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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-09
CHALLENGE SALE
TOWeIingS

1 big lot of Red and Blue Checked
Toweling, challenge sale OIL
price, per yard .......S 2C
1 lot of Linen Travelling, plain and
Twilled Bleached. Is inches wide.
challenge sale price Sa
pei gdi u - -
Barnsley's All Linen Extra Heavy
Toweling, worth loo. chal- Gle
lenge sale price. per yd. Wv
Towels, All Linen Huckbuck Tow
els, very heavy, 1Sx36 inches,
challenge sale price. OSo
per pair .................O OO
Fine Damask Towels, knotted fringe,
plain white and assorted coIored
borders, all linen, chal- 10.
lenge sale price, each ..-.. Il OC
41x20 All Linen fine Huckbuck
Towels, pure white, worth 45c,
challenge sale price 900
each .-.......... ~CC
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-09

CA III TIA.
Bear. tn. The Kind You Have Aasjs BoQf
'''. { A1zZz1zsl
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-09
RIBBONS! RIBBONS!

Big assortment 45c and Csc quality
Taffeta Fancy Ribbons, consisting
of checks, corded and plaids, Az
and 5 inches wide, challenge 17O
sale price, yard 49,. $500.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-09

First Church of Christ, Scientist. Twenty
third street between Seventh and Ninth ave-
nues- Services at i0:45 a m. and T:30 p. M
Subject for both morning and evening,
sSout - Sunday school follows the morning
service. wednesday evening meeting at 1880.
Reading rooms open every afternoon except
Sunday from TO 4.
Y. NJ c. A. building, corner of Third avenue
and Nineteepth street. Services at $3.50 D. m
Reorganized Church OF Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints Services at 9n2 Third avenue at
and 7:30 d. Sunday school 1t p. m.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-09
CHALLENGE SALE
Muslin and Bed Spreads

so pieces yard wide heavy I'm
bleached Muslin, challenge En
sale price, yard ........... OC
S-4 Bleached and Unbleached Sheet
ing. zoe quality, challenge 1Eo
sale price, per yard. ....... IOC
White Bed Spreads, good size,
hemmed, challenge sale OOo
White Honeycomb Bed Spreads.
Large size, Hemmed, chal- -7So
lenge sale price. each. OC
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-09
How TO Cure the Grip.

Remain quietly at home and take
Cbamberlain's Cough Remedy as di-
rected and quick recovery is sure to
follow. That remedy counteracts
any tendency of the grip to result in
pneumonia. which is really the only
serious danger Among the tens OF
thousands who have used it for the
grip not one case has ever been re-
ported that did not recover. Fol-
sale by all druggists
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-09
FUR DEPARTMENT..

Jewels adorn. Rich Furs adorn
and comfort the wearer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-09
BLACK DRESS GOODS.

BLACK DRESS GOODS.
Very Special Values.
Priestly 45-inch Black Armure
S1.25 value, crallenge TX
sale price, per yard 1900. SOC
45-inch Black All Wool Cheviot,
75c value. challenge sale EOn
price. per yard .....O OC
50-inch lack Imported Serge, Cwear
guaranteed), value S5c, ROo
challenge sale price per yd. OOC
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-09

With each purchase of Toilet
Soaps we will give away free a sam
pie of fine toilet soap during this
sale.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-09
Observation-Disclosures
: PULPIT AND PEW. 3
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

There will be services in the Rock
Island churches tomorrow as follows:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-09
EXTRAORDINARY VALUES
Black and CoIored Silks !

S1.75, $1.5v and S125 quality Col
ored Taffeta Silks, Checks, Plaids,
Lace Cordedand Satin Stripes, al
so washable Taffeta Silks in light
colors suitable for evening waists.
The best silk values ever offered
in this city, challenge RQo
sale price, per yard .OOO
20-inch All Silk Black Taffeta, 75c
value. challenge sale kOo
price, per yaru .OOC
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-01
~KIDNAPPERS ARRESTED.

Charged With Carrying Away n Six
teen-Year-OId New York Girl.
DETROIT, Mich, May 31.-A special
from Benton Harbor to the Tribune
says:
Chief of Police Johnson to-day ar
rested lsadore Roth, the supposed kid
NAPIER of Rosie Giest, the ~16-year-old
daughter Of Millionaire Giest, of New
York City. Roth had been working in
a lumber yard here and intended to
leave the city tonight. Chief John
son received a telegram to-day from
Detective Titus, OF New York, asking
him to hold the prisoner until Titus ar
riros.
Miss Giest, it is alleged, was carried
off by Roth while returning to her
home from an evening party several
weeks ago. He took her to Buffalo
and demanded a large sum for her re-
lease. 1t is charged that falling to
get what he asked and becoming al
armed at the activity of the detectives,
he left the girl in Buffalo and came to
Benton Harbor. Chief Johnson said
that papers were found on Roth which
definitely connect him with the Cud-
ahy abduction case, but he declines to
make their contents known.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-01
WAGE COMMITTEE SPEAKS
FOR 4 CONTINUOUS SCALE.
no DOUBT THAT IT WILL BE ADOPT
ED, As THE LARGEST EN-
PLOYERS FAVOR IT.
wHEELIG IS THE FAvoR1TH
AMONG ALL rHE CITIES CONTEST.
ING FOR THE NEXT
CONVENTION.

MILWAUKEE,, Wis.,, May s1.-A
the morning session of the Amaiga-
mated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin
Workers convention, the pudding.
busheling and scrapping clauses of the
iron scale were considered. 1t is UNI
derstood the rate will be based on SIS
per ton for pudding and one cent card
rata"
Consideration of the finishing scale
of the iron section took up the entire
afternoon. The sheet. tin and steel
scales will be taken up after the iron
scale shall be disposed of. 1t will be
probably Tuesday before the wage
committees report will be disposed OF.
A most important matter to be rat
flied is the recommendation of the
wage committee for a continuous scale.
1T is expected this part Of the report
will be approved without much oppo-
sition. as 1t is known that the plan is
favored by the largest iron and steel
concerns in the country. The conven-
ton probably will require two days to
pass upon the reports of the other COM
mittees. II is likely there will be no
change in officers, but a lively contest
is expected when the time shall come
for choosing the city for the next
nual convention. wheeling, Cleveland.
Columbus and Birmingham are active
candidates. The chances seem to ia
vor the West Virginia city.
President Z. j. Shaffer said tonight
that the advances in the various scales
Of the wage committees report are so
conservative that he expects work In
the iron and steel mills OF the country
will not be interrupted this year. He
believes an agreement will be reached
between the manufacturers and the
scale committee without delay. The
work OF the convention so far has pro-
ceeded smoothly.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-01
SIXTEEN STORIES
AND LIVES TO TELL Of /.
Young WOMAN, OF CLEyE-
LAND,
TOOK AN AWFUL TUMBLE.
HER SCALP WAS TORN BY STRIK.
ING ON THE WAY. BUT SHE
WILL RECOVER.

Special to the Register.
CLEVELAND, o., May 31.-Miss
Dodie Scanlon, collector for a bad debt
collecting agency in the 10th story OF
the New England building, fell through
the elevator shaft of the building after
business hours tonight and still lives.
The collection agency.s Offices are at
the top of the building and the man
ager and others went home at 5 o'clock
leaving Miss Scanlon in the Office. AL
most two hours later a man waiting
for an elevator at the ground floor
heard groans and a Waterman with a
lantern found the young uncon-
scious at the bottom of the elevator
shaft.
Her scalp was torn off by striking as
she fell down the shaft, but she will
live.
How she fell into the elevator shaft
is a mystery, as non OF the elevator
doors on the floor where Miss Scanlon
worked were open.
She was an unusually handsome wo-
man of q.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-01
GOVERNOR insolvency
DISPLAYS GOOD SENSE.
BE SPARED MUCH TROUBLE.
THE GOVERNOR REFUSES TO AC-
CEPT THE BLUFF RESERVATIONS
OF THE SENATOR'S.

COLUMBIA, S. c., May 31.-Governor
McSweeney to-day, acting. he said, in
accordance with the wishes of tine peo-
pie who did not wish a primary with
its incidental strife and unrest, refused to
accept the designations of Senators
Tillman and McLaurin. These resig-
nations were made at a political meet
ing in Gaffney, May 25, and were mall
ed the Governor that night. He receiv-
ed them the following morning when
about to leave tor Chickamauga to par
ticipate in the unwilling of a monu-
ment to South Cardinals dead. The
Governor returned here early this
morning and rendered his decision
shortly after noon.
He wrote a communication to the
Senators in which he first said that he
returned their designations for further
consideration" as their action was TAX
en- in the heat of debate and without
full consideration OF the efTects upon
the people. In the closing paragraphs
Of his letter, however, the Governor un-
~equivOcally declines to accept the resig-
nations. His reasons, he said, may be
put in a few words. A canvass between
them would result in bitterness, stir up
the people just at a period when they
are trying to get together for the ma
terial progress o fthe State and would
be a campaign of personalities instead
of education. Next year there will be
ample opportunity for a full discussion.
Holding these views, the Governor says
his duty is plain.
Senator Tillman would say nothing
about the Governors action.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-01
A K YOUR CHOICE.
Two Reliable Newspapers Give
News That Cannot All he True.

Two Reliable Newspapers Give
News That Cannot All he True.
PHILADELPHIA. Pa, May 31.-The
Record tomorrow will say:
The difference between the officers of
the Bethlehem Steel Company and the
representatives of the Vickers Sons and
Maxim Company have been adjusted
and the consolidation is now assured of
the English concern and the Cramp and
Bethlehem establishments. Represent
atives of Morton & Co. and Kuhn. Loeb
& Co., of New York. were in Philadel-
phia to-day friday and made the OFF,
cial statement to several of the local
men o concerned that all details to
the merger had been completed. Ac-
cording TO this statement, Morton & Co.
have in their custody tie majority of
the stock of the Bethlehem Steel Com
pany as well as that of the Bethlehem
iron Company, and Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
have the money and the authority from
the European capitalists interested to
pay for these stocks.
The basis OF settlement agreed upon
is $3.50 per share of the Bethlehem
Steel Company, and a dividend of so
CculS per SudTe W Uc pdlu DelUTe tue
end of this month. In direct conflict to
the statements contained in the above,
the North American will say to-mor-
row:
the negotiations for the sale of the
Bethlehem Steel Company to Vickers
Sons & Maxim is finally off according
TO Robert p. Linderman. president OF
the company.
"A lev ol us met in New York Thurs
day." he said, land informally discuss
ed the question of sale. | have just
telegraphed the Morton Trust Company
saying that we will not accept the terms
offered.
I'VE are perfectly satisfied with our
property, have made a little money out
of it and think we can continue to run
it ourselves with a like result"
This would seem to settle the ques-
ton n put an end to the plans of the
shipbuilding, steel armor plate and ord
nance combine, which a week ago every
body felt assured was in way of ac-
compnshment. Some, however, still be-
lieve an agreement will be reached.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-01
THE PACIFIC
An Amicable Agreement Reached
Among the Conflicting Financial

An Amicable Agreement Reached
Among the Conflicting Financial
Interests.
NEW YORK, May 31.-The conflict
ing interests in the Northern Pacific
railroad have reached a final and
amicable agreement upon all matters of
disagreement and Their future relations.
to the property. There has been no
announcement CT the terms OF the new
part which ends the most remarkable
street. and none of the details have
been made public. Late this afternoon
the following statement went out on
the ticker.
1T is Officially stated that an under
standing has been reached between
Northern Pacific and Union Pacific in
terests under which the composition of
the Northern Pacific board will be left
in the hands of J.. p. Morgan, certain
names having already been suggested,
which will especially be recognized as
preventative of the combination inter-
ests. 1t is asserted that complete and
permanent harmony Will result from the
plan adopted between all interests in
volved."
When the statement was shown to
Louis A. Heinsheimer. Of Kuhn, Loeb
& Co., he said:
THAT statement is authentic. We
cannot go into particulars as to the
statement or give you any details at
this time. All that we can say is that
there has been a settlement of the diff
culties that existed and the matter is
at an end"
Jacob Schiff declined to add anything
to the official statement. beyond con-
firming the truth of it.
All James ]. Hill would say was that
a satisfactory settlement appeared to
have been concluded.
One of the stories heard to-day after
the announcement that peace had besn
declared was that at least two North
ern Pacific directors would enter the
Union Pacific beard, and that equal rep
resentation would be given the latter
road in the directory of the first
named
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-01
DEMAND OF TANK MEN.

PITTSBURG, Pa, May 3L-The tank
builders n boiler makers Of the two
cities will present a demand upon their
employers tomorrow designed to give
them an increase In pay and = shorten
ing OF hours. The men in the boiler
shops have been paid $3.50 per day of
ten hours. The terms that will be pre-
sented to the employers this morning
call for 80 1-3 per hour for a day
OF nine hours. There are several
thousand tank builders ano ooiIermak-
ers involved and incidentally several
hundred other workmen in the different
shops.
The men think their demands will be
granted and a strike averted.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-01
five HORSE THIEVES
hanged IN ONE BUNCH.
A MOB OF EIFTY MEN TOOK THEM
FROM THE CUSTODY OF THE
OFFICERS. AND
PROMPTLY EXECUTED THEM.
FATHER, THREE SONS AND A MAN
MAKING HIS HOME WITH
THEM THE VICTIMS.

ALTURAS, Cal, May 31.-Calvin Hall
and his three sons, Frank, Jim and Mar
tin Hall, and Dan Yantis, who had been
stealing horses near here for years,
were arrested yesterday and were kept
under guard by three officers. A mob
of forty masked men took them al l
o'clock this morning and hung them
to a bridge near Lookout. The officers
were %overpower and compelled to help.
The mob dispersed within five minutes.
The bodies were still hanging at 10 a.
m. Sheriff Street and District Attorney
Bonney have gone to the scene of the
nanging-
Lookout, the scene of the lynching,
is In the Hot Springs valley, on Pitt
river, twenty-five miles from Alturas.
the county seat of Modoc county. There
Is no Geographic communication with
the valley and the news of the lynching
was brought to Alturas by courier.
The residents of Hot Springs valley
are nearly all cattle raisers in Modoc
county.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-01
TO GUST CARNEGIE.

Suit Entered to Set Aside His Pur-
chase of Skibo CastIe-NO Grounds
Gwen in Suit.
LONDON, May '31.-A despatch from
Edinburgh says action has been insti-
tuted by Sir Charles Sutherland to set
aside the purchase of Skibo Castle by
Andrew Carnegie. The ground of the
objection has not yet developed. Skibo
Castle was taken over by Mr.. Carnegie
a couple of years ago and he has re
sided there since then on the occasion
of each visit to this side of the At
lantic.
Though the name of the plaintiff is
given as Sir Charles Sutherland, no
such title is discoverable.
Later Mr.. Carnegie telegraphed to
the Associated Press that he is not in
terested in the Sutherland action,
which is against the former land own
ers and cannot affect the title.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-01
R LEGISLATION.
A New Railroad Bill Rushed Through
The Pennsylyania Senate without
Time for Breath.

A New Railroad Bill Rushed Through
The Pennsylvania Senate without
Time for Breath.
HARRISBURG, Pa, May 31.-The
Senate this morning passed finally the
Dill amending the passenger railway act
OF 1889 to permit the construction of a
passenger railway in any street not oc-
cupled at present and the bill providing
for the erection of elevated and under
ground railways. These are the bills
that were introduced in the Senate on
Wednesday after it became known that
P. A. B. Widener and William l.. FL
kins, the Philadelphia street railway
magnates, had sailed for Europe. Rep
resentatives of the Philadelphia Trac-
ton interests came here and pleaded
in vain either for the defeat of the
bills or their postponement. The ex-
traordinary speed at which bills of sucn
great Importance have been rushed
through the Senate has aroused wide
spread interest. Ten minutes after their
introduction they were reported favor
ably from committee and they passed
first. second and third readings without
the loss of a moments time, all amend
ments being rejected. 1t is stated here
that they will be 'railroaded" through
the House and in the hands of Cover
0 Stone for his action before the end
of next week. There is great mystery as
to the identity of the interests back of
the legislation. Nobody here knows
who is urging the passage of the bills,
though it is admitted that the Phila-
delphia streets are the ones most desir-
ed. The first bill Is so drafted as to
permit the occupation of Broad street,
kept free Of street car tracks.
The Senate broke all it's records for
prompt action on legislation by pass
ing the bills finally within less than
As hours after they were introduced.
They were called up ahead of other
measures on the calendar at to-day's
session of the Senate and passed with
out debate by a vote of 80 to 8.
They will, it Is stated, be reported
from committee in the House on Mon
day afternoon and read the first time
at the evening session. The order of
business will probably be arranged by
the rules committee to take up the
bills on Tuesday for second reading and
the following day for third reading and
final passage.
The promoters of the bills say they
will be promptly signed by Governor
Stone and that a corporation will i'm
mediately be organized with a large
capital to take out a charter for the
erection of an elevated railway system
in Philadelphia and suburbs. They
say also that the steam railway COM
panies are not a~ntagonistic to this leg
islation and that there will be no or
ganized opposition to it in the House.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-01

GOING TO PIrTsBURG.

Joseph =. Ramsay to Be Made presS-
dent of the wabash With That
End I'm View.
NEW YORK, May 31.-The Mail and
Express says:
"C. ID. Ashley will, at the next meet
ing OF the Wabash board OF directors,
resign the presidency. and Vice Presi-
len and General Manager Joseph 8
Ramsey will be elected to succeed him
The meeting was called for June s, but
has been adjourned until June 20.
Mr.. Asbley's resignation was entire-
ly voluntary. He is to be made chair
man OF the board. a position which viii
be created for his benefit.
The extension Of the Wabash TO
Pittsburg is being managed largely by
Mr.. Ramsey, and will be accomplished
Just as soon as the necessary authority
from the board OF aldermen OF the city
has been obtained"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-01
3 WHEELING, WA. SATURDAY, JUNE l. 1901.

United States is an a~mpLncation Of the
Monroe doctrine. 1t is emphatically
stated by some of those who have been
present at the conferences that the
Monroe doctrine has nothing whatever
to do with the present situation in
Cuba. 1t is stated that the earnest de-
sire of the President is to retire from
Cuba at the earliest possible moment
consistent with the best interests of the
people of the island and the future re-
lations between the new government
and the United States. The problem
is whether withdrawal under the
amended Plat law will accept that re-
suit.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-01

all or any part of the last named COM
pany's Texas productions. 1t will be re-
membered that a short time ago Beaumant
producers and conner invited officials
OF the Standard Oil Company TO visit the
field and look over the situation with a
view to engaging in the purchase and
transportation of the produc-
ton At the time the Standard officials
met the Texans they promptly informed
the reception committee that thy did not
care to engage in business in that State
under the existing anti-corporation laws.
The ]. NJ. Guffey Petroleum Company Is
the only one engaged in the transportation
of the crude in the Beaumont fields, with
the single exception of one shipment by
tank cars.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-01
AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVES
SUPERIOR TO BRITISH.
LORD GEORGE HAMILTON REPLIES
TO STATEMENTS MADE IN THE
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
INDIAN L W WANT MORE
LORD GEORGE HOPES BRITONS
WILL LEARN SOMETHING
FROM EXPERIENCE.

LONDON, May 31.-Lord George
Hamilton, the Indian secretary, who
was not present in the House of Com
mons when Sir Alfred Hickman (Con-
servative), May %, attacked the Amer
lean built locomotives and bridges, has
replied in a letter to Sir Alfred Hick-
man In part. it is as follows:
No practical engineer who has Wis
tied American workshops and inspect
ed their methods of production and
manufacture, would for a moment en-
dorse your assumptions. Their COM
petition Is dangerous because they are
yearly improving their products, both
in quality and price. 1t always has
been the practice of the boards OF
management OF the Indian railroads to
give preference in all their contracts
to British manufacturers, and that pol
icy ha SO prevailed that up to the
great recent engineering strike no or
der for a railway locomotive ever was
given outside OF Great Britain. Since
then, owing to the British workshops
being blocked with work, certain of
the India railway boards found it nee
essary, as locomotives could not be
obtained here, to place a few limited
orders in America. / am ready to give
all the available reports concerning
working, consumption of fuel and load
drawing power of these locomotives.
The earlier reports were unfavorable.
but when their working was better
understood and alterations were made
m emit tho 1nanl fYa1 --~I-1 f.
proyement was noticed, so much so that
one company wishes to obtain more
engines of similar construction. The
American locomotives obtained a foot
ing in India through the strike | have
referred to. But if. as | hope. British
locomotives are in the future to regain
their monopoly in that vast system OF
railways, British engineers must profit
by the hints and suggestions there re-
ports convey.
You seem to think tina orders have
only gone abroad because those who
gave them did not understand their
business. ! wish i. were so. The com
petition we have to face is founded on
something much more formidable and
more substantial. Chemical research.
the concentration of capital, thorough
technical education and improved in
dustrial organization have made in re-
cent years a greater advance in Ameri-
ca than here II was with the product
of these combinations and not with the
assumed stupidity of the Indian officials
that the British engineer has to con-
tend"
LONDON, June Most of the morn
ing papers comment upon Lord George
Hamillon's important letter TO Sir AL
fred Hickman.
1T is a satisfactory defense of the
Indian government" says the Times
"but unpleasant reading for all CON
cerned in the maintenance of British
industrial supremacy. Probably Amer
lean firms who accepted the Atbara and
Gokteik contracts were as full as their
British competitors, but they would not
admit the fact or suffer il TO enter into
their calculations"