Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-01-20
ABBREVIATED TElEGRAMS

Medor Campbell, of Saltwater, Mimi.
and Joseph Campbell, of Somerset, Wis
have been informed that they arc among
the heirs to an estate in New York valued
| at S12,Ooo,0oo
frcacaerS OF FL Paso, Tex. have started
a prayer crusade among the churches,
hIdeavor societies and similar organiza-
Ton against the proposed fighting car
| nival in that vicinity.
saturday evening an earthquake was
experienced at Craig. Colo, and vicinity.
Articles were thrown from shelves and
clocks stopped, though no damage is re-
ported.
Kew. L. \. Barnum, d. D., of Harpoot,
eastern Turkey, says that reports
have been secured from 1.6 villages in
the vicinity Of Harpoot, showing that the
Turks have butchcrcd in those villages
lo,Sio Armcnians, at least.
The Immigration investigating commits
sion appointed by Secretary Carlisle
complains that 10000 Canadians come
to the United States every year, under.
work the Americans and go back to Can
ada with their earnings.
Henry =. Chandler, an early resident of
Chicago and one of the former owners of
the Chicago Times, died at Yonkers,
n. =.
Bill Varell, aged 10, confessed that he
murdered Samuel Dcmars near Biwabik,
Mimi, and the sheriff had all he could do
10 Keep the Blwabik people from lynching
Varcll
George Silcr, of Chicago, has been chosen
referee of the Fitzsimmons-M ahcr fight
Major w. c. Morcland, cxcity attorney,
and w. ii. House, his assistant, of Pitts.
burg, have been arrested on charges Of
enlbrzzlcment of SIC, coo of city funds.
At the twcntythird annual banquet of
the New York board of trade and trans
por;ation Vice President Stevenson oc.
cupicd the position of honor ut the banquet
table and Secretary of Agriculture Nor
ton sat at the left hand of President
James.
The rational cycle show has opened
auspiciously at Madison Square garden,
New York. and gives indications of being
one of the largest and most successful ex.
hibitions of its kind ever held
The Republican and Populist state GEN.
trail committees of Alabama will meet
at Birmingham next Tuesday and fusion
of the two parties in that state is looked
for.
The grave of Gilbert Stuart, the painter
of the most familiar portrait of George
Washington, has been found in a Boston
burial ground and it is proposed to huild o
monument TO the painters memory.
Mrs. Catherine Miller who has been
sent from Pana, Ills. to an insane asylum,
has the hallucination that she is dead and
suffering the pangs of the damned in hell
II. II. Halter. of Saginaw, Mich, says
that Mrs. James Strange. faith curist,
hypnotizcd him and cured him of helpless
paralysis.
The Womcn's Civic League Of Cincin.
natl has secured an iron-clad order pro.
hiding eXpcctOration on the street cars by
policemen.
Allison clubs arc being rapidly formed
all over northern Iowa.
The twenty-fifth anniversary of tho
birth Of the German empire in the palace
of Versailles, Paris, was celebrated with
great acclaim Saturday, and in honor
thereof Kaiser Wilhelm founded q new
Prussian order.
The United States branch of the deep
waterway commission has elected Presi-
dent Angel, of the University of Mich.
gan, chairman.
THE jury trying Chapman at Washing
ton, for refusing to answer questions put
by the senate sugar investigating commit.
tee as to who among congressman had
dealt in sugar while it was a subject of
legislation, has brought in a verdict of
guilty and the case will go to the supreme
court.