The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-12-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Boston paid $4,000 to hear Mathew
Arnold lc"aIre three times.
The anthracite coal interests will sus,
pend mining operations Tor nine days this
month
Gen. Entler is said to have been Anna
Dckinsons financial banker in her dramatic
enterpriss.
The prince of Wales has been re-
elected gran master of tn English grand
lodge A, f. and A. NJ.
The Unitarian church Of Clinton,
Mass, will use water instead of wine at com
manon service hereafter.
Mrs. Rail, who murdered her two
children at Baltimore recently, and cut her
own throat, died from the wound.
PASSPORT, Me-, tried the standard time,
but the villagers made a fuss and the select.
men yielded and went back to the old time
on Sunday.
The woman who accompanied O'Don-
nell, Carey's murderer, to the Cape, is alleged
to have left Liverpool for New York with
another man.
The National Temperance association
adopted resolution at New York asking
ongreSs to amend the constitution so as to
prohibit the liquor traffic ......
Mrs. Wagonhouse, Gged So, of Youngs-
town, Ohio, in a fit of dependency over her
sons death, arose from bed went into the
street and cut her throat.
Sarah Bernhardt aud her husband
have been ordered by Paris court to pay
$4,000 francs to her surety in violated
contract with a London manager.
Beside others previously chronicled,
three additional Gloucester Mass fishing
scbooners, carrying thirty eight men, where
lost in the gale of November II, and all hands
persisted. r...
A dervisch swore upon the koran at
Khartoum that not one Egyptian soldier was
| left alive in Kordofan, whereupon 1000 hear
ers armed themselves and declared for the
False Prophet l
The Cincinnati base ball club, failing
| to secure its old grounds, leased lot four
blocks nearer to the centre of the city, for
which they have agreed to pay an annual
rental of S1O,500
The supreme court of Pennsylvania
| Hay hctlAASh LbtlI VI ICSES1sCi pun
persons, whose lives had been insured by
spectators, can recover from the speculators
the amounts paid on the policies
The Cincinnati Boot and Shoe Trade
Arbitration board decided upon the present
schedule of wages, to continue until next
June. Both employees and manufacturers
made concessions. Six firms decline to sign
| the agreement u
The mysterious railway work near
Galena, on new line to st. Paul. accredited
to the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, is now
alleged to be the scheme of private syndi-
cate to secure franchise for a route from
Savanna, Ill, to st. Paul, along the east
bank of the Mississippi. which, when secured.
will be sold to the highest bidder.
Soft snow falling for twelve hours at
Denver, Col. adhered to the wires, causing
them to assume the dimensions of cables, A
windstorin sprung up next morning, when
hundreds of poles gave way under their great
weight, blocking dozen squares and sever
ing outside communication. The storm also
impeded railway business, and the damage is
heavy. 81
Mrs. Dagnall makes complaint at
Houston, Texas, that her alleged husband
j. W. Rose, H,,.5 ~ carriage manufac
turer, who has disapps... cd resided in 1856
at Kingston, N Y, leaving that place aftei
committing heavy forgery, deserving wife
and two children Rose, who was known al
Kings ton as Cornelius kr1m, shot his sol
who came to see him, and induced Mrs Dag
nall to say that she did the shooting.