The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-17

Inc condition of Archbishop McCabe
OF Dublin, is reported as dangerous.
reports from western Texas indicate
loss OF Is to 80 per cent. in f1ocks OF
sheep, owing to the terrible storm.
John Fiemming, one of the Chicago
commission sWlndlers, is guest at an
hotel in Windsor, Ont.
William E. Dodge, the philanthropist
and temperance advocate, died in New
ork Friday after weeks illness.
The damage to fruit and other trees
IN Dewitt County. Illinois, by the storm
IL is estimated, will aggregate ST 600 900.
war on rates to Chicago has been de-
clared at Louisville, and tickets were
on FRIDAY placed on sale at 81.
The white and colored people of
Hunfsville, Ark, cannot agree. and a
war OF the races is likely to result.
A negro girl living at Farboro. N. c..
crank quart of whisky Thursday night,
Went mad and died in four hours.
public meeting at Cory. Pa, has
Voted IN favor of repudiating the city
bonds issued to encourage local manu-
features.
Lawrence Billiard tried to commit
suicide, and under the New York new
penal code, he has been sent to iaiI for
year.
A draft-horse stable on p. Lorillard's
farm at obstown, N. j., burned FRIDAY
evening, and twenty-four horses and
SIX mules were consumed.
Loaded freight-cars have for a month
Deen standing on the tracks in Mon
treal, traffic having been demoraliZed
by the snow-banks
Ben Butler provoked row with the
warden of the Massachusetts state
prison, and secured the assent of the
executive council to his removal.
In Lowell (Mass.1 hotel Tuesday,
Robert j. Smith influenced by jealousy,
shot his wife dead, and then inflicted
mortal wound upon himself.
d. II. Sanford's ice yacht Avalanche
won the championship of America on
the Hudson Tuesday, making twenty
miles IN tifty-seyen minutes.
The postoffice at Birmingham, Ala
oama, was robbed Of money and stamps
amounting to $6, 500. The safe was
opened by boring finger hole.
Rev. George f. Bronson, a Congre-
gatlonalist of Peru, Illinois, fell dead
at the feet of a couple whom he had
Just pronounced man and wife.
W. Z. CallicOtt, a bookseller of Clar-
nda, Iowa, horseWhipped DR.. Reinhold
On the steps of the postoffice, and then
called on the mayor and was fined $25.
Captain Payne, with a train of one
aundred wagons, was captured south of
limarrOn river, and will be escorted to
Fort Reno
Miss Lolita Galloway, highly edu-
Gated young lady of Baltimore, has re-
nounced the Christian religion and
the Hebrew faith, taking a
new name.
Cleveland VeSSeI-oWnerS have re-
solved to postpone until May the open
ing of navigation, and to reduce the
wages of captains and engineers, as
well as sailors, 10 to Is per cent.
George Gebies, the German tramp,
who butchered Baggageman Connolly,
at Blissfield, Mich, last November, was
sentenced at Adrian to Imprisonment
for life.
Jacob Boaltman, an aged hermit, liv-
ing in the woods in Monroe Township,
Newaygo County, Mich, was found
dead in his hut Thursday, and was
probably murdered for his money.
M. J. Yarberry, who was hanged at
Albuquerque, New Mexico. harangued
the crowd around the seaffold for thirty
minutes. lie was a Texan cowboy, and
shot Charles Campbell in cold blood.
Jem Mace has been advised of the
of his son in the Thames.
He was 80 years of age, graduated at
the Liverpool Institute and was en-
gagged iii mercantile labor.
The high price of crude india-rubber
is the reason given by the leading fac.
tories in the United States for closing
up Friday, throwing eight hundred
men ont of employment.
Herman Harner, dealer in dry goods
at Jersey City, having been convicted
of knowingly receiving $4,000 worth of
prison for eighteen months.
The legislature of California passed
a resolution requesting congress not to
pass the pending bill for the cOnsolida-
ton of the Southern Pacific and other
railroads.
Two companies have applied to the
legislature of Massachusetts for char
tiers to build a ship canal across Cape
Cod, Offering to deposit 5000, 900 as a
guarantee fund.
Governor Bate states that the treas
Ury of Tennessee is comparatively
empty, and recommends that the con-
tingent debt be settled at 50 cents on
the dollar, to bear 8 per cent. interest.
The attorneys of Scheller. charged
with firing the NeWhall House, hint
that they will produce the missing hotel
books and point out as the incendiary
a trusted employee.
Judge Donahue, of New York, dis
Mace and Slade from arrest,
on the ground that the evidence in the
case did not show any violation of the
law.
John f. Coad, an extensive cattle
owner of Wyoming, states there will
be no loss of stock by the snow-storm,
as the herds can stand Il siege of TWEEN
ty days.
The loss of cattle on the Colorado
ranges by the recent storms, Will not
exceed 5 per cent, but if the extreme
cold weather continues few days long
er the percentage will be greatly in
creased.
The boiler in -Greer's saw mill at
Charleston, Mich, burst Friday morn
ing. blowing off the head of an emplOye
and Instantly killing the. proprietor.
The conclusion played havoc with the
windows in surrounding blocks.
The jury in. the criminal court at
Erie. Pa, was discharged by Judge
Galbraith because the jury commits
sioners had not taken the proper oath
previous to drawing names from the
Charles Packard, chief of police at
Niagara Falls, was badly pummeled by
a hackman for objecting to the eXtor-
lions practiced by that class upon WIN
ter visitors.
The house committee on military af-
fairs has agreed upon the terms OF a
hiIl to place the name of u. ;. Grant on
the retired list with the rank or gen
eral.
Lieutenant w. j. Nicholson, a son OF
the commodore. was married TO MISS
Hattie M. Fenion at Ieyenwortn, IN
presence of large party of officers ana
ladies' from the fort sron,o IN