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THE ARGUS. SATURDAY, APBIL 10 1897, Election Again demonstrate that Shields, the peoples' . candidate, has swept the city from end to end on his platform of low prices The opposition mad? a determined fight to reinstate Old Czar High Price, bat their efforts were fruitless. The people who want fair prices were with Shields, and under his banner marched to victory. His administration will be a success, because he al ways keeps h!s promises. Watch for his low price proclamations. Look at this list: Strictly Fresh Eggs, Sdoa.... 25e Fancy Dairy Batter, per lb... 15c Star and Crescent Pancake Floor, per package only.... 60 Raisins, per ponnd 6c Clean CarranU, per package.. 4c California Prunes, per pound. 60 Good Tomatoes, 2 cam for.... 16c Canned Peaa 6c and op Canned Peaches 9o Canned Pears 10c Canned Egg Pin ma 10c All package Coffee, per package 16c Peaberry Coffee, per pound... 22 jc Crashed Java Coffee, per ponnd '. 11c 9 o'clock Washing Tea 3c Gold Dost 17jo 12 bars of Standard Soap 26c Raking Soda, per ponnd 6c Lye, per can 6c Cattop, j-pint bottles 60 Catsup, pint bottles lOo Dr. Price's I'.aking Powder, per pound 3 9c H I ELD CASH aBOOERY. B'lione 1217. At Any Pricey Thats the keynote to a big slaughter sale to begin at our store Monday morning at 8 o'clock sharp. Our manufac turer Is at our back. Here h h's trlegram: Rochester, N. Y., April 1. DOLLY BROS., Rock Island, 111. Have expressed one thousand pairs fonr dollar shoes, which you can sell at any price necessary to meet competition. Will express green shoes Monday. JOHN KELLY. That's enough for us. Come choice of these high grade Rochester shoes at the rediculous price of only $2.50 per pair. . This is the Chance of Chances. DEAL HEATERS For Burn And are Heaters that Heat. Easy to dean and operate. Let us have your plans and make you estimates. Our work will please you. Allen, Mvers & Qumaa? Opposite Harper House. Returns Best Leaf Lard in 50-pound tins, only 2.65 Evaporated Raspberries, per ponnd Evaporated Apples, per ponnd Evaporated Pear's, per pound. Large Imported - Figs, per ponnd 13 pounds Rolled Oats for . . . . Package Rolled Oats Cranberries, per quart 20c 60 60 14o 26o 60 6c Best Red Kidney Beans, 2 cans 15o Large box Stove Polish 60 12 boxes Parlor Matches lOo Good Smoking Tobacco, per pound 16c Climax Chewing Tobacco, per ponnd 35c Small Pickles, per gallon. .. 19o 4 packages Mince Meat 25c Gallon can Maple Syrup 99c Holland Herring, per keg 69c Mackeral 53 and np 1-pound can Salmon 9c Lemons, per dozen; 10c 2600 Fifth Aire. and carry them away. Your Steam and Water Hard or Soft Coal. 1821 SECCIMYE. s M aat aaaa) THE COMING CABINET Mayor-Elect Medill Has Plenty of Material. SOME WHO ARE CANDIDATES. New Executive Has Made No Decision. Will Take It Up Sometime Next Week. The composition of the cabinet of Mayor T. J. Medill, Jr., is now the subject of more or less discussion and of interest, especially to those who are candidates. There is an abundance of excellent material from which to select the proper timber. those who are known to be appli cants being: superintendent or Water Works J. W. Cavanauzh, J. A. Murrin. Chief of Police M. II. Sexton. J. II. Pender, David Fitzgerald, Edwin Ward. Night Captain Frank Eckhard, L M. 8tudvvin. Chief of Fire Department Joseph D. Collier, J. W. Lynn. Health Commissioner Dr. J. P. Coinegys. . superintendent of Streets Peter Frey, J. E. Larkin, H. Siemon, J. B Cramer. K. Kuschmann. Toll Gste Keeper Peter Schlem- mer. Weighraastcr Leo Deisenroth, B. II. Kimball. Special Assessment Collector William Hoeft, E. J. Bnrns. In addition to these there are plenty of candidates for policemen, firemen, etc. !tb It No TJjooght IU Mr. Medill stated today that while he had been fully impressed with the nua-ber of candidates for the various appointive offices, he had not given ttie subject any serious cansidera- tion yet, and di ) not propose to nntil sometime next week, lie stated that ho proposed to take time to rest up from the campaign, and also to give the appointments the deliberation that they shonld hive. CATTON TIES WITH SPINKS Rock Islander May Carrr An? First Mmij la the Itllllard Toarnrr, VV. H. Catton 14 nnw in n. fir n.r to carrv off first monev in tha nhnrt.. stop billiard tournament at Chicego. This chance comes to him in conse quence of the defeat yesterday cf Npinks by Tom Gallagher, the score being 400 to 3J0. BDinks1 narrow escane in hia mtrti with McLaughlin the night before put him under a greater strain than usubi buu wneu uauagner Degan to force ahead be lost control of his cue for several successive innings. Cat- ton was the mobt interested specta tor of the game, and was much eiaiea at ttie outcome, as it five mm another ormortnnitr tn iiefo. Spinks. with whom be is now tied for first place. The deciding game be tween the leaders will be played next Monday. The other position are al ready settled Sutton in third, Mc Laughlin fonrth. Gallagher fifth and aT . a ... . aaaggiou ana mattnews last CITY WILL LOSE THE ROCK uonnimiDi c.uaot Now Bfakt tha Planned Disposition. ine city will not eet the rock taken from the river in the dredging operations in the Hock Island harbor after all. High water and other conditions have so interfered with the completion of the work that the remaining (5,000 will not be suf ficient to complete the harbor, and hence it will be necessary to have funds transferred from the general fund with which to do it. To have this done it will b3 esential that the government be convinced that it is receiving something in a general way in retnrn, and Xo so provide engineer Mce.ir.erne nas arranged to deposit tne rocs taken irom tue har bor on the dams below tho two cuius, and in this way the government will get (omtthing for the addi tional money which it will be. asked to appropriate from the general fund for river improvements. There are 7,000 yards of material to he so raised, and the work will not b 3 completed before the 20th of the p esent month. MrEolry-a Hill Hon. William McEniry returned from Springfield last night tj spend siunaay at home, liis ponce matron bill came np for the third reading in the house Thursday, and he now feels reasonably confident of its nlti mate passage. He has increased the population by which the require ment of n police matron is fixed from 15.C00 to 16,000. Representatives not favorable to tne measure intro duced several amendments' tending 10 Kin it tnu week, out ucxairv. who is working hard for the bill. succeeded in having them side' tracked. Eaatcr Bats. - We have them; yon want them; we want to sen them to yon. Be snre, ladies, that In correct style and lo prices we are second to none in the three cities. Ottksin, 322 West Second Street, Davenport. Just try a 10 cent box of CascareU, the finest liver and bowel regulator ever mane. OFFICIAL TOWNSHIP VOTE. Board Canvasses tha K tarns of tha Lata BlcetJoa. The township baard, composed of Supervisor William Rinck, Assessor J. L. Freeman, Collector Kroeger Clerk Hue sing, canvassed the vote of the township ticket this after noon. The official vote is: , Assistant Supervisor John Ko- nosky. d. 1,888; Peter Gottsmann, d. i,u&; . J. Gamble, r, 1,9, 9; Charles Engle. r. 1,994. Assessor William Hoeft, d, 1,859; J. L. Freeman, r, 1,993. Collector P. J. Lee, d, 2,061; John Bladel. r, 1,831. Justices of the Peace M. W. Bat tles, d. l.?56; David Haweo. r. 2.092: Herman D?tjen, d. 1,878. O. E Cramer, r, 1,931;. A. M. Siebert. d. 1,748; W. F. Schroeder. r. 2,026. Constables J. E. Larkin. d, 2,045; J. N. MjMorris. r. 1,786: Peter Ha- man. d. 1.805; G. W. Sample, r. 1 963; M. J. Higgins. d, 1,749; L. V. Kckhnrt. r, 2,077. It w H " si that by the official returns that Mr. Detjens is rot elect ed, as ws ooped. le tDwn board has nothing to do with the vote on the municipal ticket, but it is under s;ood that the vote on the proposi tions in the first precinct of the Fonrth ward was: Forthe bonds, 130; against, 11; for the school change, 62; against, 73. This missing pre cinct with the unofficial figures at hand, shows that the bond proposi tion is carried, as it gives 2,085. the total vote cast for the head of the ticket being 3,981, but it likewise settles the school propo sition, which is not only defeated legally in failing of the majority of votes cast,' bnt is beaten on the re turns, the missing precinct making the total 1,098 for to 1,140 against. GAMBLING DEN WEDDING. A. F. RnoH la Coavarted aod Comas Back to tha Woman Ha Wronged. A remarkably strange story comes from Chicago. Adolph F. Kuch, who formerly resided here, and Annie Siman are the principals in the affair. ine wedding took place in a gam bling house at 121 Clark treet. Standing in the midst of faro lay outs, roulette wheels and gambling devices of all sorts, Bev. O. E. Mur ray, pastor of the Paulina street Methodist Episcopal church, pro nounced them man and wife and gave a father's name to the pretty, golden-haired baby girl who during the ceremony twined her little arms lovingly around the neck of the groom, while the mother wept tears of joy. Few witnessed the strange wed ding, says a Chicago paper, but those wno aid wiu never forget it. it was held where it was because the groom had said, "In a gambling house I was ruined, in a gambling house I was converted, and in a gambling house I wish to make atonement for the greatest wrong I have ever done." isucn, wno is iz years old. 1 a native of Bock Island, and went to Chicago three years ago. For a while he worked as a bell boy at the Brevoort house, but soon left there and became a frequenter of levee re sorts, where he joined hands with the gamblers and swindlers he met there. Two years ago he met a yonng girl who had just come from "Hamburg, Germany, and she loved him, not wise ly, but too well. Shortly afterward he left Chicago and traveled through the east with a gang of swindlers who followed the county fairs, and in- winter frequented gambling houses. Last October, after losing all his money at roulette, young Ruch fonnd his way into the hall where John P Quinn was exposing gambling. What he saw there cured him of gambling. He told the story of his life to Q iinn, who took an in terest in the young man and gar mm employment. When ynnn moved to Buffalo young Ruch pro fessed conversion and become a pro bationary member of the Methodist Episcopal church. When he arrived in Chicago three weeks ago with Quinn, he at once be gan a search for the woman he had wronged two years ago. . His search was unsuccessful nntil last Thurs day, when he happened to meet her on State street with her babe of a year in her arms. When Ruch told her he had become a better mnn and asked her to forgive him and become his wife, her answer was to place the little baby in his arms. Thev wet to John P. Quinn, who immediately made arrangements with Rev. O. E. Murray to perform the marriage ceremony. The only persons pres ent were those connected wiih Mr. Q linn's exhibition, Mrs. V. E. Pren tice and Miss Prentice, and a few newspaper men. GALVA GETS 1 HECADET. ror, A- DtcktnaoB Appointed bj Cj STrraanian Frio or. Forrest Albro Dickinson, of Galva, has been appointed by Congressman Prince to West Point, and will at tend that celebrated school, provided be can pass the requisite physical examination, of which there sems to be bnt little doubt. Very kind things are said of the young gentle man. He graduated "with honors last June from the Galva High school, ne is a poor boy. It is re lated of him that for three years while he was attending school he tended the street lighte of Galva. This compelled him to walk 12 miles every night, and six of these miles were gone after midnight. 'Watches were first called Kuxemburg eggs. Some of them were 6 or 6 inches in diameter, as large as the small sized cheap clocks now exhibited in store windows. They were first made in 1447. KISSED AND MADE UP Mr. and Mrs. Waugh Go Home Together. SHE HAD DESERTED HIM. He Follows Her to Town and Meets Her. Trouble Fixed at a Consulta tion at Sheriff's Office. Algernon Waugh, a well known farmer of Eigington township, came to Rock Island in search of his - wife and little son. He found them. But he returned home alone. Mis. Wangh came to Rock Island last Mondav intending to return the fol lowing day. Charles uurimg, a vonn? man from this city, boarded at the Waugh dnring the winter. He left last week, saying he was going to Beardstown. Thursday Mrs. augh rented apartments on Fourth avenue. bhe said she only wished to remain a month or so. One of the first vis itors at her new home was Charles Dnrling. Mrs. Wangh told her hus baid that sne had had enough of farm life. Maka Up Inn, Last night Sheriff Hemenway re ceived a telephone message from Ed gington asking him to detain Mrs. Wangh and her eon, who it was understood out there, were planning to leave today for Peoria in oompany with Durling. Bailiff Hull visited Mrs. Waugh at her new apartments at the home of H. Harris on Fourth avenue, and escorted her to the sher iff's residence, where she was told that if she attempted to leave town she would be arrested. She denied tne story that she intended leaving town with Darling, and stated that it was her intention to retnrn home to Edgington today. She was re leased, and Mr. Waugh was tele, phoned to. He came to town today. A meeting between he and his wife was arranged at the sheriff's office, where after a brief private talk they determined to start-life anew, he promising to treat her differently. Mrs. Waugh claims that the reason she Trjf t him was on account of un kind treatment. And she declares that she had no dealings with Dur ling. Mrs. Wangh had begun suit for divorce through Sweeney & Walker. BREAKS HIS LEG IN A FALL O. W. Harrlf, of Orion, Bat a Narrow Es cape In Tula City. G. W. Harris, of Orion, fall frnm the pia'.form at the north side of the aunington depot yesterday, and fractured bis tight lez above the ki:-:e. While lying across tho railroad treck helpless, and with no nna tn asBisthim, the Peoria passenger ap- pruauueu, out loriunateiy the en gineer noticed Harris, and brought the train to a standstill before it reached him. Dr. G. G. Craig was sent for and dressed Harris' ininrv. attar ahii-h he was sent home on the 2:45 Q. train. Tho Uneasy Lot of Prlaos. Congressman Prince is hvinr a lively time. These nleaiant anrintr days long lines of applicants for pa todies and other positions trav erse the country to his office. His office this forenoon was crowded and it has been that war ever nincn he came home. In some of the towns of the district the postoffice fights have assumed large proportions. The difficult task of amnnthinir nnt all these Jpolitical wrinkles falls to Mr. Prince. Probably every city and town in the district has had people here camping on Mr. Prince's trail. And George is doine his verv level best trvinp to conciliate all the cod dicing interests. G ties burg Re publican -Kec is ter. ihe republican anxiety over the postofiice appointment here contin ues, but a dispatch from Galesburg late this afternoon annnnnrerl that nn recommendation had yet been made oy nir. rrince. Mrs. MlteheJI'sThimtHa Party. Mrs. Phil Mitchell gave a most de lightful thimble party Thursday af. ternoon. About sixty ladies from Rock Island, Davenport and Moliee were present. The beautiful house as tastefully decorated with spring flowers, and Mrs. Mitchell was as sisted by Mrs. William Wads worth, of Davenport; Mrs. E. H. Gayer, Mrs. I. S. White. Mrs. H. X. Dusin berre. Mrs. H S. Csb:e, Miss Rosen fie!d and M sSchmidt, of Rock Isl and. Police Polata. Dove Smith and John Rnss. two lower end vnnthi. asenaerl hw Wil liam U a be, of disorderly conduct, are naviDg Bearing in Magistrate Scbroeder's court this afternoon. Thirtv-tbree Wearv Willies hne-ired the soft aide of the pine at police headquarters last night. A WM to ijililsal Do yon know that many broad physicians are using Foley's Honey ana iar uougn oyrup in their prac tice? They have found no remedy tl at gave as satisfactory results for all throat and lung complaints as this great conga medicine.- Sold by u. . itaanseii. - Turkish Rugs and This is z rare opportunity to secure fine Daghestan, Carabaugh, Cashmere. Thiorde. Khiva or Persian Sizes up to at remarkably low prices, as we will have them on txhibitjpn April 17, when those remaining unsold will be returned to im porter. Wishing to sell the entire con signment, we offer you every inducement. Call and see them. A. J. Smith Son i Opposite Masonic Temple, 133 and 125 W. Third Street , - DAVENPORT. I Dniihln.ttrnQctfllWoictAit i 6 4 STJIT Is a sack suit of a lively cloth with the vest double breasted. They call it waistcoat because the fashion is English, and Test is waistcoat in England. Have a peculiar way of making rows of buttons bnttoned makes no wrinkles. Think of what else yon 1 things as well as the one - in - 1 yon want it; and nobody wants 1 keep. i SOMMERS 1804 Second Avenue. s CHNE1DER For Your New Spring Shoes tIE have jast received a large shipment of Ladies1 Tan. Oz blood and Fine Dongola Shoes, and lots more on the road. These Shoes are made on the very latest style last, and are beauties. Prices That Will Surprise You . . . HUB line of Men's Shoes cannot be beat. We have them on the latest style last, and are made np in Vici Kid and Kos. sia Calf. Tan, Osblood and different shades of Ox blood. Come in and be convinced that we have the best selection to pick from in the city. GEO. SCHNEIDER. CENTRAL SHOE STORE. Looss and Counted. Quality and Yalus Guaranteed H. D. FOLSOM, Jeweler. 1703 Second Avenue. Turkish Carpets 10x15 Feet the vest both a good fit and want. We have the everj-day 1 a - thousand. Tonr money back if 1 it. That's the sort of store we 1 & LaVELLE. One Price. 17H SECOND AVENO tl