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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-25
Broke His Neck with a Fist Blow.

Logansport, Ind, Aug. 25.-In dis
pute over the payment of a debt of less
than - cents Thomas lille, junk
dealer, landed terrific blow with his
fist on the jaw of Neils Hansen. Ia
borer. aged 30. Hansen fell dead, his
neck being broken by the blow.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-25
wey1er aIay Resieh IIis Post.

Madrid, Aug. 25.-H is understood
that General Weyler, minister of war,
has decided TO resign bis post in con-
sequence of certain c0trt officials 'hav-
ing overridden his ofslers permitting
journalists to attend court functions.
The newspapers concefned are warm
ly supporting General Neyler.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-25
Venezuela Cccupies a Port.

Washington. Aug. 25.-United States
Minister Bowen, at Caracas. Venezue-
In, has notified the state department
that on Friday last Carupano was oc-
cupied without opposition by the gov
ernment troops which recently evac-
town fifty-seven miles northeast of
Cumaua
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-25

East Liverpool. o.. Aug 25.-Thom-
as ]. Duffy. secretary Of the National
brotherhood of Operative Potters. was
nominated by acclamation at Alliance,
o., by a laboring peoples convention
for congress, to represent the Eigh-
teenth district
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-25
Death of a German Duchess.

Berlin. ug 5.-Archduchess Margue-
rite Sophie. of Austria. wife of Albert,
duke of Wurtenburg. died yesterday at
Gmunden. Austria. as the result of an
operation for appendicitis. She was
horn in 1870
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-25
began Their Devotions Early.

Warsaw, Ind, Aug. 25.-The serv-
ices of the National Bible Conference
at Winona yesterday We're devotional
in character. The meetings commenced
just after sunrise, continuing until late
last night. Many noted divines were
heard by what was prObabbly the larg-
est gathering in the history of the con-
ference
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-25
Roy PLAYS with a Rine.

Virginia, ILL.,. Aug. 25.-While play
ing with a rife Howard. the 12-year-
old son of G.. Sharp. accidentally shot
and killed Clara Jump. aged 1S The
accident occurred at the Sharp house
in this city
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-25
strikers Appeal to Miss Gould.

Chicago, Aug. 25.-The Chicago Fed
Grafton of Labor has appeared to Miss
Gould against the executive of the
Western Union here in the matter of
the strike of messengers, asking her to
Investigate the conditions under
which children work for the Western
Union Telegraph company in Chicago
as messenger boys and girls" The
girls have been employed since the
IIo1rS Sfc1InL
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-25
Result of domestic Dimculties.

Omaha, Neb., Aug. 25.-Anton Chris
tiansen, a carpenter, employed in South
Omaha, shot and killed his wife in
their rooms at the Montgomery hotel,
of which the woman was proprietress.
She received one bullet in the head
and another through the body. dying
instantly He acknowledged his deed,
and said it was the result of domestic
difficulties
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-25
Russian na.erlals in Russian ships.

st. Petersburg. Aug. pa decree
of the minister of marine was ga
zetted today, requiring the exclusive
use of materials of Russian origin in
the construction of all Russian ships,
with the exception of vessels built
Il,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-25
New Bank in Joliet.

Springfield, Ills, Aug. PA per-
NIT has been issued by the auditor of
public accounts to Frederick A Hill,
Charles A. Noble and J. +. Baird to
organize the Joliet Trust and Saw
ings Bank of Joliet with a capital
stock of 100000.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-25
Officer Injured.

Hazleton, Pa, Aug. 25.- August
Seheuch, special officer, while at
tempting to rescue his son from a
mob of strikers today, was stabbed
and seriously injured.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-25
Shah Doing Paree.

London, Aug. 25.-The shah bid
farewell to England today, after
weeks round of gaieties. He has
gone to Paris, where he viii spend
10 days incognito.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-25
Indioations of Suicide.

AIarion, Ill, Aug 25.-James d. Pull
ley, aged IL years, was found dead
sitting in a chair in a hotel in this
city. Carbolic acid on his person in
dicated suicide.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-25
CEN. Clnanee,s Mife IIL

Manila. Aug. 25.-Af1s. Chaffee. wife
of General Cha1ree. wIib has been seri-
ously i'll for the past week, is now i'm
proving and is out of al danger.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-25
VIVIAN sARToRls MARRIED

Grants Granddaughter the Wife of Presi-
dent RoOseveIts Cousin.
Coburg, Ont, Aug. 23.-The mar
riage of Vivian May Sartoris and Fred
erick Roosevelt ScoveI was solemnizcd
at st. Peters church here Saturday in
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-25
Robbers Got An There Was.

indianapolis, Aug. 25.-At LarweI:,
md. robbers secured SOL worth of
stamps and all the money from tho
postolice Friday night
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-25
COLLISION OFMOTORS
Because Orders Were Disobeyed
Three Die and Others are
Very Seriously Hurt.
sINNING EMPLoYBoNEoFTHE DEAD
Four Meet Death in a Railway
Wreck and a Boiler EX-
plosion Adds Another,

Norfolk, Va, Aug. 5.-In a head-on
collision between two cars on the Bay
Shore Terminal line late yesterday
afternoon three persons were killed
and many others badly injured. The
dead are: w. S. Yandall and C. Il.
Golden, motOrmen; Linwood FentresS,
aged 10. The seriously injured: Il. p.
Waller (brother of Major L. w. T..
Waller). r. j. Davis. George Stephen
son, Mrs. J. 2. Stephenson, Joseph
White (conductor), NJ. V. Ahearn, Ben
jamin Rowson, Miss Lillian Land,
John Taylor and Maria Fentress (col-
ored), Miss Ruth Banks, Phoebe Fred
erick (colored), Corliss Nephew of
Major Waller), Mrs. Victor Parks and
Louis Parks. The last three are very
seriously hurt
Failure to Obey Orders.
The accident occurred 400 yards be-
yond Futa's Siding, near Norfolk. One
car was coming from Ocean View and
the other going to the View. The or
ders We're that the southbound car
should wait at the siding for the other.
MotOrman w. 5. Handan failed to
obey the orders and the crash came
400 yards beyond the siding. Yandall
endeavored TO jump, but was crushed
in the teleScoped cars and died hang
ing by his right leg. MOtorman c. ID.
Golden, of the other car, and Linwood
FentreSs, the 10-yearOld son of Il. T..
Fentress, president of the Norfolk Cold
Storage and Ice company, were caught
under the platform of the shorebound,
which piled up on the other, and were
killed outright
Head Nearly Torn on.
Colden's head was almost torn from
his body, and both legs were cut OFF.
Th FentreSS boy was crushed to death
Both cars were full of Sunday eXcuT-
sionists, and few escaped uninjured.
y large number of the hurt We're
taken to the city in private convey
anceS. Il. Z. Waller, brother of
Major L. W. T. Waller, sustained Sc
rious injuries. NJ. V. Ahern was
wedged between two seats and injured
internally. Benjamin RowSOn, man
aging editor of The Humorist, also
sustained serious injuries.
-Four Known to BE Dead.
Princeton, Ind, Ang. "a disas-
trous wreck occurred ut Georgetown,
Ind, on the Southern railway. eight
miles west of New Albany, at 40 yes
terday morning. The dead are: Ed
ward DuVal, of Louisville; Fireman
man Renso Ross, of Midtown, Ind.
Enigneer Harry Goodale and Brake
man G. L. Meyer, of Princeton. Ind,
We're hurt, not seriously. Brakeman
Osborne, of Princeton, Ind, / smissing.
Killed by Locomotive Boiler Explosion.
Mexico, Mo-. Aug. 25.-One man was
killed, three fatally injured and one
seriously hurt at midnight Saturday
by the explosion of the boiler of the
big mogul engine drawing the first
section of Il Chicago and Alton train,
eleven miles east of this city. Harry
c.. Markwell, brakeman, Slater. Mo-.
is the dead man. The fatally injured
are NJ. l.. Stevenson, fireman, and L.
c. Shatlenberg, Slater, Mo-; J. T. Nc
Mahan. Springfield, Mo. Seriously in
jured, NJ. o. Page. Slater, Mo. All of
the men were riding on the engine
when the accident occurred.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-10
4DMITTED.

Teacher-What is the force that
 moves men along the street? Tommie-The police force.-Town and Country.
 Thought So Herself-"And she didn't
 get mad when her husband called her a
 fool?"
 "No. She married him, you know
 Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Muggsey - How did Chuggsey cut
 Nouse out wit de gal? Dubbsey-He lied; dat's what! He
 told her he was one O de Pierpont Nor gan gang.-Chicago Daily News MT. Weighbigg-Doctor, your anti-fat remedies are doing me a great deal Of
 good. I'm losing flesh right along But
 seems to me, your charges are ruinously high.
 Doctor (calmly)-That's part of the treatment.-NewY York Weekly.
 Summer hotel proprietor (proudly)- Nearly all of my walters are college men who are working their way through college.
 Guest-Well. judging by the way they work your guests. they'll all be gradu- ated with honors.-Brooklyn Life.
 Do you take this woman for better or for worse" began the clergyman, but before he could proceed further he was interrupted.
 Its too early to tell yet" answered
 the groom; you'll have to give me a few weeks time, sir"--Ohio State Jour nal Lady-You say you were soldier and hero in the late war? Tramp-Yesm Lady-How can you prove your brav- cry? Tramp-Give me match and I will light your gasoline stove for you.-De- troit Free Press. man had been absent for some time
 and during his absence had raised a pretty luxuriant crop of whiskers, mus tache. etc. On returning home he visit ed relative, whose little girl he was very fond of. ., The little girl made no demonstration toward saluting him with a kiss, as was usual Why, child" said the mother, don't you give Uncle Will kiss?" Why, ma" returned the little girl with the most perfect simplicity. T don't see any place Washington Times.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-10
COMMONWEALTH OF BEES.

"The people who raise bees for com mercial purposes seldom study the nat ural history of the insect and usually fail to learn the internal mechanism of the most nearly perfect commonwealth which exists" was the remark of T. W. Cowan. of London, yesterday, at the RainierGrand Hotel. MT Cowan is one of the foremost natural history students in the world, making a. spe- cialty of the bee family, though he de- votes much attention to other forms of insect life. He Is the author of text books in use in the colleges and univer- sities of America and England, and of books of research. He is a member of several natural history societies on both sides of the Atlantic. For several months MT. Cowan has been studying the insects of California, as there the temperate and the tropic zone overlap each other. and many specimens pe- culiar to each may be found. He is now on his way to the Canadian Rockies to collect still other specimens. When asked to amplify his first expression, he said:
 "A colony of bees is the study almost of a lifetime in all it's intricacies. Un- doubtedly there is no other insect in the world as valuable to man, as the bee carries fertilizing pollen among the blossoms of the fruit tree to twenty times the amount of any other agent, besides supplying the markets of the world with the honey which in all times has been regarded as delicacy. The home life of the bee is one of the most perfect regulation. They are clean in their habits and enforce a rigid system of discipline. Their industry is pro- verbal.
 "An ordinary colony is composed of from 90, GOO to 50,000 bees. At the head of the colony is the queen. Her early life is a great care to her workers, as she is carefully fed and tended. Her growth is complete in about seventeen days. In the hive are the several hum dred drones or male bees, with one of which she mates. She lays the eggs which replenish the colony. several thousand each day, At the end of the season the useless drones are killed by the workers, and their bodies are car ried from the hive. It is sometimes said of the hive, but this is not so. The gov ernment is carried on entirely by the working bees.
 Another common mistake is the be- lief that the bees extract honey from the flowers. That which is taken from the blossoms is converted into honew by the bee. First it is nothing more than cane-sugar. The bee makes honey and gives it the aroma which distinguishes the real article from the imitation. The material for the honey is gathered by the workers. These are of neuter-gend- CT, but really are the undeveloped fe- malas> The life of these is about six
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-10
THAT REACTION.

That reaction which the Democrats were looking for in Maine didn't appear, The latest returns indicate that the Re- publican plurality there is about 27,0OO, which is more than most Republicans expected. A plurality of 15OOO would have been enough, if more couldn't have been had. but there is nearly twice that. The chairman of the Republican State committee in his enthusiasm tel egraphed to the President that Maine has gone Republican as it once went for Governor Kent" There is more poetry than truth in this infelicitous state- ment Maine. it will be remembered, went hell-bent for Governor Kent. She hasn't gone that way for Republican principles and candidates.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-10
STR ENKQEG.

Life is still pretty strenuous in some parts of the West There is and has been an irrepressible conflict between the sheepfnen and the cattlemen for possession of the grazing right on the great public domain, Little is heard in this part of the country about the struggle, but what has been and is go- ing on is indicated by statement in the San Francisco Call of what took place
 in single month in Oregon and Wyo- ming. On June 30, the settlers in the north end of Grant county, Oregon, armed with Winchesters, surrounded all the large herds of sheep on the range and killed them all. In Bear valley, in range sheep and killed the teams and pack horses of the herders and shot all Near Black canyon, in the same State, masked horsemen held up the herders dllu hlIlSu dll L1lSiL 6tlGCps A H6WS uiS- patch from Pendleton says that, in ad- dition to these larger exploits, shooting affrays between the stockmen are of daily occurrence. in the strife for occu- pancy of the public range, which be- longs to one as much as the other At Lander, Wyoming, on July 24, band of 150 armed men, masked and mounted, killed the herders of several thousand sheep and slaughtered the animals. In addition to the several thousand sheep slaughtered, 65,000 were left without herders or dogs, and scattered off the range into barren mountains, where they soon starved to death or were de- stroyed by wild animals. July 2S sever- al thousand sheep were slaughtered by riflemen on the range south of Pendle- ton. The attacking party appeared in the evening and, after driving the herd- CTS off, killed the herds. On the same day at Grand Junction, Colorado, twelve masked men attacked valuable herd of Angora goats and killed 5000 of them. The owner, Mrs. Irving, had 600 more on another part of the range, and the next day was notified that they would also be killed if they were not removed from the Pion mesa. On August 2, a Mexican sheepherder at Grenada, Colorado, was murdered, his body mutilated and his sheep killed.
 It is estimated that within the past ten years 600,OOO sheep have been wan tonly killed by the cattlemen, at loss of $2,4O0,000 to the sheepmen. Moreover, the loss of human life has been appall- ing. A Colorado authority, with a fancy for such things, has figured that the man killings which have accompan
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-10

weeks during the summer. They gain their maturity in twenty-one days. They travel to and from the flowers at about the rate of sixty miles an hour and make from thirty to forty trips during a single hour. When it is re- membered that there are many thou sand bees constantly at work it will be seen what an infinitesimal quantity is carried by each bee each trip. The bees knowledge of direction is remarkable. No time is lost in returning again to ths flower upon which it has been work ing, though the distance may be three miles and the flower may be one in great field.
 ''The service which bees render to or chardists is extremely great. I have known orchards which were entirely barren previous to the introduction of few colonies of bees. The body of the bee is covered with hair, and the pollen dust adheres to its feet and body. When it reaches another flower some of the fetriIizing material is left and en- riches the blossom. Wild bees are val uable to render this service, but the domestic colonies are better. To the anatomy of the bee have given much study. I chose this insect as @ subject for study because of it's commercial im- portance. though have devoted my time exclusively to the natural history phase"
 MT Cowan says that in these days of profound learning among scientists of all branches it is necessary 10 be spa- cialist. No man can know all about ev- erything. and lifetime is all too short to master the details of the life and habits of one insect. MT. Cowan has given the whole of a long life to re- search along a restricted line of natural history. In California, on this trip he classified forty new varieties of bees, and added them to one of the largest collections in existence.-Seattle Post Intelligeneer.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-10
4 CHEERFUL SALVATION.

There is cheerfulness in the Treasury department over the condition of the national finances. Following the cut ting off of the war taxes and the heavy expenses that always accompany the opening of new fiscal year, the month of July ended with the receipts $7,700,- 900 short of the expenditures for that month. This deficit ran up to $1O, ,25O, 900 by August 16 and gave some concern to the treasury officials. It was about that time that Secretary Shaw wrote letters to the various national banks of the country, asking them to prepare to take out additional currency for the purpose of relieving the money situation at crop moving time. With deficit of over $10,000,000 for six weeks of the fiscal year and no promise of improvement. Secretary Shaw realized that the treasury would not be in a position to extend relief in the shape of additional loans, should there be sudden emer- gency. Since the 18th of August, how ever, conditions have improved at the treasury, the deficit having dropped to about million.
 It is expected that there will soon be comfortable surplus. Verify this is a nnp,fort q I,ta oouptrv borriro 4Ia u,, comfortable things.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-10
Teaching n Country school.

It's uD at dawn in the morning With breakfast at half past five, Of pork. potatoes and coffee It's eat to kee9 alive. It's walking to school through grasses The poet calls dew-impearled. But poetry loses It's magic,
 In the dew and the damp and the cold It's hearing the reading classes, It's setting copies to write, It's keeping watch at recesses And stopping the boys who fight It's patiently hearing forever "A cat and The fat red hen; It's showing Jack to make figures And Susie to hold her pen. It's trying to see in their scrawlings 4 promise of future success, A teaching and training and drilling And leaving with God the rest. It's going home at sunset,
 Ofttimes with a heavy heart With the tear of some und0ne dutys Of not having done your part. It's 2 round of weary duties, Of lying awake at night, Thinking of plans without number And trying to tell which is rigbts It's closing your eyes in slumber With thought of the day that is done, Feeling you've tried to do something For some of Gods little ones
 Troy Northern Budget.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-10
PREpEcEssoR TO THE TENTMAN.

PREDECESSOR TO THE TENTMAN. A predecessor to the tentman, who lived through the greater part of raw. winter on a vacant lot in Huntington avenue and experimented at curing consumption. lived and died, it has been recalled. in the Middlesex Fells at Win chester. Mass. This man, however, was himself afflicted with tuberculosis, and sought only his own recovery. Relics of his habitation may still be seen on the sunny west shore of the southernmost of Winchester's beautiful chain of reservoirs, and near the dam. only a fewrods east of the carriage road. There are hogshead, burned in the ground and covered with an iron trap, and signs of long, -disused fireplace, with a rusty iron kettle near it. Few people. on seeing the place. would imagine that the hogshead was a house; that not many years ago a man lived there, like Diogenes in tub. .-.n
 This hermit came there before the big dam was built, when only a rocky stream flowed at the foot of his hillside, now the bottom of lake. He lived there for nearly year, trying to fight off his disease by life of exposure, and then died. On warm nights he slept in hammock between two trees; but on cold nights he isalleged to have talk en to his barrel. covered by trap with airholes like a rabbit or game-cock go- ing for a railroad journey. It is even now a cause of debate in Winchester how any man-even a hermit-could manage to obtain aenight's rest in the somewhat cramped confines of hogs head. ii
 Der is not far from the south dam, on the west shore of the lake-Boston Transcript.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-10
AN EXCLAMArORY EMPEROR.

The report comes from Berlin that Emperor William exclaimed "Electric cars are the enemies of humanity" when he was talking with the visiting United States generals about the acci- dent to President Roosevelt.
 If Emperor William thus exclaimed he exclaimed wrong. Electric cars are not the enemies of humanity. They are among humanity's best friends. They help humanity to get about, to do busi- ness, to have pleasure and to keep and get health. Few of the friends of hu- manity are more useful to it than the electric cars. Some of those who run the cars may possibly not be very friendly to humanity, but their per- formances don't justify Emperor Will liam's curious and careless exclamation. If he is in the habit of talking like that he needs an assistant to go around with him and act as a discourager of exclamatlons.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-10
ANNUTTLES

Prof. c. S. Grimes of Evanston, Ill.,, now o4 years of age, carried policy of s5,ooo for many years and when he reached theadVanced age of 7ohe despaired Of its ever becoming a claim, so he compromised with the company on the basis of an annuity of S4Ioper year for the rest of his life. During the past 24 years he has received his annual payments with regular ity and great equanimity of mind and, having already drawn So,84o, he has come to the conclusion that he has found the elixir of life in au Annuity,
 At age 70, S1,ooo deposited in The Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York will yield aE annuity of S134.77 for life.
 This great corporation is the most wealthy moneyed institution in the world and more than BIO, 900, GOO in claims has been paid Tn this state through the under signed.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-10
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