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The Tomahawk., 1903-10-08
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

| Owing to a scarcity of boys in Kan
sas City, Mo-, women are being largely
employed as messengers.
Omaha (Neb) officers discovered
nearly 1000 young children working in
the packing houses and ordered them
to school.
C. M. Malloy. of Chattanooga. after
five failures with flying machines, has
gone to San Francisco, where he will
make sixth attempt.
| Railroads generally are adopting the
rule that employees who drink or who
frequent places where liquor is sold
are subject to dismissal.s.- .
James Wallace, an Omaha club man,
has disappeared, leaving a letter to
his father, in which he says he is
worthless and asks him not to institute
q search.
President Roosevelt, it is again said,
will not recede from the stand he
has taken in regard to labor conditions
in the government printing Office.
Reports to the war department show
that soldiers are becoming remarkably
proficient in the use of small arms as
result of the summer range practice.
The Salvation Army, 1000 strong,
plans nine days spectacular invasion
of the Bowery in New York. in the
hope of clansing that stronghold OF vice
and squalor.
A saving of $4,000 is made by the
government on bids for money order
supplies submitted in place of those
recently rejected by the post office de-
partment.
A French geographer and an aero
naut are preparing to make flight
across the Atlantic in an airshlp.
starting from the Canary Islands next
May.
For the first time in the history of
Columbia university a woman has been
directly appointed to professorship
by the board of trustees. The new pro-
fessor is Miss Margaret E. Maltby.
Phi. D.
The report of Consul General Hughes
at Coburg to the department of state
shows Germany to be in the throes of
commercial depression. Thousands Of
men are unemployed, and wages are
going down at an alarming rate.
Belief that the murder Of Orrando>P.
Dexter was due to the hatred of natives
of Adirondacks for the rich is strength
ened by report that shots had been
fired at the house Of William Rockefel.
Ter.
The Tomahawk., 1903-10-08

libel proceedings would be prosecuted
and they were being held as military
necessities.
The business manager, A. o. Miller,
hearing that a possible attempt t. ar
rest the office force would be made, was
out of the way at the time the soldiers
took possession
A new force of printers has been Sc
cured and with Gen. Chase's permission
the official organ will be published as
usual
The Tomahawk., 1903-10-08
FOR EIGN.


The porte has expressed a wish for
the withdrawal Of the American war
ships now off Beirut 1t Is thought in
Constantinople that the United States
will not consent.
Lord Miner, the British hig.. COM
missioner in South Africa. who is now
at Carlsbad. has been offered and has
declined the colonial secretaryship.
Great Britain and Spain have agreed
tectorate over Morocco.
Comte Henri de la Vaulx, Comte
Hadelius Dautremont and Capt. Jules
Veger have set new balloon record by
crossing from Paris to Hull, a distance
of $50 miles, in 17A hours.
Withdrawal of the American war
ships from Beirut seems unlikely for
the present, in view of a cablegram re-
ceived at the state department from
Minister Leishman, who says that the
state of affairs at Beirut may yet be
regarded as uncertain.
The national encampment of the
Union Veterans Union and the ma
tional convention of the Woman's
Veteran Relief Union will be held in
Louisville, KY. October IA to Is, in
elusive.
The Nashville has been ordered to
Nicaraguan waters to protect Ameri-
cans, who complain of bad treatment
The Turkish government has ordered
the immediate mobilization of 81 bat
talions of the army reserve, half the
force to report at Salonica and the re-
mainder to operate with Adrianople as
the base.
The Bulgarian government is reas-
sured by the announcement from the
porte that the Turkish reserves now at
Monastir will not be ordered to Adriano-
pie.
The Colombian congress is reported
to have passed law authorizing con-
clusion Of the caIal treaty BY the presi-
dent OF tie rengSlas.
The Tomahawk., 1903-10-08
Another Massacre.

Sofia, Bulgaria, Oct. IA dispatch
from the Rila-monastery gives report
that the whole population of the district
of Razlog has been massacred or has
fed. Three thousand women and chill
dren, fugitives from the Turkish SOL
diery, have arrived at Rila. Many vii
lagos around Razlog are said to be
burning. The town itself is surrounded
with tents occupied by the Turkish
troops
The Tomahawk., 1903-10-08
Acquitted.

Guthrie, Okla. Oct. dee Cravens.
wealthy Beaver county ranchman. has
been acquitted on the charge of murder
ing neighbor with whom he quarreled.
and, as alleged, killed in self-defense. a
year ago. The men were members of the
same school board. and had a misunder-
standing as to school taxes.
The Tomahawk., 1903-10-08
Dropped Dead.

New York, Oct. IA man supposed
TO be John w. Lii. prominent pol
itician of Lexington, KY, dropped dead
in the Morris and Essex hotel Wednes-
day. He had just returned from a trip
abroad and went to the hotel to remain
over night. Mr.. Lill was about to
register when he fell to the floor and
expired almost Immediately.
The Tomahawk., 1903-10-08
Will Help Display.

The Great Northern Railway Com
pany has loaned to the State Board OF
Worlds Fair Managers eighteen hand
some display cases owned by it. These
cases are highly ornamental; they are
of cherry, finely finished with plate
glass fronts and having divisions be-
low for samples of grains aud seeds.
They will be all filed with unique de-
signs in grains and grasses and will be
a striking feature of the states 'agri-
cultural exhibit.
The Tomahawk., 1903-10-08
Famine Threatened.

A seed corn famine threatens the
farmers of Minnesota and other north
western states. Owing to the cold,
wet season, northwestern corn has not
matured well, and, inasmuch as the
best seed for this district should come
from varieties already acclimated, the
source of next seasons supply is prob
lematical. The situation is somewhat
further complicated by the fact that
many fields were planted this year
with poor seed, which, even if it ger
minated and matured grain, furnishes
seed of low quality.
The Tomahawk., 1903-10-08
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Father Callahan, the pastor of the
Cathedral parish, Denver, Col, and in
charge of the finances of the parish
and for the building of new cathe-
dral, is short in his accounts to the
amount of something like $4,000.
Mrs. Perkins and daughter were
drowned while trying to cross the Des-
PLANES river near Dundee, MINI.
At Cynthiana, KY, Judge Osborne
sentenced Curtis Jett to be hanged De-
cember 1S for killing James Cockrill
at Jackson, KY, July 21, 1902.
Mayor Francis M. Menkc, of Mat
toon, ILL.,, was indicted by the grand
jury upon 20 counts charging him with
malfeasance and misfeasance in Of
flee.
During a quarrel over 20 cents at
Middlesboro, KY, John Jones shot and
killed Lawrence Duffy.
An anti-Sunday baseball bill has
been passed by both branches of the
Alabama legislature. The bill pro-
hibits the playing on Sunday OF base
ball, tennis, golf and football.
President Roosevelt and his execu-
tive staff have returned to Washington
from Oyster Bay.
Chairman Dick, of the Ohio repub-
lican state committee, has declined the
challenge Of John H. Clarke, democrat
ic nominee for United States senator.
to joint debate with Senator M. A.
Hanna.
"The populists will have their own
ticket in the field and poll more votes
than ever before" says former Senator
Marion Butler, of North Carolina,
chairman of the populist committee.
Judge John M. Bailey, president
judge of the Twentieth judicial district.
dropped dead in his bath room at
Huntington, Pa.
Gov. Cummins, of Iowa. opened the
state campaign at Des Moines with a
speech outlining the harmony policy to
prevail this fall.
Plus X, it Is claimed. is in thorough
sympathy with the liberal views OF
Cardinal Gibbons and his party in the
Roman Catholic hierarchy.
Henry D. Lloyd, writer on econo-
mics, died in Chicago of pneumonia at
the ase of sc years.
John H. Dolp, an artist known as the
'Landseer of America" died suddenly
Of heart disease in New York.
The Tomahawk., 1903-10-08
Found Dead.

The mystery surrounding the disap-
pearance of Mrs. N. C. Edridge, of Min
neapolis, which puzzled the police and
her friends for several weeks, was
cleared away recently, when the skele-
ton of the woman was found lying in
the woods near Lakewood cemetery.
She had evidently been dead for some
time, as the flesh had fallen off the
bones and the skull had been discon-
nected from the trunk. Circumstances
seem to indicate that she died from
exposure and exhaustion, but the ,po-
lice will thoroughly investigate GER
tain ugly rumors before the case is
dropped.
The Tomahawk., 1903-10-08
AGED Negro Dies.

Springfield. Mo-. Oct. 1.-Uncie Ben
Yoachum, an ex-siaye. who. perhaps.
was the oldest negro in Missouri, is
dead here, aged 104 years.
The Tomahawk., 1903-10-08
Samples Wanted.

The states worlds fair board would
like to secure the best samples posi- BILE
of threshed grains and seeds to show
at St. Louis. Any samples sent to e. S.
Mitchell, Willard Hotel St. Paul, the
boards agent, will be entered at the
fair in the name of the person fur
nishing them and a diploma or
premium secured for him if possible.
Not only spring and winter wheat,
oats, rye, barley, bucl-wheat and 9th
er grains are wanted, but all kinds OF
seeds as well as field peas, beans and
similar products.
The Tomahawk., 1903-10-08
EleetrOcuted.

While attempting to saye himself
from falling off the roof Of Lildertafel
hall at St. Paul, on which he was
working, Alfred steinhoff, timer,
caught hold of one of the feed wires
and was instantly killed by the terri.
bic shock he received. Oscar Kuntze
also narrowly escaped electrocution
while trying to rescue his companion.
He was rendered unconscious and his
right hand and arm were burned al
most to a crisp. He will recover
The Tomahawk., 1903-10-08

President Roosevelt and his family
have returned to the white house, after
an absencs of 13 weeks.
The Canadian 500 was practically at
the mercy of mob of unpaid workmen
of the collapsed Consolidated Lake Su-
perior company. Offices of the company
were stormed and demolished.
Commander E. M. Hughes, of the
northern squadron of the Asiatic fleet,
died in Yokohama.
1t is estimated that $4,000 villagers of
the vilayet of Monastir are now refu-
gees in the mountains, and mostly in
terribly destitute condition.
DR.. Otto Klotz, Dominion astrologer,
has succeeded in taking the longitude
between Vancouver and Brisbane
thereby girdling the globe.
The insurgents in eastern Macedonia
were told to begin operations against the
Turks, and peasants were taking up
arms.
Sir James Thomson Ritchie has been
elected lord mayor of London for the
coming year.
The British government is hurt by
the ministerial crisis and Balfour's de-
lay in cabinet reconstruction.
LATER.
Sir Michael Herbert, the British am
bassador to the United States died the
3Oth at Davos-Platz, Switzerland.
The one-year-old baby of Lrby An
derson, farmer near Itasca, Tex,
was killed by Luella Ward, 1o-year-
old nurse girl, who became angered
because the baby cried.
Harry II. Devereaux, mayor of
Sprinfield, ILL.,, was indicted by a grand
jury on five counts for misfeasance in
|office.
mail car and all the mail was
burned on the Pennsylvania railroad
near Lancaster, Pa.
In riot at Buda Pest, Hungary, 60
persons were injured.
The czar of Russia visits the en-
peror of Austria.
Four newspaper men were arrested
and locked up at Victor, Col, by the
militia for siding with the strikers.
Adelaide Pribbenow, while tempo
rarily insane, threw herself under
train at Kansas City, Mo-, and was cut
to pieces.
The rag pickcrs' union Of New York
have struck for more pay.
At Pittsburg, Pa, Colonel Samuel
w. Hay was killed by falling down an
Elevator shaft.
Five persons were killed and a score
of others were injured in collision
between Wisconsin Central limited
passenger train and Forty-third ave
nue. street car at Chicago.
Colonel Harold c. McGrew of Indian
|apolis was elected commander-in-chief
of the National Army and Navy Span
ish War Veterans.
While making some measurement in
a trench twenty feet deep at Columbus,
Ca, Superintendent of Public Works
Robert L. johnson and a negro work
man, Brad Smith, were killed by
great mass of dirt, which caved in on
them.
In a vast crowd in Chicago, Dennis
fSheehan was stabbed to death by
lCharles Earl! Sheehan was viewing
the parade and demonstrated because
Earl interfcred with him.
At Putnam, Conn.,, Mrs. Mary Man
son was convicted of manslaughter for
poisoning Mrs. Julia Wilson.
1t is claimed that Swift & Co., of
Chicago. have cornered the lard mar
ket and controls over half of the
worlds supply.
President Roosevelt will soon issue
his proclamation for the extra session
of congress.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-02-19
ROCK ISLAND YOUNG MAN
WEEDS AN OTTAWA LADY

At $3.50 last evening was celebrated
the wedding of Frank Rodman, of
this city, and Miss Catherine Block,
of Ottawa, the ceremony being per-
formed by Rev. III. w. Reed, pastor of
the First BAPTIST church, at the home
of Mrs. ID. b. Rodman, mother of the
groom.
David Rodman, brother of the
groom, was best man, and Miss Anna
Block, sister of the bride, was maid
of honor. The bride was also accom-
panied by the Misses Rosa Block, Mar
garet Johnson, Leola Brown and Eva
Rodman as bridesmaids. The decora-
tions were of green and white and
the bride was prettily attired in white
mousseline de sole.
The groom is a member of the Ma
val Reserves and an employee of the
Rock Island. Buggy company, and is
held in high esteem by large circle
of friends. The bride is IAN accom-
plished and attractive young lady
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-02-19
HOW TO HELP ROCK ISLAND.
:, = BYE A. Heed President of Rock Island Club >

T. \. Head, president of the Rock
Island Club, has addressed the follow
ing communication to a number of
Rock Island citizens: Dear Sir:-In
every prosperous city will be found
wide-awake and enterprising citizens
banded together in some form, by mo-
tives of public spirit, to promote its
progress and upbuilding, and very few
important places can be named where
such force has not at some time in
their history had much to do with
their present condition.
The greatest power for good is I'M
questionably obtained through or
ganization. Whatever of benefit for this
or our sister cities that has sheen ac-
complished IN the past. orsis being re-
allied at the present, may be easily
traced to the efforts of organized eff
fort in some form among their citi-
zens; and the stronger has been the
bination of forces, the greater
have been the results achieved; in
fact it may be stated as a well es-
tabfished principle in the development
and regulation of human society, aud
in the progress of civilization, that or
=
and beyond a certain point there can
be no further Advancement without
increased organization. The form of
organization may and does vary in
different localities; in some cities be-
ing sustained wholly by the public
spiritedness and unceasing enthusi-
asm of its citizens; while in others,
associations or clubs will be found,
combining business and friendly in
terests, and where social life enacts IA
prominent part.
None of us, however, need go hack
very far in our lives to discover the
difficulties of maintaining business
associations, limited solely to mer-
camille and commercial purposes. n
review of the tri-cities history is a
sufficient answer to the proposition.
Those that have been formed start
ed with a well-known enthusiasm UNI
usual to such organizations. But this
force seems insufficient to sustain an
existence so limited in its scope and
either through too much or too little
leadership, or a frequent and serious
disagreement with its constituency
upon questions coming up for con-
sideration, or perhaps from lack
ing i'm matters of sufficient moment to
draw its members together-the in
terest gradually dies out, and life be-
gainsay the fact that these organiZa-
tions, while they live, are productive
of lasting benefits to the city or To-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-02-19
MICE KILL TREES ON
MISSISSIPPI ISLANDS

Capt. George Schneider, master of
the Minnie Schneider, is authority
for the statement that a rodent called
the jumping mouse, and infesting the
Mississippi river islands, is response
bic for the many dead trees found
upon them. He says the animal feeds
on the bark of the trees in winter
and girdles them which always kills
the trees. This rodent, being located
on islands is protected from other
larger animals, and consequently
multiplies rapidly.
1t appears that hundreds of thou
sands of soft maple trees, which are
so numerous on the islands of the
Mississippi river. will soon be thing
of the past unless measures-and
drastic ones-be taken to extermi-
nate the pest.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-02-19
TO BUILD A HALL
Ladies Guild of Trinity Church at
Work Raising a
Fund.
OFFICERS FOR YEAR ELECTED
Fifteenth Annual Praise Meeting al
Broadway Presbyterian
Tomorrow.

Trinity guild met at the home of
Mrs. f. b. Halves yesterday afternoon
and planned work for the coming
year. The erection of guild hall.
which the ladies have had in mind for
some time, was discussed, and it was
decided to continue the work with
the end in view of getting an ade-
quate building fund. The following
officers were eIected:
President-Mlrs. f. B. Halves.
Vice President-Mrs. S. Il. Hall.
Secretary-Mrs. c. c. Carter.
Treasurer-Mrs. 4. DeSoland.
Annual Praise Meeting.
The 18th annual praise meeting of
the mission societies of the Broadway
Presbyterian church will be held at
the lecture room in the church to-
morrow afternoon. First, beginning
at o'clock, there will be a reception
rendered in honor of persons repre-
senting missionaries and pupils who
are supported by the societies both
in the home and foreign fields.
The program will open with hymn
and responsive reading led by Miss
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-02-19
TALK OF DIAMOND
Doings Among Clubs of the
Three.Eye Baseball
League.
FEW CHANGES IN UNIFORMS
Fielder Idppert's Case to Come Be
fore National Assocfa-
ton.

Most of the old Three-Eye clubs are
to have the same style uniforms that
they had last year, at least they will
have the same color.
Joliet is to break out in brand new
suits of black with white trimmings,
and it is understood that the material
for the new suits has already been
ordered so that when the players put
in an appearance they can jump into
their baseball clothes and go to work.
Dubuque has not yet decided on the
color that the men will be clad in, but
inc sort of gray with suitable trim
mings. is being considered by the
management. .aa
Decatur is to break out in a mixed
affair this year. The men will wear
white shirts and are to have blue
trousers and stockings. This will be
the only uniform of the kind in the
league.
Lippert's Case.
1t is probable that Outfielder Lip
pert's case will go before the Nation
al Association of Minor League clubs.
Lippert, it appears, has signed with
Minneapolis in defiance of his con-
tract with Rockford. Secretary Far
rell, of the association, will be noti-
fled if Lippert refuses to report at
Rockford, and Lip will find his plan
to go to Minneapolis without the
Rockford clubs consent will be upset.
Manager NicOI. of Rockford has
been having some correspondence
with Outfielder Arthur Il. Kruger,
Who is understood to have signed
with Oakland, in the California
league. Kruger expressed, "a wiling
ness to sign with Rockford again
provided the reserve clause: were
omitted. Manager Nicol could not in
justice to the club consent to this
and Kruger threatened to jump. Man
ager Nicol told the young man that
he was the architect of his own for
tunes, but to jump a contract is
hardly laying the foundation Alright
Kruger, however, seems intent on go
ing west. If the youngster should
fail to make good in the California
league he will then have no place to
turn but the brush.
Some Small Talk.
Harry Stauffer is the only member
VI the bdNehpoTI team VINO prayed
with the Davenport aggregation of
1901.
Davenport fans claim to have the
tip that their club will open at home
With Cedar Rapids. Rockford will
open at Dubuque. Rock Island, it is
said, is slated to start the ball rolling
at Joliet, and Bloomington at Deca-
tur.
The Davenport baseball club will
play its first game of the season April
IL. The players will report the 10th,
the earliest the team has ever been
called together. Nearly all of the
other Three-Eye teams will report
April !.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-02-19
Better Than Gold

81 was troubled for several years
with chronic indigestion and nervous
debility" writes f. j. Green, of Lam
caster, N. H, mo remedv helped. me
until l began using Electric Bitters,
which did me more good than all the
medicines 1 ever used. They have al
so kept my wife in excellent health
for years. She says Electric Bitters
are just splendid for female troubles;
that they are a grand tonic and invig-
orator for weak, run down women.
No other medicine can take its place
in our family" Try them. Only so
cents. Satisfaction guaranteed by
Hartz &c Ullemeyer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-02-19

uregg Then, after a PRAYER by Mrs.
Blakemore and another hymn, greet
ings will be extended by Rev. w. S,
Marquis, of this city, and Rev. Ora
ham Lee, of Korea. Next will be a
reading by the talented wife of the
Presbyterian minister at Milan, Mrs.
Marion Humphreys, whose subject
will be "How the Church was Built at
kehoe's Bar" Another hymn will he
followed by a sketch upon "Ecclesias-
teal Music and the Relation of Music
to Foreign Missions" by Mrs. l.. S.
McCabe. This will be illustrated by
violin, voice and plano. \ prayer by
Mrs. Miles with song and benediction
will close the program and a social
hour will follow.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-02-19

The scratch ol pin may cause the
loss of a limb or even death when
blood poisoning results from the in
jury. All danger of this may be
avoided, however. by promptly apply
ing Chamberlain's Pain Balm. 1t is
an antiseptic and unequalled as a
quick healing liniment for cuts,
bruises and burns. For sale by all
druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-02-19
COUNTY TEMPLE.
Transfers

Feb. 1S.-Clyde Glazier to Edgar A
Glazier, tract by metes and bounds,
VIZ, seq, 9, 16, 3w, 81.
ID. H. Gutenberg to c. \. Miller
nwH, neH. 25, 10, 2w; Sc, swH. "a
Is, 2w, $1,000.
United States to John d. Worthing-
ton, swH, neH, sea, nwH, ne14, swH
and nwH, seq, 5, 16, 2w.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-02-19

who has wide and cordial acqGaint-
ahce here Mr.. and Mrs. Rodman win
make their home for the present at
the above number.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-02-19
To Observe washinEtOn's birthday.

The three parOchial schools of the
German Lutheran church are to unite
in exercises in observance of Wash
ington's birthday, Friday evening at
1880 at the Y. NC. 4. auditorium. The
program, in the arrangement of
which there has been considerable
preparation, will consist of songs,
recitatioBs. etc. a feature to be bible
scenes illustrated by the stereopticon.
The exercises will be in German aqd
English. No admission charge will be
made, and the friends of the SCHOOLS
are invited to attend.