The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-08
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

It is said that the presidents chief
anxiety is how to escape the politicians
There ara two brothers of lyman
(No i in Chill One is priest and the other
8 bar-keeper
The Thomas Iron company, of Read
ing Pa, has blown out furnace owing to
the duliness OF trade.
-Four men were killed by the wreck
Of a tcain rear Seymour, Ind, on account of
the giving way Of trestle.
The Spaniards are alarmed about the
close commercial relations which are being
established between the United States and
Mexico
Hicks Fasha the commander of the
Egyptian forces operating in the Soudan has
gained a great victory over the False
Prophet
Chicago is trying to abolish the NUS
ance of smoke from the tunnels of the tugs
which swarm upon the Chicago river and its
branches
A law making the payment Of poll
tax prerequisite for suffrage has been
killed in the Massachusetts, house Of repre-
sentatives
A meeting Of the Vermont Anti-Secret
society men held at Montpelier denounced
secret societies as the foundation of all bad
government
J E. Temple, of Philadelphia, has
given the Geological garden of that city
$4,000, conditional upon the garden being
kept open free to the public two days per
week
George Nj. Willing, of st. Louis, lays
claim to tract of land of twenty-seven hun
dred square miles on the Gila river, in Ari-
| zona, worth $40, 900 600 which he claims his
son, now deceased, acquire from a Spaniard
in 1874
A child was born to Ben Brookins
unmarried daughter in Baldwin county,
| Georgia. She confessed that York Cooper, a
negro, was the father Brookins thereupon
killed Cooper, and the coroner's jary returned
verdict of justifiable homicide
The people of Virginia are somewhat
surprised at the lack of interest shown in the
forthcoming unveiling of a monument erected
over the grave of Thomas jefferson. Not d
single prominent man, Republican OF Demo
crat, has promised to be present.
j. II. Haverly, the Chicago Theatrical
manager, has gotten into financial Difficult
ties, and his theater in New York has been at
tached on suits for $4,000 He says he ha!
abundant assets, and will be all right in few
| days On the other hand, friends of his il
Chicago say he has sunk S250000 in mining
/ speculations, operations on the board of trad,
and other gambling transactions
VIM Henry Hurlbert, late editor o
the World, has been banquetted by the New
York Manhattan club. Dana, Childs ant
other prominent men were present. Cover
were laid for twenty seven guests. Mr. Hurl
bert, in answer to some highly complimentary
illusions to his past work and good wishes fo
the future, said he was going to Eur
ope to make a careful study of the tariff il
relation to the social well being of Europeal
countries
A novel question has arisen in Chi
cago court The Chicago Dock and Cana
company asks for an injunction restraining
certain parties from dredging sand out in tn
lake along the company's frontage, thus pre-
venting accretions to the shore (Which hat
previously been going on, adding to tn
value of complainants' property, and causing
much of the accretions which had formed t
be washed back into the lake The comedn,
claims that it is entitled to all accrst1en
made to its property by natural causes ,.n6 t
the protection of those natural causes frur
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