Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-09
ABBREVIATED TECEGRAMS.

Herman Smith, employed in a Chicago
planning MILL went into the shaving house
to clear out chute and sank into the
pile of sawdust and shavings and was suf-
focated before help arrived.
Edwin Pearl, of Peoria. ILL.,, Jumped
he id-first into the Mississippi from the
new bridge at Memphis. The jump was
eighty-three feet and Pearl was unhurt
Irish in America are appealed to in
behalf of DIR. Gallagher, who is In an
English prison for life on charge of dyna-
mite work. 1t is stated that Gallagher is
insane and was convicted on put up" evil
dence.
beautiful young girls body, hand
somely dressed, was picked up in the
Mississippi river near Alton, Ills She
was about Is years old and cannot be
identified.
Mrs. William Healy and Robert Wood
son, farm hand, are under arrest at Vir-
ginia, Ills, charged with the murder of
the woman's husband.
The story that Jay Gould is very i'll at
Albuquerque is one Of the old kind. He
is said to be the picture of health.
Charles L. Hutchinson, president of the
Chicago Corn Exchange bank, has just got
home from the Orient, and is delighted
with his trip, especially with Egypt.
The fair at New York for the benefit Of
the Actors fund has closed with the un-
precedented receipts of $l65 200.
The postmaster at Effingham, Ills, has
stopped all papers at his office containing
tbs names of persons who drew prizes at
church fair, under the anti-lottery law.
Captain Bogardus and W. 7. Rextroat,
of Illinois, shot al live bird match at Camp
ton avenue park and Rextroat beat the
captain by one bird in sixty-five.
At the southern Baptist convention
at Atlanta $l4, 900 were raised for a mis-
sion fund in ten minutes.
An oratorical contest was held at North
western University, Evanston, a Chicago
suburb, the first honors being won by
Albert S. Mcson, of the Northwestern; j.
F. A. Pyre, of the University of Wiscon-
sin, getting second place. First prize was
originally given to Pyre, but the judges
reviewed their decision with the above re-
suit.
There will be no "ads" in the Worlds
fair catalogue, so it has been decided.
An emigration society has been organ
lied by the negroes of Alabama to estab-
ish colonies in South Africa.
A so, 600 statue of Columbus will be
erected on Lake Front park, Chicago.
fllteen thousand editors, II Is estimated,
will attend tie editors congress to be held
during the summer of 1893 at Chicago.
The Behring sea treaty has been signed
by Queen Victoria and ratifications ex-
changed.
The Northern car shops at Robbindale,
Mimi, were destroyed by fire. Loss, s6o,-
600; insurance, S50,000
John j. Ingalls, will make a trip to Eu.
rope after the Minneapolis convention, and
will write his impressions to American
papers while abroad.
State Senator Matthews. of Illinois is,
dying at his home at Champaign. He has
been confined TO his room for months
The Y. NJ. c. A. of Chicago have held
their last meeting in Farwell hall, which
has been their home for twenty years.
The work of tearing down the building to
make room for sky-scraper has began.
When Howard J. Schneider. who killed
his wife and her brother at Washington a
few months ago, was called up to be sen.
fenced to death he cursed the judge and
tried to make vicious assault on the Cis-
trict attorney. He is to hang Jan -. 1873