Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-07
ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS.

Peary's steamer Falcon has reached st.
John, N B., having left the explorer and
his party at Falcon harbor, Greenland,
thirty miles north of the former stopping
place. Lieutenant Peary will return home
next summer instead of staying two years
as originally proposed. Mrs. Peary is ex-
pected to become mother the latter part
of this month, and the child will be bern
farther north than any other known child
ever was.
At Rocky Comfort, thirty miles south
of Texarkana, Ark, w. F. Crow and J. B.
Burke had a difficulty concerning the
ownership Of corncob pipe, which ended
in Burke shooting Crow through the
body, killing him. Clint Crow, son Of the
old man, then shot Burke, fatally wound
ing him. The latter shot and killed Clint
Crow and died five minutes later.
The legislature of British Guiana offers
bounty OF SIS head for 1000 Cinnamon
from the United States. They are wanted
to work under contract on sugar planta-
lions and in gold mines.
Obituary-At Boston, John S. Dwight,
the musical critic, aged SO; at Cleveland,
O., John 7. R Mckay, general freight
agent of the Lake Shore railroad, aged So;
at Oregon, Ill, Wesley johnson, aged 76;
at Baltimore, Adam Itzel, jr., the musician
and composer.
Partisan thieves have been detected steal
ing boots from boot shop by means of a
fishing rod and l;ne
Congressman Breckenridge has filed a
demurrer III the breacb-of- promise suit
brought by Madeline V Pollard at Wash
ington. He says that her declaration is
defective in that it alleges three contracts
hSlS al nd ha
time, and that it alleges matters and
things which do not constitute a cause Of
action at law.
Scranton, Ia, now has the summer
snake. The reptile Is reported to be forty
feet long and ten inches in diameter, with
head like calf and whistle which ter
rorizes every one who hears it.
IL was shown at the trial which involved
the affairs of the Ma sher bank, at Berlin,
Wis, that box of poker chips had been
carried for months as 5000.
The Oriental Tea company at Cincin-
matt has assigned. Assets, SO, 900; liabili
ties, $4,000.
Nebraska Independents have nominated
Judge Silas r. Holcomb, of Broken Bow,
for associate justice of the supreme court.
Rabbi Solomon SCHNEIDER, of Boston, it
Is reported, is to retire from his profession
to enter upon business career.
The fund which Henry Labouchere has
set aside for many years from the profits
of his paper, TO defend libel suits, is said
to amount TO 100000
The statement that Abraham Lincoln
was spiritualist and had medium liv-
ing in the White House has gained such
wide publicity that ex-Minister Robert T.
Lincoln Is at pains to deny it. He says
there is not an iota of truth in the story.
Bartholdi, the French sculptor, proposes
the establishment of an American Pan
theon on Bedloe's island, New York har-
Dor, where his statue of Liberty En-
tightening the World rears itself aloft.
Interviews with a mum Der of Chicago
bankers show that generally they do not
endorse the proposed revival of state
banks.
A resolution has been introduced in the
Pan-American congress at Washington
taking strong ground for national super
vision of the public health.
The conspiracy case of the Westinghouse
VS.. the General L ectric company, in which
it is charged that the latter has stolen a
large number of the Westinghouse blue
prints" delineating snew IAings in cleo
tricIty, is now IN progress at PIutsburg.