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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-20
YESTERDAY IN CONGRESS

Washington, Feb. 20.-Following are
in brief, the proceedings of the two
houses of congress yesterday as taken
from the. official records:
SENATE-A speech by Senator john
ston of Alabama on the Aldrich cur
rency bill and a statement by Senator
Hale. chairman of the committee on
naval affairs, concerning the proposed
investigation of charges or defects in
construction of battleships. We're the
chief subjects of interest before the
senate yesterday. At 40 p. m. the SEN
ate adjourned
HOUSE-The bill providing for the
taking of the 18th census occupied most
of the time of the house. Progress with
il was slow because of numerous
amendments offered. The bill was
amended in one important particular,
however, and that was limiting the CEN
sus to the mainland of the United
States Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico
MFR. Henry of Texas urged the republi-
cans to bring in an employers liability
bill and a bill requiring notice before
the issuance of federal iniunctions. Al
i4:1T p. IN. the house adjourned.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-20

magistrate or by non-Catholic minis
ters.
According to the new decision, a
Catholic who marries a non-Catholic
unless in the prescribed form. is re-
garded as living in concubinage AS
many thousan Is of such marriages
take place every year in the United
States, the effects of the decision will
be very sweeping.
Asked to Make No Change.
t Many bishops in the United States
petitioned the holy see to retain the
old legislation on the subject, in view
of the special conditions prevailing i'll
the United States. but the pope him
self on being consulted decided not
to make new exceptions and to abol-
ish the old ones in order to insure
uniformity of the marriage laws
throughout the world.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-20
ALL NIGHT ON ROAD
One Car in Long Auto Race
Makes Seven Miles in Path
Opened by Farmers.
RESTlNGAT KENDALVlLLE, IND.
ST. chaffray Stuck in Orift-Ger-
mans Break Wheel and Machine
is Put in a Barn.

Kendallville, Ind, Feb. 20.-Monta-
que Roberts, driving the American car
in the New York to Paris automobile
race. drove through the city at S:35
this morning, having spent the entire
night battling with the snow storm.
He left Corunnq at 7:3O last night and
farmers along the road practically
shoveled the way for him the entire
distance of seven miles to this city.
st. Chaffray Stuck In "a Drift.
st. Chaffray, with the French car,
is stuck in the snow drifts five and
one-half miles east of here. Roberts
was greatly exhausted after the nights
work and retired to bed in a hotel
with the intention not of resuming the
journey until ! this afternoon.
Germans Break Wheel.
Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 20.-The Ger
man car broke a wheel at Haybrook
late yesterday and was brought into
Geneva last night by four horses and
stored in a barn.
PASSES Bryan. Ohio.
Bryan, Ohio, Feb. 20.-The Italian
car passed here at 10 this morning
after an all night run from Toledo.
Tells Different story.
Fremont, Ohio. Feb 20.-The Ger
man car is struggling with the snow
just east of mere.
Second French Car Heard From.
Erie Pa, Feb. 20.-The second
French car in the New York TO Paris
race arrived here at noon today and
80 minutes later left for~Cleveland.
At Corunna. Ind, for Night.
Kendallyille, Ind, Feb. 20. - The
Thomas and De Dion cars, which are
now leading in the New York-Paris au-
tomobile race. arrived at Corunna,
! Ind, at $50 last night. During the
| heavy snow storm which lasted all
day the automobiles were only able to
make 81 miles.
! The three automobiles arrived at
! Waterloo at o'clock. Every part OF
the machines was covered with thick
frozen snow, and the men in the same
condition were chilled to the bone by
the continuous exposure. After a briei
consultation Roberts decided 10 try tC
get to Kendallville, a distance of IA
miles.
After leaving Waterloo the storm
increased in violence, and the snow
blew across the road in great drifts
By $50 they had only got as far as
Corunna, when it was thought best, as
the men were so exhausted by the
cold, to stay few hours and get some
thing to eat and thaw out little. Ii
turning into the road leading into Co
runna from the main road the Frencl
car ran into a. big snow bank and haC
to be dug out and towed into town b.
horses.
Sizaire-NaUdin AbnndOns Race.
New York, Feb. 20-The Sizaire
Naudin car, which was stalled at Re
Hook on the road to Albany, will no
continue the New York-Paris race. M
Pons, driver of the unfortunate me
: chine, returned to New York yestel
: day, and announced it hopelessly di:
, abled, as the broken part cannot b
replaced in this country.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-20
RUSSIA PROPOSES ,
TO SPEND BILLION
Financial Outline for Naval Program
Given Before Commission of
National Defense.

ST Petersburg. Feb. 20-Represen-
tatives of the Russian admiralty SUBJ
mitted today 10 the commission of
national defense of the duma a finan-
cial outline of the much discussed
naval program. The program is to be
completed in 1917, and includes not
only the construction of a fleet of bat
tleships, but also certain amount of
photographic work at the several
ports of Russia. The expenditures in
volved amount to SLOTS. .000.OO
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-20
DEATH SENTENCE PASSED
UPON GENERAL STOESSEL

pany, Grand Rapids, 40 tons print, 80
tons pulp.
Consolidated Water Power COM
pany, Grand Rapids, 20 tons print, "a
tons pulp.
Park Mills, M&rinette, 80 tons print,
20 tons pulp.
Menasha Paper company, Menasha,
is tons print
Merrill Paper company, Merrill, 10
tons print, 20 tons pulp.
Neenah Paper company, Neenah, 25
tons print.
Flambeau Paper company, Park
Falls, 20 tons print, % tons pulp.
Edwards Manufacturing company,
Fort Edwards, 90 tons print, so tons
pulp.
Rhinelander Paper company, Rhine
lander, 40 tons print, 40 tons pulp.
Wisconsin River Paper & Pulp COM
pany, Stevens Point, 35 tons print, so
tons pulp.
Tomahawk Pulp & Paper company
Tomahawk, u tons print, tons pulp.
The Minnesota mills are:
Watab Paper &: Pulp company, Bar.
tell, so tons print, so tons pulp
Northwestern Paper company, Clio
quet, so tons print, 1212 tons pulp.
Itasca Paper company, Grand Rap
ids, 20 tons print, 25 tons pulp
Hennepin Piper company, Little
Falls, 25 tons print. % tons pulp.
The Michigan mill is the Cheboygan
Paper company al Cheboygau, 60 tons
print, 25 tons rulp.
Getting Rround LAW Mystery.
With the above mills in one com
pany, the print paper market will
| have passed from the hands of indi
| vidual owners. How this company
proposes to Keep from violating the
law which caused the dissolution o.
the General Paper company two year!
ago, is a mystery Mr.. Hanrahan ha:
not revealed, although he apparently
has solved the question to the salts
faction of eastern capitalists backing
the scheme and manufacturers whC
will place their plants in the consoli
| dated company.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-20
SENATOR CALLED
Latimer of South Carolina Sue
cumbs at Providence 1os-
pitaI, Washington.
RECENTLY OPERATED UPON
Found to be Suffering with DispIace-
ment of EoweIs-GeneraI Dodge,
Retired, U. S. A., Dies.

Washington, Feb. Ex-senator Lati-
mer of South Caroline died this morn
ing of peritonitis. He had been at
Providence hospital since Sunday, when
he underwent an operation for appen-
dicitis. 1t was then discovered he was
suffering with a far more serious all
ment His bowels had become twisted
and his condition was found to be such
that the surgeons held out little hope
for his recovery.
Fails After Rally.
He rallied, however, and his pro-
gress was satisfactory until last even
ing, when steadily he began to grow
worse. The body will be taken to
Bellon, South Carolina, for interment.
Senate AdjOurns.
AS mark Of respect to the late
Senator Lattmer the senate, after
adopting appropriate resolutions and
| the appointment of a committee for
the funeral, sGiourned until tomor-
row.
| General Dodge Dead.
Washington, Feb. 20.-Brigadier
General Dodge of the Unites States
army, retired, who was awarded a
medal of honor by congress for dis
tinguished gallartry at the battle of
White River in Colorado in the Indian
campaign in the COS, died here yes
lterday.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-20
CROWDING TO ISTHMUS
BUT THERE Is LITTLE WORK THERE

Washington, Feb. 20.--A reduction
in forces is being made by the 18TH
milan canal commission in the divisions
of building, construction and that of
mechanics, and also in the clerical
force on the lsthmus. Notwithstand-
ing these facts there has been a con-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-20
PHYSICIAN is UN0ER ARREST
Henry Martyr Hall, Jr., Charged with
Cruelty by His Sister.

Pittsburg, Feb. 20.-Dr Henry Mar
tyn Hall, Jr.. known all over the Unit
ed States as specialist in tubercular
troubles, was arrested at Ohio Pyle, in
the Allegheny mountains, on complaint
of his sister, Miss Caroline Hall, who
charges him with gross cruelty Miss
Hall is 81 years of age and is a ia
nous kindergarten worker DR.. Hall
is alleged to have placed a gag in his
sisters mouth, tied her feet with ropes
and then cruelty beat her with a trunk
strap. 1t is charged that on two occa-
sions he tied her hands and feet and
stood her out in the snow, without
shoes or stockings, and left her there
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-20

siderable numba~ of unemployed me-
chanics and clerks migrating to the
isthmus recently, but their chances of
securing employment are very remote
The commission is anxious prominence
be given to these facts as any vacan-
cies will be given to former employees
who have not left the isthmus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-20
Russian Court Martial
lnfIicts Maximum
Penalty
BUT URGES COM MUTING
General Fock Reprimanded but
SmirnOff and Reiss
Go Free.

st. Petersburg, Feb. 20.-General
General Fock has been reprimanded
and Generals Snirnoff and Reiss have
been acquitted.
Would Commute Sentence.
The court recommends the death
sentence upon Stoessel be commuted
to 10 years Imprisonment in fortress
and that he be excluded from service.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-20
FeVERIN GALVESTON HARBOR
TWO Officers of Steamship crispin,
from Brazil, Succumb to Disease.

Houston, Texas, Feb. 20.-Two
deaths from yellow fever have oc-
CURED in Galveston harbor within the
last two days, both men being officers
of the steamer Crispin, hailing from
Manos Cia Para, Brazil, which ar
rived at Galveston Sunday The vic
Tins were Third Engineer William
Davis and Third Officer F. E. Pritch-
ard. Davis died Monday night and
Pritchard yesterday morning. The
boat is under strict quarantine. 1t is
impossible for the fever to obtain foot
hold locally because of the cold
weather prevailing.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-20
ADMIRAL EVANS
NOT YET RECOVERED
Admiral Thomas - Reaches
CalIao.

Calloa, Feb. 20. 7:45 a. m.-The
American battleship feet has just
been sighted off this port. The latest
wireless dispatch from the Connecticut
says Rear Admiral Evans is still in
poor health, and that Rear Admiral
Charles NJ. Thomas has assumed
charge of the vessels.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-20
STUYvESANT FISH LOSES
FIGHT over central STOCK

) to choose delegates to the national
convention. Resolutions were adopted
endorsing the candidacy of William
II. Taft and praising the administra-
tion of President Roosevelt.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-20
No Action on Loan.
Alabama for Taft.

Birmingham Ala, Feb. 20-The
ninth Alabama republican executive
committee met here yesterday and
called a convention to meet here May
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-20
IS UNDER ARREST
John r. Hegsman, Head of Met
rOp0liian, Accused of Per-
jury and Forgery.

New York, Feb. 20.-John r. Hege-
man. president of the Metropolitan
Life Insurance company, presented
himself at the Office of the district at
torney today and was formally placed
under arrest on the charge of perjury
and forgery. He was paroled in the
custody of the district attorneys de-
tectives pending an appeal to the ap-
pellate division of the supreme court.
Temporary Receiver for Mutual.
Temporary receivers for the Mutual
Reserve Life Insurance company We're
appointed by Supreme Justice Platzek
today on the application of Attorney
: General Jackson.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-20
EIGHTEENTH AIDS CANNON

Speaker Declared "First, Second and
Third Choice" of Committee.
Danville, H., Feb. 20-The republi-
can congressional committee of the
Eighteenth district met yesterday in
Danville and nomed March 21 as the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-20
NEW YORK WITHOUT A MAYOR

Who Might Act as City's Head.
Nv York. Feb 20.-New York city
is today without a mayor. Mayor Nc
Clellan is at home at Princeton, \. J.,
suffering from an attack of grip.
President McGowan of the board of
aldermen is in Albany appearing be-
fore the legislative committee and Al
derman Sullivan, vice chairman of the
board, is in Hot Springs, Ark.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-01-15
FACTS ABOUT COSMOPOLITAN

C0sMoPoLIToN has made a sin.
gle outlay in the way OF material for
its readers that has not been sur
passed in the course OF the year b.
any magazine. A contract has been
entered into with the great English
short story writer. e. Phillips op-
penheim, for series of brilliant short
stories that will probably represent
a greater similar expenditure than
has even been made by a modern
magazine.
COSMOPOLITAN has secured the
greatest living playwright. George
Bernard shaw,-author of the ia
nous MAN and superman," and
Mrs. warren's Professor"-to write
seriss of articles dealing with great
human theme that will strike home to
thesheart of every single reader.
COSMOPOLITAN other great work.
men viii include such master minds as
Maurice Maeterllnck, Belgium's emf.
neht philosopher and literateur; Da.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-01-15
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The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-02-21
British Premier May Resign.

London.-Rumors have been nu-
merous III the lobbies of the house OF
commons of the iminent translation
Of Sir Henry mpbell-Bannerman to
the peerage or his resignation from the
premiership. Inquiries in the best in
formed quarters, however. indicate
that the premer's position has not
changed since the latter part of Janu-
ary, when 1t was said that he would
give his attention to only the more i'm
portant matters Of state.
Sir Henry is still far from robust
health, and before long. unless he be-
comes stronger, some definite course
must be taken. 1t is understood, how
ever, that no decision i5 likely to be
taken before Easter, when. il he finds
the duties of the premiership too great
a tax, he will resign his position in
favor of Herbert A. Asquith. and re-
tain his seat in the commons rather
than accept a peerage, thus following
Gladstone's example.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-02-21
Defense Of the Navy.

Washingt Metcalf has
received from Rear Admiral Washing
ton l.. Capps, chief constructor of the
navy a long report dealing with the
criticisms which have appeared re-
garding naval construction and which
formed the basis of the report of Adj
miral Converse. made public Sunday.
The report was made by direction of
Secretary Metcalf, who was anxious
to obtain from the chief of the bureau
having charge of naval construction
his views on the question. It was made,
Secretary Metclaf says, without con-
sultation with Admiral Converse, and
neither of the two officers was aware
of what The oter was doing. The views
expressed by Admiral Capps, Secretary
Metcalf says. are an emphatic refuta-
tiOn of the criticisms which have been
made and in all practical respects they
agree with the views of Admiral Con
verse. Admiral Capps' report goes into
the situation in much more detail
than did Admiral Converse; the report
which is accompanied by cuts and
drawings to demonstrate his position,
making in all about $50 pages.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-02-21
BABY CRIED AND SCRATCHED
All the Time-covered with Tortur
Ing Eczema-Doctor Said Sores
Would Last for Years-Per-
feet Cure by Cuticura.

"My baby niece was suffering from
that terrible torture, eczema. 1t was
all over her body but the worst was
on her face and hands. She cried and
scratched all the time and could not
sleep night or day from the scratch.
ing. I had her under the doctors
care for year and half and he
seemed to do her no good. I took her
to the best doctor in the city and he
said that she would have the sores
until she was six years old. But IL
had depended on the doctor my baby
would have lost her mind and died
from the want of aid. But I used
Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment
and she was cured in three months.
Alice L. Dowell, 4769 Easton Ave, St
Louis. Mo-, May and 20, 1907"
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-02-21
STORM RACES IN CHICAGO.
Windy City in Grasp Of Old Fashioned
Blizzard

Chicaso.-The most violent storm
that has visited Chicago in many years
commenced at o'clock Tuesday morn
ing, and at night is raging with in
creasing violence. with no prospect OF
. lessenng of its force before morn
ing.
BY o'clock in the afternoon seven
inches OF snow had fallen, and it was
still coming down heavily. The wind
at frequent intervals blew with ve-
locity of fifty miles an hour. and it
hurled the snow through the streets in
such binding clouds that it was impos-
slble TO see for greater distance than
a nall square, and often the range of
vision would be limited to a few feet.
A great number of accidents of a
minor Character were caused by COLI
sions between wagons and street cars.
Up to & O'Clock at night no serious cas-
ualties had been reported, although
quite number of people had been in
jured by wagons and by falls on the
pavement
At o'clock, when the home going
crowd was thickest, the wind was
blowing so heavily and the snow was
falling in such binding sheets that it
was positively dangerous to attempt to
cross Michigan avenue and its inter-
section with either Jackson boulevard
or Van Buren, street.
The crossings are used by thousands
of people every night to reach their
homes in the southern part of the city
and in the suburbs by means of the
Illinois Central railroad.
1t was found necessary to station a
large number OF city and park police
at those corners to assist women. and
often it was more than one officer
could do to pilot a woman across with
out assistance. 1t was out of the gues-
tion for woman to cross the street by
herself.
An officer was stationed half
square west of the crossing of Jackson
boulevard and Michigan avenue, with
orders to send women back or to bring
them through the Stratford hotel, by
which means the worst portion of the
crossing was evaded.
The street car companies and the
elevated roads Jared well throughout
the day, but the heavy increase Of
snow that came late in the afternoon
made desperate work for them. Every
available man and all the snow plows
were constantly at work in keeping
the tracks clear.
In the suburbs the trolley lines were
operated with great difficulty because
of the constantly increasing drifts and
locOmution became constantly more
difficult
1t was estimated at the weather b,l-
reau that the fall of snow would
amount to one foot or more by morn
ing.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-02-21
Northern Colorado Fair.

Fort COllins.-So successful was last
falls fair and race meeting that the
promoters of the enterprise have
started early to prepare their next
meeting, the first step being the incor.
poration OF Northern Colorado State
Fair Association, with the following
directorate:
W. J.. Carlyle, I. w. Bennett. George
H. Glover w. F. Crossley, j. l.. Gray.
A. B. Ogden and II. T. Garbutt. These
directors will meet Friday to elect of.
ficers.
The next fair will include in its scope
all territory from Ell Paso county
north to Wyoming, with the mountains
as the western boundary This takes
in the finest irrigated sections OF Colo
RADIO along with the bulk of the dry
farming country. The Legislature at
Its next session will be asked to aid the
association, as it did the Pueblo state
fair at the last session. A committee
is already at work on the premium list,
which will be out by March 1st.
The fair will be held in August. or
the first week in September and will in.
clude not only a large stock exhibit.
but agricultural products as well. Tents
will be used this year for housing agri
cultural and horticultural products and
the range OF exhibits will be wide be.
cause of the great territory to be cov-
cred by the fair. In addition there will
be the usual race meet, Invariably the
best in northern Colorado.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-02-21
Consumption and Typhoid.

Albany, N. YIN his anual report
Just submitted to Governor Hughes,
Eugene H. Porter, NJ. D., state health
= commissioner. points out that tubercu-
~losis, elthough a preventable disease,
causes 5000 deaths and an expense Of
$50 100000 on the state of New York
each year. Typhoid fever, says the re-
port, is responsible for 1000 deaths and
4 cost of $1,000, 900 annually.
Discussing the subject of tuberculo-
Sis, the commissioner states THAT from
one-seventh to one-tenth Of all deaths
and an enormous proportion of invalid
ism are due to it.
In New York state there are prob
ably not less than $4,000 cases Of tuber-
culosis, with nearly $1,000 deaths an
nually. And it is a preventable dis
ease.
Eacn town and city must also take
up for itself the suppression OF tuber.
culosis within it's own borders, says the
report. Suitable local ordinances
should be enacted and provision should
be made for hospital facilities.
It Is estimated that there are 10000
cases OF typhoid fever annually in New
York state, with 1000 deaths, involving
a total pecuniary loss Of $1,000, 900.
Public nuisances frequently exist as a
result Of the pollution of streams. The
policy Of the department of health. ac-
cording ~ DR.. Parker is that further
pollution OF the streams and lakes must
cease.
1t does not expect to bring this condi-
ton about in a day or year, but it
does expect that within a compare.
lively short time 1t will be entirely
stopped.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-02-21
As He Understood Il.

with his grandmother in Nutley, n.
j., was brought to the city for visit
short time ago. and while here was
taken to the theater for the first time
In his life. In one OF the scenes a but
Ter comes on the stage and announces,
my lord, the carriage waits"
When the little fellow returned to
his grandmothers home he started in
at once to describe to her the play he
had seen.
And then. Granny" he said. in his
excited description, big man with
gold buttons on his coat came on the
stage and said: My God, there's a
hack outside."-N. Y. Times.