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I X Rock Island Daily Argus. roL.nxix.xo. 251 ROCK ISLAND, TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1S91. NLAST CALLN All summer coats and vests that are left you can have at half price. All light weight dress suits that are left you can have at half price. All light colored business suits that are left you can have at half price. Pants at half price. Children's Clothing at half price. School Suits at half price. Summer Underwear at half price. Neglige Shirts at half price. Straw Hats at half price. Neckwear at half price. Children's Waists at half price. Knee Pants at half price. All odds and ends must and will go at half price. We carry no goods over from season to season. Our fall stock is beginning to come in. We must have more room. Therefore this great sale. London doing 81 !! Copse 8,tn 1'er Week 1H ns AB8REVATED TELEGRAMS. Frederick Douglass has tendered resignation as minister to Ilayti. The St. James Gazette says the MeKin ley bill has seriously crippled English manufacturers. Judge Phillips, of the United States district court of Kansas City, has ap pointed receivers for the Kansas City limine and Terminal company and the Cuieago, Kansas City and Texas Railroad company. Richard Cotts Shannon has been ap pointed minister to Nicaragua, Costa, Rioa and San Salvador by President Har rison. J. O. .Wynne, business agent of the Georgia State Alliance Exchange, is a de faulter in the sum of $20,UU0. Mrs. Ltlia Robinson ' Sawtelle, the pioneer female member of the Massachu setts bar, and a well-known advocate of the rights of her sex, died yesterday. The Farmers' National bank of Au gusta, Ky., capital Wi.OOO, has been au thorized to begin business. There is a prospect that BobFitzsimmons and Ted Pritchard (of England) will fight an international mill for flO.'JUO in this country during the year. Frederick Woolfenden, cashier of the Dime Savings bank and a Detroit citizen of prominence, was drowned at Orion lake while bathing. Over f)s,Miu disappeared with Sylverter Young, the defaulting raiiroad cashier of Louisville, Ky. Ohio farmers are suffering heavy losses from the invasion of an army of grasshop pers. David King, of Algona. la., who was bunkoed out of frio). claims he was hyp notized by the sharpers. A wonderful cave of mammoth propor tions has been discovered on a farm near Bellefontaine, O. A report from Madrid says that Balrua ceda and the Chilian insurgent leaders htve asked the Spanish government to ar bitrate their differences. J. V. Munson, an eccentric philanthrop ist of Honolulu, Hawaii, died recently ami left foO.oooto the Salvation Army of Seattle, Wash. The chase after the Columbus Grove (O.) bank robber and murderer, has been abandoned. Detectives will now take np the trail. Nine Italian laborers were seriously in jured, two of them fatally, in a collision on the New York, Xew Haven and Hart ford railway. It was a rear-end.collision. Dr. H. W. Baldwin and wife, of Kor walk." Conn , who are doing their honey moon tour on bicycles, arrived at Chicago yesterday, thirty-two days out from Xor walk, miles away. H. H. Lun!ug died at Galena, Ills., at the age of S3 years. A free-for-all fight took place at Alan thus. Mo., over a pint of whisky, in which one man was killed, another fatally cut, and a third slightly wounded. All were toughs. John Langstnff and four children were stuck by au engine at Oskaloosa, la. Two of tha children were fatally hurt. The late Henry Edward, actor and entumolotrist, for several years carried SlT.MKI of insurance upon his wonder ful collection of specimens of lepidop- The Weather We May Expert. Washington-. Aug. 11. The following are the weather indications tor twenty-fuur hours from i. in. yesterday: For Indiana Loral rains: slightly rooier weather: westerly winds. For Illinois Slightly rooier. fair weather in southern portion, nearly stationary tempera ture in northern portion, except fcluthtly warmer m the vicinity of Chicago; westerly winds. For I'pper Michigan and Wisconsin Generally fair weather: westerly winds: near ly stationary temperature, except slightly warmer in the vicinity of Milwaukee. For Iowa Generally fair weather: westerly winds; light changes in temperature; slightly cooler at nicht. For Lower Michigan Loral rains and probably thunderstorms in the afternoon; slightly cooler weather: westerly winds. THE MARKETS. Chicago. Chicago, Aug. 10. Following were the quotations on the board Of tr&dn tMlAV: WllOMt 'n 9 Anmiu . 1 . w. ..kiio uycuTO !W&c, closed c; .September, opened 884e. ciuseu wr-iu; iwemuer, openea . c, closed 81V6C Corn No. 2 August, opened ttoc, closed ft!r: spnfpmhitr nninaH Oil . i . ... u. . M " 1 .. - .v , VIUU UW October, opened 55c. closed biVr. Oats No. auKusi, upeoeu ck . cioseu z&c; tsepem ber, opened 2.-. closed 2He; May, opened 31Vjc. closed 31Hc. l'ork S-eptember, opened tlO.KH. closed $10.37V; October, opened $10.&. closed tlU.47: January, opened $18.15. closed $13.10. Lard .September, opened and closed .5. Live Stock Following were the prices at the Union btoclc yards today: Hows Market fairly active on packing and shipping ac count, and prices steady and unchanged; sales ranged at $U0&5.U5 pigs, $4.70 8.70 light, $4.555i4.J rough packing, $4.75&S.50 mixed, and f4.SMii5.t5 heavy packing and shipping lots. Cattle Market rather active on local and shipping account and prices well maintained; quotations ranged at $i.70JS choice to fancy shipping steers. $4.90r&.0 good to choice do. $4.504-80 common to fair do. $3.75 &4.40 butchers' steers, $2.6083.50 stackers, f2.254fr4.25 Texans. S3.4mt.30 feeders. IAX 4.00 cows, $ Ui043.au bulla, and $2.504.50 veal calves. Sheep Market fairly active and prices rather favored buyers; Quotations ranged at $3..WVt.8) westerns, t-l.73ifcj.20 natives, and $3.5u&5Jjo lambs. Produce: Butter Fancy separator, 18o per lb; dairies, fancy, fresh. 133,15c; packing stocks, fresh, loaile. Kggs Loss eff, 15o per doz. Live poultry uld chickens, loo per lb; sprang, 10a.li.iiir; roosters. 5H8c; turkeys, mixed, SftlOc: ducks, USilOc; spring. lO&lOHc Potatoes St. Louis, early Ohio, $LoUj1.25 per bbl; Tennessee, $1.2531.3); Alton, sL0t&L25; Kansas. 3040c per bu; home grown. 5O90oper sack. Apples Illinois, green. 75o$l.UO per bbl; choice, fl.UJttl.2,; eating, $L50L75. Blackberries Michigan, 833750 per ltf-qt case. Blueberries $L75ii2.iJ0 per lft-qt case. Huckle berries tl.2iu.L40 per ltt-t case. New York. New Yokk, Aug. 10. Wheat No. 2 red winter cash, $LGl$c.: Au gust, VM-ie: September, tcjjjr; October, W,A. Corn No. 2 mixed cash, T2!c; August, Jv; September, 67T6c. Oati-Dulh No. 2 niii -t cash, 4"iV4c: do .September, SS)4e, Rye Nomi nal. Barley Nominal. Pork Quiet; new mess, $ll.X&11.5ti. Lard Quiet; September 86.75; October, $; Live Stock: Cattle Trading active for low grades at an advance of a strong 10c per 100 lbs; prime steers in excellent demand; poo ret t to best native steers, 93.50QS.4g per 100 lbs; Texans and Colorados, $3.1u&5.85; bulls and dry cows, J2.L5&3.75. Sheep and Lambs Sheep dull aad lambs slow at a decline of Uo per lb: sbeep,$4ft&.45 per 100 lbs; lambs, $6.i0 Hogs Market dull aad lower; lire hogs. HTOdojn per ISO lbs. I. ( 1 ir