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THE ABGHJS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1903. 8 THE WEATHER Fair tonight and Tuesday; slightly warmer Tuesday. J. M. SHERIER, Observer. Temperature At 7 a. m. 1 below; at 2:30 p. m. 8 above. CITY CHAT. Zazaro. Union cigar. Leaf lard at Gilmore's. For insurance, E. J. Burns. Buy a home of Reidy Bros. Open evenings now. Adams. Tri-City Towel Supply company. For bus.baggage, express, call Robb's. For real estate and insurance, E. J. Burns. Cut prices on all trimmed hats at Bvrnes'. A big dscount on all millinery at Byrnes' this week. Umbrellas and canes, beautiful de signs, at J. Kamser's. Select your size now in slippers. Adams has a fine line. The Naval Reserves give a dance Tuesday' night at Armory hall. All kinds of coal for sale at the Ilock Island Lumber company. Good coal, coal, coal, at Mueller Lumber company's. Both telephones. For tin and furnace work, see II. T Siemon, 152G Fourth avenue, union 283. Dr. 1 V. Purdue, ITlOi. Second ave nue. Old 'phone at olliee and resi dence. Pork ten .'erlrins. spare ribs and tTinuutngs at Cilmore's packing house l'.iarket. Don't fail to see our line of line mantle clocks. They are beauties. J. Uaniser. Beautiful designs in sterling silver match safes, large assortment, at J. Kamser's. Our misses an:l children's shoes are being sold at very low prices. Call and see them at Adams'. Purcha.se a pair of shoes or slippers for a Christmas, gift. Very suitable. Adams has the assortment. The directors of the Modern Wood men assembled today at the head of iice for their monthly meeting. All kinds of coal at all times. Tri City Transfer & Fuel, company, 215 Twentieth street. Prompt delivery. Augustana college basketball team was beaten by the Company C team at Muscatine Friday evening 17 to 14. Be sure and atten:! the red letter sale. It means a saving of 40 to 50 per cent in shoe buying. Kemember the place, 1610 Second avenue. P. A. Finne, the shoe man. August Van Mortile was removed to the hospital in the ambulance Satur day evening, lie is suffering with ty phoid fever. Large variety of suit cases and leather bags to select from at the Trunk Factory, 220 Brady street, Dav enport, Iowa. Adams' is the place for your Christ inas presents , in shoes or slippers. Just call and 'see the assortment. Of coursf the prices are right. The Noonday Best will serve supper every night until after Christmas, be ginning tomorrow night, Dec. 15, at their rooms, 1820 Third avenue. The" regidar meeting of the Wo man's Christian Temperance union will be held at the home of Mrs. F. C. Taylor, 908 Twentieth street. Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. All ladies are cordially invited. At (Jeneseo Friday night the Colle giate Institute basketball team de feated a team from Kewanee by a score of 64 to 2. This establishes a record for a one-sided contest in this part of the state. Mrs. Willia. i Kunge died at her home in Moline Saturday after an ill ness of six weeks with gangrene. She had been a resident of the city since 1S66. and was 58 years of age. The survivors are the husband and nine children. The ladies of the First Baptist church will hold their annual sale Tuesday afternoon and evening. Doc. 15, in the lecture room of the church. Lunch will be served in the afternoon and a 25-cent supper from 5:30 to 7:30 in the evening. A bill has been filed in the circuit court at Sycamore, 111., contesting the recent election for the removal of the county seat from Sycamore to De Kalb. The election is contested on the ground of the insufficiency of the vote in favor of the removal. Dr. Herman Paulsen, a graduate of Northwestern university dental co! who has been practicing here for a year, is to embark in business for himself, having rented the offices in the Hurst block, on Twentieth street, formerly occupied by Dr. F. H. First. Officer Noel arrived from Pontiae yesterday, and to:Iay left with John Collins, a Kock Island boy," who is to be returned to the reformatory. Young Collins was parotid last spring, but again fell into his erring ways, and was arrested last week in Dav enport. Baby shoes given away free. We have decided to give a pair of baby shoes to every lady buying a pair f slippers, shoes or rubbers, every day during this week, as long as they last. Only one pair to the family. At 5 0 0 To any person who can prove that the r o o km a si closing out sale is not a genuine closing out sale. The greatest slaughter of Watcher CtocKj?- China Ind a Splendid r Line of OyS m Now is the chance to buy Christ mas presents at prices so low that they will close them out in a short time. Call at once aid get loads of goods for a lit tle money at Closing Out Sade. 20th St., Rock Island. POISONED AT flEAL E Henry Bosse Made Critically III By Eating Canned Asparagus. AT HIS HOME YESTERDAY Physicians Work Over Him Several Hoars Be lore Bringing Him Fast Danger Point. Henry Bosse, draughtsman at the United States river engineer's oftiee, was poisoned yesterday at his home on Seventh avenue by canned as paragus, and for a time his life was despaired of. Lunch was served at 1 o'clock and in part consisted of asparagus, of which Mr. Bosse is very fond and of which he partook freely. Shortly after rising from the table he complained of feeling ill and went to his room to lie dow. Physicians Called In. In a few minutes he was seized with terrible pains, when physicians were summoned and found Mr. Bosse in a critical state, and it was only after they had labored over him several hours that they pronounced him out of danger. Finne's new shoe store, 1610 Second avenue, five doors east of Illinois thea tre. The fire department was summoned to the home of Charles Becht, 1420 Third avenue. Saturday afternoon, but before its arrival the flames had been extinguished, with nominal dam age. The covering of an unused fire place had been ignited from the sparks from the stove, in which a fire had just been started. The Laurel Forty-five club met last evening at the home of .John Ains worth. Messrs. Ainsworth and David Fitzgerald losing to the old-time ri vals, .John O'Connor and Pierce Keane. Mr. Ainsworth afterward defeated Mr. O'Connor for the single-handed cham pionship of the tri-cities. The Laurels have been challenged by the Sham rock club, of Davenport, and a meet ing is to be arranged for the near future. MAN BURNED TO DEATH IN HOME IN DAVENPORT Peter Hartz, who lived alone in a cabin in Northwest Davenport, burn ed to death last night. The supposi tion is that a spark fell from the stove and set fire to the house. Hartz was of middle age. YOUNG & M'COMBS' SPECIAL For This Kveninsrt Monday. Dec. 14, from 7 to 5 O'clock. All shirt waists up to $o.9S, your choice this evening at ifl.OS. Large gold fish. 7 to 9 o'clock this evening, each, 10c. (lenuine ebony sterling silver mount ed, all bristle, hair brush. 1.2:, 7 to ft o'clock this evening, ('.c. 100 ready-to-wear hats, worth up to $".."(), sale price, !Se. Santa Clans will be in our toy de partment between 7 and '.) o'clock. Bring the children and see good old Santa Clans. NEARLY DEAF AS A POST Bat Has lieen Klectcd Justice of the Peace Has Not Tukcn fossession of Hi .Job. Kokomo. Ind.. Dec. 14. The trial of a case before Justice Conkle. of this county, has just brought out the fact that at the last election the people cf Howard township elected a deaf man justice cf the peace. The matter -amc out through the justice hearing evi dence of the other's imomi eteney to hear a case to whom under the law it was a duty to send the cause, an ap plication being filed for a change of Venue. J list ice-Elect J. II. Boss is so deaf that he car. hear only when one limit- in his ear. and although elected to the olhce he has not taken possession of the docket. He formerly held the o' lice, but during years' when he i ould hear sullieii ntly well. COLOMBIANS NOT FOUND. Continued trom First Page. SAYS SHE HAD A VISION Saw the Dead Iloily of a Misin Hunter in a .Snot Other Hunters K now. Negaunee. Midi., Dec. 14. Much irv tcrest has been aroused in Xegaunee by a woman who claims to know the fate of Stephen Nichols, a hunter, who has been missing for a month, nr.d who Is believed to have met death n the woods. The woman bases her a MTtions on a vision, aiwl says1 a mental picture of Nichols' dead lody. partly lying inside a hollow log, as If In an endeavor to seek shelter, was revealed to her in a dream. Her description1 of the attitude of the corpse and the surroundings tvre very minute. She described the spot so clearly that hunters who are fam iliar with the locality where Nichols was lost were, it is said, able to identi fy it. Cliarg-mAgnttint a Consul. Berlin, Dec. 14. Serious charges against Consul Oeneral Oliver J. P. Huge at Coburg have been brought to the attention of the state depart ment at Washington. ana on several occasions their informa tion was "found to be misleading. The information obtained by the Atlanta and Mayflower indicates either that the Colombian troops have leeni re turned to Cartagena or that they have been landed at some point on the coast between Cartagena and the Gulf of Parien and may be proceeding thence toward Cauca. The Atlanta has sailed again to wards the Gulf of Parien and will continue a careful patrol of the coast. It would be impossible for the Car ta eeaa. and the General PInzon to en ter the'.Uiato- river, because the mouth of the river has a fix-foot bar. No small Imnts are obtainable therealouts, and no considerable r.umler of troops could be transported up the river. The only boats to be had consist of a few car.oes. The remainder of the marines on loard the auxiliary cruiser Dixie will be landed Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday next, satisfactory ar rangements having been completed to obtain good water for the camp at Culebra on the line of the Panama railroad. Caracas, Pec. 14. According to ad vices just received here the Colombian government has decided to send Gen eral Bafael I'ribe-L'ribe as a special envoy to the South American repub lics. He is expected soon to arrive at Caracas. RKTKS IS TIIK NEW PKKSIDKNT He Will Succeed Marroquln as Kzecutlv of Colombia. Washington.. Dec. 14. The Colom bian legation has received a cablegram from General DeCastro. commander-in-chief of the Colombian army, dated Port Linion. Costa Bica. Pec. 12. con veying the information that the results oi the election for president held throughout Colombia on Pee. 8 show a complete triumph for General Ueyos. When seen General Koyes would make r.o statement beyond saying that he ex pect ed to remain in the United States for a fortnight longer. Washington, Pec. 14. An official dispatch to Bunau-Varllla. minister from Panama, besides announcing the fact that elections will be held in; the new republic on Jan. b" for delegates to a constitutional convention, says that all the new municipalities of all the provinces have warmly applauded the ratification by the Panama junta of the Hay-Bunau-Varllla treaty. M. Bunau-Varilla has ltegun a series of visits on the inemlwrs of the diplo matic corps, his first -all being on Count Cassini, the Russian ambassa dor. He has also seen Baron UcDg'el muller, the Austrian ambassador. TODAY'S MARKETS Chicago, Dec. l -Following are tne open rag. highest, lowest and closing quotations ii today's markets: Wheat. Dec, 79 7S 78'-i: 7S May sm S2 81H MS July, 77': "H-; Wi ; TflS . Oorr Dec..41S. 47i: 41H 414 Mav. 43?: SH v-'X 4V4 July 43!; 43'; 42 ; 43H Dec, 8.- 35'4 Si SU, Mav, 37H, : 37, : S6?- SB. July. &?: 31; 33?; 34. Pork. Jan., 11 42 11 55: 11 37; 11 F0 May, 11.H0, 11.8a: 11.70; 11.80 Ur1 I2C. 6.r-0: 6 50; 6 47. 6 47 Jan. 6.42 6.52; 6 37 6 47 May,6.6i; 6.67; 6.57.6 62 Klba. Jan., 6.10: 6 20 6.10: 6.15. May, 6 33: 6 37 6.27: 6 30. Bye. Dec. MK: May 61'i; flax. N. W HOtf; S. W. VSbi: Dec. 92; May 97; barley saS58. teceiptM toaay. Wneai 71. corn 298 . wi 209 notes 38 000: cattle 24.0C0, sheep 20 000. do market opened strong to 5c higher. Lignt 14 30&4.70: mixed auu outcb !-r ft3a?M?; eood heavy. 84.304 70: rough heavy f 1 3031 50. jattie martei opened steady to 0c higher. sneep market opened strong to 10c higher Hogs at Kansas City 8 000. cauic jo.ouo, h iks at Omaha 10 000, cattle 4.500. Ontoc stock yards 8:40 a. m dor market slow and very few hogs in yet. Clght. 14 3034 65; mixed and outciierm 4.80 qi ; good neavy. in tuxan u; rougu ncvy 4.304.4v Cattle market steady to 10c higher. Beeves f3. 105 70. cows ana neirern 1.15 .35 Texas steers $2 80S3 60. mockers and 1 eders 1 504.10. westerns s 8F4.40. Sheep market Hrra to lOchightr. Hoe market closed weak to 5c lower Lieut, 4.304 0; mied and butchers It 30 tSl cv good heavy, n 30j4 k: rougn neavy, I 3e&4.45. Cattle market closed very slow. Sheen market closed steady. Estimated receipts Tuesday: Wheat 110, corn32J, oats 210, hogs 35,000. New fork Stocks. New York. Dec 14. The following are the closing quotations on the New York stock exchange: Sugar 153. Gas 98. C R. 1. &P. 26, South ern Paciuic 48. B. & O. 794. Atchison com moo 68 9, AtCtUHOn pfd. 92', C. M. &St. P 142';. Manhattan him, copper 4H. T. V Tel. Co Li. & N 107. C & A. VAH. Kdg common 4Hi Can.pacitic U9'. Leather coin mon 7yt, II. II T. 49St. Pacitlc Mail . U S. Steel rtd. 53X. U. S. Steel common 0 Penna. 117V Mo. Pacific 92?,, Union Pacitlc Tnx. coal and lorn i.i. Krie common 29 Wabash pfd. 37S Car foundry 18V4.'C. &G W. 16. Ren. Steel rtd. 39?,;. Ren. Steel com mon ... New York Central 118,, Illinois Central 129K LOCAL MARKET OONDITIOIS. Today's Quotations on Provisions. Llrt Btoek. Feed and FneL Rock Island, Dec. 11. Following are the Quotations on the local market: . Provisions. Butter Creamery 22cJ3c. dairy li'c Ksres Fresh 25c. Live poultry Spring chickens 8c per pound hens 7c per pound. Vegetables Potatoes. 65 to 63c Llve Stock. Cattle Steers . 13.50 to 14 2. cows heifers 12.00 to 14.00. calves 13.00 to 15.00 Hoes Mixed and butchers S3 50-to S4.2i Sheep Yearlings or over, per cwt. 3 00to 1 oj, Lambs per head 13 00 to 15.00 Feed and FneL Grain Corn old 61(2.520. new 40c; oats, 88c Forage Timothy hay, 18 to 19.50, praint a 10 , straw ia.au. Wood Hard, per load 15 00. Coal Lump, per bushel 14c slack, per d isnei 7c Dayton, Ohio. Mrs. Mary Simpson. "Everything disagreed- with me and baby until I used Uocky Mountain Tea. Now baby sleeps and prows like a weed." 35 cents. T. II. Thomas pharmacy. and For Over Sixty Years Mrs. AVinslows Koothinir Svrup has been used for children teething. It soothes the child, softens the gums. allays all pain, cures wild colic, and is the best remedy for diarrhoea, cents a bottle. Slippers Big display of these for men, women and children from eft-, fl 50 to OUC THIRD AVENUETHROUCH TO SECOND Only 9 More Bargain Days Till Christmas Xm&s Umbrellas The handsomest as sortment we have ever shown and the cheapest $7.98 QQq Z?e Jewelry De partment Is as usual a magnet for Christmas buyers. Exquisite designs in plated ware are quite a feature this sea son. Four-piece tea sets, butler fin ish, $7.25 to $23. Coffee sets. $12 to $18.:0. I'.read trays, $2 to $s.50. talking- dishes. $:j.50 to $3.50. Fern dishes, $1.50 to $10. Fruit dishes, $2.75 to $S. Kori-lJoii dishes, $1.50 to $4. Candelabra and single sticks, $$ 4 $15. Special Display Gold Novt ltle, Haroque pearl scarf pins. Srarf pins, pearl and diamond. Single pearl and opal pins. Egyptian head scarf pins, (iold filled fancy set pins, 50c to $3.50. Diamond set gold lockets, $25 to $50. Pearl Mt gold bu-kets. $12 to $10. Fancy set gold lockets.$l to $1.50. The Great Watrh Department. llest known American and Swiss watches at- prices that are a sav ing. A guarantee behind every watch. Open face chatelaine. $5 to $20. Ladies' 14k. line American move ment, $22 to $i)0. Men's 14k. line American move ment. $50. Ladies' gold filled Wa It ha 111, $0.50. Men's gold filled W'altham, $0.50. P.oys silver watches, $1.25, $2, $3, up to $10. SIcii'm Wafch I'olm. English seal fobs. $2.75 to $4.75. Sterling silver. $1.50 to $1.75. ;o!d filled. $1 to $C).50. Solid gold, $:.5 to $10. Handkerchiefs The greatest collection of fine as well as moderate priced handker chiefs we have e er been able to secure. Ladies white hemstitched. 50c to le. Ladies colored border. 2c. 4c. 5c. and up. Children's colore:! border, lc ami up. Men's han'.ikerchiefs. 5c, and up. Ladies' lace ami embroidery edge handkerchiefs. $2.25 to lc. Handkerchiefs in fancy loes all at lowest prices. Christmas shopping is in. fill swing in tnis great store. Stocks are complete and prices within ea.sy reta-ch. ToylfiLnd and Dollville DOLLS Dressed Dolls, kid body dolls, bisque dolls, jointed dolls, rubber dolls, rag dolls every kind of doll that Santa Clans wants OIO. from lc apiece to V " You will think ours is the greatest Doll store in the three cities. Card (James. Authors, Old Maid, Peter Coddle, etc choice Maps 4c and animals, Dissected up from Color Kits (cravon and paints com bined) up from . 50c P.ig l'.ox (James Fish Pond Treas ure Island. Steeple Chase, E'c, all juices down to 1 Mocks and ...9c ;pcliing 98c ..19c 3.25 l!lock Pict ure blocks from :ic to Toy Pianoij up from Drums of all kinds from l'.U- to Horses. Yachts. Toy Furniture, Auto matic T.s. Magic Lanterns, Train on tracks. Sleds. I'ocking Horses. Fire Engines. Hill Climbers, etc., all at very low prices. . Books (ireat variety, very low Popular $1.50copy- rights prices 1.08 Piggcst line we ever had at many $1.50 copyriyhts ainony them, only 40c, 49c 1c Children's Hooks in great variety up front Holiday Notions Fancy P.oxes of all kimis. Leather goods, Perfumery, etc., etc. (Ireat variety and low prices in this popular ! cct ion. Holiday China.. Our China store is a veritable bazar of holiday beauty. There is no question about prices being the lowest ever. Sample them. Vases Sevres, Coalport, Pointons, Wedgewood, Doulton, It oval Boun, etc , 'Joe each up 1 "7 c n to 1 17.50 Ilaviland China In dinnerware we have seven different open stock patterns and in odd pieces we are supreme. Haviland China cups, saucers and plates to match, from nr 2.3c to libO Ilaviland China spoon trays, jelly dishes, salad bowls, celery trays, cake plates, chop dishes, 3-piece baking sets, chocolate sets, and so on anywhere from 39c up to English China single plates, Cf from $1.12 each to I .OU English China cups and saucers from loc to English China vases oc -jg gQ 15.00 7.50 9.75 Japanese China. Our own impor tation over $1,000 worth of it, straight from Tokio, pieces from mammoth vases down to a r- pin tray at OC Chaliosr Dishes. Greatest assort ment of the best dialing dishes in the w st 2.50, $2 9", in flfl $3.25, $3 50 and on up to IU.UU Jardinieres -fn nfti 15c to IU.UU nTT 20.00 New coffee pcrcolatcr, Q flfl $G :7 to O.UU Koholia, for chaling dish lamps, ia pint and half pint bottles. Sam ple bottles free. Art Needle Work. Dainty and useful gifts here just come un& look the department over, it pays. Our sales ladies are always glad to assist by sugges tions or otherwise. Candy. Tons of the best candy, cheap. 3,000 pounds IOC Hundreds of pounds of the choicest sweets at 25c, 22c, 20c, 18c r and . IOC WE ARE NOW CONDUCTING THE GREATEST SALE of ALLC LOAK NEVER in the history cf the Tri-Cities have Cloaks been of fered in the month of December at the prices we are offering them during this sale. We have made tremendous reductions on certain garments where we had one or two of a kind left. If you have any intention of buying a coat this winter, here is your opportunity, you'll not buy it any cheaper in the months of January cr February and now you'll get the whole winter's wear out of ir. We would like to have every woman in the Tri-Cities call and see our Cloaks before buying. In addition to our own large stock wewill place on sale the entire house sample line of Cloaks from The Sunshine Cloak & Suit Co., Cleveland, Ohio. Makers.of the World renowned "Sunshine Garment". These sample garments are just as good as any coat we have in our entire stock. They are the garments the firm used in their Show room and have never been on the road so are not shop-worn. TRIMMED HATS AT HALF PRICE Our entire stock of Trimmed Hats, except Black Velvet Hats at exactly half their former price. You know what that means. $2.00 Hats $1.00 $3.00 Hats $1.50 $4.00 Hats $2.00 $5.00 Hats $2.50 $7.50 Hats $3.75 $10.00 Hats $5.00 BLACK VELVET HATS AT ONE-FOURTH OFF $5.00 Hats $3.75 $7.50 Hats $5.63 $9.00 Hats $6.75 $12.00 Hats $9.00 $15.00 Hats $11.25 $20.00 Hats $15.00 When you take into consideration our millinery was always 25 to 33 per cent less than you could buy it for at any place in the Tri-Cities and now to get it for one-half gives'you the opportunity of getting the best hat you ever got for the price. Every woman ought to have a new hat at these prices. TUs Tnn Vfiii U4-116 West Second Street, 1 flt J&t RllW DAVENPORT, IOWA. The Store that treats everybody alike. , One price, courteous treatment, plain figures. Allowing no discounts id anyone?