Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-18
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Base ball at st. Augustine-Brooklyn IL,
Chicago Is
Three building were destroyed Sunday
night at Garner, Ia, causing a loss Of S22,-
900; insurance, 5000.
The will of the late John T. Lester of,
Chicago, shows that he was worth $3.50, 600
He leaves it all to his relatives
James p. Joy, lumber broker Of Chi
cago, has asst gned. The liabilities are place
at So, 564, and assets at S2S,0rO.
A gang of counterfeiters has been cap
tured at Wheeling, w. Va, including their
outfit and s., 900 in bogus coin.
Columbus, O., was left in total darkness
Monday night, Tho electric lights were
turned off, owing to litigation
Ex-Assemblyman Daniel W Talmadge of
New York, has obtained verdict of So, 600
damages against The New York World for
libel
Oscar Hill, of Clay county, Ala, died
Sunday of hydrophobia, produced by the
bite of a negro, with whom lie had a fight
several weeks ago
Pharmacists in South Oak )ta are mu oh
troubled over the prohibitory laws of that
state, and are signing agreements to keep no
liquors after May !.
The jury at Ashland, Wis in the Hurley
bank robbery case, IN which Cashier Perrin
Is defendant, has been out since Saturday
night and reached no verdict
The Anglo American Investment company
has bought tract OF ground in Kansas and
will establish thereon an agric lltural train
ing school for young Englishmen.
At Carrollton, Ala, Maj E. D. Willett, Q
prominent lawyer, died while en- his knees
leading in prayer in Sunday school his
death was caused by heart disease.
Mrs. Katie OFT, a teacher in the public
schools at Cincinnati, committed suicide
Sunday night 10y shooting herself through
the head Dependency caused by ill-health.
The vault of the Kane county Qllinois)
court house has been opened and all the pa
pers were founi intact after their subms-
sion to the fiery ordeal which DESTROYED the
court house.
Henry Letzett, of Bedford, La, has been
arrested for the murder in Page county, that
state, OF a man who had been In his en-
ploy. The murder was com nitted four
years ago.
Slugger Sullivan is in luck The sentence
of year in the county jail OF Marion county,
Miss, has been annulled by the ST ate supreme
court ON the ground of defective indictment.
A new trial is ordered
The boomers who went to the Cherokee
strip are sadly leaving what they hoped 10
make their homes Troops are on the ground
seeing that the retrograde mJvemant Is
properly accomplished.
Deputy Commissioner of Public Works
Bernard F. Martin and Deputy Sheriff Pat.
rick Fitzgerald, of New York, were arrested
Monday charged with receiving brides. the
former while a clerk in the sh sriff's Office
under Sheriff Grant
That peculiarly American Institution,
lynch law, had "a beautiful illu 5tration in
Missouri Sunday. The men hunting for the
man who outraged Miss Atkinson, near
Greenwood, Mo-, last week, captured a
tramp, and, as he would not confess, they
strung him up to a tree to force a confession,
keeping him hanging until he was nearly
dead. Upon being let down and revived, he
insisted that lac had nothing to confess, and
his captors took him to Miss Atkinson, who
promptly declared that he was not the man