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sland Daily Arg us. 'Rock ROCK ISLAND, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER IS, 1891. Single Copies S Cents Per Week ISM Cenda, xo OPPOSITION We Point With Pride p 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 Clothin THE LOWEST PRICES YET NAMED FOR EQUAL VALUES. Never have better goods been shown. Never have greater varieties been Shown. Never hate prices been so low. i Every department full of new novelties. Rich in quality, all the leading styles, plenty of them THERE IS NO ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT IN OUR MEN'S DEPARTMENT. There is no Boom for Iirowent in Onr Boys anfl Minn's Department. hildren's Reefrrs Children's Blazers Children's 3-Piece Suits Children's Double-Breasted Suits Children's Nobby Kilt Suits Children's Fine Qvermatg ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS. Silver ore of rich quality has bean die- covered ac Newton, Coon. James Holly, an old resident of Lee county. Mis., died at Palmyra. He was 85 years of age. The First National bank of Lead, p. D., capital J59.000, has beeu authorized to be K"i business. Thomas Glowp has laid claim, under a United States patent, t.i a larga portion of Maukato, Miun. -Her. Mr. Spurgeon, who had been pro gressing favorably, has had a relapse, and is again in a precarious coudition. John Turton, a well-kuown naval stores operator, has left Savannah, Ga.. with 8,500 of the Southern bank's money. General Ualmaceda is now said to Lava arri-ed at Mendoza, in the Argentine Be- rubiic. which he reached bv crossing tht Andes. President Harrison has appointed Sen ator Francis Hendricks collector of the port of New York, to succeed J. Sloat Fassetc, resigned. Three, hundred and seventy-two dele gates to tin? Massachusetts state conven tion were for Blaine, forty-seven for Har rison, and the other MO didn't talk. Captain .Vuliius, of the Chicago fir insurance patrol, was killed by inhaling muriatic acid fumes at a fire, and five other tirenien were very seriously injured mi iue same uiauut'f. Michael Tic-man, a private watchman. was found murdered in the Missouri Pacific yards at Si. Louis. The deed it supposed to have been committed by tramps whom Tiernan had driven out of cars. A freight elevator in the Chamber of Commerce building, Chicago, dropped from the ninth story to the basement with twenty women in it, and not one was hurt, being saved by the cushions at the bottom of the shaft. Joseph P. Duffy, a Chicago postal clerk. is under arrest for robbing the mails. He was a law student at the Athenaeum, an,d supported his mother and sisters, and his stealings went to make both ends meet. his salary only being $9.0. An application -for a receiver for the James Viek company, dealers in seeds, of Kochester, . i., has been made. The liabilities are said to be between $175,000 and frJW.Otf). James Vick will continue the business on a smaller scale. At the Farmers' Alliance headquarters in Washington it is claimed that fifty-fire members o the lower house of the next congress will vote for all the measures of the Alliance, and at least four in the senate. The marriage of Miss Gertrude Potter to F. Lee Rust, which was a clandestine affair that took place June 6 last, both parties being minors, has been annulled by a Chicago court on the application of the principals and their parents. Miss Potter is the daughter of O. W. Potter, of Chicago. Illinois Mine Inspectors. Springfield, Ills., Sept. 18. The board of examiners to pass upon the compe tency of candidates for state mine In spectorships yesterday concluded an exaia maiion of a class of fourteen. Ten passed. The following were the highest: Walton KutWe. Alton: Oninlan Clark. Braid- wood: James Fieer. Peoria; Thomas Hud son, Gaiva, and J. G. Massey. Knrdfr at Peoria. Peouia, His., Sept. 14 James Gatfaens shot and fatally wounded Joseph N?u Dima last night. The men had previous ly quarreled in Neumann's saloon. Gath ens was badly beaten and went home vow ing vengeance. He returned with a shot gun, and entering by the back door met his victim. He pulled the trigger, nearly blowing Neumann's bead off. Nobby Hats, Nobby Ties, No End to Them. mv . London dotMng Coipanvp ROOK ISLAND. Irili Politics in an American Campaign New Yoke. Sept. 18. The leaders of the new Irish National Federation held a conference Lere last night to devise means for organizing a new party and map out a plan of action in the Dresi- denti.-.l campaign of IS'JS. THE MARKETS. Chicago. Chicago, Sept. IT. Following were the quotations on the board of trade today: Wheal No. 2 September, npened yfjc, closed fiVsc; December, opened iTVjc closed Wsac: year, opened WL4C closed fcWc. Corn No. 2 September, opened 60c, closed 57e; October. opend fi4c, closed oilc; year, opened and closed 43!-sc. Oats No. 2 September, opened -Tc. closed i7ic; Oc tober, opened zT'-far, cUeJ ST.Mfcc; May, opened 31c. closed 31. Pork Oetober. opened and closed Slt'-W December, opened $10.60, c!oed ili.-?Vc; January, opened and closed J12.sil. Lard October, opened So.oa, closed J6.8-.1-a. Live stock Following were the prices at the Union tock yards today: Hobs Market only moderately active, and prices without change; trains delayd by wreck on C, B. Sc Q.; sales ranged at iirj.4.40 pigs. $4.&&VaO light, J4.ta5Vt.iH ron;b p-ujkinsr, J4.tfi3.4j mixed, and S4.a5riS.5j heavy packing and shipping lota. Cattle Market rather active: prices favor ing buyers: quotation ranged ax JS.9U&6.33 prime to shtrpiu.; steers, Jt.6:)-i.S0 good to fanoy do. t&vM.', common to fair do, f 3.aj;4.il, butchers' su-ers. $i0J2.80 stock era. fc.anij3.3.) Texaus. tl.HJ&l.M rangers, $.U5AW feelers, il.5OS3.50 cows, $LJ&3.00 bulls, and pl.Hti-'t.i') veal calves. Sheep Market fairly active and prices rather steady; quotations ranged at J3.3G4& 4.40 western. 3.5.a4.60 natives, and 3.xSAX, lambs. Produce: Butter Fancy separator, 25c per lb; dairies, fancy, frtash.lsplc; packing stocks, fresh, 12c Egs Loss off, 17c per doz. Lire poultry Old chickens, 10c per lb: spring. HVc, roosters. 5i?jJc; turkeys, mixed, lOe; duoka, dac: spring, luAlOc Potatoes Home grown, 83&56 per sack; Wisconsin and Michi gan, fair to choice. 4(35 per bu: sweet pota toes, Baltimore, t2.U vi2.H6 per bbU Jersey, JU23.I. Apples Oreen cooking, 75o3.LU0 per bbl; eating, JLSS32.iU. New York. New York. Sept. IT. Wheat No. 2 red rash, tl.OtVfc do Sep tember, J1.0TH; do Octobsr, Jl.03: do De cember, Jl.rTH- Corn No. 2 mixed cash e73e; September, 64c; October, 61c Oats Dull; No. 2 mixed cash. KH31Bc; Sep- ember. SHc Kye DolL Barley Nominal Pork Dull; mess, ilVtWJt.A Lard Quiet; October, 17.1 Member. 17-24. Live Stock: Cattle Market doll; no trading In beeves: dressed beef, steady; native sides. t-JW-jo per lb. gaetf an,d Lambs Trading dull ana prices easier for lambs: sheep, (-l74 C5-J per 100 lbs; lambs, JS.UU&i.etJ. Hogs Market steady; lire hogs, J5J.U3.00 per 100 lbs. What is more attractive than a nrettv face with a fresh, bright comp'extaat For h, use 1 ozzoru t Powder