Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-10
THE WORLD IN BRIEF.

| A Days News Condensed to Suit Busy
| Readers.
| Dublin-Timothy Harrington was sen
fenced to six weeks Imprisonment under the
| crimes act
Vicksburg, Miss. The Commercial Herald
building burned The loss Is very heavy: in
surance, SIS, 900.
| Toledo, Ohio-The Produce Exchange has
| adopted resolutions favoring a Government
postal telegraph system.
Anthony. Kan.-Charles c. Clark, who
was shot last Saturday by his late partner,
W. F. Treadwel, the "cattle king" has died.
Des Moines, Iowa-Gov. Larrabee has de-
| clined to interfere, and Harry Schmidt, the
West Union murderer, will be hanged Fri
| day.
Clinton, Iowa-C. c. Markham, wholesale
fruit and commission dealer, assigned, the
liabilities aggregating $4,000 and the assets
$1,000.
Marquette, Mich.--Since Dec. z G, 266, 00o
pounds of copper have been shipped from
Houghton to New England and the Atlantic
seaboard.
New Orleans, Lab. ]. Vests Son g. Co,
dealers in hardware and agricultural nipple
ments, made an assignment Liabilities, S44,.
coo; assets, SAL.
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.-One of the five
criminals who broke jail at Sault Ste. Marie
Saturday night has been arrested at the
Canadian Sault.
Albany, N. Y.-The committee appointed
to suggest to the Legislature another method
than hanging for capital punishment agreed
TO recommend electricity.
Helena M. 1.-THE mercury is gradually
rising all over the territory, and now aver.
ages degrees above The snow is badly
drifted, blockading trains. Cattle arc re-
ported to be in good condition.
Salt Lake City, Utah-The Utah Legisla-
ture met and both branches were organized.
There are three Gentiles and twenty-one
Mormons in the lower house and two Cen
tiles and ten Mormons in the upper house.
Philadelphia, Pa.-The Reading railroad
elected officers, Austin Corbin again being
chosen president A resolution requesting
George W. Childs to act as arbitrator in the
settlement of the strike was laid upon the
table.
Sedalia, Mo.-Police Officer Joe Gossage
was shot through the cheek while trying 10
arrest Tom johnson, drunken brakeman.
Officer Jim Gossage then started TO arrest
johnson and was fatally shot through the
lungs.
Milwaukee, Wis.-W p McLaren was ap-
pointed receiver of the Grant carriage com.
pany. The liabilities are estimated at $780,
600; assets, between 100000 and $40, 600,
including outstanding accounts amounting
to $780, 900.
Milwaukee, VISA dispatch from Man.
chester, Green Lake county. this State, an, |
nounces the death of Michael Kroeger, the |
oldest person in Wisconsin MIR. Kroeger |
was nearly ia years old, having been born
at Posen in 1774.
Milwaukee, Wis.-Robert Schubert, an
employee at the West Milwaukee shops, |
jumped from the shop train coming into the
city directly in front of an outgoing Wiscon.
sin Central passenger train. Both legs were
cut off, and he died an hour later.
jamestown, d. 1.-THE snow is twenty
inches deep on the level and the drifts are
enormous. A telegraph messenger carrying
a death notice to family living twenty
miles distant left here Saturday and has
not been heard from. Fears for his safety
are entertained.
Chicago-Max Newhouse, clothier, made
an assignment a few days ago under circum.
stances which led nradite.-- 90 beIieve he had
eonc1aled part of his property. In court,
after repeated denas by the whole family
as to knowledge of any money, box was
produced containing nearly $1,000 in cur,
rency, besides notes and bonds. The parties
will probably be imprisoned for perjury.