Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-10-07
ABBREVIATED TELEGRAHS.

A fine iifc-siZe portrait in oil of the lat :
Secretary Gresham has been hung in the
Diplomatic room az the state department.
Charles Lencger and J. A. Dickcy.
ncighbors at Burlington, Ia, attempted,
suicide. Lcncger cut his throat with a
razor i'm the presence of his family, and
will die. pickey took morphine and will
recover.
In the athletic contest between tie Cam.
bridge (British) team and the Yale team.
the British only captured three out of the
eleven events-thc quarter, half and one.
mile races.
Official reports show that coal mining
and other labor is held pretty much by
Polish and Hungarian aliens in the second
anthracite district of Pennsylvania.
General Miles has arrived at Washing.
ton and formally assumed command OF
the United States army.
The Pickwick, the largest saloon in Das
Moi:lcs, has failed; assets, 5000; liabili.
ties, Sli,SJ The pickwick was the first
saloon to open under the mulct law.
Gold that pans out s65 to $3.50 20 the ton
has been found near Milford, Neb.
Amos j. Cummings has been nominated
for congress hy Tammany Hall in the
Tenth New York congressional district.
The State Democracy of the same district
has nominated William j. Brown, a
printer and leader in labor circles
The Chicago Cuban sympathizcrs' COM
mittee has issued an appeal asking that
every city or community in the country
hold Il Cuban sympathy meeting not later
than Oct. 81.
Joseph Chcatc, the noted New Yorl,
lawyer, has been retained by Mrs Leland
Stanford to aid Russell j. Wilson in de-
Tending her interests in the suit instituted
against her husbands estate by the gov.
eminent.
Five business buildings at Dickson.
Tenn, were destroyed by FIRE. Loss, s5o,-
go.
The students lecture course at Ann
Arbor, Mich. opens Oct. - with non
political lecture by Senator David b. Hill.
There have also been engaged for the
course cX Secretary OF State John w. Eos.
ter, Rev. 7. De Witt Talmage, Henry
Watterson and Theodore Roosevelt
Salem Palmer n ffrmer living in Men.
do:a. Ill, was killed ut Chicago by being
run over by an engine on the Lake street
elevated railroad.
At the same hour, though miles away
from one another, Mrs. Elizabeth Dodge
and her daughter, Mrs. Sarah Sites,
passed away at Chicago.
Mrs. DR. Shaw while riding n bicycle at
Chicago was knocked down and fatally
injured by a runaway horse. She died
twenty minutes after the accident oc-
Cured.
International headquarters of the new
Irish alliance has been opened at IL West
Thirteenth street, New York city, and
charters for councils will soon be ready
An appeal has been issued for funds to
make war On England with.
Edward y. Dixon. well-known rail.
road man, and his wife started from Sioux
City Ia, last June TO drive across the
country to Ilbcck, Mo, and have not
since been seen.
Ii is reported at Chicago that the Pull
man company is to go out of house rent.
ing and will sell the real estate in the
town of Pullman to "A new corporation
made ont of the old one.
The Democrats of Cook county, Ills.
Chicago, nominated Henry w. Shepard
and Il. j. Morrison for superior court
judges and Frank Wentcr, Thomas ~
Smyth, Thomas Kelly, Alexander Jones
and Heaton owslcy Tor drainage trustees.