Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-26
ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS.

In refusing to row Gaudaur three miles
with turn for the championship of the
world StanSbury offers to row that way
for the championship of America. or three
miles straightaway for the worlds cham
pionship, each for 5000. He says the
worlds championship is always on "A
straightway course Gaudaur accepts for
-, $50
Representative Cobb, of Alabama, says
he thinks the sherman law will not be I'M
conditionally repealed because the south
will insist on something to take its place
in the more money" line.
An attempt has been made at the Jail at
Morganfield, KY, to poison the five men
who killed Abbie Oliver on the night of
her wedding some time ago. The poison
was found in whisky which two strangers
had left for the prisoners.
About 100 shots were fired by robbers at
a train on the NJ. h. and T. near String
town, Tex. This was the second attempt
in few days There We're six guards on
the train hired to resist a robbery.
" Ed Everett and a boy named Peters were
drowned in Big lake near Monticello,
MINI.
Professor F. E Craig let himself loose
with parachute few thousand feet
above Celina, O., and the machine not
working the fall to the ground seriously,
perhaps fatally, lnJure1 MIN.
At Omaha James Frame and Constable
Winfray had a little ''gun-play'' and
Frames funeral followe ed. The constable
will also die.
The lone bandit who left the sleeper
on the Northern Pacific when so ordered
by Judge Leech, of Minneapolis, has been
captured.
The president has telegraphed the queen
message of sympathy for the Victoria
disaster.
Governor Altgeld of Illinois, has vetoed
the valued policy bill, requiring insur-
ance companies to pay the face value of
their policies in case of total loss. His
reasons briefly stated were that the bill
was a premium on rascality
A committee which has been examining
the books of Anamosa Qa) penitentiary
reports that the guard pay roll was
stuffed" to the extent of S643.32. Other
wise the pen" is all right.
The Amalgamated association and the
iron manufacturers have had five confer
ences at Pittsburg and have not yet agreed
on the scale for next year.
They have found a man on the pension
rolls who gets pension of - per month
because he is bald, losing his hair as a re
suit of typhoid fever.
Farm laborers are organizing unions
so per cent. more to double the present
wages.
The car of Russia has libeled two little
New York harbor tugs which bumped
against his man-of-war Dimitri Donskoi.
He wants IS. 900 damages.
Engineer Ingersoll and Brakeman Nc
Nanny were buried in he debris of a wreck
on the railway near Partridge, Wis, and
burnd alive. Some tramps stealing ride
were also cremated.
There is a crevasse in the Mississippi
river below New Orleans seventy miles
which will cost 81 600, 600 in damage to
crops and property.
John X. Pratt, of Chicago, was nearly
cut in two by a Panhandle engine at
street crossing in that city
The steamship Campania on her last
trip broke the days run record twice,
steaming 54S and 532 miles respectively.
The Paris held the record before with $50
miles ia one day. She made the whole
trip in ) days, 10 hours and 81 minutes,
which is only hour and - minutes longer
than the record. and she travelled a course
eighty-four miles longer