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Williams news., 1901-11-30
WILLIAM MCCARTNEY
Has Narrow Escape From Death on
 the Saginaw Southern.

On last Friday evening, as the Saginaw Southern's log train was making its usual trip to the woods. a serious accident occurred, result ing in injuries to one man which will confine him to the house for many days.
 About one mile beyond the Doug las homestead the road branches in different directions, one line going to Germans camp and the other to the woods where the timber is being obtained.
 William Mccartney, or "Tug," as he is called, braking on the train, was standing on the forward car (the train backing out) when the switch was reached. With his lantern he gave the signal to stop, that he might turn the switch, and the suddenness with which the air was applied caused him to over balance and fall forward between the rails. Being unable to clear the track in time the front trucks of a car passed over his limbs seemed to be crossed, one over the other-breaking the right leg above the knee and badly bruising the left. His left hand was also badly bruised and two bones broken in the same.
 Mccartney is regularly employed as day brakeman but was doing double duty that night as the crew was short-handed. The accident at 9:45 and immediately after the unfortunate man was placed in a car and brought to town where his injuries were dressed by pr. P. A. Melick, the company physician. "Tug" takes a most favorable view of his pres ent situation and thanks his lucky stars that he escaped with his life
Williams news., 1901-11-30

Ned Robinson met with n pain ful and serious mishap last Mon day. He was walking near the brewery when a team came running down the street SuppOsing a driver was guiding them Ned failed to give up the entire right of way
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-02-22
THE BLATTA ORIENTALIS.
A Monster Cockroach from the Tr0p-
les Which Has Found Its
Way to England.

The blatta orientalis is about three
times as large as an English "black-
beetle" and is well known to sailors
in the tropics as one of the many
pests of ships. This tropical or east
ern cockroach has been transported
to the ZOO" the eggs being carried
there in packing cases containing rep
tiles and beasts from warm countries,
and has found congenial climate in
the reptile-house. All cockroaches,
oriental or otherwise, are very fond
of water, having, like most other
loafers and Migrants, an unquench-
able thirst. AS the foreign cock
roach flies by night, when it looks
like an enormous water-beetle, it has
been able to occupy an ideal home, an
island full of caves, and surrounded
not only with water, but by album
dance of food. The island says the
London Spectator, is a big LOG in the
center of the steamy crocodile pool
The log is full of splits and crevices,
in which these monster cockroaches
live, and from which they keep a
bright lookout for the bits of soaked
bread, bun, apple and other eatables
which people who think that croc-
odiles are like roach, and will nibble
bread, drop into the muzzles Of the
sleeping saurians. When large
piece OF bread floats up against the
log the cockroaches make up a
salvage party, and, dragging it to
their main cave below, make a com
munal feast. Numbers are caught
and used as food for the insect-eating
lizards, SO they are to some extent
useful importation.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-02-22
UNDERGROUND CHAMPAGNE.
N Wine Labor Year In and
Year Out,

Visitors to France may go out of
their way to gaze upon the quaint
architecture and crumbling houses Of
Epernay. or the homan antiquities
and grand old cathedral of Rheims,
but the real towns of Champagne are
TO be looked for underground. These
are the busting, busy places where
the business of Champagne is car
ried on. They are Of vast extent.
American and british workmen
would probably not trouble themselves
to obtain employment in underground
Champagne. Day after day the work
people leave the outer world for il
and IL hours at time to discharge
duties which, II not particularly ardu-
Gus, must be wearisome by reason of
their monotony.
An intelligent Frenchman assured
a writer in the Royal Magazine that
he had worked below ground for
nearly As years. His duties consisted
in shaking bottles to dislodge the
sediment. He said that he had shaken
IS bottles a minute each working day
then asked the writer how many bot
ties he had shaken. It is no great
wonder that after a moments consid-
Grafton the visitor took to his heels.
Underground Champagne has rep
utation for producing good wines, but
according to the writer the business
tends to sour the dispositions of the
workers. He found most of them tact
turn, not to say misanthropical In
one cellar at Epernay he came across
an old man who assured him that the
place was filled with ghosts and COB
Inns.
It is hard to realize that under
meath the primitive villages where the
vineyards grow there are springing
up subterranean cities of great inn
portance, but this is the case. Men
must search below, and not above,
ground if they would understand the
life of the people of Champagne.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-02-22

took my telegram, and the money
therefor. with the customary .'tup-
pence for the message. please" and !
have no doubt acquitted herself of the
not very onerous task of bearing it to
the post otlice as neatly as the human
boy would have done. But the next
time I passed the office | made in
quiries, and was told that it was only
in few of the West end Offices that the
experiment of using young girls. in
stead of boys was being tried. and that
even in these districts they were only
used when the duty was a fitting one
for girl to undertake. The fact is, the
clerk in charge assured me, the com
pany finds il impossible to get a ssf-
fcient supply of boys. They have late
~ been enforced to employ men at six
pence an hour at some of the city Of
fees, and when the government royalty
is taken into account this does not leave
much OF a profit for the company.
hear the cable companies are also at
their wits end to find messenger boys"
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-02-22
THOUSANDS OF MILES.
UnooHseiOusly Travelled by the Aver
age Man During His
Lifetime.

The many thousands of miles which
a man unconsciously travels in his life
time, taking into consideration the
PAGES his footsteps measure as he
walks about each day. are enough to
make him sit down to rest for the
remainder of his life, says the London
Mail
But now a German scientist has
come forward with some still more
startling facts concerning the jour
neys which our eyehd undertakes
every time it winks, and it is not pos
sib.e for us to see, he says, unless we
wink. Unconsciously we wink once a
second, so that for the time we are
awake during the day we voluntarily
wink from 4s,6O0 to $4,000 times. The
distance that the eyelid travels in its
great speed is measured from a single
involuntary wink.
This, the scientist says, is quarter
OF an ineh both ways, the eyelid NOV
ing equally up and down; SO that, taxi
ing the movement of both eyelids into
consideration, they cover some $4,000
inches in day. The eyelids of a man
who has lived for so years will have
unconsciously travelled third of the
way around the earth, or about 1900
miles, calculation sufficient in itself
to cause the victim of insomnia to fall
into dreamless sleep as he reads it.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-02-22
LAST OF THE MODOCS.
That Formerly WarlIke Tribe Has
Dwindied to PitIfuI Seventy
Seven Members.

Another good Indian has been made
by the death of Modoc brave, and now
the bucks of the tribe have been re-
duced to the fatal 10 in number. Thus
have dwindled the fighters of the most
warlike tribe of men that ever ar
rayed themselves against an enemy.
They have been the Ishmaelites of the
Pacific slope, and therefore they were
called "Modocs" by the other tribes,
for "modoc" means enemy"
The entire tribe has dwindled to n
members, all wretched beings, with no
thirst for war, but an ambitionless in
dolent and dull set of beings that have
east aside every virtue that they ever
possessed and have taken on every vice
that civilization has offered them. This
remnant, mostly women and diseased
children, that has dwindled from a
fighting power worthy of United States
opposition to the very verge of extinc-
ton. is now CHARTERED on a small res
ervation in the Quapaw country south
of Kansas City.
These last of the Modocs are prison
ers of war, held by the government. but
allowed great freedom for they are moi
likely to wander from the supplies
they are provided with, for if they
should they would starve to death.
only one among them shows any OF
the spirit that once actuated the tribe.
He is Sam Boil. about 100 years old. and
he is willing to take the warpath again.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-02-22
GIRLS FOR MES sENGER BOYS
London Telegraph Companies Hav.
Been Forced to Adopt an
Innovation.

II you please, sir, here's the mes
senger boy said my maid, with a
smile, the other afternot n. as she ush-
cred into my room neatly dressed and
not ill-looking young girl " SAYS a writ.
er in the London King. AT first
thought there must be some mistake
but her ladyship soon dsabused me OF
that notion. and with a good deal OF
seif-possession. but no trace of for
warcness, informed me that she was
diseharging messenger boys duty. She
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-02-22
SHOT DEAD BY A CORPSE.
How n Rice In the Hands OF a Dead
English Sergeant Killed q
BOer Soldier.

A Boer commando retook those
lines where those who died for us
were lying, and as they marched
among our dead they saw sergeant
lying at full length, shot through the
brain, yet even in death the man
looked like some fighting machine
suddenly gone out of order, says the
London News. His rifle was pressed
against his shoulder, his left hand
grasped the barrel on the under side,
the forefngers of the right hand
pressed the trigger tightly. the barrel
rested out upon a rock and his death
dulled eye glared along the sights,
for dissolution had come to him lust
as he bent his head to fire at those
who shot him. and now his hands had
stiffened in the unbendable stiffness
of eternal sleep. A Boer soldier saw
the sergeant as he lay, and with rude
hands grasped the rifle by the barrel
and tried to jerk it from the dead
mans grip, but as he pulled he
brought the rifle in line with his own
breast, and the unyielding finger on
the trigger did the rest The rifle
spoke from the dead mans hand, and
the bullet, passing through the Beers
heart, laid him beside the Briton.
Sounds like a journalistic lie, does
it not? Read it in a novel, and you
would laugh would you not? But it
is the eternal truth, all the same, for
the comrade Of the Boer who died
that day, killed by a dead man, told
me the tale himself, and he was one
of those who planted the dead Dutch
man on the slope of Spion kop.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-02-22
Horse Shoeing,
Machine Repairing
And work of every description done the bes
manner and at short notice.

WANTED.-Capable, reliableperson in
every county to represent large company
of solid financial regulations; 1896 salary
per year, payable weekly; 50 per day alb
solutely sure and all expenses; straight,
bona-ide, definite salary, no commits
sion; salary paid each Saturday and ex-
pense money advanced each week.
STANDARD HOUSE, 1874 DEARBORN
ST., CHICAGO.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-02-22
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of the heart. A weakness long
continued produces deformity
and organic disease. If your
heart action is weak, make it
strong. Build up the muscles
and strengthen the nerves with
the greatest of all heart rene
dies, DR.. Miles Heart Cure.
"My wife had huttering and
palpitation of the heart, accom-
panied by weak spells and nerY-
BUSINESS, which nothing relieved
until she began taking DR. Miles
Heart Cure. The first bottle gave
relief and six completely restored
her health" ISAAC HEADLEY,
Wichita, Kan.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-02-22
DR.. Miles
He art Cetre

quiets the nervous heart, regu-
lates its pulsations and builds
up its strength as nothing else
can. Sold by druggists on
guarantee.
DR.. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-02-22
SHERIDAN BLACKSMITHSHOP
JOS. ZIMMERMAN, ProprletoE

Having purchased the above shop lam prepared
to do all kinds Understanding atreasonablerates
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-11-25
BALL Is AGAIN WRITTEN UP
Chicago Paper Devotes "a Page to Astrono-
mer Who Is to Lecture Here.

Chicago Paper Devotes "a Page tn Astrono-
mer who Is to Lecture Here
Sir Robert Ball, the eminent Eng
lish astronomer who gives an Illus
trated lecture at the Burtis Dec. -
under the auspices of the Tri-City
Press club. is given page in yester-
days Chicago American in an article
on the canals on the planet Mars.
The extent TO which the distinguish
ed visitor is being noticed in the
press of the country indicates the
eminence to which he has attained
in his his profession and the interest
that is generally felt in the subject
he presents. His lectures, like his
articles written for publication, are
entirely devoid of scientific terms
and mathematical intricacies that
tend to confuse the average person
and the simplicity of his speech is
coupled with Il lucidity of eNplana-
ton that holds his audiences in alb
Sorbed interest.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-11-25

career in 1883, when he was the cam
didate of the union labor party for
president. In 1891 he came within n
few votes of defeating John NJ. Palm
er for the United States senate. Mr..
Streeter was a native of Rensselaer,
county. New York, and was rs years
of age. The family came west in
1886, settling in Lee county, Illinois.
The father, Roswell Streeter, died in
1851 in Iowa while en- route to Cali
fornia. The mother died at the age
of 80 at her sons home near New
Windsor. Mr.. Streeter's youth was
spent on his fathers farm, and he
related how they hauled charcoal to
Grand du Tour on Rock river. where
John Deere. subsequently of Moline
pillow fame, had a blacksmithshop.
His wife and six children survive.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-11-25
TWICE TOLD TALES.
No Meat Extracted From Them by Som'
Who Most Need the Facts.

No Meat Extracted From Them by Some
who Most Need the Facts.
We have more than twice told the
reader of the fact that he or she
may perhaps easily discover the
cause Of the daily ill feeling and the
experiment is not difficult to make.
But there are readers who think
truths are for some one else and not
for themselves.
Some day the oft told fact Will
fash upon MS as applicable when the
knowledge comes home. that day
after day OF Inconvenience and per-
haps of suffering has been endured.
the cause not being recognized or
believed, although we may have been
told of the cause many times over.
but never believed ii applied to us.
1t would Startle Il person to know
how many people suffer because they
drug themselves daily with coffee.
We repeat it. il is u powerful drug.
and 50 affects the delicate nervous
system that disease may appear in
any part of the body. all parts being
dependent for health, on healthy
nervous system.
Relief from coffee for 30 days has
cured thousands Of people who never
suspected the cause of their troubles.
The use of Postum Food Coffee is
of great benefit to such, as it goes to
work directly To rebuild the delicate
cell structures from the elements ma
ture selects for the work. Relief
from heavy drug and the taking of
proper nuuriShment is the true and
only permanent method
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-11-25

Athletic Notes.
Tim Murnane, writing i'm the Chi
cago Record-Herald yesterday, says:
a word for the minor leagues.
Trouble is bound to crop up here and
there until the machinery gets to
working properly, and even then
there often will be cases for the or
ganization to decide. The only trou-
BILE so far has been in the Western
association, where one or two men
have decided to pull out. as they
think they can better themselves.
Even this is not a difficult problem TO
solve The minors will naturally
seek to strengthen their different
leagues as best they can, and | am
sure all will work out on the lines
mapped out at their meeting in New
York. The National association is
bound to live and remain bigger than
amy opposition from within or with
out. The president OF every club in
every minor league should take a
deep interest in this move"
". r. Kreig may get chance to
manage club i'm the New England
League next season. He * now at
Chillicothe, III.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-11-25
Perfectly Plain.

Uncle Rastus. who was seeking IN
formation concerning mushrooms, had
been referred by preternaturally sol
emn student TO the professor of botany,
and, with hat I'm hand. he was address
ing that dignitary.
Would yo' mind telIin' me, Mistah
Mandrake" he said. chow TO 'stinguish
a musharoOn I'm a toadstOolE''
Willingly" replied the professor.
In the first place, you must remember
that the Amanita phalloides, or deadly
agaric, closely resembles the Agaricus
campestris, or edible fungus, which is
our common variety and absolutely in
nocuous. Next. It will be necessary to
fix firmly In your mind the distinguish
ing marks or characteristics of the
Agaricus campestris, which are these:
a pIleus not covered with excrescence-
like scales; gills of n brownish purple
when mature; stalk solid and approx
mately cylindrical; ring near the mid
die of stalk; base not dubious and not
sheathed by membrane. The dlstin-
gushing chara cteristics of the Amanita
phalloides, or deadly agaric. are these:
Pileus destitute of distinct excres-
cences; white gills, hollow stalk; large
ring and prominent bulb at base, with
membranous upper margin. Bearing
these points OF differentiation fully in
mind you will never be at a loss to
determine which variety you encounter
in any given case"
'Yes, sub" said Uncle Rastus. turn
ing his hat round and round in his
fingers. 81 un'stan' dat all, right, but
how's 1 gwine to tell 'em apaht?-
Chicago Tribune.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-11-25
For OverFIrtv Years

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has
been used for children teething. 1t
soothes the child, softens the gums,
allays all pain, cures wind collie, and
is the best remedy for diarrhoea. %
cents a bottle.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-11-25
Great Luck of an Editor.

For two years all efforts to cure
Eczema in the palms of my hands
failed, writes Editor II. y. Lester, of
Syracuse, Kan, then l was wholly
cured by Buclllen's Arnica Salve."
It's the worlds best for eruptions,
sores and all skin diseases. Only
25c at Hartz & Ullemeyer's-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-11-25
rhnt rhrnhhInr Heaaaohe

Would quickly leave you, if you
used DIR. Kings New Life Pills.
Thousands of sufferers have proved
their matchIess merit for sick and
nervous headaches. They make pure
blood and build up your health. Only
25 cents. Money back if not cured.
Sold by Hartz & Ullemeyer, drug
gists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-11-25
A. j. Streeter.

a. J. Streeter, equally well known
in agricultural and political circles
of Illinois, died Saturday at his home
at New Windsor after an illness of
six weeks of diabetes with complica-
tions. Mr.. Streeter's political career
began in 1872, when he was elected
by the democrats as minority repre-
sentative in the Illinois legislature,
where he served with credit He be-
came a member of the Greenback
party in 1874, and in 1878 was it's
candidate for congress in the Tenth
district. Two years later he was the
candidate of the same party for gov
ernor, receiving over $4,000 votes. He
was elected to the state senate in
1884 by a fusion of the democrats and
greenback parties. Mr.. Streeter
reached the height of his political
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-11-25
George n. sweeney.

George X. Sweeney. brother of w.
l.. and +. ID. Sweeney, died Friday at
Excelsior Springs, Mo-, of Bright's
disease of the kidneys. He was 90
years of age and n widower. and is
survived by five children. He was
of the coal mines of
Keith d Perry, at Kansas City,
where deceased resided for "a number
of years. The interment took place
today at Fort Scott.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-11-25
Mrs. Gustaf Peterson.

Carrie, wife of GuStaf Peterson, of
Walkers Station, died at $50 o'clock
Saturday afternoon after Is months
illness with Bright's disease. She was
born in Ericksburg. Westergotland,
Sweden, May ~. 1892, and came to
Moline in 1872, where she had lived
ever since. Besides her husband she
leaves three daughters, Mrs. Ben Me
line. Mrs. Charles Chinlund and Mrs.
Frank Miller, all of Moline; also n
son. Claus Peterson, of Walkers Sta
ton
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-11-25
To Meet Davenport.

Every player on the high school
football team is husbanding every
energy. concentrating every faculty
in preparation for the game with
Davenport high school in the latter
city next Thursday. The boys are
aware they have great odds To over
come. but not one on the team or
among the substitutes but is court
ing the hope of victory for all that
is in him. To the disadvantage in
weight the local team will have to
contend with the added handicap of
being in the enemy's territory.
The enthusiasts who have been
watching the local team this season
hope il will AT least be able To dupIi-
cate its showing against Moline in
the last game and thus leave the
schools for the three cities ON n
practical equality as the result of
the seasons work. This. If il can be
accomplished, considering the make
up of the three teams. will have all
the trimmings of a victory for Rock
Island. The game will be played at
the ball park in the west end of Dav-
export. and will be called at 2:3O.
The gate receipts will be divided.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-11-25

Members of the Augustana college
athletic organizations known as the
Milo and la Calcirora clubs gave Il
social at the Harper house Saturday
evening. After enjoying dinner
served i'm the ladies' ordinary pro-
gram of toasts was carried out and
then the company passed into the
parlors. where the remainder of the
evening was spent with music and
social pastimes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-11-25
O'ROURKE SIGNED
Local Favorite to Again Play
Baseball in Rock
island.
Is RECEIVED HERE
Thanksgiving Football Games To be
Warm Affairs
Notes.

Tim O'Rourke is the first player Sc
cured by Manager Frank DonneIIy
for the 1902 Rock Island team i'm the
Three-I baseball league. O'Rourke's
contract was received by Secretary
l.. g. Eddy today, Manager DonneIIy
sending it on from Springfield
O'Rourle will hold down either see
ond or third base. He is now at
Shreveport. La, having been with
the club of that town in the Southern
league the past season, and having
led the second basemen. O'Rourke
was with Rock Island i'm 1899 and
made a record for himself here that
endeared him to the fans, all Of
whom will be gratified to know that
he is To return next year.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-11-25
Remains Inferred Here

Mrs. :. X. w. Field. of Medicine
Lodge. Kan, arrived from the west
this morning with the remains of
her husband. who died about a year
ago. The remains were inter
red at Medicine Lodge, but later it
was decided to bring them here.
They were taken from the train this
morning and placed in the family lot
in Chippiannock. Mrs. Field is the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. David Sears,
Of Sears, and she will visit with her
parents.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-11-25
.Iohn Jacobs.

John Jacobs, who held extensive in
terests in the county. and visited oc-
casionaIIy at the home of j. II. Will
son. died Saturday at his home i'm
Philadelphia, aged % years.