Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-09
ABBREVIATED TeLeaRAMs.


The Boynton who got into trouble at
Rio Janeiro while trying to sink rebel
ship with a torpedo boat was not Boynton
the diving suit man, but DR.. c. +. Boyn-
ton,.a son of the late Enoch Boynton, of
Cleveland
Mrs. Bridget Gum, of Eau Claire, Wis,
sued the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis
and Omaha railway for damages for the
death of her husband on that road while
at work for the company and a jury has
awarded her g, 500
In a football game between the Uni.
versity of Michigan club and the Detroit
Athletics, the university won-6t 10 0.
In the billiard match at New York be
tween the American champion Ives and
the English champion Roberts, the latter
won by 1922 points. The match was for
10000 points and took a week to play.
Passengers on the Dutch vessel Rajah
Kangsee Atjeek captured the ship on a
recent trip from Penang 10 Acheen and
murdered the officers and crew-twenty-
five in all, obtaining by the act of piracy
5000 guilders. The said passengers were
Acheenese who took passage for the pur.
pose of capturing the vessel.
The Cuuarder Lucania has the record
now both going and coming across
the All antic, having lowered the record
of the Paris thirty nine minutes.
There was an increase of Sl4, 303, sS5lin the
volume of national paper money circula.
ton during September.
1t is rumored at Milwaukee that an
agreement between the Mitchell bank and
the heavy creditors will soon permit the
bank to resume.
After being tried in fifteen courts-eacb
jury growing more lenient-H {. Pass.
more, OF Harrodsbur,, Ky, has been &C.
quilted of the murder of Richard Pax.
ten, six years ago. The case mas cost the
state over So, 900.
Several Sepoys who rebelled in the At
CHAN army have been blown from the
mouths of cannon.
In the decision of a case under the in
terstate commerce law, Judge Taft, of the
United States circuit court, has declared
that free carriage of goods by a railroad is
illegal.
Charles Clark, farm hand at Oakland.
His, has just died with rabies, the result
of the bite of a Guinea pig
Fred ). Grafton, who murdered his mis-
tress-as alleged, although he claimed
that it was an accidental Des Moires.
has been granted new trial by the Iowa
supreme court, because the newspapers
had tried the man before the courts got q
chance at him.
Jefferson Wallace. of Richmond, Va
has challenged to mortal combat Presi.
dent Bryan, Of the Times Newspaper com.
pany, because Of an item in the paper.
Bryan had Wallace arrested for sending
the challenge.
Daisy Sanders, of Wamego, Kas.,
stepped from one railway track to another
to avoid a locomotive and WAS cut TO pieces
by another locomotive which she had
neither seen nor heard.
EX-Postmaster Robertson. Of Green Bav
Wis, tripped and fell while returning from
hunt, and his gun was discharged, both
loads going into his abdomen He will die
At Keats, Kan, two trains on the Rock
Island railway colided. and Mail Carrier
Lancaster was killed; George Castenion.
fireman. was fatally hurt, and both engin.
GERS and brakeman injured severely.
There Is a prospect Tor CORY news from
Africa soon. The MutabeIes, "a powerful and
warlike tribe. are marching on the British
settlements, and the British troops are pre-
pairing for the fray.
The diplomatic corps at Rio .Taneiro Is
reported to have notified Peixoto lat If lie
does not retire from Rio the corps will
recognize the rebels as beliigerent~
1t is estimated now that the late Senator
Stanford's estate i worth all OF so uoO, 600