Davenport Daily Leader (Newspaper) - August 20, 1893, Davenport, Iowa LARGEST CIRCULATION DAVENPORT V V TELEGRAPH REPORTS UNITED PRESS THIRD YEAR DAVENPORT AUGUST 1893 TWELVE PAGES Just One Minute 1 Of your please Have you heard about the Great Semi- Clearance Sale of Men's and Fine and 22.00 Suits for flie low price of 15.00 and 18.00 Suits for tlie low price of and 14.00 Suits for the low price of and Suits for the low price of hundreds to pick still all all Sacks and You're still in time to save 1 0 on a suit THEY FIGHT Kansans Resist on the Strip A Border Battle at Eagle MYSTERIOUS POISONING Three Children Dead and Mother nod Father Dying NEW Aug special to The Times from Little says Three m j dead another seriously the j mother dying and the father lying helpless on his back in a small cottage in the dence portion of the was the report received by the city authorities The head of the family is T a who came with his family recently to Texas for tie Rock from Dardanelle One of the a was taken suddenly and died in four hours After the child had been buried tbe mother was and compelled to take to her bed A day or two later the father was forced to his bed They suffered great like that nese Ohio Furnishes a Fatal ily of who had been poisoned The three remaining children were stricken down by the mysterious disease At 2 o'clock in the afternoon one of them died and another followed at o'clock The third child is dangerously ill The cian believes there was a poisonous stance in the well An analysis of the is DOW being Great Celebration at the lumbian Exposition STARTLING SENSATION Chars U it Man Suml for AUK A BEGAN WITH A BIG PARADE Ami with a Magnificent Display of at of the ia of Victoria Charles T Member of the Royal at the Inter- esting Ceremonies Aug British Cape Colony and minor colonies of Queen empire were represented iu the celebration of British Empire day at the exposition The Union Jack and the colonial flags floated from Victoria The Severe Miner Struggle in Can Only Pay 25 Aug of the most disastrous and complete bank ures that has occurred in Kansas is i of the Finney County Farmers bank From careful estimates its assets his shown that it will not by able to pay more I than per of its deposits the I opinion of Slate Bank 1 denthal its officers should be ami prosecuted for swindling The brink Certified checks on Savings Banks of Rock Island and Moline taken at par for accounts Crop Excellent Quality of the Finney County bank when dition List was converted into state bank a i A With j soldiers now patrolling strip ana tho trespassers reported ten miles south of i A party of fourteen Kansas cattlemen have been cutting hay for some i Their camp was raided about j break today by a body of United States j who ordered the men to vacate i and attempted to confiscate all the i equipment The Kansans and an of tuok place at close 1 resulting in the death of four of tho und wounding several others ou both The details are u is r LouN Zink of stole Adams Ex- press company here covered it before the and covered him a V prevails in thu town of near the northern boundary of the cor- told a pitiful story of the of an infant was given u solution potash in its milk by mistake for water This occurred July 7 and soon after the burial the Mr and Mrs Charles and the wife was turned out doors and was not allowed to come back She then instituted proceedings for di- vorce The husband retaliated by ing her with infanticide and made vit that she purposely poisoned the infant and him to cremate the remains The coroner commenced an disinterring the remains holding an autopsy with physicians irom the city The stomach of the babe was removed and to a chemist for analysis Train Captured Aug dastardly at tempt to wreck the Philadelphia and Erie was foiled by a freight crew The track on a five-mile curve in a secluded spot was obstructed ami pins The freight crew having discovered the notified Officers Higgins nnd as they closed in ou were fired upon by the latter had his clothes pierced by two bullets and lost his num but gius captured the other wrecker after a desperate buttle The wrecker is a man of gave his name as Edward a in addition to being I heavily had a burglar's kit with him Better Day Dawning for the Business World WEEKLY REVIEW OF R G DUN CO Faint Vet Definite of Improvement Business Trying to Go Without for Drain ou Savings Ranks Relieved Bat Small Decrease in Railway The Gold Imported During the Week Aug B G Dun Weekly Review of Trade There is a rift in the clouds Faint and yet definite of improvement are all the better be- cause they not from possibly de- hope's or from momentary foreign but from the good sense and ful recuperative power of tbe people selves Business is trying to go ahead without waiting for Im- ported or more during tha does not go to the right the people are creating a rency for themselves by using certified checks in paying settling local accounts and purchasing grain and cotton comes back as yet from timid and the paralysis of exchange is nearly as complete as but very fact pushes each section and city into ing more on itself and less on government and Wall street had been close there all the hi u French Paris The says of a fight be- tween juul Italian in least fifty were killed and were in the The Resumptions are now becoming hat aud iu the very shrinkage of production men evidence that de- mand must soon overtake supply iron does not but sells at here carried u ar- e Miner Strikes in and other the money He had to ilic C M Aug V ied a proclamation to out ibe city treasury that improvements be- can be employment iriven to many idle 1 lie had its to tied in i conr trie and junior the British side Iiv n n M l ration as ion wirh tha fair with ii society and civic parade r oc Mitchell bank In his the mayor to pay in or loan the cit Gimbel LIVERY STABLE Aup between I the aud the mine owners is no nearer a now than three when the strike In Midland f alone fully are idle In South Wales the situation is i so critical that more than infantry beside aud mule have j collected in anticipation of a miner's I jn a Fortieth In i riot The district is in a state of feverish and apprehension They tho CHICAGO and Harry Plumb of aged res pec lively and out the and then went n by Captain of the which madu its in Chicago as pare of Her return to in and bludgeons to Th e fc uf took HANDSOME FUNERAL CAR and NEW LANDAUS trie Service of the PICNIC AND EXCURSION WAGON OPEN DAY AND ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO A Border Tex Aug night I hundred federal commanded bv Maior directed bv surprised attacked a small party of camped at Oe near The troops one and then charged the t morning they discovered Arthur is in a with a rec verv in Victoria the British troops and baud in the tary ceremony only member of tlie royal present was Henry T who was instructed from Sir TO rake part lire arms frightful lights in the MM a farm were be- forthwith bv the and a ular an ian escaped he was hunted like a nil to and at Pittsburg for Xo the weekly output has been reduced -30 per May Though live concerns have failed and twenty-four have stopped during tiie fourteen have resumed ales of wool in seven weeks have been only pounds year and pounds in 3 Si I Somewhat cancellations are in dress goods and there is mere ing of full woolens Shipments of boots and shues from Boston since the end of June have a decrease of per but a little more demand L- now seen lived 1 to t he fact mixed with part that their the at fo has been issued b of tiie camp The strict are woli by a of in the Political and religious lines nor British patriotism Tbe went not exuberant from but discordant Irish K V r i ic and all receive 117 Jil Telephone No 22 i not to tiro upon federal troops leaving three of 1 1 number dead unon the their RANZOW Hall bath their will WHITE LEAD LINSEED OIL WOOD FILLERS Aug 19 Foliating are the scores of today's baseball -I o St Louis New vi 4 ATT First 10 Second A ri Called at the end of the seventh inning on account of darkness West Third Davenport A Fatal Family Aug village of Bascom five miles west of this was the scone of a riot between the be tilt to Their from Tlie be but wui probably be next t ill have been published by Tube Works that iin Aug a of the WV TKS will resume ut a of of from to 15 per The company expects to resume in within H JVw days in full the employes between me Scooped Worth of NEW Aug Press special from R Burglars K M Flack and Osterholt families in made a big haul They got into John which the former tho aggressors The trouble will result iu the death of ATLANTIC Frank and probably Osterholt Perry S Corner Van and Sherman Ills Southern and Rock Island Pacific Depoi Two Mocks from Grand Baltimore Ohio and Northern Depots Best Hotel In Chicago Fer JDay Want Protection for Coolies Aug iff called the governor tonight for the militia to protect 300 Chinese em- ployed iu the from the large gangs of idle men J F VOLZ MERCHANT TJ Ts presenting a well selected line of AND SUMMER and All Work Warranted Stylish and at Reasonable Prices BRADY ST JAS F Funeral Director and Embalmer Fall Stock of Koben and Wrappers Alwayn on Hand Furnished to Order OFFICE OPEN DAY AND NIGHT W THIRP ST 440 795 ST IOWA POWDER PUREST AND BEST Broke tlie FOKT Aug in the first heat won the free-for-all pace and lowered the stallion record to It was a magnificent burst of ing the animal the king of stallions Xew Very Aug first wheat of the new crop was received today from South Dakota The wheat is ex- in quality and grades No 1 ern Injured by Lightning Aug tho lightning several people were struck Miss and Mollio were fatally injured With such shrinkage in the grent in- it is surprising that railroad earnings do decline the decrease on reporting in August thus far be- in if 16 per cent The decrease of 25 per in clearings outside Xew last ami per cent This is only natural A little more money is now found for and failures of banks have become both important though the greatest caution is shown in accommodations The receivership for Northern Pacific had been freely discounted that it produced little though this is third great road default this and the aggregate stocks and bonds the three roads TO Prices of ties have yielded comparatively little Cotton fell cent with somewhat better the probable yield Movement of Corn t near the lowest figures business m their kuown of the in the the iji ST package of tu he at lost in this city last Tuesday night by C 13 for Simeon Dessau of Xew was by mail to the clerk of the hotel A letter companied package stating that the diamonds in a transfer omni- bus in which Mr Billings was a and the party found them learned the outers name through the press dis- patches The police regard the whole as A for the of president's the for an demand for un the Topeka ami Fe railway Merchants who ev in ber and coal Oklahoma visibly for though western receipts are not stocks on hand are far bo- yo the power of speculators to carry money markets in their present con- dition The movement of corn is se and reported in Boston and became a major in the volunteers Since the war he lias been a of New Origins aud been editor of The for thirteen years He was a thirty-second decree Mason SOUTH welcoming addresses were delivered by Ellis residence on Lower Bellevue Consul J Mayor avenue aud scooped iu the property of Mrs Hotl Mrs Ellis valued at They did tho job while the family were dining Negro Killed negro tramp went to the farm of Albert Horn and naked for Mrs Horn was alone and the tramp assaulted her Her screams brought her husband from the field the negro fied Two posses started in pursuit and a shore chase shot him dead the Record Four Aug the pacing race Hoy Wilkes broke the world's stallion pacing going a George E Gooch of Chicago Sir Henry T Commissioners Joseph Tasse and G R R Cockburn of Arthur Renwick of New South J J Grinlinton of M Berlinger of Cape M II Vincent of Trinidad J J Quelch of British and R of India The audience joined in the choruses of Patrick's Star and Save the The celebration ended with a magnificent display of fireworks at nicht mile in the last quarter in c Hail Damaging Crops Au Severe hail storms throughout the northwestern part of Minnesota today did immense damage to crops COSTS A Fatal Ang ker and three children wore drowned in the Missouri river tonight by the ing of a skiff They Have Settled Down Fire at Ta Aug Fire in the main ment of Kria Fish houses V destroyed a amount of fish nad appliances The tug Annie Laurie was also burned in- surance about an 18 ihc BOU Pressed Brick company made an in the county court in favor 01 Albert C Carues No of setts liabilities of Colombia Times special from Panama says that Francis the New York ering that the United States of Colombia NEW Aug ia quiet nt had a treaty f extradition with the United Newton this morning and no further the fugitive and his wife demonstration in feared left the city in the latter part of July Suicide of a Aug David G Foster of twelve miles on the Panhandle fired a bullet into his brain with total effect That his mind was affected there can be no question He arose at an early hour and visited a patient Returning home he greeted his family pleasantly and retired to his room to await breakfast A moment later a shot heard II is wife hurried to the room and found him lying on the bed with a revolver in his grasp and a stream of blood flowing from a wound in his head Surgical aid but the murderer never regained consciousness in i ST ham Grocery company made a n ment to C B the junior ber of the linn The assets are said to be approximately between aud 000 and the liabilities are between and The of the inent is inability to realize on the assets -is ft result o the present financial gency to the statement of cers of the company tho assignment ia not an serious as would appear at first glance They claim that i i a liquidation in court instead of out oj it VOKK Aug special to the Press from St Paul The Jack Barge mutch is off Gus Tut Dempsey's edges at last that not in his right mind aud says he will forfeit already up and Dempsey have left for Chicago Dempsey will be taken to a place near that cityt where he can be watched closely by his friends to be iu paying hands in this am adjacent states The commercial failures this week number 455 in the United States for the same week year Two of failures were of firms employing r capital others were employing over and were over Hail Stones as as Apples Aug Ac about Expelled from the Masons Aug B ex- pert in the of the city for- merly superintendent of county schools and principal of one of the schools in the and Harry a district expelled from the sonic fraternity by tho grand er gambled away the lodge funds and ford was guilty of dissipation and de- Juror Falls Out a Aug Frederick Mil a well-to-do fell from a win in the court lie was serving on a jury which had failed to agree and with the other jurors was locked in a room on the second of the house He went to sleep a window and MI breaking his several and injuring himself internally Poisoned Iiy The ily of J T a consisting of mother and four living in the suburbs of this were from drinking water from an old well Three of the children have died and the mother is dying The her and the only remaining child will recover Payment in Gold ST Aug Grain Exporter H C Hoars tick received in gold from for wheat shipped He demanded imd received tbe coin because of the high rate of exchange Mr Haarstick thinks this is one- solution of tho money and says other exporters intend following his example in the afternoon a storm came upon falo from the southwest wind with great force and it was accompanied by a hailstorm lasting fifteen minutes Hailstones as large as apples fell Every exposed pane of glass on the west side of every building was smashed After the the roofs were covered with as in winter Many trees were blown down and there were several narrow escapes from runaway teams There is no glass now in aud windows are boarded up until a supply can be had The weight of the storm fell further south Corn is badly damaged Girl Slashed with a Razor EAST ST Aug IS Lizzie the Mrs was assaulted by Peter Judge and seriously slashed in the neck with razor Judge boards the Schwabs and asked Lizzie to go out with him She refused and he slashed her with a cutting a gash from in front of her ear about four inches down her within half an inch of the carotid artery Her condition is very critical Disastrous Drought MeM Ang drouulit which prevails over nearly the entire state has reached a severity in the crop growing season for many years The situation is becoming worse every day Temporary relief has been afforded limited sections by light local but there are regions where scarcely aa inch has fallen during the summer tures are naked of feed and wells and springs arc drying up i Groat Railway Consolidation NEW Aug 10 special to Press from St The Press 1.1 v fl correspondent has learned from inside sources that a movement is on foot to start iv new company with lames 1 Hill nt the head for tho purpose of consolidating tho Northern Pacific and tho Great Northern railway which include practically the whole northwest
