Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-06-05
ABBREVIATED TeLeeRAMs.

Edward NJ. Kinman. who several weeks
ago disappeared from Jacksonville, Ills,
10 in Helena, Mont.
Brodie's Block, four-story structure At
Burlington. VT, has been destroyed BY
fire with its contents. Loss, s55, COO; in.
surance, ss5,60o.
The terms OF sixty-three presidentia,
postmasters will expire this month. Most
Of them are in New York, Pennsy lvania
and Iowa.
Obituary: At Minneapolis. Horatio F.
Lillibridge, aged SIS; at Pittsburg, Rev.
w. A. Passavant, ST., aged IS; at Media.
Pa, Judge John NJ. Broomall, aged %; at
Strawn. His, Walter Steers, aged Sc.
Major Won Wissmann, the famous Ger.
man African explorer, has arrived in Ma.
Piles from India in poor health. 1t was his
intention to go around the world, spending
some time in America. 1t is now possible
that he will not come to this country.
Charges are made that Bay City, Mich,
parents insure young children and then
expose them to fatal diseases.
Frank Carpenter, the well-known news
paper man, is to deliver a course of lee
lures in Boston on Japan, Corea, China
and Mexico.
Albert w. Paine, of Bangor. Me-, has
just entered upon the sixtieth year of his
practice ut the bar.
Nine girls belonging to the best fami.
lies" Of Kuttowa. Ky, have organized a
base ball team and will play male mines
for charity.
Representative Kerfer, of Minnesota,
has introduced in the house bill provid-
ing for national arbitration commission
of three members, together with the ma
tional commissioner of labor and the gov
! ernor of n state in which n strike exists
five members in all-who shall have power
10 absolutely decide strikes when the en-
ployer or organized labor applies.
About the only new fact developed in
the armor-plate inquiry is that the Car
| negie Company could have reiterated
plates at night, if it had chosen. without
| the knowledge of the government in
| spectors.
Mrs. Spangler, of Myerstown, Pa, has
| personal quarrel with the local G. A. r..
She will not let the order decorate her hus-
| bands grave. and prevents it by standing
guard over the grave on Memorial Day
| W it'll four men, she armed with a loaded re-
| volver.
The net result of the strike at Pullman,
| Ills, SO far is 1000 men, women, and chill
dren dependent on charity, and many are
going hungrier these days than they ever
did before.
After considering the vexed silver ques-
| ton for three months commission of eX-
perts which has been sitting at Berlin has
adjourned without agreeing to anything.
| Two hunted criminals were captured in
Wisconsin because one wanted to smoke
and the lighting of the match betrayed
them to a couple of officers who would
certainly have missed them otherwise.
Patrick Egan. late United States minis
ter to Chilli, says that p. j. lyman is all
wrong about Parnell and that he (Egan)
personally knows that lyman is wrong.
| Carl Browne says he wont pay that IS
| fine and will remain in Jail thirty days in
stead of twenty. Carl Browne is CoXey's
| lieutenant at Washington.
Four train robbers, Sylvia, Young.
Bigler and Brown, lately captured at Ell
Reno, have broken Jail, and officers of the
southwest are after them. The robbers
are well armed, and they will probably
| fight to the death rather than submit to a
| capture.