Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-05-29
ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS

A crevasse 2, 100 feet wide in the Missis-
sippi levee near Vicksburg has driven 2. O0
people from their homes, and Governor
Foster, of Louisiana. has been asked for
ten days rations for the destitute, and
will supply them.
The First National bank, of Brady, Tex,
has suspended, and receiver will be ap-
pointed. Directors say depositors will be
paid in full.
The czar has celebrated the tenth ami
versary of his coronation.
Bert Fisher, who was accompanying
George Williams from lola, Kan, to Ok kla-
homa with drove of horses, the property
of Williams, arose during the night and
tried to kill his employer with revolver.
Just he pulled the trigger Williams
drew the quilt he was sleeping under over
his head, and the bullet failed to penetrate
it. Williams then rose and overpowered
his assailant, took him to Topeka, and had
him jailed.
y mob of men and women. calling them
selves the Law and Order" league raided
the saloons of Cheney, Kan. sand destroyed
all thu property in three of them and tried
to intlict bodily injury on one firm which
resisted the proceedings
While Ben Williams was dipping steel
plates into n pickle of boiling acid and oil
at the Elwood Und.) tinplate works plate
slipped and the liquid splashed over
to q crisp and his eyes burned out
F.G Creek stabbed Albert Wilson to the
heart at Glen Ellyn, Ills, during a dispute
over money. The murderer is in jail.
\ disreputable printer at Arcola, Ills,
resisted arrest by the city marshal, who
is Mr.. Bunch, very old man. The resist
auce was SO savage and brutal that
Bunch's right eye was knocked out, his
left arm broken and he may die.
of WoSbiputpr yyhn fol-
lowed his wife and her paramour to Grand
Rapids and killed the latter. has been ac-
quilted. The audience in the court room
loudly applauded the verdict.
Julia Morris, an 11-year-old girl, was
drowned at Watseka, Ills, while playing
! with another child in boat on Sugar
creek. f
Louis Moran. wealthy and well-knoWh
in the old aristocratic French circle at De-
troit, was the divorce in marriage fail
ure" case seventeen years ago. He and his
fopg-ago wife have just remarked.
Augusta Legnard, moving in the first
! circles at Waukegap, Ills, has been mar
ried to her fathers coachman and is living
| at Chicago.
During panic caused by the altar of
| the Church OF the Holy Virgin, Munich,
| catching fire, four children were killed
| and twenty-seven women received terrible
| injuries.
The Campania has arrived at New York
on her second westward trip, which is six
hours behind the record. But she has es-
| tablished new records for two, three and
four days consecutive progress, making
2,047 miles, the record of the Paris being
| 2,o46
a lone highwayman "held up" engi-
neer and fireman of switch engine in the
| yards at Armourdale, a suburb of Kansas
| City. He got only little loose change.
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| the region about Nisalia, Cal, got the drop
! on n detective who was hunting them. and
he is off duty now with a severe wound
| DR.. Hamilton Griffin, prominent because
| he was stepfather and manager of Mary
| Anderson before that talented actress be-
| came a wife, is dead at the age of 62.
Mrs. Steele, aeronaut. fell 900 feet at
| Tarborough, \. c.. and was only a trifle
stunned. She held to her burning balloon
and her parachute all the way down.