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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-03-02

suit and other bills against the club
which will take practically all. the
cub finishes with every bill paid and
a clean record, at least. Rockford
will now lie low for a year or two
and when the time comes for another
league ball team here Rockford will
be ready to get into the game and
support a team as it should be sup
ported
Eddie Says It's Final.
Decatur Review: Eddie Krebs gave
THAT he declares is his final word at
q meeting of the local baseball direc-
.Ory last night and it was negative on
the proposition of signing a contract
10 catch for the CommodOres this sea
son. Following the receipt of his con-
tract Krebs had a talk with his en-
ployers and the result was deter
minat.On On his part to give up base
1an finally rs a profession and devote
rs time to business pursuits. But he
viii still be connected with the base
laii proposition indirectly. for last
I ght, in partnership with Frank Ma
AN and Lee Hall. Krebs was awarded
ne soft drinks and score card privi-
tc@os at the park for the coming sea
son. Nah2n, Krebs and Hall expect
TO look after the business together and
as they pay a bigger price than asked
before for the concession they figure
on introducing some new features and
hustling generally in order TO make it
q financial success. the popcorn and
peanut privileges have been let sepa-
rately by the management this year.
New Bloomington Stand.
4 note from Bloomington says the
contract has been LEI there for the
new grand stand at the bali park. 1t
will cost $4,000 and will be as fine as
there is on the circuit.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-03-02
DAILY WATER CONSUMPTION
City Used 3,8e8.e37 During Month of
February.

Rock Island during February con
sumed an average of 3.S9S.S371A gal
Ions of water daily, according TO the
monthly report of p T. Bancroft, the
superintendent of waterworks. At the
Twenty-foUrth street station the Gas
keH pumped a total of 1O9, 0G0 900 and
the quadrupleX a total of 110,250.
There were 1858 tons of coal consumed
at a cost of $53S35. freight included.
The pumpage at the reservoir was
&25.7G512 gallons daily or a total for
the month of 9.121, 434 gallons.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-03-02
ON GROUND
Ourkee, Ball Player, Beats Robin
as the Messenger of
Spring.
COMES READY FOR PRACTICE
First Member of Rock Island Team
To Reports Picture of
Health.

You can sing Of the robin as the
harbinger Of spring. but sign that
mas bIotted it out of sight is the ball
player. when he moves you can bet
your cookstoye against the proverb-
ial tale of the grounding.
| When the school boy fans hear that
a ball player has come to town with
his bat their feet begin to sweat and
they complain to their mothers that
if the teacher does not shut off the
steam and open the windows at school
surely they are going to have a sick
spell.
That is how they feel even if there
is foot of snow on the ground.
When word went out that z. J.
| (Togo) Durkee, a member of the Rock
Island team, had arrived with springs
| first day from his home in Charles City
! Iowa, the boys did front somersaults
on the way to school, and there was
game of marbles on every corner
where the sun had struck sufficiently
hard to afford a dry spot. Spring
has come.
Accompanied by His Wife.
Durkee is accompanied by his wife.
They are stopping at the Rock Island
house until they can find permanent
quarters. Durkee is the picture of
health. He has been working during
the winter and is ready TO buckle down
TO practice on the diamond. He was
with the local team only for a short
spell last season. but he won a warm
place among the fans.
Rock Island signed him after he left
Cedar Rapids, and for time hewas with
Springfield. Durkee is signed with Rock
Island this season for utility man. While
he is at his best on the infeld, he is
satisfactory in the outgarden; in fact.
in a pinch Durkee viii play any posi-
tion in the game, from pitcher to tick
ct taker.
Central Sticks TO Springfield.
South Bend Ind. March 2.-Spring-
field positively will be a member of
the Central league The trouble which
stirred up the magnates and officers
of the league last week has been ad- |
justed satisfactorily, and all negOtia- |
tons for a transfer of the franchise
to Lima, O.; Canton. O.. or Marion, |
Ind. have been called off
O'COnnOr Quits Game Again.
St Louis. Mo, March Jack |
O'COnnor. the veteran backstOp, an |
nounced Tuesday he would not play |
ball this season. Two weeks ago |
O'COnnOr announced that five minutes |
conversation with Manager McAleer |
would settle the difference between |
himself and the St. Louis American |
league club. Yesterday they met at |
O'Connor's place of business. After
4 few moments conversation O'COn- |
nor announced that he had retired |
from baseball. Manager and player |
parted the best of friends.
Rockford Says Enough.
Rockford Republic: President
Sterling of the Rockford Baseball club !
has cashed the check for $3.50 tender
ed the association last fall when the
Three-Eye league dropped Rockford |
from the circuit. This sum represents
Rockford's share in the sinking fund |
of the league. one-eighth of the total.
This is the ten per cent of each games
receipts which went into the league
sinking fund. This money will be
used for paying the expenses of the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-03-02
Attacked by a Mob

and beaten, in a labor riot, until Gov
cred with sores. a Chicago street car
conductor applied Bucklen's Arnica
Save, and was soon sound and well.
Il use it in my family" writes G. J.
WEIGH. of TekOnsha, Mich. "and find
perfect" Simply great for cuts and
burns. Only 25c at Hartz & Ullemey-
Cr's drug store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-03-02

When bilious try a dose of Cham
berlain's Stomach and liver Tablets
and realize for once how quickly a
first class up-todate medicine will cor
rect the disorder. For sale by all lead
ing druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-03-02
HUmpty
Dumpty
"A { nance that Comes
But Once in q
Lifetime"

Do not fail to see for
yourself and be convinced
1T is the greatest Opportu-
nifty you will ever have
We started yesterday, and with two
days gone and only 10 days left, you
had better hurry and take look into
the matter before it is too late.
The following are the names of some
we are at liberty to publish:
Miss Emma Myers, Rock Island.
Mir. Vanderveer, Aledo.
MIR. Kent, Milan, III.
Harry Nicholson, Watertown, III.
Isaac Austin, Linden, M.
w. J. Parkhurst, Linden, III.
Remember, the high grade pianos
such as the Knabe, Merrsil and sohmer
are being offered and sold at this sale.
Can you afford to miss it? Just read
these prices:
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-11-25
TIE MERGENriiALER.

] wrote ditty to my love
And sent IL to the paper;
The Mergenthaler set 1t up
With many n curious caper
I wrote: MY dearest, sweetest dove,
Oh, how / love you. honey"
Paralyzed. next day I read:
"Oh, how ! love your money"
! wrote You might travel north and
south
And no such love discover"
And wound my little ditty up
do not forget your lover"
Next day | read lin such mouth
You'd easy lose river"
And 10 make the blasted matter worse,
do not forget your liver"
You well may think I'm in The dumps
And down on the Mcrgcnthaler;
III take dose Of rough on rats
Or Join the Arctic sailor.
w. II. BALL.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-11-25
MONTE CARLO vlcTlMlzEp.
Shrewd American Gets the Best o
Gambling He'll.

Gambling He'll.
A. ]. Drexel Biddle, the distinguish
ed young author Of Philadelphia, was
describing the games at Monte Carlo.
He had spent. the previous. winter in
Nice, going over to Monte Carlo al.
most daily. 5,.
II heard" he said, "of one man
who got the better of the games,
though by how large sum | don,
know. 1t seems that, when q ruined
gambler kills himself ut Monte Carlo.
the employees of the Casino, TO avoid
n scandal, fill his pockets with gold,
and bank notes. Thus the real cause
of his suicide does not appear.
well, this man. a Yankee, came
to Monte Carlo with about 800 in
fiye-franc pieces. He lost the money
slowly and painfully, and late that
night, in q corner of the gardens he
fired revolver and with u loud groan
fell full length on the grass.
INSTANTLY three or four dark, Silent
figures rushed up filed his pockets
with money. and left him there to be
discovered in the morning by the DO.
lice.
but long before morning the en-
terprising Yankee, his pockets distend,
ed with gold. had shaken the dust of
Monte Carlo from his feet "--Wash-
inStcn Post.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-11-25
How They Voted.

What happened in Ohio and New
York and Pennsylvania and Maryland
ana i'll other states on Tuesday recalls
one Of the best OF the Uncle Chester
Thomas stories.
There Vas a hot municipal contest
going on in Topeka. On the day OF
The election Uncle Chester. who hat
been milking n tour of the polls. drove
Dreathlessly TO the party headquarters
and, approaching his eldest son, ex
Claimed. in that comical quaverinf
voice which nobody but George n
Peck could ever quite initiate:
D0iph, go down quick to the Sec
ond Ward; the fellers down there arc
voting just as they ID please
Kansas City Star.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-11-25

Judge Rentoul, X. c., in one of the
London courts, has just rendered
Judgment in favor Of money lender
against a borrower, the order being to
the effect that the latter must pay
the former ten pounds, eight shillings
and ten pence nj the rate of one penny
month. AS it will take 200 years
for the debt to be discharged we fear
the money lender will not live to fully
enjoy the benefits of the verdict rem.
dcred in his favor.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-11-25
Relteratss Statement That Dep.
uiy Fired on Him.
VICTIM A FEDERAL OFFIsER
About Twenty See Execution in Jail
Corridor at Rocky Mount-Negro
Said He Died Without Hard Feeling
Towards Any One.
(speelal to the Daily rress.,


ROCKY MOUNT, VA, Nov. pa
Ccpiias .PoindeXter. colored, AZ years
old, was hanged today in the corridor
of the jail for killing United States
Marshal Zach Field Wade ON July &c.
Wade had n warrant fer Pondextei' $
arrest for selling liquor without q IL
cense and, approaching Piondexter's
house near Union Hall, i'll this country
about daylight, called 10 Poindexte.'
to come out.
Po!ndeXter came with /; gun in Ills
hand and, according TO the testimony,
shot the officer down. poindcxter
said that Wade shot at him twice be-
fore he fired on the officer, and he dc
clared that lie did not know that the
officer was there to arrest him, bus
that he believed him To be some Fer
son who contemplated robbery.
The negro walked with steady steps
TO the. gallows and expressed himself
as ready to so; said he had no unkind
feeling toward the officers of the law,
but told Cmmonwealth's Attorney
Dilkard that his punishment with
death was unjust.
PoindeXter reiterated his statement
on the gallows that Wade shot at him
twice before he shot him. and that
he did not know who the officer was.
Deputy Sheriff J. p. Hodges adjusted
tile rope and he pulled the black cap
over his face. He asked the deputy
TO LET him speak again. when he an.
nounced to those present, his spiritual
adviser particularly, that he was going
to heaven. Then the rope was read
justed and the cap drawn.
The execution WAS witnessed by
about twenty persons. The trap was
sprung by Sheriff Nicholson at eleven
o'clock, and Drs. Wood. Chitwood, vii.
Hams and Green declared life extinct
il fifteen minutes.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-11-25
DAMNATioN.
ls Part of Nature, Says Parkhurst-
Pratt Cites New Graft"


Pratt Cites New Graft"
NEW YORK, Nov. 2i.-Rev. Dr.
Parkhurst. in the Madison Avenul
Presbyterian Church, told his congre.
CATION he believed i'll damnation.
"Thc apparent cruelties attributes;
to Cod he said, "are not a circum.
stance to the cruelties in nature Nat.
ural laws pay no more attention 10
man than dog.
Saints as well as sinners were
burned in The Windsor fire and in the
Slocum disaster. If God burns up !.
body he will burn up a
soul that gets in the way of his moral
laws. The God OF love in 1855 de-
stroyed 10000 persons in the Lisbon
earthquake. He does not amend ply
steal laws to save saints
IF man will not accept Gods moral
laws then should say that God would
damn him and | should further say
that God ought 10 damn him.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-11-25

In speaking Of the personnel of the
ing Bob Evans is reported to have
said that 10000 British and Amer
lean sailors with their pockets full Of
than similar number of college stu
dents would have done If things
were as they should be that would
be high compliment, but under cx-
listing conditions il is doubtful il it is.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-11-25
Rainy DAYS.

Il took out life insurance in order
to put something by for q rainy day.
Yes" answered the cynical citizen
who has been following the life insu-
rance investigation, "but you know
how little conscience some people
have about another mans umbrella -
Washington Star.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-11-25
No Way to Escape.

Little Freddy (after listening to The,
usual matutinal quarrel between his
lather and MISUNDERSTANDING if lit.
Tie boy is very. very good all the time
When he is little, does he have to
gel married when he's grown up?-
Tales.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-11-25

fire at Connellsville, Pa, destroy
cd 100000 gallon of whislsey Is this
a practical illustration of Fighting tho
the devil with fire."
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-11-25

lt Mr. Hyde will really sell all
that he has and leave the country no
one will feel like challenging the
statement that the life Insurance in
ycstigation has accomplished some
good.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-11-25

The Washington Star thinks MIR.
James II. Hyde Should be presented
with 4 copy of the fable about the
people who killed the goose that laid
the golden egg" An engrossed copy
of the story OF Ananias ana Sapphra
would be more appropriate.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-11-25

Although resident of the liter
airy belt" that Indiana minister who
says Lead Kindly Light" is untitled
for use as song of praise, has thus
far rcfrained from giving us some
thing just as good.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-11-25

Describing graft" methods, Rev.
George S. Pratt. of the Church OF tho
Archangel, said that the clergy, in
many cases, We're In league with I'M
dertakers and accepted gifts" to turn
over business to them. An undertaken
he said, had approached him.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-11-25

With turkey quoted at 20 cents per
pound, eggs forty cents dozen and
cranberries at $l3 Il barrel thanksgiv-
Ing will be undertaken with serious
handicap.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-11-25

tested instead Of going dowp to the
underlying causes Of the conditions.
Your average politician = and physi-
clan is in his element when be has n
promising case Of symptoms on hand.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-11-25

Mrs. lIetty Green has just observed
her 10th birthday. but she is not yet
old enough to know that it sis more
blessed 10 give than to receive"
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-11-25

While no one suposes that the dem.
ohstrations Of the London poor threat.
en- revolution, they are certainly sym.
tomato Of the unrest Of the lower or.
ders pretty much all over europe
Richmond News Leader.
Yes; and 1t is safe wager that
tue political philosophers Of Europe
VIII treat the symptoms thuf mani.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-11-25
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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-11-25

Lots Of Fun Would Have Been Lost
What pity it would have been if
MI Hydc's talents had been buried i'm
an ambas5aGorship!- American
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-11-25

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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-11-25

Alas. For FatherIy Teachings.
Teddy, Jr.. is playing football and
quentin may turn out to be a bache.
lor.-New York World.
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Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-22
CONGO SCANDALS CONTINUE
Women Held to Secure Carrier. nm
Routes and Payment of
Taxes.

PARIS. Oct H-(SpeciaI Cablegram to
The ee.)-The French Congo scandals
continue. The Matin has just published
extracts from a report sent to the minis
ter for the colonies from Brazzaville In
which NJ dc Brazza asserted that the
means employed for the collecting of the
taxes was to seize and detain the women
and children. out of fifty-eight women and
ten children held at Cangui. forty-flve
women and two children died in five weeks.
This, he asserted, was not an isolated case.
Here are some of the extracts of the re-
ports of M de Brazza upon the subject:
The seizure of women in the native viii
of securing carriers on the route from
Fort Possel 10 Fort Crampel not to sneak
OF the region which / have visited per
sonally. In the same district at the pres
ent moment II is still considered the natu-
raj accompaniment Of all measures Of re-
preston. Indeed, at the time when the
news of the dispatch Of my mission to the
Just arrived there as the result OF a puni.
tive expedition into the Haute Komm
five days march from the fort.
When the minister heard through private
letters Of the rising in the Gabun regior
he teegra phed for Information. NJ. Cent?
replied that everything was going on well
and that the colony was in a fourishina
condition. In conclusion, he added thai
the caoutchouc crop had been exceptiOnaliy
abundant in the Begoudou and Lakho re-
gions Now there are no such places Al
Begoudou and Lakho, ana those persons IT
the colony who knew about this fantastic
telegram were perfectly astounded.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-22
STEEL MANUFACTURERS MEET
Factories of Europe See Prospect of
Successful Season In Iron
Trade.

LONDON, Oct. 21.-(Special Cablegram
to The Bee )-The autumnal meeting Of
the Iron and Steel institute has Just been
held at Sheffield under very favorable
auspices. There was a promise OF pros
perity for masters and men; the attend
ance was the largest on record; and all
Of the captains OF industry in the town
have thrown open their works TO the
visitors, many of whom came from the
continent and who linger for the purpose
OF studying the methods of the British
manufacturers.
'It is with great satisfaction" said Mr..
Hadfeld. that ! preside over the insti-
tute at a time when trade prospects seem
so much better in every country. trust
prosperity both to employer and en-
ployed. =
81 was told only few days ago that
In an important trade union branch in
Shefiield. whose members number some
thing like 1000, that there was not single
unemployed man on the unemployed book. -
Sir Charles Eliot, the vice chancellor
said that he believed that Sheffield uni
| versity was the only university, at any
rate In England, which recognized metal.
lurgy as science.
Professor Arnold had told him that the
mining engineers in South Africa, many
of whom drew salaries amounting to many
thousands OF dollars, were almost without
! exception, Americans.
1--WE certainly require some institution.
commented Sir Charles Eliot, that will
enable us to provide in England the ma
terisl to hll these posts"
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-22
WATERSPOUI OFF ENGLAND
Novel Spectacle IL Seen in Waters
on the Isle of
wight.

LONDON, oct. 21.-(Special Cablegram to
The ee)-The unusual spectacle OF a
waterspout In English waters was wit
messed recently of the eastern end Of the
Isle OF Wight, A government hopper was
dumping mud excavated from Portsmouth
harbor some distance of the Nab lightshlp
at the time,
There were nine men on board and. ac-
cording 20 the statements OF the master.
Mr. Anderson, who has served in the East
Indies and was familiar with such phe-
nomenon. the great column Of water, which
was 100 feet high, was travelling toward his
craft in an easterly direction. There had
been a heavy thunderstorm, with torrents
Of rain, but there was very little wind The
waterspout, which had the appearance Of a
great white cloud, could be seen advancing
rapidly. while the sea all around IL was
churned up AS II would have been dan.
gerous for the hopper 70 remain in the nat IN
OF this great mass OF water, the CAPTAIN
promptly put back 10 Portsmouth Ter
minutes later the captain saw it pass over
/ the spot where his craft had been. Tn,
column OF water was last seen going dowr
the channel
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-22
OLD EXILE is AT LIBERTY
AIexI ToriEOni, Sentenced for Com
pIicity in AssassinHtiOn of CEar,
Talks of War.

KOBE, Oct 21.-(Special Cablegram TO
The Bee)--Among the Russians who have
escaped from Sakhalien and who have
taken refuge al Kobe Is a man evidently Of
education and distinction. He is Alexi Tori
goni. a doctor of law, and was condemned
10 exile In Sakhalien twenty-five years ago
as an accomplce of the assassins OF Alex
ander II.
He is now 50 wears of age. Dr. Torigoni
speaks highly Of the manner in which the
convicts have been treated by the Japanese
authorities
Or. Torigoni knew nothing Of the actual
progress Of the war until his arrival in
Japan. and on learning Of the successive
disasters to the Russian arms he said:
Had the Russian government adopted
the principles Of reform which advocated
twenty-five years ago there would have
been no such disasters"
DR. Torigoni has written many hooks
during his exile and he hopes Ia publish
some Of them In England and America
Five years after his arrival at SakhallIen he
was freed from his chains and five years
later he became an exile settler. lie ex-
poets to settle in America.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-22
FOOT BALL SCORES.

Bellevue, 2Si Creighton, o.
Michigan, 81; Nebraska, D.
Omaha, Al south Omaha, u.
BOyIes, 81 Ashland, o.
Pennsylva MIA, 81 Brown, @.
Naval Cadets, asa North Carolina. o..
Harvard, o, West Point. o.
Cornell, 3Ot Western Penna., o.
Columbia, 10, Amherst, 10.
Chicago, ~ wisconsin, o..
Kansas, 34I oklahoma, o.
Princeton, 22j Lafayette, 4.
Purdue, 20j Illinois. q.
pRrtmOHtb. 24g WilltappE, o. .,s.,4-ss.
Andover, 81 Harvard Freshmen, &,
Minnesota, 30j Iowa, o.
Northwestern, o. Kentucky, q.
Ohio, 32J DepRuw, @.
Council BLUFFS, III Sioux City, o.
Lincoln, 20I Chicago No. Division, o.
Hastings, 35i Dorchester, o.
PlattsmOuth, 81 Nebraska City, D.
wabash, 81 NOtre Dame, o.
Ames, 63; simpson, q.
Carlisle Indians, 80; Dickinson, o.
Illinois College, 81 State Normal o.
Beatrice, 55i WymOre, o.
Omaha Commercials. II; HaVeIOck, o.
OnawR, lit MnpIetOn, u.
Harlan, 42j WOOdbine Normal. o.
Aurora, 15i Grand Island. o.
Missouri, q; Haskell. o,
Grinnell, 3; Drake, 4.
Iowa Normal, o. Cornell. q.
Indiana, 30j Washington, q.