Bed Spreads.
Extra large size, Marseilles patterns,
hemmed ready for use, $1.75
quality, special price, each. I.25
Fancy Goods Department.
Another great sale in this depart
ment of Roman-embroidered pillow
shams, sideboard covers. dresser
scarfs, Battenburg patterns and tray
cloths. This is II sample line and
bought at great discount. 1t will
be sold at less than factory prices.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-04
ManteIS, ManteIS!
20 cents each.
just one half the regular price on
all fine mantels. This is not the

value. Remember our price is only zoe.
opened in this department large line
each and up.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-04

Suaue, CnlulleN are All que. ms
burner is the same that is sold by
regular dealers at $1.25 and $3.50,
but we will place them in your
house ut 75c each. If you are hav-
ing trouble with your gas burners
give us your order and we will see
that everything is satisfactory.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-04
Silk Department.

24-inch black satin duchcsse (wear
guaranteed), regular price
S1.25, for this sale .... Csc
20-inch all silk liberty satin, in all
colors, regular price 81, for
this sale Observation-Disclosures. R5C
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-20
THE WAR INVESTIGATION RE-
PORT.

The New y DIRK Herald, in its Wash
ington dispatches outlines what it as
serts will be the findings of the com
mission to investigate the conduct OF
the war.
The findings, according to the Herald,
will show that the primary trouble was
due largely. if not entirely. to a lack
of proper military organization, and
then proceed TO distribute the blame
upon Secretary of War Alger, Generals
Miles. Shafter. Brooke and Breckin-
ridge. and upon Congress itself for fail
ing to make provision for smokeless
powder.
The Manila campaign will escape crit
icism.
1t is said that Secretary Alger will
be censured for weakness. especially
with General Miles, while the latter, as
commanding general, will be blamed
for several matters in his conduct "be-
fore. during and since the war" The
broad charge of weakness against the
Secretary of War will hardly serve to
cover the multitude of sins, both of
omission and commission for which he
Is held justly accountable before the
bar Of public opinion. Some term stron-
ger than weakness" will be necessary
to explain to the satisfaction of the
people of the United States his conduct
before, during and since the war"
Leave out the inadequate transporta-
ton facilities. short ana impure ra-
tons. lack of medical supplies. sur
geons. nurses and tents, his selection of
incompetents, and a hundred other in
excusable blunders which carried dis
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-20
OPlNIoNs oFTIIE PRESS.
THE POSITION OF MIR. ALGER

THE POSITION OF MIR. ALGER.
The situation created by Mr.. Ayers
failure to prevent Il court-martial for
his Algerian colleague, the Commissary
General, has become so acute that
hardly any doubt now exists of the
early resignation of the Secretary OF
War. Yesterday, after his final appeal
TO the President to condone Eagan's
offence and to tolerate some action
which would save that functionary and
at the same time drag General Miles
into the controversial mire, Mr. Alger
not only refused to attend the Cabinet
meeting, but is reported to have in
dulged In very vigorous language on
the subject of his treatment 1t is said
that he bitterly resented the with
drawal of Mr.. McKinley's support of
Algerism, and declared that he was be-
ing made Scapegoat for the common
sins of the Administration; that many
of the political war appointments and
other vicious acts of his department
had been ordered peremptorlly from
the White House, and that he was in
nocent of their committal or conse-
quences 1t Is not known that he i'm
plicates the COMMUNICATIVE Chief in the
deals for the selection of fever camps
nor that he charges any operations of
the Michigan contingent--rumorcd or
consist of Alger, Hecker, Hopkins, and
NlroS-to the account or his chief. We
do not know that he considers Mr.. Nc
kinley responsible for the purchase of
veteran beef which had been through
the Chinese-Japanese war and later re-
turned rejected from the [londike: or
that he accuses the President of try
Ing to wreck General Miles expedition
to Porto Rico, by publishing the place
of landing so that the Spaniards could
be prepared for him. All we hear is
that Alger is angrily disposed to lay
the plumbers and crimes of Algerism
at the White House door. and that tho
things above mentioned are those gem
orally spoken of among the American
people in connection with the term AL
Perism
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-20
TRUSTS IN 1903
Baltimore Sun.

Baltimore Sun.
The year 1898 made n phenomenal
record in the organization OF trusts. the
aggregate capital of the new combina-
lions. according 10 the New York
Herald's enumeration, being about ST.
100000. with bonded Indebtedness
OF over S250000,000 The word trust.
however. is applied at present to ag-
gregations OF many different kinds
There are. strictly speaking. no trusts
In the original sense of the word. That
Is to say, trusts are now unlawful, and
there are no trustees" known. as for
merly. to hold n majority of the stock
OF the companies trusted" The object
or the trusts of to-day are. neverthe-
less. about the same as of old, and
they are nearly as effectually accom-
plished. There are agreements between
competitors in some cases as to prices.
with or without penalties In other
cases there are huge consultations of
industries throughout wide areas. ANY
sort of association or combination of
producers to control prices or wages is
now popularity called n trust. The past
year was remarkable for the extension
of the principle of combination for the
control Of production and prices. and
the present year begins with the ten
dcncy in active development
The combination of competitors to
suppress competition and uphold prices
Is not new phenomenon. II has long
been familiar in the organization or I'M
derstandings of the professional class
cS-lawyers. doctors, etc-and In trades
unions. associations of retail grocers,
druggists, etc. The origin of the trade
guilds of England and Germany dates
back TO the Middle Ages and beyond
These guilds are, in fact, an obvious re.
source of producers who see their
prices falling, and traces OF their ex-
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-20
ROOM FOR GROWTH.
Louisville Courier-Journal.

ADSNiSfiHt (pul itL
There is, says the Courier-Journars
Washington correspondent "a growing
feeling among members of the House,
regardless of party. that something
should be done to prevent so much de-
lay on the part of the election commit
tees. 1t frequently happens that cases
are not disposed of until the last month
OF the Congress, and very often the
contestant wins, carrying away with
him nearly $4,000 in a lump sum-"
This is an evil against which the
Courier-Journal has protested year af-
ter year. Election committees usually
waste from one to two years in doing
what private business men would do
in as many weeks. 1t is simply another
illustration Of the fact that the average
Congressman proceeds upon the theory
that the public business, which he is
paid to attend to. is nobody's business.
and that his own business is performed
when he uses the public funds to culti-
vate the goodwill of the voters OF his
district with free seeds and buncombe
speeches. and use the public patronage
for paying and keeping his own per-
sonal workers" There is certainly
room for the growth of a feeling among
Congressman that the first duty Of
Congressman is TO attend to Congress
sional business
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-20
REPUBLICAN CoRRITpTIoN

1t would be absurd to claim that the
masses Of one party are, per Sc, worse
or better than those of the other, but
there is no gainSaying the fact that
a long lease of power has had a no.
tably demoralizing effect upon the ma
tional Republican party. At the close
of the war the leaders of that party
arrogated 'all the credit for it's success
full issue and held that to the victors
belong the spells. and that their fol-
lowers were alone entitled to the fruits
of victory. They. then, and not the
negroes, were the real wards of the
nation and were coddled and petted by
the politicians to win their votes at
the polls. The consequence has been
that very much, If not all their man.
hood and independence have been de-
stroyed, and they have come to regard
place at the public crib as theirs by
right of conquest. Hence, they scruple
at no rascality to secure and preserve
it. To benefit from the pension law
they will purjure themselves as fast
as oaths can be drawn up and placed
before them for signature, and their
neighbors and friends not only do not
censurc but applaud them for these
sharp practices.
And this applies to office holding as
we'll as to the drawing of pensions. As
'preserverS of the Union" they claim
and practice the privileges of indis-
crimnately plundering the public
treasury. We learn from Washington
that under the extremely gauzy dis
guise of creating n roll of honor the
progressive Western geniuses at the
head of the Treasury Department some
time ago established what is practically
a civil pension list, upon which are
borne at the present time the names
OF twenty-five superanuatcd treasury
employees. In the department 1t is es-
tlmated. there are not less than 300
clerks who are too old to be able to
render efficient service. For these, and
-fer-othcrs destined in course of time
10 follow in their train, the existing de-
partment regulations provide nominal
duties and liberal pay. while the actual
work Is performed by younger men at
lower rate of compensation
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-20

ease and death to our brave soldiers.
he Is in the main responsible for the
feeling against General Miles, which
found coarse expression through Com
missary General Eagan, and brought
scandal upon the military organization.
of our country. He has, in order to ex
plain away Miles censure of the rot
ten beef sent to Porto Rico, conniyed
with the Beef Trust 70 procure his re-
moval. as Commanding General and
fasten upon him the disgrace such ac-
ton would carry with it. Whether Miles
used the wrong term, namely, "em-
balmed beef" to- explain it's rottenness.
may never be settled. but certain 1t is
that 1t will take q large invoice of
chemicals to "embalm" Secretary AL
gers reputation to keep 1t sufficiently
fresh not to offend present and future
generations Of Americans.
General Shafter will be censured on
points he admitted in his testimony.
and General Breckenridge for leaving
his department to participate in the
Santiago campaign, while upon General
Brooke will be laid the responsibility
for the miserable conditions that pre-
vailed at Camp George H. Thomas In
fine. the blame will be distributed as
evenly as possible all along the line,
and in that particular the report of the
commission will be impartial. But it
will fail to show that with weakness
and incapacity at Washington, such re-
suits as the testimony has disclosed
were inevitable. 1t is gratifying, how
ever to believe that the commissioners
findings will not be of the whitewash-
ing character, in which 1t was feared
the investigation would end. For this
much the country should be thankful,
while regretting that the whole truth
and nothing but the truth was not as
certained and expressed.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-20

Our commission President has ap-
pointed another commission! This time
Tor Manila. oh, if only all of us, in
dividually, when we did not know what
TO do. or were afraid to take the re-
sponsibility. could but appoint n COM
mission to relieve us, how happy we
all should be! Great are commissions
as subterfuges and get offs. while sup
plying soft places. ultra the constitu-
ton and the Senate. for partizan and
other favorites.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-20

Senator Chandler is credited with
saying: In the days of the old Wing
and Democratic parties. as a rule very
little money was used by either side
Inc Hon. Billie is wise in combining his
observations to years preceding the
Tilden-Hay presidential campaign.
In that he would have found an argu,
ment against his party as potent as
Mark Hannas last Senatorial campaign
in Ohio.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-20

istence are found in the earliest history
OF civilized communities. What is no.
vel in their present development Is the
wide area over which they extend their
control and the vast amount of capital
at their command. This. of course, re-
suits in part from the greatly-!ncreased
facilities for communication and
transportation In this age Of steam and
electricity. Now that time and space
are almost annihilated by the loco
motive and telegraph. 1t is but natural
that trade combinations that were for
merly confined to n single city-like the
trade guilds of London. for example,
should extend their operations indefi-
nitely.