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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-06
EDUCATIONAL,

Observation-Disclosures de-.
partment. A thorough business train
ing given for entry into commercial
life. Terms reasonable. Apply to Au-
gustana college.
VILLA DE CHANTAL-A home school
conducted for girls by the Sisters of
the Visitation. Rudimentary and high
er branches and all polite accomplish
ments taught. Twentieth street and
Fifteenth avenue Rock Island.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-06

STORAGE - On first floor;
also manufacturer of awnings, tents,
wagon covers, etc. Tents for rent.
B. Roessler & Co., 209 Fifteenth
street, opposite the court house. Rock
Island
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-06

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., at a private Ger
man boarding house; first class meals
home cooking; nice rooms, with steam
heat; bath and gas; price reasonable;
1405 Fourth avenue: old phone SAY
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-06

GEORGE H. SIDwELL & CO. Com
mission merchants. Grain, hay and
provisions. Members of the Chicago
board of trade and Chicago stock ex-
change. Established 25 years.. No.
542 and SAB Rialto building. Long dis
taii.e phone. Harrison 1865.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-06

HAYES & CLEAVELANn-The pioneer
agency. Old time and fire tested COM
panies. Fire, lightning, plate glass
tornado, accident, life, or almost any
form of risk. Ground floor office 21O
to 21S Eighteenth street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-06
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.

II. j. TOHER & CO. Brokers, Daven
port. Stocks, grains, provisions. cot
ton. Private wire to New York and
Chicago. Offices, 100 Main street. Tel
ephone 407.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-06
FLORISTS.

HENRY GAETHJE - Proprietor Chip
piannock nursery. Cut flowers and
designs of all kinds. City store, 1907
Second avenue. Telephone ITO
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-06

MASONIC BOARD OF CONTROL-H
d. Mack, president; f. 7. Myers. Sec
retary.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-06
EXPRESS, STORAGE. BUS AND CAB.

ROBES TRANSFER COMPANY - 100
West Seventeenth street. Old phone
1881; new phone 515S. New storage
building. Express, baggage, bus and
cab calls answered day or night.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-06

WE WILL BOND YOU-Executors', ad-
ministrators', guardians, trustees. or
society officers; city, state or U. S
government officials; contractors, po-
sitions of trust; in fact, any kind of
bond you want Except bail bonds).
Terms reasonable. Hayes &, Cleave-
land, resident managers Fidelity &
deposit company of Maryland.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-06

ROCK ISLAND COMMANDERY NO. IS.
X. T.-Meets in stated conclave on
the second Monday of each month.
H A. j. Mcdonald, E. c.; r. c. Willer-
ton, recorder.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-06

MONEY loaned to salaried people and
others, without security; easy pay
ments; no publicity. Call and get our
terms and method of doing business
Office hours, a. m. to p. m. Tele-
phone north PAIL. Victor Finance
company, 271a and % McManus build
ing, Second and Main streets, Daven-
port.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-06

LOANS ON REAL ESTATE SECURITY
at lowest rates. Ludolph & Reynolds
lawyers, Buford block, corner Seven
teenth street and Second avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-06

FOR SALE-A house of four rooms, al
most new, with good cellar and well;
level lot; in the eastern part of city,
near Sixteenth avenue car line: $3.50 :
part down, balance on time. This is
good value. Bcecher Bros, 1513a
Second avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-06
INSURANCE.

f. cox - Real estate and
insurance. Loans a speciality. Best
fire companies represented. Your pat
ronage solicited. Phones west %, and
new SIP. Office at court house.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-06

FOR RENT - Two nice unfurnished
rooms at 532 Twentieth street.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
FEAR A WATER FAMINE.
Wells in Sullivan County Going Dry
Crops Ruined.

White Lake, N. Y.-Never before
in the memory Of the oldest residents
Of Sullivan County has such an ap-
palling situation been faced as that
which now confronts the thousands of
summer boarders from Manhattan
and Brooklyn because of the scarcity
of drinking water. Unless there Is a
considerable amount of rain within
the next few days, water will be so
scarce that it will be a luxury.
At Mongaup Valley, three miles
from here, nearly every farmhouse
and hotel has its own we'll, and where
there has always been an abundance
of good drinking water, a petition is
being circulated calling upon the To-
cal priest to offer up mass on Sunday
next for rain. Crops of every descrip-
ton have been ruined.
There are only two wells that have
not run dry in the principal part of
the valley. 1t is NJ uncommon sight
to see men and women carrying wat
er for a mile or more from these
wells, their own having dried up.
Here the situation is no better,
and those who are fortunate enough
to have water have been selling it
to many of the fashionable hotels
here.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
SHOCK KILLS GENERALS SON.
L. h. Carter Meets Death Cleaning q
Chandelier in University.

Chicago. - l.. H. Carter, son Of
Brigadier-General W. H. Carter, Of
Chicago, commanding the Depart
ment of the Lakes, was killed instant>
ly by a remarkable electric shock sus-
tanned in the dairy Dom of the Uni.
versity of Illinois at Champaign,
where he was a special student.
Young Carter was stone dead when
found. AS is customary in industrial
schooling, he had been set at the task
of polishing and cleaning a combina-
ton electric and gas chandelier hang
ing from the ceiling of a room in the
dairy. A piercing scream was heard
by G.. G. Potter, a fellow student-em-
ploye, who was busy in an adjoining
room in the building. Potter rushed
to the aid of the young man and
found he had received a current Of
electricity. i3$z$E
Carter had been standing upon a
small stationary engine while reach.
ing up to the chandelier. The en-
CINE was fastened with bolts driven
through the concrete floor, and this
completed the circuit. A ladder was
leaning near by, and when Potter
rushed into the room Carriers ~lifeless
body had fallen over against it, but
the hands of the dead man were still
clutched tightly over the chandelier,
which had been partly wrenched from
its fastening, Potter seized the body
and it fell to the floor, thus breaking
the circuit.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25

Washington, D. c. Secretary of
Agriculture Wilson, who has just re-
turned from a trip extending to the
Pacific Coast, can see nothing but a
continuance of good times.
THE people of the West" he said,
"are not fearful of a panic or of hard
times. The West is prosperous.
There is plenty of money. In fact, I
have reason to believe that the West
is loaning money to the East, instead
Of the East to the West. And this Is
| being done at good rates of interest.
| The people of the West are not wor-
rying over Wall Street and its trou-
bles. They scarcely, know that such
troubles exist, save as they read Of
them in the newspapers. The rest OF
the country is no longer dependent
On Wall Street.
Grain crops generally will be
good, with the exception Of oats.
There will be a good corn crop, not a
bumper crop, but a good one, if frosts
do not come too early. Prices for
farm products and for stocks are high
and the farmers are making money"
Farmers are getting more money
for their grains this year than in any
former year, and the shortage of the
! yield-i in bushels is being made up by
the advance in prices. A banker from
South Dakota, who has been in that
section for years, while in Chicago
last week, made this statement
"Banks in South Dakota have larger
deposits than they have ever held,
and farmers are getting more dollars
for what they have to sell than in any
veal on record. Last year at this
time they sold their wheat at sixty to
sixty-five cents, while now they are
securing ninety-tWo cents. Oats sold
at twenty-five cents last year, and
are now bringing thirty-fve cents.
Barley that sold at thirty cents last
rear brings sixty-fve cents. Live cat
tie sell for 81 to $1.25 per 100
pounds more than last year. while
hogs are selling at the same prices as
Z year ago, and there are lots of
them. Of corn, we are not raising
any more than needed for home use.
Wheat is of fine quality, although
yields are not heavy. This also ap-
plies to all other grains"
The above story represents the con-
iitions In the West, despite the fact
that prosperity stories are being over
worked. There has been a conserva-
tive recession in business in nearly
every line, which has been beneficial,
as things were going too fast. But
there is a good, healthy business,
which denotes steady consumption of
goods at satisfactory prices. A ma
jority of the people in the agricultu-
raj regions are in as good condition
as last year for the purchasing of
goods, as the advance in prices makes
them feel easy. In fact, they are in
better condition than are any other
class of consumers.
Notwithstanding the fears in the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
killed IN CANADIAN Wreck
Crowded Excursion Train Left
Track at CaIedon, Ontario.
Engine and Five Cars Thrown Into q
Ditch-Six Passengers Perish
and Many Are Injured.

Orangeville, Ontario. Five pas!
senger cars Of a special Canadian Pa.
cific. passenger train from Markdale
to Toronto were wrecked and hurled
into a ditch near Caledon. Six per-
sons are dead and a large number of
others are seriously injured. The
train, which was heavily loaded, left
Owen Sound about 8 o'clock, and
when it reached Orangeville was one
hour behind its schedule.
From Orangeville there is a pro.
nounced down grade for some dis.
lance. The locomotive left the track.
Five Of the seven cars followed. The
engine driver, Mack Grims, of Tees
water, formerly. Of Orangeville, was
shot through the window of his en-
CINE cab. He escaped almost unhurt.
and not a train hand was killed.
All. the six men who were killed
were riding in the smoking car, next
to the locomotive. Word of the ca
tastrophe was sent to Orangeville and
a train was sent out bearing all the
doctors of the town and the necessary
medical supplies.
Caledon, the scene of the wreck, is
forty-two miles northwest Of Toron-
to, and is directly on the line of the
Canadian Pacific running to Owen
Sound. 1t is in Peel County, in the
township Of Caledon, seven miles by
rail to the southeast Of Orangeville,
or six miles direct.
The dead: Norman Tucker, Flesh
ertown; John Thurston, Waterfalls;
James Banks, Perm; James Butler,
Priceville; w. A. Armstrong, Mark
dale; Robert Carr, Shelbourne.
Seriously injured: A. j. Robinson,
Orangeyille; j. M. Davis, Markdale;
s.. Boggs, Guelph; A. Mcdonald and
Mrs. Mcdonald, Shelbourne; Mrs. DR..
Caldwell, Fleshertown; Mr. McCor-
mick, Markdale; James Brander,
Priceville; Mrs. s. Webster, Mornings
Mills; G.. E. Gray, Markdale; ]. A.
Jelly, Shelbourne; H. H. Albert, Or
a%ngeville; r. A. Jelly, Shelbourne;
Maggie Patterson and Sarah Patter-
SON., Badgerow; John Clayton, Mark
dale; John Boyd, Fleshertown; Mar
garet McDougall and John McDou-
gall, Dundalk; Harold Merter, Mark
dale; John Curry, Orangeville; M. K.
Richardson, Fleshertown; NJ. H.
Bunt, F~leshertown.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
BLOODSHED IN ANTWERP.
Dock Strikers Burn Lumber and At
tack Imported Laborers.

tack Imported bor
Antwerp, Belgium. - The dock
strike, which for a month has oc-
casioned frequent collision between
the strikers and the police and i'm
ported laborers, has now become
more violent and there are frequent
scene of bloodshed and incendiarism.
Laborers imported from England
and Germany to break the strike have
been attacked and beaten, especially
the former. The police in protecting
the strike breakers charged with
sabres and revolvers. A policeman
was struck with a paving stone and
killed. The strikers overturned carts
and used them as barbados during
the fight. Near the horse market six
men were wounded and some women
and children were hurt. The shops
and saloons are closed.
The strikers attacked the wood
yards and eight piles Of timber were
blazing at 10 o'clock at AustraWed,
near the town. Civic guards have
been posted at the petroleum tanks at
Hoboken to prevent them from being
set aire.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
BURGLAR KILLS OFFICER,
THEN COMMITS SUICIDE
Chief of Police George Cassidy,
of Lyndhurst, NJ, the Victim.
Thief FIRED ON HIS PURSUERS
Italian Murderer's Spectacular End in
Passaic Marsha Kind of Bill
Sykes Death After Coldblooded
Shooting Of a Policeman.

Lyndhurst, N. IA thief caught
in the act here killed his captor and
then, when about to be r~ecaptured,
committed suicide with the last shot
in his revolver, from which he had
fred a fusillade at his pursuers.
Patrolman George Cassidy, of this
place, was the victim. He was shot
and instantly killed by one of two
burglars whom he had arrested on
suspicion while on his way home at S
o'clock in the morning. He had seen
the strange men walking along Valley
Brook avenue, and quickly recog-
nized a coat on one Of their arms as
belonging to Mrs. Margaret M. Hol-
den, who conducts a grocery only 2
few doors from where he lived.
The brave young policeman used
DOOR judgment in not covering the
men with his revolver, for when he
reached the grocery store and raped
on the sidewalk with his night stick
one Of the burglars suddenly drew a
revolver and shot Cassidy through
the heart.
Mrs. Holden had heard the men
talking, and had gone to her bedroom
window. She heard Patrolman Cas-
sidy tell the men they had no right
with her coat, and she saw the young
officer shot to death. She screamed
for help. AS the policeman dropped
the burglars separated and ran In OPP
posite directions.
Asa L. circuit, foreman in the Del
aware, Lackawanna and Western
Railroad shops at Kingsland, had
seer the policeman and the prisoners
pass his house while he was waiting
for the baker. He heard the shot and
saw the burglar-murderer dash past
revolver in hand. circuit went into
his house, grabbed his revolver and
followed the escaping He yelled
for help as he ran, but did not pause
to tell what the trouble was for fear
of losing sight Of his a
The burglar reloaded his revolver
and would pause long enough to fire
an occasional shot at his pursuers.
circuit has grit and was determined
to catch the man or die in the at
tempt.
Through brush q DuSh ana muu
and water went circuit, close on the
burglar. The latter became weary,
and when near the Avondale bridge
over the Passaic River he lay down
from exhaustion and sent a bullet
into his brain.
He was removed to the Passaic
Hospital and died during the after
noon. On him was found a receipt
made out to Alexander Lundeno by
the Elizabeth Mattress Company.
Neighbors carried Patrolman Cas-
sidy to his home, two doors away, and
broke the news to his young wife.
They had one child, a daughter, n
year old.
Mrs. Holden says a coat vas the
only thing stolen from her store. The
burglars had evidently used a key to
open the door, for there were no
signs of violence.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
Stub Ends Of News.

Beer in the form of tablets is the
latest.
In Chicago five men die to every
two women.
The motor boat will soon supplant
the steam launch in the British navy.
Young Kingdom Gould, with five
Columbia students, will prospect for
gold in Arizona.
Because Of frequent assaults upon
priests in Italy the Pope has directed
them to 60 armed.
The cruisers Tennessee and Wash
ington, back from Bordeaux, were Or
dered to the Pacific.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
The Field Of Labor.

The Provision Trades Council, Of
Chicago, ILL.,, and vicinity, represents
more than $1,000 individuals m
ployed producing or handling pro-
visions.
The Amalgamated Society OF Brit
ish Engineers will, after this year.
cease attending the Trades Union
Congress, and absent itself for az
least four years.
Suit was begun in the Supreme
Court, of the District of Columbia to
restrain the American Federation OF
Labor from carrying On a boycot1
against a manufacturer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
Women in the Days News.

There is a growing list Of Chicago
women who are interested in com
mercial enterprises.
Mrs. Won Bredon, daughter of Sem
ator Newlands and wife Of a German
army officer, died in Berlin.
The Empress of Germany slipped
and fell while playing tennis, so in
juring a leg that she must stay In bed
some weeks.
The highest salaried woman in the
Government service is Miss Estelle.
Reel, inspector of Indian schools.
She receives $4,000 a year and ex-
DenseS.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
Baseball BreyitieS.

"Ty" Cobb is one of the main rea
sons why Detroit has a chance for the
flag.
The Boston American Club has
four scouts on the road. George Huff
is the leader.
Lever and Philippe are old-timers
all right, but just the same they have
been performing consistent.
than other members Of the PittsbuIl'
tWirling staff.
Charley Hickman has played in
Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Washing
ton and Chicago in the American
League.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
DISTRESS IN JAPAN.
Toxic Caring For $4,000 Sufferers
Through Floods.

Tokio.-In Toxic alone $4,000 peo-
pie. left homeless by the floods, are
being cared for at public expense.
About the same number are being
cared for in the Prefecture of Sal
tana. There is no doubt that thou
sands of others are homeless. The
whole town Of Tukuchivama, near
Kiota, was submerged. Many people
are missing.
The American Consulate at Hako-
date estimates the loss caused by the
confagration there at So, 100000.
About fifteen thousand houses were
burned and sixty thousand people are
homeless.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
SHOT PRISONER IN CELL.
Fire Chief of Franklin, Ohio, Kills
Man Who Eloped With His Wife.

Dayton, Ohio.-Fire Chief B. H.
Millner, of Franklin, shot and in
stantly killed j. Fl. Little, who re-
Gently eloped with his wife and who
was returned to Franklin for trial.
Millner entered the police station
and going directly to Little's cell fired
two shots which lodged IL the victims
breast.
Millner became a raving maniac
and was put under guard.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
TICKLES SLEEPERS TO DEATH.
Fiipinos and Foreigners Ask War
Department to Stop Raids.

Washington, D. C.-Military and
civil authorities in the province of
Antique, Island of Panay, Philippine
Islands, have received appeals from
natives and foreigners to suppress a
band of night maurauders the men,
bers of which prod lances through
cracks in the floors of the houses and
tickle people while they sleep.
In a number of instance the "tick-
ling" has been fatal, and, according to
the advices received at the War De-
partment, the residents of the prov
inces have become panic stricken.
They have been advised to stuff up
the cracks in the floors or to sleep
high. The authorities are doing
everything in their power to capture
the band. .t
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
VAST RICHESIN THIS YEARS. CROP
Farmers Getting More Dollars For All They Have to Sell, and, Therefore, Are
~. in Better Condition Than Any Other Class Of Consumers.

early summer that the long, cold
spring would bring disaster to the
crops, it Is now assured that nature
once more will bless this country
with abundant harvests. 1t is true
that the phenomenal yield of corn and
wheat last year may not be quite
equalled, but it Is also true that the
output will exceed the average Of re-
cent years, and at the same time the
increase in the value of farm products
is likely to far nor than offset the
decline. in the aggregate yield. '-
There may De a decrease in wheat
of possibly 100000 bushels, but
with the price more than twenty cents
a bushel above the corresponding
time last year there ought to be a
net increase of $75,000,000 to $780,
900, 900 in the value of the wheat
crop over that of 1906. With an in
crease in the price of corn and cotton,
the falling off in these crops likewise
doubtless will be offset by their high
er values: Thus the farmers of the
country are once more blessed with a
vast income-an income so great as
compared with five or six years ago
that it is difficult to comprehend the
magnitude Of the gain. The value OF
farm products in different years has
been as follows:
Years.
1851 9I,slSivOO,ouo
1871. s,1oo'ooo,ooo
lSUU. .... f,ilL.oOV,Ooo
lSu0 O,flo,ooO,JoU
1906. 6,794, O0O, 900
1907 (~est;mated) 1000. DOC. 900
The increase in the last seven years
of s2,2S3,000,000 is a gain of nearly
fifty per cent. in that time. This
gain in sever years is almost equal
to the total value of the farm pro-
ducts of the country in 1890. In the
latter year the per capita production
Of all engaged in agriculture was
S287, almost exactly the same as in
1880, while at the present time the
per capita of all engaged in agricul-
ture is about $500.
The prosperity Of the farmers is
seen not only in the paying off of
hundreds of millions of farm mort
cages and in the building of better
homes, but also in the heavy deposits
in the country banks throughout the
West and South. Every banker in all
the agricultural regions of the coun-
try has been impressed during the
last few years with the great Increase
in the deposits of farmers, and in
many portions of the South a large
proportion of the deposits in country
banks is made up of surplus accumu-
lations of the agricultural classes.
With such fundamentally sounc con-
ditions it is scarcely possible for the
country again to sink into the depths
of panicky times such as we have had
in the past.
So far as the South is concerned, it
is quite safe to count that this section
will receive for its cotton and cotton
seed an aggregate Of $500, 00O,0 900.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
Hurled Babe From Bridge.

Albert Stemmelen, a bookkeeper
for the Wessen estate, became insane
at Detroit, Mich, and taking his two
year-old daughter Helen to the Belle
island Bridge, threw her into the De-
troit River and watched the little one
struggle and drown. S~temmelen's In
sanity is of the religious order, and
he believed he was making an accept
able human sacrifice.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
FINES IF THEY WON'T WORK.
New Zealand Court of Appeals De-
cides Against Strikers.

Wellington, New Zealand. The
Court of Appeals has finally declared
that the strike of the slaughterhouse
men and their sympathizers is illegal.
The workingmen who are partici-
pating in it, the court holds, are vio-
lating the award Of the court of arbi.
tration and may be fined, and in case
of non-payment of the fine may be
imprisoned for a term not exceeding
one year.
All the partakers in the slaughter
mems strike are liable to fine or i'm
prisonment.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
NO TAX FOR LIBRARY
Town Refuses to Support Bookless
Carnegie Gift.

Tahlequah, Indian Territory.-At
a special election here a proposed tax
to maintain the Carnegie library was
defeated. The library building cost
$4,000. 1t was finished more than
a year ago, but has been bookless to
date. With a population of only
1000, most of the citizens felt a Ii
brary tax would be too great. The
question divided the town into two
factions.