Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-11
ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS.

Bill Taylor, living near Murphysboro
Ills, kidnapped the year-old daughter OF
David kranz krinz and a party went
after Taylor, recovered the child and claim
to have killed either Taylor or a negro who
was with him.
ExUnited States Senator Willis B.
Machen, of kentucky, has been adiudged
insane at his home in Eddyville, Ky.
Sam Frey, full blood Choctaw, has
been convicted of manslaughter at Caddo,
|. T., and sentenced to 100 lashes on his
bare back. He killed his brother
The city of Chicago has put 1000 men at
work grading and cleaning streets, as a
means of helping the unemployed Six
hundred more have been given work on
the drainage canal.
Fire at Coon Rapids, Ia, destroyed
property worth $50, GOO.
The latest plague of insects reported is
one of wasps. These pests are attacking
both men and beasts in Cambridgeshire,
England
Train robbers were foiled near Lille,
Ark, by the engineer, who put on steam
instead of brakes when signaled to stop.
He had received a pointer.
Lewis Going, a clerk in a Portsmouth, o. ,
commission house, was murdered by foot
pads lille on his way home and robbed of
his weeks wages.
Admiral Dot, the dwarf, who is at Chi
cage and only As inches high, has a wife
who is only one inch taller, and who has
just presented him with a daughter.
Weight six pounds.
The president has appointed \. w. Nc
lvor, OF Iowa, consul general at kanaga-
wa, Japan, and Arthur NJ. Clark, of Mich
igan, consul at Port Sarnia, Ont.
Colonel Hughes, the Kansas militia off,
Ger who refused at Governor Lewelhng's
bidding to attack the Republican house
during the Legislative deadlock, demanded
court-martlal for some time before he
got one. The court composed of Populist
officers OF the state, has been held and
Hughes condemned, and sentenced to dis
honorable discharge.
Mike Cleary, prize fighter who had
considerable note five years ago, is dead of
consumption.
The dissolution of the Northwestern
Coal company at st. Paul to avoid a
criminal prosecution has resulted in a
coal war that has lowered prices greatly
already and promises further reductions.
The Brazilian rebels have captured
1uCuludu dlieE d OlOOiy HgnI With the
inhabitants, who fired at the rebs from the
house tops.
Petitions are in circulation at pittsburc
asking the governor to pardon Hugh f.
Dempsey, who is in the penitentiary on
conviction of plot to poison workmen al
Homestead because they did not belong to
Il labor union.
Two ingenious bicyclists have fastened
their wheels together at the regular rail
way gauge, put fianges on them and are
making a tour of the country at the rate
of thirty miles an hour easily by keeping
to the rails.
Another great flood has happened in
China. Fourteen hundred villages were
destroyed and in kiangtung 10000 lives
were lost.
One negro has been lynched at Quincy
Ala, for throwing poison into a well
whereby several lives have been lost, and
the posse has five others in view, hav
already captured four. When the fifth i,
captured there will probably be a whole
lot of fun.
Liberal papers in England want the
house of Lords abolished because it refused
to adopt the home rule bill. and nothing
would please the Conservatives better
than to 90 to the country on that issue.
Government land is not exhausted
There are several Indian reservations t
open yet, two of which in Utah embrace
a,00O,000 acres of land.
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