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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-05-27
Shot AZ Burglar.

Early yesterday morning persons re-
siding in the vicinity OF Third and Di-
vision streets were startled b. the
crack of a revolver. Investigation
showed that the weapon had been dis
charged by Miss Agnes Deloughrey, of
1724 West Third street, IN a brave ef-
fort 10 brighten of burglar who had
made several unsuccessful attempts 10
enter the house The craftsman had
managed 10 unlock the screen Of d
window on the Third street side Of the
house, and was endeavoring % raise
the window when he was detected.
Grasping a revolver, Miss Deloughrey
hurried down stairs and sent a shot
after the fellow. but il went wide OF
its mark.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-05-27
Will Erect Big Building.

Joe Schick has purchased for the
Merchants Transfer < Storage com
pany the valuable piece of property
located on West Second street be-
tween Western avenue and Gaines
street. directly opposite Washington
square. The ground was purchased from
the Regennitter Brothers and has a
frontage of 12o feet on Second street
with a depth of $50 feet. Mr. Schick
stated that the company would shortly
put up a large building to cover the
entire property. This will include a
mammoth warehouse. barns and Offices.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-05-27
snorrsform on Mars.

4 telegram recently received ut the
Harvard college observatory from Pro
fessor Lowell at Flagstaff, -AriZ., stated
that the first winter snow appeared in
the arctic region Of Mars between May
IS and 10. says a Boston special dis
patch to the New York Times. 1t Gov
cred u vast area surrounding the old
polar cap in longitude 80.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-05-27
When the Car Works.

The ear gets up at O'Clock and
breakfasts on tea and toast. After
working two hours he walks for an
hour in his park. In the afternoon he
takes another walk and then works
hard till Il O'Clock at night except for
the time devoted to his dinner. With
his wife and children he usually con
verses in French or English 10 prevent
the attendants from understanding
them.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-05-27
Ex-Mayor Hurt.

c. p. Skinner had another unfortun-
aye accident Thursday evening, and as
a result is laid up at his residence with
a painful limb. He was riding his sad
die horse when the animal became
frightened and reared and fell over
backwards. pinning Mr.. SINNERS leg
under the saddle.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-05-27
ORGANIZE Band Association.

The movement TO advance the eff
icncy of the local band took perma.
nent shape Thursday evening at n spe
cial meeting held. Ten directors were
elected and an association formed
which Will be known as the 9th Infan-
Try Band association. Directors repre-
senting the following organizations
were elected: Manufacturers, vii
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-05-27
RAILWAY TIPS.

The c., NJ. & st. P. offer first class
train service 10 Chicago and Kansas
City, from the tri-city, sleeping car res
servations made TO any point desired,
for further information phone any Of
their Offices.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-05-27
~SIussers" Arrested.

Warrants were yesterday issued in
Justice Ditzen's court for the arrest OF
four of the striking employees at the
local plant of the American Can com
pany. Their names are Louis Mellow
ell. Charles Gould. Mike Whalen and
one named Jones. They are charged
with slugging o. G. Rosche, n non
union workman at the plant. Mr.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-05-27
c., M. & St. p. Excursion Rates.

Homeseekers tickets on sale every
Tuesday in each month 10 Nov. l. 1905.
To points in Iowa. Minnesota. North
and South Dakota. And every first
and third Tuesday in each month to
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-05-27

C., NJ. & ST. p. Summer Tourist Rates.
The c.. NJ. & st. p. railway will sell
round trip summer tourist tickets
daily, commencing May Is, to Sept. 80
1905, TO various summer resorts in
Wisconsin. Final return limit, Oct 81
1905.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-05-27
Colorado Service via C.. Ri. & P. BY.

Through service leaving Rock Island
at 1910 noon. arriving Denver Has
a. m. next day. Leave Rock Island ;
a. m. arriving Denver a. m. following
day Leave Rock Island 1910 p. m
arriving Denver 9:45 p. IN. Come and
see US before arranging for your Colo
RADIO trim
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-05-27

Rosche fled the information against
the defendants. charging them with as
sault and battery.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-05-27
Low Rates Via the c.. R.I. p. by.

Low Rates Via the c.. r. I. & p. by.
Commencing May % on sale daily
round trip tickets TO Portland at rate
of s5O.25. with choice of routes IN both
directions. Daily on and after June l
round trip rates TO Denver, Colorado
Springs and Pueblo at rate OF S2i-9O.
S6.45 10 Milwaukee and return June 10
to %, choice of three routes from Chi
cago. SOLO to indianapolis and re-
turn June 10 TO % S61.25 10 San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles and return on
different dates in May and June. For
full information write or cali on depot
agents or F. H Plummer, c. P \.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-05-27

other homeseekers' territory. For fur
Their information phone or call at any
c. NJ. & ST P. ticket Office.
New-York tribune., 1905-04-26
asoUDAN GOOD FOR NEGRO"
Leigh Hunt Talks of His Industrial Expert
ments in Africa.

Leigh HINT. who has been conducting industrial
experiments a large scale in the Soudan, is OPP
tinistic in regard TO the future of that region.
which he has colonzed with American born ne
groes. Mr.. Hunt went to the Soudan last Septem-
ber 10 superintend the working of large tract he
has purchased on the route of the Berber- -Suakin
road. He returned last night the Kronprinz
Wilhelm for two months stay. He will leave
for China early in June, where he has mining in
terests.
Mr.. Hunt said his experiments with American
negro labor in the Soudan were encouraging, and
that he believed the Soudan the one place in
the world where the average American negro could.
easily succeed. He said:
will not always agree with him. In the Soudan the
negro has men under him to do the work, and that
is one of the incentives which held him to get
ahead.
The railroad line connecting Shiek Barghut,
the Red Sea, with Damer. on the Nile, will be fin
ished in about year, opening up vast country.
The Upper Nile country has vast commercial and
agricultural possibilities. Sugar and cotton
are certainties. while wheat and barley may be de-
pended on as far south the Blue Nile country.
Ii is an ideal region for tobacco culture. but to-
bacco is prohibited Although many kinds of vege-
tables Will well, it Will take years of experiment
TO determine what fruits available for this
country. The cotton yield is greater by acre, than
in Egypt, and is fully equal to the best American
grades.
New-York tribune., 1905-04-26
NOTES OF THE STAGE.
Mrs. Fiske Speaks Again About Leah
Kleschna.

The production OF Leah Kleschna" in London
next Thursday by Charles Frohman has inspired
Mrs Fiske TO issue another statement regarding
Mr. McI.ellan's alleged breach of faith in giving
tie English rights TO Mr. Frohnan. and her
part in the writing Of the play. The statement is
in part follows:
. In my many years of association with
ta 1heagS sSe neer R Rno%n ue an
as that which We have had with Mr. Mcclellan. If
injustice in expressing the opinion that my work
that it has been instrumental in It's achievement
of success complete yindicatiOn of the superior
easily possible for him 10 prove that my sugges-
tons IN the revision OF the play , were worthless t
London production every change from the original
of nd He e has but to insist that Sir Charles
Wyndham shall produce in London the original
entitled Into the Great Iight'-the manuscript
placed SS Mention IN g hHoS of y Connection with Mr. Nc
Lean's revision Of his play would ever have escapes
We reIinaushed our option and had the play passed
into other hands Mr.. Mcclellan would have been
welcome TO the time and thought devoted 10 the
sumabiy the producers Of the play in Londoa will
avail themselves Of whatever advantage my work
gratuity 10 Mr.. Mcclellan I have way Of pre-
venting this
At the Madison Square Theatre next Monday
night all American playwrights" will be made
welcome 10 see The Firm Of Cunningha The
Garden unless the playwright is restricted
in most rigid manner.
Reginald De Koven and Frederick Ranken who
have written a new musical comedy for De Wolf
Homer Yesterday contracted TO furnish one play
a year for five years 10 the Shuberts for produc-
ton at the Lyric Theatre.
Directly following the brief engagement OF Walter
Damrosch and his orchestra the Newly FORK Theatre
Roof Garden will begin its regular summer season.
on Monday June T. with what promises TO be an
interesting form Of amusement. The big roof
garden will be entirely transformed. In place Of
the frigid grottos and icebergs that have hereto
fore been s. shabbily conspicuous there, a pct
lresoue japanese garden landscape viii be created
with cosey teahouses and attractive bungalows All
the arches and crystal roofing will be wreathed
with vines Of wistaria. carrying out scheme or
decoration which is to create a new title for the
garden.-Wistaria Grove.
The first rehearsal of ''Trilby.' which is TO be
revived at the New-Amsterdam for two weeks.
beginning May s. was called on the stage Of that
theatre Monday morning and brought together for
the first time ten years members OF that famous
original company. The following PLAYERS were on
hand Wilton Lackaye NirSinia Harmed, Burr
Mcintosh Frank GlcndiuninS, Douslus Fairbanks,
Edward W. Morrison Leo Ditrichstein. Rosa Rand
Mathlldc Cottrelly. +. j. Walton. Herbert Ayiing
Frederick A. Thompson and Howard Boulden.
New-York tribune., 1905-04-26
STEAMSHIP SURVEYS.
Certificates To Be Current in Eng
land and Americd.

Washington April l25.-Correspondence between the
United States and Great Britain regarding the
oeptance by each OF the others official surveys OF
steamships at the various ports of the two coun-
tries has been going forward for a considerable
time. The correspondence has been conducted by
Sir Mortimer Durand. the British Ambassador, for
Great Britain. and by Secretary MeTcalI OF the De
partment OF Commerce and Labor, through the
state Department. for the United States. An
rangement practically has been made by which
government will accept the surveys of steamships
OF the other so far relates the hulls boilers.
machinery and life saving appliances. This agree
ineht accords with practice which has been in
vogue since 1876. but it was only recently made
necessary TO institute negotiations respecting
the subject
After the exchange of numerous preliminary let
ters regarding the matter Sir Mortimer Durand, on
March 80 last. wrote:
am authorized to state that the Board Of Trade
now propose TO issue forthwith similar instruction
nspecfon Under @ e the act of g aying down. l
oehnteiy that United States vessels having oerth-
cates IN iorce are exempt from any further survey
as regards hulls boilers. machinery and equipments
ecessaf % to etermne R aecaacy Of the the ceT
cate; provided that the United States government
sp9nding reciprocal treatment viii be granted to
formal application being made.
This proposition was accepted by Secretary Met
calf for the United States. On April he wrote
giving the assurance requested by the British Am
bassador. that part OF his letter being follows:
In reply have the honor TO give the assurance
that, under the OF Section No. AGO. Revised
Statutes OF the United States, soon as an order
shall have been issued by the proper authority Of
the United Kingdom exempting steamers of this
country in all parts OF the United Kingdom from
inspection other than such is necessary TO esab
lish the fact the condition OF the vessel and that
her boilers and life saving equipment are as stated
IN the current certificate this department, upon
being informed OF said action in the usual manner
and upon formal application being made. will issue
at once an order granting similar exemption in
the ports OF the United States TO the steamers OF
the United Kingdom.
Fo-r1 r7ad MOrti
Durand It is expected that the next letter Of the
Ambassador on the subject will contain announce
rnent Of the formal action of the British Board OF
Trade accepting the American inspection or ships
II Is quite likely that a similar agreement Will be
entered into with the Canadian government respect
Ing the vessels on the Great Lakes II Is probaple
too that a like arrangement may be made by TINS
government with Germany. France and perhaps
WITH other nations but steps toward such
agreements have been taken yet
New-York tribune., 1905-04-26
BRIGHTON BEACH LAND LEASE.
'Boer War" Spectacle Gets Additional Room
Ten Year Term

An agreement was entered into yesterday between
the Brighton Beach Development Company and
Austin Corbin. by which the remaining land be-
tween the fifty acres owned by the Brighton Beach
company and the Manhattan Beach property was
acquired by the Brighton Beach company for ten
years. This will place twenty-one acres more at
the disposal of the Brighton Beach Development
Company for the purposes Of the park
being constructed. The transfer will give the
''Boer War additional room.
New-York tribune., 1905-04-26
DEMANDS WORK IN DEIANCEYsT.
Grand Jury Makes Presentment, Urging
Some City Department to Act

The Grand Jury yesterday filed presentment'
rccifin that the city condemned hundreds Of tene-
Yuent houses IN Delancey-st. to make room loT
suitable approach the Williamsburg bTldee
fully q year ago. and the street since iheh mas
been rayines and gullies and dumping s'ou"'
for refuse. and adding:
rbe Grand Jury desires To use whatever iIhu, @
ce II may possess TO impress on the aeiai 1 -nt
- eitV Government responsible f"f ne lo,tS
% ~ ~ conditions The necessity for Immediately ana
New-York tribune., 1905-04-26
STILL AFTER SUNDAY BASEBALL.
Kings County District Attorney Will Make
Another Test Of Law.

7-.7 t,, The Sabbath Observance Association Of
tfngs county District Attorney Clarke will withia
3 Few days make another test Of the la" prohibit
a.. the playing OF baseball on Sunday. The fact
hat a garne was played at Washington Park De
,,-o.- ,be BROOKLYN and Boston teams last Sunday
- 49,, of4iciallv reported the District Attorney
b. the police who intend TOT place all the response
bsli;y for permitting Sunday games on him.
Mr clarke said yesterday that he would take
some action within n day OF two. II VIII pToDapy
New-York tribune., 1905-04-26

consist in applying for warrants for the arrest Of
one or OF the players Last year, after Jus
@ ice GaynOr had decided that baseball PLAYED by
professionals for money Sunday was violation
oI the law on a habeas corpus proceeding the traI
u the case was dragged out through the summer
ana nnally the defendants were dismissed
New-York tribune., 1905-04-26
BED LINENS

Grass bIeacEed Nloravian Linen
Sheetlng. 40 inches wide. Soc a yard
BIeached Irish linen ShestilE. 90
inches wide. At 81 ylrd.
Grass bleached g r m n linen
Sheets. hemstitched, full bed size.
90 96 IN. at s.. - g pair; three
quarter bed size. 20 90 in. at 50
a pair.
BIeached Irish PiIIow-cases. hem
stitched. - 3G in soc a pair
Hand embroidered hemsfiJched
Irish linen Piliow-cases. - SO
in. az 81 - a pair.
New-York tribune., 1905-04-26
Irish TWeedS.
gsoEsh FssfGZeSs 8

An abundant variety Of these netsa irish cloths; tor
travelling motoring theTsis nOthingto excel them.
New-York tribune., 1905-04-26
MME. MopJEsKA IN TowN.

Nine Modjesin arrived from the West last even
fnr with her husband and went 10 the Manhattan
Hotel She will remain here uatil her farewell tes-
tinonial appearance. which occurs on May at the
Opera House is over She Will, OF course nave 10
hold several TehcarsHls
New-York tribune., 1905-04-26

Reginald De Koven and Frederick Ranken who
have written a new musical comedy for De Wolf
Hopper yesterday contracted 10 furnish one play
a wear for five years TO the Shuberts for produc-
tion at the Lyric Theatre.
New-York tribune., 1905-04-26

At the Madison Square Theatre next Monday
night all American paywrghts" will be made
welcome 10 see The Firm of Cunningham" The
play really should be given in the Madison Square
Garden unless the playwright" is restricted
IN most rigid manner.
New-York tribune., 1905-04-26

forthwith grading and paving Delancey-st. and
demands that a sufficient force of workmen be put
the work and continue without interruption
until the completion Of the work and that the
street be opened for wagon traffic without a single
days unnecessary delay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15
JOHN HAYS SENSE OF HuMoR

From Leslie's Weekly.
 We have received from a source of undoubted authenticity a copy of the following little rhyme by the late John Hay, written about 30 years ago, when he was acting as editor of the New York Tribune, being entitled, in that capacity. i'd the courtesy of telegraph frank. The occasion of his writing this poem was in connection with a request for renewal of his annual pass that had ex- pired with the old year. We believe that this effusion has not before seen the light of print. and we offer 1t to our readers as additional evidence, If any were needed of the natural humor in MT. Hays disposition, that had already found expression in Jim Bludso" and Little Brooches" and that was ready at all times to find vent for the interest or amusement of his friends:
 I'd rather ride balky ass.
 Or lose my hook to big black bass Or stand a e-book-agent's sass, Or dine on nothing but blue mass, Or share King Nebuchadnezzar grass, Than carry around a last years pass.
 Them's my sentiments.
 The Bard of the Maumee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
May Iniure Some One.

Nat Women should learn to carry
 parasols so as not to endanger the eses of other people on the streets saiu man who had the end of parasoi poAeu into his eye yesterday. "Women put tilei, parasols under their arms and the emu protrudes a foot or more behind the "oni- an She serenly walks down the street and the people near her are lucky to es- cape with a job in the ribs
 Men often offend in a similar manner and it is a great menace to peoples eyes This afternoon was walking aooot two feet behind couple of women ana one of them had her parasol under her arm She stopped suddenly and the end or the umbrella struck me in the face. Fortun- ately the blow was not very severe and I escaped serious injury. but it will be a week before I can use my eye again. T was on the street half an hour or so today and I noticed at least twenty men and women with umbrellas or para sols tucked under their arms, and every one of them was threatening the eye sight of every one behind them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15
Production of This District.

The Boston Herald fell Into an error, and in trying to correct it fell into another, as follows:
 A correspondent calls attention to the remarkable statement in a Herald edi- torial article of Tuesday last that the production of iron in the Birmingham (Ala) district amounts to 100000 tons a year, nd he says that is about the fig ure given by authoritative statistics for the produdion of the whole country He proceeds to read us a sorrowful lecture on the incorrectness of our statement, as If we meant 1t. Of course 1t was wrong. It should have been 100000 tons. not 170O0,000, and that was the statement nsdo by :he New Age. from which the figures were tafen. How t became so distorted is ene of those accidents of the printing art which forever remain mys- tery. We are obliged to our correspondent for making an opportunity eot the col reetion of an error that had passed un- observed.
 The production of this district for the year 1905 Is estimated at 100000 tons. Last year it was 1.453,573 tons, and in 1903, it was 1.651.39S. In 1902 it footed up 1,472,211 tons. The Herald will thus show that it has seriously understand the production of this dis trict in it's second statement. Not in this century has the production of this district fallen so low as million tons in year The statement of the Her aid was of course unintentional, but it is hurtful to the district, and The Age. Herald feels sure that it's carefully edited and carefully written Boston contemporary will do this district jus tice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15
Will Effect Prices.

'The establishment of vaudeville theatre in a central association said Homer Hesterly. together with twenty nine weeks of comic opera in the Bijou already booked, will give the sl.5o seats for the average Jefferson theatre attrac- tion run for public favor. About a dozen companies will fill the Jefferson at almost any price-companles headed by Richard Mansfield or some other really great actor. But what about the aver age company?
 Pulling added Mir. Hesterly, against popular prices in two other good theatres, the average company will play to many empty seats. The theatrical trust can, however, hit the Bijou and the new vaudeville house a blow by reducing the price of seats to one dollar, some- thing that has been done in many otber towns, something that will have to be done here sooner or later
 "All in all, the theatre-goer of the com- ing season will be apt to get the worth of his money. He will have three choices at any rate. and out of the three he will no doubt find one that will please him."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15
FATE OF A CANDIDATE
 FOR THE KU KLUX KHAN

ious to become K. K. K. General For rest learned all about the man and his plans, and gave it out that he should be taken through a mock initiation which would reveal nothing of the real Ku Klux secrets. After this bogus ceremony second degree. which would reveal to him many secrets. This he took, and Q rough ceremony it was. but the fellow went through it gamely. Then they told him that there was still one more degree-the third-which would make him full-fedged member, with knowl- edge of the workings and mysteries of the klan. He was warned that this third degree was full of difficulties and considerable personal hardship. Wanting to make Brownlow a full report the spy begged to be allowed to take it. This was the climax to which events had been tending. The third degree, weird and tragical, had for its main feature the imprisonment of a man in barrel of stalwart construction and so secure ly sealed up that deliverance was im- possible for the victim, and the tossing of the same into the Cumberland river.
 "A few weeks later the barrel, with badly decomposed corpse inside, was
 fished out of the Mississippi river. and never afterward did a candidate for
 initiation, with ulterior purposes, try to break into the Ku Klux Klan."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15
Conner and prennen.

q see," said a prominent democratic politician last night. that there is to be a barbecue at Blount Springs Wednes- day and that B. B. Conner, Melville w. Drennen and others are going to put
 their feet under the same mahogany.
 By the way, I would not be surprised if Conner and Drennen talk things over up there at Blount and come to an under standing. Drennen is a great admirer of Conner and Conner thinks we'll of the former mayor of Birmingham. Some one hinted to me the other day that in case Conner decides not to make the race for governor he may throw his influence to Drennen.
 By the by, I wonder what Drennen thinks of his new job as trustee of Booker Washington's school at Tuskegee? With Booker dining with John Wanamaker at Saratoga. that trusteeship might become political issue in case Mel looms up as Corners dark horse for the govern orshp.'