The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-04-27
ROCK ISLAND, TUESDAY. APRIL q. 1886.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Patti cleared $4,000 in her lust close,
thirty two performances
By the explosion of an oil can, five chill
| dren were fatally burned at Taylor, Tex.
Gen Grants tomb was hid from sight b,
piles of Easter flowers, sent by many
friends
Chicago posts of the G. A. r. will gener
ally observe Monday, May 81, as Decora
ton Day
The windows OF a Catholic chapel il
Glasgow were on Friday evening smashed
by an Orange mob.
1t is stated positively that an agreement
has been effected between Prussia and til,
Roman Catholic Church
An order has been pas ed reducing the
oil on grain shipped through the canal to
Montreal to cents per ton
A n)ble Scotch family is authority for the
statement that Mr. Gladstone will become
a Roman Catholic within the next 81,
months
The Wilkesbarre Leader announces that
ex-sudge Garrick NJ Harding is candidate
fer the Democratic nomination for cover
nor of Pennsylvania.
A friendless man from Washington terri
tory, named Adolph koenigsberger, under
took to kill himself by inhaling gas in the
basement of synagoge at st. Paul
The corner stone of the new building of
the College of Physicians and Surgeons was
laid in New York Saturday The Wander
bilt family gave Sl,oOD000 to the building.
Galeole the ex- x-priest, who murdered the
bishop of Madrid, was kept by his mistress,
who earned living for 10th by sewing.
His whole life has been of a most unpriestly
character
An Italian named Lorenzo Caponia was
arrested at St Louis Saturday night for
passing counterfeit two dollar notes Two
hundred and fifty dollars. in counterfeit bills
were found at his house.
During fight between boys Saturday
night, at Danville, Ind, Terry O'Donald
was fatally shot by }. r. Miller, a l6.year-
old student of the normal school Miller
surrendered himself to the sheriff
Queen Victoria and her daugh hter in-laws
the princess of Wales, have come to an
oIen rupture, owing TO British intervention
IN the 1urko Grecian question. The king
of Greece is irother to the princess of
Wales
The upper circles of New Eork society are
agltated over the suit brought against John
W. Bah by Miss Els Coombs for S25. 600
damages for seduction under promise of
marriage Eall has wife and two children
living.
The corner stone Of the Illinois Soldiers
and Sailors Home viii be laid at Quincy
Thursday, June /, un2er the auspices and
ritual of the Grand Army of the Republic.
with Commander -in-chief = p Rurdett in
command.
Sigfriel Rindskoff, prominent clothing
merchant of Appleton Wis is under arrest
at Milwaukee charged with procuring SIS,
ooo worth of cigars under false pretenses
lie Is brother of Samuel Rindskoff, the
famous whisky dlstiIler.
1t Is announced from San Francisco that
the transcontinental railroad war is over
but the rates given are only S6?. 50 for lin.
ited tickets to Chicago, and $3.50 to New
Nork- During the cut in rates from twenty
to twenty five carloads of passengers loft
Kansas City daily for the Pacific coast.
By the explosion of can of oil in the
kitchen of the Stirling house, 81 West
Adams street, Chicago, Mrs Harriet
Stirling, her daughter Emily and servant
girl, Maggie Whalen, were horribly burned.
They wtre taken to the county hospital.
where, after lingering several hours in in
tense agony, all three died.