The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-10
CONDENSED NEWS.

France is threatened with another
manifesto by Jerome Bonaparte.
A five foot vein of coal has been dis
covered in the vicinity of LemaIs Iowa.
4 Shaw locomotive ran sixty-fve
miles per hour on the Chicago & Northwest
ern road.
It is thought that Charles H. Bell, of
Exeter n H, is the coming dark horse in the
senatorial race.
judge Monroe, of Iowa, says he would
not be afraid to stake 81, 100000 that the Re
publicans win carry Iowa.
Fifty prominent citizens of Ohio. of
all parties. have united in a call for pro
hibition convention July "a.
O. H. johnson and Joseph Jones, of
Vickshurs, Miss, fought duel, and Jones
received wound in the arm.
An attempt was made to poison the
family Of Mrs Boss near Mitchell, Ind, by
putting strychnine in the food.
New Orleans merchants have sub
scribed Sl0o 900 cash in aid of a southern ex-
position to be held in that city next year.
The Republican national committee
meets at Washington city, December u, to
appoint the time and place for holding the
national convention.
The time lock on the sub-treasury
silver vault in New York got out of fix,
and 800, 100000 was securely locked up for
forty hours longer than was intended,
Judge Hoadly opened the Democratic
~, Of
at Hamilton, in which he avoided keynotes
and criticized the Republican platform.
The marquis of Blandford, who sue
ceeds the duke of Marlborough in the house
Of lords, is stigmatized in Reynolds news
paper as Thoroughbred ruffian and rep
rebate
The throng desirous of taking final
view of the features Of Archbishop Purcell
at the cathedral in Cincinnati was so great
that the police were called upon to clear
Eighth street.
Governor Butler has sent an invita-.
ton to Chief Justice Coleridge, of England,
| to attend the opening of the national expo
| sition at Boston in September, as the guest Of
| Massachusetts.
Denis Kearney addressed a, crowd in
| Chicago variously estimated at from 500 t.
| 900 He declared the Anti Monopoly con
vention has missed the living issue, which wa!
the wages question.
Mrs. Nickerson No 2 demurs to the
charge in the first Mrs Ms complaint thai
she Mrs N. No. . was guilty of adultery
and goes into court to prove her title to Ger
tain property Of the disreputable major
The presidents of eastern colleges
have been considering C. F. Adams criticism
the study of Greek, and think he over
stated the case, None of them, so far hearC
from, approve OF the abolition of the classics
The postmaster general.ha decided
to order the postmaster at New Orleans Il
pay no postal order to Mr.. Dauphin, con
nected with the Louisiana lottery, and t.
return all registered letters sent to his ad
dress.
A despatch from New Orleans say
there is not, and has not been, a case of yellow
fever in that city or on the Mississippi river
The prevalence Of the epidemic at Vera Cruz
| Havana, and other points having CO -nInercia
relations with the United States is creatin
some uneasiness and affecting mercautil
operations to a slight degree.
A Kentucky marshal with warran
for the arrest of a man named owen
desperate, took party Of three we'll arme
men with him, and rnade the attempt t
serve his warrant at midnight. The resu
was a fierce fusilade for a few minutes &
the conclusion of which it was found that til
marshal was doad and a colored man wound
ed. The remainder of the marshal's assist