The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-06-17
THE NEWS IN BRIEF

Daniel Geering died Monday evening at
Shields, Wis. aged l01
Republicans OF the Third Missouri distric,
Tuesday nominated Congressman B. w.
Perkins
The Prohibitionists of the Fifteenth Hi.
nois district Tuesday nominated A. East
man, of Edgar county, for congress.
Veache's bank and the dry goods store Of
Veach e. Sons, at West Middlesex, Pa,
were closed Tuesday. The liabilities are in
excess of $l00,00l
At Dayton. Ohio, Tuesday, Arthur G..
Frank, boy, while playing base bali with
schoolmates, was struck by pitched ball,
and killed instantly.
Governor Hill, Of New York, Tuesday
vetoed the act of the legislature providing
for cumulative voting in elections for the
choice of aldermen in New York City.
The condition of Dr. Munford and Miss
Streeter, who were shot at Kansas City by
Attorney Garlic, is very favorable. 1t is
feared, however, that Mr.. Hale will not
survive
Owing to technical error, the indict.
mcnt against MIRA Emma Molloy, for COM
plicity in the Graham murder at Spring.
field, Mo-, was Tuesday quashed in the cir.
cuiS court
The cooks and walters in the large res
taurants at San Francisco struck Tuesday
compelling the closing of many eating
houses The posting OF certain rules caused
| the trouble
| The Nandalia railroad will hold regetta
at Lake Maxinkuokee, Marshall county
Ind July 22.-24, for which prizes aggregat
ing 81, 500 are offered All the principal
oarsmen are expected to enter.
At a meeting OF ex-soldiers and citizens
Tuesday at Bushnell, Ills, it was decided tx
hold soldiers reunion at Bushnell, Sept Is
30 next, which it is proposed to make tht
greatest event of the kind ever held in the
| state.
The Tarred Felt Paper association, repre-
sentlng capital of 81, 100000, held SO
cret meeting at Erie, Pa, Tuesday evening
and reduced pooling rates The object be
ing, it is said to crowd ont small manufact
urersl
The state department at Washington ha
| received intelligence that the British cabi
net does not indorse the seizure of American
fishing craft by the Canadians The pros
poets are for satisfactory settlement of tn
difficulty.
A brigantine which arrived at Cow Bay
N. s, reported that on the 18th instant i
picked up dory in which were two dea(
men, There was nothing by which they
could be recognized excepting a knit
marked al v"
The supreme lodge, A. o. U, W, ME
Tuesday at Minneapolis the supreme mas
ter workman, John A. Breeks of kansa
City, reporting the order to b. in a health,
condition. During the past year there wer
i,2S4 deaths, the losses paid aggregatin;
s., $50, as
Tuesdays National league games: A
Boston-Washingto l, Boston 3; at New
York-Philadelph /, New York 5; at De
troit-Kansas City ., Detroit z American
association: At metropolitan
IL, Brooklyn z; at Baltimore-Athletics
Baltimore :. All other games postponed
rain.
Winfield Lee Thompson, of Kansas City
who was married June =, and was on hi
wedding tour, shot and killed his youn
wife at the Sturtevant house, in New York
Tuesday afternoon, and then shot himself
Thompson, whose chances for recovery ar
slight, is son of the Rev. W. L. Thompson
pastor Of the Second Presby terrain churc
at Kansas City.