Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-09-18
ABBREVIATED TElEGRAMS.

5. Gardner Chase & Co. bankers and
brokers of Boston, have failed Liabili-
ties about 81, 10000
Chinese advices via San Francisco are
to the effect that 1000, 600 people have
been made homeless by the Yellow river
flood.
Australian mail steamers are lying idle
at their docks in Melbourne. The dock
men are on strike, and there Is no one
70 loed them.
The United States grand jury at Min
neapolis has indicted seven Of the census
enumerators who helped to swell the pop
ulation of that city.
1t is stated at Ishpeming, Mich, that
the Escanaba, Iron Mountain and West
ern Railway company will build their line
to IshpemiRg at once.
Democrats of the Eleventh Ohio con-
gressional district Wednesday nominated
j. NJ. Pattison for congress The choice
was made on the 270th ballot
The Society OF the Army of the Cum
berland is holding its twenty first annual
reunion at Toledo, O. The CITY is gsyly
decorated in honor of the occ aston.
The announcement Is made at New
York of the engagement of Miss Helen
Newberry, OF Detroit, to Harry Beecher,
the grandson of Henry Ward Beecher
We're v Hunt, a Chicago lawyer, has
been received into the Jewish church and
renamed Israel Isaac Osten heimer A
pretty Jewess is the cause of his CONVEX
sion.
Joseph Dairy, of Warsaw Ills, son of an
old and prominent merchant, aged IL
years, dropped dead Wedne sday His
death was caused by paralysis of the
brain
Professor Drewey Jones, principal of
the public schools of Ferguson, Mo.
committed suicide Wednesday, being
driven thereto by the toothacte and neu-
ralgia.
The sovereign grand lodge OF Odd Fell
lows, in session at Topeka, Kan. has re-
versed the order of the Missouri grand
lodge refusing admission to the order to
saloonkeepers.
Mr.. and Mrs Gee, of Normal, Ills, were
found dead in their house thero Wednss-
day morning 1t is thought they were as
phyxiated by gas from a stove, Or else ate
something poisonous for breakfast.
A pet dog belonging to Mrs. T. j. Daley,
of Putnam, Conn, was painfully injured
few days ago, whereupon he deliber-
ately walked into the river ano held his
head under water until he was drowned.
Brig. Gen. Charles Brown, of Flint,
Mich, commander of the staue troops,
forwarded his resignation to Governor
Luce Wednesday, The governor has ap-
pointed Col. Eugene Robinson, Of Detroit,
to succeed him.
Two daughters of Samuel Soddert, of
Hartman, Tenn. walking on the track of
the Belt Line railway at that ace, were
run down by train and one killed and
the other badly hurt. They were Ii and
IA years old respectively.
Edward Langevin, of St. Paul, MIMI,
died Tuesday at the age of SO years. He
went to st. Paul in the year $40 from
Quebec, and opened a grocery store. He
made S., G000o in real estate, and his life
was devoted to laying up riches.
Joseph u. Nottingham, recently q
preacher, finding that he could not make
enough money serving the Lord, went
into the counterfeiting business at Kan
kakee, Ills, and now is fast in the grip of
Uncle Sans miniOns of the secret service
Because James Jamison was dis charged
from government dredge boat at Du-
buque, Ia, Monday, he went aboard of
her Wednesday, and after obstruc ting the
machinery, fred up the boilers go as to
blow up the boat. He was discovered, but
he knocked his discoverer down and es-
capped His plan failed, however.