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8 THE ARGUS. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 18U2. CITY CHAT. Valentines, vtlentines, atTajlor's. Ten-cent shpt music at Tajlor's. Meigs Wait, of Reynolds, was in Rock Islan 1 yesterday. Imported German music only 10 cents t Taylor's. New carpets are arriving daily at Q. O. Huckstaedt'B. Fred Hsifih, of Cable, wag fa the city a few boure yesterday. Panta from f 3 up made to order at the TrU City shirt factory. Supervisor Martin Schoonmaker, of Rcyoolds, came to town today. Wanted An apprentice boy about 1C years old, call or address B, this office Have your shirts made to order at Tri City fchirt ftc'-ory, ICCO Second avenue Miss Agatba EJson returned last even ing from an extended visit to Fort Riley. Leave your order with Frank Attwater for a pair of pants made to your meas tire. Don't fail to see the famous sweet baby buggies at G. O. Huckstaedt's before buying. .. . A full line of shirts made by the Tri- City shirt factory always on hand at the factory, 1609 Second avenue. Dr. J. E. Hawthorne has removed from his old location over Don's store and is now located over Krcll & Math's. Mr and Mrs. J. R. Johnston left this morning for a visit to friends and re!a tives in New York and Connecticut. The'Tri-City Kennel club proposes to 'seed dogs to the great international Kennel club meeting at Chicago next week. Cleroann & Sa'zmann have cut through the north partition of their carpet room and added more space to that mammoth department. At the meeting for young men at the Y. M. C. A. rooms tomorrow afternoon, an address will be given by L. E. West; subject, "now Shall My Life Here Eod?" The finest male quartette in the United States will be heard in Rock Island soon. It is the quartette of De Taw university, and its entertainment will be presented at the First Baptist church March IT. The l8t of the series of masquerades by Bleuer's band will be given at Armory hall toDigLt. Tbe full band will be in at ' tcodunce and no one will be permitted to eDjoy t'je privileces of the fbor before midnight unmasked. Memorial service of the lte Charles lladdou Spurqpfin, tbe greatebt of preach i ri. at tbe F.rt Baptist church tomorrow, (Sun.isy) LVcninc An address on his life, work and the chief clement of his power as a christian minister. Tne ladies of tho tri-cities.under whose auspices tbe chanty ball is to be given at the Harper Feb 29, are working faithfully preparing for the event. It will not be a leap year affiir as heretofore 6tated, but a fancy dri'sj and domino party. Tecu rosea tribe 32. I. O. R M,,will give a grand reception and ball at Turner Grand opera house, Davenport. Friday evening, Feb. 12, to which many from Rock Island have been invited. Miss Hampton, of this city, will take part in a vocal duet. Frank R.. infant son of John McDar rah aod wife, died at its parents' Lome over 217 Seventeenth street, at 3:10 o'clock this morning of stomach trouble, aged 3 months and 3 days. Tbe funeral will occur from St. Joseph's church to morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Our fellow townsman, Henry Curse, has been granted a patent on a device in connection with a soda water apparatus which it is said will be a valuable inven tion to those engaged in the manufacture of soda and carbonated waters, and is also a credit to Mr. C arse's inventive gen ius. A precipe for summons was filed in the circuit clerk's office this morning by John Looney, as attorney for plaintiff, for a $5,000 damage suit of Thomas Mul ligan against Ciaus Franck f, r selling liquor to Mulligan's son, Edward, in con sequence of which it is claimed he broke the window at Simon & Moscnfelder's store. The new filter was put in operation on Thursday and has been running ever since. So well satisfied was Mr. Jewell with the first test that he returned to Chicago Wednesday night, placing the operating of the plant in the hands of Superintend cnt Murrin, and while time enough has not yet elapsed to test it fully it gives promise of being a great success in every particular. Rev. R. F. Sweet, rector of Trinity church officiates at Monmouth tomorrow and Rev. Victor H. Webb of that city will conduct the services at Trinily. From Monmouth Mr. Sweet goes to Griggsville to attend an important meeting of the deanery of the diocese of Quincy. at rK aRtBakin Used in Millions of Homes which h delivers an address, and will not return until the latter part of the week. J. Rataser & Son is the style now cf the oldest jewelry establishment of Rock Inland county, Jacob Ramser having formed c. partnership with his eon Faul, who has however been a silent partner for a lonsr time. The above firm will be better prepared than eyer to servs the public in general, they having enlarged their optical de partment and have now in their employ the only graduate optician in the city, equipped wita the most modern and tci entiSc o par .tu3 and instruments for the correction of all errors of vision. You will do well to consult their optician be fore, haying your eyes fitted. At the meeting of the directors of tbe filoline Plow company the vacancy on en the board, caused by the death of S. W. Whet lock, was filled by the election of Andrew Friberg, who resigned his po sition on the board some time ago. Sub scquentlj Vice-President G. B. Chand ler was elected president and Andrew Friberg vice-president. A$ a meeting of the Kansas City branch of the com pany, the vacancy on the beard was filled by the election of J. B. Wheelock. The election of a president of this branch to succeed 8 W. Wheelock was left for a future meeting of the board, which will probably le held at Kansas City. CA1J, CAR AND CABOOSE. Tbe XorthweMtern ComlDC This Way Other Scvi ricked np Alons the irarke. W.J. B?rth. of Chicago, was in town yesterday looking after tbe interests of the Great Northern. F.E.Jenkins, general western pas senger agent ot the R , W. & O., was in the city yesterday on business. During the year 1891 the gross earn ings of the Burlington road amounted to $35,130,535.82, an increase of 6221, 79.46. Will Let, who has been assisting in the R. I. & P. freight t.fll :e for some time past, returned to Cable today where he will occupy his old position. The late varm spell has had a tendency to produce laore travel, and the increase in passenger tram: is noticeable on all the roads an 1 causes a boom in ticket business. Edward Leins, of the Adams Express Company, received notice to report for duty in Chicago today, and it is thought he will begiren a messenger run on the main line of the C , M. & St. P. J. O. Lngt.n, the veteran switchman of the C, R. I. & P., who had the misfor tune to have his hand so severely injured a few weeks ago, leaves with his family on Monday on a yisit to friends in Den ver. The estimated gross earnings of the Rock Island system, including the lines both east and wtstof the river, for the month of January are $1,202,544, an in crease as coir pared with those of tbe corresponding period last year of $195.- 005 Oae of tbe O , R I. & P. painters' cars 'a in the city with a large gang of men and they have begun the work of re painting the passenger depot which will be painted inside and out, after which the new telegraph offle will be touched up. The upper md of Scott county is all torn up over tbe prospect of a railroad being built from Clinton down and cross ing tbe riycr s jme where near this point. A survey is being made and it is under stood to be th3 C. & II. W. that is try- to reach the ccal fields in central Illinois. A. N. Mcrtcn. formerly general freight and ticket agent of tbe R. I. & P., was in the city yesterday. Mr. Morton is now traveling passenger agent of tbe Jackson viile & Southeastern road, and is made of tbe kind of metal that will ultimately bring him still further to the front in railroad circles. The Burlington company announces that hereafter passengers holding second class tickets m iv be admitted to Pullman privileges. Taia rule will apply be tween the M ssouri river and Chicago, but as there is only one class of tickets sold between these points it will be of advantage only to such as travel beyond these limits. A common sense time table is whai tbe Burlington calif, its latest effort at public edification. Tbe folder contains much information which every traveler wants to know and the arrangement is clear and novel. Tbe time tables for the two di rections are plat ed on oppoBites sides of a map and show distance, population, signal stops, restaurants, meals, connec tions and many other . matters of infor mation. No questions need be asked by the holder of a t me table like this. Tbe directors of the Illinois Central Powder: 40 Years the Standard. road held a special meeiiog recently when the special work thy bad in band was tbe consideraiion of the adoption" of electricity as a motor. The result was a knock out for the electric scheme. It was intended to run suburban trains by electricity during the world's fair if tLe scheme was found practicable. But it wis not. It r'eve'oped that the titciri city was either to') wrak to be used in one way, or too expensive if used in an other to employ it. Were trtfiis lighter, or as it is at pnsiat, the schema wouid b i feasible, but. f r the purp( s i tlesired it was not. the mutter was drop p:d. TRYING TO JUSTIFY M J 3 LAW. Inrojiij;,.(. Criminal statistics from the 'rM-fiit ii;,. Xi:w Oin.KAXs. Feb. f.. The effects o the lync!ii:i of the I'alians in the pnrish prim hist yi-nr are buii.-M'ed in the police reconls of lv..i, jui .i:hlishcl. The Ital ians and the Siciliiip- nhove all others, have been regarded with some suspicion and prejudice always, on the ground that they were disturbers of the peace and vio lators of the law. The jiopnhir prejudice against them was intensified by the kill ing of Chief Hennessy, and for months afterwards no disturbance of any kind in which an Italian took part was reported without reference to t hat affair or head lines like '-Another I)ao Stubbing" and "More Italian Trouble." iw Arrests of Italiaitft. As a matter of fact the decrease of crime in the Italian colony lieen remarkable. The arrests in Xew Orleans in IWtl num bered iJ'.i.W.t, or more than 9 per cent,, of the population. Of an Italian population of H.OOO or lo,iK)0, and :i,500 Italian innniKrants landing and settling here during the year. Only 28 persons of that nationality were ar rested. During 1K 44 Italians were ar rested. There has been iro decrease in the Italian population of the city, the immi grants having more than filled the places of those who left New Orleans immediately after the lynching. St. l.oius Ttill Iff a "Suhiiib," ST. Irit is, Feb. ;. The engineer corps oi the projected Chicago and St. bonis Klec trie railway began a survey yesterday. The route of the new ro.ul will be almost an air-line, and the survey will be completed within tiftv days. Those back of the pro ject claim t hat t be t lip from St. Louis to Chicago will be made i ithin three hours under the new system. Kissing I'liilcr the Mistletoe. In many primitive tribes when the chief or king dies there ensues a wild period of general license, an orvry of anarchy till a new king is chosen and consecrated in his stead to replace him. During t his terrible interregnum or lordship of misrule, when every man docs that which is right (or otherwise) in his own eyes, all things are lawful, or rather t here are no laws, no law giver, no executive. Hut as so.ni as the new chief comes to his own again every thing is changed: the community resumes at onco its wonted rcsin-ctability. Now, is it not probable that the mid winter orgie is similarly due to the cutt ing of the mistletoe perhaps even to the kill ing of the king of the wood along with it ? Till the new mistletoe grows are not all things allowable? At any rate, I cast out this hint as a possible explanation of sat urnalian freedom in general and kissing uuder the mistletoe in particular. It may conceivably survive as the last faint mem ory of that wild orgy of license which ac companied the rites of so many slain gods Tammuz. Adonis, Dionysus, Attis. Much mititrated and mollified ty civili zation and Christianity, we may still see in it perhaps some dim lineaments of the mad feasts which Herodotus describes for us over the dead gods of Egypt. So far back into the realms of savage thought does that seemingly picturesque and harm less mistletoe hurry us. Cornhill M;iga- ziue. Nothing Keinarkahle. Mrs. Grumpps (looking up from the pa per) A brot her and sister who had not seen each other for sixteen years met acciden tally tho other day. Mr. Grumpps Huh! A brother ami sis ter seldom meet any other way. Good News. Chevalier Scrog. while exploring a cav ern in the peak of Tenerifte, found a skull which must have belonged to a man at least fifteen feet high. It contained sixty perfect teeth of monstrous size. Fell Dead. Thse words are v-ry fumliar to our readers, us not a day tmsses without the report of the sudden death of some prom inent ciiizen. Tne explanation is "Heart Disease " Therefore beware if vou have any of the following gymotoms: Short breath, pain in side, smothering spells, swollen ankles, asthmatic brtath ing. weak and hungry spells, tenderness in shoulder or arm, fldUerintr of the heart or irregu'ur pule. These sym toms mean heart disease. The most re liable remedy is Dr Miles' New Heart Cure, which has saved thousands of lives Book of testimonials free at. Harz & Babnscn's, who also sell the Xew Heart Cure. One Kinute. Oae minute time often mikes a grpat difference a one minute remedy for bronchitis, choking up of -he throat, lungs, etc., of course is a great, bles-ing. Cubeb Cough Cure is such a remedy it will afford decided relief in one minute. No family will be without it after once trying it. For sale by all druegists. Bartz & Bahnscn, wholesale agents Good evening! Have you used Ah! there is no need of my saying anything further, I am sure you will hereafter use nothing but the famous Biush of Rosesifor your complexion. Yours with best wisbe. Floka A. Jones, South Bend. Ind. P. 8. Call this eve please at T. H Thomas' and learn the particulars. Dead Sea Fruits. They ly multitude when they are the pro duct of Deflect of incipient disease. A "slight" cold, a St of indigestion, billioasneu or conitipa- tton each or any or tbee, "minor ailments" ad vance in many eases with ")egie-dptroying ride." Give tbem a swift, early defeat ita HoKtetter'i Stomach Bit ere and avert the dan cer. Abernetby administered an alarming re buke to the man ho informed him that be bad "only a co d I" "Or ly a cold,' repeated the do; tor. "W hat wonldyc have -the placuc!" Khenm at em and la gripi c arc easily extiuguishahle at the tart. Why then a'lnw them to gut np a full head of steam? Put on the brakes with tbe Bitters. Tbe genial warmth which this aup-rb medicine diffuse tnrongh the rysiem. the im petus it gives to the circulation of the blood, its sooth nc anl etrengtiv nng effect upon the ner vntiB tpei al y recommend it to the enfeebled and axk. Tie the great specific for malaria. DEATH'S SHADOW Reveals the Romance of Two Young Lives. BAD STCEY OF A EAILWAY WEEOZ. It Divuljrea a Secret Marriage at the Mo ment that the ;rim Terror Is Claimine; His Own The Karthly Happiness of Two Young I'enple Brought to a Sud den Knd A Katal Outing on a Locomo tiveHeroism of the young Husbnnd. Elvira, X. V., Feb. 6 James V. Mc CafFcry, who was one of seven injured in an accident on the Oil Valley Lumlxr rail road, near Watsonville, Fa., on last Sunday afternoon, died ou Tuesday, and a young woman who was another ictim, and who, up to a few minutes before McCaffery died, was not known to 1 McCaffery's wife, died a short time afterward. The. pirl was a popular society woman of Brad ford, Miss Sadie Irvine. She and McCaf fery M ere known to le attached to each other, but there was opposition to the in timacy. 'When tbe young man was told that he could live only a short time, he directed Dr. Russell, who was attending him, to draw his will. He had an insur ance of $18,000 on his life. ''I want it divided equally lietween my two brothers and my wife," lie said. 'My wife is Sadie Irvine. We were married at Salamanca on the 8th of November, 1!U." The Yonng Wife Also IMes. These were almost his last words, and that was the rirrt time that any one knew of the marriage. Mrs. MeCafl'ery was not told that, her husband was dead until it was plain that she could live only a few hours at the most. Whent.be was told that he was dead she said that she was glad that she could uot recover. She made her will and lequeathed the money that had been left her by her dying hus band to her sister, Mrs. II. F. Mundy, who is another of those injured in the accident, and in a critical condition. Shortly after making her will the young wife also passed away to join her husband in the "undiscovered country." . Went tin h I'atal Kide. The railroad on which the accident hap pened is one of the steep and crooked nar-rmv-guage roads that are numerous in the Pennsylvania lumber regions. Mrs. Mc Cafl'ri y. then supiMised to be Miss Irvine, bad lieen visiting Iior sister, Mrs. Mundy, al Watsnnviile. On Sunday Mr. McCaffery joined her. Mrs. Mundy 's husband con trols the r-iilroad, and the two visitors were invited to t.ike : locomotive ride into th,' hi in her v. Tin re were on the en- giiit beside Mrs. Miiiitlyand Mr. and Mrs. Mi ( 'n!, r.v, I 'oiitivi tor .lo!:;i Kvnr's, En gineer Ora-it. and Fireman Martin. Tclritic Speed en a ( iiru'. There is a gr.-tde in the road of 4U feet lo I he mile, and wilh a sharp c ii ve in it. Soon after the locomotive started down this grade Engineer (Iran! discovered that the brake woirld not work. The engine got beyond control on the sleep grade anil struck the curve at a speed of move than a mile a minute. The engine was thrown olT the track. The engineer w:;s thrown clear of the wreck, but Mr. Mcl'atTcry and his wife and Mundy and his wife were taught in the wrec k. Heroism of Mef'aflerv. Engineer (irant succeeded in releasing. Mrs. Met artery, and then found that he had been standing on her huslnnd"s breast all the time that he was extricating her. McCaffery was conscious, and, knowing that the engineer was getting his wife out, although the steam from the boiler was playing full against him, and the weight of the engineer uikhi his breast must have added to his agony, never uttered a groan. When Mrs. McCaffery was released McCaf fery exclaimed: "He hasgot herout; thank God.-' lnjurio". of the fnTortunates. McCaflcry was held between the scald ing boiler and a stump. Help soon fir rived, but it was nn hour hefory McCaffery was released, and in all that time he nevr lost consciousness, but directed the work of the men wilh great coolness. McCaf fery 's leg was crushed to a pulp, and he was burned and bruii jd out of all recogni tion. Mrs McCaffery's leg was crushed in the same way, her hip wrenched out of its docket, and her body and face burned to the bone. Like her husband she never lost consciousness unt il she died. Mrs. Mun dy is badly burned and maugled, but hopes are entertained of her recovery. All the others were seriously hurt. McCafTeiy was ;0 years old. His wife was 'Si. HORRIBLE WIFE MURDER. A (Iiirngn Miscreant Stabs His Wife in 'J"" Forty-live I'laees. Clilf'Atio, Feb. li. Patrick Hurst yester day murdered his wife Helen, to whom he had lieen married thirty-five years. The crime was deliberate and cold blooded. Hurst bad lieen waiting several days for nn opportunity to comqiit the deed, and yesterday, while all their c hildren were out of the house, be went to his wife's led where she was lying asleep and plunged a huge Howie knife up to the hilt iu her body forty-five times, inflicting wounds any one of which would have proved fatal. "Always Wanted Her Own Way." After completing his bloody work the aged murderer delilterately washed him self and walked to the nearest police sta tion, where lie gave himself up. When asked why he had committed the deed Hurst replied: "I killed her simply because she always wanted her own way, and be cause I thought she wouldn't take care of me when I got old." The couple were mar ried in Ireland and came to this country Seven years ago. Heavy Failure in Colorado. Denver, Feb. ;. The Western Farm Mortgage Trust company has been at tached, and an application for a receiver will be made. It is stated that arrests of directors and officers are not improbable. The company did a business of 10,000.000 per year in farm mortgages, loaning money and telling the mortgages to eastern in vestors. It is said that Xew York parties will file attachments against 90o,000 of securities held by the company. The Iowa Legislature. Des Moixes, Feb. 0. The senate yester day devoted the morning to discussion of Perry's resolution asking the speaker of the house to consult the attorney general as to the status of Secretary Parsons, of the senate, and then adjourned. A bill was introduced to give a wife power to sue ker husband without furnishing bond for attorneys' fees. The house did no business of importance. McCarthy lle-Kleetrd. lX'BUN, Feb. 5. At a meeting of tho McCarthyite faction Justin McCarthy was re-elected chairman of that organization. c I NTIRE M Wash Goods. "We are receiving elegant lines in wash goods and ginghams, Spr ino- Dress Gooes. Woolen dress goods for spring in great variety are now arriving. New mixtures, New robes New colorings in chevrons and other fabrics. McINTIRE BROS., Rock Island. Illinois. THE LARGEST STOCK OF Furniture and Carpets IN THE THREE CITIES, xos. 1525 and 1527 SECOND AVE. AND 121, 123 andl2S Sixteenth Sf-et. NORTHFIELD FOCKET KNIVES and SCISSORS took the highest premium for quality. If you want a good knife try one. One need not be told what a nice present an elegant Carving Set like those I have to show will be. Also those Gold Medal Carpet Sweepers. . EXfry Ionian that keeps house wants one. Wrought Iron fim&h Fire Sets and Irons. Acorn Stoves and Ranges are the leaders made in Illinois for our soft coal -and every one gnaranteed. These are all good things to buy at Christmas or any other time. Come in an! see how much I have to show you that is usef al and novel in housekeeping goods. JOHN T. NOFTSKER, Cor. Third Ave. and Twentieth Street, Rock Tiland. CENTRAL For CHOICE MEATS Go tc H. Treman & Sons, Poultry and Came. Pork AH telephone orders promptly filled. WE HAVE THE FINEST Bread, Cakes, Pies and Buns In the city. Also see our line of fresh fried Cakes, Cream Pies and Cream Puffs, Angel Foods, etc., and many other varieties too numerous to mention. We also get up the finest of Wedding and Party Caies, and Oyster Patties a specialty. Only the best of material used in the manufacturing of all these goods, and iirst-class workmanship guaranteed. We deal largely in Wedding Cake. Ornaments of all kinds, CITY BAKERY. MTJNROE. DeRTJE & ANDERSON. You can save money by trading at the Old Reliable 5 AND lO CENT STORE. Crockery, Cutlery, Tinware, Classware and Wooden ware, Etc. MBS. C. MITSCH'S, 1314 Third Are. BROS. Tennis and O miner FLANNELS and various other iibr Chenille Curtains. Special olferinff fnr tv.;..- We have just received a h-'p, consignment, and beins? crowed for room will deduct 10 per Liu m jjiiuts oi every pair sold ?t: week. Very pretty and priCe- lniror fVian tt--i v . .. ."ui jwu. iide) llnjj quoted for as good quality. ROOK ISLAND MARKET. . . Oysters and Lake Fish. Packers. Telephone Na. 1103. 1700 Ttinl Ave. OF fl t: 9. JU 7RAfify&.