Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-16
ABBREVIATED TELeGRAMS.

At Mobiles livery stable, Pitt>burg. Ed
ward Sloan knocked John Schrecker down
and then holding him with his foot beat
him on the head with wrench until he
thought he was dead, He then robbed
him and dragged him into a stall with
the object of making it appear that he
had been kicked to death by horse.
Sloan was arrested and his victim will die.
The Great Northern railway extension
from Sioux Falls, s. D., to Yankton, S.
D., has been completed.
Morris O'Brieh died at Macon, Mo-,
having been poisoned by sardines.
Too much whisky brought on a quarrel
at Laketon, Ky, between Tom Ashworth
and Emmett Sherman. each about 20
years of age, and Sherman killed Ash
worth with knife, and then escaped.
Bob Ingerso.l says he wants to see the
day that mo matter how threatening the
financial aspect there will be plenty OF
money"
Robert Arid, of Woodlawn, was thrown
from a crowded platform on Chicago
suburban train and his leg broken. He
has just recovered $4,000 dam ages from
the Illinois Central.
1t is claimed that much opium is being
smuggled in,o Cleveland, and that the use
The Pahst Brewing company, of Mil
waukee, has advanced the sum of 100000
to the city to help it out Of its financial
| difficulty consequent on the failure of the
city depository bank. The money is really
an advance payment of taxes.
The destruction OF the city Jail by fire
has resulted in the discharge at Balti-
| more of pa prisoners, because the city
| had nowhere to put them.
| A you3g boa constructor about three feet
| long was found in a bunch of bananas at
| Chicago. 1t has been given to the Lincoln
I park menagerie.
Nos 40, ~. Al and 46 Champlain street,
| Detroit, composing the Boydell Bros.
block, burned to the ground. George
Boehnline, a jqnitor, was burned to death.
| Nos. "a. 80 and IS also burned. Total loss,
$4,000
Four or five arm chairs, two or three
| rubber coats, some dissec-ing tools, a
plaster cast of the face of Preller and a
large picture of Maxwell, his murderer, a
bundle of clothing taken from the corpse
of one poor unidentified man, an overcoat
and several other articles were stolen from
the st. Louis morgue during the tempo
rary absence of the keeper
The American Banking association holds
its tenth annual convention at Chicago
Oct Is and 1s and will be addressed by
Comptroller Eckels and other well known
fnanciers.
An election-the third-at Enid, Ok Ia,
for municipal officers was most COM
plete illustration of "universal' suffrage.
Everybody voted, whether resident or
not, and three times as many votes were
cast as there are residents in the town.
Xavier Oertel, a Chicago man who muir
dered his wife last April, has been ad-
judged guilty of murder by q jury that
thought Imprisonment for life sufficient
| punishment and his attorneys have giver
the inevitable notice Of application for 6
new trial.
John B. Jeffrey, of Chicago, formerly in
: the show printing business, has been in
I dicted for perjury in repudiating not
he gave Burr Robbins for SIS, zoo. II,
, swore he never signed the note and Rob
bins proved that be did sign it.
The silver jubilee celebration Of Car
! dinal Gibbons began Sunday at Baltimor,
with great pomp and ceremony, Satoll
= celebrating mass and $50 prelates AND
5 guests present. The celebration will las
} | all week
t The Riverside Glass works, of Wells
5 burg, w. Va, have started twenty-five q
Z their shops non-union. They employ 50
T men.
e The Parisians have the officers Of tn
t Russian squadron now at Toulon, and ar
g making much of them. They will be fete,
:, and honored every day this week, with tb
e principal object of making Kaiser Bill
o feel melancholy.