Rock Island Argus., 1896-09-01
ABBREVIATED TGiEGRAMS.


The passenger steamer State of Michi-
gan, belonging to the Grummond line,
bound up the lake, went ashore about one
mile east of the Grindstone City, Mich,
dock. All of her passengers were safely
gotten ashore.
The coal miners in the railrca mines
at Anderson, Nottingham, Hackett and
Germania, Pa, have been notified of a re-
duc.ion to 60 per ton in the mining rate
on Sept. l.
Ivy Baldwin, well-known balloonist,
was seriously, if not fatally, hurt by fail
ing from his balloon at Denver.
Hosea Brown. of Grants Pass, Ore,
one Of the survivors of the war of 1912, is
105 years old, and during the past year
his hair, which has been gray fifty years,
has been turning black. until at the pres
ent time there is not Il gray hair in his
head.
Rudyard Kipling has left Rutland, Vt,
to sail from New York to England. where
he will make his home for an indefinite
period.
Fl. B. King, at Chicago. went some 5000
feet up in the air attached to balloon
and parachute. The parachute failed to
| work until the ;eronaut was within 100
| earth near Garfield park with q broken
leg.
G. W. Witte, of Burton, Kans., who
made living selling Bryan's silver
speeches was run over and killed by a
| train at Wichita, kans
Miller Bros one of the best known car
| riage firms of Amcsbury Mass, as we'll as
one having wide reputation elsewhere,
bpx N NJ
of assets and liabilities has as yet been
given out.
John Hartig, and lady, as they register
| ed, committed suicide i'll room at Leav-
| enworth, kans.. together. They left a
note saying they wanted to die and be
buried together.
1t is announced at St. Louis that the
H. L. Simon Gregory Dry Goods company.
| of that city, will dissolve partnership and
| retire from business between now and the
close of the year The concern is the
| second oldest of its kind in It. Louis
| While sobbing over her husbands grave
in It. Boniface cemetery, Chicago. Mrs
Frankisee AlkohSer fell dead. She was
over 20 years old and since her husbands
death. three months ago. she had regular
| ly journcycu from her home to the cemc-
| terv.
The national tWelsh) eistedfodd
opens at Denver in the Arlington park
pavilion. over 2.500 trained voices and
fifty-nire soloists viii take part in the
| entertainments.
| Clarence White. of Chicago, acquitted
OF the charge ot Killing Thomas J.
| Marshall. says he win study law. He
| claims to have had Valuable expert
ence i'll the ways OF criminal procedure
Mrs. Joseph Kern and her two child
| rem slept in the Evanston Chicago
| suburb) police station Saturday night
| Her brother John Corcoran. turned her
out of the house.
| James Jones, = sailor employed on
| the tow barge William Jones. fell into
the Chicago river near the life-saving
| station and was drowned
The ship Tam O~hantcr, commanded
by Captain Peabody, has arrived at New
| York. Her captain SAYS that when off
Borneo he sailed through fifty miles of
snakes, in which We're mixed Il number of
ALI gators and Goldfish.
States Attorney kcrns. of Chicago. is
seriously ill., Thursd " afternoon Kern
left his Office to transact some business
and was taken sick. Calling n cab he
went home. where the doctor pronounced
his condition serious.
Obituary: At New Yo.k. Charles :.
Reinhart. -. At Elyria. o., Frederick
w. Beese, NJ. At Clanctte. Ind, Daniel
| Munsonc, 81.
Representatives of the railway en-
Gineers. fremen. conductors, trainmen
and teiegraphers, at a s-meeting at
Indianapolis passed a resolution in ia
vor of federation Of all these orders
| Edward Cole. a balioonist. was
drowned at Toledo, o. having lost his
life preserver before the balloon de-
Scended into the lake.
At Metropolis. Ills. John Msllard.
aged 20. committed suicide by shooting
himself in the head
| Couldn't Bear Torture.
CustOmer-ls that the razor YOU
shaved me with the last time?
knight of the Razor-Ycs. sir
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