Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-09-04
ABBREVIATED TeLeeRAMs.

| The steamer Bon Voyage caught fire On
, the st. Lawrence river near Ogdensburg.
n. Y, creating panic among the full
load OF passengers on board. Only the
GOODNESS of the captain and crew pre-
vented a terrible disaster. The fire was
extinguishec
The govern aent of Belgium has offered
1000 francs Tor the arrest of the anarch.
lst Baron Angern-Sternberg. He is a
kussian Of wealth aud young man.
Twenty people are reported to have been
drowned in a boat in an accident on More.
cam bay, near Lancaster, England.
Japan has congratulated the king OF
Corea that he has attained his independ.
ence and that the Japs have so far licked
All Sin. The Coreans are camping on the
trails OF the Japs and waging a guerilla
warfare against them, and China has re-
warded General Yeh and his soldiers for
successes against the Miksdo's rroops.
That is the news from the war.
Ex-Governor F. w. Wilson, of West
Virginia. has rendered his services to the
state Democratic committee during the
coming campaign and desires to be sent
into tine Second district to meet the Hon.
Thomas B. Reed.
Edward Mahsffey, of Harrison, y. Y. is
| locked up at police headquarters In that
town on a charge of killing his wife, Mar.
garette. lie literally kicked the woman
to death.
Myron r. kent. formerly prominent
real estate and insurance man OF Mandan.
\. D., was arrested ut Arlington, Colo, by
! Waiter Ehrlickman, a detective of the
Minneapolis police force. Kent is charged
with completely in the murder of his wife
March II 1884; also ernbeZzlenent and
forgery. He went under the name of J.
L. Pope and worked on the railroad as a
section hand
Governor Waite has issued quarantine
proclamation against Oklahoma
The Van VIE gas soove factory at Rock
ford. His, WAS burned, entailing loss OF
$50 0p, with insurance of sa6, 900
The Rev. DIR. Robert Collyer. of New
York, is in Chicago for a weeks visit VIII h
his grandchildren and many old friends.
DR.. Collyer WAS pastor OF Unity church at
the time of the great fire. His church was
destroyed, and the Sand ay after the con.
Migration he preached n sermon in the
open air ut the ruins.
AT Ashley, north of Springfield. O..
Mrs. Sarah Null and child were kicked
out into the street by her drunken hus-
! band. She then procseded to the saloon
where he got his whisky and totally
wrecked the concern.
Mrs. Louisa NJ. Woolsey, the evangelist
! who Is resident of Kentucky, has been
granted license TO marry people by the
county court ut LItchfield, that state.
County Attorneys Davis, Mershon. and
Harrison have begun injunction proceed
lngs against sixty-five saloons running at
Des Moines under the provisions of the
new mulct law, on the ground that they
failed to comply with the law in relation
TO the petition required
Albert Ports, the national Canitol iauitor
for the last twenty-five years who nut the
electric illuminating apparatus on the
statue of Liberty on the dome, has taken
them down, after standing on the head OF
the statue.
The operative potters at Trenton, y. J..
have voted not to accept any further cut
In their wages.
Fifteen people were injured in collision
between trolley cars at Darby, Pa, the
accident being caused by gripman losing
control of the brakes in going down hill
By the explosion of a gasoline stove ST.
mon PERTH and his wife were badly
burned at Chicago and their home was
wrecked.
Chaney Matthews, a negress, aged 10
years, has died at Little Rock, Ark.
The Magazine of American History.
which suspended publicato on at New York
year ago, is to be revived with General
o. o. Howard rs editor