Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-08-27
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Zella Nicolaus says she will this week
add another countto her prosecution Of
George Gould by suing him for defamation
of character.
Obituary: At North Andovcr. Mass. II.
O. Houshton. ST., head of the Boston pub
fishing house of Houghton, Mifflin s. Co.,
20; at Edcewood, Ills, Robert L. Jen.
nings, of Milwaukee,; at Detroit, James L.
Edison, IS; at Kewanee, Ills. Luke Strong;
at Indianapolis, Thomas Barnitt, 80; at
Mendoza. Ills, William Drummer, 53; at
Red Oak, Ia. David Thomas.
Mr.. Blackman, of Chicago, a guest at
Block Island. r. l., was shot by Charlie
Bascom. Il years old, of St Louis. who was
practicinS at u target. Blackman will
probably die.
Tho cause of the non-action of Sheriff
Bowers in the matter of the recent bull
fights at Gillett, Colo, is said TO be poll
tics. He wants 10 be reelected next fall.
Home rule prevented Governor Mcintyre
from acting, but the governor is very angry
with the local authorities.
Colonel Romero, who killed Verastegui
| in duel at the city of Mexico, has been
sentenced to prison for three years and
four months at hard labor; to pay all the
costs of the trial; to pay NcraSteguis 5
funeral expenses: to pay "a fine of 81 800
| or serve three months more in prison, and
| to pay in monthly inStallments to Veras-
| tegui's widow and children 1850 annual.
| ly for eighteen years.
Prince and Princess Colonna have
reached an agreement by which the prin-
cess is given custody of the children and
pays the prince sla 900 annually.
| Miss Annie Sandrittcr died at Leaven-
worth from a spider bite She was bitten
on the lip and blood poisoning set in.
| Bandits who held up William Lee, u
Liberty, Ind, farmer, got q cents for their
| trouble.
| After all the newspaper talk about the
state of Illinois being without an cxecu-
tive, unless it was the president pro
| TEN. of the senate, il is discovered that
Lieutenant Governor Gill has not been
out of the state since Governor Altgeld
| left.
| &c. Schukers of Wooster, O., has been
arrested at Denver charged with uttcring
IL forged draft for $50. He is grandson
of John y. kankc, president OF the board
of trustees OF Wooster university.
| China has already executed four of tho
men engaged in the murder of the British
missionaries at Hwa Sang.
Five men Were drowned by the capsizing
| of yawl at Sccgncs, ON the east coast of
| England.
| A suite of rooms has been engaged at the
POmfrct Inn, Putnam, Conn, for the fam.
lily of President Cleveland for one month
They are expected sept. ,.
A special dispatch to the Paris Figaro from
Rome contr;dicts the report that the pope
intends to establish a nunciaturc in the
| United States.
The position of the Cuban planter these
days in the most unhappy one on the isl
and of Cuba. He is levied on 10y both gov
ernment and rebel troops and is fas,
running into bankruptcy.
The Dan Head 4 Co. bank at Kcnosha,
Wis, has asked for IA receiver to close uI
its affairs. 1t is claimed that the bank
will pay 100 cents on the dollar if giveI
reasonable time.
Between the hours of $3.50 and 4:8l
O'Clock Sunday afternoon the Rev. DR.
Hunsbcrger, at Milwaukee. performed tn,
marriage ceremony for ten Chicago couples