The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-16
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


$4,000 in its ten days stay in Chicago
The Mexicans of Sonora are shout
ing Viva Crook" "Viva A1nericanosP'
Justice Harlan has decided that In the
Lake front case in Chicago the federal court
has jurisdiction.
1t is stated that Mrs. Langtry has a
bank account of about 100000, representing
her American tour.
It is calculated that Illinois will pro-
duce this year the largest oats crop ever har-
vested in her borders
The Canadian Indians are said to be
on the war-path, and preparing to invade
United States territory.
1t is rumored that Maud S. has gone
lame in the off fore leg. There is no doubt
that Vanderbilt has discharged Bair
Senator Sherman thinks there will be
Republican ground swell in Ohio at the
next election But the senator won't talk
president
The bodies of Mrs. Cornelia Wollberg
and Mrs Bertha Bleecker, of New York are
to be cremated in the Le Moyne furnace at
Washington, Pa
r. II. Ploss left satchel containing
Ss7 900 in Brooklyn ferry boat. 1t was
taken by Owen Quinn and Jas. Cullen, and
afterward recovered by the police
The new developments in the cases of
Neal and Craft are not thought to be of any
value The whole thing is looked upon as a
scheme to benefit the prisoners Direly says
ho can Inaka hiG Innocence alaar
Fifty thousand dollars Of railroad aid
bonds, issued by the county of Franklin III
aid of;the Belleville & Eldorado railway, have
been declared invalid by the United States
court at Chicago, Justice Harlan presiding.
A successful two days reunion and
camp fire of old soldiers, under the manage
ment OF H W Cressy Post, Tomah Wis,
has just been concluded. There were 2, 500
old veterans present and many distinguished
persons.
Colville, Haverly's cisief creditor,
says things are not SO rosy for "Jackn as has
been represented He Colvillel has posses
sion of the Fourteenth st, theatre and will
not let it go until the utmost farthing has
been paid.
By the subscription Of $4,000 by
Gov John Evans, of Colorado, $50, 600 by
William Deering, of Evanston Ill, and altar
gifts amounting to $25, ,OO0 the debt on
the Northwestern University at the latter
place has been paid
A young German count Ia real live
one) is under arrest in st. Louis for appropri-
ating money sent for the aid Of the sufferers
by the floods in Germany, and for borrowing
a theodilite under false pretenses and then
pawning the instrument for s5, and various
| other little games of the same kind
A man and woman stopped at Bur
lington the other day and the man, who
seemed to be wealthy, proceeded to furnish a
house elegantly for the woman, giving out
that she was his wife. After he had the nest
| prepared he introduced his bird to it and
she was delighted apparently notwithstand-
| ing which, when he returned to the house,
after few hours absence, he found his bird
had flown, taking with her about $1,000 in
| cash and other yaluables, and leaving note
the gist of which was that if he attempted
to follow her she would give him away to his
wife
Supervising Architect Hill, in his de-
Tense against the charges preferred by Murch
admits that the cost of the work specified wa:
! greater than it would have been done for fol
| private parties at that time, tut declares thai
! the plan adopted was compromise tha'
1 saved the government vast amount oi
| money; that it was the best that could be
| done under the circumstances, for if the II
per cent. contracts had been continued tht
| work would have cost much more, and tht
/ government was bound to those contracts IN
4 Ill the compromise was made.
In the case of the People vs.. the G,
B. & Q railway, in the federal court at Chi
cago, to recover damages for alleged extor
| tion in the matter of freights, the question OF
| jurisdiction came up on motion to remand
| to the county circuit court, because the U. S
supreme court had already decided in the re
cent case of Ruggles VS., the People of nlinoi
that there was 10 constitutional question in
volved III such cases. Judge Drummond helc
that the two cases were not similar, that il
the latter case the charter qualified the r1gh
of the railway to fix charges, &c, by claus
providing that such charges should not be re
pugnant to the laws Of the state, while in tn,
case under consideration the rights given il
the charter in that respect were absolute
therefore the federal court had jurisdiction
and the motion to remand was denied