The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-12-28
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

P. T. Barnlm says in a recent letter
that he has but one disease-old age.
A stock dividend of 20 per cent. was
declared 10y the Evansville & TerTe Haute
road
In free fight at Allendale, S. c.,
three persons were killed and several
wounded
The state of Wisconsin reports 49,
406 marriages, IL, 344 births, and 6S4 deaths
during the year
Miss Neary and Frank Coles were
married at ConoeS, \. Y, the license having
been issued four years ago
During Sunday nights freshet in
Hardis Greek, Ky, Mr.. Boss and his wife and
| seven children were drowned. %sE
In the reported accident on the
French railway no person was killed, but
some freight cars were demolished.
In the celebrated murder trial OF
Higham, at Watertown, n Y, for killing
Mr.. Eames, the jury returned a verdict Of
not guilty.
The highest price ever paid for
Washington land, says The Capital, was Sc
a square foot. Mr.. John Hay being the pur-
| chaser.
The French senate refused to concur
| in the action of the chamber i'll reducing he
salary of the archbishop of Paris from ~, 0o0
to Is, 900 francs
It is estimated that during the year
1888, 660S miles of new track were laid,
against II ,59l in 1882 The total mileage in
1888 is 1887, against ll3, 800 in 1882.
The Hon. George Bancroft was sud-
denly taken i'll while playing ~on all fours"
with his grandchildren last week, and was
confined to his bed for several days.
Mrs. Peter Ginter, OF Dubuqua, suf-
fering from puerperal fever, arose from bed
and stabbed herself twice in the abdomen
with pair Of scissors, inficting fatal
wounds.
Dick Pedler and Dyde Bright fought
eighty-seven rounds neal Wilkesbarre Christ
may day for 5000 a side, Pedler winning the
contest, i'll which great brutality and en-
durance were displayed.
A mob attacked an Orange procession
Wednesday at Harbor Grace, n. T., three
men being killedya and many mortaily injured
Military and police have been sent to the
scene as hostilities have not ceased.
Baron Rupertswood, the richest man
in Australia, is worth 100000, 900. His
J father, Mr. Clarke, went to New South Wales
: with few thousand pounds and bought land
} where the city of Melbourne afterward ives
built.
Prince George, of Prussia, the poet
| of the Hohenzollern family, has just com
pleted another play in French entitled
'Mademoiselle Esther" which is said to be
based on incidents in the life of Nine. Sa a
Bernhard
NJ. Bert writes to the Paris papers
that there are grounds to fear an outbreak OF
disease from the use of American pork, quot
ing statements from the inspector at Chicago
q who maintains that dying and diseased hog
are packed and sent to France.
Last Monday an avalanche, dashine
e down the Marshall Basin, in southwestern
d Colorado, buried the Mendoza mine shat
= house in which were fourteen men, eight o
whom We're killed instantly, and twt
wounded Four others burrowed their wa
9 ont from the mountain of snow.
A. d. Smith & Co, of Providence, r
l., operating five cotton mills, have failed
with liabilities reaching 81, 100000 This vii
compel the susGa;ii n Of the Providenc
Steam Mill company the Greton Manufac
turing company, and the Franklin Manufac
l turing company
3 In recent duel near Paris between
a lieutenant of dragons and a civilian, til
: military mans pistol bullet struck his OF
ponent but could not penetrate his THO
+, clothing, whereupon the civilian politely de
clined to continne the fight because "he woul
l not risk spillpg the blood of French officer
whose life belonged to his country" The
the pair marched off and breakfasted to
! gether.