The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-25
The News In Brief.

Five eounterfeiters have been cap
tured at Hudson, Wis.
The Abba Union, of Abba, Iowa, has
| been sold by the sheriff
Betting on the English Derby was 8
to l against Blaise. the winner.
1t is reported that Miss Fanny Kelley
the soprano singer. has lost her mind
Ker, the Chicago absconder. recently
arrested in Lima, is en- route home by way oi
Honolulu,
The Arctic exploring vessel Sophia
with Professor Nordenskjoid and other scjen-
fists, has sailed for Greenland
Among heseffects. of deceased San
Franciscan who lived ia penury, was found
$50, 900 in bonds aud gold coin
Defective Wallace of the United
States secret service, warns every body to loo6
out for counterfeit $50 gold pieces
The appointment of Marquis of Lans-
downe as governor general of Canada meets
general approval in the province of Ontario.
Nothing authentic has been heard OF
Gen. Crooks whereabouts His purpose il
SAID to be to exterminate Doe and his entire
band
The governor of Michigan has given
permission TO the Hibernia Rifles to enter that
state with arms TO attend church corner stone
laying $50
The Citizens Reform association, OF
Buffalo, N. Y, is waging war on the saloons.
pool rooms, etc. land much excitement exist on
account thereof 81 t.
Striking coaa miners took possession
OF the Abbey mines, driving off $50 men wins
were working There are reports of fichtino
between the miners at Collins vile, Ill
The Kansas branch Of the Union Pa.
cifica railway has made application for the
whole or part of Fl Wallace military raserya-
ton, which has been declared abandoned.
Estimates of the loss to vessel and
cargo property during the late storm on Lake
Michigan fool. up 100000 Eighteen lives
We're lost and fifteen vessels were destroyed OF
damaged
John Sullivan, the pugilist. writes
that he thinks Mitchell i a liar and a kicker
and that he will not have anything more to dc
with him until he tMitchel) keeps his promise
to meet Mike CleaFy again
Six heavy boxes of slung-shots were
seized by the police of New York. believed to
lie intended to assist in. the exercises at the
opening OF the Brooklyn bridge There were
ssoee sl1Eg- in the consignment
The body of man with six bullet
holes in il has been found in the woods near
Nevada, Mo- A man named Fox has con-
fessed to the murder. He hired his victitn
into the woods and deliberately shot him The
name OF the victim Is Howard.
In the Canadian parliament sir John
A. MacDonalds in moving fhe presentation OF
an address to the retiring governor general. re-
ferred In the highest terms to the manner in
which the marquis of Lorne had discharged
MS duties since he came to Canada
Seven Indians of the Lower Brute
agency. Dakota, persuaded q fifteen year old
white girl to visit their camp, and then out
ragged her, leaving her TO find her way home in
half-dead condition. The Indians viii be
tired by military law, and the penalty is death.
Inc girl Is not expected TO live,
With reference to the case of Susie
Young, whose corpse 10 alleged to have spread
the small -pox in Robinson, H., the doctors
having certified that Miss Young did not die OF
smallpox. IT il asserted that young maa.
named Wesley Fields had sedaned the girl and
enticed her away from home, and also that lie
alleged physicians certificate ii a forgery ev
Fields, and that Fields Ii crirninallv resr9nsgi
bic for I'll the trouble Two deaths have oe
cored in Robinson 90 far -