Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-06-21
ABBREVIATED TElEGRAMS.

Ex-Governor Hartra #, o Pennsylvania
has been appointed by the president men,
Der of the Cherokee Indian commission.
After June 30 the city of Chicago will en-
ploy no aliens on public work, in accordance
with the law passed by the late illinois legis-
lature.
The regular weekly dispatch from
Hayti has duly arrive ct New York, the
steamer Saginaw bringing it Hippolyte is
on top now
It is feared that the schooner Maggie Av-
cry which left Traverse, Mich, Saturday
night for Charlevoix, has gone down with
all on board.
A monument to Gen. Stannard was un-
yelled at Burlington, VT, Thursday. There
was large gathering of veterans and prom
inent civilians.
Rev. Father John Carroll, the oldest
Roman Catholic priest in the United States,
aged 93 years, died at the Mercy hospital in
Chicago Thursday.
Commander Barringt ton, who let the Coz /.
stelation go ashore the other day, will have
to explain before a naval court which Sec
rotary Tracy has appointed.
BY a supposed ncendiary fire Thursday
m lning the ecst IN portion of Gala; an
cDIlege, Des MONIES, La, was destroyed
Less, SlO,UO ': FULLY insured
Guy ID. Arl uckle, a Denver grocer SC
years of age, Wednesday eloped with a
school girl, Miss Hettie Adds, aged IL years
They Were married at Golden, Colo
Eight persons in Chicago family were
poisoned Wednesday by eating partly fer
mented black raspberries A 9-year old girl
died Thursday. The others will recov r.
Roi ert w. SAM son, of Blooming on, Ills.
aged 50 years, was found dead Thurs az
morning. Wednesday he purchased a gal
Ion of alcohol and went to his room and it
is supposed drank all OF it.
Evan Lewis, the ".Strangler.r was dee
feated at Milwaukee Thursday night in a
five-style wrestling match by ID. A McMil-
Ian, of Milwaukee, the latter winning the
second, third, and fourth falls
Many thousand acres of wheat and other
grain in southeastern Kansas are said to have
been submerged by the rise of the Neosho
river The damage to crops in Neosho
county alone is estimated at over 100000.
Alvin Park, widower of Al, living at
Mystic, Conn, wanted a l4-year-old girl
named Littlefied, to marry him. She
wouldn't, SO he went to her house Thursday
and shot her to death. The bastard is in
Jail
Saying to his little 5-year-old daughter, Il
am going to see the Savior" Philip Godreso
jumped off bridge at Manchester, N. H.,
Thursday, and drowned himself The pos
session of half insane wife had discouraged
the man.
w. A. Odds, a prominent member of ii 9
knights of Pytnias Of Mari lsville, l d.,
committed suicide Thursday. He sat down
on the edge of the river with his back to ii e
water and then shot himself, falling into the
stream. Fear of consumption was the
cause
James Adler, of Goshen, Ind, found his
wife in company of F. v B. Munich, a
hardware dealer Wednesday nj b and fell
on them both with horsewhip. He dashed
Minnich all the way home to his residence,
drawing blood at every cut Minnich says
it is a matchmaking plot
Billy Pinkerton, the great detective, get
his back up in a Chicago court Thursday
he was on the witness stand, and the LAWYER
asked him question implying that Pinker-
ton had been discharged by his father, Allan
Pinkerton, for stealing you're a liar
said Billy, and the judge ruled the question
out.
In the supreme court of Indiana Thursday
the application of Governor Hovey for a re-
hearing in the case of Riley and Carson was
overruied These cases involved the location
OF power of appointing trustees of the state
benevolent institutions, the governor holding
That this was an executive prerogative The
governor will now submit