The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-11-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Foreign flower seed are not consid-
cred dutiabie goods by the secretary of the
treasury
H. l.. Essen & Co, of Milwaukee,
have made an assignment. Liabilities about
SIS, COZ,
Glasgow, Scotland, suffered fire
which destroyed one block, the property being
valuel at about s., 10000
There is q sensation in Trenton, n.
j., over tbe 81 ,temcnt of Republican poll
tician that senator Mcpherson bought his
seat in the United States senate.
John Jarret says tariff Of q cents
on tim plate would put $50, 100000 into its
production in this country and employ p, 0OO
men.
Gen. Sherman refuses to be candi-
date for president, but remarks when
him"
J.. NJ. Tate, arrested at Washington
City on a charge of collecting political assess
ments, he being a government employe, has
been acquitted
Rowand, clerk of the courts Of Pitts
burg, Pa, who is alleged to be short $4,000
has demonstrated to his own satisfaction that
the county owes him just s.. 50 instead
The question Of liability of telegraph
companies viii come up in Pittsburg, Pa,
soon, whore C. A. Daily will enter suit for
81, 600 damages against the Baltimore & Ohio
Telegraph company The plaintiff alleges
that by the non-delivery of message en-
trusted to that company, he lost good sitla-
ton.
A riot occurred. at Danville, Va, at a
political meeting, at which five negroes and
one white man were killed and a number of
others hurt more or less seriously. The
trouble grew out af the warmth of the politi-
cal campaign. 1t is said that arms have been
purchased all over Virginia in unusual guam
titles by both whites and blacks.
W. U. Hensel, chairman of the Demo
cratic state central committee of Pennsyl
vania has been sued by detective for the
81 900 reward offered last year for the arresI
and conviction Of any person violating the
election laws. The detective went to worl
and got one or two men convicted and theT
the chairman was surprised when the bill
was presented saying, he only offered the
reward as ''bluff' to scare Off any one
intending to vote illegally. The matter is in
the courts now.
The suicide of johnson, of Utica, n
Y, last week, had some sensational features
The deceased was friend of ex-senator
Conkling, and prominent Republican poll
tician. He was the uncle of Lynch who wa
shot dead at Batavia by Rowell for seducins
Rowell's wife He was a man of wealth
with family moving in the best circles. Blu
he kept a mistress who acted as his book
keeper and drank heavily. 1t is thought.tha
his shame at the position he occupied socially
weighed on his mind and drove him to sui
eide.
Mary Churchill, the st. Louis CIR
who SO mysteriously disappeared from he
home few weeks ago, has been discovers
at the Insane hospital, Indianapolis, wher
she was at work in the ironing-room. Sh
says she left home because she wanted to earl
her own living and declares she is going t.
return TO her work as soon as she has pait
her mother a visit, which it required consid
cradle persuasion to get her to do. The onl,
thing that seems to have troubled her wa
the report that she had run away with he
former school teacher, Caldwell, whom sh
declares she hated when going to his school
1t was to correct that report that shs wrot
her short letter to her father,