The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-09-10
TELEGRAPM!C BREV!TIES.

League baseball games Friday: PrOvi-
dence, S; Boston. /. Philadelphia, Il;
New York, o.
Dr. 3. McNiclar, the first Health Officer
appointed in Chicago, lies at the point of
death in Buffalo.
Mrs. Julia p. Smith, the novelist, was
killed by runaway Friday morning at
New Hartford Conn.
At an auction sale on the Chapel farm,
near algonquin, H., large number Of
HOlstein cows averaged $50 each.
Near Las Vegas, New bIexicO, two cow
boys got into an alteration with a greaser
about a steer, and all three were killed.
Switzer, famous pacing horse Of Michi-
gan, owned by w. K. Sullivan, of Detroit,
died in railway Car ThurstIaX night =
For the thirty-six hours ended Friday
evening thirty-siX new cases OF yellow fever
were reported at the Pensacola Navy Yard.
Wassy AIbers0n, Philadelphia lad, died
in Bond street, Friday evening, Of hydro
phobia, caused by bite from a SpitZ dog
last October.
Admiral Pierre, who was recalled from
the command of the French feet in NADIA
gascar, has reached MarseIles in a dying
condition.
In the gale at Milwaukee, Friday even
ing six hundred feet Of the main track of
the Northwestern Road was washed away
near the breakwater.
The Toledo Produce Exchange Friday in
dOrsed the project for the construction by
the Government of postal telegraph lines
on the basis of the proposed bill of Senator
Edmund3.
John c. New Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, says he shall certainly start Mon
day night for indianapolis, to be gone some
time, but he refuses to throw any further
light upon his plans.
Rumors prevail at st. Louis that the
Armours, of Chicago, have purchased
the works of the ST. Louis Canning Com
pany, where they intend to pack hogs on a
large SCI lie this winter.
Rev. Thomas Ii. Oakley, General De.
livery Clerk in the Cleveland (O.) Post
office, was held fN trial Friday on the
charge OF stealing stamps from parcels, sell
ing them, and pocketing the money.
A man giving his name as Rudolph
Schiegel, who said he left his home in Chi
cago on account of family troubles, shot
himself in Cleveland suburb Thursday
night, and will probably die from loss OF
blood.
The remains OF a man killed on the Grand
Trunk Road last Christmas were identified
by Mrs. John Martin, of Hamilton, as those
of her husband, and buried as such. Yes
terday the missing man returned home from
work on a canal in Quebec.
The Executive Committee of the trunk
lines at New York, Friday, settled the diff.
ficulty arising from cut rates on east-bound
freight, and resolved for the maintenance Of
the schedule in future, and strict enforce,
ment of Ill the penalties.
A man named Miller, employed by the
Government engineers on the Wabash sur
vey, was attacked by robber in the Gov
cred part of the toll-bridge at Vincennes
Ind, and shot through the head above tht
left eye, after which he wandered about UNI
til daybreak.
Last Sunday -four prisoners escaped from
the Mcdowell County On. c. Jail, but were
soon reeaptured. In breaking away they
jOstIed the jailer's wife roughly, and in re-
venge for this the keeper got one Of the
men, negro, handcuffed In the cage, and
fired four shots into his body, without ia
tally wOunding him.