Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-08-20
ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS.

England wants Crete, and it is said that
Austria and Germany Will concede that ISL
and TO her.
After eighteen weeks idleness the Penn
Iron company at Lancaster, Pa, resumed
work Monday morning.
The president has appointed John w.
Siders postmaster at Plymouth, Ind, vice
George r. Reynolds, resigned
Over 100 persons were poisoned as Steifel's
park, St Paul, Monday, by eating ice
cream They will all recover.
A telegram from Rome says the pope's
health is excellent and that he exercises in
the Vatican grounds an hour each day.
Judge Myers, of the county court, at
Bloomington, His, Monday decided that
| taxes must be paid in legal tender money
The report is current in New York that
the daughter of Huntington, the railway
magnate. is engaged to marry Prince HAITI
feldt of Germany
Dresden, Ont, was reported in flames at
late hour this morning. The property
destroyed at the last report was valued at
$l00,0o0.
Lightning knocked a pipe out of a mans
mouth at camp near Sup srior, Wis. Mon
day, and discharged rife near by, but left
the man unhurt
The Texas cattle fever has made its ap
pearance in the pens at st Louis and thirty
five have died A number of which cows in
| the vicinity have also died of the pest
Thomas Mcfarland, dealer in hardwood
timber, Chicago, made an assignment Mon
day morning TO c. F. Charlton. The liabil-
tiles are reported to be SIS, 900, and the assets
$4,000
Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, has been
decorated by King Humbert of Italy with
the insignia of grand officer of the crown of
Italy, thus making HIM a count and his wife
a countess.
The Hatch telegraphic lock, the invention
Of a Kansas City man, will, it is said, enable
the sender of a message TO cut off all inter
mediary points, and will apply also to tele-
phone wires.
Hon John G. Carlisle, speaker of the
house of representatives, and his wife, are
travelling in Mexico, where they have been
honored by attentions such as have have not
been lavshed on any American since Gen
Grant visited that country.
Hon Charles W. Clisbee, secretary of the
national Republican conventions of 1880,
1854, and 1875, and reading clerk of the ma
tionai house of representatives for six years,
died at his home at Cassopolis, Mich, Mon
day morning, aged 81 years
DIR. j. J. Conner, of Pana, Ills, expert
mented Sunday night and Monday morning
with the Brown-Sequard elixir on c. F.
Phillips, aged 81. There is marked improve
| ment in the patients health. and especially
in his sight, which has been failing.
An unknown man was seen to place his
drunken companion on the Omaha railway
just outside of St Paul Monday, and be-
fore the engineer could stop the train the vic
tim was ground under the wheels, and hor-
riby mangled to death. The miscreant
escaped
A farmer named Martin Hestings living
four miles from Huntington, Ind has been
warned to go to work 10y White Car s, in de-
fault of which they promise him forty lashes
| on their first visit, tar and feathers on the
| second, and death on the third Hosting has
loaded his gun.
A new crusade against the Mormons has
been begun at Salt Lake City. :. r. Thur
man, a representative-elect of the Peoples
| party to the next legislature, is under bonds
| of 81 900 for unlawful cohabitation, and il is
| expected that John B. Young, son of old
| Brigham, viii be the next vi, tim
Miss Sellman, of Chicago, was drowned in
the st Joasph river az tsIpinks' rus"rs, near
St Joseph, Mich, Monday while bravely
trying to save the life OF a boy who was
| drowning. Miss Napier, also of Chicago,
was assisting Mrs Seilman, and came near
drowning also The boy was saved.