Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-25
ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS,

At st. Joseph, Mo-, Direction tried to
lower the 2:0614 mark, but owing probably
to heavy track on the home stretch
could not do better than 2:O6s4.
President Earnes, of the State Bank of
Manitowac, Wis, died and the cashier
was drowned a few days later. 1t is now
found that there is no record of the stock
holders and that the ledger does not ac-
count for $4,000 Of deposits.
The rule at Washington that certified
checks, drafts and due bills furnished by
different concerns as a circulating medium
during the depression must pay 10 per
cent. tax is worrying all who issued them.
The elevators of Minnesota and South Ds-
kota are the last to find themselves ain
the soup" on this account.
William Bell has been sentenced at Bir.
mingham, Ala, to b.: changed for murder.
He has telegraphed Captain w. II. Woold-
ridge, of Memphis, to go to Birmingham
and save his life by swearing to perfect
alibi. The captain has gone post haste.
A severe snow storm has swept over
northern England.
In a collision at Omaha between trains
of the electric railway Anna p Shrigley,
wife of a barber, was cut in two.
The excitement at Niobrara over the
arrest of alleged cattle thieves has died
out and a lynching been indefinitely post
poned.
Editor George W. Childs is at Chicago
for a two weeks visit to the fair.
Peixotto has cabled friends at Paris
that the Brazilian rebels are not making
any headway, and he claims that they are
losing ground. Rio has not yet been bom-
barded.
With security of value of only g., 400
Thomas NJ. Richardson has succeeded in
borrowing about $3.50, 900 from Boston
banks. But he had magnetism"
H. S. Trout, the mayor Of Roanoke, Va,
is represented in the dispatches as being
at Richmond and at Roanoke.
Roswell Miller, president of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and ST. Paul railway,
will in October marry Miss Roberts,
daughter of a new York Presbyterian di-
vine.
The number of lives lost by the sinking
of the Haytien warship Petion was fifty
nine instead of seventy-nine as reported
at first.
Among the forgotten manuscripts in the
University Of Jena, a political essay by
Martin Luther has been found.
Inc latest report from Rio de Janeiro Is
that President Peixotto has declared him.
self dictator
Wn1tecaps are running things In east
ern Mississippi and western Alabama.
The man who dares to sell his cotton at
less than the price fixed by the whitecaps
has his gin burned.
Ten employees Of the Chicago @Alley L"
have been indicted by the grand jury for
stealing tickets, the thefts having been
going on since last April.
Populists have nominated a ticket at
Chicago, John G. Donahue having been
put up for circuit court judge.
Clinton Hatch, of West Groton, Mass,
aged years, was stung upon the tongue by
yellow wasp. The tongue began to swell,
the swelling spreading to the roots. Death
from blood poisoning followed within a
few hours.
The troubles of the Strip ''sooners" are
just getting ready to begin. United
States officials are identifying them and
when it comes to proving up claims there
will be much wrath.
Will Bray, aged u, living near Burns
vile, Tenn, quarrelled with his sister
aged 10 and striking her in the breast killed
her. He is under arrest.