Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-11-15
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bcGWccn Ccc. ID ana Oct. 20 tnerc wer0
], $50 cases of cholera and GIG deaths in the
province Of Volhynia, Russia, and thirty
eight cases and twelve deaths in the pro-
vince of Kieff.
Raymond Dolninick Pochelu, Of New
Orleans, where he owns the Bella Union
theater, went to Chicago with his wife, to
whom he had been married five weeks, to
see the sights She and her cousin Maud,
the pair having been known on the stage
as the Earl sisters, aerialists, concluded to
fly from the protecting arms of Raymond.
The wife left a farewell note, and the hus-
band is now hunting for her.
Mrs. Annie Elliott (Barnum's bearded
LADY, has been granted a divorce at st.
Louie. Her husband is an 'india-rubber''
man.
Mrs. Daisy Ortleib, wife of Alexander
Ortlcib, a prominent merchant, was at
tackled by two negroes in tho most fash
ionable part of the residence district of
Dallas, Tex. She was knocked down and
robbed of her pocketbook, containing
three diamond rings worth $500, a pair Of
earrings worth $3.50, SIS in money, $50
deposit check ana other valuables. The
two negroes are in Jail.
Rev. r. A. Torrey, of Chicago has re-
signed as president of the International
Christian Workers association. Rev.
Russell II. Conwell, of Philadelphia, was
elected to succeed him.
Josie Hurley, II years old, whose parents
live on farm in Dekalb county, Ills. was
arrested in Chicago on a charge OF stealing
a pocketbook containing $50 from Mrs.
w. A. Buhel, of sycamore, Ills.
Eugene H. Moore, u letter carrier of
I'D" sub-station, Chicago, has been miss.
ing year. He left the family of his
| brothers house to go out for 4 walk. The
police were unable to find him. In the
belief that he might still be alive adver-
tisements have again been inserted in the
newspapers.
The sugar trust is reported to have no
| titled jobbers and dealers that if they sell
| the refined product of Nebraska beet sugar
| factories the trust will decline to sell them
the cheaper grades.
At Milwaukee the Schlitz Brewing COM
pany will start a south side bank with
$780, 600 capital.
Obituary: At Westminster, Md, State
| Senator-elect z. j. Bennett. At College
Point, L. l., William f. Chisholm, aged
70. At Boston, Rev. Thomas Treadwel
Stone, aged %. At Milo, Mo-, Mrs
| Burnett Quick, aged 90. At Wabash, Ind
Mrs. John Fleming, aged so. At Moin
gona, Ia, William Holmes, aged So. A,
Greensburg, Ind, DR.. William q. Butler
| aged ~; Charles Tromer. At Boscobel
| Wis, Mrs. Mary Sontoit, aged e.. Al
Brooklyn, Edward Amman, aged IS, former
ly of Chicago.
| Joseph Huntal a tailor, at Chicago, 9;
years old, shot and killed himself. H,
was out of work and Respondent.
| An English syndicate has purchased the
four principal brcweries in Halifax, paying
$50, O,C0).
x carload OF foundlings, tots 2 and ;
years old, passed through Chicago on thu
| way to homes in the west. They wcr,
from the New York Founding and Orphan
| asylum.
The international convention of tht
Women's and Young Women's Christian
associations elected these officers: Prcsi
dent, Mrs. r. A. Dorman, New York; cor
responding secretary, Mrs. John Duncan
Louisville.
w. b. Wood (oyster plantcr), Peter j
Mcdonald, John Finn, John Carroll AM
John Newberry, were drowned by tn
laundering in Long Island sound Of tht
oyster drcdge James w. Boyle.
Dakota county tNeb) authorities hav,
arrested Mollie Molloy, IL 14-year-Old gir
who stole a horse ut South Sioux City an,
rode, almost without a stop, 100 miles t,
her home at Brunswick. The girl ha,
been ill for some time, was anxious to b
nurscd by her mother, and having n
money appropriated the horse in her des
peration.
Secretary Smith, Of the interior depart
ment, has decided that the eastern ter
minus of the Northern Pacific railway
not at Ashland, Wis. The decision cost
the company 80, 900 acres of land