The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-01-31
Telegraph Briefs,

The Now York bank statement shows a
reserve decrease of ST ,925. .925.
No quorum in tbs Harrisburg Lsgisla-
ture. Saturday.
Frank McGrath was hanged at Georges
ton, s. c.. last Friday for the murder of
Josie Small.
The Vassar. Michigan, postonics was
broken into on Friday night and $4,000 in
money and stamps taken.
The storms in the mountains were verv
severe last week, and some trains eu the
South Park Railway ware abandoned
Governor Cornell and Senator elect
Platt, OF New York, were among the ar
rivals at Mentor.
The reported resignation of Col, r, G.
Clowny, General Superintendent of the
Western Union az Chicago, Is without
foundation in fact.
Gen. John Love, of IndiauaD polls, diod
at his residence there on Saturday night
Ee served in the Mexican war an3 the
late rebellion.
Heavy ice in the river and bay at New
/ ork impedes ferry travel, A molasses
laden barge at pier 4 was cut down by ice
and sunk. Loss total.
John Sickles. Com mmercial editor of the
Chicago Times in 1868. and afterward on
the staff of Journal Of Commerce. made a
futile attempt to commit suicide ca Friday
evening the 28th.
On Wednesday evening Sam Lemay a
merchant ats Cut Of. above Shreveport,
Louisiana, was shot by his brother Cin-
ton, a drunken desperate. The Fratricide
mounted horse and escaped.
Three Boston bound trains stuck fast in
an immense snow drift near Portsmouth,
taken TO that town in sieighs, and three
engines and large forcs were put TO work
clearing the track.
A Boston Bucket shop operator, John
7. McDongall. after three days experience
among the Athenians, left the city, leaving
many and extensive creditors In the lurch,
He claims to have lost heavily.
The report heretofore telegraphed with
reference 10 new double track railroad to
be constructed from New York to Omaha,
is pronounced chimerical by some of the
leading railroad men Of the country in late
interviews.
A commercial traveller named Holland
from Philadelphia was reported robbed on
the train. between Kansas City and Seda
ia, last Friday, OF 81, 100 in money and
check for $1,000.
The international pedestrian contest ut
New York closed at 9:27 Saturday even
ing, Hughes having made Sos miles and
825 yards. During the first 134 hours of
the race be slept but three hours.
The Fort Madison penitentiary scare is
pronounced causeless by the Warden. &
supposed case of Varioloid turns cut
something else, and the works were stop
ped because the freezing of the water
mains cut off supply for building purposes.
Over four AID one half million pounds
of railroad fastening, valued at about
$4,000, have been sold at St. Louis 10
the past few days to be used IS supplies
on railroads row being constructed vest
of the Mississippi river.
The Cincinnati Central. a company
organIzed to build an elevated railway
with suburban connections, and possessed
of valuable franchises, opened it's book
for stock subscriptions Saturday morning
and more than half of the stock was sub
soriDed at once.
The Directors of The Chicago Racing
Association have adopted their pro-
gramme for the summer meeting. week
ending July Esd. $4,000 are offered in
premiums, and special inducements are
likely to be held out for Maud s. and Sc.
Julien to be present. The premium list
is very full and the prizes quite large.