Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-03-18
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People at Mystic. Conn.,, insist that DR..
Graves (the alleged poisoner OF Mrs
Barnabyl who committed suicide as sup
posed in the jail a. Denver, did not COM
NIT suicide ut all. but Is alive and free.
Denver officials say that Il nonsense. as
the body Of the suicide was fully identified
- that Of Graves.
Two hundred thousand bootmakers are
idle in England as the result Of Q strike
for higher wages
The decision Of the New York court Civ
Ing Erastus Wiman a new trial will be ap-
pealed by the state.
An incendiary fire, the fifth within a
short time, destroyed 10000 worth Of
property at Algona, Ia, and the local
military company is now doing volunteer
patrol duty.
United States Mine Inspector Flem-
ing, Of Utah. says the White Ash coal
mine explosion ut Ccrrillos, n. NJ. was
caused by men going into on abandoned
chamber with naked lights, and not by
lack Of ventilation, as alleged by the cor.
oncr's jury.
Slatin Bey, an Austrian who. while
doing duty as an Egyptian officer, was
captured by the Mahdi at the time Gordon
was taken, has escaped from Khartoum
and arrived at Cairo. The Mahdi still
holds q large number of European prison
ers.
The lord mayor of London, Sir Joseph
Renals, has accepted the honorary presi-
iency Of the London Base Ball associa-
ton.
Frederick Marcott was fatally hurt and
his son, aged IL, was instantly killed by
the breaking of q rope fire escape they
were exhibiting at Duluth to \ large
crowd, including a party OF state legis-
lators.
Hereafter about half the roads entering
st. Louis will cross the Mississippi on the
Merchants bridge and get to the Union
station by an elevated railway, instead OF
through the zimmerman gloom of the tun-
mel.
Matt Curtis, at Pueblo, Colo, threw
loaded revolver carelessly ON a trunk in
his room. 1t went of aud his wife, Fretta
Compton, a variety actress, is dead.
While Catillos Sancod was asleep, at
the City of Mexico, Mariz Garcia. out Of a
desire for revenge drenched him with Pc
troleum and set him on fire, resulting in
the awful death of Sancod.
A boy in the gallery of the Adler thea
ter, 104 Bowery, New York, struck n
match during the matinee performance.
Somebody yelled fire, and there was a
panic that narrowly escaped being a terri
BILE catastrophe.
There is notable gathering Of promi-
nent Republicans at Townsville, Ga,
with a sprinkling Of eminent editors.
Governor Mckinley is the star of the occa-
sion, and among the editors are Medill, Of
the Chicago Tribune, and Lawson, Of the
Chicago Record.
The trunk belonging to John L. Sulli-
van which was seized at Jacksonville,
Fla, when Johns theatrical company
went to pieces, was sold by constable
for g. 20. a Salvation Army man getting
it. He will use it as a horrible exam
pie"
Revolution is going on in Colombia
and daily battles are being fought, with
the government generally victorious. A
revolution is being talked up in Hon
duras and another in Costa Rica, while
Peru is in the throes of actual civil war
and Brazil lacks much Of being peaceful.
Owing to the defalcation of its general
secretary and treasurer the American
Church Missionary society will likely go
out of business and turn over its remain
ing funds to the general board of mis-.
sions of the Episcopal church.
| 1t is now stated that Lord Rosebery has
been prevailed upon by the British Lib
erals to retain the premiership, which he
| was anxious to resign.