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and Daily A VOL. XXXIX. NO. 183 KOCK ISLAND, FRIDAY, MAY 2 1S01. single Copies S Cent Per Week ISM Cent ABBREVIATED TELEGRAM. OCK RGXJS Succee its Like Success Owing to the unprecedented success of Our Great Special Labor Day Sales April 25 and May 2, we have decided to deal out our enormous bargains all through the house for the rest of the month of May, so that everybody will have a chance to obtain goods of the very latest styles and best makes for less than half price. We feel confident that out of the thousands that visited our store during Our Great Special Labor Day Sales not one went away dissatisfied. All were fully convinced that we do not misrepresent, but fully live up to all our advertisements. Prices Quoted for the Month of May Will be Far Below Anything Ever Named or Heard of. LONDON : c2J Ull L2E3 .srSa U (F6 Prices Cut in Half -Goods Almost given Away! For the Rest of the Month of May the Greatest Bargain Sale on Record! The object we have in view we are deter mined to carry out, i. e. For the Rest of the Aonth of May the Greatest .. Bargain Sale on Record! TO GET YOUR TRADE. Once a CustomerAlways a Customer ! A Loudon dispatch savs that Parnell nnd Mrs. O'Shea will be married early in July. A young Susquehanna (Pa.) couple nave separated and reunited three times in four . week. Cut-worms are reported to be doing much damage to corn and potatoes around Waterloo. Ia. An injunction ha been granted to pre vent the formation of the proposed Minne apolis milling combine. The venerable Bishop Crowther, one of the best known missionaries in Africa, was born a savage in (luiuea. A French warship has refused to allow American fiishermeu to take bait on the French shore of Newfoundland. Channeey M. Depew and the other in dicted directors of the New York and New Haven railway will be tried June 24 fieorge L. Olmstead, a Brock way ville, Pa., lioy just out of knee-breeches, has been offered 40,UK) for a tire escape he has pat ented. Secretary Blaine continues to improve. and it is announced that he will go to Bar Harbor, his summer home, some time next week The international congress of , Young Men's Chri-tiau associations will convene in Amsterdam on Aug. 11 and remain in session until Aug. 1. Two workmen fell from the roof of St. Paul's chnn h at Springfield, Ills., Thurs day, and one of them, William McC'aulla, uau lus hack oroKen, ami will tlie. Tweiitv-two Kpiscojial dioceses have passed on the fitness of Kev. Phillips Brooks for the bishopric of Massachusetts, sixteen giving their consent and Six re fusing it. The Ohio Knights of Pythias had a fight at their grand lodge meeting on the ques tion of admitting wholesale liquor dealers ami their traveling Sidesmen. A resolution to admit them was carried by a majority of l iV The city government of Council Bluffs, la., flas been notified to cease collecting fines of saloons. The revenue to the city from these collections amounts to 000 per year from each saloon, and the mayor says the notice will lie ignored. Edison has invented a "kinetograph." It photographs action, and by its use an op er.i or a prize fight can lie reproduced the singing and action of the opera or the slugging of the sluggers, being plainly heard and seen at a distance from the op era house or ringside. 'President Harrison will lie renominated and re-elected, but I shall not be his post master general in his second term. On the 3d of March. 1SK3. I a1i hand him my resignation, aud nothing would induce me to take this or any other cabinet office again," says Postmaster General Wana maker to his friends. Will Look at Public liuildiug Sites. Washington- City. May .. Supervis ing Archtect Klbro'ike has dispatched a numU-rof speci u agents on the road to examine offers of sites for public buildings in various cities. The agents will within the next few weeks viit the following cities: Bloniningtou, Ills.: Danville, Ills; Madison. Ind.: Kacine, Wis.; Bockford, Ills.: Hock Island. Ills.; Sioux Citv, la.; Sheboygan. Wis.: Sound Bend, Tucf.;' and Saginaw. Mich. latiel Out a Sailor's ISrains. C'HFl'.oVOAN. Mich.. May 'Jit. While un loading ore from the schooner Sage, at Hammond Bay yesterday, the mizzen mast. to which had lieen attached a block for hoisting ore. broke ten. feet below the cross-tree aud Hem King, a sailor had his brains knocked out. Another sailor named Kwing Keist. had his left aim broken and was otherwise injured. Sev eral others received slight injuries. Soutli Dakota and Mir World's Fair. . Yankton. S. D., May The World's fair convention has decided to ask the gov ernor to call a special session of the legis lature in order that an appropriation of $.Kymo may lie made. THE MARKETS. I liicago. Chicago, May 28. Following were tha quotations on the board of trade to day: Wheat No. 2 Slav, opened Sl.BiHi, closed f 1 Mvh; July, opened M!V5, closed tl.OOXg: Scpteinlier, opened l4c, closed ftivc. Corn No. 2 May, opened 5"Ljc; closed 67c; July, opened M.Sc, closed 5?4":; September, opeced 63Hic, cloned 5lffcc Oats No. 2 May, opened , closed 4SVfcc; July, opened 42?ic closed 4Vc; September, opened 34c, closed 3490. Pork-May. opened $10.50, closed 110.80; July, opened flU tW. closed (10 70; Sep tember, oiened J1D.S5, closed S10.U2H- Lard May, opened $6.22)4. closed S it Live stock Following were the prices at the Union stock yards to-day: Hogs Market only moderately active, but weak; prices without material change; sales ranged at $2.oJsj4.20 pigs. 84.2Ja4.55 light t4-2&4.35 rough packing. t4.252,4 W mixed, and t4-40& 4.66 heavy packing and shipping lota. Cattle Market moderately active on local and snipping account and prices well maintained; quotations ranged at So. 75 Sti. 40 for choice to fancy shipping steers, S3.00&5.7U good to choice do. 4.3J&4.MJ common to lair do, 1.5(i4.U5 butchers' steers, J2.6Ufi3.5J stockers. f2.75a4.90 Texans. l 40(3,4.30 feeders. SI 5i4 W oows, $15Jt3 5J bulls, and t2.50u4.jU veal calves. Sheep De mand lairly active and prices ruled steady; quotations ranged at $3.7535.25 westerns, tlUUjJajO natives, and $5JSa6.75 lambs. Produce: Butter Fancy separator. 17&18c per lb; dairies, fancy fresh, 14 a15c; packing stocks, fresh, tt&llc. Eggs southern stock, 15c per doz; northern. 15Hc Live poultry Old chickens, So per lb; sprin?. 2i'i ; rooster , 5J5Hn;; turkeys, mixed, Hfri'Jr. ducks. Stv39?4c: rotatoes Kuse, i5.iDk per bo: Hebron, 9JA 5c; Peerless, 85&!c: Bur banks, il.0Jl.05; mixed, Civj 75c. . Strawberries Ten n as tea, fair to good, 5ojj ier 24-qt case: Illinois, 75cyi Sluo. New York. . New Vouk. May rs. Wheal Xoi 2 r.l winter cash, do Jl.lU: May. 1.12Ui: do June. 1.107. do July. fl.Ob-,: do August, J1.07V. Com No. 2 mixei cash, 7!-tV3a: do May, 674c: do June. 8c; do July, eijc. Oats Dull but firm; Ko. 2 mixed cash, ClVg52c; do June, 51c; do July, 9ftv Rye Neglected. Barley Neg lectedL Pork Dull; $12.00V13.7o for new mess. Lard Quiet: July, $rt.5S; August, fti.3. Live Stock: Cattle Market firm, but no trading in beeves; dressed beef, steady; na tive sides, 8Hfe94c f) lv. Sheep and Lambs Sheep, dull; lambs, slow, at a reduction of fcfc t; sheep, S435 50 fl 100 fta; lambs. 97.50(3 .25. Hogs Nominally steady; Uva boss, t4.90a5.15 V 100 Da i. , A handsome complexion ia one of the Kteavesvcuarma woman can posaai pozconi'i Complexion powder sirea it.