Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-01-26
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A bill has been introduced in the Minneso-
ia legislature providing for local option.
| The Berlin correspondents of the Pari.
Figaro and National have been expelled from
| Germany
United States Minister Phelps was given 9
| farewell banquet Thursday night by the lord
mayor of London
c. A. B. Shepard, the well-known publish
er, of the firm of Lee & Shepard, Boston
died Friday aged 60 years.
The comptroller of the currency has author
lied the First National bank, of Carroll La.
to comm ence business, with capital of $50, 600
| A dispatch from Zanzibar states that Rev
Mr.. Brooks, an English missionary, and six
teen of his followers have been murdered by
| the natives
Seven street car lines in Brooklyn wer,
| tied up by the men Friday morning becaus,
the company refused to comply with theil
| demand for 50 day wages.
Friday regular blizzard set in at Sioul
City, Ia; Yankton, d. T., and Ashland
Wis The temperature dropped p degree
| in three hours at Sioux City.
At Crosson, Saxony, Thursday night, q
| man named Rudolph and his family, consist
| ing of six persons, were suffocated to death
| by the escape of coal gas from a defective
stove.
Insulting and threatening anonymous let
| tiers have been sent to members of the Chi
cago Woman's Protective agency who have
| interested themselves in tue defense of Mrs
| Rawson-
Canada has stopped the issue of licenses t
| American fishermen under the "modus vi
| vendi" which came into existence after the
! negotiation of the fish treaty which the
senate rejected last year.
Col, w H. Chiffon, who, during the pas,
| fifteen years, has been financial and CONNER
| cio editor of The Louisville Courier ournal
was adjudged lunatic Friday by jury il
| the circuit court at Louisville, KY.
M. Goyette, Liberal and a strong CONNER
| cial Unionst, was elected Thursday to repre-
! sent LaPraire in the Quebec (Canada) legis
lature This is the second Commercial Tn
I ionist who has been returned in the provinc.
of Quebec in the past week
The business failures occurring throughout
the country during the last seven days, as re
ported to k G. Dun IL Co, Friday, number
for the United States 80, and for Canada 30
or total Of 342, compared with tota
of 3S7 last week, and ISL the week previous tc
the last.
Samuel NJ, FELTON,, the man who, as presi-
dent of the Philadelphia, Wilmington 6
Baltimore railway, made the arrangements
by which President Lincoln was enabled to
pass through Baltimore in 1861 without being
mobbed, died Thursday night at Philadelphia
aged 40 years.
-Four negro murderers were hung Friday
Charles Blackman for killing Stonewal Ton.
dee, white at Ellaville, Ga; John Yancey
for killing Bob Oliver, colored, at Yancey-
vile, n. C; Ed Fry for killing his wife, at
Marietta, Ga, and James Seames for killing
Deputy Sheriff Aubrey, at Eutaw, Ala.
Rev. Boyd Vincent was consecrated: as
assistant bishop of the Protestant Episcopal
church of the southern Ohio diocese Friday.
There were five bishops present Bishop Spald-
ing, of Colorado; Bishop Pensch, of Louisville;
Bishop Dudley, of Kentucky; Bishop Knick-
erbo ker, of Indiana, and Bishop Whitehead,
of Pennsylvania