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

Congressional nominations: Seventh
| Minnesota, w. F. Kelso. Democrat; Ninth
Kentucky, Thomas II. Paynter, Democrat;
| Second New Hampshire, Henry N. Baker,
| Republicans; Tenth Michigan, James
| Vanklack, Republican; Twelfth Michigan,
| Samuel NJ Stephenson, Republican;
| Tenth Michigan, T. A. E. Weadock. Dem
ocrat.
| Unknown persons opened q switch on
the Big Four road at Enou, o., and caused
| the wreck of freight train. The engineer
was killed.
Two men entered the express car on a
| Missouri Pacific railway train after it left
! Kansas City, overcame Messenger Nc
Laughlin, robbed the safe of several
| thousand dollars, and left the train at its
| next stop, escaping unhindered.
Fire destroyed the large factory owned
| by John Williams on the William Arnott
| estate, occupying the entire block between
| Twelfth and Thirteenth and Catherine and
| Temple streets. Philadelphia. The loss is
| estimated at 100000.
John and George w. Carlisle, capital
| lists and large dealers in real estate in Gin
| cinnati, have made an assignment.
Proceedings have been instituted in the
| courts of Massachusetts against the Amer
lean Protective league, five-year benefit
| order, which is said to have liabilities
amounting to s., 600, 900 and only S10l, 900
in assets.
Between 1000, 900 and 100000 feet of
lumber in the yards of the Little Kama
wha Lumber company, at New Boston,
three miles above Portsmouth, O., were
consumed by fire; also the planning mill
plant and house of Engineer Hall. The
loss is nearly $3.50, 900; insurance about
$50 900.
The British board of trade returns for
August show that the imports increased
e., 900 and the exports decreased s610,
600 during that month as compared with
those of the corresponding month last
year
Murat Halstead was 63 years old last
week.
The president will remain at Loon Lake
until Sept. Is when he will leave for New
York and go thence-to Washington. 1t is
expected that he will visit Wisconsin be-
fore he returns from his Worlds fair trip
ana that he will stop at Indianapolis to
vote on his way east.
Garibald's son is an officer on the Ital-
ian transport that brought the Colum bus
statue to New York last Monday. He is
90 years old, and has served six years in
the navy.
Two members of the Chicago police force
applied to court for naturalization papers
the other day.
SecrttdTN LONtJON, vi thc IlOileSteshO
works, says that the monthly output with
1900 new men is nearly GO per cent. of that
of the old force of 2, 500.
Edward X. Hewitt, favorite grandson of
the late Peter Cooper, and wealthy in his
own right, has married Mary Ashley,
daughter of J. NJ. Ashley, ex-governor of
Montana and a millionaire. The wedding
ring was made by the groom himself out
of SO gold piece given him by Peter
Cooper reward for his boyesh evil
dence of mechanical skill.
Rose Preston, of Pleasantviile. n. J., 10
years old, stabbed herself in the breast,
right through dress and corset, then put
wet cloth over the wound, changed her
dress and went round as usual for forty
eight hours when she died OF loss of blood.
Her lover called on her just after she COM
mitted the deed and she entertained him.
Ike Weir, the pugilist, spoke of "coons"
while talking to face colored acquaintance
at Boston, and got a slash in the breast
with a knife for his remark.
A band of whitecaps at Jellico, Tenn,
took two women and three men from a
house and beat them severely, one of the
women so badly that she will die.
A Florida mob hanged colored man be-
cause he was suspected of incendianrism.