Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-06-18
ABBREVIATED TELeGRAMS.

Assassin Prendergast will be put on his
second trial Wednesday next. The court
and exports will then try to enable a jury
to discover whether the assassin went in
sane after he was found guilty at the first
trial.
Eve hundred pounds of nitro-glycerine
exploded at II. H. Thomas dynamite
factory, five miles north of West Bay City,
Mich, shaking the earth for miles around
as if by an earthquake.
Early last week cave-in took place in
the Ajax mine, ut Bald Mountain. S. D.,
and killed three men. The accident was
not known until Saturday, when the
bodies of Albert Lee and B. \. Bartlaw
were recovered. The third, William
Chubb, has not been found
The Chicago school census enables the
statisticians of that city TO figure out a
population of 1,5G2196, an increase of
about 49, O0 since 1892
John Delaney. aged Is, of Chicago, was
saved from burglars career by bullet
fred by Robert Prothaska. whose butcher
shop the young thief was robbing at the
time. Delaney is dead.
Judge Simeon p Shope has formally
retired from the bench of the supreme
court of Illinois and the secretary of state
has issued q commission TO his successor,
Judge J. y. Carter
The rai2makers who have been bonn
harding the heavens for the past week in
Iowa claim credit for the breaking of the
drought which has ensued
Judge Payne, at Chicago has voided the
indictments found against p. II. Keenan,,
president of the election commissioners.
andFW. A. Eutchins and B. I. Weber, ex-
commissioners. for locating polling place
in u saloon. The judge said it was impos-
sibie for the commissioners to have per-
sonal knowledge of the location of every
one OF the SIS polling places.
Mrs. Luella Cakes, second wife of Fran
els j. Cakes, the millionaire head of the
Cakes Chemical Manufacturing COMPANY.
of New York, has been confined bv her
husband in private insane asylums for
three wears rs a labitual drunkard. She
is now endeavoring. through the courts,
To regain her liberty, and declares that
she has been the victim OF a conspiracy.
n cyclone was twenty minutes passing
through the country adjacent to Green
vile, His, and in that time played havoc
| with property and injured several persons
none fatally so far as reported
Fire at Chicago damaged the building
GAM S.OStAS VI tnlleSg
goods, the Chicago Stove company and
Franklin NcVeagh, at 10 and IS Lake
street-including the loss on buildings
to the aggregate Of about 100000
Three of kelly's army" while at
Henderson, KY, got drunk, went ont in a
| skill, got into fight in mid river and two
of them were drowned.
Six thousand men paraded at Detroit
on the occasion of the laying of the corner
| stone of the new chamber of commerce.
| which is to be very fine building.
General Bennett, who collected slOs
| for his CoXeyite army near KANSAS
City, is missing and opinions are divided
| whether he has met foul play or simply
| skipped"
Cornell beat Pennsylvania in the college
boat race ut Philadelphia, the lead of the
winners being five lengths, and time
| 21:l2Is.
| Hailstoues Us large as goose eggs fell
during storm near Richmond. Ky. al
most destroying the corn and other crops.
Judge Dundy. ut Omaha, said that ii
any of the Cripple Greek. Colo. insurrec.
| tionists We're in the ranks of the 'wealcrs
! who are giving SO much trouble west of
the Mississippi he would turn them owe.
to the Colorado state authorities.