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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-02-19

rOSette, were hung black ana wnlIe
streamerS reaching TO the floor. Be
Meath the canopy stood the catafalque
upon which rested the remains of
President Mckinley at Canton.
The floral tributes were the most
elaborate since the funeral of the late
President Mckinley. They include a
beautiful wreath from President
Roosevelt. a notable floral piece was
a large letter, addressed to M. A.
Hanna the offering of the postal
clerks Of Cleveland. a gigantic @. A.
r. badge, built principally of carna-
tons, was sent by Memorial post No.
14l. OF the entire collection one Of
the most strikingly beautiful was a
broken floral column. Il tribute from
the Union National bank. of This city,
of which Senator Hanna was presI-
dent
Memorial Services at Kenyon.
Gambler, O.. Feb. 10. - Services
in memory Of the late Senator Hanna
were held in the chapel of Kenyon
college. Senator Hanna was greatly
interested in Kenyon college, and II
few years ago gave 10000 towards the
erection CT new dormitory, which
bears his name.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-02-19
Russians ON the Vain.

Hardin, ManchUria, Feb. 19.-Rus-
sian troops are concentrated i'll the
lower Value valley. Everybody is in
high spirits and daily expecting rein
fOrcementS.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-02-19
To Establish Police system.

Shanghai. Feb. 19.-It is reported at
Wei Sien that Germany has secured
the right to inaugurate a uniform pO-
lice system in all cities of Shan Tung
province. The Chinese received the
announcement favorably.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-02-19
Say They Did Execution. Too.

ST. Petersburg, Feb. 19.-The gov
ernment report Of the naval action
off Chemulpo. at Korea. Feb. ). says
the Russian cruisers Nariag and Kor-
ietz sank a Japanese cruiser. torpedo
and gunboat and crippled another
vessel before entering the harbOr.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-07-08
GOVERNMENT HAS BIG DEFICIT.
Revenues For Fiscal Year $40, OOO,O 900
Less Than the Expenditures.

Washington, D. C.-The Govern
ment's ledger for the fiscal year, which
ended June 80, shows that the expendi-
lures exceeded the revenues by SILL
352,326, the receipts aggregating S541,
1S6,745 and the disbursements $685..
539,O71.
The expenditures, however, include
$50,O00,00O paid for the Panama Canal
right of way and the 81, 600, 900 loan to
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition,
which are not properly to be counted
in the regular expenses of the Gov.
eminent. Excluding these two items
there would be a surplus of $13,24z-
674, against an estimate of $14, 100000
made at the beginning of the fiscal
year by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Compared with the revenues of the
previous fiscal year the revenues show
a falling off of SIT, zoe. 7SO. while the
disbursements increased $21, 762, 4S1.
All and more of this decrease was in
the revenues from customs, which
amounted to 1862, 068, 4S3, OF $21. 1913.
235 less than in the fiscal zeal of 1903,
The receipts from internal
aggregated 1922, 49,, 695, exceeding
those of the previous year by $780,.
40. The increase in expenditures was
mainly in the Navy, which expended a
total Of $102, 757,073, or $2O,O61.271
more than last year. The item for PEN
sions also shows an increase of nearly
$4,000,000, on account of the service
pension.
The receipts for customs were re.
duced between $G,0 900 and $S,OOO,-
600 by the operations of the Cuban
reciprocity treaty.
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THE PROHIBITION TICKET
s. c. Swallow For President, G. w
Carroll For Vice-President.
Result of National Convention at Indian
apolis - General Nelson A. Miles
Declined the Nomination.

Indianapolis, Ind.-General Nelson A..
Miles having declined to permit the
use of his name in the Prohibition
National convention, Silas c. Swallow,
of Harrisburg, Pa, was nominated for
President by reclamation. George w.
Carroll, of Texas, was made the Vice.
Presidential nominee.
The telegram from General Miles
eliminating himself as a candidate for
President was dated New York and
addressed to John w. Woolley. 1t
read:
Approaching the good will of your
self and friends, 1 must earnestly re-
quest that my name be not used in the
convention, and that my letter of June
20 be considered as final.
NELSON A. MILES"
Much disappointment was expressed
at the action of the General, but it was
not permitted to dull the enthusiasm
that the nomination of Swallow
aroused. Mr.. Swallow was not pres
ent at the convention, having been de-
tanned by the illness of his wife.
While waiting for the Platform Com
mittee to report, an unusual scene was
enacted in the convention. While sing
ing praise God, From Whom All
Blessings Flow" and my Country
Ills of Thee" subscriptions were called
for. Several persons subscribed $1,000
each, several $500 each, and on down
with smaller amounts, until the sum of
$4,000 was raised as the nucleus Of
a campaign fund.
The chief plank in the platform
adopted is as follows:
1--WE pledge the Prohibition party,
wherever given power by the suffrage
of the people, to the enactment. and
enforcement of laws prohibiting and
abolishing the manufacture, importa-
ton, transportation and sale of alco-
holic beverages"
The platform also called for reform
of the divorce laws, Endorsed inter
national arbitration, denounced po-
lygamy, favored the election of United
States Senators by direct vote of the
people, the principle Of the initiative
and referendum and the application of
justice to all combinations of capital
and labor.
DR.. Swallow is sixty-fve years old.
He is now editor of the PENNSYLVANIA
Methodist. In 1897 Ire was nominal,
for State Treasurer of PENNSYLVANIA
by the Prohibitionists. He polled 11S,
600 votes-ive times the usual Prohi.
bition vote. in 1898 he was the Pro
hibition and Honest Government can.
didate for Governor and his vote was
10000.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-07-08
News of the Toilers.

Boot and shoe workers of Petaluma,
CAL, have formed a union.
Membership in the Amalgamated
Society of Engineers now totals about
95,500.
Memphis, Tenn, will entertain the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
in 1906.
Slate leaders at the Penrhyn (Wales)
quarries r on strike for an increase
in wages.
The Association of Bureaus of Labor
Statistics will meet at Concord, N. H.,
July II to 16.
There is a strike for the free Sunday
among the Wisconsin paper mills.
Portsmouth IN. HI musicians are
planning the organization of a union.
Wages for common laborers in Ire
and are almost double what they were
twelve years ago.
'Longshoremen and other trades
threaten to go out in sympathy with
the striking bakers at Brest, France.
Locomotive engineers in Germany
deceive a gold medal and $500 for every
ten years of service without accident.
In 1903, s57,046 immigrants landed
On our shores, of which 1885, 67. over
fourteen years old, could not read nor
write.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-07-08
The National Game.

Catcher Marshall, late of the Phi-lies,
has signed with New York.
The Baltimore Club has signed for
trial pitcher Hall, of Dickinson Col
lege.
In Danny Shay the st. Louis Nation
ais have a worthy successor to Bobby
Wallace.
Roger Bresnahan is Of opinion that
New York will have to beat Pittsburg
out to win the pennant.
The Toledo Club has signed Catcher
Parke Wilson, late of the Seattle Club,
of the Pacific Coast League.
Seymour new leads the Cincinnatis
in hitting.
Catcher Needham is doing good work
for Boston.
The Connecticut League directors
have decided to give Worcester further
trial as a League member.
Mike Mccormick, of Brooklyn, is
making a reputation with Brooklyn as
being a difficult man to pitch to.
New York critics consider Cincinnati
the strongest team that has ever yet
been seen at the Polo Grounds.
For the first time in many seasons
Fred Tenney has been dropped from
the second place in the Boston batting
list.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-07-08
RUSSIAN SUBMARINE SINKS.
rwenty-one Persons Are Drowned
Through Terrible Accident.

Twenty-one Persons Are Drowned
Through Terrible Accident.
st. Petersburg, Russia.-The subma-
rine boat Delfn sank at her mornings
In the Neva with the loss of Lieutenant
Cherkasoff and twenty men.
The officers and the men detailed for
submarine boat instruction had assem-
bled and three officers decided to go
down in the Delfin, although her cap
tain was not present, relying on the ex-
perience of her skilled crew. A score
Of noyices were anxious to go.
The Delin's nominal capacity is ten
men, instead of which thirty-two en-
tered the boat, bringing her manhole
in dangerous proximity to the river
level.
Just then a tug passed, sending a
heavy wash against the boat. AS
soon as the water splashed into the
submarine boats interior it created a
panic among the noviceS and one Of
them tried to get out of the manhole,
which the older hands were screwing
down preparatory to the descent, the
submerging compartment having al
ready been opened.
The water rushed in, and as the sub
merged vessel sank the officers and
some of the men were saved by being
blown up through the manhole by the
rush of escaping air. The Delfn short
ly afterward was raised.
The Delfn is Russia's best subma-
rine boat. She underwent a successful
trial in 1908, following the Cronstadt
squadron to Regal.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-07-08

Congress, ex-Senators or Democrats
or national Importance.
Parker was placed in nomination by
Martin w. Littleton, of Brooklyn. The
first seconding speech was made by
Senator E. w. Carmack, of Tennes.
see.
The action of the PENNSYLVANIA dele,
CATION did more than anything else to
encourage the Parker boomers. 1t was
voted f~ifty-seven to five to support
Judge Parker. Col. James NJ. Guf,
fey, the chairman, was authorized to
cast the vote of the Pennsylvania dele.
CATION for the New Yorker.
The nomination of former Senator
George Turner, of Washington, for
Vice-President was not considered I'M
til the day before the convention, when
delegates from the Far West began
to suggest the ACCESSIBILITY of doing
something to offset the popularity of
Roosevelt on the Pacific slope.
Strong approval greeted the selec-
ton of Congressman John Sharp Will
liams, of Mississippi, the leader of the
Democratic minority, to be temporary
chairman.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-07-08
How Nature Cares For Growing Trees.


Nature invariable does two things
when she tries to grow a tree-she pro-
tects the bark from hottest sunshine
and the roots from severe changes of
temperature. Both these points are
almost invariably overlooked by man.
Observe a maple or elm or birch as
it shoots from the ground. Its sides
are clothed all the way with small
twigs unless removed by knife or
browsing. Any tree starting in an
open lot is thus protected from the
sun.
Otherwise the extreme Leaf will rup-
ture cells, and the bark will dry and
split. AS far as possible there must
be equal development oR cells on all
sides of the tree. But care of the roots
is even more important.
The feeding of a tree is at unequal
depths, but most Of it is near the sur
face. If the sun be allowed to strike
directly on the soil the finer rootlets
that do the foraging are destroyed,
and extreme droughts will affect the
roots for a foot in depth. What is
worse, TIL extreme changes of temper
allure also affect the tree and suck its
life away.
In some cases such conditions are
produced as encourage the develop
ment of fungi or other enemies to
plant life. Nature guards against this
by lying down each autumn a layer of
leaves for her forests or solitary pets.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-07-08
George f. Watts Dead.
George f. Watts, a well-known Eng
fish artist, died in London.
Sporting Brevities.

j. A. Janin, with a score of seventy
nine, Won the golf emblem at Fox
Hills.
The foreign naval attaches have Civ
en- up the idea of entering Port Arthur
and have returned to V~ladivostok.
George Leander, the champion six
day bicycle rider, is booked to meet the
best of the foreign stars in Europe.
Dick" Sheldon, formerly of Yale,
was the principal prize winner at the
Greater New York Irish Athletic Club
games at Celtic Park.
G. S. Titus won the senior single
scull race at the Philadelphia regatta.
New York oarsmen carried everything
before them at the Troy regatta.
The Interstate Hunters Steeplecbase
at the course of the Conev Island
Jockey Club, was won by H. S. Page.
on his own gelding Pure Pepper.
Highball, who won the American
Derby, had an easy task in the Spind-
rift Stake, which he won in la for
the nine furlongs at Sheepshead Bay.
Yale's varsity eight defeated Har-
ward on the Thames by sever and one
half lengths. The Harvard four won
because of an accident to the Yale
shell.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-07-08
GEORGIA's BIG PEACH CROP.
Nearly 5000 Carloads Will Be Shipped
From That State.


Atlanta, Ga.-Advices from Fort Val.
ley and Marshallville, the peach cell
tres of the State, are to the effect that
the crop of peaches from the State
will be between 1000 and $500 car.
loads, the greatest crop on record. The
Central Georgia has made prepare.
tons to handle 5000 carloads of
peaches. Fully 1000 cars will be
shipped by other roads. The rail
roads estimate that one-third of the
shipments will go to New York. about
fifteen per cent. to Philadelphia, and
the rest to Chicago, Boston and other
larger cities.
The crop which is being shipped
now is the Carman, an intermediate
variety that is next to the alberta in
popularity and season. Growers re-
port that prices have been good so far.
The orchards are weighed down with
fruit.
An unusually large crop of water
melons, canteloupes and plums is also
promised. Some idea of the magni-
tude of the fruit and melon industry
in this State may be gained from the
following table carefully prepared by
the railroads and the Georgia Fruit
Growers Associations:
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-07-08
Prominelt People.

Senior Zaldo, Secretary of State and
Justice of Cuba, resigned.
Andrew Carnegie has given $4,000
for a chair of English in the Gothen-
burg University, at Stockholm, Swe-
den.
United States Minister Bryan gave
a ball at the legation in Lisbon in
honor of the King and Queen of Por-
tugal.
Rudolf Won G%otschall; the German
poet and writer, has been endowed
with an annuity of 1900 marks by the
city of Leipsic.
King Edward returned to London
from Kiel; he was warmly greeted.
Ex-President Cleveland and his fam
lily physician arrived at Buzzard's
Bay, Mass, for an indefinite stay.
The people of Paris will honor
George Sand by erecting a statue of
the great writer to stand in the Place
des Vosges, near the Victor Hugo
Museum.
P~aderewski, the pianist, in order to
show his disapproval of the Prussian
Governments Polish policy, has for
hidden his new opera "Manru'' to be
produced in the German theatre of
P0sen.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-07-08
Gesticu1ation Now In Vogue.

Gesticulation is the fashion now.
Woman must gesticulate to be in the
swim. But she must do it in a correct
manner.
1t is said that the most fashionable
people have taken to making gestures,
and therefore, Of course, all woman
kind must paw the air, so to speak.
In England many gestures are
thought to be undigniied, but not so
here. There is no denyintg the fact
that they heighten the effect Of con-
~versation If well done.-Philadelphia
Inquirer.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-07-08
TAKE PORT ARTHUR FORTS
Three Of BeIeaguered City's Detenses
Captured by the Japanese.
ARTILLERY FIRE OVERWHELMS


Works With Loss of Guns-Japanese
Army in the North Advancing on
Kuropatkin's Positions-Jap Armies
Effect q Juncture.
Toxic, Disqualification has been
received of the occupation of important
heights four miles west Of Cape
Bevan, near Port Arthur.
Cape Bevan is a %promontory about
fifteen miles east of Port Arthur and
a like distance southwest of Dalny.
The Chikwanshan, Chitan and Sung
shoe forts were captured after a days
lighting. The Sungshoo fort was
taken first and the others soon after
ward.
The defense was stubborn. The Rus
slams were routed and driven west
ward by the Japanese artillery, leaving
forty dead, two rapid-ire guns and a
large quantity of ammunition behind
Them. The Japanese casualties were
about 100.
The armies Of the Japanese leaders,
Generals Oku and Kuroki, have eff
fected a junction and present a front
If 120 miles. News of the capture of
Kai-Ping after hard fighting has been
received.
Reports from the Far East are con
dieting. Hai-Cheng advices say that
General Kuroki's advance from Stu
Yen and Feng-Wang-Cheng continues
and that General Oku is still moving
lorthward. Liao-Yang sends word
that the Japanese have %retreated, and
that their operations north Of Port
Arthur are thought to be indefinitely
postponed.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-07-08
Bernhardt,s wit.

A lady in Paris who was celebrated
for her skill in palmistry asked many
friends to advise her as 20 a projected
visit to London. Would the climate
agree with her? Would exalted So
ciety patronize her exercises in palm
istry? Some said one thing and some
another, but when Sarah Bernhardt
was consulted she made the most pro-
found remark Of all: "You had better
find it all out in your hand!' Such was
the modesty of the chiromancer that
she had entirely overlooked that pro
fessional expedient.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-07-08
A Unique Laundry.

A laundry in which a man can wash
his OWN clothes at a cost of ten cents
has been established in Philadelphia.
Over 5000 men have used this laundry
since it was opened.
The laundry is supplied with tubs,
drying closets, ironing boards, wiring
ers, etc. 1t is located in the heart of
the poorer district and is meant for
those unfortunate men who have no
clothes except what they are wearing.
Every man is allowed to remain in
the laundry for two hours and is given
as much soap and water as he needs.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-07-08

Lat Of Thomas Jefferson. The decor
ators have done their work well, and
the convention room presents a cheer
ful appearance.
The most ~pretentiouS part of the
scheme is the complete covering of
iron Orders and rafters overhead with
cloth. and for this purpose a pale vel
low bunting. the same color used in the
Worlds Fair flags, has been selected.
1t is put up in ~quadrangular sections,
each covering n of the spaces marked
off by the intersecting ironwork. Each
of these sections is surrounded by a
three-foot fringe of white. Held only
at the edges, each square of cloth Says
somewhat in the centre, thus, with the
ornamental valance, suggesting the
pincushion comparison.
Beneath this yellow roof the walls
are completely covered with the ma
tional colors. In all, there are to be
10000 yards Of bunting in the decora-
tons.
The walls are decorated with nation
al colors and the stage presents a star
spangled effect.
The coats of arms of the several
States and Territories were placed at
intervals along the walls and on the
platform. The standards indicating
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-07-08

thousand alternates were the first pro-
vided for. This takes up 1000 or 2012
seats, the latter number in case six
delegates each are allotted to Porto
Rico and the Philippine Islands. Next
there are 604 chairs in the arena guest
section, the disposition which will be
in the hands of the national committee.
To the press of the country are as
signed TOP seats, divided into two
sections-the one for the working
daily newspaper correspondents, who
report the convention, and the other
for the weekly representatives, who
are spectators.
The boxes are limited to eighty
seven, including 42O box tickets. One
each goes to every member of the ma
tional committee and the others are
awarded to distinguished officials or
well known Democrats.
In addition, there are 22SS gallery
tickets. Each alternate is allowed only
his WI seat in the conventions; each
delegate has three extra. The Bust
ness Mems League gets 1000 chairs,
located in various parts of the Coli
scum, some on the floor, some in the
special guest section and some in the
gallery.
Upon the platform are 434 of the
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-07-08

The oldest chemists shop in England
is said to be at Knaresborough, the
quaint Yorkshire town situated on the
MIDI. The earliest date to which it
can be traced back is 1920, but how
much older than that it may be cannot
be ascertained. Several years ago.,
when the British Association met at
Birmingham, Mr.. Lawrence, the pres
ent tenant, lent some of, his old shop
bottles and a couple of mortars which
were included by Messrs. Southall
Bros. & Barclay in an exhibit Of 'The
Alchemist's Shop.''-London Paper.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-07-08
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION
PARKER PLACED IN NOMINATION
By M. W. Littleton, Of Brooklyn.

the seats of the delegations are of
white, with red rims and blue letter.
ing.
The demand for tickets to the con
vention has been unprecedented, &C.
cording to Charles A. Walsh, Secretary
of the National Committee. Each com-
mitteeman is entitled to ten season
tickets, which are good for eight adj
missions. Each delegate is entitled to
three besides his own, and the alter
mates one besides his own. Tickets
can be sold at $15O,each.
Arrangements for the number and
the distribution of the tickets are COM
plete. In all they amount to 10,S04,
plus a few extras.
One thousand delegates. and one
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-07-08

st. Louis, Mo.-The Democratic Ma
tional Convention which, under the
call of Chairman Jones, held its first
session on Wednesday, vas the twenty
first quadrennial gathering of the
representatives of that party.
The convention was held in the Co.
liseum, and as the 994 delegates and
the 10000 spectators filed into the
enormous auditorium they were sur
prised to note that no picture of any
candidate or Favored SOD" was on ex-
hibition. Under instructions from Col
mel John l. Martin the decorators
paced only one portrait in the hall,
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-07-08
POPULISTS NOMINATE WATSON.

Nebraska Editor Named For Second
Place on Ticket
Springfield, Ill.-The National con
vention of the Allied Peoples party,
composed of both the Fusion and the
Middle-of-the-Road Populists, nominal
ed the following ticket: President,
Thomas e. Watson, of Georgia, who
was a candidate for Vice-President
with Bryan on the Populist ticket in
1896; Vice-President, L. B. Tibbles,
editor of the Nebraska Independent,
Lincoln, Neb.
The platform is practically the same
as that of a few years ago. 1t de-
mands that only the Government have
power to issue money, declares for
Government ownership of railroads
and telegraphs and denounces trusts.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-07-08
Catarrh Cannot Re Cnred

With LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot
reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a
blood or constitutional disease, and in order
to cure IT you must take internal remedies.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and
acts directly on the blood and mucous surface
Halls Catarrh Cure Is not a quack medicine.
1t was prescribed by one of the best physi-
clans in this country for years, and is a reg
ular prescription. 1t is composed of the
best tonics known, combined with the best
blood purifiers, acting directly on the mu-
eous surfaces. The perfect combination OF
the two ingredients is what produces such
wonderful results in curing eatarrh. Send
for testimonials, free.
F. ]. CHENEY & Co., Props, Toledo, o.
Sold by druggists, price, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-07-08
Vermont Republican Ticket.

The Vermont Republican State o.
vention at Montpelier nominated G. J.
Bell, of Walden, for Governor; G. II.
Stearns, of Johnson, Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor; f. G. Fleetwood, of Morrisville,
Secretary of State; H. T. Graham, of
Craftsbury, State Auditor, and John l..
Bacon, of White River Junction, State
Treasurer.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-07-08
Father and Son Drowned

Jonathan Riley, an iron moulder,
and his fourteen-year-old son John
have been drowned in the river, near
Salt Lake, Utah. The boy went in
bathing with his brother and got be-
yond his depth. His father, although
unable to swim, plunged into the
stream to save his son.