The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-28
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Mississippi and Missouri rivers
have begun to fall.
1t is stated that the st. Paul railroad
VII extend its line to Bismarck \
Oil works at Algiers, La, opposite
New Orleans, burned, causing loss of about
$500 600
The son of Senator Thurman, of
Ohio declares his intention to vote for For
aker, the Republican candidate for governor
Senator Hoar has refused to preside
at the dinner of the Harvard Alumni asso-
citation, because Gov. Butler is to be guest.
Receiver Bensley, of Chicago, says
now that the liabilities of McGeoch, Evering-
ham & Co will reach $1,000, 600, and that
there is but $50, to pay them with
A report is going the rounds of rail-
road circles that Vanderbilt viii sot 4 acquire
the Lake Erie s Western road, running from
Bloomington, H., to Sanduslsy, Ohio
Polk, the defaulting Tennessee treas
urer, in court at the beginning of his trial set
forth that he was making strong efforts to re-
pay the money stolen. The court, however,
ordered the case to proceed
An attempt to rob the stage between
Helena and Deer Lodge, Montana was
banked by passenger opening fire with a
six-shooter, which frightened the team, and
it ran away, and was soon out of sight. One
robber was wounded
Complications are arising in the
Trunk line pool on eastern hound freights
because the Chicago & Atlantic gets the bulk
of the lard shipments from Chicago, which
the other roads say would not be the case if
there was no rate cutting.
Lacey, negro who confessed to an
outrage ON Mrs Rogers, near Lasater, Texas,
was taken out and hung by mob, as usual
Invitations were sent out by the leaders, and
there was no concealment about the affair
It occurred in broad daylight.
The charters of the Chicago street
railway companies expire on July 31st next,
| and the opinion is expressed that the city can
| then take the property at a valuation and
! sell it to the old Or any other corpora
| ton The citizens committee is moving in
! the matter.
Rev. s. Fl. Tying, of New York, who
left the Episcopal rectorship Of prominent
church there some time ago and accepted an
insurance agency In Paris, has been paid $50
600 to resign the agency There is said to be
a sensation behind the reverend gentleman's
! late movements. lid
| A prominent Ohio Democrat saws the
| supreme court decision sustaining the consti-
| tutionality of the Scott law will be worth
10000 votes to the Republicans The Colum-
bus Evening Times, Democratic, however,
says it will have no effect at all on the cleo
ton, and that the Democracy will not lose q
| vote.
There is difficulty about the ''as-
dstedn emigrants at New York The law
says the customs officers may prevent pau
pers from landing" but these are already
LANDED" and the question is whether the Of.
ficers can force them aboard ship again and
compel the vessel to take them back to the
old country.
| It has been noticed In Washington
that when business all over the country il
active the receipts of notes for redemption
decrease, and when business is dull the note:
pour in and by noticing this fact the officer,
of the redemption bureau are enabled to tel
|, pretty nearly the condition of business in the
country at short notice.
In Louisville, Col, Kean had some
|
ceedings instituted by his wife. The judg
did not suit him, SO he publicly denounces
Aisas for which a-~ suas sent tc jail for thift
hours for contempt Upon the expIraJIon o
the time his friends got a brass band and
marched in procession to and from the jai
bearing him out Of his captivit,
with great deal of fuss and feathers
which was commented upon severely by tn
letter portion of the community.
By neglecting to notice that the yea
,, 1884 is leap year the city council of Chi
cago has passed an ordinance for the licensing
= of saloons, intended to evade the high licens
law, which is invalid because it purports t
! grant licenses for period beyond the mum
, cipal year, the same being in violation of tn
> charter which provides that the municipa
year shall run from election to election No,
the time for which licenses were granted III
| der the late ordinance is found to continu
+ six days after the next city election and the
a | are therefore Of no account The matter wi
t be fixed up by tie council, if possible