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ARGUS SLAND j 1:7 VOL. XLI NO. 44. ROCK ISLAND, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8. 1892. Single Copies Ceats Par Weak lsjf Cents ItfliYTHIE THIS WEEK. We must unload our immense stock; Prices must do the Business; $12.00, 13 50, Look at Overcoats quoted Child's Overcoats Child's Overcoats Child's Overcoats For 3XriX(0-J3 NTNESTS'-NI.Ntt, $9 99, $9-99, Child's Suits worth $7.oo to $9.oo Child's Suits worth 5.oo to 6.5o Child's Suits worth 3,5o to 4.5o In order to get cut price on Child's Overcoats and Suits this advertisement must be brought with you. Underwear at greatly reduced prices as usual, only more so, underselling everybody on everything; the only house who sell as they advertise. THE LONDON, c$AX & RICE, Proprietors, Rock Island, 111, Santa Claus Dropped Into our furniture establishment, and here he intends to stay until CHRISTMAS EVE He was so well pleased with our beautiful line that he "dropped in." By the vay, why not drop in your self and select your Christmas presents. We have the most artistic, the largest, in fact the finest display we have ever shown consisting of . the finest parlor suit to the baby's high chair. Nobody in the Tri Cities can show as complete assortment or treat you better in the way of price, etc. Call early and make your selection at EMANN & 1525 and 1527 Second Avenue. NORTHFIELD POCKET K.N1YES and SCIS30RS took the highest preminn for quality. If you want a goc d knife try one. One need not be told what a nice present an elegant Carvim Set like those I have to show will be. Also those Gold Medal Carpet Sweepers. B . wman that keeps house wants one. Wrought Iror finish Fire Sets and Irons. Acorn Stoves and Ranges are the leadeis made in Illinois for our soft coal and every on guaranteed. These are all good things to buy at Christmas oi any other time. Come in and see how much I have to show yoi that is useful and novel in housekeeping :ooda. JOHN T. NOFrSKKR, Cor. Third Ave. and Twentieth Street, Rock T!and. 101 we will sell Overcoats worth 15.00. 16.50, for much more money and worth $7.00 to worth 5.00 to worth 3.50 to SALZMANN. 124,126 and;i28 Sixteenth Street. Nothing reserved; every thing goes in Children's department as advertised. , S. & R. and 18 00 see if ours are not as good. $9.00 for $5.00. 7.50 for 4.00. 4.50 for 3.00. for $5.oo. for 4.oo. for 3.oo. TRI-CITY : Shirt Factory: Our Shirt-) Are oar specialty. We make Patronize home industry. Our Suits . them ourselves. Are made to your order, and they aife tailor-mad it prices ranting from SIS tip. Our Pants ire dawn iu prices nnd we invite competition. Call and make your selection from over 200 differ ent samples at prices from $3 and op. Our Prices . Cannot be duplicated, onr workmanship cannot be excelled, onr goods we warrant, and last, bnt not least, yonr patronage is solicited. Call and see as at the Tri-Oity Shirt Factory, 1809 Second avenue, over Loosley's crockery store. ! FRANK ATTWATER, Proprietor. PARKERS' Laundry, Washes sverything from a fine Bilk handkerchief to a circus tent; Lace curtains a specialty. No. 1724 THIRD AVE. A. M. & L. J. PARKER, Telephone No. 1214 John Volk & Co., GENERAL CONTRACTORS AND HOUSE-BUILDERS. Hanof ctnreri of oaaa uoors Blinds, Biding, F Wainscoating, ring and J1 kinds of wood work for bnildors Bleu tenth 8U, bet. Third and Fonrta ts," HOCK ISuaHD GOULD'S MILLIONS. Every Dollar of It Goes to Own Family. His COMPLETE ABSTRACT OF BIS WILL. Provisiot Hade for Hla Slaters and Broth er Miss Helen Given an Income of 72, OOO re Year, for the Present, and other Iiequests George Provided with S3, 000,000 in Sec urities and Cash for Five Yearn' Services The Hulk of the Kstute Divided Into Sis Portions, One Portion for Each Child., New Yoisk, Dec. 8. The following ab stract on tlie will and codicils of the late Jay Gould was given to the press on yeste r day aftefnoon by Judge Dillon, the counsel for thetfrecutors, who stated that it was full andfcomplete, and also that it had not yet Ix-en, determined when or where the will would be piesented lor prolKite. The original will was dated Dec. 24, 1SS5, dur ing the lifetime of his wife, Helen D. Gould. It made various' provisions for her benefit, which failed of effect by reason of her death before the death of her husband. After, and in conHequence of, her death Mr. Gould, on the loth day of February, 1N-S9, executed the first codicil to his will, making such changes as became necessary by the death of his wife. A second and a third codieil to his will were executed on the 21st ot Xovemlier, 1892. Providing for Sisters and Brother. Taking the will and the codicils together the following is an accurate and full sum mary of the scheme and provisions thereof: First: The specific legacies There is given to his sister, Mrs. Northrop, and her daugh ters, the three lots of ground in Camden, X. J., on which his sister lives. There is also a specific bequest to Mrs. Northrop of f2T,Ono, and the further sum of 2.0O0 an nually to be paid to her during her life in equally quarterly payments. To his sis-tci-, Mrs. Anna C. Hough and Mrs. Eliza beth P:Ien, and to his brother, Abraham Gould, there is given the sum of 25.000 each am also the further sum of $2,000 an nually ( nring their lives, payable in equal paynici: s. v To his daughter, Helen M. Oouldl: 1 gives in fee simple absolutely the ho;ise i:: v.hVh lie lived, 570 Fifth avenue, and all Li the furniture, books, paintings, statnarjt silver plate, and household ion tents thvreiu. Pin Money for !!! n. To his son, liivi;. lie give- in fee shnpW absolute the house No. 1 i'.iwi Fori v seventh street, with all the furniture ird household contents therein. To "uis daughter Helen he made a specific beq-i-t of his portrait painted by lie: komcr. lie also givis to h's daughter Helen, unlit his youngest cilia! shall arrive at age, thi: Use of his residence e.t lrvington, commonly called Lyndh urst," free of taxes. nfii all of tl;;; furniture, Uoks, paintings', and noiisciiauil contents therein; ami sum of SA,00JI per ill oi;t h-J-stAlH that tiiis was done, in the expectation that his miuor children, Anna and Frank J., a weil as his son .Howard, will, during the peri.xl alnive provided for, make their home with hip daughter Helen. Haifa Million for His (iramUim. To his namesake and grands-m, Jay Gould, son of George J. Gould, he gives the sum of 500,oco, to be held in trust for the said grandson by George Jay Gould, with authority to apply the same to the support and education of the said grand son, and to pay one-fourth of the same to him atthe age of 25, one-fourth, at the age of 30 aid the remaining half at 35, with power ' to pay the same at earlier pe riods, in the discretion of his father. GEORGE J. IS WELL HEELED. His Services to riis Father Valued at SI, OOO, OOO a Year. To his son (ieorge J. Gould he makes a bequest substantially in the following words:! "My beloved son, George J. Gould, having developed a remarkable business ability and having for twelve years de Toted himself entirely to my business, and during,! he past five years taken ent i re charge of all fciy difficult interests. I hereby 'fix the value of his services at $5,000,ttJO, paya ble as follows: Five hundred thousand dol lars in cash, less the amount advanced by me for the purchase of a house for him on Fifth avenue, New York city; $500,000 in Missouri Pacific 6 per cent, mortgage boudsj fcioo,(KK in St. lxiuis. Iron Moun tain and Southern HailwAv mmnnnir solidated 5 per cent, bonds: ftjOO.000 in Mis- soun 1'acihe railroad trust 5 per cent, bonds; 10,000 shares of Manhattan railway stock; 10,(100 shares of Western Union stock, and 10,000 shares of Missouri Pacific stock all to be taken and treated as worth par." Sons and Baughter as Trustees. He appoints as executors and trustees of his will his sons, (ieorge J. Gould, Kdwin Gould and Howard Gould, and his daugh ter, Helen M. Gould, with a provision that in case a vacancy shall happen by death or otherwise his son, Frank J. Gould, is to be an executor and t rustee when he shall have reachad the age of 21 years, and in case of anot Vt vacancy he appoints his daughter, Anna Gould, to fill such vacancy wheu she shall have reached the age of 21 years; no bonds to be required of the executors and trustees. George JfGould and Helen M. Gould are appointed guardians of Anna and Frank J. Gould during their minority. All Goes to the t'hildreu. Ail the rest of his estate is deviwd and bequeathed to the said executors and trus tees, first to divide the same into six equal parts; or 6hares, and to hold one of such share for each of his said children, George J. Gould, Kdwin Gould, Howard Gould, Frank J. Gould, Helen M. Gould, and Anna Gould, with authority to collect and receive, pay and apply all the income thereof to each child for life, with power to each to disjHise of the same by will in favor of issue, aud in case of death without iunio the share of the oue so dying to go to the surviving brother and sisters, and to the issue of any deceased child, Bhare and share alike, per stirpes and not per capita. Conclusive Tote of Trustees. He directs that these truste shall be kept separate and distinct and that the accounts thereof shall be separately kept; that no deductions shall be made by reason of any gifts or advancements heretofore made to 1 lor any of his ckUdftnIa esse of difler- ences 01 opinion among tne executors ana trustees as to holding and retaining securi ties or investments in managing the estate, he directs that so long as there shall be five executors and trustees, the decision of four shall be conclusive, and when four that the decision of three shall be conclusive. But George Gould Mont Trusted. There is a further provision in the codicil of Nov. 21, 18U2, as follows: "The better ta protect and conserve the values of ruj properties, it is my desire, and I so direct and provide, that the shares of any railway or of any incorporated companies at any time held by my executors and trustees, or my said trustees, shall always be voted by them or their proxies at all corporate meetings as a unit, and in case my said executors and trustees, or my said trustee, do not concur as to how much stock shall lie voted, then, in view of the fact that my bod George J. Gould has fT years had the management of my said properties. I direct and provide that in such event, his judgment 6hall control, and he is hereby authorized and empowered to vote the said shares in person or by proxv in such a manner as his judgment shall dictate." A Brake on the Muward. There is the usual pi-i. i-ion in the will that the properly of daughters is fori their sole and separate use, free from any! estate or control of their husbands, and! prohibiting ail dispositions or charges !y any of the legatees by way of auticip.uioii'1 or otherwise. There is a provision that if any of his children shall marry without the consent of a majority of the executors and trustees then t lie share allotted to sin !i child shall he reduced one half, and the other half of such share shall be trans ferred to such person as under the laws of the state of New York would take the same if the testator had died intestate. GETS ANOTHER BLACK EYE. The Interstate Commerce Commission tu u Bad Way. Clllc ami, Dec. 8. The recent decisi,:i, that defendants in cases under the inter state commerce law could not be forced to testify when they pleaded that their testi mony might lie self-incriminating was a rather paMlyizing blow at the chai-ncy of the interstate commission in a wry im portant class of cases; but Judge i'.v sham yesterday '"swung his right" and it looks as if the law was knocked out altogether. Certain business men refused to testily or to produce the hooks in a case charging discrimination in freight rales. .Appealed lo reiuill ill Vain. The district attorney apjM'alcd lo Judge Gres!:ain tc fix 1 he status of the commt ive commissiou, and he fixed it. He refusal to compel the defendants to testily, and de clared the c!:imision to le Uon-jadiii;il and adminisi :a: ive, .and therefore not en tilled to c.-t i on the coin ts as snl-sioi.u y and suboitii .1 : tion of courts, not compcu-iii them autho:;.. .licial and cic.; auxiliaries. The j'.iris.'ie . -ays. is limited, .tjid it is .w e ::-:ri -s tt.ifUfer c.j .i "!i'.c ss.s;uttVk'r;y y w ii ..in gfw:- ioutitl the third a !i: ie of lu. con si inmo.i. This would indicate that the law it-sell is u.i constttlitioTial. The case will uo ii;j u the "T" ?el OimiTmt In ('mrrt. ST. uftfhs. Dec.': N. Mainhtmus proccwl ings hnvc Ih-pii instituted in the circuit court by Agnes A, frump, .Ioh- It,' Crump and Reginald Crump, appearing by their father, John ii. Crump, Sr., against the president aud directors of the St. Liouis public schools. The plaintiffs allege that they were refused admittance to the white public schools by the hoard on the ground that they were of African descent. The plaintiffs assert that they are in part descended from French Creoles and have Indian blood in their veins, but deny that they have any African blood whatever and ask the court to issue a mandamus com pelling the school board to receive them. More Mills for Homestead. PlTTSBt'RG.Dec. 8. A gentleman engaged in a responsible position at the steel works at Homestead says that the Carnegie com pany will remove its Twenty-ninth and Thirty-third street mills from Pittsburg to Homestead not later than the first of the new year. Also that the plans for the ex tensive buildings that will be necessary are now in preparation. The grounds which the two plants now occupy at Lawrence ville are leased at enormous figures, and it is to reduce this expense, as well as in keep ing with the company's alleged future pol icy of consolidating its varied industries in a few huKe plants that the new deal is con templated. General Xettleton's Successor. Washington, Dec 8 A successor to General Nettleton, who recently resigned from the position of assistant secretary of the treasury, has been agreed upon. He is George M, Lambertson, of Lincoln, Neb., who was prominently mentioned some months ago for a place on the interstate commerce commission. He is a brother-in-law of General Morgan, commissioner of Indian affairs; is 45 years old, a good law yer and has frequently appeared as at torney before the supreme court of the United States. He was once United States district attorney for Nebraska. Mutiny In Chester Penitentiary. St. Louis, Dec. 8. It was learned here yesterday that a mutiny occurred at the Chester, Ills., penitentiary Tuesday, or the day before, the convicts refusing to do ex tra work assigned to them. The matter was kept quiet and the mutineers were subdued and in irons before the outside world got a hint of the trouble. About 100 of the convicts were involved in the ma tiny and for a little while it looked as if serious trouble wonld result. Made a Show of a Hanging. New Orleaks, Dec 8. A Picayune spe cial from Meridian, Miss., says: John White, colored, was hanged here yesterday. 1 tie crime for which White was executed was the murder of John Logan, alfcpecial o Ulcer, who was trying to arrest him. The hanging was public, the first in louder dale county since 1S77, and was witnessed Dy a large crowd. Snowstorm Rases in Five States. Chicago, Dec 8. A snowstorm, accom panied by a strong north wind, general throughout Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Min nesota and Wisconsin,raged last night. In southern Illinois, the eastern portions of w yommg and Colorado, there was consid- raoiesnow. uearborn Fox. of Wolfeboronirh. TT TT harvested a squash that measured 92 inches ctfcunuerence. J Could ot Stand Insomnia, ; i Chicago, Dec. 8. John M. Cohen, a rich Philadelphia lawyer and financier, who was in business in this city, shot himself in his room at the Hotel la Vita, yesterday, the wound being instantly fatal. He had been troubled with insomnia and is be lieved to have Jen mentally unbalanced. They Bounced Mrs. Hortense. i Denver, Dec. 8. Mrs. Hortense Miller, for a number of years one of the chief workers in the W. C. T. U of Denver, was Monday night expelled from the organiza tion as being unworthy of confidence. Bhe has leeu swindling poor working girls, so they claim, j Result In North Dakota. ' . Grasp Foisks. N. D., Dec. 8. Upon the order of Judge Templeton the rejected re turns of Nelson county were canvassed yesterday. The recount elects three fu sion and three Republican electors, and Lamb, fusion, for state senator. LIVE STOCK AND PRODUCE MARKETS. !.''' Chicago. ' ' !. j Chicago, Dec T. . Following were the quotations on the board ' of trade today: Wheat December, 'opened ' 71J-4C c losed 'Ibc; January, opened 72Sc, .. closed ?-5&e: -May, opened Tb!4c, closed 784c; CornDecember, njiened 41Mc, closed 41e; January, opened 42tc. closed'' A3o; May.i opened 4iTfcc, closed 47c. Oats December, opened Sffw, closed 30c; Jan nary, opened 31c, closed ;im:: May, opened 35c, closed 36c l'ork December, opened $14.30, closed S14.:m-, January, opened flo.tty-a. closed S15.67H; May, oiiened $15.0(1. closed 15.57tj. Lard . Decemlier. opened $9.55, closed $9.47$. , 1 Live Rock 1'rices r.t the Union Stock ;. yards today ranged as follows: Hogs Market moderately active: shippers bought rather freely, while packers were slow to purchase; later the hitter accepted a good proportion of the olterings at a decline; prices ruled 541.10c' lower; sales ranged at $4.605j 5.7.1 piir. 5f--.tH3ti.l." light, $5.8o?i6.00 rough packing! S-VHVcf.ii.ifi mixed, and $6.0jtjo.S0 heavy parking and shipping lots. t Cattlef-Market moderately active on local and shipping arconnt: prices rather easy; local buyers and shippers were glow to take except at concessions; prices ruled alioat loc lower, excepting for the best grades; quotations ranged at 5.i ! 5.7" choice to extra shipping steers, S4.1" !,1.S5 good to choice do, (.7t-' 4.1U fair to good, $:Ul3.50 common to medium do. S.mrrl.sij butchers' steers, 52.l"iJJ.75 stackers. S.tir?.75 Texas steers, $-J.7.V.'.l.l." range steers. SS.so.tfijJa feed ers, i.iV-!.7." cows fcl.5UCi.5" bulls,i and $J.V'l5..tO veal calves: j 6iiccp Market fairly active and prices ruled steady and unchanged; quotations ranged at t3.tA..i4.70 per loo Ha westerns natives. SS.SO'itt.tij Texas, and iJ.75c&VSO for hunlis. j Produce: Mutter Fine to fancy creainery, 21f?;&ic. per lh; fancy dairies. :r.I4c; packing stock, l.Vi.iiic. Kggs Fresh slock. per - doyen: cold Morale 1S'. .l;c Dressed Poul try .Spring chickens. s's-Uie per lb; hens, 76jJ Sc: turkeys, choice, lo i.llc; ducks, lite, geese, tVt lilc. l'otatocs W isconsin Hose, soTuc Iht bushel- lic!rons, 70 i7;; liurbanks, 75(J c; mixed lots, '.;". Sweet l'oiates Jer sey. 4."'t .5- r'r Kirrel; Illinois. s.'.75(fTa.75. Apples IVimmnn and poor slock, Sl-5tfoji.2 per liarrel; lair to g-md. $-'.. Ki-.7-i; fency, $3.00 . (a'.i.'Si. Cranberries Caiie Cod, $7jo per bar rel; fancy, s.ons.io; Wisconsin Bell and Bugles, $s.U0. ' "New'tftrk. 5; New York. Dec T. Wheat No. 2 red winter cash, 7678c: De- cflmber, 70bc: January, 77?6o: February. iffiK March. t)Hn May, Sftic Corn : L0. f mixed cash, 51c; December, 4!o; Jan uary, nOJsc; February, : o04c: May. - S4& OaM No. 3 mixed cash, Vic; December, atsc; January, 37c: February, 38-lc: Hay. 3Uc live Dull but steady. 54c Bar leyQuiet: western. t5i)c; two-rowed state, d5iic7Uc: six-rowed, UTifexte. Pork Firmer; old mess, S14..t!.14.75; new. $15.5tS,ltf.5U. Lard Quiet but steady; January, Live Stiak: t:ttie Trading dull for all : grades: poorest to best native steers, $3.80& I 5.30 per 10 lbs: buils and dry cows, $1."U& ; 3.0U. t:heep and Lambs Jsiieep, lirm and act- ; ive: lambs, dull nud barely steady: sheep, ' $3.ii0i(r' per It ill lbs; larubs, $.7..40. Hogs Nominally lirm; live hogs, $5.0J&c30 per WO lbs. The Loral Markets, sun, stc. Wheat-9QJl98c. Corn 45t46c. S Rye 7!XTfilc. t)ts-C134c. Bran -tc per cwt, Shipstnff $1.00 per cwt. nay Timothy. SS3.10: npltind. SSatO: sloiurh f38; baled. 511 001.50. rnoDCCB. Bntter Fair to choice, 25c: creamery 30c. Ktres Fresh. S2c; packed 15c. ! Poultry Chickens. 10ai2W : torkev. i 1'Un udcbs, gee?e, loc. FBU1T AST) VEGSTABLBS Apples-f 4.2S(?i8-2 75 perbW. Potatoe- sacAte. Onions 8Xair. Turnips l&ii,50o. COAL. Hard 7 Sufi 7 75. ' Sxrt i :lX6.a 30. LIVE STOCK. Catt e Br.trher t'Sv tor com tu". -tera H4Hc; cows and neifei. iiHfc.jc; cie Sc Ho-s 4c. .. Bheep 45e. . . LUSBSm'.i ' J Common boards $1f. -. , Joist Scantling and timber, it to 18 feet, $1J. : Kvrry afditioral foot inlength SOfents. X A X M ingles ft 75 Lath $3 50. Fencine 12to 16feet $19 oc hords.rom:n $16. . i ripple lv"i PRICMS ON ALL CARS. TO BC etTiUINE-. powder PurestBest ! If 1 A' :4 - :r n u f.i 8 I I . I: . .1 ft J1 J