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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-07
NEWS IN OUTLINE

The ear and czarina have arrived
at st. Petersburg. Her majesty has
completely recovered her health.
Representative Badger. of Ohio. has
introduced Il bill repeating the duty on
hides.
The Austrian cotton manufa cturers
are seriously affected by the advance
in the United States cotton market.
NJ PIeske. the Russian acting min
lister of finance. who was recently
granted long leave of absence. is
seriously ill.
The high price of cotton threatens
to close most of the cotton mills in
this country.
The rise in the Tiber river has flood
ed the country so near Rome that it
is now impossible to get two miles
out of the city.
William Jennings Bryan has ar
rived at Paris.
Orders to resume work in a num-
Der of iron and steel plants which have
been idle for some time at Youngs-
town, o.. have been received.
a terrific snow storm and a dense
number of shipping casualties have oc-
CURED.
John Slaughter. the oldest Wyoming
pioneer, is dead at Cheyenne. aged "a.
Mrs. Matilda Dodd, of Jefferson, Ia,
has given Drake university $4,000,
and Mrs. Skinner, of Spencer, Ia, gave
$4,000.
Samuel Shade, contractor. dropped
dead in a buffet at Hammond, Ind.
while calling for drink of whisky.
The sheriff has attached Carrie Ma
toms show at York. Pa
Philadelphia has its worst smallpox
epidemic i'll forty years.
Godfrey Mcneil, Is years old, was
murdered at Butte, Mont, by Antoine
Contario, another boy, as the result of
a quarrel over a trivial matter
Official reports from st. Paul, Mimi,
show a decrease of 100000 tons in
the November shipments of the iron
range.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-07
why the Country Grows.

Congressman John Sharp Williams,
the minority leader in the house,
talked right out in school the other
day when replying to Gen. GrosvenOr,
of Ohio. who. while crediting all
things good to the republican tariff
legislation. credited ii with the great
growth in our foreign trade. Said
Mr. Williams:
Under all sorts of administration
and under all sorts of tariff laws the
foreign trade of this country has gone
forward. growing by leaps and bounds.
pari passu with the growth of the
country. This country, at the period
he was speaking of as being at one
end of his comparison. had some three
millions of population, at another
period 10 millions of population. and
at another period 20 millions.
The other end of his comparison
is the present.
1T has s. million souls now. 1t has
four times the amount of territory
that it had at the beginning. 1t had,
let us say. about three million work
ers in the field of industry in the 40s.
1t has now 20. yet the gentlemen want
to claim great republican credit because
our foreign commerce has grown.
Would it not have been remarka BILE
if it had not grown? Let me tell you
something, gentlemen, in all honesty.
There are 38j politicians in this end
of the capitol and there are 90 at the
other wing. and if every one of them
were to die tomorrow, and not an
other senate or house were to be
elected for 20 years, and the laws
were to be left just as they are, or if
they were left as they would be after
the democrats had come into power
and changed them, this great country
would go on prospecting. To show
hoy prosperity comes anyhow. we
have prosperity in both home and
foreign trade in spite of a large meas
ure of republican hindrance.
1T would go on prospecting because
of the magnificently extensive area in
which there is absolutely free, unre-
stricted and untrammeled trade. The
world has never seen anything like
it. 1t would go on prospecting be-
cause it is a country of cheap land:
and labor and wages are dependent
in the ultimate analysis upon the
price at which land can be bought or
can he rented. Man does not get out
of agriculture-out of primitive and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-07
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and Weekly at 1o24 Sec
ond avenue, Rock Island, Ill. ENTERED at
the postofice as second-class matter.l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-07

BY TEE j. w. POTTER co.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-07

The Galesburg Mail announces the
probable candidacy of Edward J..
King, lawyer of that city, for the
republican nomination for attorney
general. The Mail says that Mr.. King
has lived in Knox county for many
years, has built up a large practice.
and has been prominent in county and
city politics. 1t will be an extremely
frosty morning when the republicans
of Illinois wake up to find that Knox
county is not asking something of the
party.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-07

best condition of man-and into 9th
er business unless he is paid to do it
by greater compensation. If man
can get land cheap. he can defy any
body that wants to tyranize over
him in regard to his wages by going
upon the land and either buying or
renting it or entering it as a home
stead.
1T will continue to be prosperous
for another reason-because we are
the one people of the globe. except
some of our British cousins, in the
colonies, where there is absolutely no
caste, where man knows that al
though ne is working today pegging
shoes, he may next year be governor
or something of that sort, and that
if he is not, his children may be al
most neutrality-suspicious. or pres
idents. Men work with hope and will
continue to work with incentive when
they know that they are not confined
within unleapable walls. So that
may say that it is folly and partisan
ship to stand before the great Ameri-
can people and the world claiming
the benefit of everything growth
ana even the discovery or gold IN
Alaska, and the invention of the eva
hide process of getting more gold out
of a given quantity of ore or getting
it out of intractable ore, and the ben
eft of all the inventions and all the
progress of the world as fruits of
tariff legislation simply because You
have been in power since the Lord
knows how long. Meanwhile we and
the world have been growing. in spite
of YOU
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-07
AssIgnee's Notice.

Notice is hereby given that the I'M
dersigned has been appointed assignee
of the Rock Island Furniture COM
pany. a corporation of the state of
Illinois doing business at the city of
Rock Island, in Rock Island county,
Illinois, and all persons holding any
claim or claims against said company
are hereby notified to present the
same to the undersigned under oath
or affirmation within three months
from this date whether said claims
are due or not. All persons indebted
to said company are requested to
make prompt payment to the under
signed.
Dated Rock Island, H., Oct. 81, \.
D.. 1908.
CENTRAL TRUST & SAVINGS BANK,
Assignee.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-07

would be unODserved, ne walled ana
watched.
At quarter to II a man came down
the street and without looking about
him to see if he was watched was max
ing straight for the rear door when a
hand was laid on his shoulder, and
one in rough peasant garb covered him
with n revolver. His captor led him
to a short distance from the house, put
him into carriage and the two were
driven to the private office of the chief
of police. As soon as they were alone
in the office Scaroff threw off his peas
ants costume and revealed his iden-
tity.
"Valevitch"' he exclaimed.
The other stood mute.
az told my wife tonight that the hor-
ror of my career was never knowing
when we must arrest some one we
know-some one dear to us. Put down
the bomb"
Valevitch. the brother of the princess,
placed the box on Il table. Sergius APP
preached it and put his ear 10 il.
ooh, heavens!' he exclaimed bitterly.
ct is so. hear the click of the clock
work that is TO regulate the explosion
You. Valevitch, to lead your own sister
to the scaffoldr'
Valevitch stood meekly looking at the
prince with a peculiar expression; then
he went TO the box, drew Il sliding
cover and took out clock of antique
workmanship.
"What. the Ivan clock-the clock of
the terrible car which 1 have so long
deslred?"
Yes. Marguerite has intended sur
prise for YOU
Scaroff stood astounded, great re-
lief spreading over his face Then he
took out his watch.
eleven five" he said. eff you hur-
nv you'll not be far behind time. If
you tell Marguerite of this I'll send
YOU to Siberia"
The next morning the prince at break
fast time. on seeing an antique clock on
the mantel. manifested the most de-
monstrative surprise. and when told
that it was present to him from his
wife embraced her with far more ten
derness than the occasion seemed to
require. WESTCOTT ATWELL.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-07

4 Paris paper informed its readers
that M. Mcclellan, the newly elect
ed mayor of New York" is "a son of
the famous confederate general of
that name" Such a arrangement of
history, says the Boston Transcript.
suggests that the spirit of Victor Hugo
is abroad in Paris editorial rooms.
Victor Hugo never fOrgave Gen. Grant
for hanging John Brown, having mix
ed up north and south in his impress
sions of the Harper's Ferry affair.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-07
The Lone star state.

Down in Texas, at Yoakum, is big
dry goods firm. of which j. NJ Halter
is the head. Mr.. Halter, on one of his
trips east to buy goods, said to a
friend who was with him in the pal
ace car: Here, take one of these
Little Early Risers upon retiring and
you will be up early in the morning
feeling good For the dark brown
taste, headache and that logy feeling,
DeWitt's Little Early Risers are the
best pills to use Sold by all drug
gists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-07

Perry :. Heath, the secretary of the
republican national committee, Is
willing to trust the public TO draw
its own conclusions" as to his cOnnec-
ton with the postal frauds. The pub
lie has not waited for his permission
to do So
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-07

Rev. Judson Ellsworth, of Plymouth
Congregational church, Milwaukee, is
advertising every week in the Milwau-
kee papers for a cOngrega ton. He
says he is convinced that this is a
good way to make people attend the
evening service at the church, and he
intends to give the matter a trial
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-07

st. Louis Republic: Maryland con-
gressmen are for the first time eX-
cluded from the District of Columbia
committee. This is an outrage on
sacred tradition. Without an inside
pull on federal spoils half of the old
Maryland families must learn to sup
port their own shiftless sons. Heart
less Cannon,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-07

If Uncle Joe Cannon. with the aid
of the democrats of the house, sue
ceeds in bringing the senate to time,
hurrah for Uncle Joe and his follow
ers. that's all.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-07

TERMS-Daily, 10 cents per week. Weekly,
81 per year IN advance.
All communications of argumentative
character, political or religious, must have
real name attached tor publication. No
such articles will be printed over fictitious
signatures.
Correspondence solicited from every town
ship in Rock Island county.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-07
Monday, December Z. 1908.

Some good will come out of the
Wood investigation. The army Off
GERS will stop writing for the maya
zines
Newport weekly independent., 1903-08-28
Worlds Fair Work.

The state worlds fair board has granted permission to the Iron Mountain railway land department to make composite exhibit at St. Louis in the Arkansas building This exhibit will embrace timber mineral and horticultural and az ricultural products, but will be en- tirely separate from the states ex- hibit. Senator Logan, who has charge of gathering the fruit exhib- it, reports that he is meeting witt hearty cooperation from progress the citizens. Prof. A. H. Perdue and assistants are gathering speci mems for the mineral exhibits, anc report gratifying progress.
Newport weekly independent., 1903-08-28
Aged Woman Suicides.

Mrs. Alice Kellogg, aged 67 years, was found dead by the sex ton in Mount Holly cemetery, Lit tie Rock Near the body was found two bottles, one labeled carbolic acid and the other labeled mor- phine, both of which were empty. An examination showed that the waraan had swallowed carbolic acid, as her lips and throat were badly burned. She had resided in Little Rock a number of years, and was employed at different times as cook for various families. She was of an industrious disposition and well liked. As she had been in i'll health it is supposed her mind became deranged.
Newport weekly independent., 1903-08-28
Arkansas State News
Clark Gets Twenty-one Years.

Joe Clarke, charged with com plicity in the Clarksville bank rob- bery and the murder of Sheriff John Powers, was placed on trial last week and entered a plea of guilty of murder in the second de- gree and received a sentence of twenty-one years in the penitentia- ry. Clarke's real name, as given by Fred Underwood the day before his execution, Is Joe Hamilton. He was one of the five men taking part in the robbery of the Clarksville bank, February, 1902, in which Sheriff Powers was killed Fred Underwood and George Durham were hanged at Clarksville June 19 for the murder. Clarke and Wal lace, with John P. Dunn, who is still at large, were also indicted for the murder, but the evidence against Clarke and Wallace was not suffi- cient to warrant a conviction of murder in the first degree, there fore the reduction of the charge to murder in the second degree to which he pleaded guilty and receiv- ed twenty-one-year sentence. The case against Jim Wallace was dis missed, but he will be returned to Nebraska to complete a sentence of seven years for bank robbery.
Newport weekly independent., 1903-08-28
Wife Murderer Hung.

Will Diamond, colored, was hanged last week at Marion for the murder of his wife. The crime was committed last spring and was a foul and cowardly murder. Dia- mond killed his wife to be rid of her in order to be with another ne- gress. He implicated two other ne- groes in the crime and they were indicted at the last term of court, but were discharged on account of the total lack of corroborating evi- dence. The execution was private and was witnessed by about twenty persons.
Newport weekly independent., 1903-08-28
Charpes Blackmail.

D. W. Claiborne, charged with causing the death of Abner Gaines of Hot Springs in 1901, and who was arrested a few days ago, sprung sensation by swearing out a warrant against two parties named James and Chambers, charg- ing them with attempted blackmail. MT. Claiborne declares Chambers approached him and in the presence of witnesses stated that he had been approached by the prosecu- tion to testify against him, but for the sum of $100 he would give his testimony in favor of the prosecu- ton.
Newport weekly independent., 1903-08-28
HE MEANT WELL.
But What He Said Sounded Far from
 Complimentary.

put my foot in it last night and was guilty of saying one of those things that one would prefer to leave unsaid, said a reporter for the Worcester Post l was coming down town in an electric by the side of man whose daughter had grad- hated from the south high school the other afternoon. 1 had noticed him at the graduation exercises, but did not know he had a daughter in the bevy of beauties. l asked him if he had enjoyed the exercises, and he said he had enjoyed them very much, as his daughter had graduated and received her diploma.
 "ls Miss - your daughter?" I asked.
 "She is" he replied, "and I was proud of her the other afternoon I think she was the best in the lot."
 "l agree with you," said I. 'Tno- ticed she got the biggest hand when she was given her diploma. She seems to be very popular girl"
 He did not take my compliment worth a cent and I saw he was ag- grieved. Then it flashed across nv mind that every body was not familiar with theatrical slang, which is, of course, well known among the news paper fraternity. Before I had q chance to explain the. meaning of my compliment he had left the car and I suppose l have queered myself with him. l hope he will read this town tale and learn that when I said his daughter got the biggest hand I meant that she got the most ap. plause.
Newport weekly independent., 1903-08-28
Railroad Agents in Trouble.

c. A. Appleby, agent of the Iron Mountain at Wilmar, and one Phil lips, agent at McGehee, have been arrested, charged with engaging in a systematic scheme to defraud the railroad and express companies. It is charged that Phillips stole lot of express money order blanks and mailed them to Appleby with let ter asking that he fill them out and send them back, so that Phil lips could take a vacation, cash the orders at different place and divide the money. It seems the blank or ders and letter fell into the hands of the railroad officials before they reached Appleby. It is also charg- ed that Appleby and Phillips have been stealing merchandise and shipping it away or checking it as baggage to some point known to them and the officers, where the goods were sold and the money di- yided between the conspirators. Other arrests may follow.
Newport weekly independent., 1903-08-28

The roof of the Saline county court house, which was recently completed, was struck by lightning and considerably damaged.
 A big Confederate reunion was held at Lonoke last week with an attendance of over 2,000. A most successful reunion was also held at Dewitt.
 Bill Lovejoy, well known char acter, was shot and killed in Clay county by Mart Vowell. The kill ing was the outcome of enmity of long standing.
 Vida Brinkly, the 15-year-old ne gro girl who stabbed her lover, Rob- ert Richardson, to death at Little Rock June 27 last, has been releas- ed on $500 bond.
 There is now stored away in the vaults of the state treasury the sum of 3,223.45, the largest amount of money ever held in the state treasury at one time.
 Anthony Isom, aged 8 years, was instantly killed by lightning on his fathers farm in Garland county, The boy was returning from the spring with a bucket of water when killed.
 The Little Rock and Monroe railway has been granted char ter. The proposed line is to run from a point in Union county tc Monroe, La, a distance of fifty miles.
 Major General Haynes, A. s. G.. announces that the state encamp- ment will be held at Hot Springs September Eth to 18th. All rail- roads will give reduced rates on this occasion.
 John Niger and Lem Gilman engaged in pistol duel at a house of ill fame in Texarkana, in which Niger was killed. Both men emp tied their revolvers, but Gilman escaped unhurt.
 Judge M. W. Gibb, leading col ored citizen of Little Rock, has con- tributed the sum of $500 toward a fund being raised for the erection of home for aged colored women at the state capital.
Newport weekly independent., 1903-08-28
Mrs. Gaines and Claiborne Discharged.

After 9 preliminary hearing on the charge of having murdered Ab- her Gaines at Hot Springs, D. N. Claiborne and Mrs. Gaines, wife of the dead man, were both discharged upon motion of the prosecuting at torney, who announced that the state had failed to make a case against the accused. MT. Gaines was found dead in his room at Hot Springs little over a year ago, and the theory advanced was suicide. A knife lay a few inches from the right hand of the dead man, and his throat was cut from ear to ear. A brother of Gaines was not satis- fled that 1t was a case of suicide and employed a detective to solve the mystery. The evidence intro. duced against the accused was not of a character to warrant convic- tion, and they were promptly re- leased. Gaines had been in poor health some time before his death.
Newport weekly independent., 1903-08-28
AN UNIUCKY BROOD.
Young Poultry Raiser Thinks He Ha-
 Pretty Turf Luck.''

AASlLS AuA Au(A.
 The fatalities attending the rais- ing of poultry are not always as amusing as those of the youngster whose experience is related in "Ihe Real Diary of Real Boy" by Mir. Henry A. Shute. He describes his "tuff luck" as follows:
 April 30. i don't see what the mater is with my hens I haven't got egg this week. father said there was rat in the koop. got steel trap of Sam Diar and tonite i set it in the koop. put peace of cheese on it. to- morrow morning gess mister rat won't steal any more eggs.
 May 1. what do you think. this morning i got up to get my rat and i found that my best hen, the bolton gray that John Adams gave me had tried to pick the cheeze out of the trap and the trap had caught her by the neck and killed her. felt bad enuf to cry. thought I cood get up before the hen did.
 May 3. what do you think. this noon set in the hen koop 1 hour. The brama went on the nest and. set a while and came off and cackled. then i looked and she had Jade an egg. left the egg there and hid be- hind a barrel and got my bowgun ready for the rat. we'll, the leghorn hen went on the nest and supposed she was a going to lay, but she broke rite into that egg and began to gobble 1t up. was so mad that i let dig atherwith the bow gun and just then she stuck up her head and the arrow took her rite in the back of the head. well wish you cood have sene her. she hollered one little pip and then went rite out of the nest backwards and Tapped round awful. picked her up and she was dead. dident mean to kill her, i only wanted to make her jump and learn her not to eat eggs.
 May 27. My rooster is pretty sick. tride to give him some kiannpepper tonite. father said kiann pepper was good for sick hens, so I held his mouth open and give him spoonful. when let go he kept his mouth open and sorter sneezed pip-craw, pip craw, and then he went to the water dish and began to drink. think he Is better because he hadent drank any water for 3 days before. he was still drinking when went away. gess he will be lot better tomorrow.
 May 28. This morning when i went out to feed my hens found my rooster dead. he had drank up all the water and he was all pufed up. i felt pretty bad. father says gave him enough kiann pepper for horse. he aught to have told me. he was a pretty good rooster too. i am having pretty tuff luck.
Newport weekly independent., 1903-08-28
Assessment Board Enioined.

Judge John H. Rodges, sitting for Judge Trieber of the Eastern district of federal court, has grant ed temporary order restraining the state board of railway assess ment from certifying the assessments recently made as to the officers of the various counties or taking any steps making the assessments ef- fective. The board raised the assessments on railroad prop erty on an average of 20 per cent, or over $1o,oOO,0oO, The mat ter will be given final hearing the latter part of this month.
Newport weekly independent., 1903-08-28
Dying Man Deserted by Brother.

A dispatch from Colorado says that Center Riley, aged 24, was dis covered in dying condition by tourists on Pike's Peak. The man had been deliberately deserted by his brother and left on the moun- tain side to die. The dispatch says Riley was taken to Colorado from this state about two weeks ago.
Newport weekly independent., 1903-08-28
A Broad Hint.

A student noted for his careless ness in dress once approached Prof. simon Newcomb, of Johns Hopkins university, for advice. He was think ing of leaving college and going into business, having had fattering of fer Now you know my case, pro- lessor" he said, land if you were in my shoes, what would you do?" The professor looked very serious and re- piled: Black them, of courser'--N.. I. Times.
Newport weekly independent., 1903-08-28
Charged With Passing Bogus Bills.

John w. Gaines and Alfred Snow were arrested at Benton on tho charge of passing bogus bills. A number of bills on the State Bank of New Brunswick, N. J., were found on the men. This bank went out of existence many years ago, but the plates from which these notes were printed were stolen and an immense amount of the notes have since been circulated.
Newport weekly independent., 1903-08-28
Will Reside Elsewhere

City Marshal Guy Tucker, who shot and killed John Parnell at Fl Dorado, has rendered his resigna- ton and will make his home at some other point in the state. MT. Tucker announces that he came to this conclusion in order that fur ther trouble between his friends and enemies may be averted.