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-4 k. Rock Island Daily VOL.XXXIX.no. 268 ROCK ISLAND, MONDAY, AUGUST 31, '1891. Single Oopia 0 Cents. Per Week 18 ffonts. Arg us. mm i SCHOOL SUITS, Children's Suits 3E OwEST PRICES And by far the Largest Assortment at the -The Only and Best Place To Trade- Special attention called to our fall line which comprises all the new novelties prices consistent with the highest grade of workmanship and material. lowest at London Cloli Company. WON A $70,000 STAKE. . A His Kim That M ill Take a Lawsuit ta Finally Settle. New York, Aug. 8L The Coney Island Jockey club began their season Saturday wipta a card on Which there was a race that was worth to the wiuner 170,000. and to the second horse ovr f.j,OX the Futurity : stakes and that will Ie noted for another . thing, a big lawsuit before it is settled , which horse gets the :.,000. His High new gets the Si 0,000, having led the second ' horse undtr tlie wire by a length, after an exciting race in which twenty-two horses started. Only four were "in if at the -close, however His Highness, Hruron," Yorkvillo Belle and D:guuet. Distance, mile; time, 1:15 t His Highness car riad the great weight for a -year-o4d of 130 pounds, 12 mora than Huron, who car ried next heavit-st, weight. ' The Trouble Over Huron. Notwithstanding the feci that Huron was second he was not recognized "by tho judges and the money was awarded to Yoakville Belle, and this will cause a raw- ,4 sait. The controversy i over fh'e Que tioo whether Huroa was Kuratbked of not. lie was properly cntored, but later was sold to Cowigiiu. Tjie ractf-ceu rse mana gers assert tliat still later iiTTron was scratched, while Ctorrigaa says he was hot. Corriijan sent Fitzparrirk east to ride the horse, and obtained an order from coart that he should be permitted to run. At first the Judges refused to let Huron's rider weigh, but later they waived that point bui announced, neverrtieless, that ' Huron was not in the race, and ordered pool-sellers to leave him out of their lists. The matter will now be decided in the courts. - .'V Closing Day at Independence. -, lxnEp8sDESCE,.Ia.. Aug. 31 Saturday was the sixth and last day of the meeting heae. The track was rather slow. The first race called was the unfinished 3:30 pace for S,00. Telegram, who won the first heat Friday, took the race by win ning the firth aud sixth heats with ease. The second race called was the 3:30 stake for trotters, purse, ti.OOO. Pat Downing, tire favorite, took all three heats with comparative ease. None of fhe tttne was pneuotneual. Will Be Either Krnutional or Faooy. Chicago, Aug. 31 The postponed race between Kiugstou aad Van Iiurffe at a uille and a sixteenth, toaoial welcts. far M.OOTJ added money, wHl be run at Gar field park track to-day.- The race prom ises to be either one of the most sensational or luJrcious events of the turf season. ABBREVIATED TEEEGRAMS. President Harrison reached Cape May Point Saturday at 4:10 p. m. iu safety. The First National bauk of Nocona. Tex., capital eoO.000, has beea autli orized to begin business. Over iWO people were kHIed by a typhoon iu Japan Aug. HJ. The Demorest Fashion aud-Sewkii; Ma chine company, of Pennsylvania, has. made an assignment. .In Delaware this year the pics live hiah. The formers are feeding them on peaches instead of selling the latter at the low prices offered. Private parties are going to continue rainmaking experiments in Texas on the plan pursued by the Dyrenforth party for the government. SfcThe Illinois Russian Colonization society nas been incorporated at Springfield, with the object of colonizing Russian Jews in mat state. Six persons were injured by a calUsion at the crossing at Lodi., O., of the Wheel ing and Lake Erie, andT.be Baltimore and Uuio railways. Mrs. Dr. H. K. Jones, widely known in Illinois literary circles, writing under the name of "Aunt Biddy," died at Jackson ville, Ills., yesterday. Sir William Gordon Cummines and his wife will visit New York in October. A mob at Kjtst bourne, England, at tacked the Salvation Army parade and brok! if up. A free light ensued, in which hundreds of heads were broken. Mis Frances E. WUlard has cancelled all her fall engagements for addresses, uwmf: iu lue iwoieness oi ner motner. Horace White savs he will make the race for governor of New York if the con vention nominates him unanimously on a (uauuriu iu sun uiru. Governor Boise, of Iowa, addressed a large audience at Spirit Lake, dealing largely with the liquor question and arguiug against prouobuaon. The Negro veterans ot Louisiana will make a fizht against every white G." A- tt. . man who tries to be selected as delegate to the national Kepablican convention. Ibis by way of tret ting even for the at tempt to draw the color line. Major Wm. Tillman, hite cashier of the broken Falls City bank, Louisville, is a fugitive in 'Canada aud has stolen from t75,OO0 to JiOO.O ) of the bank's money. His bond amouuts to iSO.00O. William Trunbarger shot James San ders at Carterville. 111., seriously wound ing him. Tranbaiger's wife was the cause. Her husband suspected her fidelity an 1 raught her and Sanders coming home iu a buggy at 2 o'clock a, m. A great crowd of people at Raleigh. N. C, paid 25 cents a head to see thirtv-nlne lashes administered to each of two negroes who had been awarded that punishment by the court. The negroes had agreed to me scneme ana got tne money. Condemnation proceedings have been begun for the right-of-way of the Henna- pin can al. Seem To Be a Bad Breed. CoLCMBUb, Ind., Aug. 31, Saturday night Mose aud George Dobson were re leased from the county jarl here after serving a sentence for wife -beating. The wives were sisters naraeol Sanders. Marion Dodson, a brother, is serving a sentence in the penitentiary for larceny, and upon bis release is to marry odas Sanders, a sister of the twp wires above mentioned . James Dobson,' another brother, Fri day brought sui t for divorce froth Bis wife. Two yeamftt AjrWoss Hi JWson, also brother, whiraed hie wife at Osgood- this state, w&en his .father-in-law grabbed up an ax and split his head open, killing him instantly. Bank FaUare la WUaeauia. Majusotf, Wis., Aaj. C Branson, Draper & Co., berJkers af Maaottanie, have assigned. The assets ars faT.OOO sad te nominal liafcaUOes ahoat Warm Cfcoeolate, ranilla and peach ice ere? m ' tad tenon toe at KreH Math'.