The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-20
THEt NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Illinois legislature has adjourned
sine die.
The total losses in the MeGeoch lard
deal foot up So, 900.
Seven members of the Spanish Black
Hand society in Spain have been sentenced te
death
Hoadly seems to be ahead for the
nomination of the Democratic convention
for governor of Ohio
There is said to be a sea serpent in
Lake Erie, which has attacked and chased g
fisherman for three miles
Arthur II. Blaney, cashier of the
Massachusetts Loan and Trust company, ha.
embezzled s44, 900 of the company's funds.
Philadelphia officials have determined
to grant no licenses to sell liquor to aliens, ol
any except full citizens of the United States
The Washburn & Moen manufactur
ing company are confident of their ability te
maintain the validity of their barbed wire
patents, of which they have I25,
Ten suits have been entered against
the trustees of the Brooklyn bridge for iniu
rles received in the disaster on Decoration
day, -Four of them are each for 1000.
1t is asserted that Evans, the new in
ternal revenue commissioner, is turning out
good men and putting new men into places
in his department, to make room for some
Kentucky friends
The Spanish Journal Ell Globo has
been suspended for printing the statement
that the queen of Spain has fled with hel
babies to Bohemia becauss of the scandalous
conduct of the king
The report that the postof1ice depart
ment is going to put the letter carriers into
knee breeches is pronounced humbug of the
most absurd kind by those who are at the
bead Of postal matters
John and Martin Reuter-, brothers
lost their lives in well in Milwaukee owing
to foul air. John leaves a wife and three
small children, aid Martin leaves five little
ones, being a widower in very, destitute cir
cumstances,
A two-handed sword, declared to have
fallen from the heavens in the middle of
Apl1i, has been picked up in the bed of Ron
dout Creek, Ulster county, New York 1t is
curious weapon, and its possessor has re-
fused n 0G0 for it.
Maj. Wasson has done great deal
toward destroying the sympathy felt for him
III Texas, by giving the names of the gentle.
men who played with him to Col. Terrill
who has demanded of these gentlemen that
they pay back what they won, and they are
doing so, but there is a frequent use of the
word '*blackmail"
A story is going the rounds that
Lotta' the actress, is losing her spirits and be
coming morose, owing to having had her
trust III young man for whom she ex-
perienced tender passion, betrayed The
y. IN. got Sl3, 900 of the little woman's money
and distributed it promiscuously in wine
and gambling. The money, however was
refused to her
Frank Hatton criticises the eastern
Journals who are SO severe on maladministra
tlon in the postal service west of the ALE
gheny mountains, but have nothing to say
about the private postal systems in New
York, which deprived the government Of
about $1,000 per day, and which the postal
authorities at Washington had to discover
ana break up although directly under
the noses of these cIriticisers of western wick
edneSS.
Within the last few days very heavy
storms have visited various parts of Ohio,
Illinois and Kansas A cyclone struck Neligh,
Neb., and another struck Steubenville, Ohio
Three men were killed and seven injured by
lightning at Ravenna, Ohio; the Mississipr
river at st, Louis is twenty y-two inches above
the danger line and rising, making East St
Louis look like western Venice, and a,
Kansas City the Kaw is also booming Nine
or ten deaths by drowning are already re
ported, and the list viii probably be extended