Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-04
ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS.

The Catholic Order of Foresters has
closed its session at Chicago. John Schu-
bert was reelected high chief ranger and
Thomas Cannon secretary.
The clause in the rules governing the
honesteading of lands on the Cherokee
strip that requires the homesteader to
make oath that he does not own more than
100 acres of land already is sending many
boomers home.
The National Federation of America, an
Irish home rule organization, has cabled
congratulations to Gladstone on the pas
sage of the home rule bill by the commons.
Floyd Bourghner, saloonkeeper, ar
rested for starting a recent fire at Au-
gusta, KY, has confessed and added that
be chad il in for the - town, anyway" "
a hurricane that passed on the Azores
islands wrecked many houses at Fayal
and Terciera and killed five persons Sew
eral vessels We're wrecked also.
The national convention of Spiritaalists
81 Liberal, Mo-, has adjourned.
Albert Query, portrait painter well
known in the south, dined at hotel at
Atlanta while his wife and family were
destitute at home, so it is charged.
Ben Baldwin, horse sheer at Tiffin, o,
and Fletcher Good, of Fostoria, will shoe
horses for prize of 500 on the stage of
the opera house at 1iffin. The contest will
last for an hour.
Chester Scott, a notorious desperate and
train robDer, together with five others of
his kind though less noted, escaped from
the Jail AT Rome. GA.
Italians and Hungarians east of the
Ohio river are leaving the United States
for their own country by thousands. 1t is
estimated that $4,000 have left tins country
this year.
The Lucania, sister ship to the Cam
pania, OF the Cunard line, l., now on her
first trip across the Atlantic. She is the
most perfect vessel afloat in the matter OF
comfort and safety OF pass gers of every
class, except the Campania.
The bank panic has had one good re-
suit. 1t is putting large sums of money
on the tax duplicate that heretof ore tn
assessors have been unable to locate
The authorities of Tom River. n J.,
where some body hanged Cleveland in
efigy, have offered a reward for the evil
dence that will convict somebody"
The Columbus caravels, now at the
Worlds fair, have been transferred to the
United States government and will prob
ably find their permanent future harbor
at Jackson park
The statement that Colonel Hughe $.
the Kansas militia colonel who refused TO
use his regiment against the Republican
house during the Kansas legislative dead
lock, had been found guilty 10y the court
mart al that tried him is pronounced
false. The court has not yet rendered q
decision.
The Carnegie steel Ipills at Homestead
have been started in all departments, Civ
ing work TO 1000 men
The Litchfield Qlls) Car a,.d Machine
company will not shut down, but resume
operations tomorrow. The only cause OF
the temporary stoppage of work was want
of material.
The story of a cloudburst which left
four feet of water on the streets of Guy
ton, Ga, has been given n black eye by the
announcement of the fact that Guyton is
on. a hillside and all her streets on a
sharp slope.
ranking wound in the Grand Arng
body has been healed ly the decision of the
| Indiana soldiers monument commission
ers to erase from the base of the monu
ment the dates of the Mexican war. Tbs
q. A. r. has alwnys opposed these dates
and insisted that the monument should
only commemorate the civil war.
A boy who was sent to Canadian home
for waits in Canada from England. wa!
taken by farmer on Lake Champlaiu. Y
\. He stayed there two years ami the1
went to New York city, where he got EN-
ployment selling flowers for a florist, He
was discovered" by the Gerry society
which proposes to send him back to Eng
land under the alien pauper law