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Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1904-08-13
Commercial.
The Anthracite Advance.

iHC FAutIlIdCiIS N0VduCSs
AS had been expected, circulars were
issued by the anthracite producing
companies of Pennsylvania, taking eff
feet Aug. l, advancing the price of coal
10 cents a ton and closing down for a
week every hard coal mine in the state.
Selling agents were notified also that
hereafter soft coal from Pocahontas
and New River will cost $3.50 ton for
less than 5000 tons and $40 for lots
more than that.
Another Big Bank Merger.
The Fort Pitt National bank Of Pitts
burg is about to absorb the Fifth Ma
tional bank of that city and begin
business anew with deposits amount
ing to 100000. At the same time
the North American Savings company
will cease to control the Fort Pitt
New Move Against the Cunard.
An arrangement has been reached by
which the Austro-American Steamship
line will Increase it's capital from ST.,
100000 to $4,0O0,000 for the purpose
of adding thirteen vessels to it's exist
ing feet and establish fortnightly sail
ings between Triest and New York.
In this move the Hamburg American
and North German Lloyd companies
are believed to be concerned. The new
company will be known as the United
Austrian Navigation company.
Ho.lls,
The grand total of admissions to the
worlds fair at st. Louis from it's open
ing up to Aug. 1 was 5,657 SIT. The
record shows a steady increase in at
tendance from week to week
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1904-08-13
The Wrong Department.

A prominent physician tells this story
at the expense Of the modern craze for
specialization in the medical profess
son: A poor woman from the east side
Of New York went to nearby dispen-
sary to ask aid for her little son, who
had had one of his fingers smashed
by baseball bat. At the first room
where she applied she was told by a
curt attendant that the boy could not
be treated there
Wrong place." he explained. This is
the eye and ear department"
''Vere is der thumb und finger depart
ment?" inquired the woman simply
Harper's Weekly
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1904-08-13
BIRTH OF THE BUS.
This Class of Vehicle First Appeared
In Paris In 1862.

This Class of Vehicle First Appeared
In Paris In 1862.
The omnibus appeared in Paris in
1862 as a "carrosse cinq SOUS" coach
for twopence halfpenny), by authority
of Louis XIV, under the management
of Pascal, the mystic and philosopher.
Whether this eminent thinker original
ed the idea is not clear, but there is no
doubt that his influence assisted in the
establishment Of the service under the
auspices of a royal decree.
Later on these earliest omnibuses
ceased to run owing to lack Of support,
and did not reappear in Paris until
1927, when Laftte, the banker, who
was among the largest proprietors,
was credited with originating the re-
vived service.
The new coaches started to ply in
London on July 4, 1929, when the first
one left Paddington for the Bank of
England, and another ran from the
bank to the Yorkshire Stingo, New
road These first British busses were
known from the man who organized
them as "Shillibeers," and the conduc
tors of the first two are said to have
been the sons Of British naval officers.
Three horses drew them, and they car
ried twenty-five passengers, all inside.
London Standard
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the membership from $780, to 373, =
SOP. The property owned by associa-
tons now amounts to nearly $3O,OG0,-
900, and includes 500 gymnasums, with,
an active membership of 10000 men
and boys.
Chinese Empress Aids Missions.
The dowager empress of China has
contributed about $4,000 toward the
college of medicine and surgery which
is to be established by the foreign.
Christian missions Jointly at Picking.
This is the first time that the empress
has publicly recognized the medical
work Of Protestant missions.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1904-08-13
Miscellaneous


Accidents.
One person was killed and score
were injured in head-on collision be-
tween two trolley cars near Westboro,.
Mass, Aug. 2. The accident was due
to q misunderstanding Of orders.
Fire destroyed the Michigan Central
elevator at Toledo, O., Aug. 1, with
loss Of 100000.
Commander Gundel of the i'll fated
Danish steamer Norge, which was sunk
June %, reports that she struck
sunken wreck instead of the Rockall
reef, as supposed at the time.
Deaths.
Robert Emory Pattison, who waas
twice elected governor of Pennsylvania
as a Democrat, died at Philadelphia
Aug. l, aged fifty-three.
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e296.76 per family in 1896. While in
1908 the average wages per hour in
creased 1913 per cent above the aver
age of the period from 1890 to 1899, the
retail prices for food advanced 313 per
cent. This makes 1t appear that the
increase in purchasing power of the
hourly wage has been GA per cent.
Pullman Shops Closed.
The Pullman car shops were closed
down Aug. 1 indefinitely causing 5000
more men to be thrown out of employ
ment, making total of 10000 in the
last month. Lack Of orders for new
cars was said to have caused the shut
down.
Lowell Cotton Mills Quit.
The cotton mills of the Boot Manu-
featuring company at Lowell, Mass,
were shut down Aug. for one month,
throwing 1,64O operatives out of work.
This will decrease the cloth output of
that city by 100000 yards The sus-
pension Is due to a dull market.
GaIveston's Sea Wall Done.
The great sea wall, 1859 feet long,
16 feet wide at base and at top, with
q foot apron, which the city of Gal
weston has been constructing since the
great flood at a cost of 81, 1888 was
completed July 20. The filling in Of
the space behind the wall is expected
to cost over $1,0OO,00O.
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prominent reformers joined him in Or
ganiZing a company to conduct this
tavern and others like it if this proves:
successful. All profits above 5 peg
cent on the investment are to go to-
ward starting other saloons Of this
sort. Besides alcoholic beverages the,
tavern serves tea, coffee, cocoa and ak
kinds of soft drinks. These, however,
are offered in a room separate from
the regular bar, to which women are
not admitted. Good pictures, games
and tables are provided so as to en-
courage sociability and good fellowship
among those who patronlze the place
Bishop Potter especially commended
the idea that the proprietor was not
to receive any profit from the sale Of
hard drinks, but was to have a COM
mission from the sale of soft drinks
He argued that since the saloon is the
poor mans place of recreation it
should therefore be made better and
more attractive, such that his wife:
and family could visit without loss Of
self respect. He declared that the ef--
fort to place a ban on the saloon by
legislation had been one of the most
tragic failures Of modern history. In
toxicants are not to be sold to any ones-
who returns in an intoxicated condi
ton. From every quarter have come
protests from clergymen and temper
auce reformers. - ,
New Child Labor Evasion. .s,sssss
Wholesale eyasions of the new child ,
labor law of Illinois are reported at
Chicago by the state factory inspector
He has found that nearly 1000 children
of that city who were driven from the
factories by the law are now working
at their old tasks in their own homes.
under worse conditions, the factory
owners having transferred the box and
paper bag and stamping machines to =
the homes. LIZ ::TH71'ES9
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Disastrous Retreat of Russian Army

Again anticipating Russian
ourcefu General Kurok ordered his
forward the rough hill
tons Liaoyang while
Nodzu and Oku 100000 enveopng
line In the five following the line
irresistible terrific
the strategic
but
retired
Kuropatin with the
Harbn
diplomatic
There costly
Arthur that the besged
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1904-08-13
Your Heart.
When Your Heart
Fails to Pump Your
Blood, Trouble
Results.


You have. if you find it hard to breathe
after walking up stairs, exercising, etc.
If you have pain in your left side, in
chest, back or shoulder. If you suffer
from cold extremities. pale face, blue
lips, dry cough, swollen ankles.
If you have fainting spells, breast
pang. palpitation. redness of the face
discomfort in sleeping on one side.
The only scientific treatment for this
whole train of troubles is DR.. Miles
New Heart Cure.
DR.. Niles New Heart Cure is the
prescription Of famous specialist,
whose great success in treating obsti-
nate nervous heart disease has made his
name pre-eminent in the medical and
scientific world.
The medicine will cure you. We know
it. We want you to prove it. If first
bottle does not benefit, your druggist
will give you back your money.
~ have for several years suffered at
times with heart trouble. [ got 80
I'D l could not sleep half the night.
G1d had to sit up on the side of the
led lots of times to get breath. Three
Ct my brothers have died of heart trou-
tie and 1 thought L WIS going the same
way, but about two and a half years
ago got a pamphlet about DR.. Miles
New Heart Cure and thought I would
t:y few bottles. After using them l
recovered. and have had better health
since then than before for several years.
ca n heartily recommend them for heart
trouble. "-HEV. JERRY HURT, Pastor
Baptist Church, Hurt, Kans.
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Recreasiye Sports,

Some Recent Records.
John ]. Flanagan, the champions
hammer thrower, increased his own,
record for the sixteen pound hammer to
lib feet on July 81 at New York.
On the same day the motor boat
Standard made the new record of Sc
minutes 80 seconds over 20 knot
course at Sea Gate. This was an ay-
erage Of 24.2 miles an hour.
In the Olympic games at st. Louis,
Frank Greer defended his title as ma
tional champion sculler. Fem beat
Kramer in the one-third mile cycle con-
test. In the regatta the Vesper B. G.
of Philadelphia beat the Argonauts of
Toronto.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1904-08-13
JOHN BANlSTER.
An English Violinist Who Won Fame
In the Seventeenth Century.

An En&11SM N1OI1n1St VINO "On fum0
In the Seventeenth Century.
Public concerts owe their direct en-
enlargement to John Banister, WHO
had won fame by his playing on the
violin and who succeeded the cele-
brated BaltZar as leader Of Charles lis
band of twenty-four violins. Pepys, in
an entry in his diary for February,
1867, tells us the court gossip Of the
day-"how the kings viallin Banister
is mad that the king hath French
man come to be chief Of some part of
the kings musique."
Banister's concerts at the close of the
year 1872 were advertised in the Lon
Con Gazette as follows: ''These are to
give notice that at Mr.. John Banister's
house (now called the Musick SCHOOL,,
over against the George tavern in
White Flyers, the present Monday will
be musick performed by excellent mas
tiers, beginning precisely at Of the
clock in the afternoon, and every after
noon for the future precisely at the
same hour"
fOur years later OIL we feau again.
cat the Academy in Little Lincoln's
Inn Fields will begin the first part Of
the Farley Of instruments, composed
by Mr. John Banister." The admission
was at this time as rule shilling,
and these concerts seem to have been
held pretty regularly down to within a
short time of Banister's death, which
took place in 1679.-Chambers' Journal.
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SOCIOLOGICAL
A Bishop Blessed Saloon.

A Bishop Blessed Saloon.
Liquor men, temperance men, tee
totalers, clergymen, laymen, sociolo-
gists and reformers of every type from
one end of the country to the other
have been thrown into f1utter Of pros
and cons by the formal dedication of
drinking house known as the Subway
Tavern" at the corner of Blocker and
Mulberry streets, New York city, Aug.
2. The unusual interest attaching to
this event centers in two circumstances
namely, that Bishop Potter of the
Episcopal church made the dedicatory
address and that the sale of all kinds
of intoxicating drinks of good quality
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1904-08-13
RELIGIOUS

Row In English Church.
The recent appointment of a COM
mittee of the Anglican clergy to re-
port upon the ACCESSIBILITY of revising
or by elimina ting the Athanasian creed
has stirred up tremendous and bitter
controversy.
Growth Of the Y. M. C. A.
Advance sheets of the year book Of
the Young Mems Christian association
shows that the number Of associations
has increased from 1,736 to 1913 and
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Labor.
Ready For Anthracite Strike.

The executive board Of the anthra-
barre, Aug. 1, decided that the order
of the Pittston convention, directing a
strike at all collieries where Umpire
Wright's decision as to check weigh
men was not enforced, should be
obeyed. At the same time the action
of the miners men on the Cancellation
board in refusing to allow the decision
to be reconsidered, as proposed by the
operators, was sustained. This action
cleared the way for series of strikes,
which at any moment might be de-
clared, affecting $1,000 men employed
in twelve collieries.
Letter Gets an Injunction.
The coal company conducted by 10
seph Letter at Ziegler, ILL.,, obtained
federal injunction, Aug. 1, prohibiting
the union miners not only from picket
ing the premises, but from persuading
the men to quit work and from inter
fering with trains going to or from
Ziegler. Nevertheless the first attempt
w 1A1poLL ulSu w DIS
when the union leaders met the strike
breakers at Pickneyville and persuaded
them to retreat
Machinists Want Half Holiday.
President O'Connell and delegation
Of the International Association of Ma
chinists have called on President Roose-
welt at Washington and urged him
to order a Saturday half holiday for
all machinists in the government en-
ploy, about 1900 in number They
also wish to have their wages increased
from $3.50 to 81 day.
Now York Building War On.
After formal warning by General
Contractor Mcdonald Of the rapid tran
sit subway that the places of strikers
would be filed If they did not return
at once, the Building Trades Employ |
ers' association, Aug. s, declared gen.
eral lockout Of all unions connected J
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per sonally on
the heads of
1861 families in
all parts Of the
country and on
3,429 CONNER
cial or indus
trial concerns.
1t is shown that
the cost of food
for families with
an income of
less than $1,000
a year averaged
S342.75 annual
ly in 1903 as
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1904-08-13

is permitted in thee
tavern. The ide@
is said to have
been conceived by
Joseph Johnson,
Jr. He proceeds
on the theory that
since there must
be s a ons he
wants them to be
as moral as posi-
Il n
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Her Highest Compliment

what did you think of my speech?"
asked the orator.
ut was beautiful" said the young
woman. ut made me think of my
commencement essay" = Washington
Star.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1904-08-13

1t is too bad that there isn't some
way for always having girl baby
Just three years old in the family
Atchison Globe.
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Industrial.
Trend of Wages and Prices.


United States Commissioner of Labor
Wright in his eighteenth annual re-
port gives the results of an extensive
investigation into the question of wages
in relation to the cost Of living. To Sc
cure this data the field agents called
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E7PTEr Write to US for Free Trial
- 1S-IAI Package of Or. Miles Anti
Pain Pills, the New Scientific Remedy
Tor Pain. Also Symptom Blank. Our
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LABORATORIES, ELkiiART. Ind.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-16
BIGGEST ATTENDANCE IN
YEARS AT COUNTY FAIR
Paid Admissions Number $500 at the
Closing Day of the JosIin Exhibit
tion-Horse Races Feature.

There were $500 paid admissions to
yesterday. This was the banner crowd
for a number of years. Counting the
children there were over 5000 people
on the grounds. There were 600 from
Rock Island and Moline. The officers
say it will prove the most successful
fair of recent years. Yesterday was
the closing day, a balloon ascension
being the closing feature. WATERFOWL
hospital carried off the hOnors in the
vegetable exhibit. The racing events
were interesting yesterday. They were
as follows:
TrottinG Rncc, Mile Heat--Purse. $50.
leila. b; M. J. Henderson. Rock
chantwood s : 5. F. Knott,
Barney r. b 5, A. Moosman,
T Tine 2:$i5 u. 2::55 j.. d
Pacing Race. Mile HentS-Purse. $3.50.
La VengadOra. h. m. p. y.
Merriman. Moline .:..;... 0
Miss Adrain. b. m. J. Parker,
High Bali. 5, G., j. NJ Hutch
l Tim1E 2 !a9. > so 2:2S. 2:2s,E.
Alta. ;. m. Fred Long. Mo
line ......--.. ----....--. d
In the first heat of the pace Perry
Merriman's La VengadOra was tripped
by her boot at the first turn and turn
ed complete sOmersault. The driver
was thrown forward. but fortunately
was not hurt, and gathering himself
up ran to the horse, which was down
and tangled up in the wreck of the
bike, and with the assistance of others
got the animal up and out of the way
before the other horses made the cir
cult of the track. La VengadOra for
tunately was not hurt. and entered the
next heat and won the race in three
straight heats. J. Parker's Miss Adrain
| taking the first heat.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-16
STORIES OF STAGE.

As a relief TO lurid melodrama, so
caIed comedies, and questionable
lramaS, the appearance here tOmOr-
row, matinee and night, of the elabO-
rate scenic production of "A Modern
Viking" is announced. The comedy
presents pleasure that can be enjoyed
by all the family. 1t tells a pretty story
n an interesting way, with enough
exciting situations To- relieve the pa
thetic ones, and plenty of comedy, of
the right sort. TO Offset the tension
of the quieter scenes. Scenically. the
play is claimed TO be one of the best
IN the road in years.
DIR. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde" is a
play that has become so well-known
through successive performances that
any reference to its character seems
almost superfluous. In the parlance
Of theatrical folk, it is the best re
peatcr" of any play of modern times.
II goes TO the same cities year after
wear, and the business it does seems
20 increase with every succeeding en-
gagement. The play has made several
fortunes and the end is not yet. II is
the sort of play that appeals to all
classes of theatergOers. This attrac-
ton will be at the Illinois Sunday enen-
ing
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-16
REPRESENTED AT CONFERENCE.
Tri-Cities Will Send Delegates to Big
Meeting of Carpenters.

The three cities will be represented
at the general conference of the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
Of America, which will meet in Milwau-
kee. The conference will continue for
two weeks. the gatherings being held
every two years. Fully $500 local
unions will be represented, and as
some will have as many as 10 delegates
some idea of the immense gathering
OF the craft can be formed. The three
cities will be represented by the fol
lowing. the delegates leaving Saturday
evening: Union 1G6, Rock Island,
Hugh Grotte; union 241. Moline, J. c.
Fullmer. P. J. Carlson: unions 554 and
1872. Davenport, Charles Adrain, w.
s. Hitchcock
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-16
FIVE GOVERNORS TO ATTEND
Assurance of Many Noted Men at
River Meeting at Dubuque.

Arrangements for the river cOnven-
ton TO be held in Dubuque Nov. 1911,
to agitate legislation for the deepen
ing of the Mississippi rive channel
from ST. Paul 20 Cairo, III. are being
completed. Cows. Yates, of Illinois,
and CUmmins. of Iowa, have sent &C
ceptances to Gov. Van SAINT and the
presence of Cows. La Toilette. Of Wis
consin. and Dockery. of Missouri, are
expected. giving all five Of the states
interested representation ~ thei" gov
errors. 1t is also the intention of Gov.
Van SAINT 10 appoint as delegates al
of Minnesota's senator's and reprcsen-
tatives in congress, as well as orher
citizens in every part of the state in
terested in water transportation.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-16
SIX GAMES DATED
Rock Island High School Footbal ii
Team Has First Game
Sept. "a.
DAVENPORT THANKSGIVING
But This May be Changed to Another
Time Owing to lowa-Minne-
sofa Contest.

The schedule of games that have
been secured so far by Manager Krell
for the high school football team is as
follows:
Sept. 2i.-High school alumni at
Rock Island.
Oct. 1.-Kewanee at Rock Island.
Oct. S.-CIintOn at Clinton.
Oct. 22.-Moline at Moline.
Nov. 12-East Dcs Moines at Rock
island.
Nov. 24.-Davenport at Rock Island.
A game will probably be dated for
Oct. 20. but has not as yet been Sc
ured Because of the counter attrac-
ion to be afforded by the IowaMinne-
sofa contest in Davenport Thanksgiv-
ng day. the game with the Davenport
Ugh school may be played on the Sat
Irday preceding instead of Thanksgiv-
ng for which it is now dated.
Junior Class Elects Officers.
The junior class held a meeting
Tuesday at the close of school and
,lected the following officers:
Presidcnt-Herman EhrhOrn.
Vice PreSident-Blanche Smith.
ecrctary-Bernice Wagner.
TrCasurer-Ralph SOuders.
The question of holding the football
lance at the end of the season was
soted on, and the decision to give it
'arricd.
Athletic Association Annual.
The annual meeting of the Athletic
association took place in the assembly
lall yesterday afternoon. The asSOcia-
ion is composed of high school stu
Tents and has charge of all athletics
Connected with the school and the fl
lancial affairs of the different ath-
etc teams Those elected to fill the
offices are as follows:
Observation-Disclosures Hcnning.
Vice PreSident-LeOn Lift.
Secretary-Miss Grace Wright.
Treasurer-Horace Kirby.
Lift was chosen manager of the
basketball teams.
At Football Practice.
Bruised, stiff jointed boys are plen-
LifuI about the school nowadays. 1t is
the sign that football practice is on.
The first few days work always tells.
The boys are working hard, the way
hat has given the school the gritty,
winning teams that have represented
t the last year or SO.
VIII Griffiths, who held the position
If end on the football team the last
.wo years, returned to school yester-
lay.
New Assembly Plan.
Principal Brown announced in gen
aral assembly Wednesday a new plan
which he intends to follow this year.
There have been added to the time in
school each day five minutes, which
will be given over to singing Tues
lays and Thursdays. and TO spelling
Mondays and Wednesdays. Literary
exercises will be held Friday of each
week. For the singing exercise the
entire school will assemble. bringing
together over 375 voices. The pupils
will be under the instruction of Mr..
PhlbrOOk.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-16
POLICE GAME CALLED OFF
Rock Island and Davenport Depart
ments Agree on Postponement.

ments Agree on Postponement.
The baseball game to have been
played by the teams of the Rock Isl
and and Davenport police departments
to afford the former a chance to play
even for the defeat suffered across the
river during the summer has been
postponed. The members of both
teams are warm weather players and
fear that they would injuTe their rep
utatiOns as players of the national
game if they were TO venture on the
diamond during chilly spell such as
we have been having the past week
With an assurance from the weather
man that next Sunday or the one
week beyond would be warm and sun
shiny the coppers would agree to have
the contest, but they do not propose to
take any chances, and hence have
agreed on a postponement till next
summer.