The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-09-14
rELEGRAPHIC RREViTlEs.

The Kansas Board of Agriculture claims
yield OF FOG, 500, 739 bushels of corn.
The survivors of Bragg's Iron Brigade are
gathering at La Crosse, Wis, for reunion.
The Boston nine defeated the Chlcagos
Wednesday-1l to 2. Other league games
were prevented by rain.
Fire in the business portion of Fort Smith,
Ark, Tuesday night caused loss Of $685.
900; insurance, S34, 900.
Low water compelled suspension We'd
nesday. of portion OF the Amoskeag Mills,
rendering 1000 operatives idle.
Pells Nanny, the original inventor of the
famous reaper, died Wednesday at Rock
| ford, H., where he settled in 1888.
The Superintendent OF the Naval Acad-
| envy at Annapolis has dismissed four cadets
convicted by court-martial of hazing.
! Governor Butler, of Massachusetts, has
nominated Edwin G. Walker, -colored at
tomey, Justice of the Charleston District
| Court.
Smith & Co.'S large school and counting
room furniture factory at Boston burned
| Wednesday evening, entailing loss of
| SIS, 600
f. A. Reuss & Co., milling firm of St.
| Louis, have assigned S250,000 worth of
| property near Belleyille, ILL.,, for the benefit
| OF creditors.
II. NJ. Maltbie ( Co., who did an extern
siye grain business at Hinckley and Big
Rock, ILL.,, have failed, with liabilities of
over $4,000.
Slosson, the billiardist has challenged
Shaefer to a contest at New York or Chi
eago, within sixty days, for five hundred
! dollars and the Balk-line championship.
The Collector of the Port of Philadelphia
| has warned ship Captains that France will
! treat as blockade-rnnners any vessel that
attempts to land war munitions in Anam.
| The candidates for the Revenue Collect
| orShip i'll Illinois, made vacant by the death
| OF J. W. Hill, are Hon. d. T. kittler and
Colonel Jonathan Merriam, of Springfield
The Ohio Central shareholders met at
Toledo Wednesday. The capital stock is
So, 0O0, 900, and the floating debt S7eS, 900.
The net earnings for the year were
S349, 900
In a bicycle race at Springfield, Ill.,,
Wednesday, W. M. W0odside, the Irish BIZ
| cycle champion, was violently thrown TO
the ground, breaking his left arm in two
! places
| Is Ghe H0osac tunnel has begun to pay ex-
penseS, and the prediction is entered that on
the completion Of the double track the great
bore willnet the State of Massachusetts 50, 600
| per month.
At Trinity, Tex, Tuesday, Major II. B.
Hnrlow and his son, W. H. Hmlow, were
shot by man named Roseman. Young
Hurlow is dead and the father probably ia.
tally wounded
A man named II. Moore, armed with an
ak, made his appearance near Fort Russell,
! Wy. T., Wednesday morning, and nearly
killed James Knight and J. H. Medsel,
securing S5S. 10. Knight was found by duck
| hunter. Moore is in jail.
Yellow-fever has become epidemic at Her
mosillo, Guaymas and MazatIan, Mex.
There were sixteen deaths at Guaymas last
week, and six soldiers expired from black
Tomit in one day at Hermosllo. People are
| fleeing from the peStilence.
W. j. Montgomery, one of the men ar
rested for completely in the outrage on En-
ma Bond, at Taylorsvill, ILL.,, died Wednes-
day OF consumption. State 's-AttOrney
| brennan says he has new evidence making
a strong case against the others implicated.
A bill for the incorporation Of the South
ern Pacific Company is pending in the New
| Hampshire Legislature. The scheme OF
the parties interested is a consolidation Of
all the railroad and steamboat lines in Tex
as and Louisiana, the aggregate capital of
which would exceed $50, 900, 900, and own,
BESIDES 100000 acres of Texas lands.