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Hock Island Daily AEG D S. VOL. HXIL NO. 173 ROCK ISLAND, TUESDAY, MAY 12 1S9L Single Copies 5 Cent Per Week 12 Cent thing Succee ds Like Success Owing to the unprecedented success of Our Great Special Labor Day Sales April 25 and May 2, we have decided to deal out our enormous bargains all through the house for the rest of the month of May, so that everybody will have a chance to obtain goods of the very latest styles and best makes for less than half price. We feel confident that out of the thousands that visited our store during Our Great Special Labor Day Sales not one went away dissatisfied. All were fully convinced that we do not misrepresent but fully live up to all our advertisements. Prices Quoted for the Month of May Will be Far Below Anything Ever Named or Heard of. SSI I I J I j mmm I I I pi LONDON AM Prices Cut in Half -Goods Almost given Away ! For the Rest ' of the Month of May the Greatest Bargain Sale on Record! The object we have in view we are deter mined to carry out, i. e. Eor the Rest of the Month of May the Greatest Bargain Sale on Record 1 TO GET YOUR TRADE. Once a Customer -Always a Customer! ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS- C J. Beat tie, an attorney of Chicago, was Monday disbarred from practicing as an attorney by tbe supreme coort. Tbe Lumber Trade association of New York has declared a boycott against all builders who employ union laborers. This action is in retaliation for a boycott de clared by the union men on three of the members of the lumber association. The body of a man, thought to have '. been a sailor, was washed ashore from the lake at Jackson park, Chicago, Sunday night. The police think'the man whs murdered. The Belding Motor and Manufacturing company, of Chicago, made an assign ment Monday. Tbe liabilities are $175, 300, and assets about the same. Gladstone thinks the provisions of tbe copyright act passed by the last Amer ican congress are unsatisfactory. . Eight persons were killed and twenty five injured by' au explosion on the steamer Tancarville, in the harbor of Newport, England, Monday. The vessel was a tank steamer, carrying coal oil in bulk, and the explosion was caused by the gases In the hold. r Secretary Blaine is suffering from an acute attack of indigestion at New York, but his physicians say he is no danger and will soon be entirely recovered. Grand Rapids street car lines are tied up, the employes having struck against signing an ironclad agreement to work as -many hours as the bosses deem necessary, and to be responsible for damages result ing from accidents. Ella Lattin, 17 years old, of Birming ham, Conn., stepped on a garden rake, one proDg of which pierced her toe. Tbe wound healed, but later grew sore, and now she has the lockjaw. There is a financial crisis at Lisbon, . Portugal Friday and Saturday $1,333, 000 was withdrawn from the banks, all in silver. One man had to carry away $ 13, 500 in the metal. It weighed about 100 pounds. The price of silver at Washington City Monday was from S0.9SI to $3 983 per ounce and at these rates the treasury bought S'O.SUO ounces. The notional suprejie court has ad journed uutil May 25 The miners' strike threatens to cause a coal famine in Iowa. Secretary of the Interior Noble is at St." Louis. "William Hill asked Herbert Gail to pay him a debt of 50 ceuts at St. Louis Sun day. Herbert, however, was temporarily embarrassed and replied with a terri fic blow, and then drew a knife and cut Hill in seven places. Hitt will die. Gail is under arrest. A fire at Piano, Ills., destroyed $30,000 worth of property. Dr. Graves at Kansas City. Desvek, Colo, May 12 Dr. Thatcher Graves arrived here last niht, accompa nied by bis wife and Mr. Conrad, son-in-law of Mrs. Barnaby. Detective Hars com also arrived on the same train. The party went to the Gilsey house, where Dr. Graves was seen by a reporter. He r efu&ed to say a word and retired at once. Nominates Fuller for President. Washington- Citt, May 12. The Ga zette declares that Chief Justice Fuller would make the best Democratic candi date for president in 1892. Western Hoys Appointed Cadets. Washixgton Citt. May 12. D. M. Gar rison, of Bordentown, N. J.; J. Briggs, of Sullivan, lad.; L. R. Allison, of St. Johns, Mich.; L. S. Smith, of Flint, Mich., and W. P. Washington, of Goldsbord, N. C, have been appointed to cadetshipa at the United States Naval academy. : A Reverend Rascal Indicted. - Newbcbypoet, Mass., May 14 An in dictment was found yesterday against the Rev. Georpe A. Andrews, of Essex. He is charged with setting fire to his store with the object of obtaining the in surance thereon. THE MARKETS. C hicago. Chicago. May U. Following were the quotations on the board of trade to-day: Wheat No. 3 May, opened $LU3, closed ilH; July, opened Wc, closed WHfZ Sei'teuiber. opened B5-ic closed Wc Corn No. 2 May, opened 61c, closed Sflc; July, opened and closed 58gc: August, opened , closed Sisc. Uata o. 2 alay, opened , closed 50c; July, opened 45c closed 45jc; Sep tember, opened 34c, closed '6Hc Pork- May, opened , rioted $11.52Vfc: July, opened tll.KI. closed til 72: September, opened $12.10. closed SU.UU. Lard May, opened . closed lave stock-Following were the prices at the Union Stock yards: Hogs -Market "ratEer slow and weak: buyers backward, prices 10 J lie lower: sales ranged at $25034.60 pigs. $4.35 490 light, $4.aV3t-75 rough packing. $4.50 6.W mixed, and t4.ttJtt5.U3 heavy packing and snipping lots. Cattle Market dull and weak: local buyers and shippers rather slow to purchase: quota tions ranged at t5.75a6.50 (or choice to fancv shipping steers, $5-iJ5.70 good to choice do. 4 JJi4.au common to fair do. Slsnai butchers' steers. $2 8033.50 stickers. $3.00& 6.25 Texans, f 3 402,4.30 feeders, f L504 OOcowa, vi.iMKd.au duiis. ana a2.au34.SD seal calves. Sheep Demand rather active and prices ruled steady: Quotations ranged at $4.75a6.70 west erne, $5.0UiS,.75 natives, and $6.0037.50 lambs Produce: Butter Fancv aenarmtnr. 7 n lb; dairies, fancy fresh. K2Sc: nvklnr stock, fresh, 13 17c. Eras-Southern stock. lAiftllc per doz; northern, 14c . Live poultry Old chickens. 10c per lb; spring, $LMO8.00 per doc; roosters, &jHc; turkeys, mixed, c; ducks, e&lOc; geeae, $3.00&5.00 perdos. Po tatoea Rose, 75oc per bu; Hebron. B0t395c; Peerless, 5&Jc; Bur banks, JLOOfiXOS: mixed. 75t&85e. Strawberries Tennessee, poor to fair, $1.5002.0); good, $3.25&2.50 per 24-q.t case; Mississippi, poor to fair, $1.003175 per 24-qt New York. New York. Mar 11. Wheat-No. 2 red winter cash, $1.14; do Hit. tt TiUL- An -Tulv SI n7L- i ai mi Corn No. 2 mixed cash, 6J4c; do June, 06V4c; ao Jiuy. oofce; ao August, o4c. Oats quiet but steady; No. 2 mixed cash, 5Kc; do Jane, tbU.: do Jnlv. StUo. Rta .aWt cu-l,.- Neglected. PorK Quiet; $112514.75 for new nieea. Lard Quiet; July, $6.86; August. ' $7.02. . . Live Stock: Cattle Trading alow at former prices; poorest to best native steers, $5.25a 150 10 ts; Coloradoea, $5.00; bolls and dry cows, $i2J0. Sheep and Lambs Both ahe.-p and lambs had a slow sale at a decline of 140 V ; clipped sheep, $A 5036.51 l liO ; clipped yearling lambs. $6.5ma7.S7; spring lambs, $7.75.26 V head. Hogs-Nosainally steady; Uve hogs, $4.4005.85 V 100 $. H 1 1. -.I i ni j 1 . n f s A 1 i i i V 3. 'V