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Argus. Rock island JtiAiur BOCXC ISLAND, SATURDAT, JULY 11, 1891. - - V- Single Copies 5 Cent Per Week 12 Cent THE YOUNG LAOY CAME ROUND. TO! LHlALL We have assumed the position as "Leaders," and not even the Lion turned loose from his den would make us flinch an inch from that position. lust to have a little fun and make things hum, we will start the ball with a SUIT SALE .Mar UcL .6 1 And will throw in enough $10.00 and $12.00 suits to make competitors of the tri-cities exclaim and stare in amazement and ask "0, where did vou get that suit?" Of THE LONDON, of course, the only Bargain House of the tri-cities. It vou intend paving $'10.00 or $12.00 for a suit, may be we can suit you for $.00. Come and see. This may seem redicu lous, but vou try it and if you are not too fastidious and don't want the earth with a fence around it We will Suit You for Five Dollars. We intend selling every dollar's worth of our Summer Clothing this season. They Must Go! Our Neglige Shirts Must Go! Our Underwear Must Go! Our Straw Hats Must Go! Our large stock of Children's clothing will go, for prices cut in half will make them go. If you are wise, you will take advan ce of this great clearing sale. - We Must have the Room for our FALL and WINTER Stock. ye intend bringing a stock of goods this fall to Rock Island that you will talk about in your sleep, and make the Clothiers of ai-uues nave the nightmare all next winter. If you look tor bargains n in all departments this month you'll not be disapponted at London ClotH if Company. T The People's Protectors and Money Savers, Kock Island, Ills. She Seemed to Think the Hold Deserved the Fair. Crawfoudsville, Ir.d., July IL Thurs day morniDR Frank Fisher, a youngmer chant of Crawfordsville, fell to joking with his partner on the subject of ni a tri llion v. His partner ottered to pay for a icense if Fisher would take one out. and Fisher did so at once. He called upon the Miss H. it t in Martin whose name appeared upou t he document with his. and explained the situation to her. They were. not yet en gaged, and the yonng l.uly was very wroth at first, but after a little persuading came around all right, and the couple were married in the evening. ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS. The Fall City bank, of Louisville. Uv eas failed. Professor Forbes, state ectomalogist of Illinois, has discovered a paraside that is death on the Hessian fly. - Gertrude Walton. - a Bay City, Mich., heiress. has eloped with and married George Considine, a Detroit crook. The board of inspectors of the National Soldiers' homes were in Chicago Friday. General W. B. Franklin is at its bead. Ex-Postmaster General Key has accept ed the position of dean of the law school of Grant university, Chattanooga,Wenn. Frenchy Xo. 1, ""charged' with- tfceThur- der of a Sissolute woman of . New k York, has been sentenced to life imprisonment. The national council of the ' National Education association met at Toronto Friday, Dr. Peabody, of Champaign, Ills.. presid iug. In Warwick county, Va., Thursday, cne McRay shot aud killed I.eou McPhersew and his 6-year-old girl during the prosecu tion of a "feud -3 rrtr The census oi England and Wales, just taken, shows a total population of 29,001,- 01, an increase of 3,trJi,572, or 11.C5 per cent, since the last census was taken. National trade asemblv No. 143. K. of of I.., comprisinir the glass-bottie blowers cf the L nited spates ar.ri Canada, will niet-t oithe 1-Jth iii-t. at t. Louis. .V ship loaded with supplies for the Chilian rebels sailed from Man Francisco Thursday and three more will go durins the next fortnight. Altogether thevwill take sl.OiV.fKf'i worth of food products. Dr. Painter, of New York, who went to Germany to be treated with Koch's lymph for tuberculosis of the vertebra?, has ar rived at home and says the lymph is a failure Mid that he believes it has killed him. Chicago merchants have canceled all contracts with manufacturers of plug tobacco and other goods which require them to sell at 'card" prtce. IT bis is owing to the anti-trust law passed bv the last legislature. T. V. Powderly has postponed the pro posed industrial conference- July 2J-, at which i8 was . proposed- to" consTOerlhe question of joining ttie Alliance move ment. There was too response to tae cail for the conference. A 10-year-old son saved his mother's life at Plainfield. N. J., Thursday, by an exhi bition of presence of mind. A coal oil stove exploded, and set her on fire, when the Ikiv ran in. wrapped rtiground his mother, and extinguished the flames. She wascciv slightly burned. Tii-;!ii:s Roche, of Columbus, X)., went to Chicago to marry Mary O'Rourk. The wedding was to take place Friday. Just before the ceremony he dropped dead, and on Lis person was found a full set of bur glars tools and other eveidence that he was a thorough-faced tough and scoun drel. ( Mrs. W. B. Edgar was sitting in her residence, af Helena, Mont., holding a knife iu oue hand trimming some flowers, Thursday, when a flash of lightning par alysed her arm and dashed the knife throng an open door and clear across anotler room Mrs. Edgar has recovered from tne snook. The house was not dam aged. 'THE MARKETS. - Chicago. ' Chicago. July 10. Produce: Butter Fancy ceparator, I'Uer lb; dairies, fancy, fresh.. ifrijUc; ?pjcing Ft ocks, fresh. Iiflo"; "fives-oss off, U"v 15c per doz. Live poultr -t14 chickens, lUHsc per lb; sprinu, 10c; roosters. 5Hc; turkeys, mixed, 6c: ducts. fiS-SWc; spring, bf-Jt-. Putotoes California, S1.5U51.73 jxr sack; st. Louis, early Uhio. $ZW per bbl: Tennessee, $.'.75.a(ii); Altoa. S2.0OW2.50. Apples Illinois, S1.5nT'.5ii per bbU nj2ic jxt H-bu crate. Mraberri Michigau. ntsc per ltWjt case; Raciue. 75ffi9iV-. Kasptx-rries lied, tUM&l-S I tr -4-4 i case; black, tl.Hii-l.5ii per pi-ut case. New York. New Yohk. July 10. . Wheat No. 2 nil winter cash, 1.04; Ju'.v, Sl. August, 7c: (September. s34i: October. fT-H--. Toru No. 2 mixed cash. 7iic; do July. f.V4c: do August, OlJc; do September. -jO:. Out Dull aud irregular; No. 2 liiixed t-ash. 44c; July, 45S August, oi(:t-li-. Hye Neglected, fcarley Neglected. I't-k-yu:rt: uii. ill.5iixiia.ou fur new. L-ii-.i - Ouict; August. f.l'i; .September, Quotations on the board of trade today ranged a follow: Wheat No. 2 July.opeccd W"4C closed Si'kic: September, openeu tit . rimed to3!.-: Iie-t-'iiilK-r, opened cIomxI t4:. 'orn-No. 2 July, opesed KTc, cio-ed 05-V4C: !ppteujlier, opened and closed . .")l'2c; O tober opened 49c. closed 40tfo. Chun No. I July, opened :i7iiic. closed 3t; August, opened aud closed -iiepteui- ber. o;iened i:-c, clawed &l-ir. .Prk--Jnlr, ', p;x;ue-l sl.fi'U. closed f 10.22V: September. opened SluJi7!,closed $10.47V4; October, nened '4 1 10.42 closeu f 1U.57V. LLrd July, opened fd.15, closed -7Vi. ' L'vve stock Follpwlnejvece.the prices at th Uniou stock yards tC-ay: , Baffs-ySufket active and firm; boot quJhUesln good reqnest: pris about 5(-jl')c hijflier on the good grades: sales ranged at !.3O34-50 figs, fi.W friS.W) light, : LaUS 4.75 rouffc paAlng. fto3 4t5.00 mixed. aud $44Vg6.W heavy picking and shipping lots. Cattle Market rather active on local and shipping account and prices well main tained; quotations ranged at .$5.7(f$.40jpfcoice . to fancy chipping fteert $O.U0i54J I5l to clioice do, 54.5W(i.lW ooftj)um to fair ""'do,--JiTfiatW binchers' .sle. $5.ft)i3.5U j6tock ers, $2.73(34.80 Texatw. 15.403.4.30 feeders, il..V.rj.4.00 .cows, J1.5tii3Ji0 bulls, and $2JUt& 4.5U veal calves. Sheep Market rather active, andprtces without material change: quotations ranged . at t.tmiiAM westerns, tJ.75itt5.10 natives, and $5.50&6.85 lambs. Live Stock: Cattle Trading was activa tor all grades: poorest to best native steers 942a$ 6.25 vr 100 lbs.; balls and dry rain. 30gi4.16. Sheep and Lambs-Sheep firm: lambs 'very doll at a decline of He per lb.: sheep, $580 per 1JU lbs; lambs.$67. Uogs NosninaUr steady; " live hogs, 4J0a5.40per 100 lbs. ,i- - . . 3 Call on J. E.Beidy for lou in Scbjieira addition, 1802 Second Tenuc, . f i ' ir x-: 1 ,7