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ROCK ISLAND ARGUS. VOL. ZLm. no 246. BOCK ISLAND, ILL., MONDAY, AUGUST 5. 1895. FBIOB TUBES GZ3T3. JiUX OUT BY A MOB. Negro Settlement in Illinois At tacked by Whites. COAL MINIS3 ON THE RAMPAGE. Iltraai One of Tb.lr N amber tVu "Held I'p" and knot Sag-roc. DrW.a from Tlieir HnOHtp Klck.d, Monad, and Shot at, and finally Hunt ad la tba Wood-. flan Ulacovarad to BUal tm.OOO Worth of Btacl Italia Criminal Record. Srsixo Vallkt, Aug. 6. It U estl mated that forty men. women and child' ren were wounded by the mob at tbo settlement, many of whom it li thought win cue. " Srisiso Valley; Ilia., Aug. 5. A patch of tome 1U0 odd company bouses near Xo. ii shaft, inhabited almost exclusively by negrot-s, was visited by a vengeful mob of Hn white miners from this city and given a taste of m ob violence. Near midnight five colored men bad held op a white mnn named Barney Role, between this Oity and the negro settlement, and after rubbing him of nearly I10U Id money fired throe i Utol shots Into Mm and left him fur dead. Rlo is the third man shot In that vicinity in the post few weeks, but ha was the first white man. When the wlii to miners of this city beard of tho crime they assembled on the public square and decided to march in a body to Gen' ernl Manager Dalzull's bouse and demand of lilm the discharge of every colored man in the settlement. Tho Mob at tbo Settlement. A brass band was then secured and the mob repaired to the general manager's liuuio. Ho rofusod to grant what the whito miners wanted. They then told him that as ho was not disposed to run them out of town they would take the mutter up themselves, and with that tiicy marched towards No. 3. By tho time the mob arrived at the settlement most of tho negroes, having been notified of the wrath of the whites, had fled to the woods. About a dozen were caught and treated to the most violent kicks; stones woro hurled at thorn, and shots were fired at thoir retreating figures. Two wcro shot, but not seriously hurt. Tho colored boarding houso at No. 3, run by tins Forguson, was attacked and nil tho inmates lied for their livos. Tho mob then ransacked tho houses, break ing the furniture and committing other depredations. Wont Out XlgB-er" Hunting. By noon every negro had flad tho city. All afternoon a gang of men with pistols and shutgnns scoured tho woods hunting for negroes to shoot at. Kheriff Clark, who was telegraphed for, arrived In the city lata in the afternoon with about a dozen deputies. No mora trouble is an ticipated unless the negroes attempt to cumo buck. Thoro Is a terrible prejudice ngulust them here. There Is much feel lug against Malinger Dalsoll, at whoso instance it is ulleged they were . imported In here last fall when thcro was not work enough for tho old employes. Everything was quiet last night, but troublo Is ex pected today if tho negroes go to work. IN T1IK WHULKSALB BUSINESS. Robber Wbo Proponed to Steel Ralls from tha t'nlon I'aclllo. Grand Island, Neb., Auj. 6. Gcorgo N. Shank, who with one Itulston, is charged with attempting to load up f Out) worth of Union I'aclllo steel rails and ship them out during t ho night of July 24. was given a preliminary hearing and bound over to tho district court In tuosum offoJo. President Patrick, of an eastern road now building, testilled to a contract with Shank to furnish 1,00) tons of new and Bvo tons of relay rails, and that ho had come hero to ascertain why they wero not shipped, Shank, and Ualston had claimed to have bought the rails. The state attempted to show that several days before the alleged attempt was matin Kvlston, in the presence of Stinnk, openly boastel that ho would tako the pile of rails in dispute. It was further show a against Shank that tha plan was to load tbo rails that nluht and ship them and that Shank and Kilstun had made a trip on a branch road tj find mure rails. LATEST COAItUE AUAINST HOLMES Went Into a Plot to lllow Up a British Milp and I'rinee Ueorge. Halifax, N. s., Aug. 6. Tho police authorities are convinced that IL, H. llolmos, tho Philadelphia Insurance swindler and alleged murderer, was ar rested here ten years ago. The man ar rested gave the name of Janio. Holmes nnd his companion gave the name of William Brccken. They were caught with forty-eight pounds of dynamite in their possession and Boy n ton swimming suits. It is believed that they intended to blow up the British warship Canada which had tho Prince George of Wales on board. There was no law under which to pros ecute the prisoners espcclully, and so they were tried for having a nuisance in their possession and sentenced to one year in jail. While there it was glvon out that Holmes admitted that they intended to blow up the warship, for which job they were to be well paid. CHICAGO, Aug. 6 While searching through a collection of rubbish in a dark chamber In Holmes' "Castle" detectives found under a pile of dirt a pair of bloody overalls. L I Conner, formerly the hus band of Julia Ll Conner, will swear out two warrants today. One will be for tbo arrest of Holmes on a charge cf murder ing Mrs. Conner and her daughter Pearl, and the other will be for Patrick Quintan, on the same charge. BtHT HIM AN IFKKNAL, MAC DINE. Cokaowa Mlscraaat Trios to Harder a Cltiaea of Detroit. Dkteoit, Aug. 6. D. W. H. Moreland, general agontfor the Great Northern rail road and the Northern Steamship coru puny and a city water commissioner, narrowly e&caped injury tj an infernal machine Saturday evening. A box which contained a bottle of explosive material ad a otatol so arranged as to ignite the explosive when the cover wasopenea, was lelt at Mr. Moreland's residence on Cass avenue by an expressman. Moreland suspected a practical joke and did tiot open the box, but a youth named John Chackerbury took tho box Into rd and attempted to open iu Tha pistol was instantly discharged and the young man was severely burned about the arm. No further damage was dons. Mr. Moreland cannot account for tb motive for sending him such a present. DEAD GAME ISANDIT C A PI UK ED. Bo Courts Death, bat Uts Captors Only Bboot to Di.able. WlcntTA, Kas , Aug. 6. Dick Yeager, alias Zip Wyatt, tho most daring desper ado in the Indian territory, was captured yesterday near Sheridan. O. T. Tho last sensational cri ine of Wyatt's gang was the robbing of the Hock Island train near JJover, the shooting of Messenger Jones and the looting of the passenger coaches. After that robbery tha autiiorit ies began a merciless pursuit of tbo gang and had killed three of his pal and ciptured a dozen others when the offljers ttaally cor nered Wyatt In a cornfield. It was sur rounded and thirst depJiiiud on to bring Dim out. His Appearance led to an extraordinary exhibition of "gamencss," he evideutly wanting hi pursuers to kill him. Ho emptied his YV inchestcrat tho posse, which kept out of tho way and fired to cripple. A bullet mado his left arm useless, but he drew his pistol nnd advanced steD bv step. Tho possee backed, nnd finally put a bullet In bis hip. He fell, but even then dragged himself along the ground, shoot ing as ho crawled. A bullet in his shoul der finally disabled him, and ho was taken alive and is now in jail at King fisher. ALLEGATIONS IM TUE CUTTLE CASE. Fugitive's lira', her Clinrg.-d with Uiaeali ty Cottle Uivrs Out a Mafamrat, BUFFALO, Auj. 5 Attorney Pentecost gives to tho newspapers somes docu mentary evidenco to prove that his client, Claude. Strong, alias Kmery, tho chief abductor of O. O. Cuttle, was more tinned against than sinning. These docu ments are letters accusing Carlton Strong, brother of the fugitive Claud, with gutting f-U'.OJu of his brother's money and misappropriating tho same. Curlton says the charge is tatse, and that he paid all the money to other parties whom ho will not name. Cottle, through his ultorney,' bns also given out a statement in which ho de clares ho holds as a feo for Hon. W. C. Oatcs, ex-congressman and now gov ernor of Alabama, M,'J for his cervices in endeavoring to obtain a commutation of Kmery's sentence, and that this is the money Kmery sought to obtain by kid naping and vonliuiug Jiim iu n torture chamber. There Is nothiug to show that Governor Oatcs ever knew that it was represented to Kmery that ho would en deavor to securo his pardon. lis Was Out for lllood. Los Angelks, Cal., Aug. 6. W. II. Cluno, president of tho local A. K. U., shot and probably fatally wounded J. S. Bridges, a saloonkeeper. Ho also struck Guorgo Miles, a bartender, on tho head with his revolver, lnllicling a fearful wound. Clune has not been captured. It is said be was shot twice himself. Charged with Urowniug a Woman. Philadelphia, Aug. 5. Jennie Jones, was drowned in the Delaware river, and Barney Hays is under arrest on suspicion of having thrown her overboard. Tho woman had separated from her husband and was living with her parents where iiays boarded. Ten.Year-Old Incendiary. Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 5. For somo days incendiary fires have been started in the southern part of tho city. A 10-year- old negro boy. Burko Boll, bos confessed that ho started one of tho fires to sea tho engines come out. Shot for Breaking Up a Home. MlSONK, Ills., Aug. 5 i'atrick Man ning, a coal miner, was shot by George Geerlng, night watchman at Wenona. Manning was with Ueoring's wife in this city and has repeatedly broken up .his homo. THANKS FOR BABY'S BIOGRAPHY. Lotttr from Preatd-jnt Cleveland to a Clnclunatl Man. Cincinnati, O, Aug. 6. Mr. A. O. Kaplain, of Cincinnati, sent President Cleveland a blankbook called Baby's Biography on the occision of the birth of each of his children in which to record the early events In the history of tho baby's life. The third book sent recently elicited tho following reply, dated at Buzzard's Bay, and signed by the presi dent: "On behaif of the parents of our little child I uesiro to thank you for the Baby's Biography which you kindly sent us. "Wo hope tho records which will be made iu this book will be as full of joy and comfort as those which adorn the pages of the biographies of the cider sis ters for which we nre also Indebted to your thoughtfulncss and friendliness. As the contented and happy father of three girls, I desire from tho bottom of my heart to congratulate you who aro tba father of four of these great treasures." HALF A MILLION AN HOUR. Tbo Way fir. Licked Up Property at rpraxne to the Far Northwest. Spokane. Wash., Aug. 6 Sprague, the county seat of Lincoln county and the di vision point and location of the Northern Pacific car shops, and having a popula tion of 3,lX, was almost destroyed by fire. Tho fire swept over the town with resist less fury, destroying over (LUOO.uUJ worth of property in two hours' tiruo. The fire burned over 3JJ acres of terri tory, the Northern Pacific being the heaviest loser. Ine road loses twentv- four locomotives, fifty-four freight cars, K5,U00; shops, machinery, etc., fiJ.OUV; headquarters, paswnger station, freight warehouse, etc, flSo.OKj. Half a mile of track was destroyed, together with 7,000 tons of coal and 5,(- cords of wood, bringing the Northern Pacific loss up to 7..O,UU0i Other losses range from a few hundieds to 3J.0aL I was suffering with a terrible cough, bat was soon cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla." Anna Scbanbert, t airman, 111. SOLOXS CENSURED.- Gov. Altgeld Criticises the Re cent Extra Session. EUT T7LLL NOT CONVEITE AHOTHEB. Ilolding That tho Republicans Are Either Incapable or Unwilling to Enact What Ho Claims la Necessary Legislation 1'ralrie State Finances Said by a Spring field Paper To lie In a Uad Way Free Silver in Iowa Political Notes. Spbixgfield, Ills., Aug. 5. Political prophets and others who have been presaging another extra session of the Il linois legislature may rest at ease and go away on their summer vacation. There Is no immediate danger that Governor Altgeld will call the members cf the Thirty-ninth general assembly together again. He has so expressed himself. He claims that the members of tho present legislature are not capable of coping with the Important questions (laid before them at tho extra session, and that it would be folly to call them back for that pur pose. A representative of the Associated Press called on the governor for t'.ie pur pose of ascertaining his views on tho mat ter of another extra session. "Thcro has been much speculation, both in the press nd out as to tho probability of your call ing the legislature together again for an other extra session; have you any such in tention t" was asked. Disclaims Partisanship or Politics. "I have given tho subject no considera tion whntevcr," he replied, "ond I shall certainly not reconvene tho legislature unless I shall first feel reasonably certain that it would do some good to tho state or unless some unforeseen contingency should arise. I reconvened them in June because I wanted thorn to authorize us to raise an amount of money during the next two years which would bo equal to tho 'appropriations mado by tho regular session; and second, because I believed tho interests of the stute were demanding legislation on numbers of questions that affect tho very existence of republican in stitutions. Neither partisanship nor pol itics bad anything to do with it. How lie Views tho Adjournment. "But after tho legislature had spent six weeks in speciul session and had done nothing the leaders of the party assembled at Springfield and solemnly declared that their legislature was incapable of doiug any good for tho state, they insisted on its immediate adiouriiment. Tho legis lature silently confessed tho charge and wei.kly submitted to the dictation of tho leaders nnd went home. There are a number of burning questions in this state that demand legislation. In con nection with our rcvenuo system, with our police court system in largo cities, with our child labor system, with our system for administering justice, and in connection with a number of nthT aub- jocts, thcro are conditions of such great iujustlco as relloct seriously upon our capacity for self government." Conclusion Ilo lias Itenched. The governor said the Hcpublicans had demonstrated cither thoir iucapacity or unwillingness to take up any of theso matters; that tho "lobbyist and tha slimy go-between" seomcd nblo to defeat uny measure they did not like. He declared tho Republican party fallen into evil ways unci ruled by monopolists, etc., nnd was convinced that "as tho last legisla ture is a fair specimen of what may bo expected from these influenci-s it is ap parent that the stato of Illinois has httlo to hope from tbo Republican party." FREE SILVElt orEst'lON IN IOWA. Standing of the Iletrgttrs to the State C'onvent.on ou That Imqs. Des Moines, Aug. 6 Tho free silver men mudo a better showing at tho county conventions held by tho Democrats Satur day than they havo heretofore, but.cven now they are in a minority, and when tha results nre taken in connection with the earlier conventions tho predominance of "sound money" sentiment is claimed to be apparent. Returns from the following counties, which held conventions, havo been received: For free silver at 10 to 1 Johnson, 17 delegates; Delewaro, 10; Tama, 15; Henry, U; .Mahaska, 11. "bound money, un restricted, or divided with a majority for "sound money" Storey. 8 delegates; Ilii, 8; Washington, 1-'; Bremer, 11; Guthrie, 8; Osceola, & During the week just passed the results of conventions so far as reported to Dos Moines were as follows: for free silver. Hi; for "sound money," or uninstructed with a mr.jjrity against free silver, twelve counties with aggregate delegations of 101. Prior to last week the record stood: For freo silver eight counties, .with 87 delegates; against free silver, or unin structed, with a majority favoring "sound money," twenty-seven counties. With 808 delegates. More counties bave passed resolutions in favor of sound money aud tho platform of than have como out for free coinage at IS to 1, but all tho counties which favor sound money have not made a declaration on the subject. PEFFEE OX THE POLITICAL STATCi Thinks There Is a Lull on the Silver Ques tion West The Old parties. NEW York, Aug. 5. Senator Peffer, of Kansas, lectured at Prohibition park. Statcn Island, on "The Labor Question a Moral Question.' To an Interviewer be said: "The silver question is the leading question of the hour, but at present in tho west the nation is dying out. This has been strong y marked during the last six or eight weeks. I think it but a temporary check, however, and that the sentiment is strong with the people. Still there arc no public meetings now, and the discussion that continues is put up by the newspapers alone." "1 think, said he, "that the silver men in the Democratic and Republican par ties will be swamped when it comes to elcrtions. They w.U talk sliver, protest thtlr allegiance to silver, and all that, but when the time comes they will grit their teeth and stand their medicine. Tbey will vote with their parties." Called on a CoogreMtnaa to Rea'go- CHILL1COTHK, Mo., Aug. e The Demo cratic county convention, after electing delegates to Pertle Springs, adopted a resolution calling; upon Congers in an U. S. Hall to resign on account of bis atti tude on the financial question. Cera. Uarriaon Makes a Prediction. Watf.rtows, N. Y, Aug. 5 Ex-Presi dent Ujrrison was Interviewed at Old Forga. He decline to discuss politics luriuer man to say: "ou Will see that when the Kaiiilican party comes into power again tiur will be a ions time in power. That cr.t will begin when tftio people are heard from ngain." When the reporter suggested that General Harrison might be the nominee for tba presidency tue ex-presiacuc saia: "llianltyou, but I don't b.-lievo I am the man." IRAIUIE STATU SUUUT OF CASH. Springfleld Papr smy There Will Bo Trooble Making Uoth Ends Meet. SPF.iNiiFlELD, Ills., Aug. 5 A local pa per says: "The state is already out of money to all practical purposes. Accord. ing to statements of the auditor's office It is on the verge of bankruptcy. Tho auditor has Issued warrants for about $100,000, aud there is not over (oJO.OOO in tho treasury. The statement Is made that if all outstanding obligations of the state were paid there would not be a dot lar in the treasury. "Wherever it is possible to save cxnendl tures until next year it will bo done. The state is bard up for cash and will have to economize and put off its creditors just as long as possible. There will bo but little money coming into tho state treasury for some time, Stato taxes, on which the most reliance is to bo placed, will not come in bcire next April." Harris oa the Blmetalllo Conference. Memphis, Aug. 5. Senator Harris, on being asked concerning tho conference of bimetallists to be held in Washington Aug. 14, said that letters had been re ceived from representatives of about twenty-five states, announcing their per pose to attend tho conference. Is would undoubtedly, ho said, bo a representative conference of Democrats, it was Intended to bo tho first step towards thorough complete, and systematic organization of Democratic bimetallists within tho party, and with a view to iuIluonclnj partv ao tion. Boies Will Not lie a Candidate. Ceoab Rapids, la., Aug. 5. Horace Boies has written a letter to li. O. Bish op, chairman of the Linn county Demo cratic convention, in wh eh bo says his attention nas been called to resolutious adopted favoring his nomination for gov ernor, and stating that he cannot consent to the uso of bis namo iu connection with the nomination, for reasons which are wholly personal. Mrs. Talmage Head. Dansvillk, N. Y., Aurr. 5. Mrs. Talmage, wife of Dr. T. Dewitt Tal- mage. died here this morning. Girls nnd Women for Clerks, "I don't need any in my ollice; can't depend on them; they are always giv ing out w hep most needed," says a business man. 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