Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-03-14
CONDENSED NEWS.

| Governor OgleSby, uf Illinois, has issued
proclamation designating April Is as ArboI
day in that state.
The new regime in Berlin promises to re
suit in some high official designations, But
Bismarck will stay.
Wabanh, Ind, has matrimonial sensation
in tie rasrriage of William Hunt, aged 80, tc
| Miss Esa Jackson aged 10.
President Carnot has ordered that Thurs
| days presidential reception be cancelled ON
account of the German emperor's death
The Seventh-Day Adventists of Battle
Creek, Mich, gre advocating denomnational
schools, i'll which their children may be nur.
tured i'll the faith.
The body of the late German emperor lies
in state in the great Berlin cathedral and
thousands have been permitted to pass within
view of the catafalco
Last Monday John B. Young and family,
of Huntington, Ind all ate cheese containing
poison. Tuesday Mr.. Young died, and man
in his employ will also die.
Mr.. Peter Meyers, one Of the pioneers of
southern Wisconsin, and the wealthiest citi-
zen Of that region, died suddenly of heart dis
ease at GAINESVILLE Tuesday morning.
Hot coffee was no good at the town election
in Lake Benton, Mimi, Tuesday, for the high
license people carried the day in spite of the
provender provided by the Prohibition ladies'
George w. Smith and Alex Kane, Ohio by
Bird wheat swindlers, who have been oper-
ating among the farmers of a number of
states, We're lodged in jail at Springfield, Mo,
Tuesday.
Frederick III. was gratified to learn that
the cZarewitch will attend his fathers fu-
neral. If there is any delay in his reaching
al, 1. 4
Saturday.
A Sioux City rag picker found two drafts
aggregating $1,000 in his dusty collection,
and the town has not yet recovered its breath
over the sensation that he returned the drafts
to the Security bank, which owned them.
Medad V, Miller, Dakota farmer, OBJ
tanned S. 100 from two banks by fraudulent
practices, and they pursued him to Austria
liza, the Mediterranean countries Palestine,
France and England finally overhauling
him at Detroit.
A drunken woman on the floor and her lit
tie girl in spasms few away was the dis
covery made by Il Chicago policeman. The
woman had sent to neighboring GROCERY
for cents worth of whisky, and on her way
home the child had drank some of the poison
Gus stuff
The directors of the Chicago board of trade
have adopted memorial 10 congress urging
the construction of ship canal around Mag
ara falls on the American side as a work of |
national necessity alike in the interests Of
commerce and as u means Of defense to our
exposed lake frontier
A swinging bridge at Washington, y. c., |
was used Monday night by party of lynch |
ers to hang w. A. Parker on, and the bridge |
could not be opened until the body was re-
moved Parker assassinated Gen. Bryan
Grimes seven or eight years ago, and had dis
appeared until his body was found as re
ated.
Cruelty and barbarity almost beyond belief
ire revealed the result of an investigation
If the management of the convict camp at
coal Hill, Ark. Prisoners have been literally
layed alive and then hurried into their graves
before the fearful facts could leak out. The
warden in charge of the camp has fled to es-
ape punishment and reward of 500 for
lis arrest is offered