Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-28

Green and Kentucky rivers.
of the cost of the repairs advanced Il
from S150,000 upwards until the en-
gineers declared that it would cost
not less than 100000 to repair the /
structure. And for this great sum
there will be hardly anything to show
above ground. Most of it has been
spent in securing the foundations !
and stability of the walls. 1t is prob I
able that the walls, which have al
ready stood for 500 years, will be |
pI eserved for centuries to come by
the work now being done on them. |
Paris-The French cruiser Descar-
ties sailed recently from Lorient for
America, where it will remain two
years visiting different ports in North
and South America, but especially in
specting the French fisheries at New
foundland.
A torpedo-dirigible balloon is the
latest addition to Frances great aerial
fleet. The matter has been held with
considerable secrecy, but it is known
that at the Bayard works at Asnieres,
just outside Paris, such dirigible is
in construction. The dirigible deck
will be fitted with torpedo tube and
the balloon at each ascent will carry
three torpedoes. These in time of
war would be launched at the armies
over which the dirigible passed.
!
voted by the Swiss people at a recent
special election. BY 100000 against
100000, a new law for insurance
against sickness and accidents was
adopted. The law is really in two
parts, both of which have been adopt
ed by the Swiss parliament. The
first part relative to insurance against
illness met with no serious opposition,
but the second, relative to insurance
against accident, was combatted some
what in parliament because it involved
the establishment of national fund
of about $1,600,000 annually.
The opponents of the second measure
carried on systematic but futile cam
paign among the people, contending
would endanger the national treasury
and that it constituted doubtful adj
venture for a state to mingle in a
matter which properly belonged to pri-
vate companies.
|, President Taft's suggestion for an
: international conference on the high
, cost of living has interested France,
. ! txrhn in OIL trin ha in
creased cost of commodities has deyel
J oped a serious problem. Captain
| Frank II. Mason, the American consul
: general at Paris, points out that the
t high cost of the ordinary foodstuffs
in Paris and particularly throughout
= northern France has become a most
: absorbing topic of public interest.
! Partly by reason of the long, hot dry
= summer, which affected disastrously
S grass, clover, potatoes and garden veg
2 etables-practically everything except
r grapes and hops-the price of meats
= and produce of all kinds advanced in
= figures Unprecedented in the markets
D of Paris.
] The situation with regard to milk
r was especially serious, Captain Mason
p says, as it was based upon diminish
S ed supply, not only by reason of the
drought and temporary curtailment of
pasture, but also because of a gradual
ly lessening production of milk in the
departments adjacent to Paris. The
6 prevalence of foot and mouth disease
in several districts of Normandy and
Brittany was another contributing
: cause to the scarcity of milk and but
ter.
, Paris consumes daily about 1923
quarts of milk, but the supply fell
: short over 211, 900 quarts daily. Deal
y ers were forced to bring milk into Par
}. is from distances of 300 miles. Natur-
ally great distress was caused in Par
is, but the municipal authorities have
/. done all in their power to relieve it.
d An investigation has been started &c
|, determine whether the present high
the normal result of existing condi
4 tons or have been unduly enhanced by
| dealers and middlemen.
o The death has occurred recently a.
: Berne of the last OF the little band oil
: nurses who accompanied Florence
Nightingale to the Crimean war IL
. 1856. II was that of Mrs. Marie Rod
. ney Morgan, who was a daughter OF
v Admiral Robert Winthrop of the Brit
I ish navy and the widow of Colonc
}. Evan Morgan of the British Royal Ar
? tillery, a member of an old Welsh fam
|. lily.
Mrs. Morgan was in her saith year
9 She was stationed at the Scutari hos
: pital during the CTimean war and IL
l. recognition of her splendid work there
: was presented with magnificent dia
!; mond crescent brooch by the sultaI
! of Turkey. Having been born on DC
n tober 26, 1918, she had lived in thi
e reigns of six English sovereigns.
e Psychic research societies appeal
4 seriously interested in a series OF phe
2 noEena reported as having occurred
: at the little town OF Saint Michel-de
' Maurienne. On December ], so tn
!. story goes, dressmaker, Mile Ger
L.