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ROCK ISLAND ARGUS. VOL.. XL. VII. INO. 252. ROCK ISLAND, IL.I., SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1899. TRICE THREE CENTS. 1 V. i FRANCE IN TURMOIL Discovery of a Conspiracy Overthrow the Present Government. to BTJMBES OP AEEEST3 ABE MADE. .President ;uerIo. of the Anti-Semite Lfa, Barricades HlmMlf In HU House, IJeelarlng- He Would Blow l'p HI Home Before Surrendering Trial of Dreyfus Cane at Kcmet Accuied Cilres the Lie to ien. Merclr. Paris, Anj. 12. Paul Deroulede, founder of the League of Patriots and a member of the chamber of deputies, win arrested at 4 this morning. Fol lowing this a number of members of the anti-Semite and Patriotic league were arrested. A semi-official note issued this morning reads: "A cer tain number of arrests were made thid morning as a result of the magis terial inquiry by virtue of article ! of the penal code regarding a con spiracy organized for the purpose of accomplishing a change in tbe form of government. J lie persons implicated be!onr to groups of royalists, youth and patriotic and anti-Semite leagues. At the trial of Neuilly liarruch of tbe affair, facts stated" that the Incident was alone used as basis of prosecution: but searches were then made and docu ments seized which led to the dis covery of the organization dating back to July, 1818, and of a plot to sieze the government by force. J he documents leave no room for doubt either in le- gard to the existence of the plot or as to the chief actors therein. After a very close watch was organized proof was obtained that the same group were preparing for a fresh attempt at an early date, the proof being such as to enable the disturbance to be arrested by immediate measures." Fortified In Ilia Bouse. When tbe attempt was made to ar rest (Juerin. the president of the anti Semite league, he refused to surrender, and barricaded himself in his house. He says he is prepared to hold out three weeks, having a good stock of food and firearms. The doors of his residence are barricaded. He an nounced he will bio up the house before he will surrender. Duke Orleans Involved. It appears the oflicials unearthed telegrams sent by the-Duke Orleans from ISrusscld at the time of FaiireV funeral. The first says "All our men J ready." The second sent tbe follow, ing day said: It's useless to come." An attempt at insurrection had mean time failed. Altogether 16 revolutionists were irrested. (juerin, armed with re volvers and knives, still holds pos session of his appartmeets, to which enterance is only possible after run ning the gauntlet of a strong guard of anti-Semites. It is reported Andree liufTet, vice president of the young royalist league, has been arretted. DREYFUS GIVES THE LIE. ttensatlonal Response to Merclr's Allega tions In Court. Rennes. Aug. 12. The. second open session of the Dreyfus tiial be gan at 6:'M this morning. The Jirst proceeding was the reading to the court of Dr. Ransom' report relative to the finding cf a documen: in the lining of Dreyfus' waistcoat. It was attended by a sensational incident. Col. Jouaust showed the document to Dreyfus. He admitted keeping it as a souvenir copy of the bordereau He owned to this calmly, without any trembling of voice, and then listened calmly to the reading of the report, which occupied 10 minutes. De La lloche-Vernet. one of the secretaries of th6 French embassy at Berlin, was then called, and testified regarding the translation of the Panizardi dispatch A stirring scene closed the day's session. Gen. Mercir had spoken nearly four hours iu ruthless denun ciation of Dreyfus, who had listeted unmoved un,iil Mercir concluded by Having if he had uot been convinced of 'the guilt of D.-eyfus and if the hit ter's conviction bad not been fortind 4f Waste Not, Want NoUi Little leaks bring to ivant, and little impurities of the blood,, if not attended' to, bring a "Want" 'of health. Hood's Sarsaparilla is the one and only specific that ivill remove all blood humors and impurities, thereby put ting you into a condition of perfect health. Bad Stomach " Hedtchts nd tired feeling, bd condition of stomach, caused me to tjJu Hood's SrsPriE stepped jdl fjuni trouble." Charles cRy-ver. Glens Fills. N. Y. jCcfCdSSaUafmum -JL I JM'J JfJlXJ.l j nil j w H.xl mils rare Utt Ills; the iwe trrttatln sad only filhirw to take with Hods "Hsfssprtl Is. Mnee '94. be would admit that he had been mistaken. Dreyfus jumped to his feet and shouted in a voice which resounded through tbe hall like a trumpet note. "You. have lied, scoundrel!" The audience burst into a wild cheer. Casimir-Peirere then aiose and dramatically demanded to be confronted with Mercir, in order to deny some of bis statements. Col. Jouaust ordered tbe court ad journed till Monday morning for con frontation, and as Mercir turned to leave tbe court the audience rose en masse and hissed andenrsed him. Rennes, Aug. 12. The red and white facade of the Lytee was bathed in sun shine at 5:40 o'clock this morning when Captain Dreyfus crossed the Avenue de la Gare and entered the building for the second public trial by court-mar tial. The same stringent police pre cautions were taken. Colonel Jouaust, president of the court-martial, and the other judges began arriving shortly after 6 o'clock. They were followed by Generals Billot and Mercier In uniform. Gen. Mercier Looks Anaiou. The latter drove up In an open car riage, and the small crowd which had gathered by this time greeted him with cries of "Vive l'armee" and "Vive Mercier." On alighting at the door of the Lycee General Mercier looked very anxious, but immediately assumed a smiling demeanor. He spoke a few words to the officers at tbe gate and laughed, but bis laugh sounded false and his face as he ascended tbe half dozen steps and disappeared within the Lycee took on an expression of anxiety. M. Caslmer-Perier arrivedon foot shortly afterward. The crowd Ba luted him. Then came Colonel Pic- quart, who was greeted with shouts of 'Vive Picquart," which he smilingly acknowledged. The session opened at b :.:u. Sensational Incident at the SI art. Captain Dreyfus took a seat on tbe platform, and the reading to the court of Dr. Ransom's report relative to the finding of a document in tbe lining of Dreyfus" waistcoat was begun. The opening of the proceedings was at tended by a sensational Incident. On Dreyfus being shown by Colonel Jou aust the document found in the lining of his waistcoat by a penitentiary olli cer he admitted keeping it as a souve nir copy of the bordereau. He owned to this calmly and without any trembling of the voice. M. de la Roche- Vernet, one of the secretaries of the French embassy at Berlin, was then called. He is a man about. 35 years of age, with a heavy brown mustache and was smartly dressed. He testified re garding the translation of the Paniz- zardi dispatch. LATEST FKOil THE TRANSVAAL. Krugsr Prepares to Capture Hostages Case or the Negro Blacksmith. London. Aug. 12. The Cape Town correspondent of The Dally Mall says: "I learn from a prominent ex-reformer that the Transvaal government has pre pared, warrants for the arrest of prom inent reformers whenever the condi tion of affairs at Johannesburg pro vides an excuse. The presumption is that President Kruger means to secure the leading uitlacders as hostages the moment trouble arises." Johannesburg, Aug. 12. The three policemen who recently cruelly mal treated Turnbull, the colored black smith, an American citizen who had protested against their abusive lan guage when demanding that he show his pass, were charged with assault yesterday. Their counsel demanded the arrest of Dr. Matthews, to whom the American consul sent Turnbull for medical treatment, and who subse quently harangued the people outside the exchange, appealing for justice and accusing Field Cornet Lombard of be ing concerned. A similar demand was made by counsel for the arrest of a local editor on the ground that he had been guilty of contempt of court in newspaper references to the affair. Ixmdon. Aug. 12. A special dispatch from Johannesburg says that the Ger man and French consuls say they will protest to their respective governments if their subjects are called on for com pulsory service or forced to pay war taxes. Kitchener and the Amerlcalne. London. Aug. 12. At Victoria sta tion yesterday, as General Lord Kitch ener was about to take the train en route for Egypt, a well-dressed Ameri can lady approached him. unfurled a silk American flag, extended her hand and said: "Under this flag is it allow able?" 'Certainly " said the sirdar, accept ing her proffered hand and shaking it cordiailv. 'Good-bye and God bless you." ex claimed the young lady, apparently de lighted with the episode. Test of American Locomotives. London. Aug. 12. At a meetlne of the Midland Railway company yester day the chairman announced that the locomotive superintendent had re ported that although the first ten American locomotives were by no means equal in finish to any English locomotives they were doinar their work satisfactorily. The engines would be run a thousand miles each and then overhauled, same as was done with other makes. i THE LONG-LIVED HURRICANE Weather Rareaa Says It la Approach!; Jupiter, Fla. Washington, Aug. 12. The weath er bureau has issued a bulletin saying the hurricane center is approaching Jupiter, Fla. Pensacola, Fla., Aug. 12. A terrific storm struck this city at 1 this after noon. The wind has increased in ve locity until at 2 it almost assumed the force of a hurricane. All shipping is tied up and no serious damage is ap prehended. Signals used y ships at sea date from 1GU5. They were invented by the Duke of York, afterward James 1L CUBA IS TO BE FREE. Her Independence the One Thing Kept in View at Wash ingrton. ON THE HTJEET OEDEE LIST HOW. Important Announcement of Policy ii'ade Ceumu-TsUnc a Preliminary to Torn- ing the Government Over to the Cubans UuUrtlj Comment on th Bieetine of Sooth American Presidents Antl-1 im perialists at Work Philippine Jiews. Washington. Aug. 12. Two confer ences held yesterday hastened the Cu ban problem well toward completion. The first was at the'bensus bureau be tween Acting Director Wines, the chief statisticians, and the geographer and the Cuban commissioners. The most important conference was held later when Secretary of War Root, Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn, Acting Director Wines, and Chief Hunt, of the popula tion section of tbe census, were in con ference preparatory to a conference Secretary Root will have with the Cu ban commissioners this afternoon. At this meeting it was officially stated that the policy and purpose of the I'nited States are to make the Cubans self-governing a condition which, when reached, will be followed by this government turningover governmental control of every nature to the Cubans. Object of All the Work. Everything will le subordinated to this end, and it will be a guiding fac tor in the census taking. While Gen eral Sanger will have general charge a civilian will be sent from here to take direct control of the entire work in the island. Victor H. Olmstead, of this city, an expert statistician with the department of labor, has been agreed on for this office. One point dis cussed at the conference with Secretary Root was the fact that the population of Cuba is probably much larger than the census of 1S87 showed, for the reason that the Spanish officials who were in charge, while omitting no Spaniards in the returns minimized the numberof Cubans for political reasons. Those South American Presidents. The meeting of the South American presidents has not caused any surprise . or apprenension at me state depart ment, which was fully advised some time ago that such a meeting would occur and that its purposes would be confined to strengthening the commer cial bonds between South American countries. For this reason the authori ties here do not share in the belief that the meetings have a deep political sig nificance and are designed to bring about an ulliance unfriendly to the United States. On the contrary, one of our ministers in a South American country, in apprising the state depart ment of the contemplated meeting, said that it would probably result not only in commercial arrangements mutually beneficial to South American republics, but that these benefits would probably be shared to a considerable extent by the United States. ANTI-IMPEKIALIMAI AT TVOItK. Atkinson Sends Circulars to All the Re turning Philippine officer. Washington, Aug. 12. Secretary Hitchcock and other government offi cials in this city have received copies of a circular signed by Edward Atkin son, which the author says has been or will be sent to the commissioned and non-commissioned officers of each returning regiment of troops from the Philippines, together with copies of pamphlets containing articles on the Philippine situation form an "anti-im perialist" point of view. The circular is headed "The Anti-Imperialist" and is addressed to the survivors of the volunteer regiments returned from Ma nila. Atkinson says that having been In formed that telegraphic messages from the mothers and sisters of volunteers from Nebraska urging them not to re enlist bad been refused delivery. Tie thought he would test that question. He then recounts bis efforts to send through the mails to prominent offi cials in the Philippines the pamphlets seized by the postmaster at San Fran cisco some time ago. for which the au thor of the circular says he "was threatened with prosecution forjtreason and sedition because of this effort on my part to convey information to you, citizens and voters, which would in form you as to the work being done in this country to stop what we believe to be criminal aggression. In tbe Phil ippine islands. Atkinson adds that the three articles referred to viz.: "The Cost of a Na tional Crime." "The Hell of War and Its Penalties." and "Criminal Aggres sion: By Whom Committed?" are in cluded in one of the two pamphlets sent to the officers of the regiments. and be asks their views upon them and upon the whole course of the warfare in the Philippine islands, promising if liberty is given to print the letters to make a careful selection therefrom. whether adverse to the position I, have taken or sustaining it." CABLE FROM ADMIRAL WATSON. Tells of the Burning; of the Saturnus Other News from Manila. Washington, Aug. 12. The navy de partment late yesterday received a cable relative to the burning of tne Saturnus by the insurgents which was reported in the press cables several days ago, and also the shelling of San Fernando on Wednesday. It is from Admiral Watson at Manila, and dated yesterday. It says that on Aug. 2 the gunboat Pampanga. Lieutenant Mc Namee, was patrollng Lingayen bay. Luzon island, when she found the American steamer Saturnus on the beach at San Fernando, the insurgents having robbed the cargo. Naval Cadet Woodward, in a dinghy, secured a hawser around the rudder post of tbe steamer under a musketry fire from trong Intrenchments. The fampanga returned a hot fire,-'But could not move the steamer. The in surgents burned the vessel. Have sent the Yorktown to punish the piratical act." Of the shelling of San Fernando the V?S ment encircling the water front fully manned. Non-combatants were seen thronging the substantial warehouses on the north side of the town. The vessels refrained from firing in their t direction. The first shell from the Yorktown was answered without de lav bv field nuns and musketry fire. I The vessels shelled the town forty-five minutes, but the extent of damage j could not be ascertained. ' A cable rrom uenerai uus tens tne war depart that he has heard of a pris oner in the hands of the Filipinos in southern Luzon whose description fits Major Rockefeller exactly. The major has not been accounted, for since he disappeared on the firing line several months ago. General MacArthur. is still reconnoitering. trying to find the rebels In the vicinity of Angeles, but had so far failed. The rains had re commenced, which would probably bring field operations to a close again. CARD JOB OP LYNCHING. Done Right tn the County Jail Without Disturbing the Authorities. Port Gibson, Miss.. Aug. 12. Bill Wilson, colored, was lynched here yes terday under peculiar circumstances. Last Tuesday Wilson Was arrested in the Hermanville district on a charge of attempted criminal assault. Yester day afternoon tbe jailer upon entering the jail discovered the prisoner hang ing to the county gallows with several bullet wounds in his neck and should ers. . i . . The coroner's jury rendered a verdict of death by hanging and shooting by unknown parties. The execution took place so quietly that none of the of ficials knew what was going on. ; TOOK FEARFUL CHANCES. Woman Throws Giant Powder on the Fire Inspecting to Get Away. Chandlerville, Ills., Aug. 12. Mrs. Richard Coultou, wife of a farmer re siding west of here, -swept up two pounds of giant powder which had fallen from a shelf in the house, and putting it into a paper bag threw it into a fire which was burning in the yard, thinking she could get away in time to escape injury. Her 10-year-old son, who was standing near the fire, was so badly burned on face and body that he will die, and Mrs. Coulton is also in a critical condition. window Glass Trouble Ahead. Pittsburg. Aug. 12. Word is brought from Philadelphia, where the window glass workers have just closed their convention, that because of their fail ure to arrange for a conference with the combine manufacturers they have entered into a compact v.-ith the inde pendents. The agreement is that the workers will receive the advance of T1, per cent, which they have been con tending for. they in return to work hand-in-hand with the independent manufacturers. More than 25,000 glass workers will be affected by the new ar rangement. Strike or Telegraph Operators. Dcs Moines, la., Aug. 12. Fifty op erators in the Rock Island freight of fice here struck yesterday for higher wages. They have been getting 12! cents an hour and want 15. After sev eral hours of idleness the local agent persuaded them to return onpromiseof satisfactory settlement by the general manager. Gold Awaiting; Shipment. Seattle, Wash., Aug. J2. It is stated that there is now at St. Michael, Alaska, about $3,000,000 worth of gold dust for shipment to San Francisco and Seattle. i Dixon and San try Fight a Draw. New York. Aug. 12. The Dixon-San-try fight was declared, a draw at the end of the twentieth round. A Coincidence. "Are you superstitious?" said ona young lady to another In a confidential chat. ? "No; that is, I never was until yes terday. A very strange thing occurred to a friend of mine then, and now I do not know whether I am supersti tious or not. It happened in this way: She and I were sitting In her room, and she was telling me the details of tier marriage engagement, which had been broken off that very day. While she was talking she raised her left arm and threw it over the back of the chair where she was sitting, and as she did so a heavy link bracelet fell to tbe floor. It was her engagement brace let and had been locked on her arm for more than a year. How or why it came unfastened -I do not know." Detroit Free Press. A Strange Clock. A strange clock was made during the last century for a French noble man. The dial was horizontal, and tbe figures, being hollow, were filled with different sweets or spices. Thus, run ning his finger along the band, by tasting, the owner could tell tbe hour without a light. Copying ink may .be made by dis solving lump sugar in the common Ink, used in the portion of one dram of the former to one ounce of the latter. One way to hear a pin drop is to heat it red hot and drop it into a keg of powder. Philadelphia Record. Tae Worst Ever. Burgling Bill Is be lazy? Why. honestly, if dat feller wuz goin ter commit ranrder. he'd do it in New York stat s so s he could sit down when be died. Kansas City Indcpeodenf- The presentation of the freedom or a elty or borough In- England is now a mere compliment, which sloes not con fer any substantial r exceptional priv- lkona. . Take Just think of It! Your choice of any spring and summer suit in oar store for ' $10. Ten Dollars. $10. Do yon realize what this means? It yon do, youll not be long in tak. Ing advantage of it. If you donrt, come in and well show you. Suits that we sold all this season, up to $22.50, we will sell you now for I Ten Dollars 310 We never carry goads over. Fall goods are arriving and we need tbe room, are our reasons tor selling the best in the house for ten dollars. If you have any reason for buying, come early and get the big plums. NO CREDIT ON THESE SUITS. NOTHING BUT CASH. I THE LONDON f ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS. Good rains have fallen in India and a famine is not feared this year. George M. Pullman is in White Plains, N. Y., to take the Keeley cure. Some of the anti-Bryan Democrats are now talking of Winfield Scott Schley for president. Foxes are numerous in Livingstone county, Mich., and are destroying large numbers of chickens. - Dr. Maria M. Gross, for many years the oldest woman physician in Chica go, died after a long illness. Mrs. Mary Flannagan, of Chicago, C8 years old, cut her throat with a pocket knife and died. No cause is known. A New York concern is preparing to sink a large number of oil wells on lands adjacent to Port Huron, Mich. Dr. Charles J. Stille, former provost of the University of Pennsylvania, died at a hotel in Atlantic City of heart failure. W. B. Cleveland & Co.. wholesale grocers at Houston, Tex., have failed. The liabilities are $441,971; assets, $753,199. Will Chambers, colored, arrested on a charge of criminally assaulting a white girl of 14, was lynched near Bell Euckle, Tenn. A bed of marl has been discovered near Marshall, Mich. An analysis shows the marl to be the most valuable of any in southern Michigan. Miss Leonora Mountz captured a thief in the act of snatching a roll of bank notes from a desk in the Co lumbus Memorial building at Chicago. On a plea of guilty at Carmi, Ills., Ivy Crabtree, a wife and mother, 16 years old, was sent to the penitentiary for eighteen years for murdering her brother in an attempt to poison her father's family. Little Girl's Miraculous Fscspe. Marquette. Mich., Aug. 12. The 4-year-old daughter of N. Assline. of Norway, in wandering over the coun try approached the mouth of- an old, unused Green pit, of the Norway mine, and walked into it. She fell fifty feet. The only injuries were a small cut on the head and one on the foot. Live Chickens for Hawaii. - Trenton. Mo., Aug. 12. Two hundred thousand live chickens will beshipped from this county to the Hawaiian isl ands as fast as they can be bought up. The first car of 500 has been shipped and others will soon follow. American poultry brings a high price in Hone May Tne of Too Much lala. London, Aug. 12. The Times, in an editorial this morning on the Vene zuela boundary arbitration, complains that the proceedings are unnecessarily protracted, and expresses a fear that the example thus set will "operate to prejudice the arbitral mode of settling differences." i Georgia Becord Mill Another. Clem, Ga., Aug. 12. Will McClure. a negro, was lynched yesterday after noon for attempted assault on Mrs. George Mooie. wife of a respectable farmer of Carroll county. As ninny as 4.0G1 muscles Imve been counted in the body of a moth. If you are tired and dull, can't ret rested, and have no appetite, take Hood's Sarsaparilla. It enriches and vitalises the blood. Them for SI 01 Homes for Sale. 7 -room house, modern, on Nineteenth street 3.500 D-room house, modern, on seventeenth street 6.5t 10-room bouse, rnixlern. on Third avenue 3 ftoo H-rooiu house on Twelfth street . 2.700 7-rooin houa on Twelfth street l.fioo 7-room hous on Seventh nvenuo s.wki (-room house on KU'bleentb street 3,i00 Modern house on Seventh avenue fcl.rco Three 5 room houses on Forty first street 4.400 7-rooin bouss on Korty-first street l.HW Modern house on Forty-third street 7,500 7-room house on Twentv-secona street. neurlynew 3.500 9-room bouse, hrlek. on First avenue 3,(300 K-room house on Twentv-first street, fur nace, modi'ni 3.500 f-rooni house on Seventeenth street, new 3,000 7-room house on Fortv-tirsL straet. two lots 2.000 7-room house and 16 lots on Ninth street.. -',H50 7-room house on Thirteenth avenue 2.000 7-room bouse on Thirteenth avenue 2,5ii0 4- room bouse on Ninth avenue fcOO 5- room house on Ninth street 000 Two ff-room bouses on Ninth street, each. 1,000 2 stor business block on Second avenue. lot runntnft to First avenue 7,000 40 acres near Milan, cheap. Two good business lots on Third avenue cheap. Several fine lots In Illack Hawk, Sturpeon, Schnell and bouth l'ark additions on reasona ble terms. Many tine ho-res in Columbia and Sontb Park. Gjyer's addition and Moiine, for sale cheap and on easy terms. Keal estate, lire und life Insurance. Much of the property that we have can be bought on monthly installments at a low rate ofi merest. KaDsas. Nebraska and South I:t kota improved farms for sale cheap. Small farms in Rock Island ounty for sale or trade. Call or write, HULL & CO., Mitchell & Lynde Building, Room 21. WAYNE'S Household Cement Mends Everything. The only Cement that is not effected by heat or moisture. SOLD BY Otto Grotjan. 1501 Second Are. A. J. Riess, 2229 Fourth Ave. J. M. Keim. 7th Ave. and 38th St Otto Kudert, 5th Ave. and Elm St Emil Koehler. Henry Stengel, Plumber. All kinds of repairing, plumbinjr, gas and, steam fitting done quickly a nd in a thorough manner. 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