Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-01-27
ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS

In a wreck on the Norfolk and Western
near Riverton, Va, Pullman porter
named Phillips was killed Engineer
Long and Fireman Proper were injured,
but not seriously.
Mrs. Lease, the Kansas Populist, who is
ill with pneumonia at Window, Mimi, is
reported better.
John brennan, of St. Louis, shot himself
through the head on n passenger train
near Princeton, Ills, and died almost
Immediately.
A contract has been closed with NJ. s.
Carter q Co, of st. Louis for the con.
struction of a railroad bridge across the
Mississippi river from Davenport, Ia, to
Rock Island, Ills.
There is much excitement Tin the news.
papers) at Chicago over report that
Colonel Crofton, commander at Fort Sher-
idan, has been quietly invited to retire BIZ
Secretary Lamont. Those who should
know say that such course on the part
of the secretary would be Unprecedented,
and discredit the story.
The celebrated British painter, Sir
Frederick Leighton, is dead of heart dis.
ease. lie was president of the ROYAL
academy and 10 years old. His last word;
Were: My love to the academy"
The knights of Pythias threaten that il
the railways do not give n twenty-day
limit on their tickets to Minneapolis on
the occasion of the X. of p. cncampment
they will change the place of meeting.
At special Spanish cabinet meeting il
was resolved to increase the duties on i'm.
ports into Cuba and especially on Foreign
goods in order to meet the war expenses.
General Weyler, the newly appointed
captain general of the island of Cuba, has
sailed for Havana, accompanied by 1000
cavalry.
A heroic sized monument of Prince Bis.
marck is to be erected on the northern.
most point Of Germany's frontier, on the
summit of the kinisberg, Schleswig- Hol-
stein.
DR.. Ahlwardt has written to friends in
Berlin saying that it is his intention to re-
| main in the United States as editor of a
western newspaper.
Representative James 4. Spear, of Clin.
ton county, O., member of the Ohio leg.
islature, has been accused of Offering ia
secure pcnitentiary guardship for one of
his constituents for $3.50. Spear denies
the accusation absolutely.
The Ohio state board of labor arbitra.
ton has settled the Peacock mine diff.
Guilty, involving 200 miners. The miners
were given so cents ton, or the 2-cent in.
crease asked for.
Cleveland, O., has had another bridge
accident. This time it was fire engine
! that went through an open draw Two
firemcn went, also, but neither was fatally
hurt.
John Dram, the Chicago homicide whose
wife swore she killed the man, pleaded
guilty and was sentenced to ninety nine
years in the penitentiary.
The third DISASTROUS fire of a week and
| the second within twenty-four hours oc
| Cured at Lancaster, Pa, destroying the
| extensive plant of the Champion Blower
and Forge company. Loss, sS0, ,O1o; insur
| ance, S60, 900.
Mayor Pingree, OF Detroit, spoke at 8
banquet of the Young Business Mems as
| sociation, Providence, X. l. He told how
he secured cheaper street car rates for De
| troit and claimed that his potato patch
| scheme was success
| William Carroll, better known as
BILLY Carroll, the celebrated black-fac,
| banjo specialist, died in his home at Chcl
sea, Mass, of n complication of diseases
| after = long illness