Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-10
ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS.

The bodies of Richard Williams and
William Trembath, victims of the Laurel
Hill Pa.) mine disaster, have been found.
T, c. Steele, an Indianapolis artist, has
had the good fortune to have two Of his
pictures chosen for exhibition by the
Worlds fair art jury and one of them re-
ceived No. l rank.
Will A. Gilbert, born to fortune and edu-
Gated at Yale, spent $4,000 in two years
at Chicago, largely in the vilest haunts,
and then drowned himself in the lake. He
was from Mobile. Ala.
Attorney A. ID. Eimerman, of Mnwau-
kee, who some years ago was kind to F. A.
Walters, a friend who was playing in
hard luck, :" has been made the heir Of $17,-
900 by that friend, who died recently at
Houston, Tex.
Cafe de Marine, a structure on the
Worlds fair grounds near the fisheries
building, was turned on its foundation by
the wind and now is several feet out of
line.
Hiram Sibley, of Rochester, n. Y, who
died recently, left $50, 900 to Corral for a
new building.
Wind hail, lightning, and various other
storm forces have caused good deal OF
havoc all over the east and west, but there
are no serious casualties. Forest and prairie
fires have destroyed much property in both
town and country in West Virginia, Ne
braska, and Kentucky, and few lives
have been lost in the fires.
Bert Perkinson, of Mount Paris, Ills,
| threatened to kill William Bundy, of Mt.
! Carmel, because Bundy had accused Per
| kinson of stealing chicken. Bundy drew
q "gun" and put two bullets through Per
kinsons body, fatally wounding him.
| Dragons patrol the docks at Hull, Eng
land and non union men are loading and
unloading ships without interference. The
union men, how ever, attacked the crew Of
one ship and were driven off by the lancers
and police, =
Fire at Chicago burned out a large num-
Der of poor families, and during the efforts
| Of the fremen to put OUT the blaze Capt.
HeneS Greenhoff, of engine No. IL was
overcome by heat and died later.
A number Of Englishmen living at Meri.
| den, Conn, have signed a manifesto endors-
| ing the Gladstone home rule policy.
David D, Ltum, Th2 was Chicago anar-
chist at the time Of the Haymarket explo-
sion and then moved to New York, is dead
of too much strong drink. - =,
The newspapers Of Pittsburg have been
prosecuted recently under the blue laws
of Pennsylvania regulating the Observance
of 'the Sabbath" They propose now I'd
make it very interesting by enforcing those
| laws to the limit, in which case it will be
| almost sin to laugh on Sunday.
| AiiiholS ShlNCislby OCaih ocde thC w a.
bash college Qnd.) team at base ball at
Champaign, Ills, 16 to o.
OF grain there We're "a, 500, ,s2s bushels
shipped from New York last year and
two-thirds was sent in British ships. OF
| the other third very little was sent in
American bessoms----~.--
| Earthquake shocks have been felt in
| South Carolina, Georgia and New Mexico.
the latter being violent enough to break
| window glass.
The emotion of bidding his son good-by
killed the father of Charles Herring, of
Bedford, England, at New York. He had
| just said: "Good-by, Harry, my boy" when
he dropped dead.
| Ice and snow during the winter, drying
| winds and lack of rain later, are said to be
| the reason that the Michigan wheat crop is
| in very bad shape.
Joseph S. Harris has been elected presi-
dent of the Reading railway, vice Mcleod,
resigned.
An Italian padrone has been arrested at
| Philadelphia for perjury in connection with
violation of the alien labor law. The arrest
| it is claimed will be a big thing for that
| law