Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-18
ABBREVIATED KILOGRAMS.

Secretary Blaine will not tie in Washing
ton City until the Goth inst
Four New York monuments were dedi-
Gated on Get ysburg field Tuesday.
The International fair at Detroit, Mich,
was opened Tuesday before an immense au-
diencr.
Cholera has made its appearance in Bagdad
and the disease is spreading in western
Persia.
Through the fraudulent issue Of state bonds
Louisiana Is said to have been robbed OF
s3ls,OO0
The Chicago Worlds fair committee has
decided 10 raise SlO,OOO,OOO for Worlds
fair fund
The Bulgarian government Issues q state
msnt denying That the Independence Of the
principality is to be declared.
The IT. Rev. j. r. MAckharness, conse-
Grated bishop Of Oxford, England. In 1870.
aud who resigned in 1888, died Monday.
A forged bond OF the Wheeling and Gin
cinnati Mineral railway has beon III Recovered
In New York, and there may be more
ahoat
Governor Fifer, Of Illinois, has sent Adjt
Gen. Vance TO Spring Valley to investigate
the condition OF the miners In that section OF
the state
The Fire Underwriters Association OF the
Northwest is holding its twentieth annual
session In Chicago. About 100 members are
In Attendance
Forest fires are reported in the Dead River
region, around Chain Lake, Maine IL In
-sld that tsfisseF-, owned by NJ G. Shaw, Of
A letter signed slack the Ripper n..,......
received by n London news agency stating
that another murder will occur in White
chapel in about week.
An open faucet in the building at 81 Grand
street, New York, flooded the place Monday
night and damaged dry goods and clothing
70 the amount Of $1,000.
The Burlington and Northern railwa and
Erie Dispatch freight lines have made out
on through rates from New York to ST. Paul
10 70 cents per 100 pounds.
Thomas T. jackson died at St Louis Tues
day from the effect Of punishment received
Monday IN n twelve-round prize fight with
Ed Ahern The hitter was arrested
In 1870 Fort Worth, Tex, secured its first
RAILWAY. IL was then n village Of a few
hundred people Now II has eleven outlets
by rail, som, Of them through trunk lines
IL Is again reported nj Minneapolis that
the great Touring mill there have been sold
to n British syndicate, but those who are
most interest ell say they know nothing Of the
matter
A German farmer named Herman Myers,
residing near NATION, Ills, has been ar
rested for forging the names OF his neghbors
60 notes and getting them discounted at the
NATION banks
That prospective NJ. C.. the Hon. John
Lawrence Sullivan, Of Boston, II re-
ported to have begun his cnnvass by get
NI.s.
"Hub bright vermillion.
socialistic activity continues undated
under the very noses Of the Berlin police
Thousands OF Socialist election mnnifestoes
were distributed about the city Monday
evening in some secret manner
A Missouri colored citizen fred probably
by the career Of Holzhey and others OF that
ilk, went 10 be highwayman. He was a bad
failure, for the farmers got after him and
when he refused TO surrender filed him full
OF shot Judge Lynch WINS along, a. usual.
Two 4-year-old children arrived in N "
York Tuesday labeled "Lena and Rudolph
KGr 3, bound FIR SAMUEL Hurts, Chicago.
IllS" They had been shipped at Bremen,
Germany, and travelled under care OF the
pdrser of the vessel
Pennsylvania lynching parties are too
effete Rain prevented the Somerset, Pa,
best citizens from evincing their reverence
for the law Monday night, aud strinsing up
the Niceley brothers, who 30 seriously shot
Deputy Sherieff McMullen.
meeting Of representatives from various
industrial and trades unions in tho five
republics of Central America will be held
soon In Nicaragua for the purpose Of per-
fecting n general organization something
like the Knights Of Labor In the United
States