The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-26
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Ex.-Gov Swami, of Maryland, is
dead
A duel between Hon. Jno. D. Wise
and DR. Wheat is thought likely to grow out
Of the Elan Beirne affair in Virginia.
The New York Tribune says bust
ness all over the country has been seriously
affected by the strike of telegraph operators.
It is said that Duluth. the zenith
city of the unsalted seas" is becoming
formidable competitor of Minneapolis as
wheat market
A company of English and Scotch
capitalists has purchased Col Kings cattle
ranch neat San Antonio, Texas. paying the
sum Of 81 900 $50 for it.
The latest report from the Balti-
more excursion horror is to the effect that
sixty-six bodies have been found, and there
are nearly score yet missing.
Adam Forepaugh, the Snowman, was
arrested at Saratoga by the officers of the
humane society, for cruelty to children, but
he proved the society wholly wrong and the
case was dismissed
+ Meyer Franks. an italian lad of Chi
cage, wns fatally shot by a Grand Trunk
watchnlau named Richard O'Connell The
Waterman ran from the scene, and denied all
knowledge u the shooting, but be was locked
mp.
Senator Jno T. Morgan, of Alabama,
says the tavorite man in the southern states
for Democratic candidate for president is
Joseph Mcdonald, of Indiana, He said the
south did not look with much favor on the
move to nominate the ''old ticket"
Crop reports from the region tribu-
tary to Keokuk, Iowa, continue favorable,
and encouraging news comes from along the
| three lines of railway traversing the new
northwest There has been too much rain in
Wisconsin and Michigan, and farmers in
| southern Illinois are not rs well off as they
would be if they did not stake all on one crop.
Ex-Congressman Dezendorf has ac-
cepted the chrirmanship of the Republican
state central committee of Virginia, and an
nounces that the party will be reorganized
and delegation sent to the national Repub
lican convention. In the meantime the
! Democracy of the state, both regular and
readjuster wings, are holding a convention
| to see ifthey cannot act together and crush
| Malone.
The president at New York thus lays
out the programme for his trip to the west:
| Il shall try to keep quiet as possible while
| aIu here. | shall leave Friday probably for
Washington by rail and Monday next / shall
| leave Washington for Louisville to open the
exposition there Mr.. Folger, Mr.. Lincoln
and Mr. Gresham viii accompany me ex.
pect | shall then go on westward for my
| trip to the Yellowstone"
Three negroes have been arrested
and jailed in Oberlin, O., under
threats of mobbing for a most
Internal outrage on a 14-year-old girl
She drove buggy into the stable during the
evening, having, with another woman, hired
the carriage during the afternoon. and when
she was inside the men closed the DOORS took
lrer by force into Ia barn at the rear, and there
| committed their atrocious assault, each in
turn Her screams, however, attracted atten-
| ton, and she WAS rescued more dead than
| alive.
Jno. W. Singleton, of Illinois, ex-
member of congress from the Quincy distrist,
in an interview In Chicago, thus spoke of the
late President Garfield: Everybody that knew
Garfield in Washington knew that he was
simply politician, and made money out Of
it. Garfields friends. he said, ought to stop
this stuff about his saintlike attributes. In
knowledge, he was smatterer, like pre-
scriptlon, having little Of everything in bis
mental make-np. As a statesman he would
violate every agreement he made with his col
leagues Of the opposite party by proposing to
the Democrats a way out of question, and
then deliberately violating his own agree
nent The Credit Mobilier evasion was d
sham his part, aud the IS 900 from De
Goyer for paving contract WAS the Inost
injurious thing to him while In congress