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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-05-17

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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-05-17
ENGLAND SHIPPING
IS HIT HARD BY WAR

t.oafon. May t7-Thomas J. Mac
NaEara. parliamentary secretary Of
the admiralty. announced IN reply TO
= question IN the house % commons
today tha; ts0ses tons o, British ship
pins other than warships. had been
sunk % captured ~ The German navy
since the outbreak o. the var.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-05-17
FROST WARNING FOR
TONIGHT IS ISSUED

Frost IS predicted for tonight by the
local weather Office and those having
tender plants out OF doors viii 40
well TO be prepared. Il was cola
enough last night for frost, the min
imum temperature being 80 degrees
but wind saved vegetation from an
unsee sonabIe nipping.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-05-17

Miss Nnry Wagner % san Francisco
dit not take i,indiy 20 the love making
Of % q. schmaiinE When he became
TOO attentive she whipped out a re-
v6irrr and shot him He iE now in a
hospital when Dc was searched after
the shooting a pistol was found In his
Cocket-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-05-17
STEAL CHICKEN WIRE
FROM REAR OF STORE

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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-05-17
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-05-17
Mhat The Letter Meant.

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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-05-17

other arrests and fines follow: Mag
mes Stingland, arrested by Sergeant
Kinsley, 81 and costs for drunken
ness; John Smith. arrested by Officer
Berry. 81 and costs for disorderly con
duct; Lee Smith, nabbed by Chief Mil
Ter. So and costs. for disorderly con-
duct; John Rodgers. 81 and costs, for
disorderly conduct, arrested by Chief
Miller.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-05-17

All the news all the time = The
Argus
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-05-17

The case charging Frank Parker
with the larceny OF the medicine case
and instruments belonging TO DR.. II
z. Beck. Moline. was continued until
Wednesday when he was arraigned il
police court. He was unable TO fur
nish 81 900 bonds.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-05-17
POLICE NEWS

Charging that he struck him on the
head in battle staged early Sunday
morning in the lower end of town
Alphonse Richards had Roman
Schmacht arrested. The case was
continued until tomorrow. Officer
Gruby made the arrest
a II. Gordon explained his case as
one OF too much booze" when ar
raigned before Police Magistrate c.
J. Smith this morning He was sent
TO the county Jail in default OF a fine
OF S25 and costs for disorderly con-
duct. Chief Miller made the arrest
and the complaint.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-05-17

get in an ordinary home in ten years
and it is amazing how little it showed
the wear. Buy Neponset and your
floor covering problem viii be settled
for long time to come. Fourth foor
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-05-17

To test the durability of Neponset. we
placed a long strip on our sidewalk for
ten days. exposing il TO rain. cold. heat.
dirt and the tramp of thousands of
feet-a harder service than it would
The Washington times., 1915-07-02

handling of matches, 81; oil explosions,
stovepipes, 2S; carelessness of smokers.
": sparks 32; spontaneous combustion,
20; thawing papes, Q; matches ignited
by mice and rats, l3; oil stoves, "a;
candles, 20.
Matches ignited by mice and
rats, 49," might perhaps better he
classified with the unknown. OF the
balance, how few there are that es-
cape classification as due to immedi-
ate carelessness, stupidity, or nom
observance of the simplest rules of
prevention! Why is it that Ameri-
cams must tolerate those accumula-
tions of SCOT which indicate "defec-
tive flues?" Why unclean lamps ?
Why the dust and rags that bring
spontaneous combustion Why let
their children play with matches or
they themselves play inside the
house with gasolene? Why all these
idiocies, more than ever when we
habitually ignore the principles Of
fire-resisting construction that keep
the European fire losses SO low?
The Washington times., 1915-07-02
THIS YEARS AMERICAN TOUR

Seeing America first" has be-
come reality on account of the Eu-
ropean war, with its embargo on
tourist travel. Franklin X. Lane,
Secretary of the Interior, believes
that at least $1O0,OO0,O00 usually
spent in Europe each year will stay
this time in our own country.
The Interior Department has re-
ports to show that there is an un-
precedented number Of visitors to
the national parks. The only griev-
ance that can be held against these
visitors is that SO mary of them are
not there by choice, but by simply
mot having anywhere else to 60"
Present conditions assure an in
crease in public interest in these
parks. 1t is known that they are
not surpassed in beauty, magnitude,
or healthfulness by anything in for
eign climes. If,tyour plan for the
summer has been Europe-and that
is well-nigh an impossible place for
an enjoyable visit-spend it in your
country and see America first.
The Washington times., 1915-07-02
THE ZONE TERM" PLANK

Col. George Harvey seems to
think that Mr.. Bryan will organize
q new party to oppose Mr.. Wilson
for reelection and that the new
party will base itself upon the zone
term" plank Of the Baltimore plat
form. Mr.. Wilson has been discreet,
to say the least, in commenting
upon that particular bit of lumber
in the bridge that carried him
over.
A great many people said a great
deal about a third cup of coffee"
in the campaign Of 1919, but the
election returns did not indicate that
their talk kept many votes away
from the Progressive candidate.
There is nothing in the history Of
the country to indicate that the peo-
pie are afraid of giving a good man
q second term, and there are those
who still would not shy at even a
third term for the right man.
If Mr.. Bryan's efforts to scuttle
the Wilson ship are to be confined
to this one line it will not be Wood
row Wilson, to mix the metaphor
and borrow a phrase, who will be
knocked into a cooked hat.
The Washington times., 1915-07-02
ORGANIZE AGAINST
DISEASE, j. s. SAYS
Public Health Service in
Pamphlet Of Victories Over
MaIadies.

In . pamphlet entitled Fighting
Trim" issued by the United States
Public Health Service. Surgeon J. NJ.
Eager lays stress upon personal en-
deavor of every individual as of the
highest public Importance in the Or
ganized war against disease.
The wonderful victories that have
been won in combating infectious mala-
dies have had a tendency to divert pop
ular attention from the equally impor-
tant personal fertilization against dis
eases Of all kinds.
The question OF preparedness against
onslaughts Of the enemy. a query promi-
nent in the minds Of everyone in these
days Of warfare. is put in a special per-
sonal bearing as relating to the dangers
threatened by disease. the permanent
enemy of mankind.
Are you personally prepared, 1t Is
asked. for the handto-1hand encounter
with disease that you are sure to be
forced into sooner or later, or in which
perhaps you are already engaged? I'm
less you are willing to succump without
hoI, struggle. asS,. night y9 must. no matter
The inevitability of the battle be-
tween disease Is strongly insisted upon
PeaSe between nations, 1t is stated. may
not De an unattalnable hope, but even
when the much Qesired era of human
concord comes and armed strife among
men has ceased. there will still be an
everlasting battle to fight. a ceaseless
struggle for a few more years of health
and life. a desperate conflict against a
foe who. as far as victory over the indi-
vidual fighter Is concerned is certain-in
the end to win-the battle against dis
case.
In the defense against disease two
things are necessary-a systematic union
Of fighters, the sanitary organization,
and personal preparedness, the product
Of Intelligent and diligent personal hy-
giene. Personal preparedness Is the pa =
triotic duty of every citizen as an aid
to national sanitary defense. No man al
a member of society Is morally free to
live unhygienically or to acquire disease
through lack Of personal care. Like a
slovenly soldier. the person who neglects
his health risks imparting to others his
loose morale. or even transmitting dis
ease to the whole community.
Studies of health subjects in schools
and clubs. its exposition in public lee
lures. newspaper articles, and bulletins,
have the salutary tendency. 1t is stated,
to promote wholesome practices as an
habitual exercise and develop the preci-
Gus quality Of automatically choosing in
every action and habit of life those
courses that conduce to bodily sound
ness.
The Washington times., 1915-07-02

ject Of action by parliament. 1t was
established on investigation that he
was at bne time kept for thirty
five days with his hands chained be-
hind his back and made to eat from
the floor like an animal.
After having been in ten prisons
he was released on condition that he
should not step foot in England,
Ireland, Scotland, or Wales for a
period Of twenty years. In company
with other Fenians he came to
America and here from that time on
he made his home, returning to
England and Ireland for only brief
stays after his period Of Punishment
had expired.
His death recalls few Of the
names which in the furious days
following 1848 were coupled with
his. Mitchell, O'Reilly, Davitt, Cash
man, Flood, Chambers, and Condor
all felt the hand that stretched out
from Dublin Castle to open prison
doors and fasten clanking chains.
He was the last Of group of men
who dared, who knew no fear, who
placed the welfare Of their country
and their people, as they saw it,
above even life itself.
The Washington times., 1915-07-02
NEUTRALITY SQUAD
SEXES 1000 RIFLES
Consignment of Arms Intended
for Batavia Are Confiscated
on Brooklyn Pier.

BROOKLYN, July IA consignment
Of about 1000 Springfield rifles. thought
to have been bought with a view Of TO-
menting a revolution in one OF the
British colonial possessions in the Pa
cific, has been seized at Pier No. Of
the Bush Terminal, by United States
Government agents.
The rifles, which bore the date 1885,
and the name Frankford Arsenal. were
packed in cases which gave no idea Of
the nature Of the contents. The cases
had been on the pier for several weeks.
but they attracted no attention until
the members OF the neutrality squad"
seized them.
Schenker & Co. were named as the
forwarding agents At the office Of this
concern II was admitted they attempted
to ship the cases, but said they did not
know they contained rifles. They de-
clined to divulge the names Of the per-
Paul F. Zenter, secretary to Leopold
D. Perutz, the director Of Schenker &
Co., an Austrian concern, asserted the
shipment was to have been carried by
Co, for Batavia, Java, Dutch pos
session.
Three days before the Djember sail
ed" Zentner said. I'VE were informed
signment. No reason was assigned. and
the whole thing was mystery to US
until We learned that the cases con-
tanned rifles
7. A. Sparks. a member Of the firm OF
Funch. Edge s. Co.. told different
story. He said man who described
himself as a representative Of Schenker
& Co.. visited his office and inquired the
rates for shipping rifles to Batavia.
The clerk told him the price. and the
would accept the rifles and ship the
goods on one of the company's boats,
Sparks added.
when learned OF the transaction"
Sparks said. Il Immediately informed
the forwarding agents that 1t would be
impossible for one of our boats to carry
rifles not consigned to a government. l
found the rifles had been placed on the
pier in the Bush terminal. and / order
them. telling them that II they failed
to act | would notify the bureau OF
combustibles."
The Washington times., 1915-07-02
Babies Supplant Books
Of Canton, Ohio, School

CANTON, Ohio. July 2.-Real live
babies have supplanted books in one
course In the Canton schools. and the
lusty. crying variety Of infant is being
used daily in class room demonstra-
tions of the course in mother lore"
This course is going to be a perma-
nent feature OF our school work." said
Superintendent Baxter. Next year, a
regular high school course in baby
care, for which credit will be given,
will be inaugurated."
Miss Anette Greenough, school nurse.
now teaches the classes in the ward
buildings in districts where the mothers
are forced to leave their babies in the
care of older daughters while they are
at work. She says the mothers. assured
their babies will get proper care, are
glad to let them be used as text books.
The Washington times., 1915-07-02
HERE'S TO YOU

Congratulations to the King of
Diamonds. The stork flying over the
Capital City stopped moment last
evening to leave eight and half
pounds of humanity at the home of
Walter johnson. The premier of the
American sport was in New York,
but he Jumped the rattler" at mid
night to take an early morning look
at the newcomer. The '.bush
Lacquer" of fiction was very much
afraid that his son might turn out
to be a left-hander, but that is only
one Of the anxieties connected with
q new arrival. However, the bulle-
tins say that both mother and child
are doing we'll and Walter himself
couldn't be doing better, F
The Washington times., 1915-07-02
LAST OF THE FENIANS

Unheralded and unsung there died
IN q New York hospital the other
day q man whose name once brought
dread to a whole nation and whose
acts endeared him to hundreds of
thousands of his own people. There
are no more Irishmen like O'Dono-
van Rosa. He belonged to a time
and people who have passed from
the stage of action, whose methods
have been succeeded by better
means. But in his day he was the
idol Of Ireland, the fighting cham
pion of her cause.
Rossa, whose name was not Rossa
at all but Jeremiah ODonovan, the
Rosa being a suffix to distinguish
him from other O'Donovans of his
native town, was born in 1881, a
time in Irish history filled with tales
Of keen suffering. 1t was in the
midst Of poverty almost passing de-
scription, that ODonovan grew up
until in 1848 the famine, the evic-
items, and the universal misery of
that awful year found him just out
from his apprenticeship and enter
ing into association with those men
who were determined by some means
or other to gain better conditions
for their people.
One of the most vivid descriptions
Of those times is embodied in a
poem, "Jillen Andy" describing the
burial Of a young married woman,
one of the unfortunates who had
neither mourners, prayers, nor even
q pine box to keep the earth away
from her frail body. The character
depicted in the poem as shoveling
the earth into the grave was young
0'Donovan.
It was little wonder that, hot of
temper and valiant of spirit, he
quickly became leader in the most
radical circles of Irish reformers.
And England when she detected him
made him pay dearly for his activi-
ties. He was repeatedly cast into
prison and his treatment there was
90 inhumane that it wRs the sub
The Washington times., 1915-07-02
CARELESSNESS AND FIRES

The State fire marshal of Mary
land has just published his annual
report showing a total of 2,O93 fires
of which 988 were from unknown
causes" :"
This leaves 1,105 for study of the
extent to which carelessness is a
contributory cause of our national
proclivity to great confagrations.
OF the 1,105, lightning caused 155,
tornadoes 16, and 81 caught from
fires elsewhere. The classification of
the remaining $40 tells a startling
story. Here is the list:
Burning rubbish. 3O matches In the
hands Of children. a: Goals from
stoves, "a; defective fues, l2l; defective
wiring, l6; defective stoves and pipes
s.: fireworks, 8; gas explosions, l2; gas
Jets, 81; gas stoves "a; gasolene explo-
sions. II: grease and lard overboillng.
H.; lamps and lanterns. q; careless
The Washington times., 1915-07-02
IMMIGRATION DROPS
TOI0WEST POINT
Less Than 100000 Reach
America in Year-LoWest in
Sixteen Years.

Official figures made public by the
Department Of Commerce show that
immigration in the last fiscal year
was reduced to the lowest mark for six
teen years by the European war.
The total number Of immigrants for
the wear which ended yesterday was
l56, ,Ss7, as compared with ABS. 80 during
the last preceding fiscal year. More
than 1900 arrivals were refused admit
tance. reducing the total of admitted
aliens to less than 43o. 900.
The Increase in population due to i'm
migrants was placed at approximately
IS 900. whereas the gain in population In
the fiscal year ended June 30, 1914, was
10000. The number Of departing aliens
in the last fiscal year almost equaled
the number arriving.
More significant OF the reduction In
immigration caused by the war. how
ever. are figures showing the number
the fiscal year beginning with August.
The total arriving at all ports was
3A ,672 during the eleven months. as
compared with l.2so. 78 for the corre-
spending period the year before.
And more significant still is the re-
port showing arrivals at the ports of
Baltimore. Boston. New York. Philadel-
phia, and the Atlantic coast ports Of
CAndOa. IN Ine eleVen InOnluS tuS
total Of such arrivals was 22s, 100. In the
preceding fiscal year the total from the
same ports was 1.119.699. European
immigration, Therefore. was little more
than quarter Of million for the
fiscal year.
The decline in immigration has forced
wholesale dismissals in the immigration
stations at principal ports. No changes
have been made In the Washington Of
fees, however, as the force was INSULT
cient when the rush of immigration
stopped.
The Washington times., 1915-07-02
Corporation Tax Office
Employees On New Rolls

All employees OF the Corporation Tax
Division OF the Internal Revenue Bu-
reau of the Treasury Department
were placed on the statutory rolls yes
terday. There were no dismissals, the
full force carried under the lump sum
appropriation having been cared for
There was a general readjustmeDt
OF clerical employees made with the
beginning Of the new fiscal year. and
sNme demotions were made. There
AS many promotions as demotions
The list OF the changes made will not
be announced. The only dismissals
in offices under charge OF Secretary
McAdOo were made at the Bureau,
whore twenty-five plate printers were
stricken from the rolls.
The Washington times., 1915-07-02
F. P. Walsh's Daughter
Joins Sister as Nun

KANSAS CITY. July Miss Marie
Walsh. the oldest daughter of Frank P.
Walsh. chairman of the Federal Com
mission on Industrial Relations. has en-
tered the convent at Loretto. Ky. as a
nun. Her younger sister, Miss Louise
Walsh. entered the convent two weeks
ago. She was accompanied there by
her older sister. but friends here did
not believe 1t was Miss Marie Walsh's
intention to follow her younger sister
nto the order. However, her parents
were not surprised when a letter came
from her conveying her desire to do as
ner sister had done. Mr.. and Mrs. Walsh
went to Loretto at once.
Miss Marie Walsh is twenty-five
years old, and is q graduate of the Lo-
retto Academy. She Is the oldest of the
Walsh children.
The Washington times., 1915-07-02
SON GIVEN 100000
BY WALDORF ASTOR

NEW YORK, July a-Property as
sessed by the New York city tax COM
missioners at more than $1,000, 900 has
been given by William Waldorf Astor.
of England, to his youngest son. Capt.
John Jacob Astor. knowledge of the
gift became public when lawyers for
Mr.. Astor's interests filed deeds in the
Registers office recording the gift The
papers indicated that they were signed
at Mr.. Astors London home on May 81
The total land valuation of the prop
critics is Sc, 900. and with the improve
ment the taxable value Is ST. 900.
In the opinion of realty men. this is
by far the largest gift of real estate
other than by beQuest, ever recorded
In New York city
The Washington times., 1915-07-02
'Movie' Magnates Bid
High for Miss Purcell
Most Beautiful Girl Would Demand Powerful Induce
ment to Make Her Leave Washngton-Her Lot
Not Without Its Tribulations.

The most beautiful girl in America
would demand the most powerful sort
of inducement to make her leave the
comforts of her happy home in Wash
ington to become the heroine Of even
the best photoplay ever written!
At least that is the way Miss Ruth
M. Purcell. winner of The Times beau
ty contest and the successful contest
ant In the national beauty tourney at
Los Angeles, thinks about 1t today. In
addition to being the great American
beauty, however, Miss Purcell is en-
dowed with a big share of what is COM
monty called horse sense. and the mo-
ton picture magnates, realizing what
1t means to have a recognized and ac-
claimed beauty as a star In their pro-
ductions. ere bidding very high for her
services.
Delighted, But
Washington looks better to me now
than IT ever looked before" declared
Miss Purcell between times she was
obligingly placing herself against vari-
Gus historic national backgrounds to be
Photographed to the motion picture
limit. Warrington Is just the grand
est place I've oeen. and I wouldn't
trade 1t for all the other places In the
country. ! had a perfectly delightful
time on the trip across the continent
and back; The managers Of the Uni
versal Film Company and the enter
tainments they organized were simply
overpowerfng. We saw a dozen Of the
greatest places in the country, and
were royalty received everywhere.
But"
Miss Purcell sighed and looked toward
the towering Washington Monument
from a point of vantage outside the
state Department. and a smile of con-
templative content shone in her eyes 1t
wasn't such a very long or ardent look,
but It meant a whole lot more than the
words describing It can mean, and it
said whole lot about Washington as
compared with all other places.
Sympathizes With Lansing.
The business Of being the representa-
tive American beauty is not without its
trials and tribulations. Miss Purcell
confessed as much when she extended
her hand to Secretary OF State Robert
Lansing, Just after her ocular eulogy
OF Washington, and Immediately after