Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-02-08
CO OENSsD NEWS.

A natural gas explosion at Anderson, lni
Tuesday morning, blew a house % pieces and
I killed one msn.
Tho export, exclusive OF specie, at the port
| of New York for the week ending Feb u
amounted 10 50 lsG SOS
illinois eneamr ment e. A. r. will meet in
| SprmgGeil Feb, Is aud will wind up with "A
visit to the Qincy Soldiers bona
The Insurance companies lost St5)J, 900 by
fires in Montreal last year, which is two OF
three tlmCs as much as they received from
premiums
| The haitian council has decided to intro
duce I'M IN parliament increasing the duty
on cereals 20 Ire and also increasing tho
| tax on HlCuhOl.
Tue famous trotting and brood mare,
| Commia G.. died at Cleveland Monday night
| She bad just foaled dead lilly, She was
| valued at s -, 600.
Fifty l,adiug Democrats of ST. Louis will
leave that cfy ior Washington Feb. 10, and
| present tBe claims Of their city 10 the ma.
tional convention,
The manufacturers of rubber goods have
formed "trus'.' 1t has an aggregate cap,
i'al Of Sio. 600 nOj, and expects to do bust.
N 81 uf 500, 900, 900 year
s.. Louis is the latest place 10 catch the
natural ga, fever \ welt 1908 foot acep
has r,achai petroleum aul the odor Of thu
gas has also been obs nv 81
Tie returns Of the loplDu board of tr,dd
| for january show an increase NJ Imports by
g 40 600, AND ot exports lr, E,tJ, UJJ IN conf
prison with January 1851
u 'low.2iro weather wa, reported in the
north west Tues ay--3l degrees below at
Winnipeg early that morning, rs below at
Bismarck, and below at St. Paul.
Rev Mr. Wa>sail, of the Orthodox church at
Mention, Mass, Inns trpu "Grelr by his 4 ,cii
because they caught han smoking pipe.
He loses tho priuceiy salary OF $50 per am
mum.
\ -. Petersburg disp Itch says the pac IL
speech Of Prince Bismarck in the German
parliament has produced Il tlanqul2ug eli
feet in Russia Tic French pre's also accept
the speech i'll the nature of an olive branch.
Joe Nacliiu's friends are vigorously push
the movement for pardon. jos was
the man who was sent 10 the Joliet, His. pen
iteuuary for trying to elect Democratic
senator from Illinois by the tally.sheet
method
Hon. Daniel Mclaughlin, of Braid wool,
Ills. has sued T. Il. Fisher, of Springfield,
for Slu, 900 damages as libel, because Fisher
stated last summer that Mclaughlin was
agitating the miners strike that was "on' at
chat tiue for tn. money there was in it.
Wurmojh has accepted the Republican
nonnttion for governor of Louisiana, aud
says he viii remove no one from Office for
political reasons He also advises the negroes
to vote with the whites where advantageous
coalitions can be formed and says lie be ieves
the election will be a fair one.
A letter sent by Madison, Wis, lady to
Chicago friend reached the latter after TWEEN
ty days and some 10, 90 miles travel. 1t was
caught in newspaper package and crossed
to Liverpool, England, before it was found
and returned by poStofiica clerk there, WHO
wrote note and explained tho letters jour.
ney
The people of Two Rivers Wis, witnessed
a stranga atmospheric Illusion a few days
since A few miles cut on the lake appeared
a large acknowledged vessel, and, although
there was no wind blowing, it went along as
though every stitch OF its canvas was baing
strained TO Its full strength, aud what was
stranger still appeared TO be blowing its way
through an immense field OF ice The vessel
appeared to be deeply loaded, and was bound
north.