The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-09-01
BREVITIES

Henry Willard and his German guests are
at Niagara Falls.
A cotton factory has been started at Oak
land, Cal, with capital of 100000.
League base ball games Wednesday: Chi
cago, Z: Cleveland, 0. Detroit s; Buffalo,
2.
A staging fell Wednesday at Hudson, n.
Y, one man being killed and five seriously
injured.
The imports of iron and steel for seven
months of 1888 show a comparative de-
crease of $500 tons.
Rev. Dr. J. II. Phillips, retired Baptist
clergyman and State Sabbath school agent,
died Wednesday night al Shelbyville, Ill,
aged sixty.
One hundred cases of rifles and revolvers
and seventy-five cases of cartridges were on
Wednesday loaded at San Francisco on a
steamer sailing for Shanghai.
The Indiana National Bank, at Bedford,
which for the past three weeks has endeav.
ored to secure a living support from the
| citizens, surrendered its charter Wednes-
| day.
Edmund P Smith, United States Consul
| at Carthagena, returned to Nincennes, Ind,
| and filed bill of divorce, on the ground
| that his wife perSistently remains in Wash
| ington.
The State Board,of Equalization almost
unanimously agreed, at Springfield, Ill,
Wednesday TO make the basis Of assessment
of railroad and corporation property fifty
per cent.
The Amboy & Peoria Railway, which
had thirty miles of track between Fond du
Lac and Iron Ridge, has fallen into the
clutches of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
| Paul.
7. O. E. Weller, of Maryland, who stood
highest on the list of candidates examined
for ciyilserviee positions, has been appoint
ed to a $1,000 clerkship by Postmaster
General Gresham.
The story comes from St. Louis that some
workmen at 1106 Collins st1eet have un-
earthed a cave or vault containing historical
relics OF great interest including Indian
pottery and parchment documents in French
and Spanish.
Nearly eight thousand pieces Of dry good:
were sold at auction in New York, Wednes
day. The lot is described as an unsightlI
one, and as deservedly realizing very low
prices Good qualities in desirable styles
are said to be sought after at full values.
Miss Rebecca Williams, the Baltimore
belle, daughter of the President of tn,
Maryland Senate, will wed in November
Mr.. H. A. Herbert, owner of the beautiful
district in Ireland in which are located thu
Lakes of Killarney and Muckross Abbey
Mr.. Herbert is member of Parliament.
The merchants of Pittsburgh, having los
their grain trade with Tyrone, Altoona, ant
similar points, allege that it is the result Of
} Determinations by the Pennsylvania Roat
/ in favor of Chicago and Peoria. A com
mittee appointed by the exchanges has pre-
pared bill of grievances to present Ito tn
railway managers.
, Attempts were made Wednesday, at tw'
! places near Knoxville, to wreck the fast ex
press train on the East Tennessee Road, b.
claiming rails across the track. There wer
two.hundred and fifty passengers on board
and the speed was fully forty-tive miles al
hour. The engineer checked up in time t
break the chains gently and clear the rail.
Henry Cutcher and John Woolver visite
Perry, Mich, last Saturday, and returne
home intoxicated. Cutcher rename
stretched in his wagon all night and wa
found dead Sunday morning. Woolyer ha
been arrested on the charge of poisonin
Cutcher with strychnine, his purpose, as al
legged, being to marry his victims widow
D who is only fourteen years old, and but re
i Gently married.