The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-12-22
Willet Bronson, real estate dealer,
New York, failed, owing $3.50, 600
TIE NEWS III BRIEF

The German crown prince has de-
parted from Rome.
Henri George sailed for England to
lecture on I'd uss,raaajiaa ion.
Christians il Crete have been muir
acred b. Turk and All inquiry hss bear
ordered.
Norman t. Gas3ette, OF Chicago, re-
Gently feaster @3S newshoys at Battery D
Arrnyry, III nat city.
George sE. Voolfolk. cotton factor,
Columbus ia, faiIed, owing $500 900, with
assets esum1Jcd at S250,o00,
Kerrigaa, the informer, whose evi-
lence resulted in the hanging OF six persons,
has been shot at Cong, Ireland.
Donald Gordon, an extensive dry
goods merchant at Rochester n. Y. is i'll
| solvent Liabilities, 100000.
The remains Of Congressman D. E.
Haskell were inferred at Lawrence, Kan,
| the city being draEed and business houses
closed.
President Jones. Of the insolvent
Depere Wis bank has been arrested for re
ceiving deposits when he knew he was a
bankrupt.
Mrs. A H. Thurber, who some time
ago, at Springfield, aiass., attempted to kill
/ her husband, was sentenced to ten years i'm
| prisonmenG
Thirty acres in Stafford county, Kan,
| have been purchased by Stanton tNa.i capt.
talists for 100000 = colony of Dunliards
! will be established on the land.
The Rev. Mr. Gallagher, OF the
Kingston Ont Preshytcry, is to be dis
! ciplined for marrying "a man to his diseased
wife's sister, thereby violating a church
canon.
In a fight at Erimfeld, Illinois,
William McQuon, a desperate, cut Elmer
Lambs throat, and the latter shot McQuon
three times 1t is believed both men are
mortally injured,
Charles A. Willard, AZ years old, a
railway postal clerk, lieutenant in the
Twenty third Ohio regiment during the war
was arrested at Cleveland for robbng the
mails and was imprisoned in default of S.,
5j5 bail
Judge Hoffman decided in the United
States court, n Sau Francisco, that if ths
evidence proves that Chinese labOrer leaves
his country to engage in mercantile bushes.
in America he is a merchant under the
statute.
Ten thousand persons witnessed the
opening Of the new Cantilever bridge across
Niagara river The bridge was tested by
sustaining the weight of twenty locomotive.
and twenty-four cars loaded with gravel, thu
detection being about six inches, which dis
appeared when the load was taken off
Four weeks ago the lake barge S. D.
Hungerford, during a terrible storm on tn
lakes, disappeared and she was given up a!
lost with all hands. Her crew has Just beer
heard from in safety. The vessel wa
wrecked in a desolate place, ami the seamer
sufreredsevery hardship before reaching
point from which they could communicat,
by mail or telegraph
At WildeYmap Station, near Belleyille
III, Henry Pabst, young man, shot twic
Mary Hammer because she refused to MARI.
him, and left her dead Pabst was fQlowet
by posse, and was Dissolved walking on tn
railroad track One of the officers cautiousl
approached from behind, and when nea
enough, sprang upon Pahst, and tried t
pinion his hands TO his side. The murdere
released one Of his hands, turned his revolve
over his shoulder on the officer, and fired. TIL
latter struc! the pistol and the ball wen
through Pabst's neck, killing him instantly