The Rock Island Argus., 1883-07-06
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The new tariff law went into effect
July l.
Columbus, O., has prohibited base
ball playing on Sunday,
Ex-Speaker Keifer is confident that
the Republicans will carry Ohio.
A couple of pugihsts, Dan Mccarthy,
Of Buffalo, and Mike McGavin, of Chicago,
had mill in the latter city. McCarty was
the victor in three rounds and about - min
utes
Agnes Wynne, wife OF J. H. Wynne,
was threatened by her husband, who de-
clared he would shoot her She dared him
to do it, and he shot her through the breast,
innicting fatal wound.
The receipts at the New York &stom
house for the month of June were s., ,3O3, coz
Y greater than during the same month last
year, there having been a heavy decrease
during the five early months of 1883.
+ Henry Ward Beecher attended to his
morning service recently, and in the after
noon took a special train and went to Peeks-
kill, where the Thirteenth regiment, of which
be is chaplain, was encamped, and where he
preached in the open field to his boys as he
calls the regiment
A negro who furnished the blood for
the operation Of TRANSMISSION performed upon
C. J. v Okerberg, of New York, when it was
the opinion of the doctors that nothing except
TRANSMISSION would save him, has brought suit
against Okerberg for $3.50, the value he places
upon the blood used
Allen W. Thurman. son of Senator
Thurman, of Ohio, publishes letter in which
h. declares that though he never voted for a
Republican in his life he will vote for For
aser in preference to Hoadley, on the ground
that if he has to vote for a Republican he
will vote for Simon-Pure one.
An attempt to lynch negro at White
Plains, N. Y, was foiled by the deputy sher-
if handing out to the mob an immense key,
which he said was the key of tie jail By the
time the mob found out that it wouldn't fit,
the officers had made the necessary arrange
ments for the protection of the prisoner.
The ChilIans and Peruvians have
| agreed to treaty by the terms Of which
Chill obtains Tarapaca, the fate of africa i:
TO be decided by pebescite, the losing ma
ton receiving $40 600, 600 from the one ac
| quiring the territory. One half the net pro
ceeds Of the guano existing in the ceded ter
ritory is to go to Peru
VIM. Thurlow, of Excelsior town
ship, Wisconsin, was Inysteriously murdered
while returning home from a neighbor's
Three pistol shots were heard and nothing
was thought of it until the body was found
No clew to the murderers has been found, bu
the object was robbery, the house of Thurlov
having been ransacked.
Bob Ingersoll thinks the tariff ques
ton is the vital one in national politics now
and that the party which attacks protection
| will be beaten. He does not think AIthu
has any chance to receive the nomination 70
| president, because the people resent an acc
dent which gives the vicepresident the chic
magistrates chair. He thinks the Republi
cans will be foolish to run the Ohio cam
paign on religious principles, and that Dorse
is the most forgiving man in the country.
A meeting at Chicago Of Irishmen, a
which Congressman Finerty presided, wa
addressed by 0Donovan Rosa, who d,
clared that he would do all in his power t
slay every EDglishman who was sent to rIll
over Ireland. Resolutions were adopte
sympathizing with Brady, Curley and th
others who committed the Phoenix park mul
ders, and denouncing the British governmeI
for Judicial murder in hanging them, an
committee of ladies was appointed to raii
money for the families of the men who wei
executed.