Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-12-12
ABBREVIATED TELeGRAMS.


| Mrs Armagost. who was charged at D.-
! vid City. Neh, with poisoning a former
husband and suspected of other 3orpia.
like procedures, has been acquitted by a
Jury, much 20 the disgust of 200 women
who attended the tris,
Efforts Of Americans to secure pardon or
decrease of verify Of sentence life inn
prIsoment) Tor Mrs. Max brick. an adul-
tereSs who was convicted in England of poi
sonIng her husband, have failed so far.
1t Is reported that diamonds in having
quantities can be found on Snake river
Idaho.
A boiler exploded in a Saw-mill at Red
I Springs, Ro5eson county. \. C killi,o
two men and wounding several Others
| some OF whom are not expected to re, cover.
IL ). Beatty, a union workman. has been
/ arrested at Louisville on the charge of
poisoning non-union workmen at tho
Homestead mills. He says the charge is
spite work because he is collecting mopy
lor the other men charged with crime in
connection with the Homestead trouble.
Special cables state that London is ter
1oriHed because of gigantic plot of An
archists to blow the town into the track of
the comet
1t is feared at New York, so they saw.
mat there is al plot on foot to steal Jay
Gould's body. and the city has been asked
for a police guard.
A negro inmate of the New JERSEY reform
school has tasted sixty-three days and still
lives
Mime. Ribot, the French premier,s wife
Is Chicago woman, the daughter Of Isaac
II. Burch
Homestead appeals to the whole country
/ a i 81 OtC
hes numbering nearly LOCO persons who
are destitute, owing to the great strike.
There i "a row at ST. Louis between nao,o
and white members of the W. c. 4. u. be
cause at a supper the negroes refused to
flock 10y themselves After the row when
the negroes went out, an invocation was
sung
The wife and daughter of IL Claw King
who murdered Posten at Memphis and is
In the Tennessee penitentiary for life. or
until some governor pardons him, are hard
at work getting signatures to an appeal for
pardon.
Two women attempted to kidnap Racina
Clifford at Menasha. Wis. They were
caught later, the girl recovered and the
women put in jail. Racina is only wears
old
The art goods store of the Cooper Henecke
company At Milwaukee was damaged by
fire $4,000 and Beals and Terry boots and
shoes, in the same building lost $4p. 600;
fully insured.
August David, 16 years of age. had his
left arm torn from its socket ut the factory
of the Tonk Manufacturing company. lChi-
cago. The injury was fatal
In Kansas county attorney doesn't have
to know any law as long as he can hire
somebody who does. So says the supreme
court.
AT Cramps shipyard keel-blocks have
been laid for two of the five new vessels Of
American registry which the Inman com
pany has engaged to build for the purpose
OF carrying transatlantic mails under the
postal subsidy act.
A paperrr;Id 1T the congress Of the Mexi-
can Medical association, now in session at
the capital Of that country, said that treat
nent of yellow fever by inoculation was
highly successful
Rev. sam Small has suit against two
newspaper correspondents at Atlanta be-
cause they tackled his personal character
during the recent political fight