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THE NEWS IN BRIEF. AIL TALK OF WAR. IOWA NEWS TODAY AT WASHINGTON. The only Hjjh 1 Offered mokfo.ferpncc; tt TT'TTYnrnmr qvw MORE FLOODS COMING. Heavy Balnfall Along the Ohio Starts That Stream to Rising Again.

Cincinnati, March 5. Since last night there has been a rainfall in this vicinity of four Inches. All the small streams are swelled to torrents, and the Ohio river is expected to again take on flood proportions. The town of Lock land is inundated. At Cummingsvilie, In the northern part of this city, houses have been moved from foundations, and much damage has been done in the country.

The Midland train due here this morning was wrecked near Hills' station. Loss of life la reported. Illinois Democratic Leader Dead. Quincy, March 5. Senator Albert Wells, leader of the democratic party in the Illinois legislature, died here this morning of liver trouble.

ANNUAL MEETING. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Iowa Telephone company, for the purpose of electing nine directors for the ensuing year, and for transacting such other business as may come before the meeting, will be held on Thursday, March 11 th, at 11 o'clock a. at the office of the company In Mc Manns building. March 8d, 1897. A- Cuttkb, marclUMrt.

Secretary. INTELLIGENCE COLUMN AOINT8 AND HELP WAHTKD. AGENTS For "Acme! gas burner; sates 20 to 40 per cent; quick seller; big money to agents; sample burner 20c. Earle 31 lnsur-ance Exchange St. Louis.

5 WORK A good man. steady habits, wants work. Shop, store or anywhere. Address Chris. Jahr, South Mollne, III.

4 -T7ANTED First class horse shoer. Ad dreg THE WORST ON RECORD. Flo ton's Sabwa? Explosion Killed and Maimed and Ruined Beyond Precedent. Boston, March 5. The gas explosion in the subway ot this city yesterday was the worst Bucb accident on record.

Six persons were killed outright, three were Injured bo that they have since died, over fifty were seriously Injured, and are scattered among the various hospitals here, and more than that many received lesser Injuries, but were able to get to their homes. Horses were killed and blocked the streets. Great blazes poured upward into the air. The, shock, noise and concussion were those of a great cannon. The foundation of large adjacent buildings have been weakened, and they may be ruined.

And there is still other damage to hear from. DUE TO ELECTROLYSIS. It appears that the explosion was that of a collection of ordinary illuminating gas, that had been for a long time leaking from a hole in a gas main in the street, and that the hole in question was due to electrolysis; the chemical or corrosive action by which the electrical currents in the earth manifest themselves on lines pipe. The hole was quite large, and well rusted, so it was evidently an old one, and the leak had long been in progress. HAS A CHANGE OF HEART.

The A. P. A. Is Going to Fight Principles Instead of Men Hereafter. St.

Louis, March 5f The A. P. A. is about to make a change in the policy it has advocated since its inception nine years ago. It appears many of the leaders of the organization have experienced a change of conviction and sentiment, and that the order, if it continues its existence, will do so on a radically different basis from that on which it has operated in the past.

II. A. Thompson, a leader in the A. P. A.

in St. Louis for the past five years and a member of the national advisory board in 1895-6, said the organization would, through the local advisory board, issue the usual leaflet or circular telling which candidates were Catholies or under Catholic influence, but that nothing further would be done in the spring election. In speaking of the general work of the A. P. Mr.

Thompson said: MI am fully convinced now that the A. P. A. has expended its energies in the wrong direction and has failed to pursue the wisest course. Our policy has been to defeat any member of the Roman Catholic church who was a candidate for oflice, regardless of his personal merits or demerits.

Now, I believe there are thousands and hundreds of thousands of Catho BRIGHTEST BARGAINS i in i Brass and Iron Beds, Dressing Tables, and Chiffioneres, Davenport, Iowa I At Prices That Will Not Fail to Please. W. S. Holbrook I The Ideal 103-105-107 East Second St. TELEPHONE Is always sought aftci as applied to Heating Lighting and Plumb ing in modern homes.

It May Be Found at The Davenport Steam Heating Co' HAPPINESS SECURE Chicago will enforce her cigaret law. The streetcar lobby of Indiana went to sleep Thursday, and the bill for 3-cent btreet car fares was passed. Empress Elizabeth of Austria has been taken seriously 111, and there is great anxiety In official circles. The wagon factory of A. Streicht Oskosb, is in ashes; a loss of $100,000.

Queen Lil was an interested attendant on the ceremony of closing the old and opening the new senate Thursday. The B. O. wrecking train was wrecked near Zanesville, Thursday, and three trainmen were killed. Duhme jewelers, ot Cincinnati, have assiamed.

Assets, liabilities unknown. Four thousand cloakmakers in New York have struck, and it Is thought that the number may be swelled to The San Francisco health department la making wholesale arrests of sellers of impure food, of which the city has had a surfeit. The Nebraska senate, Thursday evening, passed the house bill repealing the sugar bounty in that state, and the governor will sign it. At noon, Thursday, G. W.

Atkinson was inaugurated governor of West Virginia, and for the first time in 25 years the republicans control this state Jim Cross, recently from Tennessee has been nipped by revenue officers for running a moonshine still at Carmi, 111 It was one nip too many for Jim. Convicts from a smallpox infected jail at Dayton, have been sent to the Columbus penitentiary, and that institution is now under rigid quarantine. Farmers of Kansas are going to drop fall wheat for spring wheat. Changes In the demand for these grains indicate that spring wheat will be their best crop. The late storms have created much havoc among Spanish shipping, and lives have been lost.

The storm raged fiercely all along the Atlantic coast of southern Europe. DeKalb county, has just discovered that in the past 20 years it has been stolen blind by dishonest officials, their peculations, embezzlements, and other filchings aggregating $100,000. Senator Wolcott of Colorado insists that there is every reason to be hopeful that the great powers of Europe will stand in with Colorado on a free coinage scheme, or words to that effect. Mr. and Mrs.

Jos. McKee of Nile. are dead; killed by a Grand Trunk train at a grade crossing. Their two horses were also killed, but a little cirild, though thrown some distance, escaped unharmed Oconto, Mich, has reduced the tax assessment on everything in its limits but two big lumber companies. They have ref UBed to pay their tax.

The city has notified them that it will not furnish them fire protection. The midnight music of cats so annoyed Jerome Summers of Weavet-vilie, N. that he hurried out barefooted with his pistol to shoot them. In the yard he stepped on a rusty nail, which caused lockjaw, and in ten days he died. Col.

W. C. Crilly, of the staff of Gov. Tanner of Illinois, was fatally injured in the inaugural parade Thursday. His horse was a vicious brute that reared and fell backward on him as he was dismounting, and crushed him terribly.

To the English parliamentary committee that is looking into Dr Jameson's Transvaal raid, Cecil Rhodes mild vaafaitflaiT tKof Via maa roolir 4 assist in another raid and revolution i in the Transvaal, but next time he did this he would do so legally. process of casting copper pure, without alloy, has just been discovered. It will greatly cheapen much electrical copper work, and render possible many improvements that have not been possible, not to mention stimulation of this industry. Robert Patterson of Grand Rapids, has sued Dr. Golden Hamilton for $25,000 for alienation ot the affection of his wife.

Mrs. Patterson, upon being remonstrated with by her husband, fired him out of the house, which she happens to own, and he is out yet. The Wisconsin assembly has passed- a bill which forbids 6tate aid to any school in which sectarian instruction is given or in which there are teachers wearing the insignia of any creed. If it becomes a law it will affect a large number of schools, some almoat within sight of the state house. Chas.

L. Sutherland, B. Q. ex press messenger, fell off a train near Galesburg Thursday, at 45 miles an hour, and lit on his ear. His face was a little bruised, but he got up all right, walked a mile to a farmhouse, and was hauled to town in good order.

He holds the belt. A Chicago dime museum has come to the rescue of Elizur Sage, brother of Russell Sage, New York's 60-miluon-aire. It offers Elizur and his son, Rus sell Sage, $50 a week to sit and be looked at, among otner curiosities, tor a term of 10 weeks. This would be making money faster than it could be made on the Sage homestead, and would soon raise the $50 mortgage re cently given to Russell Sage, and it may be accepted. The bill to knock out the Chicago department stores has been submitted to a meeting of representatives ot those stores, and accepted by them as satisfactory.

Now will follow the ef fort to push it through the legislature, Meantime the big stores that are thus opposed, enough nothing nas neen heard from them, may be supposed to be laying a tew underground pipes tnemseives. The Wisconsin legislature has scared the aldermen of Milwaukee almost to death by the good prospect that the bill abolishing the council of that city is to be passed. The bill was regarded as a joke at first, and no- attention was paid to it, but it is getting to be a serious matter, it proposes to establish two houses of city government, on the plan of the state and' national gov ernment, i THEY ALL LOST. Flayed Poker for a Girl's Hand and Ended With a Funeral. New York, March 5..

Italians at Mount Vernon last night played poker for the hand of Mary Ladilno. Francisco Salviero showed four aces. The others accused him of cheating and pulled their revolvers. Salviero is dying in the hospital with six bullets in his body. The four others are in jail.

The girl is hysterical and says that if salviero dies she wants to die, too. An Arkansas Mine Horror. Huntington, March 5. An ex plosion, from some unknown cauRe, in the mine of the Kansas Texas Coal company, last night, caused the death of Bud Hanley and the severe, and in some cases the fatal burning of db others. Japan Wants the Earth.

New York, March 5. The Journal's Berlin special points to an alleged plan on the part of the Japanese to annex Hawaii. It says that the Japanese policy is to control the whole Austra lian Believed of Terrible Pains. R. E.

Morse, Traveling Salesman Galveston, says: Ballard's Snow Liniment cured me of Rheumatism of three months standing after use of two bottles. J. S. Doan, Danville, HL, says 1 have used Ballard's Snow Lini ment tor years and would not be without it. J.

Crouch, Rio, 111., Bays Ballord's Snow Liniment cured terrible pains in back of Head and neck when nothing else would. Dottie guar, anteed. Price 50 cents. Sold by E. The European Concert Becomes Very Karshly Discordant, George of Greece Prefers Annihilation to Dictation.

Greece May Feel Impelled to Actively Ivnade Turkey. Turkey Massing Troops and Ships in Force. She Wants an Explanation, While Italy Demands Apology. European Markets Exoited, and an Explosion Imminent. Athens, March 5.

King George, in an interview today said: "Greece is unable to bear any longer the strain caused by the constant Cretan revolutions. Our finances will not permit us to support the refugees, who number 17,000. The autonomy of Crete is out of the question, because the Cretans have lost faith in the promises of the powers. They prefer to die in their own defense, rather than be slaughtered like the Armenians. The recall of the Greek troops from Crete would be the signal for new massacres on a large scale." MAT HAVE TO INVADE TURKEY.

Premier Delyannis is reported to have expressed the tear that the national clamor will yet compel the government to invade Turkey. He added, that Greece will prefer to disappear from the map to withdrawing her forces from Crete in the face of threats. Athens, March 5. There is no longer any doubt that the reply of Greece to the identical notes of the powers, de-lievered on Monday last, and insisting on the Greek fleet and troops leaving Crete within six days from that date, will be negative. The reply of the Greek government will explain the reasons why Greece cannot recall her forces and why she considers the scheme for autonomy, proposed by the powers, to be inapplicable to Crete.

It is stated that the government has decided to call out the army reserves of 1890, 1889 and 1888 and that this step will be followed by a general mobilization of the Greek forces. Meetings in favor of war with Turkey and resistance to the powers are of daily occurrence, especially in Thessaly. Explanations are Demanded. Constantinople, March 5. Turkey asks the ambassadors ot the Powers to explain the meaning of the words, in their note to Turkey, to the effect that Crete will not be annexed to Greece "at the present juncture," and that an autonomous regime" will be conferred upon the island.

Turkey wants these terms precisely defined. Italy demands formal satisfaction for the firing of the shot across the bows of the Italian steamer passing through the straits of the Dardanelles Tuesday evening, by the Turkish fort. Turkey's Fighting Force. London, March 5. A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Constantinople says that the special commission appointed by the Porte to inquire into the condition of tbe Turkish fleet has reported to the sultan that 22 vessels are ready for service.

The admiral of the warship Faud, in a counter report, has given the sultan a less rosy version of the real condition of the fleet. The military commission has reported to the sultan that 72,000 troops have been already mobilized or dispatched to the frontier. Orders will be given tonight to raise the number to 120,000. War Uellered Imminent. London, Marcn 5.

It is generally believed that war between "Greece and Turkey is Imminent. This is felt in the dispatches signed by hundreds of liberals and members 'of the house sympathizing with the king of Greece and the stand he has taken on behalf ot Crete. European Stocks Panicky. London, March 5. The scare on the stock exchange continues today, on the news from Athens.

Consols have declined one-half. Foreign securities are greatly depressed. Berlin, Paris and Vienna all opened pacicky. France Strengthens Her Nary. Toulon, March 5.

Three battleships and a cruiser have been ordered to sail immediately for the island of Crete to re-enforce the French fleet in those waters. MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. H. J. TOHER Brokers.

Grain, Provisions, Stocks and Bonds. 109 Main street, Davenport, Iowa. Chicago, March 5, 1897. Open'R HIgh'st Lowest Close WHEAT. Cash.

May July 75'4 73 75 76 73 75 75H 72X 75 70 78 CORN. Cash. 23 25 23'4 24 25 23 J4 23 24 25 May 24H July. OATS. Cash.

15 17k 18 16 17? 15 16 17 18 May 17 July. 18 POBK. Cash. 8 IS 8.25 8.42 8.25 8.87 8.45 8.15 8.22-8.35 8.25 8.85 8.45 May July. LABD.

Cash. 4.10 4.20 4.25- 4.10 4.22 4.30 4.07 4.17 4.25 4.10 4.20 4.27- May. BIBS. Cash. 4.32 4.35 4.42 4.S5 4.40 4.50 4.82-4.32-4.42 4.35 4.87 4.47 May July.

Chicago Live Stock. Chicago. March 5, 1897. Hoes Receipts 23.000: active: 5c a 10c hlerher: light 3.70O3.85; mixed 8.603.80; heavy 8.45453.80. Cattle Receipts 4.000: autet: beeves 8.65&5.10: cows 2.0044.26: Teians 3.201.25: stockers and leaders 3.254.20.

Sheep Receipts 8.000: steaay. New York Stock Markets. New Yohk, March 6, 1897. The following are the closlne prices of tha New York Stock Markets: Saar 117X Chicago Gas 77 O. R.

1. 68 C. B. 76 St. Paul 76 Manhattan 86 American Tobacco 74 W.

U. T. Co 83 C. N. 106 Atchison 12 Mo.

Pacific 22 Jersey Central 95 New York Grain and Prorislon. New Tobk, March 5. 1897. Wheat May 82. Corn May 30.

Oats May 21. Butter Steady: I0ai9. EKggs Firm; 1213. Louis. St.

Louis, March 5, 1697. Wheat-Cash. 9292 May 88. Corn Cash 20; May 22. Oats-Cash 17; May is.

Peoria Grain. i i peobta. March 5, Corn-Higher; No. 2. 20.

Oats firm; No, 2 whlU Rye Nonuoai. McKinley Enters on His Presidential Duties kEarIy. Thousands of Callers Surround the Executive Mansion. Cabinet Nominations Will all Be Confirmed. Czar Reed Apparently Sure of the Speakership Again.

Silver Senators Make a Stand Against Lyman J. Gage. Secretary Olney will Hold on Till Sherman is Ready. Washington, March 5. President McKinley breakfasted this morning at 8 and an hour later began work in his private oflice.

Crowds were already clamoring for admission, bat the doors were closed against them till 10. Culloom, of Illinoiss was among the first to gain the presidents ear. Later the six members of Cleveland's cabinet called in a body, and spent a quarter of an hour with the president. Secretary Olney received a cable from Consul General Lee, at Havana, saying that all is quiet there, and that be hoped to secure the prompt trials of all imprisoned- Americans; the innocent to be released; the guilty to be sent out of the island. OLNEY TO HOLD ON.

Later in the day. Secretary Olney called alone. In view of the fact that Secretary Sherman will not be ready to begin the discharge of his official duties till Monday, the president requested Mr. Olney to remain at the head of his department till then, which he consented to do. THE CROWDS ARE IMMENSE.

Meantime the crowds about the executive mansion swelled into thousands. Among the Crst of the organizations received by the president in the east room, were the veterans who had served with him in the 3d Ohio ln-raitry. For each of these grizzled warriors the president had a pleasant word and handshake. IJf CONOKESS. Seoate Action on Cabinet Name -Reed for Speaker.

SENATE. The President sent in the following nominations for members of his cabinet: Secretary of State John Sherman of Ohio. Secretary of the Treasury Lyman J. Gage of Illinois. Secretary of War Oen.

Russell A. Alger of Michigan, Secretary of the Navy John D.Long of Massachusetts. Secretary of the Interior Cornelius N. BUbs of New York. Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson of Iowa.

Attorney General John McKennaof California. Postmaster-Genoral James A. Gary of Maryland. Mark Ilanna was sworn in to succeed Senator John Sherman, resigned. No objection was made to the nomination of any of the members of the cabinet, but they were all referred to committees, except that of Sherman, who, in accordance with the custom in cases ot senators, was confirmed at once.

SILVER MEN AND GAGE. The first nomination taken up when the senate reconvened this afternoon was that of Lyman J. Gage to the secretaryship of the treasury. This nomination caused considerable discussion. The silver senators, who did the talking, said that they did not intend to Interpose any objection to his confirmation, but they wanted to make it plain that, while there were pledges by the new administration for bimetallism, the new secretary, they said, is a gold man.

The other nominations were confirmed without discussion, and the senate adjourned till Monday. HOUSE. Grosvenor, chairman of the house republican caucus, has called a caucus for the evening of March 13, to decide on the speakership and other matters. T. B.

Reed of Maine will probably have no opposition. Herbert Will Practice Law. Washington, March 5. Secretary Herbert announced today that he would open a law oflice here at an early day and resume the professien which he abandoned many years ago. The secretary has been in public life 20 years, 16 years a member of the house of representatives.and four years in the cabinet, and enjoys a large public acquaintance.

His practice will be be- lore congressional committees, the depart men Wood Succeed Joe Blackburn. Frankfort, March 5. Gov. Bradley has announced the appointment of A. T.

Wood of Mt. Sterling, Kyto sue ceed J. S. C. Blackburn as United States senator.

He has also called an extra session of the legislature for March 13, to elect him senator. ood has been a republican leader for many A New Witness Found. Cincinnati, March 5. It is alleged that a new witness has been discovered in the Pearl Bryan murder mystery, whose testimony clinches WaHinaa connection with the crime, despite his numerous denials. Sebastian Dreilinar, a shoemaker, opposite Wallmgford's saloon, says Scott Jackson and VValling led the girl to the cab on that fatal night.

He has lived sileDt for months within a stone's throw of the Central police station. Dreiiing claims that the driver of the cab was a white man, not colored Coachman George Jackson, as he claimed on the witness stand. This confirms the theory that a third party, a friend of Scott Jackson and Walling, took part in the mysterious crime. Hard Storm In Southern Illinois. Cairo, Ill March 5.

A heavy thtin-: der, ram, and wind storm struck tnis section earlv this mnmincr Mnnfa nmr. torn off, plate glass windows smashed, uuu a courcn ana one residence were demolished. One person was killed, and a number were injured. St. Louis, March 5.

Heavy rains yesterday and last night greatly delayed all incoming and outgoing trains. The region of the downpour covered all of Missouri and central and southern Illinois. Keep on Coughing: if you want to. If you want to cure that cough get Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. It cures coughs and colds.

I Gov. Drake and Our Monroe Ebi at Washington. Maquoketa Excited by a Bold Highway Assault and Robbery. An lowan Murdered Near Wichita, Kansas. A Former Pioneer Shoots Himself Near Keokuk.

The Coming State University Commencement. Other Interesting News of the Hawkeye State. Washington, March 4. Special to Des Moines Register. Gov.

Drake and his staff were the recipients ot an ovation all along the line in the grand parade. When they were passing the president's reviewing stand the crowds broke forth into cheers, thus giving the soldierly looking chief executive of Iowa a greater recognition than was accorded to any one of the governors in the procession. Monroe Ebi of Davenport, "the original McKinley man," is here and will take the Davenport poetomce, regardless of what other people think. Not desiring to dampen the ardor of Ebi, as the original McKinley man, it is opportune at this time to say that the Register correspondent mentioned McKinley for the presidency in print in 1882, and it will be difficult for Ebi to overcome that record, albeit, the Register man does not want a postoflice, nor any other kind of an office. It is not unlikely that Ebi will call on Congressman Curtis for his endorsement before he gets his appointment.

Slugged and Robbed. Maquoketa, March 5. This city is greatly aroused by the attempt to murder Benj. C. Sears, an old and respected citizen, for purpose of robbery.

The attempt may yet succeed. About 10 o'clock last night Mr. Sears was walking through the park. He was accosted by two men, and as he talked with one the other struck him heavily in the jaw with a rflungshot. Mr.

Sears was hurt but not disabled, and a violent struggle followed, in the course of which he called loudly for help. This was ended by a smash on the head, under he sank senseless. The robbers took 340 from his clothes and disappeared before the people who had been aroused by his calls for aid reached him. His jaw is broken, and it is feared his skull is fractured. His condition is serious.

Iowa University Commencement. Iowa City, March 5. The spring commencement of the State University, departments of medicine, dentistry and pharmacy, will occur March 15, 16 and 17. The exercises of the medical department will occur the 17th. Ex-Gov.

Larrabee of Clermont will deliver the address. There are 65 candidates for graduation in this department, 18 in the homoeopathic department, 34 in the dental department, and 14 in the pharmaceutical department. Killed by a Tight Belt. Keokuk, March 5. Andrew Carlson, aged 14, was killed in the Huiskamp shoe factory this afternoon.

A machine weighing about 600 pound was torn from its fastenings by the belts tightening and thrown onto the boy who was operating it, crushing him so badly that he died within a few minutes. Pioneer Farmer Shoots Himself. Keokuk, March 5. While temporar ily insane Shapley Moore, aged 66, a pioneer farmer residing near Charles ton, committed suicide Thursday by shooting himself with a shotgun. He placed the muzzle against his breast and discharged the weapon by means of a lath.

His clothing was 'fired by the discbarge. lowan Murdered in Kansas. Montezuma, March 5. Word has been received here that Lewis J.White, formerly a resident of this place and at one time sheriff of this county, but ot recent years a resident ot Wichita, has been murdered. The re mains will be brought here for burial Des Moines Short a Fireman.

Des Moines, March 5, This city has been discussing reduction of its fire department force. This has been partly accomplished without official action, acob Harris, fireman, is missing. As he leaves a large number of debts un paid it is not presumed that he is a victim of foul play. Nate Bell, Bad Stan. Cherokee, March 5.

Nate Bell of this place is a bad man. His wife got a divorce irom mm some time ago, Now he is in jail for going to her home in her absence, breaking in the door with an axe, and playing havoc with her household goods. Failure at Mt. Pleasant. Mount Pleasant, March 5.

Dennis Morony, the leading dry goods mer chant of this city, has assigned last evening. His liabilities are scheduled at 811,000 and his assets at 816,000. Iowa Notes. An inventor at Mystic, Appanoose county, has brought out a marine bi cycle. The Agricultural college at Ames has a well 14 inches in diameter and 2215 feet deep.

The Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic association 1 will hold its annual field meet at Des Moines on May 28. J. F. WrLindley, the convicted em bezzling treasurer of Humboldt county, has begun his four year sentence at Anamosa. The town council of Delta has passed a resolution making it obligatory with property owners to have their yard gates hung so as to swing inside.

What is said to be the smallest Cor liss engine in the world has been made in the mechanical department in Highland Park college, Des Moines. The supervisors of Dallas county made an assessment which exceeds the legai limit of 2 mills, and many of the taxpayers are refusing to pay. The elevator at Manilla is putting in a grain drying apparatus which will enable it to buy and use the soft and wet corn in that vicinity. The Fort Madison penitentiary in paying all expenses' and still has a surplus. Out of the appropriation of 000 to build a new cell house the war den has saved $7,000.

The Clearing House association of Des Moines has adopted a resolution by which the interest rate on all de posits remaining in banks over six months is to be reduced from 4 to 3 per cent. Algona has boasted of two flourish ing clubs this winter; one devoted to whist, the other to Shakspearean read ings, and each has held weekly meet ings, it is now announced that the net result or inese meetings will soon begin to appear in a considerable number of weddings among the young men and women of both organisations, and club formation has a positive boom all oyer Central Iowa in consequence. AND YOUR HOME IS MADE PLEASANT The year around, when supplied with the proper comforts. Suppose you selected a handoome couch for your husband he would think of your kindnesd and excellent Judgment every time he sought its restful comfort. Perhaps you would prefer something 'n the line of Fine Parlor Chairsl Upholstered Furniture! We have everything in tbe Furniture Line, and Fine Selection of Latest Designs and Styles.

It will cost you nothing to call In and see them. Suppose you do so. it. k. tnis omce.

4 BICYCLE INSURANCE Manager wanted, who will personally and actively canvas ev-er bicycle rider for the oldest association lu tlie world. Liberal compensation 82.00 assures new bicycle If a member is stolen. Address, with references, American Wheelmen's Protective Association. Chicago. 111.

WANTED Gentleman to travel and locate agents. Will nav 75 oer month and by. penses to the right party. Call on A. Badger, room 11.

Atlantic House. Alar. 2 MEN WANTED In Davenport and elsewhere to sell clothlne; good wanes, steadv lob: suits to order. $5 to $10. American Woolen Mills company, Chicago.

febl5-4w. WANTED Men and boys to learn barber trade, steady positions at good waues (riven after twn man Mis ulih is the quickest, most thorough and practical uiciiiuu vi aiuMeuiii-esuip. jyioier itaroer school. 283 So. Clark St.

Chicago. Illustrated ANTED 200 horses to clip. The best work at lowest Drlces. (lemrtrn Slmrln Third and Rock Island St. WOK SAI.K ASLIGHT in every house, newest thlnfr out.

safe, economical; outfit free to active workers. jmuuam piass uovington. Jiy. mens HORSE AND BUGGY For sale. Buggy not a year old.

horse seven vnara old C.vn seen at the office G. A. Koester, 107 Main street. 4 FOR SALE A bargain. Herse.

buggy and hAmftKS. Also rvimhinaHAn HmicH n.w.l table. All first-class. InauireofG. E.

Wilson. FOR SALE CAEAP One Jersey cow In milk. One Jersev heifer. 2 va.rs oll nn Jejsey bull. Call on George Vits, 1128 Brown sf.

ni2 FOR SALE sa.000 Drug stock neat and nobby good college town of 400 population. Mnrmal OAtlon-a imilf Tact- 1 twiuii loan jrcai. XMTUM iriMIH territory. Only drug and book store in tbe town. ll nraenptnHnnn .1.

11 iuuumi. ifnuy sales is last vear. No saloons. PreKnnt nwnar mini of business. Address.

Lot E. Wassen. Mar, l. FOR SALE Furniture and household goods Nearly new. Call afternoon or evening 621 East Locust st.

f-8 FOR SALE OK TRADE City property, and farms, merchandise, household furniture. Houses to rent in all parts of the city. Pugh Murray, rooms 5 and 7. Dittoe building, C-i ASLIGHT in every house; newest thing out. Attaches to ordinary lamps; no chimneys; safe, economical: outfit free to active workers Standard Brass M'f'rs, Covington Ky.

feb27 FOR SALE Choice improved lands In the heart of the Red River Valley. For particulars, inquire of W. D. Hodgson, care First in at i iianK, argo, jn v. ieo 22-2w TJIOR SALE Two good dwelling Houses with JP lots on Seventh and Harrison street.

Also lor saie or rent, a good store and dwelling. In quire at 629 Harrison street. al-tf ros Kjcnt. TjIOR RENT An 80 acre farm four miles from the city. Inquire of Otto Albrecht, 80S west aecona street, cigar store.

FOR RENT-Offlces and living rooms In Ryan block, steam heated, water, etc. Take ele vator for 3d floor and apply E. H. Ryan.room 15. ais-tr EWR RENT A nicely furnished room.

Flat X' utn ana juraay. 4 JIOR RENT Three dwellings, central location. Price $7.00. $12.00 and $16.00. Apply at 324 west rum street FOR RENT House, 621 east Locust, hot and cold water, closet, bath and gas: 8 rooms: furniture for sale.

Call at house or telepnone ivj. ni3-u. TJIOR RENT A house of nine rooms, with bath, gas, good barn etc. Also a flat of five rooms, all in fine repair, 121 Thirteenth st. m2 FOR RENT Store at 122 east Third street and rooms also, on second floor, on and after April 1st, now occupied by J.

Stolley. Inquire at siore. 1 FOR RENT Flat of six rooms with private hall, bath, gas, electric light and steam heat. Apply to F. T.

Schmidt Son, 115 east xmrq street. rep 21-tt TJ10R RENT Stores No. 124 and 126 east 3d I' etiean rent, fine location for cents' furnish ing store, nas been one for 12 years. Apply to ineoaore fuiton winusor noiei. ieo2i-n MISCELLANEOUS.

OR GARDEN WORK trimming up grapes. iruit trees ana laying out garaens, 11. j. Ehlert, 1047 West Second street. liiWm.

1TTANTED Store fixtures, scales, sooops. tables for counters, road and delivery wagons. Aaaress 1. care mis omce. 2 Docket book containing 850 In currencv.

JjThe nanm Davenport Steam Heating Co. printed on inside Suitable reward paid by re turning taisomce, mi TICYCLES Repaired and enameled at low rates. S. M. Reynolds Si 22t Brady St; icp 2i-tr -i to $300 to loan on personal property.

JL without removal. Business strictly confidential. Call or address O. P. Brown, 819 Prrv strwot eo T9 if TYR.

J. WRIGHT Veterinary Burgeon and 17 Assistant state veterinarian, Harrison. Telepnone 472. tf rtR. JAY Veterinary Surgeon and Denta if omce and residence soutnwest corner kip ley and Third streets, Davenport la.

Tele nn JN O. ittW. r. lrvvmTTvVlyVT ATS! New Shapes and Colors. In Stiffs and Fedoras i Si.OO, $1.50, $2.00, $2.50, $3.00.

Men's and Boy's Golf Caps New Effects. 25 and Wm. Joens SPOT CASH HATTER. No. 314 Brady Street.

1867 1897 Spring Styles IN Woolens For Wear. 1HQS. McCULLOUGH'S SONS Merchant Tailors. 124 WEST THIRD STREET. CHAS.

lics in the United States who are as truly and genuinely loyal to this coun- trv and its institutions as I am. and when we have antagonized such men we have committed a grave error. In the future we should oppose, and will oppose, wrong principles instead of waiting war upon individuals. This is the sentiment of the more intelligent and advanced portion of the membership of the American Protective asso elation." IT IS COMING THIS WAY. The Baltimore Women's Short Skirt for Rainy Day Wear.

Baltimore, MdM March 5. The first rainy and muddy day in March in this city was Wednesday, and 200 of the 250 members of the omen Kamy Day club kept the pledge they had signed and appeared on the streets- in skirts that swung three inches from the ground. It was a noticeable fact, how ever, that nearly every one of them wore dainty new boots with fancy kid toes. Not a few, through force of habit, when crossing the muddy streets involuntarily clutched at the back of their skirts and thoughtlessly raised them higher than they would have done had they been longer. Some wore rain boots with stout soles, but few if any wore rubbers.

Lvery member of the club who could get out did so just to show her faith, as one said co quettiBhly. Some of the Bhort skirts were worn by middle-aged women, but the majority of the wearers were under 30. early all had a snorter appearance, and the very plump girls looked dumpy, but every one seemed nappy in the emancipation from lem bedraggled petticoats. The executive committee of the club is now in correspondence with women in other large cities, both east and west, with a view to the adoption of the Baltimore rainy day skirt. NO TIME LOST.

How France Secured Release of a Sub ject In Cuba. New York, March 5. A special cable from Santiago de Cuba tells how other nations deal with Spain when she im prisons their subjects without cause. A young French Flament, was arrested there a week ago, and Im prisoned incommunicado. After she had thus been imprisoned three days the French consul demanded her release.

He was refused. Forty-eight hours later a little French war steamer entered the harbor. The consul renewed his demand, insisting on the prisoner's un conditional release, the withdrawal of all charges against her, apology tor the outrage committed upon her, ac knowledgement of a reasonable claim for damages, and a royal salute to the French flag. The Spanish authorities were given six hours to consider. Be-foro half the time was up the Spanish hen 6een things in a different light, and wsae tne spanisn cannon nred the sal ute of regret the young lady was re ceiving the congratulations of her mends at home.

Poor Starring; Spain. London, March 5. A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Madrid says that the distress which exists in nearly all the provinces among tne peasantry continues to increase. Jn: Aragon the peasants have become so violent in consequence of privations that the mil itary is obliged to escort the tax gath erers. There is likely to be a whole sale emigration to Brazil from the fam ine districts.

Spain Will Buy Warships. Madrid, March 5. At a meeting of tne caDinet last evening an extraordinary credit was agreed to for the Dur- pose of fitting out six additional war ships. Somoans at War Again. Auckland.

N. Marr-h 5 Arivinaa just received here from Samoa, dated no. zj, say mat a strong Doay or natives under the leariarKhln nt Phioi- Tamasese, ex-king of Samoa, profiting oj me aosence or warsnips, are Threatening King Malietoa at Apia, the capital. Fiarhtinfr was pxnpptd nri tha foreign consuls were powerless to quell B.1 -MI A. 1 A 7 iub uiHiurDance- witnouc warsnips.

King Malietoa was placed in power in 1889 by the United States, Great Britain, and Germany, acting In concert. Chief Justice of Somea. Washington, March 5. W. L.

Chambers of Aiabama, has been chosen by the three powers, the United States, Great Britain and Germany, parties to the samoan agreement as chief justice of Samoa, ot succeed Ida of Vermont. Mr. Chambers has been one of the commissioners for the United States in the settlement of Samoan land titles. Stole the Preacher's Wife. Crawfordviile, March 5.

Rev. Riley D. Smalley, a Waveland preacher, has sued ohn A. Johnson of the same place for 10,000 for alienating Mrs. Smalley's affections.

Johnson is the wealthiest man in Waveland, and, according to Riley's complaint, he came to Riley's home ostensibly for spiritual solace and advice, but in reality to In gratiate mmseii into the favor of the preacher's wife. He succeeded, and when Riley awoke to the fact soma weeks aeo. he attemoted suicide. Ha failed to take his life, however; and now wants damages. NUMBER 11.

317 West Second Davenport, Iowa. Lmmmm, BY THE rV Tl- The looser you let a cough run. the hard la to cure. Itight now, la the right tin cure your cough or Schlegel's Pine Syrup BAiatt(hi a4ft1ntv In the. nnrA couch and colas.

It allays the indamtn tionof the eensiuve memuranes, in mi i around the can testify as to ttt merits. Manufactured Gust. Schlegel So 220 W. Second Street, r. FIRE Sugangcured Hams arc delicate in flavor, juicy and toothsome.

Prepared from selected stock by the packers of the celebrated T. C. bacon and open kettle lard. Look for tmdn-mark on ecrj rticli. A (tnuanUtaof superiority.

Bold v.rywhar. THI-CITY PACKING AM) PROVISION It 4 KS PORT, IOWA. QOOQG CAUSED ALL THE FINE FURNITURE IN FRED MEHL'SSTORES, 412-416 West Second street, to be sold as soon ns possible at such prices as it will bring. No stop to the sale until overy article in both stores is gone. Only a little damaged by the heat and water at the recent fire nearly as good as new.

Tak advantage of this opportunity for buying at big bargains. FRED MEHL. it to 4m 7.