Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-10-04
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The First National bank, of Taylorville,
Ills, was organized Friday with capital Of
s75 O0G
Mrs Shetland, of waldrcn, Ills, was killed
BY an Illinois Central train at kankakes
Friday
Women admirers Of jesse james have made
he outlaus's grave to bloom like flower
garden.
Slight shocks OF earthquake were felt at
Charleston and Summerville early Friday
morning
The general grand chapter, ROYAL Arch
nasoas, viii hold its next meeting at At
anita, Ga
The extension of the special delivery svs-
EN- Of the postcttice department went into
fleet saturday
a man Is running for mayor in Key West,
Fla, who stands only twenty inches high
md weighs y 4 pounds.
RcInhart & Newton's candy factory at Gin
;innati was damaged $4,000 by fire Friday
night. The insurance is $4,000
The Rev Daniel C. knowles has been NOM
mated for congress by the Prohibitionists of
he First New Hampshire district
Teddy Solomon. husband Of Lillian Rus
eli, the actress, was indicted fer higamy Fri
lay by the grand jury of Hudson county.
New Jersey.
The Duluth Base Ball club has won the
Northwestern league Pennant, Eau Claire b.
ng second, Oshkosh fouth, St Paul fifth,
md Minneapolis sixth.
1t is proposed TO form a league Of colorssd
1aSe ball clubs, to be located at Washington,
Baltimore, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Pitts
Jurg and Trenton, \ J
In the collegiate oratoricai contest Friday
night at Monmouth. HIS, John II Finley. of
Knox. won the first prize. with H NJ vii
'on, of Illinois college second
The match Yacht race between the Ameri-
an sloop Sachem and the English cutter
Miranda, off Newport Friday, was won by
he American craft in an easy manner.
Senator Den Cameron puts dash before
ais name and another after it when he regis
.ers at hotel He does this to DESTROY the
space in which the hotel clerks would write
| senator"
In his store at BriBshurst Ind, Friday
morning. Mir. kearIss accidentally dropped g
lchted cigar INTO a key Of powder The ex-
plosion wrecked the structure, killed Gus
.ouer, and wounded two other persons
Two men were imprisoned Thursday at
Rockville, Ind. for stealing bridge which
had foatc1 down the river from Attica last
| 5Iring The prisoners flowed the structure 10
ierre Haute, and there sold it for $50 30.
The Wholesale Druggists National associa-
ton has authorized the formation of a mu-
tual insurance company, and the members of
tie society, in session at st Paul, have
| agreed TO insure for $f1,6U in the new
concern
The volcanic peak OF Pabloff mountain. in
Alaska, Is in a state eruption. Mariners re-
port that dust was so thick from the crater
| rs to darken the sun, and decks of vessels
were covered several inches deep with the
black deposit.
As treasurer Of the Pennsylvania Railroad
| company. the late John D. TAYLOR was the
signer Of the %13Ga,011 check paid for a
controlling interest in the Philadelphia, vii.
| mingtCH & Baltimore road the largest check
| ever drawn in Pennsylvania
A committee OF Partisan doctors has chal
| lengvd Sucoi, the Italian faster, to fast forty
| days iii French hospital for a stake of 5000
| francs on condition that he reveal the secret
Of his elixir, for which "a patent is guaran
| ted, and that the experiment I've repeated by
two other persons