Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-21
ABBREVIATED TtCe1hAMo.


A. B. Cummins, of Des Moines is can
didate for the vacancy in the United States
senate which will be made when j. f. Will
sons time expires
Near Tredford, Neb, the body of W. w.
Dean of Lincoln, Neb., has been found.
He had been murdered and robbed, and
Elmer Gibson, who was a short time after
the murder sent to the penitentiary for
ROBBERY, is suspected of being the muir
derer.
1t is not now believed that Mrs. Chas.
Irwin, reported suicide at Des Moines, is
not dead. She was patron of a merry-go
round the night before she disappeared,
and ner husband is now missing.
William Archer. an Englishman, is
writing letters to the papers justifying su-
icide and urging that the government en-
courage it by establishing lethal cham
ber where suicides could 90 to shuttle
Off"
Ed J. Dundon, a base ball player of
Columbus. O., who was deaf and dumb is
dead of consumption, and just before his
death he recovered both hearing and
speech, which he lost at 2 ears of age
through typhoid fever.
Elizabeth Scholka, of Milwaukee, mar
ried forty years. and mother of nineteen
children, all living and all over 21 years,
has sued her husband for divorce alleging
cruelty.
At Bansford, England, boy has been
born whose mother, girl of II years of
age; grandmother, "a; great-grandmother,
81, and great great-grandmother, So, are
still alive, well and hearty.
BY an explosion in the Kaiserstuhl coal
pit at DortlCnd, Westphalia, fifty miners
were killed and many injured.
Senator Morgan has started for the Uni
ted States and the senate chamber from
London lie is free silver man and
when he takes part in the debate he is
likely to speak week.
A cyclone and hailstorm struck Somer-
vile, \. J., and left not house in the
town uninjured. Great damage was done
to crops by the hail.
At Buchanan, Ark, the free silver DEM
ocrats burned Cleveland in effigy because
of his message to the extra sess ion.
The Populists of New York have nomin-
! ated the following ticket: Secretary of
state, James Wright, Elmira; comptroller,
d. NJ. S. Zero, Glens Falls; treasurer, +.
II. Purdy, Bluff Point; attorney general,
| Thaddeus b. Wakeman, New York; en-
| gineer and surveyor, J. Averitt Webster,
| New York; judge of court of appeals,
Lawrence J. McParlin, Buffalo. Fusion
of any kind was howled down.
The package of diamonds worth $4,000
that Drummer" Billings, of New York,
thought was stolen from him has beeh
found in the transfer bus which took
Billings to the train St. Louis. The finder
has returned the property.
The two men who held up the st. Louis
and San Fransisco train near st. James,
No, have been arrested.
As sign of returning confidence the
cigarmakers' union of Chicago has re-
deposited $4,000 which the union with
| drew during the panic a few weeks ago.
The men who robbed the Merchants
bank at st. Paul Of bag of gold contain
s., 900 have all been arrested by the Pink
| ertons.
The Hay Trade Journal says that prices
of hay will be governed this year by the
home market.
The miners employed by the Santa Fe
| Railway company in southeastern Kan
sas have gone to wnrk on the company's IS
terms-50 cents per ton.
Denver clergymen who had determined
to ask President Cleveland to appoint a
day of prayer in view of the hard times
have reconsidered for fear the day would
be used as a plea for silver.