Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-05-27
ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS.

In the intercollegiate athletics at Berk.
ley Oval, N. Y, Yale took first honors
with 80 points, U. of p. second with %,
and Harvard third with o. John V.
Crum, of Iowa, won the 100 and 200 yards
runs and Iowa City turned out en- mass
to celebrate the victory.
Albert Frank stole 1000 marks from a
man at Berlin, Germany, and skipped to
America. He bought a farm in Manitoba
and was preparing to settle down when
he was arrested for his crime and will be
sent back to Germany.
Joseph Kanerka, a sailor at Chicago,
shot his wife Anna and to avoid arrest
cut his own throat. 1t Is thought that
both will die. The tragedy was the re-
suit of the refusal of the woman to live
with her husband.
Workmen at two blast furnaces of the
Bethlehem Iron company, Bethlehem,
Pa, have had their wages increased from
Sl.2s to sl.4O per day.
The railway photographers order has ad.
journed its convention at St Louis. The
only change in the official list was that
j. X. I. Austin win be secretary-treas-
urer. Peoria, Ills, will probably get tho
headquarters.
The Nation Union Of Tobacco Workers
has organized ut st. Louis, elected Henry
Fisher, of st. Louis, president, and agreed
to affiliate with the Federation Of Labor.
William Burke, porter, was burned to
death in the fire that destroyed the New
Waverly hotel at Hot Spring, Ark.
In a short address made at q reception
she gave the pioneer graduating class of
Leland Stamford university Mrs. Stanford
said that if the government won its suit
81, bo yn,1ld hrx yo
to be closed.
bushel at Chicago, and there are plenty
of men who predict dollar wheat" be-
fore the boom stops.
Among the Americans at Carlsbad, Ger
many, to take the waters there are ex.
senator Washburn, of Minnesota, and
ex-Mayor Hopkins and ex-Corporation
Counsel Rubens, of Chicago.
The comptroller of the currency has
given authority for the organization OF
the Continental National bank, of Helena,
Mont.
Carlis Wainscott, 10 years old, son of a
prominent farmer living near Russell
vile, KY, was dragged to death by a
mule he was riding and which threw him
The general assembly Of the "Presby-
terrain Church of the United States, -
which has been in session at Dallas, Tex,
has adjourned.
Judges Buchwater and Kicks, holding
courts in Ohio, have each declared invalid
| and worthless city bonds issued under
legislative enactment because the enact
ment was unconstitutional The bonds
involved are of Youngstown.
Arthur Orion, the Tichborne claimant
who was sent to British prison for false.
ly impersonating missing heir, is writ.
ing confession of his crime and having
it printed weekly in q London publica-
| ton.
The special session of the Missouri leg
islature has adjourned after having passed
new election law which the governor
has not yet approved.
Forest fires are spreading In the upper
peninsula of Michigan, and several towns
have had narrow escapes.
Friends Of Justice Harlan, of the ma
tional supreme court, deny positively the
report that the presidential bee is buzz
! ing in the jurist's bonnet"
The national Conference Of Charities
and Corrections is in session at New
Haven, Conn.,, with delegates attending
1 from all over the country