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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-07-05
2 KILLED AND SO INJURED.

Associated Press Dispatch by Special Wires
Butte, Mont, July IA disastrous
wreck occurred late last night on the
Montana Central railroad, branch of
the Great Northern, at Trask Siding,
IL miles from Butte, by which two pei :
sons were killed and 80 injured.
The dead-John L. Kelly, years old,
Salt Lake; John Luceskei, Great Falls,
Mont.
The train left Butte at $50 O'Clock
last night, and was on its way to
Helena. 1t had made the climb up the
Continental Divide in safety land was
rushing along at top speed ON compare
lively level ground, when the rails
spread, ditching the baggage car,
smoker, day coach and sleeper. The
engine and one baggage car remained
on the track. The cars were thrown
over on their sides, and the passengers
who were not injured climbed out
through the windows, All the lights
were extinguished, and from different
I.arts of the wreck came calls for help
and the eroans and cries Of the injured.
Conductor Zick, who was injured,
made his way back to Woodville, five
miles, and telegraphed to Butte for
help. A special train with doctors
and nurses was dispatched from this
city, and brought in the injured who
weio taken to the different hospitals.
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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-07-05

A hen on II. T. Mullins place at
West Chester laid an egg shaped like a
long -necked squash. st.ia .s.s..
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-07-05

Standard Chair and Couch Co.
The Standard Chair and Couch Go.
of Williamsport, Pa, which has a
capital stock of $4,000 filed its GER
tlfcate of incorporation at Dover
Saturday afternoon.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-07-05

Sehford's NEW Postmnster.
Jesse 7. Sharp, Regular Republic
can, has been appointed postmaster at
Seaford.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-07-05

The census, it is believed, will show
thar Wilmington has population of
about $4,000, but from present indica-
will be reached in the next five years.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-04

in municipal affairs, even in a city as
great as New York, where public in
tercst in public affairs is at it's lowest
cbb."
So much for the manner of the gov
ernment of the twentieth century city;
let us next consider the results. Fore
most among these. in Mayor Harri-
sons opinion, will be more sunlight,
more pure air, more room, more green
grass and nearer approach to nature.
Cities are not to be congested prisons
but scientifically constructed abodes
abounding in small parks and play
grounds. with no dark alley cesspools
or garbage heaps, but with we'll paved
and well lighted streets and boulevards,
with elevated tracks for all steam rail-
roads and automobile street car trans
portation doing away with bothersome
trolley lines and incidentally with the
now perennial franchise scandals.
Questions of the public health and
convenience will receive the attention
of the best minds and be wrought out
in practical form. Above all, feeling
Of brotherhood now absent from city
life will pervade the urban population
Of fifty years hence; and in conse-
quence:
Municipal hospitals will be plentl-
full and provided for all needed pur-
poses. Health boards will have prac-
tically unlimited sanitary powers.
Tenements will not be permitted to
stand. Light. pure air, ample room
will be provided for those to whom the
fortune Of life has not been kind. The
municipal park will be a fixture In ev-
cry district. Tree culture will be en-
couraged, and flowers will no longer be
a rarity to the poor. AS much atten-
ton then will be paid to the night
school as is now devoted to useless
charities. The common schools, the
primary and grammar grades, will re-
ceive double the notice now paid them.
The high school will be curtailed IN
power, because those wealthy enough
to enjoy its comforts, being In a hope
less minority, should pay for the same
or seek the private schools while taxa
ton results are diverted to the schools
for the people. We will no longer force
child to climb up to education. We
will bring 1t down to him. Our penal
institutions will take on the character
Of farms and gardens. and put off the
character of prisons. Children guilty
of first offense will never be incarcerat-
ed with confirmed criminals. Police
iaS will hax he a. A.
fact that crime 10 as much disease o.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-04
The Twentieth Century City.

THESE DAYS of electric pro-
Sress what changes will come to
Il The government of our great
cities in the twentieth century
which is SO near to hand? The toIic
is one to taA the prophetic instinct.
but in the Saturday Evening Post
Mayor Harrison of Chicago hazards
some interesting guesses.
For example, the typical mayor, nf-
ty years hence, will be IA man who has
made a professional study of munici-
pal problenS and demonstrated to the
people that he possesses exceptional
business ability. He will receive a
salary % from $4,000 to $o5 900 a year
and will not, in Mayor Harrison"
opinion, waste much of his valuable
time ON the routine details of spols
distribution but will lead the thinking
which generates public improvements.
The people will demand that he be-
personally honest, politically clean
and morally pure, and when they find
such a man they will pile responsible
ties upon him.
the great burdens of patronage some
forIn Of civil service will be necessary:
hut Mr.. Harrison has faith that it will
he a different form from that now in
vog,F. tIt Is difficult to believe" says
h., .that the. public sentiment of the
twentieth century will be any more
favorable to a Standing army of me-
int nI toll
than it is to Il standing army for for
efgn Aggression or Internal oppression.
One is as bad nuisance and menace
70. republican institutions as the other.
a civil service that should not coniine
itself u mere mechanical questioning
as to the Illness OF candidates for Of
flee, but which should go further and
take into cognizarce the character and
capacity of all would-be public SER
wants, would reach many evils now in
eStstepce. ,ffeel confident that one of
the important changes nf the ap-
preaching new era will be public de-
mana for civil service law, national
IN, saope, and national and local in ap-
plieation. which shall have for It's dis.
tinct purpose an upbuilding of the
moral character of Office-holders."
In the twentieth century the young
men Of energy and character will be
trained to go into politics for the pub.
lie welfare and that, Mayor Harrison
thinks. will clean out much of the
present foulness. 1T Is the man who
thinks and then acts for the right that
counts In public service That man Is
growing more and more common eacn
year. an quarter of a century he
and his fellows should be majority
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-04
o,e2e, 900 (ssa) 2s155,ooo (77e) 2s,5o5, 900 (ee)
SASS 900 (2as) 1s,1s2, 900 (a1Ss)
2,sO7,OOO (12rc)
36,613,OOO
41,e37,OOO
Total ......23, ,433, 900
1897.


All this demonstrates what all anthracite producers
a
in larger
which
thracte they reached the that the exbant
tariffs the problem reducing
independent
All
unavailng.
Valley railroad however, the timely abandonment
Delaware canal the opened securing
% a way
grades
of this fail
the
of the
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-04
Secretary Hay's Triumph.

rLLER information as to the
~ scope of the concessions Sc.
cured from the European
powers with respect to Amer
lean interests in China increases the
signiticarcc OF Secretary Hays tri-
Cmph If the present expectations OK
our state department shall be realized,
the result will constitute the most
memorable diplomatic achievement Of
the last quarter of the nineteenth CEN
trrv.
our government has not stopped At
occurring pledges of an open door
into Chinese ports under European
control. but has also sought to win GER
tain privileges for American citizens
in the leased territory and spheres y
influence. such as "A guaranty against
discriminating rates on railways built
and financed under foreign authority
and against discriminating tonnage
dues; the right to make contracts with
the local authorities and Chinese mer-
chants as freely as the subjects of 9th.
er countries: the exploitation of mines
upon the most favorable conditions Of
fered any one: and an equal opportu-
nifty to bid for contracts for public
improvements and for the use of sucl
improvements. One of the most inn
portant questions involved refers II
"Likcn'' taxes. or the Chinese local
barrier charges. which. by manipula
tiOn. with the cunnivance of Chinese
officials, could be made effective dis
ordinations against American trade,
even though an open door was guaran-
iced our merchants, and no discrimin-
ating custom duties We're levied upon
our merchandise. All these points
have been covered in the correspond
ence which has passed between Wash
inGton and the European capitals: ami
it is authortativcly announced that
the matter mas reached the stage
where IA general written agreement
having the characte: of an interna-
tional compact is within sight 1t is
not definitely known that the United
states has carried every point; but
''c p'iei Is general tnat IN addition
10 assuring an open door Secretary
Hay has gained other advantages Of
substantial and profitable character.
Again we must bear in mind that
for these triumphs Admiral Dewey IS
partly responsible. But for his capture
of the Philippines they would not have
been possible.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-04

typhoid fever, and that the patient
must be treated accordingly. Municipal
law will approach recognition Of moral
law"
Mayor Harrison's prophetic aim is
high: yet nothing which he so vividly
pictures is impossible or even difficult
Of attainment whenever public opinion
so demands. 1t is altogether a matter
of educating the majority to hold out
for their own welfare.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-04
To Save the Anthracite Coal Trade.

REFERRED THESE COLUMNS a few days ago to the
w transportation tdewater the Erie
Wyoming Valley Valley Kingston
railroads In that article quoted statements Of
the coal shipments the Pennsylvania railroad proof that soft
suppanting Ag.
related the shipments during
however, shipments
abundanty justified covering
riod We have hand the shipments from anthracite
prior
three years previous to that time They follows;
Shipments 1895 1885, 4a17l 900; 1897
1885, This from 1895 1895
of re 1896 1897 from 1897 1898,
oo7 of 10
Shipments of btuminous coal:
1899 1926 So egg @@ goo GOO tons
1855 1888 es7isoOO ss7GsOOO toms toms
of 173 per cent; from 1895 to 1898 Of 27 cent.
Shipments of coke:
1899 1899 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ssssSOS ssss SSO tom: tom:
1855 ,oiSooO
showing per cent?
of 1919 per cent OF in the three years of 5as per cent
equally rapid
consumption of htuminous coal They follows:
sss SSS tons
For 1898 .1769e@oOO tons
This shows 1896 1898 of 12 cent and from
1897 20 er
merely conArmatory
which forced with the anthracite
jury the producer from this does not rest
k the result would be still striking and ng showing
would that small cheapest sizes Of the
y with the sizes OF coal shipped before the
btuminous Serious will demon
being crowded out the market The proportion ana larger
1885,
1897 The proportion of broken COAL
exclusively production
lows: 23.7 per 1897, 14.s per
The following table shows in detail and for longer period that
tonnage entirely
by the namey Pea, buck
wheat and smaller szes
$780, tonnage 1890 1897
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-04

According tn accounts the Molincux
jurymen are at present in "a state bor-
dering on frenzy. These unfortunate
men have during the severest season
of the year, dating from Nov. II. been
prisoners on a salary of 81 a day. And
while their own business interests We're
going to the dogs, they have been
obliged to listen to the dreary talk Of
$50 a day experts and 5000 a day law
yers in trial that seems liable to last
the remainder Of the winter. 1t now
looks as though the prosecution had by
its prolxity destroyed all it's chances
of conviction.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-04

A current dispatch OF considerable
interest tells of the construction near
Laporte, Ind. of a $5OO,0OO beet sugar
plant which is to convert into sugar
the beet crop Of e,O0O acres of adjoin-
ing land. The lowlands of Northern
Indiana ought to be well adapted to
beet culture. If this experiment sue
ceeds we may look for it's repetition in
many similar localities until a fine new
industry will be the result.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-04
TEN PAGES
SCRANTON. JANUARY 4, 1900.

The fact that ore thousand Filipinos
at Manila were concerned in a plot 10
emharrass the United States govern
mcnt by wanton murder of represen-
tatives of foreign nations Mt that city.
shows that too much vigilance cannot
be exercised even in case OF the
amigos
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-04

Secretary Hay wants congress to es.
tablish a training school for diplo
matists. If it should do this it should
make Mr. Hay the principal instructor.
He evidently knows his business.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-04

Now that Agunaldo's wife and other
female relatives have surrendered, the
pompadour-haired chief may also soon
be persuaded to come into camp and
accept a government position.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-04

According to latest accounts the war
bee is buzzing beneath the turban Of
Menelik, of Abyssinia, who is prepar-
Ing to invade the Soudan. Menelik's S
awakening is liable to be as rude ard
impressive as that from a pine dream.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-04

Unless the Democratic leaders can
suggest some means of checking the
increase of wages about the courtry all
talk Of rcscuing the nation from Re-
publicanism Will be worse than useless
this wear
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-04

Parties who talked of invading Cam
ada In the interest of the Beers, have
concluded to sit down by the fire and
wait until there is a change in tenn
perature.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-04

The richest woman in the world has
taken up her pen to contribute to the
Womans Home Companion. In the Feb
ruary number of that magazine Mrs.
Ietty Green will discuss ''The Benefits
OF a Business Training for Women"
writing from her own wide experience as
a woman of affairs and successful
fnancer.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-04

ULLER information as to the
~ scope of the concessions Sc
X cured from the European
,,,,o,s with resuect TO Amer
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-04

y THESE DAYS of electric pro-
Sress what changes will come to
l. The government of our great
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-04

Domestic S j z e S
which include
chestnut a II d
larger sizes. &
Pea. buckwheat
a n d smaller
sizes
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-05-22
MAY GET REHEAR|NG.
Plaintiffs in D., r. |. & NJ. w. In
junction Case Apply to SUI
prene Court.
RECONSIDERATION Is LOOKED FOB.
Tribunal Recently Reversed the
Findings of Judge
Gest.

Application has been made to the
Illinois supreme court by attorneys
for the plaintiffs for a rehearing of
the case of Fred Hass and Walter
johnson for a permanent injunction
restraining the Davenport, Rock Island
& Northwestern railroad from build
ing tracks along its right of way in
front of their property on First ave-
nue. between Eleventh and Thir-
teenth streets. 1t is possible the case
will be reopened, in which event the
railroad company will be continued to
be hampsred in the operation of it's
trains on this side of the river. The
company now has an arrangement
with the Peoria road for the use of it's
tracks in the territory covered by the
injunction, which, although ordered
dissolved by recent decision of the
supreme court. remains in effect
pending the answer of the court to
the application for a rehearing.
II will be recalled the cases of
Messrs. Hass and johnson were heard
separately in the Rock Island county
circuit court and terminated in the
granting by Judge Gest of permanent
restraining orders against the railroad
company. The defendant appealed to
the appellate court, by which the
cases were consolidated. The appel
late courts finding reversed the lind
ings of the lower court and remanded
the cause, with directions to the cir
cult court to dissolve the preliminary
injunctions granted under the respec-
tive bills and dismiss each.
The railroad company was jubilant
over the decision of the appellate
court and it's attorneys moved for the
reinstatement in the docket of the
cases that they might be dismissed
by due process of law, but action in
this direction is withheld, as the
court is daily expecting notification
from the upreme court that a re-
hearing has been granted by that tri-
bunal.
Circuit Court.
A new Jury was selected yesterday
to try the Steckman damage suit
against the Rock Island road. The
case was postponed last week and
the jury discharged by Judge Gest
owing to the action of Hjalmar An
derson, who was later fined for
contempt of court. The present jury
is G. a. Eastburg, Robert Summers,
Her bert Owens, Dan Schroeder, Julius
Witt. Henry Voge, John Ryquist.
John Swanson, Gus Palmquist. Will
liam Behrendt, Johnathan Space,
Charles Bensenberg.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-05-22
POLICE COURT MATTERS,
Two Women and a Man Engage In a Free
for-Au scrap.

Two Women and a Man Engage In a Free
fOr-Au scrap.
Matt Ganahl was sent to the county
Jail yesterday for 10 days on peace
warrant, as he was unable to furnish
the required 800 bonds.
Willis Gates. Ida McDole and Lena
Hansmann were fined S. and costs
each by Magistrate Stafford on the
charge of disorderly conduct. The
two women were holding istic car
nival on Twenty-second street between
Second and Third avenues last night,
when Gates took hand in the mill.
Kate Mccoy, Mary Bell and Edna
Lee were fined $40 each for being in
mates of disorderly house. They
were arrested in a saloon on Twenty
fourth street and Fifth avenue yester-
day.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-05-22
scIatic Rheumatism Cured.

l.. Wagner. wholesale druggist,
Richmond, Va, says: Il had fear
full attack of sciatic rheumatism, was
laid up almost two months; was for
tunate enough to get Mystic Cure for
rheumatism. This cured me after
doctors prescriptions had failed to
have any effect. l have also heard OF
fine results from others who have
used it," Sold by Otto Grotjan. 1901
Second avenue. Rock Island; Gustave
Schlegel & Son, 220 West Second
street, Davenport.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-05-22
Hour Sales.

AT $3.50 each afternoon, Dennison's
imported crepe paper. usually sold
at 1ec to 15c, unloading price
per roll. -. ... SC
At o'clock each day beaded POM
padour combs in shell. ..... zoe
At IL o'clock each day 200 good
DC cotton bats. -.. CSC
At o'clock each day 25c perfumes,
choice odors, violet, white rose,
etc, per ounce. ...... &c
At 10 o'clock each day 20 ladies' most
stylish suits at just half the marked
price-S25 suits $3.50; SIS
suits So; SO suits 500
At $3.50 each day. real china cream
pitchers, decorated in colors and
srippled gold. the right size. worth
Csc, one to a customer for
eacn. ..-.......-. sc
At 5 O'Clock each day tin pot
lids. any size. ...... -. IC
At O'Clock each day, 3 dozen
clothes pins for. ....... -. SC
At 1880 each day. while they last,
2-quart granite iron covered
buckets ..........-..... zoe
At 2 O'Clock each day ladies'
shell back combs. full Jewelod SC
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-05-22
When Nature

Needs assistance it may be best to
render it promptly, but one should
remember to use even the most per-
feet remedies only when needed. The
best and most simple and gentle REM
edy is the Syrup of Figs, manufac-
tured by the California Fig Syrup
company.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-05-22

Half the ills that man is heir to
come from indigestion. Burdock
Blood Bitters strengthens and tones
the stomach; makes indigestion i'm
possible. For sale by Marshall s.
Fisher, druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-05-22

Science has found that rheumatism
is caused by uric acid in the blood.
This poison should be excreted by the
kidneys. No rheumati-m with
healthy kidneys Foley's Kidney
Cure makes them well. At all drug.
gists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-05-22
To Heal q Hurt

Use Banner Salve. the great healer.
It's guaranteed for cuts, wounds.
sores, piles and all skin diseases. AT
all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-05-22
UuahIeto work-

Charles Repiogle. of Atwater. Ohio,
was unable to work on account of kid
ney trouble. After using Foley's
Kidney Cure four days he was entire
" well. At all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-05-22

It's the little colds that grow it on
big colds; the big colds that end in
consumption and death. Watch the
little colds. DR.. Woods Norway Pine
Syrup. For sale by Marshall & Fisher,
druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-05-22
L. 9. MCCabe 6 Co.
May Unloading Sample Bargains
SiIk0lineS. Etc.
81. 81, s.. IS, sos, $0.4t
Suits for SO. SO Values.

Ladies' suits, man tailored, made
in short box fronts and eton Jacket.
splendid assortment, absolutely the
best in the tri-cities, values up to
$40. so.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-05-22

GA EEA.
s g.: !: =: Gn,;'4.3;;;Z;:;z;x.! q '''
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-05-22
wash Goods.

Wash Goods.
12@c ginghams, all the new styles
for shirt waists, etc., reduced
to ,......,,.,......,. roc
1000 yards white lace stripe
lawns, 12lc regularly reduced
To-; ;.:... 7!C
500 yards white lining lawns.
per yard. ............. SC
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-05-22
Gloves.
Carpets.
Silks and Dress Goods.

27-inch taffeta silks, two toned,
$l.25 value, 5 good colors, per
yard -. ........ 49,. zoc
90c satin duchess cut down to,
per yard. ........... ooC
50 pieces colored dress goods. odd
pieces we wish to close out quick.
75c, csc, 81 25qualities, choice
of all, at per yard ....... soc
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-05-22
Effect of the Action.

While this is possibly solution of
the long discussed matter of river
front accomm rotations, and while the
outcome will be the provision of ia
cilities undou btedly desired, it re-
mains TO be seen whether il perma-
uently settles the warehouse question.
TIE ARGUS has felt all along, and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-05-22
Plumbing.

The bath. A properly fitted
bath room is a pleasure and
the bath proves a healthful
invigorant. You run no risks
# we equip your bath room
Modern plum bling is faultless.
Ours is modern plum bling.
Let Us makes estimates for
you.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-05-22
Other I.ems of Interest

Other EemS of interest.
Soc Garfield shields. pair. roc
Best sewing silk, 20-yard spools IC
500 packages pins, per paper $50. IC
200 gross pearl buttons, per doz IC
csc fine furniture polish. .... SC
zoe plate glass and hand mirrors SC
CSC hardwood hair brushes .. PC