Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-07
CONDENSED NEWS.

| The president has approved the bills grant
| ing pensions of $1,000 each per year to the
| widows of John A. Logan and Frank p
| Blair.
A father and son who attempted to row
across the St Clair river from Port Huron tC
| Sarna had their boat capszed by cake OF
| ice and bote were drowned
Crop reports from important points in the
| southern Illinois winter wheat areas show
that the crop is showing up poorly, ever
after week of good weather.
A reaction of public opinion has taken
place at Berlin in favor of Dr. Mackenzie,
the emperor's English physician, and the doc
tor is now flooded with invitations of social
nature.
Tie Massachusetts house Friday engroSsed
bill prohibiting the sale of any liquid that
contains per cent of alcohol. If passed the
measure will stop the sale of lemon soda and
ginger ale.
John w. Miller prominent citizen of New
Harmony, Ind. was cleaning a shotgun Fri
day when cartridge which was fastened in
the barrel exploded, tearing Miller's head
nearly off and scattering his brains all oven
the room.
One of the results of the railroad strike has
been to reduce the volume of freight traffic
on the eastern roads Twenty freight crews
at Syracuse and 500 men on the western di-
vision of the New York Central have been
laid off on account Of lack Of business
The report of new gold fields in Lower Cal
ifornia, where quartz and placer deposits of
enormous richness are said to have been dis
covered, read suspiciously like an attempt to
boom that region. In San Francisco, where
they keep pretty well posted mines and
mining not much Importance is attached to
the rumors
Mrs John A. Logan has written a reply to
the inquiry of the Arbor Day committee of
Springfield, Ills, that the generals prefer
ence for shade tree was hard MAPLE and
Stephen A. Douglas informs tho committee
that his fathers taste was for hard maple
The state officers, therefore, will plant that
variety as memorials to these distinguished
sons of Illinois,
The eonstabulary of Maine chased wagon
for several miles Thursday, believing it to
contain tanglefoot. Upon overhauling it a
barrel was discovered marked STANDARD Oil
company, best white oil, high test, forty-five
gallons" The bung was removed and the
contents sampled Instead of containing "best
white OIL" it was found to contain the worst
kind of whisky.
1t seems that Allen o. Meyers disappeared
from Columbus, O., to wait till the clouds
rolled by; in other words until Judge Pugh
was defeated for reelection The judge wasn't
defeated, and Myers, like Davy Crockett's
coon, has concluded to 'come down" He ar
rived in Columbus Friday from New Orleans,
and appeared before court, but the case was
postponed for the day.
The anniversary of the settlement of the
northwest continued Friday at Marietta, O.
1t was proposed that monument be erected
in that city to the pioneers of 100 years ago.
and suggested that the government owed the
Ohio company, under whose manag ment the
first settlement was made, enough to build a
handsome structure. Several subscriptions
were at once made to a fund for the purpose.
The business failures occurring during the
week ended Friday i'll this country las reported
to r. G. Dun q Co, the mercantile agency,
number, for the United States, 199 and for
Canada 2S; or a total of 227 failures as com
pared with total of 223 last week, and 243
the week previous to the last. The cor
responding week last year the total was 223,
made up of 1913 in the United States, and Is
in Canada.