Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-11-26
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General Ruger, appointed to succeed
Seneral Miles ~ commander Of the de-
partment Of tho Missouri, has arrived at
Chicago the headquarters.
AuRuss Schiicker, q laborer at Louis
Vile, Ky, went into a fire cistern with .
lighted pipe in his mouth. There was an
accumulation of gas in the cistern and q
terrific explosion followed. Schlicker was
crushed to death.
Mrs. William Quinn and Miss Rinie
Cleveland were killed at railway Cross
Ing at Grand Rapids, Wis, by st. Paul
freight train.
Martin Warner, Of Fairfield, Ills, q
prominent grocer, committed suicide by
drowning in his cistern while temporarily
out of his mind as the result of illness.
Lot B. Wolfe, picture peidler Of
Worthington, Mimi, was burned to death
BY fire that destroyed the Central hotel
Of Yankton, s u. Wolfe was a helpless
cripple.
Mr.. Kenney, Of Falkland, Kas., was re-
Gently appointed marshal to arrest two
outlaws, brothers naUed West. He made
the arrests, but one ofthe brothers escaped
and later shot Kenney to death.
Henry Handles, of Boston, who has been
missing for five years, is heir to $4,000.
His brother, c. o. Handles, is looking for
him in Oklahoma territory.
A crank half-blood Cherokee named
Blackwell, who is preaching new Chris
tian religion of which he thinks he is the
prophet, has been arrested by the Indian
Territory officials on the charge of treason
under the law recently enacted making it
treason for Cherokee to sell land to an
alien The punishment for treason is
death in the Territory.
A man named Post has been sentenced
TO the penitentiary in Texas for twenty
seven years in all three courts having
tried him and found him guilty of the
same offensc and given him a term in the
pen.
The home of James Tennis and wife,
living seven miles east of Eldorado
Springs, No., was visited by mob of
masked men and Tennis and wife severe
ly whipped. Mrs. Tennis was horribly
manglcd.
At the annual convention of miners to
be held at Pittsburg, Pa, in February it
is supposed that the miners, in view of the
refusal of the knights of Labor conven-
ton to admit their delegates, will decide
to withraw formally from the knights.
DIR. Francis $ Whittemore, aged IS, a
physician, and George H. Beasley, q
wholesale grocer, were killed by an ele-
waited railway train at New York.
The British flag has been formally hoist
cd in Uganda and British protectorate
proclaimed.
Owing to the adoption by New York of
the proposed new constitution, which
practically makes horse racing impossible
unless those who supply the facilities pay
the freight" Morris Park, upon which
100000 has been spent, is for sale or
rent.
Waldo NJ. Potter, one of the organizers
of the Republican party in western New
York in 1854, a journalist contemporary
with Weed and Raymond, died at his
home in Casselton, n. D., aged Il.
Senator David b. Hill is in Florida on q
trip purely for recreation.
1t is alleged by the Sheboygan Sheboy-
gander that n company is being formed to
build railway from Duluth to point on
the lake shore south Of kewaunee, Wis.
DIR. Herzoy, n Chicago physician whose
speciality is the chase of the bacillus, has
corralled the smallpox germ. This dis
covcry may do away with vaccination.
f. :. Hanlin, founder of The Cleveland
Leader ans a member of congress from
Ohio before the war, died at Washington
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