Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-08-20
ABBREVIATED KILOGRAMS

Colonel John Atkins, manager Of the
Rocky Mountain News. is dead Of gastri-
| tbs at Denver. He was SO years old, a vet
eran Of the Union army and proud Of the
fact that his title was purely honorary,
he never having been higher than cor
poral.
Two hundred industrials, mostly Of
Jeffres' command. have reached Mime
apolis on the return from Washington,
but say they will work around there for
awhile and then make another raid on the
White House.
| Some labor Organization ms are urging
upon congress head tax upon immi-
grants of from SO to $50. They say it
would restrict Immigration and be Q tax
paid by the foreigner
Among Father kenipp's patients at
Woerischofeu, Bavaria, at present is DIR.
Koch, who is trying the priests water
| cure.
The Sioux City Athletic club has Of
fered So, 900 for the Corbett- Jackson fight.
with guarantee that it can be pulled Off
jackson says it will suit him, if the COM
pany will put the guarantee in the shape
OF money for training expenses in case the
fight cannot be pulled off afteTA(i.
Uncle Sam has seized aboN $40, 900 in
due bills which Kansas business men
were issuing in the place of money to buy
the products of the farms. The seizure is
based on the law forbidding circulation of
anything as money that looks like green
backs.
The Amoskeag corporation, at Man
chester, n. H., announces that on Aug. y
all the machinery of the company now
idle will be started up and the entire
plant will be run sixty hours week.
These mills employ nearly 10000 persons.
The wholesale paper house of Barnett.
Pringle & Co, at Chicago. has been closed
by the sheriff. The assets are estimated
at $50, Wn and liabilities at $4,000.
John Claude, n weil-known ticket broker
of ST. Louis and at one time president of
the Guarantee Ticket Brokers' associa-
ton, is dead, aged IS years, of consump-
ton.
An Atlantic. Iowa, barber got insect
powder into the bowls in which he kept
his face powder, and as a result the faces
of a number of his patrons are very sore.
y case of the detestable secret marriage
has just been developed at Norwalk, o.,
where the marriage was kept a secret
whole year.
George Messler, of Dunellen, n. Y, sold
out everything six years ago and left the
|
to live on. He returned the other day and
his wife locked him out and would have
nothing to do with him.
The mayor and council of Carbondale,
Ills, are no: getting along because tn,
mayor is a Prohibitionisu so far as Car.
, bondale is concerned, and the council is
not.
( A dispatch from New York says that
: Henry George will probably again be a
candidate for mayor of that city.
Six weeks ago Charles Lyons married
: Mrs Tomiinson, a rich widow of Mexico,
4 Mo. He took her to St. Louis, and there
= after robbing her, deserted her. She
finally borrowed money enough to return
home.
a scientist who has been making obser
vations says that Manhattan island il
steadily sinking and New York city viii
: be submerged in few centuries. II,
, also predicts the same fate for the entire
T American continent.
{ Eepresentativ Shaw, who has been il
: at Eau Claire, Wis, and Tot expected Il
4 live, is much better Mt latest reports, the
! greatest point of danger having beef
i passed.
e Charles Timing, a farmer living nea
a Mascoutah, Ills, has just sued for So
<. and recovered from Henry Arnold tn
= sum of $50 as damages for failure of tn
d latter to procure him a wife as he had con
II tracted to do.
u Frank Wade. aged IL years, while fly
, ing kite from a housetop nj Chicago fel
off the roof and was fatally hurt.
Five hundred tons of hay have bee
burned by forest fires in the vicinity G
VI Grautsburg, Wis