The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-22
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The harvest has begun in Kentucky.
Nine persons were drowned by the
food at Seneca, Kas
Bismarek's health is again the subject
Of kilograms from Europe
Archbishop Wood. the celebrated Ro-
man Catholic prelate, is dead
There is large deficiency in the
Chinese and Indian silk crops
The American Institute of Homeopa-
thy Is in session at Niagara Falls
The Illinois legislature during its
late session passed upon ], ,172 bills
The Dakota constitutional convention
viii be held at Sioux Falls on September 4
The San Francisco fire is now es-
finated to have cost s507, 900, with s3lo, ,oOO
insurance.
Three hundred and fifty millions of
stock have been listed on the New York ex-
change since Jan. /.
Three Thousand Chicago saloon-keep-
els took out licenses under the new city ordi-
nance in about that many days!
Jerry Mccarthy. of Chicago, crushed
the skull of Mrs. Bridget Shea, as a fitting
wind up to neighborly quarrel
There are ladies' trading parlors in
the exchange building at Chicago and they
are well patronized by the fair ssx.
Graf, Bennett & Co., the Pittsburg
iron firm are reported to be able to pay dol
lar for dollar, instead of being insolvent
At pigeon shoming" from Steuben-
vile, O., to New York, the first prize was
won by bird which flew the distance, 333k
miles, in 400minutes.
The Iowa Railway Commissioners de.
cline to snterfere with thasaction of the roads
in charging for excess of baggage over GER
tain number of pounds. .f
One of the exhibitors at the Chicago
railway exposition has sued the management
for S25, 900 for ejecting his exhibit because he
refused to pay fees which he thought were
not due
Coy. Rusk, of Wisconsin, says the
Republicans of his state viii present the
name of Lueius Fairchild to the Republican
national convention for the presidential nom
nation ,H
When the Chicago reporters tried to
interview Sunset" Cox, he said 'EYou have
come to know my principles; just say L am
an unprincipied man, and have no principles; !"
and then he spake no mere.
All the stock Of the National Horse
Show association has baen subscribed for, and
it is expected that the first exhibition will
take place at Madison Square garden, New
York, in the latter part of October. .
Wade Hampton, speaking at the ded-
ication of the Confederate monument at Cam
den, $. u, said the war was not a rebellion
but civil war strictly, growing out of con
tlicting interests and differing constructions
OF the constitution
A great amount of damage to crops
in misseari, Kansas, Nebraska and Illinois
has resulted from the floods in the Mississippi
and Missouri rivers The Indiana wheat crop
is now estimated at two-thirds of the average
The arrest of DIR Hathaway, Phila-
delphia abortionist, on a charge connected
withhis infamous practice, has led to the dis
eovery that he has private cemetery in his
cellar from which the bones of twenty-one
prematurely born infants, the fruits of his
business, have been disintelred. 1t is also
stated that the doctor kept some voracious
dogs and when he was pressed for time, in
stead of burying the babies he threw them to
the dogs who soon devoured them
s. W Dorsey has written an open
letter to a~frend in which he handles Gar.
fields postmaster general and attorney
general without any sort of gloves He de
clares that his house has been watched him
self, wife and servants shadowed-and the
attempt made to bribe the seTyants-in order
to obtain evidence that would criminate him
But in spite of all this he boasts that he has
been vindicated by a jury which the defense
accepted and the prosecution could find nc
fault with Ea