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THE ARGUS, FKIDAF, SEPTEMBER 24 1897. ,1 "The Wrong Mr. Wright" Is the somewhat confusing name of a pop ular play in which it may be seen much scope is given for funny situations. There is no possibility of you trading with the wrong Mr. Shields, now in Rock Island. There is but one Shields' grocery, and there is where they keep things on the move. Every time the public gets a benefit in the way of low prices on some special article at Shields it goes the rounds and other dealers drop down a oeir. That's the which this store has kept the THROWN OUT BODILY. Result of the Fulton Obstruc tionists' Appeal to the Federal Court. WOODMEH'8 BIQinriGAJrr TRIUMPH. manner in Prices of Groceries Down to a Minimum At a store of this kind they don't stop at one thing it's in the air to cut prices and so they go on slashing all along the line. He with the procession and get your share. PROFITS LIGHT. PRICES RIGHT. SH ELD CASH GROCEBY. s I Jad(e Show 1 tor Ma Ocly Befaaee Ic juctloa Bat Declines to Continue a Restraining Order Pauling an Appeal -Yasser's Writ No. 5 Oat of tha War, and No. 6 Takaa Ita Place. The Fultoa obstructionists have been knocked out of another coort in their warfare on the Modern Wood men of America. This time the re buff has come from no less a tribunal than the circnit court of the United States. Judge Showalter at the con elusion of the arguments in his court at Chicago at 4:30 yesterday after noon promptly rendered his ruling on the application of the rultomtes for an injunction. The decision, which is sweeping, was given by the judge as fellows: The complainant in this bill. William A. Pecn, brings here a controversy with this so ciety. Modern Woodmen of I America, of which he is a member. As I read this bill I cannot discover any property loss that complainant will sustain it the expressed wish of this society is carried out and its principal cilice removed irom ruiton to Rock Island. I cannot see why it should matter to him as a member of this order whether this office is located at one place or the other. I get the impression from what has been introduced that this society de sires that its headquarters should be at Kock lslanfl ; tnat at least nice tenths of the members are in favor of this removal, and have so ex pressed themselves on several occa sions; that this large proportion of the membership deem it good policy and for the best interest of the so ciety to go to Rook Island rather than to stay at t niton, ho lar as 1 can see the opposition is founded less on interest in the order than in terest in that neighborhood. 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No other wearable will so please a woman as a dainty, stylish, snugly-fitting pair of shoes. If the price Is reason able It makes her all the happier. We make women happy every day. See our $1.85 and J.60 shoes. DOLLY BROS. Store Open Evening, position is foreign to the interest of the corporation. The rule in regard to a stockholder's bills always is that where it appears that he is seeking to subserve some interest foreign to the interest of the corporation iteelf, his bill will not be entertained; when'it is apparent that this foreign interest is to be sub served by the litigation, courts shouldn't take action. Such litiga tion does not commend itself to oocrts of equity. Viewed from the standpoint of the decision of tne su preme court oi Illinois in me case oi Bastian vs. the Modern Woodmen, 166 Illinois, in view of what the su preme court seems in that case to in dicate is necessary ior me oraer 10 do; then looking at the remedial leg islation had in 1897, and what the Dubuque head camp has done, it ail seems to me to be just right. At all events, I am not willing to say that it ia not. Further than this, I am strongly impressed with the view that this litigation properly belongs In the state court; that tbe issues sought to be adjudicated here are pending before Judge Gest, and the responsibility is on him to de clde, and not on this oonrt. It is true that the peculiarity of the law of Illinois has been called to the attention of the court, that there is no way of keeping an injunction alive pending an appeal, but that is no reason why this court should be called on to fill the gap. I do not concur with the views of counsel for complainant on this point. It is not a proper nse to make of this court. Judge Gest is a judicial offioer in the jurisdiction from which it is sought to bring this controversy here. It was before him; he heard and decided it before it came here. and part of it is still pending before him. In such a case the court will not entertain it. Holding these views I will decline to issue any in junction." Another Attempt Thwarted. The Fulton attorneys thereupon gave notice to Judge Showalter that they desired an appeal from his de cision to the United States circuit court of appeals. The judge gave assurances that an appeal would be allowed on the filing of a proper bond. The attorneys then insisted that the injunction order remain in foroe pending a decision in the high er court, but this Judge Showalter declined to authorize, etatmg that in hit view there was no call for either an injunction or an extension of the restraining order In the case and that as tbe restraining order issued by Judge Jenkins expired on this hearing, no further order should be issued. The decision by Judge Showalter is a significant victory for the Wood men. as they have succeeded in thoroughly whipping the obstruc tionists in the forum which the latter have chosen, and is especially pleas ing in this respect in view of the ridiculously outrageous manner in which Judge Gest's oourse and mo tives have been assailed. To that jurist the position of the federal judge is surely a great vindication. The ruling ia a triumph, as it covers every phase of tbe case, the court not only passing upon the mere question of competent jurisdiction, but covering every point in the case as set forth in the bill of the complainants, as described in The Auous at the time tbe applica tion was made to Judge Jenkins. The Fulton attorneys have chosen their own court of adjudication and they have received adjudication. The right of the order to rule its own affairs has been acknowledged by that court. The supreme court ruling of last spring has been accept ed by the federal court as seining all points in the controversy prior to that time lavoraoie to tne oraer except as to the removal of the head omce, ana in this the way was point ed as lying within the scope of the legislature to amend the statutes, and this has been done. Since then the head camp has for the best interests of the order again decided to move to Rock Island. Judge Showalter'a view was that Mr. Fenn, of Clinton, could not claim more anxiety over the future of the order than did the convention. He intimated that Mr. Penn was act ing for Fulton's selfish interest, while the delegates at the conven tion acted for what they thought was the best interest of the organization. He ruled, therefore. that he coma take no other position than one that Mr. fenn was acting purely from personal motive; that the presence of the personal motive made it impossible for the court to assume that there were other men, not in Illinois, who wonld have the same Interest and might, therefore. be included in a plea in equity. The judge ruled from the argument that the effort to hold the offioes at Ful ton did not arise from a desire to help the order, but to benefit a few men in Fulton. The jurisdiction be longs entirely to Judge Gest. The aranmenta. In the arguments before the court, the Fulton attorneys had the open ing and close, and they took up two days-and-a-half to a day-and-a-h alf occupied by the Woodmen attorneys. Mr. Andrews opened for tbe obstruc tionists, and was followed by J. G. Johnson, of the order, who reviewed the entire history of the controversy and litigation. Hon. C. M. Osborn, of Chicago, for the order, spoke on the question of jurisdiction and Hon Wiiliam Jackson, for the order, dis cussed tbe principles of equity in volved. Then City Attorney MoMa hon. of Fulton, attempted to speak for his town, after which Mr. An drews took the floor and talked until just before court adjourned last night. Mr. Jackson reached home early last evening, accompanied by Mrs Jackson, and when he came down tnwn and he received an ovation on every hand. He left Chicago before the decision was given, and did not know of the good news until he reached home, although he had every oonndenoe in a favorable aeoision, When Mr. Johnson arrived at 10:40 he was met at the Kock Island depot by Mr. Jackson and a delegation of Woodmen and other citizens whose enthusiasm would not be satisfied until thev shook the hand of the en ergetio officer cf the order, who has stood faithfully to his task through out the summer. Air. Johnson was escorted to the Rock Island house by bis frienas ana admirers. TO BE READY MONDAY. Remodeled No. 3 School Build-1 ing Will Be Thrown Open to Pupils. THE ABSIQSatEHT OF GRADES. I a I INJUNCTION MO. A 19 DISSOLVED. ledge Ut DUpoeee of It In Bbort Order In the CIrealt Court. Judge Gest dissolved master in chancery injunction Mo. 6 in the cir- onit court this morning. Mr. Mc Mahon was present in behalf of the Fultonites, and J. G. Johnson and William Jackson for the Woodmen The hearing was set for 10 o'clock Tbe court room was nearly filled with attorneys ana interested clti zens. Mr. McMahon remained in the oourt library searching for new opin ions until the oourt announoed that he was ready to hear the case. Then Attorney Johnson notified Mr. Mo Mahon, who strolled into conrt with a satchel in one hand and the bill of complaint In the other. He immediately began the reading of tne document, in which farker J. Bennett, of Thompson, 111., an al leged incorporator of the Woodmen order, appears as the complaira-vt it required 35 minutes to read the bill, which is nothing more than rehash of the contention set up be fore Judge Showalter, the only ma terial change being the subbtitution of Bennett for Penn. When Mr. MoMahon had finished Mr. Johnson asked Judge Gest if he desired to hear from him. Mr Johnson said that he had made ans wer to the oui, but that tbe bill was practically the same as presented to the United States court. "What is there new in that bill? asked the court of Mr. McMahon. "Why, vonr honor," replied the Fulton attorney, "in tbe first place me complainant." "But i mean in the averment. answered the court. MoMahon said the difference was in the distinction of the complain ant's right as a charter member of the order, claiming that as such he held a property right in the organi zation. "But be now ceases to be an incor porator;" said Judge Gest, "and is only a member, on the same footing with the othera of the order." McMahon started in to show tbe consistency of the complaint, and was apparently preparing for one of his spread-eagle, long-winded speeehes, when the court intercepted. "I have sat for hours and hours, listening to these tame arguments, and I don't care to hear any more of them," said Judge Gest. "lam not disappointed," replied McMahon, "and I thank your honor for letting me down so easily; not so abruptly as you did before." "The motion to dissolve is al Coamaoed oa Tilth pace. OhilTM from Tnree Dtn.rant Will Find Aocommodattoa-Ala Superintendent Yen Tne Corpe Tenenera Selected la the School. Public school building No. 3. at the corner of Nineteenth street and Fifth avenue, remodeled, enlarged and modernized, will be thrown open to pupus Monday morning, lbus one of the oldest school houses in the city, one in which many of the grown up people of today first experienced the training of the young idea, be comes one of tho newest. It Is a building about which cling tender recollections and sentiments. There are historical associations there that new paint will not efface. Bat it has been rejuvenated, so to speak. It is about to enter upon its second cnuanooa cays. lhe building now includes six rooms, five of which are assigned to graded rooms, and the sixth will be usei as a training school. The build, icg will accommodate 200 pupils The structure has been enlarged by the addition on the south side. It has been remodeled inside and provided with the best advantages in the way oi seats, light ana heat. AMlcument of Paplle. Supt. Young has been busy for some time in making the proper as signment of pupils to the new build ing, it is impossible to dehne any distinct district lines. The tern torv proper runs from Seventeenth street on the west to Twentieth on the east. Between Seventeeth and Nineteenth the south limit is Seventh avenue. However, it has beoome necessary to take pupils from Build. ings Nos. 1, 4 and 6. From No, a first and second grade entire will be transferred, while se lections are to be made from the third, fourth and fifth grades of ad jacent buildings needing relief. Twenty are to be sent from the fifth grade at No. 6 and 20 from the fourth grade at No. 1, the others coming from the several rooms that are overcrowded. The grades run as high as to include the fifth. In mak ing the selections, Supt. Young has endeavored as far as possible to so arrange that children in different families will not be separated, but will go to the same building, but he has found the task a difficult one. and whore patrons of the schools find that their children are sent to buildings other than they would pre- ler to have them go, tbey win kno that cirenmstances are such that some pupils may not have even a chance to go to school. The corps of instructors in the new No. 3 building is composed as follows: Mrs. R.G. Young, princi pal; Miss Margaret btewart, tilth grade; Miss Bertha Williams, fourth grade; Miss Maud White, third grade; Miss Emma Churchill, second grade; Miss Bridie M. fcgan, primary. 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