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ROCK ISLAND ARGUS. VOL. XI, VII. m 1&8. ROCK ISIiAXD, 1X1,., SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1899. PRICE THREE CENTS. AGAIN Ifl HARMONY. America and Spain Receive Each Other's New Min isters. CEREMONIES AT TWO CAPITALS, Historical Events on lioth Sides of the Atlantic That Happily Conclode War That Chsnfed the Map of the World Spain's Pay from Vermany for Pacific Uroups Dreyfus Gets a New Trial. ashington, Jane 3. I be new Spanish minister. Due d Arcos. pre. sen ted bin credentials to the president today. He called at the state depart ment shortly before 11, and with .bee retarv Hayj proceeded to the White bouse. On arrival at the White house the parlv was ushered into the blue par lor. The ceremony of presentation lasted less than live minutes. No one was present except the president. Sec retary Hay, and the Spanish minister ami his two secretaries. The due was attired in his resplen dent diplomatic uniform. The presi dent was cordial but dignified in his greeting. Simultaneously in Madrid, the pro gram of renewal of diplomatic rela tions was carried out, liellamy Morer the new United States minister to Syain, beiiig presented to Queen Chris una. it was a notable occasion in the world's history, the resumption of friendly relations between the two nations which have been at war and in a brief struggle changed the map of the world. The speeches here were especially notable, lhevwere plain sM)keii and devoid of the usual hazy diplomatic phraseology. HENDERSON MUCH IN LEAD. Iowa Congressman Seems to Have a Cer tainty on f peakershlp of "ext House. Huston, June 3. A private meet ing of Massachusetts congressmen was held here todaj, at which it is un derstood it was determined to favor Moody, of Haverville, but it is under stood he will withdraw in favor of Henderson, of Iowa, as did Hopkins, of Illinois. Chicago, June 3. Congressman Henderson, of Iowa, who is now re garded as certain of the speakership of the next bouse, is here conferring with republican leaders. Senators A'iison. of Iowa, and representatives of Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota will arrive here this evening for the purpose of conferring with a view to making efforts to capture the votes necessary to make Henderson's elec tion certain. THE TERMS OF THE DEAL. Conditions I'nder Which Germany nought Spain's Islands. Madrid. June 3. Germany pays twenty-live million pesetas for the Carolines 1 alaos and Marianne islands Spain retains a coaling station in each irroup and Germany undertakes to defend these stations in case of war. Germany, in addition, grants Spain the moot favored nation in treatment in Germany and the colonial islands. DREYFUS GETS NEW TRIAL. Hearing of Second Court Martial Proceed ings Ordered. I'aris, June 3. The court of cassa tion today reudered a verdiet in favor of revision of the Dreyfus case, order ing a new court martial, to sit at Kennea, 00 miles from Nantes, for trial of the prisoner. Liner St. I-ouls Has An Escape. Southampton. June 3. The Ameri can liner St. Louis caught on the coast hero at dead low water, but floated off at high tide, having simply stuck in the mud. IColllncer Jury DlMcrerf. Chicago, June 3. The jury in the case of Kinil Kollinger. for t tic mur der of his wife, reported a disagree ment today and were discharged. Kol linger was" remanded to await another trial. Sixtieth Ardflinc Anniversary. Piatt. Ville. Wis..Jun' 3. .Mr and Mrs. Jacob Oettiker. Sr.. celebrated the six tieth anniversary of their marriage yesterday. Jacob OettiUcr. Sr.. was boin in lvt at Mar.idorf. Switzerland, and was the youngest of four children. He learr.ed the taih r's trade and at the age 'f 31 year. came to this country and r-ettled In Pittsburg. Pa. In 1S39 he married Miry Uritenstein in that city, who also carrc from Switzerland, where the was born in 1S21. Scorr on tlie ltanV?Vl4l. Chicago. Jure 2. Fallowing are the League base ball scores made yester day: At Boston Clr.einr.ati 4. Boston 6: at New York I.ulsville 12. New York 13: at Washineton St. Ixui 7. Wash ington 2: at Philadelphia Pittsburg 3. Philadelphia 4: at Brooklyn Cleveland 10. Brooklyn 11: at Baltimore Chicago 2, Baltimore 4. Western League: At Indianapolis Minneapolis 3. Indianapolis 9; at Co lumbus Kansas City 2. Columbus 3: at IVtroit St. Paul 6. iH-troit 2; at Buf faloMilwaukee o. Buffalo fi. GC3. Alger and Wife Com lag West. Washington. June 3. Secretary and Mr. Alger left last evening for a visit to their home in Detroit, after which the secretary will visit the lumber re gions in Minnesota, where he has large private Interests. Mr. and Mrs. Alger will., co bv the way of Boston, yhire. they will pay a visit to their son. Cap tain F. M. Alger, who Is a senior at Harvard, and then proceed to Grar.d mere. Canada, to visit another son, Rus sell A. Alger, Jr. FAIR WOMEN AND BRAVE JffES At a Ball Given by Onr Philippine Com mission Senator's Beveridge's Trip. Manila, June 2. 11:10 a. m. The t'nit ed States Philippine commission last night gave one of the most brilliant balls Manila has ever seen. It was one cf a series of entertainments intended to foster friendship between the Amer leans and the natives. The newly ap pointed Judges, General Otis, a number of other American officers, and many wealthy natives were present. There was a display of gorgeous native toilets and many jewels were worn, and the array of handsome women surprised the Americans. United States Senator Beverldge, of Indiana, who came to the Philippines some time ago. has made a fortnight' trip in the southern islands. During hi tour he talked with the chief of Jolo who has 2,000 fighting men under hi command, and who professes friendship for America, which friendship, he hinted might be strengthened by the contin uance of the annual subsidy of $12,000 formerly paid by the Spaniards. General Smith has punished the In surgents at Escalante. island of Ne gros, for the murder of Captain Tilly of the signal corps- General Smith burned the town and killed a number of members of bands of insurgents whom he found in the neighborhood. Three members of the South Dakota regiment were wounded at San Fernando in an encounter between insurgents and the American outposts. CARRIE JONES CONFESSES. Girl Who Carried Away Baby Marian Clark Tells Her Story. New York, June 3. The World this morning say.i: Carrie Jones, the nurse who had charge of little Marian Clark, was arrested at Summit. X. J., lat night. Her real name is Bella Ander son. In a confession before a notary public she said that she had been a party to the abduction, that she had been led into the scheme by George Beauregard Barrow and his wife Jen nie. She paid: "I was told by them that I would get half of any ransom paid for the return of the child. I was poor, tired of hard work and wanted money. I was told that there would be absolutely no danger. 'The Heauresard? schooled me In the way to abduct the child. We had de termined to take the first child that Would command a ransom. "On Monday, when the abduction be came purine the Ueauregards and Marian and I, Mrs. Beauregard carry ing the baby, went to Sloatsburg. I stayed there until Friday, and then went to the Beauregard Hat. Yester- day Mr. Beauregard came to see me, gave me $10 and told me to leave the oitvr I then went'to my aunt's homo t Whit Oak Hblge. I don't know wi'ny I did this, except I was ill and needed money." ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS." The Chilean ministry has resigned it was appointed last December. Baroness Hlrsch's charitable bequests amount in all to about $3,350,000. The shipyard at Newport News. Va. has contracts for nearly $10,000,000 of work. Experiments to reproduce dead men's features from their skulls are being made in Germany. The London Daily Chronieleannounces that Mrs. Florence Maybrick is likely to be liberated shortly. In eighteen of the larger cities the increase on building operations In March was ZS per cent, over March, lSys. Keginald Hyr.es, an Englishman who went to Chicago recently, committed suicide by Jumping overboard from the yacht Perl. The bishops of Latin America, who are now gathered at London In coun cil, have presented to the pope 2T0,CC0 lire as Peter's pence. A woman at Chicago whose name Is withheld has given her Jewels, worth JS.000. for the use of St. Mary's (Episco pal) Home for Children. Mrs. Margaret Flynn. who was as saulted by her son. James. May 27. died at the county hospital at Chicago. The young man is feeble-minded. While playirg in the yard at the rear of her home at Chicago a 2-year-o!d daughter of Charles Kirste fell Into a ditch filled with water and wasdrowned. Mary Ann Jewell, aged 62, living alone in the Wyoming valley, near Spring Green. Wis., was found dead in the road near her home, supposedly the result of a runaway. All silver and lead properties in the vicinity of Sar.don. B. C. except the Slocan Star, have been shut eiown, re fusing to pay $3.50 for eight instead of ten hours' work. Fred Arnold, 13 years old, shot Alex ander Mellis. of the same age. in the neck. Arnold had a ride of small caliber and did the shooting at the command of John West, who is only one year older. Trsn-Jlisisspp4 Con;r-na. Wichita. Kas.. June 3. The trans Mississippi congress yesterday adopted resolutions! strongly indorsing the pro posed international exposition to be held at St. Louis In 1103. in commemoration of the Louisiana purchas? centennial. ttuk Robbers found Guilty. Stevens Point. Wis.. June 3. John Harrington, Edward Rattigan. John Harly. and John Kelly, all of Chicago, were found guilty In the circuit court yesterday of the charge of blowing up the safe of the International Lar.k of Amherst on March 10. Combine in Chesrlaa; Gam. New York. June 3. Articles of in corporation cf the American Chtclecom par.y were filed with the secretary of state at Trenton, N. J., yesterday with an authorised capital or J9.0CO.C0O. Dixon Geia ihe Decision. New York. June 3. Dixon got the de cision over Bernstein at the end of the twenty-fifth round of their glove con test In this city last eight- LOOK AT YOUR BONDS IF You Hay Any of the Arkansas Kind You May Be a Vic tim of Fraud. STEAL OF $175,000 IS UffEAETHED. State Treasurer Fears It Blay Kun lp invn the Millions ew York Man's Estate Includes Worthless Arkansas Boadi Big Haul of Train Thngs. About 950,000 Box of Sovereigns Worth $25,000 Stole 11 from a Ship's Treasure Boom. Little Rock, Ark.. June 3. A letter of Inquiry from the executor of a New York estate addressed to State Treas urer Little has unearthed a bond swin dle which already amounts to $173,000, and which the state officials believe may on investigation run up Into the millions. The letter reveals the fact that fraudulent state bonds have been suc cessfully floated, but the extent of the swindle cannot yet be approximated. The letter is from William L. Jaques, 13. West One Hundred and Nineteenth street. New York city, and is as follows: Would Like Cash on His Iinntl. 'Thar Sir: As executor and heir cf my father's estate Edward J. Jaques, deceased, I desire to make inquiries re garding some seventy bonds. 6 per cent., of the state of Arkansas, series issued 1870, of which the enclosed list are the numbers and now held here. The bands are under an agreement for settlement between the state of Arkansas and the bondholders, to be consummated in this present year 1S99. Will you kindly let me know at your earliest convenience what the prospects are looking to a set tlement, and any information concern ing the bonds that would be of service to me in the settlement of my father's estate I would appreciate greatly." Same Bonds in Tw o Places. Then follows a schedule of seventy londs in the possession of Jaques of the series issued Jan. 1. 1870, bearing 6 jer cent, interest. Seventeen of these bonds, ranging in number from 3 to 420, are shown on the sitate bond record to have been redeemed and cancelled, with the exception of two which are now in the permanent school fund and actually in the vaults of the state treasury. How Jaques could have the same bonds in his possession is a riddle that can be solved only on the supposition that they are counterfeits. Little points out the fact that a bond of that issue could have been readily forged by changing the number?. Repudiation Settles the Others. The remaining fifty-three bonds are as valueless as the paper upon which they are printed, as they come within the limits of those repudiated by the Fishback amendment. It develops, therefore, that bonds with a face value of $175,000, including accrued interest coupons, held in good faith as a genuine asset of the Jaques estate, are worth- less. The apiearance of these bonds is taken by thestiteauthoritits asevidence of a gigantic swindle having at some time in past years been rerpetra-.ed, and the state bond board will endeavor to ascertain to what length it was carried, and if possible locate the guilty parties. TRAIN Til ICS GET $4 7,000. Hold-l'p on the I n Ion Facitlc to That Ex- lent, It Is Claimed. Salt Lake City. Vtah, June 3. A spe cial to The Tribune from Kawlins, Wyo., says the robbers at Wilcox yesterday obtained $36, COO in money and about $10,- CO0 worth of diamonds, and that a large amount of money in bills was destroyed by the explosion. Laramie. Wyo., June 3. The Union Pacific trans-continental west-bound mail train was held up. dynamited and robbed at 1 o'clock yesterday morning near Wilcox, a lonely station on the Wyoming division. The hold-up was accomplished by waving a danger signal I a short distance east of Wilcox bridge. Engineer "Grindstone" Jones resisted. and one of the robbers climbed on his engine and struck him on the head. giving him a severe scalp wound. He was made to cut his engine loose from the train at the point of a gun. The robbers drove the express messenger from his car and then exploded a charge of dynamite under it. The car was wrecked and the mail car next to it badly damaged. The robbers then exploded a charge of dynamite under the Wilcox bridge, cutting off communication beteen the train and engine, and tleing up all trains after the ridge was blown up. The hold-ups dis appeared, and Engineer Jones ran to Medicine Bow and reported. It is not known at this time the amount secured from the express car safe. The hold-up I occurred in a district where escape to he mountains is comparatively easy. The Union. Pacific ifficials have offered a reward of $1,000 apiece for the capture of the thugs. FIVE THOCSAND SOVEREIGNS GONE. Stolen from a Consignment of Gold on tlie Steamer Alameda. San Francisco, June 3. There was great excitement on board the steamer Alameda upon her arrival from Aus tralia yesterday when It was discovered that a box containing 5.000 sovereigns was missing. Seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars Jn gold had been sent by the steamer from Sydney. The mon ey was e!'.pped in thirty steel boxes, each containing $23,000 in British gold. One of these boxes was abstracted from the steamer's treasure room or vault during the voyage. The theft is ap parently shrouded in deepest mystery. On the Alameda this vault Is formed of steel plates each five-sixteenth of an nch thick. It is located under the steerage din!ng room, and the only mode of entering It is through a small trap door secured with an iron bar and a Yale lock. The lock was sealed with the stamp of the steamship company after the boxes. of sovereigns had been counted and re ceipted for by the purser, and the key of the lock placed in the safe in the purser's room. The purser declares that the key to the lock has never been taken from the safe from the time tne steamer sailed from Sydney until the ariival here. The seal over the lock was broken, and yet the consignment was short 5.000 sovereigns. No one ques tions that thirty boxes were placed in the steel tank at the beginning of the voyage and yet but twenty-nine boxes were in the tank when the steamer ar rived. There are two suspects giving their names as William Green and John H. Porter, and the former was on the passenger list as WHlard Reed. The lV.ist theory of the police is that the missing box was never in the steel tank. The boxes are heavy, each weigh Ing about ninety pounds; as they were brought on board they were checked by the purser and chief officer and carried to the strong room by two porters. It is now believed that a game of flim-flam was played at this stage, and the box,, instead of being placed in its proper receptacle was opened and the money either taken on shore before the steam er sailed from Sydney or else divided among the confederates who were amcng the passengers. OUTLOOK IS FAVORABLE- All Business Signs Continue to Speak Londty of FroperIty. New York, June 3. Eradstreet's says: Holiday observances and warmer w eath er have worked together toward a smaller aggregate of speculative trans actions and less pronounced activity in some lines of wholesale trade this week, while naturally stimulating retail busi ness at most centers. Current bank clearings reflect the former influences in considerably reduced totals for the week. while cheerful advices as to trade in May as a whole are confirmed by very large bank returns for that month, sec ond only in fact to the monthly totals of January and March the latter hold ing the record in this respect. The fa vorable effect of the immense current industrial activity and consumptive de mand, offsetting the smaller tonnage of cereals now as compared with a year ago, is found in the continued good in creases in gross railroad earnings. Net returns are, it is true, not quite so relatively favorable, but it is to be recalled that comparisons now are with specially good reports a year ago. In industrial lines the demand for and strength of iron ar.d steel are the most interesting features. Rather more spec ulative interest has been observable in cereals, particularly wheat, this week. Heavier shipments from northwestern points are taken to indicate confidence in a full yield of spring wheat. Advices from many cities of great activity in building find confirmation in the con tinued heavy demand for lumber, build ing hardware and other materials. Business failures are down to a low summer minimum, numbering only 129, against 138 last week. ITS In this week a year ago. 192 In 1S97. and 236 in 1S16. TREMENDOUS WIND-FORCE. Blows Five Cars Out of a Train and Tears l'p 60 Feet or Dou'ile Track. Terre Haute. Ind., June 3. Word has Just reached this city of damage sus tained north of Watseka, , Ills., by the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad. An extra freight train was struck by a cyclone while running at a good rate of speed, and the wind carried five cars out of the train and "blew out two tracks for a distance of sixty feet, together with a good portion of the roadbed. Two cars loaded with barrels and two loaded with heavy lumber were drifted bodily from the trucks and thrown into the ditch, while an empty box car was hurled clear off the .right of way. Tax on Michigan Alines. Lansing, Mich.. June 3. The house agreed In committee of the whole to the bill taxing mining companies in the up per peninsula, and friends of the bill claim enough votes to pass it in both "branches. Under It eorper mining com panies are required to pay a specific tax of from one-slxte?nth of a cent per pound on an annual output of 5.000.000 pounds, to one-half cent per pound on an output exceeding 30,000,000 pounds. Iron mining companies ore required to pay 3 cer.ts on each ton cf pre. Yerkes Out cf Control. Chicago, June 3. Stockholders of the North and West Chicago Street Rail way companies yesteriay voted to lease the two systems to the Chicago Union Traction company, a concern formed by a number of New York capitalists. Dur ing the meeting President Charles T. Yerkes announced his retirement as an active member of Chicago rtreet rail way companies. The new company has an authorized capitalization of SZj.OM. 000. Sol Van Praag Indicted. Chicago. June 3. The grand Jury yes terday morning returned an indictment against Sol Van Praag. The "true bill" accuses the proprietor of the Owl saloon. at 392 State street, of "unlawfully and wickedly keeping a common." ill-gov erned, and disorderly house for the en couragement of idleness. gaming. drirking. misbehavior and other forms of vice." Insurance Company Pays Taxes. Madison. Wis".. June 3. The North western Mutual Life Insurance com pany, of Milwaukee, yesterday paid the Increased taxes required by the Orton law, passed Jpy the legislature last win ter, to the insurance commissioner. The amount is $132,739.21, which is stated to be 1 per cent, of the company's gross income, with rents, etc., deducted. Jury Is Hnng on Kollinger. Chicago. June 3. Last r.igbt after be ing out seven hours the Jury in the case of Michael Rollinger. charged with the murder of his wife, was unable to reach a verdict and was confined until today. The Jury at first stood nine for convic tion and three for acquittal. When the adjournment was taken it stood eleven for conviction., one for acquittal.. btryaer keigaS His losirlon. Springfield. Ills.. June S. W". D. Stry- ker. of Plainfield. has resigned as a member of the state board of agri culture, and his resignation has been accepted. . M. Zimplemana. of Wood stock, has been selected to fill the va cancy, and the trouble growing out of the attempt to force Stryker out of the board i now gardejsseTtled. - THE LONDON Just f All Wool Suits 50c on Poor Fellow Needed Money. CP Of We didn't do anything but take advantage of the situation and bump them good and hard. In order to sell this lot jfg out quick we offer them at the same rate we bought them. C? Suits worth $13.50, $12 and $10 all Go at! This lot will not last long, as the shrewd buyer will THE LONDON YOU KNOW US. JUSTICE FOR DREYFUS Court of Cassation to Recom mend a New Trial of the ' Captain. WME, DtLEYFUS HEAES THE NEWS Itoport That President I-oubet Has lieea Persuaded Not to Itesign, Which Was His Intention Hterhazy Tells the Lon don Chronicle That Ho Wrote the Itor dereau That Sent Irey fus to Isle de lia ble French Army Officials Denounced. London, June 3. The Paris corre spondent of The Morning Post tele graphing yesterday, says: The work of the court of cassation is practically finished. Each of the Judges gave his opinion today and only formalities re main. The councillors were almost unanimously in favor of revision; and the decision to be given tomorrow will e COMTE FEIiDIXAND ESTEBOAZT. ' be even more energetically in favor of Dreyfus than was the report of M. Bal lot de Beaupre. It will declare that the "Canaille de d document Is In r.o way appiicable to Dreyfus, Paris, June 3. The Figaro asserts that Madame Dreyfus has been au thorized to inform her husband that M. Ballot de Beaupre and Manau have re ported in favor of revision and of a new trial. Salutes the Honr of .Justice. They received In return a reply say ing: "Full of emotion, I salute the hour of Justice, which I have never despaired of; and I await with absolute confidence the appearance of my hus band before his future Judges." The Echo de Paris announces this morning that the court of cassation has virtually finished Its labors in connec tion with Dreyfus revision. It tays that at yesterday" silting, after thr;e hours' deliberation, only six councillors had given their opinion, whereupon the presidentof thscourt. desiring to shorten proceedings which threatened to be in terminable, proposed a vote by "yes" and "no" c Important questions. Dreyfus to Have a New Trial. Sis ballots .were then taken and the f bought of a hard -up clothing Chicago 400 Men's Fine $6. result of the decision will be delivered about noon today. It will send Dreyfus to trial by a new court-martial. Lu Fronde says: M. Krantz, the minister of war, and M. Ballot de Beaupre, the reporter for the court of cassation in the Ureyf'.is affair, yesterday received from Esterhazy a communication con fessing the authorship of the bordereau, and asking a safe conduct to enable Mm to come to Paris to give explana tions. Le Pie Francaise is responsible for the statement that President Loubet yesterday announced his intention to resign, but that the ministers persuaded him to remain In oflice. ESTEKHAZY'S NEW CONFESSION. Tells the London Chronicle That He Wrote the Uordereau. London, June 3. The Daily Chronicle says that Major Comte Ferdinand Wal sin Esterhazy called at its office last evening with a confidential friend, and after declaring that the time had ar rived when the whole truth should be told, although hitherto by reason of constant orders and inducements he had kept silence on the essential point, made the following statement: "The chiefs of the army have disgrace fully abandoned me. My cup Is full and I shall speak out. Yes raising his voice and glaring around it was I who wrote the bordereau. I wrote it upon orders received from Sandherr." Esterhazy. The Chronicle says, then proceeded to explain that formonthsbe fore ISM moral proofs had been obtained of leakages which were only possible through an officer belonging to the minis try of war; and it was necessary to catch the guilty party by material evi dence. Hence the bordereau. When atked what the chiefs of the French general staff would say to this confes sion, Esterhazy, Ehrugging his shoul ders, disdainfully replied: "They will lie as they know how to lie;" but I have them tight. I have proofs that they knew the whole thing and share the re sponsibility with me, ar.d I will produce the proofs." He then denounced thechiefs as a "set of scoundrels who have abandoned me basely," and added, "but at one time they used to come to thank Madame Pays for her assistance." Esterhazy asserted that quite recently the chiefs sent M. 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