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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-19
personal POINTS.

John Martens left this afternoon for
Des Moines.
Miss Florence Harris is visiting at
Webster City, Iowa.
Nate Frankel. of Des Moines, was
in the city last evening.
NJ. II. Sexton is in Lincoln, Neb., ON
Western league business.
William Ohge, who spent the sum
mer at Cloquet, Mimi, has returned to
his home here.
NJ. j. Young. local agent for the
Burlington, went to Chicago yester-
day on business.
Mrs. Whitman left this morning for
her home at Fish1ill Landing, n. y,
after visit with her sister, Mrs. C..
c. Carter.
Dudley Marshall, who has resigned
his position in the Burlington's local
freight office, is planning trip
through the west.
Mrs. G. W. Battles left this morning
for Des Moines, to join her mother,
Mrs. H. F. Hartmann. who is visiting
with her son, Will f. Hartmann, in
that city.
w. y. Crubaugh, who has been i'll
several weeks, has now so far recov-
cred that he expects to resume his
duties as night clerk at the Harper
house next week.
II. f. Spangler. manager Of the
Iowa university football team, is in
the city today making arrangements
for the running of an excursion over
the Rock Island to Iowa City Satur-
day on account of the lllinois-Iowa
football game there. The special will
leave Moline at 9 a. m. this city at
9:O5 and Davenport at 9:15. On the
return trip it will depart from Iowa
City at in the evening.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-19
Another Moline Case.

Alfred Fjelendor, a young man liv-
ing at 1915 Fifth avenue. Moline, last
night leaped in his night clothes from
an upstairs window while temporarily
insane and wandered about the city
several hours before he was found by
the police and taken home. When dis
covered he was badly chilled. though
no serious consequences are expected.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-19
WOMAN SANDBAGGED AND
ROBBED OF S45 IN MOLINE

Mrs. Stuyvaert, who makes her
home with the family of Arthur De
Reed, Fifth street and Fifth avenue,
Moline, was sandbagged by two men
and dragged into an alley at Fourth
avenue and Eleventh street, in that
city, at 1880 last night and relieved of
$45.
Mrs. Stuyvaert was struck across
the head by one of the men, but was
not injured. One of the fellows held
her while the other searched her.
She carried the money in purse.
The affair was reported to the police,
and they are understood to have a
clew to the footpads.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-19
SAYS HUSBAND is CRUEL
Mrs. Louise Kurtz Files Suit for Divorce In
Circuit Court.

Theodore Kurtz is charged with
cruelty. drunkenness and non-support
in bill for divorce filed by his wife,
Louise, i'll the circuit court yesterday
afternoon through her attorney. !. X.
Scott. The plaintiff declares that on
enc occasion her husband elected her
from the house at > o'clock in the
morning, while the ground was COW
cred with snow. and while she carried
her child in her arms. The child, Ma
tilda, died afterwards at the age of )
years. The couple were married June
s, 1889, at Puttgarden, Germany.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-19
ARTICLES ARE FILED HERE
Moline, Kewanee and Streator Electric
A Line Tells of It's Plans.

Liue AelAs OF A6s EAhhs.
Tue Moline. Kewanee d StreatoT
Electric Railway company filed its ar
ticles of incorporation at the office of
the county recorder yesterday after
neon. The capital stock is $4,000, di-
vided into % shares. William X
Moore, Charles r. Moore and +. Stan
ley Skinner are the incorporators and
first board of directors. The object
is to build and operate single or
double track street railroads through
out the state of Illinois, but more par
ticularly to construct a ntne from1fli Tic
city of Moline to the village of East
Moline, thence to Kewanee and la
Sale.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-19
IN THE SOCIAL REALM

= large number of members and
friends enjoyed an entertainment
given by Sylvan court, Court of Hon
or. at the hall in the Carse building
last evening. The program consisted
of readings by Mrs. O. j. Penrose and
H. NJ. McCaskrin and vocal numbers
by Mrs. y. j. Reiss. Refreshments
were served.
Mrs. Mary &. Wadsworth is to re-
ceive next Wednesday afternoon at
her home, 1871 Second avenue, for her
sister, Mrs. Fraser, of Minneapolis.
This evening at Industrial hall the
annual masque ball of the local paint
ers' union will be held. Preparations
have been made for big time. Prizes
will be given for the best costumes.
\ birthday party was given last ev-
ening by Miss Grace Russ. who enter
tanned about twenty-five of her friends
in a most happy manner at her home.
Eighth avenue and Twenty-eighth
street.
Miss Emma Apple, 70 Third avenue,
entertained yesterday afternoon to
Introduce her sisteriu-law. Mrs.
Charles G. Apple. Forty ladies' were
present.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-19
BIG CUT IN MEATS
Now Being Made at the Packing HOus,
Market I5I6-152S First Avenue.

Owing to the recent decline in the
cattle market, we are able TO make
the following low prices:
Good sirloin steak, per H., Zoe.
Good porterhouse steak. per h., Zoe.
Good round steak, per To-. DC.
Good rib roasts. per H., &c.
Good beef roasts. per H., &c.
Good boiling beef, per H., dc.
W. III. TREMANN.
Manager Packing House Market. First
avenue. between Fifteenth and Six
teenth streets.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-19
BATTLES SHOE STORE
Fourth Avenue and Seventeenth Street,
Friday and Saturday Sale.

Misses S. shoes. $f.59.
Misses $50 shoes. SIPS.
Childs' S1.25 shoes, Csc.
Infants 75c shoes, 49c.
Boys soc rubbers. SOC.
Little gents $1.25 shoes, Csc.
Mems 75c slippers, 49c.
Women's $1.25 felt slippers, 9sc.
Women's $1.25 felt shoes, csc.
Mems heavy wool sox, pairs 81.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-19
FireIsNever ont

in a coles Hot Blast stove Fuel put
in at night keeps the house at even
temperature and will burn two hours
in the morning-simply open the
draft. See Coles Hot Blast at David
Don's. 1915, 1917 Second evenue, Rock
Island.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-19
River Rlnlets.

River forecast for 4s hours ending
S. a. m, Saturday, Nov. u, 1908: The
Mississippi viii continue to fall slowly
between Dubuque and Davenport.
The Prescott was north and south.
The stage of water was $50 all day.
AT noon the temperature was 80.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-19
Thinks Bryan in Moline.

William Jennings Bryan has been
living in Moline since last summer
Zentgraf said: You know he spoke
at the Chautauqua there, and then
bought popcorn stand on Sixteenth
street. l was talking to him the 9th
er day"
Zentgraf was ordered committed to
the Watertown hospital as Il private
patient
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-19

All the news all the time = The
Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-19

Oysters, hot and cold, at Ponce de
Leon every evening.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-19
HIS MIND BROKEN
BY Effort to Acquire Art of Hyp-
notism Through Cor
respondence.
PLIGHT OF A MOLINE MAN
Believes w. j. Bryan Running a
Popcorn Stand-Se to
Asylum.

Fred w. Zentgraf, aged "a, of Mo-
line, adjudged insane by Il jury in the
county court today, is believed to have
lost his mind in his effort to master
the art of hypnotism.
For months he was in correspond
ence with a professional hypnotist of
Jackson, Mich. In his answers Gent
graf stated that he had found that
he would be unable to acquire the art
but his jackson correspondent per-
sisted, and told him he would make
him learn in spite of his belief to the
contrary.
Zentgraf, until last May, was en-
ployed as a driller by Deere & Co
Since then he has been lounging
around the home of his parents. His
usually cheerful disposition changed
completely, and he grew morose and
irritable.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-19
Threatens Mother.

Last Sunday he picked up potato
masher and was in the act of bring
ing it down upon the head of his
mother, when his young sister inter
fered. When reprimanded for illtreat-
ing his parents and brothers and sis
tiers he declared that he did not pro-
pose to be bossed by any one; that if
they did not allow him his own way
he would hypnotic the whole family,
and then blow up the house with dy-
Mantle. Fearing he would carry out
the latter threat an application was
made for an inquiry into his sanity.
Zentgraf's case is a peculiar one.
He was interrogated by DR.. J. f. My
ers. foreman of the jury, and answer
ed all questions intelligently until the
subject Of politics was preached The
young man said he had given politics
considerable study. He was PERSONAL
ly acquainted with a number of the
leaders in both the democratic and
republican parties.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-25
CHANGE IN LIGHTS.
New Lizard Light Said to Be Most
Powerful in the World

London, Oct. 20.-Many American trav-
elers viii be interested in a change which
has just been made in the famous lights
which glow nightly from the Lizard Point
on the coast Of Cornwall. For more than
one hundred and fifty years the familiar
double fixed lights have been shown from
this promontory. the Illuminating agent
having been successfully coal fires, sperm
and COLA oil, and lastly, electricity; but
fsenceforth only one electric light will
shoot over the adjacent set, and mark the
hndfall for vessels entering the Channel
from the westward. 1t exhibits one fash
every five seconds, each fash lasting only
about quarter of second, and the con-
Centrated intensity of each flash is such
that the new Lizard light is said to be the
most powerful in the world. 1t is hoped
this increased power will enable it to be
seen at ~ greater distance when the at
mospheres is hay than any at which the
previous fixed lights could be made out.
Moreover, it is hoped that the reflection
of the flashes will be visible to mariners
at q distance considerably beyond the
point at which the direct rays touch the
horizon. The Trinity House authorities
also that the scarcely less i'm
portant light at Falmouth has been made
more powerful than before.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-25

ture traveller to that neighborhood. For
no particular reason that can be discover
ed, the engineers and contractors are
making preparations TO carry the road
acros sthe Zambesi Immediately below
the falls Not only viii the whole effect
Of this great cataract be marred by an
unsightly lattice-work Of iron Orders just
in front OF il, but great part Of the
fine timber and luxurious underground
which add so much to the beauty of the
scene is being ruthlessly cut down for
mechanical or other purposes. 1t is salc
that none of the directors of the Charter
ed company at home have ever been TO
the falls or suspect the danger involved
in leaving the selection of the route en-
tirely in the hands of the engineers and
contractors At present the railway has
not passed beyond the YANKEES coal fields,
so there is yet time for slight alterca-
ton to be made in the plans for its ex-
tension But unless speedy and vigorous
protest is made. it is to be feared that
one of the worlds greatest wonders will
never be seen again after this year in the
full perfection of its beauty.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-25
RUSSIA DlvERTS FLOW.
Would Turn Emigration Toward ST.
IBERIA Into Turkestan.

ST. Petersburg Oct. 24.-The Russian
government is now endeavoring to divert
to Turkestan part of the volume OF emf
grafton flowing into Siberia. The induce
ments offered to peasants, burgesses, and
small burgesses settling in Syr Darya,
Ferghana and Samarcand provinces are
free leasers of government lands, an ap-
portionment of not less than ten acres per
head TO each member of the emigrant
family, an initiatory grant of 100 rubles
per head, and part payment of trans
portation expenses from European Rus
STA. The object of this government scheme
is TO counteract the inveterate disaffection
of the native tribes in Turkestan towards
the Russian Crown. Hitherto the only
Russia settlers in those regions have been
time-eXpired soldiers of the Central
Asian garrisons, who received grants of
land and money, but very few of them
have remained on their holdings In iso-
lated localities they have been ill-treated
and boycotted by the natives. Under
the new scheme it is intended to create
populous villages and townships, and
where necessary, native proprietors will
be dispossessed compulsorily on the pay
ment to them Of valuations fixed by gov
eminent commissioners A limited number
of sectarians will be permitted to share
the advantages offered to emigrant set
tiers in Turkestan, but they will be al
lotted to separate communities. and will
have only a trading intercourse with
their orthodox fellow colonists.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-25
EXPORTS SHOW DECREASE.
Number of Conjectures About the Per-
sian Exports to Vovgorod Fair.

st. Petersburg. Oct. 24.-The report that
the Persian exports to the Mini Nov
gorod fair this year showed a heavy in
crease gives rise to a number of conjec-
lures. Does this represent 4 natural de
velopment of the trade relations of Rus
STA and Persia, or is it in any apprecia BILE
measure an outcome of the Russian policy
subyentions in the Shah's domain? The
political activities of the Cars agents
in North Persia-which have resulted in
the complete supremacy of the Muscovite
infuence-have been accompanied by an
artifcially stimulated commercial aggres-
siveness which has been viewed with con-
siderable concern by Great Britain, whose
sphere of influence has been restricted
more closely to the Persian Gulf region.
Russian goods have been driving out
British products and this has been very
largely accomplished on a policy of bon
uses On the part of the Cars govern
ment. Similar methods have been re-
sorted to in Manchuria to ensure Russian
commercial predominance. IN view of
this widely applied policy OF subventions.
the large increase in the offerings of
Persian products at the Mini Norgorod
fair excites an interest which otherwise
might not be felt. Does 1t in any meas
ure represent special inducements held
out to Persian exporters by st. Peters
burg? Or does it favor the theory that
such artificial methods as have been en-
ployed by the Russian government TO
Persia are capable OF producing natural
and spontaneous return movement?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-25
MEANS PACIFIC TRADE.
Judge Hodgins Talks on the Alaskan
Boundary Decision.

Toronto, Ont, Oct 4--Judge Ihonlas
Hodgins. K c., the author of several vol
umes on the Alaskan dispute, says:
From my view of the case the worst
l thought the Dominion had to expect
was a deadlock.
THE decision is most unfortunate for
Canada. But while Canada feels this
keenly, there is scarcely a disposition
to resent the injustice. There is intense
disappointment, but it will be accepted as
the law in a loyal manner, am sure.
II am inclined to the opinion that it is
Lord Alverstones decision mat has given
the award to the United States. No one
will be inclined to impute anything but
the best motives to him. / conceive that
il was his Interpretation of the legal as
poets of the treaty. At the same time my
knowledge satisfies me that Canada was
entitled to a decision on every contention.
This decision leaves the situation on
the Pacific coast exactly as 1t was IN
the past The Portland Canal was desired
by the United States because it gave her
the islands near the shore line of the ISL
ets-Pearse and Wales. They are of no
agricultural or mineral value, but merely
waters of the inlet.
THE decision will interfere with the
trade with the Klondike anticipated by
Canada. With a decision favorable TO her
this traffic could have been carried on
by water within her own territorial boun-
dairy Now it must be either through
foreign territory. If by water. or overland
from a Canadian port q outlined in 1877
by the proposed government railroad. |
--.erefore 1t is of the most serious i'm |
portance.
CAS- to the future of the great ocean |
carrying trade of that section, it deprives |
Canada Of commerce of inestimable value. |
Canada cannot carry OF the coasting /
trade under the decision that she could il |
it had been favorable. and this is an item
of much Importance to the Dominion.
The proposed western terminus of the
Grand Trunk on the Pacific-Port Simp-
son-it not affected. That remains within
the jurisdiction of Canada as at present.
for that is at the mouth of Observatory
Inlet. south of eParse and Wales Islands
THE population of the disputed terri
tory is said by the United States authori-
ties to be about 1900, but the Canadian
is that it is less than half of
that number. Lyan Canal, which goes to
the United States by the decision, is OF
much greater Importance tina nthe Port
land tract
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-25
MACEDONIAN VIEW.
Correspondent Declares British Re.
fern Scheme Is No More.

london. oct. 24.-One Of the-Special cor
respondents of the London Times in Mac
edonia publishes some interesting ana
pointed comments ON SIr. Balfour.s reeant
record letter 10 the Archbishop of Cante--
bury concerning the attitude Of the Brit
Ism government toward the existing CON
diuon Of affairs in that country. He de-
clsres that The reform scheme has long
ceased even theoretically 10 exist. II il
ever existed NJ al. 1t died he savs and
was buried IN the beginning Of AUGUST
when the Instruction began. ana i ,ox
IN an advanced stage Of accommodation
II IS no longer even discussed in Me-
donna. and is practically forsotts, ua
first arrived in European Turkey. bs -
marks. early in April. and spent :, an
nearly ive months travelling in such us,ts
rs the Turkish officials considered nor a.
Together unit 10 be reported on and oc-
cssionally breaking out Of hounds In the
course of these Nsndcrings, he never onc-
ne declares met a single individual OF arr.
nationality whatsoever. excepting possihi,,
hiiini Pasha himself, who could be per
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-25
LABOR IN GERMANY
Men Do Not Work as Long as
in United States.
MORE TIME FOR TEAS"
Longest Week Is Not Com
posed of More Than 62 Hours

London, Oct. PA special correspond
ent of the London Times, who mas been
investigating the conditions Of labor in
German factories, and has visited many
of the principal cities, reports that the
shortest week in his list is 57is hours, and
the longest 81, both IN textile mills 1t
may be said generally that the normal
German working day is ten hours and the
normal week sixty hours. In making a
general comparison, it may be said that
the hours in Germany average about one
a day more than in England and about
one a day less than in the United States.
The great difference between England
and both these countries is the fun half
Saturday holiday An additional differ
ence between the United States and the
two other countries, is the number and
length of the meal intervals allowed. As
rule, in the United States the only in
terval allowed is for dinner, and that is
generally no more than three-Quarters of
an hour or half an hour. In some shops
no interval is allowed at all; the men
snatch their foods as best they can. The
machinery runs continuously; and this is
the secret, he says. of the great produc-
ton of the American steel mills in par
ticular, and of the excessively high wages
earned in them. Men paid by the output
and working an average of seventytwo
hours a week naturally earn high wages.
The meal interval, he adds, are more
liberal in Germany than in England; an
hour and a half being allowed for din |
ner. instead of an hour, and there is af- |
ternoon tea-or rather afternoon coffee |
as well. This deliberateness and respect |
for meals, he thinks, is a characteristic |
Of Germany as, Indifference to them and |
hurry are of the United States.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-25
SPIRITS EAT BREAD.
Queer Case of a Family of Yorkshire,
England.

| London. Oct. 24.-The united efforts OF
! ten chemists and policemen have so far
! failed TO solve the mystery of the disap-
| pearing loaves over which the whole Of
the West Riding Of Yorkshire is deeply
| excited. For nearly eight months a large
family in Beverley has had to go bread
less every morning because the loaves
baked at night had decayed or shrunk
almost to nothingless. Efforts to solve
the matter have eliminated any question
of human or rodent agency. The only re-
sort left has been to accuse spooks or
hobgoblins of playing tricks
The Webster family, to which this
strange occurrence has been manifested,
is one of unquestioned respectability and
honesty. One evening last March Mrs.
Webster baked bread and placed it on 4
stone floor TO cool. In the morning it
looked as if it had been gnawed by rats
or mice. Next night the bread was placed
on a high shelf in d dairy inaccessible to
rodents. The same thing happened and
the crumblinS continued.
Another kind of -four was used; the
loaves still dwindled
This went on for some time. There were
no servants in the household. Mrs. Web
ster. suspecting a practical joke. placed
fresh bread in n closed pan, set a rat
trap inside and another on the lid, sprin-
killed. -four on the dairy floor, and not only
locked the door but stretched two lengths
of cotton across it. In tn morning she
foun the threads undisturbed, the -four
unmarked, but one of the loaves had en-
tirely disappeared and the other had
dwindIed to half its original size
For nearly three months the websters
kept the mystery to themselves. but the
situation became desperate and uncanny,
so they called in q policeman and put him
in sole charge of the dairy. For several
days the same thing happened. and loaves
secreted in various places about the house
dwindled in the same way. The micro
scopes Of the chemists revealed the pres
ence Of no microbe or fungus. the bread
being pronounced absolutely pure
To avoid this Iamentable waste Of bread |
Mrs Webster began 10 bake cake FOR her !
household. She was relieved 10 find that. /
though they lay side by side with the I
tlighted bread on the dairy shsIf they 4
showed no sign OF harmful ccntact. ez- I
cept when the last crumb OF bread had 4
when they were attacked. 4
So now she is reduced 10 the necessity % 4
baking bread for the voraeious goblin. Or
whatever il Is. in order 70 have cakes
enough 70 90 round in the morning
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-25

lsr rather 81 the fhicknes- q The bvsh.
ard Ia the scarcity and ireficsencT q The
il dor available 10 cs-ar EaY the form
IT vas almost tedious barfress. and aon5e-
times huge trees were cneoaBssrs1. the
Telling q Whirh occupied f1ur rae7 fer q
week o. more. IS navy Ire native Sas
not very valuable In fzcr. 3 sas only -
dint ~ Constant zupsrs1sleu that any
EoTk could 10 rof ost - him az asa ne
plan vas therefore aaopte1 - 6ieid.nx ~
TIE line into short pieces ara lsffiag thsfa
oct ~ small contract. q few ehasnr -
earthw1rk beiuE allotted. p--hspr. - =
single ssn1iiy. Tie rf@n were isrTsiv
Eot from Lagos. ard ~ ere tiuse ~ G.suT
a. = o. Here sr1p'cvs5 Tfa zss2eTfrfs.sa-
* ezxlnssTz uers. - sczrae. Enz1fshs
ard the chsracter = m Il nazs -r-sY -
inferred fTora ~ fzef that tss reEpisr
arFarEeraens 80 sszhf rnozfas SIX SD
four n1safhs iesFs. Tie coft - re wer2
s4s -o.nefkiaE ifs7 fhen = sc'.e