Rock Island daily Argus., 1886-12-29
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The National Democrat, of Peoria, Ills,
suggests that congress vote the widow OF
Senator Logan the pension Of retired major
general
Christmas night at Marshall, Ills, re-
volver in the hands of Albert Dean, aged q,
was accidentally discharged, the bullet strik-
ing his aged mother, killing her instantly.
Freight trains were moved Monday on the
Louisville 6 Nashville road between Louis
vile and Bowling Green, and notices have
been issued that the line will receive freight
as usual.
The visible supply of wheat and corn Dec
25 was, respectively, o2, 2h4 ,5S and Il, 5e4,-
COS bushels. Since previous report, wheat
increased S04, l67 bushels and corn increased
$40, ,002 bushels.
Ashbel H. Barney, one of the founders OF
the express business, died Monday at New
York. He was at one time president of the
Wells, Fargo g. Co. and the United States
Express companies.
William Jordan, who committed suicide
recently at Corydon, Ind, owed IS, 600. His
accounts as treasurer of the orders OF
| Knights and Ladies of Honor and Of the
| Knights of Universal Brotherhood are IS, 600
short.
Judgment aggregating 1885,, 500 against
| thirty-eight insurance companies were Sc
| cured at Madison, Wis, Monday, by the in
surance commissioner for violation OF the
state laws The offenders are principally
southern concerns.
| The glass blowers employed by two com
panies at Baltimore withdrew Monday from
| the Knights of Labor and returned to work
on the terms of the employers, viz; per
cent reduction in wages, and the assignment
of two apprentices to each furnace.
Three bullets were fired into a Catholic
church at Cincinnati, Monday morning, by
James Andrews, a student in the College OF
Music. One ball penetrated lady's dreas,
and another passed close to the head Of the
officiating priest. Andrews can not bs
found.
see" at Philadelphia, were destroyed by fire
Monday Three firemen were buried under
falling walls, only one being rescued In a
dangerously wounded condition The total
loss is about $45o,O00, with insurance ag'
gregating s2oO,0O0,
The well-known lake captain, Mulholland
of the schooner II. &. Cleveland, attacked
Richard Creighton at Cleveland Tuesday
night, finding him in company OF Mrs. Mul
holland, telling him with blow of a small
sled Mulholland would undoubtedly havs
killed Creighton had not his wife's cries at
trated the attention Of the police.
Grip-car trains on the Sutter street and
Geary street lines, at San Francisco, wer,
attacked Monday by masked strikers, who
beat the conductors and drivers, and sent th,
cars dashing along the streets without guild
ance. Two grips were wrecked, and tht
windows of other cars smashed. The polics
fired at the mob, but without injurying any
of them. The cars on both lines stoppet
running at dark to prevent further trouble
Five of the maskers were arrested
John F. Tyler, alias A. Allen, committee
suicide last November in an hotel at Soutl
Norwalk, Conn. He had taken out insurance
on his life to the extent of SS15, 900, but O
this amount only S7l 600 was for the bened
of relatives, the remainder being for friend
and acquaintance A number of assessmen
companies are interested, but one and all vii
contest payment on the ground of conspirac.
and intent to defraud- Tyler had a youni
wife and widowed sister living at New York
!, while his mother and three brothers reside a
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