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JL TILE AKGC8. JTltlDAW MAY 8. 1891. 8 . f 4 f '"I 1 J'i 1 4 f ! 'Sir . If I r i II n i. CITY CHAT. Nice lettuce at Erowner's. New potatoes at Browner'. Pine apples at F. G. Young's. Choice strawberries at Browner'a. Dressed chickens bt F. G. Young's. Home grown spinach at F. G. Young's. Matinee at the rink at 3 p. m. tomor row. . Nice fresh strawberries at F. G. Young's.. C. A. Nold, of Zuma, was in the city today. W.'S. Fidcock, of Cordova, was in the city today. K. P. Wait, of Reynolds, was on the streets today. Fresh string beans and green peas at Brownei's. The mayor is still tussling with the "in floonce." Nice tomatoes and beets at F. G. Yonorg's. Musical jubilee tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock at the rink. Choice lettuce, 6tring beans and aspar agus at F. G. Young's. John Yolk went to Cedar Rapids this morning on business. . ' The -Rockford delegation returned home early this morning. Maypole dance at Black Hawk's Watch towez. tomorrow afternoon. Ira Richards, of Cordova, was in the city yesterday on business. Albert Ltidlka, of Cable, was in the city yesterday on business. B. F. Lamb, of Oikaloosa, Iowa, ' in the city today on basiness. Maypole dance tomorrow afternoon at Black Hawk's Watch tower. Go "see the little folks as "Rag Dolls'' at the rink tomorrow afternoon. The "Harvesters" will repeat their drill at the rink tomorrow afternoon. 'Davenport vs. Joliet at Davenport ball park Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday There is to be a dance at Stoddard's hall, Edgiogton. on Friday evening. May 22. - ' Mrs. C. C. Coyne and Mrs. George D. Moore, of Port Byron, were in the city to day. Radishes, onions, lettuce, spinach, pie plant, asparagus, oranges and bananas at Long's.' The Davenport and Joliet clubs play Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday cf next week. Strawberries and pineapples, chickens, turkeys and a full line of vegetables at Browner's. Don't forget the Maypole dance at Black Hawk's Watch tower tomorrow af ternoon. Call and see the elegant line of cham ber suites just in at Clemann & Salz mann's. The Davenport's and Joliet's at Dav enport ball park Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. David Sears left for Minnesota yester day on business connected with his real estate interests there. Strawberries, wax beans, green pea?, sweet potatoes, new potatoes, cauliflower and cucumbers at Long's. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Ashbaugh and children, of Eau Claire, Wis., are visiting old friends in the city and vicinity. Clemann & Salzmann have just re ceived a car load of those choice bedroom sets that are being sold at euch bargains. Mayor McConoc'uie ba3 been beard to say that the "inflocnce" was a good deal more of a torture than the influenza, im ported or native born. Andrew Nelson today received the con tract for laying between 12,000 and 15, 000 feet of Argillo tile walk in Prospect Park, Moline. Mra. J. F. Bell is visiting her parents, Capt. and Mrs. T. J. Buford for a week, when she will be joined by Lieut. Bell and they will take an extended trip east O. II. Jewell, of the Jewell Filter company, of Chicago, arrived in the city this morning. He run down to see how the Cable memorial filter was working and was much pleased with it. fa liOUieDei, a uerman actor, took a dose of poison with fatal effect at the Germania house in Davenport last eve ning. He was 40 years of age and is be heved to have been Mentally unbalanced- And now they are cruel enough to say that the mayor has been mesmerized. His friends are attempting to offer this as an excuse for his recent conduct. The mayor. by the way, is susceptible to "infloonce. ' Davenport lost the game to Ottawa yesterday the score being 7 to 8. Daven port is now tied for first place in the I-I league with -Uttumwa. The came teams play today and tomorrow. Jacob Ohlweiler, Andrew Ackermsnn and Andrew Bohler left early this morn freanfakg MyM Powder: Used in Millions of Homes 40 Years the Standard. ing for the vicinity of Milan to loo t for fish. Oaeotjhe nimrods used preci ution and took along his son to wade in the stream to see that no fish escaped. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hass, sssistei by their daughters, will entertain their friends at their home on Thirteenth street and First avenue next Thursday ev ning from 7 to 11. Dr. E C Kerns and wife cf VilKsca, Iowa, are in the city. Dr. Kerns form erly resided in Moline and his father is now police magistrate in that city. The doctor is seriously contemplating loci. ting in Rock Island. August Schmid is being tried before Judge Smith this afternoon for contempt of court in failing to provide the specified alimony for his wife as ordered by the court at the time the decree was graiited. divorcing him from his wife. The department of justice has for arded to District Attorney Milchrist the final papers in the Hennepin cansl cise. tie is expected to begin condemnation proceedings on behalf of the government where the property owners have refused to convey title of the right of way. Chicago Tribune. The fact that A. J. Blethen has gone back to his old love and repurchased the Minneapolis Tribune has been a most distressing blow to the republicans of Rock Island, whose hopes of his giving them a lively paper here, have teen com pletely dispelled. Tonight and tomorrow night will be th fast mesmeric entertainments at Turner hall. Persons desiring to try the n es metis m belter go upon the stage. Prif. Parker is still drawing large houses nd mesmerizing different people every night. Attend the two last lectures; they will be the best. Rev. Henry Wallace, formerly pas .or of the United Presbyterian church of t lis city, will preach ther nextSucdiy morn ing. Mr. Wallace has many friends in Rock Island who will be glad to heir him. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace expect to sail for Europe next Thursday from New York. W. H. Muncer has relumed home af ter having been engaged for 30 days in weighing mail between Chicago ar.d Burlington on the C, B. & Q. real. Thirty-five to 40 tons were weighed each nomine coming cut of Chicago. J. H. Cleland has just completed a similar tsi onthe Cable branch of the R. I. & P. Wednesday evening a Davenport spo t bet a Rock Island sport $500 that Dix' r the colored feather weight, could .hit: Con. Doyle, now in this city, and ?.J side was put up in a Rock Island saiooi as a forfeit. Yesterday, however, after considerable discussion and no little ex citement, the money was withdrawn ani the bet declared off. The little Yernon brothers, who it wil be remembered, gave such a delightful musical entertainment at the First Bap tist church a year cr so &zo, have beet engaeed again to sing and play at tht same church next Thursday evening. inere are tnree ot taem. wao p;av re spectively the piano, piccolo and violin ceilo, and ail of them are woniers. Sid ney, the eldest, is bu t 10 years old. How ard seven and Perry five. Two Kinds of YTalks. Look at the methodical walk of the ser ried mass cf clerks and others in a position more or Independent. They are slaves to the clock, and to the routine to which their daily hours are devoted. Do they not walk oddly alike? And well they may, fot they are alike at least in so far as they are integers to help forward the routine business work of the world. Their very steps seem to say: "I am one of those who have to be here at such and such a time, and there at such a time. I must not de lay. I must hie me to my work." It i3 the same with soldiers. They, too, are like so many spokes in a great wheel. In sweet contrast there is the self made man. He may bavo been a clerk like others in his younger days. If so there is a touch of it still in las gait. But there is also much more. It has developed iuto a strut of the first water. He holds his head high so that all may look at him, and it they will follow an example may model themselves upon him. "Behold me!" he seems to say; "I am what I have made my self! Did you ever see anything so remark able?" All the Year Koand. Cnre unliable. A father who is fond of telling his little son about the famous men of old time was talking the other day about one of his fa vorite heroes, Philip of Macedon. "I think he should have been called Philip the Great,' " he said. Just at that moment Aunt Sally, the colored servant, came in. She caught the last three words. "Fill up de grate?" she cried. "Why, I'se jes' put a hod o' coal onl" Youth's Com panion. The ocean is a huge spring, containing not only salt, but many other minerals, in solution. The Dead sea is charged with such elements almost to saturation. Only distilled water is pure. By distillation sea water itself is rendered drinkable, though not pleasant. Dancing at Sprinnr Cove Saturday eve nine. List car at 12 o'clock. THE SEAL DISPUTE, Another Series of Questions Proposed by Blaine. SALISBUSY'S PEOPOSALS REJECTED, And Some Modification Matte In Those of the Vnltcil .Slate A C omplement to the Claims for Damages The Mare Clansum Claim Entirely Repudiated A lew More I'acls as to Inw John Bull Claims Jurisdiction A Distinction That His Lordship Fails to Recognize. Washington Citv. May 8. Secterary Blaine last evening mads public his latest communication on the Behring sea mat ter. It is addressed to Sir Julian Patince- fote, the British minister, and reads as' follows: SlT!- Tli tnruli fu'uf inn xphirh T-iril Salisbury suggests iu the questions for arbitration do not wholly meet the view of the president, but the president changes the text of the third and fifth in such mauuer, it is hoped, as will result in an agreement between the two govern ments. While Lord Salisbury suggests a different mode of procedure from that em bodied iu the sixth question the president does not understand him actually to ob ject to the question, and he therefore as sumes that it is agreed to. The six ques tions as tow proposed by the president are as follows: -First. What exclusive jurisdiction in tho sea now kuovra as tha Behring sea, and what exclusive rights in the seal fish erics therein, did Russia assert and exer cise prior and up to the time of the ces sion or Alaska to the United States. "Second. How far were these claims rt jurisdiction as to the seal fi-heries recog nizod and conceded by Great Britain? "Third. Was the body of water now known as the Bchriog sea included in the phrase 'Pacific ocean' as use 1 in the treaty of lSi5 between Great Britaiu and Russia; and what rights, if auy, iu the Behring sea were held and exclusively exercised by Kussia after said treaty "Fourth. Did not all the rights of Rus sia as to jurisdiction and as to the seal fisheries in Behring sea, east of the water boundary described in the treaty between tha United States and Russia of March 30, ISO", pass unimpaired to the Uuited States under that treaty? ' Fifth. Has the United States any right, and if so, what right of protection or property in the fur seals frequenting the islanos of the United States in Behriag sea when such seais are found outside the ordinary three-milo limit? "Sixth. If tiie determination of thi foregoing question shall leave the sul-ja.-t in Mich position that the concurrence o: Great Britain is necessary in prescrib ing regulations for the killing of the fur seal in any part of the waters of Eehring ssa, then it shall be further determined: First How far, if at all, outside the or dinary territorial limits it is necessary that the United States should exercise au exclusive jurisdiction, in order to protect the seal for the time living upontheisl ands of tho United States and feeding therefrom? Socoud Whether a closed season (during which the killing of seals in the waters of Behring sea outside the ordinary territorial limits shall be pro hibited is necessary to save the seal fish ing industry, so valuable and important to mankind, from deterioration or de struction? Aud, if so, third What months, or p.irts of months, should hi in cluded iu such season aud over whit wa ters it Kbould extend? Tl,e ouestion of Damage. "The president docs not object to the additional question, respecting alleged damages to English ships, proposed by Lord Salisbury, if one condition can be aided, namely: That after tbe issues of the arbitration are joined, if the United ! Staf shall prevail, all the teals taken by Canadian vessels during the period shall , ba paid for at the ordinary price for which skins are sold. This seems to the president to be the complement of Lord Salisbury's proposition, and he doubts not that it will secure his lordship's as sent. Retiring Sea Not Mare Clausnm. "In the first paragraph of Lord Salis bury's dispatch of February 21 be makes the following declaration: 'It is now quite clear that the advisers of the presi dent do not claim Behring sea as mare clausum, and, indeed, that they repudi ate that contention iu express terms.' Lord Salisbury's expression is put in such terms as to imply (whether he so intend ed I know not) that the United States had hitherto been resting its contention upon the fact that the Behring sea was mars clausum. If that was his intention it would have been well for hi3 lordship to specify whereiu the United States ever made tbe assertion. The emphatic de nial in my dispatch of Dec. 17 last was in tended to put an end to the iteration of the charge, and to eliminate it from the current discussion." THE CONTROVERSY CONTINUED. Tho Secretary Cites Some 31 ore British, Law on Limit of Jurisdiction. After referring to a claim of Lord Salis tury that he had not noticed his lordship's c station of certain protests made in 1S22 by the British government to Kussia, and '.lowing that he did notice them, and, in h.s opinion proved that they had nothing to do with the present controversy. Secre tary Blaine says: "In Lord Salisbury's judgment the contention of the United S ates now rests wholly upon the ukase of li21 by the Emperor Alexander L of Kus- sii. The United States has at no time rested its argument solely on the ground mentioned, aud this government regrets that Lord Salisbury should have so mis apprehended the American position as to limit its basis of light in Behring sea to tha ukase of 1&2L i he United States has insisted that this gov er lrceut has as full authority for going Deyond the three-mile Hue in case of proved necessity as great Britain possesses. Another Cane f.r John Kali. "Two or three iustauces of the power wt ich Creat Britain exerci sea beyond tho three-mile line nave already been quited, but have failed thus far to secure comment or explanation from Lord Salis- bu -y. Another case can be added which. pet haps, is still more to the point. In 188 i only two years ago the British pai liament enacted a law. the effect of which is fully shown by a map inclosed herewith. Far outside the three-mile lino, the parliament of Great Britain baa attempted to control a 01 y of watar sit aated beyond the northwestern section of Scotland, 2,700 square miles in extent, and to direct that certain methods of fishing shall not ba nsed within that great body of water under a prescribed penalty. It will be observed that th inhibition U not alone against British subjects, but against 'any person.'" I'ac'flc Oceau and Itelirins; Sea. Tho seers'.Tiry quotes the British law, and suggests a form of law to be passed by congress for the protection of the fur seal, almost exactly similar in language to show his lordship how it would look and how similar tbe cases are. He then says: "Lord Salisbury reasserts his contention that the words 'Pacific ocean at the time of the treaty between Kussia and Great Britain did include Behring sea. Undoubtedly the Pacific ocean includes Behring sea in the same sense that the Atlantic oceau iucludes the Gulf of Mexico, and yet it would be re garded as a very inaccurate statement to say that the Mississippi river flows into the Atlantic ocean. I think Lord Salis bury fails to recognize the common dis tinction between the 'Atlantic oceau' and "the waters of the Atlantic' While the Mexican gulf is not a p.irt of the Atlantic ocean, it would, I am sure, comport with general usage to say that it belongs to the waters of the Atlantic, an I while Behring sea is not technically a part of the Pacific ocean it undoubtedly belongs to the waters of the Pacific. Not Geographical, but Historical. "In point of fact, therefore, according to the usage of the world, there is nodis pnte of any consequence bet ween the two governments on the geographical point under consideration. The historical point r the one at issue. The explanatory note, from Kussia, filed in the state depart ment of this couutry, specially referred to in Mr. John Quincy Adams' diary, and quoted in my note of Dec. 17. ISM, plain ly draws a distinction between the I'acitic oceau on the oue hand and the 'sea of Okhotsk, the sea of Kamschatka and the Icy sea', on the other; and, so long as Kus sia drew that distinction it must apply to, and must absolutely decide, all the contentions between the two countries as far as the waters of the Behring sea are concerned. To discuss this point further would, in tho opinion of tha president, contribute nothing of value to the gen eral contention. His Lord -hip in Creat Error. "In the opinion of the president. Lord Salisbury is wholly and strangely in error in making the following statement: Xordothey the advisers of the presi dent rely, as a justification for the seizure of British ships in the open sea, upon the contention that the interests of the seal fishi-ries give to the United States govern ment any right for tbe purpose, which, according to international law, it would not otherwise possess.' The government of the United States has steadily held just the rever-e of the position which Lord Salisbury bas imputed to it. ltcsnme ot Vnclc Mini's 1'nsition. "It holds that the ownership uf iuu isl ands upon which the seals breed; that the habit of tbe seals in regularly resorting thither and rearing their young thereon; that their going out from the islands in search of lood and regularly returning thereto, and all the facts and incident of their relation to the island, give to the United States a property interest therein; that this propertr interest was claimed aud exercised by Kussia during the whole period of its sovereignty over the land and waters of Alaska; that tngland recognized this property interest so far as recognition is implied by abstaining from all interfer ence witu it during the whole period cf Ku-sia's ownr-hip of Alaska and during the first nineteen years of the sovereignty of the United iHiites. It is yet to be de termined whether the lawless intrusion of Canadian vessels in lssij and subse quent years has changed tee law and' equity of the case theretofore prevailing.-" MORE WORK FOR ELAINE. Tum Time the Trouble Is with the Chil ian InsitrfeDtH. Washington City, May a A few days ago the schooner Robert aud Minnie ar rived on the California coast, loaded, as stated, with arms for the Chiliau insur gents. Tuesday the insurgent warship Itata arrived at San Diego, her purpose btiug to receive the arms from the schooner. The United States has a treaty with Chili, and as Balmaceda's govern ment is recognized as the government of that country, to permit the arms to be de livered would have been a violation of the treaty. Consequently Uuited States Mar shal Uraut was orJered to se.z; the Itata, and went on board of her and took pos session, without resistance. A liold Insurgent Captain. Wednesday evening the Itata sailed away, carrying with her the United States marshal! In the meantime the Rob ert and Minnie also got out o" American waters, and when found was in Mexican juriMliction. Consequently she could not be seized. Another feature of the case, and one that promised to result in a na val engagement, was the appearance off the harbor of Sau Diego ot the Balma ceda warship Imperiale. The Itata gave her the slip, however. Yesterday news was received that Marshal Grant was put off the Itata eight miles down the coast,, and the vessel proceeded on her way. Our Warliip to Seize tbe Itata. The matter has now passed out of the hands of Secretary Foster and Attorney General M.ller iuto tha hands of Secretary Tracy, who ha in structed Rear Admiral Brown, command ing the.Paciflc station, to seizj tbe Itata wherever found, and general instructions to this effect will be sent to all officers commanding United States men-of-war on the Pacific station. Tbe United States government takes the position that the Itata, in leaving the United States while iu the custody of the United States mar shal, subjects herself to seizure at any time or place. Such action as this will bring Secretary Blaino into the matter, if the insurgents protest against it, which they will probably do. Celebrities off for the Other Side. New Yoke, May S The steamer Teu tonic, which sailed for Liverpool Wednes day, carried a number of well-known per sons. Among them were the IIou. Trux ton Peale, United States minister to Per sia; Mrs. J. II. Cameron, Miss Cameron, Mrs. Levi P. Morton, and Miss Morton; the Hon. John C. Spooner and Mrs. Spooner, aud Mrs. Wiltnerding, daugh ter of Secretary Tracy. "Old Hutch" in Tio.ton. Boston, May b. Mr. B. P. Hutchin ou, the grain speculator, continues his eccentricities in this city. Wednesday he purchased a dress suit from a tailor ing establishment, and invited tbe sales man, to a champagne dinner with him at Young's hotel. jlclNTIRE Good Umbrella Weather. We have placed on sale a new assort ment of umbrellas for sun and rain. 24 Inch, silver heads, 78c 26 inch, silver heads 85c 28 inch, silver heads, 98c 30 inch, silver heads $1-15 Better ones tip to 5.00 LADIES' MUSLIN UNDERWEAR. Have added to our large assortment ol ladies' muslin underwear, new styles in extra large sizes. M cINTIRE Rcu CLEMANN & -ARE NOW Three Times as As any other similar Nos. 1525 and CARPETS CLE Audi Nos 124, 12r and 12S Sixteenth Street, WALL LARGER THAN ALL OTHERS . COMBINED. Ph Hi Hi TilE GREAT Adams Wall Paper Company, 310, 312 and 314 t ee Our Art Wall A.. SEABURGK House and Firat-ciaM Qninlng and Papwr kanging. P. Box 72. BROS. GENTS NIGHT ROBES. You will find our gents nicl- v., 50c. 75c and 98c, better va!,'.-! j -v.u iuw pnces We have a limited quantity of ; bargains from our special sale last e,T ' They go at same prices this while they last. 1 0 yards dress prints 35c. Ladies' pure silk gloves 2oc Challies 2!iic a varrt. Heavy ribbed hose. m;. X BRO: Uhuifi, Illinois. SALZMANN SHOWING Large a Stock of ccrib'.ijhmcnt in the city. 1527 Second Avenue, PAPER. HI Twentieth St. Department. Paper. Sign Painter. Shop Fourth Ave. bet tut ud (3d SU. ROCK ISLAND i