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Rock Island Argus., 1911-10-16
Government Figuring on
$2,5OO,O00 Loan
From Foreigners.
RUNS ON HOME BANKS
Members OF National Assembly
Demanding Removal of i'm
perial Minister of Posts.

Peking. Oct. 16.-Members of the
national assembly, which organized a
year ago as nucleus of a Chinese
parliament, and which IS 10 begin a
session here Oct. %, have taken a
hand in the revolutionary situation.
About half the two hundred members
Of the assembly are now in PekinE.
Sixty of them gathered privately yes
terday and discussed the situation.
They drew up series of resolutions
addressed to the throne.
DEMAND sHENG's DISMISSAL.
The resolutions call for the dis
missal of Sheng- -Hsuan-Huai. the i'm
psrial minister of posts and com
munications, as soon as possible
Sheng negotiated the loans for the
naturalization of railways and has
been a leading advocate OF the anti
provincial policy which is regarded as
largely responsible for the present
uprising.
BANK RUNS CONTINUE.
Heavy runs on banks here contin-
ued today and there were riotous
scenes in front of several institutions.
Policemen repeatedly dubbed back
the crowds Government bank notes
are no longer par. They are dis
counted 90 per cent.
PRICE OF RICE SCARS.
Even foreign banks are not i'm
mune from the financial war scare.
The price of rice has risen 20 per
cent since the -rsXolt- -hsssn-~.~A- pub
lished report today says reb6ls at
Hankow captured one Of the Chinese
warships anchored off that city. De
layed advices from the south are that
imperial troops which retreated from
Wu-Chang and Hankow are mobiliz-
ing ar Chumatien. 50 miles north
of Hankow on the railroad.
BIG LOAN SOUGHT.
Foreign banks have been indirect
ly sounded regarding the possibility
of arranging government loan Of
S2.5OO,000.
Rock Island Argus., 1911-10-16
Monetary Commission Hearings.

New York. Oct. 16--Congressman
Ereeland OF New York is here today to
begin hearings OF the national none
Jsry commission. OF which he is vice
chairman. Nreeiand announced hear
ing would also be held IN Chicago,
OCT 1890: st Paul. Oct 81; Mime
apClis, Oct %
Rock Island Argus., 1911-10-16

Victoria. 3. c.. Oct lG.-The Cana
dian Pacific steamship Princess Beat
rice struck rocks on Noble island late
last night Three hundred passsn-
gers. 200 OF whom are Chinese. were
taken OF by the steamship Venture
and landed at Albert Bay. No one
Nas injured.
Rock Island Argus., 1911-10-16
BIG Rise in the River.

That the stage OF water in the Mis-
sissippi river will be in excess Of i
feet at this point before next Saturday
in Davenport. At present the stage is
7.5, and as is well known the river Is
rapidly rising and has been for weeks.
Should the stage reach the above
mentioned mark. it will have attained
the highest mark in years during the
open season. That mark is some
three feet lower than the danger
mark. People who have lumber or
other materials lying close to the
present margin of the river bank are
warned TO withdraw the articles from
the danger zone. or they will find that
they have lost their property.
Rock Island Argus., 1911-10-16
PLAN TEMPLE TO HARLAN
Presbyterian Church Proposes TO
Raise Fund of Million Dollars.

Washington. oct. I6.-Plans for
the erection OF i great Presbyterian
temple in honor of the memory of the
late Justice Harlan of the supreme
court Of the United States already are
being considered here. II is suggest
ed q million dollars be raised by sub
scrlption throughout the country to
build the temple.
Rock Island Argus., 1911-10-16
N. {. A. TO ST. Paul.

Kansas City, Ohio. I6.-The next
annual meeting of the National Edu-
cational association will be held in
ST. Paul July 6-12 inclusive. This
was announced here today by Profess
sor J. NJ. Greenwood OF the execu-
lve committee of that organization.
Rock Island Argus., 1911-10-16

Doyle flew TO Lord. Snodgrass sin
gled TO right after two strikes were
called. Murray was retired, Plank
to Davis.
PhiladeIphia-Lord famed on a
ball foot outside the plate. Old
ring lifted a foul which Meyers took
care of. Collins few to Devore. No
runs.
FOURTH INNING.
New York-MerkIe was thrown
out. Collins TO Davis, on a pretty
pickup Herzog lifted a high one to
Barry. Fletcher was thrown out,
Barry TO Davis. No runs.
Philadelphia Baker was retired,
Doyle TO Merkle. Marquard steadied
down and was pitching splendidly.
Murphy flied 10 Devore. Davis made
the third out on a foul 10 Meyers. No
runs.
FIFTH INNING.
New York-Meyers went out, Ba-
ker 10 Davis. Marquard whitfield on
the fourth pitched ball Devore
struck out the third time in success
sion. No runs.
Philadelphia Barry hunted and
was thrown out by MarQuard. Thorn
as was thrown out, Fletcher 70 Mer-
kle Three balls and three strikes
on Plank No runs.
SIXTH INNING.
New York-Doyle went out at
first 70 Davis unassisted. Snodgrass
singled 70 left and in attem mpting 10
stretch il into a two-bagger, was
thrown out. Lord to Barry. on
beautiful play. Murray struck out.
No runs.
Philadelphia-Lord drove a high
fy TO Snodgrass and was out. Old
ring few out TO Deyore, the latter
backing against the temporary fence
TO take the ball. Collins doubled to
left Baker drove the ball over the
right field fence for a homer, the
run scoring Collins. The crowd went
wild and il was several minutes be
fore they Quieted down Murphy
struck out Two runs
SEVENTH INNING.
New York-Merkle singled 10 CEN
ter on first ball pitched. Herzog
flied TO Oldring. Fletcher flied to Ba-
Rock Island Argus., 1911-10-16
BLAIR DENIES He
SHARED IN j. POT
Friend of Representative Tip
pitt Accused of Showing
Bills at Ball Game.
GIVES LIE TO a. C. TANNER
Declares He Never Told Latter of Re-
CeivinG 1000 From Client at
Olney, Ill.

Chicago, Oct. 1G-Wiuiam q. Blair
Of Mount Vernon, one of the intimate
friends Of Representative Thomas Tip
pit. who was a leader of one demo
cratic faction in the Legislature, was
the first witness in the Lorimer iuves-
tigation today. Blair was questioned
in connection with a ball game cpl
sode at Centralia, in August, 1909.
when it was charged Blair exhibited
II $lO0 bills. Senators Kenyon. Lea
and Jones took a hand in the ques-
tioning.
NOT TRUE, SAYS BLAIR.
Senator Jones: Your friend, A C..
Tanner, testified you told him at ball
game YOU had just returned from OIL
ney. where you said you had gotten
the $1,000 bill from a client"
Blair: That is not true. never
told Tanner anything OF the kind"
Senator Kenyon-"Did YOU ever tell
any person at any time or place that
you divided a fee with Tippit because
he had given you outside aid il big
-case9''-
Blair-"No, sir. l did not
Rock Island Argus., 1911-10-16

ker. MerkIe was caught off first,
Plank TO Davis, making third out.
Philadelphia-Davi lined out TO
Doyle Barry drove terrific hit to
Herzog. which nearly lifted the New
Rock Island Argus., 1911-10-16

game until the game was about to
start. but baseball sharps looked for
Marquard CGiants) to oppose Coombs
(Athletics). If the latter team fails
to defeat the Giants left handler they
Rock Island Argus., 1911-10-16
Tho Weather
Forecast TIL 2 p. M. Tomorrow, foi
Rock Island. Davenport, Moline,

Forecast TIL p. M. Tomorrow, fos
Rock Island. Davenport, Moline,
and Vicinity.
Showers and probably thunder
storms this afternoon and tonight.
Tuesday, generally fair; cooler.
Highest temperature yesterday, s5;
lowest temperature. 81.
Temperature at g. m, s.
Wind velocity, II miles an hour.
Precipitation, none.
Relative humidity, sS at p. m;
95 at e. m.
River, 7.o5; a rise Of 1o1 in As
hours.
]. NJ. SHERIER, Local Forecaster.
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.
From noon today to noon tomorrow)
Sun sets 5:15, rises 6:10; days have
shortened hours since June 81 moon
rises 1882 a. N.
Rock Island Argus., 1911-10-16
SERIES

Chicago. Oct. 16.-Sox: Batteries
Walsh, Sullivan. Cubs: Cheney, Brown
and Archer
In the first inning the Sox secured
three scores and the Cubs were
blanked Game called in second rain.
Rock Island Argus., 1911-10-16
Bishop Won De Vycser Dead.

Richmond. Va. Oct. 16.-Rt Rev.
Augustine Van De VyyeT, for the pas,
% years bishop Of he Richmond Cath
Ole diocese Of Richmond, is dead.
Rock Island Argus., 1911-10-16
BANKER
ANDS75,OOO CONE
Head of Private Establishment
Disappears Leaving Many
Creditors.
LOSE THEIR LIFE SAVINGS
Some Claims Run Into Thousands,
but Most of Them Are for
Smaller Amounts.

Lewistown, Ill, Oct. 16.-The disap-
pearance of G. L. Miller of Fulton
county is mourned by dozens of per-
sons, mostly school teachers and
others who had intrusted him with
their savings and at a massmeeting of
creditors 1t was decided to force him
into bankruptcy, a petition being filed
in the United States district court in
Peoria. His known liabilities are $751;
600.
Attached to the petition is list of
creditors and the approximate amounts
of their claims. On some of the cred
itors the burden OF this extensive f.
nancial crash will fall heavily. In the
list of names given are men and women
whose life's savings have been wiped
out of existence at one stroke.
Regarding Millers whereabouts
nothing has been learned. 1t is sup
posed that he is fugitive. No action
looking to locate him has so far been
taken. but proceedings of some nature
will be started by the creditors as soon
as they are properly advised in the
premises.
SOME CLAIMS ARE EXTENSIVE.
Following are some Of the important
claims:
Anna Cahill sS,7O0: Mary McKin-
ney, $2,05O; Laura Van Middlesworth,
$4,000: Henry Hunter. s5,040: J. w.
Johnson. $2,975; ]. w. Feeser. $4,000;
Mrs Mary Mccartney, $1,000.
The total number of creditors is in
the neighborhood of 100 and they are
scattered all over the country. While
most of them are in Fulton county and
other parts of Illinois, others are in
different states and some in Canada.
The creditors claims range from
$50 to several thousands of dol
lars, and the heaviest creditor
is Miller's brother-in-law, Len
Fisher of Canton, whose indorse-
ment of Millers paper has involved
him in a considerable loss. The ma
jority of creditors, however, are old
people whose little savings were in
trusted to Miller. for loans or invest
ments The amounrs- IN general are
comparatively small, but the fact that
they represent, in many instances, the
savings of a life time, and their loss
leaves these people almost penniless.
makes this feature of the affair most
pitifuI.
APPARENTLY KITED NOTES.
Miller, in his financial transactions,
was no respecter of persons, and his
own daughter and his mother-in-law
have lost every dollar they had in the
world in the general crash. Miller's
operations extended over period OF
at least 13 years, as far as the data at
hand show. and perhaps longer. In
that time his practice seemingly was
to receive money from clients to be
loaned, using this money and providing
clients with notes, many of which
bore alleged fictitious signatures. Sew
en- per cent interest had been paid
throughout, the money Of one client
doubtless being used to pay interest
to the others.
From time to time, as notes became
due. they were paid or renewed, until
finally the interest, added to the prin-
cipaI, reached an amount where it was
no longer possible for Miller to meet
his obligations. Then came the crash.
Rock Island Argus., 1911-10-16
Box Score Giants-Athletics Game

Two basel o
oldring Wild pc-Marquard Hit by pitched bal-snodgra
Marquard, Plank Umpres-
tNaonal); Connolly Deneen (Ameican)
Rock Island Argus., 1911-10-16
SEVENTH INNING.

New York-Merkle singled 10 CEN
ter on first ball pitched. HerZog
flied TO Oldring. Fletcher fled to Ba-
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-27
HE WOULD DIE FOR A MOTHER.

Dr H. S9 Tanner the long faster, who called attention to himself again this spring by giving notice that at the age of S2 he intended to enter upon an so days fast, now becomes an in ,ernational wonder by offering to suf- fer execution as a substitute for woman to he hanged in Canada in August for the murder of her husband who was so much of a brute that she slew him in moment of rage and fear
 The New Haven Journal Courier says: The text of Dr. Tanners let ter to Earl Grey is the most striking argument ever offered against capital punishment. though it does not ques- ton the right of the government to take human life. Dr. Tanner speaks of the woman by name who is to be hanged in August because she killed her husband to protect her honor,f and then goes on to give his reasons why he stands ready to give up his life for hers. in these words: Her death will leave four children now living motherless. It will also orphan a month-old baby. yet to be born. Her execution will be nothing short of murder, the foulest blot on the crimi- nal annals of yours or any other coun- try. Permit me to offer myself as a substitute for Mrs. Napolitano. May my life be taken that the law may be appeased without robbing five young children. one a month-old babe. of mother 2
 There is something horrible in the thought of staying a woman with such family to satisfy the ends of jus tice in the name of a state or coun- try. Such case as this appeals to the heart which realizes that it too may some time ask mercy for itself. Dr. Tanners letter ought to bring the authorities to a sense of the greater crime which it is proposed to com init in the name of the state than that which the woman herself was guilty of under intense aggravation.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-27
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Not in Favor With the Taxpayers.

Mir. Editor: In criticizing political combinations whose object is to bene- fit private interests rather than for the interests of the people generally, The Bulletin, with the other leading news papers of the state. are the real Vehi- clas for political progress and popular favor.
 Standing squarely for clean, efficient. economical expenditures of the public monies, that every person who receives a dollar from the state funds should render full service in return.
 To justify the above comments, please allow the Old Man to quote from last Wednesdays Bulletin a part of an editorial, as follows:
 The eleven reporters who were fla vored with $3.3G0 of the taxpayers money for which they rendered no service to the state have through the action of several self-respecting news paper men been obliged to wait until September next.
 Tt is not q legitimate appropriat tion of the taxpayers money and it has been condemned by the leading papers of Connecticut for many years.
 Now, Mir. Editor, entertaining no malice. yours truly honestly believes that a legislative distribution of indi- vidual napkins. moustache cups and other special creature comforts-so tu speak-ieaving the taxpayers to settle. does not meet with extended favor; it savors, in fact. too much, of the in
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-27
HOW WOULD OUR BACKWARDS
 LOOK PHoToGRAPHEp?

If every residence that has fine or : naments in the front windows had a backyard that looked like d well-kept park, there would be fewer high fences and hedges maintained to hide the neglected lot and loose tin cans.
 Where there is being work done to produce a spotless city it is noticeable that less attention is being given to the placing of ornaments in the front windows and more to a pretty arrange ment of the backyard.
 It is no islander upon a New Eng land city to suspect that there may be lying around loose sardine cans and cans of every size and description to the number of fifty thousand or more, since wherever there has been an old can- gathering campaign there has been that number or more brought in as an evidence of the conditions that did exist; but by their collection have been made better. In these days. wher- ever civilized man wanders the sar- dine can is found in his wake to the remotest parts
 The backyard, through the enter prise of great papers that gave prizes for the best kept and best decorated with shrubs and vines. has in many cities become thing of beauty which the owners feel proud of and never seek to screen in.
 Whoever neglects to keep his back yard clean enough for pleasure spot and pleasant, healthful retreat in these days is not keeping up to the times. The backyard is the family resting place and inspiration because of the beauty and cleanliness and restfulness of it.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-27
RECALLING RAILROAD DISA
 GREEMENTS.
DISA-

The recent refusal of the Boston & Maine railroad to permit the Grand Trunk cars to be pulled over it's tracks to run through to Bar Harbor. caus- ing a transfer and change of cars at Portland prompts the Portland Ex press to recall a little railroad history. The Express says:
 "The recent refusal of President MelIen of the Boston & Maine to haul the through sleepers of the Grand Trunk over the Marginal Way spur reminds us that there have been other railroad differences in this state. Forty years ago when the Eastern and Boston & Maine were fighting for pas sengers and the freight between Port land and Boston. there was trouble a good part of the time. A paper pub lished along the line at that time printed this paragraph: There is a war between the Boston & Maine and Eastern railroads The latter refused to take the E. & M. express from Berwick Junction to Portland, and the court issued an injunction requiring it to attach the E. & NJ. cars to its train. It was not a war that caused bloodshed, or. in fact. intense interest outside of railroad circles. but it was Maine built it's own line to Boston from our border and the Eastern died a natural death. Locomotives were named as well as numbered in those halcyon days of railroading, and the conductor with his cap and brass but tons was as big a man as a governor"
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-27
THE BULLETINS DAILY STORY
HIS HOSPITABLE WAY

Do you remember, mother" asked young Mrs Albaugh, that before I was married I used to hope that when I got husband he would be whole souled, hospitable man?'
 Yes. I remember was the. smiling answer, .'and 1 wondered then if yol realized just what it means to have a man in the family who issues invita- tions to everybody all the time"
 I realize it now, anyway, said the daughter Why, mother, Jimmie is pitable person I ever saw. He seems to want everyone he knows to have a meal in our flat
 Its because he's so proud of his lit- tie home, l suppose, returned her mother.
 proud of it last Sunday. But I'll have to tell you about it.
 Saturday night we had the Fiskes you know they are the people in the apartment beneath us-to dinner, and as they had entertained us so nicely when we first moved in of course wanted to give them a spread, so we had a four course dinner. Just after dinner Thora got a telephone message that her brother-in-la law had ha d an ac- cident so without washing a single dish she left for South Chicago to help HcT SlSIeT take care Ol H1Ii
 When we got up Sunday morning theEa were so many Soiled dishes could hardly get breakfast. I com plained to Jimmie that it would take me all day to wash those dishes 'Nonsense,' he said We'll go to church and dine downtown and then tonight when we have taken off our Sunday clothes we'll do the dishes to- gether in no time
 That sounded pleasant to me and turned my back on my disorderly flat with a delightful runaway sense ot freedom.
 While we were in the restaurant rain began to fall in torrents. so we fingered over our dessert and coffee a long time. Finally the storm subsided and we went home. Imagine my as tonishment when Jimmie unlocked oul flat and I -beheld his cousins that hardly know at all-Robert Albaugh and his wife-sitting in our parlol dressed in Jimmie's lounging robe ant my l1imono,
 Well. he1lo,' cried Jimmie. Were mighty glad to see you'
 '' I'm afraid we came a little early said Mrs. Robert as I shook hands with her. You see, we have taken some liberties
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-27
WHERE GET -RIcH-oUIck FIRMS
 FIND VICTIMS.

The case of the Rev. Norman PIass. former president of the RedeemabIe Investment company, recently heard In Boston. discloses who the people are who respond Lo the circulars sent out by the get-rich-quick concerns. Among other things, Rev. Mir Plass writes to Rev. George F. I.add of Col orado. who purchased s100 worth of Redeemabie stocks. College presf- dents and professional men generally Invest their money injudiciously." IL is clear enough that these are the peo- pie who have no time to study the artful ways of financial pirates: and having the human desire for gain they respond to the appealing circulars of large promises and find that they are not what they pretend to be.
 It Is said they also catch with their bonanza schemes many army men; as they doubtless do men in every walk of prosperous industrial life simply because they do not stop to think that schemes which are bona tide wealth producers never seek capital. for capital Is very alert for everything which can give assurance of being what it pretends to be-
 But it cannot be denied that there is a prevalent desire 10 quietly gamble a bit among all classes of people; and they are not so disappointed when the results are not what were promised. Thousands take chance. and losing, smile and say nothing about lt
 Tn all these schemes the chances are all against the success of the crowd i; and where there is one investor sue cessful there are a score who lose. Baiting is one way these cunning ma nipulstors of lies have of swelling the number of their victims. for where there is an appearance of some having won their patrons are rapidly multi piled.
 It does not take a very sharp person 10 avoid all these methods of doing the thrifty out of their surplus change.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-27
Seventeen Year LoCusts At SOuthingt0n They Swarming the Dwight J. Smith Farm-Their
 Running From Sunrise to Sunset is Wearying

These cicadae were here when the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth; and the first report of them was there in 1633, when it was noted they come out of little holes in the ground and did eat up the green things, and made such a constant yelling noise that the woods did ring of them, and ready to deafen the hearers The cicada septemdi- cum are all over the continent, except in Northern New England, and they appear regularly, but at different in- tervals, so that the seventeen year To- cust is in evidence somewhere in the United States every year. In Mis- souri, Kentucky, and states where the average temperature is higher than hereabouts they appear once in thirteen years. The damage they do is of little account; but Harris notes "The noise they make has been heard a mile away
 They differ from the annual harvest fly in being red where it is green, with a we'll defined red w on the back near the head
 Vernon L. Kellogg is mistaken in the idea that its long larval existence is the most strikingly exceptional in all insect biology, since the Elateridae, the wood boring beetles, have been known to exist in wood a quarter of a century before emerging, issuing from finished furniture many years after 1t had been in use. In fact, some of these wood boring larvae are suspected of being much more than 25 years old when they come into the perfect, or spring beetle form. It is probable some insects, like the eagle, live for 100
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-27

ances took place in four houses ad- joining one another.
 Dr. Seymour was graduated from Yale in the class of 1855 and was or dained a deacon in Middletown, or May 22, 1861. He has had many parishes about the state and from 1879 to 1883 he was rector of St Michael's church in Litchfield Trinity church of Hartford gave him a cal and for the next 1U years he was rector of that church. In the follow ing year Dr. Seymour was recalled to St MichaeFs and since that time has been rector. For many years Dr. Seymour has been chairman of the standing committee of the Episcopa diocese of Connecticut.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-27
Possible Library Site.

It was announced two years ago that ex-Senator D. Newton Barney would give Pennington a $30000 library but nothing further has been heard in re- gard to the matter except that the ones interested could not agree on a site for a building It is understood that Timothy Root is negotiating fo1 land and it is surmised that the deal if consumated will mean a, new li- brary building on the site named which will be near the Congregational church, parish building, Pennington graded school and town clerks office and is centrally located.