Davenport Daily Leader (Newspaper) - July 31, 1894, Davenport, Iowa O J r O r r i Lit r T r J t The Largest Circulation of any Daily in Davenport and Scott County I LEADING s p -i LEADER It Pays Them YEAH JULT 31 1894 EIGHT PAGES 300 Children's Fine Light and Medium Weight Knee Pants Suits At Half Those sold at and All go at Those sold at and All go at Those sold at and All go at Don't fail to see these great values 1 buys a pair of knee pants worth 350 buys a pair of our celebrated One Dollar guaranteed never to rip Knee Pants City Ball Rock Island and Moline EIGHT COMMENCING r Brilliantly Lighted The Spectacular Pageant Ever AMERICUS 3 Beautiful Superb Magnificent Fire Novel Specialties Including Hassan Ben Ali's Tronpe of Bedoin 22 in Battle Scene An Enormous of Pieces 400 People Capacity Admission 50 Cents Rates on all Railroads Excursion Steamboat and Lines C J President S P Secretary S Solicitor CHICAGO GRANItOID CO GRANITOID AND 1 and Basement Floors 456 THE HEAP The Japs and Chinamen are Hard at A SCORCHER AT MINNEAPOLIS A Man of War Captured and Two Cruisers Precautions Against More Cholera at Another Iowa Town Suffers From i The Wrong Road JULIET July Inman aged the son of a prominent made an attempt at suicide this morning by cutting his throat He will recover The cause was the loss of money by gambling John Dead July John Murray the respected author of the prohibitory act bearing his died Sunday of yellow fever at Nueva Mexico He was at the head of a colony of sas men engaged in coffee raising iu EAGLE GEOVE Iowa fire j here hist deM roved eighteen j n Q t houses and two residences with a Fire Lioka Up About Half a Million lars in July third dis- tire in the history of Minneapolis broke out about o'clock yesterday afternoon in the lumber yards of the lin Carpenter on the bank of the river at the foot of Eight avenue north It- spread with remarkable and before it was controlled had property valued at nearly Besides twenty million feet of the manufacturing plant of the Railroad the round tool sand house and of that nearly forty freight of them loaded the office building of the Shevlin Carpenter were burned The saw the planing drying kilns and storehouse for mouldings and prepared although in the very heart of the fire were saved by the forts of the aided by the fortuitous change in the direction of the wind Help was summoned from St Paul to stay the and seven en- gines with full crews were sent over that city The insurance will be about The fire caused the greatest excitement and brought tens of thousands of the ple to the from a radius of a score of miles It was not long after the blaze was first noticed when the heac became so in- tense that the crowd was forced and it was well they because in less than an hour two tanks containing gas used by the Omaha railroad company in lighting their cars under the ex- with terrific hurling ments of steel H long distance Oue piece weighing fully pounds was carried several blocks and dropped in the railroad A boiler also but caused no loss of life Employes of the railroad company at the risk of their lives and with faces and hands blistered by the fearful rushed into the fiercest of the saved ten dead locomotives and nearly 100 many of them emerging from the sea of flame charred and damaged by the strom of through which were ALL The Militia Force to be ened at to Begin Work at A Dynamite Explosion Kills Three The Report of the Conferees Ready 4 i fc j fc rf x r I I loss of Insurance light The brought Incoming and outgoing trains j water supply rowly escaped scant hnd the town Victor Militia to be Sent Home CHICAGO July 31 As a resalt of the conference the mayor and Vice- President of rhe Pullman com- pany it was decided to call in eight of the twelve companies of state militia of the regiment in the dis- of Mr does not any and the shops will probably be opened this week It is said the Pullman company will either resume operations with the old men or not at all After the conference a telegram was sent Governor Altgeld suggesting he withdraw eight of the twelve companies of militia on duty in the Pullman district naval bat tie between the Chinese and Com fleets vas fought yesterday July 30 The with insurance Chinese man of war was sunk and two captured by the nese lo He to Them I TM M 1 ij I J I rt f j I riOME J lie v v j issued a circular letter to prefects in- j them to refrain from j ing anarchists and socialists who are I keeping within the of the new were delayed several the tire being adjacent to and within a short distance of the Union Station and its network of tracks Revised figures place the loss of the pany at Tne loss to the Omaha Railroad including cars will be covered by blanket insurance Losses by cnrs burned belonging to companies will swell the rouil to upwards of a million Murder acd Suicide tSD Ore July 1 Mees a killed his wife here day night a hatchet she slept He then hanged himself He suspected his of intimacy the neighbors A Spanish Malay government is by Fire FALLS July city is tilled with dense smoke from forest fires which are destroying timber in all directions Citizens are much concerned and the lire department has been called out and will keep watch on the out- skirts Xo danter is apprehended from the forest but there is a great deal of underbrush ou all sides if started by sparks from the ment would be to cope with A great many people have arrived here from Phillips with hut the clothes they had on They stories of the disaster overtook that town GRIND Mich July The Republican state convention was called to order at- 10 o'clock this morning by Secretary Mayor Fisher made the welcome address Temporary Chairman was then introduced In his speech he paid compliments to the son tariff and paid a glowing tri- bute to James G Blaine whom he as the of Dr Smith of Adrian was made temporary secretary and the usual committees were appointed A Fatal CHICAGO July 31 An explosion of dynamite at noon today at the atone quarries of Dolese Shepard at blew up the boilers in the engine house near by killing three workmen Experiments for the crushing of stone were being made The Labor July 31 The labor com- mission to investigate strikes had a four session today and decided that the investigation would at Chicago at a date not vet known informed that on July 20 Spanish troops at fought a battle with rebel Malays at that place and routed them with of 250 killed To Prevent Spread of the Some Danger at Kau Claire EAU July I ble alarm exists here in consequence of the proximity of tbe woods and the continued drought Dense smoke tills the city Acting Mayor Fair has seut out a MARSEILLES July to the cholera epidemic here the government i picket line of watchmen to be on duty at has ordered stringent precautions to be taken at all Spanish ports and on the frontier i In the Early July brothers named were hanged heie it this morning for the murder of Norman Hopson October last A Political Split Mich July was decided upon this morning that Mayt r Pingree of Detroit will ran on a ticket for governor This Year July governor has forbidden the usual pilgrimage to on account of the prevalence of cholera July 3 LOCAL REFERENCES T K W F JM 1 L L in Detroit July The whaleback steamer Pathfinder ran down a small thought to be the CHad on the Detroit river between Mammy Judy and Grassy Island lights It is believed the crew of four of the unknown boat as not a vestige of the can be seen When the Struck the schooner a quantity of rigging and canvas fell across the but nothing seen whatever of the schooner after the disaster and it ia posed that she went down instantly Declined to Answer July Mr of the brokerage firm of Seymour Bros Young of Xew was again before the sugar trust investigation committee He persisted in bis declination to answer the questions of the committee as to whether senators had in stocks through his firm and did any information of any kind to the in- i Broken In Iowa Raia Is falling breaking a long drought A Rock states that rain fell there It is thought the storm covers a large Sentenced to Death DBS June John Hammill and Leo Weems for the murder of Con- ductor Ridpath were sentenced be hanged Ang 1895 i for Th 4 work night around the city limits The fire de- has been and nil manufacturing plants and lumber yards are being guarded by extra watchmen Fire broke out in one of the Northwestern Lumber company's mills but was quickly extinguished Burned to in Forest Fire July special to The Commercial Gazette from William an aged was surrounded by forest fire was fighting and burned to death Out All the Copper July tendent of the Copper Mint company in Kewaunee has received orders the directors at ton to abandon the mine This closes a forty-year term of continuous operation of this mine The shut down is due to the utter exhaustion of the vein Four hundred wholly dependent upon the are out of employment Ml tiers Still July miners are out with another manifesto declaring that they will not work unless they are paid the Columbus which they claim is not doue as they are not furnished pushers aud are required to do their own brushing They sny they are Woodford county paupers and the county will havo to support them unless they the price demanded That Santa Fo Report Denied A the eral solicitor of the Santa Fe for has received the following dispatch from General Solicitor George R who is at Coney is absolutely no truth in the rumor with respect to the cancellation of contracts with members of labor organization si is a malicious started by some one to damage the Report Will be Keady July Democratic c of both houses met this ing A member stated the report would be ready to submit to the whole ence by Thursday Wisconsin Forest Fires Subdued ST July general offices of the lines in the Wisconsin forest fire district report the danger past and the fires subdued to a point where they will nor cause any further damage Here and there are isolated it is but they are not in a position to do any harm Two Cause a Strike July miners at the Wabash Coal company's mine at hare struck be- cause the superintendent discharged two men because he thought they were not coal enough to paying them 45 cents per gross Shot Sweetheart's ST July who shot and killed Thomas band of a to whom though paying called at tnu Four and surrendered himself He was locked up Hs claims self defense at 10 Cents Banket SAN July fruit re- here unusually large At the wharves alone over boxes of fruit of different varieties lauded The glut of the market was so great that peaches were disposed of at 10 cents per basket Pears sold correspondingly low Shaken by July earthquake shock has been felt in this Windows walls Md clocks wert stopped ii of TOUT that Lira bwa i Vi 4 The Jealous 31 ore July Handle killed his splitting her head open with an axe He was and his wife having taken a ride with two men he killed her upon her return Handle fled to the terri lory a Nomination senate in executive session the nomination of Edward J of New to be collector of customs for the dis trice of N Y to Again July J C Burrows was unanimously for congress by the Republicans of the Third district The action was by a rising vote How Is Tills for a Summer July hundred and five in the shade was the record here Sunday it was and for ten days it has riot been below Senator Voorliees Is Xo Better July hees general condition has not changed He atiu pain and is not resting very well Lending College in Burned July leading educational of north at Delta wiu by fire i i II i i Him i i of Crops ST severe hailstorm did much damage in Stevens county near the Pope county line The townships of Swan Lake and and south towards suffered most From five to ten thousand acres were stripped of all growing while a greater amount of territory was partly destroyed This is the third season that a hail storm has visited the same locality Constitutional Amendment July of Texas has introduced a resolution for an amendment to the constitution to give congress jurisdiction over trusts The amendment proposed is as aud monopolies dealing in agricultural products or other articles of prime sity shall not exist in the United and congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate 31 list Go To Work or Move July 31 The Coal mines have notified their miners give up possession of the houses which they rent or go to work A small number went down to repair the mine without protection and a large number promised to report for work The ad- joining mines of tne Big Muddy Coal and Irou company are working with new men under protection of deputy warshaU Developed as a Slick Thief July a young has suddenly and mysteri disappeared from this city He represented several grocery firms located in Louis and New has sold their goods for spot cash away below the market price and pocketed the money He had taken an active interest in Y M C A a and frequently led in devotional 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