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THE ARGUS. Published Dally and Weekly at 1R24 Second Ave nue, Bock Island. 111. J. W. Potter. Publisher. Tirms Daily, 50c per month; Weekly, $3.00 per ann6m. All communication of a critics! or arznmenta tive character, political or reliKioaa. rnnxt have real name attached for publication No such artl ticlea will be printed over fictiUona signatures. Anonyrnom communications not not'eed. Correspondence solicited from every township in Rock island county. Wednesday, Mat 21. 1890. Farmers. Head This. "lean name upon my ten fingert men vthote combined profits in the last decade have exceeded those of all the agriexilturiett of any ttate in thia Union." Congressman Butter worth, republican. The Union devotes two columns of its valuable space this morning to an expo sition of the many redeeming qualities of the horde of republican candidates for county offices. The source of this deluge of eugolistic comment is discovered in eleven $5 announcements on the second page of the morning sheet. Somehow the Union failed to discover until now the exceeding goodness of all these am bitious gentlemen, and the revelation can hardly 1e said to have been as upon. taneous as it was sudden. irnt ana thr Tar I IT. Thai Congressman Gest. of this dis tiict, is an ardent supporter of the Mc- Kinley abomination bill is not to be won dered at, although his ante-election speeche s would indicate the contrary. An eastern newspaper man approached Mr, Goat on the subject, and quoted him as saying: "It would he strange if it (the McKin ley bill), were not a good mexsure after being considered so long bv the ablest men in the house. There is noth ing in the bill to which I am opposed. It is a well considered measure. While the above is not so much an ex pression of Mr. Gesl's personal opinion of the bill as it is an illustration of his hide-bound fidelity to the republican par ty, it nevertheless, places him in fullac end with the bill. And one would in fer, and would be justified in believing. that had the McKinley bill increased the tariff 400 or 500 per cent higher than it does on the necessaries of life, that Mr. Gest wou'd support it as cordially as be doe; the present bill. In short, Con' gressman Gest records himself uoequivo c-ally and irrevocably in favor of whatcyer measure the tariff robbers and raooopo listic combines may propose. He closes his ears to the protests and appeals for industrial relief that are springing up on all sides, and seeks to increase the bur dens of the people. The Eleventh congressional district, which Mr. Gest is supposed to represent in congress, is largely devoted to agri culture. Sundry requests have been sent to him from his constituents in the rural districts, asking him to favor such legit lation as would have a tendency to ameliorate their condition. Mr. Gest's answers to these petitions have been eva sive and unsatisfactory, evidently think ing the muttorings of discontent would soon blow over. But we advise the Don. Mr. Gest to beware and not (est the pa tience of tbe long suffering farmers too far. lie is treading on dangerous ground thai menaces his political safety and men tal equilibrium. Here are some resolutions which the Peoria County Grange adopted at a late meeting. They might he interesting if not beneficial to our present McKinley tariff loving congressman. ' Whereas, Steps are now being taken toward the revision of our laws in regard to taxation; and, Wiiekkas, To accomplish such legisla tion with full justice to all, all are equally entitled to a hearing; therefore, be it Resolved, That in the sense of this vGrange the condition of our different ---to dustnes renders it unnecessary, unwisa and un-American to longer continue the f principle of high taxes upon the necessi ties and low taxes upon tbe luxuries of J life. Revolted, That Iron-ore, wool. jute, hemp, flax and sisal, and other like raw material, and also coal, wood, lumber, . salt and sugar, and rice and all bread stuffs should he admitted free of duty. Retoloed, That tbe present duties upon woolen, cotton. Iron, steel and leather goods, and many other articles of neces sity or utility to the masses, are too high and should be greatly reduced. Retoloed, That the existing duties upon many articles of luxury, such as dia monds and all precious stones, jewelry, fine furs, wines and liquor, silk goods, art works, paintings and statuary .musical instruments, besides many other articles not necessary to the comfort or prosper ity of the majority are too low, and should be increased. Retoloed, That we protest against any - reduction of the internal revenue rates. Itcolc(d, That at the next district con ventions of the respective political par ties these resolutions be presented, and that the nominees of said conventions be forewarned that they cannot receive our support unless they will pledge them selves to labor earnestly for tbe passage of such measures, and to vote for the same when they are offered, irrespective of the political party in which they have originated. Paste these resolutions in your hat Bro. Gest, and remember they express the sentiments of nine tenths of your con stituents. Then go and commit political suicide by swallowing the McKinley poi son, if you wish. - Latent by Wire. AN EMINENT PHYSICIAN DEAD. Chicago, May 21. Dr. William H. By ford, one of the oldest and best known physicians of Chicago, died this morning being seventy-three years old. THE WAITERS GAIN A POINT. Chicago, May 21. The Tremont house management asked a conference this morning with the striking waiters, who are jubilant to consequence. GROOM HONORED. ChicAoO, May 21. J. K. Groom, of the Moline Ditpateh, was today chosen sec retary of the Inland press association. THE NEWMARKET BACEH. London, May 21. At tbe Newmar ket second spring meeting today's event was tbe race for the .Newmarket stakes. Memoir won; Blue Green, second; Leon ard, third. Ha ye your ice cream put up in brick, melon, pyramid or individual forma by Erell & Math and then you will have something extra fine for your parlies or receptions. No extra charge. Bedroom soites, folding beds, mat tresses, pillows on the credit system, at the Adams, 322 Brady street Davenport. MUCH PERPLEXED. Senators in a Snarl Over those Original Packages. WILSON STATES THE CASE OF IOWA. An Intricate Legal Problem to be Solved Stanford's Scheme to Lend tbe Granger Government Legal Tender Debate on the Tariff Bill Closes in Confusion Kemmler'a Case Argued Looking for a Sliver Veto Congressional Record Offi cial News Notes. Washington City, May 21. The debate on the proposed law providing a means of evading the recent supreme court decision on "original packages" was begun in the senate yesterday, Wilson of Iowa opening the discussion. He said the bill was in re sponse to a suggestion in the deeisson that congress could permit the exercise of the restraining power of a state, and it was for the purpose of giving that jiermission that the bill had been introduced and re ported. The effect would be to have each state in the Union to determine for itself what its policy should be in regard to the traffic in intoxicating liquors. Under that decision of the supreme court the state of Iowa could not prevent the citi zens of other states, or the subjects of Great Britain, France or Germany, send ing intoxicating liquors into Iowa and having them sold by their agents in orig inal packages by agents. At the present time original package saloons were being organized is his state. The package might be a pint or a half-pint of whisky, or a keg or a bottle of beer. Not a Tower To Be Delegated. Vest said that the authority of congress over interstate commerce was an exclu sive power and could not be delegated, and he quoted authority for the statement. Gray agreed with Vest, but proposed that congress could declare that intoxicating liquors were not an article of interstate commerce. Vest said if that were done it would open the door for the prohibition of other articles. In answer to a question Vest said the right to import an article implied the right to sell it, and Hoar said that if congress could not control this question, there was not a more miserable nation on the face of the earth. Extension of the Principle. Hiscock asked Hoar whether, if a state desired to exclude, not liquors, but manu factures of wool, it waa within the power of congress to delegate to states the power to do so. Hoar replied that he did not go quite that far, but the question involved was on the boundary lines between two conflicting powers the police power of the stato and the exclusive power of con gress over interstate commerce. Hiscock thought it a doubtful policy to put it in the power of a state to prohibit the im portation of anything it might wish to ex clude, and of more doubtful constitution ality Interesting All Around. Edmunds remarked upon it as a very cu rious and interesting circumstance tliat a condition of things had been reached, where, according to the debate and according to the judgment of the supreme court, there was in every man in one state an inherent individual, personal right to carry into an other state what that state might consider injurious to its safety, and there sell it; that congress had no power to stop it, and tbe states could not stop it unless the con gress gave them that power. Speaking of the importation of intoxicating liquor into a state, Edmunds claimed that once they got there, they were (whether in the hands of natives or not) the subject of the state laws, and that was what the supreme court of the United States would come to within the next twenty years. A Presidential Veto Looked For. Washisgtov Citt, May 21. Fresh ru mors are afloat here to the effect that the president has again let an intimation of his position on the silver question out. The president is reported to have said that he would veto a free coinage bill aud that any silver measure to meet his approval must have been passed by Republican votes. STANFORD'S GOVERNMENT BANK. I'ncle Sam to Lend Money at 2 Per Cent, on Real Entate Security. Washington' City, May 21. Stanford introdnced in the senate yesterday a bill Intended to carry out the idea outlined in his resolution presented some time ago. The bill provides for the establishment in the treasury department of a land 1ku bureau, with a chief at $0,000 a year and an assistant at 5,O0O a year to be appointed by the president. The treasurer is to ause to be printed, signed, and ready for issue circulating notes of thedenoniination of $5, $10, , $50, $100, $500, and $1,000 to the amount of $100,000,000, which shall be legal tender with gold and silver coin for like amounts, and these notes are to be held in the treasury to the credit of the land loan bureau until issued in accord ance with the provisions of this bill. Men Who Mar Borrow Money. Every person who is a citizen or who has declared his intention to become a cit izen and who is the owner in fee of unin cumbered agricultural land may file with this bureau an application for a loan to be secured by a lien on that land. The loan is not to exceed one-half the assessed value of the land, and no loan is to be for less than $2.Y), or to run for more than twenty years. A copy of the application for a loan is to be filed with the recorder of deeds of the county or counties of the state or territory in which the land is sit uated, and it shall constitute a lien on the property. Proving a Clear Title. The applicant for a loan is to deposit a sum to be prescribed by the chief of the bureau suflicient to pay the costs of the examinatiou of the title, inspection and appraisement of the land, and this work is to be done by persons in the respective counties to lie designated by the chief of the bureau. When the chief is satisfied of the character of the security he ia to transmit to the proper officer of the treas ury department an order directing the payment of the money to lie loaned, the amount to remain subject to the order of the applicant, who may draw it from time to time by check or draft. If the chief finds on investigation that there is an ex isting lien on the property of less than the amount of the loan asked of the bureau and warranted by law, the loan may .be made, but the existing lien is to be dis charged, and the amount of it -deducted from the loan made by the government. In Cam of Default of Interest. The bureau loans are to pay 2 per cent interest and this is to be payable annually, and in event of default of interest or prin cipal, proceedings to foreclose the lien are to be begun in the state or federal courts, and to the amount of the principal and in terest thus recovered are to be added costs and attorney's fees, the latter not to ex ceed $500 in any case. A borrower may pay back any part of the loan, not less than 25 per cent at any time and in the discretion of the chief may within twenty years' limit draw np to the full amount of the loan again. The bill ia defined as ap plying to males and fomales alike. SHALL KEMMLER DIE BY LIGHTNING? The Question Argued Before the Supreme Court Decision Reserved. . Washington City, May 21. The mur derer Kemmler'a writ of error case was argued before the supreme court yester day, and the court reserved its decision and adjourned to Friday. The ease at tracted a large audience to the supreme court chamber, among the listeners being ex-Attorney General Garland, ex-Secretary Bayard and several senators and rep resentatives. The prisoner's counsel, Mr, Sherman, made a long and exhaustive ar gument to prove - that the execution of Kemmler by electricity would be in viola tion of the Fourteenth amendment to the THE HOCK ISLAND AllGUS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, constitution in abridging th privileges I and immunities of a citizen and depriving him of life without due process of law, and in violation of the Eighth amendment m inflicting cruel and unus tal punish ment. Pith of the Argumec to. Mr. Sherman said there .wiis no doubt that "electrocution" was unut ual punish ment, and also cruel. In -substantiation of the claim lie said that then was no sure method of telling how much the resist ance of a man to the electrical current might be; it might be 100,100 ohms, in which case the punishment v.-ould be tor ture. A man might be cremated on the surface, or he might be carl ionized. He also contended that the provision which makes the warden of the peni entiary exe cutioner, instead of the sheriff, was un constitutional. Mr. Tabor spoke for the st ate and con tended that there was no violation of the constitution in the proposed manner of ex ecution. He confined his argument prin cipally to showing that the claim of the plaint iff as to the application of the Eighth and Fourteenth amendments was wrong, and to citing authorities in support of his argument. DOINGS IN CONGRESS. An Anti-Lottery Constitutional Amend ment Tariff Work in the House. Washington- City, May 21. Ingalls in troduced a bill in the senate j esterday by request, to aliolLsh metal money. Blair introduced a joint resolution proposing an article for the constitution prohibiting the United States or any state from au thorizing any lottery or prize distribution. The bill providing a means of evading the original packages decision oame up, was debated at length, and went over. The remainder of the day was devoted to eulo gies on the late Representitive Kelly, which were delivered by Cameron, Mor rill, Sherman, Harnpton.Haw ey anil Dan iel, and then as a further mart of respect the senate adjourned. A long debate took place in the house on McKenna's motion to change the sugar schedule and make sugar dutiable, elimin ating the bounty. The amendment Was rejected, eleven Republicans, among them Kerr of Iowa, voting in the affirmative. Amendments offered by McKinley reduc ing the duty on rough building stone, putting American fish on the free list, changing the duty on shotguns and pis tols,taxing bristles 10 cents pef pound, and imposing a tax of 5 cents a gallon on alcohol used to make vinegar, and putting the manufacture under control of the in ternal revenue commissioner, were all adopted. All amendments other than committee amendments were rejected. A scene of great confusion began and lasted until 11:20 p. m., when the committee rose and the house adjourned. Norvln Crcen on l'ontnl Telegraph. Washington- City, May 21. Dr. Xorvin Green was before the house c tmmittee on postofliees and post roads yesterday and was questioned as to the proposed govern ment postal telegraph. Dr. Green said that the reduction of rates it: the govern ment scheme was from 50 to tV jkt cent, from Western Union rates, and that the business could not be done by the Western Uu ion except at a loss. He said he was prepared to prove this and w uld prove it in the case against the goveri ment which the compnny has pending in the courts. He referred to European government tele graphs and said that not one nf them had started the business in competition with itsown citizeus;they had all bought out the existing private companies at fair prices, and he charged that for the I uited States to do otherwise would be bad faith and a broken pledge. A Time of It in the II Mine. Washington City, May 21. The house last night continued in intense confusion from 6 until ll:'JO p. in. This was caused by the fact that the vote on the tariff bill had been ordered for to-day at noon, while dozens of members wanted to have amend ments voted upon. l,ind of Minnesota, llirt and Taylor of Illinois, tnd Hender son of Iowa made flrce attacks on portions of the bill which did not suit them, and McKinley suggested that gentlemen 1 given leave to print their prop sed amend ments. Henderson wanted to know what good that would do; he waived votes on his propositions. But McKinley was in exorable aud the deiiate closed. The Immigration Laws. Washington City, May 20. Henry D. Wireman, solicitor of the German society of Pennsylvania, and A M. Dewey, the late editor of the official organ of the Knights of Labor in -Philadelphia, ap peared before the joint committee of the senate and house on immigration yester day. In behalf of the Germans Dr. Wire man, urged that the law be It t alone, ex cept to literally and emphatically define the words "pauper" and "cont ract labor," while Mr. Dewey wanted tho law made more stringent, and a provision inserted requiring t hat immigrants be ible to read and write English before they are allowed to land. Talks to the Commerce Committee. Washington Citt, May 21. Ex -Senator Conger, of Michigan, and Representative Farq u liar, of Kew York, yesterd y addressed the house commerce committee in favor of providing additional appropriations for lighthouses aud other aids to navigation on the great lakes. Represent ati ve Swee ny, of Iowa, addressed the committee in favor of a bill to amend the. inter-state commerce law as so to prevent t he shipment of liquors to prohibition states ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS. Itis reported that Senatot Stanford is afflicted with locomotor ataxia. The funeral of Wirt Dexter took place from the family residence iu Chicago Tuesday. " Patrick Hynes, of Green Poi.it, L. I., has skipped out with about $2,0t)0 of the A. O. II. funds. The employes in all but one of the planing mills of Buffalo, N. Y., went on strike Tuesday for a nine-hour day. Railways in the Central Traffic associa tion have made a rate of 20 cents on oats and 25 cents on provisions. The color line is causing trouble among Louisville G. A. R. posts. Wlite veterans refuse to march with colored men. At Pilsen, a town of Bohemi a, Tuesday, troops fired on riotous strikers, killing five and wounding seven of thttm. Stiefel & Cohen, overall manufacturers, of Baltimore, assigned Tuesfla r, with lia bilities of $80,000 and assets 931 ,000. Heavy rains have flooded t le mines in tbe vicinity of Ashland, Pa., and a prac tical suspension of operations i the result. Jerry Sweeney was shot cli ad at Chi cago Tuesday by his employer, Barney Benson, a teamster, during a drunken quarrel SThe striking waiters at CI icago have gained their point with the Auditorir.nl and the Brunswick house, "he Palmer and Tremont still hold out. The following named nati mal banks have been authorized to comnence busi ness: First National bank of Llano, Tex., capital, $30,000; American Nat ional bank of Salina, Kan., capital, $100,01 0. White Caps are bold in Nvr York. At Poughkeepsie a dozen of them apieared as -witnesses in a divorce suit, having ob tained their information when they went out one night for the purpose of flogging the recreant huslmnd. The remains of the late President --Garfield and those of his mother w ;re removed early Tnesday from the public vault in the Lake View cemetery, at CI sveland, O., to the crypt in tbe Garfield monument, which is to be dedicated on Memorial Day. . Canadian politics are peculiar. Tbe people of English blood are wrath y at tbe home . government for conceding France certain rights in the fis leries, while those of French extraction st tnd by the government because the concession was made to France. Yet they an all Cana dians. - ; . . -.' - "... -' TRAIN A HUSTLER. The "Psycho" on vHis Globe Girdling Jdurney. SHOET. STOP AT THE GARDEN CITT. He Raises Cain Because His Orders Were Disobeyed, bnt Feela Better After Buy ing Out the Station Lunch Counter for the Benefit of Emigrant and Lounger How the Remarkable Old Fellow Looks, and a Specimen of Hla Talk. Chicago, May 21. George Francis Train arrived here on the Lake Shore at 9 p. m. yesterday and left on the Chicago and Northwestern forTacoma two hours later. A large number of newspaper men and others met him at the Northwestern sta tion. He raved violently because his tele graphic outers that the dining room be kept oiten hail not lieen obeyed, and then soothed his feelings by buying out the lunch counter for the benefit of the loun gers and emigrants in the station. Personnel of the l'arty. George Francis looks still just as natural as life. He himself is tanned by the suns and his clothes bear the dust of a score of countries, but he talks just as fast and just as much as ever, and in the same strain. He was accompanied in his flying trip by S. W. Wall, formerly managing editor of The Tacoma ledger. This gen tleman makes the trip for the purpose of gathering material for a book, but the citizen has chosen to call him his "private secretary and Kodak amanuensis." In New Y'ork Messrs. Hoy and Kellogg, of The Sun, and Mr. Beard, of the New York Central road, joined the party. A Look at tieorge Francis. Train himself was dressed in a style so unique that none but himself could have devised it. His clothes were of odd pat tern, and as dusty as a country road. He wore shining patent leather shoes, the tops of which lie concealed in a pair of gaiters about the color of a yellow dog. About his waist. And in lien of Riiunpnrlera he hail tied a flaming red sash, and cover-1 ing his long flowing gray hair was his I "double decker" hat about the size of a bushel basket. On the upiier deck of the hat was printed in big black letters, "George Francis Train," and on the lower deck was the rest of the inscription, "Kound the world in sixty days." Shakes Hands by Proxy. To the newspaper men who met him the Psycho said: "I make my respects to you, but clasp your own hands, please, and I will do the same. I never shake hands with any one, you know. I'll introduce you to Wall. He's my private secretary and the greatest shaker yon ever saw. Did I have a good trip? Well, there never was a better one, and 1 have broken the records all to smash. Just think of it! Isn't it a marvelous thing? ilere, I started from Tacoma sixty-one days ago and now I'm around here again faster than was ever done before. I've not only broken the rec ords, but have shown Jules Verne what a dolt he is. Worried Over a I.ot Dnv. "He wrote a big liook of fiction on Around the World in Eighty Days.' and I have gone around, in fact, in a little over sixty. And, besides that, I lost a great deal of time that could lie saved on a second journey. I could make thissame trip again in fifty days, and do it without a struggle. To cap the whole thing I dropjied a day somewhere in the Pacific ocean. Just think of it, when it was my birthday, too. I'm going around the other way to see if I can't pick that day tip somewhere. His Hash Didn't Agree with Him. "lots of funny things have hapjiened on the trip. People didn't know what to make of me. They couldn't believe. Ev erybody used to think that this world was a big concern, but I've made it look mighty small. I've talked Japanese in Japan, Chinese in Yokohama, and Arabic to the Arabs. While Wall there would be ar guing with a lot of orters I'd step up and tell 'em what we wanted in a minute, so they knew what we wanted and ran and got it. Haven't slept in a hotel but twice on my trip. The food liothered me a good deal, and I don't feel just like myself, I've lieen eating the stale vegetables of a dozen lint ions. A Thing That Made Him Weep. "But I got even with them all. I turned them all up topsy-turvey and made them think my trip was the marvel of the age. And so it is. One thing made me weep, though, and that was that wherever I weut I failed to find the American flag. It made me almost ashamed of the country, but I've an idea how to remedy that. 1 want the Chicago World's fair commis sioners to take up this idea of commerce and scatter American flags the world over. They can do it. I'll help them, and we'll show this little world that t lie flag isn't dead yet. "Yes, 1 hail that telegram from a mnse nm manager asking me for an engage ment, but I telegraphed back and told him that I would never lecture again ex cept U ad vert ise the Chicago fair. And I have anot her scheme for the fair, and it's a big one. I want to take a party of 250 American newspaper men around the world with me. 1 can do the whole thing in fifty days at $10 a day. That would be the biggest, tiling ever thought of. Just get around a little and let the world know we're alive, and see how tbey will come to the fair. Around the World in Fifty Hays. "Here's my programme. Isn't it a good oner Here you have the whole thing. Chicago World's fair excursion; fifty days at ?10 a day. Five hundred passen gers, that's f23d,om Then we'll travel in special steamers, special cars, and have lmlls, operas, theatres, and debates every day. Concerts, oiteras, salt water baths, brass bands, and libraries. Just think of it!. There will lie ample time to Kodak everything, and any one who goes with me" will get more education than Greek and Idit in books would teach them in a lifetime." And in a few miuutes the glolie girdler was off for the far west. American Medical Association. Nashville, Tenn., May 21. The Amer ican Medical association convened in an nual session at the Theatre Vendome in this city yesterday, with 800 delegates present, every state and territory in the Union being represented. A number of addresses were made and after transacting necessary preliminary business the asso ciation adjourned fur the day. The Atchison Voting Trust. Boston, May 21. The Atchison directors met yesterday and voted to announce the failure of the voting trust proposition. Circulars will be issued informing stock holders of this action. Some 200,000 shares were deposited under the call, 50,000 shares promised not having been deposited. Mysterious Disappearance. Montreal, Que., May 21. Fred Roots, a young Englishman hailing from Surrey, has mysteriously disapeared from this city. He has lieen employed as a store keeper with a Mr. Swift, and on May 2 went to seek another situation. Since thenjie has not been seen. He left his clothing and other effects behind him. Ohio Republican Convention. COLTMBU8, O., May 2L The Republican state central committee has decided upon Cleveland and July 16 as the place and time of holding the next Republican con vention. Ex -Governor Foraker was selected as temporary chairman of the convention. Kuiclded While Despondent. Madison', Wis., May 21. M. C. Bradley, brother-in-law of George Ragmer, editor of The Democrat, suicided by shooting himself in the temple In this city. De spondency was the cause. He was about 20 years of age. . ' A Trottina; Case Decided. Buffalo, N. Y., May 21. Judge Corlett has denied the motion to adjudge the Na tional Trotting association in contempt for its action in the NobleJs'elson case. HE BLEW IT ALL IN. Johnny Eagan Disposeaof Half a Million, AKD ENDS HIS DATS IN P0VESTT. Hi Father Strikea it Very Rich on Coal Lands, and Leave the Son 50O,OOO Vnlque Methods of Getting Rid of the Lucre Two Thousand Dollars for an Exclusive Entertainment His Effort for the Mollle Magnirea. Wilkesbarre, Pa., May 21. Johh Ea gan, a 1 2cond "Coal Oil Johnny" and an individual f many eccentricities, has just died at the Hillside poor house. Eagan was the only son of Patrick Eagan, who located iu the Iackawanna valley forty years ago. The father bought a forty acre farm, which afterward turned out to be a mint. There was coal underneath, and one day Eagan received an offer of $500,000 for his land, which he accepted. He did not live long to enjoy Lis fortune, however. The next year he died, and his great wealth reverted to his son. Math Wealth Was Ills Ituln. The latter was brought up a liarft -working boy on a farm, and his sudden acquisi tion of a fortune evidently turned his head, as he took to drinking and carousing, and spending money in a reckless manner. He thought nothing of speuding $200 in an evening's enjoyment among friends and boon companions, which he had in plenty at that time. Many stories are told of his queer escapades. One of them was of his riding down I jickawanna avenue. Scran ton, on horseback one summer night,about ten years ago. A Barroom Incident. He was going along leisurely playing on the violin, on which he was an an adept, until he espied the open door of a saloon. He drove his horse through the opening into the barroom, still playing on his fa vorite instrument. He ordered drinks for the whole crowd, wheeled alxiut and drove out again. This Ls only one of the queer and amusing actions of this poor unfortu nate, who squandered enough money to keep himself and friends living in afllu ence for the remainder of their lives. Wanted to See a Barn Burn. One day he went out in the country and gave a farmer 12,000 to set fire to his barn He said he wanted tosee the hay and straw bum. On another occasion he gave floO to Ted McXnlty to let him punch him in the eyes until they were black. One Fourth of July he got tired waiting for a regular train to carry him twenty eight miles. He paid the rail mail management fooo for a special train to carry hiin to his destina tion. When the Mollie McGuires were condemned to the gallows Eagan went to Harrisburg with a certified check for $100, OOOand offered it to Governor Hartranft if he would pardon the Mollies. Another I'nlqne Exhibition. He had two locomotives built at a ma chine shop and had them shipued to his farm. He built a track feet long, and after both engines got up a good head of steam he caused the throttlesto he opened. The two engines came together with a great crash. Eagan said the sight of see ing them come together was worth what they cost. The locomotives were of no use afterward. When his money was all gone Eagan was a pitiable sight. His clothes were ragged and no shoes adorned his feet. No one recognized him, despite the fact that in his days of prosperity he helied many a poor taniily iu their strug gles with the wtld- SALISBURY ON SOCIALISM. The KrltUh l'remier Seems to Have Some Ilroadgauge Views. liOXWiN, May 21 lu reply to the earl of Wemyss in the lords yesterday, who had attacked the Socialistic tendencies of certain acts of public liodies. Lord Salis bury said that Socialism might lie defined as the state doling something that might be done by private persons for the sake of gain. Sometimes this was a very unwise thing to do, and at. other times a wise thing. There was nothing so Socialistic as the mint ami the pototlii-e, yet at the same time then" was nothing more justifi able. The public could lie trusted to find out what practical good lies N-hind the So cialist doctrine. Where There Is Smoke There's Fire. Nobody not absolutely blind could deny the existence of great evils from which arose the Socialist proposals and action. Industrial and other causes produced great centers of misery. We are liound to do all we ran o remedy these evils even if we get called Socialists, knowing we are undertaking no new principle or striking out on no new route, but are simply pur suing the long and healthy tradition of Eaglish legislation. rcl Salisbury's remarks were received with cheers. MARIA WENDLE AT HOME. Her Escapade Was an Elopement with the l.orer Mostly Missing. Oaelaxp, Ills., May 21. Maria Wendle, who mysteriously disupjtcarcd two weeks ago, was brought liome by her father from Indianapolis yesterday morning. The girl was found there at the house of a friend of her lover aud taken to the home of her Indianapolis aunt. The girl was easily induced to tell the story of her flight. Her lover is Inv (Jw inn, the son of A J. Gwinn, of Brockton. She said he had promised to marry her and to join her in Irnliaiiaixili s, where the wedding was to take place. Story tf Her Travels. She left the Brown residence May 8, making her egress through the window, Gwinu furnishing the ladder. He then drove her to. Newman, where she took the midnight train for Indianapolis. While in IndianaKIis at a hospital she received two letters from Gwinu under his own signature. These letters will be used against him. As sion as the giiTs state ment had lieen reduced to writing aud sworn to, officers of this city were tele graphed to arrest Gwinn. The Lover Kon Est Now. The officers went to Brockton yesterday morning to make the arrest, but found that Gwinu had gone. Gw inn's father, it is alleged, drew a large knife on the offi cers and threatened to carve them, but was persuaded by a display of revolvers to remain quiet. Yesterday afternoon three warrants were sworn out for Gwinn. There will lie a civil suit brought against him for breach-of -promise in the sum of 110,000. Besides Gwinu, whose people are very wealthy and prominent, there are three or four other persons who are charged with aiding aud assisting in the abduction, but their names are withheld. Other Suspects Shadowed. Each party is being closely shadowed by the police, and any attempt at escape will be followed by prompt arrest. The return of the girl bus excited a great deal of in dignation against Gwinn aud the people who were connected with the aUiuction. A subscription is now being made np by the public to offer as a reward forGwinn's capture, and the governor will also be asked to offer an additional sum from the state. The Base Ball Players. Chicago. May 21. Following are yes terday's base ball scores: League: At Phil adelphiaChicago 3, Philadelphia 7; bat teries Sullivan and Kagle, Gleason and Clement; at New Y'ork, Bostou and Brooklyn rain. Brotherhood: At Brooklyn Brooklyn 8, Buffalo 8; batteries Sowders and Cook, Person and Mack: at Philadelphia Phila delphia 5, Cleveland 2, batteries Sanders and Milligan, Bakely and Sutclifle; at New York and Boston rain. American: All games postponed rain. Western: At Milwaukee Milwaukee Kansas City 7; other games postponed rain. 1890. ROB T.K OF THE SPRING SEASON, 1890. -A.T POPULAR PRICES, la always to be found at Robt. Kranse's Clothing Emporium, 115 and 117 West Second Street, DAVENPORT, IA. OUR KOM PETITION KRUSHER, 1622 SB - Second Ave. Sullivan and MrAuliffe to light. New York, May 21. Hilly Madden I as received word from the Golden (Jate Ath letic cluh, of San Francisco, that they would like to arrange a match tx'tween Joe McAnlirTe nnd John L. Sullivan, to take place at their rooms. Madden replied that Sullivan nay he will fiht McAuliffe twfore Jackson. Me-ks Step Iorn and Out. Xtw YolfK, May 21. Joseph Meeks, late referee in the Flack divorce ca-ve, has ten dered his resignation to the peneral term a- attorney aud couniellor at law, and the general term has accepted the resigna tion. The priKvedinir which had been lie Kun to di-lmr him will now lie dropped. THE MARKETS Chicaoo. yT av Following are the quotation on the hoar.t of trade to-dny: WLeat No 2 Slay opened Klc, closed c: June, opened 9'c, rlowetl H5c: July, opened Wc, cloca ll Corn No. 2 Ma-, opened S(Hc, t Ued IS: June, opened .Wc, close I Ul-c; July, opened XP clime I Oat No, i Slay, opened 27. closed S. Jnne. opened : 5V clotted Joly. ojened 'SAtc. clooed 28r. Pork June, nirned S12.3U. closed 12..: July, opened 1V0. clos-d S.2 4U Lard-Jane, opene I f .-, closed t''..1, Live stor k- t'ninn Mock yards prices were quoted as follows: I os Market opened active and firm, with prices SuxHie higher; light grades, $4.ti j4 Si: roiurh packing. H.16 4.1(k mixed lots, H.(Hi.(4.2 heavy packing and shipping lots, 4.15H.:I. Cattle yuitt and weak, especially on heavy cattle: Mies, S;t7.!i.U;(; com and mixed. tL75 tt3 75; Blockers end feeders, 2.50 i4 10; Texas (rraasers. tS.4m&l Sheep-Steady: wooled. $4.7&.tl6; shorn sheep. $o-W5JSj; lamls, .1JS4,7.UU. Produce: Butter Finest creamery, 154nio per lb; finest dairy, 13?tl4c: packing stock, 55,8. Effls-Strictly frwh.llc per doz. Poul tryChickens, Wy310c lr lb; spring chickens. $2.iO&2jio ir due: turkeys, 3.14o per lb; ducks, ll.a-l c; R-ese (41046.111 perdoz. Pota toes on track- Common and mixedJUfic per bu: Peerleg.40;4:Jc per bn; Beauty of Hebron, 4&&47c per bu; Kurbankt, 5iuktt per bn. II 1. nola sweet potatoes, good to choice, 75 per bbL Apples- Fair to choice, 1I.UiIlH.oi per lbl. Kew York. New York. May 30. Wheat No. S red winter. ifcc rash; do one, IIS- do Jane,U7Hc; July. Corn No. rmixed cash, 4Uu; do June. HS do July, la Oats Quiet, bnt steady: No. mixed cash, PAKtc; do May, T4V; do June, r. Rye Nominal. Hurley Nouil 1. 1-ork -Juiet: mesa, f l3jtVitl4Ji t, rd Quiet; Jnne. $0.47; July. $0.57; August, J4.HS. Live Stock: Cattle No fading in beeves; market st -ady; dr. eel beef, firm; nat i ve sides, V - Sheep and Lambs Sh -ep ruled seeady; lamia a shade higher; siieep. $U1)5J0 W 1 ts; lambs N.fflj.lU. Hozs-Nominally steady, live hogs, J 4.3 13.4.70 y nju j, BOCK ISLAND. Hay Upland prairie. 9 50O11 00 ay TimolB? I8.60ai.10 .00. Bay-WUa.110 00. Oora 8Sc ou-a Oosl Hart lie OordWooatB 6tef4.l0. Absolutely Pure This Powder ajrer varies. Amarrelof parity, strength awl whotesonaess. Mora ecouomlca thaa the ordinary kinds, and cannot bT sold in competntoa wlta Jm molt I tad of low test .LiS weight alom or prphoepbate powdars . JSoUiSm . Kotai. Bxias Pgwbm Co.,10 w3 PGHOER RAUSE'S GREAT OPENING THE LARGEST ASSORTMENT Tailor Made Clothing EVER OFFERED IN THE TRI-C1TIES, JB. BIRKENFELD, 2011 Fourth Avenue, Dealer in Confectionery, Cigars and Toys, SCHOOL BOOKS AND SCHOOL SUPPLIES IOC ft n I" l T r1 ';'''rio'" in 'e Ui-cmes. made from pure rrrtio II- Pi I Wfi nil " ""d flavored with sll the popular flavors. In any qu ctity t.. I II Mm U II b H lV A J r-rtiesii.l"e'c'k,n P"d ,0 "'PplinK Piinic I'v F. L. -THE FLORIST, No. 326 Brady Street, Davenport, HAS A CIIOICK SELECTION OP -BEDDING ROSES. Uoods delivered to sll parts the three cities free of charge. UTICA SIDEWALK TILE, WORK AND MATERIAL GUARANTEED. f 1... 1. ni - . . -" 00a omre.on Third avenue between Twentr-second and Twenty -third E. B. STEVENS, P C. HOPPE, TAILOB, No. 1808 Second avenue. FBBD APPELQTJIST lias opened hi New and Spacious SAMPLE ROOM No. 1620 to 1G2G Third avenue, where he would be pleased to see his friends. CHAS. DANNACHER Proprietor of Brad j Street All kinds of CTT pmu One Blo?k NoNhOC,8??- , r, wnrn stohb. one Ulock North of Central Park. -4l8 Brady Sireei Thelarwstinlowa. DaTlTUKT. IQWa P. W. HERLITZK Aa No. 229 Twentieth Street, next to Conrad Schneider's grocery, Rock Island, for fine fitting BOOTS AND SHOES, Made is tbe latest style. Also repairing done with neatness snd dippstch. OP- 7 JiZ . '- "i BILLS, POPULAR - street. . ROCK ISLAND. Agent. -THE Rock Island, III. rv au-i rnthti. nn