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THE AUGTTS, TUESDAY, JUX 19, 1900. 5 It's 3. Sin to S wear m But you can avoid it as far as dining room tables are concerted, if you will let us show you the new Victor dining table. Your Good Wife Will Be Spared Many Heartaches At seeing your impatience if you use this table. Can be length eced without even removing the dishes. It's worth your while to see it even if you don't buy now. Call and inspect our line of furniture and carpets. Cleiam & Sa zmann Cor Sixteenth Street and Second Avenue. iFor that 'Tired Feeling Ride a i r Stearns uusnion rrame WATER IS TOO CHEAP, Aid. Concannon Tells of Discov ery of 300 "Dead-Head" Connections. BATS COMMITTEE IS CONDEMNED. Electric Light Tower Ordered Down-Other Doings of the Council. Bicycle. 3 You never grow tired on a Cushion Frame sit easily in the saddle over the roughest of roads without a jolt or jar. The Cush ion takes up all the inequalities of the road. It is the ideal lazy man's, or woman's bicycle and just as atvantageous for the hard long distance rider, for it lessens the fatigue about one-half. Price, $6o. SPENCER'S, 1709 Second avenue, Rock Island. Plumbing. The bath. A properly fitted bath room ia a pleasure and the bath proves a healthful invlgorant. You ran no risks if we equip your bath room. Modern plumbing If faultless. Oars is modern plumbing. Let as makes estimates for yon. Refrigerators. Refrigerators are as many and varied in kind as the sands of the sea. Many of tnem are cheap and inferior. Mad to sell. At the end of the Hist f.oa are unfit for use. Among the best makes are the Siberia, which we ell and will be pleased to show you at very reasonable prices. Allen, Mvers & Compww OpiMJSite Harper House. 1821 SEC05D 1YL Aid. M. V. Concannon made some sweeping statements at last night's council meet id;:. He is a member of the waterworks committee. Tne Tri- City Sprinkling company bad a com munication before the conncil com plaining that the new rate of $5 0 per j ear was excessive, and asked for a conference to seek a readjustment. It has been paying $300 per year. It would ratbei have the council put on meters. This arouse! Aid. Concan non. lie declared if a less charge were made, the city would not be even re imburted for the cost of pumping the water used by tne compauy. The present waterworks commit tee ha3 been condemned by the public more than any other committee in the history of the Kock Island council. simply because it has sought to per form its duty nonettly aud tearless, ly," dictated Aid. Concannon. "We have had placed on the books the names of 300 people who have been getting water for nothiog stealing from the city and we are nottbrougn yet. We are going to do our duty as long as we are aldermen, and we ex pect the council to sustain our ac tions, for wiMmut the support of the council a committee is helpless and useless. Not a member of the com mittee expects to be reelected." Aid Concannon called attention to ti e fact that the waterworks com mittee had been ignored iu the Sprinkling compiny's communica tion. Aids, Kennedy and lender believed the electric tprinkler was a public benefit, and should receive more consideration than private consumers. Aid. Anderson believed the new rate was reasonable aud th-tt the council should stand behind the com mittee. AM. Andrews favored increasing instead of decreasing the rate. Auave and nay vole being called for by Aid. Wil H on a motion or Aid. Kennedy that the communication be referred to the street and alley and ptrks com mittee, tne motion whs lost bv a vote of 11 to 2 Kennedy and Pender, Aid. Freed b-iug abreut. The communi cation was received and placed on tie. Incraise of Hbirles. Au ordinance increasing the salary of tho members of the liiedepartment in accordance with the recommenda tions made by the lire and light com mittee at the preceding meeting was adopted. Tne chief .hall receive $-60 per annum, assistant chief 760. cap- tains $710 and firemen $'0O for toe first year of service, and $660 for each subnnjiient year. Daniel Fleming, Henry O. Pries ami Griffith Walters, tiiemen at tho water works, asked for an increase in sal ary. Their communication to the council was as follows: "We. the un dersigned, who are employed a fire men iu the waterworks of Kock Island, do hereby petition your honorable body for an increase of $5 per month in our salaries, making tne stated salary for each month $50. In con nection with this petition, we would respectfully submit that the water works department is the one that is furnishing the revenue which so largely contributes to the support of the tire and police departments of our city, and as our salary as firemen is below that of the members of either department, we would respectfully a-k that our petition be granted." On motion of Aid. Kennedy the prayer was granted by the unanimous vote of the council. It appeared to Aid. Concannon the salary-increasing idea was becoming epidemic among city employes. He would like to see all of the employes better paid, but the city was not financially able to pay fancy salaries. Complaint was made that the Tenty-first street sewer is too high and does not properly drain buildings. The sewer committee is to have an estimate made of the cost of placing the sewer in condition. The following resolution, offered by Aid. Call, was adopted: "That all parties using city water be warned that in nu instance are contractors or other parties engaged in the busi ness of erection or construction to be allowe i to ue water from their prem ises, unless they first show a permit from the city clerk, as the collector of water rents, allowing them to do so." The council is to meet in committee of the whole a week from tonight to consider the annual appropriation or dinance. An invitation to attend the Molice Fourth of July celebration was re ceived. As many of the cooncilmen as can will attend. The work of replanking the ci'y bridges overRock riveris progressing. Three of the bridges have already been repaired. EipnMBtD'i Staad. Expressmen aud hackmen peti t'oned the conncil to rescind its re- entactim changing their quarters from Nineteenth to Twentieth street, north of Second avenue. Business uen also sent in a petition support ing the request. There was a third: petition from merchants expressing approval of the change made by the council and protesting against the restoration of the expressmen' stand to Nineteenth street. Fred Hiss ad dressed the council in support of the Twentieth street location. He said business on the north side of Second avenue between Eighteenth and Nine teenth streets suffered by reason of permitting the wagons to "hang out" on Nineteenth. He believed Twen tieth street was the proper place for the wsgons. William Kckermann spoke for the expressmen. He said there was much traffic on Twentieth, and accidents were more liable than on Nineteenth street. Furthermore, there was no shade on Twentieth. - It was cruelty to compel the horses to stand there. He denied the presence of the wagous on Nineteenth injured business! The whole matter was re ferred for investigation to the license and marlets committee. Aid. Anderson introduced a resolu tion instructing the city attorney to hereafter suggest for appointment where possible, taxpayers residing in the ward where the improvement is made for commissioners to assess the cost of public improvements. The resolution was adopted. Sand Boat Moat Hove. The sand and stone bo -it must seek a new landing. , It is now holding forth at the foot of Nineteenth street, where the new warehouse is going up. A resolution offered by Aid. Andrews was adopted ordering the t-tone boat to "mozev." The major and street and alley committee are to select another lo cation for the boat. "Why didn't you locate it?" inquired the mayor while the resolutiou was being read, but he did not receive an answer. Aid Andrews said that aldermen. so far as the expenditure of money for street aud sidewalk purposes was concerned. were nothing short of plaything' for the superintendent of streets." He made this statement in connection with a resolution, which was adopted providing that hereafter no nionev be expended from the sidewalk fund of any ward. unJeis the same be sanc tioned by the aldermen of tba ward where the work is done. What appears to be the beginning of the end of the electric light towers, recently erected, has been begun in the First ward, where the six lights have been taken off the tower and distributed about the ward, it being claimed that better results are obtained by low than high lights. 1 he tower, which is lacat?d at rifta street and Sixth avenue, is said to be uusife. The council ordered it dismantled. PERSONAL AND SOCIAL. Henry Kramer it in (ieneseo. Miss Anna Kiikpatrick is visiting in liushnell. ltev. K F. Sweet left today for Saratoga, N. l. Miss Maude Mabie has gone to Den ver to spend the summer. Mrs. John Streckfus has returned after a 2-wecks' visit in St. Paul. Mrs. I.. Schaab and sister are visit ing in Denver and other western points. J. . tuiilan, now practicing Jaw at Missoula, Mont., has been shaking hands with old friends in the city. Moses Grady and Mrs. Lulu Harris were married Sunday at the Afiican Methodist church by Kev. C. H. Thomas. Mever Loeb is in Jackson, Mich., attending the wedding of his cousin. Miss Elizabeth Loeb, and lien Becker, of Chicago. Duncan K. McFarlane, of this city, will graduate from the law depart ment of the University of Michigan next Thursday. W llliam A Archer has returned to Nebraska, having been called home by the dangerous illness of his little nephew, lllie A. Smith. Mrs. C W. Durham and children are taking a river trip to St. Paul. On their return they will go for a month s visit to CaaviIIe. Wis. Miss Belle M. Doonan. accompanied by her little nephew, Horace Davies, urrived this mornig from Butte City. Mont., to sprnd the summer with her mo her, Mrs. Anna Doonan, 2115 Sev enth avenue. Three couples were married by Justice O. E Cramer Herbert Mar tin, Iowa Fa'ls Iowa, and Mis Eliz abeth Frederick, Petersburg. Ind.; Wesley S mpson ami Miss Alice Sad- doris. Coe; Clvde Houser and Miss Lettie Bennett, Kane. Iowa. "Pleatant Ways for Hammer Dy." Is the title of the Grand Trunk Rail way Fvstera s new summer tourist folder, which, together with other de scriptive literature, cin be bad on ap plication to J. II. Bursts, city passen ger and ticket agent. 249 Clark street, corner Jackson boulevard, Chicago. A Good Coach Medicine. It speaks well for Chamberlain's Cougb. Remedy wnen druggists use it in their own families in preference to any other. T have sold Chamber lain's Cough Remedy for the past five years with complete satisfaction to mvse f and customers " says Drug gist J. Goldsmith. Van Etten N. Y "Ihave always used it in my own family both for ordinary roughs and cold h and for the cough following la grippe and rind It very efScocious." For sale by all druggist. For two years Ira W. Kelley. of Mantfield, Pa., was in poor health on account of kidney trouble. He con sulted several physicians and spent considerable money for medicines without obtaining relief until he tried Foley's Kidney Cure, and now writes: "I desire to add my testimony that it may be the canse of aiding others." All druggists. MOHEY COMING EASY, Generous Reception Attends the New Theatre Ticket Canvass. $1,200 IS ALREADY SUBSCRIBED. Every One Should Do His Share to Insure Success of Project. People of Rock Island have received the new theatre proposition with such enthusiasm that it would appear as though the canvass would be com pleted even before the time allotted by Promoter G. H Johnston in which to do this preliminary portion of the work which is essential to the success of the undertaking. The Rock Island Club theatre com mittee held a meeting last night, at which a program for the prosecution of the ticket sale was outlined, and bright and early this morning John Ebersoa, one of Mr. Johnston's can vassers, started out with two of the club committeemen, the members of which are to work in relays, and up to noon $1,200 had been subscribed in tickets. All of the boxe have been applied for. though it is possible one may be reserved for Moline. Air. Eberson and tho committeemen have met with more encouragement than they looked for. The public evidently wants a new theatre and is willing to push aloug the proposition that is before the city. Mo Delay. It is Mr. Johnston's intention to begin building operations just as soon as the seating capacity of the house for the initial performance is tuio- seribrni for at $10 per seat and $100 for boxes. It the projpet goes through and there does not seem any doubt that it will Kock Island is assured of as tine a theatre as any city in the west of its size Mr. Johnston will arrive in the city tonight. HIS VICTIMS ARE MANY. Forger Appreheuded In Ohio ArrlTCS In Kock Iiund. The manj -named forger, whose ar rest has been mentioned before in The Akocs. arrived hen with Officer Biruey AleCabe last night from Cin cinnati. Tnere hcems to be no end of tha checks he has footed. At first it I wh thought there wete ordy three or jf jur, but they are railing iu steadily. I c i j. . i luereare now a uozeu ui uiic, nuu noi only from this city, but from Davenport and Moline. The prisoner claims that there whs another man with him. the other fellow writing the cn-iks. wnue ne passed tnem, snar ing the money equally. Quick Work. Supt. W. XV. Rider, of the Central Union Telephone company, demon strated his generalship this morning under the stress of emergency. At 4 o'clock be was called out of bed at the Harper by his state foreman, who in formed him that both the company's new plant and the independent plant had been destroyed in the conflagration then raging in Illoomington. Col. Rider summoned his forces by long distance wires, and by the time the tire was out he had 60 men on the ground at Bloomington with a car load of material, which he sent in from Peoria attached to an expre-s train, and in a few days' time will have the telephones of that city connected up with tho abandoned Central Union plant which had not yet been dis mantled. If there are men in Bloomington who can restore the other conveniences there as promptly as Col. Uider has the impaired tele phone service, the people will not suffer from the disaster nearly as badly as might naturally be expected. Flrnlc rrlTllrgea. The privileges for the Woodmen picnic, which is to be held at Long view park July 18, have been awarded as follows: Ice cream, cigars, pea nuts and popcorn. Messrs. Builes and De Rue. of Moline; soft drinks. J. J. Green; ocean wave and moving pic tures, J- E. Laflin, of Muscatine. The dance floor, cace' and knife rack and various other privileges are yet to let. One Fere Flan S3. The D . R I. & N. XV. railway Is offering round ttip excursion tii kets for one fre plus $2 to Denver. Colo rado Springs, Pueblo and Glen wood Springs. Col.; Ogden and Salt Like, Utah; Deadwod and Rapids City, S U., and Capper. o. Good to re turn Oct. 31; also homeseekers' tick ets to western and northern points tor particulars inquire at city t'eket office, 1803 Second avenue. Phone 1010. Fourth of Jatj. The Chicago. Burl ngton & Qoincy Railroad company will have on sale round trip tickets to points on the Barliogton system within 200 miles. at a round trip rate rf one and onc tbird of the standard tir-t class fare; minimum selling rate 50 cents. Tickets good iroing date of dale, good returning until 5th inclusive. Sell ing dates Julv S and 4. Accidents come with distressing requency on the farm. Cut, braises, stirgs. sprains. Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil relieves the pain inrtantly. Never safe without it. tor sale by Mar shall & Fisher, druggists. McCABE' LINEN TURAiOIL. Bargains falling thick all around grrab them quick while they last. 350 remnants of Crashes, lengths to 3 yards, values up to 15c yard, grab them quick, 19, 15, 12, 9, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, Ic for the piece. We throw out 100 dozen Turkish Towels into one big pile. Values are 10c to 39c. Bargains here, pick 'em out 25, 19, 17, 14, 10, 9, 7, 4c In mother pile you'll find some 40 dozen Towels, huek, damask, hem stitched, hemmed and fringed, splendid values these, and we are going to sell them quick at 32, 24, 19, 16, 13, 8, 6, 3c A lot of fast color Turkey Red Table Cloths, hemmed ready for use. lengths 2 and 2's yards, bar gain prices for rft nA 40 the whole cloth... v allU "itt Bargain lots of Xapkins in half dozens; going to clear the stock of these at a price. $2.50 Napkins at 95c, for the -j doz. $2.25 Napkins at 89c, for the i doz. $2.00 Napkins at 75c, for the doz. $1.69 Napkins at 63c. for the H doz. $1.12 Napkins at 42c. for the .3 doz. $1.00 Napkins at 38c, for the ?i doz. Just one chance at this strictly all linen table damask in 10 handsome patterns, fine full bleach, bought way below value, take It while you can get It at, "T3XC a yard O rS 2500 Turkish wash cloths. 2 for SHIRT WAISTS. Up to $2.25 Shirt c Cr Waists VJW 59c 19c Waists $1.00 Shirt Waists.. 50-cent Shirt Waists 1c The Shirt Waist sale of the season. We have closed out several stocks of shirt waists the past week at 50c nnd 60c on tho dollar. You buy them on the same basis. They are spread out over halt our second floor front. Shirt Waists of im ported French Madras, French and Scotch Ginghams, Sea Island Per cales, etc.. fashions finest fabrics, handsomely made waists worth a week ago $1.50. $1.75, $2.00 and $2.25. Your choice for tho entire lot Monday and ap, until sold "ft Another lot of Waists, stylishly made of fancy Percales with white embroidered yokes, real Of dollar values, at just.. . Vv Other bargain lots of Waists for 66c this sale at $1.25, f 1.19, 75c and . . . White Waists. The largest and best assorted stock you'll find anywhere around here. All styles including all over tucking, embroidery insertion and soft flaring cuffs. Prices for white waists range down as low as 45c. Monday and Tuesday at -?. o'clock we will sell 10 dozen ladles' 50c percale shirt waists at 19C ltt. ijIplu'b Citpe paper, while it lasts, per roll. IC 12 cent Dimities, Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday;, all day if they last, per-yard 5c $1.60 Press Goods, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons O-" at 8 o'clock, per yard k2jt Perfectly Made Suits. Those all wool Men's Suits in plaids, checks, and plain effects at Boys' Knee Pant Suits. Blue Serge Blouse Suits, some with colored collars, trimmed with different colors of braid, ?4 90, $1.50 and $1 suits, closing prices Boys' Wash Knee Pant Suits, 98c, 75c, 70c. 65c, 50c and Men's Colored Shirts. Handsome assortment of Men's Fine Negligee Shirts, P'oglish, Oxford and Madras, caffs detached Mea's Jean Drawers. All sizes, with elastic ends at Also Elastic Seam Jean Drawers at the low price of Mens' Si raw Nats. AU the popular rough medium and smooth braids, plain or fancy baiuis, at $8.90 3 75 38c 1.00 50c 75c 50c SOMMERS S LAVELLE. 1802 Second Avenue. One Price. IF YOD ARE INTERESTED In your parsonal appearance, yon cannot fail to be interested in onr elegant stock of spring and summer suiting. To Look Well You Must Dress Well, And to dress well you must have proper style and fit and these you are sure of if you leave your order and have Dorn take your measure. DORN, THE TAILOR, 1812 Second Avenue. R, I, Plumbing, Heating and Roofln Plain and Ornamental Hollow Building Block. PLUMBING AND HEATING, Gravel Roots, Root Painting. Ail work done by experienced men and fully guaranteed. Office rear of No. 221 Twen tieth street. ROCK 8 LAND. ILL.. TELEPHONE 4473.