Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-09-20
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Kate Field is 20 appear in the role Of
VIII contestant. associated with George
Riddle the leader They take exceptions
to the will of their amt, Mrs. Cordelia
Sanford, of Newport. r. l., and have filed
there reasons OF appeal from the probation
thereof
France proposes to have q general exhi
bition of sports in connection with the
exposition of 1890 The BJis de Vincenres
will be set aside for them.
Every passenger landed in French port
from "a steam vessel coming from a Euro
pean port, by decree just issued, is to
pay "A tax Of 80 confines 40 ceut-); from
any other part of the world he pays a
franc
In Vienna the memorial of the two hun
dredth anniversary of the deliverance of
the city from the besiegiug Turks bv John
Sobessi, king of Poland, Sept i3. 1s33
has just been completed and unveiled in
ST. Stephens cathedral,
In the convention just made between
Great Britain and China to settle the Bur.
mese boundary Great Britain gives IN her
claim to the greater part of the Shan
states, China agreeing to cede no part of
the territory to any other nation without
the formers consent.
bonne, in Switzerland. containing the
heart of Abraham Duquesne, the great
admiral of Louis XIV, after whom the
first settlement at Pittsburg was named,
and who WAS the only Protestant allowed
to remain unmolested in France after the
revocation of the edict of Nantes
Professor RouX of Paris, at the recent
hygienic congress at Buda Pesth, asserted
that In the Paris hospitals e5 Der cent of
the children inoculated with Behring's
antidiphtheritine (serum taken from
horses were saved, while of those not in
oculated &c per cent. died, and only 40 per
cent survived.
The output of California wine this sea-
son is estimated at 100000 gallons, a
failing off of one-third from last year.
The Oregon hop crop, which is now being
picked, Is estimated ut 80 600 bales which
is over l0,01o bales less than the crop of
last year. Some yards will not b. picked
on nccount ofthe low pr$ OF hops.
Obituary: At Canton, H.. Minor
David; Mt virginia, Ill, Mrs Charlotte
Stoli Hubbard, aged 80; at Washington,
-iajor Thomas Turtle, L. S A, aged 50:
at Hampton, HI, Mrs. Augusta Wilken.
aged -.
Senator HIPS name is now mentioned
III CONNECTION with the New York Demo-
cratic nomination for governor.
u. II. lsmon, Il prominent and wealthy
citlz.n OF Hudson, Wis, was found dead
in the yard OF his son in-law. William b.
Andrews. Heart disease probably.
The National Letter Carriers associa
ton, III convention at Cleveland, howIed
down Chairman Powers of the legislative
committee. when he rose to make his re-
port, because he is charged with gross
neglect Of his duty and other offenses.
Mary Desha, who is Representative
BrechinridGe's sister-in-law, writes from
Washington to the anti-Breckinridce
women in the Ashland district thanking
them for their share In the defeat of
Willie.
Turner Bros. & Co., clothing commits.
sion concern AZ 225 and 291 Fifth avenue,
Chicago, has been taken charge of By the
sheriff.
George w. Mullin, 25 years of age, was
run over by a freight train near Sydney,
His. and literally cut to pieces.
Atoert SeImen, aged Ia, son of farmer
il Assumption, Ills, was fatally kicked
by morse.
Frank Pofenbarger, Sr, died at his
home at jacksonville, Ills. He was the
oldest dry goods merchant in the place
and had been in business there lmost
half a century.