Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-02-14
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Obituary: At Paris, France, Ambrose
Thomas, the composer, s.. At Maiden,
Mass, Captain Robert Tarr, g.. At Meri.
den, Miss, Charles Hall, Of Evansville,
Wis. At Wabash, Ind, Asher MCGOWAN.
50. At Leavenworth, Kan, William +.
Piper At Sterling. Wis. John Phillips.
At Avon, Ind,. Samuel L. Ross, 30. At
Virginia, Ills. Mrs. Harriet Mcclure, 20.
At Lebanon, Ind, Bloomfield Taylor. At
Lagro Ind, John Reed, 6s.
Paderewskfs manager, Herr von Cor.
litz, has been arrested at San Francisco
for non.payment of a bill of s25l for dry
goods contracted seventeen years ago.
Edwin A. Abbey. tho American artist,
has been elected O member Of the British
Royal academy.
For the first time in half centuary the
American falls Mt Niagara practically ran
dry yesterday. BY the formation Of an ice
bridge or dam extending from Schlosscrs'
dock on the American bank, about half
way across the river, the water was al
most entirely diverted to the Canadian
falls.
H. NJ. Smith & Co., manufacturing
jewellers, New York city, have assigned to
Edward V. Slausen,
DR.. Hammerstein, leader of the National
Liberals in the German reichstag, speak
ing in that body in behalf of the party,
said referring to the kaiser's telegram to
Kruger during the Transvaal excitement:
1--WE are all proud Of it, and repel unjusti-
fable criticisms"
Two Chicago aldermen named hammers
and Haas arc charged with making n
vicious and unprovokcd assault on Police
Captain Frank O'NeilL The case is ag-
gravated by the fact that O'NcilPs daugh-
Ter was with him at the time and the al
legged fact that the two aldermen were
drunk.
To save railroad fare Joseph Love, q
farmer living in Shawnee county, Kan,
packed his three children, z, Q and IL years
old, in a box. They were discovered by
railroad employees. Love pleaded poverty,
and a stranger gave him money to pay the
children's way to Guthrie, .. 7.
The board of directors OF the Merchants
and Manufacturers association at {; meet.
ing at MilwaukcSpasscda series of rcso.
lutions asking Tor tho establishment of a
department of manufactures in the M.
tional government.
Etienne Chatelain, a pensioner Of the
war of 1Sl2, died at Cornwall, Ont,
wednesday at the age OF 1O9 years. He
had been married over seventy years and
had 27o living descendants.
The fire at Quayaquil, Ecuador, caused
the loss of thirty lives and destroyed prop.
crty valued ut s!,00o.OOo.
1t is said at San Francisco that Pictro
Gori, an Italian anarchist. is shadowing
Prince Luigi, King Humbcrt's nephew,
who is visiting that CITY. He says he has
no evil motives
A great demonstration of sympathy was
made ut the funeral of BAT" Shea as
Troy, n. Y. Hunder5 of dollars were
spent for flowers and other expenses to
show the opinion of bis friends that this
was a case OF judicial murder. One flower
piece was the gates ajar," bearing tho
VOID "lnnocent"
judge Seibecker, of Madison, Wis, has
decided that the paradcs of the Salvation
lists are not such as are prohi bited by an
ordinance OF that city.
The Cramp Ship Building company has
been awarded the contract for building
the revenue cutter No. for the Pacific
coast.
While q steamer was crossing the Bris-
bane river at Brisbane, Queensland, she
was capsized, and of eighty passengers n
board only forty were saved