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sland Daily Argus. XXIA'. N. 282 ROCK ISLAND, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1S91. I Single Copies 6 Cent 1 Per Week 1H Cents. OCK xo YS We D 1 llll Mil i . Mil 'l imiihi la ivu iiuum juti living v Miflm m uuk mm S There is no Room 3ns Reefers Children's Blazer Children's Nobby Hats, THe OPPOSITION Point With Pride To our immense line of Fall Overcoats. To our immense line of Men's Dress Suits. To our immense line of Men's Business Suits. To our immense line of Boys' and Children's Clothiu THE LOWEST PRICES YET NAMED FOR EQUAL VALUES. Never have better goods been shown. Never have greater varieties been Shown. Never have prices been so low. Every department full of new novelties. Rich in quality.all the leading styles, plenty of them for ImproTemsm in Onr 3-Piece Suits Children's Double-Breasted Suits Children's Nobby Kilt Suits Children's Fine Overcoats Nobby Ties, No End to Them. Moil doing ROOK ISLAND. Boys' anil ilflren's Compyp jffL DEPARTMKNT. Department. ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS. The game season in Illinois opened yes terday. Michigan's wheat crop will reach 2&,(O0, OOO bushels. Judge John M. Stillwell died at Leroy, Ills., aged 78 years. The report that John P. Rockefeller is ill is denied by his brother. -Market Clerk David Hasting, of Alle gheny, Pa., is reported 12,ti4 short in his accounts. A Greek and an Italian steamer collided in the bay ot Gibraltar, sixty-five lives be ing lost. John Dow, an American adventurer, was killed in Santiago, Chili, while at tempting to steal $mOi,(W). The distress from a lack of food in the Volga province or Russia is reported to be widespread and intense. Hailstones twelves inches in circumfer ence fell in the vicinity of Cumberland, Wis., doing considerable damage. The news comes from Paris that Henry M. Stanley is preparing for another expe dition to the headwaters of the Congo. A convention to boom the irrigation of 730,000,000 acres of land in this country now desert is in session at Salt Lake City. The president and the cashier of the wrecked Philadelphia Spring Garden! bauk have been sentenced to ten years' Imprisonment. The building on the southwest corner of Fulton and Nassau street-. New York, was destroyed by fire. The loss is from' f 100,000 to J500,NU. Moorhead, MeCleave & Co., Pittsburg,' have been granted an extension by their creditors. Their liabilities are i 1,700,000, with stated assets of over $1,000,000 bet ter. Succi, the faster, has accepted George Francis Train's proposal that they two' fast during the World's fair at Chicago, riding on horseback daily through the: fair grounds. Prairie fires are raging over sevenly miles of country near Dickinson, N. D. But little grain has been consumed. Ne&r Houston, Tex., another fire has destroyed immense quantities of hay. At the trial of Millie Plaffman at Kan sas City, Kau., Monday, those who de sired to be present were searched before being permitted lo enter the court room, and nearly 200 revolvers were taken from them. A Chicago Company in Trouble. Chicago, Sept. 16. The American Mu tual Live, Stock Insurance company of this city will be wound up by the auditor of Illinois, becau-se, as he says, "the condi tion t.t tlie company is such as to reader its further continuance in business hazard ous to the members thereof holding its certificates of insurance." A receiver has been applied for, and an injunction issued restraining the company from doing fur ther business, : The Summer Capital Abandoned. ! Cape May Point, X. J., Sept. 16. It w is a busy forenoon at t he president's cottage yesterday. The gentlemen of the' household made themselves useful in helping to put things in shape for the closing. Everything being ready thebem tiful summer capital was left iu charge of a faithful ret ainert o seal up, and at 'A p. m. the party It-tt the shore, i Knocked Out by au Australian. u San Fi; an Cisco, Sept. IS Tom McCar thy, of Boston, and Billy Smith, of Aus tralia, heavy-weights foui;ht for a l,000 purse at the California club lat nighr. McCarthy was defeated inthe eigth round, iu which he-was knocked down four times i:i succession. I- was Smith's fibt from the start. Races at t.arlleltl Park. Chicago, Sept. 10. The winning horses at Garfield park yesterday were the fo lowing: Lizzie Gwynne, mile, -1:16'; Tom Jones, 1 ruiie TO yards, l,4i; Yo Tam bien, f mile, 1:10; Ed Bell, 1 1-16 miles, l:30i'; Little Rock, 41,' furlongs, 0:56; Carmen, J mile. l:15?i. i nt MakKETS. Chicago. Chicago, Sept. 15. ' Following were the quotations on the board of trade today: Wheat Xo. 2 September, opened (ttVic closed SHJsc; December, opened OTi-s.closed STJic; year, opened W"4c, closed Sic. Corn Septeniler, opened tac, closed 63c; Oc toler, opened V, close! 54l-4c: year, opened 45V6c closed 44-. Oats .September, opened and closed -7-?4l: October, opened and olosed SXc; Hay, opeLed 31 He, closed 31.ic. Pork October, opened 10.55, cloned f 10.50; Decem ber, opened JlOsi, closed Sl'I.OO; January, opened tUM closed $13.(t'4. Lard -October, opened and closed Live Mock Following were the prices at the Union Mock yards today: Hugs Market moderately active on packing and shipping acconnt. and prices without material change; opened rather firm but closed eaay; tales rantred at S2.uJi34.za pigs, 4.50"2,V25 light, (4.63 ISAM rough packin. f4.eiies.40 mixed, and S4.HV35.5IJ heavy pac kiug and shipping lota. Cattle Market rather active on local and shipping account, but feeling rather dull and prices weak, excepting on very best lota; quo tations ranged at S-"..ttt(.2J prime to shipping steers, S4.WJU5.HJ sovl to fanuy do, ta.ju34.4tl, common to fair do. i3.ti0g4.4U, butchers' steers, $2.(i2.nj ttockers, tS S2 W Texan. f3.4.80 rangers, :MM3)3. 40 feeders. $1.50i6 8.50 cows, Sl.j.jua.uu bulls, and fr.i 5i5.00 real calves. f-heep -Market fairly active and prices rather steady; quotations ranged at -$3.60(3 4.4JJ western, i3.3J4.80 natives, and f3.5uft&2j lambs. Produce: Butter Fau-y separator. 25c pf lb; dairies, fancy, freh,fe&3uc: packlBft stocks. fresh. He. Egs Loss of!, 17c per dox. Live poultry Old chickens, 10c per lb: spring, Ujjc; roosters. 5Mr&iic; turkeys, mixed, 10c; docks; i-'Hc: spring, K3WHc. Potatoes Home grown, 53d55 per sack; Wisconsin and Michi gan, fair to choice, gsta per bu; sweet pota toes. Baltimore, $2.Ufc2.i5 per bbl; Jerseys 3J553.0o. Apples Green cooking, 75c&L0u per bbl; eating, (L2SO2.00. t New York. New York, Sept. 15. Wheat Xo. 2 red cash, Jl.Otil.04i4: do Oc tober, f 1.0IJ4; do Kovember, ll.tw.: do IJecem ber, tLUJ. Corn No. 2 mixed caah. T8c; Octo ber, 6t.'4-; December, iAc. Oats Quiet but steady; No. 2 mixed rabh, S4c; September, 83Hc; October. 83c. Rye Dull. Barley Nominal. Pork Dull; mess, 111.5112. 3. Lard Dull; Ocober, J7.81; December, 7.43. Live Stock: Cattle Market steady, bat no trading in beeves; dressed beef, firm, native sides, 7&0V4O per lb. fcheep and Lambs Bhe p, slow but steady; lambs, firm: sheep, 3 5 &.60per 100 lbs; lambs. $a.0frt.. fiogs Market steady; Uve hogs. $5.1uos.U0 per 100 lbs. Chocolate, Tanill and pech ice cream and lemon ice at Krell & Math's.