The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-21
THE NEWS In BRIEF.

A rag picker os Cincinnati died
worth 81 900
frank James has secured continu-
ance OF his case to August.20
Primary Republican elections in Des
Moines resulted in favor of prohibition.
They are going to save one day in
| time between Omaha and San Francisco.
Dick" Oglesby is said to be in the
race for nomination for governor of Illinois.
Illinois senators and representatives
have nearly all left Springfield for their
| homes
Edwin Booth has returned to this
| country and expresses himself as delighted
with his foreign tour
A crazy shoemaker has escaped from
the Wisconsin insane asylum and the fact
causes great excitement
An inoffensive farmer named Martin
Brophy was dubbed to death at Owosso,
| Iowa, by two men, one of whom is in jail,
| Logan's friends are not evincing any
fear of the threatened exposures which Dor
sey's friends say he INTENDS under certain cir
cumstances.
Direly, arrested by the detective Ben
net as the real murderer OF the Gibbons chill
| dren in place of Craft and Neal, has been ac.
quilted, the case against him having failed
completely
Jay Gould was not favorite of old
Commodore Vanderbilt The commodore had
one transaction with young Gould, and then
steered clear of him and advised his friends
to do the same
The round trip rate from Chicago tc
the Denver encampment of the @, A R. has
been put down by the Chicago, Rock Island
& Pacific to S29 60 for certificate members o1
the Grand Army.
A Pennsylvania criminal lawyer
claimed a new trial for his client because tht
jury went TO church the previous Sunday
and the preacher preached from the text
''Thou shaltnot kill
|. A Mexican at Austin, Texas, outraged q
14-year-old girl then beat her head to pieces
and then stabbed her 10-year-old brother tt
death. He is probably lynched by this time
as he was arrested and lodged in Jail
Judge Pillsbury, of Pontiac, Illinois
HAS Sueu Gtl6 lineage a AltOn railway 10
$4,000 damages for having been struck by 1
stray bullet in the riot at Twenty street
South Chicago, on the lst of June, 1892
1t grows more evident that Rev Jen
kins, who killed Rev Borden at Mansfield
La, has committed great crime. Miss But
ler has made a statement denying in toto tn
seduction story. 1t is thought that Jenkin
was insane at the time of the murder
The Fowlers of Chicago were in in thei
| examination as to the quality of lard mad'
} at their establishment, declared positively
, that their prime steam lard was absolutel,
pure as it could be made, and that those VIII
testified otherwise were either ignorant or haI
; been put up to talk as they did
Is is asserted that Burke, of the New
Orleans Times-Democrat, wanted the Ney
York World, and that he was beaten out O
it in some manner 1t is also said that b
will publish his paper in New York an
New Orleans at the same time, the two pa
pers being connected by special wire.
Much uneasiness is felt along tn
Mississippi and Missouri rivers on account {
the food of water which is pouring into thos
two streams A large amount of damage hs
been done already, and much more is apprt
hended if the rise does not stop Atchiso
was almost cut off from railway commun
| cation, and from Nebraska and Kansas
: well as Illinois reports come up that the stanG
ing crops are in danger