The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-04-20
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The body OF DR. Benjamin Robert Egge
mann, of Detroit, was cremated at the Buff
falo crematory Sun aay night.
At Clinton, the Woman's Christian
Temperance union applied for injunctons
agaist thirty three saloon keepers
Successful experiments in carrying on dis
tinct conversation by telephone between
Chicago and Cleveland were conducted Sun
day.
The town of Stry, in Austrian Poland,
was totally destroyed by fire Sunday. One
hundred persons were killed in one streetby
falling walls
Christian Kruger, while oiling some ma
chinery at Carpentersville, Ills, was caught
in the shafting and torn to pieces He leaves
wife and three children.
Owing to financial pressure, Ludwig, king
of Bavaria, has stopped the building of pal
aces and is retrenching in every way. He
will pay his debts in yearly installments of
f550,00l
Another dime museum freak has been
discovered In Lawrence county, South
Carolina, boy II years of age, with spinal
column prolonged into a wagging tail
'oFcipb WIN o"th VI
Horatio Onderdonk, wealthy Long
aandel, died April 6, and by his WILL Just
probited, cuts off son, John, without
shilling, OH account of the latter's con
tumacy." The estate is worth 81 ,50o, 600,
1t is believed that the coal miners of the
Mahoning valley will make a general de-
mand for an advance in wages within a
short time, those of two companies having
already made demand for an increase OF
| 10 cents per ton from May |.
Richard Perry shot and killed his brother,
Dewitt Perry, at Richford, N. Y, Satur-
day night. Shortly after midnight Dew lit
| returned home intoxicated and pulled Rich
ard out of bed who thereupon procured a
| gun and shot Dewitt dead Tho murderer
| W. arrested
| :xa ,2;f.g men of Somerville, Mass, whose
.atnacy had been like that OF brothers since
| infancy took a trip to Boston Wednes
| lay and became intoxicated. Coming back
they quarreled, and Twoomey administered
such beating to Bagiey that the latter
died from its effects
Secretary Lamar has refused to listen to
| the recommendation of Land Commissioner
| Sparks that ex- x-Secretary Teller's action with
reference to the survey OF the great ranch
San Rafael lie la Zanja in Arizona shall b
revoked, on the ground that it is not con
sistsnt with good administration to recon
| slider a predecessors action in a mattel
wherein he had all the facts and law befor,
him.
remarkable tale comes from Lewiston
Me young man mad for months been il
failing health and doctors could not fathon
his case 1t was not understood until
snake thrust its head from the young man:
mouth His sister seized it and landed il
safely at her feet, but the operation kille,
her brother, as the snakes tail had grow
into his body and the separation rupture,
| blood YES ell
Mr.. Gladstone is said to be maxim!
strenuous efforts to regain the support o
Mr. Chamberlain The storm Of opposition
and angry criticism viii. b greeted the ex
planation of the premier'S plans for lrelan'
seems to be subeiding. TheIe is plainl,
noticeable reaction of opinion in favor O
the Liberal associations throughout til
country taking IA definite attitude in supper
of Mr.. Gladstone's proposals
1t is now pretty certain that the schoone
Charles H. Morse sunk the steamship Ore
gon The schooner was coaster of 535 tons
and was built at Bath in 1880 She wa
loaded in Baltimore with coal, and it wa
known that she was off Fire Island th
night of the disaster, since which time sl
has not been heard of. There was cre'
of nine men on board, every man OF whom
it is presumed went down with her.