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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-06
MISHAPS
FROM FOOTBALL
in Nature at
That.

Sioux City. Ia. Oct. G.-OrviIlle Tay-
lor, left half on the Sioux City High
School team, was seriously and possi-
bly, fatally injured in foot ball game
here between the Sioux City and On
ava High School teams. Taylor play
ed hard game and was repeatedly
bruised.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-06
CRUELTYTO CONV|CTS
Chester Penitentiary Inmates Are
Flogged and Half
Starved.
DRIVEN TO VERGE OF INSANITY
When Plea for Mercy is Disregarded
Two of Them MutiIate
Themselves.

Chester, ILL.,, Oct. 6.-Systematic
cruelty. sufficient in some cases to
cause insanity, according to revela-
tions made by two of the prisoners
and by r. j. Wilson, who was former
ly keeper over a chain gang. is
practiced at the southern Illinois
penitentiary. Wilson resigned his
place rather than carry out the or
ders of his superiors for infiicting
punishment on refractory convicts.
j. Mack Tanner is warden of the PEN
itentiary. He also has charge of the
penitentiary for insane criminals.
Both institutions are situated in this
city. The warden and the other off
cials in authority at the southern IL
linois penitentiary make every effort.
it is alleged, to prevent reports of
cruelty from getting outside the pris-
on walls
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-06
Program of Entertainment.

The days program includes
an automobile parade. re-
gatta on the Potomac in the
direction of Camp Roosevelt. a mon
ster campfire at the convention hall,
and a grand display OF fireworks to-
night.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-06
PROMINENT CHINAMAN
PASSES FROM EARTH

Shanghai, Oct. 6.-Liun Kun Vi. the
famous viceroy of Marking. died to-
day. He was one of the most enlight-
ened men of China.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-06

Hagerstown, Nd, Oct. 6-Benjamin
Thompson. % years old, of Martins
burg, w. v, was fatally injured in
foot ball contest Saturday. In a scrim-
mage Thompson's skull was fractured.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-06
oxford to Honor white.

has been officially notified that oxford
will confer ON him the degree of doc
tor OF civil law during the celebration
of the Hodlean library Tercentenary.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-06
IRRIGATION CONGRESS MEETS
AT COLORADO SPRINGS

Colorado Springs, Col. Oct. 6.-The
10th national irrigation congress
opened this afternoon under auspic-
ious circumstances President Roose-
welt sent a message of congratula-
tion and cordial sympathy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-06
JUDGE ELI TORRANCE.
National Commander. C. A. R.

was greeted with beautiful weather.
Visitors are pouring into the city by
every train and everything points to
successful reunion. The city with
its lavish decorations never looked
more attractive than today.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-06
BritI.h sbinbuiIdi,r Languishes.

London, Oct G. Slackness in the
shipbuilding trade has resulted in the
closing of the plate department OF the
South Durham Iron works, which has
thrown 1000 men out of work.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-06

Des Moines, Ia, Oct. 6.-Glenn Hun
ter, aged 12 years, was injured prob
ably fatally in foot ball game be-
tween school teams.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-06
Convicted of .Homicide in Jail.

Burlington, Ia, Oct 6.-The jury in
the Hendershott murder case rendered
a verdict of manslaughter. Hender-
shott killed DIR. Trent in the county.
jail, where both were prisoners.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-06
Death of Mt. Gear

Burlington, Ia. Oct. 6.-Mrs. Gear.
widow of the late United States Sen
ator Gear, died Saturday night, aged
"a years.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-06
Starved and FIogEed.

Shy" Daniels, a negro, furnished a
striking example of the KIND of dis
cipline in vogue at the southern Illi-
nois penitentiary. Daniels has been
confined six years. When he first en-
tered the prison he was magnificent
specimen of manhood. Now he is a
nervous physical wreck. He was pos
sessed of an untamable spirit when
incarcerated and frequently came in
conflict with the rules of the bastiIe.
Numerous confinements in the
'black" cell on bread and water
diet and severe floggings and Other
punishments have reduced him to
state of chronic fear and made him a
model prisoner"
So fearful is the strain on the pris-
oners confined in the black cells that
the prison physicians are forced to
visit them two and three times a day
to detect the first signs of insanity,
which frequently results from this
mode of punishment.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-06
Washington in Gala At
tire for National G. A.
R. Encampment.
THE OPENING DAY
Boys in Blue to Be Hon
ored as Never Before
in a Reunion.

Washington. ID. c.. Oct. 6.-The
opening day of the 36th encampment
of the Grand Army of the Republic
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-06
Endorsement for the President.

Milwaukee, Oct. 6.-The Wisconsin
delegation to the national house of rep
resentatives, through its secretary ].
II. Davidson. has wired President
Roosevelt indorsing his action in the
coal strike and pledging support in any
course he may pursue in settlement of
the difficulties.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-06

provision for the appointment or
temporary receiver for the ''struck."
Senator Mason is managing the mat
ter.
Boston. Oct. 6.-SenatOr Henry Ca
bot Lodge took the opportunity at
meeting of the Essex club to indorSe
the presidents conference. He added
that he did not think it wise to criticise
the attitude taken by "some" of the
conferrees, after which he criticised
the position of the coal companies. and
drew a lesson from the situation APP
proving the presidents stand on the
trust question.
Toledo, o., Oct. Ga large meeting
was held to discuss the coal strike.
Father O'Counell, one of the speakers,
declared that he was not ready to dis
pute the statement of President Baer
that he had been divinely appointed
to run the mines. but he was prepared
to say that if he was given this right
divinely there were certain conditions
included which he has certainly for
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-06
Keeper Wilson'S Protest.

Keeper Wilson. however. viewed the
matter in different light. He was
guard over the gang in which Rear
don and Rose worked. Already an
gered by the cruelty he saw practic-
ed about him. but which he was pow
erless to prevent, he resigned when
he saw Reardon and Rose forced to
undergo severe punishment. lie
thought men who would voluntarily
sacrifice the use of right hand for
life were entitled to have their pro-
tests against hard work heard. In
stead of hearing the men were pun
ished.
Many narrowing stories are told of
the cruelties practiced on prisoners
in the Chester prison. 1t is averred
that many prisoners have been tor
tured TO the verge of insanity by in
human guards and keepers. On this
point Wilson adds his testimony to
that of dozens of convicts
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-06
MutiIate Themselves In Despair.

L ne meInOuS IN vogue AT the prison
were brought forcibly to notice when
the fact escaped that j. Reardon and
q. Rose, convictS, had cut off their
fingers in order to avoid work in the
chain gang. Investigation of this
fact reveals that the convicts were
given work to do of which they de
clare they were physically incapable
In order to escape punishment for
refusing to do the work they cut off
all the fingers on their right hands.
Reardon and Rose were employed in
the foundry. Both are weak and af-
tiicted with chronic ailments which
threaten to end their Imprisonment
before their terms expire. The work
they were compelled to do taxed their
endurance To the utmost and when
they went to the cells at night they
We're too exhausted to eat or rest.
After suffering for months the two
men decided on the desperate eNpedi-
ent of cutting off their fingers. They
procured a rusty hatchet and accom-
plished the terrible mutilation before
they were discovered. They were
given surgical attention by the pris-
ON physician and Immediately after
ward were compelled to stand ON a
block in the prison yard the remain
der of the day.
Deputy Warden Dowell. when asked
by reporter if that was not a terri
bly, severe punishment to infiict on
men i'm their condition-weak from
the loss of blood and suffering eN-
pain-replied: No; that
is the punishment usually allotted to
unruly prisoners"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-06

Washington, ID. c.. Oct 6.-Commis-
siOner of immigration Sargent left
Washington this afternoon. Ii is be-
lieved he will meet Mitchell in Phila-
delphia and lay before him the pres
ident's hopes that the miners may
see their way clear to end the strike.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-06

Wilkesbarre, Oct. 6.-It is rumored
President Mitchell went to Philadel-
phia to meet Senators Quay and Pen
rose, who are representing the pres
ident in an effort to end the strike.
1T is stated Mitchell will return here
tonight,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-06

Wilkesbarre. Pa, Oct. G.-President
Mitchell left here early today, pre-
sumably for Philadelphia. The OBJ
ject of his visit cannot be learned at
headquarters, as the utmost secrecy
is maintained. 1t is possible he has
gone to New York or Washington.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-06

Birmingham, Ala, Oct. 6.-Nine
hundred more miners of the Tennes-
see Coal company struck today, be-
cause the company refused to hold
out assessments for the benefit of the
anthracite strikers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-06

New York, Oct. 6.-Mayor Low to-
day declined to appoint delegates to
the coal strike conference at Detroit
because of the failure of President
Roosevelt's efforts at mediation and
the vagueness of the conference 5
program.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-06

New Castle, England, Oct. Cone
hundred thousand tons of coal were
sold today for America.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-11-20
4Firstlcase of Small Pox.3

The first case of small pox has
made its appearance in Lake
Charles. This morning a colored
woman nam ed Lizzie Lowe was
foundon bne ferry wharf, whittier
she had gone with herlinfant ar d
a smalbgalise in an effortit to cross
to Westlake.3a The captain Of the
ferry boat refused her passage
and word was immediately con
veyed to DIR. G. L. Richardson,
president of the city board OF
health, the new board not yet, be
ing commissioned. DIR. Richard
son took hold of the case vigor-
ously.-L. @. Press. --i-''' 4.
COD
The Jennings daily record., 1902-11-20
One Minute Cough Cure

Is the only harmless cough cure
that gives quick relief. Cures
coughs, colds, Group, bronchitis,
whooping cough, Pneumonia,
asthma, LaGrippe and all throat,
chest and lung troubles. l got
soaked by rein, say Gertrude E.
Fenner, Muucie, Ind, and CON
tracted a severe congh and cold.
1 failed rapidly; lost 48 lbs. My
druggist recommended One Min.
ute Cough Cure. The first bottle
brougt relief; several cured me.
am back to my old weights 14e
lbs. One Minute Cough Cure
cuts the phlegm, relieves the
cough at once, draws out the In.
| Illumination, cures Group. Al
ideal remedy for children.
Gauthier Bros, Owl Drug Store
The Jennings daily record., 1902-11-20

Ask your grocer for s'Dnu-
woody,s Best" -four. 1t has no
eqnal,
The Jennings daily record., 1902-11-20
Excursion Rates.

3 hOn account international Live
Stock Exposition at Chicago, Ill. /,
Nov, % to Dec. 6, the g. F.. Co.
will make rate Of one fare plus
50 for the round trip. Date OF
sale Nov. %, 293and 30 final re-
turn limit Dec. IS. Al fee of I25c
will be charged for validating
tickets al Chicago.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-11-20
EIocutiou and Physical cufture.

Mrs. Carrie p. M yers of the
New York School of Expression
Will give lessons in all branches
of Elocution and Physical Cul.
ture. Inquire at residence of
G.. w. Patterson, corner State
and Second streets. Phone No.
1853. n8 A tt
The Jennings daily record., 1902-11-20
Bakery Moved

'il' I have moved my bakery from
the McF'arlain building to the
iBlaclzshere building at the rea1
of the new meat market on Acad
emy avenue. I will be pleased
to have all my. old custom ers call
Remember l deliver rree to any
part Of the city. l2S'ss'
aa1se 2iaJosEPIi BOLL1CH.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-11-20
Lost.

Pocket book containing forty
d ,llars in currency, note for
$3.50 payable to G. H. Butler, and
other papers. Liberal reward
for it's recovery. Leave at Rec
ord Office. l 264 5
The Jennings daily record., 1902-11-20

Mr.. >. C. Perkins. Of the Elk
River Nurseries Company, has
his trees and shrubbery at Cook 5
Livery Barn. All persons hay
ing ordered trees, will please call
and get same. = y M
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-12
WHERE COUGARS ARE A NUI-
 SANCF


 A party of tinlber-land dealers just in from the mountains some twenty miles out from Gate City report that cougars are very numerous in that section. The woods are literally full of them, and they are frequently seen during the day, and also the blood-stained snow in many places shows where they have killed deer. But the worst feature of the brutes is their abit, common to the feline races, of caterwauling at night A pair of these animals growing and fighting in the back yard of ones camp all night is no joke. The party was composed of eight men, all accustomed to life in the woods, but, they say, were never so badly frightened before in all their woodland experience as they were during their last trip. Their hair stood erect and the blood congealed as the murderous cougars fit and fit and scratched and bit and struggled in the mud, till all the ground for miles around was covered with their blood Deer are becoming plentiful in the mountains again, and the cougar is living high and feeling good-Morning Oregonian.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-12
OBITUARY NOTES.
AIvina smith Fenn.

Alvenia Smith, widow of Heman White Smith, entered into rest early Monday morning at her home, 246 Kim berly avenue Mrs. Fenn was a suf- ferer for about fifteen months from an incurable disease. During all this dis tressing period Mrs. Fenn was most tenderly cared for by her two surVlVlnS sisters the Misses Alphonsa and Mari- on Smith the former a twin sister ot Mrs. Fem, has scarcely left her bedside for many weeks. A brother, Alonzo Beach Smith of La Crosse, Wis, also survives her Mrs. Tenn was the daugh-
 ter of the late Hiram and Susan Beach Smith Mrs. Fenn's husband died III 1883 and was the son of Eliakim Fenn' formerly of Orange, Conn.
 Mrs. Fenn was a most estimaole Wo' man, of quiet tastes and retiring dis position, but much beloved by the inner circle privileged to know her worth, her crowning virtue being love of home and devotion to it's interests. keen sym pathy is felt for the devoted sisters ana absent brother, who are commended to
 the Father of Mercies, who has prom ised never to leave His children com fortless.
 The funeral services will be held at the undertaking parlors of Robert N' Burwell on Chapel street, near Temple,
 this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Rev. Calvin Ford of Bridgeport, Conn., will officiate. The interment will be ill Mill ford Conn
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-12

William Mecorney, founder of the firm of William Mecorney & Son, GUS tom shirt manufacturers and one of the oldest and most respected business men of Worcester, Mass, died yesterday aged eighty-tWo years. He was born in Middletown, this state. He was an active worker in the temperance cause.
 Rev. Father McKeon, John F. Corco- ran, J. H. Chapdelaine, W. J. Blake, John D. Coyle. Nj. J. Daly, J. P Keat- ing. Robert J. Early of New Haven were among the many priests present at the funeral of Rev Father Harty in New Britain yesterday.
 John Carlson arrived at his home in Ansonia from Florida Saturday even ing, but it was a cheerless home to come to, for Mrs. Carlson, his wife, was dead and buried, while his son had come to New Haven to remain with friends. Learning where his son was stopping he at once took the first train for this city. He will return to his Flor ida home.
 County Health Officer Hoadley at tended meeting of the Ansonia health board last evening.
 Edgar l.. Brooks returned to Ansonia yesterday morning from the bedside Of his father in the New Haven hospital. When he left MT Brooks was still liv- ing, but was so low that he could scarcely be raised to consciousness. The physicians say it Is possible life may vet be sustained for twenty-four or for weight hours
 To-day is the anniversary of the great blizzard of 1888.
 Pensions were issued Monday as fol- lows: Original. to. Henry Lewis of Hart ford, $6 per month to Charles F. Heath of Bridgeport, s6 per month; to Oliver I Futile of New Hartford SIP per month, and to Frederick M. Sizer of Middletown. SC per month, Increase to Matthew Colgan of Sandy Hook, $1o per month. Original widows, to Jane E. Oliver of Bridgeport, $S per month.
 After five hours of struggling before the Bridgeport common council, the ap- plication of the American Tube and Stamping company and the Connecticut Railway and Lighting company, equip ping and maintaining a single track trolley line in Crescent and SeaVieW avenues, was granted at 1:20 o'clock yesterday morning.
 At the trial of the men for killing the deer in the court of common pleas yes terday we noticed J. Hart Green of Lyme. one of the state game commis- sion, and F. Knight Sperry, president of the game association for this county, who were much interested in the out come of this very interesting case.
 Guy Hubbard, one of the dramatic stars at Polls theater this week, is former New Haven boy. He is the son of William Hubbard, who conducted newspa per agency here some years ago, who was prominent resident of West Haven, and afterwards removed to New York. His son always had taste for dramatics, and appeared in many society plays in New York. Mir Hub bard was graduate of the Brooklyn Polytechnic and was for, some time a bOokkeeper in New York.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-12
GERMAN SYMPATHY FOR ENG
 LAND.

An Expression Remarkable for it's
 Friendiness by Baron von Richthofen
 in the Prussian Diet.
 Berlin. March 11.-Tn the Prussan Diet day the foreign secretary, Bar on von Richthofen, after reading the answer of the Bytish government per- hitting the delivery of German charita- ble gifts to the Boers in the South Afri can concentration camps under the sur veillance of the camp authorities, de- clared that the reply guaranteed just distribution and added:
 '"rhe English and German nations are connected by ties of blood, race and friendship. They are cousins, who may again find themselves side by side Gen. eral Methuen deserves our complete sympathy As the military attache to the British embassy in Berlin he enjoy ed the esteem of Emperors William and Frederick"
 The sacrifices that Great Britain had made in blood and treasure. said the foreign secretary, made it only human ly natural that her susceptibilities should grow more acute. Every harsh word was doubly felt by her. Every friendly address was accepted with double gratitude If the members of the diet wished to secure the co-opera- tion of the British in helping the Boers they must abstain from provoking Great Britain's susceptibility. There was need of a. somewhat more just mode of criticism, of a somewhat more equitable adjustment of light and shade He added:
 aI ins' kin to England we shall be able tha more effectively to help our comnon cousins in South Africa. Let us not al- ways assume that everything done by the English is wrong and bad, I may quote an example have read descrip- ttOns of the prisoners camps which made my hair stand on end. A few days ago Genera von Trotha, who from his own experience was in a position to report on the matter, was al my house He said to me: T consider it my duty, and authorize you to use my name, to declare that I found the prisoners camps in Ceylon to be perfect models The former German officers in the camps had only a single complaint that there was not sufficient variety of food
 ''In my opinion the dignity of the na- ton would not have suffered derogation if it had displayed some human sympa- thy as, for instance, yesterday, when the news came of the severe wounding of General Methuen. With proper con- sideration for national feeling it will be possible to make further progress in the direction desired by the Boer relief committee"
 The foreign secretary concluded with saying that no ObseGuousness was needed on the part of Germany whose policy was conducted with the object of pleasing the German people and no one else. But, he believed that the lines he had laid down might be fol- lowed without any relnquishment of German views in regard to the war it. self
 Let us do what we can in the way of services to humanity" said the sec retary ''and then, perhaps, we can go further Perhaps we shall be able, without drawing upon ourselves a sharp rebuff, to address ourselves as cousins to our cousins on the other side of the channel and speak a good word for our mutual cousins, the Boers."
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-12
MRS. sARAH l.. PAYNE.

Mrs. Sarah l.. Payne died Sunday eV- ening at the home of her daugher, Mrs Harriet Champlin in Colchester. Mrs Payne was well known in this clty, having for a number of years resided W ith her son, Edwin D. Payne, an en- gineer on the Consolidated road, Be- sides Mrs. Champlin and MT. Payne she leaves to mourn her loss two other chl- dren, Mrs. F. N King of Mantle and F. c. Payne of New London, former superintendent of the Northampton dl- vision, and four grandchildren, Mrs Ella N. Bennett and Mrs Walter Com
 stock of this city, Horace A. King or Westville and Mrs. Harry Sherwood or Bridgeport The funeral will be held in New London Wednesday afternoon
 after the arrival of the 12:3O D. m traln'
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-12
THE MEMS CLUB

At the City Mission Hall This Even-
 ing.
 The Berkeley Mems club meets at o'clock this evening at the City Mission hall corner of Court and State streets. J. c. Kimball, Yale 1902, will be the en- tertainer for the social hour" Mir. Kimball is member of the University Banjo club and will sing college songs with instrumental accompaniment Members and their friends, and all oth- CTS interested In the club, are invited to attend. Seats are free.